Chapter 900: At the Foot of Coiling Dragon Mountain
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
Yongzhou Province was one of the 36 upper provinces in Taixia Country. It was close to the Qiongzhou Province, the south border of the Northeast Military Region under the affiliation of Westriver Military Region. The central organ of Westriver Military Region was also located here.
Covering 250 million square miles, Yongzhou Province had 8.7 billion population. It had been in peace and prosperity for hundreds of years. Yongzhou Province had 257 Class A cities, the number of which ranked above medium among all the upper provinces in Taixia Country.
Yongzhou Province had 34 prefectures. Luye Prefecture was in the southwest of Yongzhou Province. There were nine famous mountains in Luye Prefecture. There were a lot of tea trees in the mountains. The tea leaves in Luye Prefecture ranked first in Yongzhou Province. The most famous wild spring originated from the Floating Spirit Mountain, one of the nine mountains in Luye Prefecture.
As one of the nine famous mountains in Luye Prefecture, Coiling Dragon Mountain was in the middle of Luye Prefecture, which lasted over 7,000 miles and crossed many prefectures. As its shape was like a coiling dragon, therefore it was called Coiling Dragon Mountain.
Coiling Dragon was odd-looking and beautiful. It was said that Coiling Dragon Mountain had a very good geographical location. It was a golden mile in Youzhou Province. Coiling Dragon Mountain was close to Ailian City, Heguang City, Lvsen City, Poyin City, Tianyuan City and Zeyun City in four directions, which were all Class A cities in Yongzhou Province.
Liuying Town was at the foot of Coiling Dragon Mountain being less than 150 miles away from Zeyun City in the east.
Liuying Town was a tranquil town, which contained less than 50,000 people in total. At the end of May, a news spread over Liuying Town——Young master Cui who had departed over 10 years ago finally came back.
Many young people left home to learn knowledge. Although Cui Li was well-known in Liuying Town, it should not arouse such a shock; especially for a person who had left Liuying Town for over one decade. However, it was said that a meteor landed at his home when Cui Li came back that night while the glow scared his servants and neighbors so much. They all thought that the house caught fire; therefore they prepared to extinguish the fire with water buckets...
However, they found it was Cui Li, the young master of Cui family who came back.
Perhaps kids didn't understand the abnormal phenomenon; however, old guys who had rich experiences knew that it carried a very special meaning. It indicated that Cui family in Liuying Town might have a Hua dragon——knight!
It was a major event. Even the Tongguang County where Liuying Town was had not got a Hua dragon, not to mention Liuying Town.
Therefore, the entire Liuying Town was shocked. Additionally, this news had aroused the attention of the county magistrate of Tongguang County in only 3 days.
It was the Village Constable Jia of Liuying Town who reported the news to the county magistrate of Tongguang County.
In the backyard garden of the county government office of Tongguang County, County Magistrate Li who had taken this position for 8 years was dumbfounded after hearing the news of Village Constable Jia.
"What? You mean there's a knight in Liuying Town?" The 60-year old County Magistrate Li with a dignified look hurriedly put down his teacup before turning around and watching Village Constable Jia with widely opened eyes.
It was early June while it was getting hot. After traveling over 50 miles by vehicle, Village Constable Jia's eyes corners had oozed sweat. His face also looked a bit red.
"Yes, County Magistrate, there's a knight in Cui family in Liuying Town!" Village Constable Jia hurriedly answered.
"It's a big surprise. Are you sure?" County Magistrate Li put down his teacup and said with a solemn look.
Watching County Magistrate Li's solemn look, Village Constable Jia became a bit hesitated as he slightly mopped off the sweat from his forhead and said, "I've asked the neighbors of Cui Clan. They said that Cui Li indeed descended from the sky with light and flame when he came back home as fast as a lightning bolt. It was really terrifying. Additionally, more than one person had witnessed that. They all expressed it in this way. I think nobody else could do that except for a knight! The servants in Cui family were jubilant these days. Someone asked the reason, they said that their young master had promoted to a knight!"
"It seems to be real. I've heard about Cui Li before. But how could he promote to a knight so fast? Didn't you recognize the wrong man?" County Magistrate Li slightly lowered his body with a more solemn look.
"I won't. I've paid a visit to Cui's manor yesterday. I saw the young master of Cui family and talked with him for a while. Although he had left home for over one decade and changed a bit, I still recognized him. Additionally, he recognized me too. I felt a very deterrent qi on young master Cui, flames flickered in his pupils. Only after talking with him for a short while, I had already felt a great stress."
Touch his well-maintained mustache, County Magistrate Li thought for a few seconds before replying, "It seems that I have to pay a visit to this young master Cui in Liuying Town. If Cui family really have a knight, Tongguang County could have the first powerful memorial gateway in my reign. That would be a fine story on everybody's lips..."
"You're right, County Magistrate Li!" Village Constable Jia hurriedly nodded, "I wonder when will you come to Liuying Town, County Magistrate Li. I will make an arrangement for you!"
"Let's do it tomorrow!"
County Magistrate Li felt pretty thrilled too. After the first powerful memorial gateway was erected in Tongguang County, his name would be bound to it too. After he died, whenever people caught sight of this powerful memorial gateway, they would recall his name Li Chunfeng. He would not regret serving as the county magistrate for so many years.
The officials in Taixia Country were all paid with high compensations for clean governance. Very few of them were greedy for money. Most of them were seeking for reputation. Of course, County Magistrate Li was seeking for reputation.
Li Chunfeng was the only one in Tongguang County who was qualified to make a biography for the powerful memorial gateway of young master Cui, which would be admired by the posterities. As the old saying went, the real heroes should make meritorious deeds, have a good reputation and have proverbs memorized by the posterities. As he could make a biography for the powerful memorial gateway of young master Cui, he would have his ambitious words and feelings memorized by people. In the future, if the knight being publicized by this memorial gateway became famous, more and more people would come here to admire him. Li Chunfeng would become famous too by then. Many of the literati in Taixia Country had become famous by leaving a passage or poem in front of a powerful memorial gateway.
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On the second day Village Constable Jia left the county government office of Tongguang County, namely on the early morning of June 3rd, County Magistrate Li had changed a fine set of plain clothes and left for Liuying Town.
County Magistrate Li didn't take too many people with him. He was very lowkey. If the young master Cui was not a knight, it would be a laughingstock for him to pay a visit on a grand scale; if young master Cui was really a knight, it would be a laughingstock for a county magistrate to pay a visit on a grand scale too. Therefore, he'd better be lowkey this time.
When they came to the Liuying Town, Village Constable Jia had been waiting for him on the roadside outside the town.
In order to show his respect, County Magistrate Li directly got off the vehicle outside the town and walked to Cui manor together with Village Constable Jia.
It was highway outside the town while the roads inside the town were all clean slate cement roads; especially those nearby Cui manor were always cleaned by water before dawn by his neighbors.
Cui family was a big family in Liuying Town. The courtyard of Cui manor was at the foot of Coiling Dragon Mountain, which occupied over 5,000 square meters. When they came to the outside of Cui manor, the trees in the courtyard of Cui manor gave them a welcome shade. There was even a tall pagoda tree at the gate of Cui manor, whose crown was as large as a cloud. Its shade could cover 300 square meters.
"Here we are!" Village Constable Jia introduced.
"What an unusual symbol!" Stroking his mustache, County Magistrate Li nodded towards the huge pagoda tree, "Look at this tree, doesn't it look like that someone is holding an umbrella for Cui manor?"
"That's true, the more I see it, the more I find that you're right!" Village Constable Jia explained as he stepped onto the stairs and knocked at the gate by the copper rings on the gate, "Bang, bang, bang..."
With a cracking sound, the gate was opened while a 60-year old man exposed his head out of the gate. After that, he slowly raised his head and looked around with poor eyes for a while before figuring out who was knocking at the gate, "Ahh, Village Constable Jia..."
Village Constable Jia said with a benign countenance, "I brought the County Magistrate Li to pay a visit to your young master. Is your young master at home?"
"Ahh, what a pity. My young master has just gone up the mountain with Afu to sweep the tomb of the old master and old madam!" The old humpbacked man answered.
Village Constable Jia turned around and looked at County Magistrate Li on his back.
After being silent for a short while, County Magistrate Li asked Village Constable Jia, "Do you know the location of Cui's cemetery?"
"Yes, I do. It's about 5 miles away from here!"
"If so, we don't need to wait here. Let's go up the mountain. By the way, we'll take a look at Cui's cemetery. I've not gone up the mountain for a long time. As the weather is good today, we can get some exercise."
"Good!"
After telling the humpbacked old man about their choice, Village Constable Jia led County Magistrate Li up the mountain along a path.
"Why is the servant in Cui manor so emaciated?"
"County Magistrate Li, you might not know that. When the old master and old madam were still alive, they were very benign to their servants. They took in poor guys, most of whom were paralyzed. After their death, the young master Cui kept them. Over the past decade, when young master Cui went out to learn skills, these people just stayed in Cui manor, none of them left!"
For the convenience of control, Zhu Liang the fierce wolf selected the underprivileged single ones who were simple, honest and crippled. Amazingly, after decades, this event became the symbol of righteousness and mercy of Cui manor.
"Not bad!" County Magistrate Li nodded satisfactorily...
Chapter 901: The New Identity of Zhang Tie
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
The cemetery was not far from Cui manor. Even though it was a mountainous path, it only took them less than 1 hour to reach there.
During the decade when the young master Cui went out to learn skills, the servants in Cui manor were loyal and honest. They would sweep and offer a sacrifice to the cemetery of old master and the old madam at each Sweeping Tomb Day. Therefore, this cemetery was tidy and clean.
