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Chapter 1476: End of the Funeral Ceremony

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

Ma Aiyun, Gu Caidie and Yuan Ziyi promoted to LV 9 within 16 years. It was neither a high speed or low speed for women. No matter what, women were always weaker than men in cultivation. Of course, they could never match Zhang Tie.

The three people had not imagined that Zhang Tie could reach such a high position within 16 years. They and Zhang Tie sighed with feelings when they talked about their own experience.

The three women's life trajectories remained unchanged in the past 16 years. However, Zhang Tie had long reached his heyday as he had become a well-known powerful knight and the 1st person in Huaiyuan Palace from the imperious teenager in Hidden Dragon Island with brilliant achievements.

Ma Aiyun spoke less. After 16 years, this vixenish senior sister apprentice became much more graceful, restrained and womanly. Recalling the one night stand in Heavenly Cold City, the moment Zhang Tie's and Ma Aiyun's eye light touched each other, they had got a special feeling.

"We three would stay one more day in Golden Light City. We will leave here the day after tomorrow. We're living in Wild Lake Building outside Golden Light City…" Ma Aiyun told Zhang Tie leisurely as her beautiful eyes sparkled.

After Ma Aiyun finished her words, the three women exchanged a glance with each other before fixating onto Zhang Tie.

Zhang Tie understood women well. According to Ma Aiyun's words, the three women actually wanted to have another meeting with him. Because this old mansion was not the right place to chat, they were all restrained; additionally, women were always shameful to put it simply. Furthermore, there was a large difference between them and Zhang Tie in position. In case of offense, they could only put it indirectly. Perhaps, the three senior sister apprentices had met some trouble and needed his help; therefore, they wanted to find another chance to tell him about it.

"After today, I would be free tomorrow and return to Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory the day after tomorrow. Not until 42 days later would I come back to Golden Light City. Let me bid a farewell to you three in the Wild Lake Building next evening!" Zhang Tie said with a smile.

"It's a deal!"

"Hmm, it's a deal!"

After making an appointment on time and place, the three senior sister apprentices had a short chat with Zhang Tie before leaving the old mansion.

After seeing off the three senior sister apprentices, Zhang Tie didn't need to meet guests anymore today.

In the afternoon, fewer people come to offer their condolences. After 3 pm, almost nobody arrived. After the sunset, the mourning hall was demolished. The old man's corpse was then moved into the coffin. In the same evening, the Zhang family buried him.

It was a funeral custom of major clans in Taixia Country to bury the dead in the evening. As the sun set, the old man's spirit and soul wouldn't be harmed. However, due to poor visibility in the evening, the old man's spirit and soul might not find the way back without light. Therefore, more preparations and investment were required, which couldn't be afforded by small families. Gradually, it became a custom for major clans to bury the dead in the evening.

When the old man was going to be buried, Zhang family lit lamps for dozens of miles all the way from the old mansion to Phoenix Mountain, 2 special evocation lamps on two sides of the road in every 7 meters. The lamps didn't go out overnight as they were guarded by soldiers of Huaiyuan Palace and Zhang people. Some streets in Golden Light City were directly closed as outsiders were not allowed in at all.

Some Masters were spraying water and leading the way ahead of them while reading mantras in weird tone. Some great-grandsons on the side of the old mansion were holding evocation banners, money trees and some funeral utensils at the end of the team. Zhang people kept spraying gold foils and joss paper. Guided by the evocation lamps, they accompanied the late old man all the way to the Phoenix Mountain.

Women didn't go back until they reached the city gate while men accompanied the old man all the way to the mountain. After burying the coffin, they covered the coffin with a thin layer of soil on the same level with the ground——the completion of initial burial.

After the initial burial, most of Zhang men returned overnight, leaving some filial sons and grandsons to "guard mausoleum" for the old man.

As the old man had just come here like how people moved to their new home, he had not completely settled down in the first evening. Therefore, he needed some guards in case of being bullied by those wandering souls and wild ghosts in the evening.

Masculine males were required to stay to guard the mausoleum. Of course, Zhang Tie, Zhang Yang, Zhang Su stayed.

A shed was put up above the mausoleum of the old man. Zhang Tie, Zhang Yang, Zhang Su and some cousins stayed in the shed to guard the old man for one night.

After daybreak, some more people would come from the old mansion to replace them so that they could return to Golden Light City.

As of now, the old man's funeral ceremony had almost come to an end besides mausoleum defense and sacrifice per 7 days. 42 days later, all the Zhang people should gather together again, build a tomb and a stele for the old man. After the final steps were accomplished, the funeral ceremony would completely come to an end.

When Zhang Tie returned to the old mansion, Elder Muyuan, Elder Muyu and Elder Muen came here to bid farewell to him. After staying in Golden Light City for 7 days to do favor to Zhang family and Huaiyuan Palace, the three elders had to leave there due to important affairs. After extending his thanks to the three elders solemnly, Zhang Tie saw them off till they boarded on an airboat, He had people take the three elders to their destinies by his imperial airboat.

Elder Muyu and Elder Muen left for Youzhou City; Elder Muyuan would go to Tiger Embracing City. As clan elders, none of them were free.

After last night and this morning, the mourning hall had already been demolished. Everything had gradually recovered, except for the two walls in the old mansion, which had been demolished, witnessed the glory and brilliance of the old man's funeral ceremony. No clans across Northeast Military Region could hold such a grand funeral ceremony.

Watching the old mansion which suddenly became tranquil, many Zhang people were not even used to it. Some servants in the old mansion were still missing the grand scene and were talking about the big figures that they saw in the old mansion…

Chapter 1477: A Fatal Trap

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

"Erm…shall I leave some guards for you?"

"No need. I will just stay in Golden Light City and bid farewell to some senior sister apprentices tonight and go back to Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory tomorrow!"

"Take care of yourself!"

"Don't worry about me. Who would dare find me trouble? These days, our parents are a bit tired. So are you, elder brother. After returning to Jinwu City, our parents should have a good rest or travel outside!"

"Hmm, I will make the arrangement!"

At dusk, after ending the trivial things on the old mansion, Zhang Yang returned to Jinwu City with his parents.

After staying in Golden Light City for 7 days, Zhang Tie and Zhang Yang were fine; however, their parents had felt a bit fatigued due to their age. Plus the wallop of the death of the old man, their parents looked gloomy. Therefore, they should have a good rest at home.

Zhang Tie saw them off until they boarded on the airboat. Before they boarded on the airboat, Zhang Tie talked with Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang knew Zhang Tie well. Previously, Zhang Yang was a bit worried about Zhang Tie's safety. However, after being told that Zhang Tie was bidding a farewell to his senior sister apprentices in Golden Light City, he relaxed his vigilance and only said a few words to Zhang Tie.

Yan Feiqing and Guo Hongyi had left Golden Light City for Three Spring Prefecture a few days ago. An uncle of Bai Suxian stayed in Golden Light City for 2 days on behalf of Lord Guangnan's Mansion politely and considerately, who left here this morning. Zhang Tie had Bai Suxian bid a farewell to him. After that, Bai Suxian directly returned to Iron-Dragon Sect. Mountain Lifting Hermit, Lu Zhongming and Lin Huanxi offered condolence two days ago and had escorted the members of Iron Heart Palace back to Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory yesterday. Therefore, Zhang Tie became free.

When the airboat took off, the sun had almost set in the west. In the afterglow, Zhang Tie saw his elder brother's airboat flying towards Jinwu City. After that, he left the airport outside the city and had the driver leave for the Wild Lake Building.

The airport was in the north of Golden Light City while the Wild Lake Building was in the south. It would take him almost 1 hour from the airport to the Wild Lake Building by car after circling around half of the Golden Light City.

When he arrived there, night had fallen. Watching it gradually turn darker from inside the car, Zhang Tie slowly became relaxed as he forgot about all the sophisticated thoughts haunting his mind these days.

In the south of Golden Light City, there were so many green mountains, making it pretty marvelous. Many major clans in Golden Light City had luxurious manors and villas with courtyards near mountains and rivers outside the city in the south. Wild Lake Building was rows of wooden complex, the highest one among which were 3-storeyed. It was a hotel right on the lakeside at the foot of a mountain. The entire complex was girdled by pines, dense reeds and wetland. What a landscape of mountains and rivers!

Many waterfowls were living in the reeds and wetland. The lake was connected to a big river within Youzhou Province in the distance. The big river linked all the prefectures in Youzhou Province in the west and directly entered the ocean in the east. From time and then, Zhang Tie could see looming ferries in the far, making it pretty artistic.

After getting off the car, Zhang Tie looked around as he nodded inside.

Ma Aiyun, Gu Caidie and Yuan Ziyi were delicate women previously in Hidden Dragon Island. After so many years, they must have not changed their taste given the hotel they chose. Zhang Tie felt it was a proper place for a party.

The Wild Lake Building was not large and was very tranquil. Besides the three women, some other guests were living here. Although it was already night, only half of more than 10 attics and cabins were bright. The moment Zhang Tie entered the gate of the complex, a male waiter had greeted him, "Welcome sir, are you going for supper or accommodation here?"

"I'm here for three girls!"

"Oh!" That waiter suddenly realized whom did Zhang Tie refer to as he threw an ambiguous and admiring glance at Zhang Tie before replying, "The three guests are living in Cloudmissing Building over there. You could see it by going there from here. Do you need any more help?"

"No, thanks!" Zhang Tie frankly walked towards the residence of the three women alone.

All the buildings here were connected by wooden bridges and corridors which were built on water. Reeds and rosy fluorescent lamps were on both sides of the wooden bridges and corridors, making it pretty tranquil.

Zhang Tie soon came to the door of the No. 9 cabin. Before he knocked at the door, the door had been opened as Ma Aiyun, Gu Caidie and Yuan Ziyi were watching him with a smile behind the door.

