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Chapter 1340 Saving the Beauty

The demon camp inside and outside Xiangshan City had been fully chaotic. The earth was quaking slightly. A lot of demon fighters in the periphery of the camp were roaring weirdly while batches of powerful crossbows that had been pushed out of the city were targeting at Yan Feiqing in the air.

In the chaos, the little black beetle was almost stomped by a LV 9 demon fighter who was rushing towards here. Although the loss of an incarnation would not do any harm to Zhang Tie except for losing a bit essential energy, it would be too depressing to be stomped to death by a demon fighter. Additionally, Zhang Tie had already treated this little black beetle as his own friend; of course, he wanted to keep it alive.

Among the caligas of demon fighters, the little black beetle flew off. After penetrating through the bodies of those demon fighters, he moved all the way onto an eave of a ruined building in the far from where he started to gaze at the battle situation in the sky.

In the chaos, of course, none of the demon fighters across the city would pay attention to such an insect.

As it was in such an emergency, Zhang Tie could only observe it for the time being.

"It's a trap…" Yan Feiqing's sound drifted from the sky in a deep, icy pattern. Even being besieged by demons, she still didn't look frustrated at all; instead, she remained as powerful as before. Someone pretended to be powerful; however, this woman was powerful from inside.

Soon after the little black beetle rested on the eave of the ruined building, it had heard such a voice. Her voice didn't sound like that Yan Feiqing had ever been injured. The bizarre golden viper and the strike of the heavenly demon knight seemed to have acted on someone else.

"This is a trap, for you…" The heavenly demon knight burst out into laughter as it raised its head which sounded brutal and obscene. It spoke in orthodox Hua language, "Woman, you look nice. Lately, you've killed many knights of our 4 routes of armies. It seems that you hate us treating human women as a plaything. Pitifully, your preference is your death trap. We were waiting for you and here you're!"

"Really?"

The heavenly demon knight gazed at Yan Feiqing with greedy eyes as it said, "A friend of Heavens Reaching Church told us that you're Yan Feiqing. A very famous female Hua knight. Since the last holy war, I've fooled around many Hua women; but I've not tried a female Hua knight. After a short while, I will let you taste it!"

"B*stard!" Yan Feiqing rebuked it coldly as she started to launch a strike by her longsword. By drawing her long sword in the sky, a Milky Way-like sword light covered over 1 square mile. A green lotus flower slowly opened grandly in the sword light whose killing intent involved a lot of demons in…

The moment she launched a strike, Zhang Tie had known why she was so famous in Taixia Country. Even the elders of Heavenly Fortune Sect had to eat humble pie in front of her.

This was the most powerful swordsmanship that Zhang Tie had ever seen. Yan Feiqing was also the most powerful shadow knight that Zhang Tie had ever seen. With swaying white skirt, she was like a fairy in the moon. Her longsword rolled the Milky Way and shocked the earth while the sword light turned into green open lotus flowers in a picturesque and aggressive way. The vast sky above Xiangshan City became a 10,000-hectare pond being full of lotus flowers…

If her opponent was just a shadow knight or a battle formation composed of common demon knights, they could never stop her. Pitifully, her opponent was a heavenly demon knight while over 100 demon knights were fighting her in terms of a large battle formation. That was really a threatening battle strength for a shadow knight.

The heavenly demon knight didn't use a weapon at all. Its terrifying punch-shaped battle qi was like a black billow which swept over the horizon and cracked all the green lotus-flowers.

The huge battle formation composed of over 100 demon knights was like a huge net. Coordinated with that heavenly demon knight, it seemed that it was going to capture this fairy and was hard for her to break through.

Yan Feiqing tried several times to extend the battle onto the ground which would cause greater casualties to the demon corps on the ground; however, the huge net composed of those demon knights just blocked her from below. Meanwhile, the heavenly demon knight kept preventing her from doing that. Therefore, Yan Feiqing failed to do it.

Whatever, Yan Feiqing had been injured. In this case, no matter how powerful she performed, she was still influenced by her wounds. Only after 10 more minutes, under Zhang Tie's gaze, those green lotus flowers in the sky had started to turn dark. Even the sharp Milky Way-like sword light started to tremble faintly…

"Hahaha, catch her alive. This woman won't stand too long. The poison of Demon God's golden viper has started to take effect. I will let you all taste a Hua female knight today…" The heavenly demon knight's presumptuous sound reverberated in the sky. At the same time, he punched against Yan Feiqing's sword light, causing her to spurt out another mouth of blood while her protective battle qi started to wave all over…

Zhang Tie realized that he couldn't wait anymore; otherwise, Yan Feiqing would fall in the hand of that heavenly demon knight. However, even if he presented his skill as a divine dominator, he might not defeat that heavenly demon knight either.

Since the beginning, Yan Feiqing had not released her virtual knight's image although being in such a dilemma. It indicated that this woman still spared a trump card to resist. The best way by far was to create a chance to enable this woman to escape herself.

It was not the best time for Zhang Tie to activate those eggs of the parent puppet worm. If it could be a bit later, he would gain a better effect. However, what happened tonight was always out of one's expectation. That was how it always went on the battlefield, where things varied from minute to minute and were not always pleasing.

Once he had determined his mind, the little black beetle had flown into an empty house. Closely after that, it entered Castle of Black Iron. After putting on his Chaos, Zhang Tie immediately appeared in the house.

Zhang Tie instantly broke the head of the glutinous double-headed parent puppet worm by hand. Closely after that, he injected his spiritual energy into the merely head of that parent puppet worm. At the same time, a bizarre spiritual wave reflected Zhang Tie's forehead from the only head of that double-headed parent puppet worm. Through such an exchange spiritually, the parent puppet worm was activated. As long as Zhang Tie made the same spiritual exchange every 3 days, he would be able to control all the eggs of this double-headed parent puppet worm.

When they made such a spiritual exchange, Zhang Tie felt that all the eggs of the double-headed parent puppet worm were hatching rapidly. Additionally, he was aware of the quantity of all the eggs that started to hatch. Only after a few hours, eggs of that double-headed parent puppet worm had entered the brains of 324,716 demon fighters.

Zhang Tie then threw that parent puppet worm into Castle of Black Iron. Right then, over 300,000 demon fighters roared almost at the same time…

'Go kill all the demons beside you…'

A bizarre spiritual wave was released from Zhang Tie's forehead, which was similar to the principle of remote-sensing crystals. This bizarre spiritual wave soon spread over hundreds of square miles together with Zhang Tie's order.

At this moment, those demon knights who were fighting Yan Feiqing still didn't' know what was happening.

It permitted of no delay. When Zhang Tie issued an order to all the eggs of that double-headed parent puppet worm, he shot into the sky. With Thor's Hammer in hand, like a lightning bolt, he caused a huge hole in the net composed of those demon knights…

As the huge net composed of demon knights was facing Yan Feiqing. The ground forces had the weakest defensive power. Nobody could imagine that some human knight could raid them from the ground. Therefore, the battle formation of demon knights was instantly broken through by Zhang Tie.

Zhang Tie had reached his maximal speed without using the flight ability as a divine dominator, which could definitely match that of a shadow knight; especially the Thor's Hammer. Even if Zhang Tie didn't use any kinetic strike, the energy carried by Thor's Hammer could not be withstood by an ordinary earth knight either.

Over the past 2 months, Zhang Tie had eaten over 1,400 fruits of redemption from the gratitude of golden uangs. Additionally, he had already entered 9 change realm of earth knight. His casual move would carry over 100 tons' strength. Such a terrifying strength had already surpassed the level of shadow knights. After raiding the weakest part of that battle formation with his Thor's Hammer, Zhang Tie immediately cracked two black iron demon knights into pieces. At the same time, two 3-in-1 battle formations connected with the two black iron demon knights collapsed from the large formation, causing a transient stagnation and chaos…

When he broke through the battle formation of demon knights, Zhang Tie threw an ordinary spear towards that heavenly demon knight.

The heavenly demon knight slapped away that spear by one hand safe and sound. However, Zhang Tie had already created a rare chance for Yan Feiqing…

"Hurry up, go…" Zhang Tie roared towards Yan Feiqing.

As Yan Feiqing was such an experienced fighter, of course, she could catch such a precious chance. Almost the moment Zhang Tie finished his words, Yan Feiqing had arrived at his side and grabbed Zhang Tie's arm. At the same time, she released her virtual image of a shadow knight. Being wrapped by the virtual image, they then penetrated through the broken battle formation of demon knights as fast as a lightning bolt. After two flickers, they had already reached several times higher than the speed of sound and flew towards the northwest…

Right then, over 300,000 demonized puppets started to attack the demon fighters on their side, causing the entire camp of demons to be chaotic.

The iron-armored heavenly demon knight roared towards the other demon knights, "Go pacify the turmoil downside there, I will deal with the two human knights…"

After issuing such an order, the heavenly demon knight accelerated towards the direction where Zhang Tie and Yan Feiqing had disappeared. Its speed soon reached as great as that of the two people's.

…

Zhang Tie really had not imagined that Yan Feiqing could leave with him. Although he performed like a shadow knight, he had another plan. It was not too difficult for him to leave the battlefield. 'I'm afraid that because Yan Feiqing doesn't know my trump card; therefore, she leaves together with me in case that I fall into the hand of the heavenly demon knight.'

