The great bronze bells atop the white marble spires of the Pure Maiden Holy Temple tolled through the autumn mist of Cloud-Mist City, sending deep, urgent vibrations rolling across the Southern Canal District.
Inside the outer prayer hall of the cathedral, marble pillars cracked and showered white stone dust over the floor as the reflected force of four Peak Martial King attacks blasted backward from the Starlight Crystal partition.
Feng Xiao, Corbin, Long Chen, and Qin Wu crashed through the carved wooden pews forty feet back, each man skidding across the polished tiles with bright red blood spilling over his chin.
