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Chapter 908: The Inscription on the Gravestone of the Despicable——Excerpt 1
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
I was born in a remote place in Waii Subcontinent——Blackhot City of Andaman Alliance.
Andaman Alliance was a very small alliance of cities. The total urban area of this alliance might not even match that of Class A city in Taixia Country. Of course, you could not find knights in this alliance.
Before the holy war, Andaman Alliance had been annexed by Norman Empire. My hometown Blackhot City also became a Class D city in Brunswick Province under the governance of the governor of the north border of Norman Empire. Even though before Andaman Alliance was annexed, many people who lived in the prosperous cities of Waii Subcontinent still didn't know about the location of Blackhot City of Andaman Alliance.
Not to mention those Hua people who lived in the prosperous and powerful Taixia Country.
I was a grassroots knight who grew up from a trivial person in such a remote place.
Why do I feel that I'm a grassroots knight? The most important point is that I didn't know that there was any relationship between me and Huaiyuan Palace which shocked the entire Waii Subcontinent until I was 16.
When I was young, a copper coin meant half a bowl of rice brew. My mom supported our family by making and selling rice brew. My dad worked in a steel mill. I remember that my dad's one year's salary was 12 gold coins at that time, which could barely survive the family of 4 even in Blackhot City. Our family was very frugal at that time.
Previously, we should have five family members. Pitifully, before I came to this world, one of my elder brothers had sacrificed in a battle between Andaman Alliance and the surrounding forces in the status of a common soldier of Andaman Alliance. After that guy left our family in a very irresponsible way, I came to this world.
I think they might want me to have a longer longevity instead of just leaving the family like my elder brother; therefore, they named me Zhang Tie.
Compared to the official name Zhang Mushen, I prefer the pet name. The name Zhang Tie is very basic.
Although tie is not valuable, it's very hard. Therefore, this word reflects my life experience since I was born to the present.
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My mom used to instruct me——to be a good person; instead of being a big figure!
I have been trying my best to be a good person since I was young.
When I was young, I didn't even understand the meaning of a good person. However, when I sent the remaining rice soup to the orphanage in Blackhot City by tricycle for the first time and saw the naive smiles of those orphans and my mom's reassuring smile, I had learned a preliminary definition of a good person——a good person was like those who could send remaining rice soup to orphanage.
The Grandma Teresa in the orphanage also touched my head and said I was a good person.
At that moment, I was confident that I would be a good person for the rest of my life.
I've not imagined that my wish to be a good person would be shattered after I came to Taixia for less than half a year. I'm now a totally heinous bad guy.
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It's too difficult to be a good person; especially a good person who's favored by everyone else. Additionally, a good person wouldn't necessarily win people's respect or praise.
Sometimes, I wanted to be a bad guy too.
It was also in Blackhot City when I wanted to be a bad guy for the first time. It was in the Iron Thorns Fighting Club.
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After finding out that I could bear being beaten at school, Captain Kerlin the military representative and director of the Seventh National Male Middle School in Blackhot City introduced a promising job to me in the fighting club out of pity and "kindness".
I still remember Captain Kerlin's words which he said that day.
"I have a precious part-time social practice position for you. It's highly paid. Besides, you could touch many rich and influential figures and broaden your horizon. If you could do a good job, you will improve your battle strength greatly. You could even have a chance to contact with those beauties over there. Many people begged me for that job; however, I disagreed; I find you're the most proper person for this job!"
When I heard these words at the beginning, I felt that Captain Kerlin was the most lovable person in this world. I felt that the halos of a good person finally brought me a good luck and I saw a narrow chance for me to improve my poor life.
At that moment, I was doing a part-time job in a grocery as an apprentice in Blackhot City. The boss of the grocery was a miser. I didn't gain any pay after 2 years of job.
When in the Seventh National Male Middle School in Blackhot City, all the male students in their puberty became wild animals being dominated by male hormone.
At school, we didn't call each other students; instead, we called each other animals.
Therefore, I desired about this job through which I could make money, enjoying beauties and "have an intimate contact with beauties".
The location of this job was Avenue Bright, the most prosperous place in Blackhot City.
I felt that I was going to have a bright future.
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On the next day since Captain Kerlin introduced that job to me, with a nervous yet ambitious feeling, I came to the Avenue Bright. Holding my breath, I entered the gate of the Iron Thorns Fighting Club which was guarded by warriors in armor.
A beauty was standing behind the counter of the lobby. At her 20s, she wore a black tight vest and a pair of white tight sweatpants with a ponytail. At the sight of her genial smile and air of youth, my heart had started to pound.
This woman was called Mary, the first female who drove me to be a bad guy.
After knowing that I was here to apply for a job in the fighting club, she came out of the counter and led me to the manager's room.
Walking behind her and watching her "twisting" butt, a wildfire of hope to be a real man started to burn in my heart. Closely after that, I stammered, "Hi...hello, I...I am Zhang Tie, what's your name?"
I think my voice must be trembling at that moment.
Mary stopped as she threw a glance at my face and my clothes which indicated my identity and background, with an icy and ironical eye light she said, "Actually, you don't have to know my name. Although we're all here to make money, you should know that there would be no relationship between you and me for the rest of our lives. Stop daydreaming..."
What a shame!
After hearing this reply, my face turned pale. My heart ached as if it was stabbed by someone. In a split second, I didn't know how should I respond to her. Perhaps, I should face her in a mild and calm way; however, with a complex mood combining fury which was caused by being despised and braveness, I forcefully caught her shoulders and pushed her against the wall. When she was scared so much that she even became flurried, I thrust my waist and hit her twice in the form of "piston movement". At the same time, I told her furiously that I would definitely let her crawl to me and beg me to f*ck her one day.
This obscene movement could never be made by a good person.
Such words could not be told to a 20-year old beauty by a good person either.
I felt that I was a bad guy; therefore, I was pretty scared inside.
Luckily, Mary didn't shout loudly. Although she despised me furiously, she still led me to the manager's office.
It was my first time to be a bad guy who let such a beautiful girl feel shameful and hide her distant and derisive face.
In the manager's office, I saw the manager of this fighting club and learned about the "promising job"——highly paid, improving physical health, having intimate contacts with big figures and broaden my horizon in a high-end place.
It was called a ladder player, which had another name in the fighting club——human flesh bag! Those rich people in the fighting club didn't feel cool to only hit sandbags; they required a mobile sandbag for their exercise. I was the very mobile sandbag.
The working time of this part-time job was 6 pm to 11 pm on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The compensation per hour was 70 copper coins. If I was late on the very day, the compensation for the very day would be deducted. The compensation would be paid weekly. I might get a tip from guests.
On the day I went there, a human flesh bag had just resigned; therefore, in order to keep me, the manager added 10 more copper coins per hour for me.
80 copper coins per hour! I adopted it willingly even though my job was to be beaten by others!
It was my first paid job.
During the first time, I was hit and passed out in the fighting club the moment the training started. I gradually woke up after being carried out of the training room.
It was too late when I went back home that night. My father asked me the reason.
I told him that my teacher introduced a highly paid part-time job for me. I could contact a lot of rich and powerful person through this job. When I was free, I could even do physical exercises. Additionally, there were many beauties over there. I even met a beauty who praised me that I was ambitious and a daydreamer!
My dad and mom burst out into laughter at the same time.
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Now, I see, this encounter with Mary in the fighting club might be the premonition of my current encounter, through which, the Almighty God wanted to show me a point.
——At a point in my life, a woman changed me from a good person to a bad person.
Mary was the first one, but not the last.
Chapter 909: The Inscription on the Gravestone of the Despicable——Excerpt 2
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
When I saw Mary last time, she was more beautiful than ever. After I left the fighting club for a few hours, everything had changed.
That woman might have not fully understood the significance of the status of an officer of Norman Empire in a place being occupied by Norman Empire.
The young master of Gregory family didn't know about that a few hours ago; however, he understood it too after a few hours.
It was too late that night while almost nobody could be seen on the streets. The night wind felt chilly.
Quivering all over, Mary stood in front of my apartment like a princess who was going to attend a ball and a gift being wrapped by a crystal bobtail. Together with her was Pawano the old butler of Gregory family. The old man looked elegant and meticulous in a black swallowtail.
In the eyes of commoners in Blackhot City, the status of the butler of Gregory family was paramount, which could shatter a commoner's life and family easily.
On behalf of Gregory family, Pavano apologized to me a few hours ago and expressed that Mary was Gregory family's gift to me.
Under the gaze of the dignified old butler, Mary quivered and stammered what I expected her to say in front of me, which was shameful for a woman.
Previously, I thought that I should be pleasant at that moment; however, when that woman entered my apartment and dropped her tears like a lamb entering the slaughterhouse, I found that I was not cold-blooded enough; neither could I gain any sense of achievement or pleasant sensation from her sadness and despair.
