novelapdf 118. Commander-in-Chief
118. Commander-in-Chief
Upon hearing this, Teng Xie shook his head inwardly. Demons are ultimately highly aggressive creatures. Jiu Huo doesn't dislike war; she just dislikes losing it.
Now that the Demon Realm's fault lines have healed, and once the Ghost Clan recovers, Jiu Huo will undoubtedly be the first to support initiating a war.
Teng Xie thought about how he would become the only outcast in the Demon Realm at that time... He had to keep getting stronger and couldn't stop for a moment.
"Empress, now that the fault lines have been repaired and demons have joined forces, the Demon Realm will inevitably become the focus of the martial world. The Ghost Clan was sealed away in a forbidden area by the Ghost King, and opening that area requires a vast amount of energy. I intend to first revive some of the Demon and Evil Clan's warriors to cope with the current changes."
"Um."
Jiu Huo nodded and said in a deep voice, "Teng Xie, you don't know this, but after the Demon Realm fault line was joined, the environment of the Bitter Realm underwent a major change. Three blazing suns rose and circled the sun, causing the land to be scorched for thousands of miles, the earth to crack and the rivers to dry up."
Then a blood moon rises, corresponding to the blazing sun, shining alongside the sun and moon, and beneath the blood moon, there is bitter cold for thousands of miles;
Many areas are also experiencing continuous natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and floods, resulting in extremely severe damage.
Teng Xiexin said, "This is the opening of the next episode. The strange phenomenon of the tearful sun and blood moon has caused countless incidents."
After talking for a while, Tengxie basically grasped the major events that had occurred in the Bitter Realm in the past few days. The two then went to the First Hall to summon Tunfo Tongzi, Shesheng Tongzi, Ren Chenfu and others.
Then he announced to everyone that the First Palace War Commander and the Second Palace Empress had jointly decided to temporarily establish the position of the Three Palaces Commander-in-Chief, who would take command of the military power of the Three Palaces.
Upon hearing this, the generals were all slightly puzzled. They all thought that Teng Xie was going to sit on the throne of the First Palace, but they did not expect that he would become the commander-in-chief of the Three Palaces.
Tunfo Tongzi's heart stirred. Indeed, compared to being a mere palace master, the War Commander's ambitions were far greater… He couldn't help but recall Teng Xie's words during their first meeting after Teng Xie's awakening: "If the Demon Realm remained unchanged, wouldn't it be incredibly boring?"
Swallowing Buddha Child thought to himself, "General, I do indeed have more expectations and interest now."
"Gentlemen, the current situation is chaotic, and there are also major natural disasters and anomalies. I intend to prioritize the revival of the Demon and Evil races' generals to quickly respond to various changes, and to establish the Military Council, from which the military forces of the Three Palaces will be mobilized."
Tengxie meant that since he was now the supreme commander of the demon realm, he could no longer sit below the First Palace Demon Lord. He wanted to establish his own government and sit on equal footing with the Three Palace Kings.
"Tunfo Boy and Shesheng Boy, you two are hereby transferred to the position of Vanguard General of the Military Council, commanding military affairs under my command, subject to ups and downs. You are now reassigned as Chief Advisor of the Military Council, leading the Military Council's staff, and serving as my military advisor..."
Tengxie appointed a number of officials, emptying out the First Hall and transferring almost all the generals in charge of war in the Second Hall to the Military Affairs Office.
Moreover, what he didn't tell anyone, including Jiu Huo, was that he didn't intend to use a lot of energy to revive the original generals.
The original generals all regarded him as the most despicable vanguard in the demon realm. As long as they were high-ranking generals, none of them submitted to him. He didn't have the time to subdue them one by one.
As the saying goes, it's better to create a lord than to search for one; similarly, it's better to create generals than to subdue them.
While other places cannot create generals, the Otherworld Dragon can. This is a main base and barracks in a real-time strategy game. By providing the dragon with nutrients and energy, the dragon can produce troops and even "produce heroes," which are generals of various levels. Tengxie plans to use this to cultivate his own team.
