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Chapter 1540: Overwhelming

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

Watching Reflectingmoons Immortal, the deputy head of Qionglou Pavilion, teleporting that piece of the metal plate into her space-teleportation equipment in the public, Zhang Tie was transfixed. However, Swords Immortal and Clouddragon Immortal didn't make any response to her deed as if they had been familiar with Reflectingmoons Immortal's eccentric temperament.

'This old woman is really a weirdo. Additionally, she's very greedy and domineering based on her superiority. Even I have not seen it, not to mention Woodbuilding Immortal. How could she teleport it into her private space? What does she mean? Does she affirm that I won't fight her or bully me due to my age even being a divine dominator? I could even kill a heavenly demon knight with a rod by striking it for 9 times; I don't think this old woman is greater than Andorier the wing demon prince in battle strength.'

At this moment, Deyang Immortal told Zhang Tie using his battle qi, "Reflectingmoons Immortal the deputy head of Qionglou Pavilion is always weird, greedy and tricky!"

"Have Heavens Fortune Sect suffered a loss from this old witch?" Zhang Tie asked Deyang Immortal secretly.

"On one occasion, this old witch paid a visit to Heavens Fortune Sect. When she saw our Chaos Imitation Ball, she wanted to borrow it for a few years. Heavens Fortune Sect refused her, making her pretty unhappy!"

"Did she sleep with Emperor Xuanyuan?"

After hearing Zhang Tie's words, Deyang Immortal looked extremely weird as he blushed and almost burst into laughter; finally, he just shook his head.

"Now that she didn't sleep with Emperor Xuanyuan, why is she that unscrupulous?"

"Erm…I have no idea…" Deyang Immortal became speechless.

"Harrumph…" Bai Suxian uttered as she told Zhang Tie, "At this moment, why don't they show the piece of metal plate to you? Do they have greater meritorious services or battle strength than you? Those old guys are definitely putting their airs in front of you, making you embarrassed!"

Zhang Tie comforted Bai Suxian by pinching her hand once as if it was useless for them to deal with these people orally.

The old witch appeared to have heard Bai Suxian's cold harrumph as she turned around and threw a glance at Zhang Tie and Bai Suxian. Bai Suxian then raised her head and thrust forward her chest, feeling no fear looking straight into the old witch's eyes. The cold light in the old witch's eyes sparkled as she threw another glance at Zhang Tie and turned back.

After that piece of metal plate was put away, the four sage freaks exchanged a glance with each other. Then, Mr. Bamboo opened his mouth while cupping his hands towards all directions, "Great Wilderness Sect has already been exterminated for many years. This Dongtian has no owner now. According to the rule, any benefit that we achieved here should belong to us. Now that we've clarified all the things, it's time for us to say goodbye to you all. Please give way to us; green mountains would remain unchanged while crystal water would run forever. See you later…"

After hearing his words, many onlooking independent knights became shortly hesitant before giving way to them.

Zhang Tie appreciated the decisive deed of four sage freaks as they knew when to retreat and they could never get any more benefits here, even if the full-moons gates would open right away.

The moment the four sage freaks were going to leave, another voice sounded.

"Wait a moment…" Clouddragon Immortal, the deputy head of Heavens Holding Pavilion, opened his mouth with the same smile. At this moment, a fan had already appeared in his hand. Waving his fan, he looked like a boss. However, his words stopped the four sage freaks who were about to leave this place of arguments, "Although you've clarified how you found this place, there's still one thing that you've not explained. If you do not make it clear, you will not leave here!���

Mr. Bamboo asked as calmly as possible, "I wonder what else we've not clarified?"

"Great Wilderness Sect was exterminated overnight, which became the number one pending criminal case in the world. Top six sects have looked for Great Wilderness Sutra in South Border for many times. Pitifully, we didn't find any clue about it!" Waving his fan, Clouddragon Immortal said righteously as if he was worried about all the living beings in the world, "Great Wilderness Sutra is the most powerful animal driving skill of Great Wilderness Sect. It was said that the Great Wilderness Sutra of Great Wilderness Sect was in this Dongtian and might have already been gained by four of you. As it's in the holy war, humans are on the verge of crisis. You'd better take out all the items that you've got here or let us search you lest Great Wilderness Sutra fell in the hand of demons or heavens reaching church. You could not leave until we confirm that you don't carry Great Wilderness Sutra with you."

After hearing Clouddragon Immortal's suggestion, all the four sage freaks were driven mad while the surroundings were in hubbub at once. However, Clouddragon Immortal just asked the other two heavenly knights of Taiyi Fantasy Sect and Qionglou Pavilion politely as if he had not heard or seen the others' responses, "Swords Immortal, Reflectingmoons Immortal, what do you think?"

"Right, as the number one sect of Taixia Country, us Taiyi Fantasy Sect should be responsible for all the humans and prevent Great Wilderness Sutra from falling in the hand of evil persons or demons which, otherwise, would do harm to the rest of the world!" Swords Immortal of Taiyi Fantasy Sect answered with a smile while stroking his beard.

"Gagaga…" The old witch of Qionglou Pavilion cackled for a short while like a duck before turning cold, "I agree with Clouddragon Immortal's suggestion. Besides us major clans, nobody else could take away the Great Wilderness Sutra…"

After Reflectingmoons Immortal finished her words, she even threw a glance at Zhang Tie.

Three of the top six sects had already combined with each other in an irresistible manner.

If four sage freaks took the secret book, they should leave it here; if others took it, they would not take it away either in front of the top three sects.

In front of the other forces of major sects, Woodbuilding Immortal the founder of Jiang Clan was the last heavenly knight at present who didn't lack a sense of place. Before Reflectingmoons Immortal finished her words, Woodbuilding Immortal's face had already turned as black as the bottom of a pot.

The performance of these heavenly knights really opened Zhang Tie's horizon.

In addition, watching the consistent attitude of the three heavenly knights, Zhang Tie asserted that Heavens Holding Pavilion, Qionglou Pavilion and Taiyi Fantasy Sect had all joined Imperial Alliance; perhaps Swords Immortal, Clouddragon Immortal and Reflectingmons Immortal had joined the action on exterminating Great Wilderness Sect.

'Three of the top six sects are already members of Imperial Alliance. Why do they root for Xuanyuan Infinity the third prince to be the next Emperor Xuanyuan? What are they doing that for?'

This question occurred to Zhang Tie's mind at a stroke…

Chapter 1541: Thinking Through

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

The clout of major sects such as Taiyi Fantasy Sect was even greater than that of many imperial households in continents and subcontinents. Except that their heads were not emperors, these major sects had already reached the pinnacle of mundane sects. The heads of these major sects could even match the emperor and those lords and chancellors in Xuanyuan Hill in influence. In fact, those royal households in other continents and subcontinents could even be neglected by them.

'In this case, what on earth do they root for Xuanyuan Infinity the third prince of Emperor Xuanyuan? In other words, what valuable things are worth such a great risk for them?'

Zhang Tie's eye light turned profound unconsciously as he watched the heavenly knights of the major sects at present…

In the beginning, Zhang Tie thought Lord Guangnan loved Fang Xinyi purely which had nothing to do with age and social status. After knowing that Qionglou Pavilion was a member of Imperial Alliance, Zhang Tie realized Fang Xinyi's real position and role of Fang Xinyi for Lord Guangnan.

'Does Lord Guangnan know Imperial Alliance? After all, it was Imperial Alliance that exterminated the Great Wilderness Sect, which would definitely leave some clues. Given Lord Guangnan's great influence in South Border, Lord Guangnan must have known the inside story of the extermination of Great Wilderness Sect. If so, Fang Xinyi might only serve as a compromise of Lord Guangnan to Imperial Alliance or a tacit agreement between two parties——Bai Suxian's dad has completely known the background of Fang Xinyi. Therefore, Fang Xinyi might be an informer of the Imperial Alliance on Lord Guangnan's side and the liaison between the two parties at critical moments.'

In this sense, Zhang Tie thought through many things at once.

'Lord Guangnan must have seen too many kinds of women; but how could he seduce his daughter's bosom friend? Lord Guangnan didn't explain it to Bai Suxian because it's involved with Imperial Alliance and of a great impact. It would not be good if Bai Suxian knew it. On the contrary, it would be good if Bai Suxian turned hostile against her and complained about him, which could better cover the public.'

In addition, Fang Xinyi officially married Lord Guangnan and became the queen after the news that Emperor Xuanyuan was missing spread across the world, which represented the official compromise and tacit agreement between Lord Guangnan's Mansion and Imperial Alliance to a certain degree.

'Given the response of Lord Guangnan's Mansion after this underground space of Great Wilderness Sect in Centralpillar Mountain was discovered, Lord Guangnan must have long known that Imperial Alliance determined to get something from the underground palace and would dispatch a great batch of powerhouses here. Therefore, only the third uncle of Bai Suxian arrives here on behalf of Lord Guangnan's Mansion. Not even a single heavenly knight has been dispatched here by Lord Guangnan's Mansion, which appears that they were not that active at all.'

A couple of days ago, Zhang Tie was wondering that even though Lord Guangnan didn't come here, that employed Yueyang Immortal of Lord Guangnan's Mansion who would like to take Zhang Tie's kid as his disciple should come here. However, Yueyang Immortal didn't come here. By contrast, the founder of Jiang Clan arrived here out of curiosity. At that time, Zhang Tie even thought that Lord Guangnan had completely handed the things here to him on behalf of Lord Guangnan's Mansion. However, given the current situation, Zhang Tie realized that Lord Guangnan's Mansion just wanted to avoid conflict with the Imperial Alliance here and didn't want to be used by the Imperial Alliance. Therefore, a shadow knight was the highest level that Lord Guangnan's Mansion dispatched here.

A few days ago, Zhang Tie didn't understand it. Now, he realized that the shadow knight dispatched by Lord Guangnan's Mansion denoted that the sect was neutral in this event.

Given the overall strength of Lord Guangnan's Mansion, although Bai Suxian's third uncle was just a shadow knight, he might also get some benefits when necessary. Although Bai Suxian's third uncle couldn't match the powerhouses of the other major sects, he had definitely a vantage point over those independent, valiant knights. Furthermore, Zhan Tie could be his helper.

