What Ye Zhen meant by speaking human language was not simply being able to talk. Every Demon Soul Soldier could speak, but they were all exceedingly stiff and mechanical.
The lowest-ranking Demon Soul Soldiers only knew a few formulaic military phrases, such as "As ordered," "Yes," and "Kill." Higher up, Ten-Man Generals and Hundred-Man Generals knew several more military expressions and were somewhat more flexible than ordinary Demon Soul Soldiers.
Thousand-Man Generals, Ten Thousand Man Generals, and certain specialized troops such as messengers and scouts, however, were standard military officers.
Military tactics, opinions, command, and the like—apart from lacking even a shred of humanity, they were exactly like living military commanders.
The commanders of the more than one hundred legions Ye Zhen had fought his way through earlier had all been like this. Every one of them was a qualified military commander, yet outside of military matters, they would not say a single extra word.
Even the orders they gave were ice-cold.
Yet the commander of the 210,000-strong Red Armored Army before Ye Zhen, who had suddenly broken away from the main force to appear before him, had stepped beyond the bounds of such standard military language.
"Listen, Demon Commander across the field! Immediately lead your army and surrender to me. Once I unify this Ancient Demon God Hall, I can forge you a new Supreme Demonic Body and allow you to completely break free of the shackles of this Ancient Demon God Hall!"
Those words immediately drew Ye Zhen's attention.
Urging surrender?
Forging a new Supreme Demonic Body?
None of the hundred-plus demon commanders Ye Zhen had encountered before had ever uttered such words. In an instant, those phrases gave the demon commander before him, wreathed in surging demonic qi, the humanity of a living being.
Ye Zhen carefully