Mount Tai City.
Compared to yesterday, the city was now much quieter.
The city lord, Ju Dongyi, had fallen in battle.
The powerful clans within the city had also been uprooted and almost completely plundered.
The only ones who had suffered little loss were the common people.
However.
It was not as though they had suffered no losses at all.
During the chaotic fighting at night.
The shock waves from battles between powerful cultivators could easily destroy everything in their path.
Many innocent civilians had perished in those shock waves.
But that was unavoidable.
Aside from that.
Most of Mount Tai City remained intact.
On the city walls.
Qin Shujian could still see the indelible traces left by the brutal fighting all around him.
Corpses could despawn.
Blood could disappear, too.
But the scars left by battle could not be erased.
The surrounding damage alone told him what had happened here.
"In Mount Tai City, he only wiped out the powerful clans and the Imperial Court's resistance forces. He left the common people alone, and most of the buildings are still intact. He must believe he'll reclaim Mount Tai City sooner or later, so he doesn't want to destroy his own property!"
Standing beside him on the city wall, Su Mingyang looked down with a cold gleam in his eyes.
"Isn't he a little too confident?"
"To swallow up eleven cities in a single night, Gu Changqing must have deployed considerable strength. If I'm not mistaken, Mount Tai City had a City-Protecting Grand Array. But judging by the shattered array inscriptions...
Mount Tai City's City-Protecting Grand Array was smashed through by brute force!"
Qin Shujian gazed at the sky above the city, where there should have been nothing at all.
Yet in his eyes.
He could see a few lingering