Given this point, Lord Guangnan should at least be neutral towards the next emperor of Taixia Country, Xuanyuan Infinity or Xuanyuan Changying. Previously, Lord Guangnan should favor Xuanyuan Changying, who, no matter what, was the orthodox heir of Emperor Xuanyuan. However, given the fact that Emperor Xuanyuan disappeared and the power displayed by Imperial Alliance and the current situation facing Taixia Country as a whole, Lord Guangnan had to consider about it. Instead of making a choice, he remained neutral. Nor did Imperial Alliance completely trust Lord Guangnan; therefore, they put Fang Xinyi on Lord Guangnan's side as another guarantee.

This was a tacit agreement and compromise between Lord Guangnan's Mansion and Imperial Alliance.

'What a motherf*cking old fox! I was almost cheated by you!' Zhang Tie swore his father-in-law inside loudly after thinking it through. 'This old guy is too smart. If not I've already got the information about Imperial Alliance from late Immortal White Bones and figured out something here, I really wonder how long would the old guy cover it from me.'

'Now that Lord Guangnan's Mansion remains neutral, I wonder about the attitudes of the other lords' mansions in Taixia Country and whether do they know Imperial Alliance or not?'

When he thought about the power displayed by Imperial Alliance and the possible catastrophe caused by different forces for scrambling for the throne of Emperor Xuanyuan, Zhang Tie couldn't stand feeling grim inside as he gritted his teeth.

When Zhang Tie was thinking about it, Treasureflame Immortal the deputy head of Demons-kill Valley had shown his dissatisfaction about the mannered overwhelming deed of Taiyi Fantasy Sect, Heavens Holding Pavilion and Qionglou Pavilion. Soon after that goddamned old witch of Qionglou Pavilion finished her words, Treasureflame Immortal had burst into laughter as he released his surging war intention. At the same time, a terrifying strong qi of heavenly knight appeared to him. Watching the other heavenly knights at present, Treasureflame Immortal said with a sneer, "What you want to do has nothing to do with us Demons-kill Valley. We Demons-kill Valley would come and leave free. We would not take away anything that doesn't belong to us; however, if something belongs to us, even Emperor Xuanyuan couldn't take it away from us…"

"What do you mean, Treasureflame Immortal?" Swords Immortal's voice turned cold at once.

"I mean our Demons-kill Valley pursues truth in terms of killing. We fight and kill until death. This is also the lifetime faith of our Demons-kill Valley. In this world, except that our Demons-kill Valley could set rules for ourselves, nobody else could do that for us. If we find something here, we will take it away, whatever it is. If anyone else would like to set rules and talk about reasons for us, you should ask whether the sabers and swords in the hands of the knights of Demons-kill Valley agree with it or not…"

"Kill…kill…kill…" Soon after Treasureflame Immortal finished his words, all the disciples of Demons-kill Valley behind him roared in unison while some of them directly released their battle qi smokes and tornadoes.

The atmosphere across the Dongtian of Great Wilderness Sect became intense all of a sudden…

Chapter 1542: Zhang Tie's Help

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

"Hahaha, Treasureflame Immortal, take easy…" the deputy head of Heavens Holding Pavilion Clouddragon Immortal persuaded them with a smile hurriedly when it turned intense in the underground space, "We're all from top six sects of Taixia Country. We're of the same root. We should be kind to each other for the common wealth. We were just thinking for the sake of us all just now. If there's any problem, we could negotiate about it; we could negotiate about it. Of course, disciples of Demons-kill Valley are reliable and could come and go as you will. We wouldn't say no to you. However, what the four sage freaks got is of great significance. We shouldn't just let them go without a check. As this is a dangerous place, once it was a trap, so many knights would be trapped. By then, all of us would have big trouble. We'd better have four sage freaks clarify their innocence. Only in this way could we become reassured. What do you think, immortal?"

After hearing Clouddragon Immortal's words, Treasureflame Immortal looked much better. He then raised his hand, causing all the disciples of Demons-kill Valley to calm down and remain still at once. Treasureflame Immortal said calmly, "That sounds good. The doctrine of Demons-kill Valley is that if we're not offended, we would not offend others. You can do whatever you want, but not have us involved. If you want to control us, our disciples of Demons-kill Valley would feel fearless fighting you three heavenly knights!"

"We won't, we won't!" Clouddragon Immortal replied as he smiled like a philanthropist who provided free porridge to the poor. However, in the blink of an eye, Clouddragon Immortal had changed his face facing the bad-looking four sage freaks as he said coldly, "What are you waiting for? Come, take out your achievements. A fresh earth knight and three black iron knights. Are you waiting for us to force you to do that?"

It became quiet in the surroundings. After hearing Clouddragon Immortal's words, all the independent knights who had no strong background became silent as they grumbled inside. Actually, Clouddragon Immortal's words not only threatened four sage freaks, but also targeted at them. On this occasion, the three major sects, after combining with each other, was definitely overwhelming. Even the heavenly knight of Jiang Clan had no chance to utter a voice. Now that the combination of the three major sects didn't even look up on a heavenly knight, how could they respect those ordinary knights? It seemed that the three major sects had long aimed to own this Dongtian of Great Wilderness Sect. Except for knights of major sects, ordinary knights would be dangerous inside. Even if ordinary knights got something from here, they couldn't keep it themselves in the end.

"Hahahaha…" Mr. Bamboo suddenly burst into laughter. His voice was full of grief and sadness as he turned around and told the other three of four sage freaks, "Brothers, previously I thought we could move further on the way of cultivation and live happier after getting the map of Dongtian of Great Wilderness Sect. I've not imagined that…alas, it's me who involves you in this event. It's Zhu Daqian's fortune to swear brothers with you. What I owe you in this life would be paid off in my later life. After a while, if we have to fight, I will definitely fight ahead of you. Hopefully, you don't scramble for that with me…"

"Brother Zhu, what're you talking about? When we swore as brothers, we've pledged to seek for death on the same day despite the fact that we were not born on the same date. Today, we brothers could prove our swear here. It's also a great fortune for our lives. Glad to be involved!" Mr. Plum replied as he burst into laughter.

"Hahaha, Brother Plum is right. Today, we four brothers would join hands towards the paradise. Pitifully, we forgot to bring liquor with us. It would be great if we had liquor at this moment!" Mr. Orchid said with a smile while shaking his head, "Brother Zhu, if you're the first, I would be the second. After a while, brothers, don't scramble with me…"

"Taiyi Fantasy Sect, Heavens Holding Pavilion, Qionglou Pavilion, pah…" Mr. Chrysanthemum, the thinnest and shortest one among the four sage freaks, spat onto the ground as he glared at those immortals, "Not until today did I know that the so-called major sects were nothing different than bandits with the vantage point in battle strength. Why do you think that we will follow your order? Today, we four brothers would never succumb to such humiliation until death…"

"Audacious! What shameless and stupid juniors! As we let you submit in the items and keep you alive, you should appreciate us. How dare you grumble for that…" Reflectingmoons Immortal the deputy head of Qionglou Pavilion scolded as she gazed at the four brothers with aggressive, shiny eyes, "If you want to die, I will meet your demand…"

Soon after that, the old witch disappeared.

Of course, she didn't disappear for sure; however, her fast movement couldn't be caught by the eyes of ordinary knights.

With a loud sound "boom", a strong qi spilled over the space in front of the gate of the tower of time while numerous sharp light flashed by with vapor suffusing in all directions. All the onlooking knights were startled and hurriedly moved away, leaving a large open land.

The boom and the vapor diffused after a short while. However, at the gate of the tower of time, the four sage freaks had already formed a battle formation and flew into the air. Reflectingmoons Immortal who disappeared just now had reappeared in her original place as if she had not moved. Besides, a 2 m long shiny, crystal ice sword was floating in the air between Reflectingmoons Immortal and four safe freaks.

The ice sword was uttering a fine humming sound that could only be produced by metal swords while its sword tip was pointing at Reflectingmoons Immortal the deputy head of Qionglou Pavilion.

Reflectingmoons Immortal looked very bad as she was deadly gazing at Zhang Tie.

"Aah, what's happening…"

"How could a crystal sword suddenly appear in the air…"

"Where does the vapor come from?"

"Isn't it a crystal sword? That appears to be an ice sword…"

The surrounding ordinary knights were in a hubbub as they wondered about what happened just now.

Although ordinary knights couldn't see it through, all the knights above earth knights; especially heavenly knights had figured out what happened. When Reflectingmoons Immortal launched her attack, an ice sword and an ice shield suddenly appeared in the air. The ice shield blocked her strike and turned into vapor. At the same time, the ice sword forced Reflectingmoons Immortal back at a stroke…

Only one person at present could force back a heavenly knight silently.

Therefore, all the heavenly knights fixated onto Zhang Tie while the latter was holding Bai Suxian's hand and behaved gently and decently like a real immortal…

Chapter 1543: What Should Human Knights Do

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

When they found all the heavenly knights fixating onto Zhang Tie; especially Reflectingmoons Immortal and the long ice sword which was still floating in the air, all those knights who didn't know what was happening understood that it was Zhang Tie who had stopped the fight.

"Aah, it's Qianji Immortal; Qianji Immortal has stopped it…"

"It is!"

"Turning vapor into ice silently and driving ice sword by spiritual energy; that's what a divine dominator could do!"

"We've not been here in vain after seeing the mysterious skill of the world-renowned divine dominator…"

"Aah, what if Qianji Immortal was dealing with me just now…"

"Qianji Immortal could force back a heavenly knight by only one trick; if it was you, you've long become sh*t…"

"Great…that's great…"

All the onlooking knights exclaimed as they all fixated onto Zhang Tie with full awe and amazement. Hearing the discussions of surrounding knights, Reflectingmoons Immortal looked much worse. After exchanging a glance with each other, Swords Immortal of Taiyi Fantasy Sect and Clouddragon Immortal of Heavens Holding Pavilion turned cold at once. As Zhang Tie always remained silent, none of these heavenly knights had imagined that Zhang Tie could give a hand to the four sage freaks even at the risk of a face-to-face collision with Reflectingmoons Immortal. Furthermore, Zhang Tie's trick was too mysterious that even shocked the rest heavenly knights at present.