Although the three senior sister apprentices had changed their costumes today, they wore rigorously and seriously, exposing nothing sexual. Zhang Tie let out a sigh of relief inside. To be honest, Zhang Tie was afraid of seeing them standing in front of him in thin silk dress. If they did that, Zhang Tie would feel embarrassed, disappointed and sad instead of enjoying it.

"Where are you looking at?" Yuan Ziyi threw a glance at Zhang Tie as she said, "Are you not satisfied with our dress? I remember that someone said Aiyun had a good figure, was plump and sunken in the right places and womanly. Do you want her to show her good figure…"

After hearing Yuan Ziyi's words, Ma Aiyun threw a glance at Zhang Tie as her face blushed at once.

Zhang Tie burst into laughter as he said, "Zi Yi, Caidie, you're not worse than her either. If you want me to enjoy it one day, I wouldn't refuse it…"

"Peh, you've got so many wives. Haven't you been satisfied with it? We've heard so many dissolute affairs about you in Yingzhou Province these years…"

Zhang Tie let out a sigh as he replied, "It couldn't be so exaggerating. Actually, I'm always innocent!"

"Who believes that?"

The three people then welcomed Zhang Tie in. After making jokes, they all felt much relaxed.

"We didn't know when you would come tonight; therefore, we've not had people serve the dishes and drinks in case they turn cold…" Gu Caidie explained as she pulled the rope of a bell outside the door so as to remind the waiter to serve dishes and drinks.

After glancing at the building, Zhang Tie asked, "Do you live upstairs?"

"Yup, do you want a visit?"

"Females only! I remember that there was always such a board outside the doors of your female dorms when in Hidden Dragon Island. I dare not intrude it. It was told that all the senior fellow apprentices who dared intrude female dorms had been beaten heavily!"

"But you're already a knight, no need to be that timid!"

"The more experienced one was, the timider he would be!"

The three women were delighted once again as they directly led Zhang Tie to a room neighboring water on the first floor.

There were a soft bed and a long table in the room. Through the window, they could righty see the ripples on the lake. The window was covered by a bamboo curtain. In the room, they could hear surging water beneath the room. It was suitable for a drink.

After taking a seat, they continued to talk about their recent situations. Only after a short while, the bell had rung as Gu Caidie stood up, saying, "Here're dishes and drinks. I will open the door…"

The waiter served some trays of delicate and fresh dishes and a jug of spirit. After saying "Enjoy it", he had left.

Ma Aiyun stood up and made four glasses of spirit. After that, she took her own glass. After watching Zhang Tie for a second, she said, "When you promoted to a knight, we three didn't attend your rotating chakra ceremony. Congratulations!"

Gu Caidie, Yuan Ziyi both took their glasses after hearing Ma Aiyun's words. After that, the three women exchanged a glance with each other as they bottomed up their own spirit.

Of course, Zhang Tie would not decline. He took his glass as he raised his head and bottomed it up…

After putting down his glass, Zhang Tie found Ma Aiyun was watching him with tears.

"Aiyun, what's wrong with you…"

Closely after that, Zhang Tie felt the spirit exploding in his body like an alchemist's bomb in a split second…

Chapter 1478: Soul Leave

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

The poison in the spirit was even more effective than that of leakless fruits. Without any omen, it instantly took effect as powerful as an alchemist's bomb. Zhang Tie almost believed that he was already dead as he felt that his body had been shattered completely. However, closely after that, Zhang Tie realized that it was not his body being shattered but the contact between his awareness and his body.

In a split second, Zhang Tie felt that his soul was removed out of his body due to the "explosion". He became purely his awareness.

The toxicity of the poison blocked his mind sea and qi sea as well as cut off the contact between his awareness and body, his qi sea and mind sea completely.

Zhang Tie was instantly "split up" by the poison. Besides being still sober-minded, he couldn't control any of his cells at all.

The toxicity of the poison in the spirit was unimaginably overbearing and weird. Additionally, this poison appeared to be specially targeted at knights. Zhang Tie faintly remembered that he had heard about the name of this poison in the Mountain of Brightness.

It was Soul Leave——the number one poison in the world.

With cracking sounds, Gu Caidie and Yuan Ziyi instantly passed out as they bent over the table, pushing all the bowls and trays onto the ground as they were also poisoned.

Watching Gu Caidie and Yuan Ziyi bending over the table in a split second, Zhang Tie became disappointed completely.

This was a trap targeted at him. All the details had been considered only for this moment.

Since Ma Aiyun, Gu Caidie and Yuan Ziyi offered condolence in the old mansion, the trap had been triggered. The time that they offered condolence was arranged on purpose so that they could appoint to meet Zhang Tie here in case of any suspicion.

If they came to Golden Light City a few days earlier, Zhang Tie would not have time to meet them here. Because so many powerhouses including Bai Suxian, Mountain Lifting Hermit and elders of Huaiyuan Palace were on his side a few days ago, when the trap-maker could find a chance to poison him at all.

Today was most suitable. The old man's funeral ceremony had almost come to an end while all the guests had returned, leaving Zhang Tie alone. Therefore, the trap-maker suddenly caught the opportunity to poison him.

Gu Caidie and Yuan Ziyi didn't know what happened at all as they both looked nothing strange. In this case, two attendants who knew nothing about the conspiracy worked as the best cover, reducing Zhang Tie's alert to the minimum.

The trivial detail that they had the waiter to serve dishes and drinks after Zhang Tie arrived reduced Zhang Tie's vigilance again.

The trap-maker had also understood Zhang Tie well as he dared poison Zhang Tie in the first glass of spirit. He knew that Zhang Tie would not refuse the first glass of spirit toasted by his three senior sister apprentices.

The culprit was so considerate and vicious that even Zhang Tie felt chilly about his deed.

'Senior sister apprentice Ma doesn't have such an ability; neither does she have such a motive. She must be threatened under one's control.'

Zhang Tie couldn't move anymore. He just watched Ma Aiyun whose face had been covered with tears as he asked using his eyes, "Why?"

Ma Aiyun walked towards him as she tightly hugged Zhang Tie by arms. Her tears dropped onto Zhang Tie's body as she answered with sobs in a lower tone, "Sorry…sorry…it's for our kid…I have to do that…If not…they would kill our kid…They've promised me…as long as they get your secret skill and cultivation method of divine dominator, they would let go of you and our kid… From then on, we could live together…"

'Our kid?'

Although Zhang Tie couldn't speak or move, his heart still pounded immediately as he thought, 'Ma Aiyun got pregnant in the evening in Heavens Cold City?'

After recalling what happened that night seriously, Zhang Tie suddenly became shocked. 'That night, I drank a lot and felt a bit sleepy. Senior sister apprentice Ma slid into my tent in the midnight. I had a one night stand with her. I couldn't remember whether I had made her pregnant or not.'

The moment he heard the "as long as they get your secret skill and cultivation method of divine dominator, they would let go of you and our kid…", he had known that they were cheating her. However, Zhang Tie couldn't tell Ma Aiyun about that at this moment.

After saying some words to him in a low tone, Ma Aiyun decisively wiped off her tears. She then walked to the window and opened the bamboo curtain, hanging a red lantern on the window.

In less than 1 minute, the wooden floor suddenly revealed a hole while three people in black clothes drilled out of there from the water. One of them was gloomy in his 50's. After checking Zhang Tie and found that Zhang Tie couldn't move anymore, he let out a sigh of relief.

In a few seconds, this man had searched over Zhang Tie's whole body and collected all of his belongings including remote-sensing finger rings and put all of them into a bag. After that, he threw a glance at Gu Caidie and Yuan Ziyi. As a cold light flashed across his eyes, he shot out two battle qi from his finger and broke the heart meridians of the two women. In a split second, they spurt out blood from their mouths. After quivering a bit, they became still.

Zhang Tie's two senior sister apprentices died in front of Zhang Tie.

Zhang Tie watched them while tears rolling down…

"Ah, you promised me to not kill them…" Ma Aiyun charged at him; however, that man moved too fast. Additionally, his battle strength was many times greater than that of Ma Aiyun.

The moment Ma Aiyun moved, another person on her side had struck her hindneck by a palm. Ma Aiyun instantly passed out as she fell down.

Zhang Tie gazed at these strangers with tears in eyes. That one who killed Gu Caidie and Yuan Ziyi appeared to be shocked by Zhang Tie's decisive eye light; however, he remained silent. With a cold expression, he instantly got some snake-shaped black metal needles from the air before stabbing them into Zhang Tie's qi sea, chest and back…

Zhang Tie quivered all over a bit with great pain. Closely after that, he saw endless dark. Before passing out completely, he heard the icy words, "Take him away…"

After that, Zhang Tie felt being covered by something as he was carried and slid into the water…

Hearing the surging billows time and then, Zhang Tie was in endless dark and pain…

Chapter 1479: Launching the Strike

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

It took Zhang Tie's parents 1 hour from Golden Light City to Jinwu City. When they arrived at home, Zhang Tie had not arrived at Wild Lake Building yet.

Due to the old man's funeral ceremony these days, Zhang Tie's parents both felt a bit tired. Therefore, after returning to home and finishing supper, they had gone to bed.

However, only after 2 hours' sleep, Zhang Tie's mom had woken up without any certain reason.

"Ah, what's wrong…" Zhang Tie's dad also woke up after turning over as he turned on the light at the head of the bed. Under the lamplight, Zhang Tie's mom looked a bit pale with fine sweat drops over her forehead.

"Are you alright?" Zhang Ping asked.

"I just feel a bit flurried and sleepless!" Zhang Tie's mom said as she shook her head.

"Is it because you didn't rest well these days and met too many people in Golden Light City?"

These days, like Zhang Tie, his parents almost had a short chat with every female guest as old as them before they left. Therefore, Zhang Tie's mom didn't feel relaxed either.

