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Chapter 687: New Trouble

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

The moment Zhang Tie sat down had a seductive maid come to Zhang Tie's front while twisting her butts. At the same time, she lowered her body and exposed her breasts to Zhang Tie's eyes, " Sir, what can I do for you?"

Even though Zhang Tie's look had been extremely average while holding an extremely common pioneering sword, he still felt warm about the maid's adroit and enthusiastic smile. If he were an innocent guy, he might have thought that this girl fell in love with him.

"Brandy!"

"Wait for a second, please!"

The maid twisted her waist away. After a short while, she served a bottle of Brandy and a glass on the table.

Zhang Tie kept drinking casually as he seemed to watch that stripper on the stage. Actually, he was listening to the discussions of those surrounding customers. As a person who had knight's consciousness, Zhang Tie could hear all the talks in the pub.

A table of mercenaries was discussing the riot and its bloody suppression that happened in Kalur Harbor 2 days ago. After the suppression, according to the traces in Kalur Harbor, they found that someone might have pushed the riot of the refugees in Kalur Harbor from the back; many moles mixed in the refugees and finally pushed the event to a dilemma. After the suppression, many "refugees" who looked eye-catching in the riot disappeared. The garrisons of Kalur Harbor had started to investigate suspects...

That table of pioneers behind Zhang Tie was discussing the battle situation in the north. Although the super demon corps had disappeared for 2 months, many people were still concerning their whereabouts...

"Have you heard that the fleets of Eastern Continents have already gone ashore in some Hua countries in the south and are transporting away a great number of Hua people..."

Zhang Tie was attracted by this news from a customer at 4 o'clock direction over 20 m away from Zhang Tie.

"I also heard about it. However, I'm not sure about that. It was said that each ship dispatched from Eastern Continent weighed above 1 million tons. Each of them could hold over 200,000 Hua people at once. Such huge ships have anchored in over 10 harbors of Hua countries in the south. Some harbors could not even hold such huge ships. Therefore, they could only anchor in the near sea. As a result, ferries were required to carry people and supplies to the huge ships. Do such huge ships really exist? It's unimaginable."

"Taixia is a wonderful country. When I finish this task and make a bucket of money, I will go to Taixia. I wonder how this holy war would proceed. Even those richest people are moving to Taixia Country. What about you?"

"Hmm, count me in!"

"Count me in, I really want to take a look at the 1 million-ton huge ships in Taixia!"

...

After hearing this news, Zhang Tie's heart pounded. It was out of his imagination that Taixia Country in Eastern Continent had dispatched fleets to help Hua people evacuate from Blackson Humans Corridor during the period that he cultivated in the misty sea. This was the first time for Taixia to intervene with the battle situation in Blackson Humans Corridor. This symbolic move actually indicated that Taixa Country didn't think highly about the future of Blackson Humans Corridor.

The arrival of Taixia fleets was both good or bad for many people in Blackson Humans Corridor. On one hand, the evacuation of Hua people would intensify the turmoil in Blackson Humans Corridor and enable more people to move southwards and seek for the opportunity to leave Blackson Humans Corridor. In a short-term, it was not good; however, after more Hua people were evacuated, more space of survival could be left to those refugees who moved southwards, which was conducive to relieve the stress of population in southern cities of Blackson Humans Corridor. In a long-term, this could avoid more people from becoming demonized puppets while preserving humans' battle force.

Zhang Tie remembered that almost all the cities in Huaiyuan Palace were close to the sea. The Hua people in downtown could definitely evacuate firstly. But Zhang Tie started to imagine what kind of people would be left in the end.

However, only after imagining about it half a minute had Zhang Tie been shocked by another news from another table. Several days ago, Huaiyuan Palace sold the entire Taian City to Norman Empire's imperial household.

'Sold a city?' Zhang Tie was stunned for quite a while. Taian City was the northernmost key military town in Huaiyuan Prefecture which had high and thick city walls, vast and fertile land, sparse population and was close to Yuanjiang River which was a natural chasm. It was the portal of the entire Huaiyuan Prefecture. It was really a big deal to sell it to Norman Empire's imperial household. It was a charming decision for both seller and buyer. Zhang Tie didn't know how much had Norman Empire's imperial household paid for that; he knew it ought to be a very terrifyingly high price.

Taian City had changed its name to Hope City and became a southern base of Norman Empire's imperial household in Blackson Humans Corridor. A great number of people arrived here by airships from Norman Empire every day.

Recalling that Jinyun Country's airship fleet started to help Norman Empire evacuate its people after leaving Selnes Theater of Operations, Zhang Tie knew that there should be a hidden trade and plot which could only be known by someone at present when the decision was made.

In the pub, Zhang Tie had heard the name Lin Changjiang many times. The Marshall of Norman Empire who had severely damaged the army of demonized puppets had become well-known across Blackson Humans Corridor and became the idol of many people. Even though those recalcitrant mercenaries and paladins showed their admiration when they mentioned this name.

Of course, the one who could kill the most demonized puppets in the holy war was a human hero, just like Lin Changjiang.

Many mercenaries were talking about their tasks. The commonest task was to clear the disaster of demonized puppets in the north. Bigger mercenary groups would accept bigger tasks; while smaller mercenary groups would accept small and sparse ones. They were paid a lot for these tasks. According to the current "market price", a commonest demonized puppet's head would worth one gold coin. For a troop of over 100 demonized puppets, each demonized puppet would worth 2 gold coins as some of them might be above LV 6. The price would be tripled for a troop of over 500 demonized puppets. The price of a troop of over 10,000 demonized puppets would be at least 100,000 gold coins, which could only be accepted by large-scale mercenary groups.

In recent years, the mercenary groups in Blackson Humans Corridor had made a lot of money by clearing demonized puppets. They also made great meritorious deeds for humans. As a result, many mercenary groups of Armes, the empire of mercenaries had expanded.

The holy war had just come to a start; however, powerful forces had gradually grown more important in many places such as the Iron-blood Battle Team of Norman Empire and the mercenary groups in Armes. As a result, warriors' positions surged rapidly. For many commoners, this holy war might be a disaster; however, for warriors and cultivators, this might be the beginning of their heyday. Through the war, the previous orders would collapse while new orders would be established through naked fists, sabers and swords.

After each holy war, the social status of warriors and cultivators would rise in the human society. Zhang Tie wondered how the new social society would become, after this holy war.

Watching Zhang Tie drinking alone on the chair beside the stage, the stripper gradually drew closer to him. After Zhang Tie drunk up a glass of Brandy, the stripper's "white rabbits" almost touched his face.

The pair of "white rabbits" and a piece of underwear which was woven by fine metal chains loomed in front of Zhang Tie's eyes. The pair of "white rabbits", the waist and the butts constantly shook in front of Zhang Tie while she raided Zhang Tie with her breasts and butts.

Zhang Tie's face blushed slightly. Although he was not a newbie anymore, it was his first time to be teased by a woman while all the onlookers were tough men in such a half-public scene.

Seeing Zhang Tie becoming bashful, all the onlookers burst out into laughter. It was a way to entertain themselves by seeing a newbie embarrassed.

Zhang Tie soon recovered his composure. When the stripper shook her "white rabbits" in front of him, Zhang Tie noticed her fine sweat drops under the shiny lamplight. It was actually very painstaking to do such a dance. Zhang Tie noticed that the stripper was not elder than 30 years old; she just had a hot figure and a mature makeup.

Actually, women who made money by doing labor works were very pitiful.

Zhang Tie let out a sigh slightly as he took out a gold coin and placed it into the metal net in between her "white rabbits". He tried to not touch her body; instead, he just smiled as he whispered, "Thanks for your hard work."

The woman seemed to pause her movement. Then, she threw a deep glance at Zhang Tie before smiling at him. After that, she turned around and didn't tease him anymore.

Zhang Tie received a lot of information from their talks and discussions. When Zhang Tie was going to leave. 3 people walked in the pub. After looking around the pub, they went straightly towards Zhang Tie aggressively.

"You killed my subordinates?" One of them walked to Zhang Tie's front as he pressed on Zhang Tie's table forcefully. At the same time, he glared at Zhang Tie in a commanding way...

At the sight of this man's gesture, everybody moved their eyes to Zhang Tie.

Zhang Tie sighed while shaking his head, "Oh my god! Even dung beetles have an organization!"

After a dead silence, the whole pub was filled with laughter...

Chapter 688: Mad Dog

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

After hearing Zhang Tie's ridicule, a killing qi flashed through that man's eyes. He raised his hand to stop the other two people on his side from moving. Closely after that, he narrowed his eyes and watched Zhang Tie with a sneer. It seemed that he wanted to keep Zhang Tie's look in his mind.

"Do you know who I am?" That man asked icily.

Zhang Tie raised his head as he faintly looked at this man. In Zhang Tie's eyes, this man was over 50 years old with a tough figure and a fat face. He was even a bit bare-headed. The moment Zhang Tie saw him had he realized that this guy was tricky. However, Zhang Tie had been immune to tricky figures of this kind after staying in Selnes Theater of Operations for a year, during which period, he had already chopped off numerous heads of demons and demonized puppets and killed a great handful of b*stards of Three-eye Association.

Zhang Tie just watched that man like watching a lump of sh*t, "Your subordinates were just sc*mbags who stabbed innocent people and plundered them from their backs. Needless to say, you're also a sc*mbag. Therefore, I don't care about your name!"

