"It takes a villain to deal with a villain; Ma Sanniang is no saint either, so seeing her forcibly controlled by Hei Xiaohu doesn't upset me in the least."
"I feel like there's a bit of a plot hole here. First of all, this Soul-Summoning Pill is just too OP; its effect is simply abnormal. With an item this useful, why on earth did the Demonic Cult bother sending Ma Sanniang to go undercover in the first place? They could have just grabbed the Seven Swords one by one and made each of them swallow a pill! Second, do you only need to master the Seven Swords techniques purely through practice to achieve sword harmony? According to Hei Xiaohu, as long as you learn the Dance of the Fire Flower yourself, you can replace Hongmao to perform the Seven Swords Harmony. So why bother looking for the Seven Swords successors at all? You could just find a single successor, force a Soul-Summoning Pill down their throat, learn their martial arts, perform the harmony, and then go find the next one, serving up another Soul-Summoning Pill when they least expect it, and so on and so forth! The Seven Swords Harmony would be right around the corner, and it would be so much easier to execute!"
"That's not feasible. First of all, the previous generation of Seven Swords successors all went into seclusion and are hard to find. Look at how many years have passed, and the Cult has only managed to find a single Purple Cloud Sword Master. And look at Da Ben, the Thunder Sword Master—he had no idea he was …
Chapter 504