Chapter 1637: Entering the Ring
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
Starting from the early morning of January 29, the air around Yinhai had been warm. All the airboats and knights who were wandering above Yinhai had left the core fly zone above Yinhai before sunrise. Besides, the fly zone near the edge of Yinhai was clear.
Everyone was longing for the response from Iron-Dragon Sect and the three top sects, causing the air above Yinhai restless in silence.
A combat between a divine dominator and a sage-level knight had never happened aboveboard before. Therefore, even heavenly knights and sage-level knights were paying special heed to this combat, not to mention ordinary knights.
Undoubtedly, sage-level knights were powerful; however, people were also looking forward to another miracle displayed by Immortal Qianji, who as a divine dominator could kill a heavenly knight by striking him by rod for nine times in this combat.
Soon after the sun rose from the east, Zhang Tie in black combat outfit had flown off the airboat of Iron-Dragon Sect under the gaze of the public. At the same time, he accelerated to over 10 times that of the speed of sound in a split second towards the center of Yinhai with air-breaking rumbles.
"Here comes Immortal Qianji; here comes Immortal Qianji…"
Those knights around Yinhai were immediately in an uproar. Almost everyone who paid close attention to the airboat of Iron-Dragon Sect had known that it was Zhang Tie who had flown off given Zhang Tie's pretty young look and his flight capability as a divine dominator. Even if someone could disguise himself as Zhang Tie, he wouldn't be able to disguise Zhang Tie's flight capability. Nobody else could reach such a high flight speed in the stage of shadow knight except Lord Fairysea.
Additionally, the one who flew off the airboat of Iron-Dragon Sect carried a strong personality. Watching him fly towards the center of Yinhai, all the onlooking knights held their breaths as if they saw an invisible and brilliant light on the black robe. With a such strong qi field, it told everyone at present that it was the world-renowned Immortal Qianji.
In the air, Zhang Tie stayed calm. He didn't feel intense or restless at all. Since in Blackhot City, after experiencing so many battles, Zhang Tie had completely forgotten about tension and anxiety in any battle, even if it was a life-or-death one. Like those veterans who could survive hundreds of battles in ground corps, Zhang Tie had been used to all the battles and forgotten about life-or-death situations.
As a knight and a veteran, after so many real life-or-death situations and experience in trouble-reappearance situations, Zhang Tie had become unrivaled in mentality and spirit.
He took a bath, had a grand breakfast with his wives and three sons and have a short chat with the other elders of Iron-Dragon Sect. After that, he wore a set of simple black outfit before leaving the airboat.
In the sky, Zhang Tie even enjoyed the scenery on the ground.
The color of sands in Yinhai was a bit lighter compared to the surroundings. It might be because Yinhai was the inland lake of Gobi Desert. Even after nearly 1,000 years, a few heavily withered aquatic organisms such as shells and snails and evidently eroded rocks could still be seen among those sands.
From the sky, the entire Yinhai was like a gourd-shaped basin, connected with two round shapes, one big, one small. Of course, this basin was large enough to be a battlefield between Zhang Tie and a sage-level knight. They didn't need to worry about that the combat would destroy the terrain or do harm to innocent people.
The air carried a hot qi. The wind above ground made dust and sands cover the sky. However, at such a high altitude, Zhang Tie couldn't sense the dust and sands in the air at all unless a sandstorm.
When Zhang Tie flew off his airboat, three figures flew off three airboats of Taiyi Fantasy Sect, Heavens Holding Pavilion and Qionglou Pavilion at the same time. They all flew towards the center of Yinhai, namely the intersection between the two round regions of the gourd-shaped basin at almost the same speed, which was about 200 miles away from the edge of Yinhai in all directions.
Under the gaze of the public, the four people soon arrived at the center of Yinhai and stopped there with a distance of about 10,000 m.
"You're Qianji Immortal Zhang Tie?" Taiyi Old Man asked as he took a look at Zhang Tie. His rumbles reflected from the dome of the heavens and spread over. As a result, all the people nearby Yinhai could hear it from hundreds of miles away.
What powerful sage-level knights! Even as a shadow knight, Zhang Tie still admired the universal sound transmission skill very much. Although Zhang Tie couldn't do it as casually as those sage-level knights, he could still make it by his super powerful battle qi manipulative ability and spiritual energy as a divine dominator. Although it sounded a bit rustic, it worked. When the opponent opened his mouth, Zhang Tie had already formed some dozens of meters long trumpets of air using his spiritual energy around him. After that, he exerted the largest stress on his voice by his battle qi and adjusted the "power" to the utmost. Then, he transmitted his voice into the invisible trumpets to disseminate it.
At this moment, he could not lose face on behalf of Iron-Dragon Sect and Jinwu Palace.
"Ture, I'm Zhang Tie. Who are you?"
As Zhang Tie opened his mouth, the three sage-level knights felt an impact wave of sound charging at their face at the same time from 10,000 m away. The air in the surroundings even rocked. At the same time, Zhang Tie's voice spread far away as fast as a lightning bolt with a loud resonance, which was as powerful as that of the sage-level knight. As a result, the three sage-level knights' hearts pounded at the same time and those onlooking knights were in exclamations.
Chapter 1638: A Quarrel
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
"I'm Taiyi Old Man!" the sage-level knight of Taiyi Fantasy Sect replied calmly; which sounded patient and kind at least for those onlooking knights. He was not like having a duel with Zhang Tie. "This is Heavenly Hunyuan; this is Shenkong Old Man!" Taiyi Old Man then introduced the other two to Zhang Tie.
Of course, Zhang Tie didn't think Taiyi Old Man was a good man because of his tender attitude. As the old saying went, those dogs who bite people never bark. Taiyi Old Man's attitude made Zhang Tie alert, and he realized it was not a simple battle.
"Hahahaha, glad to see you!" Zhang Tie cupped his hands towards them calmly as he asked straightforwardly, "I wonder who would fight me?"
"Don't be so anxious, Immortal Qianji!" Taiyi Old Man said calmly and righteously, "It's not that we three sects have turned hostile against Immortal, but we have to preserve our dignity. We must pay off the lives who sacrificed in the Dongtian of Great Wilderness Sect. The destructive snakes of Great Wilderness Sect killed so many knights of our three sects. It's said that the snakes are in your hand. As long as Immortal could hand out the two destructive snakes, we will not make you embarrassed. No matter what, as human knights, if we fight each other in the holy war, demons would gain benefits from it. That would be irrational!"
The three sects were expecting for a good honor as a whole. Strictly, the two destructive snakes were just weapons of Yun Zhongzi. Anyone who knew the details of Great Wilderness Sect should know that. As the destructive snakes killed their knights, it was shameless for the three sects to have Zhang Tie hand out his weapons instead of fighting Yun Zhongzi.
Taiyi Old Man neglected the position of the two destructive snakes in the Great Wilderness Sect and the fact that they were under control; instead, he just took them as mutated beasts. Zhang Tie then became an accomplice to a certain degree. Therefore, the three sects sent black invitation cards to Zhang Tie.
They were lying. Zhang Tie felt that the three sects might have already known that the two snakes were the key to the entire Dongtian of Great Wilderness Sect. Therefore, they stuck to their opinion.
After hearing Taiyi Old Man's words, Zhang Tie understood that the three sects intended to stomp him to their feet or kill him. At the same time, they would continue to stand on the commanding height of morality and maintain their paramount positions in Taixia Country in case of any gossip. Therefore, they performed in this way.
Perhaps some onlooking knights could be puzzled by Taiyi Old Man's words; after Taiyi Old Man finished his words, Zhang Tie took a look at those knights hundreds of miles away as he found many people among them were nodding as if they felt reasonable about Taiyi Old Man's words. Of course, it was reasonable for them to avenge their disciples' murders.
However, Zhang Tie instantly figured out the purpose of the three sects. Now that they longed for good honor, Zhang Tie would peel off their fake skin fiercely.
"Hahaha, Taiyi Fantasy Sect is really righteous…" Zhang Tie burst into laughter generously as his sound rumbled across the region, "Given the words of Taiyi Old Man, this battle is completely a misunderstanding. We don't need to fight anymore in case of breaking harmony between us. Why not judge the result of this combat using the number of heads of demon knights at the bank of Weishui River? See you at the bank of Weishui River…"
Zhang Tie said as he turned around and intended to fly back.
"Wait, Immortal Qianji!" Taiyi Old Man stopped Zhang Tie at once as he moved a few more steps forward, saying, "Immortal Qianji, why do you intend to leave now…"
After turning around, Zhang Tie patted his forehead as if he suddenly thought up something. He then said with a solemn look, "Oh, my poor memory, I almost forgot that you just want the two snakes. To tell the truth, the two b*stards were reckless as before. Although being tamed, they were still recalcitrant; when I was in secluded cultivation a few days ago, they wanted to raid me and were finally killed by me. They've already become dust. I've already avenge your disciples' murders for you…"
After hearing Zhang Tie's words, the three sage-level knights became silent while all the onlooking knights were in an uproar. Many knights looked pleasant; those who cared about Zhang Tie let out a deep sigh.
In the holy war, as top Hua powerhouses, such a battle should better stop. This was the consensus of many knights.
After being silent for a short while, Taiyi Old Man opened his mouth again. This time, his voice became muffled and rigid, "Immortal Qianji, do you have any evidence?"
"Evidence? The two animals have become dust. What else do you want, Taiyi Old Man? Oh, when I killed them, I kept some skin and scales. Here you go…" Zhang Tie said as he threw a piece of molt and some scales towards the three sage-level knights from 10,000 m away.
As Yun Zhongzi said the snakes' molt and scales would be very useful, Zhang Tie kept some. The two snakes were now with Yan Feiqing. Unless Yan Feiqing came out to reveal Zhang Tie's lie, nobody could identify that Zhang Tie was lying.
