Chapter Summaries

Sun Gan ordered a forced march and punished Liu Er for the Three Generals Camp’s slow progress, while the enemy gathered in Thousand Peaks Forest and planned an ambush using Ning Zhuo’s prophecy poem. Lu Hongtu proposed turning the poem against the Three Generals Camp, and Lord Long approved the plan as the enemy forces secretly deployed.

• Sun Gan learned that the Three Generals Camp and Red Flower Camp were marching cautiously because of Ning Zhuo’s prophecy poem, but he dismissed the warning and ordered Liu Er to receive sixty heavy strokes.
• Sun Gan ordered the army to begin a forced march the next day, hoping to reach Wood Wheel Town sooner.
• Cave Master Mo Yuan Lu Hongtu and the other cultivators met Lord Long and received Chen Lingfeng’s intelligence about the five armies of Two Injections Country.
• Lu Hongtu proposed ambushing the Golden Halberd Army by driving the Barbarian Demon Camp into the White Jade Camp, while the other forces disrupted the remaining armies.
• After Wu Hen revealed Ning Zhuo’s poem and the Ning Family’s history with the Six Caves Sect, Lu Hongtu proposed using the poem to demoralize and capture the Three Generals Camp.
• Lord Long approved Lu Hongtu’s plan, and the cultivators secretly departed to take their assigned positions around the enemy army.

Tu Ming, Gu Ya, and Azure Vine King attacked the Barbarian Demon Camp with poison, a wolf pack, and vine magic, while Xu Dali tried to hold the army together. The camp's formation stalled under coordinated assaults, and Xu Dali prepared to confront Gu Ya despite his deputy general's warning.

• Tu Ming used Formless Poison to silently kill soldiers in the marching Barbarian Demon Army.
• Gu Ya summoned his wolf pack and hastened its charge as Xu Dali ordered the Iron Bucket Formation and used a military art to speed its assembly.
• The wolves broke through the camp's outer ranks but were checked by Xu Dali's compact core formation.
• Azure Vine King killed key formation personnel with vines conjured inside their bodies, stalling the Iron Bucket Formation's expansion.
• Gu Ya strengthened the wolves with two Beast Control Arts, allowing them to overwhelm more soldiers as Xu Dali tried to charge Gu Ya and his deputy general stopped him.

Green Vine Physician devastated Xu Dali’s Barbarian Demon Camp with her divine power, while Xu Dali refused to retreat and held the Iron Bucket Formation. After Tu Ming invoked the Divine Decree and Lord Long’s oversight, Green Vine Physician agreed to open a route for the survivors, leaving Tu Ming to steer them toward the White Jade Camp and the Azure Moon Tribe to handle the battlefield.

• Xu Dali rallied his battered soldiers with his general flag and the military art Coagulate Military Heart.
• Green Vine Physician unleashed the divine power Spreading Hell, killing many Barbarian Demon Camp cultivators and trapping the rest among deadly vines.
• Xu Dali rejected his deputy general’s advice to retreat, while his personal guards and elite soldiers held firm in the small Iron Bucket Formation.
• Green Vine Physician suffered National Might backlash that weakened her combat strength after attacking Two Injections Country’s national defenses.
• Tu Ming sent a messenger urging Green Vine Physician to use the routed troops against the White Jade Camp, and reminded her that Lord Long was overseeing the battle.
• Green Vine Physician agreed to open a passage for the fleeing troops, while Tu Ming took responsibility for steering them toward the White Jade Camp and the Azure Moon Tribe was left to handle the battlefield.

Shuang Jing refused to rescue the fleeing Barbarian Demon Camp, deciding to preserve White Jade Camp’s formation and army. He used Coagulate Military Heart to persuade his soldiers that their allies were unworthy of aid and should serve as cannon fodder.

• Green Vine Physician let the Barbarian Demon Camp cultivators escape the vine prison, but Diao Ye, Wu Lan, and other Thousand Peaks Forest Golden Core Cultivators pursued them toward White Jade Camp.
• Shuang Jing rejected his deputy commander’s proposal to support the Barbarian Demon Camp and ordered White Jade Camp to form the Jade Wall Natural Barrier Array.
• The fleeing cultivators called to White Jade Camp for help as their pursuers held back, hoping to lure the camp into disrupting its formation.
• Shuang Jing activated Coagulate Military Heart and told his soldiers that rescuing the Barbarian Demon Camp would expose them to an enemy trap.
• White Jade Camp’s soldiers declared the Barbarian Demon Camp unworthy of rescue, and Shuang Jing ordered them to let the fugitives drain the enemy’s spiritual power.

