Su Min's words undoubtedly gave Xiao Jin an entirely new line of thought.
During this process, an extremely vicious idea even occurred to him.
If he remembered correctly, in the original story, Soul Heaven Emperor had committed countless massacres across the Dou Qi Continent in order to break through to Dou Emperor.
The Spirit Devouring Life-Extinguishing Formation alone had slaughtered hundreds of millions of people across the continent.
Xiao Jin did not know the Dou Qi Continent's total population. After all, population censuses were not exactly a thing here.
But regardless, several hundred million people was by no means a small number.
With so many people gone at once, the negative emotions would presumably decrease by quite a bit as well.
Yet, as though she had seen through his thoughts, Su Min gave Xiao Jin a sharp knock on the forehead, just like Feng Qingyao had.
"Aunt Su?"
"Kid, don't entertain such beastly thoughts."
"How could I..." Xiao Jin gave an awkward smile. His thoughts just now did seem a little beastly.
Aside from not personally doing the killing, this behavior did not seem all that different from Soul Heaven Emperor's.
"Your idea might work, but have you considered how much resentment a person would generate if they died for no reason in the aftermath of a battle between powerful experts?"
Xiao Jin fell silent. He truly had overlooked that point.
At its root, the disappearance of hundreds of millions of people would indeed deal a devastating blow to the Bodhi Ancient Tree's evil sentience.
But the resentment those people generated before death would undoubtedly be an enormous source of nourishment for that evil sentience as well.
"Besides, didn't your parents seal you away for ten thousand years precisely to change many things?"
Su Min once again hit the nail