By the time Huang Baimei, Temple Master of the Dragon Emperor Temple in Heavenly Square City, and Chief Executive Leng Manxue arrived at Zi Family Fort, the brilliant sword light above it had long since vanished. Everything in Zi Family Fort was already over.
The heads of the Zi Family patriarch of Heavenly Square City, along with an Earth Divine General and a Water Divine General from the Star Emperor Temple, lay in a neat row on the square within Zi Family Fort, their eyes wide open as they witnessed the fortress's destruction in the blink of an eye tonight. No one had deliberately arranged those heads. After Zhang Tie beheaded the three men, their heads had spun through the air as they fell, landing neatly on the ground.
After Zhang Tie killed those three, Zi Family Fort no longer had any forces worth mentioning. The remaining guards and servants of the fort, as well as the few Zi Family disciples who still dared to step forward and fight, had long been slaughtered clean by the Liu brothers, who were killing with growing fervor. All that remained were frightened women and children, too terrified to move, hiding in the rooms throughout Zi Family Fort in silence as cold as cicadas, or crying in terror.
The bright moon hung round in the sky. Zhang Tie stood alone atop the highest roof in Zi Family Fort, sword in hand, gazing down over the entire fort. Behind him hung that enormous, radiant moon. At this moment, there was an indescribable air of peerless wildness about him, yet amid that unbridled arrogance lay a trace of bleak loneliness.
Just now, Sword Qi had streaked across the sky above Zi Family Fort, Battle Qi had surged into the heavens, and the Water Divine General's battle-beast