Recaps

Huo Ming shot at Chen Xuewen, but Chen Xuewen slowed the bullets with an unseen force and fired into the sky to raise an alarm. At Chenjiagou, Chu Tianshu defeated the Three Elders of the Chen Family and then confronted Liu Xueya, revealing that he had intended to take the marshal down.

• Huo Ming ambushed Chen Xuewen, but his bullets slowed near their target; Chen Xuewen dodged them and fired three shots into the sky.
• Huo Ming knocked Chun’er unconscious with a pebble and fled as the gunshots sounded across the village.
• Liu Xueya arrived with his Song-Pacifying Army escort and encouraged Chu Tianshu to demonstrate his skills.
• Chu Tianshu fought through the crowd and defeated the Three Elders of the Chen Family with a piercing Taiji Fist technique.
• Liu Xueya offered Chu Tianshu a post and sent soldiers to tend to the injured, but Chu Tianshu accused him of harboring killing intent.
• Chu Tianshu said he had planned to take Liu Xueya down while the marshal was isolated in Chenjiagou.

Chu Tianshu confronted Liu Xueya and the Song-Pacifying Army convoy, using his sword and oppressive pressure to prevent the soldiers from firing. He pursued Liu Xueya into a truck bed and unleashed a Four-Leaf Seal that disrupted Liu Xueya's hidden Saber Qi.

• Chu Tianshu attacked Liu Xueya, who blocked the sword with his saber, and their clash battered the black car.
• Chu Tianshu pressed his attack as Liu Xueya retreated across the car and onto a truck, then ordered his soldiers to open fire.
• Chu Tianshu unleashed his oppressive pressure, forcing many soldiers to the ground, and drew his sword to attack Liu Xueya across the truck's tarp.
• Liu Xueya dropped into the truck bed and filled it with concealed rings of Yin Qi saber force, preparing to detonate them when Chu Tianshu followed.
• Chu Tianshu burst upward through the tarp and struck the truck with the Sanqi Divine Sword and a Four-Leaf Seal, scattering Liu Xueya's undetonated Saber Qi.

Chu Tianshu defeated Liu Xueya and extracted the serpent half of the Zhongping Plague God, while Huo Ming captured Chen Xuewen. After learning Chen Xuewen possessed Sima Yi’s Origin Canon, Chu Tianshu and Huo Ming weighed his past crimes against the danger of the power he held.

• Chu Tianshu used Sword Qi and the Sanqi Divine Sword to draw the evil serpent from Liu Xueya, then destroyed it and learned from the Youdu Token that it was half of the Zhongping Plague God.
• Huo Ming arrived with Chen Xuewen bound by a rattan spear and explained that Chen Xuewen’s power slowed nearby attacks and could turn an opponent’s momentum to his advantage.
• Chu Tianshu recognized that Chen Xuewen had been pretending to remain unconscious, and Chen admitted he had woken and overheard them discuss Sima Yi’s Origin Canon.
• Huo Ming said Chen Xuewen faced a ten-year prison sentence based on the crimes they had verified, while explaining that the Origin Canon’s danger alone did not determine whether its holder deserved death.
• Chen Xuewen asked whether the Origin Canon was the real reason they had come for him, and Huo Ming said the Grand Marshal’s orders required them to judge him by his past actions.

Chu Tianshu captured Liu Xueya and questioned him about the plague god attached to him. After learning how Liu Xueya released the Zhongping Plague God and tried to spread plague, Chu Tianshu knocked him unconscious and planned to stabilize western Yu Province while seeking reinforcements.

• Chen Xuewen offered to persuade Chenjiagou’s martial artists to join the Great Han Government in exchange for a reduced sentence, and Huo Ming told him to try.
• Chu Tianshu revealed that Liu Xueya was in the truck and ordered Huo Ming to prevent news of his capture from spreading while requesting reinforcements from Han Prefecture.
• Chu Tianshu decided to stay in Luoyang and examine the Xigong Barracks while waiting for help to arrive.
• Chu Tianshu used silver needles to put Liu Xueya into a daze and asked him to recount his dealings with the plague god.
• Liu Xueya explained that his offerings and a mishap at the Eastern Han ruins released the Zhongping Plague God, which attached itself to him and helped him spread plague in Shaanxi.
• Liu Xueya complained that Chu Tianshu had attacked him despite their shared worship of great gods, and Chu Tianshu slapped him unconscious.