Given this point, this woman was still a bit compassionate although having a weird temperament.

"Can you put away your battle hammer? I want to fly a bit faster as the heavenly demon knight is catching up with us…"

When Zhang Tie was thinking about that, Yan Feiqing's voice drifted into Zhang Tie's ears secretly.

Because they had reached 3 times more than the speed of sound, namely over 1,000 m per second, they could only talk in secret means by battle qi.

After being reminded by Yan Feiqing, Zhang Tie realized that he had not put away his Thor's Hammer yet. Therefore, he instantly put it away. As a result, their speed soon reached almost 4 times the speed of sound…

Chapter 1341: A Chase in the Wilderness

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

Yan Feiqing's virtual image was very strange. It was Zhang Tie's first time to see such a virtual image which was completely like a 10-m long silver shuttle. Being wrapped by that silver shuttle, they flew in the sky rapidly…

'Maybe this is not a virtual image at all but a secret method. It might just be similar to the virtual image in effect and is used to save her life. There're so many secret methods in Taixia Country, I couldn't know all of them whatsoever!'

The heavenly demon knights kept catching up with them with a distance of less than 5,000 m.

This might be a long distance for commoners; however, it would only take a heavenly demon knight a few seconds to finish it. Yan Feiqing couldn't extend the distance between them and that heavenly demon knight; instead, that heavenly demon knight was gradually narrowing the distance between him and Yan Feiqing. Only after a few minutes, their distance had been narrowed to about 4,500 m…

When Han Zhengfang was severely wounded and escaped out of Xuanyuan Hill using the secret method of Bloody Soul Sutra , he also reached almost 4 times the speed of sound. Given the speeds of Yan Feiqing and that heavenly demon knight, Zhang Tie immediately understood it. As for ordinary heavenly knights, they might only reach 4-5 times the speed of sound normally; if they wanted to move faster, it depended on their cultivation bases and overall strength.

The heavenly demon knight kept approaching them aggressively with its eyes closely on Zhang Tie and Yan Feiqing.

"You can never escape away…" From over 4,000 m away, the heavenly demon knight's voice sounded in their ears, "The armored shadow knight. When I catch you, I will withdraw each of your bones out of your body and make your skull into a cup…"

When knights used their secret sound-transmitting skill, they spurted their pure battle qis out of their mouth by turning them into fine waves through their chests, abdomens and throats. Therefore, their sounds could be transmitted far away at a speed many times greater than the speed of sound while not being destructive. However, only heavenly knights could transmit their voice secretly from over 4,000 m away.

As Zhang Tie's first strike was unusual and was in his Chaos, that heavenly demon knight treated him as a shadow knight.

It was not simply threatening. Now that a heavenly knight's voice could enter their ears, it indicated that his battle qi strike would soon arrive.

"Is the shuttle your virtual image?" Zhang Tie asked Yan Feiqing secretly.

"It's one of my secret methods. It's neither a virtual image nor a non-virtual image…" Yan Feiqing replied as her face turned abnormally pale and as icy and crystal as jade. Even in flight, Yan Feiqing was also releasing a faintly cold qi, which formed a thin fog around her body.

Zhang Tie didn't know about Yan Feiqing's current situation. He didn't know whether the cold qi was aroused by her secret method or caused by the poisonous Demon God's golden viper. It was hard to judge it; however, her cold qi and pale face didn't look good. Therefore, Zhang Tie cut the crap, "I'm afraid that the demon knight would strike us when he was about 3,000 m away from us. I could slow down his speed by darting spears. However, I need your coordination…"

"How?"

"When I would dart my spears, could you stop releasing this virtual image for the time being; it would work even for a millisecond. If you cannot do that, just let me go. I will block him. You leave first…" Zhang Tie put it straightforwardly. However, he didn't know that what he said sounded like that he was going to sacrifice himself for the sake of Yan Feiqing at this moment.

After hearing Zhang Tie's words, Yan Feiqing turned around as she gazed at Zhang Tie's face under his mask. After being silent for a few seconds, she opened her mouth, "I could control the virtual image of this Fantasy Fair Heavens-Breaking Boat, just send me a signal…"

After hearing Yan Feiqing's words, Zhang Tie knew what this virtual image was called. It was a special name. Not until now did Zhang Tie know that there was such a bizarre secret method whose effect could be similar to that of the virtual image. This secret method was simply a wholly new tool. That was amazing! When Zhang Tie recalled his incomplete King Roc Sutra , he could only let out a sigh inside.

"Fine. When I pinch your hand, you remove the shield of this Fantasy Fair Heavens-Breaking Boat for the time being…"

"You eject when I pinch you…" Yan Feiqing said icily. Even in this state, she also maintained a mighty position as she didn't want Zhang Tie to touch her hand casually.

'You eject when I pinch you?'

Zhang Tie muttered inside as he felt her words sounded a bit weird. However, in this case, Zhang Tie dared not make a joke with her. Zhang Tie knew that this kind of woman had the weirdest temperament. Sometimes, a common sentence might irritate her. As a result, she might chase after you with a saber. Therefore, Zhang Tie directly replied, "Fine!"

Soon after that, an ordinary spear appeared in Zhang Tie's hand. Closely after that, Zhang Tie felt Yan Feiqing to intensify her gripping power. Zhang Tie then instantly darted his spear towards that heavenly demon knight.

When the spear left Zhang Tie's hand, the virtual image that covered the two people disappeared in a millisecond. Closely after Zhang Tie finished his ejection, the Fantasy Fairy Heavens-Breaking Boat recovered its original look.

It was such a transient period that even though they were not covered by the Fantasy Fairy Heavens-Breaking Boat, their flight speed would also not be influenced due to great inertia.

When the spear left Zhang Tie's hand, it had reached several times the speed of sound. Zhang Tie didn't trigger his ability as a divine dominator because he felt it was not necessary for him to manifest that trump card at that moment.

The spear that Zhang Tie had thrown collided with the heavenly demon knight. Due to the great speed of the heavenly demon knight, the relative speed between the spear and the heavenly demon knight increased by 4 times abruptly and the spear became much more powerful…

This principle was akin to how a bird could destroy an airplane in the sky.

Zhang Tie threw a spear instead of a bird; neither the heavenly demon knight was an airplane. The heavenly demon knight only had 3 choices to deal with the spear which was darting towards it at a speed of almost 10 times the speed of sound, namely, face-to-face, dodge and hit it down.

Whichever choice it made, it would slow down.

The first spear was hit down by the heavenly demon knight from 2,000 m away. During this interval, the distance between the Fantasy Fairy Heavens-Breaking Boat which covered the Zhang Tie and Yan Feiqing and the heavenly demon knight increased by over 50 m at once.

Zhang Tie burst out into laughter as one more spear appeared in his hand, "One more…"

Yan Feiqing pinched Zhang Tie's hand once again. Zhang Tie then threw the second spear, causing a loud sonic boom in the night air…

The spear was hit down once again. However, the distance expanded by 100 more meters.

The heavenly demon knight was driven mad as it kept screaming loudly…

'This method works!'

Zhang Tie was spirited, 'Who said that the bolt-in-palm, the highest realm of spear throwing skill could only be used to deal with battle spirits at most? In this case, such a simple spear throwing skill could absolutely save our lives. Even a heavenly demon knight is at the end of its rope.'

…

After 1 hour later, the distance had been expanded to over 10,000 m. Whenever the heavenly demon knight approached a range, Zhang Tie would throw his spear towards it so as to expand the distance once again. When Zhang Tie felt that they could completely extricate it, Yan Feiqing's snow face suddenly turned red while she spurted out a mouth of blood…

At this moment, the two people might have been out of the territory of Wuzhou Province and entered the wilderness while an endless lake appeared in front of them. The Fantasy Fairy Heavens-Breaking Boat suddenly quivered a bit as it instantly dove into the wild lake out of control or on purpose, arousing a 100 m higher billow…

Chapter 1342: An Underground Crystal Cave

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

The moment they entered the water, the Fantasy Fairy Heavens-Breaking Boat of Yan Feiqing had collapsed being influenced by the great impact force and water pressure. The cold qi over this woman even made Zhang Tie tremble once and froze her body in a split second…

Zhang Tie ran his battle qi and shattered the ice over Yan Feiqing. After that, he found her lips were so pale that they looked almost transparent.

'Damn, that's not good.'

"Ahh, are you okay?" Zhang Tie asked as he started to accelerate in water by pulling Yan Feiqing's arm.

In water, Zhang Tie could be as free as fish. Even though Zhang Tie didn't use his ability as a divine dominator, he could also reach over 1,000 m per second, which could even match their speed in air.

In the case of Zhang Tie, it was not difficult for him to extricate from the chase of the heavenly demon knight. However, he had to consider well about the method.

Since he appeared, Yan Feiqing had been treating him calmly. Additionally, as he had shown his Thor's Hammer in front of her and met her before, Zhang Tie didn't know whether this woman knew his real identity or not. Zhang Tie didn't want to expose his ability as a divine dominator to this woman; neither did he allow this woman to be bullied by demons; therefore, it was a bit tricky now.

