Although he had not entered Xuanyuan Hill, with the power of Zhang Tie's Lotus Blossom Eye, merely standing high in the air outside Xuanyuan Hill allowed him to clearly see the anomalies at Humble Heart Garden in the Imperial Emperor City hundreds of kilometers away. He saw the Chamberlain for the Imperial Insignia holding a great guandao from a Silver Secret Treasure and standing guard outside Humble Heart Garden; he saw the crowds being evacuated outside it; he saw the knightly smoke signals soaring into the sky beside the Golden Water River; he saw the bulging ground and collapsed buildings in Golden Power Market, as well as flames rising from sudden explosions not far from the market.
Xuanyuan Hill was in chaos, and the chaos was only growing worse. The Heaven-Piercing Sect's followers—or rather, the Han father and son's pack of loyal hounds within Xuanyuan Hill—were now using every means at their disposal to create disorder and escape from Xuanyuan Hill.
Night had already fallen, making the fires within the city all the more conspicuous. The wailing sirens of fire engines and the crashing impacts of knights in battle echoed everywhere throughout Xuanyuan Hill. In the places where the flames burned fiercest and the fighting was most intense, countless people could also be heard crying out, screaming, and fleeing.
At this moment, the swans in the sky had yet to reach the Imperial Emperor City and were still over a hundred kilometers away from it. Yet all of Xuanyuan Hill was like a ladleful of cold water splashed into boiling oil—the entire cauldron had begun to roil.
Zhang Tie knew that he had succeeded.
There would be many casualties in Xuanyuan Hill tonight. Zhang Tie felt some reluctance in his heart, but he would not place that debt upon his