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The Japanese onslaught on the water route was thwarted. This was almost a miracle in the circumstances. At this time, the Japanese had successfully launched a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, sweeping across Asia and the Pacific. Their military superiority was at its peak. The Chinese army had been losing ground, and although they had fought a few tough battles in Taizhuang, Changsha and Zuoyi, the final result was that the Japanese won. At the Shikai battle, the Chinese army had truly defeated the arrogant Japanese army.

But in the month of May of 1943, the war was fought with the argument that the Japanese army was invincible. Right now, many people were wondering why Japan, a tiny country with a small population and few resources, was able to defeat China so easily.

This was related to the early entry of Japan into the industrial civilization. They caught up with the industrial revolution and got lucky. But there is another key factor, and that is culture. Japanese adhered to Chinese culture, and there is still a legacy of Tang and Song dynasties. After the Chinese Song dynasty was occupied by the Mongols, the female Taoist let the Chinese perish once more after the Ming dynasty. Especially the female Taoist, the pressure on Han culture was very strong, only keeping the slave science of Confucianism and partly enslaving the Chinese. Thus, some of the ancient culture, such as Taoism, orthodoxy, cross-section theory, Yinyang theory and so on, were lost in China.

But the old things that had been passed down by the ancestors were gradually spreading and being ingrained in Japan. So the Japanese were also very proud that Japan was the inheritor of traditional Chinese culture.

This was also true, for example, because many of the ancient Chinese classics had been lost in China — this was the good work of the female true person, and the credit of the ”Four Repositories” was the removal of the essentials of the Chinese culture and the preservation of the slave culture that was conducive to the female true person's rule. As a result, modern Chinese need to study Chinese history and seek books and records in Japan.

The ancient Chinese art of sumo, kendo, medicine, and Go has also been handed down in Japan. Especially Go, in the period of the government of the North, Duan Qili was an expert in Go, but who would have thought that a 5-stage player from Japan would be able to defeat the top Chinese Go players, and then Wu Qingyuan would have to travel to Japan to learn Go. Even modern Chinese Go under the efforts of Chen Zude, Nie Weiping and Ma Xiaochun, come after. But the rules of Go have evolved, and are no longer the rules of ancient Chinese Go.

And the Japanese have surpassed China in witchcraft culture, which occupies an important part of Chinese culture. This was the reason why a Flow Avoidance Grandmaster like Tong Duan had to send Zhang Tianrann and the four great families to China, in order for them to fight back.

Furthermore, Zhang Tianrann and the Four Great Families were not the true descendants of the Taoism, but were both Warlocks who were spread among the people.

After being thwarted, Tong Duan took a few days to recuperate before launching his second attack. He used a traditional sorcery, the illusion technique, which is called anomie in China.

This was the method of spreading beans into an army and folding paper into a human. Overnight, Chinese defenders discovered that the Japanese army could not be killed, and the ships could not sink. In such a situation, the Japanese soldiers would be discouraged and would be utterly defeated. They would then force their way into the Yellow Tomb Temple. However, Tong Duan realized that this technique was not effective, because not long after, all of his illusions were broken, and countless Yellow Mounted Paper s were left on the surface of the river. It was only then that he understood that besides Zhang Tianrann, the Chinese Army upstream had other powerful players.

This powerful being was Plowshare Witch Family's Zhong Yifaang. All these things were things that Zhong Family was good at doing anyway, so Tong Duan's illusion techniques would not be able to gain the upper hand in front of Zhong Yifaang. At that time, Zhong Yifaang's magic treasure was an ink bucket. On the surface of the river, Zhong Yifaang drew lines with ink, and the black ink lines were floating on the surface of the river, completely unaffected by the flowing river. When Tong Duan's paper man transformed into the soldiers, they all became their original forms once they entered the range of the ink bucket.

Thus, all the illusions that Tong Duan had confused with the Chinese army vanished like smoke into thin air. The Chinese army seized the opportunity to fight, sending the Japanese back to the South Lama River.

Tong Duan also collected the dead bodies on the battlefield, using the method of returning the souls to fight. However, they didn't expect that at the very beginning, the battle with the Chinese army would be smooth sailing. No matter how much damage the zombies suffered, it wouldn't affect the battle at all. The only drawback was that it was slow.

The next thing that happened shocked Tong Duan. He realized that the zombie he was controlling had become more agile and had gained some of the intelligence of a normal person. The problem was that these zombies had become more powerful, but they had changed their direction. They were dealing with the Japanese army, and the zombies didn't care whether they were dealing with their own comrades or not.

Tong Duan used the Soul-Returning Technique to smash his own foot. He immediately understood that there were people with Wei Family upstream. The people from Wei Family were too famous, and the Japanese side had long heard of them. The ability of Wei Family to exorcise corpses and raise their ancestors was passed down to males but not females. It was not used by males nor did it interact with the government. It was passed down only within the clan of Wei Family and was a spell that the Japanese did not know of. Therefore, Tong Duan's Soul Resurrection Skill was not even able to withstand a single blow from Wei Yongqi.

One of the abilities of Wei Family was to raise corpses, it was to raise the abilities of zombies. To be able to train corpses into iron corpses and Copper Corpse, iron corpses were already invulnerable and agile. The Copper Corpse, on the other hand, could jump up a tree and move about in the water. Above the Copper Corpse s was the ”Ba” stage, the highest stage for zombies.

At that time, Wei Yongqi's time was limited. He had controlled the zombies under Tong Duan's command to form a steel corpse and counterattacked with it. More than half of the troops led by Tong Duan had died. He knew that it was already impossible for him to defeat the Chinese Warlocks upstream. Furthermore, if the stalemate continued, the successor of Wei Family would nurture the Copper Corpse. If that happened, there was even less of a chance of victory.

Tong Duan planned to leave, but he did not know that other than the two helpers, Zhang Tianrann had also prepared to release Ghaob Miel, Huang Soongbai and Huang Tiehyan from the Tranquil East Warlock Family.

The purpose of these two people was not to defend against Tong Duan's attacks.

Rather, it was to make it so that Tong Duan could not go back at all!

This was Zhang Tianrann's personality. He would cut the weeds and remove the roots, leaving no leeway.