Inside the Main Hall.
Lü Xuan looked regretful as he gently felt the illusion artifact in his hand. All the surrounding illusions dispersed, and he said:
"The killing intent in Bai Xuanling's heart has already become bound to her cultivation. The higher her cultivation, the fiercer that killing intent becomes."
"So suppressing her cultivation can also suppress the killing intent constantly surging in her heart."
"I also brought together quite a few elites from various sects to research solutions, but we found nothing that offered the best of both worlds, or even anything somewhat reliable."
"Even sealing it was merely the best choice we could make out of desperation."
"But ultimately, damming a flood is never as good as channeling it."
Chu Xingchen quietly listened to everything before asking:
"What would happen if Senior Bai didn't suppress her killing intent? Would she become a monster that knew only to slaughter everything?"
"But when I saw Senior Bai this time, she seemed to be suppressing her killing intent quite well."
Lü Xuan gave a soft laugh at that:
"As I see it, Bai Xuanling wouldn't necessarily turn completely into a savage god that knows only slaughter. I think she could probably regain her calm once she'd killed to her heart's content. It's just that the higher her cultivation, the shorter those periods of calm would be."
"Waking up to a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, all of it your own doing-aside from those twisted evil cultivators, probably no one would wish for that."
"After all, someone you were chatting happily with one moment might have their head dangling from your hand the next."
"Leaving aside whether Bai Xuanling could accept it, the other major sects probably couldn't accept such an unstable and immensely powerful Bai Xuanling either."
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