Chapter Summaries

Zhang Xing’s forces drew the Northern Lands coalition into a night battle, where Bai Yousi led the eight hundred White-Stepping Cavalry in a Radiant Light formation that transformed into a Mighty Phoenix and flew across Luye Marsh. The coalition’s troops broke and fled, while Zhang Xing’s army’s astonishing formation left the battlefield in stunned disarray.

• Lan Dawen’s coalition debated whether to advance, while Cui Xuanchen challenged Lady Lu’s absence from the front and warned that the army lacked unity and reliable command.
• After the Exorcising the Dragon Army withdrew, Lan Dawen ordered the coalition south; Li Shu and Cui Xuanchen fled when they learned Zhang Xing had arrived with only eight hundred riders.
• Li Ding’s forces attacked the coalition’s forward camp at night, and the Exorcising the Dragon Army’s disciplined troops gained the advantage in the fighting.
• Bai Yousi and the eight hundred White-Stepping Cavalry formed a True Qi military formation and crossed Luye Marsh through the air as a gigantic Mighty Phoenix.
• The Northern Lands coalition collapsed into flight after witnessing the Mighty Phoenix land behind their camp.

Zhang Xing’s forces broke the Northern Lands allied army, took control of Galloping Horse City, and began reorganizing the region while preparing to exorcise a True Dragon with Liu Wenzhou. The chapter ended with Lady Lu demanding a Dragonhead position and Zhang Xing calmly anticipating further conflict as Great Ying’s forces advanced.

• The allied army scattered after Bai Yousi manifested a mighty phoenix, and Yuwen Wanchou surrendered while warning Zhang Xing about fires in Luye Marsh.
• Liu Wenzhou arrived with Duan Jiye, revealed his knowledge and tools for exorcising a True Dragon, and joined Zhang Xing’s planned expedition.
• Zhang Xing’s forces occupied Galloping Horse City, accepted the surrender of commanders across the region, and appointed Yuwen Wanchou its Commandery Governor.
• Zhang Xing began replacing the Northern Lands’ military structure with smaller regiments and issued new administrative appointments.
• Li Qingzhou delivered Lady Lu’s demand to become a Dragonhead, while Zhang Xing remained unhurried despite Great Ying’s advance toward Liangshicheng.

The Exorcising the Dragon Gang and the Demon-Suppressing Guard negotiated over the Northern Lands, Lady Lu, and the fate of Guanhai and Listening to the Waves. After Yin Tianqi carried Lady Lu away with the Blackwater’s power, Li Ding launched an assault on the twin cities, and Zhang Xing entered Listening to the Waves Pavilion by evening.

• Zhang Xing and the Demon-Suppressing Guard’s leaders negotiated a two-year deadline for the Guard to merge and disputed control of Guanhai and Listening to the Waves, with Zhang Xing insisting Lady Lu leave the Northern Lands.
• Lu Dun visited Lady Lu and urged her to stop resisting, while admitting he regretted how their estrangement had developed; Lady Lu gave no answer to his appeal.
• Xu Jingzu persuaded Jia Yue to approach Yin Tianqi about taking Lady Lu away, and Yin Tianqi delayed the military council’s decision by offering to visit her.
• Yin Tianqi agreed that Jia Yue would govern the commandery formed from the twin cities, then went to Listening to the Waves Pavilion to meet Lady Lu.
• A Flying River Tributary lifted Lady Lu away with Yin Tianqi, and Zhang Xing ordered Li Ding to begin the general assault on Guanhai and Listening to the Waves.
• By evening, Zhang Xing entered Listening to the Waves Pavilion.

After Zhang Xing’s expanded perception at Listening to the Waves Pavilion, Liu Wenzhou presented a plan to trap the Wind-Swallowing Lord at Heavenly Lake, and Zhang Xing began preparing the Northern Lands for a winter campaign. Zhang Xing then traveled south and persuaded Sun Siyuan to join the effort by arguing that the True Fire Sect would need a path to survive Xiao Liang’s coming internal strife.

