Chapter 79

【In the Demon Calendar, 373 yuan, 7 hui, 9 yun, Xuandu of Shouyang Mountain, following Jin Bing's order, with Daluo Golden Immortal cultivation, directly faced the Great Wu Houyi; the two sides battled in Zhongzhou.】

【In this yun, Xuandu was hit by two arrows, yet he desperately repelled Houyi!】

【Next cycle, the Great Wu Kuafu of the Jumang tribe led troops to attack the northern wilderness human territory; hundreds of Taiyi Golden Immortals of the Demon Race in the northern wilderness voluntarily assisted the human race in defending the land, jointly repelling the Great Wu Kuafu!】

【Next cycle, the Great Wu Fengbo Yushi of the Xuanming tribe attacked the southern wilderness human territory; the Heavenly Court also mustered several star officials and righteous gods to attack the western wilderness human territory, Wu and Demon forming horns to each other……】

【In the Demon Calendar, 373 epoch, 7 period, 12 cycle, the East Sea True Dragon King, who had been in seclusion refusing guests for several epoch period, publicly announced that the Four Seas True Dragons would advance and retreat together with Shouyang Mountain, upholding the great cause of equality!】

【In this yun, the North Sea True Dragon King led the aquatic clan's great army, launching a surprise attack on several major demon cities of the Heavenly Court in the northern wilderness, beheading several Taiyi realm heavenly officials and righteous gods.】

Almost no thought needed, Zhao Si subconsciously gave the answer:

【You deeply understand that the root of your past life's defeat was actually not due to insufficient strength of the human faction, but because the contradictions provoked by human supremacism caused the vast demon race to be unable to endure human oppression, resulting in their desperate resistance.】

【You didn't know, so you then carefully divided the respective compositional strengths of the enemy and our sides.】

【Facing such a disadvantageous situation, you clearly know you absolutely cannot clash head-on; you can only micromanage.】

"Afterward, you could even declare that the Heavenly Court has already strayed from the Heavenly Emperor's ideals, with the celestial official group led by the Sun Star Lord being the villains standing opposed to the Heavenly Emperor and all spirits, while Shouyang Mountain is the true inheritor of the Heavenly Emperor's ideals."

【In this cycle, the human chieftain Jin Bing proclaimed himself the 'Demon Emperor', established his capital at Shouyang Mountain, declared that the Heavenly Court under the Sun Star Lord's control is an 'illegal organization', and claimed that the Sun Star Lord, by defying the Heavenly Emperor's mandate to pass the throne to himself, is unjust, illegal, and contemptuous of the Heavenly Emperor's dignity.】

【Even though the scale of this forced war has actually already exceeded your expectation……】

【In a flash, you and the human race are now completely different from your past lives, while the Wu Clan's path remains unchanged; the two camps have switched sides!】

【After all, the Demon Race occupies who knows how many thousands of yuan hui in the wilderness; if they truly go all out, the Demon side's absolute strength will surely surpass the human side, and the outcome of a full-scale war can only be the human side being completely worn out.】

【So, can one defeat the Heavenly Court and the Wu Clan?】

【Shouyang Mountain upholds the egalitarian ideal; under its banner are humans, dragons, phoenixes, qilins, and the vast demon races of the wilderness, with nearly a hundred mobilizable Daluo Golden Immortals, close to five thousand Taiyi Immortals, and countless Golden Immortals and below!】

【Your initial plan was to emulate your past life by pulling the three tribes and the Wu Clan into the fold, relying on the strength of these few powerful wilderness clans and humanity to avoid falling into an obvious disadvantage when confronting the Heavenly Court.】

【And once the support from all tribes was in place, you simply no longer hesitated, directly ordering the three thousand Taiyi Golden Immortals of humanity previously dispatched to various tribal regions to mobilize the mighty demon warriors under their jurisdictions and launch a strong assault on the major strongholds of the Heavenly Court throughout the wilderness.】

【What you never expected was that, just after you resolved the problem that had caused your past life's defeat, the Wu Clan, which you regarded as 'our own force', rebelled again……】

【But this life is different; under your guidance, humanity has eradicated supremacism at its root and instead willingly seeks equality with the demon race, so you can fully rally the vast demon race to fight on the same front without repeating the mistakes of your past life.】

【You immediately devised a propaganda strategy, urgently ordering the vanguards of all regions to implement it according to the plan, carrying out large-scale publicity toward the Heavenly Court camp.】

【But how exactly should one micromanage?】

【But even if humans come to fill the ranks, the top-tier strength disparity between the two sides remains obvious……】

【The territories each side controls are also not the same: Shouyang Mountain governs the four wildernesses and four seas, overseeing myriad myriad myriad living beings, but the majority are long-backward demon tribe grassroots.】

【Ding! Facing the hardship of war, you chose (by various propaganda means to strike and weaken the Heavenly Court camp's righteousness, disintegrate and win over its subordinates, and raise the banner of 'Heavenly Emperor's heir', declaring the Heavenly Court camp illegal and the Shouyang Mountain camp legal!).】

【In this cycle, the Shouyang Mountain camp was renamed the 'Equal Heavenly Court', and the Heavenly Court controlled by the Sun Star Lord was renamed the 'Supreme Heavenly Court'; the two heavenly courts stood side by side!】

【You secretly gave yourself encouragement, forcibly calming yourself; no matter what, as the mainstay of Shouyang Mountain, you cannot show panic.】

"Huh? Another short-answer question?"