The old witch's chest undulated for a short while as she looked at Zhang Tie with shiny eyes and screamed all of a sudden, "Qianji Immortal, what do you want to do?"

"Reflectingmoons Immortal, are you playing the fool? I even wanted to ask what did you mean by doing that! As an honored heavenly knight, how could you kill Hua knights due to verbal dispute? Your unscrupulous deed is really out of my imagination. As we're in the holy war, if Reflectingmoons Immortal applied your talent on dealing with demons on the battlefield, you would definitely gain a good reputation for Qionglou Pavilion and yourself. What do you think?"

Zhang Tie pulled Bai Suxian's face as he talked calmly. The moment the old witch launched her strike, Zhang Tie had been standing on her opposite. She wanted to give them a seckill. One fresh earth knight and three black iron knights were like four preliminary school students to a heavyweight boxing champion in front of a heavenly knight. The moment she moved, she would be able to crush them into pieces. At the critical moment, Zhang Tie stopped her and forced her back, saving the four sage freaks' lives.

Heroes should have their own bottom lines and principles. At this moment, Zhang Tie would stop her even at the risk of offending Imperial Alliance.

As Zhang Tie accomplished this process using the spiritual energy that Bai Suxian injected into his body, nobody else could see through it. As Zhang Tie was pulling Bai Suxian's hand, they all felt that Zhang Tie applied this skill calmly; therefore, Zhang Tie became more awesome in their minds. As was imagined by Zhang Tie, the moment he moved, he had frightened everyone else at present. In this case, even though Zhang Tie told others that he had lost his battle strength, nobody might believe in that.

Zhang Tie's words made the old witch speechless as she could only pant there and glare at Zhang Tie. However, she dared not move forward again. As an insider, Reflectingmoons Immortal sensed Zhang Tie's power the most. Zhang Tie could easily block her strike by sword comprising of water. If Zhang Tie had applied his silver secret item, the former strike would be more precarious. Additionally, it was not Zhang Tie's trump card. It was just a trial for Zhang Tie. If Zhang Tie used his trump cards, it would have been a completely different outcome…

"Qianji Immortal, are you going to fight us for some trivial persons?" Swords Immortal of Taiyi Fantasy Sect flung an overwhelming reason over Zhang Tie as he gazed coldly at the latter.

Swords Immortal had long heard about the animosity between Zhang Tie and the elders and disciples of Taiyi Fantasy Sect at the bank of Weishui River. Therefore, Swords Immortal wanted to subdue Zhang Tie with the power of the other major sects in a domineering manner.

Pitifully, Swords Immortal underestimated Zhang Tie. When in Blackhot City, Zhang Tie had been stubborn although being an anonymous person and would not succumb to the powers. He even dared offend those people whom every student was afraid of at school at that moment, not to mention this moment.

"Hahahaha…" Zhang Tie burst into laughter before watching Swords Immortal and saying loudly, "In your eyes, four safe freaks might only be trivial figures; however, small figures are not destined to be humiliated by others. Even butchers and prostitutes in markets had dignity and could commit suicide because of fury, not to mention knights of Taixia Country. Heroes could be killed yet could not be humiliated. Don't you feel that you are doing excessively this time? When it's unfair, someone would deal with it; when the road is ragged, someone would walk and pave it. Today, I will speak for the four tough men of South Border who don't succumb to powers, so what?"

Zhang Tie's words won the favor of many people while moving them greatly.

"Great…"

"Qianji Immortal is right…"

Soon after Zhang Tie's words, those surrounding knights had shouted as they applauded for Zhang Tie. Some even uttered weird sounds.

"Because of this sentence, from today on, Qianji Immortal will be the friends of us Barbarians Mountain in South Border…" a group of barbarian knights in hides and colorful bird feathers shouted which also proved their sense of existence.

There were many knights in barbarians of South Border. All the cultivation methods that they adopted were carried forward from Great Wilderness Sect through many channels. When Great Wilderness Sect ruled South Border, almost all the influential figures in barbarians among numerous mountains had been subordinate to Great Wilderness Sect or have relationships with the latter. In Great Wilderness Sect, except Great Wilderness Sutra, none of the other cultivation classics could gain the favor of knights of Great Wilderness Sect. However, those classics were top treasures for these barbarians.

The discovery of the Dongtian of Great Wilderness Sect attracted more than 1,000 barbarian knights from South Border. However, they were divided into many factions and were not harmonious with each other. Additionally, it was said that the highest level among barbarian knights was shadow knight. On the stage jointly ruled by top sects of Taixia Country, of course, these barbarian knights lacked a sense of existence. Even Zhang Tie didn't notice them without such a voice.

Chapter 1544: Zhang Tie's Insistence

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

The booing onlooking knights made the three heavenly knights more embarrassed. By contrast, the founder of Jiang Clan who used to be angry felt much smoother now. After revealing a smile at Zhang Tie, he waited to see the fun.

After realizing that her man was such a responsible hero, Bai Suxian admired Zhang Tie so much that her eyes were almost girdled with stars.

"Iron-Dragon Sect is just a small sect. How dare you fight us major sects?" Swords Immortal immediately escalated the scale of the argument as he used the war between sects to threaten Zhang Tie.

How could that work?

"Hahaha…" Zhang Tie burst into laughter after hearing Swords Immortal's retort. In a heroic manner, he looked around before pointing at the teams of the three major sects, saying, "When I was at the bank of Weishui River, facing one sage-level demon knight, nine heavenly demon knights, 100,000 demon knights below heavenly knights as well as hundreds of millions of demons, I didn't retreat a single step. Instead, I brought heavy casualties to them. Do you feel you're greater than the demon army in battle strength or what?"

"War between sects is different than a confrontation between two armies!" Clouddragon Immortal said with a squinted smile as he said gloomily, "Qianji Immortal, if you don't think for yourself; don't you think for your sect? What's more, we're doing this for the sake of the overall situation of the country and the people at present.."

"Really?" Zhang Tie sneered at Clouddragon Immortal as he accented his tone, "War between sects? So what? Although Iron-Dragon Sect won't prove the truth by killing, none of our disciples of Iron-Dragon Sect is afraid of death. If anyone dares kill a disciple of Iron-Dragon Sect, I will kill 10 disciples of his sect; if anyone dares kill a knight of Iron-Dragon Sect, I will kill 10 knights of his sect. If a war between sects is needed, I don't assure how many people of Iron-Dragon Sect could survive in the end; however, I guarantee that none of the sects that wage war with Iron-Dragon Sect could survive except their sage-level knights within dozens of years. If anyone of you wants to try my tricks, go ahead! In addition, Taixia has not perished yet and is still consolidated as a whole. Only Emperor Xuanyuan in Xuanyuan Hill could represent Taixia Country; even if Emperor Xuanyuan is not there, the royal prince could also be committed to it. Furthermore, lords and chancellors in Xuanyuan Hill have their own responsibilities. There's only one sun and people only have one master. How dare you represent the country as a whole in front of so many human knights? I wonder since when did the major sects represent Taixia Country. Have you Heavens Holding Pavilion acquired the authority of Xuanyuan Hill or you want to rebel when Emperor Xuanyuan is absent?"

Zhang Tie's last words were too lethal, causing Clouddragon Immortal, Swords Immortal and that old witch of Qionglou Pavilion change their face at a stroke.

As it sounded cool, someone among the crowd acclaimed it once again.

Zhang Tie would never treat politely these people who always proposed to do something on behalf of all the others, which kind of person Zhang Tie abhorred and disgusted most. These people used to do something on the paramount moral point on behalf of Taixia Country and the rest of the world. Whereas, when you look into them, you would find they were just as vile as bandits and burglars. Since ancient times, such people always behaved similarly to each other. By contrast, those with real mores were always low-key, modest and people-oriented, who even enjoyed chopping firewoods and transporting water for commoners and would never propose to represent anyone and screw people like Zhang Tie.

"Qianji Immortal, don't frame up Heavens Holding Pavilion. Heavens Holding Pavilion would not accept the crime of "rebellion"…" Clouddragon Immortal said righteously.

'You don't accept the crime of "rebellion"? You've already joined Heavens Holding Pavilion and the three major sects have thought about intervening with the throne of Taixia Country on behalf of Emperor Xuanyuan, isn't that a rebellion?' Zhang Tie sneered inside as he neglected Clouddragon Immortal and told four safe freaks on his side, "You could leave now. I want to see who dare represent the country, the people and me…"

After Zhang Tie finished his words, all the long swords became as abuzz as thunders in unison in the Dongtian. Even the long swords of knights in Taiyi Fantasy Sect, Heavens Holding Pavilion and Qionglou Pavilion resonated with Zhang Tie's spiritual energy. While ordinary long swords stayed in their sheaths, all the silver secret long swords had flown off their sheaths and pointed at Zhang Tie like paying their respect to a sage of swords.

Even the two long swords on the back of Swords Immortal jumped out of their sheaths and flashed towards Zhang Tie before flying around Zhang Tie like his loyal dogs. It seemed that they were ready to charge at the enemies who dared grin at Zhang Tie at any time.

At the sight of this scene, Swords Immortal's face turned purple. However, he couldn't say anything about it; because he knew that Zhang Tie wasn't targeting him. It displayed Zhang Tie's unsurpassed swordsmanship which already linked with Zhang Tie's heart. The swords would move alongside Zhang Tie's heart; vice versa. It was the omen that Zhang Tie was ready to set upon. At the same time, the light of protective sword cover had already risen and loomed in the air around Zhang Tie full of threat.

All the knights who only heard about Zhang Tie's supernatural swordsmanship were transfixed at the sight of Zhang Tie's sword trick.

Since the start, Zhang Tie had been drawing Bai Suxian's hand, which appeared very gentle and confident.

Hitherto, the four safe freaks didn't leave. After exchanging a glance with each other, Zhu Daqian gritted his teeth as he took out a bracelet before rocking it shortly, showing over 1,000 brilliant earth-element crystals, dozens of vials of medical pills and some other dazzling strange items.

