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Chapter 1118: An Ally in Taixia Country
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
Zhang Tie really didn't lack money now. Money and land didn't mean too much for him and couldn't relieve his current problem at all. Through Guan Qianchong's help, he covered his secret that he was the apprentice of Zhao Yuan; additionally, Guan Qianchong helped him win an airboat from Feng Yexiao, a grand elder of Taiyi Fantasy Sect. Actually, Guan Qianchong had helped him twice indirectly. Therefore, Zhang Tie was not joking. Although the members of Guan Clan might be unwilling to give him such a wide area of bounty land to Zhang Tie, Zhang Tie really didn't care about that.
Even though he had over 60,000 square miles' bounty land, he could only sleep on one bed. Even if he had mountains of wealth, he could only have some food by chopsticks. When he had enough wealth, his happiness and sense of achievement would have nothing to do with wealth. Zhang Tie had already passed the period of seeking for wealth.
'I've not imagined that Fire Dragon Hermit directly gives up the bounty land which has arisen so many quarrels between our clan elders. Now that he could win the bet with our forefather and could be closely followed by the princess of Lord Guannan, he's indeed not an average person.' The two people from Guan Clan threw a glance with each other as they both saw a bit admiring and bashful look from each other and showed a bit more reverence to Zhang Tie sincerely.
"Fire Dragon Hermit, you're too generous!" The elder from Guan Clan cupped his hands towards Zhang Tie with a solemn look, "Thanks for your good intention, Fire Dragon Hermit. However, as it's the award that you won from Guan Qianchong the forefather of our Guan Clan and our forefather has told us to do this job well, we've already brought you the relevant documents!"
When this Guan elder uttered, he drew his hand over the table while some thick documents appeared on the teapoy in between. These documents were made of special material, which was more senior than silver paper. All the documents were giving out a dark golden light. Additionally, there were watermarks and three-dimensional concave-convex grains on the surface of those documents, making each paper of these documents unique. Generally, these special grains would appear on gold notes of super great par-value. Contracts would even be marked with secret codes that could only be identified by difference engine and pass the notarization and backup of relevant authorities in Taixia Country; any correction had to undergo a series of procedures; therefore, it was very hard to forge them.
The Guan elder took the first document.
"This document is the certificate of the ownership of all the rest lands in Yangui Mountain Range besides that of Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory. According to the forefather, our Guan Clan bought the rest part of Yangui Mountain Range covering 1 million square miles as the compensation for the wager!"
After putting the first document in front of Zhang Tie, the Guan elder took the second document.
"This document is the asset appraisal report about the total value of the 10 cities inside Fire Dragon Bounty Territory made by the four major asset appraisal agencies in Taixia Country. The total value about the 10 cities varies from 664 million gold coins to 683 million gold coins. They have fully considered the investment cost for the traffic logistics system, the urban asset premium brought by the natural commercial system and demographic dividend and the current urban building cost in Taixia Country. The 4 major asset appraisal agencies would like to assume the collateral responsibilities for the losses that you will suffer because of the adoption of their appraisal report. Guan Clan adopts the maximal value of your asset made by the 4 major asset appraisal agencies in Taixia Country."
After putting the second document in front of Zhang Tie, the Guan elder took the 3rd document.
"This is a document about the drawing right delivered from the Hua People Banks Federation. Anyone who possesses this document could withdraw the deposit of 690 million gold coins or precious metals of the same amount of value from any bank of Hua People Banks Federation. Hua People Banks Federation will provide a guarantee for this amount of money. The deposit of 690 million gold coins has been optimized. If not withdraw them, it would become a fixed deposit in the bank. You will enjoy the interest rate of fixed deposit. If you want to withdraw it partially, the part of deposit that you withdraw would be available to current interest rate while the rest part of deposit still sticks to the fixed interest rate. This amount of money is equal to the compensation for the wager of your 10 cities!"
This was how major clans in Taixia Country behaved!
Watching the three documents in front of him, Zhang Tie sighed with emotion inside, 'How nice! It's perfect. The land area of the rest Yangui Mountain Range is much larger than that of his Fire Dragon Bounty Territory; the drawing right of the 690 million gold coins is more valuable than that of the 10 cities in Fire Dragon Bounty Territory.'
After thinking about it for a while, Zhang Tie only took that document of the ownership of the rest land of Yangui Mountain Range as he pushed the other two documents back to the front of the Guan elder decisively. After that, he said, "I only want to take the rest land of Yangui Mountain Range. Please take back the drawing right of 690 million gold coins. I intend to make friends with Guan Clan, will Guan Clan do me a favor?"
"Erm..." The two people from Guan Clan threw a glance with each other. The Guan elder then replied with a bit embarrassed look, "As we're following the order of our forefather, I really can't make a decision!"
"Could you contact Commander Guan right now? I will talk to him!" Zhang Tie said as he threw a glance at the finger ring on the hand of the Guan elder.
The silver finger ring was wide. There were some beautiful square grains around the finger ring. Compared to common remote-sensing crystal finger rings, this finger ring looked more delicate and senior as it integrated with more than one top-quality remote-sensing crystals. With such a finger ring, he could contact many people at the same time. Zhang Tie estimated that this Guan elder might be able to contact Guan Qianchong directly; therefore, he posed this question.
"Well, I will contact our forefather right away!" The Guan elder nodded before throwing a glance at the document about the drawing right of the 690 million gold coins.
It was 10 cities. If he could save the 10 cities for Guan Clan after contacting his forefather, this Guan elder would definitely be glad to do that.
Like instant messaging tools, they could communicate with each other by remote-sensing crystals very conveniently. After injecting his spiritual energy into one remote-sensing crystal, the Guan elder became silent for one minute in front of Zhang Tie. After that, he became reassured as he took off that finger ring and passed it to Zhang Tie. Meanwhile, he pointed at one square grain on the finger ring before saying, "You could contact my forefather with this remote-sensing crystal in universal plain code!"
After taking that finger ring, Zhang Tie immediately injected his spiritual energy into that piece of remote-sensing crystal and sent a message to the opponent.
"Hi, Commander Guan, I'm Cui Li!"
"Fire Dragon Hermit, according to my juniors, you will accept the rest land of Yangui Mountain Range; however, you want to return the drawing right of the 690 million gold coins to us?"
Given the polite diction, Zhang Tie knew that it should be Guan Qianchong.
"Yes!"
"Why? Do you fear that Guan Clan cannot afford it or have another purpose?"
"Haha, what purpose could I have from Guan Clan? I have enough land and money. Do I want to be the son-in-law of Guan Clan or what? Zhang Tie joked with Guan Qianchong.
"If you really want to be the son-in-law of Guan Clan, given the 10 cities that you returned to Guan Clan, I promise you that you could select 100 women from the young generation of Guan Clan as your wives, how about it?"
Zhang Tie was almost choked by Guan Qianchong's words. As for Guan Qianchong, his juniors were just a matter of figure. Even though those people shared his bloodline, it was nothing serious for him to give 100 of them to others. What a mentality! Was it the mentality of an emperor or a queen ant?
"Haha, Commander Guan, I will not play jokes with you. Just take 690 million gold coins as my return to your favor. Without your care, I could barely win an airboat from Taiyi Fantasy Sect in Lion Fortress. I always give kindness for kindness and hatred for hatred!"
"It's a good reason. I'm glad that you don't want the 690 million gold coins in case of those short-sighted juniors in Guan Clan to quarrel with each other at home which is really boring. We knights don't treasure money too much. The higher level the knights are, the more they neglect those gold and white things. By contrast, commoners think that the value of money is limitless. On the road of cultivation, the more unpromising the guys were, the more they would treasure money. As too many commoners depend on Guan Clan, such a great amount of money would survive them for a period. I, Guan Qianchong, owe you a favor this time!"
"Commander Guan is credible. Guan Clan does a good job. Therefore, you made me a bit bashful!" After sending this message, Zhang Tie continued, "Commander Guan said that too many commoners depended on Guan Clan. I've got a business; I wonder whether Guan Clan is interested in it or not?"
"How large is the business?"
"Given Guan Clan's ability, if you want to do that, you could easily make 100-200 million gold coins a year!"
"If one could make a big fortune easily, the business must be illegal or violating the universal laws. Guan Clan knows many businesses like this; many people want to cooperate with Guan Clan too. However, Guan Clan would never make such kind of money even if we're starved to death!"
Guan Qianchong's words turned sharp.
Zhang Tie replied with a smile, "Commander Guan, you're right. But besides being illegal and violating the universal laws, actually, there's another exclusive, bright and legal business that you could make a big fortune. Won't Guan Clan do such a business?"
"Is there any business like this in Taixia Country?"
"Previously, there isn't. But since I'm here, there is!"
"If you want to cooperate with Guan Clan, Guan Clan want 50% of the profit as this business is in Taixia Country!"
"No way! But I could consider to promise you the franchise right in one or two provinces of Taixia Country. As Guan Clan are not that influential in other provinces and prefectures of Taixia Country, I will choose other cooperative partners!"
"With only the franchise right in a couple of provinces could Guan Clan easily make 100-200 million gold coins a year?"
"Might be more than that!"
Guan Qianchong was shocked. Although he was a shadow knight, it didn't represent that he was otherworldly and didn't understand the value of 100-200 million gold coins.
At this moment, Guan Qianchong finally understood why Zhang Tie didn't care about the drawing right of 690 million gold coins. If Zhang Tie really had such a business, 690 million gold coins were really nothing serious in Zhang Tie's eyes. If he could easily make 100-200 million gold coins in one or two provinces a year, how much he could make across Taixia Country annually?
If it was told by a commoner, Guan Qianchong would definitely think that one was boasting. However, as it was told by Zhang Tie, who had defeated him in a bet, Guan Qianchong had to treat it seriously.
"What's that business?"
"It's a secret for the time being. But I promise that this business is legal or doesn't violate the universal laws!"
"Well, Guan Clan will do this business. What does Guan Clan need to do?"
"I've not thought through yet. Commander Guan could have someone contact me. He'd better be able to make decisions in case of troubles!"
"Well, give your finger ring to the one who gave it to you! And, I will tell you a good news for free. The general has to know that you enrolled Liu Xing and the other 6 black-armor fighters as your apprentices. General has a good impression of you and speaks highly of you!"
