Huai East Battlefield.
Li Quan, leader of the Loyal Righteous Army of the Northern Army, had his wife Yang Miaozhen guard their stronghold, Chuzhou, in present-day Huai'an, Jiangsu, while he personally led an army of thirty thousand by land and water to seize Taizhou.
Li Quan's next objective was clear: seize Tongzhou and Yangzhou, then press toward Lin'an, the capital of the Southern Song.
Liu Zhuo, the Huai East military commissioner, had strictly ordered the Southern Army to hold their ground and not venture out. The two sides entered a standoff.
Late at night.
The camp of Li Fu, a Northern Army general, was brightly lit.
Suddenly, flames crackled and burst as thick smoke billowed upward.
"Fire!"
"Quick, put it out!"
Northern Army soldiers shouted in panic.
The fire had spread rapidly. By the time the Northern Army soldiers discovered it, it had already become a raging blaze. Li Fu had no time to don his armor. He hurriedly mounted his horse and ordered the soldiers to extinguish the fire, but how could they put it out so quickly?
Shouts and the neighing of horses filled the camp without end.
All of a sudden, a three-meter-tall knight riding a Bone Warhorse appeared, followed by nine more two-meter-tall knights, also mounted on Bone Warhorses.
The Bonefolk Heavenly King, Abaddon, had revealed his true form!
Pointing his enormous lance forward, Abaddon's soul-fire flickered in his eye sockets as Spirit Force fluctuations became a voice. "Charge!"
A black torrent of steel converged into an arrow and surged fiercely into the Northern Army camp.
Riding his Bone Warhorse, Abaddon was like an indestructible tank. With a single strike, he shattered the camp gate and charged inside, thrusting his lance at anyone he saw! A Necrosis aura emanated from his entire body, continuously infecting