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Chapter 875: A New Start

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

On January 23rd, the airport outside Embracing Tiger City...

After coming to Embracing Tiger City once again, Zhang Tie felt relaxed!

Zhang Tie had not set free any living beings himself for a long time. Previously, he set free sand-scale fish in Hidden Dragon Island every day. Later on, he had less chance to do that. Gradually, he invited others to do that for him by paying them. He just ate fruits.

After picking the special cultivation method once again, Zhang Tie felt pleasant in an inexplicable way.

It was hard to describe this pleasure. It originated from the depth of his heart and flew across his body like a sweet spring flowing out of the wilderness. After that, Zhang Tie was immersed in a pure, pleasant state. In such a realm, Zhang Tie felt that he might always set living beings free himself from then on, even just for this pleasure.

Actually, the higher level one was, especially after one promoted to a knight, it would be harder for one to sense this pleasure, which was really a special, spiritual enjoyment.

Zhang Tie knew that Zhang Taixuan would appoint Zhang Yuanshan as the new dean of the Provincial Court of Youzhou Province today. 'This might be out of the expectation of many people; however, what was more unimaginable was that I would become a bounty hunter in Taixia Country on the same day.'

Zhang Tie didn't need to register as a bounty hunter himself. The Building of Brightness in Taixia Country was a semi-governmental organization being affiliated to the local judicial agencies. He only needed to prepare his materials and submit them to the Building of Brightness in Youzhou City. 'It's none of my business as for how others would interpret it and frame the Gobbling Party with it.'

The Gobbling Party deserved it...

'After this event, the bullsh*t imperial official in the Censorate of Xuanyuan Hill might not walk away from the shadow caused by this event for the rest of his life. He's doomed to be regarded as a villain by the public.'

That was Taixia Country!

Gentlemen seek harmony while possessing their unique opinions; villains only seek consistency with others while possessing no unique opinions. After coming to Taixia Country for almost 4 months, Zhang Tie found that he gradually fell in love with this place.

The airport in Embracing Tiger City was pretty boisterous and vigorous. Airships in different shapes and colorful coatings were coming and going in the sky above the airport, large or small. Zhang Tie felt that this common airport was even more boisterous than the airshow held in Waii Sub-continent.

The fury-level airships produced by Huaiyuan Palace ranked top in Waii Sub-continent; however, they lost their halos in Taixia Country.

Taixia Country really had a powerful manufacturing industry. Take the prefectures in Youzhou Province as an instance, the airships produced in Spiritualmaple Prefecture and Chaoyang Prefecture were competitive to that of Huaiyuan Palace while better airships manufacturing clans and enterprises existed in other provinces such as Yanzhou Province, Huizhou Province, Tongzhou Province and Chaozhou Province. The airships produced by the imperial airship manufacturing plants that were affiliated to the imperial court of Taixia Country ranked top in kind, quantity and quality.

Facing such a great stress and competition, the airship manufacturing enterprises of Huaiyuan Palace had to reduce production scale; meanwhile, they started to employ talents from everywhere and started the project approval and technical storage of the second generation of fury-level airships.

Huaiyuan Palace would make a regular report to Clan elders about such situations; therefore, Zhang Tie knew these "trifles" pretty well.

Zhang Tie was the first one to walk out of the airship, followed by Feng Cangwu and Zhu Dabiao.

After exiting the hatch door of the airship, Zhang Tie looked up at the airships in the sky. By putting one hand over his forehead, he narrowed his eyes and sighed with emotions, "The airships here are much more varified than those in Waii Sub-continent; hmm, additionally, they seem to move faster. There're airships that fully combines the modules with the air sacs..."

Zhang Tie had been in Embracing Tiger City twice. Firstly, he passed by it; secondly, he came here to attend the clan elders' conference. As he left here so hurriedly the previous two times, he didn't even have time to look around it. Basically, he only had some aerial photographs about this city in his impression. Therefore, it was impossible for him to have a deeper understanding of this city. After adjusting his mood and time, when he came to Embracing Tiger City once again, Zhang Tie immediately felt the difference between this city and those in Waii Sub-continent. Such a tiny difference manifested the power and uniqueness of Taixia Country.

When Zhang Tie was talking about the airships, they saw a large hard-type airship painted with a blue boar pattern slowly rising up from a position in front of them. There were four Hua characters beneath the pattern—— 蓝风航空 1 .

Feng Cangwu was glassy-eyed about Zhang Tie's words; however, Zhu Dabiao burst out into laughter, "That's nothing strange. If you take a look in the provincial city of Huizhou Province, you would find that the airship bases over there were at least dozens of times larger than this one. The Auspicious Cloud Airport in Huizhou Province occupies over 200 square miles. Tens of thousands of airships access to that airport every day. If you were there for the first time, you might even get lost!"

"Hahaha, I will take a look over there if there's a chance!" Zhang Tie also burst out into laughter.

When they talked, they arrived at the entrance of the exclusive position of their airship and went to the underground.

In Waii Sub-continent, all the airport facilities were above the ground; however, in Taixia Country, only ground crew and regular railed, steam logistics trains could move above the ground of regular airports. All the people getting off the airships had to leave the airports through professional underground tunnels. They were forbidden to leave on the ground. Almost all the airports in Taixia Country were two-floored or multi-floored. The underground buildings were far more plentiful than those on the ground. There were even huge airship and material warehouses beneath many airports. In this way, the airports could run in a higher efficiency and cause fewer accidents in normal times; in wartime, two-floored or multi-floored airports could provide the biggest protection to the airships, personnel and materials.

Besides airports, Zhang Tie knew that almost all the highways in Taixia Country could bear large war airships. All the railways in Taixia Country spared a plain and an open land for at least 10 super large airships within 200 miles.

The underground tunnel of the airport of Embracing Tiger City was dozens of meters in depth. It was spacious and bright. The surface of the underground tunnel was paved with cyan stone slabs. There were so many passers-by over there.

In the daytime, besides an air vent in each dozen of meters in the tunnel, both walls of the tunnel were paved with one fluorescent strip. In each fixed distance, there was one fluorescent wall. Passengers could leave the airport through the underground tunnel.

There were some plants in the underground tunnel. On both sides of the tunnel were shops, hotels and complete living facilities. Passengers or crew members could live here well. Those shops were selling specialties of Youzhou Province. Some companies and stores had their offices and branches here.

"Jingling...Jingling..."

With an euphonious tinkle of bells, an odd-look vehicle drove here from behind.

Running on a rail which was narrower and smaller than the underground tunnel, that vehicle had a very low chassis. The entire vehicle was composed of 3 carriages. The full length of the vehicle was a bit greater than that of a bus. The three carriages were full of rows of seats. Each seat could hold 4 people. It even didn't have a roof. Therefore, it looked pretty simple and convenient.

The vehicle was like a simple miniature train and an amplified toy for children. Two tough Siberians were sitting in the chairs at the head of the vehicle. They were stamping this manual power device by feet like playing seesaw while holding a handle by two hands respectively.

The vehicle just moved as fast as jogging commoners. Therefore, they didn't work hard. When someone was in front of them, the tough guys just tinkled the bells by pulling the ropes to warn the passers.

Those in front of the vehicle could give a way to it or take a seat in it.

Watching some guys on his side jump into the vehicle, Zhang Tie understood that this vehicle was an underground scheduled bus in the airport.

If it was replaced by a steam mini-train, the heavy smoke would cause a severe pollution in this relatively closed space. Therefore, they just used a manual railed mini-train. Commoners might be a bit tired to do that; however, it's no problem for a LV 2 soldier. Let alone this vehicle was matched with two "drivers".

'Such a manual mini-train could definitely match the manual airplane that I used in Selnes Theater of Operations.'

At the sight of such a mini-train, Zhang Tie revealed a smile as he felt it was very funny.

"Papa, here's the mini-train, I want to take the mini-train, I want to take the mini-train..." A kid who had just entered the underground space exclaimed. It seemed that they were waiting on the side of the rail only for taking this mini-train.

When the train passed by, the kid's dad instantly strode onto the train in an agile way together with the kid. They were sitting right in front of Zhang Tie.

At the sight of Zhang Tie, the kid even made a face at him...

Chapter 876: A Quarrel

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

When they exited the airport, Zhang Tie waved his hand towards a green steam taxi. The taxi then parked beside them. Zhang Tie let Zhu Dabiao sit in the co-pilot seat while he and Feng Cangwu sat on the back seats.

After getting on the vehicle, Feng Cangwu started to twist his body in an uncomfortable way with a faintly stiff facial expression. By contrast, Zhu Dabiao felt pretty fresh. Zhang Tie remained unruffled.

"Where're you going?" The driver who was a bit baldheaded turned around and asked them.

"Take us to the biggest seafood trading market in Embracing Tiger City!" Zhang Tie said in Hua language.

"Ahh, the biggest seafood trading market is located in the Whitesand Gulf. It's in the south of Embracing City over 25 miles away from here. It will cost you 2 silver coins, sir!" The driver quoted. If the passengers disagreed, they had to get off.

"No problem, let's go!" Zhang Tie smiled.

After hearing Zhang Tie's answer, the driver started the car. With a slight shock, the green taxi started to run.

"Are you really going to buy seafood?" Zhu Dabiao asked Zhang Tie with a serious look.

"I've told you. I'm here to do that!" Zhang Tie explained.

Although he had mentioned it to Zhu Dabiao and Feng Cangwu before they came here, the two guys didn't believe that Zhang Tie was here for setting free sea living beings. Therefore, they followed Zhang Tie here.

"Hahaha, that's interesting..." Zhu Dabiao rolled his eyes before saying, "If it really works as you've told us, I will have a try too. I'd like to see whether Gaya will pay special attention to me!"

"As long as you stick to it, you will see the effect!" Zhang Tie said.