Under the control of Zhang Tie's spiritual energy, the piece of molt and scales instantly arrived at the front of the three sage-level knights. Taiyi Old Man, Heavenly Hunyuan and Shenkong Old Man became silent once again. They didn't take them; instead, they just had them float in front of them.
As Zhang Tie threw the "remains" of the two destructive snakes to the three sage-level knights, the atmosphere above Yinhai became weird at a stroke. Nobody could imagine such a performance.
"Hahaha, if there's any doubt, you could take those things and have someone authenticate them!" Zhang Tie continued in a casual manner, "As I've avenged your disciples' murders, I wonder how do you appreciate me. Are you negotiating about how to thank me? Hehheh, I like the Taiyi Soul-Building Pills of Taiyi Fantasy Sect. If Taiyi Old Man gifts me 8,000-10,000 pills, I would accept them. As for Heavens Holding Pavilion and Qionglou Pavilion, you could also gift me whatever you have. As Iron-Dragon Sect has just started, we won't decline it…"
The three sage-level knights were in weird silence. However, Zhang Tie knew that the three old d**chebags might be working out a solution secretly. They must have not imagined that Zhang Tie could be so "shameless". What was more, Zhang Tie had the molt and scales of the two destructive snakes, which verified that the two snakes had already been killed by him.
"After reaching an agreement, please send your gifts to Iron-Dragon Sect. I have to go first. As for the piece of molt and scales, just take them as my gift. Take them back and offer a sacrifice to those knights and disciples of your sects in the Dongtian of Great Wilderness Sect using them!" After saying these words, Zhang Tie flew back.
"Wait…" A rigid voice drifted once again. All the three sage-level knights surrounded Zhang Tie soon after Zhang Tie moved back.
"Immortal Qianji, your name is known to everyone across the country. Everyone knows that Immortal Qianji has a myriad of tricks. Therefore, we don't believe in your words!" Shenkong Old Man said as he lowered his eyelids.
"Even if I could tell a lie, the molt and the scales won't. You could have someone authenticate it!" Zhang Tie said sarcastically with a smile, "What? Don't you three want to avenge your disciples' murders? Why do you ignore the remains of your foes? Why not even check it? Given the current situation, I'm afraid those who didn't understand what happened might think it's me who killed the knights and disciples of your sects."
"Black invitation cards couldn't be revoked. I'm afraid that Immortal would tell the truth after the duel!" Heavenly Hunyuan said.
"Hahaha…" Zhang Tie burst into laughter as he wove his hand, causing the molt and scales to fly back. He then put them into his space-teleportation item before saying, "Therefore, no matter what, now that I've arrived, I should not leave. Why not say it earlier? Why do you find the excuse of avenging your disciples' murders and make me the scapegoat of the death of your knights and disciples? Now that you want to be whores, how could you preserve your honor? Don't be that mean anymore. Is that what Taiyi Fantasy Sect, Heavens Holding Pavilion and Qionglou always do? Ridiculous, ridiculous, too ridiculous, hahaha…"
All the onlooking knights were in an uproar. Many people immediately figured it out that the three sects didn't send black invitation cards for the sake of the destructive snakes, but to have Zhang Tie involved in this battle so that the sage-level knights of the three sects could deal with Immortal Qianji aboveboard. A lot of knights' faces turned red out of fury as they started to swear loudly in the distance…
Chapter 1639: Stay Calm
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
Nobody could imagine that the combat would start from a quarrel, including those knights of Iron-Dragon Sect and the three sects. In the beginning, Taiyi Old Man's words sounded a bit reasonable; however, after a few rounds of verbal argument, Zhang Tie had peeled off the fake face of the three sects and trod it on the ground.
Under the gaze of so many knights, the faces of Taiyi Old Man, Heavenly Hunyuan and Shenkong Old Man turned black. They had not imagined that they could be fooled by Zhang Tie in this case.
The onlooking knights were in hot discussions, some of whom became restless. By contrast, the Knights of the three sects remained silent.
"Immortal Qianji, you're really tricky. If Immortal thinks that you could evade our black invitation cards in this way, you're too naive!" Taiyi Old Man put it straight as he ignored all the other onlooking knights' opinions, wiping out what happened just now as if it had not happened at all.
"If I wanted to escape, I would not be here!" Zhang Tie refuted with a solemn look, "As a knight, if you want a fight, do it. Why do you fabricate such an excuse? In this age, force talks. As you've got greater battle strength, you want to kill me by sending black invitation cards to me. But why do you find such a ridiculous, disgusting excuse?"
"It appears that Immortal Qianji has long been dissatisfied with our three sects. No wonder Immortal went against the deputy heads of our sects in the Dongtian of Great Wilderness Sect for a few times." Taiyi Old Man said distantly, "It seems that this duel becomes inevitable for hostility and reason. However, in order to show our frankness, only one of us would fight you. If Immortal could defeat one of us, you would win us three. We will then call it an end!"
"Really? Is that you who will fight me on behalf of the three sects?"
"Hahaha…" Taiyi Old Man finally revealed a smile as his voice turned righteous again, "My aiding strength is Real Sun Flames. I could kill a heavenly knight from 60 miles away. If I fight you, it would be unfair. Therefore, Heavenly Hunyuan would fight Immortal on behalf of us!"
'What? It's Heavenly Hunyuan, instead of Taiyi Old Man?'
Zhang Tie was shocked as he felt missing a punch.
The noise in the surroundings lowered at a stroke. Those of Iron-Dragon Sect exchanged a glance with each other. Previously, everyone felt that Zhang Tie would have the greatest probability to win the combat if the opponent was Taiyi Old Man, including Iron-Dragon Sect and Gold and Power Law. However, none of them could imagine that the opponents would dispatch Heavenly Hunyuan to fight Zhang Tie.
Were the three sects really merciful by making such an arrangement as was told by Taiyi Old Man?
Many knights who despised the deed of the three sects wavered their mind again. If the three sects determined to kill Zhang Tie, they would dispatch Taiyi Old Man. Because everyone across the country knew that Taiyi Old Man was the number one sage-level knight among the six top sects. Besides Emperor Xuanyuan, none of the sage-level knights could defeat him in the world.
'Why?'
'The top sects are really tricky. Soon after I got the upper hand, they have got the upper hand back by disguising to be merciful.'
Zhang Tie couldn't figure out why Heavenly Hunyuan was dispatched to fight him on behalf of the three sects. However, there was one point that he was sure that the three top sects were not showing their mercy to him; instead, they must play a secret trick. They must be pretending to be gentlemen although being whores. Superficially, they treated me mercifully and righteously; in fact, they must have evil intentions.
After Taiyi Old Man finished his words, Taiyi Old Man and Shenkong Old Man exchanged a glance with each other and didn't say anything to Zhang Tie any more as if they were afraid that their Achilles heels were caught by Zhang Tie. Taiyi Old Man and Shenkong Old Man then flew back into their own airboats, leaving Heavenly Hunyuan and Zhang Tie face to face with a distance of 10,000 m in the center of Yinhai.
The atmosphere grew intense at once.
"Immortal Qianji, are you ready?" Heavenly Hunyuan frowned his black eyebrows as he looked straight into Zhang Tie's eyes. A strong qi field charged at Zhang Tie at a stroke.
'No matter what, now that Heavenly Hunyuan couldn't match Taiyi Old Man, it's good news for me. I will break his strikes one after another.'
With a lazy smile, Zhang Tie suddenly held a golden spear. Squinting his eyes, Heavenly Hunyuan appeared being ready to fight. Those who knew Zhang Tie were clear about the destructive power of his golden spear, which could kill low-level knights like killing dogs and cats.
"Heavenly Hunyuan, take easy. It's not for you. It's used for timing!" Zhang Tie bantered as he shot his golden spear towards a hillside.
The golden spear didn't fully enter a huge piece of rock; instead, it only entered 3 cm. At the same time, it caused a huge platform whose diameter was a few meters with round scales on it. As the sun had just risen, the shadow of the spear rightly fell on a round scale of the boulder.
In a split second, Zhang Tie had created a huge sundial.
"Our duel will start at 3 pm. It's just 9 am. Are you that anxious? Heavenly Hunyuan could launch a strike at 3 pm. Now, I'm going to take a rest!" Zhang Tie said as a small cloud of moisture formed above his head which covered sunshine, despite Heavenly Huyuan's bad look. After that, Zhang Tie sat in the air, legs crossed, eyes closed as if he was really taking a rest.
Zhang Tie's calmness facing the duel won the admiration of many onlooking knights.
Heavenly Hunyuan sneered as he was not afraid that Zhang Tie would play any trick. It was just a few hours' rest, which would pass in the blink of an eye as for high-level knights like them.
When Heavenly Hunyuan thought this, he sat in the air, legs crossed and eyes closed too…
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In Datang City, it was a sunny day after the snow. Accompanied by Elder Muyu, Lan Yunxi entered the third prince's mansion again. She would go for hunting at the invitation of the third prince…
Chapter 1640: The Hunt in Dragon-Tiger Mountain
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
It was a major event for the prince's mansion that the third prince was going to hunt today.
This early morning, an airboat had hovered above a square inside the third's mansion. Compared to various luxury airboats across the country, this pale airboat was only a bit longer than 100 m in the shape of sturgeon. It appeared pretty flexible. This kind of airboat was especially for hunting, being exclusive to princes.
When Lan Yunxi and Elder Muyu arrived at the third prince's mansion, everything in the mansion was almost ready. After being arranged to meet Xuanyuan Wuji by the butler of the mansion, they boarded the airboat. After that, the airboat left for the east of Datang City.
Although being a simple hunt, Xuanyuan Wuji still took over 100 people, which felt like a bit grand. Besides the four bodyguards and Xue Fucius, there were also 60-70 guards and a lot of servants and cooks, even an employed professional animal controller.
Of course, those servants and cooks were in charge of cooking the freshest food. The animal controller was necessary in this case. It would be too embarrassing if the prince failed to hunt anything. If there was an animal controller, the prince would catch something regardless.