Actually, when I saw her standing outside my apartment, I had already forgiven her. The conflict between me and her was a bit ridiculous——when a woman was selling her youth and beautiful look at a high price in the counter, all of a sudden, she received the inquiry of a poor lad. Being afraid of lowering her level, of course, the woman would feel disgusting. Her reply to me at that moment could be simply translated as "You cannot afford me!" It was more straightforward than being impolite. Just like how one was forbidden in a high-end restaurant in shabby clothes.
It had nothing to do with self-esteem; it was just a matter of personal habit.
I thought it through. Therefore, I made a cup of liquor for her to make her warm up. Under her unbelievable eyes, I even apologized to her for my rude behavior in the fighting club. We were on a tie.
That evening, I told her to sleep overnight in the guest room of my apartment. I slept in my own bedroom.
When I woke up on the second morning, I found she had gone, leaving a sentence on the glass of my guest room by her lipstick——Thank you, but I hate you!
By then, I realized that women were like strange animals. Sometimes, when you wanted to have sex with her, she would feel being insulted; sometimes, when you didn't want to have sex with her, she would feel being insulted too.
I felt that women were all sick.
The more beautiful the woman was, the sicker she would be.
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Later on, I didn't see her anymore even though I left Waii Subcontinent after the blackhot City and Norman Empire were ruined by demons.
To tell the truth, I had to appreciate her. It was she who drove me forward.
Later on, I learned from another woman whom I loved yet finally lost that——One would feel happy with the beloved one on your side; one would grow mature after losing the beloved one. No matter whether one could gain or lose one's love, just take it a blessing in one's life.
Mary was a blessing in my life.
Therefore, no matter whether she could read this article or not, I have to bless her and hope her to meet the one who could indeed treasure her and buy her away in terms of happiness.
Until I came to Taixia Country did I understand another truth——not everything that one loses is a blessing.
If you treated losing something as a blessing, you've already relieved your vigilance. Someone would set a fatal trap for you by this blessing.
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When I fought demons fiercely in Selnes Theater of Operations of Waii Subcontinent and insisted on fighting them in the north of Kalay Mountain Range of Waii Subcontinent after the defense line of Selnes Theater of Operations was collapsed, my family members had safely and smoothly arrived at Yingzhou Province, Taixia Country and settled down in Fuhai City for the time being.
I have 3 babies.
The marriage between Fan family's daughter and I was also engaged by our parents on both sides at that moment.
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On March 2nd, the 900th year of Black Iron Calendar, my family members bid a farewell to me in the Zhang manor in Golden Light City, waiting for me to marry the daughter of Director Fan's daughter in Fuhai City, Yingzhou Province.
With my excellent performance on inflicting heavy losses in the Heavenly Reaching Church and in the competition for the provincial governor of Youzhou Province, the name of Zhang Tie, Zhang Mushen, the dean of provincial court in Youzhou Province spread out of Youzhou Province for the first time. My mother said that Fan family was urging the marriage.
As for such an engagement, the male party could not feel sorry for the female party; additionally, the female had waited for me so many years. This marriage was destined to be accomplished.
I was too ambitious and pleasant at that moment because I didn't fall in the wrestle with the Gobbling Party and the demons.
I just took this journey to Yingzhou as a chance to relax myself.
I had not seen the look of Director Fan's daughter. Whatever, as long as she was virtuous and not ugly.
In the last few years in Waii Subcontinent, the all-purpose medicament produced by Zhang family played a great role in the holy war. It was even taken as strategical storage and hard currency by many countries. Therefore, I intended to extend the business of Jinwu Business Group in Yingzhou Province by chance. As the old saying went, benefits should always be kept for one's own people, now that I would marry the daughter of Director Fan, Fan family would be our ideal agency in Yingzhou Province for selling all-purpose medicament. I went there with 200,000 vials of all-purpose medicament as a gift.
As it was a personal affair, I didn't keep it a secret. Therefore, the moment I left Youzhou Province, those who paid attention to me should have known it.
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The moment I arrived at Fuhai City, I was told that the Gobbling Party had a very great influence in Yingzhou Province.
When I arrived at Fuhai City, I lived in the Heavenly No. 7 suite of Guanlanhu Hotel in Fuhai City. The moment I prepared to take a rest, a head of the Morality Association of the Gobbling Party in Fuhai City called Yang Yushan had arrived at the hotel and intended to pay a visit to me.
I knew it was a threat. Therefore, I felt sick.
After ignoring Yang Yushan for a few hours, I finally received him.
Until now, I could still tell you frankly that I disliked him even though that guy was already dead.
The moment Yang Yushan saw me, he had started to blame me for being ill-mannered.
I was a knight; Yang Yushan was not even a LV 9 fighter. How could a guy below LV 9 blame a knight for being ill-mannered the moment he saw the latter? Is this the etiquette advocated by the Gobbling Party? How audacious he was! How could a guy who was not even qualified to raise shoes for a knight on the battlefield blame a knight in a domineering manner in the name of the Gobbling Party?
Except for Taixia Country, which head of a nongovernmental organization below LV 9 could blame a knight across all the human countries?
Ignoring one's respect; offending the superiors; borrowing power to do evil. If such a Gobbling Party could represent the heavenly laws, the heavenly laws are nothing but sh*t in my eyes.
Yang Yushan brought me the solution of the conflict between the Gobbling Party and I——I had to join the Gobbling Party and take responsibility for rebuilding the morality association in Youzhou Province as the head of new morality association in Youzhou Province on behalf of the Gobbling Party.
As the offspring of Lord Huaiyuan, I gave Yang Yushan a solution too——tell the leaders of the Gobbling Party to kowtow three times in front of the memorial tablet of Lord Huaiyuan and admit that they were wrong loudly before dissolving the Gobbling Party!
You wanted to bargain with me or boast with me?
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It was not a compromise, it was just a plan that the force of the Gobbling Party in Yingzhou Province made to smack my face.
If you were me, would you promise him?
Of course, Yang Yushan left angrily.
Soon after Yang Yushan left, I had received a message from Director Fan's mansion——Director Fan felt uncomfortable. He didn't want to see me tomorrow.
I had already foreboded that this marriage might be ruined at that moment.
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2 days later, I went to see Director Fan in his mansion.
As I had predicted, this marriage was ruined.
Facing the great stress of the Gobbling Party, Fan family in Yingzhou Province chose to break off the engagement. I was not shocked by such a result at all. As an elder of Huaiyuan Palace, I knew what a choice clan would make in this situation——Unless being foolish, the clan elders would never agree with such an engagement at the risk of standing on the opposite side of the Gobbling Party.
I understood Fan family's choice very well.
However, it didn't mean that I was happy.
Although being infuriated at that moment, I didn't feel ill. I was infuriated about being smacked by the Gobbling Party in Fuhai City. I didn't feel ill because I had not seen the daughter of Director Fan at all. That woman was just a strange symbol in my mind. I didn't involve any affection in her. To be honest, after experiencing so many things, although it's a bit shameless and exaggerated to say I've read a lot of women, I was not that innocent teenager who would feel depressed because of a woman's words in the fighting club anymore.
I just felt that a good business was blown by someone; of course, I would revenge the one who had blown the good business.
After staying in Fan Mansion a few minutes and making Director Fan reassured, I had left Fan Mansion. After that, I went to the Morality Association in Fuhai City and smacked their face.
As the old saying went, it's never too late for a gentleman to revenge. However, if the target was right in front of me, I would think about revenging him all day long.
It was a loud smack on the Morality Association in Fuhai City. Outside the pavilion of Morality Association, I stomped to the ground in front of the backbones of the Morality Association three times, collapsing the pavilion. Two people of Qin family were in the Morality Association, Qin Wu and the young master of Qin family.
When the group of people was escaping in an embarrassed way, I burst out into laughter. After leaving Fuhai City, I felt a bit pleasant as I had already revenged the Gobbling Party.
I was just forced to break off the engagement with a woman whom I had not met at all. It was nothing serious for me.
It's hard to get a lover in the world.
I treat the power as sh*t and ignore the ridicule of the powerful ones.
You're just passers in my life, I will not return when I leave.
If I could marry beloved ones, I prefer to be a farmer.
I will graze cattle in the morning and come back with wildflowers.
Inserting flowers on your grey hair, I will watch the sunglow together with you.
Chapter 910: The Inscription on the Gravestone of the Despicable——Excerpt 3
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
In a split second, I saw a person as same as me and the one whom I had been chased all the way there from the airship being engulfed by black flames. The two people soon reduced to ashes. My heart froze at once. Before I recovered from the sudden shock, Qin Wu and the other two knights had appeared in the air and started to launch an attack towards me!
Besides Qin Wu, I even didn't know who were the other two knights, why they appeared there and attacked me.
I asked Qin Wu the reason.
Qin Wu wanted to kill me for the late young master of Qin family.
When I collapsed the pavilion of the Morality Association, Qin Wu and his young master were both there; however, until I left Fuhai City, I didn't hear that anyone was killed by the falling pavilion. Why would Qin Wu kill me for the death of his young master?
I felt something was wrong!