After hearing Guan Qianchong's words, Zhang Tie became slightly stunned. The one who could be called general by Guan Qianchong must be Du Guyi, the Demon-Suppression General, also a legendary figure in the Earth-elements Realm. Zhang Tie had not imagined that even Du Guyi could receive the news that he enrolled Liu Xing and the other 6 black-armored fighters as apprentices and have a good impression about him. 'Does good people always have a good fortune?'
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When Zhang Tie contacted Guan Qianchong, the two representatives of Guan Clan didn't know what Zhang Tie said to the forefather of Guan Clan. As knights had very powerful spiritual energy and consciousness, even though they used a plain code, they could still communicate much faster than the mouth. Only after taking that finger ring for half a minute, Zhang Tie had returned it to the elder of Guan Clan.
Only after taking that finger ring for a few seconds, the Guan elder had thrown a shocked glance at Zhang Tie. Closely after that, this Guan elder took in a deep breath before standing up with a solemn look once again. Under the amazed look of the other Guan representative, he bowed deeply towards Zhang Tie, "According to our forefather, I, Guan Qianyu will stay with Fire Dragon Hermit for your order from today on!"
Not until then did Zhang Tie know that this Guan elder was called Guan Qianyu. Given this name, Zhang Tie immediately knew that the representative word of Guan knights should be "Qian". Therefore, all the human knights with the word "Qian" in the middle of their names should be the knights of Guan Clan.
In Taixia Country, a business that could produce hundreds of millions of gold coins per year would attract the attention of knight-level elders of a clan for sure.
Watching the Guan elder who bowed towards him, Zhang Tie knew that he finally got his first powerful ally in Taixia Country...
Chapter 1119: Setting a Trap
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
After the flock of sparrows and pigeons in the manor ate up the wheat that Zhang Tie had spread over the grass, they had flown off by flapping their wings. After flying around the garden for a short while, they flew out of the high walls of the manor towards afar...
Pigeons could reach high as they rushed into the sky in the blink of an eye. The flock of sparrows flew away while tweeting. Among those sparrows, some very strong and young sparrows flew towards the emperor's imperial city.
As there were too many birds in Xuanyuan Hill, nobody would pay attention to the movements of some sparrows and pigeons.
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When the flock of birds flew off the manor, Zhang Tie and Bai Suxian had just left the manor by a black limo.
The sound caused by the sparrows flapping their wings in the sky attracted Bai Suxian's attention. Bai Suxian then turned around and watched the sparrows flying over the treetops. Not until the flock of sparrows disappeared did Bai Suxian turn around and watch Zhang Tie with a smile, "It's said that you were feeding birds in the garden just now?"
"Haha, I just waited for you by playing with birds!" Zhang Tie explained casually.
"Can you control animals?" The young sister asked seriously.
After hearing that question, Zhang Tie's heart raced, 'Were my trivial movements discovered by Bai Suxian? No way, although I was feeding birds, I started the two secret methods in the "Gain Section" and "Control Section" of the Great Wilderness Sect silently. As for the secret method in the "Gain Section", I formed special runes in wheat by battle qi and helped some to strengthen some sparrows' health; after that, I control them using the secret method of the "Control Section". I made them my ears and eyes so that they could "raise or enlarge their army" outside. How could she notice that I was using the secret methods of Great Wilderness Sect ?
'The secret methods in the Great Wilderness Sect are top secret methods in controlling animals. All the secret methods in the Great Wilderness Sect are silent in use. Unless Bai Suxian has also learned the Great Wilderness Sect and has great accomplishment than me in it, she could never discover it.'
"Why do you ask me about this?" Zhang Tie asked leisurely.
"Do you know that I've also learned some animal controlling skill?"
"Of course, I know. When in the Earth-elements Realm, I saw that you had a red spider as your concierge. Finally, I was even drugged by your spirit and raped by you. My good reputation was completely ruined by you overnight!" Zhang Tie let out a long sigh, "Who could imagine that a young sister could put a love potion in the spirit of a man? However, I encountered such a fortunate thing!"
"Stop..." Bai Suxian beat Zhang Tie once with a bashful look. Zhang Tie burst out into laughter.
They sat at the back seats which were isolated from the front seats; therefore, they were not afraid that their words were eavesdropped by the driver.
"I mean it!" Bai Suxian turned solemn, "If a knight grasped some animal controlling skill, it would be very useful in an emergency. In Earth-elements Realm, even a bit of animal controlling skill would be more useful than having a LV 15 battle spirit as my concierge in the hidden place. I learned how to control animals from a guest in my father's mansion. Although it's just a bit, it's enough in a special environment. If you want to learn it, you could go to Lord Guangnan's Mansion with me next time; I will tell my father and have you learn some animal controlling skill from the guest of the mansion. Whatever, the more skills you grasped, the safer you would be. After learning some animal controlling skill, you would be a bit safer in the Earth-elements Realm if you went there in the future!"
'It turns out Bai Suxian is going to introduce her teacher of animal controlling skill to me.' Zhang Tie was startled too much. Closely after figuring out Bai Suxian's meaning, Zhang Tie let out a sigh inside at once. Although he knew that Bai Suxian had a good intention, Zhang Tie still felt it was a bit hilarious, 'As long as I'm free, I could cultivate the Great Wilderness Sect , it's just a matter of time for me to reach the peak of animal controlling skill. Why do I learn any inferior animal controlling skill?' Although Zhang Tie thought in this way, he couldn't tell Bai Suxian what he was thinking about; especially when Bai Suxian was very passionate. Therefore, Zhang Tie just went through the motions.
"Of course, I could. It's nothing bad to learn a bit animal controlling skill. When I go to Lord Guangnan's Mansion with you in the future, I could learn it from a guest instructor in the mansion. And, I heard that animal controlling skill is a major knowledge in the south border of Taixia Country!"
"Previously, when the Great Wilderness Sect was not exterminated, animal controlling skill was predominated in the south border of Taixia Country. Many elders of the Great Wilderness Sect even had knight-level mutated beasts as their battle mounts at that moment. Many knight-level mutated beasts had special abilities which were even more powerful than that of common knights. Additionally, they had telepathy with the elders of Great Wilderness Sect ; therefore, when in a fight, one knight-level elder of Great Wilderness Sect could easily defeat more than two common knights!"
"Knight-level mutated beasts? Are there such high-level mutated beasts in the south border?"
"Of course, there're mutated beasts in many places across Taixia Country. However, many mutated beasts have been hunted or driven away over the past hundreds of years as they are too close to cities and human habitations and posed great threats to humans or have special values. Therefore, we could barely see them now. However, the south border of Taixia Country is covered with numerous huge mountains, dense mountain caves and abysses. It's absolutely the paradise of mutated beasts and various animals. After entering that place, even earth knights could not leave safe and sound, not to mention commoners..."
"Now that the mutated beasts and elders of Great Wilderness Sect in the south border are so powerful, how could Great Wilderness Sect be exterminated by others?"
"I was told by the animal controlling teacher that the Great Wilderness Sect was indeed the predominance of the south border previously; they were in their heyday at that time. However, there was also a bad atmosphere among the Great Wilderness Sect . Many cultivators of the Great Wilderness Sect paid special attention to the cultivation of animal controlling skill and gave up the cultivation of battle skills completely. Numerous people were jealous of the Great Wilderness Sutra of the Great Wilderness Sect which was a top treasure. Later on, the Great Wilderness Sect fell from the pinnacle of its power and was finally exterminated by a domineering power overnight. This is a suspension case in Taixia Country."
Zhang Tie had not imagined that the Great Wilderness Sect had such a vice of "tending to go overboard on one subject". However, after realizing that there were so many secret methods in the Great Wilderness Sect , Zhang Tie became reassured, 'As for many disciples even elders in the Great Wilderness Sect , as long as they could reach the highest level of Great Wilderness Sutra , they might be able to solve all the problems. Therefore, they might consider the time in cultivating battle skills as a waste...'
The history of the Great Wilderness Sect made Zhang Tie sigh with emotions inside. Meanwhile, he made a decision inside that he would not make the mistake of the Great Wilderness Sect. 'Compared to those mutated beasts, the human body is the largest treasury. The ultimate purpose of cultivation in battle skills is to open this treasury. No matter what, I would not give up cultivating battle skills. I have to keep the secret that I have the Great Wilderness Sutra . After finishing the plan in Xuanyuan Hill, I will never easily expose my cultivation base in controlling animal.'
"Alas, it's too pitiful!" Zhang Tie let a sigh for the Great Wilderness Sect sincerely, "Is your teacher great?"
"Yes, he's really something!" Bai Suxian nodded, "Now that he's recruited by my father as the guest instructor, of course, he's not usual. My father told me that this instructor was as powerful as the disciples of the Great Wilderness Sect who had reached the 9th floor of the tower. Additionally, some of this instructor's abilities indeed originate from some secret methods left by the Great Wilderness Sect..."
"Disciples who had reached the 9th floor of the tower?" Zhang Tie's look turned weird because Bai Suxian's words reminded him of the All-Spirits Pagoda in his mind sea. He then asked, "The level sounds a bit weird!"
"I don't know it either. I just heard that the levels of animal controllers in the south border almost originated from the Great Wilderness Sect. Generally, the criteria of the Great Wilderness Sect are the criteria of the entire animal controlling system in Taixia Country!"
"Are disciples on the 9th floor of the tower very powerful?"
"Yes, they're very powerful. This instructor could control all the mutated beasts below LV 8!"
"Hmm, it sounds indeed great!" Zhang Tie praised as he thought that, 'If a disciple on the 9th floor of All-spirits Pagoda is powerful, what about me the disciple who has reached the 15th floor of All-Spirits Pagoda?'
"I feel that you look a bit strange!" Bai Suxian said as she blinked her eyes after glancing at Zhang Tie for a short while suddenly.
"Hehehe, really?" Zhang Tie rubbed his face by fingers, "Perhaps, I was thinking about the affairs between me and Guan Clan and was a bit absent-minded!"
"Oh, you said that you're going to cooperate with Guan Clan in a business in the future, what's that business?"
"We just joined hands to make some alcohol machines!"
"Liar!" Bai Suxian pouted with an unbelievable look.
"I'm not lying!"
"If you lack money, I have some case-dough given by my mom in the south border. You can take it!"
"How much case-dough did your mom give you?"
"8 cities and 1 basin. Among the 8 cities, there's a Class A city. The basin covers about 300,000 square miles. Additionally, I could have over 10 million gold coins' annuity per year from Xuanyuan Hill..."
After hearing her words, Zhang Tie became speechless. Even the "case-dough" of the princess of Taixia Country left many people behind...