"Really?"

"Practice is the sole criterion for testing the truth!" Zhang Tie replied with the most popular sentence among Hua people before the Catastrophe.

Zhu Dabiao replied with a smile before turning back. Watching the scenery outside the window, Zhu Dabiao made a comment, "Embracing Tiger City is really developing well. The population is rising here..."

"It will be better!" Zhang Tie added.

Previously, Zhu Dabiao only wanted to look around Golden Sea City after coming back from Youzhou City with Zhang Tie. After the lantern festival, he would recruit some subordinates and purchase some materials in Yanghe Prefecture before building 1 or 2 towns and settlements in the land that he had bought for the preparation of further development. It was also the regular method for Taixia Country to develop border areas.

Benefited from the convenience of sea trade, Yanghe Prefecture was very developed in human trafficking or gracefully "border economy". Those foreign population from other subcontinents or Chaosang Sub-continent which was adjacent to Taixia Country would be transported to Embracing Tiger Harbor by huge ships and become members of the contingent in the border areas of Taixia Country. Along with these people were a large number of materials, capital, valuable equipment and machines from all the other subcontinents.

After Youzhou promoted to an established lower province in Taixia Country, the "border economy" in Yanghe Prefecture became hotter. Local major clans and foreign major clans which wanted to expand their domestic territories in Youzhou Province would demand a lot of cheap labor forces to make their cheap land "alive" or to constantly consolidate their domestic territories and population size. New border residents would also bring greater market demand and a lot of capital, which were very beneficial to a lower province which was vast and sparsely populated.

The holy war pushed all the subcontinents surrounding Taixia Country to transfer their population, capital and industries to the Eastern Continent. On this occasion, the prices of population, materials and equipment were pretty cheap in Embracing Tiger City. Those border foreign residents could have a bit dignity with the protection of the laws of Taixia Country; however, those machines and equipment that were transported from other subcontinents to Taixia Country were directly sold at the price of metal craps. Some were even sold in terms of ships. As long as they could offset their freight and bring a bit benefit to their owners, they would be constantly transported to Taixia Country from all the surrounding subcontinents. This was a grander feast for the major clans in Taixia Country.

Zhang Tie didn't know how would the holy war underwent; however, given the current situation, the holy war seemingly provided a chance for major clans in Taixia Country to exploit those subcontinents around the Eastern Continent. Due to the holy war, Taixia Country firstly grew more powerful instead of suffering a catastrophe...

Perhaps this was the rudimentary reason for Taixia Country to only interfere with the battles in the subcontinents to a certain degree at the beginning of the holy war. The demons drove the resources from all the subcontinents to Taixia Country. How could Taixia Country which flew the blood of Hua people fight for those foreigners at the cost of the strength of itself? How could it prevent these resources from flowing into its own territory by maintaining the safety and stability of those subcontinents?

Retrospecting to the history of humans, each worldwide war provided the best development time for those safe and stable countries and continents which were far from battle flames. The power of Hua people in this age was closely related to the safety and stability of the Eastern Continent in the earlier two holy wars.

Watching the boisterous streets outside the airport, Zhang Tie realized something.

Since they got on the vehicle, Feng Cangwu had been feeling uncomfortable. In only a few minutes, Feng Cangwu's body had become stiff. His uneasiness grew each second.

After staying with Feng Cangwu for so many days, Zhang Tie also knew that this guy was not only very arrogant but also a clean freak. He would take bath two times a day and would never use items which had been used by others. However, this guy's response in the taxi really made Zhang Tie amazed. Although this taxi was not deluxe or new, it was at least okay; of course, unavoidably, hundreds even thousands of people had sat on the back seats. Although the cover of the seats didn't look dirty, its color had faded away.

"Haven't you taken a taxi before?" Zhang Tie asked Feng Cangwu.

"Not yet!" Feng Cangwu shook his head.

"Young man, you've not even taken a taxi before? It seems that you come from rural areas. Many people would have a carsickness or feel like throwing up when they took a taxi for the first time; if you feel like throwing up, please tell me in advance. I will park it on the roadside. Don't vomit it in the car. It's hard to clean!" After hearing Feng Cangwu's words, the driver started to "instruct" him. Finally, he added with a good intention, "Young man, don't just stay in the rural area. You need to look around. It only takes you a few silver coins for a ride. Don't be that frugal; otherwise, you will regret it when you're old."

After hearing this, Zhang Tie tried his best to not burst out into laughter. Even Zhu Dabiao's shoulders kept quivering. Only Feng Cangwu's face turned black at once...

When they came to Embracing Tiger City, at Zhang Tie's request, all of them had changed a set of very common clothes. Therefore, others could barely identify their statuses; otherwise, if they loitered in the seafood market in expensive boa-silk clothes, they would look very strange and would send a signal to those sellers that they were here to be ripped off, not to mention potential troubles...

Zhang Tie knew the living conditions and thoughts of the small figures at the bottom of the society pretty well.

Feng Cangwu wanted to say something; however, he finally stopped because he didn't think that he had deteriorated to quarrel with a taxi driver. Nevertheless, after swallowing his words, Feng Cangwu felt like swallowing dozens of balloons as he felt pretty inflated...

In less than one hour, the driver had taken them to the Whitesand Gulf in the south of Embracing Tiger City along the coastline.

Being miles away from the Whitesand Gulf, they had smelt a special fishy sense from the sea wind that blew from there.

Compared to the Embracing Tiger Harbor which was anchored with huge passenger liners, the Whitesand Gulf was anchored with a lot of fishing boats, which varied from dozens of tons to tens of thousands of tons.

There was a fishery processing plant covering several square miles being close to the Whitesand Gulf. Right between the processing plant and the docks, they saw the biggest seafood market in Yanghe Prefecture.

Soon after they entered there had they seen many workers in black rubber water-proof pants busy unloading seafood and big fishes from big ships by crane...

"Here we are, did you see the place with blue steel tiles in front of us? That's the biggest seafood market in the Embracing Tiger City. The seafood market here is very large, it divides into many regions. If you want to buy something more fresh, you could go to the docks and directly buy them from those fishing boats. However, those seafood on fishing boats are only sold in terms of ship or wholesale!"

After parking the car, the driver made an explanation to his passengers kindly. Zhang Tie then fumbled 3 silver coins out of his pocket and gave them to the driver. After that, he pulled open the door of the vehicle and got off the car with Feng Cangwu and Zhu Dabiao.

"I've not taken a taxi before; however, I'm not from the rural area!"

Before getting off, Feng Cangwu finally poured out the words that he had been standing so much on the vehicle. As a result, the driver threw a glance at him like watching a lunatic. At the same time, Zhang Tie and Zhu Dabiao burst into laughter.

After the driver drove away, the three guys stood nearby a region of the seafood market. Smelling the stimulative fishy and bloody smell, Feng Cangwu turned his face once again.

Watching them still exchanging glances with each other, a slightly shorter guy ran over from afar immediately. The moment he arrived in front of them, he had nodded and bowed towards them very politely, "Welcome, do you need any help?"

His Hua language sounded a bit weird; however, he looked similar to Hua people; besides, his humble smile made people feel good.

"You're...from Chaosang Subcontinent?" Zhang Tie asked after throwing a glance at him given the knowledge that he had learned.

"I'm Haruki Murakami. I'm from Chaosang Subcontinent. I can provide you with the information about fish trade in Whitesand Gulf. Please give me your concern!" As this man replied to them, he made another deep bow towards Zhang Tie. His head could almost touch his knees.

"My guests, if you're new here, Park Yong Tai hopes to serve you!" Another guy ran over here with a big smile.

Compared to the guy called Haruki Murakami, this guy had a big round face and small eyes, which looked a bit ridiculous but impressive...

Haruki Murakami immediately threw a glare at Park Yong Tai; Park Young Tai also glared at Haruki Murakami, being not to be outdone...

After throwing another glare at each other, they turned around and watched Zhang Tie, Zhu Dabiao and Feng Cangwu at the same time.

"If you want to learn the fish trading information in Whitesand Gulf or buy something, this humble man is glad to serve you three and will never let you down!" Haruki Murakami said.

"If he could do it, I could do it too; additionally, I only need half of his premium!" Pak Young Tai immediately made a response.

'F*ck, I've not imagined that I could see two human races in Chaosang Subcontinents quarrel with each other in front of us the moment we come here...' Zhang Tie swore inside.

Chapter 877: Locking the Targets

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

The Fusang people and Xinluo people in Chaosang Subcontinent were always opponents. Although living in the same subcontinent, the two people had their own countries, which were incompatible as fire and water. They used to fight each other from time to time. In the almost 1 millennium from the age before the Catastrophe to the present, the two human races had never been in peaceful co-existence. Even though Zhang Tie didn't know the reason.

Except for one commonplace, namely, the two people always called themselves the descendants of Hua people in Taixia Country even though they belittled and attacked each other. They both wanted to return to Taixia Country to gain the official approval of Taixia Country.

A lot of Xinluo people and Fusang people were living in Youzhou Province, except for some of them came to Taixia Country legally, most of them arrived there by secret ferry. Many Gaoli People and Fusang People even voluntarily sold themselves to be border residents in Taixia Country. For major clans of Taixia Country, the servants of the two peoples were extremely diligent and docile; especially Fusang people, female Fusang people were very obedient while male Fusang people could usually be trained as domestic dare-to-die warriors.

Haruki Murakami and Pak Yong Tai were all in the line of fish trading information provision in Whitesand Gulf. Both of them were small figures at the bottom of the society. However, they didn't forget about being hostile against each other; instead, they even became more antagonistic against the opponent. As long as they could destroy the others' good plan, they would definitely surge forward.

Zhang Tie had not imagined that he could meet two people from Chaosang Subcontinent here. However, he was really shocked by the performances of them. Therefore, Zhang Tie had some special thought.