Especially when I recalled the one who looked as same as me and suddenly reduced to ashes in front of me.
I realized that I might've fallen into a terrifying trap.
I didn't want to fight a knight of Taixia Country to death, as I defended Qin Wu's mad attack, I kept retreating.
I thought that Qin Wu was fulfilling his responsibilities as an employed elder of Qin clan; however, the fact was that I made a ridiculous fault.
When your opponent suddenly exerted his utmost efforts to attack you with boiling battle qi, you had to launch a counter-attack so as to protect yourself; however, in a split second, the knight who was having a close combat with you removed his protective battle qi and moved closer to your punch on purpose, have you met that?
I met that. That was what Qin Wu did to me. I wanted to defend his punch with my own punch; however, I punched his body into pieces. Actually, I've already removed 80% of my strength the moment I hit him. The remaining 20% of strength could only severely wound Qin Wu; however, Qin Wu revealed a weird fleer towards me before splitting into pieces.
Qin Wu committed suicide. However, in that situation, all the other knights thought that Qin Wu was killed by me.
The moment Qin Wu died, I had heard a roar "stop..." from the sky.
Closely after that, a powerful earth knight launched an attack towards me.
After Qin Wu's death, I lost my last chance to clarify my innocence.
Until a furious earth knight wanted to kill me, I still didn't know why I suddenly mired in such a dilemma and was besieged by strange knights when I was eating hotpot in the airship. What made me more confused was that the earth knight said he was cleaning up the dreg for Huaiyuan Palace.
I wanted to swear whether this father had abducted your daughter or dug your ancestral grave and where the motherf*cking did he come from.
Later on, I knew that earth knight was Feng Yuelun the Cheji General of Yingzhou Province.
However, with his one blow, I had been heavily wounded.
Before his second blow arrived, I released an explosive light bomb from my portable space-teleportation equipment and escaped at the critical moment.
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I hid in a secret place as I didn't want to die out of no reason.
After recovering my wounds, I changed a look and came to Fuhai City. I wanted to figure out what happened in Fuhai City after I left there and why I suddenly became a public enemy in Taixia Country.
As to what happened later, you've already known.
I also figured out why the two knights suddenly reduced to ashes in front of me.
Is it ironical? I should learn what "I" did in Fuhai City from others.
After that, I became a heinous wanted criminal, an abnormal guy who was possessed by the devil after being forced to break off the engagement with Fan family.
There were all sorts of evidence about my crimes everywhere.
However, I didn't have any evidence to prove my innocence. Just like how a lion falling into the trap could not have a ladder to climb out of there, I also couldn't prove that the one who made the crimes was not the real me.
The two knights had been applied with the Bloody Demon Imitation Method; therefore, they suddenly reduced to ashes in front of me. I'm already satisfied to be attacked by a knight who has formed three chakras.
However, I am not the criminal, no matter how similar he looked to me.
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Director Fan, as you're still alive, do you remember how that b*stard insulted your daughter?
Although I was not at the scene, I'm sure that the criminal was not naked at that moment! Do you know why? Although he could imitate my look, he could not imitate my skin. As he didn't know whether I had a birthmark, scar or tattoo on my skin, he dared not expose his skin in case of any loophole.
Neither did he leave any body liquid which could be used to authenticate his identity in case of any loophole. Therefore, I lost another chance to prove my innocence.
Yes, I was possessed by the devil. I was lunatic. However, I stood to not ejaculate at that moment. Do you admire me?
The b*stard penetrated through your left chest by his battle qi; however, as your heart was in the right chest, you finally survived. You were sure that the one was me because you saw his look; however, if I really wanted to kill you, I would never spare any chance for you to survive. Do you know the reason?
Simply, since I joined Huaiyuan Palace and raided the demonized puppets in the Heavenly Cold City to the Selnes Theater of Operations, I had fought numerous demonized puppets and formed a battle habit, namely, If I wanted to kill someone, I would never attack his heart; instead I would shatter his main body into pieces so that he would completely lose his moving ability or directly chop off his head.
This habit has already become my instinct just like my breath after fighting numerous demonized puppets. Common perforating wounds are not fatal to the demonized puppets. Only when you destroy their heads and main bodies could you kill them. Any veteran who has rich experience in fighting demonized puppets would form such a habit. Do you know how many demonized puppets have I killed in Heavenly Cold City, Selenes Theater of Operations and in the process of preventing the contingent of demonized puppets from moving southwards in Kalay Mountain Range?
At least 500,000 demonized puppets. Believe it or not! At the cost of the lives of 500,000 demonized puppets, this habit has been deeply branded in my bones.
As I've been possessed by the devil, I almost forgot how to kill people.
I killed your whole family; however, I didn't take off my clothes when raping your daughter? When I was thrilled by your naked daughter, I didn't leave any semen fluid? I hated Fan family so much; however, I kept your body complete? Because that b*stard looked as same as me, I became the criminal? This is the so-called fatal evidence.
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Green Flute Hermit and the young elder of Lancang Sect, when you were attracted by the battle qi totem of Qin Wu and followed him to chase the criminal out of the Fuhai City, are you sure that the criminal was always in your sight? Whether Qin Wu was dominating the entire chasing process? Whether the criminal had gotten rid of your sight for a short while before you met me? Finally, through Qin Wu's search, you found me once again and started to launch an attack towards me without any hesitation, right?
Because you chased the criminal all the way from Fuhai City to the wilderness, when you caught sight of me, you thought I was the very criminal. In that situation, you both thought that there wouldn't be any 2nd Zhang Tie, right?
Therefore, I became the very criminal.
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General Feng, I knew you abhor evils as deadly foes; however, when you thought that you were purifying Huaiyuan Palace, have you considered why Qin Wu died the moment you arrived?
When I "killed" Qin Wu, General Feng, Green Flute Hermit and the young elder of Lancang Sect were all enshrouded by the boiling battle qi of Qin Wu. You didn't see clearly how Qin Wu died at all. You only saw the final result——Qin Wu split into pieces.
Undoubtedly, in your eyes, Qin Wu was killed by me.
I was possessed by the devil; I became foolish too. After escaping out of Fuhai City, I got lost; however, I moved all the way towards your camp. Therefore, after receiving the notice from Fuhai City, the moment you left your camp by airboat, you had blocked me over 500 miles away from your camp.
When in battle, the battle qi totems of knights could be seen from 350 miles away on a sunny day. Is it different than fighting and killing people outside your home?
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I didn't know why Qin Wu and the young master of Qin family suddenly appeared in Fuhai City, because the two people should be patrolling in Yulin City, the private city of Qin family. As Qin Wu said that the young master of Qin family was killed by me and I killed Qin Wu, therefore Qin family thought the young master of Qin family was killed by me.
There was something wrong with Qin Wu!
However, I couldn't prove it because he had committed suicide.
I just want to remind the Qin family, as Qin Wu had served you for so many years, he must have known a lot of secrets of Qin family and participated in many actions of Qin family. You could completely trust Qin Wu; however, suppose Qin Wu was a member of demon or the Heavenly Breaking Church, do you know what he was going to do during these years and how many preparations had he made in Qin family?
After coming to Taixia Country, my only enemy was the Heavenly Reaching Church and the Gobbling Party.
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Finally, I want to talk about the Gobbling Party. Fan family made the decision to break off the engagement with me under the great stress of the Gobbling Party. This is the cause of this tragedy. That night, why would Yang Yushan summon the backbones in Fuhai City after losing their face in the daytime and wait to be cleaned up by me? As a result, my crime was confirmed and Qin Wu had a chance to chase me out of Fuhai City.
Grand tutor of the heir apparent, can you prove that this event is not a gunning test that the Gobbling Party designed to kill me?
I believe that the Gobbling Party will never be so heinous because this has surpassed your bottom line after fighting Huaiyuan Palace for such a long time. I know that many members of the Gobbling Party expect me to die and uproot Huaiyuan Palace, however, this is not your style. You excel at evident plots, such as encouraging the imperial consorts in Xuanyuan Hill to attack me with words. You're thinking about catching a chance to shatter Huaiyuan Palace according to the rules in Taixia Country.
However, can you prove that no member of the Gobbling Party has taken advantage of this event or colluded with the Heavenly Reaching Church or demons in this event?
Of course, you don't need to prove it. Because you're the leader of the Gobbling Party, a heavenly knight in Taixia Country, the current grand tutor of the heir apparent and one of the top three lords in Taixia Country in the future. However, I'm just a fugitive, a guy who's lunatic and should not be trusted. You don't need to prove or make any response to my words. I'm just talking rubbish and framing you.
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When I inflicted heavy losses on the Heavens Breaking Church in Youzhou Province at the beginning of this year and killed Master Jiang, this shadow demon who might have hidden in Taixia Country so for many years uttered a pleasant and mad sentence before death——Your Hua people's doomsday is coming, I'm waiting for you in the hell.
Only I heard this sentence at that moment. I thought it was just a curse from a demon who was going to die. Therefore, I didn't keep it in mind.