"All these are what we've discovered in this Dongtian. Nothing is in the bracelet anymore. We four brothers would refuse the humiliation if anyone wants to check our body except Qianji Immortal, who's frank, just and gave us a hand for two times. We'd like Qianji Immortal to check whether there are Great Wilderness Sutra and other items in this bracelet…" Zhu Daqian said as he flew towards Zhang Tie and submitted the bracelet to Zhang Tie respectfully.

Chapter 1545: Concession

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

After throwing a deep glance at Zhu Daqian, Zhang Tie took his bracelet.

The bracelet's luster was like that of peacock's feather. Being adorned with blue and green colors, it was covered with light. At the sight of it, people would know it was a rarity. Additionally, there was a mark of two snakes being connected with each other, head to tail and tail to head, which was exclusive to Great Wilderness Sect.

The internal space of the bracelet was over 300 cubic meters, which denoted that it was the best of its kind. Only after injecting a bit spiritual energy into it, Zhang Tie had ensured that nothing else was in it. Four sage freaks didn't lie to them.

"It's empty…" Zhang Tie said as he passed the bracelet to Deyang Immortal on his side.

Watching Zhang Tie passing the bracelet to Deyang Immortal, Zhu Daqian threw a glance at Zhang Tie with full of appreciation because he knew that Zhang Tie had already understood what the four sage freaks were thinking about.

"There's truly nothing inside!" Deyang Immortal said as he passed it to Treasureflame Immortal.

"Hmm, it's true!" Treasureflame Immortal also nodded. After receiving Zhang Tie's eye signal, he passed it to Woodbuilding Immortal of the founder of Jiang Clan.

Woodbuilding Immortal had been ignored and constrained from the beginning. After receiving the bracelet, he felt his identity being recognized. Therefore, he looked much better. After nodding at Zhang Tie, he took and checked it, saying, "This bracelet should be the best of its kind of Great Wilderness Sect; however, nothing is inside!"

The three heavenly knights of Taiyi Fantasy Sect, Heavens Holding Pavilion and Qionglou Pavilion watched it eagerly. However, Woodbuilding Immortal directly returned it to Zhang Tie; instead of passing it to the other three heavenly knights.

After taking the bracelet, Zhang Tie returned it to Zhu Daqian before saying so loudly that anyone else at present could hear it.

"Even if there is Great Wilderness Sutra in the Dongtian, how could the elders and knights of Great Wilderness Sect place it in the first floor of Dongtian? Aren't they afraid of losing it if they put the most important item outside? Of course, they wouldn't do that! When four sage freaks entered here, could they imagine about this scene? I'm afraid not. Swords Immortal, Clouddragon Immortal, Reflectingmoons Immortal, you've already seen it, Zhu Daqian has already been surrounded by the others the moment he exited the tower of time. He didn't even have a chance to cheat you. All the items alongside this space-teleportation equipment that they have acquired are present, it proves that four safe freaks don't have Great Wilderness Sutra at all. Nor could they gain Great Wilderness Sutra on the first floor of Dongtian. As heavenly knights, why do you have to make juniors embarrassed?"

After being insistent, Zhang Tie finally spared a chance for the three heavenly knights to give a concession to this event. Additionally, Zhang Tie was reasonable. Even though there was Great Wilderness Sutra in this Dongtian which was the top secret knowledge in the world, it would never be placed on the first floor. Therefore, even though it was four safe freaks who entered this Dongtian first, they could still acquire Great Wilderness Sutra in such a short period.

Although the three heavenly knights didn't look good, they had sensed the chance created by Zhang Tie. After recalling Zhang Tie's military exploits at the bank of Weishui River and the fact that Zhang Tie could survive the strike of the thunder of nirvana and the current scene of numerous swords abuzz, Swords Immortal, Clouddragon Immortal and Reflectingmoons Immortal exchanged a glance with each other before considering it rapidly.

In the blink of an eye, Clouddragon Immortal the deputy head of Heavens Holding Pavilion had burst out into laughter as if nothing had happened just now as he said, "As Taixia Country is facing the intrusion of demons, as sects of Taixia Country, Iron-Dragon Sect, Heavens Holding Pavilion, Taiyi Fantasy Sect and Qionglou Pavilion should suspend our disputes and join hands to deal with the foreign forces. Now that Qianji Immortal has proposed a suggestion, we will not make these juniors embarrassed any more in case of trouble. You could leave!"

"Hahaha, Heavens Holding Pavilion is really fair and righteous…" Zhang Tie laughed while all the humming sounds of swords in the Dongtian dissipated as the two swords that were flying around Zhang Tie returned to the sheaths of Swords Immortal, diffusing the tension in this Dongtian at a stroke.

After returning to where the other three of the four sage freaks were, Zhu Daqian picked up the element crystals and those vials as he bowed deeply towards Zhang Tie solemnly, "We four brothers would definitely pay off Qianji Immortal's favor!"

"It owes to your fortune and blessings. I just did what I should. Quick, you should leave now!" Zhang Tie replied as he waved his hand modestly.

The four sage freaks didn't waste time as they instantly flew towards the entrance at the dome.

Watching four sage freaks leaving, gloomy Swords Immortal, Clouddragon Immortal and Reflectingmoons Immortal exchanged a glance with each other before flying back to their own bases, followed by their disciples silently.

…

After having a short talk with Treasureflame Immortal and Woodbuilding Immortal, Zhang Tie told Bai Suxian, "Let's leave…" before flying back to the base of Lord Guangnan's Mansion together.

The place near the tower of time then recovered tranquility.

The tower of time was in its energy resilience period, which might be unavailable within dozens of years. Therefore, all of them left.

Many onlooking knights were not satisfied with the fast ending of this dispute. Previously, they were ready to watch the fun; especially the performance of Zhang Tie [Zhang Mushen] was definitely shocking today.

"How could it come to an end so fast? I thought Qianji Immortal could at least fight the other three heavenly knights!" A fat black iron knight grumbled in the air while slapping on the back side of his head.

"Idiot, if there's really a war between heavenly knights, do you think that you could watch the fun? By then, people like you and me could barely survive ourselves in the chaos!"

"Why?" the fat knight argued.

"What a silly ass, do you think heavenly knights are as stupid as you? A war between heavenly knights would cause great casualties. Do you dream about picking up spoils on the battlefield? I wonder how you promoted to a knight…"

Chapter 1546: Trickery

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

"Weren't four sage freaks ready to have a duel with the major sects? Why did they change their mind all of a sudden? How could they show their achievements to you…"

The moment they returned to their camp, Bai Suxian had asked Zhang Tie.

The tents of Lord Guangnan's Mansion and the other major sects here were not ordinary. Besides being waterproof and fire-resistant, these tents had two layers of special lead cloths in the middle, which were applied with special runes. The moment people entered the tents, their talks inside would not be eavesdropped by outsiders who tried to scan and sense the situation inside tents using spiritual energy. Therefore, their tents were very good at privacy.

Zhang Tie found that Bai Suxian was very smart and able when she was not alongside with him; however, as long as they were together, Bai Suxian would not think too much anymore.

Facing Bai Suxian's spoiled, tender eyesight, Zhang Tie scratched her nose shortly.

"If they could survive, who would choose to die? In the beginning, the four sage freaks could only make a sole choice between dignity and duel. As heroes prefer to die than being humiliated. Facing the domineering major sects, they could only choose to have a duel with them. However, I provided a chance for them. Zhu Daqian was brave and smart. He made a decision right away and showed his achievements to me which provided a leeway for themselves on the premise that their dignity was preserved. If Zhu Daqian didn't do that, they might have already died when we heard of them next time."

"Aah, really?"

"Yup." Zhang Tie reaffirmed it with a smile, saying, "Even though we could save them and have them leave here under the eyes of the other major sects today, if they didn't clarify their innocence in the public that they didn't gain the Great Wilderness Sutra, they would also be killed secretly by those major sects or the other forces that cast greedy eyes on the possible Great Wilderness Sutra . With my help, they gained the others' trust by showing all that they've achieved here to me and the other three heavenly knights. Now that I've decided to help them, I should help them until the end. As they're good people, I am willing to give them a favor again…"

"Now that you've long known that, why not remind them in advance?"

"If I opened my mouth, I would be no different than the other three major sects. Because it means humiliation to them and would lead them to a real dead end. I just let them comprehend it themselves and they didn't let me down!"

"Don't you worry about fighting the heavenly knights of Taiyi Fantasy Sect and Heavens Holding Pavilion today?"

"Of course, I worry about it too much. As I've not fully recovered my battle strength and spiritual energy, if I have to fight them, I would be disadvantageous…"

"If so, why…"

"You want to know why I was so insistent today?"

Bai Suxian nodded.

Zhang Tie smiled as he touched her head, "Which one do you feel is greater in battle strength, me or the heavenly knights of the other major sects?"

"Needless to say, you could even kill a heavenly demon knight with a rod by striking it nine times at the bank of Weishui River, how could ordinary heavenly knights defeat you? In others' eyes, you could almost match a semi-sage knight or a sage knight as a divine dominator!" Bai Suxian said without demur.

"Hmm, now that I'm so powerful, think about it, why did the three immortals of Taiyi Fantasy Sect, Heavens Holding Pavilion and Qionglou Pavilion pretend to not have noticed me at the beginning? In the world of knights, battle strength counted most instead of age. Now that I could kill a heavenly demon knight so easily, it would not be difficult for me to kill any of them. How dare they put on their airs and always constrain me? After reviewing the copper map plate left by Great Wilderness Sect, they didn't even show it to me. Do you think such an unscrupulous manner is normal in front of a divine dominator?" Zhang Tie said with a smile as his eyesight turned profound.

Bai Suxian became stunned. After considering it carefully, she abruptly changed his face as she asked, "You mean they were actually performing to probe you…"

"Not exactly. As top figures of top sects of Taixia Country which were superior to numerous sects across the country, their mindset and mentality had long been different than ordinary people. Being like emperors, it was reasonable for them to be unscrupulous and domineering. In their eyes, commoners were as trivial as ants. Even though knights, without great backgrounds, would be looked down upon by them. Therefore, their performance was half true. They were actually performing it in front of me so as to probe and stimulate me. They wanted to verify whether I've recovered my power and was as brilliant as the very one at the bank of Weishui River…"

With cold eyes, Zhang Tie revealed a sneer as he said, "If I don't respond to their action by offering my concession to them or remaining silent, they might get some key information and judgment from me. In this Dongtian or after leaving this Dongtian, they might do harm to me and Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory. They probably pose some requests on fiery oil and all-purpose medicament like enjoying the same special treatment as Lord Guangnan's Mansion…"

"Wha for?" Bai Suxian exclaimed out of fury.

