He did, but not the way people feared! He wasn't distilling the living to consume their power or bathing in the blood of cultivators and innocents or stealing people's spirits or hoarding the dead like some kind of weird collector! He used resentful energies and gave them back again, he wasn't playing around like some kind of dark god! He uses Lan techniques to keep himself centred and balanced, don't you know that?

( Jingyi over here looking very confused, and very much affronted at whatever complicated thought he's trying to present. )

Hanguang-jun, what's wrong?