Theron honestly didn't know what he expected to see when he stepped back out into the Sect. A part of him knew that the Matriarch's words of stirring anarchy would have their issues, but he didn't expect it to go this far in just a short two and a half months.
However, after Theron thought about it for a moment, he felt that maybe this was only the natural course of things.
The Matriarch had made those rules not just to loosen the chains on the disciples, but to actually stir them. If she felt that things were still too peaceful after enough time passed, she might even go as far as to incite incidents herself from the shadows. At the very least, she would certainly instigate her subordinates to do so.
When he looked at things like that, it only made sense that things would end up like this. The only oddity was that no one had come to bother Theron.