"Brother Bai Ze! You came just in time!"
Guiche strode forward to greet him, "Then Haotian Yaochi, have you heard about it?
Brother, you are the leader of Ten Great Demon Marshals. They are riding on your neck by ranking above Demon Marshal!
Come on, let's go to the Sun God Palace to ask for an explanation from His Majesty!"
Bai Ze didn't answer. He just walked slowly to the main seat in the center of the hall and sat down. He picked up the wine glass on the table and took a sip. Then he raised his eyes and said unhurriedly, "Everyone, sit down."
Everyone Demon Marshal looked at each other in shock, but Bai Ze's prestige was there, so they suppressed their anger and sat down again.
The hustle and bustle in the palace temporarily subsided, but the suppressed anger still filled the air.
Bai Ze put down his wine glass, glanced across the faces of the nine Demon Marshals one by one, and then said something that made everyone in the hall suddenly quiet:
"Haotian and Yaochi are the servants of Dao Ancestor Hongjun, Daoist Attendants.
When I was listening to sermons at the Zixiao Palace, I personally saw the two of them accompanying Dao Ancestor."
There was dead silence in the palace.
Guiche The shadows on both sides of the neck no longer screamed, Jiuying's grip on the halberd loosened slightly, and the flames around Bifang unconsciously became a little shorter.
Dao Ancestor Hongjun, these four words were like a bucket of cold water poured down on their heads, extinguishing most of the anger in their chests.
Among Ten Great Demon Marshals, Bai Ze is the only one who has personally gone to the Zixiao Palace to listen to the sermon.
He has seen Haotian Yaochi, so there is nothing wrong with that.
"Dao Ancestor sent two Daoist Attendants to serve at Heavenly Court at this time, nominally to share government affairs."
Bai Ze's voice was low and clear, "You should understand what it actually is.
Since Laozi was preached, the number of Hunyuan of Primordial Wilderness has appeared one after another.
Nuwa, Houtu, Three Pure Ones, Jieyin, Zhunti, Xuande, eight Hunyuan.
Eastern Emperor is attacking Hunyuan, and His Majesty is looking for an opportunity to attain enlightenment.
Our Heavenly Court is sitting on Thirty-Three Heavens and Great Array of the Stars, but none of Hunyuan is sitting on it.
In this era where Sage is emerging in large numbers, not having Hunyuan means that you may be squeezed out of Primordial Wilderness's poker table at any time."
He paused and his eyes became sharper. "Dao Ancestor sent two Daoist Attendants into Heavenly Court.
In name, it is sharing government affairs, but in fact it is Heavenly Court who is moving closer to Dao Ancestor, and it is Dao Ancestor who is endorsing Demon Clan.
Haotian Yaochi is on Heavenly Court, Primordial Wilderness cannot ignore the line between Heavenly Court and Zixiao Palace.
Do we need this line now or not?"
No one in the hall answered.
The Demon Marshals who were furious just now fell silent.
They are fierce generals who fight on the battlefield, but they are not reckless men who do not understand the general trend of Primordial Wilderness.
Although Bai Ze's words may not sound pleasant to the ears, they are all true.
Demon Clan Heavenly Court's foundation is not stable in the era of Hunyuan. Any support from Dao Ancestor is a help in times of need.
After a long time, Guiche spoke in a muffled voice:
"Even if they need Dao Ancestor's endorsement, they shouldn't be in front of us."
"At the front of the line?"
A faint smile appeared at the corner of Bai Ze's mouth, "Do you think that allowing them to be ranked above Demon Marshal is His Majesty's favor?
Please think carefully about the rights and responsibilities of Palace of Governance and Palace of Rites.
Thirty-six document coordination, Immortal Official assessment and promotion, and ceremonial diplomacy are all civilian duties.
Haotian Yaochi has no soldiers, no military affairs, and no involvement in Great Array of the Stars.
They are nominally ranked above Demon Marshal, but in fact they cannot even move a single general.
He can't take away even half of your military power."
Yingzhao frowned slightly. "But Palace of Governance is in charge of Immortal Official's assessment. If things go on like this, Heavenly Court's civil service system will fall into Haotian's hands?"