The period during which the demon race has not yet recovered and requires a massive amount of energy to recover is the crucial time for Tengxie to establish his own power.
Since he can hardly change the demon's attitude, he might as well not change it at all; he's going to establish a new Demon Realm!
Okay, he's going to establish a Military Council and a "New Demon Palace" to control people who are absolutely loyal to him. If he can't change the Demon Realm, he'll simply... stop letting those who oppose him play with him.
His opposition to certain people in the Demon Realm does not mean he has betrayed the Demon Realm.
Instead, he must become so powerful that he represents the Demon Realm, his will is the will of the Demon Realm, and his path is the path of the Demon Realm. To betray him is to betray the Demon Realm!
As Teng Xie announced a series of resolutions, intending for everyone to perform their duties and act accordingly, a secret message suddenly flew over. Teng Xie caught it and, upon sensing it, was slightly taken aback.
"Tunfo, Shesheng, come with me on this journey through the barren mountain path."
The barren mountain path was the residence of that wolf lord. It was a low volcano with thick smoke billowing from its crater. Halfway up the mountain, you could see a huge platform with several thatched huts and a massive blast furnace sitting on it.
Teng Xie, accompanied by his two generals Heng and Ha, traveled along a rugged mountain path. When they saw the thatched hut in the distance, they could also faintly hear the clanging of blacksmithing.
However, the sound of hammering stopped quickly. When the three of them went over, they saw an extremely robust old man with a slicked-back hairstyle, wearing red round sunglasses, and revealing his well-developed chest muscles.
The old man was holding a long, narrow straight knife and shaping a dagger.
Teng Xie now has a good understanding of materials and immediately sensed that although the dagger could not be called a divine weapon, it was still a rare masterpiece. At this moment, it was being shaved into layers of curled metal by a pencil knife, that is, the narrow and long straight knife.
Beside the old man stood a strangely shaped little old man, barely half a person's height, with a pigtail sticking straight up. He was gesturing wildly and shouting at the old man, "Hey, little wolf cub, do you know something big has happened in the Demon Realm!"
The burly old man glanced at the little old man and said disdainfully, "Old man, do you think I'm a vegetable? Do you think I wouldn't know about such a big commotion as fault joining?"
No, that's not it.
The old man waved his hands repeatedly: "It's the fault line. A lot of big things have happened there. Do you know? That brat Teng Xielang actually became the Three Palaces' Commander-in-Chief!"
"Huh? What kind of rice cake is that?"
As the burly old man spoke, he suddenly paused, only to see Teng Xie approaching with Tun Fo and She Sheng.
"Oh my! The demon has arrived as soon as you say it! The War General is here right now."
"Elder Jie, Wolf Lord, it's been a long time."
The imposing old man was the patriarch of the Blood Wolf Clan, who fled the mountain to mend the broken sword.
Jie Lao, also known as the Elder Jie Shen, is the most peculiar spirit in the Demon Realm.
There is a strange book in the Demon Realm called the Codex of the God of Discipline, which records and records all major events that occur in the Demon Realm in real time.
However, the record in the Divine Commandment Manual is only a description of the phenomenon. The old man of the Divine Commandment obviously only knew that Tengxie had been awakened, but did not know that Tengxie had been possessed by a soul.
The old man who was the guardian spirit of the Guardian God's Manual was from a very distant era. Teng Xie's original form had only heard of it. The old man who was the guardian spirit of the Guardian God's Manual was the creator of the manual. Later, he died and became the manual's spirit. That's why Bu Jianque called him the old dead ghost. He did indeed die once.
At this moment, the old man of the Guardian God circled around Teng Xie, looking him up and down, as if he didn't take this war commander seriously at all.
The old man of the Guardian God was indeed qualified. His seniority was only slightly lower than that of the Sword-Slayer. It is said that when he served the progenitor of demons, he was equivalent to Ren Chenfu, who served Jiu Huo.