"Because I've not recovered my power and the three top sects could join hands to stress me and the profits of fiery oil and all-purpose medicament!" Zhang Tie listed three reasons as he added, "Do you think that I was qualified to negotiate with them by then? If I lost the power as a divine dominator, I would only be a tray of a dish in front of them…"

"How dare they probe you?"

"The major sects must have studied the destructive weapon the thunder of nirvana which could even destroy sage-level knight, and have known its terrifying effect. They guessed that I couldn't recover so fast. Plus that I disappeared for a period which reminded them that there might still be some problem with my power. Therefore, they reunited today and played a performance in front of me in order to figure out my bottom line and real power through subtle means. Do you think that four sage freaks were really their target? Don't you think that they didn't know that the four sage freaks could barely acquire Great Wilderness Sutra on the first floor of Dongtian? You're wrong. They were targeting me in fact." Zhang Tie explained with a weird smile, "Now that I've already known their purpose, how could I be scared of them? Of course, I should be more unscrupulous than them by slapping their face forcefully…"

"That's too perilous…" Bai Suxian quivered all over in a split second as she realized such peril in the boisterous scene.

"War is about the ruse. This is how military tactics go. When you're weak, you should show a strong point to your enemy; when you're strong, you should show your weakness to your enemy. If I insisted on watching the fun silently, they would definitely continue to find me trouble by stressing me or probing me in other tricks until I stood out when would be the real perilous moment for me…"

Chapter 1547: Conspiracy

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

When Zhang Tie and Bai Suxian returned to their tents, Swords Immortal, Clouddragon Immortal and Reflectingmoon Immortal had also returned to the camp of Taiyi Fantasy Sect.

The moment they entered a tent, the three heavenly knights had sat together gloomily. Not until a few minutes' silence did Swords Immortal open his mouth.

"It seems that Zhang Tie's battle strength is as powerful as before…"

Despite being in the sound-isolated tent, Swords Immortal still spoke secretly by battle qi. In this sense, even if there was any fourth one at present, he would not hear their talks.

"According to the news from Xuanyuan Hill, Xuanyuan Changying almost used all the means to deal with Zhang Tie's wound in vain. In the national banquet of Xuanyuan Hill, according to the secret observation of our insiders, Zhang Tie appeared having not fully recovered as his spiritual energy and battle qi wave all over was weak. However, his spiritual energy seems as powerful as before today!" Refectingmoon Immortal grumbled gloomily whose skin was covered with goosebumps like that of chicken's skin.

"It's said that Zhang Tie had triggered his bloody sacrifice furnace after returning to Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory and used thousands of demon fighters for a bloody sacrifice. It's said that the bloody sacrifice furnace is so marvelous that it could almost cure any disease at the cost of demons. Although Zhang Tie was not cured in Xuanyuan Hill, he might have been healed by the bloody sacrifice furnace!" Clouddragon Immortal said solemnly as his smile had disappeared.

"Bloody sacrifice furnace is indeed a top rarity that we don't have, its value is immeasurable. According to the current situation, we have to change our plan against Zhang Tie. Bloody sacrifice furnace could even cure the wound left by the thunder of nirvana, when we target at Zhang Tie later, we should have the function of bloody sacrifice furnace into consideration. Otherwise, as long as Zhang Tie is alive, he would be able to recover easily. He has an amazing flight ability as a divine dominator, the body-changing immortal bloodline and the bloody sacrifice furnace; even King Fairyocean couldn't be as tricky as him." Swords Immortal said as he shook his head helplessly.

Zhang Tie's secret methods were out of people's imagination. As long as he combined various secret methods, he would gain much greater power than the total of the pure addition of these secret methods. Like what Swords Immortal had mentioned, after combining the three abilities, Zhang Tie could absolutely become unrivaled. Even if he was besieged by sage-level knights, he would escape to a place and read one's memory before turning into that person's look. The moment he caught the opportunity, he would be able to recover using the bloody sacrifice furnace. Additionally, except sage-level knights, even ordinary heavenly knights would be fragile to him. Who was not afraid of such a great opponent? What was more, Zhang Tie was just a shadow knight. As long as he promoted to a heavenly knight, who could control him, a divine dominator?

The moment they thought about the situation where Zhang Tie promoted to a heavenly knight, all the powers of Taiyi Fantasy Sect, Heavensholding Pavilion and Qionglou Pavilion became numb.

There had long been a conflict between Zhang Tie and Taiyi Fantasy Sect. Although being not serious, at the least it could indicate Zhang Tie's aversion to the Taiyi Fantasy Sect. What counted most, Zhang Tie and Taiyi Fantasy Sect were not of the same kind. Zhang Tie's attitude towards Taiyi Fantasy Sect could be proved by the fact that he rooted for the royal prince and he widely promoted fiery-oil weapons vigorously across the country. What Zhang Tie was doing was completely against the original intention of Imperial Alliance, which Taiyi Fantasy Sect had joined.

Imperial Alliance plumped for Xuanyuan Infinity; insisted that fiery oil should be under strict control and forbade commoners to gain fiery oil and made massive destructive weapons using fiery oil. The existence of fiery oil was a great obstacle for the ultimate idea of the Imperial Alliance.

However, fiery oil appeared all of a sudden and was promoted too fast. As it was in the holy war, before the Imperial Alliance reached an agreement responding to this new matter, fiery oil had already spread across the country and played an enormous role in the holy war. Imperial Alliance didn't have any reason to prevent its development at all.

After the war at the bank of Weishui River, Zhang Tie gathered more halos and had already become one of the most attractive figures in the eyes of the Imperial Alliance in Taixia Country. Although the Imperial Alliance had long planned to respond to Zhang Tie's actions, they didn't imagine that Zhang Taixuan would suddenly jump out which made Zhang Tie vigilant and thus disturbed the plan of the Imperial Alliance to a certain degree.

"If we want to deal with Zhang Tie, we have to deal with his bloody sacrifice furnace first. We'd better deal with the two aspects at the same time. Otherwise, the bloody sacrifice furnace could destroy our plan easily. What happened today has to be reported to our sages right away. As to the following steps, we should follow their orders…" Clouddragon Immortal said as he watched the other two people, who both nodded seriously.

"Now that Zhang Tie has already fully recovered, the other task of ours would not be tricky in this sense. I'm afraid that neither way would barely work, attack by innuendo or coerce and bribe." Swords Immortal said as he shook his head.

"You mean we should figure out why Zhang Taixuan screwed and caught Zhang Tie?" Reflectingmoons Immortal asked.

"Yes, Zhang Taixuan is just a piece that we've long put. He deserved death. However, without enough motive and allure, it's hard to imagine that Zhang Taixuan dared do that to Zhang Tie under our eyes and offend the most powerful people and force in Taixia Country. I don't think that he did that for fiery oil and all-purpose medicament. Even though Zhang Tie was killed, he still had no ability to control the two items as Yan Feiqing alone could kill him easily. In the words of sages, Zhang Taixuan might have already known a top secret about Zhang Tie, which stimulated Zhang Taixuan to do that to Zhang Tie; however, he failed it and was finally killed by Zhang Tie…"

"We couldn't figure out this case ourselves. It doesn't work for us to investigate it by force. We'd better do that from other aspects. What counts most is to deal with the current affairs. As full-moons gates are going to open, now that we've already assured that Zhang Tie maintained his battle strength, we should well negotiate on how to deal with him later…"

"What about four sage freaks? Do we need to…"

"They are just trivial craps. If we hurt them, we would arouse Zhang Tie's alert. Just let them go. I don't think they could arouse any big trouble…"

"Hopefully, there's Great Wilderness Sutra in the following floors. However, ifGreat Wilderness Sutra was acquired by others…"

"Then, the catastrophe facing Great Wilderness Sect dozens of years ago would repeat somewhere in Taixia Country. No power could block our great undertaking, Iron-Dragon Sect, Demons-kill Valley or Jiang Clan…"

The tent became full of killing intent once again…

Chapter 1548: Featured Means

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

Two days had passed since the four sage freaks left the first floor of the Dongtian.

During this short period, so many people had paid a visit to Zhang Tie incessantly, including barbarian knights in the South Border. However, Zhang Tie received none of them; instead, he just stayed in his own tent and cultivated Great Wilderness Sutra; additionally, he enjoyed Bai Suxian's tender sexual service. If there was no dispute in the outside world, he was simply living like an immortal.

Two days later, when the two moons turned full, the gates leading to the second floor of the Dongtian of Great Wilderness Sect would open. As the sun set, soon after 6 pm, the entire space of the first floor of Dongtian had become boisterous while great batches of knights converged towards the six full-moons gates.

When Zhang Tie exited his tent, Bai Suxian, Bai Runshan and Deyang Immortal of Heavens Fortune Sect who didn't mean to acquire anything here had been flying towards him.

The camp of Lord Guangnan's Mansion was not far from the full-moons gate. When Zhang Tie left his tent, the sky had been covered with knights.

Zhang Tie looked up at the sky as he heaved a sigh helplessly. In this sense, even though he had great prestige, if he told them about the possible danger inside, it was afraid that none of them would believe him; instead, they would consider it as his conspiracy——occupying the benefits himself. After throwing a glance at Bai Runshan, Zhang Tie asked, "Third uncle, are you ready?"

After the relationship between Zhang Tie and Bai Suxian was fixed, Zhang Tie had been used to calling Bai Runshan third uncle. Everyone felt it was reasonable for Zhang Tie to call him third uncle; especially those knights of Lord Guangnan's Mansion, who regarded it as their glory.