Being voluntarily led by Afu and Cui Wang who were at their 50s and healthy, Zhang Tie finally came to the front of the cemetery of the old master and the old madam of Cui manor after walking along the mountainous path for 40-50 minutes leisurely.
The cemetery of Cui manor was very decent. It was surrounded by a stone enclosure. There was a patch of cyan stony floor in front of the cemetery. Some stony auspicious beasts were standing on both sides of the cemetery.
Standing in front of the 2-in-1 gravestone and watching the names of the old couple on the gravestone, Zhang Tie felt somewhat complex.
Afu and Cui Wang had started to sweep the cemetery and put sacrificial offerings and joss sticks and candles before Zhang Tie moved.
'You were killed by Zhu Liang the fierce wolf. Cui Li was also killed by Zhu Liang in the mountain. His corpse had been used to feed wild beasts. I killed Zhu Liang the fierce wolf and survived in this world in the look and identity of Cui Li. In the others' eyes, I'm your son. Therefore, I will kowtow 3 times for you two out of the karma between Cui family and I...' Zhang Tie thought.
Noticing that Afu and Cui Wang had prepared the items well, Zhang Tie immediately knelt down in front of the gravestone and kowtowed three times for the old late couple.
After that, Zhang Tie picked himself up and flicked his clothes. He then burned the yellow and white joss paper in the stony pot that Afu and Cui Wang had specially built on the side of the cemetery.
As they burned the joss paper, Afu and Cui Wang couldn't stand dropping off tears.
Being covered with tears on his face, Afu cried, "Old master, old madam, please open your eyes. Young master has come back. He's a knight now. We could finally bring glory to our ancestors..."
Cui Wang's eyes also turned red, "Yes, our young master will ride a tall horse and a gold boat; be a general and a city mayor. You can be reassured in the heaven..."
All the servants that Zhu Liang the fierce wolf took here were honest and simple. In their eyes, the old couple both died of diseases and this young master was the same one as before; after young master Cui came back, the Cui family would grow prosperous; young master was benign, who increased their monthly compensations by two times the moment he returned. They would have a better life from then on. Therefore, they thought that they had gone through all sorts of ordeals.
After burning the joss paper, Afu put out the sparkles using the river water in the terrine. After that, he sprayed it around the cemetery. When they were going to leave the cemetery, Village Constable Jia arrived with County Magistrate Li breathlessly.
At the sight of "Cui Li", County Magistrate Li's eyes shined.
At this moment, Cui Li was still bald headed. Being taller than 2 m, the muscled guy was like a mountain. According to the descriptions of the others, the young master Cui should be almost 50 years old; however, at the sight of him, County Magistrate Li felt that he was only about 30 years old. At the 50s, commoners would grow old; however, as for a knight, even if he was 60 years old, he would still look young. Cui Li was too young, just like the morning sun.
What impressed County Magistrate Li most was the dense eyebrows which looked like a pair of guillotines. At the sight of them, County Magistrate Li had felt a strong killing qi as his heart raced. Combined with his mountain-like figure, Cui Li looked fierce and dignified. Under the pair of guillotines, flames were flickering in his pupils which were more terrifying...
As a county magistrate, of course, he had a much broader vision than Village Constable Jia. At the sight of Cui Li's eyes, he had remembered a topic about knights at a party. A VIP brought by Li Chengfeng to the party said that some powerhouses who cultivated senior secret skills would look special. Eyes were the portal of one's spirit. Many of those special skills would be manifested through eyes.
After combining with the information provided by Village Constable Jia, County Magistrate Li could almost immediately judge that Cui Li had promoted to a knight. Additionally, he realized that Cui Li must be cultivating a special secret skill.
'He promoted to a knight at such a young age, he must have a bright future.'
Before Village Constable Jia introduced Cui Li to him, County Magistrate Li had already bowed towards Cui Li, "Mr. Cui, I'm Li Chunfeng, the county magistrate of Tongguang County!"
As Cui Li's identity had not been confirmed, he didn't have an official status. Therefore, Li Chunfeng couldn't call him Lord. As the local magistrate of a county, it was close to flattery if he called Zhang Tie young master Cui. It was impolite to call his name either. Therefore, County Magistrate Li directly called Zhang Tie Mr. Cui. As a civil official in Taixia Country, if he called a knight mister, he was showing his respect to the knight on the premise of not losing his face.
"County Magistrate Li!" Zhang Tie smiled as he nodded in 'neither arrogant nor eager' attitude.
In front of a knight, a county magistrate was nothing. They were completely from two different worlds. Unless they were familiar with each other or friends, their passionate interactions would make people surprised.
Zhang Tie's attitude strengthened the belief of County Magistrate Li.
After greeting Zhang Tie, County Magistrate Li walked to the front of the old couple and bowed three times. At the same time, he said, "With a dutiful son, your ancestors would feel glorious; coming out of our village, the talent will bestow his bounties to one region. Today, I appreciate the old couple of Cui on behalf of over 800,000 commoners in Tongguang County. Thanks to the severe father and kind mother; thank you for cultivating the first knight and contributing to the first powerful memorial gateway for Tongguang County. This powerful memorial gateway will be used to instruct our posterities and make our villagers glorious!"
Zhang Tie burst out into laughter, 'This County Magistrate Li is really a talent. His oral passage sounds really good. He must be a real scholar.'
"County Magistrate Li, Village Constable Jia, as you've come all the way from the foot of the mountain, you must be tired. How about having a cup of fresh tea at my home?"
County Magistrate Li smiled as he cupped his hands once again, "Sorry to trouble you!"
Watching Country Magistrate Li's attitude towards the young master Cui, Village Constable Jia who had watched Cui Li growing up and always felt being an elder became kinder too.
They then went downhill once again.
Compared to how they went up the mountain, they felt much more relaxed when going downhill.
County Magistrate Li moved steadily and vigorously, which could even match youngsters. In the middle of the 4 people, Zhang Tie chatted with County Magistrate Li in a very relaxed way.
"County Magistrate Li, you've promoted to LV 7?" Zhang Tie asked.
"I feel quite ashamed. I have a poor talent for cultivation. After reaching LV 6, I could barely advance to higher levels. Therefore, I could only learn how to manage people and become an official of Taixia. After so many years, through constant cultivation, I only lit over 10 surging points. I've just promoted to LV 7 last year. Therefore, I feel ashamed to show off it in front of Mr. Cui!" County Magistrate Li said modestly.
When in Youzhou Province, Zhang Tie heard that county magistrate was the lowest rank of an official in Taixia Country, which should be assumed by fighters above LV 6. When in Youzhou, as Zhang Tie didn't touch these basic officials, he was still dubious about that rule; when he came here, he found it was real.
This rule only fit Taixia County. None of other countries or regions could meet and stick to such a talent selection standard.
In Waii Subcontinent, a LV 6 fighter was already a grass-rooted officer of a platoon in the troops of each country.
Although County Magistrate Li looked like a scholar, after promoting to LV 7, it indicated that over 10 tough men and burglars could not defeat him at all; even 3-5 LV fighters might not defeat him.
In schools across Taixia Country, books and military skills were impeached at the same time. This education mode had been carried forward for thousands of years. If one judged the history of Hua people from the pure perspective of education, he would find a law——in all the dynasties where scholars carried crossbows and bolts and poets carried swords on their backs, there would be full of talents and heroes, causing the dynasties unrivaled. By contrast, all the dynasties that gave up the education mode would gradually decline. Those which paid military more than culture would gradually decline to internal chaos. In that dynasties, military officers would be prioritized while the dynasties would go on punitive expeditions in all directions, causing Hua nations one after another; however, none of the dynasties could last long. In those dynasties which valued culture more than the military would last longer; however, the only outcome was that the dynasty would be invaded by alien people, causing great disasters. Many times, Hua people were almost exterminated.
The future of a country could be judged by its current education. Those who valued military more than culture would grow chaotic; while those who valued culture more than military would grow weaker and finally be exterminated. Only by combining military with culture could a country be constantly prosperous.
The national policy of Taixia Country was——combining military with culture, which had been written into the "Laws of Taixia Country" as the essence of education.
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After returning to Cui manor, Village Constable Jia found an excuse to leave in advance. Finally, only County Magistrate Li and Zhang Tie stayed in the manor and drank the spring tea, which had been picked from Cui's private tea plantation in the mountain.
"I wonder which sect did Mr. Cui join these years before promoting to a knight?" County Magistrate Li asked Zhang Tie as he drank the tea.
"It's too difficult to join any top sect, which requires excellent aptitude and deep background!" Zhang Tie shook his head and continued, "I've not joined any sect at all. I just learned from powerhouses across famous mountains and rivers. Later on, due to luck, I had a marvelous experience in a famous mountain and met a cave where a knight had died cross-legged. I gained a secret skill and some pills from the cave. After that, I cultivated for over 10 years before promoting to a knight!" Zhang Tie tossed out the explanation that he had long prepared. This explanation was almost real. If Li Chunfeng really wanted to investigate the cave, Zhang Tie could lead him to the cave where he got the "Fire Dragon Sutra" so as to cancel off all the doubts.
County Magistrate Li was dumbfounded about Zhang Tie's answer. Even in Taixia Country, this was also a marvelous experience. He had not imagined that it could occur to Cui Li who lived in Liuying Town under the governance of him.
"What's your plan then, Mr. Cui?"
