Primordial Wilderness: I Am Hong Yun, and at the Start I Traded My Saint Position for a Wife, Chapter 657

It was no use!

After all that effort, hardly anyone was willing to join his ranks and take his orders.

The vast Heavenly Court was practically deserted!

He thought of how, when Di Jun was around, countless millions of demons had moved at his command.

Then he thought of how the only ones he could command were the handful standing right before him...

And even they were merely some of the scattered immortals from the Eastern Sea who had come after hearing that Hao Tian had taken the position that had originally belonged to East King Duke!

As for their quality... that was harder to say.

Hao Tian felt a wave of despair!

He turned to the divine general before him and asked,

"How did your recruitment efforts among the humans go?"

The divine general wore gleaming golden armor, a remnant of the demon race.

With a clatter, the general cupped his hands and replied,

"Your Majesty, I went to recruit from several human tribes..."

"But... the humans revere Old Ancestor Hong Yun and Saint Nuwa. To them, serving Your Majesty in the Heavenly Court..."

Hao Tian irritably waved his hand.

"That's enough. I know!"

He had expected things to turn out this way.

After all, the humans had powerful backers now, and their fortune was at its peak!

Why would they take notice of a newly enthroned Heavenly Emperor like him?

I have so many better places I could go.

Why would I go to the Heavenly Court and serve Hao Tian?

After a moment's thought, Hao Tian asked irritably,

"What about the scattered demons?"

"Have you contacted them?"

When he learned that those demons weren't willing to submit to him either, Hao Tian grew even angrier!

The humans were one thing.

They had Old Ancestor Hong Yun and