In remote subcontinents, such a legion could almost sweep over a small country. However, it was just a hunting team of the third prince.
They would hunt in Dragon-Tiger Mountain, Jinghe Prefecture, which was over 400 miles away from Datang City. The region covering hundreds of miles around Dragon-Tiger Mountain had been purchased by Xuanyuan Wuji after Datang City became his bounty city. Additionally, he built a Dragon-Tiger Palace on Dragon-Tiger Mountain, where he would avoid heat stroke in summer and hunt in winter.
400 miles was a bit far for commoners; however, it only took about 40 minutes to arrive there by airboat.
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"Miss Lan, don't you feel comfortable today?"
Xuanyuan Wuji fixated onto Lan Yunxi as he asked out of concern.
Lan Yunxi appeared to be in a low mood as she didn't look good. Since she boarded the prince's mansion, she had been silent. Even in the airboat, when so many major figures were in the airboat, Lan Yunxi just squinted at the snow-covered landscape outside the airboat where rivers flowed by, mouth pursing. It appeared that she was thinking about something and didn't feel like talking at all.
Conversely, Xuanyuan Wuji looked pretty spirited today. In a trim blue suit and a pair of tiger-hide hunting boots, he was sitting there and playing with his fingerstall. Meanwhile, he talked with Xue Fucius about lending grain seeds to those cities within Jinghe Prefecture in the spring as if he was a merciful and able master of the country. Some guards were carrying some containers of arrows and a heavy crossbow for him.
After talking with Xue Fucius, Xuanyuan Wuji found Lan Yunxi had been silent for a while, he then fixated onto her and asked her.
"The cuisine in Datang City is a bit different than that in Youzhou Province. Miss isn't used to the local food. Therefore, she feels a bit fatigued!" Elder Muyu explained for Lan Yunxi after finding that Lan Yunxi became silent for two seconds.
Lan Yunxi was just in a bit low mood; however, Elder Muyu had been looking black since he entered the prince's mansion.
Commoners might not be suitable for the local food; however, it was just a decent reason for Lan Yunxi, as a knight, to be not suitable for the local food.
"According to the rule in the prince's mansion, the one being asked by His Majesty has to answer. As His Majesty was asking Miss Lan, Elder Muyu, you'd better not interrupt!"
Jiang Feng who posed a threat to Elder Muyu in the prince's mansion looked straight into Elder Muyu's eyes as he said with a jeer.
Elder Muyu raised his eyebrows as he couldn't help standing up out of fury…
"I'm thinking as same as Elder Muyu!" Lan Yunxi opened her mouth as she turned around and took a cold and sharp glance at Jiang Feng, "Although Huaiyuan Palace is not an imperial household, at least we know how to treat guests well. At least bodyguard or servant in Huaiyuan Palace is not allowed to interrupt when the master is talking with the guest. Is this rude behavior a rule in the prince's mansion?"
"You…" Jiang Feng changed his face at once…
"Hahaha, we're hunting. As it's not in the prince's mansion, we don't pay attention to so many rules. From then on, we will be a family. Hopefully, we could live harmoniously…" Xuanyuan Wuji said with a smile as he waved his hand to calm down the two parties. After that, he watched Lan Yunxi with a smile, saying, "I thought you're going to be silent for the whole day!"
"Archery is an ancestral battle skill of Zhang Clan. Almost every one of Zhang Clan gets hang of archery. Huaiyuan Palace carries it forward from Lord Huaiyuan. Lord Huaiyuan is well known for using crossbows. I learned archery at a young age; therefore, I'm not interested in hunting! Please forgive me!" Lan Yunxin explained calmly.
"Oh, really? I almost forgot it!" Xuanyuan Wuji smiled as he continued, "There's a grand event above Yinhai, Gobi Desert; pitifully, as a prince, I couldn't leave my bounty prefecture freely. Otherwise, I might have reached there if we set off a few days ago. Immortal Qianji was from Huaiyuan Palace. However, he might not excel at archery; instead, his spear throwing skill is well-known across the country!"
Being expressionless, Lan Yunxi replied, "Not each posterity of Lord Huaiyuan could awaken the talent and bloodline of Lord Huaiyuan!"
"True!" Xuanyuan Wuji nodded as he continued with a smile, "It's said that Gold and Power Law opens a gamble on this duel. Miss Lan, which party would you support if you were there?"
"Immortal Qianji has nothing to do with Huaiyuan Palace. Nor will Huaiyuan Palace pay attention to him!"
"Really? I'm reassured by your words!" Xuanyuan Wuji said. After that, he turned around and asked Xue Fucius, "How many element crystals could I use?"
"10,000 earth element crystals and 10,000 water element crystals in total!" Xue Fucius, who was always quiet, answered.
Lan Yunxi and Elder Muyu both regarded Xue Fucius as an aide of Xuanyuan Wuji. Therefore, they didn't pay much attention to him.
"Has the battle at Yinhai come to a start?"
"Not yet. It starts at 3 pm!"
"Well, contact Gold and Power Law. I choose the sect of Miss Lan as the winner with all my available earth element crystals and water element crystals at stake!" Xuanyuan Wuji said with a smile.
After hearing Xuanyuan Wuji's words, Elder Muyu's heart pounded as he clenched his fists. Lan Yunxi turned around and watched the scenery outside the airboat with a distant look again while her elegant cheek and neck looked as snow-white as ice sculpture…
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After such a small episode, the airboat soon arrived at Dragon-Tiger Palace.
The Dragon-Tiger Palace had already prepared over 100 handsome rhino-dragon horses and over 20 hounds for them.
Xuanyuan Wuji's rhino-dragon horse was a stronger top-quality mutated species. It was pitch-black all over, except its snow-white hoofs. There was another outstanding snow-white one which was Lan Yunxi's mount. The two rhino-dragon horses matched each other pretty well.
The prince's team mounted their rhino-dragon horses the moment they got off the airboat.
Before mounting her horse, Lan Yun felt being noticed by a strange eye light from back using her instinct. She turned around at a stroke as she found the animal controller in fox hide was watching her.
Lan Yunxi became slightly stunned. She had seen that animal controller before boarding airboat. He was an annoyed tough half-breed at his 40's with slightly curled hair and a gloomy look.
When Lan Yunxi turned around, the animal controller avoided her eyesight at once as he galloped the rhino-dragon horse and came to the front while blowing a long whistle.
At the same time, a snow-white huge eagle flew out of the clouds and hovered above them for a while before flying away. Those hounds also barked and rushed onto the mountain slope and woods as fast as bolts, closely followed by the animal controller and over 100 mounts.
The iron hoofs of over 100 handsome rhino-dragon horses broke the tranquility of Dragon-Tiger Mountain in a split second as they rushed into the woods.
Only after a short while, some boars had been driven out of the woods by fierce hounds.
Xuanyuan Wuji burst into laughter as he extended his arms and opened his crossbow to break through a strong boar's head from over 300 m away on the mount…
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Half an hour later, over 20 beasts, including pheasants, boars and kelbi had fallen onto the ground.
Lan Yunxi only shot off an arrow which was shot towards a doe coming out for food with her deerlets by one guard of Xuanyuan Wuji.
After seeing that, Xuanyuan Wuji burst into laughter instead of condemning her. They then continued.
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"Your Majesty, a trace of a rare mutated iron-claw tiger is discovered in the woods ahead of us…"
The animal controller who had just caught a snow fox turned around and reported Xuanyuan Wuji.
As one of the top nine immortal provinces in Taixia Country, Jiangzhou Province contained many population and cities. Over the past hundreds of years, those fierce wild beasts had long been exterminated by people. In this case, a mutated iron-claw tiger became a rare fierce beast and unrivaled animal in the woods of Jiangzhou Province. It could even match a LV 9 fighter in battle strength. After hunting so many years here, Xuanyuan Wuji had not caught such a fierce beast at all. Therefore, after hearing the animal controller's warning, Xuanyuan Wuji instantly became interested in it as he wove his hand and rushed into the woods, followed by his team.
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Ten minutes later, Xuanyuan Wuji got off his mount and squatted on a hillside, observing an area of blood stains and the incomplete corpses of some hounds. There were some deep claw prints of a fierce beast behind those corpses and blood stains, which stretched all the way to the depth of the woods. Over 100 mounts became restless as they circled on the ground as if they were wild and fierce.
Xuanyuan Wuji wove his hand while everyone got off their mounts and entered the woods by foot, including Xue Fucius.
"It's rugged in front. Xue Fucius, do you go there too?" Elder Muyu warned Xue Fucius when he saw Xue Fucius following the team.
"It's fine. Thanks for your concern, Elder Muyu. After staying in the prince's mansion for so long, I'd like to warm up outside. I could stand it!" Xue Fucius replied with a kind smile as he exhaled towards his hands and rubbed them before following the footstep of Xuanyuan Wuji, panting.
Watching this scene, Elder Muyu became silent.
After walking along the trace left by the iron-claw tiger for over 20 minutes, they had come out of the woods to a high granite. There were many broken stones on the ground near here while the trace of the claw prints disappeared. No snow could be found here.
"Watch out, Your Majesty…"
When Xuanyuan Wuji was discovering the trace of the iron-claw tiger, the beast had already shown up on a cliff nearby. With a growl, it charged at Xuanyuan Wuji from over 30 m high.
Xuanyuan Wuji responded as fast as a lightning bolt. The moment the iron-claw tiger charged down, he had held his long crossbow. When the tiger reached half in the air, he had already made his crossbow round and shot into one eye of the animal.
The iron-claw tiger fell down. When everyone recovered composure, Xue Fucius, who was panting, suddenly changed his face.
