Ning Chen had more than a dozen wounds on him, large and small, so the army surgeon needed plenty of time for them.

"This Tantai Qingyue really is no simple matter!"

Ning Chen looked at the wounds on him and could not help muttering it.

He wanted to take Tantai Qingyue alive. Ever since he refined out that breath it had not grown at all.

That breath Tantai Qingyue had refined out could be sent outside her body... Ning Chen wanted to ask her how she had trained it.

Pan Yucheng said, "We'll have to be careful from here on. Tantai Qingyue came off badly this time, and she won't let it rest."

Ning Chen smiled. Tantai Qingyue was formidable, but she did not frighten him.

Even the first in the martial arts was still a human being, and anything carbon-based had to bow its head in front of muskets and cannon.

When the wounds were bound up, Ning Chen said, "Old Pan, you've had a hard day. Get some rest early yourself!"

Nothing more was said that night.

Early the next morning.

Ning Chen woke and ate something.

He asked Feng Qizheng, "Has any word come back from Lei An?"

Feng Qizheng shook his head. "No!"

Ning Chen thought for a moment. "Go call Yuan Long here for me."

Feng Qizheng turned and went.

A little later Yuan Long came.

"I present myself to my lord prince!"

Ning Chen said, "Yuan Long, take five thousand of the Ning'an Army now and join Lei An... You take men along the top and make sure that when the army passes through Dragontrap Valley, no rolling rocks or falling logs come down on it."

Yuan Long bowed with cupped hands. "This officer takes the order!"

"And while you're about it, tell Qi Yuanzhong the army marches in two hours."

"Yes!"

Yuan Long withdrew.

An hour later Yuan Long and five thousand of the Ning'an Army went on ahead.

Two hours later the army was formed up and ready to move.

At Ning Chen's word of command the army broke camp and marched.