'Besides setting living beings free, I need two able men to do that for me in Golden Sea City. After all, I could not stay in Golden Sea City forever.'

'As a clan elder, if I mobilized the strength of the clan to set living beings free, it might arouse big troubles and various guesses. If so, the karma might be destroyed. Finally, I might not be able to get any fruit at all.'

'Therefore, I'd better be low-key.'

'After promoting to a knight, it's extremely hard to form the earth chakra, this kind of fruit which could constantly improve the battle strength actually becomes more precious.' Zhang Tie determined to pay special attention to this thing.

'Actually, I've not developed the fruit of redemption very well. I could set free a lot of animals. However, as of now, I have only taken a couple of fruits of redemption.'

"Are you familiar with the situation here?"

"Of course, I've lived in Embracing Tiger City for one decade. I'm very familiar with the situation here; unlike someone who has just been here for a couple of years!" Pak Yong Tai hurriedly replied.

Given the orthodox Hua language, Zhang Tie knew that this guy must have lived longer here.

After throwing a glare at Pak Yong Tai, Haruki Murakami explained in a calm yet aggressive tone, "All my guests are returning customers. I have the best reputation here; unlike someone. As a fishery agent, I'm intelligent and concentrative to save money and create the most value for my customers!"

"That's fine, I will employ both of you today. Besides your fixed compensation, the one with better performance could enjoy a bonus!" Zhang Tie said with a confident look.

After throwing another glare at each other, Haruki Murakami and Pak Yong Tai uttered in unison while bowing deeply towards Zhang Tie, "Glad to serve you, sir!"

"Alright, show me around the market first. I want to learn about the fresh aquatic products. You can give me an introduction about them!" Zhang Tie pointed at the boisterous steel shelter which was closest to him.

Haruki Murakami and Pak Young Tai then led them towards the trading market.

"Sorry for my rudeness, what do I call you three?"

Haruki Murakami was indeed wiser and politer than Pak Yong Tai. The moment they moved, he had asked Zhang Tie such a question meticulously.

"My surname is Zhang, the two are my friends!" Zhang Tie told Haruki Murakami that he was the main buyer.

"Ahh, in the Hua people of Taixia Country, Zhang's ancestors were the direct descendants of Emperor Xuanyuan and the creator of the human battle bow. It's a great, honorable family name!" Haruki Murakami said while flickering his eyes. Meanwhile, he expressed his obvious admiration to the family name Zhang, "Through study, the two family names Shenmu and Shangmu in our Fushang people are all branches of Zhang Clan. The so-called Shenmu and Shangmu are all raw materials of bows. The two family names carry our admiration and memory about the family name Zhang."

"F*rt!" Pak Yong Tai couldn't stand to spring up from the ground, "Our Xinluo people's ancestors were the direct descendants of Far-ancient Hua people. Therefore, our surnames are as same as that of Hua people. You Fusang people are just monkeys and barbarians living on isles!"

"You Xinluo people are all pickpocketers and actors. Before the Catastrophe, you even said the God was Xinluo people and shared the same surname as you. Of course, you are pickpocketers!" Haruki Murakami instantly answered back sarcastically.

Pak Yong Tai went berserk...

"If you say any nonsense, please leave us. I'm not here to listen to you quarrel with each other!" Zhang Tie opened his mouth in a distant tone.

The moment they heard Zhang Tie's voice, Haruki Murakami's and Pak Yong Tai's hearts raced as they shut up immediately.

...

The fresh seafood trading market was very huge, which was at least hundreds of times larger than that trading market in Hidden Dragon Island. Of course, the seafood products here were more varified in greater quantity.

The entire fresh seafood trading market across Whitesand Gulf was full of human voices. The ground was covered with fishy and bloody water stains. Besides smelly crew members and workers holding big scoops, those pedlars were bargaining with customers and slaughtering marine living beings, causing bloody guts everywhere...

After entering here for less than half a minute, Feng Cangwu's face had turned pale. His trouser legs were sprayed with stinky mud, which was caused by some crew members who were passing by with some water tanks. On such an occasion, even knights could not avoid from such an embarrassing thing unless they flew off or used their protective battle qi.

Besides taking a taxi for the first time, it might be the first time for this elite apprentice of Heavens Fortune Sect to visit this place.

Feng Cangwu could not think it through why Zhang Tie could be as cool as a cucumber in such a dirty place.

Besides walking and looking around, Zhang Tie even bargained with those pedlars and inquired information from those crew members as if he were a fishmonger.

Not only Feng Cangwu, even Zhu Dabiao had a new recognition of Zhang Tie.

Given Zhang Tie's current look, nobody could imagine that he was the very Lion of Youzhou Province and the former dean of Provincial Court.

Zhang Tie's horizon was greatly widened by so many fresh seafoods in the market including shrimps, crabs, fishes, shellfishes, conches, sea cucumbers and echinus. There were over 10 kinds of shrimps, 7-8 kinds of crabs and over 20 fishes. Abalone, fan shell, echinus, golden crab, saury, Spanish Mackerel, opium fish, flatfish, turbot, small-mouth fish, red porgy, blackfish, yellow-fin tuna, shark, yellow croaker, sea snail, triumphant star turban, emperor snail, Mantis shrimp, prawn, lobster, north sea shellfish and oyster were most popular.

It took them over 1 hour to take a round in the market. Zhang Tie also worked out a plan.

If Zhang Tie were the God, he only needed to wave his hands to let everything run according to his will and he must choose to set free all the animals at this moment; however, he wasn't. Therefore, he could only follow the principle of pragmatism and utilitarianism.

The animals that he was going to release should not be as rare as marine animals were always expensive and could not be constantly set free. It was very difficult for Zhang Tie to take one fruit of redemption from such rare animals.

Instead, the animals that Zhang Tie was going to set free should be numerous in quantity and could be released all the year round so that he could get fruits one after another. Secondly, such an animal should be cheap so that he could maximize the value of his fund. 'The value of life could not be measured by gold coins; therefore, the value of seafood could not be measured by gold coins. I've already learned it from earthworms.' Thirdly, Zhang Tie insisted to not release hot seafood; he preferred common marine animals so that nobody else would like to compete with him and his behavior would not arouse the attention of others.

After inspecting and learning something from Haruki Murakami and Pak Yong Tai, Zhang Tie finally targeted at two common seafood: One was a tiny shrimp with a thick shell called gulf shrimp whose price was 45 copper coins per kg in Whitesand Gulf. It was very cheap. All the fishing boats would carry a lot of such gulf shrimps. The other one was a shellfish called hairy shellfish, which was numerous in quantity in Whitesand Gulf at a lower price. Each kg of hairy shellfish was only worth about 18 copper coins. The flesh of such a kind of shellfish tasted average; occasionally, people could get pearls from them; however, as hairy shellfish could produce very few pearls, which were always average, nobody paid attention to them.

When Zhang Tie told Haruki Murakami and Pak Yong Tai to rent a big fishing boat, to buy all the gulf shrimps and hairy shellfish in the market today and to set free all of them in the ocean, Haruki Murakami and Pak Yong Tai were a bit dumbfounded. Until Zhang Tie handed a gold check whose par value was 500 gold coins to each other did they realize that Zhang Tie was not kidding...

Actually, Zhang Tie also wondered what kind of fruits would he gain by setting free the two animals!

Chapter 878: Making an Arrangement in Whitesand Gulf

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

A steam, smoking fishing vessel whose water discharge was about 100 tons appeared on the open water over 7 miles away from Whitesand Gulf in the south with its crew and cases of seafood, making a sound of "tutututu".

The fishing vessel was just a bit bumpy on the sea.

As it was afternoon, people could see the limpid and blue sea water under the sunlight.

This open water was relatively tranquil. Additionally, fewer vessels were fishing here.

After arriving at the destination, the boat head walked out of the cabin and came to the deck of the fore before noticing his passengers who had chartered the boat.

The deck of the fore was filled with cases of fresh gulf shrimps and hairy shellfish while a group of people was talking about something over there.

When the boat head drew closer to them, he heard a young man of about 16 years of age talking about something.

"The God of Protection Church is very famous in Western Continent. They're very excelled at driving animals. According to the doctrine of this church, human awareness is the most mysterious realm in the universe. When we pay attention to the wild beast that we see, we're actually telling ourselves that its body is different than ours; therefore, it's different than us. However, if you stick to such a thought, you're actually preventing yourself from communicating with these animals. Because you treat the physical differences as the obstacle of your exchanges, you could not reach their inner hearts. Whereas, these animals are all created by Gaya. They are on equal footing with us! Actually, you could ignore the physical differences between them and yourself and try to communicate with them using your awareness..."

Zhang Tie continued to pretend to be a priest jerk. Based on his acknowledge about the God of Protection Church; especially that he had learned from Krell, he was absolutely qualified to be disguised to be a pious believer of the God of Protection Church.

Even Feng Cangwu who had always been dubious about Zhang Tie's talent started to believe that Zhang Tie was a pious believer of the God of Patron Church. At least, Zhang Tie adopted the theory of the God of Patron Church. It might be strange if a Hua knight who had been living in Taixia Country was interested in foreign religions; however, it was understandable for Zhang Tie who grew up in a subcontinent to be interested in the God of Protection Church.

When Zhang Tie talked about the religion, Haruki Murakami and Pak Tai Yong both watched him with an admirable expression whether being real or not.

"You mean, you could communicate with these maritime animals?" Zhu Dabiao asked Zhang Tie with a dubious look.

