It seems like it, but I haven't seen him die-- I don't know for sure that I live.

[he's not going to trust everything won't go upside-down at the last possible moment, or that jin guangyao won't find a way to drag him down as well.]

...but I'll have my sect to run. I'm sure they'll be relieved to find they have a more competent leader than they've thought, over the last ten years... and we'll have the Chief Cultivator's position to fill as well, after his death.