Chapter Summaries

After the three Wei armies united to pursue the Tartars, Yang Ge ordered an attack at dawn and gave Xie Yu command of the Seven Guards Cavalry. When an aged voice called on Yang Ge to make peace, he put away his unfinished Pinyin Textbook and went out with the Cold Moon Saber to face it.

• At Liaodong Garrison, Jiang Kui received orders and rallied his soldiers to leave the fortress and seek revenge with reinforcements from Ji Prefecture Garrison.
• At Datong Garrison, Yu Guanhai received the General Who Conquers the Barbarians' dispatch, and Liu Tang volunteered to scout ahead as the army prepared to march.
• The three Wei armies joined forces near Three Gorges Pass, where the three Tartar armies had gathered with three hundred thousand soldiers.
• Yang Ge ordered Zhou Fu to act as commander and planned an all-out assault at dawn, assigning Xie Yu the Seven Guards Cavalry.
• Yang Ge told Shen Fa that he was waiting for the old monster, while Shen Fa acknowledged he could not dissuade Xie Yu from his course.
• An aged voice called for peace outside Yang Ge's tent, and Yang Ge put away his manuscript, took up the Cold Moon Saber, and went out as golden saber light rose through the night.

Yang Ge defeated the demon monk Yang Lianzhenga with help from Zhang Xuansu and Jiang Ping, then returned to the battlefield and helped the Great Wei army break the Tartars’ command line before collapsing. Three years later, he was teaching at Gezhi Academy while Zhao Miao, pregnant with their child, came to fetch him after class.

• Yang Ge and Yang Lianzhenga fought fiercely until Yang Ge’s allies blocked the monk’s escape and Yang Ge struck him with his new move, End the War; Yang Lianzhenga detonated and died.
• Jiang Ping identified the dead monk as Yang Lianzhenga, and Zhang Xuansu gave the badly injured Yang Ge Great Restoration Pills.
• Yang Tiansheng led sixty-one riders, including the returning Eastern Expedition companions, into the Tartar army and advanced toward its command banner.
• Yang Ge returned to the battlefield on Erhei and cut down the Tartar soldiers surrounding the command banner, then collapsed after Yang Tiansheng angrily shook him.
• Three years later, Zhao Miao visited Yang Ge at Gezhi Academy and found him teaching children after class had ended.

Xiaolou thanked readers and editors after finishing the book, explained why he shortened its original six-volume plan, and reflected on Yang Erlang’s ending and his own immersive writing process. He planned to rest before preparing a lighter new book, though he was uncertain when it would appear or how many more books he could write.

• Xiaolou reported that the book finished with 16,000 subscriptions and thanked readers, editors, and himself for reaching that milestone.
• Xiaolou explained that feedback about his previous protagonists’ oppressive endings led him to cut the planned six-volume outline and give important characters better outcomes.
• Xiaolou said Yang Erlang could protect the people he cared about and live peacefully, while the book’s themes of friendship, ideals, and reconciliation reached satisfying conclusions.
• Xiaolou described how immersion shaped his writing and led him to develop Zhao Miao’s relationship with Yang Erlang through companionship.
• Xiaolou planned to rest for two months and prepare a lighter new book, but admitted that its release and his future writing remained uncertain.