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Sure enough, after taking the Elixir Powder, their bodies were instantly filled with strength.

And then those Generals gave another order, which shocked them greatly.

"Advisor Guo said we’re to set out and head for the Fox Spirit Mountain Range. This is a military secret. Everyone should know Advisor Guo well enough—he would never harm us. He hasn’t shown his face for this whole period, precisely because he was waiting for today’s opportunity."

The Generals’ words won the soldiers’ approval.

These people all became cultivators within the army. The Cultivation Techniques they received and the doubts they had during Cultivation were mostly guided by the Generals and Guo Cunhou.

Although Guo Cunhou’s personal strength wasn’t very high, even inferior to some Generals, he was a teacher with extremely strong comprehension.

The soldiers who could be assigned to this unit were almost all Guo Cunhou’s own subordinates.

Marching overnight, they didn’t bother to pack the tents, only took their personal gear. When, following the Generals’ lead, they arrived at the Fox Spirit Mountain Range, Guo Cunhou was indeed already waiting there.

"My Lord."

"Old Guo. Are we going to attack the Fox Spirit Mountain Range here?"

𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

A few Generals came up to Guo Cunhou, and their subordinates all turned to look at him as well.

Guo Cunhou smiled at the Generals, then said, "Everyone, listen to me. You haven’t seen me these days because I was imprisoned by Wang Buqun."

"What? My Lord, how dare Wang Buqun do that?"

"Exactly, that ingrate Wang Buqun—if not for your sake back then, I’d have chopped his head off long ago. And he still wants to throw his weight around over us."

The Generals’ faces changed drastically; the ones with worse tempers started cursing outright.

Guo Cunhou waved his hand. "Enough, stop cursing. Let’s talk business. Your families are all on Fox Spirit Mountain now, and so is my wife. With a move like that, Fox Spirit Mountain left me no choice but to surrender—after all, I don’t want to lose my wife."

"The reason I called you here now is to tell you that West Desolation City cannot defeat the Fox Spirit Mountain Range. Because the Demonized land on the Mountain Range has already reverted to normal land, and Fox Spirit Mountain’s Formation is far stronger than you can imagine."

Guo Cunhou’s gaze swept over the soldiers and Generals.

The soldiers and Generals fell silent. Suddenly a soldier spoke up: "Old Guo, are my mother and my wife really on Fox Spirit Mountain? Could you speak to the people of Fox Spirit Mountain and have them come out to see me? If I can see them, I’m willing to defect to Fox Spirit Mountain."

As expected, most of the soldiers just wanted to see their families. Going up the mountain like this was like a lamb entering a tiger’s den.

They did believe that the Generals and Guo Cunhou were worth winning over, but they were only ordinary cultivators, the strongest merely at the Peak of the Sensing Period. Even the foxes in the Mountain Range that hadn’t yet taken human form were no weaker than them. Did the Fox Spirit Mountain Range really need them?

"Of course you can."

Before Guo Cunhou could speak, Tang Ming, who was standing beside him, laughed.

Tang Ming had already anticipated this, and said, "Go on, arrange for their families to come down the mountain to receive them."

In fact, the families Guo Cunhou had brought were also longing for their husbands to return to their sides. Letting them meet face to face was the only way to truly win their allegiance.

In no time, with the help of several giant Fox Demons, the soldiers’ relatives all arrived at the foot of Fox Spirit Mountain; practically all the families of those soldiers from the North District were there.

Only some soldiers who weren’t from the North District failed to see their families.

Tang Ming promptly comforted them, had them register, and clearly told them that he would definitely help bring their families up to Fox Spirit Mountain.

"Old Guo, you’re really impressive—within one night you’ve taken away more than half of West Desolation City’s garrison. Tomorrow, when that Wang Buqun, the garrison Commander, sees that all his troops have vanished, I wonder what kind of expression he’ll have."

The corner of Tang Ming’s mouth lifted slightly as he spoke.

Guo Cunhou shook his head and said, "They say you strike a snake at its seven inches; when dealing with an enemy, you must seize his vital point. Compared to you, I’m still far behind."

"Same here, we learn from each other."

Tang Ming and Guo Cunhou both burst out laughing as they went up the mountain. As for the task of rescuing those people from West Desolation City, it was handed over to Hu Sanqiu.

Just as dawn was breaking, Skeleton Master woke up; he hadn’t been sleeping well lately.

Skeleton Master still hadn’t figured out why the Old Demon of West Desolation handed over military authority.

He only remembered that the Old Demon of West Desolation had instructed him that even if Wang Buqun lost, he must make Fox Spirit Mountain Range pay a bloody price.

"The City Lord and I are of one mind—we both don’t believe Wang Buqun can beat the Fox Spirit Mountain Range. After all, those few foxes have terrifying methods, and there’s that powerful Formation on the Mountain Range. So why does he still support Wang Buqun, letting him attack the Mountain Range?"

Skeleton Master stood up and walked out of his own tent. Beside him was the camp of the garrison under the Commander Residence’s jurisdiction. It was unnaturally quiet over there; there wasn’t even a single patrol.

"These bastards really don’t take those foxes of the Fox Spirit Mountain Range seriously, do they? Not even arranging a patrol? Have those Generals all lost their minds? Even in West Desolation City we still have to follow regulations and arrange patrols and hidden sentries."

Skeleton Master, somewhat angered, strode toward the tents.

But as he walked over, he discovered the tents were all empty, not a single person inside. And it wasn’t just one tent like this—the entire camp area had somehow become completely deserted.

"Could it be that the Commander had some operation at night and didn’t inform me? No, even if there was, they wouldn’t leave the tents like this."

Skeleton Master took a deep breath, then left the camp and ran straight toward Wang Buqun’s central command tent.

At the central command tent, the hidden sentries stopped Skeleton Master. After receiving Hu Jiuze’s Jade Scroll and thinking Fox Spirit Mountain had backed down, Wang Buqun had drunk all night and had just lain down not long ago.

"Senior Skeleton Master, the Commander has only just gone to rest. Please don’t go in and disturb him."

The hidden sentry said softly to Skeleton Master.

"He still has the mood to drink, still has the mood to sleep—does he even know where we are, what time it is? Wang Buqun, Commander Wang, you’d better come out, something huge has happened!"

Skeleton Master shouted angrily, almost beside himself.

The officers in the surrounding tents were all alarmed, and even Wang Buqun sobered up quite a bit.

Wang Buqun rolled off the bed, grabbed his coat, and came out. "Skeleton Master, are you out of your mind? Yelling your head off so early in the morning."