Zhang Tie revealed a modest smile as he continued to fabricate a bigger lie so as to lay a foundation for explaining some of his abilities which were benefited from cultivating "the Great Wilderness Sutra" in Taixia Country. 'If someone finds out that I could drive animals, I hope they're not too shocked; as this is the secret skill that I've learned from the God of Protection Church.' "Based on my ability, I could indeed make simple exchanges with these maritime animals. I've also slightly learned how to drive animals. It was taught by a wild patron when I was in Waii Subcontinent!"

"Show us, hurry, show us..." Zhu Dabiao's curiosity was raised as he couldn't wait to urge Zhang Tie, "My grandpa also has an animal controller; however, that old guy is too arrogant. Besides treating my grandpa respectfully, he just ignores me..."

After hearing their talk, the boat head became quiet. He had also heard about animal controller; however, he could never imagine that there was an animal controller in his boat. As for these guys who survived on their labor force, the world of animal controllers was too far away from their world.

There was a huge iron-sheet water tank in front of them, which was filled with gulf shrimps.

Under the gaze of the others, Zhang Tie walked to the huge water tank and stretched out his hand, "Come on, show us three of you!"

After hearing Zhang Tie's words, 3 gulf shrimps obediently climbed onto Zhang Tie's hand and stood in a line tidily.

"Raise your right hand!"

The three gulf shrimps raised high their right pincers at the same time...

"Put it down!"

The three gulf shrimps put down their right pincers at the same time...

"Raise your left hand!"

The three gulf shrimps raised their left pincers at the same time...

"Put it down!"

The three gulf shrimps put down their left pincers at the same time...

"Raise both your hands up..."

In a split second, 6 pincers were raised up at the same time...

Except for Feng Cangwu, all the others at present were shocked, including the boat head. They were not in a circus; instead, a young guy was displaying his skill to control animals. Although they were just three tiny gulf shrimps, their performance was marvelous!

"Well done, go back to your water tank now. Tell your brothers and sisters that they're going back home soon!"

The three gulf shrimps then climbed back into the water tank. Only after a few seconds, all the gulf shrimps in the water tank in front of Zhang Tie became restless as they were clipping their pincers, making a sound "Kakakaka". Soon after that, all the gulf shrimps across the fishing boat became restless as if they had received the news. As a result, the sound "Kakakaka" was drifted from all the water tanks across the boat like drum beats. As a result, all the boatmen became stunned...

At this moment, Haruki Murakami and Pak Tai Yong were watching Zhang Tie with full awe-stricken expressions.

When Zhu Dabiao said that his grandpa had an animal controller, the two fishing information agents had realized that Zhang Tie's status was special. After watching Zhang Tie's performance, they behaved in a more modest way.

The boat head was also stunned as he had not seen this after fishing dozens of years. After swallowing his saliva, he told them with a respectful voice, "Here we are..."

"Stop the vessel and help these living beings return to the ocean then!" Zhang Tie issued the order. Closely after that, he put his palms together devoutly and closed his eyes before muttering the prayer of the God of Protection Church like a priest jerk...

"The mother of the land which carries all the living beings, please open your mind and welcome me and your living beings so that they could return to your infinite bosom and integrate with you in the light of your love..."

When Zhang Tie was muttering the solemn prayer, all the people in the ship started to pour tanks of gulf shrimps into the sea while the exit of the water storehouse at the bottom of the ship was opened, discharging the hairy shellfish...

This time, Zhang Tie bought over 3,000 kg's gulf shrimps and 4,600 kg's hairy shellfish. However, plus the rent of this ship, the total price was less than 25 gold coins.

Only in a few minutes, after Zhang Tie finished his prayer, all the gulf shrimps and hairy shellfish had returned to the ocean.

When those gulf shrimps and hairy shellfish got rid of their death destiny and gained their rebirth and freedom, Zhang Tie faintly felt an invisible energy of gratitude gathering in his body, making him pleasant all over. He felt everything was bright and nice.

'Living beings really have their souls!'

After setting free the maritime animals, the fishing boat turned around and returned to the Whitesand Gulf.

...

After paying off the balance payment to the boat head, Haruki Murakami and Pak Tai Yong gave the remaining gold coins and gold checks back to Zhang Tie.

Zhang Tie promised 1 gold coin to each of them. According to the income of the fishing information agents, their minimal service fee was 50 copper coins. In block trading, the commission would not exceed 1% of the trading volume. Therefore, 1 gold coin was already a fat return for each of them. Generally, they might not gain 1 gold coin in half a month. During bad luck, they might not even gain 1 gold coin in one month.

Zhang Tie didn't take the gold coins and gold checks from them; instead, he asked, "How much could you make in one year in this line?"

"7 to 20 gold coins!" Haruki Murakami replied.

Pak Yong Tai nodded. This might the sole tacit deed between them since the beginning. The income in this line varied greatly. However, It depended.

"I need two people to help me set free maritime animals in Whitesand Gulf every day. I will pay you 50 gold coins a year. Would you like to serve me?"

Haruki Murakami immediately bowed deeply as his head could almost touch his knees, "Haruki Murakami will definitely live up to your expectation!"

Closely followed by Pak Young Tai.

This was undoubtedly good for them.

Zhang Tie watched them as he continued, "You can take this money first as your first year's compensation. As for the remaining payment, Haruki Murakami will take charge of buying gulf shrimps and setting them free in Whitesand Gulf every day, Pak Yong Tai will take charge of buying hairy shellfish and setting them free. I don't care how you spend it. You need to supervise each other; however, you cannot cause the other one any trouble. In the future, I might only employ one of you. Therefore, it depends on your performance. After a few days, I will dispatch a man called Paul to find you. He will be your head. You can report any problem to him. If you use up your money, remember to ask from him."

Zhang Tie was not worried that any one of them dared escape away with his payment. On the premise of having a high compensation, if any one of them really would like to be a criminal in Taixia Country only for hundreds of gold coins, Zhang Tie would not make any comment about him. After all, Zhang Tie had not felt about losing such a bit of money. However, if they didn't escape away with his payment, it was a good way to have them supervise and compete with each other, which would be a stable source of fruits. Therefore, Zhang Tie wouldn't suffer a loss from this trade.

This was also a way to use talented people. Wisdom lay in details.

Soon after they went ashore, Zhang Tie had received the message from his elder brother through remote-sensing crystal——Huaiyuan Palace has sent Aimei and Aixue home, dad and mom like them very much...

Chapter 879: Excessive

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

After making an arrangement in setting free maritime animals in Embracing Tiger City, Zhang Tie received Zhang Yang's message. Therefore, Zhang Tie soon returned to Golden Light City by airship from the airport in Embracing Tiger City.

After spending one day with Zhang Tie in Whitesand Gulf, Zhu Dabiao and Feng Cangwu both had a new recognition of Zhang Tie.

Zhang Tie also reached his target.

Of course, Zhang Tie was not coming back hurriedly to make love with Aimei and Aixue; he always respected them. No matter what, after asking for the two girls from Huaiyuan Palace, he would be their husband from then on. Therefore, he had to treasure them.

When Zhang Tie was going back to his berth cabin to absorb earth-elements crystals, he was stopped by Zhu Dabiao. Rubbing his hands, Zhu Dabiao flickered his eyes.

"If I always buy maritime animals and set them free, will I also cultivate the animal controlling skill like you?"

'What is this guy thinking about?' Zhang Tie became speechless. 'If animal controllers could be bought, they would never be so rare in the world.'"You want to be an animal controller?" Zhang Tie threw a glance at Zhu Dabiao.

"Of course, your performance today was so cool. If I could also master this skill, I could accost girls in this way!"

'F*ck, you want to learn animal controlling skill only to accost girls?' Zhang Tie swore inside, 'If this guy wants to learn from other animal controllers, for this reason, he might be beaten to death.'

"The animal controlling skill relies on your realization. Listen to me, you can buy a pet and stay with it. One day, if you find that you could communicate with it even being silent, it indicates that you have the potential to be an animal controller. Otherwise, it wouldn't work no matter how many animals you set free. However, according to the God of Protection Church, the more you set free, the luckier you will be. You will get the protection of Gaya, the mother of land!" Zhang Tie explained patiently like it was real. He didn't want to disappoint Zhu Dabiao.

"Is that real?"

"Yup!"

"Well, I will find a cat or dog to test whether do I have the potential to be an animal controller after coming back!" Zhu Dabiao said as he walked towards his room as he made a hand gesture in the air out of excitement...

Seeing Zhu Dabiao off, Zhang Tie revealed a faint smile before coming back to his own cabin. After that, he closed the door and took out one earth-element crystal from Castle of Black Iron in order to absorb it.

Through the master artisan in Huaiyuan Palace, Zhang Tie's nanobead had become a mithril finger ring in only 2 days. The finger ring looked square and slightly big and coarse, making it plain. Additionally, it carried a rune effect of recovering one's physical strength by 11%. Nobody could see the nanobead embedded in the finger ring.

With this item as a cover, nobody would doubt that when Zhang Tie took items out of Castle of Black Iron. The space of the nanobead was like a private safe. Besides Zhang Tie, nobody else would know what he had stored inside it.

...

Golden Light City was only 250 miles away from Embracing Tiger City. The airship would arrive at Golden Light City in about 2 hours, during which period, Zhang Tie could rightly absorb one earth-element crystal.

When the airship landed in Zhang family's manor, Zhang Tie had almost absorbed one earth-element crystal. The dusk had just fallen when the lamps in the courtyard of Zhang family's manor had just been lit up.

When he was getting off the airship, Feng Cangwu was still tightly frowning his eyebrows as if he was concerning about something. Being simulated by Zhang Tie's performance in the daytime, after telling Zhang Tie about his intention, he had hurriedly returned to his own courtyard. Although it was late, Zhu Dabiao still let a guard of Zhang Tie's family lead him to a pet trading market in Golden Light City for selecting a pet.

Zhang Tie rapidly entered the main mansion as he knew that his family members must be waiting for him to eat supper due to the arrival of Aimei and Aixue.