"Whatever, the case-dough will follow me when I get married!" Bai Suxian threw a glance at Zhang Tie and lowered her head before whispering tenderly.
After throwing a glance at Bai Suxian, Zhang Tie scratched his finger over her nose as he said, "Money is boring. I'm just looking for an ally in Taixia Country by cooperating with Guan Clan!"
When she thought about Zhang Tie's original identity, Bai Suxian understood something, "But how much could you make from alcohol machines?"
Zhang Tie revealed a smile as he said, "You will see after a few months..."
"But one ally is a bit weak!"
"Have you heard about the story of buying horse's bones at the cost of 1,000 gold coins? Starting from Guan Clan, there will be more and more allies!" Zhang Tie revealed a confident smile.
Bai Suxian didn't know what Zhang Tie wanted to do; she just felt that Zhang Tie was setting a trap, a great trap.
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2 hours later, Zhang Tie and Bai Suxian arrived at the Gold and Power Market in Xuanyuan Hill...
Chapter 1120: A Trouble
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
Before they arrived at Gold and Power Market, the 16-lane main road in Xuanyuan Hill had started to be crowded, causing the vehicles to move at the turtle's speed.
Zhang Tie saw many people getting off their vehicles due to impatience and walking towards Gold and Power Market. He then asked the driver and learned that the Qian Gate 1 of Gold and Power Market was only over 2,000 m away from here. This was the most crowded section of the road outside Gold and Power Market. He then opened the door and got off the vehicle together with Bai Suxian while telling the driver to return to the manor. He and Bai Suxian would go there by foot.
"If I knew it was gonna be so crowded here, we would have chosen other gates. The other gates of Gold and Power Market are definitely not that crowded. I'm afraid that the greater part of people wants to enter Gold and Power Market through the Qian Gate for a good luck. Therefore, it's especially crowded here!" Bai Suxian complained.
"Hoho, it's just over 2,000 m. We can go there by foot!" Zhang Tie said casually.
"As you say!" Bai Suxian revealed a smile towards Zhang Tie as she went with Zhang Tie arm in arm. As a result, they aroused others' attention at the same time. As she was going to attend the Treasures Meeting with Zhang Tie, Bai Suxian looked more outstanding after dressing up herself delicately.
Gold and Power Market had 8 gates, which corresponded to the eight diagrams 2 of Hua people. The Qian Gate represented the heavens gate. According to the superstition, the Qian Gate would bring people good luck generally. Therefore, the gate outside the Qian Gate looked a bit crowded.
It was the 3rd day since the Treasures Meeting in Gold and Power Market started, also the most boisterous period of the entire Gold and Power Market; therefore, many people came here. Among those people who couldn't stand to get off their vehicles and walk towards the Qian Gate, Zhang Tie saw various skin colors, costumes and heard weird voices. Besides someone whom Zhang Tie was sure that they came from the Western Continent, there were some weird people that even Zhang Tie didn't know which subcontinents did they come from. All of them were walking towards the Qian Gate of Gold and Power Market on the sidewalk.
After observing those people in strange clothes and voices carefully, Zhang Tie found that all of them had great battle strength. Most of them were above LV 13. Some of them were even knights. They kept looking at the scenaries on the roadsides and the vehicles coming and going with amazed, shocked and a bit restrained looks like rustics. Some minorities' eyes even contained a bit greed about the prosperity of Xuanyuan Hill. However, they all hid their greed meticulously. Taixia Country was so powerful that it could shatter all the foreign people's any ambition about this continent except for demons. Actually, according to Zhang Tie's knowledge, many major clans in Taixia Country were on the back of these subcontinents and dominated the vicissitudes of those countries on the subcontinents.
6 foreign people were walking in front of Zhang Tie and Bai Suxian. They were all tall and muscled all over in vests made of animal hides; especially the muscles on their naked arms which looked like hills. The front part of their heads was bald. There was a braid behind their head. Besides, there were some odd-looking bones on their braids and heavy weapons such as axes over their waists, which looked pretty fierce.
When the foreign people walked, they kept talking loudly. Two of them even rudely pointed at those buildings on the roadsides and some passers-by on the streets. The 6 foreign people almost blocked half of the sidewalk.
2 of the 6 people were black iron knights; one black iron knight was a bit elder with some grey hair; the other black iron knight looked a bit younger. The other 4 people were battle demons and battle spirits. Zhang Tie didn't understand what they were talking about. Such guys were as trivial as ants in Zhang Tie's eyes even the two knights. They could not even match chickens or dogs. Therefore, he just threw a glance at those rude guys before moving his eyes away.
As there were too many people on the sidewalk, Zhang Tie and Bai Suxian just stayed 5-6 m behind the 6 foreign people and slowly approached the Qian Gate of Gold and Power Market.
Although it was Zhang Tie's first time to visit the Gold and Power Market, Bai Suxian had come here for a few times. Therefore, Bai Suxian started to introduce Zhang Tie about Gold and Power Market cheerily.
Perhaps, Bai Suxian's voice was too silvery and pleasant to hear. After Bai Suxian spoke for less than 2 minutes, a foreign guy in front of her had turned around to look at Bai Suxian. At the sight of her, this foreign guy's copper-bell sized eyes instantly burned. Closely after that, he pointed at Bai Suxian and started to utter loudly; as a result, his partners and that younger black iron knight turned around at the same time.
At the sight of Bai Suxian, all the foreign people's eyes sparkled like how hungry wolves caught sight of a lamb. Their sounds grew louder. That young black iron knight even swallowed his saliva and licked his lips.
"Rude!" Bai Suxian uttered a cold harrumph at the sight of those foreign people as she tilted her head with a furious look. Zhang Tie also frowned slightly.
However, they were on the street of Xuanyuan Hill. She could not beat them and kill them because they looked at her for a short while and pointed at her with louder voices. Otherwise, others would criticize her bullying the weak. Therefore, Zhang Tie pinched her hand to warn her to not become impulsive.
As Zhang Tie was on her side, Bai Suxian just glared at those foreign people silently.
However, Bai Suxian was too beautiful and sexy. Even though she just glared at them, she still looked pretty seductive and coquettish. Not until the old black iron knight turned around and threw a glance at Bai Suxian and said something loudly did the other foreign people shut up and turn back unwillingly.
"Hurrumph, if it's in the south border, I will have people chop off their heads right away!" Bai Suxian said mercilessly.
"Forget about them. These guys might have not seen the world. Barbarians are uncivilized. It's normal for them to be rude! But I wonder how did so many foreign people enter the Gold and Power Market?"
"Most of the foreign people who come to Xuanyuan Hill during the Treasures Meeting from all the other continents and subcontinents should be invited by Gold and Power Law or some major clans in Taixia Country. Some of them are here to do business by trading treasures; some were here to see the world; some were invited by Gold and Power Law or those major clans for a trip so as to maintain their relationships. The major clans or big sects such as Gold and Power Law could dispatch an airship to a subcontinent to carry all their guests to the Gold and Power Market, which would not take them too much time on the way..."
"Wuh, I see!" Zhang Tie nodded. Bai Suxian's words reminded him indirectly that someone in Ice and Snow Wilderness might attend this Treasures Meeting.
'Theoretically, Ice and Snow Wilderness is not qualified to be invited. However, it depends. If those bears were invited by Golden Roc Bank, they might really come to Xuanyuan Hill to broaden their vision. I have a remote-sensing crystal necklace in my space-teleportation item which could be used to contact Ice and Snow Wilderness. Last time, I used it to contact Pontiff Sarlin and told him that I was safe in case they were worried about me when I had just been wanted by the Supreme Court of Taixia Country. I even told Pontiff Sarlin to not contact me unless it's necessary and keep my secret in case they were implicated. From then on, Pontiff Sarlin didn't contact me anymore.'
Sometimes, no news was the best news.
Bai Suxian's words reminded Zhang Tie to contact Pontiff Sarlin when he returned to the bedroom in the evening. As he had not met those people on Ice and Snow Wilderness for a long time, honestly, Zhang Tie missed them a bit.
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Over 2,000 m's distance would not even cost commoners much time, not to mention Zhang Tie and Bai Suxian. They had already seen the high gate tower of the Qian Gate of Gold and Power Market only after a few minutes.
The entire area of Gold and Power Market in Xuanyuan Hill was almost like that of an independent small city. The gate tower of Gold and Power Market was also especially high and magnificent.
As too many people wanted to enter Gold and Power Market from the Qian Gate, it became a bit crowded inside the Qian Gate.
As a result, a conflict was destined to happen.
After Zhang Tie promoted to an earth knight, he had been able to hide his qi casually. If not earth knights on the same realm, even though Zhang Tie didn't activate hiding skill in a normal state, commoners, even black iron knights could not see through Zhang Tie's real battle strength. Few people besides Zhang Tie could identify that he was an earth knight.
Bai Suxian dressed up herself delicately in a beautiful alchemist's necklace that Zhang Tie had not seen which might contain different attributes. One attribute of that necklace was to hide one's qi to a certain degree. After putting on it, Bai Suxian's qi was only like that of a LV 10 fighter.
Therefore, Zhang Tie and Bai Suxian didn't feel that formidable.
When they gradually entered the Gold and Power Market, two of those foreign people who were walking in front of them suddenly exchanged a glance with each other before revealing a bit weird smile towards Bai Suxian's sexy figure. Closely after that, they pushed to Bai Suxian's side. One of them purposefully collided with one guy on his side as he thrust forward his belly towards Bai Suxian's butt...
Chapter 1121: Seeking for Death
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
Kind-hearted people would be bullied, docile horses would be mounted. This proverb came true on Zhang Tie once again. Zhang Tie didn't care about these foreign people's rudeness previously; he had not imagined that these guys could behave severer.
At this moment, honestly, Zhang Tie was really infuriated.
Even though he was facing them with his back, Zhang Tie could also sense what happened behind him. Without even looking around, he had known what the two foreign b*stards were thinking about.
It was the young black iron knight who had thrust his belly forward towards Bai Suxian's butt. Even though Zhang Tie was facing him with his back, he could still sense clearly the b*stard's coarse smile and the ugly bulge at his crotch.
Perhaps, this foreign knight thought that it was nothing serious for him to bully this Hua beauty in the crowd.
However, it was in Xuanyuan Hill, this guy was too audacious. Zhang Tie even wondered why this guy could be so audacious. After coming to Xuanyuan Hill for so many days, Zhang Tie found that all the Hua knights were mannered, not to mention these knights coming from subcontinents.
