"Worldly affairs are naturally difficult to manage thoroughly; whenever you find an instance, kill an instance. If the enemy's power is formidable, you must hide and not act; I will personally seek out that person to have a talk,"
"Rest assured, Sect Master. As long as we raise the purchase price of those nefarious items to thirty or forty percent above market price, lacking that shocking profit and upon discovering an instance, we will annihilate them completely, seize their property, and spread the word far and wide. By then, the number of cultivators daring to risk their lives will certainly decrease substantially."
Yi Chen's thinking was simple: Without the excessive profits of selling illicit substances but the risk of losing their heads, this alone would filter out ninety-nine percent of cultivators harboring such thoughts. Moreover, with him monitoring from above and suppressing everything, essentially, no major trouble could arise.
