As Liang Zhan's words fell, Chu Xiu chuckled lightly, thinking that this person, able to lead an army, was indeed not a fool.
He must have noticed that Chu Xiu didn't harbor malice towards everyone, so he used this pretext to try to ease the situation.
And Chu Xiu did not continue to act; he had no intention of taking the Third Elder's life. Otherwise, by truly using his strength, he could have dispatched him in a single move, so how could he have let him hold on for so long?
He wasn't someone who would shout for blood just because someone spoke insolently to him. The reason he acted decisively was just to establish authority at the fastest speed and, by the way, to understand the personalities of the people here.
Moreover, he needed the people of the Buddhist Sect to help gather and properly settle the populace. Displaying strength was one aspect, but if he directly killed an important figure on the other side, then the nature of things would change a bit.
