In the battle of Fallen Dragon Shoal, the Exorcising the Dragon Army, from top to bottom, had thrown away their helmets and armor and returned in disarray.
Zhang Xing returned to Dengzhou Garrison Camp on the fifth day of the ninth month. He waited another three days while taking stock of his troops. By the eighth, most of the chiefs had returned, along with the three Dragon Colts:
Among them, Miao Hailang and Jia Wugen had been captured. Jia Wugen was also gravely wounded, his survival unknown. These counted as losses in the usual sense;
Yan Qing, who had fallen from a startled horse, had suffered injuries that were not life-threatening but could hardly be called light;
There was Gao Shitong, who had fallen when his true qi gave out after the Sea-Averting Lord swatted him away, along with Pang Diamond, Gao Diamond, Short Diamond, and Shou Diamond... the former had been wounded in the earlier fighting, while those Diamonds were the few among the Thirteen Vajras whose cultivation was insufficient. Once separated from the formation and deprived of its protective true qi, they had immediately suffered substantial injuries, internal and external alike, and could now only lie in bed;
Among those whose cultivation was at Condensing the Core or above, there were also Qian Tang, who had been struck by a rock in midair, and Su Jingfang, who had unfortunately landed beside Wang Yuande and taken a blow;
As for those who had yet to return, there was also Fan Lihua, but according to some soldiers who had come back, she was all right and was merely searching Fallen Dragon Shoal for stranded troops.
Beyond these, although no one said it, everyone could tell that Heavenly King Xiong had clearly suffered badly in his duel with Li Ziqi. He