The welcome that I received was certainly not one that I had been expecting from the cultivation sects when I went back down again.
However, it was certainly something that was a positive step forward.
Instead of assigning more guides like before, it was almost as if they didn't care anymore what I was doing. At this point, it felt like they were just letting me do whatever I wanted to do.
But that was only on the surface.
Even though they didn't assign any guards, one could easily see that they were hiding how they felt.
It was clear that they still didn't trust me, but it also wasn't as if they could assign any more guides. At this point, it would have turned into an international incident if they kept trying to watch over me like that.
At the same time, they were suffering financially because of what happened last time.
So in the end, they chose to do something completely different.
"So they're still following me."
