It would have been exceedingly simple for Hongjun to wipe out the entire Demon Clan.
But if he exterminated the Demon Clan, there would be no one left to shoulder the twenty points of cause and effect and karmic force they bore for Rahula.
Then, as cause and effect traced everything back to its source, those twenty points of cause and effect and karmic force would inevitably fall upon Hongjun in full.
Hongjun understood this perfectly well!
Thus, without the slightest hesitation, Hongjun simply let the Demon Clan go.
The Demon Clan must not be destroyed! Keeping them alive was the way to maximize his gains!
After all, the portion of cause and effect and karmic force the Demon Clan shouldered for Rahula was enormous!
That was a full fifth of the cause and effect and karmic force. Just imagine how tremendous it was!
Hongjun was already bearing seventy percent of the cause and effect and karmic force alone. With another fifth piled on top, he felt these old bones of his might not hold up!
So it was better to let the Demon Clan shoulder it!
Without Rahula, the Demon Clan still had a Heaven Demon King at the mid-stage Grand Luo Golden Immortal level. But burdened with such immense cause and effect and karmic force, he plainly had little hope of advancing further unless he cleared it all away.
At the very least, he had to clear away most of it!
Otherwise, with his true spirit clouded and his Great Dao covered in dust, continuing to comprehend the Great Dao would be fraught with a thousand difficulties and ten thousand hardships!
In short, the Demon Clan had followed in the footsteps of the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin clans.
Compared with the cause and effect and karmic force of