Cai Shanjun received news that Chu Tianshu had captured the Song-Pacifying Army leader and found Sima Yi’s Origin Canon inheritor, then authorized Huo Ming to accompany Chu to Luoyang. In Chenjiagou, Chu confronted the clan elders and offered to restore their failing vitality with silver needles.

• Cai Shanjun and his staff learned from Huo Ming’s telegram that Chu Tianshu had captured the Song-Pacifying Army leader and found the inheritor of Sima Yi’s Origin Canon.
• Cai Shanjun ordered Huo Ming to accompany Chu to Luoyang and arranged support through the underground organization there.
• Huo Ming told Chu that headquarters wanted the Chenjiagou group taken to Luoyang and said he would keep Chen Xuewen from taking the Origin Canon to prison.
• Chu decided to speak with the Chen family elders and challenged their reliance on Chen Xuewen and the village’s old customs.
• Chu told the three elders that their vitality was failing and placed a silver needle between the western elder’s brows, making his body stiffen as his eyes brightened.

Chu Tianshu escorted the subdued Liu Xueya back to Luoyang, where the commander’s secretary-general welcomed them and Liu offered an excuse for his guards’ deaths. Chu then left the convoy and walked through the city with Liu toward the prison, where the Plague God’s Rainbow Half-Body usually stayed.

• The convoy reached Luoyang, and Liu Xueya explained that he had appointed Li Chaoqun to handle the city’s affairs and arrange their welcome.
• Li Chaoqun greeted Liu at the city gate, and Liu claimed wolves had killed his personal guards while the people from Chenjiagou had helped defeat the pack.
• Liu dismissed Li Chaoqun’s suggestion to recover the dead guards’ remains, and the convoy continued into Luoyang.
• Chu Tianshu sent Little Huo and the others to the Xigong Barracks, then took Liu down a crowded street toward the prison.
• Liu told Chu that only seventy-seven prisoners remained and that the Plague God’s Rainbow Half-Body usually stayed inside the prison.

Chu Tianshu discovered that the Plague God's Rainbow Half-Body had turned all seventy-seven prisoners into seeds of evil poison through the Seven Turbidities of the Prison. He preserved their vitality with a needle technique and ordered Liu Xueya to prepare clean rooms so he could treat them.

• Chu Tianshu entered the prison with Liu Xueya and found the jailers frightened of the diseased prisoners.
• Chu Tianshu sensed the Plague God's presence and realized its Rainbow Half-Body was possessing all seventy-seven prisoners at once.
• Chu Tianshu used the Four-Leaf Seal on a prisoner, but could draw out only a few grains of the replenishing iridescent spirit.
• Chu Tianshu identified the Seven Turbidities of the Prison as the source of the poison and recognized that the prisoners had become magically cursed seeds of evil poison.
• Chu Tianshu used Liu Xueya's heart's blood to conceal his hair-needles and seal a thread of vitality in each prisoner.
• Chu Tianshu ordered Liu Xueya to have soldiers renovate the prison's carpentry, sewing, and weaving rooms by the next morning.

Chu Tianshu arranged the prison’s renovation and discussed recruiting allies, managing the Chenjiagou elders, and finding a way to combat the plague god’s evil poison. After deducing a new sword technique that could temper his Sword Intent with poison, he looked over Luoyang and embraced the challenge of helping build a better city.

• Liu Xueya’s men hurried to renovate the prison while Chu Tianshu brought the surviving prisoners outside to recover.
• Huo Ming told Chu Tianshu that he was placing their comrades in Luoyang’s departments and would ask headquarters for doctors and clerical staff; Chu Tianshu asked him to seek sorcerers locally.
• Huo Ming explained that the Chenjiagou elders were watching Chen Xuewen and that he planned to use the others as instructors to drill and screen the Song-Pacifying Army.
• Chu Tianshu said he had persuaded the three elders to cooperate by offering to help extend their lives, and asked Huo Ming to have them assess medicinal ingredients.
• Chu Tianshu fed the Snake Half into his sword manual’s deduction and gained the Nine-Nine Tribulation Ash God-Startling Sword, which could use poisonous Qi to nourish his Sword Intent.
• Chu Tianshu reflected on Luoyang’s beauty and told Huo Ming he wanted to help build a city like gold.