"Is Guoguo safe?" Zhang Tie's mom suddenly asked Zhang Ping as she revealed a faint, gloomy look through her eye corners, saying, "As soon as I had fallen asleep, I recalled Guoguo. It felt like as same as that when Zhang Tie's eldest brother died in Blackhot City as a soldier…"

Zhang Tie had the eldest brother who sacrificed in Blackhot City very long ago. The family didn't feel like mentioning about it any longer.

"Cut it out, Guoguo is safe!" Zhang Tie's dad sat up at once. Although he comforted Zhang Tie's mom, he also suddenly became worried about Zhang Tie's safety as he suggested, "How about having Zhang Yang to contact him? They have remote-sensing finger rings…"

"Hmm…"

"I will have someone fetch Zhang Yang here…" Zhang Tie's dad then put on his clothes and prepared to exit the bedroom. Right then, the skyline in the distance suddenly became fiery. They knew somewhere in the downtown had caught a big fire without opening the curtain. Jinwu City was not large; therefore, half of the city was shocked by such a big fire.

Zhang Tie's dad went over to the window. After opening the curtain, he saw the glow that shone in the sky.

"Ah, what's happening?" Zhang Tie's mom also went over there in pajamas. At the sight of the heavy fire through the window, Zhang Tie's mom had been stunned as she stammered, "Is…is that…the valley where we produce all-purpose medicament…"

Previously, Zhang Tie's dad was the mayor of Jinwu City. Therefore, he almost immediately realized what was happening at the sight of the heavy fire as his heart raced.

Many guards and servants of Zhang mansion had been shocked by the big fire and gotten up. Many bedrooms became bright again.

In the place where servants lived in the Zhang mansion, Zhang Gui was standing in a tree shade and watching the big fire in the distance with a flash of shrewd light in eyes.

As a person who always took actions in dark, Zhang Gui's hands had touched too much blood while his heart was full of darkness. However, that dark heart also granted him an extremely sensitive feeling about dark.

Watching the big fire shooting into the sky from the valley——the all-purpose medicament base, Zhang Gui appeared sniffing something darker.

In only 2 minutes, the fire had grown increasingly bigger while the sky was growing redder. As a result, the dark red reflected from the skyline gradually lit up the tree shade where Zhang Gui was in. As the flame grew brighter, Zhang Gui slowly moved backward with the tree shade. Finally, he disappeared in the dark of the garden.

…

A few minutes later, Zhang Tie's parents had already put on their clothes as they saw Zhang Yang in the lobby who looked solemn.

"Did the all-purpose medicament base in the valley catch fire?" Zhang Tie's mom asked in a bit intense way.

"Yes!" Zhang Yang nodded. Closely after that, he revealed a smile as he comforted his parents, "Dad and mom, don't worry. Even if the entire valley was burned up, it would just be a bit loss of money. Nothing serious!"

"Has anyone got hurt?"

"I've already told the Jinwu Guards to put out the fire. We don't know about the loss yet. I'm going there with Mr. Zhu. We will deal with it timely if there is any. Dad and mom, just stay at home. I have Mr. Liu protect you at home. Don't worry! You should take a rest. I will be back soon after I deal with it!" Zhang Tie's elder brother tried his best to make his parents reassured like Zhang Tie no matter how serious the event was.

Jinwu Business Group employed a black iron knight surnamed Liu previously. In late years, as the scale of Jinwu Business Group gradually expanded, Zhang Tie's elder brother became more and more wealthy and powerful; therefore, he employed another knight surnamed Zhu. That was to say, Zhang family had two employed knights now. Zhang Yang held that his family could be safe unless demon attacked or someone dared be hostile against Zhang family in the public.

"Watch out!" Zhang Tie's dad reminded Zhang Yang.

"I see, don't worry, dad!"

"Oh, send a message to Zhang Tie. Your mom misses him again!" Zhang Tie's dad told Zhang Yang after being hesitant for a second.

"Hmm!"

After having a short chat with his parents, Zhang Yang had strode away from the Zhang mansion with Mr. Zhu, followed by a team of guards.

"All the guards at home be alert especially tonight! 2 people in each post!"

"Close the city gates! Nobody is allowed to leave the city without my written decree!"

"Curfew execution in the streets near the fire. Anyone who dares rob in chaos shall be killed!"

Zhang Yang sensed something special tonight too. However, the moment he left the gate of Zhang mansion, he had issued some orders decisively, causing the entire Jinwu City noisy.

After that, Zhang Yang got on his car as he contacted Zhang Tie by remote-sensing finger ring…

After sending the signal, he received no reply.

Chapter 1480: The Night of Blood and Flame

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

Zhang Yang contacted Zhang Tie three times; however, he received no response. Therefore, Zhang Yang felt a bit gloomy.

However, Zhang Yang didn't think that Zhang Tie would encounter any danger at this moment. Firstly, most of the people didn't know Zhang Tie's current situation. In Zhang Tie's words, only sage-level demon knights dared find him trouble. Secondly, Zhang Tie was in Golden Light City in the territory of Huaiyuan Palace. Thirdly, Zhang Yang had failed to contact Zhang Tie many times before due to various reasons. In many cases, Zhang Tie contacted him. Therefore, Zhang Yang didn't imagine the worst scenario.

Zhang Yang even doubted that Zhang Tie had some love sparkles with his senior sister apprentices after having a drink. As Zhang Tie was "busy", he didn't respond to Zhang Yang timely.

As Zhang Tie's elder brother, Zhang Yang understood Zhang Tie better than anyone else. Zhang Yang knew that Zhang Tie was amorous and soft-hearted. Additionally, Zhang Tie was extremely attractive to women at this moment. Furthermore, as a man, Zhang Yang knew men's shortcomings. In this case, if Zhang Tie lost his mind, he would really sleep with his senior sister apprentices. In Zhang Yang's eyes, given Zhang Tie's status, it was nothing serious for him to do that.

Out of the concern for Zhang Tie's health, Zhang Yang contacted an executive of Jinwu Business Group in Golden Light City, having him assign someone to Wild Lake Building to check Zhang Tie's situation.

Whereas, Zhang Yang didn't know that Wild Lake Building had caught a big fire too when the valley in Jinwu City was burning.

At this moment, the pines and the reeds around Wild Lake Building as well as those buildings in Wild Lake Building were all burning, scaring waterfowls away from the water nearby. However, it was quiet across Wild Lake Building as nobody was alive.

The big fire wiped out all the malicious traces.

…

After Zhang Yang arrived at the valley 20 minutes later, a shadow had climbed over Zhang mansion's high wall. The moment it rolled into the courtyard, a voice had sounded, "Who's that?"

Closely after that were collisions between sabers and swords, muffled voices and miserable shrieks. Zhang mansion was in a big chaos.

Such a night was destined to be chaotic. How could Zhang Tie's parents sleep well? When they were waiting for news in the parlor, unexpectedly, they heard collisions between sabers and swords.

"Lord and Madam, please go to the basement for the sake of your safety. A group of assassinators intruded into our mansion. We would never let them in with the help of Mr. Liu!"

When Zhang Tie's parents felt a bit flurried, the head of guards in Zhang mansion had entered the parlor with a team of armored guards who were holding weapons and shields. They formed two circles around the mansion of Zhang Tie's parents.

After taking a deep breath, Zhang Ping asked the head of guards, "How about Zhang Yang's mansion?"

"Don't worry, Lord, I've already transferred young master's wives and children into the basement. Only after a short while, these assassinators would be solved!" The head of guards answered in low voice.

"Lord and Madam, please wait. As there're too many assassinators, at the order of the young master, I will protect you to hide from them outside the mansion…"

The moment Zhang Tie's parents were going into the basement, they had heard a voice from outside the mansion. At the same time, Mr. Liu approached them with a glassy-eyed look from the garden.

At the sight of Mr. Liu, Zhang Tie's parents were both shocked as they didn't know whose words to follow, Mr. Liu or the head of guards.

At the sight of Mr. Liu, the head of guards frowned at once. It was not reasonable for Mr. Liu to appear here at this moment; he should be killing assassinators outside. "Is that the order of the young master? But we've not received that order!"

"The young master contacted me just now using remote-sensing finger ring. Give way to me. I will take away Lord and Madam!" Mr. Liu said in the courtyard as he watched the wall of guards outside the mansion of Zhang Tie's parents.

"Mr. Liu, please wait for a second. I will contact the young master to confirm it. No matter what, we should have a plan B for any emergency. We've been told by the young master. In this case, as long as Lord and Madam hide in the back room, even knights couldn't break the backroom in a short period, not to mention those assassinators outside!" The head of guards said as he took out his portable remote-sensing device to contact Zhang Yang.

However, before he took out his remote-sensing device, Mr. Liu had launched a strike.

With a loud sound "boom…", those guards around this mansion had been covered by Mr. Liu's battle qi as their limbs flew in all directions in a split second, making it pretty bloody outside the mansion.

It was absolutely a holocaust for a black iron knight to launch a strike towards these fighters below LV 15 in such a close distance all of a sudden. As a result, dozens of guards outside the mansion were all killed by Mr. Liu before they realized what happened.

"You…" The head of guards was so infuriated that his eyes seemed about to pop out. Nevertheless, before he made any response, Mr. Liu had already come to his front like a ghost. With only one palm, the guard's chest had become sunken completely. Closely after that, he exploded into bloody mist in the parlor…

When some blood sprayed onto the faces of Zhang Tie's parents, they both quivered a bit.

Mr. Liu then walked towards them in the bloody mist as his calm face had already turned as grim as that of a ghost, "In case of trouble, please follow me…"

Zhang Tie's mom looked completely pale. However, she decisively shook her head facing that knight-level Mr. Liu. She just held Zhang Ping's hand tightly as she threw a glance at Zhang Ping and shook her head, saying, "We will just stay here!"

