To Felicie's words and seeming observation, Zeras could only keep quiet. Were her words wrong at all? Was life worth anything in the upper realms?
The only safe guarantee that a person possessed was coming from a powerful family, possessing a powerful background, or possessing powerful strength.
If any of this is missing, then one's life is even more worthless than an ant, and even the people who possessed those are still not completely safe.
They can be killed too, by psychos who care not about their backgrounds or personal strength.
The cultivation world is a dog-eat-dog world, and even Zeras couldn't exclude himself from it.
He had killed those guards the instant they prevented him from entering, without giving it much thought at all.