The South Sea Wolf Spider clan, entrenched on their isolated island, had thought they could hold out until the Water Marquis's army arrived. Who could have guessed that their enemies would resort to such a cunning scheme, freezing a vast ice field amid the perpetually warm waves of the South Sea, then using sorcery to cover it with three feet of yellow earth? The boundless sea, where land cavalry had once found no footing, had become a broad stretch of level ground conjured out of thin air!
It was nothing short of a catastrophe. Faced with this sudden turn of events, the wolf spider spirits who had long inhabited the island, however savage and ruthless they normally were, immediately crumbled before the rolling torrent of monster cavalry. Almost immediately after Xing Yan and Qiong Tong joined forces to break through the wolf spider cocoon, powerful cavalry units composed of fierce beasts and monster spirits swept across more than half of Hidden Wave Island like a gale crushing rotten wood. As the spirits and monsters fought to the death, roars shook the heavens above the island and the sounds of combat rose everywhere. Green beast eyes gleamed throughout the murky night, darting and charging like dancing ghost fires.
In the dark night, mangled limbs flew through the air. Even as the spirit warriors, accustomed to seeing in darkness, fought with all their might, they had to watch out for severed limbs falling from above. Meanwhile, the main force of monster birds from the Mystic Spirit Cult's Feather Spirit Hall, which had set out later, arrived in flocks from Wave-Subduing Island and descended upon the stubbornly resisting wolf spider warriors with the crushing weight of Mount Tai.
As the bitter battle wore on and the wolf spider warriors suffered grievous casualties, the