Zhang Yi learned that Chen Xuewen had been taken away, then accompanied Cao Shaolin and Lord Yuanli to Guanlin in Luoyang. Lord Yuanli revealed his plan to put the Guan Yu Origin Canon in Cao Shaolin’s hands, while Zhang Yi considered how the plan might help him advance.

• Adjutant Yang told Zhang Yi that men with Bashu accents had taken Chen Xuewen from Henei County, and Zhang Yi blamed himself for the delay.
• Cao Shaolin mocked Zhang Yi and demanded an apology, then persuaded him to go to Luoyang for some fun.
• Cao Shaolin, Zhang Yi, and Lord Yuanli reached Guanlin, where Zhang Yi asked why Lord Yuanli had chosen the temple as their destination.
• Lord Yuanli explained that Chen Xuewen’s Sima Yi Origin Canon could not yet be taken without consequences, and that he intended to give the Guan Yu Origin Canon to Cao Shaolin to weaken the Dragon Vein’s influence.
• Zhang Yi realized Lord Yuanli planned to empower Cao Shaolin and privately hoped the scheme would eventually let him advance further.

Lord Yuanli began a bloody ritual at Guanlin Temple to take Lord Guan’s strength for Cao Shaolin, but Huo Ming arrived and disrupted it. Huo Ming escaped after Adjutant Yang unexpectedly turned his gun on Zhang Yi.

• Lord Yuanli entered Guanlin Temple with Zhang Yi and Cao Shaolin, ordered offerings and a knife, and began preparing talismans for the ritual.
• Cao Shaolin killed a Song-Pacifying Army soldier to freshen the knife with blood, then slaughtered the soldiers while Zhang Yi’s men restrained them.
• Lord Yuanli activated the ritual altar, and a cold wind drained the corpses of blood until they crumbled to powder.
• Huo Ming arrived with Guanlin’s former temple keeper and sensed Zhao Yun’s Origin Canon stirring inside him as Lord Yuanli recognized it.
• Zhang Yi ordered his men to fire, but Huo Ming shot several of them and escaped Lord Yuanli’s palm strike before Zhang Yi attacked with a spear.
• Adjutant Yang shot at Zhang Yi’s leg, giving Huo Ming time to flee over the screen wall, and Zhang Yi accused Yang of betrayal.

Huo Ming rescued Adjutant Yang from Zhang Yi and Lord Yuanli, then fled toward Luoyang Prison while Lord Yuanli sent a fire ghost after them. Chu Tianshu stopped the ghost at the prison and sealed it inside his scabbard.

• Zhang Yi wounded Adjutant Yang and demanded to know why he had betrayed him, but Huo Ming shot to distract Zhang Yi and carried Yang away.
• Lord Yuanli tried to stop Huo Ming, then summoned a fire ghost with a jade pendant to pursue him.
• Huo Ming met the fleeing physician, handed over Adjutant Yang, and led them toward Luoyang Prison despite suffering injuries from his technique.
• The fire ghost caught up with the three men near the prison, where Chu Tianshu confronted it with the Sanqi Divine Sword.
• Chu Tianshu trapped the fire ghost in his scabbard, eased the men's pain with silver needles, and asked Huo Ming where it had come from.

Zhang Yi and Lord Yuanli chose to continue the ritual at Guanlin despite learning that the Fire Ghost had been suppressed and their intelligence might be false. As Zhang Yi’s men prepared to fight, a powerful stranger arrived, wearing the shattered entrance wall like a cloak.

• Lord Yuanli told Zhang Yi that the Fire Ghost had been suppressed and suspected Adjutant Yang’s information was unreliable.
• Zhang Yi realized their enemies might have more experts than expected, but Lord Yuanli persuaded him to continue the ritual for five more minutes.
• Lord Yuanli offered Zhang Yi the possibility of obtaining a second Origin Canon, and Zhang Yi rallied his men with promises of rewards from Lord Cao.
• A sword’s cry approached Guanlin as the Fire Ghost’s cord writhed, and Zhang Yi’s men aimed their guns at the entrance.
• The stone screen wall crumbled into dust and surged toward the hall around the arriving stranger, who had draped the wall over himself.

Chu Tianshu defeated Zhang Yi, destroyed Lord Yuanli’s ritual altar, and killed Cao Shaolin, triggering backlash against Lord Yuanli. The chapter ended with Chu Tianshu pursuing Lord Yuanli across the statue of Lord Guan and reaching for his head with eight cyan palm strikes.

