Inside Empress Shi Ji Temple, the main hall was shattered, and the divine shrine consecrated to Empress Shi Ji had also been shaken into powder. Strong practitioners of the thirteen noble families, including Li Xiaozheng and Xu Changsheng, had each suffered severe injuries and collapsed in a disorderly heap across the ground.
Xu Changsheng's dreamscape shattered, and the Zhang family's Void Mirror was beaten until it was bent out of shape.
Of the Red-Green Elders, one had his head plunged deep into the earth, while the other had half of his body hanging on this side of the wall and the other half hanging on the far side.
Li Xiaoti knelt on the ground, his two kneecaps shattering the bluestone of the floor.
Li Xiaozheng was embedded deep within the wall, the masonry bulging backward.
Embedded in the wall right beside him was Gu Haozhi, a renowned veteran of the Gu family.
The poisonous-tongued Fei Qiqi had face-planted into the censer, her mouth completely full of ash.
Ma Guangji lay collapsed atop Jiang Pingyun, his head lolling to one side. Zhai Guozheng's torso was driven deep into the earth, leaving only his shiny, bald head exposed. When he had channeled his cultivation technique to combat the Yellow Turban Strongmen, the Zhai family's art proved far too violent and unyielding, causing every last strand of hair upon his head to snap off entirely.
Cui Yunshan and Yan Jishi had each ended up with a head wedged into the balustrade of the stone steps, the other sprawled across the steps in a sprawling, limbs-splayed heap.
As for Xia Zhengong, who possessed the highest cultivation among them, he knelt before Chen Yindu's talisman array with four black banners piercing his body. The true form he had condensed from the Water of a Hundred