Shuang Jing’s White Jade Camp withstood Tu Ming’s poison assault through its formations, costly equipment, and a Golden Light Finch, forcing the High Priest to retreat. Meanwhile, Chen Lingfeng’s group waited for Wu Hen to assassinate a general or target strategist Ning Zhuo at Three Generals Camp.

• Shuang Jing held White Jade Camp’s formation and punished a soldier who killed a retreating Barbarian Demon Camp cultivator without orders.
• Tu Ming unleashed poisonous rain and venomous snakes, but White Jade Camp raised a Battle Array Avatar and deployed Poison Repelling Grass Puppets to counter them.
• Shuang Jing replenished his soldiers’ magic power with the Sagely Light Illuminating Pagoda and released the Golden Light Finch, which killed and wounded Thousand Peaks Forest Golden Core Cultivators.
• Shuang Jing’s Dragon Tooth Array struck Tu Ming with a white jade dragon, forcing him to flee after he was wounded.
• Shuang Jing mocked Tu Ming by listing the enormous costs of White Jade Camp’s resources and weapons.
• Chen Lingfeng waited for Wu Hen to assassinate one of the Three Generals, while Wu Hen moved through the camp’s shadows and Ning Zhuo remained a potential target.

Wu Hen infiltrated the Three Generals Camp and rejected Liu Er, Zhang Hei, and Ning Zhuo as targets before ambushing Guan Hong. His escape disrupted the army’s formation, allowing waiting Golden Core Cultivators to strike and kill more than thirty soldiers.

• Wu Hen moved through the Three Generals Camp’s shadows but abandoned Liu Er after seeing him armed with the Mystic Yellow Sword.
• Wu Hen spotted Zhang Hei whipping soldiers, then followed Ning Zhuo’s carriage and withdrew after discovering his powerful Mechanism Puppets and Night Rain Demon Soldier.
• Wu Hen ambushed Guan Hong with Traceless Silhouette, badly injuring his arm before Guan Hong’s counterattack destroyed his own horse.
• Wu Hen escaped through the shadows as the Three Generals Camp’s formation fell into chaos, drawing attacks from Golden Core Cultivators waiting outside.
• Liu Er and Zhang Hei intercepted spells, while injured Guan Hong and Ning Zhuo’s Yuan Dasheng stopped some of the barrage; the remaining spells killed more than thirty cultivators.

The Three Generals Camp came under attack from Golden Core Cultivators, whose wind, shadow, and quicksand techniques threatened to break its formation. Ning Zhuo restored the ground and helped defend the army, leaving the three generals astonished by their Military Advisor’s strength.

• Liu Er, Zhang Hei, and Guan Hong changed the Three Generals Camp from the One-Word Long Serpent Formation into the Triangular Arrow Formation as enemy attacks killed and trapped soldiers.
• Chen Lingfeng unleashed Wind Like Twilight, Wu Hen bound soldiers with shadow silk, and Luo Xiwei turned the ground into quicksand.
• Zhang Hei recognized that the attack matched the Military Advisor’s Prophecy Poem, shaking the three generals’ confidence and weakening the formation.
• Ning Zhuo stepped out of the carriage and used Earth Element—Solidify Sand and Strengthen Earth to restore the ground beneath the soldiers.
• Wu Hen sent shadow silk at Ning Zhuo, but Buddha Physician Meng Yaoyin shattered it with the Mechanical Scythe.
• Liu Er, Zhang Hei, and Guan Hong realized Ning Zhuo seemed to possess Golden Core combat power, prompting Liu Er to wonder who the main general was.

Ning Zhuo disrupted Wu Hen’s shadow-thread attack and rallied the Three Generals Camp, then used the battle formation’s power to withstand two Golden Core opponents. After Ning Zhuo exhausted his mana, Liu Er led the army into a charge, and Zhang Hei killed a Golden Core cultivator.

• Ning Zhuo realized the attacker was likely Wu Hen and publicly called for his comrades to spare Wu Hen so he could capture and reform him.
• Wu Hen’s injuries disrupted his shadow threads, freeing more than half of the Three Generals Camp and giving the soldiers a chance to recover.
• Ning Zhuo cast Tree World Descent, but Chen Lingfeng’s wind blades and a Red-Crowned Feather Crane’s sorrowful cry threatened the formation.
• Ning Zhuo used fire and earth spells to dispel the soldiers’ grief and block the wind blades, then secretly told Liu Er that his mana was nearly exhausted.
• Liu Er led the army in a charge, and Zhang Hei rushed forward and killed a Golden Core cultivator with the Black Serpent Spear before returning to the formation.