Feng Cangwu and Zhu Dabiao had finished their supper in the airship. In normal times, Feng Cangwu used to eat in his own courtyard; however, Zhu Dabiao ate everywhere; he used to eat outside. Occasionally, he would eat with Zhang Tie's family members in the main mansion without feeling bashful at all.

...

When he caught sight of Aimei and Aixue, he found they were sitting on Linda's side and talking with his family members.

Today, Aimei and Aixue both wore a beautiful longuette, which looked elegant and graceful. Watching Zhang Tie entering, Zhang Tie's family members instantly threw their glances at him.

"Uncle has new wives..." Zhang Chengze and Zhang Shiyu applauded as they exclaimed.

Aimei and Aixue's faces blushed. Only after throwing a glance at Zhang Tie, they had moved their eyes away rapidly. Zhang Tie also felt his face hot. 'Although Aimei and Aixue were arranged by Huaiyuan Palace, they might be very satisfied to be here. However, as I asked for them from Huaiyuan Palace, I feel like being a villain in the village who forcibly occupies beautiful girls of some family.'

"Ahem...ahem...you're all here. Come on, let's start the dinner..." Zhang Tie walked to his chair, pulling it out and taking a seat in a calm way.

"Come on, eat..." Zhang Tie's dad uttered while all the family members started to move their chopsticks.

Although it was just a simple dinner, it indicated that Aimei and Aixue would become members of Zhang Tie's family from today on.

It was a bumper dinner. Zhang Tie nipped dishes for Aixue, Aimei and Linda by chopsticks.

Gradually Aimei and Aixue became relaxed.

After supper, Zhang Tie's mom gifted one pair of her bracelets to Aimei and Aixue respectively. Zhang Tie's elder sister-in-law and wives also presented gifts to Aimei and Aixue. Zhang Tie's dad warned Zhang Tie with a "solemn" look to not bully Aixue and Aimei from then on.

When the kids of Zhang Tie and Zhang Yang seriously queued up to call Aimei and Aixue aunts, the sisters' eyes turned red.

As two girls who had become orphans since childhood and could not sense the warmth of family, they felt like dreaming about everything in Zhang Tie's family.

Before coming to Zhang Tie's family, although the two sisters were surprised about being selected by Zhang Tie, they were afraid of being not able to get along with his family members. Therefore, they felt restless and pretty meticulous. However, after coming to Zhang Tie's family, they were really shocked by the harmonious and warm atmosphere in Zhang Tie's family. Even Linda, Beverly and Fiona were pretty kind to them, not to mention Zhang Tie's dad and mom. Therefore, Aimei and Aixue felt reassured.

...

After the reunion, Zhang Tie's dad and mom said they were going to bed, the other family members then returned to their own bedrooms too.

Linda, Beverly and Fiona led Aimei and Aixue to Zhang Tie's private mansion; showing them around the mansion and introducing their servants to them.

The bedrooms of Aimei and Aixue were newly furnished, which were spacious, luxurious and jubilant.

"We will hand him to you tonight. You'd better prepare well for that. I'm afraid that he will not let you sleep well tonight!" Don't let your elder sisters-in-law laugh at you if you cannot get up early the next morning." Fiona joked as she threw an "enchanting" glance at Zhang Tie.

After hearing Fiona's words, Aimei and Aixue blushed at once. Zhang Tie also felt a bit bashful as he threw a "threatening" glance at Fiona.

"Fiona, don't scare Aimei and Aixue anymore. Zhang Tie will care about their feelings!" Beverly smiled.

"Well, let's go back. It's too late!" Linda said in a tolerant tone.

"Thanks for your care, three elder sisters!" Aimei and Aixue threw a glance at each other before crossing their hands and putting them on the left side of their waists before lowing their bodies towards Linda, Beverly and Fiona with Chinese characteristic.

"Ahh, I almost forgot that our bedrooms are soundproof. You can exclaim as loudly as you can, nobody else could hear that!" Fiona added...

"Pah!" Zhang Tie, who couldn't stand her anymore, patted Fiona's plump butt...

...

Linda, Beverly and Fiona then left the room, leaving Zhang Tie, Aimei and Aixue inside.

Watching the pair of beautiful sisters, Zhang Tie's heart started to race crazily.

"Ahem...ahem...it's too late. I will take a bath. Then, we will take a rest!" Zhang Tie said with a "solemn" look.

After exchanging a glance with each other, Aimei and Aixue moved close to him with rosy cheeks before saying in a low voice like mosquitoes' buzz, "Hubby, let us take off clothes for you!"

They then started to undo Zhang Tie's waistband with their quivering hands...

...

This night, Zhang Tie was immersed in the gentle and soft dreamland with two Hua girls for the first time...

...

However, Xuanyuan Hill, a mysterious place being far away from Youzhou Province which was admired by all the people in the world was also not tranquil over this night...

An urgent message sent from Youzhou Province through remote-sensing crystal only contained a few words. After being deciphered, they were recorded on a secret piece of paper before being placed in a sealed metal cylinder. After being posted with an urgent symbol, the cylinder was finally presented to a dignified man with a yellowish face in the shortest period after passing some checks through some postmen.

The man uncorked the metal cylinder and took out that secret piece of paper. After spreading it on the desk, he saw a line of words——

——Zhang Taixuan appointed Zhang Yuanshan as the new dean of the Provincial Court of Youzhou Province; Zhang Mushen resigned and became a bounty hunter!

"Excessive! You're seeking for death!"

The man just replied with a cold harrumph while the secret piece of paper, the metal cylinder and the desk had become powders in a split second after being twisted...

Chapter 880: Settling Down

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

It soon came to the February of the 900th year of Black Iron Calendar...

Although there were constantly unstable factors outside, Zhang Tie's family was still peaceful...

After Aimei and Aixue came to Zhang Tie's family for two weeks, Zhang Yang finally accomplished his authentication as an orange robe pharmacist in the Pharmacists Union in Youzhou City.

This news aroused a shock in a certain region although it was not that shocking compared to when Zhang Tie competed for the provincial governor for Zhang Clan in Youzhou City.

By now, Zhang Tie was a knight and a clan elder of Huaiyuan Palace as a cultivation talent in Zhang Clan who would not be encountered in 100 years and the lion of Youzhou Province; Zhang Yang was a pharmacist talent who had promoted to an orange robe pharmacist at his 30s and became influential in the circle of pharmacists in Youzhou Province. In the opinions of the public, Zhang Tie's family had started to enter a wholly new rising track while its potential to be a major clan had gradually manifested.

The rudimentary reason that Zhang Yang chose to promote to an orange robe pharmacist at this moment and reveal his trump card was that he sensed the great stress facing Zhang Clan and Huaiyuan Palace. Under this great stress, Zhang Clan must have a greater influence and root deeper in Taixia so as to be stable and unswerving. Therefore, after negotiating with Zhang Tie, Zhang Yang revealed his trump card a few years earlier than that in their former plan, which indicated that Zhang Tie's family contained a knight and a pharmacist. Besides, Zhang Tie's family could borrow the strength from the circle of pharmacists.

When Zhang Yang promoted to an orange robe pharmacist, Jinwu Shipyard had silently merged the domestic shipyard being affiliated to Huaiyuan Palace. After that, the new Jinwu Shipyard became the largest shipyard in Youzhou Province and monopolized over 60% of market shares of the shipbuilding industry in Youzhou Province.

In the same February, soon after the snow melt, a construction brigade of almost 100,000 people had left for the land that Zhang Tie had just bought and made preparations for the construction of Jinwu City, such as prospecting, site selection, road construction and erecting railways. Soon after these preparations were accomplished, constant materials, equipment and workers would enter that wilderland and build Jinwu City at the fastest speed.

This time, Zhang Tie didn't show them the blueprints of Jinwu City. When he showed the blueprints of the capital city of Sacred Iceland Kingdom to the public, he could owe them to Huaiyuan Palace; however, now, he would have no reason to explain it. 'It's very easy for Agan and Aziz. They would like to do that very much if I showed them the blueprints; however, I would arouse their doubts for sure.'

His elder brother was a pharmacist genius, he was a cultivation genius, if he was also a construction master who learned it himself, what would others think about his family?

'I'm already famous enough.' Zhang Tie really didn't want to make trouble anymore at this critical moment.

Thankfully, Taixia Country didn't lack experts and masters in city construction. Taixia ranked top in construction in the world. Zhang Tie just told them about Agan's opinions and hand it to professionals.

The February was bustling. With the smell of early spring, everything looked vigorous.

On February 13th, the group of members of God's Will Brotherhood came to Golden Light City.

This time, it took them must less time from Anping Prefecture of Guizhou Province to Youzhou Province by the fury-level airship that Zhang Tie had dispatched for them.

Only 11 of the 28 members of the God's Will Brotherhood would like to "have a big go at it from the scratch" with Zhang Tie in Youzhou Province.

After going back, according to Zhang Tie's request, Barley didn't tell others about Zhang Tie's current situation. He only told them that Zhang Tie was still alive and had already arrived at Taixia Country, who expected members of the God's Will Brotherhood to help him.

Zhang Tie's reputation as the Lion of Youzhou Province had not spread to Guizhou Province yet. Even if the news that Zhang Mushen the dean of Provincial Court of Youzhou Province inflicted heavy losses on the Heavens Reaching Church spread to Guizhou Province in the future, they could not imagine that Zhang Mushen was Zhang Tie. Even if they were told that Zhang Mushen's original name was Zhang Tie, they would never link it with the Zhang Tie they knew in Blackhot City. Because the name Zhang Tie was too common in Taixia Country. Even Barley's group didn't believe that he could become a knight at the beginning, not to mention others.

