Xie Shan had always been particularly ruthless toward those he judged to be evil. Once the Nine Heavens Duluo Divine Blade came out, it could grind both people and their treasures to dust!
The eminent monks and Divine Nuns of the Mount Shu world seldom killed, but those who had not taken the vows to become Bhikkhus or nuns could be quite ruthless. Yang Jin, for instance, was Nun Fentuo's disciple, yet against evildoers, he unleashed blades and shears together, chopping people into pieces. If that failed, he brought out Master Fentuo's supreme sect-guarding treasure, the Dharma Flower Vajra Wheel, and ground them straight into powder.
Yuan Hua, whom Shi Feiyang had taken in years earlier, had become a ghost immortal with only his spirit essence remaining precisely because he had died at Nun Suyin's hands. Suyin was Master Youtan's disciple—and this was a nun who had actually taken the vows.
Xie Shan ordinarily did not act lightly either. He had always secluded himself to cultivate, rarely taking part in disputes among Sword Immortals. All that changed because he adopted two daughters. In the original story, he killed because a Demon Daoist bullied his daughters, earning his utter hatred. His Nine Heavens Duluo Divine Blade was also called the Absolute Annihilation Divine Net. It not only shredded the enemy's Physical Body but also reduced their primordial spirit to a wisp of blue smoke, then dispersed it completely, annihilating body and spirit alike.
Judged fairly, whether it was the Demon Daoist in the original story or Jifandu and his eleven companions here, all deserved death and destruction from Xie Shan's standpoint. The problem was that killing them contradicted his identity as a Buddhist cultivator.
The essence of one's vows was much like an established identity. Upon taking vows, one laid down