When that guy was about 20 cm away from Bai Suxian, Bai Suxian had already released her protective battle qi, which formed a firm isolation. The moment that guy touched her protective battle qi, his smile suddenly froze while Zhang Tie's furious kick had arrived at his crotch.
Closely after that, an earth-shaking miserable shriek sounded among the crowd near the Qian Gate of Gold and Power Market. At the same time, a blood mist formed at the tall foreign people's crotch while he was sent over 10 m high in the air and fell down heavily like a pile of mud. He then started to twitch while a great amount of fresh blood spurted out of his eyes, ears, mouth and nostrils.
All the surrounding people hurriedly scattered in all directions. However, none of them stayed too far away. Whatever, everybody liked to join in the fun. Additionally, few people here were afraid of trouble. There were many Hua and foreign knight-level powerhouses in the surroundings.
At the sight of this scene, another rude foreign guy who approached here together with that foreign black iron knight instantly widely opened his eyes as he roared. At the same time, he drew out his huge ax and aimed towards Zhang Tie's head.
"You're seeking for death!" Bai Suxian roared. When that tough man was less than 2 m away from Zhang Tie, Bai Suxian had already released a purple battle qi palm towards him.
The foreign fighter was also a LV 14 battle demon with a great battle strength; pitifully, he chose the wrong opponent. Bai Suxian was a knight, a vicious female knight who attacked him out of fury.
When Bai Suxian's battle qi touched the foreign fighter who was raising the huge ax, the upper body of that foreign fighter instantly blew up into pieces. Closely after that, his lower body fell onto the ground while his huge ax was still flying towards Zhang Tie due to great inertia...
When that guy launched a strike towards Zhang Tie, the other three foreign people drew out their portable weapons at the same time although they were a bit far. Closely after that, they rushed towards Zhang Tie with bloody eyes while shrieking loudly. The old foreign knight changed his face immediately as he shouted towards them; however, it was too late...
When the old foreign knight shouted, he also moved. However, he didn't run towards Zhang Tie, but hurriedly towards the knight who had been lying still on the ground like a pile of mud due to Zhang Tie's kick...
When the huge ax was approaching him, Zhang Tie just revealed a faint smile. Watching the three rude foreign people rushing towards him while shrieking loudly, Zhang Tie leisurely stretched out his left hand as he faintly bent over his middle finger tenderly like picking a flower before flicking onto the blade of the huge ax like flicking off a drop of dew from a pedal of a fresh flower...
With a sound "Weng...", the wuthering huge ax uttered a silvery sound. Closely after that, the dead huge ax turned into a cheerful bird as it turned around and flew towards the three foreign people after drawing a changing curve in the air as fast as a lightning bolt.
The three foreign people released their protective battle qis at the same time. Two of them were battle demons, the other one was a battle spirit. However, in front of that cheerful bird, their protective battle qis were as fragile as a piece of paper.
After the revolving ax broke through a foreign guy's chest, it drilled out of his back. After that, it entered the second foreign guy's chest. After penetrating three people's chests consecutively, the ax head didn't even carry a bit blood as it entered the slate on the ground with a sound "Tseng", exposing a small part of metal handle above the ground about half a step away from the foreign knight who was lying on the ground, twitching all over.
Not until the huge ax entered the earth did the three foreign people fall onto the ground.
After hearing the sound when the huge ax entered the earth, the elder foreign knight raised his head and threw a glance at Zhang Tie and the other three corpses. Closely after that, he changed his face once again; however, he didn't have time to say anything; instead, he took out a vial of black medicament and rapidly poured it into the mouth of that young knight whose head was in his arms.
Pitifully, this vial of medicament didn't work anymore. Because that guy who spurted out dense fresh blood just now was now spurting out pieces of guts. Before the medicament was absorbed, it had been spurted out together with the broken pieces of guts. That guy's eyes had already jumped out of eye sockets and were hanging on his face, making it terrifying and disgusting. The former fierce face looked like a dead dog being rolled by a steam armored vehicle...
Before that vial of black medicament was fully poured into his mouth, the paralyzed foreign guy had spurted out his last piece of black gut. Closely after that, he tilted his head and lost his last breath completely.
Zhang Tie's kick directly killed that foreign black iron knight by breaking all of his muscles, bones and guts before this black iron knight released his protective battle qi.
The elder foreign knight suddenly raised his head as he shouted loudly. At the same time, he glared at Zhang Tie out of fury. Zhang Tie also watched him icily.
The elder foreign knight dared not move. Because Zhang Tie's merciless eye light had evidently revealed a message——If you dare move, you will die, which made him feel cold all over. It was his first time to smell death and terror since he came to Taixia Country.
The huge ax that entered the ground next to that foreign knight was a warning.
Even now, Zhang Tie still hid his battle qi. Even so, his prestige as an earth knight was still hard to be covered.
Although that dead black iron knight didn't make preparation for the coming battle and failed to release his protective battle qi, his death by one kick could still indicate that this was a top earth knight.
It was pretty silent at the Qian Gate of Gold and Power Market, except for the sound of taking deep breaths.
Everybody could predict that there would be a conflict. Many people were ready for joining the fun by releasing their protective battle qis. However, nobody could imagine that the conflict could come to an end so fast. From the foreign knight's thrust towards Bai Suxian's back to that 5 of the 6 foreign people's death in a split second, the entire process lasted less than 10 seconds.
As the proverb went, outsiders would join the fun; however, insiders would pay attention to the skills. At this moment, those knight-level powerhouses among the people were all immersed in the realm when Zhang Tie flicked off that huge ax like picking a flower. That movement was extremely marvelous. Since the huge ax was flicked off, the icy steel of that huge ax seemed to have become a spiritual living being. In the blink of an eye, the lives of two battle demons and one battle spirit had withered like leaves, spraying their blood over the ground. The entire process was fierce, brutal and extremely poignant.
"Earth knight..." Someone whispered while looking at Zhang Tie in an awe-stricken manner.
Bai Suxian also threw an icy glance at that elder foreign knight as she told Zhang Tie, arm in arm, "Let's go!"
These corpses were like disgusting flies and mosquitoes for Bai Suxian. As the flies and mosquitoes seek for death themselves, it was not her fault. The princess of Lord Guangnan's Mansion didn't even feel that it was anything serious.
"Nobody could leave..." An intense yet sharp voice suddenly sounded inside Qian Gate of Gold and Power Market. Along with this voice, a thin guy with a long face and sparse beard in the high-mountain crown and a set of golden Hua clothes pushed through the crowd and entered the open land before the Qian Gate.
At the sight of those corpses, especially that young knight's corpse, the guy with the long face and sparse beard suddenly changed his face as if he were the doomsday. His eyes almost popped out of his eye sockets. At the same time, his voice raised as if he was crying, "Ahh, who, who dared kill our VIPs in Gold and Power Market?"
Chapter 1122: Meeting Han Clan Once Again
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
At the sight of this commanding guy with the long face and sparse beard, the foreign knight who was shocked too much to move instantly stood up as he pointed at Zhang Tie and roared in gibberish.
Zhang Tie just listened to his words in an impatient way while pricking up his ears by one hand with crossed arms.
Although Zhang Tie didn't understand the words of that foreign elder knight, he understood the words of this guy with the long face and sparse beard. This guy turned around and watched Zhang Tie while narrowing his eyes. Closely after that, he rolled his eyes as he suddenly told the two people on his side while pointing at Zhang Tie, "This guy dared kill people at the gate of Gold and Power Market in the public. I doubt that he's a demon or a mole of Heavens Reaching Church. Catch him and interrogate him. After that, send him to the Supreme Court!"
After hearing his words, Zhang Tie burst out into laughter. At the sight of this guy with the long face and sparse beard, Zhang Tie had known that he was only LV 8. Although the two guys on his side looked stout, they were only LV 13. A LV 8 trivial role told two LV 13 ants to catch an earth knight. What a joke!
This guy with the long face and sparse beard unconsciously reminded Zhang Tie of Samira whom he met in Blackhot City. There were always such trivial figures on each continent. They shared a commonplace, namely, as they had been used to assume the authority of the forces and figures on their side as their own for a long time, they felt that they were also growing powerful. Gradually, they would lose their awe as they felt that they could solve all the problems with the forces on their back. Therefore, their words would even make Heavenly knights feel bashful.
In the past, Zhang Tie might talk with such a person for a short while; however, now, Zhang Tie even lost his interest in talking with them.
After hearing that guy's order, the two LV 13 battle generals exchanged a glance with each other as they intended to move forward to catch Zhang Tie.
"If anyone of you dares to move, this grandma will break him into pieces just like those lying on the ground!" Bai Suxian glared at the two fighters who intended to move forward, "How dare you trivial ants stretch out your claws towards this grandma? As we're all Hua people, I gave you a warning, if you dared to move one step forward, I'd kill you!"
The two LV 13 battle generals threw a glance at those broken pieces on the ground before moving their eyes onto Bai Suxian. They then hesitated and dared not move anymore. The two people were not idiots. The moment Bai Suxian's knight's consciousness targeted them, the two people had already sensed it. Like rabbits being pressed down by lion's claws, the two people were brave enough as they didn't turn around and escape away.
That foreign knight pointed at Bai Suxian in gibberish once again.
"This woman killed people too, She's on the side of that man. Catch them all. It's in the Gold and Power Market of Xuanyuan Hill, they dare never resist you!" The guy with the long face and sparse beard jumped up once again.
At this moment, with a sound of "Pah...", the guy with the long face and sparse beard went around at once. At the same time, his face turned swollen. He then glanced around with a confused look, "Who hit me? Ahh, who hit me? Come out if you're a man..."
Zhang Tie moved too fast that the guy's eyes couldn't even capture Zhang Tie's movements. Even though Zhang Tie slapped him in the public, he could not see who hit him at all. Only a few knights among the onlookers could barely see that it was Zhang Tie who slapped him.
Zhang Tie moved one step forward and slapped him; closely after that, he moved one step back. As it was too fast, his movements had exceeded the utmost limit of the visual sense of commoners. As a result, others felt that Zhang Tie was just standing still at the original place.
"Pah..." one more slap.
The second one was a bit severer than the former one as it directly sent some teeth of the guy with the long face and sparse beard flying away, causing him to revolve a few circles before falling down severely, his hat skew to the other direction. Grasping the chance, the two LV 13 battle generals hurriedly ran over there to help him stand up.
