Gui Chen might indeed be a man of his word, but Wang Daozhong did not believe it.
He felt that if the situation were dire, Gui Chen might not honor his commitments after all. Since he could no longer be part of the National Religion, now replaced by the Four Symbols Sect, why bother fulfilling those ancient promises? But if someone was beaten from the banks of the Yellow River right to their doorstep within a few days, one couldn't blame them for abandoning loyalty. It was the pragmatic who survived, and who was obligated to die for the Wang Family?
This was the reality.
Of course, whether Gui Chen acted out of obligation to his vows or because of reality, nobody could know. Everyone's thought processes were not of this world; they could never truly understand each other.
What came to Wang Daozhong's mind was a phrase his elder brother said at their parting, "You must watch Zhao Changhe, for he is the true dragon of this epoch, not Xia Longyuan."