"There's a huge hole at the bottom of the lake in front of us…enter it…" Yan Feiqing said faintly.

After hearing Yan Feiqing's words, Zhang Tie became relaxed at once——it turns out that Yan Feiqing has been here before. Nice!

Zhang Tie hurriedly rushed towards that hole with Yan Feiqing. Being in their protective battle qis, they were moving as fast as torpedoes.

After hearing the noise from behind, Zhang Tie knew that the heavenly demon knight had been approaching them.

They were in a saltwater lake in the wilderness. The salinity of water must have been in full saturation. With no fish in the lake, there were only a few aquatic plants and a large area of salt crystals at the bottom of the lake.

In salt water, sound's transmission speed could almost reach 1,500 m per second. Therefore, they could easily hear the noise from behind them. Given the decibel, the heavenly iron-armored demon knight was even moving faster than Zhang Tie in water as their distance was constantly narrowing. Zhang Tie was really startled by that. Not until then did Zhang Tie realize that iron-armored demon could move so fast in water because the shell and scales over iron-armored demons could reduce resistance to its minimum in water. On the premise that Zhang Tie didn't trigger his ability as divine dominator or Castle of Black Iron, the heavenly iron-armored demon knight could even move a bit faster than him in water.

Wing demons were responsible for the air; spider demons were responsible for the earth while iron-armored demons were amphibious which could even move faster in water than on earth. This was the establishment of the main arms of the services of demons.

'F*ck!'

Zhang Tie hurriedly rushed towards that huge hole while pulling Yan Feiqing's arm.

In water, Zhang Tie's spear didn't work anymore. Zhang Tie had tried before. Although water looked weak, it could form numerous barriers to weapons being darted in it. No matter how powerful your spear was, as long as it reached 500 m away in water, it would lose its power.

After moving forward less than 120 miles in water, they had seen a pitch-dark hole in front of them. The distance between them and the heavenly demon knight also shrunk to about 2,000 m from over 10,000 m…

"You can never escape…" A grim and sinister sound drifted from behind together with the heavenly demon knight's powerful battle qi strike from over 2,000 m away.

The moment the heavenly demon knight launched a strike, the powerful battle qi strike had directed the water all the way towards Zhang Tie and Yan Feiqing in terms of a light pillar-like impact wave.

When in water, Zhang Tie had an extremely sensitive sense. The moment his surrounding water flows moved, Zhang Tie had sensed great strength from behind. Zhang Tie instantly punched back while surging forward…

As the danger approached, even Yan Feiqing who was a bit weak lashed out a sword towards the heavenly demon knight…

In the great shock, Zhang Tie instantly felt his chest and back being hammered heavily by two forging hammers of hydraulic presses. After being involved by the aftermaths of the heavenly demon knight's strike, his Chaos crashed. As a result, Zhang Tie felt sweet in his throat while he almost spurted out a mouth of blood.

Zhang Tie swallowed it back. However, Yan Feiqing who had long been injured spurted out a mouth of blood.

'Is that the power of a heavenly demon knight?'

This strike was the first round of the fight between Zhang Tie and a heavenly-level demon knight.

Although Han Zhengfang was a heavenly knight, he had declined to be a shadow knight when he was killed by Zhang Tie.

Both the halos priest of Sacred Light Empire and Gao Tianzhao were shadow knights.

Honestly, without using the ability of a divine dominator, Zhang Tie felt that the heavenly knight could kill him in an overwhelming way. The heavenly demon knight's strike could be so destructive over 2,000 deep in water, not to mention in the sky or in close combat.

After this strike, Zhang Tie sped up with the strength of counter-shock in water as he instantly entered that hole together with Yan Feiqing.

The diameter of the entrance of the hole was over 100 m. After entering the hole, he found that the hole extended all the way to the underground space. After hundreds of meters, the cave constantly shrunk with some bypasses…

"The 3rd on the left…" Yan Feiqing's voice entered Zhang Tie's ears once again. Zhang Tie immediately rushed inside.

It was a complex underground watercourse like the crisscrossed roots of an old tree. After entering the 3rd hole on the left for less than 500 m, Zhang Tie met another bypass.

"2nd on the right…" Yan Feiqing opened her mouth while her voice sounded weaker. Zhang Tie instantly rushed into the 2nd watercourse on the right side.

At this moment, the diameter of the watercourse had been only a few meters high. As Zhang Tie moved forward, he kept dropping alchemist' bombs into the pits in that watercourse like setting torpedoes.

After moving hundreds of meters ahead, he ran his spiritual energy and detonated those alchemist's bombs directly.

With the loud booms and the impact waves in water, Zhang Tie directly destroyed a 100 m long watercourse. When the impact wave reached them from behind, their protective battle qi could withstand it easily.

Zhang Tie was thinking about that, construction would always be more difficult than destruction. Take a kid building a sand castle on the beach as an instance, it might take a kid a couple of hours to build a sand castle; however, it would take another kid only half a minute to destroy that castle. It was easy for Zhang Tie to destroy a section of the watercourse; however, it would take that heavenly demon knight much longer than him to break through that watercourse. No matter what, it couldn't crash onto the rocks with its head.

As was imagined, the moment Zhang Tie ruined that section of the watercourse, he had heard the roars and earthshaking strikes from that heavenly demon knight.

Yan Feiqing opened her mouth which was slightly quivering, "Turn right…"

There were two watercourses in front of them. Zhang Tie directly entered the right one. After that, he continued to set torpedoes by dropping 7-8 alchemist's bombs. Before that heavenly demon knight approached them, another 100 m long section of watercourse had been collapsed with another boom.

In this case, that heavenly demon knight was driven berserk.

Who could imagine that there was such a weirdo like Zhang Tie in this world? Besides moving as fast as a heavenly demon knight, he also carried a portable space-teleportation equipment. Importantly, he dropped alchemist's bombs like dropping cheap white cabbages.

At this moment, even though Yan Feiqing didn't feel like doing that, she could only allow Zhang Tie to pull her forward. Just now, this woman was giving out cold air all over; however, at this moment, Zhang Tie had felt that this woman's body turned increasingly hotter. Whereas, Zhang Tie didn't care about that. No matter what, he could cure her as long as she was not dead. Additionally, given her look, she would not die for the time being.

Yan Feiqing served as Zhang Tie's guide while Zhang Tie was responsible for moving forward at a high speed. Furthermore, whenever he entered a new watercourse, he would drop 7-8 alchemists' bombs and destroy it, causing so many obstructions and difficulties for that heavenly demon knight.

When Zhang Tie destroyed the 5th watercourse, he had not been able to hear the berserk roars of the heavenly demon knight. However, Zhang Tie was still not reassured. Not until he ruined 5 more did he stop dropping alchemist's bombs.

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After half an hour, under the guidance of Yan Feiqing, they flew out of an underground saltwater ocean and entered a bizarre underground space.

The moment Zhang Tie caught sight of that underground space, he had widely opened his mouth.

The underground space was covered with clusters of huge crystal which were always longer than 100 m. It was like a crystal wood and an urban crystal plaza.

Chapter 1343: Seeing Another Tower of Time

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

Zhang Tie had seen the world and mountains of jewelry; however, he was still stunned by this world being composed of numerous huge crystals.

Usually, Zhang Tie could at most see crystals which were a few tons in weight and a few meters in length. However, each crystal at present was like a skyscraper.

The crisscrossed crystals which were hundreds of meters in length and dozens of meters in thickness were like bridges in the underground space. The entire ground had been covered with finer crystals which were growing vigorously like weeds on the prairie. As a result, Zhang Tie felt like entering a paradise.

Compared to such huge crystals, Zhang Tie felt being dwarfed and turned as small as an ant. What a wonderful crystal world!

This world was filled with colorful huge crystals. Each crystal contained a pyramid-shaped shadow. It was the brilliance reflected by crystals that made this space resplendent. Additionally, the strong high-intensity energy carried by those crystals filled each nook and corner of this underground space.

Any piece of crystal which was heavier than 3 kg was called crystal generator as it could make people energetic and do a favor to people's cultivation. By contrast, this place was more like a crystal nuclear plant rather than a crystal generator. Anyone below knight who cultivated in this place would undoubtedly light their surging points in high efficiency. This was a holy land for cultivation, which was dreamed by everyone below knight.

Zhang Tie almost stopped moving at the sight of such a dreamland. He was really shocked by this scene, not because of his greed, but because of his reverence to the marvel in the great nature.

Such a marvel might take a few billions of years. How magnificent it was!

Each crystal here might drive people mad and would worth a lot if it was taken out of here. However, Zhang Tie thought that very few space-teleportation equipment could hold those huge crystals besides his Castle of Black Iron. Additionally, each of those crystals would weigh tens of thousands of tons. They couldn't be taken away from here unless being broken in parts.

"Hurry…the demon knight is catching up with us…"

Yan Feiqing's body turned increasingly hotter. When she spoke, she started to pant while her snow-white face turned as red as the morning glow as if she was drunk.

"Could that demon knight find us here?" Zhang Tie asked out of curiosity as he felt that it was difficult for that heavenly demon knight to break through those ruined watercourses, not to mention the maze-like bypasses.

