Recaps

As Jiang Shiyan's army attacked Lin Xu's territory, allies in Qimeng City mobilized to support him while Jiang Wanqing sought help from Old General Gu. Lin Xu's smaller force repelled the first assault with superior equipment and Taoist healing, leaving Li Meng wondering how Lin Xu had trained so many spellcasters.

• Elder Jiang gathered his people to support Lin Xu, and Shang Cheng reminded him to call on the Night Watchers.
• Zhang Meng left to gather his gang, while Li Yue and other Night Watchers prepared to rally their colleagues to Lin Xu's aid.
• Zhao Chengyuan offered to lead willing Night Watchers into the Spirit Realm, and Meng Changlin insisted on sharing responsibility.
• Jiang Wanqing contacted Liaison Officer Gu and offered a high-tier spirit talisman master's inheritance in exchange for Old General Gu's help.
• Lin Xu's troops used ballistae, spirit-imbued bows, and superior armor to rout Jiang Shiyan's four attacking battle units.
• The Taoist corps healed most wounded soldiers, and Li Meng questioned how Lin Xu had trained so many spellcasters.

Lin Xu’s defenders used poison and restoration spells to repel repeated Jiang Lineage Army assaults while waiting for reinforcements, and the arrival of Liu Jiayao’s troops stabilized their line. At the same time, Bilusi and Andrew’s forces struggled to hold back a zombie horde underground, while Li Meng ordered the Soaring Flood Dragon Army to attack.

• Lin Xu ordered the inner disciples to poison four attacking battle groups, then restored his soldiers’ stamina with a war spell as they routed the assault.
• Li Meng mistook Lin Xu’s restoration spells for a drain on his resources and ordered his troops to slow their attacks and keep pressuring the line.
• Lin Xu waited for reinforcements as his outnumbered defenders suffered heavy casualties, while Liu Jiayao’s concealed soldiers and troops from nearby villages approached.
• Bilusi burned zombies with fireballs as Andrew and the kobolds fought to hold the mine tunnels until the exhausted Fallen Demons recovered.
• Liu Jiayao led his soldiers into the battle and stabilized Lin Xu’s line, prompting Li Meng to order the Soaring Flood Dragon Army to attack.

Lin Xu used his Dao soldiers, corpse refinements, and Daoists to counter Li Meng’s assault and destroy the Soaring Flood Dragon Army’s advance. The enemy’s remaining forces hesitated before the battlefield, while Lin Xu turned his attention back to the five Mountain-Bearing Turtles.

• Li Meng sent the Soaring Flood Dragon Army and other troops forward, while Lin Xu ordered his Dao soldiers to hold the line and prepared his Daoists to strike.
• Lin Xu redirected the corpse refinement group to intercept the cavalry, but the heavy cavalry avoided them and circled toward the bastion.
• The corpse refinements routed an enemy battle group, then returned to the bastion as the Mountain-Bearing Turtles and front-line troops advanced.
• The Soaring Flood Dragon Army charged into Lin Xu’s Dao soldiers, who cut down dozens of attackers with their Soul-Devouring Halberds.
• Lin Xu ordered the Daoists to unleash nearly fifteen hundred wind blades, slaughtering the enemy battle groups and frightening the nearby troops into stopping their advance.

Li Meng ordered a full-front assault after the Daoist corps annihilated the Soaring Flood Dragon Army, while Lin Xu’s defenders held their line with support from newly delivered potions. Zhao Chengyuan’s Night Watchers discovered that Director Lin was a Spirit Realm lord, as Xu Yueming led his cavalry charge against the bastion.

• Li Meng realized the Soaring Flood Dragon Army had been lured into a trap and ordered his forces to attack along the entire front.
• Xu Yueming led his thirteen-hundred-strong cavalry regiment toward the bastion, with heavy cavalry forming the spearhead.
• Zhao Chengyuan and the Night Watchers followed a menial disciple through the Daoist temple after the Soul-Devouring Mist dispersed, and Zhao concluded that Director Lin was a lord.
• Li Yue sensed a strange fluctuation from the sapphire pendant on his chest, while Zhang Meng and Elder Jiang watched the Mountain-Bearing Turtles approach.
• Lin Xu waited for Li Yingqiu’s logistics team to deliver restorative potions as his Daoist corps and frontline warriors resisted the enemy.
• Xu Yueming used Torrential Rain Pear Blossom to break apart the incoming ballista bolts, then began Half-Moon Slash as his cavalry charged.

Xu Yueming’s cavalry smashed through Lin Xu’s bastion defenses, while his Champion Template amplified the army’s momentum and made him a formidable fighter. As the cavalry neared the breach, Lin Xu sent refined corpses against them, setting the stage for the defenders’ next move.

• Xu Yueming shattered the bastion’s outer wall and used martial general skills to destroy Lin Xu’s fireballs and crossbow bolts.
• Lin Xu recognized that Xu Yueming’s Champion Template let him gather the cavalry’s Army Momentum into his own strength, and ordered Hu Da to attack him.
• Hu Da and the Tiger Sha Demon Soldiers struck the cavalry from above, killing soldiers and weakening Xu Yueming’s Army Momentum; Xu Yueming wounded Hu Da in return.
• Xu Yueming taunted Lin Xu as the cavalry approached the bastion, while Elder Jiang and Uncle Tang prepared to confront him.
• Lin Xu ordered the refined corpses to attack, and Xu Yueming swept through them with a Half-Moon Slash as Lin Xu quietly made his move.