The symbol was crossed out not casually. Not with a single line drawn through it in the specific dismissive way of someone negating something they found valueless. Crossed out with the specific, deliberate method that cultivation tradition used for the formal renunciation of sect affiliation, two lines crossing at the symbol's center in the precise angles that the tradition specified, each line drawn from a specific directional start point, the crossing not haphazard but geometrically exact.This person had formally renounced the Ashwright Sect.In the old tradition. The tradition that predated the current era's more casual approaches to sect affiliation, the tradition from a time when joining a sect and leaving a sect were both events with weight and ceremony and formal documentation and permanent mark.He looked at the symbol.He looked at the two sentences.Which one of us is more dangerous to Soren Ashwright.There were people who had been in the Ashwright Sect and had left it a