"Well, well, hope you can keep your words in mind. Do you think you can stay in this pub for the rest of your life? You'd better not leave this pub." After throwing a glare at Zhang Tie, that man looked around other people in this pub, especially that bartender who was wiping glasses behind the counter. Out of some concern, he finally gritted his teeth before waving his hand and leading his two subordinates away.

After they left, a half-drunk tough man with whiskers whose face had turned wholly red came to Zhang Tie's side. Closely after that, he called a maid, "One more glass for this brother, my treat!" After saying that, the tough man threw himself onto Zhang Tie's side and thumbed up towards Zhang Tie, "Well done, brother. I've long hated Rein the b*stard. You should take care of yourself as you dared make him embarrassed in the public. That villain could do whatever he wants!"

"That guy is called Rein?"

"Hmm. That guy is a mad, greedy dog; even his teeth were covered with poison. You'd better not leave out of here until night. The moment you leave the pub should you run away and leave Upton City as soon as possible!"

"Does this mad dog have a sharp master?"

After hearing Zhang Tie's question, a light flashed by the eyes of that slightly drunk tough man, "Yeah, the one who could control a mad dog must be more terrifying than that mad dog. There's an old Hua saying, 'A dog threatens people on the strength of his master's power!' Am I clear?"

At this moment, the maid served another glass of Brandy. The tough man then stood up and returned to his own table.

Zhang Tie smiled as he raised that glass towards the tough man's table. He didn't care who was that man behind Rein, neither did he prepare to stay long in Upton City. When he listened to their talks, Zhang Tie had already made a determination, 'I will go back to Ice and Snow Wilderness first. As to the iron-armored demons' fruit of source, I will deal with it later. Unless the holy war comes to an end right now, I will have more chances to meet iron-armored demons. I will get that iron-armored demons' fruit of source sooner or later. It's unnecessary for me to play hide-and-seek with that super demon corps at this moment. It's more efficient to go back to the misty sea to cultivate in seclusion than wandering in Blackson Humans Corridor aimlessly.'

'I could not change the battle situation facing Blackson Humans Corridor anymore. However, I can still determine and do many meaningful things in Ice and Snow Wilderness. Although I could not change everyone's fate; I can change someone's fate at least. In such a large-scale war, each one only needs to do a good job of his own.'

After Rein arrived, the atmosphere in the pub slightly changed. Zhang Tie found many people were watching him with a sympathetic look, 'It seems that Rein and his master have a very terrifying power and energy in Upton City.'

Zhang Tie had determined to leave Upton City as soon as possible the moment he left the pub, 'It's unnecessary to wrestle with a mad dog and the power behind a mad dog alone. It will waste my time and push me to a dangerous situation.'

Pitifully, although Zhang Tie had a good plan, what happened next was out of his control. The alleged fate and changes always led him to an unprecedented road.

Less than 10 minutes after Rein left the pub, when Zhang Tie had just slowly drunk up a glass of Brandy, a 14 or so teenager appeared in front of Zhang Tie while he placed a box in front of Zhang Tie with shaking hands, "Hi...some...someone asked me to give it to you..."

Before Zhang Tie said anything, the teenager had turned around and ran away.

Zhang Tie became stupefied for a second before slightly changing his face. Although that box was tightly sealed, Zhang Tie could still smell the faint bloody smell that drifted from inside the box.

Zhang Tie opened the box and saw a bloody, coarse and young hand. It was coarse because of the heavy stress from daily life; it was young because of its owner's age. The hand was still clutching a locomotive gold coin. Zhang Tie was very familiar with that hand and that gold coin. The gold coin that Zhang Tie had just gifted to a boy a while ago was issued by the former Andaman Alliance. That hand belonged to the same boy who had just caught Zhang Tie's silver coin and gold coin adroitly a short while ago. The owner of the hand even said that Zhang Tie was the best person that he had seen...

With a faint pain in heart, Zhang Tie closed his eyes as he took a deep breath. He had seen many scenes which were even more miserable than this hand; however, because of this hand, Zhang Tie's killing qi spread in his heart like the wildfire that blew over the mountain in the autumn.

Zhang Tie felt that this hand belonged to himself, the teenager who worked in the grocery store of Blackhot City and worked as a human flesh bag in the Iron-thorn Fighting Club who struggled to make every single cent...

Donder was right. Not everyone was human. Besides human, not even animals could treat their same kind using the same cruel means in the mother nature.

After opening his eyes once again, Zhang Tie closed the box and finished all the Brandy in the bottle. After that, he dropped a gold coin and walked out of the pub resolutely with the long sword in hand.

All the people in the pub saw Zhang Tie off with various looks, many of them were curious about the item in the box.

...

At this moment, it was already dark outside the pub. The air in Upton City was bloody wet. As the rain stopped, more people appeared on the streets while the roadside lamps were lit. Some restaurants were nearby the pub, which had a booming business.

The moment Zhang Tie strode out of the pub had 7-8 policemen swarmed up from outside. A police car which escorted prisoners parked beside the pub. Instead of breaking into the pub to arrest him, those policemen just waited for Zhang Tie to come out.

Those policemen were holding alloy shackles and weapons that resisted arrest. Their heads looked gloomy with 2 silver flowers on the shoulder strap of their police uniform. Seeing the policemen catching people here, the nearby commoners hurriedly ran away.

"Stop moving, you're under arrest as you've violated the laws of Free Commercial Federation!"

Zhang Tie stopped as he watched those policemen with a glassy-eyed look, "Why?"

"Why? Someone saw you kill some refugees outside Upton City. We doubt that you're a mole of demons. Therefore, you should follow us back to the police station for our investigation!" The head policeman labeled Zhang Tie.

"Did Rein call you to arrest me here?" Zhang Tie asked calmly.

After hearing this, those policemen slightly changed their looks while they sneered like looking at an idiot.

"So what? Do you think that you can leave Upton City now? If you dare resist arrest, we can kill you here straightly!" The head policeman lowered his voice as his battle qi totem rolled up in the shape of a huge centipede. Given his look, he was fully confident to take down Zhang Tie. Seeing Zhang Tie standing still, the head policeman waved his hand as he roared, "Put him..."

At this moment, a long sword was stabbed into his head while the bloody sword tip came out of the back of his head. The head policeman gazed at Zhang Tie with widely opened eyes. Before he figured out what happened, his battle-qi totem had already dispersed...

The other policemen were stunned as they had never imagined that Zhang Tie dared resist arrest in the public. Additionally, Zhang Tie's battle force was completely out of their expectation, "Didn't they say this guy was only between LV 5 and LV 6? What the hell?"

When Zhang Tie launched the attack, he didn't spare any time to these policemen to react. With one sword light flying off, the heads of all the other policemen that surrounded him had been sent flying off. In a split second, 7 headless corpses fell on the ground outside the pub which were sprouting fresh blood...

"Ah, policemen were killed..." Some orioles and passers-by were so scared that they screamed loudly.

It had not happened in Upton City for many years that policemen were killed in the public. The whole street was in a chaos...

...

When the chaos started outside, a maid unveiled that paper box on Zhang Tie's table out of curiosity as she shrieked too...

...

In the chaos, Zhang Tie disappeared in the nearby alley while the entire Upton City became chaotic from then on...

Chapter 689: Fifteen Seconds

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

In the dark, narrow alley, Zhang Tie could still smell a remaining bloody smell like that in the paper box within the distance that could not be sensed by commoners. Based on his powerful knight's consciousness, Zhang Tie flashed in the alley in pursuit of the source of that bloody smell.

At this moment, Zhang Tie was a bit regretful. If he knew Rein, the b*stard, could lose his temper on someone innocent, Zhang Tie had already chopped off his head in the pub.

'Now that the b*stard could have police in Upton City deal with this case, he must have a powerful reliance.'

Whatever, Rein had been a dead man in Zhang Tie's heart. If anyone who dared block in front of Zhang Tie, Zhang Tie would kill him together with Rein the mad dog.

With a killing qi surging in his eyes, Zhang Tie had already made the determination.

...

Half an hour later, Zhang Tie had arrived at a hidden corner of a slum, where he saw a puddle of fresh blood and a piece of broken waterproof coir raincoat, 'Those people must have chopped off that boy's arm at this place.' Zhang Tie let out a slight sigh as he didn't see that boy's corpse. The bloody smell grew heavier here. After observing the blood stains for a short while, Zhang Tie moved along the trace and another sort of bloody smell...

After 15 minutes, Zhang Tie saw that little boy in a corner of a dump in a low slum about 1 mile away from where he met that little boy in the east.

That little boy had been wet all over at this moment, who was crouching still under a small tree beside a dump.

Zhang Tie ran over there and squatted down in front of that little boy. After that, he turned over that little boy.

With eyes tightly closed, that little boy was biting a rusted iron wire. His face and lips turned pale while he also had some wounds on his face.

After checking his breathing situation and pulses, Zhang Tie found that the little boy's heart was still beating faintly. If he didn't find him, this boy could not survive tonight. He then put his hand on the little boy's chest and filled two vials of all-purpose medicament into his stomach.

The boy's right hand had been chopped off while his clothes had been covered with blood stains. An iron wire was tightened above the place where his arm was broken, which almost cut into his flesh. Thankfully, his vessels were tightened; therefore, his blood was stopped. One end of the iron wire was in the little boy's mouth while the other end was circled on his left hand.

At the sight of this scene, Zhang Tie seemed to watch a little boy stumbling towards this dump with the instinct of seeking for survival, who then found a rusted iron wire from the litter and came to a hidden place under the tree before finally wrapping his wound using one end of the iron wire while biting the other end of the iron wire.

This was the crudest method to stop bleeding and might be the only way for the little boy to save himself at that moment.