The Three Generals Camp and Red Flower Camp held off attacks while Mu Lan assessed the battlefield and recognized that the Golden Halberd Army was the ambush’s true target. Lord Long then intervened against the White Jade Camp, smashing its Battle Array Avatar and scattering its soldiers.

• Zhang Hei’s attack killed a Golden Core Cultivator, and the Three Generals Camp advanced as Chen Lingfeng, Wu Hen, and the other cultivators retreated.
• Horse Flying Legs attacked the Red Flower Camp, but Mu Lan’s Floral Battle Array warded off his blows while Mu Lan analyzed the armies’ positions and identified the Golden Halberd Army as the key to the battle.
• Sun Gan recognized that Lu Hongtu had trapped the Golden Halberd Army inside the Six Caves Sect’s Light Mountain Heavy Mist Diagram, while the sect’s Cave Masters waited for Lord Long to act.
• Lord Long used Ginseng Essence Rejuvenation to restore his youthful strength and descended on the White Jade Camp with Dragon Roar Palm.
• Lord Long shattered the White Jade Camp’s Battle Array Avatar and crashed into its center, then threatened the scattered soldiers.

Lord Long shattered the White Jade Camp’s first battle array, but Shuang Jing rallied the injured soldiers into a second formation that empowered the seven deputy generals. As Lord Long overwhelmed them and drained one deputy general’s life force, Shuang Jing took pills and medicinal powder to strengthen himself before joining the fight.

• Lord Long broke the White Jade Camp’s Battle Array Avatar, inflicting backlash on the soldiers, and Shuang Jing ordered them to form a new array.
• Shuang Jing used military command plaques to assemble the Seven Stars Gathering Power Array, empowering the seven Golden Core deputy generals to attack Lord Long.
• Lord Long repeatedly sent the deputy generals flying with Dragon Roar Palm, but the array’s power brought them back into the fight.
• Lord Long seized one deputy general with Withered Dragon Claw and drained his life force while the others struck his Divine Dragon Treasure Body.
• Shuang Jing decided to face Lord Long himself and swallowed a Nascent Soul Level pill and medicinal powder, boosting his aura twice.

Shuang Jing and the White Jade Camp battled Lord Long, while Mu Lan weighed whether to abandon the Three Generals Camp to rescue them. Mu Lan trapped Horse Flying Legs in the Red Flower Avatar and transferred him onto the Three Generals Camp, then withdrew, leaving Ning Zhuo and the three generals burdened with the Nascent Soul enemy.

• Shuang Jing used a barrage of costly talismans and the Myriad Stars Surrounding the Moon Array to unleash White Tiger Sky-Rending Sword Qi, but Lord Long survived with the help of his spirit-manifesting shoulder guard and struck Shuang Jing into the ground.
• Lord Long overwhelmed the White Jade Camp as Thousand Peaks Forest cultivators joined the attack, and Cave Master Mo Yuan sent news of the crisis to Sun Gan, prompting the Golden Halberd Army to attack through the Light Mountain Heavy Mist Diagram.
• Xu Dali rejected the White Jade Camp's request for aid and continued leading the Iron Bucket Battle Array against the Blue Moon Tribe, while Mu Lan worried that the White Jade Camp's collapse would imperil the Golden Halberd Army and her family.
• The Three Generals Camp arrived to reinforce Mu Lan, and Ning Zhuo helped Liu Er, Guan Hong, and Zhang Hei kill three Golden Core Cultivators while they fought Horse Flying Legs.
• Mu Lan used Incompatible Flower Adornment to trap Horse Flying Legs in the Red Flower Avatar and transfer the burden of restraining him to the Three Generals Camp, then led the Red Flower Camp away, angering Ning Zhuo and the three generals.

Mu Lan abandoned the Three Generals Camp to rescue the White Jade Camp, leaving the Three Generals Camp to restrain Horse Flying Legs with the Red Flower Avatar. After receiving her intelligence, Liu Er chose to abandon the weakening array and fight.

• Mu Lan led the Red Flower Camp toward the White Jade Camp with the Flowing Water Battle Array, explaining to Zhang Chongyi that victory outweighed responsibility for the Three Generals Camp’s safety.
• At the Three Generals Camp, Liu Er weighed whether to keep sustaining the Red Flower Avatar or risk a direct battle against Horse Flying Legs.
• Mu Lan’s Flying Letter arrived with detailed intelligence about Horse Flying Legs, easing Liu Er’s anger but not Ning Zhuo’s or his brothers’ resentment toward her.
• Ning Zhuo urged Liu Er to act before the soldiers lost more strength, and Liu Er ordered the Three Generals Camp to battle.