"If so, please forgive me…" Mr. Liu's voice turned cold at once. The moment he wanted to move one step forward, he suddenly quivered all over. After lowering his head, he saw a part of the pitch-dark tip of the sword that came out of his chest in an unimaginable manner. When he looked back, he saw the old slave servant Zhang Gui was gazing at him icily…

'Zhang Gui? No way! Where did he come from? Why such a sword strike is so sharp and terrifying? It's a sword gesture of assassination that only knights in dark could learn. Additionally, the attacker should be an earth knight…'

'Zhang Gui is an earth knight!'

"You…" Mr. Liu wanted to say something.

However, Zhang Gui rocked his sword blade, turning Mr. Liu who made a killing spree just now into bloody mist in a split second.

Zhang Gui killed Mr. Liu like how the latter killed those guards in Zhang mansion. What a quick karma!

Zhang Tie's dad and mom were both shocked by such a fast change as they didn't know what to say.

"Lord and Madam, it's young master Zhang Tie who told this old slave to hide my real identity to protect Zhang family secretly…" Zhang Gui bowed towards Zhang Tie's parents before explaining respectfully.

"It's…Guoguo!" Zhang Tie's dad widely opened his eyes at once.

"Yes, it's young master's order!"

Right then, some powerhouses among those assassinators in black clothes had reached 100 m away from this mansion and were rushing over here while brandishing their weapons.

"Lord and Madam, please wait for a short moment…" Zhang Gui told Zhang Tie's parents. Closely after that, he disappeared from the room. In the next second, Zhang Gui reappeared in the sky above this mansion where he could overlook the entire Zhang mansion. Closely after that, Zhang Gui launched a strike. In the blink of an eye, he had launched hundreds of sword strikes. Like a peacock in its pride, the earth knight's sharp sword qi immediately spread over Zhang mansion. They even reached 1,000 m away. As a result, all the assassinators were swatted and killed like flies in a split second.

After killing these assassinators, Zhang Gui released a bloody battle qi tornado into the sky, which could be seen within 600 miles in the evening.

An earth knight was fighting in Jinwu City, where Zhang Tie's elder brother and parents were living…

Zhang Gui's battle qi tornado shocked the entire Youzhou Province, even Xuanyuan Hill at once…

Chapter 1481: The Devil in Zhang Taixuan's Heart

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

Tonight, many people were destined to be sleepless.

The study room of the Youzhou Provincial Governor's Mansion, White Tiger Building…

It was a deep night. In white robe, Zhang Taixuan was writing characters fluently with a brush dipping ink alone while holding his breath.

As was pursued by many people, the bigger the event was, the calmer one would be. Zhang Taixuan made it.

Zhang Taixuan had dealt with so many political affairs in the daytime. In the evening, he met an elder of Gu Clan, East River Prefecture and some representatives of Youzhou Provincial Steel Chamber of Commerce. Not until 10 pm did Zhang Tai Xuan become free. He then came to the study alone. He knew what was going to happen tonight——many people would die tonight in Golden Light City and Jinwu City. What happened tonight would also shock the country as a whole. However, Zhang Taixuan was not intense because he had already made arrangements perfectly.

He had deduced each detail of the event tonight, including what decisions those relevant people would probably make in that atmosphere according to their temperaments, what if someone died and what if not. After reckoning about it many times, he finally launched this strike. As for Zhang Taixuan, this action tonight was destined to succeed; if it failed, it would be due to God's will.

Sometimes, success depended on luck. In most cases, success relied on perseverance and patience.

Many people couldn't believe that Zhang Taixuan had already prepared for this action for 16 years. However, it was true.

Eyes closed, Zhang Taixuan was brandishing his brush on the snow-white rice paper with expensive Anhui ink, following his heart. Not until he stopped the last stroke did he open his eyes and look at the table in the study.

There was already a three-dimensional, magnificent drawing on the table——an ocean with surging billows; an island was in it. If Zhang people saw it, many of them could identify that it was Hidden Dragon Island and the waters nearby it.

Being contrast to the surging billows, heavy wind and low dark clouds, the scene beneath the sea in the west of Hidden Dragon Island was utterly different.

It was calm there. Additionally, there was a huge rock at the bottom of the sea where was deeper than 300 m. A line of magnificent characters was carved there——Zhang Taixuan arrived here at 17!

Right beside this line was another line which appeared as poor as ants' legs——Haha, Zhang Tie also arrived here at 16!

Actually, Zhang Taixuan knew Zhang Tie much earlier than that many Zhang elders could imagine.

One year, Zhang Taixuan was leaving for the Earth-elements Realm. He stayed in Hidden Dragon Island for a few days, during which period, he suddenly got an interest to visit the trace that he left at the bottom of the sea at a young age.

At the bottom of the sea where he got navy blue ores from, Zhang Taixuan saw the inscriptions that he left there along with Zhang Tie's line.

It could be imagined how amazed he was at that moment.

As the beloved one in Huaiyuan Palace, Zhang Taixuan was very clear how many resources had Huaiyuan Palace spent on him and how many hardships had he experienced before he left such a trace at the bottom of the sea at 17. How could an unknown common teenager surpass him at 16?

Because of this new line, Zhang Taixuan started to pay heed to Zhang Tie. Besides Zhang Taixuan himself, nobody else across Huaiyuan Palace knew it.

Soon after Zhang Taixuan entered Earth-elements Realm, Huaiyuan Palace had started to evacuate from Waii Subcontinent. At this moment, Zhang Taixuan's henchman in Huaiyuan Palace sent him a piece of news——A female disciple surnamed Ma got pregnant. Through interrogation, that pregnant female disciple admitted that her kid's father was Zhang Tie. However, Zhang Tie didn't know about her pregnancy yet.

After receiving that news, Zhang Taixuan had made his henchmen hide this affair. Meanwhile, the female disciple was under control. Nobody else knew about it.

Based on Zhang Taixuan's means and resources, it was too easy for him to completely control a common female disciple under LV 10 in Hidden Dragon Island and have her follow his will. He could completely turn that female disciple into his puppet step by step using a bit spiritual skill and some allure.

At that time, Zhang Taixuan just felt that this female disciple might be his card one day; however, he had not thought about how to use it. He had not imagined that he didn't play this card in this way until 16 years later.

Zhang Taixuan got an exotic item in Earth-elements Realm. When he left the Earth-elements Realm and saw Zhang Tie for the first time, the teenager who left words at the bottom of the sea had already become a clan elder, a dragon.

Without that exotic item that he got from the Earth-elements Realm, Zhang Taixuan might not reach this step. However, that exotic item foreshadowed what happened today; especially watching Zhang Tie becoming more and more excellent, admirable and powerful, Zhang Taixuan's jealousy and the information provided by that exotic item brought him increasingly greater wallop spiritually.

Zhang Tie's performance at the bank of Weishui River and the expose of his trump card of divine dominator finally broke Zhang Taixuan's mental defense line. As a result, Zhang Taixuan determined to rush into danger.

This time, God appeared to be standing on his side. Previously, Zhang Taixuan was worried that Zhang Tie had already recovered when he was told that Zhang Tie recovered his injuries using bloody sacrifice furnace and wavered his mind; however, according to the information exposed by Zhang Tie footsteps on the grassland when he jumped off the airboat in Golden Light City, Zhang Taixuan finally made his decision.

Zhang Taixuan knew it was not right. However, which hero had cared about right or wrong since ancient times. Each one standing on the peak of the human world was standing on numerous corpses and skeletons.

'Those who killed their brothers could also become emperors and enjoy their good fame forever. By contrast, what I did is nothing serious at all!'

A few hours ago, Zhang Taixuan had received the news that the plan in Golden Light City had succeeded. As was imagined, Zhang Tie indeed became less vigilant about the three senior sister apprentices that he knew in Hidden Dragon Island; especially that woman who had a love affair with him. Therefore, after Zhang Tie frankly went there, he was naturally under the control of Zhang Taixuan.

These years, Zhang Taixuan had studied Zhang Tie carefully. He knew that Zhang Tie was most filial besides being sentimental. If Zhang Tie and his parents were under control, Zhang Tie would meet any request of Zhang Taixuan without any resistance.

At this moment, Zhang Taixuan received news from Jinwu City by remote-sensing finger ring as he frowned at once…

"Zhang Gui…" Zhang Taixuan read it lightly as he found he had no impression about this name at all. Therefore, he shook his head before looking at the awkward characters on that huge rock in his drawing, muttering, "I've not imagined that you could arrange an earth knight on the side of your parents. Amazingly, that earth knight would like to be the slave servant of the Zhang family. It seems that it's God's will. If you could have an earth knight be your slave servant, what am I as an earth knight? However, even if the plan in Jinwu City fails, it should still not difficult for me to get that item from you…"

In the blink of an eye, all the remote-sensing finger rings in his hand rocked, including those which were used to contact elders of Huaiyuan Palace, commander of Northeast Military Region and Xuanyuan Hill… Zhang Taixuan had even heard the flurried footsteps of Elder Muray and his hoarse voice, "I've got an emergency. Hurry, lead me to clan head…"

Zhang Taixuan threw the last glance at the drawing which was still not dried yet on the table. Closely after that, he revealed a faint smile as he wove his hand, leaving nothing at all on the table.

When he walked out of his study, he had already looked gloomy…

"It's too bad. Something happened to Elder Mushen…" Elder Muray said as his face had been covered with sweat when Zhang Taixuan saw him.

"I've got it just now. Commander of Northeast Military Region has already inquired me about the details. We will go to GoldenLight City by airboat right away!" Zhang Taixuan said with a bitter smile, "Hopefully, Elder Mushen could tide over this difficulty…"

"Do we need to notice other clan elders to go there together?"

"I doubt that Elder Mushen might be screwed by Heavens Reaching Church. I've just issued an order to have Youzhou Provincial Army enter a state of emergency. All the other clan elders are protecting different regions. Let's stabilize the situation at first…"

"Fine! Let's go…"

Without putting on his coat, Zhang Taixuan had boarded on the airboat with Elder Muray. Of course, he looked flurried in the eyes of outsiders.

