Everyone only had one life, and a life-and-death battle would use their lives as a gambling stake. After that, both parties should have no complaints even if they died. Hence, unless one had an unresolvable major grudge that made the two parties unable to exist under the same sky, it was very rare for people to fight in a life-and-death battle.
Xiao Di's group was like hawks. They did things radically because they wanted Sun Mo to lose face and scram out of the Dragon Subduing Academy.
Killing?
They had never thought of this before.
After all, everyone was a great teacher. Even if they disliked Sun Mo, it was still necessary to give him some courtesy.
But when Sun Mo directly asked for a life-and-death battle, this caused Xiao Di and the others to feel nervous in their hearts.