After listening to his will, I stomped his head into pieces.
Lately, his will always rang in my ears.
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A powerful knight who mastered the Bloody Demon Imitation Method and could not be resisted by the entire Huaiyuan Palace...
A powerful force which could let Qin Wu frame me at the cost of his life...
A terrifying force which knew that the heart of Director Fan was on his right chest through the official difference engine database of Yingzhou Province.
A former dean of the provincial court of Youzhou Province suddenly became a hot figure on the wanted list of the Supreme Court of Taixia Country...
A former gentleman suddenly became an abnormal devil...
After coming to Taixia Country for half a year, what happened to me and what was exposed to me were completely out of my imagination.
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Being despicable is the passport of the despicable ones while being noble is the inscription on the gravestone of the noble ones.
I'm despicable; however, I have no passport. If I was killed by the powerhouses of Taixia Country one day, this article would be the inscription on my gravestone.
If there's one more Zhang Tie who proves that he has betrayed the humans and could not use his knight's crystal plate to contact the Mountain of Brightness or leave any words in the forum of the Mountain of Brightness, don't be too amazed, because it's not difficult for them.
Who are they? Where are they hiding in?
Besides being sure that they're malicious to Taixia Country, I knew nothing about them.
Even if the sky collapsed, someone would support it for us;
I have fallen into the pit and almost been buried alive. Even though I tried my best to jump out, I could only make this far.
Well, that's all I want to say. As I have some strength left, I'm going to escape from the rest of the world...
Chapter 911: Leaving the Knight's Tower
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
"If I could marry beloved ones, I prefer to be a farmer.
I will graze cattle in the morning and come back with wildflowers.
Inserting flowers on your grey hair, I will watch the sunglow together with you..."
On October 11th, a woman in a brilliant red skirt was standing on the highest floor of an 18-storey brilliant pavilion in Snowblowing City, the capital city of Threespring Prefecture and watching the colorful clouds fading away in the sunset. At the same time, she kept muttering the poem that Zhang Tie released in the forum...
When she muttered the first line of the poem——It's hard to get a lover in the world. She dropped off her tears.
If not a sentimental person, how could he write such a heart-broken line?
When the wind blew, the woman's red skirt danced on the side of the handrail of the pavilion...
The youth told what he had experienced since he was in Blackhot City to the present in a casual tone in his article. The woman was like an elder sister who watched the neighboring bashful youth gradually growing mature.
Last night, when she read that "I even met a beauty who praised me that I was ambitious and a daydreamer!", she simmered with laughter.
When she read that he let the woman who had once hurt him stay one night in his apartment safe and sound before leaving, she became relaxed——thank you, but I hate you——only a woman could understand the mood of another woman at that moment. She knew that the youth was telling the truth.
How could such a mentally mature person reduce to be a devil after being forced to break off the engagement?
The front part of the article was relaxed as if he was traveling among mountains and rivers. She also accompanied the teenager all the way from Blackhot City. However, when she read what the teenager experienced in Fuhai City, she felt a killing qi——that was a terrifying, fatal trap...
After knowing that the teenager escaped successfully, she became relaxed too. By now, all the contents of that article had faded away in her mind, except for the poem and the look that she had seen in Youzhou City lately...
Watching the sunset and the stars rising, she finally let out a faint sigh before returning to the pavilion. Sitting in front of the dressing table mirror, she touched her hair on the temples with a sad look.
Although being a knight, she still had black hair all over and a brilliant face. However, where's the one who could insert flowers on her grey hair and watch the sunglow together with her? If she couldn't meet him anymore for the rest of her life, how lonely she would be and who would appreciate her beautiful look.
Taking up a white diamond and pearl headwear, she inserted it into her hair near the temple. After looking into the mirror for a short while, she changed to a more beautiful one. After taking another look at it, she picked it off once again...
After trying over 20 beautiful, luxurious diamond pearl headwears consecutively, the woman still felt lacking something.
Finally, the woman rubbed all the diamond and pearl headwears into powders. At the sight of this, the two female servants who were serving her hurriedly knelt down...
After feeling the sudden, vigorous qi in the pavilion, a figure instantly flashed in her room like a ghost.
The woman's voice turned icy at once while the majesty as the head of a family reappeared on her body.
"Go tell the sister apprentices...the event of Zhang Tie, Zhang Mushen is a bit weird, stop hunting him. Such a person will never be possessed by the devil..."
"Additionally, all the cities in Threespring Prefecture have to include all-purpose medicament of Jinwu Business Group into their storage!"
After saying that, the woman thought about something else while her voice suddenly turned resentful, "Tell Guo Wu to take someone to smash the Morality Association in the Snowblowing City..."
"Erm...the Morality Association has been smashed by people a few days ago, it's not been renovated yet..." The black shadow coughed twice before reminding her.
"Smash it again..."
"..."
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Xuanyuan Hill, Taixia Country...
A person in a white robe was feeding golden fish leisurely and delicately on the side of a lotus pond. He didn't say anything for an hour as if he had not seen the three people behind him...
The old man was dropping lifeless doughs, which turned into tadpoles and swum vividly in the water the moment they touched the water. As a result, a shoal of golden fish constantly chased after them, arousing ripples...
Standing behind this old man, the three people's backs had been fully wet in the past hour...
After feeding the golden fish, the old man clapped his hands as he turned around and asked the three people, "Have you thought it through?"
"I...I will go to Yingzhou Province...to investigate it..." The man who had sweated most answered in a trembling voice.
The old man didn't lose his temper; however, he looked more terrifying than losing his temper when he was silent.
He had not been silent for so long in front of them.
"The manor of the Gobbling Party is too large. We should clean it. A black iron knight from Huaiyuan Palace makes me universally condemned; even the Xuanyuan Hill is shocked. Do you want me to be the laughingstock of the people?" The old man let out a sigh.
The three people oozed sweat all over as they kept quivering, "We dare not!"
"Lord Huaiyuan really has a good inheritor!" Shaking his head, the old man turned around and entered the small courtyard...
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Shrine Palace of Fan family, Tianshui Prefecture, Yingzhou Province...
Director Fan, who had been more than 10 years elder only after a few months, was recalling what he saw that night in front of the clan elders.
"When I saw Zhang Tie, although...he was indeed raping my daughter in clothes..."
The Fan elders exchanged a glance with each other before letting out a long sigh in unison...
...
"Investigate it..." The head of Qin family was infuriated as he smashed the emerald table in front of him by one palm...
...
After a few days later, some brand girls in the brothels across Taixia Country had composed a piece of music and started to sing the song named "The Beloved Ones" by playing pipa, a plucked stringed instrument...
"It's hard to get a lover in the world.
I treat the power as sh*t and ignore the ridicule of the powerful ones.
You're just passers in my life, I will not return when I leave.
If I could marry beloved ones, I prefer to be a farmer.
I will graze cattle in the morning and come back with wildflowers.
Inserting flowers on your grey hair, I will watch the sunglow together with you."
This song made many girls in brothels across Taixia Country to drop off their tears. They all wanted to know who created such a wonderful poem...
After reading this poem, the sentimental ones would feel more lonely...
...
After becoming a member of Title Party in the Mountain of Brightness and calmly describing his experiences in one article, Zhang Tie had started to enter cultivation.
Zhang Tie didn't feel that he was literary. This article was just a reflection of his life experience and feelings. Even though the poem originated from his true feelings.
It was useless for him to cry out a grievance. Zhang Tie didn't do that. He just wanted to show others what a man he was and had people make judgments themselves. As he could not prove that he was innocent, he could only influence others' judgments.
All those who read the article were knights in the Mountain of Brightness, all of whom had a great influence in the reality and were more above average in intelligence.
It was enough.
A knight with more than three chakras who had mastered the Bloody Demon Imitation Method.
The background of Qin Wu.
The force who could easily know the secret that Director Fan's heart was on his right chest...
All these were clues.
The evidence was not definitely the truth; however, the truth could arouse resonance among people.
This time, Zhang Tie exposed all those who had framed him to the public.
He couldn't resist those people because his ability was trivial in front of them. However, those people could only move in the dark as their power was also trivial in front of the righteous power of the humans across Taixia Country.
That was a terrifying, malignant tumor among humans in Taixia Country.
This was not only the personal resentment between Zhang Tie and those people; it was more like a public resentment between humans in Taixia Country and demons. It was unnecessary for Zhang Tie to shoulder it himself. Additionally, he couldn't shoulder it for the time being. Therefore, he shared it with other people.
As the old Hua saying went, there must be a loyal and faithful people among 10 households.
Even if 1 out of 10 knights who had browsed the article could be vigilant about those insurgents or 1 out 100 knights wanted to seek for the truth of the even in Fuhai City, they would be much more powerful than Zhang Tie and Huaiyuan Palace.
Whether Fan family or Qin family in Yingzhou would be vigilant and reflect themselves after browsing this article. After all, whatever Zhang Tie had exposed was all genuine.
