Only then did the turncoat scalemen guards regret siding with aliens and the eighth prince. They had received no advantage to doing so. They were sent out as cannon fodder against Zhang Lie, where they were quickly annihilated.

The effect of Zhang Lie's [Fists of the Silent Sea] set off explosions through the streets, as though he had launched a cannon rather than punched with his fist. Even then, not all the energy from the attack had dissipated. As the attack spread through the capital, the ground began to cave in.

The entire capital seemed to have sunk by a few dozen centimeters, and the area directly in front of Zhang Lie and the two princes had turned into a huge, abyssal pit whose bottom couldn't be seen. 

It seemed to stretch endlessly, and...