He truly didn't dare!
Fear of death was just a minor factor, the key issue was that after moving against Ye Fan, he might have to face an existence even more terrifying than death!
Behind Ye Fan was just a family from the secular world, one might indeed make a move against the Imperial Extreme Holy Land.
But the fact that Ye Fan was actually the Heavenly Mechanism Pavilion Master complicated things!
That being who had once dominated the entire Martial Arts Realm and was known as the Fifth Holy Land harbored a dreadful deterrence, incomparable to ordinary family entities.
And it was different from the Divine Gate, that peculiar institution!
Perhaps Divine Gate was too high-end and generally too indifferent to intervene in mundane matters. Moreover, Divine Gate's existence seemed more like a coalition, a league composed of countless strong institutions.