• Cao Cheng was pardoned and sent to live in Sea-Watching City, the former master of Guanhai Town was sent to Yecheng for Foundation Establishment, and Li Qingzhou was assigned to Chief Fan Lihua’s battalion.
• Xu Jingzu warned that the Wind-Swallowing Lord might learn of the campaign, but Zhang Xing said the True Dragon already understood his methods and ordered Xu to coordinate a plan with the Great Director of Fate.
• Zhang Xing’s perception spread through Blackwater Mouth and across much of the Northern Lands before the Daxing Mountain Range obscured his view; Liu Wenzhou then proposed using Essence of Ice to seal Heavenly Lake and cut off the Wind-Swallowing Lord’s stored True Qi.
• Zhang Xing ordered preparations for winter encampment, assigned military and civil duties in the Northern Lands, and left for Hebei, where he transferred former Wuan Traveling Office subordinates who had opposed him.
• Zhang Xing traveled through Henan to meet Sun Siyuan, who initially refused to fight the Wind-Swallowing Lord because of his ties to the Red Emperor and the True Fire Sect.
• Xie Minghe and Zhang Xing described Xiao Liang’s unstable coalition and offered to protect the True Fire Sect’s future; Sun Siyuan agreed to accompany them north.

Zhang Xing prepared the Exorcising the Dragon Gang for its campaign against the Wind-Swallowing Lord, arranging winter relief and gathering allies in the Northern Lands. At the meeting in Blackwater Guard, he secured Yin Tianqi’s pledge to stabilize the gang if the expedition failed, then ordered everyone to march on the mountain.

• Zhang Xing told Cao Xi that the gang planned to attack the Wind-Swallowing Lord and assigned her to organize winter disaster relief across its territories.
• Zhang Xing’s offering at the Great River was accepted by its hidden master, and he later continued north to inspect the newly acquired lands.
• Sima Zheng and his advisers decided Great Wei would renew its agreement with the gang if it failed against the dragon, but prepare for war if it succeeded.
• Liu Wenzhou urged Zhang Xing to attack sooner, and Xu Shiying pressed the Demon-Suppressing Guard at the Blackwater Guard meeting for its support and commitments.
• Zhang Xing secured Yin Tianqi’s promise to help preserve the Exorcising the Dragon Gang if the expedition went badly, then ordered the assembled forces to ascend the mountain and handed Yin Tianqi his Compass as a contingency.

Zhang Xing led the Exorcising the Dragon Army up the mountain, where the Wind-Swallowing Lord was revealed beneath Heavenly Lake and the battle began. After Zhang Xing’s plan froze the lake and exposed the dragon, he and Bai Yousi wounded it, but its roar disrupted their Mighty Phoenix formation and left the army reeling.

• Zhang Xing led the White Scout Cavalry and their allies up the mountain, while Xiong Bonan questioned his choices and Zhang explained his plans for succession and the gang’s future.
• After heavy snow slowed their march, Sun Siyuan melted the road ahead with his Li Fire True Qi, allowing the force to reach the hollow near Heavenly Lake.
• Zhang Xing ordered the force to leave before the ballistae were ready and led them to Heavenly Lake, where he sensed the Wind-Swallowing Lord beneath the shore’s black gravel.
• Liu Wenzhou’s silver tablet froze the lake, forcing the Wind-Swallowing Lord to emerge; Zhang Xing shattered the tablet beneath its wing and refroze the dragon in place.
• Bai Yousi attacked the dragon’s eye from the Mighty Phoenix, but the Wind-Swallowing Lord’s roar battered the formation and injured the army.
• Zhang Xing ordered the troops to regroup and attack the dragon’s wounds, and Qin Bao and Yuchi Rong charged forward.

Zhang Xing led the Exorcising the Dragon Army in wearing down the trapped Wind-Swallowing Lord, then recognized that the creature was drawing power from below and prepared for his escape. When the volcano erupted and left the dragon badly burned but alive, Zhang Xing, Bai Yousi, Liu Wenzhou, and Xiong Bonan approached its head, where Zhang Xing drove his Golden Awl into its eye and sent Ice True Qi into its brain.

• Zhang Xing helped the army find a way to pierce the Wind-Swallowing Lord's hide, and the soldiers opened wounds and drained his essence blood.
• Zhang Xing sensed a hidden connection beneath the dragon's stores of true qi and warned Sun Siyuan that the Wind-Swallowing Lord was preparing a counterattack.
• Jia Yue brought ballista carts to the lake, and Zhang Xing's Ice True Qi bolt pierced the dragon's core passages, triggering the frozen lake's collapse and the volcano's eruption.
• Zhang Xing manifested a Radiant Light True Dragon with the formation to pin down the Wind-Swallowing Lord, while volcanic heat melted the ice and scorched the creature.
• Bai Yousi helped carry Zhang Xing, Liu Wenzhou, and Xiong Bonan to the burned but living dragon's head, where Zhang Xing pierced its eye with the Golden Awl and channeled Ice True Qi into its brain.