Being inflicted by great pains, the little boy was like a deserted puppy. The moment he wrapped his wound had he been in a deep coma...

Zhang Tie made the little boy lean against his legs while he took off the iron wire from the little boy's mouth and arm and used professional medicine to deal with his wound.

Benefited from the all-purpose medicament, the little boy slowly woke up as he opened his eyes.

"They...they asked me where...where you were...you...you're a good person...I...didn't tell them..."

After hearing the little boy's first words, Zhang Tie's eyes were filled with tears.

"Do you have any family member?" Zhang Tie asked him with a lower voice.

"None...my papa and mama had died one year ago...on the way towards Upton City with me. We met a demon disaster!" Speaking of his family members, the little boy dropped off his tears, "They said they were going to take me...to the south...but they died on the way...mama...told me to survive on...as a good person...you tell me...whether I am a good person..."

"You're a good person!" Zhang Tie dropped off his tears...

The little boy revealed a satisfied and faint smile, "Will...will I die?...whether can...can I see my papa and mama....after death?"

"You won't!"

"You liar...I know...I feel...sleepy...it's said that people would...die as long as they fell asleep in this case."

"I'm telling the truth. Trust me, just have a good sleep. When you wake up, you'll find that you're in a new place!"

"Is that...paradise?"

"Yes, everybody is good there, nobody would harm you anymore!"

"Ah, can my arm grow...grow out in paradise...I...I don't want my papa and mama...to see that I...don't have an arm...if not...they...will feel sad about that!"

"Trust me, your arm will grow out!"

After hearing Zhang Tie's words, the little boy gradually closed his eyes and fell asleep again.

Feeling that nobody was near them, Zhang Tie put his hand on the little boy's forehead and teleported him into Castle of Black Iron at once...

...

Since Castle of Black Iron accomplished its expansion last time, the residents in the town had been more pious about their God. This small Shrine in Castle of Black Iron was always covered with prayers.

Tonight, a big event was happening in the town. In order to satisfy the demand of the residents, through a negotiation joined by all the residents in the town, they decided to make God's statues in this Shrine so that each one could take a God's statue back home...

This was a sacred and solemn rite. Each detail had passed the discussions of the noblest and knowledgeable persons in the town, including the raw materials of the statue, the manufacturing process and how to welcome the God's statue to each believer's home. Not a single loophole could be found.

Without any sigh, that sleeping little boy straightly appeared at the foot of the God's status in the Shrine, which scared all those at present a lot...

"Ah, our God brought another poor kid to the paradise!" Someone exclaimed.

All those at present swarmed up and carried the little boy away from the immortal altar carefully.

"Hurry up, carry this little boy to the infirmary; prepare a braiser, scissors, hot water and some cotton clothes..." An experienced senior instantly guided the others...

...

10 minutes after teleporting that little boy, Zhang Tie was blocked in a slum of Upton City by a person in black clothes who was holding an odd-looking iron claw. When Zhang Tie wanted to pass by the alley, that person appeared at the entrance of the alley abruptly like a black ghost while glaring at Zhang Tie with a killing qi.

Given his qi, which was much more powerful than those b*stards that Zhang Tie met before, Zhang Tie realized that this one was at least a LV 10 strong fighter.

Zhang Tie stood still in the alley and gazed at this person.

Given Rein's qi, Zhang Tie knew that he was a LV 9 fighter; therefore, this person was definitely not a subordinate of Rein. A LV 9 mad dog could never have a LV 10 strong fighter follow his order. However, given this man's naked killing intent, Zhang Tie realized that evidently this one was dispatched by that one on Rein's back, 'It seems that the death of the policemen outside of the pub has already startled the one behind Rein. In order to appease the trouble, that person on Rein's back dispatched a powerhouse and aimed to kill me, the "insurgent", as fast as possible. Meanwhile, it could shock the onlookers——What a vicious guy!'

At this moment, Zhang Tie heard another sound of slight footsteps from his back while another person appeared on the other end of the alley over 20 m away from Zhang Tie.

Zhang Tie didn't look back. He had also sensed the qi of the other killer behind him——another LV 10 strong fighter. He could even sense that the second killer was holding a long sword like him; however, his long sword felt much more advanced than that of his.

'What a pity!' Zhang Tie slightly shook his head, 'It's better for such elites to kill some more demons on the battlefield than to die here in such a chaotic world.' However, Zhang Tie knew that people were different from each other. Due to desires and greed, people with the same talent would choose completely different roads in many times. Even knights had different choices. Some would fight to the death for humans on the battlefield while some would choose to surrender to Three-eye Association.

"If you leave Upton City and swear to never come back, I will treat that you two have never been here!" Zhang Tie said calmly.

After a few seconds in silence, Zhang Tie received two sneers.

"This guy is humorous!" The one in front of Zhang Tie opened his mouth.

"Maybe this is a trick. Cunning fish always use such a swashbuckling trick!"

"You or me?"

"You. Such a fish would take you at most half a minute. Don't waste time. We have to take his head to the Gold Coin Pub!" The other one behind Zhang Tie replied.

"At most 15 seconds..." That killer in front of Zhang Tie argued when he walked towards Zhang Tie with his weird iron claw.

Zhang Tie became silent as he drew out his sword and walked towards that killer...

Chapter 690: Teeth for Teeth

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

In an extremely luxurious room, somewhere in Upton City...

"Pah..." A heavy slap fell on Rein's face, sending Rein flying off. He fell on the brilliant, thick carpet 2 m away.

The one who slapped him was an expressionless man who wore a black half-body metal armor and a face mask. Additionally, that man had a pair of huge swords hanging around his waist. After slapping Rein, that man stood still like a machine.

After falling on the floor, Rein didn't say anything; instead, he picked himself up from the ground and returned to his original position. At the same time, he slightly quivered all over, even he did not dare to wipe off the blood stains from his mouth corners. After a tooth was slapped off, Rein straightly swallowed it silently while lowering his head.

That machine-like man raised his hand and prepared to slap Rein once again...

"Enough, Douglas..." A sound drifted from behind the masked man. After hearing this sound, the masked man lowered his hand and silently retreated to one side.

A person in a brilliant blue robe at his 20s was leaning against a gilding soft bed while some beauties with half-exposed breasts were kneeling on his side. Some of them were peeling off fruits for this man; some were responsible for putting fruit into this man's mouth; some were massaging his legs.

The man, lying on the soft bed, looked very handsome. However, the long, narrow eyes looked crafty while the pale lips as thin as blades looked a bit cruel and grim.

The young man watched Rein with his narrow eyes; nobody knew what he was thinking about; however, Rein's body quivered more heavily.

Being covered by that young man's powerful qi and sharp eyes, Rein was as docile as a guide dog; he was too scared to look at that man's eyes as he lowered his head towards the ground.

After a long while, that man opened his mouth calmly.

"Angus Clan cannot determine everything in Upton City. With 8 policemen being killed, you want me to help you clean your butt? Tell me, how do I punish you?"

"I...I'd like to accept any...any punishment!" Rein stammered. Only Rein knew how cruel and terrifying was this young man in front of him.

"Any punishment?" That young man slightly sneered as he suddenly transferred to another topic, "How about the two bloody slaves businessmen that came to Upton City last week? Have you completed what I've told you to do?"

"Ah, I've already put them into the bag and poured them together with concrete into the foundation of the wall of the refugee camp in the east of Upton City!" Rein seized every chance to indicate that he was "still useful", "I invited the directors of Belle Business Group, Haun Business Group and Golden Rose Business Group to visit it at present. I'm sure that they have known that some businesses could not be touched by others in Upton City!"

"Hmm, not bad!" That young man lying on the soft bed took a grape. When he chewed it, he issued the order, "If so, from tomorrow on, we can raise the price of the food in the surrounding refugee camps by another 30%. We have to get the last copper coin from those refugees who prepared to escape to the south. As to those who have no money, have them sign the contract on selling themselves as slaves voluntarily. After that, move them away as soon as possible so that new refugees could occupy their positions. In this way, we will save the money for building new refugee camps. Am I clear?"

"Clear!" Rein replied as he recovered his composure a bit. As long as this man felt that he was still useful, it would not be difficult to deal with this event.

"Have you figured out that man's background?"

"He's Peter, who has just come to Upton by an airship from the north! He's a paladin, also a pioneer who might prepare to make the war profit in the north. Accidentally, he saved those passengers on the airship when that airship made a forced landing in the wild. After that, he escorted them all the way here. After refusing their employment, he left the airship base. My men in the refugee camp found that he was not poor and thought that they could rip him off. However..." Rein explained rapidly so as to fix his mistake. At this moment, that young man slightly waved his hand to stop him.

"As you were always diligent in previous years. I will not claim responsibilities from you this time. Remember to not make the same mistake in front of me for the second time!"

"Yes, sir. I promise I'll be careful next time!" Rein lowered his head as he let out a sigh inside, 'Thank God, I finally survived it.'

"You're too impatient. You should show yourself after figuring out the opponent's background. You even made this event known across the city. It seems that you've been used to be privileged in Upton these years and have lost the least alert. After this event comes to an end, you'll better go to Black Prison of Upton City to practice yourself. There's a vacancy over there. I've just taken it. Don't come out of there until you become steady!"

"Young master, what about Peter then..." Rein asked carefully.

"I've already dispatched Aral and the other one to kill him..."

After hearing that young man's reply, Rein hurriedly revealed a relieved look as he flattered, "It will be okay. Aral is proficient in tracing. Peter is at most LV 9, who could not escape far away!"