In case of commoners, money was not almighty; however, money worked in many cases. Similarly, as for knight, equipment was not almighty; however, equipment worked in many cases. For instance, those alchemist's bombs in his portable space-teleportation equipment helped them a lot today. Without those alchemist's bombs, he might have to expose his trump card today.

"When we fought just now, it has already positioned me by its spiritual energy. That's the exclusive ability of heavenly demon knight. Within 7 days, he could sense my precise location within thousands of miles. As the crystals in this hole have strong energy, they could disrupt its spiritual energy for the time being. As a result, it could only roughly judge the location from where we disappeared. Before it comes here and sees us, it's the last chance for us to escape away…" The female shadow knight who was pretty powerful just now oozed over her forehead when she spoke at this moment. Additionally, her body looked ramshackle as if she was going to fall off at any time.

"Spiritual positioning possessed exclusively by heavenly demon knights…" Zhang Tie was startled. 'That's simply a portable tracing feather. Damn, it seems that we're not over yet.' "Ahh, it seems that you've been here before. Where're we going then?"

"There's a tunnel right in front of us. There's an underground chasm inside there. After entering the chasm, we will enter a magma sea. A location at the bottom of the magma sea could completely isolate the spiritual perception of the demon knight…"

"What about you now? Can your protective battle qi bear it? If you need, I've got some medicament…"

After seeing Yan Feiqing nodding hardly and taking out a vial of blue medicament from her portable space-teleportation equipment and drinking it up, Zhang Tie instantly pulled her towards the destination.

After drinking up that vial of blue medicament, Yan Feiqing's body temperature slowly recovered like having been poured with a basin of cold water. However, Zhang Tie felt that she was turning weaker as her limbs turned soft as if she had lost her strength completely.

In this case, no matter how magnificent this underground crystal cave was, Zhang Tie didn't have time to appreciate it; instead, he could only escape at first.

"You're so familiar with this place. Have you been here before?" Zhang Tie asked Yan Feiqing as he surged forward.

Yan Feiqing remained silent. Zhang Tie felt so embarrassed that he could only touch his nose quietly.

The underground crystal cave was so large that they had not flown out of it after 120 miles' distance according to Yan Feiqing's guidance. After making so many turns, he finally caught sight of a calm magma sea. Being reflected by the crystals, the tumbling glow of the magma sea looked more splendid in this underground space.

After feeling that Yan Feiqing had already released her protective battle qi which meant that he could enter it, Zhang Tie immediately released his protective battle qi and dove into this magma sea together with Yan Feiqing.

"Right, 9 o'clock…"

Like before, Yan Feiqing kept guiding Zhang Tie in the magma sea.

Although their speed in magma sea couldn't match that in water, they could also move above 300 m per second. After moving forward for over 20 minutes, they heard a faint earthquake and noise from the crystal cave behind them. Zhang Tie instantly knew that the heavenly iron-armored demon knight had already caught up with them. As it had lost its target, it was losing temper in the crystal cave…

"Did the iron-armored demon lose its target?"

"Yes…"

"Are we still in that huge crystal cave?"

Yan Feiqing nodded. Zhang Tie then became reassured. In this case, unless that heavenly demon knight also had lotus-flower eyes, it would be as difficult as looking for a needle in a bottle of hay for it to find the two people in the magma sea.

Except for Zhang Tie, the other knights couldn't see anything in the magma sea; instead, they could only sense it based on their powerful knight's consciousness. By contrast, Zhang Tie could see clearly those black mountain ranges at the bottom of the magma sea.

Those mountain ranges were not composed of rocks but high-purity precious gold ores that had been deposited for hundreds of millions of years. Like those huge crystals, these gold ores would also worth a lot when they were carried to the surface of the earth. However, in the underground space, they just piled up like mountains and accepted the baptism of ages quietly. Unless another earth-shaking geological movement happened in this world, these items would lie in this underground magma sea forever quietly.

After a short while, the faint rock and noise gradually faded away, which meant that that heavenly demon knight had chosen the wrong way to chase after them. On the way towards this magma sea, Zhang Tie had observed the surrounding environment and found hundreds of bypasses in the crystal space. In this case, it would be impossible for that heavenly demon knight to position them. It could only try its fortune.

Zhang Tie was curious about the location which could isolate the spiritual perception of the heavenly demon knight. If that heavenly demon knight just stayed somewhere in the crystal cave in the following 7 days, it would be troublesome. Zhang Tie might be able to stay in the magma sea for 7 days; however, what about Yan Feiqing who was already injured?

Yan Feiqing was in a volatile state as her body turned cold and hot now and then. Therefore, Zhang Tie kept a close eye on her while moving forward in the magma sea and preparing to give her a favor at any time. If her protective battle qi collapsed, she would instantly turn into ashes facing such a great stress and high temperature.

Nevertheless, when Zhang Tie was wondering which thing attracted Yan Feiqing here from far away, he was dumbfounded.

Zhang Tie's lotus-flower eyes caught sight of one thing that would be the last thing in his mind that could exist here.

Right among those gold mountain ranges, Zhang Tie caught sight of a huge pyramid, which was erecting at the bottom of the magma sea quietly and profoundly.

Compared to that pyramid that Zhang Tie saw before, this one was higher as it was higher than 10,000 m. The entire pyramid was a huge crystal which was as red as the surrounding magma sea. By contrast, it was another tower of time…

Chapter 1344: The Male's Frankness

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

A tower of time, surrounded by gold mountain ranges at the bottom of a magma sea, was pretty alluring for any knight.

Additionally, given the height and size of this tower of time, even though Zhang Tie was not an expert in the tower of time, he had known that this tower of time was unusual.

Whether a tower of time was precious or not could be judged by its size. The larger a tower of time was, the more functions it would have and the more precious it would be. This was once told by Charles, the No. 1 knight of Ramland Empire and a friend of Zhang Tie.

Among Zhang Tie's friends, Charles was an expert in studying tower of time who was very familiar with all kinds of knowledge about the tower of time. Pitifully, Charles had not experienced it in the tower of time. Additionally, before Waii Subcontinent was fully collapsed by demons, Charles had already escorted the imperial households of Ramland Empire to the Western Continent. From then on, Zhang Tie had lost contact with him. Zhang Tie even failed to see that cute and enchanting princess Candis of Ramland Empire from then on.

The current situation of the holy war changed many people's fates.

Because of this tower of time, the bygones between him and Ramland Empire flashed by Zhang Tie's mind.

However, in the blink of an eye, under the guidance of Yan Feiqing, Zhang Tie had already come to the entrance of that huge pyramid with her. After leaving the magma sea, they stood on the crystal steps of the tower of time.

It was a huge crystal gate being covered with numerous flowing runes in front of Zhang Tie. Because of the mysterious power possessed by this tower of time, the magma stayed 2 m away from the tower of time automatically, causing a 2-m wide vacuum belt between this tower of time and the magma. The magma just flew around this pyramid in a clock-wise manner…

Standing in front of the crystal gate of the tower of time, Zhang Tie clicked the tongue in wonder about the brightly red magma 2 m away, the heavenly curtain of flowing magma and the golden mountain ranges in the far. Additionally, Zhang Tie found that Yan Feiqing looked pretty sophisticated while her emotions were changing heavily which could be seen from her eyes. It seemed that she was in pain, a bit hesitated and finally became decisive…

'Does this woman have a story here?'

Zhang Tie muttered inside.

Referring to the time when Yan Feiqing promoted to a black iron knight, evidently, it was not her first time to be here. Therefore, it was normal for her to have a story here. Based on Zhang Tie's experience, it must be a man that made her emotions so complex at this moment…

"I'm weak. You can push open the gate…" Yan Feiqing's facial expression changed for a short while before she sighed with emotion and told Zhang Tie while watching the 20-m high gate of the tower of time in front of them.

"You've been here before?" Zhang Tie asked as he put his hand onto the crystal gate of the tower of time.

"Just push it open…" Yan Feiqing accented her voice distantly after hearing Zhang Tie's question although being weak, "As you've saved my life, I owe you. Given the look of this tower of time, you could at least cultivate 50 years inside, during which period, you could easily promote to a shadow knight. After leaving this tower, your reputation of Qianji Hermit would be more famous. Additionally, there's something special inside this tower. It's not only a tower of time, but it also contains something else. During the 5 decades, you could promote to an advanced profession inside…"

Yan Feiqing's words contained too much knowledge. Given her words, she might not have used this tower of time yet; therefore, she was not sure how many years could people cultivate inside. However, the fact that she was very familiar with this place was out of Zhang Tie's imagination. What was more amazing was that this tower of time could help people promote to an advanced profession. According to Charles' description, this tower of time was the most precious one…

"You've recognized my identity?"

"I've grasped a secret method. As long as I saw someone once, I would be able to identify him no matter how much he disguised himself in front of me. I've already known that it was you the moment you showed up in Xiangshan City…"

��What a secret method!' Zhang Tie shook his head as he forcefully pushed open the gate of the tower of time.

The gate of the tower of time was very heavy. Ordinary knights might have to exert their full effort to open it. However, Zhang Tie could easily open it slowly only by putting one hand on it.

