He Xiaoyao returned to the canyon, where corpses now littered the ground.
Without lingering, he quickly withdrew the Yin-Yang Qi wall.
Thirty thousand troops were stationed in Beiyun City, while only five thousand soldiers remained in Cancheng, alongside a small outpost of five thousand soldiers on the southern side. Outside this small outpost, He Xiaoyao set up a large formation, leaving a single massive gate. He repeatedly instructed the soldiers never to cross the Qi wall of the formation barrier and to use only the gate for entry and exit, while ordering heavily guarded defenses at the gate.
Chapter 257