The falling iron-claw tiger broke into a bloody rain in the air like a broken bag. Right in the bloody rain, a bloody figure came out of the location of its belly as he threw his spike towards Xuanyuan Wuji's throat as fast as a lightning bolt with an extremely strong killing intent…
Chapter 1641: Killing Xuanyuan Wuji
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
The bloody figure broke out from the abdomen of the iron-claw tiger and flashed towards the head of Xuanyuan Wuji out of everyone's expectation. Even those knights beside Xuanyuan Wuji couldn't make any response to it.
Given the speed of the bloody figure, it must be a knight. Additionally, he appeared so abruptly. Therefore, when the others discovered him, his spike had almost reached Xuanyuan Wuji.
It was a long-awaited, unimagined fatal strike.
The bloody figure's spike failed to hit Xuanyuan Wuji. In a split second, a flowing red semi-transparent light shield covered Xuanyuan Wuji like an overturned bell.
The bloody figure's black spike then slid over the light shield like the sickle of the deity of death, causing not even a single sparkle. Closely after that, it fell onto the throat of another person who was nearest to Xuanyuan Wuji.
While spurting blood like a fountain through his neck, that person's head was sent several meters high in the air in a split second as all of his blood started to burn like flames, closely followed by roars and sharp air-splitting sounds caused by a powerful battle qi.
"Protect His Majesty…"
Xuanyuan Wuji survived the first strike of the bloody figure due to his secret item; instead, a knight beside Xuanyuan Wuji was beheaded. As a black iron knight, that person had been killed before he realized what happened.
With the call of "Protect His Majesty", two shadow knights of the four King Kongs and Xuanyuan Wuji flew off at the same time. With a growl, Jiang Feng, one of the four King Kongs instantly charged at that bloody figure who had easily avoided the counter-strike of the others by twisting his body in the air.
On this occasion, the ground environment became more complex and perilous, which was not suitable to the exertion of battle strength of knights and left chances for assassins to launch a strike. By contrast, it was more open and safer in the air.
When Xuanyuan Wuji and the two shadow knights flew off, Elder Muyu and Lan Yunxi flew off too, but they didn't move closer to Xuanyuan Wuji; instead, they kept a distance with Xuanyuan Wuji in the air; otherwise, they might be the targets of the assassin and might be in danger or be attacked by the four King Kongs in the name of suspects.
On the ground, the hunting team had been in a great disorder. Facing the coming earth knights, the bloody figure instantly split into nine and rushed in all directions at the same time.
"Jiang Ming, protect Xue Fucius…" Being in the air, Xuanyuan Wuji left rapidly with the protection of two shadow knights. Before leaving, he even sent an order to an earth knight called Jiang Ming, one of four King Kongs.
When the bloody figure charged down, Xue Fucius appeared a bit afraid as he instantly seized the arm of Jiang Ming while quivering all over…
At this moment, a bloody figure flew towards Xuanyuan Wuji; however, before it reached Xuanyuan Wuji, it had been shattered into pieces and fell off like a bloody rain with a golden light.
Lan Yunxi's face turned pale as she had made her little red crossbow round again. After triggering her bow, she shattered another bloody figure on the ground with a golden light.
Before flying off, Xuanyuan Wuji threw a glance at Lan Yunxi.
When the third bloody figure was destroyed by Jiang Feng, the other bloody figures had already aroused bloody chaos in Xuanyuan Wuji's hunting team.
In the chaos, the animal controller who discovered the trace of the iron-claw tiger was struck by a bloody figure's off-hand battle qi and spurted out blood. At the same time, he rammed against Xue Fucius and Jiang Ming.
Lan Yunxi had already shattered three bloody figures by her little red crossbow in such a short period of time. Right then, Lan Yunxi suddenly squinted her eyes as an unimaginable scene suddenly appeared in her eyes, causing a sudden change on the ground…
When the animal controller who was sent flying away by the bloody figure rammed against Xue Fucius and Xue Ming, an extremely terrifying, huge abyss iron battle hammer suddenly appeared in his hand. At the same time, the blood, which the animal controller had spurted, formed two bizarre tad-pole-shaped runes which were giving out a brilliant glow in front of his chest at a stroke.
Like when the bloody figure suddenly launched a strike just now, this sudden change was also unimaginable.
The terrifying, huge abyss iron battle hammer instantly struck Xue Fucius who looked emaciated. At the same time, one of the two bizarre runes entered the forehead of the animal controller while the other shot towards that knight beside Xue Fucius.
Before the arrival of the battle hammer, Xue Fucius instantly released a frightening qi as he drew Jiang Ming and moved back as fast as possible. At the same time, he uttered a growl which could be heard within thousands of miles, "Who are you?"
With a loud boom, a huge impact wave rose from the ground, causing Lan Yunxi and Elder Muyu hurriedly to fly away although being at a high altitude.
The strong impact wave instantly blew over the woods and the high rock, breaking the high rock into pieces while rows of huge trees within 1,000 m were blown down towards a direction like a beach being affected by the flood. All the guards and servants of Xuanyuan Wuji were killed at once. Although being over 100 m away, Jiang Feng was also blown off by the strong impact wave.
At the same time, a miserable shriek drifted from the ground.
Xue Fucius was also blown off as fast as a meteor even if he had released his protective battle qi. At the same time, Xue Fucius held a section of a broken arm. The miserable shriek was not uttered by Xue Fucius, but Jiang Ming whose arm had been broken.
When Xue Fucius was sent flying away and prepared to leave there with Jiang Ming by this chance, Jiang Ming stayed still like rooting in the ground. Besides the terrifying strength from the battle hammer, Jiang Ming couldn't move even if he wanted. Therefore, one of his arms was broken by Xue Fucius, causing such a miserable shriek.
Nobody could imagine such a sudden change, including Lan Yunxi and Elder Muyu.
Watching the terrifying impact wave from the ground, Elder Muyu changed his face greatly as he drew Lan Yunxi back as fast as possible, saying, "Miss, back…"
Lan Yunxi hurriedly flew back. By far, the ground combat couldn't be dealt with by them anymore. If such a powerful strike was on them, they would be killed instantly.
When the impact wave spread in all directions, the two shadow knights and Xuanyuan Wuji who had flown away turned around and flew towards the most perilous region at the risk of their lives.
Watching such a weird scene, Lan Yunxi and Elder Muyu appeared to have realized something; however, they left there rapidly; instead of expressing their fury of being fooled.
On the ground, dozens of meters deep pit was found where Xue Fucius and Jiang Ming once stood. With a heavy hammer in hand, the animal controller, no, that powerful and weird killer was standing in the air, facing that earth knight who had lost one arm. Xue Fucius who was blown off was accelerating towards the killer at a high speed with a domineering battle qi.
The animal controller also flashed backward as fast as Xue Fucius. What was more, the earth knight who had lost one arm also moved back with the animal controller as if there was an invisible chain between him and that animal controller no matter how hard he struggled.
The earth knight roared as he started to save himself by slashing a brilliant long sword towards the terrifying animal controller from many meters away.
Pitifully, his self-relief was in vain due to the sharp gap between levels and the terrifying battle strength of that animal controller. Perhaps that knight who had lost one arm didn't know how ridiculous his slash was in front of the animal controller.
When the injured earth knight flashed backward, another battle hammer had arrived, breaking the aura of his long sword into pieces. When the battle hammer approached him, a golden light shield suddenly appeared, which was similar to the former one released by the earlier Xuanyuan Wuji. However, this light shield contained some flying runes.
When the heavy hammer touched the earth knight, it broke his light shield along with the bizarre rune crystal plate that he wore; besides, his long sword was blown off. The region between the thumb and the index finger of his only hand was cracked while all the five fingers and the bones of his entire palm were shattered. Beside spurting blood constantly from the broken hand, his clothes were burned into ash at once, making him naked. At the same time, his skin cracked, revealing the original face, which was completely as same as the earlier Xuanyuan Wuji. However, this one looked more domineering between his eyebrows.
"Let go Your Majesty…" Xue Fucius roared. However, after missing one piece, he had been destined to lose the combat although he was just bruised by the huge hammer. In this case, Xue Fucius couldn't even touch the killer due to a great distance. When he was moving forward, the assassin was moving back while Xuanyuan Wuji was in between, facing him. If he launched a strike, he would hurt Xuanyuan Wuji first.
"Bloody wheel lock. Who are you?" The real Xuanyuan Wuji roared, "Xuanyuan Golden Body…"
At the same time, Xuanyuan Wuji released a bizarre qi while earth elements in Elements Realm suddenly poured towards Xuanyuan Wuji at a pretty high speed, gradually forming an outfit…
The terrifying animal controller remained silent; instead, he responded to Xue Fucius and Xuanyuan Wuji with his battle hammer for the second time in an irresistible manner.
The incomplete Xuanyuan Golden Body had been shattered once again, causing greater damage to Xuanyuan Wuji.
When flashing backward, wounds over Xuanyuan Wuji had cracked, bones were broken, eyes, ears, nose and mouth spurted out blood; however, Xuanyuan Golden Body still survived this strike.
"What an emperor-level Xuanyuan God Sutra , what a pity…" the animal controller suddenly opened his mouth.
Xuanyuan Wuji was close to collapse. Watching that terrifying animal controller with an unwilling look, he exerted his utmost efforts to utter, "As long as you let me go, I could give you everything…"
"I only want you dead. I will take it myself!"
After saying such words, the terrifying battle hammer fell onto Xuanyuan Wuji for the third time, shattering his thin protective battle qi along with his unwillingness in the void.
Time appeared to stop at this moment…
Lan Yunxi and Elder Muyu in the far were petrified. Not until then did the two people not believe that the third prince Xuanyuan Wuji had been killed by an iron hammer in front of them.
So were Xue Fucius and the rest knights. They all looked black.
"Your Majesty…" Jiang Feng who had been blown away above the woods shouted miserably as he rushed over here.
Holding his heavy hammer, the animal controller threw a glance at Jiang Feng as he accelerated towards Jiang Feng and rammed into him like a lightning bolt.
