[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-immortality-cultivation-i-can-increase-my-stats-":3,"chapter-immortality-cultivation-i-can-increase-my-stats--immortality-cultivation-i-can-increase-my-stats--chapter-196":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Immortality Cultivation: I Can increase My Stats Using Clansmen's Qi-Blood",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},1157192,1501,"Chapter 196: 117: The Fight Begins, The Jiang Family Has Arrived - Part 2","immortality-cultivation-i-can-increase-my-stats--chapter-196",196,"\u003Cp>Chapter 196: Chapter 117: The Fight Begins, The Jiang Family Has Arrived – Part 2\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“`\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Are you still sulking?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a long silence, Jiang Taiqian once again quietly asked Jiang Yan who stood in front of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yan did not verbally respond.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He simply nodded silently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I see, I will have a good talk with Xiao Yue later.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“As for you…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Try to maintain the current situation.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Our Jiang Family really can’t afford any losses.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finishing his words, Jiang Taiqian quietly walked toward the distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yan watched this scene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yan looked at Jiang Taiqian’s slightly curved, somewhat desolate figure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A myriad of thoughts flashed through his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a long while, those myriad thoughts turned into a helpless sigh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The current situation seemed to dictate that the Jiang Family had no choice but to sacrifice a daughter in marriage to ensure their own safety.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This decision was indeed not pleasant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But did the Jiang Family really have any other options?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed that apart from clinging desperately to the Luo Family as a lifeline, there was no other means of preserving their family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the blink of an eye, another two days passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As one of the Five Great Families of Shang Heng District, the Jiang Family’s convoy was now slowly approaching the Luo Family Ancestral Land in Huai Shui County.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The armored bandit soldiers from White Lotus Stockade in Yellow Mountain County, who were extremely skilled in archery,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>were also silently closing in toward Huai Shui County.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Have they arrived?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the border between Huai Shui County and Yellow Mountain County,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Yong, the one in control of the military, was in his Commander’s Tent, asking Tang Jian, who was beside him, with relentless inquiry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“They’ve come…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tang Jian replied in a low voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What? They’re here already? You keep saying soon but never give an exact time…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Luo Yong spoke, he suddenly froze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eh, he seemed to have misheard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That big bluffer Tang Jian hadn’t said ‘soon,’ had he?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What exactly had he said?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed… he said ‘they’ve come?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Realizing this, Luo Yong’s eyes widened, and his face gradually showed an intense excitement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even his breathing became noticeably heavier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They’ve come, they’ve finally come.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Yong had waited for such a long time, those little bastards from White Lotus Stockade… had finally arrived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t easy, truly not easy!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Do you know how many bandits White Lotus Stockade has sent?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After taking several deep breaths and gradually calming his excitement, Luo Yong quietly asked Tang Jian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Four hundred thousand?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Four hundred and fifty thousand?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Or… five hundred thousand?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tang Jian responded quietly, not very sure himself how many people White Lotus Stockade had actually sent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn it, that many?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“All five hundred thousand came out?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Are you serious?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Yong turned his head, widened his eyes, and gave Tang Jian a look that seemed to say, ‘Are you kidding me?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“On the battlefield, numbers don’t decide everything.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The gap between elite troops and normal soldiers is vast.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The difference between armored and unarmored is also considerable.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So what if it’s five hundred thousand? What’s there to worry about?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Shouldn’t you, Brother Luo, know better than I do what kind of rabble these bandits usually are?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Tang Jian spoke these words,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Yong’s shock gradually subsided.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That big bluffer Tang Jian was indeed right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if White Lotus Stockade deployed five hundred thousand troops, so what?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>War is not decided solely by numbers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides, to deal with this war, he had kept an ace up his sleeve.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That ace was a cavalry composed entirely of Cultivators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cultivation level of the cavalry started at least from the Refining Stage of Skin Refinement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>About one third were in the Bone Refinement realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The number of cavalry was only about a hundred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the terrifying power that could be exerted by the combination of Cultivators and the dark jade qilin on the battlefield, naturally, needed no further explanation by Luo Yong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After approximately half an hour of waiting,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the bandits from White Lotus Stockade within Yellow Mountain County\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>finally began to come into view for Luo Yong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In terms of quantity, the number of bandits from White Lotus Stockade was indeed surprising.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They covered the mountains and plains, densely packed and endless in sight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their sheer number and scale were immensely daunting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In comparison to Luo Yong’s forces, they were at least seven or eight times greater in number.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, no matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the naked eye could see that most of these bandits appeared to be unarmored.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many of the bandits considered themselves lucky to wield a machete.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such bandit soldiers, if fighting with the wind,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>would indeed be invincible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But should they face the wind in battle…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>they would probably run faster than anyone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, there was a reason why White Lotus Stockade was ranked third among the bandit forces in Yellow Mountain County.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Look at the very center of the bandit army.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There, one could see a group of elite bandit soldiers dressed in shining silver armor, with steel sabers at their waists, and bows and arrows in their hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On their backs, they carried at least several quivers each.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Surrounded tightly by the ordinary bandits, they stood in the center.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If one were to make a rough estimation with the naked eye…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The number of those elite bandit soldiers in shining silver armor, with steel sabers and bows and arrows,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>each carrying several quivers on their backs,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>was at least not less than thirty thousand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Looks like this group of bandit soldiers is my main focus, the rest of the bandits…”\u003C\u002Fp>",943,"2026-06-03T12:43:40.043Z","2026-06-03T12:43:47.001Z",1,"novelbin.me","96ec6b60e2220dfbbab57d023dcdcf9187f7ee9025e5a786973bbf35a9ad4d93","immortality-cultivation-i-can-increase-my-stats--chapter-197","immortality-cultivation-i-can-increase-my-stats--chapter-348",2094,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fimmortality-cultivation-i-can-increase-my-stats--cover.jpg"]