Theron could have broken the Mandate Mark; however, he decided against it. He realized that for the Mandate Guild to put so much emphasis on Laws, and for Laws to seemingly be the deciding factor between powerful cultivators, the so-called Mandates would be heavily tied to them as well.
The final nail in the coffin was his own experience with the two Paths in his bloodline. Theron didn't actually know what they were called yet, but if he knew that the final form of his Law Path was known as a Mandate, then it would be all the more obvious.
This Mark, whether you could break it or not, was highly dependent on your Laws, it seemed. But there was something even more fundamental that underlined it.
Fearlessness.
If it was all just about having more powerful Laws, there was no way that this would be such a crippling thing. Theron had to guess what made him different from others, and this was the final conclusion he landed on.
