Actually, the old master had an exceptionally strong desire for power. You could say that even when in seclusion, he demanded that Wang Hanhai report every major decision to him; otherwise, he would hold him strictly accountable once he emerged.
He remembered three hundred years ago, when Wang Hanhai once failed to report to the old master. Upon coming out of seclusion, the old master directly stripped him of a full tier of cultivation, stalling his progress for a full hundred years.
He certainly did not want a repeat of that.
Chapter 981