After Yue Yang slew the nearly thousand elite mutant merman guards and priests in the Steel Fortress who had intended to resurrect the ancestor of the Cursed Clan, along with their commander-in-chief, Old Iron Anchor, the Heaven-Piercing Tower's capture of White River City was beyond doubt.
White River City's lord, who often exploited the legend of "Hidden Mist" to harm others, was captured through the joint assault of Feng Xian Beauty and the Southern Border Demon King.
Even with the Mist Domain that let him come and go like an invisible man.
Mist, White River City's current lord, still could not escape alive before Feng Xian Beauty, the Empress of Heaven's Punishment, much less with the greatly strengthened Southern Border Demon King holding him in check. The strongest and most elusive lord of White River City had fallen, the most cautious and clever commander-in-chief had collapsed, and nearly a thousand elites and priests had been swept up in one net. The remaining high-ranking traitors outside the city, such as Steel Guild president Gu Ding, White River City's personal guard captain Blue Whale, and Dark Gate, the city's chief warden, were likewise knocked from their horses under the blows of Heaven-Piercing Tower experts such as Tian Zhu, the Dragon Emperor, and the Nether Emperor. None escaped—either surrendering or being captured.
Though numerous, the leaderless mutant mermen of White River City had no will to fight.
Once they discovered there was absolutely no possibility of escape and learned that Feng Xian Beauty had issued an imperial decree of the Female Domain—"Surrender and be spared; resist and the city shall be slaughtered"—they immediately sent representatives to surrender. There was no need at all for the captured traitor leaders, such as White River City's lord Mist, president Gu Ding, captain Blue Whale, and warden