There are only two destined endings: the first is to defeat the enemy, emerge victorious, and ensure the entire clan survives.
The second is to be utterly slaughtered by the enemy, leaving no women or children spared.
As the saying goes, if you do not cut the weeds by the root, the spring breeze will cause them to grow again.
This is not a matter of right or wrong in human nature, nor of good and evil; it is solely about survival—surviving for oneself and one's descendants, surviving always and surviving better.
Of course, the price of this is the complete annihilation of the other side.
Just like what Haotian Jiyu had asked Xiayu to agree to earlier, such an outcome rarely happened anywhere in the Middle-Earth World.
It was not entirely unheard of, but every instance of sparing the enemy's women and children ultimately resulted in revenge from the survivors.
Some succeeded in their revenge, while others failed.
In fact, there were cases where only women and young girls were left alive, only for them to scheme against, murder, and strike down their foes many years later.
Examples of this were countless!
Conversely, instances where the enemy's mercy actually led to the forsaking of revenge were exceedingly rare.
Facing such a desperate situation and watching their family members fall one by one, the members of the Haotian Clan showed no fear.
They all knew full well that there was no way out; there were only two outcomes: killing or being killed.
Even with the for…
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