…

The army of Golden Light City had already arrived at Wild Lake Building outside Golden Light City. They were putting out the bright forest fire outside Wild Lake Building with loud noises…

Before the big fire was put out, a Heavens-Penetrating Silver Shuttle had suspended above Wild Lake Building. Closely after that, Yan Feiqing showed her look.

She instantly flew into the big blazing fire.

Only after a few seconds, Yan Feiqing had flown out of the fire. Closely after that, she wove her arm, releasing her berserk battle qi towards the fire and isolating flame from the air. As a result, the flame across Wild Lake Building was put out in a split second.

"Honey…" Yan Feiqing roared with grief as she flew towards the lake in the far…

…

In the next morning, the news that Zhang Tie was assassinated outside Golden Light City had shocked the entire country…

Chapter 1482: Puzzle

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

In the natural world, the more powerful the individuals were, the fewer their population would be. Soul leave was an extremely rare poison. Even knights could barely survive this poison. However, soul leave's duration of effect was limited. After being poisoned by it, one's awareness couldn't be completely isolated from his body forever.

Soul leave denoted that one's soul would leave his body out of control. After his soul returned to his body, he would feel like having a dream.

After soul leave completely lost its effect, Zhang Tie gradually opened his eyes.

He was in a room, which appeared being in a mountain cave covering 600 square meters. The mountain cave was artificially built as everything in the room was well carved. It was covered with huge granites in all directions. Besides, there was an eternal fluorite lamp on the roof, the dim light gave out which made the mountain cave hazy.

In addition, there were some underground plants which were used to keep the air fresh. Meanwhile, Zhang Tie faintly heard surging sea waves from outside, which represented that this mountain cave was in a sea island or an underground space on the seaside.

With a sound "Huala…" Zhang Tie found his limbs were tied by huge, thick alloy runed chains. The moment he moved, the chains had clashed.

After lowering his head and throwing a glance at it, Zhang Tie had found it was made of abyss iron, mithril and dragon silk as an immortal craftsman. The firmness and tenacity of this alloy were completely out of people's imagination. Additionally, some advanced runes were applied to this alloy: LV 5 consolidating and strengthening rune; advanced recovery rune, which could help people rapidly recover their spiritual energy and physical strength; an advanced reversal rune, which could completely counteract the effect of the advanced recovery rune at the same time and make people weak constantly.

The chains on his limbs were tightly interconnected with an alloy ring which was made of the same materials. The alloy ring was connected to a huge piece of an alloy which weighed over 1,000 tons. This set of instruments determined that Zhang Tie's scope of activity was limited to this room.

As an immortal craftsman, Zhang Tie had heard about it. He just couldn't imagine that it could be applied to him.

This whole set was called Dragonbinding Shackle. It could only be made by a craftsman master and above.

Even heavenly knights could not escape from such a set of instruments.

However, these were external binding instruments. There was another binding system inside his body, which had been sensed the moment Zhang Tie opened his eyes.

At this moment, three items being much thinner than hair were swimming in Zhang Tie's heart, qi sea and mind sea respectively. Few people knew their names except for Zhang Tie——bloody soul needles.

As a secret skill of Bloody Soul Temple, bloody soul needles were to seal one's spiritual energy, physical strength and battle qi. Whenever he wanted to run his battle qi, spiritual energy and do heavy activities, the three bloody soul needles would take effect in his brain, heart and abdomen respectively, causing him extremely miserable. At the crucial moments, the three bloody soul needles could even blow up his heart, brain and qi sea.

With Dragonbinding Shackle and bloody soul needles, even sage-level knights would be at the mercy what others demand of you.

When he sensed bloody soul needles, Zhang Tie immediately realized that he had fallen in the hand of the remnants of Heavens Reaching Church; because only they could probably master the secret skill of bloody soul needles.

'The conflict between me and the remnants of Heavens Reaching Church couldn't be diffused any more. Those b*stards have the motive and ability to do it.'

'However, how could those b*stards of Heavens Reaching Church know the love affair between senior sister apprentice and me and screw me with it? This could never be done without a considerate plan.'

'I offended Heavens Reaching Church after I returned to Taixia Country. Before it, I knew nothing about Heavens Reaching Church. Neither would Heavens Reaching Church care about a common knight on a subcontinent. If Heavens Reaching Church could foretell things, they would have long screwed me; neither would Han Zhengfang be killed by me after his real identity was exposed.'

'If senior sister apprentice Ma really got pregnant and had psychological changes, the first one who knew her physical situation in Hidden Dragon Palace probably the head of Hidden Dragon Palace. If she really delivered the baby, how could she cheat so many people in Hidden Dragon Palace? Over these years, even I, as the grand elder of Huaiyuan Palace, didn't know about the pregnancy of senior sister apprentice Ma. Nobody else in Hidden Dragon Palace has mentioned anything about it to me. How could Heavens Reaching Church know it?'

'Unless…unless the influence of Heavens Reaching Church have long penetrated into Huaiyuan Palace so deep that even the other elders of Huaiyuan Palace and I don't know about the secret concerning me in Huaiyuan Palace!'

The moment this whim occurred to his mind, Zhang Tie had felt a chill all over.

However, Zhang Tie soon felt that this reason was not right. At that time, Huaiyuan Palace, as a small Hua clan in Waii Subcontinent far away from Taixia Country, was completely like an ugly duckling in front of those major clans in Taixia Country. They didn't have money or power. Was Huaiyuan Palace worth the penetration of Heavens Reaching Church?

When Zhang Tie was confused, with a cracking sound, an iron door above the steps that extended upwards was opened as the gloomy and vicious man at his 50's that Zhang Tie had seen in Wild Lake Building walked downstairs.

This man reminded Zhang Tie of the late two senior sister apprentices, Gu Caidie and Yuan Ziyi at once. Zhang Tie then clenched his fists. Closely after that, he loosened his grip as he stood there quietly and watched the man coming to his front.

"You're a dare-to-death fighter. Who's your master?" Zhang Tie asked calmly as he looked at that man.

That man's face changed a bit…

Chapter 1483: The Real Intention

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

"It doesn't count who's my master. What's important is that you will die if you don't cooperate with me…" that arriver said as he soon recovered his composure and cold look, squinting at Zhang Tie with threatening eyesight.

"Really? But I don't think so…" Zhang Tie responded to him calmly as he didn't care about the threat at all. As for Zhang Tie, the crisis only happened when he drank the spirit which was mixed with Soul Leave.

Zhang Tie's error lay in that he had not imagined that the first glass of spirit that he drank with three senior sister apprentices that he had not seen for over 10 years was mixed with Soul Leave. What's more, Senior Sister Apprentice Ma who had a love affair with him had already known that the spirit was poisoned. The culprit had known everything about Zhang Tie and Ma Aiyun and even let Gu Caidie and Yuan Ziyi the props of this trap. Therefore, it was too sudden. Even the most meticulous and shrewd person would not be vigilant about all of his relatives and friends all day long. Otherwise, he must have been driven mad by himself before others' attack.

No matter what happened outside, Zhang Tie still carried the simplest and sincerest emotion about his relatives and friends; because this was why he struggled to grow powerful. Perhaps, others made a constant improvement on the road of cultivation only to conquer others by stepping them down or become the unrivaled one. However, Zhang Tie held that money making and cultivation are only for one purpose, namely making his family members live better and enabling him to live in love. On the contrary, if he had fewer people to trust and became more vigilant as he grew more powerful, it indicated that he was just a timid guy who wore a set of irresistible helmet and armor and held a saber or a sword which could be used to kill hundreds of millions of people. Zhang Tie disdained it.

Additionally, Soul Leave took effect as fast and fiercely as an alchemist's bomb, which didn't spare any time for Zhang Tie to make any response. Any other poisons that could spare a second for Zhang Tie to make a response would be easily detoxified by Zhang Tie.

However, that person was absolutely wrong if he thought that he could bind Zhang Tie who couldn't use his battle qi, physical strength and spiritual energy using Dragonbinding Shackle and bloody soul needles.

As for Zhang Tie, he had already taken the initiative when he opened his eyes and recovered his awareness no matter how poor he looked now.

Because he was Zhang Tie, Immortal Qianji!

Zhang Tie knew that he had already become sore in demons' eyes. As his battle qi had not fully recovered, if he dared have Yan Feiqing leave him and stroll alone in Golden Light City, Fiery-Dragon Bounty Territory, he must have his own confidence and reliance.

What Zhang Tie wanted to do most now was to find that culprit and tear him into pieces so as to avenge for Gu Caidie and Yuan Ziyi.

That 50-year old man didn't understand that he was already a movable dead man in Zhang Tie's eyes. Zhang Tie's tone and eyesight made him very uncomfortable.

That man gave a heavy blow to Zhang Tie's lower abdomen after releasing his battle qi; however, Zhang Tie didn't even frown. Although Zhang Tie couldn't run his spiritual energy and battle qi, after taking so many iron-body fruits and promoting to a shadow knight, Zhang Tie still had a great defensive capability. In this case, strikes from people below LV 15 battle spirit couldn't pose any threat to him or hurt him at all. However, it would be too naive if this man in his 50's below LV 15 wanted to do any harm to Zhang Tie by a bare punch; especially that he was just a LV 13 great battle master, whose punch was like tickle for Zhang Tie.

Certainly, like how bloody soul needles entered Zhang Tie's blood and meridians, some rune weapons could also do harm to Zhang Tie when he was not vigilant. No matter what, shadow knight's body rigidity couldn't match alloy.

"Haven't you eaten food? Where's your strength?" Zhang Tie looked at that middle-aged man with a cold look as he added, "Small figures like you are not qualified to stand in front of me. Fetch your master here. Let him talk to me…"

After realizing that he couldn't hurt Zhang Tie, that person gradually recovered his composure as he said, "My master would come when he wants!"

"You've spent too many efforts in catching me, but still kept me alive, you must want something from me. What do you want?"

