This seems like a lot of pain, suffering, and death for what ultimately started with a bunch of people's lightly wounded pride. Both the protagonist and the local red-shirts woke up way too bloodthirsty today.
Welp. Wuxia gonna wuxia I guess. Sort of depressing though, seeing some for-all-we-know-innocent grandpa get killed by the protagonist for dumb reasons.
(At least this one has had from the start an appropriate backstory for being a cold-blooded killer instead of just implying that's just how protagonists are supposed to be, like a lot of these do. Still, if most of the series were like this I wouldn't be reading, I think.)