"As it is in the holy war, as a knight, of course, I need to serve the country. I have to fight demons in the most dangerous places!" Zhang Tie replied generously with full ambition, "I will stay at home for a few days. After offering a sacrifice to my parents and paying a visit to the villagers, I will go to the earth-elements realm to fight demons..."
"How heroic you are, Mr. Cui! That's what a hero should do. Pitifully, I'm poor in battle strength; otherwise, if I could promote to a knight, I would definitely learn from Mr. Cui and fight demons on the battlefield!" County Magistrate Li patted the table out of excitement.
"As County Magistrate Li is here, I have a thing to trouble you!"
"Please, as long as I could do it, this humble official will definitely try my best to do it!"
Touching his bald head, Zhang Tie said with a great heroic and coarse sound, "After I leave, I don't know when will I come back. As these loyal servants are growing old and have no relative. If there's something wrong with them, please take care of them in case that they are bullied by others in their twilight years!"
"Don't worry about that. I can do it!" County Magistrate Li promised it right away. As it was a rare chance for him to strike up an acquaintance with a knight, of course, he would never decline it.
"Thanks!"
After coming back to Liuying Town and fixing his identity as Cui Li, Zhang Tie became reassured inside...
Only after staying at Cui manor for a short while, County Magistrate Li had left Liuying Town.
After confirming Zhang Tie's identity as a knight, County Magistrate Li returned to the county by vehicle. He wrote a document on the same day.
He then sent the document to Zeyun City. As Tongguang County belonged to Zeyun City, after confirming the fact that there was a knight in Liuying Town in Tongguang County, of course, he needed to notice the city mayor as soon as possible. It was also a major event for Zeyun City.
After the city mayor of Zeyun City was shocked, the news that Cui Li the young master of Cui family in Liuying Town had promoted to a knight spread across the foot of Coiling Dragon Mountain officially at once.
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In the next few days, Village Constable Jia and the villagers in Liuying Town felt that the entire Liuying Town had become a vegetable market as all the influential figures within hundreds of square miles were pouring in Liuying Town like going to the market. They were all here to pay a visit to Cui manor in order. It was said that their gifts had filled the warehouse of Cui manor.
The remote Liuying Town had not been so glorious before.
After being boisterous for a few days, some residents in Liuying Town saw a flame shooting into the sky in one evening. On the second day, when those visitors waited outside the gate of Cui manor, they heard a news——the young master Cui had left last night...
Chapter 902: Zhang Tie's New Plan
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
After leaving Liuying Town on the evening of June 7th, Zhang Tie arrived at Ailian City which was 3,500 miles away from Liuying Town on June 9th at a medium speed.
Ailian City was a Class A city, which was the traffic hub that linked Yongzhou Province to the western provinces in Taixia Country.
That was to say, people could buy air tickets to arrive at any province in the west part of Taixia Country from Ailian City.
Zhang Tie was going to Force Province.
Being in the northwest of Taixia Country, Force Province was almost 150,000 miles away from Yongzhou Province.
As one of the 36 upper provinces in Taixia Country, Force Province was an important military province in Taixia Country. The entrance leading to earth-elements realm was in Force Province.
Even in the entire human world, Force Province was one of the most outstanding human places, not to mention in Taixia Country.
Each of the top four forces in Taixia Country had powerful troops in Force Province. Besides, there were over 1.5 billion regular soldiers in Force Province. That was how it got its name.
The airline from Ailian City in Yongzhou Province to Force Province was operated only once a week. When Zhang Tie arrived at Ailian City, 3 more days were left for the second airship to set off. Zhang Tie spent 268 gold coins to buy a ship ticket of a super deluxe berth cabin from Ailian City to Force Province. After that, he settled down in a hotel in the west airport of Ailian City and started to cultivate there.
The Purgatory Samsara confirmed Zhang Tie's guess——in ancient times, besides elements-gathering matrix, people have developed a method to absorb four elements in a higher efficiency.
After getting hang of the Purgatory Samsara, Zhang Tie increased his absorption efficiency by 3 times at once. Previously, it took Zhang Tie 2 hours to use up an earth-elements crystal; now, it only took him half an hour to use up one high-quality earth-elements crystal.
Of course, such a high efficiency was based on the effect of his 18 spiritual hands at the same time. Besides Zhang Tie, nobody else might be able to absorb earth-elements crystals at such an amazing speed. Even his master Zhao Yuan might not do it. Such a powerful one mind-for-various purposes skill was exclusive to Zhang Tie.
At such a high efficiency, Zhang Tie could absorb above 40 earth-elements crystals each day on the premise of making his full efforts in cultivation. In this condition, Zhang Tie could light one scale in about 8 days. Due to the sudden increase in cultivation speed and consumption of earth-elements crystals, Zhang Tie finally saw a ray of hope in forming the tricky second chakra of King Roc Sutra.
Zhang Tie's total stockpile of earth-elements crystals were over 9,000 which couldn't afford him to light 30 scales. Even though he used up all the crystals that he had, it was still a long way to go before lighting the second chakra. Therefore, Zhang Tie chose to have a try in the earth-elements realm.
Actually, it would only take Zhang Tie over 10 days to fly to Force Province from Yongzhou Province himself; however, Zhang Tie didn't want to make trouble at such a critical moment. Therefore, he chose the airship.
It would take the fastest public airship in Taixia Country almost 4 months to arrive at Force Province from Yongzhou Province, plus the supplying time in the way. Zhang Tie planned to cultivate during this period.
On June 12th, after absorbing over 120 earth-elements crystals in 3 days, Zhang Tie checked out the room in the early morning and came to the underground entrance of his airship on time.
There was only one tunnel leading to the ground. Two beautiful stewardesses were checking tickets at the entrance of the tunnel.
It was not a long queue in the tunnel. Zhang Tie's height and figure made him very eye-catching the moment he arrived there.
"Sir, please show me your air ticket!"
When it was Zhang Tie's turn, Zhang Tie passed his super deluxe air ticket to the stewardess while watching her sweet smile.
After checking it, the stewardess punched a hole in the ticket and gave it back to Zhang Tie. Meanwhile, she reminded Zhang Tie, "Please keep your ticket. Before the airship set off, there's one more checkpoint in the airship!"
Zhang Tie nodded in a handsome way.
"Do you need check-in luggage?" The stewardess asked Zhang Tie while throwing a glance at the simple military luggage in Zhang Tie's hand.
Although the military luggage was not small, it was like a kid's schoolbag in Zhang Tie's hand.
Of course, Zhang Tie carried his space-teleportation item; however, it was too eye-catching; especially for a knight who was not famous. Additionally, in case of trouble, Zhang Tie didn't show his space-teleportation item. Instead, he just carried a military luggage which contained some clothes and spare shoes. Even though knights had to prepare spare clothes in case of scaring people away by stink after being treated as a beggar. Now that he didn't want to show his space-teleportation item, Zhang Tie had to carry these necessities.
"No need, thanks!"
"If so, please board the airship from this side. Your cabin berth is Heavenly No. 17. Bon Voyage!"
Holding the luggage, Zhang Tie walked to the ground through the tunnel.
Right on the ground, there was a huge blue hard-type airship at the exit of the tunnel.
It was so huge that even the fury-level airship of Huaiyuan Palace was only as large as half of it. Additionally, compared to that of the fury-level airship, this airship's air sac was very special. Common air sacs would look full after being filled with gas; however, this air sac shrunk with wrinkles on its surface like that of the bellows of an accordion.
Zhang Tie watched this airship for a while.
This was the most technical airship in the world——vacuum airship.
The air sac of common airship would usually be filled with a gas which was lighter than air; however, the air sac of vacuum airship was in the vacuum state. It flew by the floating effect caused by the vacuum air sac.
Besides a greater loading capacity, vacuum airships could fly longer than common airships. Of course, it required more advanced technologies. In this age, besides Taixia Country, no other human countries could produce vacuum airship. Facing the fierce competition of the airship manufacturing industry in Taixia Country, Zhang Ping's small airship factory had to go bankrupt.
After watching the huge airship for a short while, Zhang Tie entered the cabin with his luggage...
Chapter 903: Arriving at Force Province
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
The so-called N0.17 Heavenly super deluxe berth cabin could never match that of Zhang Tie's private airship.
This berth cabin only covered about 10 square meters. It only contained a bed, a desk and a small independent washroom. There was a looming flavor of lavender.
Besides being private and clean, this room was nothing different than a basic single dorm.
Of course, such a single dorm was already super deluxe in long-distance traffic tools like an airship.
The water in the berth cabin was supplied quantitatively everyday. After using up the daily provision, the passenger would have no more on the very day. The bathing function in the washroom was unavailable during normal times; only when the airship landed for supply and was connected to the water pipe in the airport could the shower head work.
The average landing time of the airship was five days. Therefore, Zhang Tie could only take a bath once in 5 days.
The airship provided 3 meals a day; however, passengers needed to enjoy food at a fixed time in the dining hall as the dining hall would be closed except for the fixed time. If they wanted to drink something, they had to consume in the bar, which would run around the clock in the airship. All the drinks and snacks in the bar were not free.
When the weather permitted, the observation deck on the airship would open 14 hours a day from 7 am to 9 pm.
Passengers were forbidden to enter the bellyhold cargo bay, the crew's living quarters and workspace in the airship.
Fire was forbidden in the airship, which was also a universal regulation across Taixia Country. Smoke was only allowed in the observation deck and the bar area.
Passengers could rent safes to store their valuables. Otherwise, if passengers lost their valuables, the airship would not shoulder any responsibility for that.
If everything went smooth, the ETM of the airship was October 5. If it encountered any force majeure due to weather or mechanical faults, etc., it might arrive at Force Province later.