"Ready!" Bai Runshan looked around before letting out a sigh helplessly, saying, "Only you, me and Suxian of Lord Guangnan's Mansion would enter it, all the other members just stay here…"

A few days ago, Bai Runshan was dreaming about making a fortune in this Dongtian; however, when he found that Heavens Fortune Sect only dispatched Deyang Immortal here, who closely followed Zhang Tie, Bai Ruinshan finally believed in Zhang Tie's words——there might be possible dangers in this Dongtian.

Heavens Fortune Sect never missed any guess. Now that Heavens Fortune Sect didn't want to be deeply involved in this event, plus Zhang Tie's warning, Lord Guangnan's Mansion finally made a wise choice.

Zhang Tie looked around before suggesting, "We can leave half of the people here, as for the rest half, let them leave this Dongtian first in case of emergency!"

"Hmm, I agree!" Bai Runshan nodded as he delivered Zhang Tie's suggestion as an order to the other knights. The other knights were divided into two batches; one would stay here, the other would wait outside the Dongtian in case of emergency.

After making an arrangement, Zhang Tie, Bai Suxian, Bai Runshan and Deyang Immortal walked towards the nearest full-moons gate.

Watching them walking over here, before Zhang Tie opened his mouth, those knights on two sides of the full-moons gate with greedy eyes hurriedly gave way to them, having them access to the front.

In this case, of course, the most powerful one would be qualified to enter it first. Needless to say, nobody would have any question on this issue. Closely followed the four of Zhang Tie were some strange shadow knights; then earth knights; black iron knights who outnumbered the earlier ones yet were in the end. That was to say, the team in front of the gate had already faintly been divided into four classes.

After coming to the front of the full-moons gate and watching the images on the gate which nobody else could identify that there was something wrong with them by pure eyes, Zhang Tie faintly frowned as he felt increasingly restless. However, Zhang Tie didn't feel like leaving as he also wondered about the followings confidently based on his power and Castle of Black Iron.

All the other heavenly knights had almost arrived at the same time.

There were six full-moons gates. After Zhang Tie, Lord Guangnan's Mansion and Heavens Fortune Sect occupied one gate, the rest five full-moons gates were respectively occupied by the other five heavenly knights, namely, the Swords Immortal of Taiyi Fantasy Sect, Clouddragon Immortal of Heavens Holding Pavilion, Reflectingmoons Immortal of Qionglou Pavilion, Woodbuilding Immortal the founder of Jiang Clan and Treasureflame Immortal of Demons-kill Valley.

Nobody knew what was behind each gate.

"From now on, this full-moons gate is only accessible to the disciples of Taiyi Fantasy Sect. Anyone else who dares to intrude it would be killed as the enemy of Taiyi Fantasy Sect…" the moment Swords Immortal and his disciples arrived at a full-moons gate, he had looked around with sharp eyes before telling those independent valiant knights who had given way to them in such an unscrupulous manner.

After they heard Swords Immortal's order, over 2,000 knights who converged here became transfixed at a stroke.

"Why? Taiyi Fantasy Sect is too domineering…" someone exclaimed out of fury at once. However, before those beside him booed alongside him, a cold light had flashed across Swords Immortal's eyes as he shot out an extremely sharp sword qi from his finger. After flying over 500 m, the sword qi struck onto the earth knight, causing him to spurt out blood and drop onto the ground. Despite being not fatal, he had definitely been severely hurt.

"Because of this…" Swords Immortal sneered as he added, "It's just a warning. I keep you alive for the time being. As lions are scrambling for food, jackals and ants stay far away. In this place, only the fist speaks. Do you juniors think that I will leave a position for you at the critical moment? I've already helped you a lot. Shut up!"

At the same time, Heavens Holding Pavilion and Qionglou Pavilion also started to declare their dominance.

"Listen, as our Heavens Holding Pavilion's knights entered this gate first, we have to face the greatest risks; from now on, anyone else who would like to enter this gate would have to sign a contract with our Heavens Holding Pavilion. As for the acquisitions, our Heavens Holding Pavilion would take 90%…" Clouddragon Immortal looked at those knights who had changed their faces with a smile like a smart boss, "After a while, you're welcome to enter this gate together with us. We Heavens Holding Pavilion is fair and never cheat anyone, old or young. It's known to us all. We would never go back on our word…"

After Clouddragon Immortal finished his words, all the other knights had run away at once.

Chapter 1549: The Opening of the Full-moons Gates

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

Taiyi Fantasy Sect and Heavens Holding Pavilion easily subdued the other dissents while all the other knights outside the two gates hurriedly left for the other gates. No matter what, there were four more gates left.

Compared to the overwhelming manner of Taiyi Fantasy Sect and the trick of Heavens Holding Pavilion, Qionglou Pavilion's measure was a bit brutal.

Soon after the disciples of Reflectingmoons Immortal declared the same rule as that of Taiyi Fantasy Sect, some people in the surroundings had jumped out to protest it. Therefore, Reflectingmoons Immortal launched a strike at once, causing casualties for sure.

How could ordinary knights bear the strike of a heavenly knight?

"You see the outcome for not following my order…" Reflectingmoons Immortal said coldly as she waved her hand, breaking the neck of the muscled barbarian earth knight who wore a hat of tiger's hide at a stroke. However the barbarian knight didn't die at once due to a great vitality; instead, he shrieked loudly while being thrown away by Reflectingmoons Immortal. Before the other barbarian knights caught him, Reflectingmoons Immortal had pushed forward her claw and struck the barbarian earth knight with five icy blue battle qi, exploding his body into pieces in the air while his blood and flesh covered the other barbarian knights' scalps and faces.

Such a brutal means scared a lot of onlooking knights away in a split second.

"Master…" Some barbarian knights shouted at once while the eyes of more barbarian knights turned red as they gazed at Reflectingmoons Immortal and the other knights of Qionglou Pavilion behind Reflectingmoons Immortal…

Fang Xinyi was standing not far away from Reflectingmoons Immortal in the team of Qionglou Pavilion in a white skirt…

"Guack, guack, guack…" Reflectingmoons Immortal cackled as she looked at those barbarian knights disdainfully, "Who else would like to try my Fantasy Yin Claw? Come on. Anyone else who dares enter this gate today would enjoy the same outcome…"

At this moment, a barbarian knight rushed out and shouted loudly at those barbarian knights whose eyes had turned red. After that, these barbarian knights threw a glare at Reflectingmoons Immortal and the other disciples of Qionglou Pavilion before leaving there at the same time.

In the blink of an eye, besides the knights of Taiyi Fantasy Sect, Heavens Holding Pavilion and Qionglou Pavilion, nobody else dared stand outside the three gates occupied by the three sects.

As a result, all the other knights, 7,000-8,000 in total hurriedly poured towards the other full-moons gates, unavoidably causing some chaos.

Watching those strangers who appeared behind his team all of a sudden and the bustling scene, Treasureflame Immortal of Demons-kill Valley sneered as he told a disciple, "We will imitate Taiyi Fantasy Sect and Heavens Holding Pavilion. After driving these people to our team, they would have less trouble; yet more opportunities. That's too ridiculous! Don't we kill people? We Demons-kill Valley could always kill people as many as them. Send my order——anyone else who enter this gate has to break one of his or her arms and dig out one of his or her eyes. Anyone who violates this rule would be killed!"

'Are you kidding me? Break one arm and dig out one eye? Disable ourselves before seeing a f*cking sh*t of treasure? Who's that foolish?'

They had not imagined that Demons-kill Valley's rule was more merciless; therefore, all the knights who had just gathered here ran away at a stroke.

…

Watching the sudden appearance of so many knights, Zhang Tie asked one of them what happened to the other gates.

Those knights just watched Zhang Tie with innocent and desirable eyes as they were afraid that Zhang Tie would set a similar rule, when they could only cry without tears. Although they dared not stir up the other major sects, they knew that Zhang Tie was trickier than the other heavenly knights. When they recalled how Zhang Tie threatened the other three heavenly knights alone, none of the knights nearby Zhang Tie's gate dared breathe smoothly.

"What about Jiang Clan?" Zhang Tie asked Bai Suxian.

"Jiang Clan doesn't set any rule. Woodbuilding Immortal is tolerant!" Bai Suxian commented.

"Not exactly. In this sense, Jiang Clan is weaker than the other major sects and Zhang Tie. They dared not offend so many knights. If not have these knights enter the gate, Woodbuilding Immortal might not be able to deal with the other heavenly knights alone inside the gates. On the contrary, if these people are allowed in, those heavenly knights would think twice before taking any action inside. In that case, Jiang knights might be able to get some benefits in the chaos!" Deyang Immortal explained to Bai Suxian as he stroked his beard.

"What about these people then?" Bai Suxian nodded as she asked Zhang Tie.

"Never mind. They could enter this gate after us…"

"Hmm!"

After receiving Zhang Tie's opinion, all the knights behind him heaved a sigh as they all acclaimed Zhang Tie for being frank, just and righteous. Even barbarian knights cast Zhang Tie with admiring looks. A few days ago, Zhang Tie confronted with the other three major sects for the sake of four sage freaks. This time, he didn't occupy the full-moons gate. Through the two events, Zhang Tie's prestige reached a new height in the hearts of these knights.

Zhang Tie was clear about the intentions of the other major sects; however, Zhang Tie didn't care about that. As Zhang Tie had long got the Great Wilderness Sutra and had all kinds of secret books, he was only interested in towers of time. However, given the weird aspects in this place, Zhang Tie was always worried about their safety. Thankfully, the more people on his side, the safer they would be. At least, he could notice any danger in advance in case of more casualties. No matter what, these knights were all human elites…

After throwing a glance at Bai Runshan, Zhang Tie found that Bai Runshan didn't look good. Only after thinking for a second, Zhang Tie had understood it——Qionglou Pavilion had another purpose by killing a barbarian knight in South Border. Because Fang Xinyi was in the team of Qionglou Pavilion, who was also the wife of Lord Guangnan, given the fact that the conflict between Lord Guangnan's Mansion and barbarian knights had just been relieved, Qionglou Pavilion, ah, no, Imperial Alliance used a ruse to further intensify the conflict between Lord Guangnan's Mansion and barbarians in South Border.

'What a vicious trick! They screw up Lord Guangnan's Mansion in public while the latter have to accept it…'

'Schemes between these major sects and forces are really everywhere and impossible to defend against.'

