PS: This chapter is a bonus update for Alliance Leader Flying Chicken's reward.
Seeing Su Xin's methods, Mahasthamaprapta Master could not help shaking his head. He had always felt that Su Xin was a little too ruthless in his dealings.
Take these remaining Su Family retainers, for example. He could have soothed them with a gentler approach. In any case, the monthly salaries of these Xiantian Martial Artists were nothing to Su Xin; at worst, he could simply give it all to them.
Perhaps some martial artists among them with decent talent might have been grateful for Su Xin's generosity and voluntarily pledged themselves to him, or at least remembered his kindness.
Yet Su Xin had directly killed the chicken to scare the monkeys, using the most drastic means to drive all those retainers away. Mahasthamaprapta Master found it difficult to understand.
Although Mahasthamaprapta Master did not wish to meddle, he could not help saying, "Lord Su, forgive this old monk for speaking frankly, but if you treat these independent martial artists like this, I fear they will not have a single good word to say about you in the Jianghu after they descend the mountain.
"Besides, there may well be people among those five thousand worthy of cultivation. Aren't you afraid of letting fine talent slip away by driving them all off?"
Su Xin shook his head and sneered. "Even if there truly are talented martial artists among them, it doesn't matter. The martial artists I, Su Xin, take under my command are judged not merely by their strength, but also by their ability and discernment.
"They know perfectly well who I am, yet for the sake of those insignificant monthly salaries, greed blinded them enough that they dared lecture me about rules. Such shortsighted fools—no matter how gifted