They believed in the power of the dead souls, so to use these spells, one had to kill. Then one could harness the power of the dead souls to strengthen oneself, manipulate special magnetic fields, and thus complete the spell.
But the power of these dead souls couldn't just be any random soul; there were special restrictions.
After reading, Qin Zhao put away the Witch Scripture.
She had no intention of learning the spells within; to her, they were evil techniques. She couldn't possibly kill people just to learn these spells, so the Witch Scripture was useless to her.
Moreover, she didn't really need these spells.
Once her cultivation reached a certain level, she would naturally know how to use these kinds of spells.
In addition, Qin Zhao decided not to give the translation to Huo Xun because she didn't want those with ulterior motives to get their hands on the translation and use these spells to do bad things.