In truth, Luo Hong and Mo Jianli had a simple idea: keep the Shadow Race around so they could find an excuse to start another war later!
Cultivators rarely felt physical exhaustion, but mentally, they still could not withstand endless devastation.
After this great war, even though they had gained enormous benefits, people would begin to seek stability.
Moreover, seeking stability was not a bad thing. After expanding so suddenly by so much, they truly needed to develop peacefully for some years.
But opportunities would not wait for anyone, so the best outcome was to have a means of reigniting their fighting spirit at any time.
Clearly, the Shadow Race—the old enemy with a Sea of Blood Grudge against the Human and Monster Races—was exactly the sort of target that would make cultivators from both races rush forward to beat them up the moment they heard their name!
And that was only the internal effect. Its external effect would be even greater!
The Shadow Race's Shadow Concealment Plan would provide the Human and Monster Races with a ready-made excuse for their future expansion.
Do not underestimate that excuse. The difference between having one and not having one was immense.
If you started a war against a neighboring small race for no reason at all and wiped them out,
then within a year, alliance forces roughly equal to your own strength would appear around you!
But as long as there was an excuse, some small races would cling to luck, making it difficult for such alliance forces to take shape.
If they were lucky, the Human and Monster Races could drive out the Shadow Race and use their repeated concealment to swallow several small races ravaged by them in succession.
Only when the surrounding small races realized something was wrong and