The so-called rule of the strong sounded impressive and satisfying, but if allowed to develop to its conclusion, it would only lead to the most stifling outcome—oppressing those within while yielding to those without.
It was only natural. Under the rule of the strong, those who reached the top naturally had no desire to fall.
Internally, they would squeeze others dry to prevent anyone from taking their place. Once faced with external enemies, their first priority would be preserving their own strength, yielding to outsiders and selling out internal interests in exchange for their own survival.
And when everyone acted that way, even if they still possessed the strength to resist, they would refuse to fight foreign enemies. They would rather cede land and pay compensation than preserve their own power.
That was the root of all the bizarre phenomena in the late Barbarian Qing.
Then why did so many people still praise it? The reason was simple. People often imagined themselves as part of that tiny group at the very top, and this social order was best suited for the top few to preserve themselves—squeezing out benefits in ordinary times, then sacrificing the tail to survive when great danger came.
Yet many people completely forgot that if they truly entered such a society, there was a 99.9% chance that they would become the tail being cut off.
That was why Wenren Sheng had long seen through this social order.
The Sole Supremacy Society had urged powerful people like him to join them, but he had refused.
It was because of his great wisdom that he had long deduced this outcome.
Living in that kind of society, the sheer suffocation would be enough to drive someone mad. No matter how strong one person was or how much they could enjoy