It was a pattern of self-protection and counter-attack and a warning about the crisis facing Taixia Country from a Hua knight.
It could protect Zhang Tie from two aspects: first, it could make him less wanted by the knights and Supreme Court in Taixia Country; at least they would not beat him like a rat crossing the streets; second, all the people in Taixia Country would focus on Huaiyuan Palace and his family members. If anyone wanted to revenge Huaiyuan Palace and his family members, everybody else would recall that that one was probably backed by demons; as a result, the possible attacker had to consider about the outcome of his deed.
Zhang Tie didn't expect that he could prove his innocence only by an article, the authenticity of which could not be verified. If not, it would be a laughingstock and the laws in Taixia Country would be ineffective. He hoped that he could turn into "grey" from an extremely "dark" guy in Taixia Country through this "public notice".
The Gobbling Party would make a response to this article. Although the Gobbling Party couldn't prove that they're innocent, the knights who had read the article would definitely doubt the Gobbling Party for sure. They would imagine about the role of the Gobbling Party in this event. The Gobbling Party had to prove their innocence. After all, no force could stand being framed as colluding with demons even if they were standing on the side of the top three chancellors in Taixia Country.
It was also the price that the Gobbling Party had to pay.
After all, none of the contents about the Gobbling Party in the article was fabricated. Zhang Tie's suspicion about the Gobbling Party was justified. Perhaps, the Gobbling Party would not care about Zhang Tie's opinion; however, they had to concern about the opinion of all the knights in the Mountain of Brightness.
By the way, Zhang Tie also made an advisement for the all-purpose medicament in the article.
It was a family strategy of Zhang family to have all-purpose medicament enter the purchasing storage contents of the nationwide six warehouses in Taixia Country. It was related to the benefits of numerous generations of Zhang family. Even though he was still wanted, this strategy would be firmly executed. If this generation couldn't make it, the next generations had to make it. They would not make any compromise to that.
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On October 10th, after coming to the Lion Fortress for 12 days, Zhang Tie ended his cultivation and opened his eyes in his knight's tower.
The reason was that he had consumed all of his earth-elements crystals.
Zhang Tie picked himself up in the cultivation room and relaxed his limbs, causing his muscles, tendons and bones to quiver and rub like plucking strings of musical instruments.
After the last earth-elements crystal turned transparent, Zhang Tie directly threw it into Castle of Black Iron. After throwing a glance at the Cui Li's crystal plate, he found that the 30th golden scale had just been lit on the new knight's crystal plate.
After putting away the new knight's crystal plate, Zhang Tie went downstairs. He took a bath in the washroom on the 2nd floor and put on a clean set of field suit, a multi-purpose tactical armor and a pair of metal battle boots. After that, he went downstairs and walked out of the knight's tower.
The Lion Fortress was still covered with a layer of exotic, transparent energy while the mysterious clouds above the energy cover radiated a dim white light, which indicated that it was daytime above the ground.
Zhang Tie watched the sky and the awe-inspiring huge pyramid as he touched his bald head and trotted towards the other gate of the Lion Fortress facing the earth-elements realm.
That gate was called Earth-elements Gate, the real portal towards the Earth-elements Realm.
By contrast, the gate towards the earth's surface was called Force Province Gate.
The entire Lion Fortress only had two gates.
When he exited the Lion Fortress, he needed to punch the metal identity plate too.
There were also two lines of knights riding on their underground dragons outside the Earth-elements Gate.
Knights were leaving the Lion Fortress for the mysterious world of the Earth-elements Realm constantly while lights constantly arrived at the Lion Fortress from the Earth-elements Realm.
The moment Zhang Tie exited the high tunnel-like doorway, he had flown towards the distance.
The terrain outside the Earth-elements Gate had a downward inclination and was borderless. Like a fortress at the highest point of a huge valley, the Earth-elements Gate overlooked the entire shell-shaped valley...
The barren entire valley covered hundreds of thousands of miles. There was nothing but shiny things among rocks and sands in the valley under the dim daylight which was common Class 1 and Class 2 crystals
If on the earth's surface, this place could be a treasure land. Although those crystals were in low class and of high value, nobody in the earth-elements realm would care about the common crystals. The price of these crystals could not even offset the freight from this place to the world on the earth's surface by airship...
Zhang Tie's destination was the first abyss outside the Lion Fortress...
It was the underground battlefield between human knights and demon knights...
Chapter 912: The First Abyss
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
The first abyss in the earth-elements realm was the main battlefield of human knights and demon knights.
Demons were constantly pouring out of the hollow earth; if they wanted to arrive at the land of the Eastern Continent, they had to break through the Lion Fortress.
As for Taixia Country, the holy war had two battle lines which were undergoing at the same time.
One was in the first abyss in the earth-elements realm; the other was in other continents and subcontinents from where demon corps were constantly pouring out of the earth surface from the underground world.
As for demons, this holy war also had two battle lines. Demons' attack on the earth's surface could be regarded as a siege of Taixia and the Eastern Continent while their attack in the earth-element realm could be regarded that they were going to collapse Taixia Country from inside.
The two battle lines were both fierce, which could be judged by the increasing treatment that those chaotic subcontinents and the Lion Fortress could provide for the garrison knights.
Compared to the battle line on the surface of the ground, the underground one was fiercer and more brutal. Those who could fight demons in the first abyss were at least human knights, human battle spirits were too weak there.
If the earth's surface was predominated by humans, the underground world was predominated by demons.
The first abyss was very huge that nobody could figure out its border. Generally, the word "huge" referred to the area; however, the first abyss was like a deep well in the earth-elements realm.
The part outside the irregular mouth of the well was over 14,000 miles in width and above 40,000 miles in length.
Zhang Tie received the data from the Lion Fortress. He didn't verify it and didn't need to do that.
Of course, the wall of the well was not smooth. A small grain on the wall of this well might be an exotic region that covered thousands even tens of thousands of square miles; a small coarse bulge on the wall of this well might be an endless mountain range. The profound and deep mountain caves in the first abyss were like the holes on the bricks and slabs, which might lead to other abysses and mysterious lands...
From a certain perspective, the first abyss was more like an open courtyard in the middle of an irregular tube-shaped apartment. There were overlapped platforms, large or small and interconnected maze-like rooms, tunnels and bloody traps in the dark around the courtyard.
After leaving the Lion Fortress one day, Zhang Tie caught sight of a pitch-dark, borderless abyss which looked like a black, huge mouth which could devour everything.
Zhang Tie saw rolling, dense fog in the endless black abyss.
As there was no light inside the abyss, it was more like a black fog.
Some human knights were flying out of the black fog while some flew in. All the human knights had decelerated their flying speed the moment they entered it while they hid their battle qi luster.
It was nothing different than committing suicide by releasing one's battle qi luster like a bulb in the dark of the first abyss.
Besides a lot of black iron knights, many earth knights were also wandering in the first abyss. Even though shadow knights were hiding there. It was not strange if human and demon heavenly knights had passed through the first abyss accidentally.
Of course, Zhang Tie didn't want to show off his battle skills at this moment. He hid his battle qi luster and entered the dark closely along the edge of the first abyss.
...
As the black fog was ubiquitous, even in his maximal dark visibility, Zhang Tie could only see a few miles forward in the first abyss.
A strange plant covered many places on the ground and the precipices in the abyss.
It was an exotic vine-like creeper which could grow endlessly in the first abyss.
Any common vine of the abyss could extend longer than 1,000 m. The longest one could even extend over 70 miles. In Zhang Tie's eyes, the leaves of the vines were deep purple; each leaf was as large as a pot's cover. Its flower was extremely similar to a necessary musical instrument in the human symphony orchestra——tuba! The fog in the first abyss was released by the flowers of the vine of the abyss in a breath.
The fog purified the strong sulfury, the particulate matters and some toxic substances in the air and provided a necessary condition for the growth of other living beings in the abyss.
Even in the first abyss, the living beings complied with some universal rules of the mother nature——without the plants that could grow out of the earth, none of the senior species would survive.
The moment Zhang Tie entered the abyss, he had caught sight of a finger-sized bee hovering on the flower of the vine of the abyss diligently.
The honey of this bee of the abyss was inedible. It contained a special toxin, which would make people feel especially itchy all over. Those who were allergic to pollen would lose their lives the moment they touched the honey of this bee.
After deepening almost 30 miles into the first abyss, Zhang Tie caught sight of a mountain cave behind a vine of the abyss. He then entered it...
After a few minutes, a little, black beetle flapped its wings and flew out of the same mountain cave and dove downsides in the effect of super hiding skill...
30 miles were like a step downwards from the top of a skyscraper.
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After 10 days, on the land that covered 700 square miles in the first abyss.
A huge demon knight with double horns landed in the fog.
Its eyes were as red as fire which looked very vigilant. After landing there, he looked around seriously. After finding that no human knight was in the surroundings, it darted into a wood.
The wood was filled with a giant underground plant which looked like a bamboo shoot.