As the gate was opened, a milky-white light with strong energy leaked out of the gate. Zhang Tie felt like opening a huge treasury as the qi inside the tower of time was both familiar and strange to him. Therefore, Zhang Tie became a bit thrilled.

Watching the gate of the tower of time to open, Yan Feiqing kept her eyes close on Zhang Tie. After opening the gate, Zhang Tie didn't rush into it although being a bit thrilled; instead, he turned around and asked Yan Feiqing, "Could this tower of time allow two people to enter at the same time? If only one person is allowed to access it, you can go in. After 50 years, you might have already promoted to a heavenly knight. Don't worry about me. I have my trump card to leave out of here even though the heavenly demon knight is still outside there!"

"If only one person is allowed in, don't you feel like having a try facing such a rare chance? How could you decline such a rare chance…" Yan Feiqing's facial expression turned complex as she looked at Zhang Tie and asked him such a strange question.

Now that Yan Feiqing had already known his identity, Zhang Tie directly took off his helmet and exposed his original look. At the same time, he threw the helmet into his portable space-teleportation equipment.

After hearing Yan Feiqing's question, Zhang Tie revealed a frank smile as he shook his head, "Although the tower of time is precious, I don't need to scramble for it with a woman. Additionally, you need a tower of time more than me for treatment and cultivation…"

The tower of time might be precious for others; however, it was just so-so for Zhang Tie; especially after grasping purgatory samsara method, Zhang Tie really didn't feel that the tower of time was something on purely forming chakra.

Yan Feiqing seemingly wanted to see some hypocrisy and lies from Zhang Tie's face; however, she only saw frankness and brightness…

Chapter 1345: Bizarre Corpses

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

Facing Zhang Tie's frankness and brightness, Yan Feiqing finally lowered down her sharp eye light as she let out a long sigh. Closely after that, her voice turned a bit warmer, "This tower of time is unusual. Two people could cultivate inside at the same time. Therefore, if you could bear the long boring period inside the tower of time, you could go inside together with me…"

Zhang Tie would not cast greedy eyes on the tower of time; however, now that he could have such a rare chance, he would not let it go casually. Powerhouses would always be accompanied by stars and loneliness. It was definitely an unexpected chance for him to increase decades' cultivation base only in dozens of days.

"Fine. As I've saved you and you brought me to this tower of time. We're even…" Zhang Tie said, "But I wonder whether that heavenly demon knight would find this place?"

"The space being connected to this underground crystal cave is limited. It might take it 3-5 years to find this place; however, as it's in the holy war, it couldn't leave the battlefield for so long. I guess it could only stay in the underground space for 7 days at most. If it couldn't sense its spiritual target in 7 days, it would leave this underground space. Even if it finds this place in 7 days, we don't need to be afraid of it because tower of time couldn't even be destroyed by sage knights. Even if it stays outside this tower of time, it's just waiting for death. As long as I promote to a heavenly knight, I would be able to kill that b*stard…" Yan Feiqing said icily.

"Hahaha, well, let's go inside then!" Zhang Tie burst out into laughter as he looked at Yan Feiqing and asked, "Do you need help?"

Yan Feiqing shook her head decisively, "No need, you can go inside ahead of me!"

"Wait, I don't know how long would I stay in this tower of time; I have to notice someone in advance; otherwise, if they couldn't contact me for a few months, they might think that I'm in danger or something. That would not be good!"

Under the gaze of Yan Feiqing, Zhang Tie took out a bunch of remote-sensing communications finger rings as he started to contact his elder brother, Mountain Lifting Hermit, Bai Suxian and Lu Yanyu respectively and told them that he was going to enter a closed cultivation and would not be in contact with the outside world for a couple of months. After finishing that, Zhang Tie put the bunch of finger rings back onto his neck once again before hiding them into his underclothes.

The bunch of finger rings was too eye-catching that no other human knights across Taixia country could carry so many remote-sensing finger rings like him. Therefore, Yan Feiqing couldn't stand peering at his finger rings for a few seconds.

"Harrumph, you're so busy…"

"I'm a man. You see. I have my wives, brothers, undertakings and families to care about!" Zhang Tie replied with a smile.

Yan Feiqing replied with a cold harrumph before resolutely entering the milky-white light that leaked out of the gate.

After being in meditation for half a second, Zhang Tie followed her inside too.

After Zhang Tie entered the tower of time, the crystal gate automatically closed up slowly while those bizarre runes started to flow. Unless it was opened from inside, nobody else could open it from outside including sage knights.

Closely after the gate was closed, Zhang Tie had felt that he was immersed in rick energy of the pyramid. It was as rich as honey that Zhang Tie couldn't stand taking a deep breath of the fresh air inside. From now on, Zhang Tie felt that his remote-sensing finger rings, portable space-teleportation equipment and Castle of Black Iron had been isolated by a powerful space-time strength and were not available anymore. That indicated the power of this tower of time.

Since they entered the magma sea, Zhang Tie and Yan Feiqing had not breathed yet.

The structure of this tower of time was similar to the one Zhang Tie visited last time. After passing the gate, they entered a long crystal tunnel which was covered with crystals tightly. The crystals were covered with bizarre glowing runes. People's shadows could be seen on the surface of the crystals, making Zhang Tie feel like entering a kaleidoscope.

However, this crystal tunnel was many times wider and larger than that Zhang Tie saw before. Additionally, Zhang Tie entered this one together with a woman.

Yan Feiqing was breathing heavily. The rich energy in the pyramid made her face look a bit better as if it was conducive to her wound.

As Yan Feiqing breathed heavily, Zhang Tie naturally moved his eyes onto her plump breasts under her white robe. Just now, Zhang Tie didn't notice her figure carefully. At this time, he found that this woman's figure could even match that of Guo Hongyi. However, this woman looked very aggressive. After being glanced by her, timid men would lose their courage at once. Few males might dare gaze at her body like Zhang Tie did. Even the grand elder of Heavens Fortune Sect was hung and beaten by this woman in the peach wood when he was young, who else across Taixia Country dared stir her up?

"What are you looking at?" Yan Feiqing asked when she sensed that Zhang Tie was gazing at her undulating breasts and was irritated about his deed. When she glared at Zhang Tie icily, her hand moved habitually. However, she finally stopped that.

Watching Yan Feiqing's hand movement, Zhang Tie hurriedly jumped off. 'Damn, this woman is really tricky. If she was holding a sword just now, she had long-lashed out towards me. Thankfully, she has already put away her sword.'

"Ahem…ahem…ahh, nothing, nothing, I just wanted to confirm that you're okay…" Zhang Tie said in a guilty manner.

Yan Feiqing glared at Zhang Tie once again before turning around and continuing to move forward. Zhang Tie didn't act too presumptuous; instead, he just followed Yan Feiqing towards the end of the tunnel casually. According to the structure of this tower of time, the end of this tunnel should lead to the core area of this tower of time.

The two people's silvery footsteps reverberated around the bright crystal tunnel.

"May you tell me about the advanced profession?" Zhang Tie changed a topic as it would be too awkward if they remained silent at this moment.

"I don't know…" Yan Feiqing opened her mouth icily without even looking at Zhang Tie.

However, her voice sounded a bit trembling which was a bit strange. The closer Yan Feiqing was to the end of this tunnel, the more mood fluctuations would she have as if there was something over there. Although Yan Feiqing tried her best to calm down, the trivial change in the frequency and strength of her footsteps evidently manifested that she was struggling inside.

After a few minutes, Zhang Tie finally understood what this woman was struggling for inside.

After passing by that crystal tunnel which was filled with milky-white energy, Zhang Tie saw two corpses at the end of the tunnel.

Honestly, Zhang Tie was really startled by the two corpses. He had not imagined seeing corpses in the tower of time.

Due to the rich energy inside the tower of time, the corpses remained as fresh as before.

One corpse was over 100 m long. It was a crocodile-like monster that Zhang Tie had never seen before. It seemed that this monster was a prehistoric mutated species. It was covered with bloody scales with a grim look. Its head was equal to the size of a locomotive. Each scale on its body was as large as people's palm…

The tunnel was scattered with its scales and golden blood stains. Strangely, the blood stains seemingly had just dried up although this corpse might have already lain here for many years.

There were also many wounds with different depths on this monster's corpse. A longsword was inserted onto its head, splitting off its head into two halves.

Together with this dead monster was a Hua male's corpse which was hung over a steel-saber like the sharp front claw of that monster. The two sharp front claws of the monster directly split open the male's body from his neck to his abdomen with one of that man's legs in its mouth.

At the sight of this scene, anyone would imagine about a life or death fight between this man and this prehistoric monster which appeared in the tower of time out of no reason. The result of this fight was that both of them died.

Zhang Tie didn't know what that prehistoric monster was thinking about before death; however, given the male corpse, besides being full of pain, he also looked a bit confused and hateful while he was looking at the entrance of the tower of time with one hand reaching towards that place as if he was going to catch something…

Now that they could enter this place, undoubtedly, that male who died together with that monster was a knight. Additionally, as that male's corpse was well preserved, Zhang Tie found that that male was handsome with sword-shaped eyebrows and shiny eyes. If this guy was alive, he would definitely be very eye-catching wherever he was. Pitifully, this guy had already been dead in a poor way.