After being restless for almost one hour, all of a sudden, the gate in front of Zhang Tie revealed brilliance, causing the entire Dongtian to be as bright as daytime. After the light disappeared, they found the full-moons gate had already opened…

Chapter 1550: Entering the Gates

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

To be honest, when the full-moons gates opened and gave out brilliance, Zhang Tie didn't feel any energy connection between the full-moons gates and the two full moons outside. Whereas, when those mysterious runes inside the gates started to flow, Zhang Tie felt a sharp resonance between the All-spirits Tower in his mind sea and this full-moons gate.

Zhang Tie was confused about this response while the opening gate and the pitch-dark hole behind the gate didn't allow Zhang Tie to think about it too much.

"Let's go…" when the gate fully opened and over 6,000 knights suddenly stopped their hubbub, Zhang Tie drew Bai Suxian's hand as they exchanged a glance with each other tacitly. Then, Bai Suxian injected some spiritual energy into Zhang Tie's body as they flew into the gate at a stroke.

Despite being pitch-dark to others, it was clearly a downward tunnel in the eyes of Zhang Tie.

Watching Zhang Tie and Bai Suxian entering the tunnel, Bai Sunshan and Deyang Immortal exchanged a glance with each other as they flew inside at the same time. Half a minute later, some shadow knights behind them looked at each other.

"What are we waiting for? The treasures of Great Wilderness Sect are right downside there, quick…" some knight couldn't help shouting.

After this yell, those shadow knights rushed into the pitch-dark hole behind the full-moons gate, closely followed by all the others like a shoal of fish for fresh water at their full efforts in fear of missing something.

In the tunnel, Zhang Tie just flew at the speed of 4 times that of sound, which although being fast for others was nothing for Zhang Tie.

The entire tunnel was like a deep well with a downward inclination. It was smooth on its walls which were covered with faint, flowing runes. At the speed four times that of sound, those illuminating runes receded as fast as light besides Zhang Tie and Bai Suixian.

"Faster?" Bai Suxian asked Zhang Tie.

"No need! We should just stay close to the other heavenly knights. No need to rush out first. It's okay for us to move a bit slowlier than them!"

"Aren't you afraid that they might get the treasures ahead of us?"

"Those ahead of us might also be martyrs!" Zhang Tie said with a smile.

Bai Suxian became silent…

…

As for the other full-moons gates, the moment they opened, all the heavenly knights had rushed in. Needless to say, those knights behind Zhang Tie and Woodbuilding Immortal had also rushed in within 2 minutes.

There were four knights of Lord Guangnan's Mansion guarding the full-moons gate for Zhang Tie's group. Similarly, some knights were also left by Taiyi Fantasy Sect, Heavens Holding Pavilion, Qionglou Pavilion, Demons-kill Valley and Jiang Clan outside their gates in case of emergency.

Four knights were left outside the gate occupied by Heavens Holding Pavilion. When they thought that nobody else would come in, a stranger appeared there.

Being short and fat, the arriver appeared to be a black iron knight. As his head was severely swollen, his original look could barely be identified. Half face wrapped with gauze, he looked like a mummy while being covered with an uncomfortable smell of low-quality ointment. Because of his swollen head, his eyes turned into a gap. From all angles of view, the pair of stealthy eyes inside the gap looked obscene.

At the sight of this obscene guy, all the four knights frowned as one of them asked him, "Stop, what are you doing?"

"Going inside…" that stranger replied innocently.

"Stay away from here. If you want to enter, choose other gates…" A knight said impatiently as he waved his hand like driving away a fly.

"Can't I go inside from here?"

"Of course you could. But haven't you heard the words of our deputy head Clouddragon Immortal? If you want to enter here, you could only get 10% of what you get inside. If you lost your life there, nobody would care about you. It has nothing to do with Heavens Holding Pavilion!" another knight said maliciously.

"Erm, I've already heard it. It's okay…" that guy answered generously with his swollen head as he nodded and bowed towards the four knights of Heavens Holding Pavilion, adding, "Heavens Holding Pavilion is always fair to everyone, young or old. It's known to us all. I would be glad to even get 10% of my achievements…"

"You…"

Before a knight finished his words, that short and fat guy had already flashed in.

No matter what, none of the people of Heavens Holding Pavilion could imagine that someone would like to adopt this condition including Clouddragon Immortal. Until this guy rushed in did the four knights look at each other blindly.

After looking around, they found nobody in the surroundings. Therefore, the four people exchanged a glance with each other weirdly.

"I wonder whether that guy is stupid or not? No, I should take a look inside in case of trouble!" one earth knight told the other three.

"If nobody else was in the tunnel…" another knight said with a cold look as he made a hand gesture of cutting down something.

"I see…" After that, the earth knight hurriedly flew into the pitch-dark tunnel to chase after that person.

In the pitch-dark tunnel, after flying about 1 minute downside, the earth knight of Heavens Holding Pavilion still didn't find that short and fat guy. Therefore, he became curious about him.

Suddenly, a hand appeared on the wall which was covered with looming, flowing runes, holding a black rectangular item like a brick. When the earth knight passed by, he got a sneak attack on the back side of his head.

Chapter 1551: Trick in Trick

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

When the earth knight of Heavens Holding Pavilion entered the gate, he had already released his protective battle qi. However, the pitch-dark brick directly penetrated through the protective battle qi of the earth knight as some bizarre golden runes flashed by, striking heavily against his head.

Like how a commoner got a sneak attack against the back side of his head by a piece of brick, the earth knight passed out at a stroke silently…

Before he fell off freely, another hand appeared in the air as it seized the falling earth knight who was spurting white foam, suspending in the air of tunnel.

Not until then did that fat fully display his body with a bizarre wave like a chameleon.

At the same time, the black brick in his hand gradually shrunk; finally, it turned into a beam of light and shot into the fat's forehead. If those treasure-seekers saw what happened just now, they would definitely be shocked——The piece of pitch-dark brick was definitely special. Even silver secret weapons couldn't lurk in its owner's body in such a marvelous manner.

After putting away his brick, the fat started to observe the earth knight who had already passed out from his head to foot like how a timber wolf looked at a little white rabbit. Licking his lip obscenely, he almost drooled.

"F*ck, knights from top six sects are really rich. An earth knight could carry a portable space-teleportation finger ring, and this super vigorous waistband; it has already broken through the black iron effect. His clothes are also made of top-quality boa silk mixed with secret silver silk; they could match soft armor in defensive capability. Look at the shoes, it's caliga with a layer of rune alloy plate on its sole; it's puncture-resistant and more agile in movement. F*ck, even your underwear could clean itself automatically and could wear for one year without washing. It is worth at least thousands of gold coins. That's too lavish! This dad couldn't even afford a pair of your underwear with the money that I made in 10 years previously. Haha, what a Heavens Holding Pavilion! Pitifully, all of them belong to me now…"

In the blink of an eye, that earth knight had been naked, leaving not even a pair of underwear.

Watching this naked man, the fat teleported all the items into the space-teleportation finger ring that he had just got as he said, "Don't blame me; it's you who intended to kill me first. Therefore, it's reasonable for me to screw you up. I know that you Heavens Holding Pavilion always took your promise as f*art; like that you want to make a fortune alone and maintain your reputation at the same time, I want to be a pimp using your fortune!"

After finishing his grumble, the fat looked at that space-teleportation finger ring as he hid it into one of his smelly shoes before revealing a big smile.

No knights might feel like searching for treasures from his dirty and smelly shoes.

After doing all this, the fat found a problem. Looking around, he muttered as he scratched his own head, "How should I deal with you? I only seek for fortune instead of taking people's life. If I let you drop off, you would die; and I would expose my secret item; later on, I couldn't use my brick anymore. However, I couldn't take you with me; otherwise, I Fan Sanguang, as a virgin, would arouse misunderstandings and could barely marry wives in the future."

After thinking about it for a short while, Fang Sanguang finally got an idea. Eyebrows jumping, he revealed an obscene smile as he took a vial out of his portable medicine container. After opening its lid carefully, he sprayed some liquid onto the naked earth knight.

The moment the liquid met air, it caused white bubbles which kept expanding themselves, wrapping the naked earth knight at once, leaving his head outside for the sake of breath. When the white bubbles almost reached his hand, Fang Sanguang forcefully threw that naked earth knight away.

Being wrapped by the white bubbles, the naked earth knight and those white bubbles instantly stuck onto the wall of the tunnel; instead of dropping off.

"Hehheh, this super foaming glue is great. I'm a genius…" Fang Sanguang murmured pleasantly as he watched the earth knight being fixed onto the wall. However, in a split second, his face turned weird as he mumbled, "Motherf*cker, this scene appears so familiar. I feel ejecting an earth knight onto the wall. Whatever! No matter what, this guy would wake up 3 days later, when he would remember nothing at all. I'd better take a look at the treasures of Great Wilderness Sect right away…"

After saying that, Fan Sanguang threw the last glance at that naked guy before slowly increasing his height, making his fat frame normal. Later on, he unveiled his gauze and wore a disguising mask. After changing himself completely, he started to fly downside stealthily… leaving that naked earth knight in white bubbles on the wall of the tunnel, who might have a psyche shadow after waking up three days later.

…

After flying downwards for over 60 miles, Zhang Tie and Bai Suxian reached the end of the tunnel as they found it pretty bright in front of them.

The space of the second-floor of Dongtian was almost as same as that of the last one like that in All-spirits Tower. The mere difference between the two spaces was that there were two towers of time instead of one on the huge octahedron in the center of the floor.

Meanwhile, another item was floating quietly above the two towers of time, giving out brilliant double-color light.

Chapter 1552: A Rarity

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

The value of the two towers of time was immeasurable. Even Zhang Tie's heart pounded at the sight of them.

However, what was more attractive than the two towers of time was the item giving out golden and silver light above the towers of time——a totem of two metal snakes, tails in mouths, which was the symbol of Great Wilderness Sect.

'A metal totem, giving out two brilliant colors, floating in the air, a totem of Great Wilderness Sect…'

Anyone who integrated these pieces of messages would know that the two metal snakes were the unparalleled treasure of Great Wilderness Sect.