After coming to one side of a plant, the demon knight checked his alert arrangements within 100 m and confirmed that nobody had come here. He then let out a sigh. After unveiling a cave on the plant, it hid in.
...
The long-term battle in the first abyss meant a great test and physical strength consumption for both demon knights and human knights. They could not fly in the sky around the clock. Even knights needed to take a rest. Otherwise, their battle strength would decline sharply after staying in the first abyss for too long.
This wood was one of the demon knight's shelters in the first abyss.
The demon knight didn't notice that a little beetle which was having a rest on another tall plant had caught sight of him the moment he entered this wood...
Chapter 913: Anus Boom
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
These days, Zhang Tie had been exploring the first abyss meticulously in the incarnation of a little beetle.
After 8 days of exploration, Zhang Tie gradually became familiar with the first abyss.
The biggest benefit for him to incarnate in a little black beetle was that nobody else could find him. The biggest weakness was that the vision of the little beetle was much poorer than Zhang Tie's original vision. If Zhang Tie could see miles clearly in the first abyss, the little black beetle's visual distance was only hundreds of meters.
This was the so-called swings and roundabouts.
Any incarnation could not be all mighty.
According to the description of the "Great Wilderness Sutra", the best, irreplaceable incarnation of people was his own body——it's hard to incarnate into a human body.
Thanks to these days' adaptation, Zhang Tie had known well about the first abyss.
The little beetle was almost invisible for the others.
However, with his original body, Zhang Tie could observe enemies in the distance.
After these days of exploration and serious comparison, Zhang Tie though that a greater perceiving ability was more important for him than being almost invisible. After all, he was here to kill enemies and improve his battle strength.
Zhang Tie had already prepared to summon his original body out of Castle of Black Iron. However, when the little beetle landed on a huge plant and took a rest over there, he caught sight of the first demon knight since he entered the abyss of the earth-elements realm.
It was an ox-head demon who had the most balanced battle strength and sensory perceptions. It was also the prototype of the devil in the legends among humans.
Compared to iron-armored demons, ox-head demons had greater viability and battle strength in the first abyss.
Watching the ox-head demon to hide meticulously in the "big bamboo shoot" for a rest, the little black beetle blinked its eyes. Zhang Tie was driven mad.
'It's really out of my imagination that a demon knight could build its base here.'
'As this place is only thousands of miles away from the top of the abyss. This fearless demon knight must have a great battle strength.'
The little beetle just gazed at the place where the ox-head demon hid from dozens of meters away.
Knights could fall asleep in only a couple of minutes. However, after falling alseep, their knight's consciousness would still be sensitive to the surrounding situation although being sharply weaker than that in the normal situation; not to mention that the guy hid in the tree hole...
5 minutes later, the little black beetle arrived behind the tree hole.
After that, the little beetle disappeared. With the effect of a super hiding skill, Zhang Tie appeared behind the tree silently.
With a gold-eaten tri-edged dagger in hand, Zhang Tie's eyes shimmered.
With his eyes on the tree, a strange sneer appeared on his face.
Such a raid felt like a troublemaker throwing a huge rock into the manure pit when someone was in the toilet in Blakhot City.
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'Go die', Zhang Tie's eyes turned solemn at once...
In 0.01 second, Zhang Tie released his battle qi. At the same time, he forcefully stabbed his gold-eaten tri-edged dagger into the tree by his right hand and launched a heart-breaking palm of the"Big Sun Fire Dragon Palm" by his left hand towards the tree...
When Zhang Tie's attack touched the tree, the demon knight who was resting inside had woken up. However, due to such a short distance, even though he had realized what happened, he had no chance to make a response to it anymore.
As for a knight, the bamboo shoot-like huge tree was as week as a bunch of cotton. Zhang Tie stabbed into it with his gold-eaten tri-edged dagger like breaking a piece of paper. The dagger directly penetrated through the plant and entered the body of the ox-head demon knight.
Zhang Tie felt that his heart-breaking palm hit the back of the ox-head demon knight while his gold-eaten tri-edged dagger...
"Howl..."
With the furious and painful howl, the ox-head demon knight shattered the tree in a split second. At the same time, it released an indifferent attack while tens of tempestuous battle qis swept over dozens of surrounding trees in the shape of a semi-lunar blade. As a result, dozens of trees fell down like ears of wheat being cut off, causing booms.
Although the opponent was trying its best to survive itself in the emergency, of course, Zhang Tie would not collude with him face to face.
Before the demon knight released its battle qis, Zhang Tie had stirred up his dagger in the body of the ox-head demon knight, causing a huge wound. At the same time, Zhang Tie had retreated as fast as a lightning bolt while dodging from those tempestuous battle qis.
With a dark purple battle qi shooting into the air, the ox-head demon knight flew off right away.
In the air, it spurted out a mouth of blood. With a painful and twisted look, it couldn't stand uttering another howl. At the same time, it wanted to catch something from its butt or stop bleeding over there. However, it was in vain. Because Zhang Tie had stabbed the dagger into its weakest and fatal part; especially when Zhang Tie pulled out the gold-eaten tri-edged dagger, he stirred it up, expanding the wound from the fatal part all the way to the interior part of its thigh, causing a 40-cm long grim wound there...
A knight could at least prevent the wound from bleeding only by controlling the neighboring blood vessels of the wound if not heal it right away...
Although the blood on its thigh was immediately stopped; however, the blood on that part...
Those left were not only blood but stinky and smelly things in its belly and intestine...
It was out of Zhang Tie's imagination that he had exploded the demon knight's anus with that strike. In order to avoid from arousing the attention of the demon knight, Zhang Tie didn't lock its precise location in the tree by his spiritual energy; he just stabbed into its body based on his perception.
It was an obscene strike with a surprisingly good effect.
Only after throwing a glance at the furious and painful look of the demon knight and its remains below, Zhang Tie had realized that he had caused the demon knight to lose half of its battle strength at least.
'Plus the effect of my palm, although this demon knight won't die, for the time being, he has been heavily wounded.'
After throwing a glare at Zhang Tie with its bloody eyes and extremely grim look, the demon knight didn't rush towards Zhang Tie; instead, it turned around and escaped right away.
Although it was dauntless, it was not an idiot. It knew that it had almost lost the battle although having not fought Zhang Tie. Therefore, it chose to escape so as to survive itself.
It was nothing shameful in the first abyss.
However, how could Zhang Tie let it go.
The ox-head demon knight was just a black iron knight. Zhang Tie had not seen any black iron knight who could fly faster than him, not to mention that the demon knight had suffered a heavy wound.
The demon knight released its battle qi luster and accelerated to its maximal flying speed. So did Zhang Tie while a fiery flame rose from his body.
In such a case, now that they had noticed each other, it was meaningless to hide themselves anymore.
The moment the demon knight moved, Zhang Tie had chased after it. Only after a few seconds, with a roar, Zhang Tie punched another palm while a fiery dragon flew off Zhang Tie's hand and caught up with that demon knight in a split second. The demon knight wanted to resist Zhang Tie's attack; however, it was still forced to fall off, causing a huge pit on the ground.
The moment the demon knight flew off once again, Zhang Tie had appeared on his side while Zhang Tie drew a fierce light net using his gold-eaten tri-edged dagger and fully covered the demon knight.
Their battle qi totems rose up at the same time...
On the earth's surface, the moment black iron knight's battle qi totem rose up, it would be seen by others hundreds of miles away. By contrast, due to the ubiquitous fog, there was a low visibility in the first abyss. The knight's battle qi totem could not be seen from 20 miles away.
Therefore, unless they had enemies or friends within 20 miles, their battle could barely be influenced by external factors.
As it was Zhang Tie's first prey, Zhang Tie accelerated his attack in case of troubles.
Zhang Tie only attacked instead of defending. The attacks from the demon knight would be carried by his protective battle qi and body; of course, his attacks would be defended by the demon knight by its own body and protective battle qi.
Even though this demon knight was safe and sound, Zhang Tie didn't fear about fighting it face to face at the risk of wounds, not to mention now.
In the beginning, the demon knight could bear some rounds of face-to-face collisions with its dauntless spirit; however, after a few seconds, it had changed its face.
It was definitely out of the imagination of the ox-head demon knight that Zhang Tie could have such a powerful battle strength, including his protective battle qi and physical strength. It could be said that Zhang Tie was the most powerful human black iron knight that it had ever met. What was more terrifying was the grim dagger in Zhang Tie's hand.
The dagger could easily penetrate through a knight's protective battle qi.
Only after half a minute, the demon knight had gained 7-8 more wounds. However, Zhang Tie didn't even lose a hair.
...
After 4 minutes, Zhang Tie inserted his gold-eaten tri-edged dagger into its collarbone ferociously. With the miserable howl of the demon knight, Zhang Tie suddenly punched his right fist into the part below its chest and caught the demon knight's spine. Closely after that, he lifted up the demon knight like raising a barbell...