After the Wind-Swallowing Lord fell, Zhang Xing learned why immortals and True Dragons withdrew into bliss, then killed Liu Wenzhou when he tried to pursue immortality at any cost. The army returned south, and Zhang Xing traveled alone to Red Mountain, where he found a village built over the place he had once buried the dead and left Liu Wenzhou’s head before riding away.

• The Wind-Swallowing Lord’s death released his accumulated true qi across the world, and Zhang Xing experienced Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi before forcing himself back to worldly concerns.
• The Great Director of Fate explained the immortals’ withdrawal, Zhang Xing’s cultivation and golden dragon manifestation, and how the Compass could guide him toward connecting the two worlds.
• After awakening, Liu Wenzhou urged Zhang Xing to kill more beings for primordial qi, so Zhang Xing, Bai Yousi, and Yin Tianqi killed him and Zhang Xing took his head.
• The Wind-Swallowing Lord’s body crumbled away, and Zhang Xing’s party descended the mountain before deciding to return south while Xu Dalang stayed to oversee the Demon-Suppressing Guard.
• Zhang Xing traveled alone to Red Mountain and discovered a village where he had once buried bodies; he left Liu Wenzhou’s head outside a door and rode back toward Hebei.

Liu Heihuang gathered Qinghe and Gaoji Lake officers to seek Zhang Xing’s support during the Exorcising the Dragon Gang’s military reorganization, but was swept into Zhang’s matchmaking gathering before he could make his case. After Chang Fu defected to Great Ying, fighting resumed on multiple fronts, and Zhang Xing presided over another matchmaking gathering as Bai Yousi toured Huaibei.

• Liu Heihuang persuaded Cao Chen and the other Qinghe officers to ask Zhang Xing to keep their group together in the army during the reorganization.
• Zhang Xing recruited Liu Heihuang into a matchmaking gathering, where Liu demanded a wealthy wife, then told Zhang he wanted to recommend his fellow officers for military posts.
• Zhang Xing instructed Liu Heihuang to write to Dou Lide and Xu Dalang about the officers, and said qualified men who wished to stay would receive priority among those of equal rank.
• Chang Fu fled to Huaiyang Commandery and surrendered to Sima Zheng; after Great Ying welcomed him in the Western Capital, Zhang Xing ordered Zhou Xingfan and Hong Changya to retaliate in the Jin Region.
• Zhou Xingfan attacked Loufan Pass, while Wang Chenkuo invaded Mount Heng and forced Hong Changya to turn back; Du Pozhen then reported that Southern Liang’s Xiao Hui had requested troops to suppress a rebellion.
• Zhang Xing presided over another matchmaking gathering in the sixth month, while Bai Yousi toured Huaibei.

Zhang Xing’s emergency meeting settled military deployments, river works, and plans to delay a wider war while opening a front in Southern Liang. After leading the White-Stepping Cavalry in dredging the Zhang River, he sent Bai Yousi south, where her arrival in Yangzhou sparked panic.

• Zhang Xing rejected an immediate decisive battle, approved standardized equipment and new main camps, and appointed Wang Shuyong and Xu Shiren acting Dragonheads.
• The Dragonheads agreed to dredge the Zhang River, expand its docks, and send Bai Yousi to Xiao Liang as an acting Dragonhead to intervene in its civil war.
• Zhang Xing appointed Xie Minghe to take over Bai Yousi’s Jing'an Department duties, and the gang’s orders to create three Dragonheads stirred speculation about an approaching war.
• Zhang Xing led the White-Stepping Cavalry in widening and deepening the Zhang River channel while fighting remained limited around the northern front.
• Bai Yousi reached Yangzhou and announced that she had come to quell the unrest; a Southern Liang noble mistook her arrival for an invasion and ran into the palace shouting that the northerners were attacking.

Bai Yousi visited Yangzhou, confronted Great Liang’s leaders over its divided political situation, and warned Cao Shiyu that the Exorcising the Dragon Gang would oppose any faction that became a false dragon. After learning Xiao Hui was separating her from Du Pozhen, she met Du in secret and proposed declaring war on Great Liang if Xiao refused the Gang’s support.