【What you need to do is not to lead your subordinates' 180 Daluo Immortals in a hard charge against the Heavenly Court's over 400 Daluo Immortals, but to win over these neutral-camp Daluo Golden Immortals with righteous justification, using numbers to overcome the few.】

【Its economy is also at a disadvantage, because the Heavenly Court has long gathered taxes and levies from various regions into few major city districts, thus enjoying endless prosperity, while the vast grassroots…… basically not doing well; if it weren't for the human race's poverty relief efforts over these few yuan hui being quite good, it might even be poorer……】

Hmm……

【There is no answer in your heart; please devise a strategy yourself: (?)】

"Right! Didn't the Heavenly Emperor earlier declare that Jin Bing was his heir? Let's make use of that!"

"In this way, it can gain the sympathy and resonance of personnel in the Heavenly Court's core areas, thereby dividing the Heavenly Court's strength; if we can win over defectors, that is naturally a great merit, and if we cannot, it can still undermine the enemy's morale on righteous grounds, making them realize their camp is unjust and contrary to the Heavenly Emperor's ideals."

【To this end, you decided to seek the joint support of the vast wild Daluo Immortals of the demon race with the utmost righteousness!】

【Next yun, the Southern Volcano True Phoenix King and the Central Plains Qilin King also responded to Shouyang Mountain; although the vassals of the three tribes have all collapsed, the tribes' main bases still have deep foundations, and after clearly supporting Shouyang Mountain, each dispatched their own clan members to participate in the war!】

【And what about the Heavenly Court side?】

"First, ensure military discipline: do not beat or insult prisoners, but treat them fairly, explain to them the errors of the Heavenly Court side, and emphasize our side's righteousness: this war is to purge the treacherous elements of the Heavenly Court and the Wu Clan, to uphold the Heavenly Emperor's egalitarian great cause, neither intending to massacre innocents nor to oppress the myriad peoples."

【As for how the Heavenly Court fares, and how the Wu Clan fares; as long as the quasi-sages do not take the field, this battle may not necessarily be lost……】

At a glance, Zhao Si immediately entered a state of contemplation:

"The enemy occupies the core regions, has a strong economy, high population quality, while we hold the vast countryside, with lower population quality and a weak economy……"

"On the battlefield we may not necessarily defeat the enemy; thus we undermine and weaken the enemy in people's hearts, thereby enhancing our side."

【The Heavenly Court's territories in the four wildernesses have basically been lost, but it still controls many core regions, with heavenly materials and earthly treasures piled up like mountains, population quality also relatively high, celestial immortals and mystic immortals being the majority, while golden immortals and taiyi immortals are also not few……】

【Put it this way, if it weren't for this human protagonist of heavenly mandate being truly formidable, able to forcibly fill the mid-tier strength of the entire Shouyang Mountain camp with the power of a single clan, then given the extremely obvious resource and strength disparity between the two sides, there would simply be no way to fight!】

【From then on, the original 'purge the ruler's faction' rose to become a contest for the Heavenly Court's orthodox succession……】

【In the Demon Calendar, 373 yuan, 7 hui, 16 yun, you raised the banner of 'Heavenly Emperor's heir', and facing south proclaimed yourself 'Emperor', thereby seizing the righteous cause!】

【You, with past-life experience, know that in fact the Daluo Golden Immortals scattered throughout the wilderness are far more than five hundred, possibly even thousands, but they mostly do not concern themselves with worldly affairs; although they live under the Heavenly Court's rule, they are not actually under its direct control.】

【Just taking a beating one-sidedly won't do; you have to strike back!】

【The Heavenly Court side, meanwhile, has the 365 Zhou Tian Star Lords led by the Sun Star Lord, with various celestial officials containing close to three hundred Daluo-level beings, while the twelve Wu Clan tribes that defected to the Heavenly Court side have nearly a hundred Daluo-level great witches, and the directly mobilizable Daluo Golden Immortals number at least four hundred, with Taiyi Immortals and below countless!】

【Therefore the average population quality is relatively low, with true immortals and celestial immortals as the mainstream, mystic immortals being rare, and as for golden immortals and taiyi immortals…… they basically rely entirely on humanity to fill the ranks!】

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