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After entering his private room, Zhang Tie took up the notice board for passengers in the room and read the introductions on it. All the introductions above were the very treatments that Zhang Tie could enjoy at the cost of 268 gold coins.
However, Zhang Tie didn't care about that. He only needed to cultivate quietly in the airship. Therefore, Zhang Tie was basically satisfied with this small single dorm.
The only problem was his height. Every time Zhang Tie stood up, his head would almost touch the ceiling with a distance of less than 20 cm. Therefore, he felt a bit depressed.
The locker was beneath the bed and was connected with the bed.
After looking around the furnishings in the berth cabin, Zhang Tie opened the locker beneath his bed and dropped his luggage into it.
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After a few minutes, the first mate boarded the airship, followed by two people in the uniform of bounty hunters and started to check tickets one after another according to the routine.
Although Zhang Tie didn't exit his berth cabin, the moment the two bounty hunters boarded the vehicle, Zhang Tie had known that.
After hearing the knocks, Zhang Tie opened the hatch door with a calm look and saw the first mate and two bounty hunters standing outside the hatch door.
"Sir, please show me your ticket!"
Closely after the first mate's request, Zhang Tie had passed his ticket to the first mate.
The two bounty hunters looked Zhang up and down seriously; one of them even lowered his head to check the order for arrest in his hand.
Benefited from his height, Zhang Tie could see the contents on the order for arrest clearly.
The first image on the order for arrest was very close to the original look of Zhang Tie while the other 20-odd images on it were all that of important criminals on the wanted list issued by the Supreme Court of Taixia Country.
The images of important criminals in Taixia Country would be posted outside the gates of all the cities, in hotels and pivot harbors across Taixia Country for recognition within 3 months after their crimes were confirmed or in the first half year after they escaped when they would probably be easily caught.
Due to the large territory and population in Taixia Country, there were many common criminals, who were not qualified to enjoy such a special "treatment". The common criminals' images could only be seen in the Pavilion of Brightness or the archives of judicial agencies. Only those whose crimes had shocked one region could enjoy such a treatment to be well known across Taixia Country within half a year after their crimes.
As the former dean of the provincial court in Youzhou Province, at the sight of the order for arrest, Zhang Tie had known that nobody had made a more important crime than him in the late months. Therefore, his image ranked top in the order for arrest.
Zhang Tie had a dense whisker. After gazing at Zhang Tie's whisker, ear root and lower jaw carefully, the two bounty hunters nodded. The first mate then gave the ticket back to Zhang Tie.
"Wish you a pleasant trip, sir!"
The group of three then moved to the next berth cabin...
After taking the ticket, Zhang Tie closed the door. After that, touching his whisker, Zhang Tie revealed a smile.
Among all the disguising masks, there would always be a loophole on the beard. Therefore, common disguising masks would not have a beard. The two bounty hunters also observed Zhang Tie's whisker carefully. Given this point, they must be experienced.
After closing the door, Zhang Tie came to the bedside and took off his shoes. After that, he sat on the bed and took out an earth-elements crystal from Castle of Black Iron.
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Half an hour later, the two bounty hunters left the airship. Closely after that, all the hatch doors of the airship were closed. With a slight shock, the airship began to take off...
Zhang Tie had already absorbed the first earth-elements crystal and took out the second one...
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When the huge vacuum airship set off for Force Province, Zhang Tie started his new round of cultivation.
Zhang Tie could enjoy food from Castle of Black Iron very well in the berth cabin; however, in case of doubts, he would exit his berth cabin at noontime and have a lunch in the dining hall everyday. After that, he would return to his berth cabin to continue his cultivation. He didn't even want to go to the observation deck.
In the single-minded state, Zhang Tie would consume 40 earth-elements crystals in 20 hours each day. As for the remaining 4 hours a day; he would enter deep sleep 2 hours, eat and shit 1 hour and practice those battle skills of "Fire Dragon Sutra" in trouble-reappearance situations 1 hour...
Zhang Tie just entered cultivation in such a small berth in this way.
Zhang Tie's fierce look and the sturdy figure would bring people a sense of oppression wherever he was in the airship. Therefore, very few people dared to talk with him when he exited his hatch door for lunch. Benefited from this reason, Zhang Tie felt quieter and could concentrate on cultivation.
The great pile of earth-elements crystals that Zhang Tie plundered from Waii Subcontinent also started to be consumed rapidly.
5 days later, when the airship landed for the first supply, Zhang Tie had already lit the 15th scale on his knight's crystal plate...
From then on, Zhang Tie would light one scale per 8 days. As he was so devoted, he almost forgot about the existence of time...
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The vacuum airship flew over prefectures and mountain ranges and moved all the way towards Force Province...
Zhang Tie just consumed his earth-elements crystals at a high speed...
Time flew past...
The order for arrest of Zhang Tie, Zhang Mushen, the former dean of the provincial court in Youzhou Province was still effective...
The color of the land below gradually turned from green to yellow...
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Until one day, knocks finally drifted from the door of the No. 17 Heavenly berth cabin.
A voice sounded outside the door, "Sir, the vehicle will arrive at Thunder Battle Fortress in Force Province in an hour. Please keep your belongings handy and be ready for getting off."
After hearing the sounds, Zhang Tie, who was absorbing earth-elements crystals cross-legged on his bed opened his eyes with a flickering red light...
"Okay, thanks." Zhang Tie replied.
After putting away that earth-elements crystal, Zhang Tie got off the bed and put on his shoes. He then relaxed his limbs and took out the military luggage from the locker beneath the bed. Carrying it on his back, Zhang Tie opened the door and exited calmly.
The calendar memo on the aisle outside the berth cabin marked the date clearly.
October 7, the 900th year of the black iron calendar.
The actual time of arrival was 2 days later than the estimated time of arrival because the airship met a heavy thunderstorm when it passed by Guanzhou Province two months ago. For the sake of the safety, the airship stayed 2 more days in Guanzhou Province.
As usual, many passengers were gathering on the observation deck and watching the scenery below after hearing that they had arrived at the destination.
With the military luggage on his back, Zhang Tie also came to the observation deck. At the sight of a muscle man, although being a bit crowded on the observation deck, those in front of him still hurriedly gave way to Zhang Tie.
At the sight of such a giant man, they knew that he was tricky. He might be here to join the army. As they had arrived at the destination, if they were fractured by him, it would be too unfortunate.
It was Zhang Tie's first time to board the observation deck of this airship.
It was golden all over on the land below, which indicated that the harvest season had arrived. Being covered with fiery maple leaves, the mountain range in the far seemed to catch fire...
There were only battle fortresses instead of towns on the land.
"Wow, is this Force Province? It's covered with battle fortresses!" A passenger who came to Force Province for the first time exclaimed...
"It's said that the largest battle fortress in Force Province could match a Class A city..."
"All the commoners and factories are in the battle fortresses!"
They started to discuss about that...
Zhang Tie came to the guardrail of the observation deck and immediately jumped into the air.
Such a dangerous movement aroused exclamations from the surroundings——is this tough guy seeking for death?
Closely after that, everybody became dumbfounded as they found the tough guy was ascending like a bird instead of descending. After a short while, he even suspended in the air...
"A knight? That tough guy is a knight? I've not imagined that there's a knight among us."
The airship was sent into an uproar...
Zhang Tie ignored their uproar; instead, after identifying the direction, he flew towards the direction where the sun was going down.
Carrying the grass-green military luggage, in a few seconds, Zhang Tie had disappeared into the sight of the passengers...
Chapter 904: What Rolling Thunders!
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
What a Force Province!
After leaving the airship for less than 20 minutes, Zhang Tie had seen at least 10 knights in the sky; most of whom just passed by him while two flew towards northwest like him.
The knights didn't feel strange seeing their same kind, it was just like encountering each other on the road by car. Therefore, they didn't hail each other; instead, they just hurried on with their own journey.
Besides knights, as Zhang Tie flew towards west, he saw more and more battle airships in the sky.
Huge battle fortresses, barracks and panzer groups running in the wild could be seen everywhere below.
When Zhang Tie was in Selnes Theater of Operations, the crystal battle fortress of Jinyun Country was the largest one over there; however, at this moment, right below Zhang Tie's feet, Zhang Tie could see bigger battle fortresses in every 70 miles. Those bigger and grimmer battle fortresses were like wild beasts crawling on the ground quietly. Airships would land in the battle fortresses time to time.
During the sunset, the afterglow in the skyline turned more brilliant...
After about 2 hours of flight, Zhang Tie "leisurely" traversed almost 1,000 miles, As more and more knights appeared in the sky, Zhang Tie knew that he had arrived at his destination.
A huge floating airboat flew 1,000 m above Zhang Tie. Zhang Tie turned around and saw 4 men and 2 women standing on the prow and looking into the distance.
The 6 people looked distinctive. Some were carrying a crossbow and bolts, some were carrying a sword. With a profound qi, they were looking into the distance and talking about something.
The floating airboat didn't move too fast while a huge flag was swaying in the wind in the middle of the airboat with two huge characters on it——天禄...
Zhang Tie was shocked for a short while, "Zhang Clan of Tianlu Palace?"
It was out of Zhang Tie's imagination that he could meet a top clan surnamed Zhang.
Given the airboat which was not smaller than the exclusive vehicle of Commander Cheng, Zhang Tie knew that Zhang family of Tianlu Palace must be something.
Zhang Tie turned around and looked at that huge airboat. After sensing Zhang Tie's sight, the 6 people on the prow turned around at the same time and threw a glance at Zhang Tie. After finding that Zhang Tie was nothing special but a sturdy figure with a bald head, they just ignored him.