"Well said." Bai Ze glanced at Yingzhao approvingly, "This is exactly what your Majesty is Gao Ming.
Heavenly Court's civil service system has been scattered over the years. His Majesty has to personally deal with daily government affairs, which consumes an unknown amount of energy that should be used for cultivation.
Haotian takes over Palace of Governance, just in time to take over this problem.
If he does a good job, His Majesty will be relieved of a huge burden and can focus more on finding Primordial Violet Qi and attacking Hunyuan.
As for whether he will cultivate his own power in the civil service examination.
Of course he will.
But don't forget that no matter how great a civil servant is, he is still a civil servant.
The foundation of Heavenly Court's force is Great Array of the Stars, Ten Great Demon Marshals, and billions of Demon Soldier.
He has no military power, and military orders cannot mobilize a single soldier.
If he really dares to do anything extraordinary, His Majesty will only need a military order.
All the civil servants he had worked so hard to cultivate disappeared like chickens and dogs."
He stood up, walked to the center of the hall with his hands behind his hands, and his voice was as steady as a rock:
"Your Majesty and Eastern Emperor are working hard for the future of the Demon Clan.
Eastern Emperor is attacking Hunyuan, and His Majesty is looking for an opportunity to attain enlightenment.
They are shouldering the heaviest pressure from the front, and we, the ministers, can no longer cause trouble for them.
It is a foregone conclusion that Haotian Yaochi will join Heavenly Court. This is the tacit understanding between His Majesty and Dao Ancestor, and it is also the compromise that Demon Clan must make in this era of Hunyuan.
Our mission at Ten Great Demon Marshals is not to compete with two civilian officials, but to defend Heavenly Court's military power, defend Great Array of the Stars, and defend Demon Clan's final foundation of military force.
As long as the military power is in our hands and Great Array of the Stars is under the control of His Majesty and Eastern Emperor, the sky of Heavenly Court will not fall."
There was silence in the hall for a long time. Jimeng stood up first and saluted Bai Ze with a cupped fist:
"Brother is right. I was the one who was impulsive."
The other Demon Marshal stood up one after another, most of the anger on their faces had disappeared, replaced by a calm understanding.
The storm of the Demon Marshal Palace has subsided.
The next day, Haotian officially began to perform his duties as the leader of Palace of Governance.
On the first day he took office, he retrieved thirty-six documents one by one from the backlog of an unknown number of Yuanhui documents, and sorted out the historical issues left over from the Heavenly Court's civil service system in just three days with his quasi-sage-level consciousness.
Yaochi presided over the revision of the Heavenly Court ceremony regulations in Palace of Rites. The Demon Clan ceremony, which was originally rough and almost hasty, gradually gained order and style in her hands.
Ten Great Demon Marshals saw that the two of them were indeed performing their duties seriously. Although they still didn't have a good expression when they met, they accepted this established fact.
The framework of Heavenly Court began to change driven by Haotian and Yaochi.
The civil service system has changed from a mess to a disciplined one, and Heavenly Court's diplomatic situations have gradually moved from the Demon Clan-style roughness to institutionalization.
However, the military order system remained unchanged. Ten Great Demon Marshals led his headquarters as usual, and Great Array of the Stars's position schedule only obeyed the orders of Dijun and Taiyi.
Heavenly Court has an extra layer of civil servant skeleton, but the muscles and bones are still Demon Clan itself.
Dijun wants this effect.
The title was given to the Zixiao Palace, but the real power still lies with the Sun God Palace.
Under Buzhou Mountain, evil spirits surge into the sky.
Chi You is naked to the waist, and the dark golden Ancestral Witch Runes flows like a living thing on his bronze skin. Every breath draws countless Kalpa evil spirits deep in the earth to converge on him.
Behind him were tens of thousands of the Houtu Tribe's elite Greater Witch, and the eyes of every Greater Witch were burning with fighting spirit that had been suppressed for a long time.
Ever since Houtu was trapped in Underworld after his enlightenment, and his avatar turned into essence and blood and merged into Chi You's body, Houtu Tribe has been holding back his energy.
Their Ancestral Witch sacrificed everything for the Witch Clan, and Demon Clan never stopped provoking Witch Clan.
Today is the time of reckoning.
