Ma Yuan who had thought he already had his mind made up for where they would start over couldn't help but waver now.
As someone who had lived his life as a rogue cultivator, unaffiliated to any organization and his recent experience with his wife and the Ice Emerald Sect, he would be lying if he said he didn't have reservations about associating himself with a large organization be it sect or kingdom.
The White Baobab Kingdom certainly appealed to him if it was indeed true, that they had a loose system that was accommodating of all who walked through its doors, then there was also the guarantee that Yang Qing gave him.
In his current state, even with the training he has been doing, and the gains he has been making as a result of it, he was still a cripple, and as such he was limited in what he could accomplish by himself.