"Smart, what an Immortal Qianji!" that middle-aged man's facial muscles moved a bit as he said, "We've searched over your body. Master said that you're still hiding one thing. As long as you present that item, you would survive and this thing would come to an end!"

"I would survive?" This thing would come to an end?" Zhang Tie burst out into laughter as he said, "What a funny, naive lie…"

"Our master only wants that thing, not your life. As long as he got that thing, all the dare-to-die fighters who join this action would commit suicide in front of you. That's why our master doesn't want to see you. After that, you could reunite with your Senior Sister Apprentice Ma and your kid. As you would not find anyone to avenge for, this thing would come to an end by then!"

Surrounding three exits, leaving one. It was a psywar for attacking a city. If a city was surrounded in four directions, the fighters and commoners inside would exert their utmost efforts to break out; however, if one exit was left open, the will of the garrisons would be collapsed. That was how the middle-aged man played in front of Zhang Tie. They thought that Zhang Tie had been under their control; therefore, they left hope to him so that he didn't struggle at his full efforts at the risk of destroying that rarity.

However, such a gimmick was just a joke for Zhang Tie. Zhang Tie sneered inside as he pretended to consider it. After being hesitant for a second, he said, "Show me Ma Aiyun and our kid first!"

"No way. Master said that you three couldn't reunite unless you hand in that thing!" the middle-aged man said, shaking his head.

Zhang Tie had already seen through this place using his lotus flower eyes when he talked with that man.

This underground mountain cave was indeed on the seaside. It was on the lowest floor. There were some more floors of underground facilities above this mountain cave. Above ground was a chateau which was on the hillside. Just now, Zhang Tie saw nothing but wilderness hundreds of miles away from the chateau on the open waters or the land.

The moment Zhang Tie saw it, he had known that he was near the coast of Liaozhou Province in the north of Youzhou Province. The chateau was a small base of a power, which was also used to bewilder people.

'I might have been missing for over 5 days. However, who could find me in such a remote place given such a large size of Taixia Country?

There were over 30 dare-to-die fighters in the chateau and the underground cave, who were all common staff. The middle-aged man should be the head of these dare-do-die fighters.

Ma Aiyun was locked in a cell above Zhang Tie. The linear distance between Zhang Tie and her was fewer than 100 m. However, Ma Aiyun was not hurt; she was just a bit sluggish.

Zhang Tie didn't see his kid or any teenager here; therefore, that kid should be hidden somewhere by these dare-to-die fighters if Ma Aiyun really delivered the baby.

"Well, tell me what do you want, a piece of space-teleportation equipment, a silver secret item or a cultivation method like Fiery-Dragon Sutra?" Zhang Tie asked calmly.

"None of them!" that middle-aged man answered as he shook his head.

"None of them?" Zhang Tie became amazed as he asked again, "What do you want?"

"Immortal item!"

Zhang Tie was really shocked by this term.

"Immortal item? Did I mishear it? Or are you kidding me? It's just a legendary item. Who has seen the real immortal item? Is it square or round?" Zhang Tie burst out into laughter as he continued to ask, "Do you want my bloody sacrifice furnace?"

"No, it's an immortal item. Master said that you've got an immortal item, which helped you rise step by step from Blackhot City. Master wanted me to tell you that if you hand in the immortal item, this event would come to an end; otherwise, it's just a beginning…"

"What do you mean?"

"I mean if you don't hand in the immortal item, you will see the heads of your family members and friends one after another in a few days…"

At this moment, Zhang Tie's heart had raced as he appeared having not heard these words——Who knows that I have Castle of Black Iron?

Chapter 1484: Waiting for the Culprit

If Zhang Tie didn't know that the opponent had also mastered the secret skills of Bloody Soul Temple, after hearing such a threat, he had long exposed his trump card and escaped from it. After reading the memory of this middle-aged man, he would kill him and go directly for the culprit.

However, many secret skills of Bloody Soul Temple were curbing each other. There was also a solution against soul reading skill in Bloody Secret Temple; especially these dare-to-die fighters were executing such a confidential action, which would definitely arouse a great shock across the country, even the world. As long as these dare-to-die fighters were caught, and leaked a message, they would bring catastrophe to the culprit behind them. In this case, as long as that culprit was not an idiot, he must have made preventions before the action even at a high cost. As long as their souls were read, the secret skill against soul reading skill would be triggered. In a split second, they would become idiots while their heads would blow up.

Although Zhang Tie was especially furious inside, he remained calm superficially. Because he was not so sure whether the opponent was sounding out him. As long as he appeared to care about his relatives and friends, they would be more valuable, and more dangerous, in the eyes of the opponent.

Additionally, now that the middle-aged man mentioned it, they probably had already taken action about his family members and relatives while targeting him. However, those actions had failed. Otherwise, they should have pushed those captives in front of Zhang Tie so as to threaten him; instead of making it a verbal threat.

Zhang Tie immediately got a lot of information from the opponent's line.

"Hahaha, kill as many as you want, but how many could you kill?" Zhang Tie watched that dare-to-die fighter as he burst into laughter, "My family is in Jinwu City and Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory. After I was screwed, you might have already tried to abduct them. But what about the result? You should know it clearer than me. I've got so many knights on my side, Yan Feiqing, Mountain Lifting Hermit, Bai Suxian, Lu Zhongming and Lin Huanxi and elders of Huaiyuan Palace. How many of them dare you fight face to face? In front of such an absolutely overwhelming strength, do you really think that your gimmick and conspiracy could work when they're vigilant about you? Just do it! Show me how you're killed?"

"We couldn't hurt your family members; however, you've got friends!"

"Stop talking about friends. You could hurt as many family members of mine as possible. I've got so many wives, concubines and children. It's nothing serious to lose some of them!" Zhang Tie sneered casually as his tone turned icy, "If one son dies, I could kill 10 more; if one wife dies, I could marry 100 more. The so-called wives and children were nothing serious for powerful knights like me. I could get as many as possible as long as I want. In this world, I only treasure my parents and my elder brother. If you could hurt them, I might fear you; however, do you think that you could hurt them now? I could even abstain wives and children, what am I afraid of? As for friends, even I myself don't know how many friends do I have. I've not seen many of them for at least 70 years plus the period that I stayed in the tower of time. As for them, you could kill as many as you want. Let's see whether I would drop a tear or not…"

Zhang Tie's rhetoric was perfect; because his opinion represented that of most knights. Great battle strength and vigorous vitality determined that many knights' family notion was absolutely different than that of commoners. Many knights had hundreds even over 1,000 wives, concubines and children like emperors at their own home. With this mentality, it was really difficult to see how heavy their wives, concubines and children weigh in their hearts.

As for friends, many people deeply held the notion that when one became rich, he would change his wives; when one became dignified, he would change his friends. Based on Zhang Tie's current social status, even though he was concerned about those common friends, who would believe it if he didn't reveal it to the public. Take the members of Hit-Plane Brother as an instance, Zhang Tie always treated them as his brothers. However, if he didn't reveal it to the public, who knew. Even within Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory, many people would regard themselves as Zhang Tie's subordinates; instead of brothers.

However, Zhang Tie didn't put it too unduly; instead, he admitted the importance of his parents and his elder brother, which sounded real. So what? These people couldn't hurt his parents and elder brother at all. Therefore, Zhang Tie was not afraid that they could threaten him with his parents and elder brother.

Certainly, after hearing Zhang Tie's words, that man slightly frowned. Apparently, he had not imagined that Zhang Tie could despise his threat so carelessly.

"You're a qualified dare-to-die fighter. However, in my eyes, you're just a tool, a saber of a person. You're not qualified to talk about conditions with me. I won't talk about the condition with a tool. All of your words are meaningless for me. I only want you to know that you'd better have your master assign an influential person above knight level in case of wasting my time…" Although being mired in dilemma, Zhang Tie still threw a contemptible and proud glance at that middle-aged man. Closely after that, he directly sat down in front of that man with crossed legs, eyes closed as if that man was dead.

That man was indeed shocked by Zhang Tie's attitude. After looking at Zhang Tie for a couple of seconds, he left this basement silently.

Not until this man left here did Zhang Tie open his eyes with a flash.

It would be meaningless for Zhang Tie to kill all of these small figures. However, if the opponent assigned a knight here, who couldn't completely hide his identity, Zhang Tie would get the information about the culprit through him. As long as the opponent was not a sage-level knight, Zhang Tie would kill him for sure.

From now on, the game came to a reversal. Zhang Tie wanted to see who was going to be trapped.

'Senior Sister Apprentice Gu, Senior Sister Apprentice Yuan, believe in me, I, Zhang Tie, swear to God that I will avenge for you!'

Zhang Tie gritted his teeth as he clenched his punches when he recalled the tragedy of his two senior sister apprentices. With a flash of grief, his eyes were full of killing intent.

Zhang Tie closed his eyes again as the sweet spring water full of Reiki from Castle of Black Iron was led into Zhang Tie's mouth. As Zhang Tie swallowed the sweet spring water, his body was lubricated while his vitality and vigor recovered rapidly..

Chapter 1485: Shocking Youzhou Province

Zhang Tie had been missing for over 1 week; however, there was still no news about his whereabouts. As a result, the entire Youzhou Province became the focus of the world while forces from all directions converged in Youzhou Province, including surging hidden forces…

In the shrine palace of Huaiyuan Palace, Tiger Embracing City, Youzhou Province, Zhang Taixuan and a middle-aged man with narrow eyes and a long face were sitting face to face at a table. That middle-aged man wore a high Xiezhi-shaped crown and a Class I official uniform of Taixia Country who looked very dignified and full of killing intent. As he faintly squinted his eyes, he appeared to be able to see through one's soul, causing people's heart to tremble.

Even Zhang Taixuan had to behave seriously in front of him.