After being slapped twice, that guy's face had been as swollen as that of a pig's head. The moment he stood up, someone among the onlookers had started to laugh at him.
Most of the onlookers were Hua people. As this guy directly put a label on Zhang Tie who was also Hua at the sight of the conflict between Hua people and foreign people without asking about the reason by assuming the authority of the forces on his back, he didn't leave a good impression to all the other Hua people. When they saw him being slapped, they burst out into laughter unscrupulously at once.
Right then, the crowd near the Qian Gate of Gold and Power Market seemed to have separated by an invisible great strength while three more people came over here.
At the sight of the people in the front, Zhang Tie's eyes faintly narrowed.
Given that guy's qi, Zhang Tie knew that he was also an earth knight. However, what made Zhang Tie narrow his eyes was not the level of that earth knight, but his look.
That man's face reminded Zhang Tie of the damned "young master" that he had killed on the airboat of God and Power Law.
The earth knight in the front looked similar to that young master. Additionally, the two people both looked a bit gloomy. However, this guy looked a bit elder than that young master. With a handlebar mustache, this earth knight's domineering qi felt firmer. This guy was followed by two swarthy, aggressive black iron knights.
At the sight of this man, the guy who had been slapped twice by Zhang Tie hurriedly moved forward like a dog as he pointed at Zhang Tie and Bai Suxian and wanted to say something in an embarrassed way...
The earth knight with a handlebar mustache slightly frowned. Without even looking at that guy with the long face and sparse beard, he directly waved his arm as he said calmly, "It's fine, it's none of your business here, you can leave!"
After hearing his words, the guy with the long face and sparse beard quivered all over as he hurriedly lowered his head and left the crowd quietly.
When the elder foreign knight caught sight of this earth knight with a handlebar mustache, he hurriedly shut up as if he was afraid of that earth knight pretty much. Meanwhile, he stood on one side tamely and silently.
The earth knight with a handlebar mustache glanced around those corpses and that elder foreign knight in the ring. When he moved his eyes onto Zhang Tie, he looked a bit gloomier.
"Who are you?" That man asked icily.
"Who are you?" Zhang Tie maintained a calm look as he flicked off the earwax from his fingernail, "Before you ask about other's name, don't you introduce yourself? It's the basic etiquette in Taixia Country, a nation of propriety!"
After hearing Zhang Tie's words, that earth knight with a handlebar mustache became silent while the two swarthy black iron knights couldn't stand to move one step forward. However, that earth knight slightly raised his hand to stop them.
Bai Suxian looked a bit solemn. As a knight, she could also feel the strong killing qi given out from the two black iron knights. The killing qi was formed among mountains of corpses and the bloody sea. Bai Suxian could probably defeat one of the two black iron knights independently; however, it would be a bit difficult for her to deal with two of them at the same time because she faintly felt that the two black iron knights' killing qi could integrate with each other. The two knights probably were proficient in a powerful joint attack skill which could increase their battle strength sharply. Benefited from this joint attack skill, the two black iron knights' battle strength might even surpass that of the 3-in-1 battle formation of common knights.
Only after throwing a distant glance at the two swarthy black iron knights, Zhang Tie had grinned. At the sight of Zhang Tie's faint smile, the two swarthy black iron knights felt their hearts pounding by a heavy iron hammer at the same time. As a result, they changed their faces.
With sharp knight's consciousness, the two swarthy black iron knights could evidently feel that Zhang Tie was telling them——In front of me, you're just chickens and dogs who are going to be sold with labels on your heads. Even if you join hands with each other, you're not qualified to fight me. You'd better save your loyalty...
The earth knight with a handlebar mustache slightly narrowed his eyes before bursting out into laughter, which sounded a bit icy instead of being passionate. Closely after that, he said, "This humble man is Han Yuanhong, the Bright Gold Master of Gold and Power Law, also the master of Gold and Power Market. May I know your name, younger brother? Which sect and clan do you come from?"
"This humble man is Cui Li, the master of Iron-Dragon Sect in Yangui Mountain Range of Northeast Military Region!" Zhang Tie also replied with a smile.
At this moment, Zhang Tie had already confirmed that Han Yuanhong was the very son of Han Gongang, the finance minister of Taixia Country, also the elder brother of the d**chebag young master that he killed on the airboat. 'The real name of the young master that I killed is Han Yuantu. Given their names and looks, Han Yuantu and Han Yuanhong must be brothers. The other identity of Han Zhengfang the finance minister is the master of Gold and Power Law. What a family! Additionally, the father and the two sons are all knights, one shadow knight, two earth knights. Such a clan must be in its heyday in Taixia Country.'
"In Xuanyuan Hill, a life for a life. Knight is not an exception. Younger brother Cui Li, I've not imagined that you could make such a big mistake in Xuanyuan Hill the moment you established a sect! You're still too young!" Han Yuanhong let out a sigh with emotion, which sounded full of pity; however, his words were full of killing intent.
Chapter 1123: A Fierce Battle
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
Given Han Yuanhong's words, he must want to kill Zhang Tie. Therefore, Bai Suxian was driven mad. Raising her eyebrows, she wanted to refute him. However, Zhang Tie stopped her by pinching her hand at once. Closely after that, he burst out into laughter, which could be heard by so many people nearby...
Zhang Tie's laughter was presumptuous and blatant as if he had heard something extremely hilarious. With Zhang Tie's laughter, Han Yuanhong's pitiful face became a bit stiff.
"I was wondering why some vulgar foreign fighters from a subcontinent dare to behave so blatantly in Xuanyuan Hill by treating Hua laws as sh*t and Hua people's dignity as nothing. How dare they do such a rude thing to Hua woman? It turns out that big figures like Han Yuanhong are on the back of these vulgar foreign people. Han Yuanhong, your subordinates said that those vulgar foreign people were VIPs invited by the Gold and Power Market. They must be your VIPs. Han Yuanhong, as a Hua knight, you're managing Gold and Power Market on behalf of the Gold and Power Law. Even if you don't stand on our side; at least, you should be fair. However, on such a critical point, you confuse right and wrong and stand on the side of these foreign people without even figuring out the reason. The moment you opened your mouth, you would like to kill a Hua earth knight who has made rich military exploits in the Earth-elements Realm by killing numerous demons. I wonder whether you're narrow-minded, blind, deaf or treat Hua knights as your enemy? How could such a person rule the Gold and Power Market in Xuanyuan Hill? What a shame of Gold and Power Law! I, Cui Li don't have a friend like you. Neither do I want you to call me younger brother Cui Li!"
Zhang Tie exerted his utmost to speak loudly. As a result, it could spread over 100 square miles.
Han Yuanhong's words could only be heard by people at present; however, Zhang Tie's words could be heard by everyone in the block near Qian Gate of Gold and Power Market.
After hearing Zhang Tie's words, the boisterous Qian Gate became quiet in a split second. All the surrounding people, especially so many Hua people admired Zhang Tie and spoke highly of Zhang Tie inside as they glanced at Han Yuanhong with a weird look.
Han Yuanhong wanted to kill Zhang Tie; however, Zhang Tie wanted to nail Han Yuanhong onto the column of stigma.
Hua people hated traitors the most; especially those prestigious traitors. Almost everybody wanted to kill such traitors.
Zhang Tie's words were equal to swearing that Han Yuanhong was a traitor.
After hearing Zhang Tie's words, Han Yuanhong changed his face immediately.
As a prestigious earth knight in Gold and Power Law, Han Yuanhong ruled Gold and Power Market; additionally, his father was the finance minister of Taixia Country. After being in this position for a long time, he had been used to flattering words and smiles. Even those major clans and sects of Taixia Country who didn't fawn on rich and powerful persons would treat him politely and respectfully given his overall strength, position and his father. Actually, Han Yuanhong was equal to a young master of the top 7 sects in Taixia Country.
After being in such a high position and living such a dignified life for so long, unavoidably, he had formed some stereotypes. Take today's situation as an instance, as Taixia Country was too large with so many knights, honestly, Han Yuanhong had not heard about Cui Li at all. He sniffed at the status of the master of a rustic sect called Iron-Dragon Sect too. Inevitably, he despised Zhang Tie more or less. In Han Yuanhong's opinion, now that an earth knight killed his VIPs in his private territory, as long as he showed his identity, of course, Cui Li would not dare butt head with him. Therefore, Cui Li would be trapped by his words and lose his initiative. As a result, even if he couldn't kill Cui Li, he would at least scrape the skin of this silly muscled man. It was not his first time to meet and deal with such an earth knight. In the final analysis, he didn't think that Cui Li could pose a threat to him at all; instead, he just thought that Zhang Tie was under his control.
Han Yuanhong didn't know the real identity of Cui Li; however, Zhang Tie knew the real identity of Han Yuanhong. Additionally, Zhang Tie even knew his father's identity and the top secret and the fatal loophole of Han Clan.
Zhang Tie had already killed Han Yuanhong's brother. This time, he planned to kill his dad in Xuanyuan Hill, and Han Yuanhong. In Zhang Tie's eyes, the father and the two sons of Han family were all his enemies. He would not feel good until he killed them all. When they met for the first time just now, Han Yuanhong even prepared to control Zhang Tie step by step through word game; however, Zhang Tie grasped the opportunity and directly attacked his opponent's fatal loophole without sparing any chance for Han Yuanhong to quibble at the risk of his own life. At this moment, Gold and Power Law, Bright Gold Master of Gold and Power Law and the finance minister were nothing but sh*t in Zhang Tie's eyes. Zhang Tie didn't fear about offending Han Yuanhong openly. Whatever, he was here to uproot this malignant tumor in Xuanyuan Hill. Therefore, he didn't worry about their revenge at all.
When two parties met on a narrow path, the braver one would win the battle!
Zhang Tie's words infuriated Han Yuanhong at once. Not until then did Han Yuanhong realize that this tough guy's mouth was even sharper than blades. Being utterly different than all the previous earth knights that he had met before, this earth knight didn't even mean to treat him courteously but without sincerity.
"Cui Li, don't talk nonsense and cast wild aspersions at me!" Han Yuanhong hurriedly shouted loudly so that all the others at present could hear it clearly as a counterattack, "You've killed the Prince Sricise of Orkey Empire in Newcrescence Subcontinent and his bodyguards. It's the holy war. As the pillar of humans, of course, our Hua people should make ourselves an example in accordance with the law for the sake of our authority among foreign people. Only in this way could we join hands with each other to fight demons. However, as a Hua knight, you discriminate foreign people so much; you bully the weak by force in the Treasures Meeting of Xuanyuan Hill and killed a foreign prince and a knight in the public. If not deal with you, many foreign knights would feel disappointed. As a result, our Hua people would lose alliance in the holy war. Additionally, who had seen that the Prince Sricise and his subordinates did anything rude to the Hua woman in the public? However, everybody had witnessed that you killed people here!"