The Three Generals Camp fought Horse Flying Legs while Ning Zhuo narrowly escaped his deadly attack. After regrouping with Sun Lingtong, Ning Zhuo joined her in posing as Old Monster Stone and raiding the White Jade Camp, where they stole a Mana Pool and escaped underground.

• Guan Hong severed the Red Flower Avatar’s connection to the Three Generals Camp, allowing the formation to escape and attack Chen Lingfeng, Wu Hen, and the other Golden Core Cultivators.
• Liu Er, Zhang Hei, Guan Hong, and Ning Zhuo fought Horse Flying Legs, wounding him and driving him to consider retreating.
• Horse Flying Legs targeted Ning Zhuo with a qi weapon spear, but Ning Zhuo’s Mechanism Ring activated his Directional Space Escape Talisman and transported him to the Ten Thousand Miles Swimming Dragon.
• Ning Zhuo told Sun Lingtong about the battle, and they chose to rob the White Jade Camp’s military equipment to satisfy their Divine Decrees.
• Ning Zhuo and Sun Lingtong combined the stone sphere with the Earth Element Spleen Temple, then traveled underground as Old Monster Stone.
• Old Monster Stone swallowed a Mana Pool at the White Jade Camp and escaped underground while the camp’s soldiers attacked.

Ning Zhuo and Sun Lingtong stole White Jade Camp’s Earth Milk Pure Spirit Pool and partially severed its bond with its owner. After discovering its immense value, they chose to recover before targeting the camp’s other Mana Pools, since they still needed White Jade Camp to resist Lord Long.

• White Jade Camp’s junior commander discovered that its Mana Pool had vanished and failed to locate it.
• Sun Lingtong used the True Copying Hand to conceal and shrink the Mana Pool while Ning Zhuo inspected its materials and formations.
• Ning Zhuo used rod heads and Mechanism Art to disable the pool’s formations and refine more than half of its connection to its original owner.
• Ning Zhuo identified the treasure as an Earth Milk Pure Spirit Pool worth an estimated four million five hundred and fifty thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Sun Lingtong urged Ning Zhuo to steal more Mana Pools, but he insisted they recover first and avoid weakening White Jade Camp too much.

Ning Zhuo and Sun Lingtong raided the White Jade Camp for weapons, spirit treasures, and horses while Lord Long fought Shuang Jing’s forces. As the battle worsened, Mu Lan unleashed her Red Heart Swan Arrow and killed Lord Long, leaving the battlefield momentarily silent.

• Ning Zhuo and Sun Lingtong stole nearly all the Jadeite Armor and Shocking Light Spears from an armory, then continued raiding the camp despite their exhaustion.
• Shuang Jing learned that Old Monster Stone was stealing military equipment and three Sagely Light Illuminating Pagodas, and ordered his soldiers to replenish the armories to keep the thief occupied.
• Sun Lingtong used sleeping incense from Yang Chanyu to help steal the White Feather Light Dust herd, while Shuang Jing urged his troops to focus on defeating Lord Long.
• Shuang Jing’s forces wounded Lord Long with White Tiger Sky-Rending Sword Qi and overwhelmed him with close-range attacks as Lord Long called unsuccessfully for Old Monster Stone and Green Vine Physician.
• Mu Lan fired her Red Heart Swan Arrow, piercing Lord Long’s chest and destroying his heart, before Zhang Chongyi caught her as she nearly collapsed.

Ning Zhuo and Sun Lingtong kept stealing White Jade Camp’s replenished weapons as Lord Long was struck by Mu Lan’s Red Heart Swan Arrow. Lord Long invoked the Ginseng Beard Dragon King, destroyed White Jade Camp’s formation, and pursued the fleeing Shuang Jing while the stone ball seized the Gao Sheng’s Last Testament.

• After Sun Lingtong reported that White Jade Camp had restocked Arsenal No. 6 with Lunar Phase Shields, Ning Zhuo and Sun Lingtong stole them and praised Shuang Jing’s decision to keep replenishing supplies.
• Mu Lan’s Red Heart Swan Arrow pierced Lord Long’s chest, leaving him gravely wounded.
• Lord Long called upon the Ginseng Beard Dragon King, grew a wooden heart from his ginseng beard, and unleashed tendrils that killed hundreds of White Jade Camp cultivators.
• White Jade Camp’s formation collapsed, and Shuang Jing fled as Ning Zhuo, Sun Lingtong, and Lord Long pursued him.
• Shuang Jing used the Gao Sheng’s Last Testament to block Lord Long’s attack, but the document fell and a stone ball caught it.