Zhang Taixuan had not slept for consecutively 5 days for the event of Zhang Tie. Within the 5 days, Zhang Taixuan had traveled across Youzhou Province and met people from all walks of life; he had to soothe the members of Huaiyuan Palace. As a result, he appeared haggard.

Anyone who saw Zhang Taixuan would sigh inside, 'What a clan head! When the pillar of Huaiyuan Palace is missing, this clan head must bear a great stress.'

A clan deacon hurriedly entered the room with three wooden boxes in hand. After coming to Zhang Taixuan's front, he bowed towards Zhang Taixuan before putting the three wooden boxes on the table. After that, he left by moving backward seriously and silently.

"Mr. Zhao, here are the materials about the three female disciples in Huaiyuan Palace…" Zhang Taixuan said with a faintly bitter look as he pushed the three boxes in front of that stranger, saying, "Hopefully, Mr. Zhao could catch the culprit and avenge for Huaiyuan Palace with these things as soon as possible!"

"Is there anything special with the three female disciples in the last years; especially that missing female disciple called Ma Aiyun…" Mr. Zhao asked as he opened one box and threw a glance at the documents inside. After that, he nodded as he put the documents back into the box and asked Zhang Taixuan.

"I was busy dealing with public affairs and didn't know too much about the three female disciples!" Zhang Taixuan said solemnly, "The three female disciples were the first batch of clan disciples who evacuated from Waii Subcontinent to Taixia Country. They have been living in Yingzhou Province over these years. They've not seen Elder Mushen for over 10 years. This event is really out of my imagination. I've asked clan deacons about their performance in Yingzhou Province these years. The answer is that they all performed normally in Yingzhou Province, including their cultivation and exercises…"

"It's said that the three female disciples got along well with Elder Mushen?"

"Hmm, when Elder Mushen cultivated in Hidden Dragon Island, he had already got acquainted with the three female disciples. They were bosom friends. They've even executed clan tasks together. It's said that Elder Mushen took care of them very much when in Hidden Dragon Island…"

Mr. Zhao slightly squinted at the void as he knocked his fingers on the table in a rhythm like beating a drum, asking, "Who else knows that Elder Mushen has recovered in Huaiyuan Palace besides you?"

"This event is of great significance. Only those clan elders of Huaiyuan Palace know his current situation!"

"Did the three people have a chance to touch the top poison Soul Leave in Huaiyuan Palace?"

"As disciples of Huaiyuan Palace, sometimes, they could indeed buy some rank poisons through internal channels for the sake of tasks; however, even Huaiyuan Palace itself doesn't have such a rare poison, not to mention the three female disciples!" Zhang Taixuan shook his head with a bitter smile.

"Hmm, in this case, I will not disturb you anymore…" Mr. Zhao said and stood up as he wove his arm over the table, collecting all the three boxes into his portable space-teleportation equipment and saying, "I will assign people to investigate in Yingzhou Province. Hopefully, Huaiyuan Palace could coordinate with us at your full efforts!"

"We will, we will; Huaiyuan Palace appreciate it very much as Mr. Zhao could spend time in visiting Youzhou Province!"

"Elder Mushen is the pillar of Taixia Country. How could I not come for such a big event? Additionally, it's at the order of His Majesty. After hearing that Elder Mushen encountered such an event, Crown Prince was infuriated. Of course, the supreme court of Taixia Country would make their full efforts to solve this case!"

"Thanks!"

Zhang Taixuan accompanied Mr. Zhao to the outside of the shrine palace. After that, Mr. Zhao directly flew off and landed on an airboat in the sky. Zhang Taixuan respectfully saw him off with the airboat in the skyline before recovering his calm look…

It was out of Zhang Taixuan's imagination that Mr. Zhao, one of the top 9 chancellors of Taixia Country, was assigned by the crown prince to investigate the case in Youzhou Province. Therefore, Zhang Taixuan was a bit jealous of Zhang Tie's weight in the heart of the crown prince.

Mr. Zhao rushed to Youzhou Province with a group of elites of Supreme Court of Taixia Country at the order of the crown prince. They lived up to the expectation of the public with their exceptional ability as they had found the important clues from the dust and mud in Wild Lake Building where even a handful of ashes couldn't be collected——two of the three female disciples had been killed and Zhang Tie was poisoned by Soul Leave. Even Zhang Taixuan was a bit shocked by such efficient means.

However, the investigation might not proceed anymore. Although the materials that Huaiyuan Palace handed to Mr. Zhao were real, of course, Zhang Taixuan would not leave any loophole to them as he had schemed it for over 10 years.

Two disciples had died. The grand elder of Huaiyuan Palace had been missing. Even though they couldn't find Ma Aiyun, they were not sure whether she was still alive; because this was absolutely a method that Zhang Taixuan applied to puzzle the public. Additionally, Huaiyuan Palace exerted its full efforts to coordinate with the investigators. Who would doubt that it was schemed by Zhang Taixuan?

"I will take a short rest. Don't have people disturb me…" Zhang Taixuan told the deacons before entering a backroom of the shrine palace. After closing the door, he waved his hand, displaying a lot of items on the table.

Most of those items were remote-sensing finger rings. Additionally, there were two rune pieces of equipment, one bronze secret item——full-moon dragon soul waistband, two space-teleportation equipment with some silver secret weapons and precious medicaments inside.

Zhang Tie would know that these items were all his if he were there…

These items were very precious; especially the two space-teleportation equipment and those silver secret items inside them. Zhang Taixuan looked at them as he approached his colorful fingerstall to them. After rubbing his fingerstall against those items for a while, he finally shook his head as he let out a sigh helplessly…

It was not Zhang Taixuan's first time to check them. These days, Zhang Taixuan had checked them in different time and environments for many times; however, each time he was left disappointed.

Chapter 1486: Whose Trap

The news from the subordinate of Zhang Taixuan was that he didn't find any immortal item from Zhang Tie. All of Zhang Tie's belongings were here.

Zhang Taixuan believed in the news as all the dare-to-die fighters who executed this action were loyal to him while being supervised and constrained from each other. Additionally, they were under the control of his secret method and could die for him without demur. Therefore, those dare-to-die fighters would never deceive him. That was why Zhang Taixuan assigned them to execute the most dangerous task.

These days, Zhang Taixuan always thought that Zhang Tie had not taken that immortal item with him; however, Zhang Taixuan gradually wavered this mind as he felt that he never have the immortal item leave his sight if he were Zhang Tie; especially when he got the news that Zhang Tie wanted to talk about conditions with him, Zhang Taixuan became more confident about his deduction.

'Zhang Tie is too calm and confident. Why he's so confident in such a dilemma and think that he's qualified to talk about conditions with me?'

'He probably has the immortal item with him. That immortal item is his trump card. He knows that I would not hurt him before getting the immortal item. Therefore, he's so confident.'

After looking at those items on the table in the backroom, Zhang Taixuan waved his arm, hoarding all of them into his portable space-teleportation equipment. After that, with hands on his back, he started to gently stroke his colorful fingerstall as he paced back and forth in the room while faintly frowning.

Zhang Taixuan was very scared of Zhang Tie. In this case, he didn't plan to meet Zhang Tie at all. However, that mystical immortal item made him hesitant.

Immortal items carried unimaginable, exotic abilities. 'It probably still was with Zhang Tie; however, the others couldn't discover it except for this rarity of mine. However, people below knight level couldn't drive this rarity at all; therefore, it's unavailable to those dare-to-die fighters. However, I don't have fully reliable subordinate knights. Those elders of Huaiyuan Palace are excluded at first. As for those who could drive it, I'm not sure whether they would disappear after getting that immortal item from Zhang Tie…'

'Which knight could be immune to the allure of an immortal item?'

'Would I go to see Zhang Tie or not?'

Zhang Taixuan became hesitant as he considered this question in the room for a while. After that, he received a message from his remote-sensing finger ring with a flash of gloomy eyesight. After being hesitant for a second, he let out a deep sigh as he walked out of the backroom and came to the outside of the shrine palace.

At this moment, after Mr. Zhao's airboat left came another airboat in the sky above Tiger Embracing Mountain. Whereas, since so many airboats had arrived and left Tiger Embracing Mountain these days, they didn't feel anything strange about it.

When Zhang Taixuan came out, three human shadows flew off that airboat. Before one of them arrived, his loud voice had rumbled the entire mountain, "Younger Brother Taixuan, after Huaiyuan Palace encountered such a major event and urgently need help, why not notice this elder brother?"

"Hahaha, Elder Brother Huang, you've come from afar, I'm so sorry for that!" Zhang Taixuan said as he cupped his hands towards the figure in the air.

With the flash of their shadows, the three people had landed on the ground steadily.

Among the three people, Elder Brother Huang was tall and strong with snow-like silver hair swaying in the air, making him a lion or a hedgehog. His face was as red as that of wine. Given his look, he should be bad-tempered. This man carried a powerful qi of shadow knight. Although he looked generous, when he landed and watched Zhang Taixuan, a weird, harsh light flashed across his face.

Catching that faintly harsh eyesight of Elder Brother Huang, Zhang Taixuan's smile became stiff for a second as he asked, "Elder Brother Huang, they're…"

"Hahaha…" Elder Brother Huang burst out into laughter again immediately as he answered, "They're both my friends. They're enthusiastic and heroic. After hearing about the event of Immortal Qianji and that I'm your friend, they urged to go to Youzhou Province with me. They want to give you a favor. Younger brother, won't you welcome us? If you don't, this elder brother will leave right now…"

After hearing the introduction of Elder Brother Huang, the other two knights forced a slight smile towards Zhang Taixuan. The two knights were both earth knights with a solemn and cold look. They were far from being enthusiastic and heroic as was extolled by Elder Brother Huang.

"Haha, Elder brother, no joke. Please, let's talk inside!" Zhang Taixuan made a hand gesture to invite them in.

"Fine, let's talk about it inside!"

Zhang Taixuan had a deacon forbid outsiders to disturb them. The moment the four people entered the parlor behind the shrine palace, Elder Brother Huang's smile had disappeared as he turned solemn at once.

