Different Choices

However, possessing Merit was naturally a bonus. Purposeful killing and wanton slaughter were completely different in nature, just as having sparse murderous karmic force versus overwhelmingly dense murderous karmic force were two different matters.

Naturally, Jiufeng intended to recruit those who did not slaughter indiscriminately and did not bear much murderous karmic force. Those who possessed Merit were even better.

After a round of selection, Jiufeng chose to recruit Bai Ze, Yingzhao, Shang Yang, Ji Meng, Qin Yuan, Fei Lian, and others, while planning to kill Gui Che, Jiu Ying, Fei Dan, Ci Tie, and the rest.

However, to prevent other powerful beings from misunderstanding when she moved to kill Gui Che, Jiu Ying, Fei Dan, Ci Tie, and the others, Jiufeng chose to first "visit" the mighty beings she intended to recruit, such as Bai Ze, Yingzhao, and Shang Yang.

As Jiufeng "visited" them one by one, the powerful beings she had chosen to recruit weighed the pros and cons. The vast majority chose to pledge themselves to the Witch Clan. A small number disbanded their forces and handed over the territories they occupied to the Witch Clan free of charge, while only a few were unwilling both to pledge themselves and to disband their forces.

There were two reasons why the vast majority of these powerful beings chose to pledge themselves to the Witch Clan after weighing the pros and cons:

First, the Witch Clan was simply too powerful. They possessed thirteen Ancestral Witches, all of them Top-Tier Innate Divines, as well as One Hundred and Seven Innate Great Witches. Among the One Hundred and Seven Innate Great Witches, eleven had already broken through to the Primordial Golden Immortal realm, twenty-four had touched upon that realm, and the rest were all Twelfth-Layer Great Firmament Golden Immortals.

The Twelve