Finally, besides Barley, Doug, Sharwin, Hista, Leit, Bagdad, after receiving the news of Zhang Tie, Potter, Wood, Gandi, Jones and Franca came here without any hesitation. All the others had gotten married and had a family, who had settled down in Guizhou Province. As for those who came here, Wood had already been the father of two kids. Gandi and Jones had gotten married respectively although having no kids for the time being. All the others were still single by far.

Zhang Tie was already satisfied when he was told that over 1/3 of members of the God's Will Brotherhood that he founded in Blackhot City would still like to follow him after separating for so many years. As for those who didn't come, Zhang Tie didn't blame them as they all had families and hoped to have steady lives. Zhang Tie could completely understand and respect their choice; additionally, he hoped for them to live happily.

Finally, the hotels and some properties of God's Will Brotherhood in Anping Prefecture of Guizhou Province were left to those who didn't come. They had an amicable parting and maintained their friendship in hearts. As of now, the God's Will Brotherhood gradually became an association of fellow provincials or townsmen from Blackhot City in Waii Subcontinent. However, a more united team came into being on Zhang Tie's side.

As the old proverb went, great waves swept away sand. This was also a test to the God's Will Brotherhood.

Not until they came to Golden Light City did Potter, Wood, Gandi, Jones and Franca know about Zhang Tie's current situation. They were all shocked after knowing that Zhang Tie had promoted to a knight.

Zhang Tie signed with complex emotions about being able to reunite with his friends and brothers whom he recognized in Blackhot City in Golden Light City, besides laughter and tears...

After living in Golden Light City for 2 days, they had left for Youzhou City.

Zhang Tie transferred all the properties that he had gained from "Master Jiang" to them, which was dozens of times more valuable than their properties in Guizhou Province. "Master Jiang" had a lot of properties in Youzhou City, most of which were in the prime land sections in Youzhou City. Besides the Jiang Mansion which occupied a wide area of land in Youzhou City, the rent of "Master Jiang" in the Artisan Street in Youzhou City would be over 400,000 gold coins a year.

After a slight renovation, the Jiang Mansion would become the first high-end deluxe courtyard hotel in Youzhou Province. The rent of the Artisan Street could provide stable cash flow for them. Therefore, Barley and the other guys were ready for their great undertaking.

This was Zhang Tie's reward to his friends and brothers who trusted him.

After the arrival of the members of God's Will Brotherhood, Linda, Beverly and Fiona were also thrilled. Anyone would feel pleasant if they could reunite with their previous friends in Taixia Country.

Barley's group left Golden Sea City on February 15th; only after 3 days, namely on February 18th, Paul who had left Zhang Tie a few months had come back.

Although Paul didn't reach Zhang Tie's target, he still made a great achievement——From this March, a pharmacist clan which bred uangs would distribute one time more golden uangs to Paul, which meant that the number of fruits of redemption from the gratitude of golden uangs would increase two times in the same period, namely about 1 fruit per week. Therefore, Zhang Tie's strength would increase rapidly and steadily.

As long as he thought that he could have over 70 kg's strength after taking each fruit of redemption from the gratitude of golden uangs, Zhang Tie would be satisfied.

The main reason that Paul failed to meet Zhang Tie's target was that the demand for medicament in Taixia Country started to grow. As an important raw material for the medicament, the provision for golden uangs also started to be urgent; therefore, Paul failed to gain golden uangs by great batches.

Paul also came back with a good news. He learned that someone was breeding earthworms in the rural areas of some prefectures of Tongzhou Province, which were all used for feeding animals just like what Zhang Tie saw in Chevli Village.

Zhang Tie told Paul that he would be responsible for supervising Haruki Murakami and Pak Yong Tai when they set free gulf shrimps and hairy shellfish in Whitesand Gulf; additionally, Zhang Tie dispatched 4 Spirits people to Paul as his subordinates. From then on, Paul became Zhang Tie's "Redemption Steward". With 500,000 gold coins a year, he would ensure that Zhang Tie could eat fruits of redemption all the year round.

Given this point, Zhang Tie felt that Paul was like his employed farmer in his own farmland; however, this employed farmer didn't plow and sow common fields; neither did he reap common seeds. Paul was plowing and sowing the land of good fortune, yet reaping fruits of redemption for Zhang Tie.

The fruits of redemption from the Manjusaka Karma Fruit Tree were the only fruits that could be purchased with the highest cost performance. Therefore, Zhang Tie was very satisfied with them.

...

Zhang Tie passed the entire February in such a bustling atmosphere. When Zhang Tie enjoyed the great fortunes, his human relationships also became smooth; by now, Zhang Tie finally felt having settled down in Taixia Country completely.

At the end of February, Zhang Tie made a further breakthrough in his cultivation base when the 12th dragon scale on his knight's crystal plate was lit on.

On the last day of February, after finishing supper, Zhang Tie's mom pulled Zhang Tie to one side and told him, "You should go to Yingzhou Province, don't forget that you've one more wife there. Fan Clan has already been urging us..."

Chapter 881: Family Strategy (I)

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

On March 1st, the all-purpose medicament base of Jinwu Business Group in Golden Light City...

The base was built in a heavily guarded fortress. Its security system could match that of vaults in banks. After Zhang Clan and Jinwu Business Group moved to Youzhou Province, this place had become the largest all-purpose medicament plant and metallurgy plant of Jinwu Business Group.

On one floor of the basement of this base, there were 500 huge half-sealed terrines, each of which was higher than 1 m just like a huge water vat.

As these terrines were placed so tidily, they were standing in lines from every perspective. When one stood on the stages above this floor and watched them, one would feel like reviewing troops.

This basement was designed very specially. There was a huge piece of crystal weighing dozens of kilograms on the ground in each fixed distance. The special energy field brought by these huge pieces of crystals would mix with the looming fragrance of the super enzyme in this space; after taking a breath of it, one would feel refreshed and spirited.

Some workers in white dustproof suits, hats and masks were walking among those huge terrines. They would stop occasionally so as to check the fermentation.

Even workers should pass 5 safety checks before entering this basement.

Zhang Tie, Zhang Yang, Zhu Dabiao and Feng Cangwu in white dustproof suits had just entered it and were standing on the steps at the entrance of this floor.

"Here's the base of all-purpose medicament!" Zhang Yang introduced it to Zhu Dabiao and Feng Cangwu.

After hearing Zhang Yang's words, Zhu Dabiao widely opened his eyes, "All of them?"

"All of them!" Zhang Yang nodded.

After being shocked for a few seconds, Zhu Dabiao forcefully swallowed his saliva before asking in a terrified way, "What's the value of these all-purpose medicaments?"

The ex-works price of these all-purpose medicaments is 20,000 gold coins per vat. As there're 500 vats in front of us, they are worth at least 10 million gold coins. Based on the market quotation, their terminal retail price might be above 15 million gold coins."

Even though Feng Cangwu was always distant, after hearing that the items in these vats were worth about 15 million gold coins, he also raised his eyebrows.

Even in Taixia Country, this was also a big figure for many people.

"How many vials of all-purpose medicament could Jinwu Business Group produce each year?"

"This year, we plan to produce 15 million vials of all-purpose medicament. The total sales volume would break the upper limit of 100 million gold coins!"

When they talked about that, they went downstairs and traveled across those huge vats.

Walking through those terrines, the fragrance of all-purpose medicament grew dense.

Each terrine was marked with an exclusive number. There were a production date and a fermentation date under each number. There was even a log sheet beside each number, which contained the signature of the director of each procedure. Each link of the production process was under strict control. Therefore, the quality of these all-purpose medicaments was guaranteed.

Previously, Jinwu Business Group needed to purchase vials for all-purpose medicament from outside; now, Jinwu Business Group could produce vials for their all-purpose medicament themselves; additionally, they had over 10 orchards where they planted various fruits in Yanghe Prefecture. They could realize self-sufficiency. That was to say, nobody could influence the production of Jinwu Business Group.

"What are these crystal generators used for?" Zhu Dabiao asked out of curiosity as he watched those huge pieces of crystals.

"Through the test, we found that huge pieces of high-quality crystals could improve the quality and activity of all-purpose medicament!"

After wandering here for a short while, Zhang Yang opened a sealed terrine and scooped out some cups of a well-fermented all-purpose medicament for Zhu Dabiao and Feng Cangwu.

After drinking the all-purpose medicament and tasting it for a short while, Zhu Dabiao forcefully patted his thigh, "Good, I will deal with you..." After saying that, Zhu Dabiao threw an embarrassed glance at Zhang Tie, "But I do not have enough money. The bit of money that my grandpa gifted me was spent on the patch of land that I've bought. Therefore, I could not purchase too much this time!"

"Jinwu Business Group could gift you 1 million vials. After you open the market in Yanzhou Province, if you want to order more, you can pay us then!" Zhang Tie said, which meant that he gifted over 10 million gold coins to Zhu Dabiao.

After throwing a glance at Zhang Tie, Zhu Dabiao's eyes turned red at once. After sniffling twice, he forcefully patted onto Zhang Tie's shoulder and said, "That's my brother!"

...

Yesterday, Youzhou City had already purchased 200,000 vials of all-purpose medicament from Jinwu Business Group as the storage of the six warehouses in Youzhou City. It was the first time for Zhang Tie's all-purpose medicament to enter the six warehouses of a Class A city in Taixia Country. Although it was not too many in the local purchase storage contents for six warehouses storage in a Class A city in Taixia Country, it possessed a historical significance for Zhang Tie's family.

If Zhang Tie's all-purpose medicament could enter the nationwide purchase storage contents for six warehouses storage of Class A cities and be stored as a strategic material by each Class A city in Taixia Country one day, even though the Gobbling Party had a great influence in Taixia Country, Zhang Clan and Huaiyuan Palace could still maintain their force in Taixia Country, which could not be rocked by any people or any force unless the Gobbling Party wanted to rise in revolt.