Although they were just quarreling with each other, it could even match the fierce battle between two earth knights at their full efforts. Zhang Tie put a label of a traitor on Han Yuanhong; Han Yuanhong made a counterattack at once by putting a label on Zhang Tie that Zhang Tie discriminated foreign people and intended to destroy Hua people's arrangement in the holy war. In such a fierce battle, the loser would lose all standing and reputation in the blink of an eye and face a frustrated future at the risk of his life.
"Hahaha, what a joke! Han Yuanhong, why not ask about my experiences in the Earth-elements Realm? When this old Cui fought demons with foreign brothers such as Cecilia and Bolam in the Earth-elements Realm shoulder to shoulder, drunk watermelon spirit in the first abyss at the risk of our lives, where were you? When this old Cui fought tens of thousands of demon knights with tens of thousands of foreign human knights in Tiewei Mountain, where were you? Who would discriminate his own brothers who fought demons together with him at the risk of their own lives? Who would discriminate his comrades-in-arms who shared the same bottle of liquor with him? In the eyes of this Cui, there are only brothers and enemies. If we're brothers, we would safeguard each other by blades and our own blood; if we're enemies, we would deal with them by blades and our own blood. Lip service doesn't work for me!"
"Good!"
The moment Zhang Tie finished his words, an exclamation in unison had drifted from the Qian Gate. As Zhang Tie's last words touched them. Such a hot-blooded declaration could not be made without experiences on the battlefield. Therefore, Zhang Tie won a resonance at once.
Many foreign knights changed their eye light at Zhang Tie after hearing Han Yuanhong's words. In Taixia Country, there were indeed Hua people who despised foreign people. However, after hearing Zhang Tie's words; especially when Zhang Tie mentioned the names of some foreign knights who had battle experience in the Earth-elements Realm, even the surrounding foreign knights started to respect Zhang Tie. Such a man was a real knight, a real fighter. The greater half of those people who hailed Zhang Tie were foreign knight-level powerhouses.
Zhang Tie adopted a speaking skill when he mentioned Tiewei Mountain. Actually, Zhang Tie's words contained two meanings: first, Zhang Tie formed a large battle formation with foreign knights and fought tens of thousands of demon knights; second, Zhang Tie joined hands with the large battle formation of human knights to fight tens of thousands of demon knights. Actually, the second meaning was precise. However, in the current situation, all the onlookers would take the first meaning. He was not telling a lie. Because Zhang Tie had indeed killed a lot of demon knights in Tiewei Mountain. He gained his bounty land because of his military exploits in Tiewei Mountain. However, Zhang Tie was sure that Han Yuanhong didn't know the name list of all the human knights who formed the huge battle formation in Tiewei Mountain; therefore, he was not afraid of the oral counter-attack of the opponent. At this critical moment, he needed to overwhelm Han Yuanhong by momentum and cause him to be speechless.
The surrounding applause made Han Yuanhong's face to become completely gloomy...
Chapter 1124: Genuine Meeting of Minds
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
What made Han Yuanhong's face gloomier was that more and more people poured towards the Qian Gate of Gold and Power Market as they talked with each other; actually, many people directly ran over here from outside; instead from inside.
Zhang Tie's loud voice shocked too many people inside the Gold and Power Market too.
Han Yuanhong had not been such embarrassed in his own territory. Watching more and more people gathering around him, Han Yuanhong threw an icy glance at Zhang Tie before gritting his teeth.
"Whatever, the fact is that you've killed people at Qian Gate of Gold and Power Market. Arrest Cui Li!" Han Yuanhong roared.
"Who dares to move?" Zhang Tie's eyes sparkled like a lightning bolt as his battle qi tornado immediately rushed into the sky with a real fire-dragon as long as about 1,500 m behind him. The fire-dragon image rose up in the air with a yelp that rent the air. Closely after that, it dove downwards by flapping its wings and suspended near the Qian Gate. As a result, it became dark at once near the Qian Gate. Such a domineering fire-dragon image aroused all the others' exclamations at once.
Han Yuanhong didn't imagine the two points today: first, he didn't imagine that Zhang Tie had completely figured out the background of Han Clan. He wanted to deal with Zhang Tie by the fact that Zhang Tie killed people in Xuanyuan Hill; however, he didn't imagine that Zhang Tie didn't come to terms at all; second, Han Yuanhong didn't imagine that Zhang Tie really dared fight him in the public. It was not in other places, but in Xuanyuan Hill. If they fought here, they had to assume the corresponding outcome.
Facing such a single man who was not afraid of fighting him verbally and physically, all the means that Han Yuanhong used to deal with those earth knights and black iron knights didn't work any longer. Given Zhang Tie' current look, he didn't even care that it was in Gold and Power Market. Therefore, he couldn't arrest Zhang Tie without a battle.
'Should I start the battle?'
Han Yuanhong hesitated. At the sight of Zhang Tie's fire-dragon image, Han Yuanhong had known that he met a tricky guy today. If he really started the battle, almost half of the Gold and Power Market would be destroyed. Although knights could not fly in Xuanyuan Hill, their battle strength and destructive power remained unchanged.
"Who dares to move?" When Han Yuanhong became hesitated, another roar like that of Zhang Tie's drifted from inside Gold and Power Market. Along with this roar, a shadow darted towards here from dozens of meters away on the top of those buildings on both roadsides. Closely after that, he landed beside Zhang Tie steadily, breaking many slates into pieces.
Although he was short and thin, he still revealed a mountain-like overwhelming qi.
"Elder brother, it's you..." Zhang Tie watched Mountain Lifting Hermit who was descending from the sky surprisingly. He had not imagined that he could meet Mountain Lifting Hermit once again in Xuanyuan Hill after leaving the Earth-elements Realm.
It had been a few years since they separated from each other in the hieron's ruins. Mountain Lifting Hermit looked as same as that when Zhang Tie met him for the first time——high nose, high forehead, some silver hair near his ears, slim sparkling eyes, It seemed that Mountain Lifting Hermit had fully recovered. Additionally, his cultivation base had improved a bit.
Mountain Lifting Hermit watched Zhang Tie with a faint, warm smile, "A few days ago, I received the news from my old friend in the Earth-elements Realm. He said that you were still alive and had promoted to an earth knight. Furthermore, you made remarkable military exploits in Tiewei Mountain and was rewarded with a bounty land before leaving Earth-elements Realm. I was thinking to look for you after attending this Treasures Meeting; I've not imagined that I could hear your voice here. Therefore, I came here to take a look. What a coincidence!"
Mountain Lifting Hermit was always silent. Now that he could say so many words this time, it indicated that he must be very thrilled.
"Elder brother, wait for me on one side, there might be a bloody battle in the Gold and Power Market today. If I could survive the battle, I will talk about the old days with you!" Zhang Tie told Mountain Lifting Hermit solemnly.
After throwing a glance at Han Yuanhong and his two subordinate knights, Mountain Lifting Hermit revealed a faint smile, "Younger brother, are you looking down upon me? Even my life is saved by you. Today, this elder brother will accompany you to climb a mountain of swords or plunge into a sea of flames, whether it's in Xuanyuan Hill or not. As long as younger brother don't mind that, this elder brother could even give my life back to you today!"
The moment Mountain Lifting Hermit finished his words, he had released his battle qi tornado while a virtual image of a giant lifting a mountain gradually rose up and covered the entire Qian Gate of Gold and Power Market together with Zhang Tie's fire-dragon image.
Honestly, at this moment, Zhang Tie was really moved. Zhang Tie dared butt head with Han Yuanhong because of the following two reasons: first, he knew the background of Han Clan. Han Clan was Zhang Tie's deadly enemy. Han Clan not only screwed him but also intended to kill his father. Therefore, Zhang Tie shouldn't be timid in this situation; second, Han Clan were in the wrong; additionally, Bai Suxian was not a commoner, she was the daughter of Lord Guangnan who was unrivaled in the south border of Taixia Country. Therefore, Zhang Tie didn't fear that this event was getting out of hand. As those b*stards treated Bai Suxian rudely first, Zhang Tie would always be in the disadvantageous position. Nobody could punish him due to this event. Zhang Tie had not imagined that he could meet a member of Han Clan here; therefore, he directly slapped that guy's face fiercely so as to vent his spleen. Bai Suxian didn't speak at this moment because Zhang Tie had already told her to not expose her identity in a secret way until Han Yuanhong was involved in the drama a bit deeper.
However, Mountain Lifting Hermit didn't know what Zhang Tie was thinking about. When Mountain Lifting Hermit released his battle qi tornado and the virtual image, he really chose to stand on Zhang Tie's side at the risk of his own life. If Zhang Tie started the battle, Mountain Lifting Hermit would definitely fight the enemy shoulder to shoulder.
What a righteous man!
What a dauntless man!
What a forthright man!
Previously, Zhang Tie felt that Mountain Lifting Hermit was cold outside yet passionate inside. He had not imagined about such a spirited and generous side inside this thin body. Therefore, he was filled with deep veneration.
Zhang Tie didn't persuade Mountain Lifting Hermit anymore. Otherwise, Mountain Lifting Hermit would feel that he was insulting and looking down upon Mountain Lifting Hermit.
Zhang Tie and Mountain Lifting Hermit exchanged a glance with each other before smiling towards each other full of sincerity and trust.
With Mountain Lifting Hermit on his side, Zhang Tie felt much more confident. He glared at Han Yuanhong full of contempt before bursting out into laughter, "Come on, don't you want to revenge for that d**chebag prince who sexually harassed the Hua woman in the public? I killed that son of a b*tch. Come on, show me your talent, bright gold master of Gold and Power Law. As earth knights, we don't play lip service. Show me your masculinity..."
Han Yuanhong had not been stimulated in this way at the gate of Gold and Power Market and in other places across Xuanyuan Hill for over 100 years. He couldn't imagine why he was always in the disadvantageous position today. Even though he was thinking about killing Zhang Tie while suffering from some loss just now, he had already abandoned this thought now. The reason was simple, even if he could fetch some helpers rapidly, after this battle, the entire Gold and Power Market would be ruined for sure. Besides, the surrounding places in Xuanyuan Hill would be damaged to a certain degree.