Facing such terrifying strength, Jiang Feng, one of the four King Kongs was split into pieces at once.
In the far, Elder Muyu quivered all over as he suddenly recalled Jiang Feng's physical threat and words in the prince's mansion.
"Zhang Tie…" Xue Fucius suddenly roared, which caused Lan Yunxi and Elder Muyu to change their face again.
The animal controller didn't reply. After killing Jiang Feng, he instantly rushed to the fake Xuanyuan Wuji and the two shadow knights.
With another strike, the Xuanyuan Wuji burned into ashes; with one more, Jiang Qianchou the shadow knight of Jiang Clan, Heavenly Stars Palace broke into pieces; by sweeping over his hammer horizontally, he beat the employed shadow knight down to the ground as if the latter was struck by a lightning bolt. After that, the animal controller rushed towards Xue Fucius. After the brawl broke out for less than one minute, a bloody qi spread over the entire zone with an explosion fiercer than the earlier impact wave, causing the sky within 60 miles scarlet…
After that, a meteor quivered a few seconds in the sky before flying towards the south…
The Dragon-Tiger Mountain was in silence. At this moment, besides Lan Yunxi and Elder Muyu in the sky, only one heavily injured shadow knight was lying on the ground.
Watching all this with a pale look, Lan Yunxi and Elder Muyu felt like having a dream.
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In the imperial palace of Xuanyuan Hill…
A series of hasty, flurried footsteps drifted outside Yanji Palace of the imperial palace, causing Xuanyuan Changying who was thinking about the coming combat in Shazhou Province frown at a stroke. However, before royal prince ordered his bodyguard to reproach him, the person had pushed away two bodyguards. With pale face and sweat drops over his head, it was one of Xuanyuan Changying's uncles in charge of personnel affairs of the imperial households.
"Fourth uncle, why are you so flurried?" Xuanyuan Changying put down his document and asked him calmly while relieving his frown.
"The life lamp of the third prince…third prince…third prince Xuanyuan Wuji in God's Bless Pavilion has…has died out just now…"
Xuanyuan Changying instantly sprung up…
"Your Majesty, here's an emergency from the Provincial Military Department of Jiangzhou Province…" a bodyguard raised a cylinder sealed with fiery lacquer above his head as he rushed into Yanji Palace.
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Above Yinhai, Zhang Tie finally opened his eyes as he watched the location of the airboats of the three sects in the distance with a faint smile…
Chapter 1642: Don't Fear Vision being Blinded by Clouds
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
The feeling of killing himself using the secret skill of Bloody Soul Sutra was a bit like the feeling of death in trouble-reappearance situations although it was not as strong as the latter.
Zhang Tie almost exerted his full efforts to kill Xuanyuan Wuji by using the great strength of divine dominator, lotus-flower eyes and the secret skills ofGreat Wilderness Sutra and Bloody Soul Sutra ; through a considerate plan, he finally figured out the maze and avoided the traps and killed Xuanyuan Wuji by hammer despite the protection of a semi-sage knight.
In fact, before that bloody figure broke out from the belly of the iron-claw tiger under the control of Bloody Devil Enlightenment Method, Zhang Tie was not sure that the role of Xuanyuan Wuji in the prince's mansion was his substitute. When two shadow knights escorted Xuanyuan Wuji's substitute away and Xue Fucius stood in front of "Jiang Ming", Zhang Tie finally affirmed his judgment and fixed the real target in a split second.
When the bloody figure broke out, nobody knew that the bloody figure was used to finding the real Xuanyuan Wuji at the critical moment instead of killing people.
That original body of the bloody figure was the animal controller in the prince's mansion whom Zhang Tie had replaced with his substitute.
It was Xue Fucius who protected Xuanyuan Wuji for real. The real third prince was with him in the identity of one of four King Kongs. The other three of four King Kongs and Xuanyuan Wuji's substitute were charge in covering the trace of real Xuanyuan Wuji and attract others' attention on this occasion. This was a perfect layout and protection. Even Xuanyuan Changying the royal prince might not need such considerate protection when he left the imperial palace and Xuanyuan Hill.
As a prince, Xuanyuan Wuji shouldn't leave his bounty prefecture. However, as the core figure of the Imperial Alliance, Xuanyuan Wuji was vital in the organization as he was responsible for contacting all parties. It was almost impossible for such a person to work out major events without leaving his bounty prefecture.
However, if not Zhang Tie had observed so long in the prince's mansion and discovered the details, anyone else would be attracted by the fake Xuanyuan Wui when the two shadow knights escorted him away.
It was a face-to-face collision between Zhang Tie and the Imperial Alliance and Zhang Tie's first time to experience the great power of Xuanyuan Deity Sutra . Although he didn't know how many secret skills were there in the complete version of Xuanyuan Deity Sutra , Zhang Tie thought the Xuanyuan Golden Body that Xuanyuan Wuji revealed at the critical moment and the ability to disguise as an earth knight although being a black iron knight probably was the secret skills of Xuanyuan Deity Sutra . To be honest, even Zhang Tie couldn't see through these secret skills even by lotus-flower eyes.
However, Xuanyuan Wuji died; he must die. Even if he cultivated an emperor-level secret method, given his ability as a black iron knight, no matter how powerful was Xuanyuan Deity Sutra, he could do nothing but being defeated by Zhang Tie who also cultivated an emperor-level secret method and had promoted to a shadow knight.
In the three change realm of shadow knight, even though Zhang Tie's substitute's battle strength was 80-90 percent of his original body in Weishui Battle. No matter what, there was such a sharp gap between the two parties.
By killing Xuanyuan Wuji and inflicting Jiang Clan of Heavenly Stars Palace, Zhang Tie broke the core bond and figures of Imperial Alliance and avenged Huaiyuan Palace's destroyer. What was more, this assassination greatly undermined the risks of domestic war and internal frictions of Taixia Country and preserved the aura of the country.
According to Zhang Tie's thought, if he could save hundreds of millions of people by killing one person, he would do it even if he was a son of Emperor Xuanyuan.
Even though hundreds of millions of civilians could die, why couldn't a son of Emperor Xuanyuan?
Zhang Tie didn't think that a son of Emperor Xuanyuan was more valuable than hundreds of millions of people in Taixia Country.
Besides time, Zhang Tie only cost a substitute, an abyss iron battle hammer lighter than 10 tons and space-teleportation equipment. Such a loss was nothing serious for Zhang Tie.
It was an economical trade!
With a smile, Zhang Tie watched the location of the airboats of the three top sects. After a short while, Zhang Tie had seen some shadow knights including Feng Yexiao hurriedly flying into the airboat of Taiyi Fantasy Sect as if they were called for a meeting in an emergency. From over 10,000 m away, Heavenly Hunyuan who used to close his eyes also revealed a shocking look as he opened his eyes.
Needless to say, Heavenly Hunyuan had already known the death of Xuanyuan Wuji. Those who received the news in Imperial Alliance must mention that the assassin used the ability of divine dominator to kill Xuanyuan Wuji and the shriek of Xue Fucius on revealing the identity of the assassin.
If Zhang Tie was not in Yinhai at this moment, he would definitely be accused of killing Xuanyuan Wuji. However, he was just sitting there and taking a rest under the gaze of the public and waiting for the coming combat. Who would say the assassination being hundreds of thousands of miles away was done by him?
Additionally, the one who killed Xuanyuan Wuji committed suicide in bloody devil separation skill above Dragon-Tiger Mountain after having a fight with Xue Fucius, leaving bloody clouds over there, which could be seen from 60 miles away. With such firm evidence that Heavens Reaching Church or the remains of Bloody-Soul Temple killed the third prince, who could say that it was related to Zhang Tie only by a battle hammer which was available to everyone?
A divine dominator who excelled at the secret skills of Bloody Soul Sutra committed suicide after killing the third prince Xuanyuan Wuji. All the clues then came to an end. This event would become a pending criminal case forever.
Heavenly Hunyuan took a look at Zhang Tie when he found Zhang Tie was also looking at him…
"Heavenly Hunyuan, why do you look surprised?" Zhang Tie asked Heavenly Hunyuan with a serious smile; instead of using his large trumpets.
Zhang Tie had already been completely relaxed and pleasant. Because he knew that he had already defeat Imperial Alliance before the start of this combat.
The fact of Xuanyuan Wuji's being killed was a strategical failure for Imperial Alliance. Even though Zhang Tie lost this combat, the Imperial Alliance could only gain a tactical victory. No matter what, tactical victory couldn't cover strategical failure.
With this attitude, Zhang Tie had recovered his composure and didn't even care about the result of this combat any more even if he was killed.
After being told that Xuanyuan Wuji was assassinated, Heavenly Hunyuan had been restless. 'Now that Zhang Tie is in front of me, the assassin must be someone else. However, besides Immortal Fairysea and Immortal Qianji, he is the third divine dominator. Additionally, this one is proficient in secret skills ofBloody Soul Method . Is there any other people or force being involved in scrambling for the throne? Additionally, that person and force must be hostile against the Imperial Alliance…
After the death of Xuanyuan Wuji, Imperial Alliance might fall apart as the three top sects' conspiracy would fail.
Besides being restless, Heavenly Hunyuan looked bad too.
No matter what, after hearing Zhang Tie's words, Heavenly Hunyuan instantly recovered his composure as he replied using battle strength, "Immortal, why don't you continue your rest?"
"I was told that we should live up to drinks, beauties and beautiful sceneries. Just now, I didn't feel like enjoying such scenery. When I stay calm, I find the scenery in the Gobi Desert special! Oh, I remember a poem——straight smokes rose in the desert; the sun falls in the long river. Good poem! Good poem! After we start our combat, we will make straight smokes. Oh, there're two more——don't fear vision being blinded by clouds; because we're at the highest point. I feel the latter lines are better. Look at where we are, we're almost at the highest place. We could watch the scenery. As it's open, even if there're some clouds, they couldn't blind our eyes at all. Everything is clear. Isn't it cool…"
Shaking his head, Zhang Tie started to assess a poem. Heavenly Hunyuan gritted his teeth as he said gloomily, "Immortal, don't you worry about the result of this combat?"