• Chu Tianshu used a wind column and protective Gang Qi to shatter Zhang Yi’s spear and kill him with a palm strike.
• Lord Yuanli scattered talismans through the rubble, but Chu Tianshu landed and used his Four-Leaf Seal to overturn the offering table and destroy the ritual altar.
• Chu Tianshu struck Cao Shaolin, causing the power of the Origin Canon to dissipate, then rejected Lord Yuanli’s attempt to protect him and killed him.
• Cao Shaolin’s death caused ritual backlash that wounded Lord Yuanli, who fled across Lord Guan’s statue.
• Chu Tianshu pursued Lord Yuanli and launched eight cyan palm strikes toward his head.

Lord Yuanli confronted Chu Tianshu while attempting to steal Guan Yu's Origin Canon, but Chu overwhelmed him with the power of Lord Guan's statue. Yuanli's Gold-Swallowing Beast Face shattered beneath Chu's foot, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Lord Yuanli realized he had underestimated the danger of stealing Guan Yu's Origin Canon and regretted traveling without a larger escort.
• Lord Yuanli summoned the Huaguang statue through his Five Rampancies seal to block Chu Tianshu's attack and retreated beside Cao Shaolin's corpse.
• Lord Yuanli knocked Cao Shaolin's corpse toward Chu, but Chu made Lord Guan's statue lean forward and continued his assault.
• Lord Yuanli used the golden Huaguang statue to halt Lord Guan's falling statue, but Chu struck and broke his ribs, sending him into Zhou Cang's statue base.
• Chu Tianshu recognized Yuanli's Gold-Swallowing Beast Face and shattered it by pressing his foot against Yuanli's chest.

Chu Tianshu found a broad collection of evil techniques on the defeated Lord Yuanli and sensed strange powers circling him. After drawing a golden spirit seal from Lord Yuanli, he left the temple with the old Daoist while the Chenjiagou elders dealt with the fallen gunmen.

• Chu Tianshu found a hidden manual of varied techniques in Lord Yuanli's robe and began examining it.
• Chu Tianshu sensed baleful pressure from the Lord Guan statue and pale streams of Qi circling him, but could not fully absorb or understand them.
• Chu Tianshu used silver needles to draw a golden spirit seal out of Lord Yuanli and stored it in the Sanqi Divine Sword.
• The two old men from Chenjiagou arrived, subdued the gunmen with silver needles, and agreed to take the people and corpses back to the city.
• Chu Tianshu led Lord Yuanli out of the temple and noticed that the strange presences still followed him.

Chu Tianshu gathered and compressed the plague poison into fragments to temper his Sword Intent, but the longsword repeatedly broke apart. He planned to destroy the plague poison before dawn, while in the capital Cao Ying and Daoist Yuanzai prepared a spell to investigate the disaster at Guanlin.

• Chu Tianshu explained that the plague victims remained confused but could recover, and he handed the captured old Daoist to Huo Ming and Adjutant Yang for interrogation.
• Chu Tianshu used ritual objects to gather the patients’ evil poison and pieced it into a black longsword, enduring the despair that accompanied his cultivation as the sword repeatedly shattered.
• After exhausting that day’s accumulated poison, Chu Tianshu asked Miss Mei for a preserved plum and ordered defenses around the prison before announcing he would end the plague poison at the third quarter of the hour of the rat.
• In the capital, Daoist Yuanzai told Cao Ying that Junior Brother Yuanli had encountered calamity at Guanlin and that the young marshal’s safety was uncertain.
• Cao Ying agreed to help Yuanzai cast a spell that night to glimpse what had happened at Guanlin.

Yuanzai used the Five Rampancies Sect’s divine heart borrowing a path to investigate Yuanli’s disappearance and reached Luoyang Prison, where Chu Tianshu had lured out the Plague God’s half-body. The chapter ended as Chu Tianshu cut the apparition apart and its divine might surged in retaliation.

• Cao Ying and Yuanzai performed a rite at the Temple of Heaven, summoning the Five Chang Gods and sending Yuanzai’s soul along their divine path.
• Yuanzai found traces of Yuanli’s blood at Guanlin Temple and followed the plague poison to Luoyang Prison.
• Chu Tianshu used his blood to draw the Rainbow Half-Body out of the prison’s seventy-seven patients as Miss Mei and the other sorcerers waited outside.
• Yuanzai flew into the prison and saw the iridescent Plague God’s half-body rising before Chu Tianshu.
• Chu Tianshu swiftly slashed the Plague God’s half-body into dozens of pieces, provoking a burst of its divine might.

