Note: The second update is here, with today's two chapters totaling nine thousand words, equivalent to four chapters from others. I beg for monthly tickets, and automatic subscriptions, please.
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With the great river in front and over ten thousand pursuers behind, they had reached a dead end.
On both sides of the road lay dense forests, leaving no path to tread.
A few miles behind, over ten thousand rebels formed a semi-circular formation, constantly tightening their encirclement, gradually shrinking the noose.
Suo Lun ordered the abandonment of horses and commanded all the family samurai to ascend Lingjiang Peak.
Half an hour later, they reached the summit, hundreds of meters above sea level.
From the mountaintop, dark crowds of over ten thousand rebels had reached the base, enveloping Lingjiang Peak completely, making escape impossible, as if their wings were clipped.