At this moment, more and more knights appeared in the sky. Within Zhang Tie's sight, Zhang Tie could see over 20 knights flying ahead together with him.
Another airboat flew towards him from afar...
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After flying another 10 minutes, Zhang Tie sensed the increasingly stronger ascending, whirling thermal current, which had completely broken the limit of the ascending thermal currents caused by geographical features on the ground.
Except for knights and airboats, no airship could stand still in such a severe environment.
Those who liked gliders and were not afraid of death could have a try here.
After sensing the thermal current, the airboats and knights ahead of Zhang Tie ascended to above 15,000 m high from thousands of meters high at the same time...
Right on the ground below, Zhang Tie caught sight of a pitch dark entrance leading to the underground world.
The entrance was so large that its diameter was over 150 miles. From a height, it looked like a huge funnel. Compared to it, the entrance of Dragon Cave was like a sesame to a millstone...
As Zhang Tie had learned, it was the entrance to the earth-elements realm...
This huge funnel was breathing; precisely exhaling.
A thermal current was blowing out of the huge funnel-sized black hole, causing changes in the air within tens of thousands square miles. Right in the center of the huge entrance, a cyclone covering 70 square miles was swirling in an anti-clock manner like a hurricane, which was very shocking.
Standing above 10,000 m in the air, Zhang Tie looked around and found 3 airboats and over 100 black spots in the surroundings above 10,000 m, all of whom were looking down at the entrance of the cyclone quietly and waiting for the possible chance to enter it, including Zhang Tie.
Coincidentally, the floating airboat of the Zhang family of Tianlu Palace was also hovering not far from Zhang Tie.
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The thermal current was constantly blowing out of the entrance of the earth-elements realm. After reaching the highest point in the troposphere, they dispersed in all directions. causing no cloud within square miles.
Before the catastrophe, when everybody was cheated by lies, it was very difficult for a commoner to believe that this planet was hollow and could breathe itself while its surface could lead to another world in its depth. The current scene could only be seen at the poles of this planet at specific moments, which could never be touched by commoners. Even aircrafts were forbidden in the areas where people could catch sight of the underground tunnels from a height. The limited number of major countries which knew this secret had blocked the poles and divided their own territories. They then stealthily explored another underground world in the name of studying climates and glaciers.
The existence of the underground world had been a shared secret among major countries.
Watching the present scene and recalling the history before the Catastrophe, Zhang Tie felt that humans before the Catastrophe were too innocent. The limited number of major countries invested in a lot of money and personnel and forbade people in only for studying the climate change and changes in glaciers in the depopulated zone hundreds of millions years ago and making explorations in geology and resources? However, most of the people believed in it. Didn't they think that those who entered the poles in the name of scientific research might want to do some other researches such as making an exploration nearby the entrance of the underground world or contacting some intelligent beings and forces in the underground world?
As the sun gradually set, the cyclone in the huge entrance also started to decline...
More knights and airboats arrived.
Among those later knights, a woman in a bright-colored imperial dress started to look around, the moment she arrived here. At the sight of Zhang Tie's sturdy back, her eyes shone. Closely after that, she floated towards Zhang Tie like a red cloud.
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"Brother, are you going to the earth-elements realm?"
After hearing the word "brother", Zhang Tie almost fell down. After sniffing the fragrant breeze, Zhang Tie turned around as he saw an extremely sexy woman standing on his side, who was watching him with a sweet smile in a pair of charming and watery eyes.
Her skin was as white as milk. In a red, hot imperial dress and a peony-shaped bun, she had a nice nose and petite mouth. The bra covered 3/4 of her "huge white rabbits", making them tight and plump. As a result, Zhang Tie's interest was aroused.
'F*ck, am I attending the palace ball or heading to kill demons in the earth-elements realm?' Zhang Tie muttered. After looking around, he found this woman was talking to him.
'Brother?' It was Zhang Tie's first time to hear a female knight calling him in such a sloppy manner.
At this moment, Zhang Tie faintly heard two women's cold harrumphs from the airboat of the Zhang family of Tianlu Palace. When a woman disliked the other one, she would never conceal her feeling. Evidently, this woman was not on the side of the other two women on the airboat.
Growing up among so many women, after throwing a glance at this women, Zhang Tie had caught an information and indication from the eyes and qi of this woman which could only be identified by experienced guys.
Zhang Tie caught the same information and indication from that beautiful female first lieutenant's eyes when he returned to Blackhot City last time.
However, this woman was far better than that female first lieutenant in terms of both look and figure.
Touching his bald head in an amazed look, Zhang Tie thought, 'It'd be acceptable if I were a handsome toyboy or in my original look. I've not imagined that my current look is still attractive. What the hell——a beauty and a wild beast or a tough man and a sexy woman?'
As the woman revealed a sweet smile, Zhang Tie had to force a smile too.
He then nodded, "Right, I'm heading for the earth-elements realm!"
"That's great. I'm going to the earth-elements realm too. I've not been there before. Therefore, I'm a bit scared. Can you take me there, brother?" Just be my partner..." The woman asked as she moved closer to Zhang Tie in a tender way.
Although knight's real age had nothing to do with their look; especially for female knights, after hearing the woman who might be his grandma calling him brother, Zhang Tie's fine hair stood at once while he quivered all over at the same time.
——Shameless——the two female knights on the airboat replied with a cold harrumph at the same time before turning around.
——Junior sister apprentices, don't be angry, people are always different although they eat the same food——a man on the airboat opened his mouth in a mild way.
"Do you bear fucking?" Zhang Tie asked in a loud, coarse tone.
"What?" The woman asked as she blinked her eyes as if she didn't understand Zhang Tie's question, "What do you mean..."
"I mean, can you bear being fucked by me naked on the bed?" Zhang Tie raised his voice at once as he started to look this woman up and down with hot eyes like selecting slaves in the slave market, "I like women who could bear fucking. I don't care whether you have various gestures on the bed; they are useless; the key is that you should bear fucking. If not, please don't waste my time in case of getting me bored on the bed!"
'What rolling thunders!'
After hearing Zhang Tie's question, tens of thousands of thunders rolled over. As a result, it became quiet in the surroundings in a split second. Even the man who had opened his mouth on the airboat started to cough heavily like having been choked up by his own saliva...
The beauty in the imperial dress changed her face greatly. Even though she was open, she had not encountered any man who dared ask this question the moment he uttered. Even if her face was 10 times thicker, she could not "bear" this question either...
Zhang Tie broke her bottom line in a split second...
This woman had met someone who had a low emotion quotient and could burn lyre to cook red-crowned crane; however, this one directly cleaned his butt by peony blossoms...
"I was...I was just asking you the way...how...how could you...be so rude, shameless!" The beauty in the imperial dress swung her sleeves and directly flew away without even throwing a glance at Zhang Tie...
"Young sister, young sister, don't leave..." Zhang Tie shouted.
After hearing the appellation "Young sister", the woman quivered all over and accelerated her speed away...
After it became quiet once again. Zhang Tie hushed.
After sensing the weird atmosphere in the surroundings, Zhang Tie turned around and saw that those men and women on the airboat beside him were watching him with dumbfounded looks.
Zhang Tie exposed his teeth towards them, the two women who had replied with cold harrumphs instantly turned pale as they hurriedly turned around. Even the entire airboat moved a bit farther from Zhang Tie...
When a person reached a degree in a certain aspect, he would be unrivaled in the world.
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The sun finally set while the cyclone at the huge entrance of the cave disappeared. After that, it gradually turned darker, a great suction came into being in the cave together with a new hurricane which revolved in a clock-wise manner. The air in the sky then started to pour into the cave...
A black spot rushed downwards as fast as a light, closely followed by all the other black spots and airboats in the sky, including Zhang Tie...
Chapter 905: Arriving at the Earth-elements Realm
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
After entering the huge cave for over 10 minutes, Zhang Tie felt a great suction, which was not caused by the air flow but by the changing magnetic fields in the cave. Zhang Tie felt like riding a magnetic elevator. Without using any strength, Zhang Tie had been led and wrapped by that strength and dove towards the underground world as fast as a lightning bolt.
The secret to accessing the earth-elements realm was to stay relaxed. Therefore, Zhang Tie didn't control his body on purpose. Just like flowing towards the lower reach of a river by boat, Zhang Tie enjoyed traversing in the exotic tunnel.
In such a state, Zhang Tie had to be relaxed as he couldn't even move at all. Just like those in a running elevator could not jump out of it, Zhang Tie could not slip the leash of this tunnel either.
Even knights could not disobey the great, mysterious power of the mother nature.
Zhang Tie had read an article in the Mountain of Brightness——even a knight who had formed 4 chakras could not move inside, not to mention a common black iron knight.
Zhang Tie made an attempt and found that even his spiritual energy had been frozen in this exotic tunnel.
After making attempts a few times in vain, Zhang Tie gave up his attempt absolutely.
Nobody knew why there was such a tunnel just like nobody knew why all the planets in the universe were round. This tunnel was as old as this planet. It seemed to be one of the original looks of this world. Just like the sunken part between the upper part and the lower part of an apple, which was carried by most of the fruits, people would think it was determined by genes. But who determined the genes of the fruits? Whether the shapes of fruits were caused by the evolution and duplication of this planet or not?
After the Catastrophe, the magnetic poles of this planet rotated, causing great changes. After the thick ice layer and snow completely melted, this tunnel was exposed. Before the Catastrophe, this place was not called Force Province; instead, it was one of the poles of this planet. The greater part of the Eastern Continent were polar regions before the Catastrophe.
