It was precisely under these circumstances, with both sides harboring such extreme hatred.
Unlike the War of the Witch and Demon Tribes in the Primordial World.
The two factions in ancient Chaos had no powerful cultivators above them, unlike the Sages of the Primordial World who kept the Witch Clan and Demon Tribe in check.
So neither side ever entertained the idea of leaving themselves a way out!
A way out?
What even was that?
They gathered every ounce of strength to attack the other side!
Leaving even the slightest room for retreat would have an enormous impact on their own side.
It was like holding back a fraction of their strength when fighting someone!
Sometimes, that tiny fraction of strength alone.
Seemed utterly insignificant.
Yet it could be the very force that decisively turned the tide between the two sides!
Both sides thought much the same thing.
Namely.
"If I keep something in reserve, preventing my side from unleashing its full strength, and we fall just a little short of the enemy."
"And that tiny difference in strength actually leads directly to our total annihilation?"
"Tens of trillions of years of effort, all gone?"
"What if that happens?"
There was not a single cultivator who would not think that way.
Because things here differed from how they had played out in the Primordial World back then.
Take the War of the Witch and Demon Tribes, for instance.
That scheming old fox Hongjun had been covering up the truth.
He did it to prevent cultivators from using Guixu to question the dead.
To have the deceased tell them the truth about everything that had happened back then!
They would arrive at a terrifying conclusion.
That their beloved teacher, Hongjun.
Was not a righteous, glorious, and great being.
Nor had he