"I've got a visitor. You can leave now. Be alert these days. If there's any tricky figure in Upton these days, let me know first."

"Yes, sir!" Rein lowered his head as he left this room by moving backward.

Until he moved out of the room had Rein found that his back had been wet all over.

When Rein left the rear door of the manor, he glanced at the direction of the manor and found a black sedan outside the gate. Two people in capes with half face covered in the shadow got off the vehicle while the young man, who was leaning on the soft bed just now came out to greet them...

Rein dared not stay longer as he hurriedly left.

At this moment, neither Rein nor that young man who was greeting his "guests" outside the gate of the manor cared about the case of "Peter" any longer as "Peter" had been dead in their eyes. They had met too many similar "tricky" events these years. They dealt with each event in this way. Therefore, they didn't think that there was anything special with this case...

...

In the narrow, deep and dark alley, the battle came to an end in 15 seconds...

Zhang Tie was safe and sound. By contrast, the two LV 10 strong fighters who blocked him and declared to end the battle in 15 seconds had a miserable outcome. The one holding a sword was penetrated through his throat and heart by Zhang Tie. He was watching Zhang Tie with an unimaginable look before dying. He fell down softly as he couldn't figure out how could this person between LV 8 and LV 9 could suddenly release such a powerful sword qi, 'f*ck...'

That killer swore before dying. Actually, he might not know whom to swear at this moment.

The other killer's neck was pinched by Zhang Tie while he struggled like a weak, suffocating mandarin duck. Being forced against the wall, he was slowly lifted by Zhang Tie's hand.

For Zhang Tie, LV 10 strong fighters were not much stronger than those policemen whom he had killed just now.

Zhang Tie watched this killer in his grip as he triggered his "Soul Capture Skill", a mysterious method from Bloody Soul Temple of Taixia Country, at once. In a split second, Zhang Tie's eyes looked like two mysterious rotating mires as they sucked in the LV 10 fighter's consciousness right away. The fighter gradually stopped his struggle while his painful look gradually turned into a stoned smile

Zhang Tie loosened his grip while that killer stood in front of Zhang Tie like a puppet with a silly and weird smile.

"What's your name?" Zhang Tie asked calmly.

"Aral!"

"Did Rein dispatch you here?"

"Young master dispatched me here!"

"Whose's your young master?"

"Leeb Angus!"

"What's his status?"

"The son of the president of Free Commercial Federation, the first cis-position of Angus Clan in the future!"

Zhang Tie was shocked as he finally understood the status of Rein's reliance. With such a powerful reliance, no wonder Rein dared be so aggressive in Upton City. 'The power of Angus Clan could at least rank top 3 in the entire Free Commercial Federation. However, now that the opponent has meant to kill me, I could only execute teeth for teeth. As they want to kill me, they have to be prepared to be killed.'

"Where's Leeb?" Zhang Tie asked with a killing qi.

"Right in the Stars Manor. He's waiting for your head!"

"Where's Stars Manor?"

"No. 16 Avenue Wealth, Upper East City, Upton!"

"Are there any powerhouses over there?"

"Young master has a bodyguard, a LV 13 5-star battle general!"

"What's the battle force of your young master?"

"LV 11!"

"Where's Rein? Where would he always be in the evening?"

"He's just got on with a mistress recently in the Upton City. He would always stay with that mistress at night."

"Tell me his address..."

After asking some questions rapidly, Zhang Tie had a general judgment on his opponent. He didn't move at once; instead, he just watched Aral, "Bring me all of your good items and those of your partner!"

Zhang Tie had formed a good habit to collect booties after a battle since he joined Iron-blood Camp.

Aral then undid his storage bag and necklace foolishly before walking to his partner who had been killed by Zhang Tie and picking that guy's storage bag and longsword. After that, he handed all of them to Zhang Tie together with his odd-looking iron claw.

After weighing them for a second, Zhang Tie threw all of them to Castle of Black Iron, "Okay, you can commit a suicide now. Hurry up!"

Aral then nodded with a stupid smile. After that, he smacked onto his forehead, making his head flat, spurting out his brain. Closely after that, he sat in the alley.

This was Zhang Tie's first time to apply the mysterious method "Soul Capture Skill" in an alive person. Watching that guy commit a suicide so straightly, Zhang Tie felt his heart pounding, 'How terrifying is this "Soul Capture Skill"!' Before leaving Upton City, Zhang Tie didn't want to expose the two corpses to the public in case of arising the opponent's alert. Therefore, he threw the two corpses into the Abyss of Chaos. Closely after that, he disappeared in the dark as fast as the wind once again...

If it was before, Zhang Tie would not casually expose the existence of Castle of Black Iron like this time; however, after having the knight's consciousness, his sensing and perceptive ability had already improved to a very terrifying, high level. He could clearly know whether someone was in the surroundings or peeping at him from afar. Therefore, Zhang Tie became more confident when he used the function of Castle of Black Iron.

The 2 dead guys would never know that even the "rendezvous" place was chosen by Zhang Tie. When Zhang Tie was going to catch two lackeys, they presented themselves to him voluntarily; of course, Zhang Tie would never treat them politely...

...

After leaving the manor, Rein returned to the apartment of his mistress. At this moment, all the policemen in Upton City had mobilized to seek for that "killer".

All the frustrations, pains and fears that he suffered today finally converted to his driving force to ride on his mistress.

Being driven by a certain fierce emotion and his mistress' adroit skills, Rein's first time arrived very fast. After the fierce spurt, Rein laid on that woman's body as he felt empty-minded. Until then did Rein figure out the dangers.

'It's time to come to an end. As I've known too much. As long as I lose my value or that man thinks it's more beneficial for me to disappear than exist, it will be my doomsday.' Rein figured out his current situation at once, 'As it's chaotic everywhere, as long as I find a chance, I might be able to leave Upton City and that man. As long as I leave out of here, based on the wealth of over 100,000 gold coins that I've accumulated these years, I could go straightly to the Eastern Continent or Western Continent or find a strange place to restart my life. Whatever, it's safer than risking my life all day long in Upton City.'

'It might be that man's way to control me in the black prison of Upton City. If I believe in his words, I might be killed in the black prison of Upton City sooner or later. That man might have already intended to kill me today; however, considering that if he killed me straightly, he might let down many of his followers; therefore, he postponed the plan in the excuse of the vacancy in the black prison. Based on my understanding, that man has never spared any second chance to anyone these years.'

The more Rein thought, the more chilly did he feel. More and more whims flashed in his mind...

Suddenly, he felt that the hand of the woman, who was teasing him underneath, became stiff. At the same time, the woman instantly changed his blushed face to a pale look as she looked at his back with a scared expression. Right then, Rein felt a killing qi from his spine.

Before that woman shrieked, Rein had already covered her mouth and broken her neck with a "cracking" sound. That woman had never imagined that she could be killed by a man who was making love with her just now.

It was like a trivial thing for Rein to kill a woman. He didn't look back; instead, he just said calmly, "My friend. All of my money was in the cabinet at the end of my bed. There were over 1,000 gold coins over there. Just take all of them away. I don't want to know who you are. Just forget about what happened tonight. This thing is a bit shameful for me. I won't mention it to anyone else. As you can find me here, it means that you know my reliance. If something happens to me, that man would feel unhappy; then, he won't let you go!"

"I've not imagined that you could be so decisive and tricky, Rein. It seems that all those who said you were a mad dog were cheated by your performance. As long as I give you some more time, you might become a big figure!"

After hearing this voice, Rein became stiff all over. At this moment, he would not feel accidental to hear any other voices except for this. In Rein's imagination, this man would have already been killed or escaped away like a strayed dog. He had not imagined this person could appear on his back at this moment.

Rein slowly turned around as he saw the same person that he met in the pub. What made Rein more amazed was that how could this person enter it when the door of the bedroom had been locked from inside until then.

"How...how did you know my residence? How did you come in?" Rein stammered as he crunched backward on the bed.

"Do I need to explain it to you?" Zhang Tie sneered.

"Go die!" A delicate crossbow suddenly appeared in Rein's hand as he pressed the switch.

The sword light flashed...

In a split second, the bolt was broken into pieces while Rein's limbs were separated from his body. The sword light even slightly touched Rein's throat and shattered Rein's vocal cord...

Due to the extreme pain, Rein rolled from the bed onto the floor. Rein wanted to shout loudly; however, he could not utter any sound at this moment. He opened his mouth only to hear hoarse sobs like broken bellows...

A lot of fresh blood flew out of his broken limbs rapidly, staining a wide area.

Rein watched Zhang Tie with a pleading look, expecting for a quick end.

"Have you thought about being revenged so fast when you chopped off the boy's hand and sent it to me?"

Zhang Tie just watched Rein rolling and twitching in the blood pond. Rein drained off his blood in the shortest period and finally died with widely opened eyes...

...

After a few minutes, a black beetle flew out of the chimney of that room. After making a circle above there, he flew towards the east of Upton City...

One must be thorough in exterminating an evil!

Chapter 691: A Conspiracy

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

In the deep night, Zhang Tie passed through the streets in Upton City and flew towards the south of the city...

Below Zhang Tie were numerous houses in tranquility. Many residents had gone to bed at this moment. Lamplights escaped from some houses' windows. Perhaps, only policemen across the city were still working so late. No matter which city or country, what made policemen most excited was undoubtedly the murder of their colleagues.

Zhang Tie didn't have any prejudice against the police. Neither did he believe that all the policemen across Upton City were badass and lackeys of evil forces. However, some badass and lackeys among the police might be more vicious than real villains, 'Now that those sc*mbags encountered me, I have to feel sorry for them.'