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In this tunnel, Zhang Tie felt being still as the relative distances between him and the other knights and airboats remained unchanged. Everyone seemed to be still. However, in such a relative still state, everyone could see exotic lights rushing towards them and penetrating through them in a split second from the underground world...
Due to the super high speed, Zhang Tie could not see clearly the surrounding scene at all. All the surrounding scenes became shadow and light.
Zhang Tie tried his utmost efforts to look around by concentrating his spiritual energy and consciousness a few times and felt that he was penetrating through a hollow layer being filled with lightning bolts which were as thick as hundreds of miles. Zhang Tie was confused why there were lightning bolts underground.
It took him dozens of seconds to penetrate through the layer being filled with lightning bolts as thick as hundreds of miles.
Besides, Zhang Tie saw some other strange things during this period...
Time in this tunnel seemed to be slower than that outside...
Whether it was in the Dragon Cave or in the tower of time which Zhang Tie discovered beneath Kalay Mountain Range, theoretically, they were both in the earth's crust or being close to the earth's crust and earth mantle. However, Zhang Tie reached the most mysterious internal region of this planet, which was in the depth beneath the earth's crust.
The journey lasted over 3 hours. Zhang Tie didn't know how many miles had he dived. All of a sudden, he slowed down. After another 10 minutes, everybody felt relaxed while the binding force from the tunnel suddenly disappeared. At the same time, all the knights and airboats recovered their maneuverability and stabilized themselves.
They were then blown into a vast space by the heavy air flow.
What entered Zhang Tie's sight was the red clouds at the dome of this space. There were undulating mountains below the clouds. Right on the horizon in the distance, Zhang Tie caught sight of looming lamplights.
All the airboats and knights were flying towards the lamplights in the far, followed by Zhang Tie leisurely.
When he drew close to the lamplight, Zhang Tie found that it was a huge fortress which was much more magnificent than a Class A city on the ground.
It seemed that the fortress had been standing there since ancient times as it carried a time-honored yet mysterious qi.
The walls of that fortress were as high as thousands of meters. The entire fortress was composed of many stories covered tens of thousands of square miles in a key region. Zhang Tie could not even see its border. There were various, dense high pagodas in the fortress, which looked like spines on a hedgehog. Pointing at the sky one after another, they were very terrifying.
This fortress could never be built by humans. Because the entire fortress, including the pagodas inside it, was shining metallic luster. It was completely composed of metal.
Until today, people could still not accomplish such a magnificent, metal fortress covering tens of thousands square miles even after combining the scientific abilities of humans before the Catastrophe. It was completely out of people's imagination.
Zhang Tie even doubted that the total of steel storage among all the Class A cities in Taixia Country would not match that of this fortress in weight, not to mention building it.
Humans in this age or before the Catastrophe could never build such a magnificent complex.
Undoubtedly, this fortress was a prehistorical relic in the earth-elements realm. It was left by a far-ancient civilization.
There was the highest metal pyramid in the center of the fortress. The mysterious and borderless world——Earth-elements Realm was facing this fortress in the far.
This was the Lion Fortress, the most magnificent human fortress, the prototype of human battle fortresses in this age and the firmest fortress of humans across the entire Eastern Continent and Taixia Country in the underground world. It was both the portal for humans to enter the Earth-elements Realm and the throat from the Earth-elements Realm to the Eastern Continent.
If this firmest fortress and shield was broken through, it meant that the contingent of demons would directly appear on the ground of Eastern Continent and attack the core region of human countries. On the opposite, this fortress would also serve as the firmest bridgehead for humans to explore the underground world.
From a certain perspective, the Lion Fortress was the beacon of hope that encouraged humans to defend demons.
This was the world and the battlefield of knights!
Chapter 906: Receiving Another Crystal Plate
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
Zhang Tie was really shocked by the magnificence of the Lion Fortress. When Zhang Tie was watching the Lion Fortress in the air, he saw a red shadow flashing by. It was the beautiful "young sister" who had been flying towards the Lion Fortress. After a short while, all the airships had landed outside the Lion Fortress.
All the knights were flying towards the Lion Fortress, closely followed by Zhang Tie.
After drawing closer, Zhang Tie found that there was a huge piece of diamond-shaped crystal floating above the top of the huge metal pyramid, the dim luster which covered the part above the exterior wall of the fortress in a translucent energy field. Being similar to the energy field in the tower of time, this energy field was a safety cover of the entire Lion Fortress. Of course, knights could not fly above the Lion Fortress. Therefore, all the knights could only land outside the Lion Fortress and enter it from the gate.
Standing on the ground, Zhang Tie found that this fortress was amazingly magnificent.
'It's more like a terrifying steel mountain than a fortress.
However, the metal of this fortress was definitely harder than steel.
The gate of the fortress was hundreds of meters high and dozens of meters wide. Two lines of guards in black helmets and armors were riding an exotic and fierce beast which was higher than 20 m outside the gate with spears in hand.
Undoubtedly, given the qi of the two lines of guards, they were knights!
Their mounts were watching everyone who was entering the gate with their aggressive golden pupils while exposing their sawtooth-like fangs. Some mounts were drooling while their saliva corroded the sands on the ground, causing curls of cyan smoke.
As for these living beings, those people who entered the fortress were like snacks crawling in front of them. As a result, these beasts became a bit restless while drooling. The knights were controlling and soothing their impatience.
"They're underground dragons..."
Zhang Tie heard someone whispering in front of him.
'They're underground dragons?' Zhang Tie threw a glance at the underground dragons out of curiosity and found that their sturdy hind legs were pretty powerful. It indicated that this mount was good at long-distance running at a possible, terrifying speed. The sharp claws on their forelimbs implied a strong destruction and aggressivity. The squamous layer over their skins indicated that they had very thick and coarse skins along with a great defensive capability. Their corrosive saliva indicated that the underground dragons had a very good appetite and digestive ability. This was a mutated beast which might be omnivorous.
A thought occurred in Zhang Tie's mind. Zhang Tie then ran his spiritual energy to check their level.
'Level 15, they're battle spirit-level mutated beasts!'
As they had reached level 15, the underground dragons might have other special abilities.
No wonder they could be the mount of knights.
The moment Zhang Tie entered the gate, a restless underground dragon had stomped towards Zhang Tie's head forcefully.
"Watch out!" Zhang Tie heard an emergency warning while everybody entering the gate turned around out of curiosity...
'F*ck! You think that this father is more delicious than others?'
Zhang Tie directly punched the sole of the underground dragon without even looking at it.
With a thunder, the 20 m-high underground dragon uttered a short, urgent sad moo like blowing a conch. Closely after that, it was sent over 10 m above the ground and flying backward and finally fell down like a 'collapsing' mountain and pillars, causing an earthquake. The knight on its back had long flown away...
Everybody was dumbfounded.
Zhang Tie didn't use his battle qi at all. He just used his sheer animal strength and made a face-to-face collision with the underground dragon.
The result was that Zhang Tie was safe and sound except that his feet sunk a few centimeters in the ground while that huge underground dragon was sent flying backward by Zhang Tie.
'F*ck, what a weirdo! Is that a human or what? Even if he's a knight, he was too exaggerated.
The underground dragon was struggling to pick itself up. Although Zhang Tie's blow was not fatal, it had to be crippled for a few days before recovery. Of course, it was impossible for it to be bouncing in its rehabilitation period.
The owner of the underground dragon hurriedly flew over and landed on its side. After that, he started to check its wounds.
Zhang Tie threw a glance at them before entering the gate.
"Hold on!" With a muffled sound, a sturdy knight directly jumped off another underground dragon.
"What?" Zhang Tie stopped as he turned around and looked at the knight with a cold impression, "You only allow beasts to beat people; yet don't allow people to fight back?"
"As my brother has just captured the underground dragon and has not tamed it yet. Sorry for what happened! Please forgive us!" The sturdy knight cupped his hands towards Zhang Tie.
Realizing that he was not looking for trouble, Zhang Tie became relieved and waved his hand, "It's fine. I've not dropped a hair!"
The sturdy knight then threw an appreciative glance at Zhang Tie, who was about 7 m higher than him and said, "I'm Wu Guanhai, the leader of the No. 7 Squad of the Black Armor Army of Taixia Country in the Lion Fortress. May I know your name?"
"Cui Li!"
"Is it the first time for you to come here?"
"Yes!"
"Are you interested in joining Black Armor Army?" Wu Guanhai put it straight, "Our Black Armor Army is powerful with a good treatment and rich human resources. How about that?"
"I've been used to be free, no interest!" Zhang Tie refused directly.
After hearing this reply, Wu Guanhai became dumbfounded. Closely after that, he burst out into laughter, "It doesn't matter if you're not interested in it for the time being. If you want to join us, you can consider my suggestion! If you met someone tricky in the Lion Fortress, you could go to the Black Fortress of Black Armor Army to seek for my help..."
"Okay, thank you!"
Closely after the conversation with Wu Guanhai, Zhang Tie turned around and entered the gate.
Watching Zhang Tie's amazing performance in the distance, the "young sister" flickered her eyes. However, the moment she recalled what Zhang Tie asked her above the ground, she gritted her teeth and stomped to the ground before leaving away...
After entering the Lion Fortress, Zhang Tie caught sight of the map of Lion Fortress on the metal wall being not far from the gate of the fortress.
After throwing a glance at the map, most of the new arrivers would head for the Task Center of Knights in the fortress, except for Zhang Tie who walked towards another direction after bearing the map in mind.