The power of the Gobbling Party lay in that they bound themselves with the crown prince and the Far-ancient Immortal Moral Stele. As long as all-purpose medicament could enter the standard six warehouses storage of all the Class A cities in Taixia Country, Zhang Tie would almost bind it with the entire Taixia Country and all the Hua people in the world. As a result, Zhang Clan's foundation would reach each corner and nook of Taixia Country and be as steady as Mount Tai.

Now that the Gobbling Party knew the power of binding, Zhang brothers knew that too.

After a hot discussion, Zhang Tie and Zhang Yang realized that the target and strategy that they would push all-purpose medicament into the nationwide purchase storage contents for six warehouses storage in all the Class A cities in Taixia Country was closely related to the rise of Zhang Clan in the next hundreds of years and became the most important mission for them in the future.

The reason that Zhang Tie gifted 1 million vials of all-purpose medicament to Zhu Dabiao lay in that he wanted Zhu Dabiao to push all-purpose medicament into the local purchase storage contents of the Class A cities in Yanzhou Province. As a grandson of the Provincial Governor of Yanzhou Province, Zhu Dabiao had a great advantage in doing this job legally.

Compared to the target of Zhang family, 1 million vials of all-purpose medicament meant nothing at all...

Chapter 882: Family Strategy (II)

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

A few years ago, all-purpose medicament was not as popular as it was now; It was not even as hot as that in Waii Subcontinent. When Jinwu Business Group started to sell it in Taixia Country, it was even let out in cold. Until now, all-purpose medicament gradually became widely accepted by people in Taixia Country.

Taixia Country was too powerful and prosperous.

The main function of all-purpose medicament was that it could be used to replace many low-end medicaments. After the holy war broke out in Waii Subcontinent, many low-end medicaments were in shortage; from then on, all-purpose medicament became more prominent and precious in Waii Subcontinent.

By contrast, at least so far, other low-end medicaments were in sufficient provision in Taixia Country; therefore, the all-purpose medicament could not win its position in Taixia Country.

Additionally, all-purpose medicament had a great effect on healthcare and curing many diseases. In Taixia Country, traditional Hua medicine ranked top; over 99% of Hua people would choose to take traditional Hua medicine when they were sick. However, given the treatments adopted by traditional Hua doctors, few of them would recommend vials of medicaments to their patients; especially this medicament was much more expensive than the other traditional herbal medicines.

Whereas, these were not the biggest problem facing all-purpose medicament.

The biggest problem that all-purpose medicament faced at the beginning was that very few people across Taixia Country believed that it could be produced in Waii Subcontinent.

In this age, the most powerful pharmacists were in Taixia Country, even the headquarter of Human Pharmacists Union was located in Taixia Country. It could be said that Taixia Country was the source of the profession human pharmacist. Even the pharmacists in Taixia Country could not make it, how come a pharmacist in Waii Subcontinent made it, not to mention all-purpose medicament. Only idiots would believe in you!

The Hua people in Taixia Country were too proud of their talents; therefore, the salesmen and personnel of Jinwu Business Group who attempted to promote sales of all-purpose medicament in Taixia Country at the beginning were usually taken as liars and sent to yamuns in Taixia Country.

The situation that all-purpose medicament was widely accepted in Taixia Country in only a few years could never just be awaited at home but benefited from the efforts of Zhang Tie and Zhang Yang.

With the efforts of Zhang Tie and Zhang Yang, plus the unusual effect of the all-purpose medicament, the sales volume of all-purpose medicament finally registered a blowout growth in Taixia Country until two years ago, namely, the latter half of the 898th year of Black Iron Calendar through the gradual accumulation of public praise. From then on, the all-purpose medicament produced by Jinwu Business Group had been out of stock or in urgent demand.

In Taixia Country, those who first realized the marvelous effects of all-purpose medicament and started to purchase and hoard all-purpose medicament by great batches were those major Hua clans who moved to Taixia Country from Jinyun Country and Qilan Country. These clans were the first batch of loyal customers of Jinwu Business Group who opened the market for all-purpose medicament in Taixia Country.

The production of 15 million vials of all-purpose medicament this year could never meet the demand of the extremely large population and market in Taixia Country,

Zhang Tie and Zhang Yang both knew that a family had to rely on something in Taixia Country so as to lay a solid foundation over there.

They didn't rely on Zhang Tie's battle strength——at least now, as a black iron knight, even if he promoted to an earth knight in the near future, Zhang Tie could only be a local overlord in a province at most. However, in front of the powerful opponent Gobbling Party, an earth knight was far from enough.

Compared to Zhang Tie's battle strength or the background of Jinwu Shipyard and Huaiyuan Palace, only all-purpose medicament could work as the firmest foundation of Zhang Tie's family in Taixia Country.

As early as two years ago, Zhang Yang had thought about pushing all-purpose medicament into the six warehouses storage of Class A cities in Taixia Country. The encounters that Zhang Tie faced in a short period after coming to Taixia Country accelerated the process.

The strategic materials in the six warehouses storage of Class A cities in Taixia Country all referred to the nationwide and local purchase storage contents in Taixia Country.

Nationwide six warehouses purchase storage contents were the hard targets that Taixia Country made to all the Class A cities. All the materials and their quantities entering this contents had to be met by all the Class A cities in Taixia Country. By contrast, local purchase storage contents, as soft targets, were established on the basis of the nationwide six warehouses purchase storage contents, which could be determined by local magistrates and agencies according to local features.

Take Class A cities in the north as an instance, they could add some cold-resistant clothes and equipment in local purchase storage contents as they would. Similarly, Class A cities in the south; especially those coastal cities could add some weapons or equipment that could be used to respond to the threats from the sea in the local purchase storage contents as they would. If Class A cities had rich plant resources in their surroundings, they could add some specific plant seeds in their local purchase storage contents; similarly, those Class A cities neighboring rich resource sources could add some special rare metals in their local purchase storage contents.

Zhang Tie and Zhang Yang were targeting at the nationwide six warehouses purchase storage contents in Taixia Country. However, it was very difficult for the all-purpose medicament to enter this contents. Because the nationwide six warehouses purchase storage contents in Taixia Country was determined by the top three chancellors of Taixia Country and approved by Emperor Xuanyuan. Even a screw in the nationwide six warehouses purchase storage contents would mean a great trade volume across all the Class A cities in Taixia Country.

Therefore, they had to adopt the proper strategies and coordinate with the general trend of the society step by step.

In a short-term, Zhang family aimed to have the all-purpose medicament enter the local purchase storage contents of Youzhou Province, Gaozhou Province, Mozhou Province, Tongzhou Province, Qiongzhou Province, Yanzhou Province, Huizhou Province and Chaozhou Province within the northeast military region.

In Zhang Yang's words, if Zhang Tie and he could accomplish this plan, they would make their ancestors illustrious and die with satisfaction no matter how many years they would spend.

As they were in Youzhou Province, which only had one Class A city——Youzhou City, with the support of Huaiyuan Palace and Zhang Yang, Zhang Tie had already conquered it. Zhang Tie and Zhang Yang planned to have it blossom in the middle of northeast military region. If they could conquer Yanzhou Province, the core of northeast military region, the other provinces in the northeast military region would learn from Yanzhou Province. Gradually, they would conquer the entire northeast military region.

When the all-purpose medicament entered the local purchase storage contents, the general trend would come into being; gradually, all-purpose medicament would enter the nationwide purchase storage contents.

Zhang Tie was going to leave Youzhou Province for Yingzhou tomorrow to pick up another wife whom he had not even seen yet. Zhu Dabiao was also going to leave Golden Light City tomorrow. Therefore, before leaving, Zhang Tie and Zhang Yang showed Zhu Dabiao around the all-purpose medicament base of Jinwu Business Group and fixed the cooperation between them. Being legal, through this cooperation, they could realize a win-win situation to the satisfaction of all.

Zhang Tie and Zhang Yang were both full of confidence about this plan.

After becoming a pharmacist, Zhang Yang had put the greater part of his study on the "cold extraction technology" of all-purpose medicament.

Now that the essential energy aura yeast that Zhang Tie gifted to Zhang Yang could convert common fruits into the super enzyme, it should also convert herbal medicines into the super enzyme; because herbal medicines were essentially similar to fruits.

In the past, people mainly extracted the useful ingredients from herbal medicines by fire; many traditional Hua doctors and many pharmacists made the decoction of medicinal ingredients or pills in this way.

However, the essential energy aura yeast that Zhang Tie gifted to Zhang Yang reminded Zhang Yang of an utterly different thought. He chose to extract the essence of those herbal medicines through fermentation in normal or low temperature, which was called "cold extraction".

Through "cold extraction" technology, the essences of herbal medicines could be maintained at utmost. It could completely avoid damages and losses in useful ingredients and aura caused by traditional "heat extraction".

At the beginning, Zhang Yang was just thinking about it. However, after becoming a pharmacist, through constant tests, he made a great breakthrough and turned it into reality.

This year, Jinwu Business Group's series of all-purpose medicament increased from 1 to 3. It was the first time for the family of manjusaka all-purpose medicament to welcome their new members; the product line of the all-purpose medicament of Zhang family would be further verified in order to push the series of the all-purpose medicament of Zhang family to the entire market of Taixia Country and satisfy the demand of the greater population.

The first type of all-purpose medicament was standard, which was an old type and was completely fermented by various fruits. Its effects remained unchanged.

The second type of all-purpose medicament was called Rose Beauty. Besides containing the essences of all sorts of fruits in the standard type, it also contained the essences of peach blossoms, rose blossoms, red jujubes and polygonum multiflorum and job's tears. It was developed in cold extraction technology. The second type of all-purpose medicament was the marvelous product for women to maintain their beauty and youth. Compared to the standard type, this one was more effective.

