Chapter 90 Subjugation of two Sprites With the battle before then, Gao Ming and Gao Jue met Yuan Hong and the sprites promptly recognized each other. Yuan Hong knew that Gao Ming and Gao Jue were actually the peach spirit and the willow spirit. And the two Gao brothers realized that Yuan was the monkey sprite. They were satisfied to be together in the battle. Throughout the fight, Nezha, Yang Bliss, and Yan Ren made use of their powerful magic weapons to strike the two Gao brothers and Yuan Hong, but none of the weapons proved effective against them. They just disappeared like the wind. Yang Bliss informed Ziya that the brothers Gaos had not seemed like other men. This way Ziya commanded the soldiers to prepare peach wood and blood in order to halt their witchcraft. But the following day, the two Gaos mocked at Ziya, saying that none of his traps would be operative against them. Ziya conceived that there were spies in the camp, but Yang Bliss did not share the idea. So, Yang flew to consult his master, the Immortal Jade Tripod. Jade Tripod revealed to Yang that the brothers were a peach-scout spirit and a willow-scout spirit and that their roots extended to a temple, which transferred its soul to the two gate guards QianLiYan —thousand li eyes— and ShunFengEr (movable wind ears). That was why they could see things from a thousand li and hear Ziya's plans from far away. Jade Tripod recommended Yang Bliss to pluck their roots from earth and burn the statues, only then could they be defeated. Yang Bliss returned and wrote down the instructions on a piece of paper so that Ziya should follow. Ziya ordered soldiers to beat on thousands of gongs and use red cloth to build a wall. He then assigned each general a task. With such measures Gao Ming and Gao Jue did not see or hear what was happening. A wind blew over the banner and Ziya using his magic calculation discovered that the Gaos and Yuan Hong had planned a night raid. As a result, he assigned a strategic position to each general, and still in that night, Ziya ascended the altar to put into effect his concealed trap.
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