"Zhang Taixuan, you're so audacious…" Elder Brother Huang said as he looked straight into Zhang Taixuan's eyes with icy eyesight as he told him by battle qi. His voice sounded which appeared to have nothing to do with the passion that he displayed outside just now.

No sooner had this man opened his mouth than the room became much colder than before.

Zhang Taixuan let out a sigh suddenly as he asked, "Has His Majesty long been unsatisfied with me? I didn't know about such a major event until it was caused a few days later in Youzhou Province. These days, I've been waiting in Youzhou Province for your explanation, elder brother."

After being silent for a second, Elder Brother Huang's icy eye light changed as he asked, "What do you mean?"

"Elder brother, don't pretend anymore." Zhang Taixuan revealed a bitter smile as he asked, "Wasn't Zhang Tie taken away by His Majesty? And that knight employed by Jinwu Business Group whom His Majesty said fully followed my order as my subordinate in Jinwu City; however, he raided Zhang Tie's old mansion in Jinwu City that night. I didn't know it until it happened. Did His Majesty deliver the order to him?"

At this moment, if Zhang Tie were here, he would doubt that Zhang Taixuan had already awakened his performance talent too. Zhang Taixuan was simply the best actor.

"Cut the crap, when did His Majesty deliver that order to him?" Elder Brother Huang asked as he became infuriated at once.

"His Majesty has not delivered that order to Liu Changxiong?" Zhang Taixuan revealed a shocked look as he continued, "What happened to Zhang Tie then?"

"Didn't you do that?" Elder Brother Huang asked as he looked straight into Zhang Taixuan's eyes.

"Elder Brother Huang, no kidding. All-purpose medicament and fiery oil are fully under the control of Zhang Tie and Zhang Yang. I couldn't interfere with it. Even though I have eyes and ears in Jinwu Business Group and Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory, those people are too weak to do any help to me at the critical moments. Zhang Tie became outstanding on the battlefield of Weishui River and promoted to a shadow knight. I was told that he had hooked up with Yan Feiqing in a tower of time. Even if I did it, as long as Yan Feiqing was there, I would not have a say in Zhang Tie's family and get the production secrets of all-purpose medicaments and fiery-oil. Yan Feiqing alone is able to stabilize the overall situation. What would I do that for? It would have great risk and could bring no benefit at all. Am I that foolish? I'm not able to do that even if I want. After Zhang Tie returned, I feel that what I've promised His Majesty is growing more and more tricky as my influence in Youzhou Province is shrinking. I'm asking for relief from His Majesty? Wasn't it done by His Majesty himself out of patience?"

Zhang Taixuan's explanation and rhetorical question made Elder Brother Huang tightly frown as his look became strange.

"Is that really not you?"

"Hasn't His Majesty delivered the order to Liu Changxiong?"

Zhang Taixuan and Elder Brother Huang asked almost in unison.

"Liu Changxiong has…" Zhang Taixuan suddenly sprung up as he asked, "Has Liu Changxiong got a new master? Is it done by another force? We're all screwed. No, we have to report it to His Majesty right now…"

Elder Brother Huang looked straight into Zhang Taixuan's eyes for 2 minutes before standing up, saying, "I will report it to His Majesty; however, Zhang Taixuan, I warn you, you'd better not play any trick in front of His Majesty. You know how powerful is His Majesty. His Majesty could figure out the identity of Liu Changxiong sooner or later…"

"I hope so. Only in this way could I clarify my innocence in front of His Majesty. I've worked hard for His Majesty for so many years. Even Huaiyuan Palace as a whole has been taken as a stake; however, I was wronged this time. I want an explanation…" Zhang Taixuan raised his head as he said generously.

Elder Brother Huang threw another glance at Zhang Taixuan silently as he directly strode out of the conference room, followed by the other two earth knights.

This time, Zhang Taixuan didn't see them off; instead, he sat alone in the room.

Zhang Taixuan had long prepared for this case. He had actually prepared for all the possible situations. However, the failure of Knight Liu was out of his imagination together with that no immortal item was discovered from Zhang Tie, arousing an abrupt increase of risk facing him before getting the immortal item.

'I have to make a decision. I only have two choices now, to get the immortal item as fast as possible or to clarify my innocence; otherwise…'

After sitting for a while, Zhang Tiaxuan's eyes became increasingly decisive…

Chapter 1487: Traps

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

Two days later, in the deep night, Tiger Embracing City was having a heavy wind and rain, causing everything dim. As a coastal city, the sudden storm made Tiger Embracing City pretty quiet and cold within 600 miles. Being covered with vapor, it had extremely low visibility.

The rear of the Tiger Embracing City was a forest. Right in this wood, there was a mountain stream dozens of miles away from the shrine palace in the north. There was a waterfall over there. Due to this storm, the water flow of that waterfall abruptly increased as the dirty water rushed into a deep pool beneath that mountain stream together with mud and fallen leaves, causing tumbling sound, before converging into a river, then the ocean.

In such weather, such a deep night, such a wilderness, almost nobody could be seen. Even birds and beasts were hiding in their own nests and dens.

However, a head silently came out of the deep pool at this moment.

This man was dry all over. Water in the pool was isolated by his battle qi from 2 cm away.

Given his protective battle qi, he must be a knight; however, he looked strange.

After exposing his head above the water, he looked around before flying off the pool. Covered by the storm, he rapidly rushed into the heavy clouds before flying northwards.

After this man flew off this mountain stream for over 10 minutes, with a flash of light, three more people appeared in the mountain stream.

Elder Brother Huang whom Zhang Taixuan met that day was among them. One was an earth knight who wore sky-blue battle armor with a gloomy look; the other was a shadow knight with exotic, little braids and tattoos of various animals on his face and arms and a string of bone beads.

At this moment, a colorful, exotic butterfly was flapping two pairs of wings which were changing their colors like a rainbow on a palm of the shadow knight who wore a ring of exotic bone beads over his neck. The two tentacles of that butterfly were pointing at the direction where that knight had left for.

Before the muffled rumbles arrived, the three knights had disappeared and rushed into the sky, flying northwards after that knight.

"Zhang Taixuan is really cunning. If not His Majesty has assigned Immortal White Bone to help us, even I was almost cheated by him…" that old man surnamed Huang said with fury and brutality, "When Zhang Taixuan falls in my hand, he will die in my boots…"

Of course, the Immortal White Bone was a shadow knight. After hearing that old man's words, the knight with a string of bone beads on his neck sighed, saying, "His Majesty has long seen through everything and long known that Zhang Taixuan is extremely ambitious and could barely be loyal to him. After Zhang Tie disappeared, His Majesty realized it was done by Zhang Taixuan. Pitifully, we will have to waste a soul-chasing butterfly. This one is a class-leading mutated species, universal soul-chasing butterfly. It could position a knight based on the qi of his chakra within over 1,200 miles. It could only survive for one month. Even His Majesty only has fewer than 5 universal butterflies. His Majesty got them at an extremely high cost. He has been preserving them very well. After Zhang Tie missed, His Majesty considered it for quite a while before taking it out. Such a butterfly should at least be applied to the heavenly knight at critical moments…"

"His Majesty is far-sighted. His Majesty let immortal wake up the soul-chasing butterfly when we met Zhang Taixuan on the airboat so that the soul-chasing butterfly could position the qi of Zhang Taixuan's chakra; otherwise, we would have been screwed by him…"

"Hopefully, we don't waste this universal soul-chasing butterfly!"

"This universal soul-chasing butterfly is actually used to find Zhang Tie; instead of Zhang Taixuan. Zhang Taixuan is just an earth knight. He couldn't fly too far away tonight. As his action is so weird, he must have a hidden purpose. This time, let's show him our ability. How could a trivial earth knight play trick in front of us? That's preposterous…"

"I hope so!"

…

Zhang Tie didn't sleep tonight. In the underground space, he could still hear the surging sea waves lapping against the reefs on the seaside and the crisscrossed karst caves beneath the mountain, causing loud sound and resonance. Hearing this sound and resonance, even though Zhang Tie didn't use lotus flower eyes, he had known that it was raining heavily, causing surging billows…

Zhang Tie had woken up three days ago. Within this period, that dare-to-die fighter only gave Zhang Tie some fresh water and cold food for one time. Therefore, Zhang Tie started to doubt, 'Is the culprit unwilling to talk about conditions with me?'

'Is this a psywar or that the person doesn't want to see me for the time being?'

Now that that culprit was not anxious, Zhang Tie was not anxious either. He just waited patiently.

In the underground karst cave, Zhang Tie sat on the ground with crossed legs as he was reciting the endless true words of the Great Wilderness Sutra. The three bloody soul needles in his body had already become three bloody fine lines over his finger which looked like a finger ring.

As for Zhang Tie who had mastered Bloody Soul Sutra, bloody soul needles were too naive and awkward. Such a secret skill could scare others; however, it was too easy for Zhang Tie to deal with it.

After hearing the faint noise above the mountain cave, Zhang Tie opened his eyes. After activating his lotus flower eyes, Zhang Tie found that the 50-year old dare-to-die fighter who looked gloomy was escorting Senior Sister Apprentice Ma downward from outside the mountain cave.

Catching sight of that, Zhang Tie instantly stopped his cultivation. He then raised that finger which was surrounded by three bloody soul needles and put it under his nose. Only with a light inspiration, the three bloody soul needles which were even finer than hair had twisted like a movable earthworm and spiritual snake as they loosed and drilled into Zhang Tie's nostril.

After Zhang Tie put down his hand, the iron gate above the mountain cave opened at once with a cracking sound as that dare-to-die fighter walked downward together with Ma Aiyun.

When he saw Senior Sister Apprentice Ma again, Zhang Tie sighed inside.

Ma Aiyun looked haggard. When she saw Zhang Tie, she looked a bit thrilled…