It was still an attack aimed at the Dragon Clan, but depending on the cost paid, it could be interpreted in entirely different ways.
Bai Ze explained the distinction clearly and directly.
If the cost was too high, it meant suffering a huge loss. The Human Race would benefit, while the Demon Court would gain nothing and lose much.
But if they could avoid serious losses and pay only the slightest price to crush the Dragon Clan... even though the Human Race would thereby eliminate an internal threat and earn a small profit, the Demon Court would earn far more!
In terms of war potential and accumulated strength, the Human Race was inferior to the Demon Clan... Only with the Dragon Clan added did it form the Witch Clan's faction, allowing it to stand against the Demon Clan.
Within the Witch Clan's faction, the Human Race held the name of orthodoxy and righteousness, but the Dragon Clan's demands could not be ignored either. As time passed, the Human Race instead became constrained and bound by it. They disliked the Dragon Clan yet could not do without it, and had to make do with living together.
If they absolutely had to separate, they could only hope that the Dragon Clan would shine on the battlefield and trade pieces with the Demon Clan, leaving the Human Race to deal with the remaining forces of the Demon Court.
That was the source of all these contradictions.
The Demon Court's aim in sowing discord; Fangxun's motive in competing for the Human Emperor's position; Emperor Yan's core purpose in cutting down the Dragon Clan's ambitions... all revolved around these issues.
"In the beginning, His Majesty the Heavenly Emperor thought far ahead. He distinguished the primary and secondary contradictions of this Witch-Demon Cataclysm era and determined