There was a finger ring on the hand of the male corpse which reached towards the entrance of the tower of time. At the sight of it, Zhang Tie had known that it was a space-teleportation finger ring.

Zhang Tie didn't know about the identity of this guy. However, in the principle of being frugal, Zhang Tie was going to take off the finger ring from the male corpse. However, Yan Feiqing screamed abnormally…

"Don't touch his belongings…"

Zhang Tie turned around with a dumbfounded look as he found that Yan Feiqing was watching this corpse with disordered qi and undulating breasts as well as a complex look while clenching her fists tightly, causing her fingers to be as white as her face…

Chapter 1346: A Dreamland

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

Yan Feiqing's scream stopped Zhang Tie. Zhang Tie turned around and watched Yan Feiqing for a few seconds. He then guessed that Yan Feiqing might be familiar with this man; not only that, they might have emotional collisions. Otherwise, Yan Feiqing would never have acted so abnormally. However, given the poor look of this male's corpse, Zhang Tie concluded that Yan Feiqing might abhor him more than love as she didn't even feel like burying his corpse.

Now that this man could perish together with this bizarre prehistoric monster inside this tower of time, it seemed that he must be very hapless.

After moving his hand back, Zhang Tie shrugged as he said casually, "I only felt that it's a bit useless to have the space-teleportation finger ring lie here. Now that you're familiar with this man, I will not touch his belongings then!"

Yan Feiqing tightly pursed her mouth as she watched Zhang Tie for a short while silently before continuing to move towards the core area of the tower of time.

Right being not far away from the two corpses, Zhang Tie saw a bright light film, which was the last barrier for distorting the space-time strength. After entering it, Zhang Tie and Yan Feiqing would be completely isolated from the outside.

After coming to the front of the light film, Yan Feiqing said calmly with her back against Zhang Tie's face, "As this tower of time is available for 2 people at the same time, we need to enter this time-space barrier at the same time. On the count of three, we will enter it simultaneously…"

Zhang Tie came to the light film. He stretched out his hand to touch it as he really discovered that there was an invisible barrier outside that light film which prevented his hand from reaching inside. No matter how much strength did he use, he could never move that light film even a bit.

"Okay…" Zhang Tie replied.

It was Zhang Tie's first time to know that a tower of time could pose such a request for two people to enter it at the same time. Even Charles might have not heard about such a tower of time. As there were so many mysteries about the tower of time, Zhang Tie would not feel too amazed no matter how strange it was in front of such a marvelous project.

However, after hearing Yan Feiqing's words, Zhang Tie seemingly understood why there were two corpses outside this light film. The probability was that the two corpses might have encountered outside there due to some reason. They then started a fight there and finally died together. If that man was an animal controller, he might be able to communicate with that prehistoric beast in case of conflict; if not, in that case, he could only fight that berserk and aggressive prehistoric beast to death.

"One, two, three…"

When Yan Feiqing counted three, Zhang Tie and Yan Feiqing strode forward at the same time. Closely after that, the two people entered the core area of the tower of time as if they had penetrated through a layer of the transparent bubble.

The moment they entered it, the tunnel behind them had disappeared and turned into a huge piece of crystal. The two people were then surrounded by crystals, on which numerous bizarre runes started to flow at an increasing speed. Finally, those runes turned into light and made the space a huge light cocoon. At the same time, the crystals disappeared. As the light cocoon slightly rocked, a brilliant galaxy appeared above the two people. From then on, time inside started to freeze…

When the brilliant galaxy appeared, the information about this tower of time also appeared in Zhang Tie's mind.

——The tower of time has been started. The space-time torsion is equal to the standard difference between the rotation time and the revolution time of this celestial body; namely, one year inside this space is equal to 1 day outside.

——After 2 change circles of the phase of moons, namely, 60 years inside this space or 60 days outside, the space-time torsion would return to zero. From then on, the tower of time would enter silent energy storage period once again.

——During this period, the essential energy inside this pyramid would cater to all the demands of the living beings inside it and ensure that the lives and cells of those living beings who enter this space does not age.

——This space connects to the elements realm, which could allow two entrants to cultivate inside at the same time.

——This space is matched with a rune instrument manufacturing skill promotion region. Within 60 years, the entrant would promote to immortal art craftsman at most. None of the articles inside the rune instrument manufacturing skill promotion region could be taken away.

——If the entrants want to leave out of here in advance, the two people need to rotate the time ball on the ground in an anti-clockwise manner and leave 1 hour later at the same time. Otherwise, the time ball would continue to run.

——120 years later outside, the tower of time would restart.

These tips were similar to that Zhang Tie saw in the last tower of time.

However, Zhang Tie still almost sprung up due to excitement as he had not imagined that this tower of time was matched with the rune instrument manufacturing skill promotion region. It was like a dream. A few days ago, Zhang Tie was worried about his steam centrifugal ballista because he had to grasp the skill of runes array if he wanted to invent a steam centrifugal ballista that could be used to kill demon knights. Such a skill was exclusive to the immortal craftsman. As Zhang Tie was just a major craftsman, he might not promote to a immortal craftsman in 100-200 years.

The rune instrument manufacturing skill promotion region in this tower of time was simply like a dreamland for Zhang Tie.

"I'm not going to leave until 60 years later, namely, 2 months that of the outside. If you cannot bear being lonely for such a long time, you'd better think about how to deal with it yourself. I'm not interested in becoming a rune instrument master. During this period, the rune instrument manufacturing skill promotion region will be available for you. It depends on you which level could you reach during the 60 years. Additionally, when I'm in cultivation, don't disturb me. Otherwise, I will show you something…"

Yan Feiqing said icily, ignoring Zhang Tie's emotion fluctuations. After finishing her words, she walked all the way towards the only crystal bed. Sitting on it with crossed legs, she started to cure her wound.

Zhang Tie didn't know how was Yan Feiqing's wound. However, after seeing that this woman could sit down and cure her wound herself, Zhang Tie realized that she might be okay. Therefore, he left her alone. Actually, after entering this space, Zhang Tie had sensed that Yan Feiqing was still a bit on guard against him from inside and intended to keep away from him. Therefore, Zhang Tie could only treat it as this old virgin's weird temperament and didn't care about it too much.

The space of the core area of this tower of time was over 10 times larger than that he saw in the last tower of time. It was very simply furnished inside this space. Besides that crystal bed at a corner, he only saw a high platform in the middle of the space and the rune instrument manufacturing skill promotion region in the far.

This place could hold 10,000 soldiers for drill, not to mention only 2 of them.

After Yan Feiqing sat down with crossed legs, the space became pretty quiet with the hovering galaxy and the sufficient energy…

Zhang Tie ran towards the high platform in the middle of this space.

That high platform was over 100 m high, making it pretty eye-catching. The steps were composed of crystals. On the top of the platform, there was a round region which covered over 1,000 square meters. In the center of that region, there were two time balls which were standing there quietly with a distance of over 20 m. Being not far from the two time balls, Zhang Tie saw two raised crystal mattresses. Zhang Tie came to the front of a crystal mattress and sensed it. He found that the locations of the two crystal mattresses were where this tower of time was connected to the elements realm. This place was like an advanced elements gathering matrix where people could form their chakras rapidly due to the plentiful elements.

Zhang Tie estimated that it would take him almost 20 years to form the last 36 scales of his water chakra at this place. In the remaining 40 years, even if he exerted his full efforts in forming wind chakra, he could at most promote to 1 change realm of shadow knight. As he cultivated an emperor-level secret method, after promoting to a shadow knight, he needed more wind elements than others who cultivated secret methods below shadow knights which meant a slower speed to form his wind chakra.

The tower of time might be the best place for others to cultivate; however, the tower of time was a bit useless for him. As he had grasped the secret method of Purgatory Samsara Method, it would be unreasonable for him to cultivate in the tower of time. During the 60 years, he could definitely reach the 16h floor of his All-spirits Pagoda and promote to an elder of Great Wilderness Sect, who could control knight-level mutated beasts.

Without Great Wilderness Sutra , he could also practice secret skills of Bloody Soul Sutra inside. Moreover, there was a rune instrument manufacturing skill promotion region inside which Zhang Tie had always been dreaming for.

During the 60 years, even if Zhang Tie only promoted to one level higher, he could also become at least a craftsman master, which meant a lot for him…

Chapter 1347: Being Busy

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

The rune instrument manufacturing skill promotion region in the tower of time was as large as 5 football courts. This region was a huge semi-closed crystal Mongolian yurt with a portal.

Out of great curiosity, Zhang Tie entered that region through that portal.

Being different than that simple and spacious space of the other regions in the tower, this rune instrument manufacturing skill promotion region shocked Zhang Tie for quite a while.

Given its look, the region was only as large as a few football courts; however, after entering it, Zhang Tie discovered that the inner space of this Mongolian yurt was over 100 times greater than that 6f the outside. This was a bizarre space whose inner space was greater than that of the outside. Although the inner space was not as large as that of Castle of Black Iron, it was the only space that could allow living beings to access which Zhang Tie had ever seen, except for Castle of Black Iron.