"Worry? Worry what?" Zhang Tie burst out laughing, "A person's life varies from dozens of years to hundreds of years. I've already lived up to nature and the hundreds of millions of people in Taixia Country. Although I have regrets, I don't feel sorry about myself. As I've killed powerful enemies, enjoyed sceneries and best, hottest drinks and slept with the most beautiful women; I've got the best brothers and friends. Therefore, I don't fear nothing. Even if I were killed, it was just like having a dream…"
Watching Zhang Tie, Heavenly Hunyuan started to feel a bit scared. If Immortal Qianji promoted to a heavenly knight, semi-sage knight or sage-level knight, he would be unrivaled. Therefore, they had to kill Zhang Tie.
——No matter what, we have to kill Immortal Qianji in this combat. Never let him leave here alive.
Taixia Old Man sent a message to Heavenly Hunyuan by remote-sensing finger ring.
Heavenly Hunyuan recovered his composure at once as he took a look at the sundial on the ground and revealed a smile, saying, "Now that Immortal is so heroic, why not start it now…"
"Fine…" Zhang Tie replied with a smile.
Soon after his words, Zhang Tie had put on his Chaos Outfit within 0.001 seconds as he held a battle hammer weighing 36.6 tons. Zhang Tie and Heavenly Hunyuan disappeared almost at the same time.
With a thunder-like boom, a strong impact wave appeared in the center of Yinhai in a split second, which swept over hundreds of meters high sandstorm, changing the color of the region at once.
Not until then did the onlooking knights realize that the combat had already come to a start.
Chapter 1643: The Dragon in the Sky
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
When Zhang Tie was fighting Heavenly Hunyuan, Yun Zhongzi was overlooking the mountain gate of Taiyi Fantasy Sect in clouds as his robe swayed in the air.
The mountain gate of Taiyi Fantasy Sect was located in Taiyi Mountain. The core region of Taiyi Fantasy Sect was 6,000 miles around Taiyi Mountain. Taiyi City was less than 300 miles away from the mountain gate of Taiyi Fantasy Sect.
Taiyi Mountain was a place endowed with the fine spirits of the universe, being enshrouded with smoke. A waterfall was pouring down in an overwhelming manner like a white curtain, making it pretty immortal.
What the disciples of Taiyi Fantasy Sect were pleasant about and proud of was Misty Peak where the main palace of Taiyi Fantasy Sect was located.
Misty Peak was an artificial peak. Instead of being built on the ground, it was floating in the sky on the basis of a large amount of air floating gold that Taiyi Fantasy Sect had gained. For hundreds of years, Taiyi Fantasy Sect built rockeries and pavilions on the peak. Floating on the main peak of Taiyi Mountain, Misty Peak was like a legendary immortal's residence; it was the symbol of the prosperity of Taiyi Fantasy Sect and made Taiyi Fantasy Sect the first sect in the country.
In latest years, Taiyi Fantasy Sect built 12 smaller air-borne sceneries and buildings around Misty Peak. Adorned with each other in the sky, they were a grand scenic spot.
Each year, many people from both home and abroad would pay a visit to Taiyi City and look at the marvelous Misty Peak with reverence from far away.
Being on the top of Taiyi Mountain, Misty Peak overlooked the rest of the world like the noble head above Taiyi Fantasy Sect.
After the duel at Yinhai started for a few minutes, Yun Zhongzi had received the message.
It was a peddler selling news in Taiyi City who sent the message to Yun Zhongzi; instead of Zhang Tie. Yun Zhongzi only used one earth-element crystal to drive the peddler mad, who even gifted Yun Zhongzi a military remote-sensing communications device, telling Yun Zhongzi that he would receive the news soon after the duel started at Yinhai.
Everyone across the country was paying attention to this duel. Besides Gold and Power Law, people from all walks of life had opened gambles with high attention. Therefore, that peddler didn't even ask about Yun Zhongzi's profession. He just treated it as a business of high profit.
The news reached Xuantian City from the Gobi Desert outside Shazhou Province hundreds of thousands of miles away, then to the peddler, then to Yun Zhongzi. Although it was fast enough, the process took almost 7-8 minutes.
After receiving the news, Yun Zhongzi reaffirmed it and took out that lowest-level, extremely crude cup-sized remote-sensing communications crystal device and rubbed it into ashes along with its metal shell, making it go with the wind.
The order from the emperor could not be followed when the general was too far away.
Yun Zhongzi was not a general. Neither was Zhang Tie an emperor. Therefore, Yun Zhongzi neglected the request of the "humble head" of the Great Wilderness Sect on not interfering with this conflict.
Yun Zhongzi neither broke his promise nor violated the law or the intention of his superior. When in the Dongtian of Great Wilderness Sect, Yun Zhongzi had told Zhang Tie unless Zhang Tie was greater than him in battle strength, he would not follow Zhang Tie's order. As of now, Yun Zhongzi the elder of Great Wilderness Sect and Zhang Tie the head just "negotiated" with each other.
The result of this negotiation was that Yun Zhongzi came to the nestle of Taiyi Fantasy Sect on the day the duel started at Yinhai.
Taiyi Mountain looked beautiful from the sky. It was a prosperous sect. Covering thousands of miles' land and rivers, it was domineering.
Watching the scenery under foot, Yun Zhongzi's eyes gradually turned gloomy. The prosperity of Taiyi Fantasy Sect reminded Yun Zhongzi of the tragedy of Great Wilderness Sect. Therefore, his killing intent gradually boiled.
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"Who are you? It's the territory of Taiyi Fantasy Sect. Nobody else is allowed to stay in this fly zone…"
Soon after Yun Zhongzi crumbled that remote-sensing communications device, two black iron knights of Taiyi Fantasy Sect had arrived in front of Yun Zhongzi, who looked like rangers. One of them instantly asked Yun Zhongzi in a stern pattern.
In common linen robe, Yun Zhongzi almost hid his qi as a sage-level knight. Given his look, he was too common. Being utterly different than those young guys who promoted to knights at a very young age, he looked like a grey-haired person who finally promoted to a knight after 100-200 years' cultivation.
At the sight of Yun Zhongzi, the two rangers had listed Yun Zhongzi as such a kind of person.
After throwing a faint glance at the two knights, Yun Zhongzi replied calmly, "I'm here for killing people…"
The two knights became stunned. Before they realized what happened, Yun Zhongzi had made them into a bloody rain, one punch for one person.
After seeing blood, Yun Zhongzi's eyes turned red. Before the warning bell of Taiyi Fantasy Sect rang, Yun Zhongzi had shot towards Misty Peak like a shell with a large number of lightning bolts while the powerful battle qi wave of a sage-level knight appeared on him.
His first earth-shaking strike fell onto the main palace of Taiyi Fantasy Sect.
With a loud boom, the main palace of Taiyi Fantasy Sect was shattered while the entire Misty Peak rocked. The rising smoke and dust and the loud sound aroused the attention of the entire sect.
The mountain gate of Taiyi Fantasy Sect had not been provoked like this for so many years. Therefore, their knights and disciples didn't respond to it timely.
When his second strike fell onto Misty Peak closely after the first strike, most of rockeries and pavilions over Misty Peak started to be broken while numerous boulders rolled down, causing a large amount of battle qi smokes and tornadoes to rise into the sky.
"Audacious…" An earth knight rushed over here immediately. However, before he finished his words, Yun Zhongzi had punched him as fiercely as a mutated tiger, breaking his protective battle qi and turning him into ashes.
When his third strike reached, Misty Peak had started to incline.
At this moment, a female shadow knight in above 7 change realm who could pose a bit threat to Yun Zhongzi finally arrived with a slim long sword, a secret item. From 1,000 m away, she had slashed towards Yun Zhongzi in an overwhelming manner…
'Here comes someone great.' Yun Zhongzi sneered while shielding the slash using his protective battle qi; at the same time, he launched his fourth strike.
When the sword qi touched his protective battle qi, it directly penetrated through it in the void and exited from the other side, leaving Yun Zhongzi safe and sound.
"Sage-level knight…" the female knight changed her look at once as she sent a warning to those knights of Taiyi Fantasy Sect who were rushing over here, "Everyone, retreat. Quick…"
Before she finished her words, Yun Zhongzi had accelerated towards her…
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On the airboat of the Supreme Court, Jianghe Prefecture, Jiangzhou Province…
Lan Yunxi and Elder Muyu were telling what they saw in Dragon-Tiger Mountain to the chief justice of Jiangzhou Province in details.
The news that the third prince was killed had long rocked the entire country. The Supreme Court had long dispatched imperial powerhouses to Jiangzhou Province for investigation. As witnesses, Lan Yunxi and Elder Muyu were "invited" into the airboat of the chief justice of Jiangzhou Province.
"I've told you that Elder Muyu and I flew into the air the moment the first assassin appeared. Because the assassin's target was the third prince, who was accompanied by two shadow knight bodyguards, we didn't move closer in case of any misunderstanding. Therefore, we survived…"
Lan Yunxin explained calmly to the chief justice of Jiangzhou Province. Right then, she suddenly stopped as her face turned pale. At the same time, her body rocked and quivered for a couple of seconds…
The chief justice of Jiangzhou Province and Elder Muyu were both stunned by her abnormal movement.
"Aah, miss, what happened…"
Lan Yunxi didn't speak. She was in a daze while pouring out tears.