Chi You looked up in the direction of Thirty-Three Heavens, with thick eyebrows like knives, a wide mouth and a square nose, and a pair of copper bell-like eyes burning with the flames of war that were more blazing than the lava in the core of the earth.
He has been Ancestral Witch for some time, and Twelve Dutian Divine Fiends Formation has become increasingly proficient in training together.
Today he took Houtu Tribe's Greater Witchs to a place Witch-Demon Borderlands north of Buzhou Mountain.
The purpose is not to patrol, not to test, but to provoke a battle that can make the entire Primordial Wilderness tremble.
At the same time, Demon Clan is located in a stronghold in the border area, and Demon General stationed here is counting the losses caused by the recent friction with the Witch Clan with his subordinate Demon Soldier.
Chi You's footsteps stepped on the ground, and every step caused the ground to crack and the evil spirit to surge. When he appeared in front of the stronghold, the pupils of Demon General who was stationed there suddenly shrank.
He recognized this face Chi You, Greater Witch of the Houtu Tribe.
Demon General almost instinctively crushed Message Jade Talisman at his waist, and the warning signal turned into a stream of light and shot towards Thirty-Three Heavens.
Chi You is not blocked.
He just wanted to let Heavenly Court know and let them send the message back.
He raised his right fist, and the dark golden Ancestral Witch evil energy condensed on the fist edge like a miniature dark sun, and then punched the center of the Demon Clan stronghold.
The evil energy exploded like an earth dragon turning over, and the Demon Clan stone castle that had countless Kalpa standing there shattered inch by inch from the center to the outside under Chi You's punch.
The restriction of the Demon Clan stronghold was as thin as cicada wings in front of him, and the stationed Demon Soldier and Demon General were blown away by the impact of the evil energy before they even had time to scream.
This punch was not a sneak attack or an assassination, but a declaration of war.
Chi You retracted his fist, raised his head to the sky and let out a war cry that shook the earth.
That war cry penetrated the Buzhou Mountain stratus clouds and penetrated the Primordial Wilderness earth, like a thunder exploding in the sky above all Witch Clan tribes at the same time.
In the Pangu Hall, Dijiang suddenly opened his eyes, and dark golden divine light burst out from his pupils.
Zhujiuyin put down the copy of Book of Life and Death in his hand, and the shadow of River of Time flashed in his eyes. Goumang, Rushou, Gonggong, Zhurong, Xuanming and other Ancestral Witch stood up one after another.
Eleven Ancestral Witches did not ask Chi You who he was fighting for or who his enemy was.
They don't need to ask, they have already heard all the answers from Chi You's battle cry.
"Start the war."
Dijiang only said two words. These two words weighed more than a thousand words, carrying Witch Clan countless Kalpa's depression and unwillingness.
Buzhou Mountain, Witch Clan Each part is like a burning fire.
Ancestral Witch's battle order conveys the resonance of evil spirits in the most original Witch Clan way.
Each ancestor Witch General pours his will into the evil spirit veins deep in the earth, and the evil spirit transmits the battle order to every Witch Clan warrior like a blood vessel.
Hundreds of thousands of Greater Witch lined up from their respective tribes, their footsteps sounded uniform, and the earth trembled with every step.
The Gonggong Tribe warrior is surrounded by blue Water Fiendish Qi, and the Zhurong Tribe warrior is surrounded by red Fire Fiendish Qi.
The warriors of the Xuanming tribe exude the frozen Frost Fiendish Qi, and the warriors of the Goumang tribe carry the turquoise Life Fiendish Qi.
Twelve kinds of evil spirits gathered at the feet of Buzhou Mountain to form a torrent of evil spirits that penetrated the heaven and earth. The torrent was so huge that even Three Pure Ones on Kunlun Mountain looked slightly sideways.
Thirty-Three Heavens, Sun God Palace.
Dijun is sitting on Heavenly Emperor's Throne, and Sun Essence Wheel is slowly rotating behind him.
Chi You The moment the war roar came, his fingers suddenly tightened on the armrest of the throne, and his knuckles turned slightly white.
Taiyi stood beside him, and Chaos Bell made a low hum in the palm of his hand.
Ten Great Demon Marshals gathered in the hall, Kunpeng stood at the front. Haotian and Yaochi were on both sides, with no emotion on their faces.
