Dynasty Warriors 8: XL CE - Others Story Mode 7 - Phantoms of Xuchang (Ultimate)

This stage is the Xuchang stage from Wei's hypothetical, but on Zuo Ci's side. Zuo Ci goes this stage mostly solo until he summons his phantoms to cause a mess. There's a messenger that runs off at the beginning and it's highly advisable to make sure you take him out because if not he'll place siege weapons all around where Zuo Ci tries to set up his altars and no one likes to deal with siege weapons. Enemies are strong here so it can take a while to move on.

Zuo Ci actually has a really good moveset, though it may not appear it in this stage due to the high HP everything has. For whatever reason the last half of the DW8 Others stages feel like the most difficult ones in the game to me. I slapped velocity on his weapons after this so next time I used him it'll show him off better. He has a lot of range with his attacks, powerful musous, and a really good EX buff that increases his speed and damage, on top of using it being a good attack.