I have been seeing this chinese phrase a lot recently, especially within a year.
"When you are weak and pathetic, everyone around you is an evil bully. When you are strong and powerful, everyone around you is a nice helper."
Put it bluntly, when you can't hit back, everyone wants to step on you, even for lulz. When you can kill, everyone sees you as a hazard to be treated with care.
I understand greed is involved, that is always how the CN MCs face their enemies plus pride (because they think that they are God's chosen/ MC of the story lol).