Just now, Lan Yunxi received a piece of news——Yun Zhongzi the sage-level knight of Great Wilderness Sect launched a raid to Taiyi Fantasy Sect and destroyed Misty Peak. The mountain gate of Taiyi Fantasy Sect was scattered around in a mess. Besides, Lan Yunxi's master Zhu Qianqian, one of the four elders of Taiyi Fantasy Sect, who cared about Lan Yunxi so much these years was killed…
The message was sent by her senior sister apprentice. When Lan Yunxi received this news, Taiyi Fantasy Sect had already sent an emergency gathering order to all of its knights and let them return to the location of the sect.
Within one day, Lan Yunxi's fiance and her master had been killed, which shocked Lan Yunxi greatly without any warning…
After Xuanyuan Wuji was killed, Lan Yunxi didn't cry; because they didn't have any affection at all; instead, it was merely a trade. Since the beginning, Xuanyuan Wuji was strange to Lan Yunxi. Whereas, the death of her master made her extremely distressed. She felt that the whole world was dim. After her father's death, she lacked one more person who cared about her most.
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At the same time, above Yinhai.
With another boom, Zhang Tie's 36.6 ton hammer which was applied with Class IV consolidating rune finally broke apart in the strong impact wave as it couldn't bear the destructive strikes.
It was the second heavy hammer that Zhang Tie lost in this combat. Except for silver secret items, ordinary metal weapons could never sustain the destructive strength of Zhang Tie's kinetic strike.
When the heavy hammer broke apart, the Heavens Ruler of Heavenly Hunyuan weirdly broke through Zhang Tie's protective sword qi and three swirling silver secret shields and struck onto Zhang Tie's protective battle qi like crossing the void.
Zhang Tie's protective battle qi rocked heavily as it collapsed. When the Heavens Ruler almost touched him, Zhang Tie roared as he forcefully clipped the sharp blade of the Heavens Ruler by hands like a pair of iron pliers.
The armor over his arm collapsed as Zhang Tie's hands bled heavily. However, such a milli-second delay enabled Zhang Tie to escape from it. When the Heavens Ruler touched his body, Zhang Tie had shifted to miles away, avoiding the sharp strike of the Heavens Ruler.
The strike at tens of thousands of meters high fell onto the ground in vain, drawing a huge sand trench over 1,000 m long.
Although Zhang Tie had avoided this strike, his chest armor still sustained a part of this strike, causing his chest armor and back armor to collapse and fall off completely.
"One more…" Zhang Tie roared which could be heard 60 miles away. At the same time, the third heavy hammer appeared in his hand. Closely after that, Zhang Tie in broken outfit rushed towards Heavenly Hunyuan who was holding Heavens Ruler in a domineering manner at nearly 8 miles a second like a meteor or a fiery phoenix.
On the airboat, Zhang Tie's three sons and Bai Suxian had poured out tears when they saw heavily wounded Zhang Tie rushing towards Heavenly Hunyuan with the same weapon in an unyielding manner.
All the onlooking knights were in silence as they were all shocked by Zhang Tie's unyielding battle will and the weird Heavens Ruler in the hand of Heavenly Hunyuan instead of Zhang Tie's battle strength as a divine dominator.
"He better escape…" Wu Dingtian the head of Demons-Killing Valley murmured and shook his head as he saw Zhang Tie rushing towards Heavenly Hunyuan again.
Even as a divine dominator, Zhang Tie was just a shadow knight, which was three levels lower than a sage-level knight. Every shadow knight would be hopeless facing a sage-level knight, even a heavenly knight; except Zhang Tie, who was still in battle. However, it was not most fatal. As for Zhang Tie, the most fatal thing was the Heavens Ruler in the hand of Heavenly Hunyuan besides the sharp gap between levels.
Heavens Ruler was the most well-known golden secret item in Taixia Country. There were many legends about Heavens Ruler. Not until today was it unveiled to the public. This golden secret item had a powerful, mysterious space teleportation ability as it could almost ignore any spatial distance or physical defense and directly touch its opponent. Besides his protective battle qi, any external defense of Zhang Tie was ineffective for the Heavens Ruler. At the same time, Heavens Ruler appeared granting Heavens Hunyuan with an abnormally high speed spatial movement and powerful space defense ability, which could offset the high speed and long-distance striking ability that Zhang Tie was proud of as a divine dominator.
"Grandpa, save him. I know you could save him…" Pandora pulled Wu Dingtian's hand as she beseeched her grandpa who was also a sage-level knight with tears.
"I could only give him a hand. It depends whether he could escape…" Wu Dingtian took a look at Pandora as he instantly closed his eyes. Meanwhile, he made a strange right hand gesture on his back.
In the blink of an eye, the wind around Yinhai had grown stronger as onlooking knights were shocked by a black line rolling over the skyline in the distance.
When Zhang Tie and Heavenly Hunyuan were in the fiercest combat, sandstorm the most terrifying natural disaster in the Gobi Desert arrived without any omen…
After receiving the news from Taiyi Fantasy Sect, the face of Taiyi Old Man who was standing on the airboat had turned black as he felt pretty bad. Feeling the sandstorm behind him, Taiyi Old Man squinted his eyes as he immediately fixated onto Wu Dingtian from hundreds of miles away.
Wu Dingtian threw a distant glance at Taiyi Old Man.
By far, Shenkong Old Man of Qionglou Pavilion had already left Yinhai. After receiving the news that Yun Zhongzi launched a raid towards Taiyi Fantasy Sect, Shenkong Old Man instantly turned back to the nest of Qionglou Pavilion in case of the same disaster.
After suffering a heavy loss, a semi-sage hermit forced Yun Zhongzi to leave there using three untriggered thunder of nirvana. Qionglou Pavilion was not as confident as Taiyi Fantasy Sect as there was not even a semi-sage knight in the nestle of Qionglou Pavilion; instead, there was only a heavenly knight deputy head. Therefore, Shenkong Old Man must go back. It was not a joke for a sage-level knight to raid his sect's nest.
Zhang Tie and Heavenly Hunyuan felt the terrifying sandstorm from afar too.
Heavenly Hunyuan squinted his eyes as he threw a glance at the airboat of Demons-Killing Valley too. At the same time, he received the signal of acting right now from Taiyi Old Man.
However, Zhang Tie launched another strike towards Heavenly Hunyuan.
Zhang Tie had exerted his speed to the utmost. However, he couldn't approach Heavenly Hunyuan at all like before. Not only that, Heavenly Hunyuan moved as fast as him as his Heavens Ruler could strike Zhang Tie from over 10,000 m away.
Zhang Tie finally realized that the tactics and strategies that he had deducted before were nothing but sh*t facing a sage-level knight holding a golden secret item.
Although Zhang Tie appeared moving as fast as a lightning bolt, he was actually having close combat with Heavenly Hunyuan. He couldn't get rid of Heavenly Hunyuan's strike at all; he could only seek for a chance of strike when being beaten.
Since the duel started, the largest distance between them had not surpassed 20 miles. The distance of 20 miles was like a 3 m close combat between two LV 6 fighters as for Zhang Tie and Heavenly Hunyuan. Heavenly Hunyuan could pass half of such a distance in one second. What was more amazing was that the strike of his Heavens Ruler could easily cross 20,000 m.
As of now, even though nobody warned him, Zhang Tie had felt that the "Ruler" appeared to be representing a powerful space-teleportation ability, which rightly curbed his strength in speed as a divine dominator on the level of shadow knight. If he promoted to a heavenly knight, the restrictive effect of Heavens Ruler might be dwarfed; however, now, he couldn't do anything to undermine the effect of Heavens Ruler.
Heavenly Hunyuan was not providing any chance of survival to him; instead, he was isolating any chance of survival for Zhang Tie.
It was the toughest, most dangerous and inevitable combat for Zhang Tie.
Before approaching Zhang Tie, the strike of Heavens Ruler had filled each inch of space within tens of thousands of meters with invisible thorns and obstacles. Each step forward, Zhang Tie's protective sword qi and shields had to be cut and impacted for tens of thousands of times. His off-hand battle qi couldn't reach Heavenly Hunyuan unless crossing so many blades in the air.
If Zhang Tie was an ordinary shadow knight, he must have died over 100 times.
"Go die…" With some more wounds, Zhang Tie's kinetic strike fell on the semi-transparent bizarre battle qi which was similar to the mixture of protective battle qi and realm strength hundreds of meters away from Heavenly Hunyuan.
The huge protective battle qi layer quivered a bit, yet it still didn't break. The terrifying power of this kinetic strike penetrated through the protective battle qi layer and directly exited from its back, forming a strong impact wave which swept over the airspace within 10,000 m behind Heavenly Hunyuan and disappeared in the overwhelming black sandstorm…
This was another terror of sage-level knights. After combining with the realm strength, sage-level knights' protective battle qi had become a virtual entity. Any strength of strike would leak from the opposite point of this kind of protective battle qi as if it was invisible.
No matter how powerful one's kinetic strike was, it couldn't work on the huge protective battle qi layer at all.
However, Zhang Tie believed that Heavenly Hunyuan's protective battle qi was not unrivaled or irresistible; instead, it must have its upper limit of bearing and transmission capacity. As long as that upper limit was broken through, the kinetic strike would work on Heavenly Hunyuan in the end. Additionally, it was not easy to drive Heavens Ruler. As for weapons that needed to be driven by force, the more powerful the weapon was, the greater would be the force needed to drive it. This point would remain unchanged forever.
Zhang Tie didn't think he would be defeated. Additionally, Zhang Tie had another trump card. No matter how tough this combat was, Zhang Tie knew that he still had a chance to topple Heavenly Hunyuan before the last moment.
…
The irresistible sandstorm finally arrived, causing the center of Yinhai dark completely.
However, the dark was not an obstacle for Zhang Tie or Heavenly Hunyuan.
The high-speed rolling sands were like blades and bullets in the sandstorm, in which, Zhang Tie flew as fast as before; by contrast, the strength of Heavens Ruler appeared to have weakened facing this "natural disaster".
