@solohan
If I recall correctly, here is still what needs to be included in Season 3 from the remaining nearly 400 chapters, not Necessarily in sequential order:
1. remainder of Ming Arc
2. assassination on way home
3.. Killing of CPP
4. trip to dongyi and acquiring of aces
5. storyline with emperor of northern Qi
6. Haitung and the grasslands
7. trip to divine temple with Haitang, and 13th wang to find Wu Zhu
8. finally, showdown with emperor of Qing ( with tasty side bit of opportunistic climber HZW getting his). You want blood? This part will have lots of blood.
9. And included in all the above is the deaths of elder princess, 2d prince, crown prince, empress dowager, failed revolt at dong on mountain ( leading to the deaths of 2 grandmasters and thousands of troops) and a few other storylines.
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as per the novel.... BEWARE... SPOILERS UNDER
- mega fight between all great grandmaster. Rumor said emperor was dead, FX became (with the approval of emperor) a temporay regent
- The emperor, with the help of CPP, planned a battle far from the capital. During the battle, two great grandmasters died, but not immediately. A grandmaster from Dongyi gave FX his sect with 100 cultivators, including thirteen level 9 cultivators, among them Wang (who became a close friend) and Yun (mentioned in the 300 poems). Additionally, a grandmaster from the north sent FX a notebook with Italian phonetic words, which helped him finally reach a plateau above level 9. The third grandmaster is still alive, while the eunuch Hou has died. Wu Zhu witnessed the battle but did not intervene, despite FX asking him to help the emperor.
- During his regency, FX assassinated the empress dowager, who then led to the suicide of the empress, the eldest princess, and the second prince. Upon the return of the emperor to the capital, the crown prince also took his own life.
- haitang saint duoduo did not meet him at the capital but when he went in the west jiangjang
His journey to the west was essentially to destroy the Ming family, take control of the smuggling instead of the Ming family and for himself (deal with the emperor of the north) and partly for the emperor. Yes, FX was not clean on that; his brother remained in the north territory. FX also destroyed the family in charge there for smuggling, but the family was way smaller and easier to destroy. FX did a mega clean-up, with much cunning and scheming on his part. All the smuggling families colluded with the eldest princess, who took a lot of money from them. If they keep only 2 useless episodes like that, they would remove around 70 chapters from the novel. Good or bad, I don't know, but they had to reduce the 746 chapters somewhere.
-A huge battlefield scene when FX was regent, before the second prince and crown prince committed suicide, and before everyone knew that the emperor did not die. I'm not sure if they will include this scene, as it seems they are on a tight budget, considering the lack of martial choreography, etc.
- mega fight between wu zhu and the emperor. FX learned that the emperor was the mastermind of his mother assassination. he remain at the overwatch council until the emperor removed him from this position. ChengPP died during that time (he was always supporting FX, never bretrayed him)
- the journey and visit of the Divine temple is epic. so I hope they will show us this.
- out of memory, should have at least 3 mega martial fights
... everything else is correct :)