Ning Zhuo and Sun Lingtong stole Gao Sheng's Last Testament while Lord Long's forces overwhelmed White Jade Camp. As Lu Hongtu realized the apparent crisis was a trap, Fire Cloud Camp struck Lord Long with Unborn Fire and burned him unconscious.

• Sun Lingtong endured the pain of using the Thieving Hand Technique while Ning Zhuo sealed Gao Sheng's Last Testament inside Old Monster Stone.
• Shuang Jing and Lord Long watched Old Monster Stone escape underground as Lord Long's ginseng roots slaughtered White Jade Camp and forced its survivors to flee.
• Sun Ning and Sun Lingtong headed toward exhausted Red Flower Camp, hoping to help Zhang Chongyi and obtain its treasures.
• Lu Hongtu suspected Sun Gan was feigning desperation, ordered the formation dismantled, and called for the cave masters to escape.
• Lu Chi ordered Fire Cloud Camp to attack Lord Long, and its Battle Array Avatar struck him with Unborn Fire until he fell unconscious.

Ning Zhuo discovered that the Fire Cloud Camp had struck Lord Long with a divine consciousness attack while the Unborn Fire burned him, leaving him trapped and unconscious. As the opposing forces assessed their losses and chances of victory, Old Monster Stone charged into the flames to confront Lord Long.

• Ning Zhuo examined the attack on Lord Long and identified the Fire Cloud Camp’s Fire Tongue General Designation and Rapid Fire Heart Attack Technique as the cause of his immobilized state.
• Shuang Jing realized Sun Gan had secretly hidden the Fire Cloud Camp in the high sky and hoped to capture Lord Long to offset his army’s heavy losses.
• Mu Lan celebrated her successful gamble with Zhang Chongyi, then resolved to earn more merits in the coming frontal battle.
• Sun Ning and Sun Gan abandoned their plan to trouble the Red Flower Camp after Lord Long’s fall boosted its morale.
• The Six Caves Sect’s Nascent Soul Cultivators arrived and considered retreating, but Lu Hongtu spotted Old Monster Stone charging into the flames.

Ning Zhuo, disguised as Old Monster Stone, rescued Lord Long from the Unborn Fire by shielding him with earth-element magic and carrying him underground. Lord Long recovered with his allies, while the battle ended in heavy losses for the Red Flower Camp and Shuang Jing’s forces.

• Ning Zhuo used fire-element spells and the Western Pure Land’s radiance to protect himself and Sun Lingtong as Old Monster Stone’s stone ball crossed the Unborn Fire.
• Ning Zhuo extinguished much of the rapid fire in Lord Long’s consciousness, earning Lord Long’s gratitude and persuading him to leave with the stone ball.
• Ning Zhuo used an Earth Movement Technique to take Lord Long underground, escaping Shuang Jing and the Fire Cloud Camp.
• Mu Lan rallied the Red Flower Camp, but Lu Hongtu and three Nascent Soul cave masters attacked, forcing the camp to collapse; the Thousand Peaks Forest cultivators fled as the Fire Cloud Camp pursued.
• Mu Lan and Shuang Jing counted their devastating losses, while Lord Long treated his wounds in a mountain forest and Lu Hongtu praised Fellow Daoist Stone for saving him.

After the battle, Ning Zhuo, disguised as Old Monster Stone, demanded credit from Lord Long and used his prophecy poem to draw attention to himself. He stayed behind to investigate Ning Zhuo, while his real identity and motives remained hidden from the cultivators.

• Lord Long thanked Old Monster Stone for saving him, and Old Monster Stone bluntly demanded a reward for turning the battle around.
• Di Lu and Gu Ya reunited with the group, while Chen Lingfeng and Wu Hen reported that Horse Flying Legs had been captured by Liu Guan Zhang.
• Lord Long learned that Tu Ming had been seriously injured and led the survivors of Thousand Peaks Forest back, while Cave Master Mo Yuan tried to cast Horse Flying Legs' capture as a blessing.
• Old Monster Stone mocked Lord Long for nearly dying and announced that he would stay behind to investigate Ning Zhuo.
• Ning Zhuo used his prophecy poem to suggest that Ning Zhuo had foreseen the ambush, then claimed Ning Zhuo as his prey and gained the group's approval to pursue him.
• As Ning Zhuo prepared to withdraw in the Mechanism Swimming Dragon, Lord Long suddenly called out to stop him.