"Witch Clan takes action."
Dijun's voice was calm as usual, but Taiyi, who was familiar with him, knew that underneath this calmness was a surge of fighting spirit.
"Chi You destroyed the stronghold at Lich Junction with one punch, and Twelve Ancestral Witches's evil energy resonance has spread the battle order throughout Buzhou Mountain. They are not here to provoke, but to fight decisively."
Guiche The phantoms on both sides of the neck roared at the same time, "Your Majesty! The last general invites you to fight!"
Witch Clan deceives others too much, so what about Twelve Dutian Divine Fiends Formation? I, Demon Clan, and Great Array of the Stars are not vegetarians either!"
Bai Ze took a step forward and said in a calm voice, "Your Majesty, Witch Clan has an extremely precise timing for taking action this time.
Witch Clan's morale is strong. If you choose to avoid fighting and stick to it, Witch Clan's morale will be stronger, but Demon Clan will be passive.
This battle is unavoidable and can only be fought head-on.
However, Great Array of the Stars needs three hundred and sixty-five Star Lords to return to their respective positions, and it will take time to deploy the positions. We cannot allow Witch Clan to take advantage of the opportunity."
"Demon Master." Dijun's eyes fell on Kunpeng.
Kunpeng took a step forward, his sinister eyes flashed. "I am here.
Shadow Crows has been spread around Buzhou Mountain, and Witch Clan has all the movements under its control.
Twelve Ancestral Witches gathered together with the Pangu Hall, and the intensity of the evil spirit resonance far exceeded that of First War of the Witches and Demons. The fighting spirit of Chi You was the core driver of this evil spirit resonance.
Although his Reincarnation Fiendish Qi is not as good as Houtu himself, he is extremely energetic and makes up for his lack of law control with his fighting spirit.
Judging from the information sent back by Shadow Crows, the power of Twelve Dutian Divine Fiends Formation has recovered to at least 80% of what it was during the period of Houtu."
Taiyi slowly turned Chaos Bell in the palm of his hand, and the bell rang out in a circle of faint ripples in the hall:
"Brother, if Witch Clan wants to fight, I, Demon Clan, will fight.
If Witch Clan's Twelve Dutian Divine Fiends Formation can be faced head-on in this battle, or even forced to retreat, Primordial Wilderness forces from all sides will no longer dare to despise Heavenly Court.
On the contrary, if you avoid fighting or fail to win, Heavenly Court's prestige will be lost and it will be more difficult to gain a foothold in the future."
Dijun nodded slowly and stood up from the throne.
The light of Sun Essence Wheel enveloped him, making him like a god of war walking out of Sun Star. "Preach my will."
Great Array of the Stars is fully activated, 365 star kings have returned to their respective positions, and Ten Great Demon Marshals is divided into ten star regions.
Eastern Emperor is in charge of Chaos Bell guarding the center of the formation, and I personally preside over the Sun Star formation eye.
Demon Clan Heavenly Court billion Demon Soldier is divided into two routes.
Jimeng is the vanguard on the left, and Guiche is the vanguard on the right. In this battle, we can only advance, not retreat."
Taiyi raised Chaos Bell high, and the bell echoed in the Sun God Palace, penetrating every layer of the sky in Thirty-Three Heavens.
Three hundred and sixty-five star kings responded simultaneously from their respective star formations. The array pattern of Great Array of the Stars spread out from the dome of the Sun God Palace, covering the entire Thirty-Three Heavens.
Primordial Wilderness Above the sky, three hundred and sixty-five Primordial Stars lighted up at the same time. The light of the stars penetrated the daytime sky and complemented the brilliance of Sun Star.
Great Array of the Stars is the strongest method of Demon Clan Heavenly Court.
Three hundred and sixty-five star kings each preside over a Primordial Stars, using the power of the stars to weave a web of laws covering the entire Primordial Wilderness sky.
Dijun personally guards the Sun Star formation eye, and Taiyi holds Chaos Bell to guard the center.
Since First War of the Witches and Demons was put into full operation of this array, there have been countless Kalpas that have not been fully activated.
And today, its light once again enveloped the entire Primordial Wilderness.