Old Man Mu's wish came true. He fell from the cliff together with forty or fifty others. Before he even struck the ground, his face was already mangled beyond recognition. In the end, his body was smashed to pieces and mixed in with the many corpses. Even an immortal would have been unable to pick him out.
The siege of Old Man Mu should have been an easy battle, yet it ended in such a way. The small courtyard was filthy from wall to wall, leaving nowhere to set foot. Those on the cliff had to climb down slowly from another place, and one person even lost his footing and fell during the descent.
The Central Plains people and the Western Regions people blamed one another, each feeling the other had gotten in the way and allowed Old Man Mu to run rampant. Thus, after reaching the ground, they got into several fights. More than a dozen people were injured. Fortunately, the Dragon Army soldiers intervened in time, and there were no more deaths.
Old Man Mu had killed some people on the ground, and their bodies were still intact. Their relatives and friends endured their nausea and entered the courtyard to carry out the corpses. Several monks went over to help—and that was when they discovered the miracle.
Lian Qing had fallen from the cliff as well, yet his corpse was actually intact. He had happened to land on top of another corpse. Although every bone in his body had shattered, it was still possible to make out roughly what he had looked like in life.
This was taken as proof that Buddha had manifested his power and that Lian Qing had attained the Way. The tale spread through Jade City and even across the Western Regions, and was