The disturbance surrounding Zhang Zhenren's birthday celebration was gradually settled after that.
First, there was Xie Xun. The group that had set out together found Ice Fire Island and Xie Xun, and fought a fierce battle with him. When Xie Xun learned that the secret inside the Dragon Slaying Blade was military strategy rather than some martial arts manual, and that it certainly could not be used to command the world, he went mad with rage. He fought the heroes and martial artists who had come to the island for revenge, especially after learning that Cheng Kun was hiding in Shaolin Temple. He tried even harder to break through the encirclement and storm Shaolin Temple to avenge his family.
But this time, the people who came looking for him weren't like the greedy scoundrels from before, who had ulterior motives and coveted the Dragon Slaying Blade. They were all willing to die for revenge on behalf of their families. Xie Xun killed more than half of the martial artists, but he himself was hacked to death by the remaining fighters. As for the Dragon Slaying Blade, Xie Xun threw it into the deep sea before he died, making it completely vanish without a trace.
Duanmu Huai wasn't surprised or astonished by this ending. After all, the martial world had always been about killing each other. You killed my people, so I killed yours. Xie Xun ultimately failed to kill Cheng Kun with his own hands, which was certainly pitiful. But from another perspective, he had killed so many unrelated people just to force Cheng Kun out. Dying a miserable death was a perfectly natural ending for him. So Xie Xun's fate was actually quite reasonable, and there was nothing strange about it.
As for the massacre of Dragon Gate Escort