"Especially after the city sacrifice, our demon realm is running out of manpower, and every soldier is extremely precious. Seeing that the war between gods and demons is likely to end here, we naturally do not want our hard-earned subordinates to lose their lives in the final battle, so we also have the idea of preserving some seeds for the demon realm."
The Demon Lord of Heaven explained in a sullen tone.
"Yes, that city sacrifice is so cruel, how could you demon lords agree to do it?" Wang Yao couldn't help but ask.
“At first we didn’t want to do that, but years of war between gods and demons have made our demon realm’s manpower increasingly scarce. In many places, only women and children are left. As we all know, women, children and those demons whose level does not reach the standard of fierce demons cannot constitute combat power at all.”
"Hu Mei claimed that the city sacrifice method could enable all women, the elderly, and children to possess the strength to fight demons and even directly participate in battles, instead of having a realm but no practical use. This first impressed Xia Geng, so we conducted a pilot project with him."
"As a result, Xia Geng's military strength swelled up all at once. Although tests showed that the magical weapons produced by the city sacrifice were still slightly inferior to the war demons, such a large military force was enough to make up for the quality with quantity," said the Tongtian Demon Lord.
"Have you not considered the survival of your demon race in doing this? Once the common people become the sacrifices of the city sacrifice, how... how will your demon race continue to exist? Don't you... don't you have any compassion for your own people?"
Wang Yao rebuked in a trembling voice.
Upon hearing Wang Yao's words, the Heavenly Demon Lord lowered his head deeply, clearly regretting his actions towards the city sacrifice.
"Compassion? The greatest compassion for our people is to completely end the war between gods and demons. Otherwise, their husbands, children, and relatives will all eventually perish on the battlefield. It is for the sake of peace for all generations that my demon realm has to endure that temporary pain. Although the city sacrifice was a last resort, it was not wrong."
"Don't use such womanly views to criticize us. If you were in our position, and had been troubled by the war with the gods for thousands of years, I'm afraid you would make the same choice as us," the Decapitation Demon Lord said loudly at this moment.
Upon hearing the words of the beheaded Demon Lord, Wang Yao, who was originally filled with righteous indignation, felt lost. Yes, it is always better to put yourself in someone else's shoes. If he were the Demon Lord, would it be wrong to exchange the great sacrifice of his people for the complete peace of the future world of gods and demons?
"It's been a long time. I've noticed that you've become much more articulate, Xia Geng." Laozi smiled slightly. "I thought your city sacrifice was a woman's view, but the Old Man of the Moon's idea is truly a man's view."
"How do you know?" As soon as Laozi uttered these words, not only was the Decapitation Demon Lord greatly astonished, but the other Demon Lords also looked at Laozi with curiosity.
"You're listening to that bewitching Hu Mei. Isn't Hu Mei just a woman? It's only reasonable to say it's a woman's opinion. Our Yue Lao is a male immortal through and through. As long as his opinion isn't influenced by Hu Mei, it can't be wrong to say it's a husband's opinion, right?" Laozi said in a serious tone.
"Tch!" Several demon lords shook their heads in disdain as they heard Laozi spout such nonsense.
Wang Yao was taken aback upon hearing this. Laozi's words seemed to be sophistry, but the implied meaning was quite intriguing, especially since Laozi mentioned Hu Mei twice, as if he was hinting at something.
"What the Supreme Lord said is correct. What I said came from my heart. On the contrary, your actions were influenced by others. Master Lu just said that the magic array of Tongtian Demon City is very likely..." Wang Yao's spirits lifted, and he immediately wanted to point out the matter of the Shadow Puppet.
Judging from how readily these demon lords accepted the city sacrifice, they've most likely been brainwashed by Hu Mei and Saruman, and might even have become Saruman's puppets.
"We'll talk about the magic array later. Let's get back to the main topic. Because of the Battle of Thousand Sails Harbor, you agreed to Hu Mei's suggestion to help Saruman create that invincible barrier?" Taishang Laojun interrupted Wang Yao at this moment and then asked Tongtian Demon Lord.
“That’s right. Therefore, we have suspended our attack on the God Realm and plan to launch a general offensive against the God Realm once the Invincible Barrier is established.” The Tongtian Demon Lord nodded.
"If that's the case, why did you withdraw the allied forces of the demon race and the ocean gods from the Sea-Reclaiming Divine Realm? Do you intend to have the allied forces of the ocean gods and the demon race change their targets and deal with other divine realms?" Wang Yao was even more puzzled upon hearing this.
"The combined forces of the Ocean Gods and the Demon Clan still plan to launch an attack from the Sea Reclamation Divine Realm. However, Saruman claims that maintaining the operation of the magic array requires an extremely large amount of power, which is not enough for us few Demon Lords. We must add all the Ocean Gods and the great powers of the Demon Realm."
"Even so, for the sake of this magic array, we even conscripted almost all of our True Demon subordinates," the Tongtian Demon Lord explained sullenly.
"Because the army of the Decapitation Demon Realm was affected by the Battle of Thousand Sails Harbor and could no longer form a fighting force, and the main powerful figures all had to go to Tongtian City to maintain the formation, after much discussion, everyone decided to withdraw the army of the Decapitation Demon Realm, as well as the armies of the Ocean God and the Demon Clan."
After hearing what the Heavenly Demon Lord said, Wang Yao couldn't help but glance at the Headless Demon Lord. He had originally suspected that the Headless Demon Lord was the Shadow Puppet, because among the several demon lords, he was the most active and showed no remorse for the failure of his demon realm and the major events such as the city sacrifice.
Moreover, he always manages to spout seemingly plausible but ultimately misleading arguments, perfectly matching the image of the shadow puppet in Wang Yao's mind.
However, Wang Yao's opinion wavered at this moment. The reason was simple: the Decapitation Demon Lord's subordinates were also affected by the Battle of Thousand Sails Harbor. Although the Tongtian Demon Lord's use of the word "affected" seemed to be an attempt to reduce everyone's speculation about the losses suffered by the Decapitation Demon Realm army.
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