The demon knight thought that Zhang Tie would shatter it into pieces by his battle qi; As for the inevitable death in battle, the demon knight was not afraid of it at all. Whereas, in the next second, the demon knight suddenly felt that his earth chakra which had not been fully formed started to revolve in an anticlockwise manner. Just like the ice in the pond. It was suddenly shattered by Zhang Tie's overwhelming strength and flew into Zhang Tie's body...
The demon knight just watched Zhang Tie with a fearsome look while it gradually lost its strength to struggle...
1 minute later, Zhang Tie suddenly increased his battle qi and shattered its body into a bloody mist. At the same time, two human figures fell in the distance as fast as a lightning bolt. At the sight of the scene, they were both shocked...
Chapter 914: Partners
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
Coincidentally, although black iron knight's battle qi totem could not be seen by people from afar in the first abyss, two human knights indeed flew here just now. At the sight of the battle qi totems, they flew towards here.
When they drew closer, they saw Zhang Tie lifting up an ox-head demon knight and shattering it into a bloody mist by his battle qi.
Although Zhang Tie was tall and sturdy, the ox-head demon knight was one head higher and sturdier than him. It was more like a fierce ox. Anyone would be shocked when they saw a human knight to lift up a demon knight who was much bigger than him and shatter it into pieces.
After landing in the distance, the two knights' hearts pounded at the same time. After throwing a glance at each other, they flew towards Zhang Tie at the same time.
"Friend, we saw two battle qi totems rising up from here; therefore, we hurriedly rushed towards here. Do you need any help?"
The two knights were both Hua knights at their 40s. One carried a saber, the other carried a sword. Given their qis, Zhang Tie knew that they were also black iron knights. The moment they drew close, the man with a sword asked in a polite way.
"Thanks. But I've already killed the demon knight!" Although the blood rain sprayed over, it was blocked by Zhang Tie's protective battle qi. After moving his punch back, Zhang Tie said in a hoarse voice while watching the two people, "F*ck, I was just resting here; however, this demon knight launched a sudden strike towards me. Now that we encountered, I had to kill this b*stard, peh..."
Zhang Tie spat onto the ground.
Standing several meters away from Zhang Tie, the two Hua knights glanced over the neighboring messy battlefield before moving their eyes back onto Zhang Tie. After finding that Zhang Tie didn't even suffer a wound, the two human knights' eyes gleamed at once.
'Now that this human knight could kill a demon knight without suffering any wound, it indicates that this knight is overwhelming to the demon knight.'
"Friend, great battle skill and braveness!" The middle-aged man with a saber praised Zhang Tie before cupping his hands towards Zhang Tie, "I'm Gong Ziyao, he's Zhou Shufan. We both came from Qingzhou Province. May I know your name?"
"I'm Cui Li from Youngzhou Province!" Zhang Tie replied as he cupped his hands.
Hebrews always greeted each other by shaking hands; while Hua people greeted each other by cupping their hands. Shaking hands meant that they had no weapons in hands while cupping hands meant that they covered their right hand which was most aggressive by their left hand. Both etiquettes represented peace. When two people met each other for the first time, cupping hands was more intellectual than shaking hands. Although the identity Cui Li was a bit brutal, he was not absolutely a boor.
"We have stayed in the Lion Fortress for 2 years. But we've not seen younger brother Cui!" Gong Ziyao asked.
"I've just come to Lion Fortress about 10 days ago!"
After hearing Zhang Tie's reply, Gong Ziyao and Zhou Shufan were more stunned.
Zhou Shufan said with a solemn look, "I've not imagined that younger brother Cui has killed a demon knight and made a meritorious deed only after entering the first abyss for a few days. If this demon knight dared to come here alone, it was definitely fiercer than common demon knights. Younger brother Cui is really admirable!"
"Heh...heh..." Zhang Tie touched his bald head with a smirk, "He's unfortunate. As I've been here ahead of him. After this guy arrived, he found a hidden tree hole and took a rest inside. When he fell asleep, I stealthily moved to the back of the tree hole..." Zhang Tie raised his gold-eaten tri-edged dagger and simulated the movement of stabbing it into the tree hole forcefully, "With such a poke, I exploded his anus. As a result, he could only exert 50-60% of his full strength and was finally killed by me!"
At the sight of the grim, sturdy tri-edged dagger and hearing the words "exploded his anus", Gong Ziyao and Zhou Shufan understood it right away as they couldn't stand contracting their anuses.
After exchanging a glance with Gong Ziyao, Zhou Shufan slowly nodded his head. They had formed a privity after a long-term cooperation. They could exchange many information only through eyes.
Through Zhang Tie's simple reply, the two people felt that Zhang Tie had a great battle strength and was open-minded and aboveboard. The other knights would definitely not expose the obscene means of exploding anus to them so frankly. Therefore, they liked Zhang Tie from inside.
"Demon is human's public enemy. As you have killed a demon knight, you have made a meritorious deed for humans. Whatever means you have used, younger brother Cui Li is a hero and a tough man as you caught this chance to kill this demon knight sharply!"
Zhang Tie burst out into laughter...
"We should not stay here, if any earth knights were fighting in the distance, they might have been attracted by the battle here. Earth knights could see clearly the battle qi totems from over 70 miles away in the first abyss. How about changing the place?" Zhou Shufan suggested.
"Good!" Zhang Tie ran towards the pair of ox horns which had inserted into the earth and picked them up before putting them into his battle armor. Closely after that, he rose up into the air.
Presenting amaranth, this pair of ox horns proved that Zhang Tie had killed an ox-head demon knight. With this meritorious deed, he could enjoy many benefits in the Lion Fortress. Pitifully, this ox-head demon was a poor thing as it had no more equipment but a broken leather armor.
In the air, Gong Ziyao asked Zhang Tie, "Young brother Cui Li, do you want to fight a few more days in the first abyss or return to the Lion Fortress?"
"What about you?"
"We're going back to the Lion Fortress for some supplies and then we will come back!" Zhou Shu fan answered in an implicit way.
"We can come back together..." Zhang Tie answered, "We can take care of each other on the way back..."
"That's great!"
Gong Ziyao and Zhou Shufan nodded at the same time...
Although Zhang Tie looked calm, his heart was racing crazily. It was his first time to use the Purgatory Samsara Method. He felt having made a great achievement this time. He was thinking about digesting the energy of the earth chakra of the demon knight somewhere. Additionally, with this pair of ox horns on his back, he didn't feel convenient in the first abyss; if he didn't want this pair of ox horns, it would arouse the doubts of the two human knights; if he put it away in his space teleportation equipment, he would expose his secret; therefore, he chose to go back to the Lion Fortress together with Gong Ziyao and Zhou Shufan. He would exchange this pair of ox horns for some benefits before digesting the achievements.
As there were many powerhouses in the first abyss, black iron knights were a basic battle strength here. Zhang Tie felt that he'd better not use his portable space teleportation equipment and Castle of Black Iron so as to match his performance with the image of Cui Li. Otherwise, he might incur troubles and crises. The identity of Cui Li fit him pretty well, which was also very useful in Taixia Country. If he changed another identity, he might have to spend more time to deal with it.
Gong Ziyao and Zhou Shufan were well known as Saber and Sword Partners in Qingzhou Province. They had been bosom friends for dozens of years. They had been in the earth-elements realm for 4 years. When the group of three hid their battle qi luster and flew towards the entrance of the abyss, they kept chatting. After introducing themselves, the Saber and Sword Partners started to inquire about Zhang Tie's background.
Of course, Zhang Tie told them about the background of Cui Li——I lived in a rich family in Liuying Town at the foot of Coiling Dragon Mountain, Luye Prefecture, Yongzhou Province. I have been obsessed with battle skills since I was young. Therefore, after my parents passed away, I traveled among the famous mountains and rivers in Taixia Country and learned from masters everywhere. Later on, I experienced something special in a famous mountain and finally promoted to a knight.
I have just returned home a few days ago and ended some secular affairs at home. Before my powerful memorial gateway was built in my hometown, I have come to the earth-elements realm and prepare to fight demons so as to live up to what I've learned in the past years.
"Young brother Cui, do you think about making meritorious deeds for the country?" Zhou Shufan asked.
"I've not thought about it yet. No matter what, I can't waste my battle skills; especially in the holy war. As demons are thinking about devastating Taixia, I should do something as a tough man. I don't care what meritorious deeds will I make; no matter what, I can't stand being a knight who only thinks about cultivation indoors everyday. No pay, no power, no woman, no dignity! It's boring! If it's in peaceful times, it's understandable for you to close your doors and enter cultivation everyday; however, the holy war has broken out, if you did the same, it's nothing different than being a timid rabbit!"
Gong Ziyao and Zhou Shufan burst out into laughter at the same time. They felt that Zhang Tie had verified the feelings of most of the knights in the Lion Fortress.
After 3 days, the group of three started their trip back. On the way, they met some human knights; however, they didn't meet any demon knight. Therefore, they returned to the Lion Fortress smoothly.
At the gate of the Lion Fortress, at the sight of the pair of ox horns, the line of garrison knights threw "admiring" eyes towards Zhang Tie.
