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“Countless ladders were suspended from the huge coin, and bodies and white skeletons were strewn across them, and piled up like a mountain beneath.”
Considering this coin is floating in air; he is supposed to be entering a city gate; and this is the fourth enchanted gate the army has faced, I’d call that a red flag

I’m reading by candlelight as Mozart’s Requiem in D Minor plays; guy walks into ensorcelled area…
He. He meets drunken cats. He goes to a bar and drinks thirty bowls of wine. He goes to another bar, drinks forty bowls.
He’s supposed to be leading a charge into battle.
He stumbles back to camp, and dies from alcohol intoxication. But the enemy didn’t directly hurt him, as promised. {Requiem crescendos}

He… saw a pack of drunken cats advancing towards him, walking unsteadily and shaking their heads and sticking out their front paws.
Come, come, come! Let us play three rounds of finger-guessing games before we let you go !' the cats said to him.
Senega smiled and said, Drunken cats! Dead drunk, from only a few cups of wine! It doesn't take much for them to show their worst qualities !'

Daughter of Tang respectfully toasted the nun with a cup of vegetarian wine, and offered her some fruit, Purple Mushroom whispered to the young ladies, “This is a nun of unusual origin. She must be clairvoyant. Why don't we ask her about the future?”

The young lady in white read it, and was extremely angry, for in it Daughter of Tang disparaged the Lady of the Moon.
In fact, the visitors were no other than the Lady of the Moon herself, who had quarrelled with the Fairy of a Hundred Flowers (Daughter of Tang) and thus plotted to have her sent to earth, in the hope that she would receive her punishment there, and Aunt Wind.

"Master Pien has sent these invitations for the young ladies to have lunch tomorrow. Morning noodles will also be served.'

"I shall say that I could not find you,' Purple Caltrop said, and leaped into the air and flew away.
Those in the banqueting hall like Fragrant Book, Fragrant Orchid, and Marsh Orchid who had never seen people fly were stunned and cried out, "We did not know such extraordinary people
existed!'

'Is it Brother Lo up there?' Young Shu called.
It was indeed him. Young Shu hurried up and explained to Young Lo who he and the Wen brothers were, and that they were looking for him, and asked what he was fighting the girl for.
"It is a long story; said Young Lo. 'Let me kill her first and tell you later.”
Therefore he and his men lifted their swords and advanced on the girl together.

Purple Silk said, 'As a child, my father taught me the art of swordsmanship, and now I can travel very fast. I can cover miles in a few seconds.’
Did you see anything on your way over here?' said Daughter of Tang.
"I saw a monkey going off with a heavenly record book,” said Purple Silk.

Ok now a female fox demon has captured them by tricking them into eating fermented fruit; her wizard attendants decide instead of eating them they should be pressed into “human wine”