Chu Tianshu destroyed the Plague God's half-body, but Yuanzai interfered and rushed to the eastern cells to extract Yuanli's soul. Chu Tianshu pursued him and arrived just as Yuanzai prepared to escape with it.

• Chu Tianshu trapped the Plague God's scattered fragments and cut them apart with a second flurry of sword strikes.
• Yuanzai struck the boundary between Chu Tianshu's and the Plague God's oppressive presences, disrupting Chu Tianshu long enough for the remaining fragments to flee.
• Chu Tianshu pulled the fragments back and destroyed the last of the Plague God's body, then realized Yuanzai was heading east.
• Yuanzai reached Yuanli's cell, pulled Yuanli's weakened soul from his body, and prepared to escape underground.
• Chu Tianshu entered the cell as his Four-Leaf Seal collapsed and swung the Sanqi Divine Sword at Yuanzai's wrist.

Chu Tianshu fought Yuanzai’s spirit form in the prison, severing his arm and striking him with a long-range sword attack, but Yuanzai escaped back to his body. As Chu Tianshu sensed the blue Qi around him stirring, Yuanzai revived at the ritual altar and grabbed Cao Ying, urgently calling for help.

• Yuanzai used ritual stomps and his Dharma artifacts to fight Chu Tianshu, while Huo Ming fired three bullets that failed to pierce Yuanzai’s crown.
• Chu Tianshu severed Yuanzai’s left forearm and blocked the fragments from his self-destroyed artifacts, but Yuanzai fled through the bars and walls.
• Chu Tianshu sent a white Weapon Soul strike through several obstacles and pierced Yuanzai’s spirit form in the warden’s office.
• Yuanzai deflected the weakened strike with his crown, wrapped himself in his cloak, and escaped as Chu Tianshu’s sword returned to him.
• The blue Qi around Chu Tianshu began to circle him, while Yuanzai’s battered spirit form returned to his body at the capital’s ritual altar.
• Yuanzai opened his eyes, gripped Cao Ying’s sleeve, and urgently called for help.

Yuanzai returned from Luoyang gravely injured after losing the Five Rampancies Army and Horse Office Main Seal, and he told Cao Ying that his son had died in Guanlin. In Bashu, Liu Yanqi felt the old Ghost King stirring, while Chu Tianshu discovered a new power within himself in Luoyang.

• Cao Ying used five headless roosters to placate the Five Chang Gods after Yuanzai returned from Luoyang injured.
• Guo Baozhi removed the Dharma seal from Yuanzai with his jade pendant, then gave him medicine and helped him recover.
• Yuanzai told Cao Ying that the Young Marshal had died in Guanlin and warned him not to seek revenge rashly.
• Liu Yanqi felt pain around his scarred right eye and realized the Ghost King had survived and was regaining strength.
• Cai Shanjun planned to alert the organizations in likely locations and send word to Luoyang as Bashu prepared to move troops into Shaanxi.
• Chu Tianshu rose from meditation in Luoyang and sensed an unfamiliar power within himself.

Chu Tianshu tested the Nanhua True Interpretation and learned how it extracted and returned primordial Qi, while Huo Ming shared intelligence about the Cao Family, Sun Ce’s Origin Canon, and a curse made with Yu Ji’s bones. The chapter ended with Chu Tianshu realizing the Cao Family had also targeted Guanlin Temple to steal Guan Yu’s Origin Canon.

• Chu Tianshu experimented with the Nanhua True Interpretation, extracting primordial Qi from water, stone, and steel and using it to restore or destroy objects.
• Chu Tianshu discovered that the Sanqi Divine Sword could absorb some Nanhua Primordial Qi and grow stronger, though his internal force could not fuse with it.
• Huo Ming told Chu Tianshu that the Cao Family had bought Renault tanks and arranged for sorcerers to carve protective talismans inside them.
• Huo Ming reported that the Cao Family was developing Liaodong’s industry and that Han Prefecture remained ahead in grenade production.
• Huo Ming revealed that the Cao Family had used Yu Ji’s bones to curse the inheritor of Sun Ce’s Origin Canon.
• Chu Tianshu connected the Cao Family’s grave robbing to Yuanli and his companions digging at Guanlin Temple for Guan Yu’s Origin Canon.