It was all wilderness in this space; precisely, the rune instrument manufacturing skill promotion region was an exotic theme amusement park.

The moment Zhang Tie entered it, he had already seen the land which carried the pristine qi of soil. Zhang Tie thought it was an illusion. However, after stepping onto it by foot, taking some soil and rubbing it, Zhang Tie confirmed that they were real with a thick layer. Additionally, the soil was special quality clay which was abundant in high alumina which was always used to make refractory bricks in a blast furnace.

It was a necessary skill for a major craftsman to identify the property of soil. Zhang Tie didn't know about it before. However, after being a major craftsman, he knew it.

On the land which was as large as dozens of football courts, Zhang Tie noticed the traces of various ores; importantly, coal and iron ores. Besides, he also found some other ores and rotten wood…

A brook, which was filled with stones, was flowing by this land. After washing his hands in the brook, Zhang Tie cupped a bit water and tasted it when he found that it was drinkable.

Zhang Tie had never imagined about meeting such things in the tower of time.

After passing this wilderness, he came to a region which was covered with stones. Various bizarre smelt metals and some coarse metal tools were placed on rows of standard racks tidily and respectively, which accounted for almost half of this region. As a result, Zhang Tie felt dizzy.

Mithril, mountain brass, abyss iron, black gold, violet gold, platinum, blue gold and navyblue iron, all these that Zhang Tie could identify existed here in a large quantity. There were also many more precious metals that Zhang Tie had never seen before. Those metals were the raw materials for rune instrument manufacturing masters.

After passing this region, Zhang Tie came to a region whose floor was covered with crystals. This region, as small as a common warehouse, was close to the edge of rune instrument manufacturing skill promotion region. There were a bizarre smelting furnace, a senior metal processing platform, various rune metal processing tools and some strange devices in this region.

The rune instrument manufacturing skill promotion region was divided into 3 parts which were clearly hierarchical from the primary level to the senior level. That pristine land was like a wilderness while the last crystal region was like a master's workshop.

What Zhang Tie was interested in most was that huge crystal ball whose diameter was about 1 m in the most eye-catching location of the last region. The crystal ball was covered with numerous runes. There was a concaved palm-shaped mold on the crystal ball which could allow one's palm to be put in. Only after observing this crystal ball for a short while, Zhang Tie had already known its usage. He then put his palm onto the mold. In a split second, enormous information poured into Zhang Tie's mind from that crystal ball.

The information that Zhang Tie acquired was mainly composed of two parts: first, the introductions about all the metals, tools and strange devices in the rune instrument manufacturing skill promotion region. After acquiring such information, Zhang Tie was very familiar with this region.

Second, 10 functional modules. There was the most professional and comprehensive guidance in each module. The entrant could gradually grasp all the skills and knowledge required by craftsman apprentice, craftsman, copper hammer craftsman, silver hammer craftsman, gold hammer craftsman, mithril craftsman, mysterious runes craftsman, major craftsman, craftsman master and immortal craftsman.

Zhang Tie attempted to select the module of craftsman apprentice spiritually. In a split second, all the information concerning craftsman apprentice started to pour into Zhang Tie's head.

Being not limited to words, the information also included pictures and images and some pure experience and gnosis which could only be passed through conscious waves.

Although being a major craftsman, Zhang Tie was also shocked by what he acquired about craftsman apprentice. Because this knowledge was definitely more complete and deeper than that he inherited from "Old Jiang". The most precious knowledge was in the "implicit knowledge" of this phase.

Human knowledge was divided into two categories. The common knowledge being expressed by words, map or mathematic equations that we learned at school or library was called explicit knowledge. The other sort of knowledge which couldn't be expressed systematically was called implicit knowledge which was our recognition about some actions.

The phrases being close to implicit knowledge were experiences and gnosis. Usually, all the experienced senior technicians in factories had accumulated implicit knowledge which couldn't be learned from books. Being implicit knowledge, they were principles and methods that could only be comprehended through practice.

The crystal ball in the rune instrument manufacturing skill promotion region contained a lot of implicit knowledge about each level of rune instrument manufacturing master, which was priceless in the eyes of each rune instrument manufacturing master.

Zhang Tie kept absorbing information from the crystal ball thirstily.

After learning the knowledge about craftsman apprentice, Zhang Tie selected the knowledge about craftsman, copper hammer craftsman, silver hammer craftsman, golden hammer craftsman, mithril craftsman, mysterious rune craftsman and major craftsman consecutively.

Standing beside the crystal ball, and with one hand on it, Zhang Tie maintained this gesture for over 50 hours before absorbing all the knowledge about the 8 levels of rune instrument manufacturing master.

Of course, it was not enough for him to only absorb the knowledge from the crystal ball; otherwise, it would be too easy for one to promote to a rune instrument manufacturing master. The most important function in the rune instrument manufacturing skill promotion region was that he could practice inside himself.

Previously, Zhang Tie wanted to learn the knowledge about craftsman master directly; however, after absorbing the information, Zhang Tie sensed that he lacked practice on rune instrument manufacturing skills and manipulative ability. Therefore, after thinking about it for a short while, Zhang Tie determined to lay a solid foundation on his manipulative abilities and fundamental skills ahead of contacting contents about craftsman master until he was able to promote to a higher level.

This was what Zhang Tie concluded after absorbing those "implicit knowledge" over the past 50 hours; namely, to accumulate richly and break out vastly.

Being unlike commoners, knights who were immersed in cultivation and gnosis felt that 2 days was just the blink of one eye.

As it was quiet outside the Mongolian yurt, Zhang Tie knew that Yan Feiqing was still healing her wound on the crystal bed. Therefore, he didn't care about what was going on Yan Feiqing's side.

'Just do it!'

After recalling what he had learned about craftsman apprentice, Zhang Tie immediately ran to the barren land and started his work.

After running to the riverside, Zhang Tie found a sharp-edged stone over there. After that, he started to dig soil using the stone not far away from the brook. After a short while, Zhang Tie had dug a pit. He then went to fetch a rotten wood. He made a groove on the rotten wood using the sharp-edged stone. After running here and there for a few rounds, Zhang Tie made the soil in the pit into mud before starting to knead it.

When the mud could be shaped, Zhang Tie made a simple brick kiln using the stones alongside the brook and the mud in the pit…

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When Zhang Tie was busy doing his work, Yan Feiqing who was healing her wound turned hot and cold and was quivering slightly; besides, her face turned red and white every now and then…

Chapter 1348: A Hot Kiss

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

Zhang Tie was completely immersed in his own world in the rune instrument manufacturing skill promotion region of the tower of time.

In the wilderness, Zhang Tie started to practice what he had learned from the fundamental skills of craftsman apprentice in the wilderness.

Zhang Tie had never done that before which was both familiar and strange for him. In the outside world, Zhang Tie would never feel free to fiddle with these things which looked naive and time-consuming. However, in the tower of time, Zhang Tie had enough time to do that. Additionally, his principal target in the tower was to promote to an immortal craftsman, which was the key step for him to make his dream come true.

Zhang Tie completely took what he was doing as an amusement. The entire rune instrument manufacturing skill promotion region was like an exclusive amusement region for Zhang Tie.

After making that simplest brick kiln, Zhang Tie didn't stop.

After sharpening the edge of that stone on a rock alongside the brook, Zhang Tie fetched two more rotten timbers and some small wooden clubs.

After having those wooden clubs roll down a piece of flat rock, Zhang Tie could easily choose the best one for making fire. After that, he sharpened one end of the wooden club a bit using that sharp-edged stone and made the first tool for making fire.

Although this link sounded simple, the simplest way to choose the best fire-making wooden club and to ensure that the angle of the sharp end of the wooden club could maintain the biggest friction heat coefficient when being drilled couldn't be learned from books.

After doing all these, Zhang Tie broke a dried and rotten wood by a piece of stone and ground them into wood bits. After that, he went to the bank of the brook and picked two brown stones. After rubbing them with each other, he saw sparkles. Therefore, he was sure that the two pieces of stones contained a high content of sulfur. He then rubbed a part of one piece of stone into pieces and put some particles of the stone into the concaved part of a rotten wood plus some wood bits. After that, Zhang Tie started to drill the wood for fire using a wooden club.

Those particles of the stone which contained a high content of sulfur could increase the friction force between the wooden club and the dried wood so that those wood bits could be lit at a faster speed.

If he used his battle qi or ability as a knight, Zhang Tie could easily make all these; however, by doing all these with the ability of a common craftsman apprentice, he could gain different achievements and pleasures.

Only after a few minutes, the wooden base had started to smoke while those fine wood bits started to turn red and burn up. Zhang Tie then added more fine wood bits and woods on it. After a short while, the fire had flared up.

After moving the fire into the brick kiln, Zhang Tie added some woods inside. After having the blaze under control, Zhang Tie ran to the bank of the brook and dug another big pit where he started to make mud once again.

The content of water was an important factor in making mud. If too much water was used, the mud would be too diluted and could barely be shaped; if too less water was used, the mud would not be too glutinous and would easily crack up when heated. Besides, in the process of making mud, the mud should be sticky in a balanced and fine way. No single particle or bubble was allowed. Most importantly, also the last step, he should fix the size of the bricks according to the property of the mud. The size of a brick was in correspondence with the property of mud, which determined the degree of fire-resistance and durability of the refractory bricks. If the size of bricks couldn't match the property of the mud, the bricks would face problems. Although it seemed to be a coarse job, it also contained fine knowledge.