Although he was the master of Gold and Power Market, he didn't have the right to enforce the law. After Zhang Tie killed people in Qian Gate of Gold and Power Market, as the general manager, he could play edge ball and have his subordinates arrest Zhang Tie. However, if two earth knights of Taixia Country fought him here, he had to bear all the consequences. Although his dad was influential in Xuanyuan Hill as one of the 9 ministers in Taixia Country, his dad was not Emperor Xuanyuan who could almost deal with everything in Taixia Country. If he pushed Han Clan in the teeth of the storm in Xuanyuan Hill, it would not be in correspondence with the great undertaking of Han Clan. Additionally, he didn't know about the trump cards of this earth knight called Cui Li.
Watching Zhang Tie and hearing his words, Han Yuanhong's face turned blue as his eye light changed constantly...
"Who dared to sexually harass our Hua woman in Xuanyuan Hill?"
When Zhang Tie was butting head with Han Yuanhong, an extremely dignified voice drifted from inside Gold and Power Market which contained a special strength and wave. Along with this voice, the onlookers at the Qian Gate of Gold and Power Market gave a way while some guys walked towards the ring.
At the sight of that man in the front, Zhang Tie's heart shocked at once.
That was an extremely dignified old man with thick eyebrows and purple face. He gave out a majestic and aggressive qi all over.
Zhang Tie didn't know this old man; however, he could identify the Xiezhi crown on the head of the old man. The Xiezhi crown was 56 cm in height. It was made of violet gold. Xiezhi crown was the symbol of chief justice in Hua people. Across Taixia Country, many people wore Xiezhi crowns. When Zhang Tie served as the chief justice in Youzhou Provincial Court, he also had one. However, he didn't usually wear it. The size of Xiezhi crown was an important reference of the identity of the wearer. Previously, Zhang Tie's Xiezhi crown was only 30 cm in height. Across Taixia Country, besides the minister of justice, one of the 9 ministers in Taixia Country, nobody else dared wear such a high Xiezhi crown unless he was seeking for death or wanted to be the public enemy of all the courts across Taixia Country.
Besides the high Xiezhi crown, the invisible qi of this old man indicated that he was a shadow knight.
Treasures Meeting in Xuanyuan Hill was really filled with righteous knight-level powerhouses. Zhang Tie had not imagined that such a small chaos at the Qian Gate of Gold and Power Market could attract the attention of a big figure like the minister of justice...
Chapter 1125: Dignity
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
As a shadow knight and the minister of justice, this guy had a very strong qi field. The moment he appeared, everybody else at present had concentrated on him. He was more domineering than anyone else at present. Most of the people even ignored those knight-level powerhouses behind him.
"Minister of justice..."At the sight of this old man, Han Yuanhong hurriedly moved one step forward as he cupped his hands towards this old man.
The minister of justice just threw a distant look at Han Yuanhong before replying, "Hmm" in a calm way. Closely after that, he glanced around those corpses on the ground, then the virtual images of Zhang Tie and Mountain Lifting Hermit and said distantly, "Xuanyuan Hill is the hinterland of Taixia Country. If your virtual images stayed here for too long, others would think that an urgent situation had cropped up here. Hide them!"
Zhang Tie exchanged a glance with Mountain Lifting Hermit before nodding tacitly at the same time. Meanwhile, they hid their virtual images. Now that the minister of justice arrived, of course, the battle had to come to an end. If they really started a fight in front of the minister of justice, they would make the minister of justice very embarrassed. Who dared make the minister of justice embarrassed? It was said that the minister of justice had the greatest battle strength among the 9 ministers in Taixia Country as he had to frighten those evil forces. Even two common shadow knights could not defeat the minister of justice.
Zhang Tie didn't know which secret method was the minister of justice cultivating. When the minister of justice threw a glance at him just now, Zhang Tie felt being transparent all over as if all of his secrets had been exposed. Therefore, his heart pounded.
"Uncle Sun..." Bai Suxian who had been silent for quite a while suddenly uttered as she hailed the minister of justice by lowering her body.
After hearing Bai Suxian's words, Han Yuanhong's heart pounded at once although he was standing a few meters away.
The minister of justice focused on Bai Suxian for two seconds before revealing a smile as if he finally remembered who was Bai Suxian, "When I saw you last time, your dad brought you to pay a formal visit to the empress dowager in the Longevity Palace of Peach Mountain. I've not imagined that you could promote to a knight after 19 years!"
Bai Suxian let out a sigh, "Uncle Sun, even as a knight, I was still almost sexually harassed by some thugs under your eyes. Xuanyuan Hill is growing more and more chaotic!"
After hearing Bai Suxian's words, the minister of justice blushed as he coughed. Closely after that, he threw a glance at those corpses on the ground, "You mean them?"
"Who else? One of them wanted to molest me. After he was killed by my brother Cui, his partners started to attack us by force. We had to kill them all. I've not imagined that the master of Gold and Power Market could suddenly come out and intend to revenge for those thugs by arresting my brother Cui!" Bai Suxian slowly let out a sigh.
The minister of justice immediately moved his eyes onto Han Yuanhong.
Han Yuanhong hurriedly moved one step forward, "Minister of justice, I beg for your fair judgment. I was told that someone killed foreign VIPs at the Qian Gate of Gold and Power Market; therefore, I hurriedly came over here to control the event. I wanted to put the killer under control at first. Because those being killed are not commoners, but the Prince Cricise of Arlkey and his bodyguards. Arlkey Empire is abundant in high-quality crystals, which is the most important strategic resources. Their crystals are supplied to the private imperial finance and living affairs ministry and the top 4 troops of Taixia Country. Arlkey Empire is the most important trading partner of Taixia Country in New Creascence Subcontinent. They are especially invited by Gold and Power Law to attend the Treasures Meeting. However, the prince of Arlkey Empire was killed in Xuanyuan Hill, minister of justice, please decide the case fairly!"
When Han Yuanhong talked about high-quality crystals, the others didn't make any response to it; however, Zhang Tie's heart raced as he immediately thought about the material of bloody sea. A great number of high-quality crystals were demanded to build a bloody sea. Han Zhengfang was the master of Gold and Power Law, Han Yuanhong was the bright gold master of Gold and Power Law; therefore, it would be too easy if they would like to gain high-quality crystals from Arlkey Empire. Additionally, it would not arouse others' doubts. Given this point, Zhang Tie finally figured out why Han Yuanhong hurriedly came out to revenge for the motherf*cking prince of Arlkey Empire. There must be a dirty trick inside.
Pitifully, Zhang Tie knew that even though his presumption was true, nobody would believe in his words. As a result, he might beat the grass and frighten away the snake. As Zhang Tie was here to uproot Han Clan; instead of giving them a warning, even though Zhang Tie was clear-minded, he still remained silent.
"Nobody could enjoy a privilege in Xuanyuan Hill. Of course, the killer should receive the punishment; however, if those being killed sought for death themselves, it's nothing serious. Our Taixia Country have strict laws. If Arlkey Empire has other thoughts about this event, just dispatch someone to New Crescence Subcontinent to change an emperor for the country or have the private imperial finance and living affairs ministry take over this country." The minister of justice said it calmly. Closely after that, he glanced around the onlookers as he told them, "As there're so many people here, someone among you must have witnessed what happened just now, just tell me about that!"
Soon after the minister of justice finished his words, some people among the crowd had exchanged glances with each other before a tough guy strode one step forward and cupped his hands towards the minister of justice. Closely after that, he said loudly, "Minister of justice, this humble man indeed saw that these foreign people commented this young lady with dirty words behind her back. In the beginning, the group of foreign people was far away from this young lady and the tough man behind them. Two of them purposefully collided with each other behind this young lady; closely after that, one of them wanted to thrust his belly towards this young lady. However, he was kicked off by this tough man. At the sight of this scene, all of his partners drew out their sabers and axes and started to attack the two people; finally, they were killed by this young lady and this tough man!"
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"Minister of justice, I saw that too. It was true. Just now, I was doubting whether this guy who intended to thrust his belly towards this young lady on purpose; later on, I knew that this guy was a knight; however could a knight lose his balance only after being touched by his subordinate bodyguard? Therefore, it's indeed a purposeful sexual harassment!"
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"Minister of justice, I saw it too. Just now, this group of foreign people behaved in a rude way behind this young lady and this childe..."
Many witnesses stood out of the crowd and explained what they saw at once. Two of them were even foreign people. Just now, they were not far away from Zhang Tie and Bai Suxian behind them; therefore, they saw what happened too. As for these foreign people, the motherf*cking Arlkey Empire had nothing to do with them. They were not of the same human race at all; additionally, what Zhang Tie said formed a resonance with them; therefore, they would like to bear witness for Zhang Tie.
After hearing these words, Zhang Tie sighed with emotion, 'Taixia Country is really powerful. If it were in other continents or subcontinents, who dared bear the witness heroically when they knew that they might offend the bright gold master of Gold and Power Law indirectly by doing so. However, at this moment, almost all the people who had witnessed the process of the event would like to bear the witness. Although it was a trivial matter, it implied the patriotism of a nation. At this critical moment, most of the people in the surroundings would choose to stand out to bear the witness instead of being silent for the sake of their safety in a "wise" way. Such an uncompromising spirit and mentality facing the evil forces in the public made Taixia Country powerful and frightened demons.
Zhang Tie found that he had a new recognition about Taixia Country.
After hearing the testimony, Han Yuanhong silently lowered his head.
The minister of justice was clear about the process of this event too. After glancing around the scene, he pointed at the elder foreign knight from Arlkey Empire and asked, "As the prince of Arlkey Empire and his bodyguards dare do a shameless thing in Xuanyuan Hill, they deserve the death. The killers are innocent. Given the severity of this event, I declare that all the people from Arlkey Empire of New Crescence Subcontinent are forbidden to enter Xuanyuan Hill from today on. Anyone who violates this rule will be killed. Drive this man out of Xuanyuan Hill..."
Since Han Yuanhong arrived, the elder knight of Arlkey Empire had been standing aside tamefully. Like a transparent person, he could not interrupt their talk at all. After hearing the judgment of minister of justice, he widely opened his mouth with astonishment and panic. Closely after that, he looked at Han Yuanhong and talked gibberish. Pitifully, Han Yunhong didn't even throw a glance at him.