Although it was pretty cold outside, it was warm inside. In the fortress, many underground plants and woods were standing on both sides of the broads streets, which looked pretty vigorous.
It was pretty boisterous in the fortress. After entering the fortress, the 100-odd new knights instantly became trivial like a drop of water entering the ocean.
Besides knights, many logistical personnel and subsidiary fighters were inside the fortress, none of them were below Class 6 according to Zhang Tie's observation.
People came and went on the streets. Logistical personnel was in red military uniforms with military ranks. Their identity was also a soldier. By contrast, those subsidiary fighters were in grey-green uniforms. The two kinds of soldiers were very easily distinguished.
Besides the above two kinds of servicemen, there were all sorts of knights who were riding underground dragons, in helmets and armors, in exotic costumes or in common clothes across the Lion Fortress who came from Taixia Country and all the other subcontinents or continents.
Most of the human knights were gathering in the Lion Fortress. However, even though there were so many human knights, plus the logistical personnel and subsidiary fighters, this fortress could still not be as bustling as common human cities unless it contained millions of people. However, there were only a bit more than 1 million people in the entire Lion Fortress.
The holy war was like a raging fire. The number of human knights in Lion Fortress also reached a peak. According to Zhang Tie's knowledge, a lot of knights of Taixia's armies had been dispatched to the Lion Fortress to fight demons in turns. At this moment, the number of human knights in the entire Lion Fortress had broken 50,000 for the first time.
As for the human knights here, besides those from Taixia Country, the others were coming from subcontinents or the Western Continent. From a certain perspective, Lion Fortress was the center of human knights.
The fortress was filled with a powerful and mysterious strength that originated from the golden pyramid. Even earth knights and shadow knights could not fly in the fortress. The entire fortress was a no-fly zone. Those who could fly in this fortress were all heavenly knights who had formed the chakra of the wind element. They were the most powerful humans in this world.
In this situation, Zhang Tie could only walk towards his destination.
In the fortress, Zhang Tie also caught sight of the prototype of Jia land in Class A Cities of Taixia Country. In the fortress, the wide area of Jia land in the fortress was like woods and was taken care of by logistical personnel in red uniforms.
The crops above the ground could not grow in the fortress. Therefore, mainly three crops were planted inside the fortress: the first crop was about 3.5 m in height which looked like coconut palm. Its fruit was like a long bread; the second crop was a huge mushroom which looked like sunshade above the ground; the third crop was lower, whose fruit was like a grey watermelon. Zhang Tie didn't know what they were.
Zhang Tie felt everything was strange inside the fortress.
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After twenty minutes, Zhang Tie stopped in front of a huge 21-storey tower.
There was a brand hanging outside the tower, which wrote Mountain of Brightness.
Many people were accessing this tower hurriedly.
After entering the lobby of the tower, Zhang Tie looked around before coming to a hathpace.
"I want to join the Mountain of Brightness!"
An old man with white eyebrows and mustache raised his eyes and threw a glance at Zhang Tie, "Name?"
"Cui Li!"
"Age?"
"51!"
"Background?"
"I was born in Cui family, Liuying Town at the foot of Coiling Dragon Mountain, Yongzhou Province, Taixia Country. I've not joined any sect and doesn't have any byname yet!"
After hearing Zhang Tie's reply, the old man flickered his eyes behind the hathpace and threw another serious glance at Zhang Tie, "Do you know the rules of receiving the knight's crystal plate from here?"
Zhang Tie replied with a smile, "Of course, the price of the knight's crystal plate is millions of gold coins. Although the revenue of the land at my home is not small, it will cost me at least 10,000 years to afford a knight's crystal plate. Although I don't know how to make money, I don't want to do evil things either. Therefore, I came here. I was told that the knight's crystal plate is free here. However, I have to defend the Lion Fortress for 3 years after receiving the crystal plate!"
"Do you agree?"
"Of course, I agree. I'm here to strive for my bright future."
"Show me your right hand..."
Zhang Tie stretched his right hand. Like how the old man in the pawnshop of Tianfang City did, this old man started to pinch each finger and joint of Zhang Tie's right hand carefully.
When Zhang Tie accepted such a check last time, he didn't know the old man's purpose; later on, he finally understood that the old man was confiming his bone grains.
The one who had already received the knight's crystal plate would not receive another one anymore.
However, Zhang Tie was not worried about that. Of course, with his body-changing immortal bloodline, Zhang Tie could change his bone grains completely.
As was imagined, after pinching Zhang Tie's bone grains, the old man turned around and moved his lips as if he was talking something to the one behind him in a secret way or let the buddy behind him inquire and verify that Zhang Tie's bone grains were exclusive. After waiting a few minutes quietly, the old man nodded as he took out a knight's crystal plate from behind the counter and pierced Zhang Tie's finger with a needle, squeezing a drop of blood onto the dragon's eye of the knight's crystal plate. Closely after that, the knight's crystal plate turned blue.
"Inject your spiritual energy into the crystal plate!"
Zhang Tie injected some spiritual energy into it. After the knight's crystal plate became illuminant, a looming dragon-shaped light image appeared. After flying around the crystal plate for one circle, it entered the crystal plate and lit 28 scales on the crystal plate at once.
As for a black iron knight who had just received the knight's crystal plate, it was not an exaggeration that he had lit 28 scales. Many lonely cultivators didn't join the Mountain of Brightness until they promoted to earth knights.
——West Mountain Barbarian.
It was Zhang Tie's new byname in the Mountain of Brightness.
After leaving the Mountain of Brightness, Zhang Tie directly walked towards the Task Center of Knights in Lion Fortress...
Chapter 907: Zhang Tie's Counter-attack
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
"As a Class 1 garrison knight of Lion Fortress, one could gain 6 earth-elements crystals per month. However, if you choose to be a Class 2 garrison knight, when you gain the maximal freedom, you could only gain 2 earth-elements crystals per month. Precisely, if you just stay in Lion Fortress for 3 days per month and spend 27 days outside, your effective time is only 3 days while the rest 27 days could not be included into the effective time for you to receive earth-elements crystals. Am I clear? Only when you stay in the Lion Fortress could you be regarded as fulfilling your duties and receive your gains. If you left the Lion Fortress, your work would be ineffective. Of course, if you like, you could apply for degrading to Class 1 garrison knight in the Task Center of Knights at any time. As Class 1 garrison knights have to execute their tasks each month, they would have less freedom. As a reward, they would have more earth-elements crystals. Additionally, many tasks being distributed to Class 1 garrison knights are matched with extra rewards of earth-element crystals..."
"In Lion Fortress, we have to follow the military laws of Taixia Country. Although the contents of the laws are over complicated, you only need to keep a sentence in mind——Life for Life, money for money. The logistical personnel and subsidiary fighters in the fortress enjoy the same human rights as knights. There were many cases that knights from other subcontinents killed logistical personnel and subsidiary fighters due to various reasons. As for such cases, no matter how many chakras had the knights formed, they had to die without any exception or preferential treatment. Even a Hua commoner could not be insulted by knights from other subcontinents, not to mention the soldiers of Taixia Country in the fortress."
"Female is a scarce resource in Lion Fortress. Therefore, after you fall in love with any beauty among the logistical personnel, although you have the right to pursue her, don't violate her will; otherwise, you would face a tragedy for sure. It's not worthy for you to do that."
"As for the three fruits that you've already seen, they are breadfruit tree, nutritious mushroom and watermelon. They're the food of all the people in the fortress. As a Class 2 garrison knight, you could have one breadfruit, 0.5 kg nutritious mushroom and 0.5 kg watermelon a day when you stay in the fortress. From tomorrow onward, you could receive them from the supply point. If you have your own food or could gain food and materials from outside the Lion Fortress, you could exchange these fruits for consumption points in the fortress. With consumption points, you could consume in the bars of the fortress or purchase some daily-use products such as clothes and shoes. Many items and materials in the fortress are in relatively urgent demand. Because these items should be carried from the floating airboat above the ground, they would not be provided for knights freely."
"There are two general currencies in the fortress: consumption points and elements crystals such as earth-elements crystals, water-elements crystals and wind-elements crystals, the exchange rate between every two kinds of element crystals from low to high is 1:6. Golds and silvers are not available in the fortress, those who could come here would not lack those common objects above the ground!"
"The earth-elements realm is very large, it's almost like a complete world. The Lion Fortress is the pass from the earth-elements realm to the Eastern Continent. If you want to leave the Lion Fortress, I suggest you to study the map of the earth-elements realm near the fortress. Before being completely familiar with the map, you'd better not deepen into the region being far away from the Lion Fortress. Even if you want, you'd better go there with the other knights. The topography in earth-elements realm is very complex, besides plains which are similar to those above the ground, there're various abysses and underground caves. Compared to the earth's surface, more regions in earth-elements realm have not been explored, which might contain precious mineral resources and pre-historical items. This is also why many people are attracted to the earth-elements realm."
"In the Tower of Brilliance, you could see the tasks distributed to Class 2 garrison knights, which are always matched with three rewards: earth-elements crystals, consumption points and meritorious deed points. There're many kinds of tasks. As for Class 2 garrison knights, the fastest and most effective way to gain the above three rewards is to kill demon knights in the earth-elements realm. Of course, besides demon knights, there're many dangerous things in the earth-elements realm too. Since the beginning of the holy war, over 20 Class 2 garrison knights disappeared out of no reason each year. Watch out yourself."
After hearing that even knights would disappear out of no reason, Zhang Tie stopped walking, closely followed by that man in a red military uniform with the rank of major who had been introducing for him all the way. After turning around, he asked Zhang Tie, "What's wrong?"
