Xie Lian realizes the woman in black is the Imperial Preceptor that Millstone talked about, named Half-Moon. Xie Lian recognizes Half-Moon as the girl he saved when he was a general. Half-Moon tells her side of the story, and snakes begin to rain down on them, engulfing the bottom of the pit in chaos.
There, I ran into an army
that was conscripting troops.