With one more fruit of brilliance on the small tree, Zhang Tie felt pleased for the first time since he came to Upton City. The new fruit of brilliance told Zhang Tie that all those that he killed were guilty. It was Zhang Tie's accidental achievement in Upton City.

Benefited from fruits of brilliance, Zhang Tie's spiritual energy grew much faster than that of his battle force. At this moment, Zhang Tie's spiritual energy was definitely more than that of common knights. Zhang Tie didn't know what would happen if he constantly accumulated his powerful spiritual energy. Based on the current situation, Zhang Tie knew it had great benefits. With powerful knight's consciousness, it would be as smooth as a fish in the water when he cultivated mysterious methods such as "Soul Capture Skill". Additionally, he could light his surging points in a higher efficiency. These benefits were dreamed by some people as they formed important parts of Zhang Tie's battle force. Therefore, Zhang Tie had an anxious expectation about his spiritual energy for the future.

'After killing that d**chebag called Leeb Angus, I will move 1,000 miles away and live with another look. No matter how influential is Angus Clan in the Free Commercial Federation, they will never harm me.' Zhang Tie made a decision inside as he considered his body-changing bloodline as his biggest advantage.

Actually, Zhang Tie felt that he was very adaptable to be a paladin. He could exterminate evil forces everywhere. Soon after he launched a strike would he escape 1,000 miles away. Besides, he had fruits to take. If not in the holy war, it was really nice to have such a life. In usual days, he could be a rich guy who had a castle, some manors and a big farm. He could marry all the favorite women and have a lot of babies. Occasionally, he could come out to be a paladin so as to relax himself. How immortal days...

Pitifully, it was just a dream within 100 years for him.

Although Zhang Tie had not come to Upton City before, now that he knew the destination was in the east, it was not difficult for him to find the No. 16, Wealth Avenue in this city. Because there were a lot of guide-boards on the roadsides.

...

In an eastern street of Upton City, two policemen were on duty at a cross and checking passers-by who were still wondering outside at this moment. Due to the dark, they were holding a fluorescent lamp and watching the desolate road with widely opened eyes as they stomped their feet.

"It's said that those policemen who were killed were called there by Rein." one of the two policemen whispered when there was nobody in the road.

"F*ck, Rein's subordinates in the refugee camp had a wicked idea; however, that guy was tricky who killed them all straightly. After knowing that he was in Gold Coin Pub, Rein wanted some policemen who colluded with him to trouble that guy. However, it was out of their imagination that the guy straightly killed all the policemen outside the pub. Those guys must have received too many rewards from Rein and done too many evil deeds. They deserved to die!"

"Hush, be careful, don't forget about Rein's reliance. Do you want to lose this job?" another policeman persuaded as he looked around.

"That's better. I prefer to take my wife to the south in case of worrying about the arrival of demons one day..." The policeman lowered his voice although he stuck to his stance.

"The guy called Peter might have already escaped out of Upton City. It's said that he's a LV 8 powerhouse. How could he still stay in the city now? Whenever similar events happened, we, the most bottom people, would be extremely fatigued to find any result. If that guy really appeared in front of us at this moment, we might have no chance to blow our whistle!"

"Forgot about that. We have to pretend to be serious!" The other policeman yawned as he put his hands back to his sleeves. When he casually watched a roadside signboard, he saw a black beetle flying towards him from afar which rightly suspended in front of that signboard. After looking at the sigh board seriously for a short while, it flew towards the direction pointed by the signboard.

'F*ck, even an insect could identify the signboard. I must have a blurred vision...'

...

After a few seconds, Zhang Tie saw the No. 16 manor-typed villa in Wealth Avenue.

It was a big garden outside the villa. Due to the high courtyard walls, people outside the manor could only see the luxuriant crowns inside the courtyard. After throwing a glance at that black marble doorplate which was marked as "No. 16 Wealth Avenue", Zhang Tie flew in from the high wall.

It was strictly defended here. Even in the deep night, Zhang Tie could still see two teams of guards patrolling outside the manor. However, in the incarnation of an insect, Zhang Tie straightly ignored them and flew over their heads.

It was a luxurious villa which occupied a wide area of the land. There were a fountain and a statue outside the gate of the villa. It was pitch-dark inside the villa while each window was covered with a thick deep-color curtain. All the doors were closed. After flying around the villa for a loop, Zhang Tie finally decided to fly inside from the chimney of the fireplace.

The chimney was like a pitch-dark tunnel for Zhang Tie. In order to avoid people from climbing in, a firm metal filter was fixed in the chimney. However, the metal filter could never stop Zhang Tie from coming in as the meshes were huge enough for a black beetle.

It only took Zhang Tie 5-6 seconds to descend silently below the fireplace from the highest point of the chimney.

The fireplace was set in a guesthouse on the 1st floor of the villa. Two purple crystal columns, each of which was taller than 1 m, displayed the extravagance here. A pile of well-split pine woods, tongs and pine oil were put on a silver rack beside the fireplace. Thankfully, it wasn't in the winter; it would've been far more difficult for him to get down through the chimney if the fireplace had been lit.

There was nobody in the guesthouse. Zhang Tie just flew out of here in a low-key manner alongside the ceiling.

There were a lot of rooms on the 1st floor. However, there were very few people in the entire building. Zhang Tie could only hear the breathing sound from a room in the remote corner, which belonged to servants.

Zhang Tie straightly flew to the 2nd floor from the hall on the 1st floor which hung crystal ceiling lamps.

Almost all the rooms on the 2nd floor were black, except for one, from the bottom of the door, Zhang Tie saw a faint light escaping out.

Zhang Tie hurriedly flew over there and landed outside the room. There was a gap of less than 1 cm below that door, which was available for Zhang Tie to drill inside in the incarnation of a flat beetle.

After drilling into the room, Zhang Tie felt bright at once while all the furniture looked lofty. There was a thick red carpet on the floor. The moment Zhang Tie entered the room and touched the carpet had he turned red all over.

At this moment, the insect's qi could almost be ignored; especially when Zhang Tie walked on the thick carpet, causing no sound at all.

This was the outer room of the study. A man in a half-body metal armor and a face mask was sitting on a chair near the door on Zhang Tie's side, exposing his mouth and jaw.

This man reminded Zhang Tie of Leeb's bodyguard.

It seemed that the bodyguard of Leeb was guarding outside the study. The door of the study was right behind him.

This guy didn't find Zhang Tie who drilled in the room through the gap below the door at all; instead, he was still drinking leisurely.

Previously, Zhang Tie wanted to show his original body at once and kill this guy; closely after that, he would flash into the room to kill Leeb. However, watching the closed door, a whim occurred to Zhang Tie's mind. He didn't show his original body. He rapidly detoured from the bodyguard's back along the wall and came to the door of the study. After that, he silently drilled into the study like before.

It was a bit dark inside the study. It didn't even have a window. If not the bookshelves, it was more like a backroom.

"You mean no force in Upton City could prevent us now?"

A voice drifted from the sofa in the middle of the room while being surrounded by the bookshelves. The moment he heard the voice had Zhang Tie felt his heart racing. He was familiar with that voice. After following the middle corps of demons to sweep over the northern border of Symbian Republic for so many days, Zhang Tie had heard that voice many times. The voice came from a young elite of Arthur Clan of Three-eye Association in the middle corps of demons who worked together with Senel Clan. With a super powerful memory, Zhang Tie would never mistake it...

'How could Arthur Clan's member stay in Upton?'

Zhang Tie sensed a conspiracy instinctively...

Chapter 692: A Dangerous Situation

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

"At this moment, Upton City indeed has no ability to resist us!" Another voice sounded. Zhang Tie then silently moved to the back of a bookshelf less than 5 m away from them and listened to it quietly. "But I don't understand why the Demon General has such a sudden plan. This plan is out of the imagination of our Angus Clan. We can barely make any preparations. In this plan, we will suffer a huge loss!"

"No war would proceed according to one party's will or plan!" That member of Arthur Clan opened his mouth. Zhang Tie remembered that he was called Tharant, also a LV 12 great battle master, "The Demon General has not predicted that our demonized puppets corps would suffer a great setback in Norman Empire. Actually, many human countries in Blackson Humans Corridor have very great battle forces. Although the Demon General's super demon corps could destroy all the targets in front of us, we would also pay a great price for this. Additionally, it would waste a lot of our time. Whereas, time counts the most at this moment. Numerous people would climb over Kalay Mountain Range and escape to the south everyday. This indicates potential dangers and less source of demonized puppets for us. In order to keep them in the north and completely destroy the north human countries' will to resist us, The Demon General decides to implement frog leaping strategy: Sweep over the human bases in the north of Kalay Mountain Range first so as to close the door towards the north of Blackson Humans Corridor. By doing this, we will gain a great number of demonized puppets in the future and lay a solid foundation for our ruling in the north of Blackson Humans Corridor. In 1-2 years, after we complete the integration of resources in the north, we will march southwards and rule the entire Blackson Humans Corridor.

"When will the Demon General's super demon corps arrive at Upton City?"

"After 3 days..."

"Ah? In such a short time..." Another person sighed, who was Leeb for sure, the one whom Zhang Tie was going to kill.

"Only in this way could it make all parties unable to respond to it. Although your Angus Clan would suffer a loss in Upton City, you would also have some benefits. You can pretend to escape to the south to gather with your father and nobody will doubt that your Angus Clan belongs to Three-eye Association anymore. Your clan will play a bigger role in the future! Additionally, you also know that the Demon General is generous and discriminating in his rewards and punishments. Compared to any reward from the Demon General, your Angus Clan's loss in Upton City would be nothing serious at all."

