Chapter 86 Five mountain spirits return to Sky With the witchery in their hair, Ziya's generals crushed Bian Ji and chased him under the banner. Bian fled into the city and closed the gate. Deng and Rui staged a criticism over Bian Ji for him letting the Zhou troops to approach the city. Before Bian could argue, they executed him. They also killed Ouyang Chun because he would not betray Zhou or surrender to Ziya. Once they had pacified the people in the city, Ziya resumed his incursion. Near the White Orile Forest of Lintong Pass, the troops of Ziya reached Mianchi Country, which was located at the opposite side of the capital Morning Song, separated by a river. The shielding general of Mianchi was Zhang Kui whose wife was Gao Lanying. Zhang Kui had a Black-Mist Unicorn as a mount, which could gallop like the wind. Zhang Kui by means of it had been able of killing two brothers of King Wu. The following day, Chong Heihu, with his generals Wen Pin, Chui Ying, and Jiang Xiong arrived at Mianchi. King Wu went out to welcome them. While they were talking, Zhang Kui shouted a challenge to the camp, and they, with Yellow Flying Tiger, rushed out to confront him. Chong Heihu planned to allure Zhang Kui to chase him, so that he could release his spirit-crows to kill him. Thus all five of them, pretending to be withdrawing, galloped back. However the unicorn of Zhang ran extremely fast. Zhang caught Wen Pin and Chong Heihu and chopped them into two pieces. And Gao, the wife of Zhang, shot her spirit-needles into the eyes of the others, which allowed Zhang to gallop over and finish them too. Five chief invaders were slaughtered. At certain moment Yang Bliss went out to face Zhang. Yang Bliss pretending to be weaker than Zhang, allowed that Zhang seized him and carried him to Zhang's ground. Put to immediate extermination, the executioner beheaded Yang. However a groom reported to Zhang that at the same moment, instead Yang had disappeared and was his unicorn's head which had suddenly dropped down and the mount had died. Zhang became furious. This time he rode a horse and captured Yang again. Once more Yand was put to execution, but before, as a preventive measure, his wife Gao ordered soldiers to take chicken blood and dung to dump over that head of Yang. Additionally, she drew a spell to put in Yang's hair and then ordered soldiers to cut off his head. When the head of Yang apparently fell to the ground, a maid reported to Zhang that suddenly dung had fallen down on his mother and that her head had fallen off. Then Zhang became so depressed that he lost all sense of cautiousness.
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