Being able to say those words showed that Sect Leader Bian himself had regrets.
Indeed, he regretted it and truly had not anticipated that anyone from Wukang Mountain would win the contest. He would have been considered mad if he had suggested it before.
Now that the unimaginable had happened, how could he execute Shi Chun?
It wasn't that he couldn't execute him, at least not right now.
After the results were announced, if he killed the victor, especially after Domain Master Wei Mo had expressed admiration for that person in his presence, what sort of message would that send?
He surely couldn't resort to assassination, right? Executing Shi Chun and the others was supposed to be a statement to all parties concerned, an assassination would explain nothing.
Now that his son knew Shi Chun was coveting the woman he loved, and he temporarily couldn't kill Shi Chun, it was as if he had set off his own family's conflict ahead of time. What was he to do? He was troubled.