"What about Norman Empire and those humans countries which still resists us in the north?"

"This time, we've already made the maximal mobilization in the north. In half a year, there will be 20 million demonized puppets marching southwards. No matter what preparations have Norman Empire and the other human countries made, they would finally be conquered by the demonized puppets corps. There is no 2nd Imperial Dam in the north of Blackson Humans Corridor!"

"Does My father know that?"

"Yes, he knows. As we know each other, your father suggested me to coordinate with you on this action as the liaison of Three-eye Association in Upton City. We need to coordinate with the Demon General to take down Upton City at the minimal price. In order to implement this plan, the Demon General gifted me a double-headed parent demonized worm!"

"What? A double-headed parent demonized worm?" Leeb looked a bit amazed.

"Yes, the Demon General expects to convert the millions of refugees outside Upton City into demonized puppets as soon as possible. When his super demon corps arrive at Upton City, they could complete the encirclement with the demonized puppets corps towards the entire Upton City and turn it into a dead city in the shortest period. After that, Those demonized puppets would sweep over all the human bases in the north of Kalay Mountain Range so as to completely freeze the portal of Kalay Mountain Range. Only in this way, could we register a big blow to the northern humans and relieve the loss that we encountered in Norman Empire!"

"No problem. The food and drinks of more than 3 million refugees outside Upton City are all under my control. As long as we have a double-headed parent worm, I will have those pariahs eat its eggs in 1 day. However, it's a bit pitiful to spend a rare double-headed parent worm on those pariahs!"

"If we can take down the north of Blackson Humans Corridor this time, it's worthwhile for us to use a double-headed parent worm!"

...

After hearing this, Zhang Tie felt chilly inside. He finally knew the whereabouts of the super demon corps which had disappeared two months ago. It turned out that the Demon General was carrying out such a terrifying plan——frog leaping strategy; move 10,000 miles away to destroy Upton City and completely close the door towards the south. If this plan succeeded, Upton would become a dead city while the entire north region of Blackson Humans Corridor would collapse. By then, the depressed morale and hope of northern soldiers and civilians would collapse. If that really happened, Zhang Tie didn't know how chaotic would the entire north region of Blackson Humans Corridor be. However, this was rightly what the demons desired for.

Zhang Tie was also shocked a bit by that double-headed parent worm. He knew what was a double-headed parent worm, a very rare parent worm. Being different from a parent worm of the common demonized puppets, such a parent worm had two heads. If someone took its eggs or chopped off one of its heads, the eggs in that person's body would complete their hatch after being activated like that of a common parent worm; however, due to the existence of the other head of the double-headed parent worm, the hatched eggs were still under control.

From a perspective, a double-headed parent worm was a perfect puppet worm. However, it was too rare; as a mutated species, such a double-headed parent worm was rare even in the 2nd holy war.

Hearing the details of this action in the study, Zhang Tie felt utterly confused and disconcerted, 'What to do?'

Facing such a deliberate, large-scale and terrifying plan made by demons and Three-eye Association, Zhang Tie realized that he alone was too weak...

Chapter 693: A Quick Battle

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

Zhang Tie felt that the God played a joke with him. When he wanted to find the super demon corps, that super demon corps disappeared; however, when he prepared to return to Ice and Snow Wilderness, he was involved with a terrifying plot set by the demons and Three-eye Association.

Hearing the details of the action in the study, Zhang Tie became flurried. 'What to do? Can I prevent them? Various thoughts occurred to Zhang Tie's mind.'

All the thoughts finally led to a firm belief——Kill!

'No matter what happens later, at least I should kill all the b*stards at present and prevent them from converting those refugees in Upton City into demonized puppets.'

With this thought, Zhang Tie, in the incarnation of the beetle, entered Castle of Black Iron. After 10 seconds, Zhang Tie appeared behind the bookshelves silently while concealing his qi like a shadow with the autumn-frost gold sword in the right hand and some palm bolts in the left hand.

However, the 3 people in the study didn't find that someone appeared in the study.

...

"Just stay here these days. It's very safe here. Nobody else can come here. I will arrange things outside. Just give me the double-headed parent worm's eggs. I will have people provide free porridge to the refugees tomorrow. I'm sure those refugees would take all the eggs of the double-headed parent worm pleasantly!" Leeb said.

"Alright. We will stay here a couple of days first. We will not go out until the Demon General's super demon corps arrive at Upton City." Tharant, a member of Arthur Clan said, "I was told that there were a lot of refugees here. You must have enjoyed a lot of fresh beauties here these couple of years!"

"Hahaha, as many women as possible..."

They then burst out laughing in the study...

...

Zhang Tie slowly walked out of the bookshelves and saw Leeb, Tharant and a powerhouse on Tharant's side, who was also LV 13...

Sitting on the opposite of the sofa, Tharant caught sight of Zhang Tie firstly with a dumbfounded look. He wondered how the study suddenly had one more person, 'Is that another powerhouse on Leeb's side?'

Leeb also felt amazed as he turned around to check whether that bodyguard outside the door had come in...

Only that powerhouse of Arthur Clan touched his weapons at his waist the moment he saw Zhang Tie.

Of course, Zhang Tie would spare no time to them.

'Go die!'

Benefited from the senior rapid moving skill, Kuafu bloodline and the nimbleness and high speed which he gained after promoting to LV 12, Zhang Tie released the most powerful and most suitable movement in "Meteor Shower Sword"——Milky Way Sword Cage.

In a split second, a terrifying, brilliant sword qi river poured down from the sky and covered all the 3 people sitting on the sofa.

There was a terrifying chill in the terrifying sword qi cage which almost froze the 3 people; meanwhile, the LV 2 cold injury effect of autumn-frost gold sword exploded at once.

This was definitely the most powerful movement that Zhang Tie could execute today.

In front of his overwhelming battle force, all the plots, dignity and wealth were like b*llshit.

It was just a matter of life or death under the attack of the sword, regardless of gender, wealth or dignity.

No matter how reconciled and amazed was Leeb of Angus Clan, no matter how much he expected to survive on, the awe-inspiring man, as the weakest one among the 3 people had lost his head before he turned around...

Actually, Leeb was not weak at his age. As a LV 11 battle master, he was already excellent. Pitifully, he met Zhang Tie, whose battle force could match a LV 14 battle demon. It was acceptable for a LV 11 guy to suffer a strike of a powerful rune weapon from a LV 14 battle demon without any preparation.

The second one being killed by Zhang Tie's autumn-frost gold sword was that young elite Tharant of Auther Clan. At this moment, Tharant, as a LV 12 great battle master, responded a bit faster than Leeb; however, it was useless in front of Zhang Tie's sword...

The terrifying chill released by the autumn-frost gold sword made him stiff a bit unavoidably when he wanted to resist. As a result, the moment he drew out his long sword had Zhang Tie's sword qi poured down from his head like the dripping ice water, striking him more than 20 times at once.

The one who blocked Zhang Tie's strike hastily was that LV 13 powerhouse of Arthur Clan. Although he blocked this strike, he still got a strike on his left shoulder; meanwhile, he uttered a muffled harrumph...

In less than 1 second, 2 of the 3 people in the study had been killed. At this moment, Zhang Tie finally sensed the cold sense and heroic emotion of Elder Muray when he intruded in the camp of the demonized puppets and killed the head of Senel Clan with one movement.

After hearing the noise in the room, the bodyguard outside the study instantly broke in.

When the door was broken, Zhang Tie launched the most brilliant move of "Meteor Shower Sword"——sparkling fireflies towards the injured LV 13 powerhouse of Arthur Clan...

In a split second, numerous sword qi flew towards that person like fireflies and a meteor shower...

At the critical moment, that person shouted loudly as he waved his longsword to resist Zhang Tie's strike...

Zhang Tie had not imagined that this man of Arthur Clan was also a great swordsman. That guy also had not imagined that Zhang Tie's trump card was in his another hand.

After mastering the skill of mental arithmetic by abacus, Zhang Tie's battle skill had long become unpredictable. Nobody else could distract their mind in such a fierce battle; however, it was as easy as breathing for Zhang Tie.

Zhang Tie's palm bolts had long upgraded into more terrifying sword bolts...

Being covered by that movement "fireflies", the small palm bolt passed the gap of the powerhouse's two sword qi curtains and penetrated through his heart, leaving an unimaginable look on his face...

It was like how one found the opponent still had bullets in his pistol when they fought by a bayonet. As was expected, that guy fell down in a reconciled way. Of course, this was not a fight by a bayonet, but a fight on the battle skills...

When the bookshelf on his back was shattered, the bodyguard who was drinking outside launched an attack towards Zhang Tie.

——"Arrogant moons"...

Two ox-horn sized iron-blood battle qi flew out of the autumn-frost gold sword like two crescent moons and charged towards that bodyguard.

At the same time, Zhang Tie shot out another 2 palm bolts...

Closely after that, Zhang Tie threw out his autumn-frost gold sword like throwing a javelin...

Although that guy was aggressive, Zhang Tie was more aggressive...

As a powerhouse, that guy blocked away Zhang Tie's palm bolts at once. After that, he broke Zhang Tie's iron-blood sword qi of "arrogant moons in the air" as he instantly dodged away from another sword qi. However, he failed to dodge away from Zhang Tie's autumn-frost gold sword, which flew too fast to be blocked.

As a result, the sharp autumn-frost gold sword penetrated through that bodyguard's half-body metal armor like breaking a piece of paper, causing him to spurt out a mouth of fresh blood.