At least Zhang Tie held that opinion. At the sight of the totem, he had realized that the two snakes were definitely more valuable than that of the two towers of time.

After triggering his lotus-flower eyes, Zhang Tie felt bizarre energy around the two snakes. Like Centralpillar Mountain, it carried a strange gravity; additionally, the two snakes appeared having formed an unknown energy circulation.

When Zhang Tie caught sight of all this, another person had already accelerated towards the two odd-looking snakes floating above the two towers of time as fast a lightning bolt——Swords Immortal of Taiyi Fantasy Sect.

Zhang Tie and Bai Suxian also moved very fast; however, Zhang Tie retained his real flight ability. Therefore, Swords Immortal arrived at this space of Dongtian ahead of Zhang Tie.

Of course, Swords Immortal saw what Zhang Tie had seen and thought almost like Zhang Tie.

Watching Swords Immortal rushing over there, before Zhang Tie opened his mouth, Bai Suxian had already enlarged her infusion of spiritual energy into Zhang Tie's body.

"Hahaha, Swords Immortal, nice to see you again…" Zhang Tie burst into laughter as he took Bai Suxian towards the two snakes above the towers of time. In this sense, Zhang Tie would never allow Taiyi Fantasy Sect to occupy the treasure of Great Wilderness Sect ahead of him.

Taiyi Fantasy Sect had definitely joined the action of Imperial Alliance on destroying Great Wilderness Sect. It would be intolerant even by God if such a murderer could grab the treasure of Great Wilderness Sect at this time. Otherwise, those late members of Great Wilderness Sect would never be reassured in their afterlife! If Jiang Clan or Demons-kill Valley grabbed the treasure of Great Wilderness Sect ahead of Taiyi Fantasy Sect, although Zhang Tie wouldn't feel happy for that, at the least he would not feel unhappy. However, if the Imperial Alliance grabbed the treasure of Great Wilderness Sect, Zhang Tie would never feel comfortable as he would feel sorry about the fact that he was cultivating Great Wilderness Sutra .

Even though Zhang Tie himself couldn't get it, he would never let Imperial Alliance get it. In fact, Zhang Tie was infuriated about Imperial Alliance's brutality inside at this moment.

When Zhang Tie entered the space, he scanned the octahedron under the two towers of time by his lotus-flower eyes.

Like the former one, this octahedron still had six gates, which seemed to be leading to the next floor of Dongtian of Great Wilderness Sect. Whereas, Zhang Tie felt strange that these six gates didn't have patterns on them, but flowing runes and faint, flickering luster.

It seemed unimaginable. When a rich man decorated his villa, if the first floor was with Hua characteristics, the second floor would be with styles of other subcontinents, which felt extremely uncoordinated and weird.

When he imagined about the abnormality of the natural phenomena gates on the first floor, Zhang Tie felt a bit strange. However, he had no time to discern them and figure out the reason.

…

Swords Immortal almost reached 6 times the speed of sound; however, Zhang Tie and Bai Suxian moved faster. The moment Zhang Tie and Bai Suxian accelerated, they had already reached 10 times that of the speed of sound. Only after a short while, they had already caught up with Swords Immortal.

The exits of Zhang Tie and Swords Immortal were both on the dome of this space with a distance of a few miles, right in the center of the stamen of the huge lotus flower. Within nearby a few miles, there were four more exits. The towers of time and the weird totem were only about 200 miles away from them. As for heavenly knights, it was too short a distance. At the speed many times that of sound, it would take Zhang Tie and Bai Suxian less than 2 minutes to finish this distance.

Swords Immortal didn't even hear Zhang Tie's sound at all. Because he moved too fast that Zhang Tie's words couldn't catch up with him. However, the moment Zhang Tie caught up with him, Swords Immortal found them at once.

After sensing the faint waves behind him due to rapid flight, Swords Immortal turned around as he saw Zhang Tie and Bai Suxian approaching him from 7 o'clock behind him at a terrifying speed.

Of course, Zhang Tie targeted at the totem that gave out brilliant golden and silver light above the two towers of time.

Noticing their high speed, Swords Immortal sensed the terror of a divine dominator for the first time. Meanwhile, he understood why Zhang Tie could survive the battlefield at the bank of the Weishui River——Zhang Tie was flying with the ability of divine dominator rather than his chakras. Ten times the speed of sound was far greater than the maximal speed of heavenly knights. It could almost match that of sage-level knights.

At the same time, Swords Immortal also noticed that Zhang Tie was flying together with Bai Suxian, hand in hand.

'That's unreasonable. At this critical moment, the faster the better, why Zhang Tie would stick to Bai Suxian?'

A question occured to Swords Immortal.

Like how Zhang Tie felt strange about the six portals downside there, Swords Immortal also felt something strange. Similarly, Swords Immortal didn't think too much about that. Thankfully, Bai Suxian beside Zhang Tie could reduce Zhang Tie's speed.

After noticing Zhang Tie's amazing speed, Swords Immortal had already intended to adjust his direction. Like two vehicles moving neck by neck on two lanes of an expressway, when Zhang Tie almost surpassed Swords Immortal, the latter's eyes suddenly turned cold as a brilliant quality sword appeared in the hand of Swords Immortal before being hacked towards Zhang Tie without demur…

Chapter 1553: The Scramble

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

In front of the top treasure of Great Wilderness Sect, even being afraid of Zhang Tie's power and reputation, Swords Immortal didn't think too much about it. If he couldn't prevent Zhang Tie, he could only watch Zhang Tie taking away that top treasure.

However, tactics and rules were emphasized in this case. In such cases, if these powerful knights with strong backgrounds couldn't solve their problem verbally, they would definitely deal with it by force. Whereas, if they were not rivals with vendettas, they were not destined to kill the opponents at their full efforts; instead, they would keep the opposite alive at the least.

Heavenly knights were powerhouses with exceptional control abilities. In such a competition, if heavenly knights didn't mean to kill the opponent, the opponent would know it immediately the moment the brawl started.

Swords Immortal's swordsmanship was really something. The moment he launched his attack, a heavenly Knight-level sword aura had shot out of his hand and charged at Zhang Tie in the shape of a glazed long dragon. However, that sword aura stopped less than 100 m away from Zhang Tie when it turned into a huge net comprising of numerous tiny sword aura with the shake of the glazed long dragon, blocking Zhang Tie's way right away.

Such extremely brilliant swordsmanship and battle skill!

Previously, Swords Immortal just wanted to stop Zhang Tie for a second; unimaginably, his strike caused much greater trouble to Zhang Tie.

When the net of sword aura approached him, Zhang Tie thought of his substitute; however, he devoted it at once.

Almost at the same moment, Zhang Tie felt the other heavenly knights, namely Clouddragon Immortal the deputy head of Heavens Holding Pavilion, Moonsreflecting Immortal the deputy head of Qionglou Pavilion and Treasureflame Immortal of Demons-kill Valley, almost appearing in this Dongtian.

The other heavenly knights also found the two towers of time and that totem giving out brilliant, golden and silver light above them.

Like what Zhang Tie and Swords Immortal were thinking about, all the heavenly knights moved towards the totem in the air at their maximal speeds almost at the same time.

Body-separation skill was Zhang Tie's trump card, which even helped Zhang Tie to survive himself in the battle at the bank of Weishui River. If he exposed this trump card for a treasure whose function was unknown, he might have to sustain a series of outcomes.

The others might choose the totem at the cost of exposing this trump card; however, as for Zhang Tie who had Great Wilderness Sutra, Castle of Black Iron and lotus-flower eyes was actually not very immersed in looking for treasures. To tell the truth, the treasure of Great Wilderness Sect couldn't match his trump card which could save him in emergencies.

In the blink of an eye, Zhang Tie determined to not expose his body-separation skill.

Given the great consumption of Bai Suxian's spiritual energy, if he triggered his counterstrike ability of divine dominator, Zhang Tie could only choose to detour the net!

If Zhang Tie could trigger his battle qi, he could definitely break the net of sword aura; if he had spiritual energy, he could also break it easily; he could even break through it by his protective battle qi and protective sword qi. As long as he had recovered, he could have a myriad of counter-measures. Pitifully, Zhang Tie had not recovered as he could neither trigger his battle qi nor run his spiritual energy.

Zhang Tie could only scare them away. If he had to fight them, the fact that he had not recovered would be exposed right away. If he used Bai Suxian's spiritual energy to counterattack, her spiritual energy could never be available to the constant consumption of his skill as a divine dominator.

Even if he broke this net of sword aura using Bai Suxian's spiritual energy, he had to do the same thing for the second time or the third time. Although it was easy for a heavenly knight to launch such a strike, Bai Suxian couldn't bear such a great consumption of spiritual energy. By then, Zhang Tie's factual situation would be exposed either.

After detouring Swords Immortal's net of sword aura, Zhang Tie's vantage point in speed was offset at a stroke.

Swords Immortal and the following heavenly knights were all shocked by Zhang Tie's choice.

As heavenly knights, they were all very sagacious. At the sight of Zhang Tie's reaction to the net of sword aura, they immediately knew that Zhang Tie had not recovered and they were all frightened by him that day.

That day, Zhang Tie held Bai Suxian's hand when he frightened the others; so did he today…

'There's definitely something wrong with him!'

"Hahaha, Qianji Hermit is really something. Besides strong power, you also have a myriad of tricks. We were almost frightened by you. It's said that all the skills of divine dominator are driven by spiritual energy. I guess that Princess Bai is constantly injecting her spiritual energy into your body. No wonder I've not seen you manifest your own battle qi and power…" Clouddragon Immortal of Heavens Holding Pavilion said as the battle qi behind him turned into a cloud of mist, which enabled him to speed up abruptly and surpass Moonsreflecting Immortal and Treasureflame Immortal at once. At the sight of Zhang Tie's response, a weird look flashed across his eyes as his words reached the dome, which then was reflected downwards, filling the entire space.

"Clouddragon Immortal, do you want to have a try? Haha, you're so smart! You hit it…" Zhang Tie burst into laughter in front of him.

Zhang Tie's frank admission made Clouddragon Immortal frown at once. Out of suspicion, Clouddragon Immortal didn't know whether it was another trap of Zhang Tie…