• Bai Yousi recognized Consort Han as Du Zhi Han, and they mourned their lost friends from the Eastern Capital.
• Bai Yousi learned from the Yu household that the True Fire Sect was divided, Cao Shiyu faced opposition within the sect, and Hunan remained in rebellion.
• Cao Shiyu challenged Bai Yousi about the Gang’s goals, and she explained its campaign against true dragons and oppressive false dragons before warning him not to become one.
• Cao Shiyu returned to Jiangning, while Great Liang’s officials sought explanations from Bai Yousi and an envoy revealed that Du Pozhen was also traveling to Yangzhou.
• Bai Yousi met Du Pozhen secretly and told him to warn Xiao Hui that the Gang would declare war if he excluded her or refused its aid.

Zhang Xing continued the Turbid Zhang River waterworks while refusing pressure to expand the project to Gaoji Lake, then rejected a proposal to exploit Li Shu’s offer to return. Meanwhile, Bai Yousi negotiated an agreement for Great Ming to send troops into Great Liang, leaving the alliance’s terms to be finalized.

• Zhang Xing hosted Liu Heihuang, Han Erlang, and other newly married officers, then explained why he would not begin the Gaoji Lake project.
• Zhang Xing led the White-Stepping Cavalry in using True Qi to dig diversion channels, convincing Liu Heihuang and Han Erlang that he had rejected the larger project for practical reasons.
• Zhang Xing addressed water disputes and arguments over the gang’s military reforms, then asked Zhang Shizhao, Xu Jingzu, and others to record the gang’s varied origins and Li Shu’s betrayal.
• Xiong Bonan, Xu Shiying, and other leaders told Zhang Xing that Li Shu offered to hand over Loufan Pass and guide an attack into Taiyuan; Zhang Xing chose to ignore him rather than risk turmoil in the gang.
• Bai Yousi and Du Pozhen negotiated with Xiao Hui, who agreed to an alliance under conditions requiring equal status, disciplined troops, control over local rewards and punishments, and their eventual withdrawal when Great Liang requested it.

Bai Yousi led the Exorcising the Dragon Gang's forces through Great Liang, secured Lin Shiyang's conditional cooperation, and joined Zhou Xiaoshang before advancing toward Hunan. After Baling refused to surrender to Great Liang, she offered its defenders resettlement under Great Ming instead.

• Lin Shiyang urged resistance to the incoming army, but Cao Shiyu insisted that the True Fire Sect accommodate its stronger rivals while its defenses remained unfinished.
• Zhang Xing approved Feng Wuyi's three-layer dike plan for the Hutuo River despite its high cost and limited returns, and work began on the outer dike.
• Bai Yousi revealed Zhou Xiaoshang's support and secured Lin Shiyang's agreement to mediate with the True Fire Sect if the Exorcising the Dragon Gang gained decisive momentum within three to five years.
• Bai Yousi joined Zhou Xiaoshang at Xiakou, bringing the combined army to sixty thousand, then diverted toward Jingling and killed the fleeing Zhu Zhou.
• Bai Yousi reached Baling and offered surrender terms, but its defenders refused to serve Xiao Hui despite thanking her for killing Zhu Zhou.
• Bai Yousi offered to let Baling's defenders surrender to Great Ming and relocate through Anlu to Huaibei while she handed Hunan over to Xiao Hui.

Bai Yousi led the allied army to secure Baling and devised a plan to isolate the Hunan rebels in Dongting Lake, while Zhang Xing pursued river works and dealt with corruption and Yecheng’s expansion. After Lin Shiyang and Su Che found Zhang Fan’s stronghold, a fire exposed the target, and Bai Yousi ordered the attack.

• Bai Yousi drove a boat back toward Baling with waves, and Su Che later arrived but refused to surrender until his family could be protected; Bai Yousi ordered him to help arrange Baling’s surrender before a staged execution.
• Bai Yousi assigned Du Pozhen to find the rebels’ supply routes, Lin Shiyang to seek their surrender, and Zhou Xiaoshang to secure logistics after they entered Baling.
• Bai Yousi’s offering to the True Fire Brazier produced a beam of yellow light, and she recognized that her cultivation was nearing a barrier to Great Grandmaster.
• Zhang Xing punished a Gonggao County Captain for stealing corvée horses, arranged targeted official allowances, and approved planning for river works on the Ji River.
• Zhang Xing returned to Yecheng, settled plans to develop Handan, Guixiang, and Liyang, and learned that the demoted county captain had killed himself and that Li Shu was acting suspiciously.
• Bai Yousi learned that Zhang Fan refused to surrender, allowed Su Che and Lin Shiyang to approach Xu Xuan, and ordered an attack when a fire appeared on an island.

