Yang An was confident. He hadn't rashly killed Wen Zhao in a fit of rage; he knew exactly what he was doing.
First, his current combat strength was already at a point where he didn't fear the Insect Dao. When faced with such an insufferably annoying buffoon, it was best to swat him like a fly.
Second, Life Crane had told him to join the war, but that wasn't Life Crane's true purpose. His real mission was to collect the Three Spiritual Light and save the world.
This meant that he was, at the very least, more important than this group from the Golden Thread Pavilion. At the same time, he was also testing the waters. What seemed like a dominant, crushing execution of Wen Zhao was, in reality, a probe of Life Crane's tolerance for his actions.
If Life Crane chose to turn a blind eye to this, then nothing anyone else in the Golden Thread Pavilion did would affect him in the slightest.
Life Crane's attitude was crucial.