"Class 2 garrison knights disappeared out of no reason when executing common tasks?" Zhang Tie repeated with an emphasis.
"Yes!"
"Haven't you investigated that?" Zhang Tie frowned.
"We did; however, we got no result. The only conclusion was that they might have died. After all, we're in the earth-elements realm. There're many fatal factors such as being ambushed by demon knights, a sudden encounter with senior demon knights or high-level mutated beasts or being in dilemma, etc.. Of course, we didn't exclude other possibilities. After all, too many knights come here from all walks from life. Wherever there are humans, there will be conflicts. If there're disputes between garrison knights in the Lion Fortress, they could seek for a solution in courts of arbitration. If the courts of arbitration could not handle their disputes, they could fight in the Heavenly Ball of the Battle Simulation Tower. If they don't feel it's cool, they could have a real duel in the public. If someone wants something special, as long as they leave the fortress, they will have fewer shackles under less supervisory control. If there's no evidence, there would be no punishment. Therefore...you know, oh, I've forgotten to introduce myself to you. I'm Liu Xing, a logistical major in the Task Center of Kights in the Lion Fortress!"
"Liu Xing...the xing in haixing 1 ?" Zhang Tie asked.
"Yes, the xing of xingzhen 2 !" Major Liu Xing pushed his spectacle-figure upwards as he emphasized in a poetic way, "Undoubtedly, the xing in xingzhen is much more advanced than the xing in haixing."
Zhang Tie didn't pay attention to the persistence of Major Liu Xing. After hearing this name, Zhang Tie became absent-minded while a late face loomed in his mind. The owner of the face in his mind was also called Liu Xing, the first lieutenant in the Iron-blood Camp of the No. 39 Division of Iron-horn Corps of Norman Empire. He was Zhang Tie's comrade-in-arms!
After coming out of the Task Center of Knights, it took them over 10 minutes to enter a region being filled with dense metal high towers.
All the towers were higher than 200 m. Like chess pieces on the checkerboard and sharp swords and javelins pointing at the sky, they were sitting in the square exterior region of the Lion Fortress. At the sight of them, Zhang Tie knew there were at least 1,000 towers.
This was the residential area of black iron knights who defended the Lion Fortress.
In a farther place, there were some towers higher than 500 m, which were the residences of earth knights who defended the Lion Fortress.
The closer they were to the core region, the higher the towers would be.
When Zhang Tie passed by this region, he saw a piece of metal number plate at the entrance of each tower.
Major Liu Xing soon led Zhang Tie to a high tower marked Black D 1607.
Pointing at it, Major Liu Xing said, "Here's your residence. The key to this residence is the metal plate that you've got from the Task Center. Besides, the metal plate is the receipt of your consumption points in the Lion Fortress and your identification certificate to access to the fortress. When you enter the fortress, don't forget to register outside the gate. If not, you will have less earth-elements crystals than you could imagine. By then, you'd better not complain about others."
When Major Liu Xing introduced, Zhang Tie had already taken out that palm-sized metal plate and inserted it into the metal gate. He then screwed it like screwing a key, causing the gate to open quietly.
The moment the gate was opened, a familiar qi of element-gathering matrix had spilled out of the tower. Zhang Tie was slightly shocked.
Zhang Tie entered it. However, Major Liu Xing just stood outside the tower, "Whether do you want to take a rest or continue to let me show you around the Lion Fortress? Besides the Battle Simulation Tower and the Knight's Bar, there're many more places where knights would be interested in..."
"No need, thank you. I've been tired after traveling for a day. I want to take a rest. I will visit the other places myself when I'm free. Oh, how do I find you?"
"When you're in the Lion Fortress, if you have any problem that needs to be handled by the logistics department of the fortress, just leave a memo in the memo box behind the gate. The logistical personnel would collect it everyday. The logistics department could meet all your reasonable demands!"
Zhang Tie caught sight of the tiny memo box behind the metal gate right away. The memo box had two mouths, one outside, from where memos could be put in and be seen by Zhang Tie from inside, one inside, from where memos could be put in by Zhang Tie and be seen by logistical personnel such as Liu Xing who had the key of the box.
This design was convenient and practicable.
"Okay, I know! Zhang Tie nodded. The logistical personnel of the Lion Fortress was a bit like the butlers in the fortress or servicemen in hotels, who could help knights solve many trifles.
"What else can I do for you?"
"Nothing else, oh, you've got a good name!"
After being slightly shocked, Major Liu Xing replied, "Thanks!"
"Well, I will enter cultivation for a few days." Zhang Tie revealed a faint smile on his fierce face. Closely after that, he closed the gate from inside.
After revealing a smile, Major Liuxing left...
In his knight's tower, Zhang Tie dropped the luggage that he had been holding all the way and looked around the tower in a customary way.
The knight's tower was composed of 3 floors. The area of each floor gradually decreased starting from the first floor. The first floor was the parlor being covered with a lot of items; the second floor was his bedroom and washroom while the third floor was a cultivation room.
All the furnishings in the room were brand new and simple. There was nothing but basic daily-use products in the room. Zhang Tie could not even find a dagger.
In the cultivation room, Zhang Tie felt that the qi of elements-gathering matrix was passed downwards from the triangular top of the knight's tower, which looked like a very special elements-gathering matrix. Additionally, this elements-gathering matrix was much more powerful than Zhang Tie's private one.
Many basic structures in the knight's tower were made of metals just like the materials of the tower. They were so solid that they could not even be destroyed by knights. It seemed that those basic structures directly grew out of the knight's tower. For instance, Zhang Tie didn't see any pipe in the knight's tower even across the fortress; however, the moment he opened the fusiform water faucet, he would see limpid water flowing out of it.
Water would not come out of the void. Therefore, the water pipes must have been inlaid in the knight's tower, the walls of this fortress and underground in advance.
Therefore, Zhang Tie guessed that each building and the high tower across the Lion Fortress must have been integrated with this fortress in an organic way. Just like how the trunk was connected with the tree leaves, each building and the high tower was a part of the precision system.
Zhang Tie could not imagine how was such a magnificent complex be accomplished.
Among all the things that Zhang Tie had ever seen, only the Palace Tree was similar to the Lion Fortress. All the things inside the Palace Tree were integrated with each other, which grew out of there themselves, leaving no artificial trace just like many places in the Lion Fortress.
'Did the Lion Fortress also grow out of an exotic seed like the Palace Tree?'
Zhang Tie felt it was amazing when this whim occurred to his mind.
After being familiar with the internal environment of his knight's tower, Zhang Tie went upstairs to the cultivation room on the 3rd floor.
In the cultivation room, Zhang Tie took out the knight's crystal plate from Castle of Black Iron which belonged to his original body and had the byname of Chakra's Lion.
'It's time to make a counter-attack...'
Zhang Tie didn't have any concern at this moment...
'Eye for eye!'
'Those people and forces who framed me could never imagine that I would survive their trap.'
'As long as I'm still alive, they have to pay for what they did.'
'The Supreme Court of Taixia Country implement laws strictly. They declare people guilty only by evidence. Although I could not present any evidence for my innocence, it doesn't matter, as sometimes evidence is not that important. The Supreme Court is just one power of Taixia Country; there are powers which are greater than the Supreme Court in Taixia Country.'
'For instance, does my master Zhao Yuan need any motherf*cking evidence if he wants someone die?'
'Of course not, they would make choices according to their own judgments instead of relying on evidence.'
'Big figures rely on personal judgments instead of evidence!'
'Evidences are stagnated and might be false; however, judgments are transcendental, which are the combination of one's wisdom and experiences.'
'All the big figures are very confident.'
'That's enough!'
Zhang Tie logged on the Mountain of Brightness by his knight's crystal plate and accessed to the forum of knights.
'Only when human knights who have been confirmed to betray humans could the link between the knight's crystal plate and the Mountain of Brightness be canceled off and terminated. Although I've been wanted, I didn't betray humans; therefore, my identity as the Chakra's Lion is still available in Mountain of Brightness.'
It was Zhang Tie's first time to post on the forum of knights in Mountain of Brightness.
After recovering his composure, it took Zhang Tie a few hours to finish a sentimental article.
Before releasing it, Zhang Tie named it——"The Truth of the Tragedy in Fuhai City".
"Castle Lord, please change one title!" Heller's voice sounded in Zhang Tie's mind.
"Change one?"
"Yup, although this title points to the purport of this article, it's not eye-catching. We need an attractive title so that those who had noticed the title would continue to read its contents out of curiosity. What you're doing was like someone posting on an online forum before the Catastrophe. Do you know that a party was also rampant online before the Catastrophe?"
"What's that?" Every time Zhang heard the word "party" would he recall the Gobbling Party.
"Title Party!"
"Title Party?"
After listening to Heller's serious introduction about the Title Party, Zhang Tie thought through right away...
'What a party!'
After thinking for quite a while, Zhang Tie finally fixed the main title.
"The inscription on the gravestone of the despicable: from the dean of a provincial court and a gentleman to a major criminal and obscene devil in Taixia Country——my half year in Taixia Country"
Followed by a subtitle below——"Being attached with a lot of first-hand precious secret news and the secret of a shadow demon in Heavenly Reaching Church"
Author: Zhang Tie, Zhang Mushen, the Chakra's Lion.
Reading mode——free
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This article soon appeared in the Mountain of Brightness...
After absorbing 4 earth-element crystals in 2 hours, Zhang Tie reviewed the article and found it had been browsed over 500 times...