After making mud well, Zhang Tie fetched some wood blocks and two pieces of stones as he made a simple manual brick making tool using them. After stabbing this tool into the well-made mud, Zhang Tie moved some mud out of there. After that, he spread it over the flat stone and made a relatively regular rectangular mud brick.

When he was making mud, he kept making tens of thousands of bricks.

When the former mud bricks were dry, Zhang Tie placed those bricks into the kiln and started to bake them.

Whatsoever, Zhang Tie would not feel hungry or thirsty inside the tower of time; therofore, he was just preoccupied in it and almost forgot about time…

After baking bricks, he built the first coke oven using the first batch of well-baked refractory bricks.

After building the coke oven, Zhang Tie went for coal and used coal as coke.

Zhang Tie kept working as follows:

Baking bricks; making coke; making a simple blower device; digging iron ores by simple tools; building a smelting furnace using the well-made refractory bricks and glutinous soil; putting in coke and iron ores…

When Zhang Tie saw red liquefied iron flowing out of the smelting furnace, he almost dropped tears. It was really not easy for one to start an undertaking from scratch.

At the sight of the liquefied iron, Zhang Tie hurriedly led the liquefied iron into a simply baked sand mold which was made of glutinous soil and sand from the brook.

Zhang Tie made over 30 molds in total. After pouring liquefied iron into these molds, Zhang Tie got the first batch of iron tools only after having the liquefied iron to cool down in the molds and simply dealing with them. With this batch of iron tools, Zhang Tie could raise his productive efficiency by many times and do a lot of things. Later on, Zhang Tie could produce steel in this wilderness through various methods that he had grasped such as bloomery steelmaking method, steel frying method, perfusing steelmaking method, raw and cooked steelmaking method, crucible steelmaking method, converter steelmaking method, open-hearth steelmaking method, one-step steelmaking method and runes steelmaking method…

With steel, he would make more tools easily such as a steam engine…

This process was fundamental for craftsman apprentice which was the preliminary step for rune instrument manufacturing masters.

After trying it from scratch, Zhang Tie indeed gained a lot.

After those molds cooled down, Zhang Tie dealt with over 30 iron tools using the sands and rocks alongside the brook. Watching these iron tools, Zhang Tie finally let out a deep sigh satisfactorily.

After picking a complex iron chisel that was used to process wood, Zhang Tie flipped it, causing a melodious metallic sound. Zhang Tie then nodded. The quality of iron varied due to its maker. Although Zhang Tie's iron making equipment was the simplest, he used the skill of steel frying method as he lowered the content of carbon in pig iron to a certain degree. Therefore, although these tools were ironwares, their quality was absolutely much better than ordinary iron tools. Actually, they looked more like steelwares.

'After coming out of here, I would not be doubted by people anymore after exposing my identity as a rune instrument manufacturing master to the public.'

Zhang Tie thought as he put down the tool satisfactorily. Previously, if he revealed his identity as a rune instrument manufacturing master, he might be doubted and treated as a weirdo. From then on, he would not worry about that. 'My skills as rune instrument manufacturing master come from the tower of time. I don't know about plundering fruits at all. I will see who can say no to me. The fact that I could meet another tower of time only indicates that I have great moral standing. Goodness will always have a good reward, admire me or not…'

"Hahahaha…" Zhang Tie burst out into laughter. After that, he stroked his face as he muttered, "I wonder whether that woman has healed her wound or not? I should at least show my solicitude to her. It seems that I've been in this region for 15 days…"

In the blink of an eye, Zhang Tie had stayed in the rune instrument manufacturing skill promotion region for 15 days, during which period, Zhang Tie made his first batch of iron tools from scratch. Not until then did he feel a bit fatigued.

Even knights had to sleep in the tower of time; otherwise, it would violate the universal laws of the existence of living beings. Although Zhang Tie was energetic, he would also feel fatigued.

After cleansing his face, Zhang Tie exited the huge crystal Mongolian yurt.

The moment he walked out of the crystal Mongolian yurt, he had moved his eyes onto that high platform.

Yan Feiqing was not cultivating there; otherwise, he would sense evident elements response over there. Therefore, Zhang Tie walked towards her crystal bed.

Soon after he made a detour around that cultivation platform, Zhang Tie had already caught sight of Yan Feiqing…

Zhang Tie was startled so much that he instantly accelerated more than 100 times and arrived at the bedside in the blink of an eye.

Yan Feiqing was not sitting on the bed; instead, she was lying there with eyes closed and messy hair. There was a puddle of blood on the bed, which was flowing out of Yan Feiqing's left wrist. Additionally, Yan Feiqing was holding her bun by her right hand. The wound on her left wrist might be caused by Yan Feiqing herself. Zhang Tie wondered why this woman would try to commit suicide in this way…

Zhang Tie hurriedly checked it. There was still fresh blood on her bun; additionally, her wound was still gurgling blood. All these indicated that Yan Feiqing had just tried to commit suicide…

Zhang Tie instantly tore off one sleeve and split it into strips. Closely after that, he started to dress the wound of Yan Feiqing.

When he prepared to dress the wound, he cleaned the blood stains and found that there was more than one wound on her left wrist. Zhang Tie then knew that it was definitely not her first time to try committing suicide these days.

'Is she crazy?' Zhang Tie wondered.

Yan Feiqing was cold all over. Strangely, the moment Zhang Tie took her hand and touched her body, Yan Feiqing's body had started to turn as hot as a kettle of boiling water…

When Zhang Tie helped her bind up her wound, Yan Feiqing, being in a coma, uttered a low groan. Closely after that, she opened her eyes. When she saw Zhang Tie tearing off his sleeve and helping her bind up her wound, she roared with quivering and faint voice, "Piss…piss…off…" while a struggling eye light flashed across her face unconsciously.

"Ahh, my lady, don't do that. Even if I know that you and that dead guy outside there have any emotional collisions, you don't need to do that. Don't choose to die here for love. As we're alone here, if you really died here, the others would doubt that it's me who killed you. I can't stand a woman seeking for death in front of me…" Zhang Tie said as he kept bindng up her wounds while lowering his head. Honestly, as Zhang Tie had a self-healing body, he did not excel in dealing with wounds; especially that there was more than 1 wound on her wrist. "As you've not healed your wounds, if you need any help, just let me know. No matter what, I will always be a good man here. By the way, I've got some vials of medicaments…"

"Let…let go of my hand…don't touch me…" Yan Feiqing's face had turned red only after a few seconds while panting. At the same time, she wanted to draw her hand out of Zhang Tie's grasp. However, even being a shadow knight, she still couldn't match Zhang Tie in strength. Zhang Tie just held her wrist steadily and kept binding up her wounds.

"Don't move. It will be okay soon. I'm not used to that. Yi, why are you turning so warm? You were cold just now…"

Zhang Tie just felt that Yan Feiqing's current state and voice were a bit strange; however, he didn't think about it too much.

At this moment, Yan Feiqing slapped towards Zhang Tie's shoulder by another hand. Zhang Tie had not imagined that this woman could attack him in this case. As they were close to each other, he directly fell down…

Due to her wounds, her palm couldn't be as powerful as that of a shadow knight. Plus Zhang Tie's great strike-resistant ability, he only felt a bit pain; instead of being injured.

As Zhang Tie was holding her wrist by one hand, he directly drew Yan Feiqing off the crystal bed. With the inertia of her palm, Yan Feiqing directly rolled into Zhang Tie's chest…

Before feeling any pain, Zhang Tie had felt soft in his chest while Yan Feiqing's face almost touched his. At the same time, he tightly held a plump, soft thing coincidentally while supporting Yan Feiqing's waist by another hand…

Zhang Tie was almost driven mad. However, after feeling the plump and soft thing, he clenched it habitually. That was absolutely a conditioned reflex that Zhang Tie had formed when he stayed with his wives.

The moment Zhang Tie moved, he had heard a pant. He was so scared that he immediately loosened his grip. At the same time, he apologized, "Ahh, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean it…"

Zhang Tie wanted to turn around and explain it to Yan Feiqing. Coincidentally, Yan Feiqing was also turning around her face. As a result, their lips encountered in the air…

Nose to nose, eyes to eyes and mouth to mouth…

Zhang Tie widely opened his eyes in a daze as if he had been struck by a lightning bolt…

'I'm dead; I'm dead. I've touched her before and now kissed her. Will this woman kill me?'

When he thought about Yan Feiqing's stubborn temperament and her comment about him when she saw him for the first time, Zhang Tie's heart kept pounding as he just prayed for Yan Feiqing to not lose her temper; otherwise, it would be a tough way to go in this tower.

Whereas, Zhang Tie didn't know that this kiss was the last match that would ignite a powder cask.

When Zhang Tie was dumbfounded and thought that Yan Feiqing was going to kill him, Yan Feiqing moved. In a split second, she had embraced Zhang Tie tightly as she started to kiss him forcefully…