"Tough man with ox horns, will you join our Feathers Army? Our Feathers Army is powerful with good treatment and rich human resources above and underground, how about that?" An officer shouted towards Zhang Tie.
Zhang Tie was stunned as it was the second time for him to listen to the words. 'Did all the top four armies of Taixia Country recruit soldiers in the same way at the Lion Fortress?'
Chapter 915: Samsara
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
"Thanks but I don't want to join the army for the time being..."
"Tough man, may I know your name?"
"Cui Li, from Yongzhou Province!"
After having a brief conversation with the officer just outside the gate, Zhang Tie immediately entered the Lion Fortress with Gong Ziyao and Zhou Shufan.
The metal plates indicated their identities; besides, by punching a card, they could accumulate their effective service time in the fortress and gain earth-elements crystals as a reward.
"Young brother Cui, we have to say goodbye to you. We will meet in the Iron-blood Tower at 8 pm two days later!" Gong Ziyao told Zhang Tie.
"Yes, two elder brothers, I have to handle with these booties too, see you at the night two days later!" Zhang Tie nodded.
After cupping hands towards each other, the three people headed for different directions.
Over the past couple of days, the group of three had learned a lot about each other. Gong Ziyao and Zhou Shufan had made an appointment with Zhang Tie to meet in the Iron-blood Tower, the knights' bar in the Lion Fortress 3 days later. They said that they had something to negotiate with Zhang Tie. Zhang Tie agreed with them.
Watching Gong Ziyao and Zhou Shufan leaving, Zhang Tie recalled the map of the Lion Fortress for a second before running towards the Knights' Tower of Brilliance.
It was where tasks were released in the Lion Fortress and where knights could exchange their booties for resources.
The pair of ox horns on Zhang Tie's back indicated that Zhang Tie had killed an ox-head demon knight, which could be used to exchange for many items.
By now, Zhang Tie was still a poor guy. Besides a residence in the Lion Fortress, he didn't even have enough clean clothes. Besides that gold-eaten tri-edged dagger, Zhang Tie didn't have any more weapon. Therefore, this pair of ox horns could greatly improve Zhang Tie's "dilemma".
Besides being good-looking, the pair of ox horns also had a great medicinal value. Through the working of pharmacists, this pair of ox horns could clear heat, cool the blood, arrest convulsion, detoxify and collect qi. It was the most precious and the main ingredient of tranquilizer for fighters below knights when they were possessed by the devil. Tranquilizer was a very precious medicine of great value. Three pills of tranquilizer might save one human fighter from being possessed by the devil on average. However, the main ingredient came from the ox-head demon knight in the Earth-elements Realm.
Cups or kettles being made of ox horns were also expensive because they could detoxify and alleviate a hangover.
Demons and humans were eating each other. The winner must have sharper teeth.
As the portal for humans to enter the Earth-elements Realm, the Lion Fortress should not only be defended by humans but also serve as a base for humans to gain resources in the Earth-elements Realm.
Zhang Tie ran all the way towards the Knights' Tower of Brilliance. On the way, at the sight of that pair of ox horns on Zhang Tie's back, all the knights, logistical personnel and subsidiary fighters threw admiring looks at Zhang Tie.
The real powerful ones would gain respect wherever they were; especially those on the battlefields.
Even by now, less than 20% of the human knights in the Lion Fortress who had fought demon knights had ever killed a demon knight.
"What a tough man!"
"What a hero!"
Zhang Tie heard all sorts of praises on the way there.
Zhang Tie ignored the eye lights of the passers-by; neither did he feel conceited. Perhaps, it was very difficult for others to kill a demon knight. Actually, Zhang Tie had killed dozens of demon knights and knights of Three-eye Association. Therefore, he didn't feel thrilled at all.
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Being very eye-catching in the Lion Fortress, the Knights' Tower of Brilliance was higher than 2,000 m.
Human knights were accessing to the Knight's Tower of Brilliance. Besides Hua knights, Zhang Tie saw many other knights of different skins.
At the sight of the pair of ox horns on Zhang Tie's back, all the knights accessing to the high tower threw a serious look at Zhang Tie.
After going up over 100 metal steps, Zhang Tie came to the task lobby which covered tens of thousands of square meters.
The moment he entered the task lobby, Zhang Tie had seen a metal curtain higher than 20 m which hung various task boards and clear introductions. On both sides of the metal curtain were counters and backrooms which were used to serve knights. It was similar to that of the Golden Roc Bank. Perhaps, the structure of the lobby of Golden Roc Bank originated from here.
Zhang Tie muttered inside as he strode towards a counter. After putting the pair of ox horns on the counter, causing a sound "pah", he shouted in a hoarse tone, "Task delivered!"
"A pair of ox horns of an ox-head demon knight. Not bad, not bad, it's not even 5 days old. Fresh enough. It's not picked from the Far-ancient battlefield in the first abyss!" An old man in red uniform checked Zhang Tie's booty seriously as he nodded and put it into the counter, "This pair of ox horns weigh over 30 kg. A green-robed pharmacist could make over 800 pills of tranquilizer and save hundreds of human fighters' lives with it..."
Zhang Tie grinned. As a human knight, he indeed felt a great sense of achievement at this moment...
"Show me your identity plate, please!" The old man's tone turned politer.
Zhang Tie passed his identity plate to the old man. The old man took it and inserted it into a machine on his side. After a series of operations, the old man drew it out of the machine in a few seconds. After that, he took out 18 golden earth-element crystals from the counter and pushed them to Zhang Tie.
"Here's your reward, 18 earth-elements crystals, 5 meritorious points and 1,000 consumption points in the Lion Fortress!"
Touching his bald head, Zhang Tie asked, "What are the meritorious points used for?"
The old man threw a glance at Zhang Tie,"There are many resources in the Lion Fortress that could not be enjoyed by earth-elements crystals and consumption points. You could only exchange for them with your meritorious points, such as simulative training in the Heavenly Ball..."
'Heavenly Ball?' Zhang Tie was shocked. He remembered that an elder of Huaiyuan Palace mentioned that there was indeed a Heavenly Ball in the Lion Fortress. It was not exclusive to the Heavenly Fortune Sect.
...
After taking his identity plate which had been recharged, Zhang Tie left the Knights' Tower of Brilliance.
After that, Zhang Tie went to the latest supply point and received 7 days' supply, which included 7 breadfruits, 3,500 grams of nutritious mushroom, 3,500 grams of watermelons. After loading all of them into a metal supply case, Zhang Tie carried the supply case and returned to his knight's tower marked as No. 1607.
As for Zhang Tie, the supply in the fortress was not dispensable. However, after having been in the Earth-elements Realm for so many days, if he didn't go to receive some supply, he would arouse others' suspicions. Even knights required energy supply. Nobody could gain them out of nowhere without a space-teleportation equipment.
After closing the gate of his knight's tower from inside, Zhang Tie found that everything remained unchanged in the knight's tower, leaving no dust at all.
Although he couldn't wait to experience the first achievement from the purgatory samsara in the cultivation room, Zhang Tie tried to recover his composure and prepare a supper for himself.
The ingredients of the supper were the supply that he brought back.
Actually, it was a bit exaggerated for him to make supper. As the three fruits could be eaten directly, they didn't need to be processed at all. Zhang Tie just took out a plate, a knife and made an assorted fruit dish. After that, he took a seat and leisurely enjoyed them.
Since he got the Castle of Black Iron, Zhang Tie had always tried to be patient whenever he couldn't wait to do something.
The greater the plan was, the calmer he needed to be.
The more anxious he was, the more relieved he should be.
This was also a sort of cultivation.
The breadfruit was indeed like a bread; however, it was more like a half-dried coarse bread. It was a food with thick fiber which didn't taste good at all.
The nutritious mushroom tasted like a dried squid, which was fishy and salty. They didn't taste good either.
The watermelons contained too much water and tasted a bit sweet. However, after eating them, Zhang Tie felt a bit sour.
Although knights had powerful nerves, Zhang Tie wondered whether he would be driven mad if he ate such a food consecutively for a few years.
After eating up the food on the plate and putting away the rest fruits, Zhang Tie recovered his composure. After that, he went upstairs and entered his cultivation room.
...
After sitting in the cultivation room cross-legged, Zhang Tie entered meditation while his perceptions gradually became sensitive...
The pure, golden earth elements were slowly rotating around the first chakra like satellites on the tracks...
Zhang Tie ran his spiritual energy while those pure earth elements directly entered the first chakra. After being grounded by the first chakra, they poured into those mysterious, complex and huge geometrical patterns in the earth chakra, lighting those geometrical patterns one after another...
The efficiency of this method was dozens of times higher compared to that if Zhang Tie directly absorbed earth elements. Zhang Tie directly linked the main water supply pipeline to his own home.
When Zhang Tie was quietly fixing and absorbing the essence of the chakra of the demon knight, the 31st dragon scale on his dragon crystal plate was lit after one hour...