Bai Xiaowen returned to the battlefield on the shore of Dongting Lake.
The martial artists could hardly believe how deferential Li Feng was toward Bai Xiaowen.
Bai Xiaowen did not tell them about Mind Control. Instead, he told a small lie. "I used a secret medicine from my school to control Xin Feng. Through him, I can command the Giant Savage Soldiers. He's the key to defeating the Black Heaven Cult! Unfortunately, I only had one dose of that medicine."
The banner commanders were stunned, but also strangely relieved.
Thank goodness Hero Lu Wang only had one dose... A man who could control other people's minds was terrifying.
Through Li Feng, Bai Xiaowen ordered the Giant Savage Soldiers trapped in the mud to reach out their hands.
One thick-knuckled hand after another emerged from the mud.
Bai Xiaowen fastened one end of an iron chain around a Giant Savage Soldier's arm, while several martial artists hauled on the other.
Like pulling radishes, they dragged the Giant Savage Soldiers out one by one.
After nearly two hours of work, they finally rescued all two hundred.
The two hundred Giant Savage Soldiers were covered in mud and looked utterly bedraggled.
Bai Xiaowen ordered them to wash in Dongting Lake in batches. Meanwhile, he observed the force up close, piecing together what he saw with the fragments of memory Li Feng had provided.
The Giant Savage Soldiers were born warriors. They were tall and had a naturally tough layer of skin that greatly reduced damage from physical attacks. It also offered some resistance to Spirit Force attacks.
Because of their enormous size, their melee attacks had an additional Overwhelming Crush effect that knocked back enemies less than a quarter their size—roughly anyone under 1.9 meters tall, given that they stood about 2.5 meters.