"Be quiet in front of the minister of justice, slap your mouth..." The two subordinate knights beside the minister of justice strode forward and grabbed that elder foreign knight's arms at once. Closely after that, they slapped that elder foreign knight's face a few times and drew him away. As the minister of justice had sent the order to drive this man out of Xuanyuan Hill, of course, they need to execute it right away. Meanwhile, someone else beside the minister of justice had already passed the notice to the subordinates through the remote-sensing crystal. From today on, everybody from the Arlkey Empire of New Crescence Subcontinent was forbidden in Xuanyuan Hill. All those who had entered it would be driven away at once.
No matter how fierce the foreign people were, they had to behave like tame kitties in Xuanyuan Hill.
All the foreign knights among the onlookers were scared by what they saw as they hurriedly ordered their subordinates to follow the laws in Taixia Country and not stir up any trouble here. It was in Xuanyuan Hill, not any remote places like their hometowns. Because a prince of a major country in a subcontinent which had established important trade ties with Taixia Country wanted to sexually harass a woman, he was kicked to death by an earth knight. His life was as cheap as that of a dog. Actually, his life couldn't even match that of a dog. At least a dog could rub a beauty on the street for a short while. By contrast, besides losing his own life, even this prince's country was involved in it. Their royal households might be changed. Such a person died in vain in Xuanyuan Hill. What about others? In Xuanyuan Hill, every knight has to behave carefully no matter how powerful he was.
'F*ck, that d**chebag must have not imagined that the woman whom he stirred up was followed by such a terrifying earth knight, who could kill him in a split second. Xuanyuan Hill is too terrifying. How come earth knights stroll on the streets casually? F*ck, I have to be careful later on.' Such a thought flickered through many foreign knights' brain at this moment.
Taixia Country was powerful because of etiquette and great battle strength.
After dealing with this event simply, the minister of justice left as if he had done something trivial, leaving awe-stricken eye lights behind him.
Nobody had noticed that Zhang Tie had released two tracing feathers onto that elder knight's clothes when he was drawn away.
Chapter 1126: Gold and Power Market
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
The conflict between Zhang Tie and those rude foreign people and between Zhang Tie and Han Yuanhong at Qian Gate of Gold and Power Market was resolved in only a few words with the arrival of the minister of justice. After the minister of justice left, all the others left too. Those being involved in this event and those onlookers had different feelings. Perhaps only they themselves knew about it.
Han Yuanhong left silently. Before he left, he threw a deep glance at Zhang Tie. Those onlookers threw a bit awe-stricken glance at Zhang Tie when they left; especially some foreign people in special costumes kept a distance from Zhang Tie consciously.
After Zhang Tie exposed his identity as earth knight, even though Bai Suxian was beautiful, nobody dared approach Zhang Tie and Bai Suxian anymore. Whatever, very few people in this world could stand an earth-knight's kick. The guy who was kicked to death was really unfortunate. As a black iron knight, he dared sexually harass an earth knight's woman. It was nothing different than seeking for death.
After glancing around those leaving onlookers and Han Yuanhong's back, Zhang Tie recovered his composure too. After exchanging a glance with Bai Suxian, he turned around and spoke to Mountain Lifting Hermit, "Elder brother, I forgot to ask you about that, why are you here?"
"I'm living in the Heavens Seal Hotel in Gold and Power Market. It's less than 1.5 miles from Qian Gate. When I was going to leave my room, I suddenly heard your voice. I almost thought that I misheard it. Therefore, I came over here!" Mountain Lifting Hermit, who always looked solemn, revealed a faint smile facing Zhang Tie. He looked Zhang Tie up and down seriously with an amazed look, "I've not imagined that you could promote to an earth knight. After promoting to a black iron knight, many people couldn't promote to an earth knight in their whole lives. I've really not imagined that you could catch up with me so fast..."
"It's a long story!" Zhang Tie glanced around those people who were still peeping at him as he told Mountain Lifting Hermit, "Elder brother, now that you're living not far from here, how about talking about it in your residence? As there're too many people here, it's not convenient for a talk!"
Mountain Lifting Hermit threw a glance at the surroundings before nodding, "Right, let's talk about it in Heavens Seal Hotel!"
Closely after that, Mountain Lifting Hermit led Zhang Tie and Bai Suxian towards Heavens Seal Hotel.
After entering the Qian Gate of Gold and Power Market, the roadsides were covered with stores. There were a great variety of shocking beautiful items inside those stores, including sabers, swords, helmets, armors, medicaments, rune items, living animals and specimens of mutated beasts and various senior crystals. Many people were hawking with alchemists' and rune equipment in hands like how peddles held a drum-shaped rattle.
Previously, Zhang Tie had not seen anyone who sold element crystals; however, after entering Gold and Power Market for less than 1,000 m, Zhang Tie had seen a few stores selling element crystals. Of course, the prices of those element crystals were astronomic figures for commoners. At the sight of those figures, one would know why gold and silver didn't count most for knights.
In the Treasures Meeting, you could almost buy everything that you could imagine.
What made Zhang Tie speechless the most was a sentence in red lacquer in the advertisement board at the gate of a business group—— the Hereditary throne of the High Mountain Kingdom in Goldenrock Subcontinent for sale; legal demise; after becoming an imperial clan, you would never be bothered by a coup. Those who have been conferred with the rank of nobility officially would enjoy a great discount; if you want it, let's talk about it face to face inside the store...
Besides Xuanyuan Hill, Zhang Tie estimated that he could not see such a commercial advisement anywhere else. Otherwise, Zhang Tie would definitely think that someone was making a parody. However, in Xuanyuan Hill, Zhang Tie knew that it was not a parody. Nobody dared make such a joke with so many passers-by at this moment.
When Mountain Lifting Hermit noticed that Zhang Tie paid more attention to that advertisement board, Mountain Lifting Hermit said, "I've been to the High Mountain Kingdom in Goldenrock Subcontinent when I was young. This country only covers over 2 million square miles. The entire country is abundant in pure aluminum and golden leaves pomelos; simple folk custom; beautiful and amorous beauties. When I went there last time, I had just promoted to a black iron knight. That country even wanted to employ me as the No. 1 knight. Their princess..." Mountain Lifting Hermit stopped with a reminiscent look when he mentioned about the princess of High Mountain Kingdom. Finally, he revealed a bitter smile and shook his head.
Watching Mountain Lifting Hermit's look, Zhang Tie knew that Mountain Lifting Hermit must have an unforgettable love story in Goldenrock Subcontinent. Each knight had a lot of love affairs at a young age, including Mountain Lifting Hermit. Many people might not have experienced too many such love affairs; therefore, they were very curious and longing for that. However, knights had so many such experiences; therefore, they had seen through everything. After dozens of years, even over 100 years, perhaps only a couple of women could stay in a knight's memory at most.
"What's wrong with the princess of High Mountain Country?" Bai Suxian asked Mountain Lifting Hermit. Women were always interested in such things unimaginably.
"The princess of High Mountain Country was my friend. We've got acquainted with each other for too long. 5 decades ago, I entered secluded cultivation for 10 years so as to promote to an earth knight; when I promoted to an earth knight 10 years later, I found that she had already died on the 6th year since I started my secluded cultivation..."
"She's dead?" Bai Suxian widely opened her eyes, "Did she..."
"Not like what you imagine. She died naturally. She only lived 121 years due to a poor gift in cultivation. Before she died, she even had someone give me a letter and express that she wanted to see me for the last time. However, I was in secluded cultivation at that moment. When I received the letter, it was already a few years later..." Mountain Lifting Hermit said with a sad look.
It seemed that this affair was not a beautiful memory for Mountain Lifting Hermit; therefore, Zhang Tie stopped Bai Suxian by throwing a glance at her. Meanwhile, he changed the topic, "Is there any problem with the royal households of High Mountain Kingdom?"
"In the holy war, it's normal for small countries to be exterminated. There's not even a knight-level powerhouse in the royal households of High Mountain Country in the subcontinent. They were living a scary life every day. Actually, they were not happier and safer than common rich people in the major provinces of Taixia Country."
Since they left the Qian Gate of Gold and Power Market, the three people had found that they were followed by two "tails". However, the three people just ignored them. Whatever, Gold and Power Market was not opened by Han Clan. Even though they offended Han Yuanhong, they could still swagger all the way in Gold and Power Market without worrying about any trouble. In the public, Han Yuanhong dared not hurt them at all like that they could not do anything to the two "tails" behind them. They just knew it and didn't expose it.
They soon came to the gate of the Heavens Seal Hotel.
This hotel could never be matched by common hotels. Heavens Seal Hotel looked like Lord Guangnan's Manor in Xuanyuan Hill. It was even a bit more luxurious than the latter. The hotel included some smaller independent courtyards. The walls between courtyards had been specially designed so that outsiders could barely peep inside.
The courtyard of Mountain Lifting Hermit was less than 300 square meters. There was even a small bamboo wood in the courtyard which looked more tranquil.
During the period of Treasures Meeting, the daily rent of such a small courtyard was 100,000 gold coins. Those who could live in such high-end courtyards were always rich lords coming from subcontinents or knight-level powerhouses of Taixia Country.
There was a tea house inside the courtyard. When they talked with each other, they sat down inside the tea house with crossed legs. At the same time, they drank tea and started to chat.
"Younger brother Cui, weren't you trapped in the hieron's ruins with that demon earth knight? We didn't see you come out of there until we left the hieron's ruins. I even thought that you've sacrificed at that time. Unimaginably, you have promoted to an earth knight. Such a sharp turn almost made me confused!"
Only after having two sips of tea, Mountain Lifting Hermit had asked Zhang Tie about his experience out of his concern.
Even though they were in the courtyard of the hotel, Mountain Lifting Hermit knew that this topic was too sensitive; therefore, he asked Zhang Tie and Bai Suxian in a secret wat for the sake of respect and confidentiality. After all, they had just offended the master of Gold and Power Market; additionally, they were in other's territory; therefore, they had to be alert.
Outsiders were shocked by the news that Zhang Tie had promoted to an earth knight. However, it was more shocking for Mountain Lifting Hermit who had entered the hieron's ruins and fought together with Zhang Tie inside to hear this news. The feelings between when you heard that a stranger hit the jackpot and that someone familiar hit the jackpot were utterly different.
Mountain Lifting Hermit should be shocked and curious about Zhang Tie's experience as a knight, Zhang Tie's friend and comrade-in-arms.
After hearing this question, Zhang Tie pondered...