After feeling that the power of Heavenly Hunyuan appeared to be influenced by this natural disaster, Zhang Tie felt relieved as he intended to extend the distance between him and Heavenly Hunyuan at his full speed.
"You wanna escape? It's too late���" Heavenly Hunyuan reproached gloomily as he had already come to the side of Zhang Tie, being less than 100 m away. Zhang Tie's heart raced as he felt the Heavens Ruler was going to touch him. Strangely, it was not the terrifying strike of Heavens Ruler, but a familiar space wave.
The space wave was not caused by Heavens Ruler; instead, it was similar to the faint space wave from a broken space-teleportation equipment. Zhang Tie was very familiar with this space wave because he had sensed it when his substitute detonated. However, this space wave was dozens of times greater than that caused by his broken space-teleportation equipment.
Before Zhang Tie figured out what happened, he had felt his surrounding space wave being detonated and expanded by tens of thousands of times. The earlier space wave appeared to be a fuse of a powder keg.
The entire space was collapsing while a huge hole appeared in the void. Everything on Zhang Tie's side including the terrifying sandstorm and Zhang Tie himself was towed inside the hole in an irresistible manner like being throwing into a sinking swirl.
Heavenly Hunyuan's face reappeared in Zhang Tie's vision with a sneer. Hundreds of meters away, the Heavens Ruler was hovering above the head of Heavenly Hunyuan and giving out a bizarre light, covering Heavenly Hunyuan. At the same time, it was dragging Heavenly Hunyuan out of the irresistible space suction like an upstream airboat.
"See you, Immortal Qianji. The black invitation cards of three top sects are tricky. You must not have imagined that you're going to die in this way. You're going to be in the permanent dark. It's a natural disaster. Don't blame me, hahaha…" Heavenly Hunyuan's voice reached Zhang Tie full of irony and killing intent.
At the same time, Heavenly Hunyuan had been over 2,000 m away from Zhang Tie. Watching Zhang Tie with a sneer, Heavenly Hunyuan gradually extended the distance between them.
At this moment, Zhang Tie's entire outfit had been shattered. Each inch of Zhang Tie's muscles was like under a mountain as he couldn't move at all. Even his battle qi was diffusing while being torn by the terrifying strength.
"Go to hell…" Zhang Tie roared as he fixed on Heavenly Hunyuan, eye corners almost burst. At the same time, a sword-shaped mark appeared on his forehead while a brilliant light shot out of the mark and entered the forehead of Heavenly Hunyuan from 10,000 m away after penetrating through the light of the Heavens Ruler around Heavenly Hunyuan…
Deity-Killing Sword!
It was the last trump card of Zhang Tie as a divine dominator, which was gifted by Lord Fairysea.
Zhang Tie drove this trick with his full spiritual energy, which shocked the heavens and the earth.
Heavenly Hunyuan could not imagine such a trick. As a result, he spurted out blood as his qi became disordered. At the same time, the light of the Heavens Ruler above the head of Heavenly Hunyuan disappeared. After being an ordinary item, the Heavens Ruler instantly rolled and flew towards Zhang Tie like a piece of paper in the wind.
"No…" Heavenly Hunyuan uttered a shriek as he was also involved in the turbulence in an irresistible manner like Zhang Tie.
Outside Yinhai, the weird sandstorm disappeared weirdly. In the eyes of tens of thousands of knights, Immortal Qianji and Heavenly Hunyuan rolled and disappeared in the pitch-dark chasm in the void. In the blink of an eye, the chasm had disappeared together with the two top powerhouses in Taixia Country.
It was deadly silent above Yinhai…
"Puhh…"Watching the final result, Taiyi Old Man's face turned blue, red and blue again as he spurted out blood, making the Taiji diagram on his posterior chest scarlet…
…
At the same time, in a back room of Heavenly Fortune Sect, Xuanzhou Province, the head and a great handful of top powerhouses and elders of Heavenly Fortune Sect were sitting decently and solemnly on the ground and watching the manifestation of divination on the tortoiseshell.
All the powerhouses of Heavenly Fortune Sect had been exhausted for this divination. There was even blood at the mouth corner of an elder.
However, no matter how weak they were, each one of them was widely opening their eyes and gazing at those tortoiseshells which they had tossed in a secret method on the ground.
There was only one manifestation of divination on the classic shells!
"Dragon in the sky…" The head of Heavenly Fortune Sect let out a deep sigh as he said in hoarse and firm voice after gazing at the manifestation of divination for a long while.
Chapter 1644: A Bizarre Land
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
Not knowing how long it took, Zhang Tie's consciousness recovered like a looming and jumping sparkle gradually got burned.
Zhang Tie moved his fingers as he gradually became clear-minded. After that, he realized that he was lying on the ground, face down. Then, a sharp pain started to strike his central nervous system and brain.
After feeling the sharp pain, Zhang Tie let out a sigh. Although nobody liked pain, sometimes, it was a lucky symbol for one to feel pain as it indicated that his physical functions still worked.
Besides intermittent sharp pains, Zhang Tie also felt very fatigued and weak.
In this case, he didn't sit up at once; instead, he just lay there quietly as he tried to recover his physical strength and sensed the surroundings acutely.
It was not very hot here. He was lying on soft sands as he could only hear the water flow nearby. He didn't hear any human voice or notice any dangerous animals. It seemed to be safe here for the time being.
Besides his wounds all over, the sense of emptiness in his mind sea made Zhang Tie dizzy. In the gloomy, jumping flames of his consciousness, Zhang Tie saw past scenes flowing by like water.
Deity-Killing Swordsmanship was gifted by Lord Fairysea. It was not a fatal trick for the long-distance strike; however, Zhang Tie ignored it at the critical moment as he spent his full efforts in firing the sword-shaped spiritual energy into the mind sea of Heavenly Hunyuan from thousands of meters away.
This strike exhausted Zhang Tie's enormous spiritual energy in a split second. As a result, the Deity-Killing Sword played its utmost role and inflicted Heavenly Hunyuan severely from far away. Closely after that, Heavenly Hunyuan was involved in the turbulence of the space together with Zhang Tie.
When Zhang Tie recalled what happened and realized that he was still alive, he felt fortunate and scared.
In the space turbulence, Zhang Tie felt like a leaf in the billows. There were tens of thousands of pitch-dark spiral entrances and chasms of different sizes in the turbulence, which looked like swirls in an ocean or cracks and holes on cheese. He was then sucked inside in an irresistible way.
The cracks and holes gave Zhang Tie a near-death experience. It was even more terrifying than sustaining the thunder of nirvana. In the space turbulence, Zhang Tie couldn't enter Castle of Black Iron through the portal in his mind sea at all. Each crack and hole carried death and destruction. Zhang Tie completely lost his way ahead.
What survived Zhang Tie was the Great Blessing Method that Pandora had applied to him.
At the most critical and dangerous moment, Zhang Tie felt a warm sense flowing over as if he immediately felt as pleasant and empty as that when Pandora applied the Great Blessing Method to him. Right then, with a sudden inspiration, Zhang Tie used his instinct feeling an entrance being in correspondence to his pleasure and emptiness among those cracks and holes. After that, out of his desire of surviving himself and instinctive response, the virtual image of king roc in the stage of shadow knight appeared behind Zhang Tie for the first time. The king roc then flapped its wings forcefully and got rid of the space turbulence before throwing itself into the very special swirl. After that, he lost his consciousness.
As for Heavenly Hunyuan, Zhang Tie saw him being sucked in a space hole. When Heavenly Hunyuan noticed Zhang Tie's virtual image of king roc and became speechless out of shock, his protective battle qi and body split up and turned into ashes in a split second.
Even sage-level knight was as weak as an ant facing such a terrifying spatial strength.
Without Pandora's Great Blessing Method, Zhang Tie knew that he would never have such good luck.
The recovery of his consciousness was like a hidden switch. His spiritual energy was gurgling out of the dry void in his mind sea like surging spring water. Meanwhile, the hot sun above his empty qi sea started to give out light too and a bit battle qi emerged in the void of his qi sea. The benefit of recovering from the strike of the thunder of nirvana started to appear at this moment as Zhang Tie's spiritual energy and battle qi recovered at a higher speed essentially.
As his spiritual energy recovered rapidly, he felt pretty cool in his mind. At the same time, the void of his qi sea gradually became full, making him more and more clear-minded and more perceptive about the surroundings. Despite the sharp pain, Zhang Tie felt his strength coming back. Therefore, he recovered his composure. As long as he had strength, his wounds could be ignored.
Lying on the ground, Zhang Tie slowly adjusted his breath rhythm as he inhaled heavily. At the same time, each cell of Zhang Tie started to recover its vigor.
After inhaling heavily for a few times, Zhang Tie suddenly found that the aura and energy in the air were 10 times more plentiful than that in Castle of Black Iron. After the aura and energy in the fresh air entered Zhang Tie's blood through his lungs, all of his cells became jubilant.
'Where am I? How could there be such plentiful aura in the air?'
A whim occurred to Zhang Tie when he slightly recovered.
Zhang Tie tried to move his limbs and hardly turned over himself, face up. Soon after that, the dazzling sunlight had made him close his eyes. Zhang Tie then put one hand above his eyes to cover the scorching sunlight.
In haziness, a huge shadow appeared in the sky, covering the dazzling sunlight for Zhang Tie at once. At the same time, he heard a voice.
"Aah, boss, there's one person downside there…"
"Human or demon…"
"It's a man; I promise…"
"Pick him up and check whether he's still alive. A few days ago, a fierce battle broke out in Biliu City. This man might have escaped out of there…"
Soon after his words, a person in red, bizarre outfit had extended his metal bird wings and dived down. When he landed beside Zhang Tie, he cradled Zhang Tie at once and flew off. Zhang Tie then saw a wonderful scene——many peaks were floating in the sky in the distance. He was lying on a coastal beach just now. Many black clouds of smoke were rising from the horizon in the distance, which was the trace of war…