The third type of all-purpose medicament was called Evergreen. Rose Beauty was targeted at women; evergreen was targeted at men. Like Rose Beauty, besides containing the essences of various fruits in standard type, Evergreen also contained the essences of medlar, angelica, Cistanche deserticola, longan, cornel, yam and Poria cocos and was developed in cold extraction technology. Besides maintaining all the features of the standard type, it also had a prominent effect in strengthening the essence and marrow of men. As long as men tried it, they would know its effects.

Now that Taixia Country didn't lack substitutes of low-end medicaments, Zhang Yang directly developed a unique all-purpose medicament to make it irreplaceable...

Among the 1 million vials of all-purpose medicament that Jinwu Business Group gifted to Zhu Dabiao, there were 3,000 vials of Rose Beauty and Evergreen. The three kinds of medicaments were sharply different on packages; especially the latter two kinds. As Rose Beauty and Evergreen were targeted at high-end customers, they were sold in sets. Each set of Rose Beauty and Evergreen contained 30 vials respectively as one course of treatment at the price of about 500 gold coin. Although it was a high price for commoners, in Taixia Country, many consumers considered 500 gold coins as 5 copper coins. Therefore, Zhang Tie and Zhang Yang didn't need to worry about their sales...

Chapter 883: Re-entering Castle of Black Iron

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

On the early morning of March 2nd, Zhang Manor...

Right in the airport of Zhang Manor, the servants had already filled the warehouse of a fury-level airship with vials of various all-purpose medicaments. This time, Zhang Tie brought 200,000 vials of all-purpose medicaments to Fan family in Yingzhou Province...

Zhang Tie's parents, Linda, Beverly, Fiona, Aimei and Aixue were all here to bid a farewell to Zhang Tie.

Compared to the reality that most of the knights in Taixia Country had dozens even hundreds of wives and concubines, Zhang Tie was a devoted husband with only 5 women on his side. Additionally, this marriage was agreed by his parents; therefore, Linda, Beverly, Fiona, Aimei and Aixue were not jealous about that.

These days, Linda, Beverly, Fiona had been getting along well with Aimei and Aixue. Zhang Tie was also indulged in the living that he had been dreaming of.

"Well, dad and mom, you can go back now. I will bring her back from Yingzhou Province this time!" Zhang Tie told his dad and mom.

Zhang Tie's dad and mom then nodded towards him.

"Brother Cangwu, thank you for protecting the manor after I leave!" Zhang Tie told Feng Cangwu in a secret way.

Feng Cangwu nodded in a distant way.

As it was Zhang Tie's private affair to pick his wife in Yingzhou Province, if Feng Cangwu followed him there, he would become Zhang Tie's subordinate; therefore, Feng Cangwu just stayed in Zhang Manor and continued to be the special lecturer of Zhang kids. By now, Zhang Tie's parents, elder brother and wives had already known that Feng Cangwu was a knight and came from the Heavens Fortune Sect. Therefore, the entire Zhang family respected Feng Cangwu very much. As a result, Feng Cangwu gained a mental balance in Zhang family.

Similarly, in Taixia Country, it was impolite for a man to pick up his new concubine, followed by his wife and concubines. Without this concern, Zhang Tie really wanted to take his wives and concubines there for a honeymoon.

After bidding a farewell to his wives and concubines, Zhang Tie cradled his three kids and kissed them one after another. After that, he turned around and entered the airship...

...

When the fury-level airship gradually lifted off, Zhang Tie wove his hands towards his family members on the deck. Until the airship arrived at 1,000 m in height and his family members left did Zhang Tie enter his berth cabin.

The crow-fly distance between Yingzhou Province and Youzhou Province was over 80,000 miles. Even if he had a smooth ride by airship, it would also take him at least 2 months on the way. It was already early enough if he could come back by July.

By contrast, it would only take him 2 weeks for a round trip by airboat.

When he thought about the advantage of an airboat, Zhang Tie only let out a sigh.

Although fury-level airship was good, it was nothing compared to airboat.

If not being afraid of exposing his flying ability, Zhang Tie could directly fly towards there himself while the all-purpose medicaments could be stored in his nanobead. However, it was not wise for him to expose his ability to the public at this moment; besides, he would suffer from a series of troubles later on. Therefore, Zhang Tie could only go there by airship.

The marriage was fixed by Zhang Tie's parents in Fuhai City. At that moment, Zhang Tie didn't have a Hua woman yet; therefore, his parents promised this marriage to the household register director whose surname was Fan. According to his mom, that Fan's daughter was good-looking; besides, she was highly cultured and steeped in propriety. Given her look, she could definitely manage domestic affairs and give birth to healthy babies. Additionally, Fan family was fulfilling the appointment and having their daughter wait for Zhang Tie these years. As their daughter gradually grew mature, Zhang Tie legitimately should go pick her up.

"During this flight, I will cultivate quietly in my room. No need to prepare the food and drinks for me. If I need them, I will go get them. Don't bother me unless there's an emergency!" Zhang Tie told the captain before entering his room and shutting the door.

Having been in Taixia Country for a few months, Zhang Tie felt pretty good to enter such a free and single state once again.

With a smile, Zhang Tie took a round in the room before entering the cultivation. After sitting on a cattail hassock with crossed legs, Zhang Tie took out an earth-elements crystal from Castle of Black Iron and started to absorb the earth elements by 18 spiritual hands at the same time...

After 2 hours, he had completely used up the golden earth-elements crystal and threw it back into Castle of Black Iron. After that, he got a new one and continued his cultivation...

...

Zhang Tie used up 30 earth-elements crystals constantly. When he opened his eyes, it was already 2 days later.

Zhang Tie then picked himself up from the ground and moved his limbs before exiting the berth cabin.

"Where are we?"

"We're above Yangui Mountain Range. After flying over Yangui Mountain Range, we will exit the air territory of Youzhou Province!" A bodyguard answered respectfully.

Yangui Mountain Range was a barrier in the south of Youzhou Province.

Zhang Tie then came to the deck.

Zhang Tie's robe sounded in the spring wind. Zhang Tie looked down and saw an undulating, lofty mountain range over 10,000 square miles. The mountain slope had been covered with tender grasses. The more southward it was, the greener it would be. In the sunglow, the land and mountain range was plated with a glow, which was especially splendid.

Flocks of wild gooses and migrant birds were flying below in the form of herringbone and rested in Yangui Mountain Range, bringing endless vitality to the land downside there...

When the spring arrived, the wild gooses and migrant birds flew back from south where they tided over in winter...

Mountain Range was definitely more splendid than Kalay Mountain Range in Waii Subcontinent.

Watching such a splendid landscape in the sky, Zhang Tie felt broad-minded and refreshed all over.

'What's immortal is the tens of thousands of miles landscape that breed billions of living beings and the flowing clouds which share brilliance with the sun and the moons and dance with the stars. Those b*stards of Gobbling Party want to abduct the natural laws and verify its immortality with one Far-ancient Immortal Moral Stele? How ridiculous they are!'

Standing on the deck, Zhang Tie appreciated the scenery downside there. Until 1.5 hours later when it turned dark did he let out a long sigh and return to the cabin.

After knowing that Zhang Tie had exited his berth cabin, all the cooks started to prepare for the supper for him. As it was the dinner time, Zhang Tie ate supper together with his crew in the dining hall. After joking with the crew casually, he returned to his private berth cabin.

When he recalled that he had not entered Castle of Black Iron for a long time, Zhang Tie revealed a smile. In the next second, he had disappeared into the room and appeared in the palace tree in Castle of Black Iron...

"Welcome back, Castle Lord!" Heller and the other three servants were waiting for Zhang Tie there as if they had known that Zhang Tie was coming back.

Before Zhang Tie uttered had he seen Edward gazing at that finger ring being embedded with the nanobead with an aggrieved look just like how an unrivaled powerhouse was dispatched to be a watchdog of a hotel...

Of course, Zhang Tie was clear what Edward was thinking about. After scratching his head in an embarrassed way, Zhang Tie hurriedly comforted Edward, "Erm...this was a special situation. If I handed the nanobead to you, I could not have explained it to others. Next time, next time, I will definitely hand the goods item to you!"

After hearing Zhang Tie's words, Edward's aggrieved look gradually faded away. However, he still let out a sigh with a pitiful look, "Actually, there's a better design for the combination of this nanobead and finger ring. What a pity! What a pity..."

Rubbing his face, Zhang Tie asked Heller, "Is everything going well in the castle lately?"

"All is well. But those residents in the castle have one thing for your consent..."

"What's that?"

"They've prepared some innocent and beautiful young girls and want to send them to serve you on the immortal mountain, Castle Lord!" Heller said with a meaningful smile.

'Innocent and beautiful young girls?' Zhang Tie patted his forehead, 'Those guys are really generous. I've already taken their articles of tribute last time; how could they contribute young female to me? Do they really think that I will take everything that they offer?

"I can take articles, but not female. Those young girls should fall in love with some handsome boys; marry them and deliver babies. What do they go up the mountain for? I don't want to delay their youth!" Zhang Tie shook his head.

"Actually, it's not bad to have some young girls here. The palace tree is too large. With a few more people, it would be more vigorous. Castle Lord, when you come back, you could have someone look after you. They don't have to stay in the mountain for the rest of their lives; only after staying here for a few years, they could go down the mountain; marry men and deliver babies too. It's a great honor and confirmation for those residents in the castle to go up the immortal mountain. Castle Lord, If you could accept them, all the residents in the castle would be greatly inspired! Castle Lord, you must know that you're their celestial being and creator. They just want to express their sincerity and respect to their own celestial being and creator. Castle Lord, If you refused them, you might discourage them greatly." Heller explained...