Before the fresh blood sprayed on the ground, Zhang Tie had already appeared in front of him like a lightning bolt and struck him with a fierce iron-blood punch, splitting that guy's half-body metal armor into pieces together with his body at once...

Panting, Zhang Tie stood still while supporting his sword on the floor. He then looked around the study and found it was messy all over——shattered desks, sofa, bookshelves and 4 corpse's parts.

Although it was a transient battle, it was extremely fierce. In over 10 seconds, Zhang Tie had already exerted his full efforts to kill all the 4 people.

After hearing such a loud noise, the other people in this villa were shocked while dense footsteps drifted from the aisle outside the room. They soon arrived at the door.

"Stay out there. Nobody is allowed in without my consent..." Zhang Tie shouted in the tone of the [dead] Leeb. It was the simplest imitating ability. As long as Zhang Tie had heard some voice, he could imitate it vividly.

Narrowing his eyes, Zhang Tie watched the door. As long as the door was pushed open from the outside, he would only kill all of them outside the door. At this moment, a whim occurred to Zhang Tie's mind. He wanted to have a try whether it would succeed or not.

Zhang Tie uttered while all the footsteps on the aisle stopped. It seemed that Leeb was too brutal to his subordinates that his subordinates dared not disobey his order at all.

"Young master, are you okay?" A voice sounded from the outside in a timid way.

"It's okay. I will come out soon. Nobody is allowed in without my consent. All of you could leave now, except for the steward!"

"Yes, sir!"

"The dense footsteps started to leave orderly, except one who was standing reverently outside the room...

Zhang Tie let out a sigh at once...

Chapter 694: The Soul-Reading Incarnation

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

The room was messy after the battle. After throwing the autumn-frost gold sword into Castle of Black Iron, Zhang Tie had started to clean the battlefield. Only after 2 minutes, he had already collected all the valuables of the 4 corpses and thrown them into Castle of Black Iron without authentication.

After that, Zhang Tie looked around and caught sight of a leather trunk as large as a luggage carrier on the side of the sofa where the LV 13 powerhouse had just sat.

Zhang Tie walked over there and lifted that trunk. He found it was heavy. Therefore, he unzipped the trunk as he saw a safe-like black rectangular metal container inside it. There was a locked lid on the metal container. At the sight of it, Zhang Tie remembered the weird key that he had gotten from Tharant's corpse. Therefore, he found out that key once again...

With a "click" sound, the metal container was unlocked. Zhang Tie then opened its lid.

The greater part of that pitch-dark metal container was filled with glutinous liquid, among which was a creeping purple black two-headed mollusk which was as long as one's forearm.

At the sight of this animal, Zhang Tie drew in a mouth of breath, 'A double-head parent worm!'

Zhang Tie had never imagined such a [weird] look of the parent worm of demonized puppets. Such an animal which could easily exterminate hundreds of thousands of people was as weak as an odd-looking sea cucumber. Even a cat or a dog could kill it, not to mention people.

Its tail was still secreting a mucus. At the sight of it, Zhang Tie realized that it was not a common mucus; but the eggs of the parent worm; a single drop of mucus contained numerous eggs of the parent worm. If people took them, they would cause a chaos in the world.

After thinking for a short while, Zhang Tie straightly threw this container along with that double-headed parent worm into Castle of Black Iron.

"Heller, it's yours!"

"Copy that!" Heller briefed.

Zhang Tie didn't know how could he use it for the time being; however, he believed that it would help him one day. Therefore, he just handed it to Heller.

After that, Zhang Tie picked up Leeb's head from the ground and glanced at it for a couple of seconds before touching his [own] forehead onto the icy forehead [of Leeb]; at the same time, he activated the soul-reading skill of bloody soul temple of Taixia Country.

For bloody soul temple, there were a lot of methods to open one's mouth, even if he was dead. As long as the person had not died longer than a few hours, the bloody soul temple of Taixia Country could always discover many secrets from the corpse. Perhaps, for bloody soul temple of Taixia Country, humans, even corpses didn't have any secret at all.

For many commoners, if one's head was separated from his neck, he had already died, at least physically. However, for bloody soul temple of Taixia Country, the person had not died; even if his head had been chopped off. Only when his brain had died was he dead for sure.

As Leeb had just lost his head for a couple of minutes, of course, his brain had not died yet.

The soul-reading skill was too weird. When the cultivator applied it, he should touch his forehead with that of the dead one. It looked a bit grim and terrifying which wouldn't be mastered by good people. If there was an audience, Zhang Tie would never exhibit this secret method. However, he was alone here; therefore, he wouldn't care too much about that.

The soul-reading skill could also be implemented on a living person; however, the result was that the living person would become an idiot or a lunatic. Such a soul-reading skill was very harmful to the living person's brain. Additionally, it posed an extremely high requirement on the cultivator's spiritual energy.

At this moment, Zhang Tie's mass spiritual energy flowed out of his forehead and injected into Leeb's head like a fine, invisible mercury. It surrounded Leeb's brain completely. After that, the spiritual energy stabbed in some special locations of Leeb's brain in the form of sharp, fine needles.

Closing his eyes, Zhang Tie uttered some weird, obscure syllables. Closely after that, Zhang Tie started to trace Leeb's memory instantly from the perspective of Leeb. The scenes flashed across Zhang Tie's mind like slides. Without the super spiritual energy as a buffering and the carrier, Zhang Tie might have already become an idiot. Now, what Leeb had experienced were showing in Zhang Tie's mind clearly like that Zhang Tie himself had already experienced.

According to the rules of memory, the more recent it was, the more detailed and colorful the memory would be; by contrast, the older it was, the less detailed and colorful the memory would be; the more important it was, the clearer the memory would be while the people and scenes would be more impulsive to Leeb's spirit; by contrast, the more average it was, the lighter the memory would be...

In such scenes, Zhang Tie "saw" many things in Leeb's life, including influential people, women, sex, wealth, fresh blood, murder, conspiracy, terrifying punishment, pleasure, cruelty and various commoners who feared and flattered him, Angus Clan and its secrets, strikes on opponents in Free Commercial Federation...all the memories, experiences and secrets had been displayed by Zhang Tie's powerful spiritual energy at an extremely fast speed like a free magazine.

Only after 10 minutes, Zhang Tie had already traced back to the period before the holy war.

If Zhang Tie wished, he could keep tracing like this. However, Zhang Tie stopped as the memory before the holy war was not too valuable for him.

Zhang Tie closed his eyes silently and sorted those important contents in Leeb's memory for a couple of minutes; after that, he threw Leeb's head into the Abyss of Chaos.

After that, Zhang Tie did the same to Tharant. He saw the whole process of this action, including more details. He saw the overwhelming flood in Nein City. In a special tent, Zhang Tie saw Tharant standing behind some rows of people and lowering his body towards a demon with a crocodile tail who was wearing a pitch-dark full-body armor and a bending helmet and saying, "Demon General..."

...

Zhang Tie exited from Tharant's memory. After being silent for a few minutes, he moved once again. He put off all the clothes and shoes of Leeb before throwing Leeb's corpse into the Abyss of Chaos. After that, he put off his own clothes and slowly changed his frame and the color of his hair according to that of Leeb...

...

After a few minutes, an alive Leeb reappeared in this study.

Although feeling a bit disgusting and uncomfortable, Zhang Tie still rapidly put on Leeb's clothes. After putting on Leeb's clothes, he seriously cut his own hair using his hand according to the hairstyle of Leeb. Then, he made his hair messy so as to look very embarrassed just like a survivor of a battle. Finally, he checked his current look from the shiny desktop. Even Zhang Tie could not distinguish whether that was him or Leeb. After lightly coughing a couple of times, Zhang Tie returned to a sofa outside the study as he leaned against the sofa in a fatigued look. He then called in the steward using Leeb's tone.

The moment the steward opened the door and caught sight of the scene in the room had he been stunned. Before he exclaimed, he noticed Zhang Tie's grim look as he quivered a bit all over. Closely after that, he swallowed back his words as he lowered his head silently.

Zhang Tie was very satisfied with this effect. Thankfully, this was not Leeb's first time to kill people in the villa. On two occasions, he even suddenly changed his face and killed his guests at the table. Therefore, the steward had been immune to this scene.

This steward had no special background or status. He was just an arduous man. Leeb chose him as the steward because he had two advantages, high-efficient and secretive, which made Leeb very reassured.

"There's no guest in the villa tonight, Rex has been dispatched out, am I clear?" After briefing Leeb's memory, Zhang Tie almost mastered his daily behaviors. Therefore, being benefited by his face-changing bloodline, Zhang Tie was completely an alive Leeb from the look, tone, expressions and movements. Even those on Leeb's side could not identify that he was the wrong one.

The bodyguard being killed by Zhang Tie was Rex.

"Yes, sir!" The steward lowered his head.

"Clean this place and send someone to inform Sieg; I will see him tomorrow morning..."

Chapter 695: Contacting Family Members

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

Zhang Tie then left the study with a glassy-eyed look and returned to Leeb's bedroom.

Leeb's bedroom was 300 sq m large which looked like a lobby. Although it was so late, those women in the bedroom dared not go to bed; instead, they all dressed themselves according to Leeb's choice and waited for his arrival.

After "briefing" Leeb's memory, Zhang Tie clearly knew that this guy was a super d*ck. Even Zhang Tie, who was lascivious when he was staying with those girls of Rose Association, was dwarfed in front of him.