After reading Bai Yousi’s report on the southern campaign, Zhang Xing met with the Exorcising the Dragon Gang’s leaders to set its post-harvest priorities. The meeting turned toward wartime preparations, while Zhang proposed a plan to draw the Huaiyou Alliance closer to the gang.

• Bai Yousi’s letter told Zhang Xing that Zhang Fan had been killed, Xu Xuan had surrendered, and Du Pozhen still sought security while resisting a final commitment; she recommended strengthening the gang’s influence over the Huaiyou Alliance.
• Dou Lide visited Zhang Xing with his family, argued for river repairs and other projects in Youzhou, and won Zhang’s promise to support his proposal at the Swallow-the-Wind Platform meeting.
• Zhang Xing and the gathered leaders decided to shift toward military preparations after the autumn harvest, keep the Hutuo River repairs going, and arrange forces for a possible contest over the Eastern Capital.
• Dou Lide presented detailed plans for roads, rivers, ships, a granary city, and reforms in Youzhou, while the leaders discussed troop deployments, Southern Liang, and other regional concerns.
• Zhang Xing relayed Bai Yousi’s assessment of the Huaiyou Alliance and proposed sending Li Zida to it and summoning Kan Leng, then suggested trying to trick Kan Leng into coming.

Bai Yousi revealed that she had been found as an infant at the True Fire Temple and used the disclosure to secure a local settlement for Dongting Lake’s surrendered troops. Meanwhile, the Grand Traveling Office forced Du Pozhen to send Kan Leng and two thousand Adopted Sons Army troops north, and Bai Yousi’s allied fleet confronted Great Ying’s forces at Zhijiang.

• Bai Yousi told the gathered commanders that she was found as a baby at the True Fire Temple and had refused the Red Emperor’s offer to lead Demon Island, then made an offering that summoned a Mighty Phoenix.
• Bai Yousi reached an agreement to settle Xu Xuan’s surrendered Dongting Lake troops locally under Xiao Shuo’s overall command while Su Che’s Baling garrison and its families went to Huaixi.
• Bai Yousi gave Du Pozhen Zhang Xing’s letter and the Compass, then required him to send Fu Boshi and two thousand Adopted Sons Army troops north in exchange for the Huaiyou Alliance’s continued standing with the Exorcising the Dragon Gang.
• Fu Boshi persuaded Kan Leng to lead the two thousand troops north, where the force joined Li Zida’s troops and continued to the Great River; Du Pozhen learned that Kan Leng had been tricked into going and accepted the loss.
• Bai Yousi led the allied fleet upstream toward Zhijiang, rejected calls to retreat to Jiangling, and found that Great Ying’s troops had withdrawn from Zhijiang City.
• Great Ying’s main fleet appeared upstream with a yellow Dragon Banner bearing the character Wei and a mass of yellow cloud, while Bai Yousi admired the autumn scenery and said Sanlang had not deceived her.

The Great Ming-Southern Liang allied forces confronted Great Ying's main naval force after subduing the Dongting Lake rebels. Elsewhere, Qi Xuanyi refined twenty pills while concealing his methods, and Southern Ghost Emperor Du Ziren and He Yang fled into Mr. Baili's tent and urged him to close the door.

• The Great Ming-Southern Liang allied forces faced Great Ying's invading naval force between Zhijiang and Songzi, with fifty thousand troops on each side.
• Wei Feng questioned Master Murong about the Ling Lineage joining forces with its sworn enemy, the Dark Organization.
• Chen Minling introduced the brother and sister to major factions, and Qi Xuanyi gathered valuable information.
• Qi Xuanyi refined twenty pills over three days and deliberately caused furnace explosions without arousing Dao Lord Longqiang's suspicions.
• Chen Chao decided to sell his goods near the capital to make any investigation harder to trace back to him.
• Southern Ghost Emperor Du Ziren and He Yang rushed into Mr. Baili's tent in fright and urged him to close the door.

