Since ancient times, moral blackmail had been one of the most disgusting tactics.
And the same was true now for the Witch Race.
If the Witch Race kept refusing to act, and more and more living beings knelt outside the Ancestral Land of the Witch Race, then all the resentment felt by the Primordial World's living beings over the hardships caused by the spread of Turbid Qi would be directed at the Witch Race.
After all, most living beings were foolish and blindly followed the crowd.
They didn't care how difficult things had been for the Witch Race, or how many grievances and injustices they had suffered before. They only knew that even though they had begged and pleaded, the Witch Race still refused to act.
But what if the Witch Race did step in to help?
The moment the Witch Race acted, it would mean that Zhu Jiuyin's fundamental strategy for the Witch Race—lying low from then on and stepping off the chessboard—would be completely ruined.
After all, either they didn't act at all, or, if they did, they would have to reduce the Turbid Qi currently in the Primordial World to a safe level.
Such a vast undertaking would take more than ten Yuanhui, even if hundreds of millions of members of the Witch Race all pitched in.
Besides, the birth of Turbid Qi would never stop.
Among the million modern books Zhu Jiuyin had encountered, there was a technical term for this: Entropy Increase!
The law of entropy increase stated that in a closed system untouched by any external force, entropy—the degree of disorder—could only increase, until the system tended toward chaos and disorder.
From this, one could infer that the Primordial World, and even an existence as seemingly supreme and eternal as the Heavenly Dao, would