Leeb liked all sorts of women and was proficient in the means to play with women. Additionally, he had some odd special hobbies. He always performed seductive or perverted roleplay in the various scenes. Although those hobbies were excessive in commoners' eyes, they were "very normal" in Leeb's eyes. Among his special hobbies, the most abnormal one, the one that all the women on his side were afraid of, was that this guy liked to kill these women with maltreatment in an extremely perverted way when he got excited.

Since more and more refugees moved to Upton City, there were always fresh beauties on Leeb's side. Most of these women were daughters from average families who escaped to Upton City. As they could not bear the high living cost in Upton City, many people were sold to Leeb as slaves. A small part of them was robbed by Leeb's subordinates in a tough way so as to flatter him. However, no matter what kind of women they were, they would not have a good outcome. Those lucky enough would be sold or gifted to others after Leeb got bored of them while those unlucky ones would be killed with maltreatment.

In the recent years, many batches of women had been changed on Leeb's side. Even Leeb couldn't remember how many batches of women had he changed. Leeb had many residences in Upton City, each of which had many such women.

At this moment, there were 7 women in the room, with special make-up, each of them was very seductive. If not having "experienced such battles so many times", Zhang Tie might have been conquered by such an alluring scene.

At the sight of Leeb coming back, all the women revealed big smiles. However, Zhang Tie could sense the fear deep in their mind.

At this moment, Zhang Tie's hair was messy while his clothes were tainted with Leeb's blood when Zhang Tie chopped off his head. He looked pretty grim. However, those women who lived under Leeb's authority didn't dare ask what happened. Zhang Tie just threw a glance at them like how Leeb always did, causing some of the 7 women to quiver all over with pale faces.

"Go out!" Zhang Tie issued his order like how Leeb always treated these women.

Those women did not dare to ask why, they quickly lowered their heads and put on their capes and left Leeb's bedroom one after another. As Leeb's emotions changed so fast, these women finally let out a sigh after knowing that they didn't need to accompany this vicious king.

After these women left, Zhang Tie also let out a sigh. He then came to the bathroom being enshrouded with hot steam and put off Leeb's disgusting clothes quickly. Closely after that, he stepped into the bathing pool which was filled with the live hot spring water being led from the underground; additionally, the water was covered with pedals. After soaking himself in the comfortable hot spring water, covering his neck, Zhang Tie felt completely relaxed.

Although Leeb the d**chebag deserved death, Zhang Tie had to admit that he was really good at enjoyment. All the things in the bathroom would cost at least 10,000 gold coins. Whether the warm spring water being led from the underground or the ivory bed being carved by an ivory of a huge mutated elephant which could never be afforded by commoners.

In such a relaxed state, Zhang Tie entered meditation while closing his eyes.

At this moment, one line that Zhang Tie once read from a book which carried the greatest philosophical meaning loomed in Zhang Tie's mind——The rule of the God is to decrease the surplus to complement the deficiency while the rule of humans is to decrease the deficiency to serve the surplus.

When the moons became full, they would eclipse; conversely, the stronger and richer the humans were, the stronger and richer they would be; the weaker and poorer the humans were, the weaker and poorer they would be. For humans, as long as one peak or low ebb was reached, an inertia would come into being and push them forward and consolidate your current life state.

The reason why Zhang Tie came to such a realization was that he discovered that he had gained another unique ability after achieving a certain qualitative leapfrog since the combination of Castle of Black Iron and the "Great Wilderness Sutra". This unique ability combined the body-changing bloodline, imitating bloodline and the secret methods of bloody soul temple. With this unique ability, he could completely imitate everybody else while gaining great achievements and opportunities. Benefited from this, Zhang Tie would grow stronger and stronger.

It was like playing cards. Zhang Tie felt that he had more and more good cards in his hands at this moment. When those good cards freely combined with each other, they would form an increasingly greater destructive force. Zhang Tie felt that he had more and more methods to play cards in a more relaxed way.

Closely after killing 4 powerhouses of the clans of Three-eye Association whose level variated from LV 11 to LV 13, Zhang Tie felt that he was indeed different than before. 'If I was like a hard-working laborer before, I am now a vicious capitalist who have completed the preliminary and the most difficult capital accumulation on the road of cultivation. In the future, I can accomplish greater capital accumulation at the speed that is dozens or hundreds of times faster than that of others.'

When a person accomplished his capital accumulation to a certain degree, he would realize a qualitative leapfrog and enter the track of individual development expansion which was featured by "the more powerful a person was, the more powerful he would be."

At this moment, the anxiety and concerns he had after knowing that the super demon corps would destroy the Upton City also eased a lot in such a relaxed state. Zhang Tie considered it silently, 'Certainly, it was a great crisis for the humans in Upton City, even for the entire north region of Blackson Humans Corridor; however, a huge opportunity is carried in such a great crisis; namely, I know the trace and plan of the looming super demon corps. If I could take good advantage of this opportunity, I might cause a great blow to the super demon corps in 3 days.'

As Zhang Tie had not taken a bath for many days, he just took a cool bath in the bathroom as he improved his plan in mind.

After taking the bath, Zhang Tie walked out of the bathing pool. In the bathroom, he injected Iron-blood battle qi into his two fingers and started to make a final remedy of his hairstyle using his fingers as scissors.

Zhang Tie could imitate everything but the hairstyle. Although he could change the color and texture of his hair and enable his hair to continue to grow very long in a short time, he could not shorten his hair by using the body-changing bloodline. Therefore, the hairstyle might be the only loophole when he imitated a person. Thankfully, there were only a few hairstyles for men. Additionally, Zhang Tie's hairstyle was similar to that of Leeb. Therefore, after making his hairstyle messy in the study, he was not identified by those women. At this moment, in order to fix the only loophole, Zhang Tie further improved his hairstyle according to that of Leeb in his memory.

At this moment, Zhang Tie was amused as he found that he could be a qualified barber with the knight's consciousness. When he cut his hair, Zhang Tie found that he could position each hair precisely. Even though in front of a mirror, he could still complete it smoothly. If he really needed money urgently in the future, he could open a barber's shop.

After finishing his hairdressing, Zhang Tie watched that handsome and evil face in the mirror as he made a series of grimaces. Finally, he even stretched out his two fingers and made a "victory" pose which was non-mainstream in Black Iron Age.

After cleaning the water on his body, Zhang Tie walked out of the bathroom naked. He then came to Leeb's costume room.

Although being a man, Leeb's costume room was even more exaggerating than that of any women. The room covered over 200 sq m, which was divided into 4 layers. It included clothes, hats, shoes and socks and male ornaments. There were more than 70 top quality watches on the hand modules. Four drawers were filled with decorative finger rings and sleeve buttons, each sort of which contained at least 100 types and colors. All of them were top items made of best materials with the best craftsmanship.

Since he was born, Leeb had been living a noble life. In Upton City, more than 10 senior tailors were serving him. Leeb would retain those watches and ornaments; however, he would never wear the same clothes or shoes for the second time. If he liked one style, he would have people make dozens of the same style. When he tried all of them, he would have people send him new ones.

Looking around this costume room, Zhang Tie couldn't help but imagine about moving all of them into Castle of Black Iron, if he did that, he would not worry about having any clothes to wear in the next decades.

'Hmm, that's feasible. Leeb's frame was almost like that of mine. We even share the same shoe size. In Donder's words, even locust's legs had fleshes. So many items in this room would be worth at least 100,000 gold coins...'

'But not right now. I will consider it in a couple of days.' Zhang Tie thought.

Zhang Tie then quickly put on a set of clothes. Watching himself in the mirror, Zhang Tie had to admit that he was the very Leeb.

After leaving the costume room, Zhang Tie came to the bedroom. Standing in front of a wall painting, Zhang Tie pressed a part on it. Closely after that, the wall painting slid off slowly, exposing a safe which was connected to the wall.

Zhang Tie rapidly rotated the button on the safe in the anti-clockwise and clockwise manner. Closely after that, he opened the safe by pulling its handle, causing a light "click" sound.

There were stacks of wholly-new gold checks, some contracts of Leed's real estates, his shares of the business groups in Upton City and some other valuable items.

If the status of Angus Clan as a clan of Three-eye Association was exposed after 3 days, those contracts would become waste papers. However, if he turned these contracts into cash at this moment, Zhang Tie would arouse their doubts even if he could cause those unlucky guys lose all of their capital. Therefore, he didn't move those contracts; instead, he just moved all the gold checks and valuable items into Castle of Black Iron.

Two-thirds of those gold checks were issued by Golden Roc Bank, one-third of them were issued by the Continental United Bank. The latter one looked strange as Zhang Tie had never seen it before. After picking a gold check and looking at it, Zhang Tie found that the alleged Continental United Bank came from the Western Continent.

These gold checks were worth about 5-6 million gold coins in total.

Zhang Tie felt pretty cool about plundering clans of Three-eye Association while each of his pores was singing.

Leeb had a private castle in the south of Upton City, which contained a lot of valuable items. Being not in a hurry to take those items, Zhang Tie intended to sweep over this villa first.

After sweeping Leeb's bedroom, Zhang Tie took a round in the room before taking out that remote-sensing crystal that he used to contact with his elder brother.

...

"Elder brother, are you there?" Zhang Tie sent a message.

In less than 2 minutes, Zhang Tie received a message from Zhang Yang.

"All the family members were worried about you these days as we didn't receive your message!"

"I'm fine. I'm still jubilant. Tell dad, mom and my wives to not worry about me. I have a very important thing to tell Huaiyuan Palace, can you contact them now?"

After over 10 seconds of silence, Zhang Tie received another message.

"6th granduncle is in our home..."