Qiu Wuji did not want to kill this man.
After all, he had paid her rent.
Besides, the Heavenly Emperor's side could barely count as the "good guys" for now. At least this True Lord Xunfeng, who had been sent to find her, certainly bore no ill will. He was simply following orders to take her back. That did not warrant killing him.
The Buddhist and Daoist factions of the Heavenly Realm were different. They would kill.
Chu Ge had written them as malicious from the outset, writing them according to the premise that they had "already been corrupted by an Outer Realms Demon." In other words, the current Buddha Ancestor and Dao Venerable were the original two who had joined forces with the Heavenly Emperor to oppose him.
It was not that Chu Ge had any prejudice against Buddhism and Daoism themselves. In the Mortal Realm, he had written both as righteous factions. There was only one reason he had handled the Heavenly Realm this way: the Buddha Ancestor and Dao Venerable were weaker than the Heavenly Emperor, and the original rebellion against Heaven had been led by the Heavenly Emperor.
With his utmost concentration of essence, energy, and spirit, Chu Ge had forcibly created a split personality in the Heavenly Emperor, but he had not applied the same treatment to the Buddha Ancestor and Dao Venerable.
He had to put his best resources where they mattered most. He had no strength to spare for a war on three fronts.
The result was that the current Buddhist and Daoist factions were anything but peaceful. It was generous not to call them demonic.
In theory, the originally conceived Buddha Ancestor and Dao Venerable were not evil demons either. But having taken their rebellion against Heaven this far, they could only