@guunahgar Too maintain centralized power around the relatively weak Murim Alliance Leader. If all these powerful, influential, and heroic individuals returned to their families they would begin to weird true influence, removing much of the alliances power by acting as a counter to their absolute hegemony over the Orthodox murim. Worse yet, what if these people formed their own organization based on the fact they're all comrades of the same battlefront, leading to a whole other faction the alliance would have to deal with only worse because they'd have a direct competitor. Jegal Jigang, not wanting to deal with this or ordered by the alliance leader, has taken the easiest option of dealing with this issue, by training martial artists that no one important would miss to ambush and kill them when they serve their term. This stops them from becoming anything more than a casualty of the frontlines, but has severely hurt the entire Orthodox because the people with the most experience and developing power don't get to educate and cultivate younger talents leading to stagnation and the adoption of a murim alliance leader who is utterly and completely outclassed by the Blood Demon.