Chu Tianshu learned that the Sun Family would search Jiangdong for Yu Ji’s corpse, then saw the prison survivors begin recovering their memories. After poisoning Liu Xueya with medicine extracted from the patients’ discarded herbal dregs, Chu Tianshu used the Plague God’s traits to further optimize the Nine-Nine Tribulation Ash Sword Manual.

• Huo Ming explained that the Five Rampancies Sect’s holy maiden had joined with the Cao Family and likely set up Yu Ji’s corpse and curse altar near the Sun Family residence.
• The seventy-seven prison survivors began weeping as their memories and emotions returned, and Huo Ming urged Chu Tianshu to move them somewhere safer rather than involve them in killing Liu Xueya.
• Chu Tianshu extracted medicinal properties from the discarded dregs and gave them to Liu Xueya, causing him to suffer a severe reaction from the concentrated poison.
• Chu Tianshu left Liu Xueya alive in agony and checked the Zhongping Plague God’s traits.
• Chu Tianshu combined the Plague God’s traits with those of other evil spirits to optimize the Nine-Nine Tribulation Ash Sword Manual.

Chu Tianshu practiced his optimized Nine-Nine Tribulation Ash Sword Manual while the patients trained in Taiji at Liu Xueya’s residence. He later learned that Sun Feng'an was traveling to Luoyang and might arrive that day.

• Chu Tianshu had the recovered patients practice Taiji at Liu Xueya’s residence while he waited for the right time to cultivate.
• Chu Tianshu used Nanhua Primordial Qi from the earth to assemble and temper a sword with his Sword Intent, practicing for three hours.
• Chu Tianshu went to the prison, where Yuanli, Miss Mei, other sorcerers, Huo Ming, and Adjutant Yang worked to reproduce spells without worshipping the Five Chang Gods.
• A clerk told Chu Tianshu and Huo Ming that Jiangdong had thanked headquarters and that Sun Feng'an was coming to Luoyang, possibly that day.

Chu Tianshu studied the Luoyang sorcerers’ Pear God Canon Inquiry and used it to question the Nanhua Origin Canon through a vision of the spiritual veins. He discovered that mastering the canon required focusing on refining Qi from metal and iron.

• Chu Tianshu ordered guards to watch Luoyang’s gates and station for Sun Feng'an, then turned his attention to the Five Rampancies method of stealing Origin Canons.
• Miss Mei presented the Luoyang sorcerers’ findings, and Huo Ming proposed adding the sorcerers to Han Prefecture’s Military Academy as instructors; Chu Tianshu and the sorcerers agreed.
• Miss Mei explained the Pear God Canon Inquiry, a folk technique said to question spiritual veins and seek heroic stories and Origin Canons.
• Chu Tianshu arranged for the sorcerers to perform the inquiry while he served as its principal participant and relied on his Refining Spirit into Qi method to control any disturbance.
• Chu Tianshu entered a vision of vast spiritual veins and received fragments of the Nanhua Origin Canon’s teachings.
• Chu Tianshu concluded that he needed to focus on refining Qi from metal and iron to master the Nanhua Origin Canon.

Sun Feng'an visited Luoyang and asked Chu Tianshu to help him draw out and destroy his enemies in Jiangdong, offering an alliance and famous swords in return. As Xu Laohu rode toward Luoyang to kill Sun Feng'an, Miss Cao stopped him and urged him to wait, saying that killing both Sun Feng'an and Chu Tianshu would be worth a war with Jiangdong.

• Sun Feng'an entered Luoyang and observed its orderly streets, public health campaigns, and transformed prison system.
• Sun Feng'an met Chu Tianshu and revealed that he had come to use his apparent illness as bait to lure out dangerous enemies in Jiangdong.
• Sun Feng'an offered Chu Tianshu a full alliance with Jiangdong and every famous saber and sword he could find in exchange for support.
• Huo Ming described Xu Laohu's history and his long conflict with Sun Feng'an, as Xu Laohu headed toward Luoyang with nearly a hundred riders.
• Miss Cao intercepted Xu Laohu and told him to wait, arguing that killing Sun Feng'an and Chu Tianshu would justify provoking a war with Jiangdong.