Daoist Chonghe refused Bai Hengqiu’s request to join forces, then divined that Sima Zheng would hold the Eastern Capital through repeated attacks before eventually losing it. As Bai Hengqiu invaded Henei, Zhang Xing prepared the Exorcising the Dragon Gang for war, established new wartime institutions, and sent its first battalions east after declaring that Great Ming was fighting to bring the realm a new age.

• Chonghe told Bai Hengqiu that Sima Zheng knew he was a cast-off shell of the Mandate of Heaven but still intended to resist, and Chonghe declined to ally with Bai unless he followed the Three Luminaries and abandoned the old heavenly order.
• Chonghe’s divination indicated that the first two attacks on the Eastern Capital would fail but that a later attempt could succeed, and Bai Hengqiu accepted the prospect of a prolonged campaign before marching into Henei with his army.
• At a banquet in the Eastern Capital, Li Shu argued that the Exorcising the Dragon Gang depended on Zhang Xing to hold its factions together, while Sima Zheng revealed that he had become a great grandmaster.
• Zhang Xing met with the Exorcising the Dragon Gang’s dragonheads, ordered Yecheng secured, and proposed minting new currency and establishing a Censorate; Wei Xuanding also secured permission to enforce military discipline against prostitution.
• After Great Ying invaded Henei, Zhang Xing announced the war to Yecheng and sent the first ten battalions east, telling the troops that Great Ming’s victory would protect the people and bring a new age of the Heavenly Dao.
• Liu Heihuang led his battalion out of Yecheng, shaken by Zhang Xing’s speech and wondering whether the campaign was an achievement of the highest order rather than merely killing and seizing land.

Great Ying and Great Ming armies converged on Henei as the Exorcising the Dragon Army raced toward the front, where Han Erlang’s battalion clashed with Ying forces and Hu Yan’s garrison broke out of New Wen City. Liu Heihuang discovered that Sima Zheng was with Bai Hengqiu’s army and sent warning to Chief Zhang Xing as Zhang prepared to join the campaign.

• Liu Heihuang, Xiahou Ningyuan, and Cao Chen bypassed New Wen City and crossed the Qin River, while Han Erlang’s battalion advanced along the opposite bank.
• After hearing his men’s complaints, Han Erlang reassured his recruits, then ordered a night attack when scouts found a large Ying force to the north.
• Liu Heihuang found Bai Hengqiu’s central army camp near Old Wen City and realized the terrain left little room for his cavalry to maneuver.
• Han Erlang’s battalion met Ying troops in a night battle, and he sent Wang Laowu around the flank to set fire to their camp.
• Kan Leng’s troops attacked New Wen City, and Hu Yan led the Eastern Capital garrison in a breakout toward Yanjin.
• Liu Heihuang recognized Sima Zheng’s presence beside Bai Hengqiu and sent a messenger to warn Chief Zhang Xing.

The Exorcising the Dragon Army and the Western Pass army fought a sprawling, chaotic battle along the Qin River until Zhang Xing and Bai Hengqiu gathered their forces and prepared for a decisive engagement. Sima Zheng intervened to demand that both armies withdraw, but neither agreed, and Zhang Xing began introducing his commanders as proof that his side would prevail.

• Han Erlang ambushed Great Ying officers as the fighting spread along the Qin River, while Kan Leng captured Hu Yan and secured New Wen City before rushing north to join the battle.
• Liu Heihuang crossed the Qin River with pursuing Great Ying troops, widening the battle, and both sides committed more reinforcements until the fighting grew chaotic and costly.
• Zhang Xing arrived at Linqing Pass, ordered his staff to move toward the front, and pardoned Chai Yu after learning that Hu Yan had been captured.
• Zhang Xing visited the wounded Hu Yan, who explained why he had remained loyal to the Eastern Capital, and later ordered reserve battalions to assemble as he prepared to take command at the front.
• Bai Hengqiu and Zhang Xing gathered their armies on opposite sides of the battlefield, then marched out to meet each other as Sima Zheng appeared in the form of a Golden-armored Giant.
• Sima Zheng called on both leaders to withdraw and honor their agreement, but Bai Hengqiu and Zhang Xing refused; Zhang Xing then introduced several of his commanders to Sima Zheng.