2005 - 2013

Chapter 2005: The Judgment of Light

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

Located in the west of Nine Heavens Big Domain, Demon Realm was the largest domain across Motian Realm and the nest of demons in Motian Realm.

Like Emperor NvWa City which could hardly be violated by demons, there was also a region in Demon Realm which could become the last shelter of demons.

This region was called Demon Deity's Abyss.

All the human powers would change their faces when they heard Demon Deity's Abyss. In the history of tens of thousands of years in Motian Realm, many unrivaled talented human powers had raided Demon Deity's Abyss. Without exception, none of them could survive back. One of the most important reasons was that humans could only use 1/3 of their total battle force in the Demon Deity's Abyss due to the restriction and invasion of the force in the abyss.

If a human immortal emperor entered the Demon Deity's Abyss that gathered most of the demon powers with 1/3 of his total battle force, of course, he would die.

There were numerous demon cities in Demon Realm. Besides, demons also occupied two big domains and many small and medium-sized domains. However, Zhang Tie's target was only Demon Deity's Abyss.

Across Motian Realm, besides Demon Deity's Abyss, Zhang Tie couldn't find any other target that was worth his attack. Demon Deity's Abyss was the nest of demons in Motian Realm. As long as Zhang Tie destroyed Demon Deity's Abyss, the other demons across Motian Realm would be exterminated sooner or later.

On the noon of December 11, the 3596th year of Emperor NvWa Calendar, Zhang Tie came to the air territory above Demon Deity's Abyss in Demon Realm.

From the sky, Demon Deity's Abyss was like a bottomless abyss whose diameter was over 6,000 miles. It was emitting heavy black qi, which covered the entire air territory as high as over 600 miles above Demon Deity's Abyss. Even though the sun was hanging high, Zhang Tie still felt a flowing terrifying, invisible qi here.

Starting from the entrance to the bottom of the abyss, there were dense caves on the walls which made his toes curl. Numerous demons were accessing to the caves. A lot of demons were accessing to the abyss every once in a while. The entire Demon Deity's Abyss was completely a huge nest of demons.

The moment Zhang Tie appeared in the air above Demon Deity's Abyss, he had caught the attention of the surrounding black demonic qi. Like sharks who sniffed the smell of blood, the demonic qi instantly started to move towards Zhang Tie.

Zhang Tie revealed a faint smile as a light ring appeared around him. The black demonic qi instantly disappeared the moment it touched the light ring.

The black demonic qi could frighten commoners; however, at the sight of it, Zhang Tie had known what it was.

The demonic qi was completely composed of the energy of negative moods in the Energy Realm. The demonic qi was very erosive to human powers who had lighted one immortal chakra or two immortal chakras based on the energy of their moods. After coming here, these human powers would constantly absorb this demonic qi like how the positive pole of a magnet absorbed its negative pole. As a result, their immortal chakras even their bodies would be eroded in an irresistible way.

In this case, all the human powers would change their faces due to fear the moment they heard Demon Deity's Abyss. Almost nobody could survive back.

However, such an erosion was totally useless for Zhang Tie who had lit 3 immortal chakras. Actually, Zhang Tie could completely ignore it with his Manjusaka Narayana Fearless King Roc's King Kong Immortal Body.

When Zhang Tie was suspending there and observing the Demon Deity's Abyss, he was suddenly discovered by a team of patrolling wing demon immortal generals.

Zhang Tie had long noticed them. Therefore, he stayed calm. When the team of wing demon immortal generals was over 10,000 m away from Zhang Tie, they found that a human youth was standing in the demonic qi, hands clasped behind his back, and observing the Demon Deity's Abyss in a calm and composed way. The team of wing demon immortal generals were startled as they instantly shrieked weirdly and rushed towards Zhang Tie while sending a warning to the others.

"Noisy…" Zhang Tie took a look at that team of wing demon immortal generals. Closely after that, an invisible terrifying sword wind blew over them, turning them into ashes from 10,000 m away.

After killing them, Zhang Tie instantly noticed the turmoil at the entrance of Demon Deity's Abyss as many wing demons flew over here by flapping their wings. The odd shrieks of those wing demon immortal generals might have aroused the attention of the other wing demons. However, due to the rolling heavy demonic qi above Demon Deity's Abyss, they couldn't see Zhang Tie immediately.

Zhang Tie couldn't wait anymore.

At this moment, facing so demons in the Demon Deity's Abyss, of course, Zhang Tie chose to close the door to beat the dogs, precisely releasing his bolts, as his first round of strike.

Without any omen…

White light as thick as 100 m shot out of the clouds. After penetrating through the dense demonic qi above Demon Deity's Abyss, it shot straight to the dark bottom like a sharp bolt…

On the way, the white light vaporized hundreds of wing demons who had just flown off their caves.

In only 4-5 seconds, another white light as thick as 100 m shot off the clouds towards the bottom of Demon Deity's Abyss…

Then, the 3rd one…

The 4th…the 5th…

In 10 minutes, over 100 white lights had already shot out of the clouds in the sky towards the dark bottom of Demon Deity's Abyss.

When those white lights came into being, due to the gathering of two powerful energies, the sky within thousands of miles looked weirdly orange and covered the entire Demon Deity's Abyss like a huge canopy.

People in the other places outside Demon Realm could see white lights being shot out of the orange clouds one after another…

A team of human immortal general scouts who were wandering outside Demon Realm was dumbfounded by those white lights which shot into the Demon Deity's Abyss from the orange clouds.

As those white lights shot into the Demon Deity's Abyss one after another, the entire Demon Realm started to quiver with fear…

Chapter 2006: Destroying Abyss Demon Domain

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

After releasing over 100 lightning bolts inside Demon Deity's Abyss, Zhang Tie started to move.

In the dense demonic qi over the sky, Zhang Tie reached out his finger. Closely after that, a tiny golden flame appeared on his finger. Then, the golden flame became longer than 3 m in the shape of a dragon. After that, the dragon-shaped flame grew longer and bigger. In a few seconds, it had become a giant dragon longer than 100 m. Circling around Zhang Tie, it constantly devoured the black demonic qi beside Zhang Tie. Then, many colorful fire dragons and snakes separated from this giant fire dragon like fission. One for two; two for four; four for eight…

Only after a short while, there were already tens of billions of colorful fire dragons and fire snakes within thousands of miles. When they connected with each other, they formed a terrifying fire ocean and over 60 miles-thick fire clouds. As long as the demonic qi that came out of Demon Deity's Abyss touched the flame, it would disperse immediately like ice or snow entering a steelmaking furnace.

It was an ocean of chakra flame.

Those fire dragons and fire snakes were the original looks of chakra flames. Such a fierce flame could burn up almost the entire King Roc which had eaten numerous dragons in the universe except for its heart.

The original looks of chakra flames didn't manifest until Zhang Tie formed his first immortal chakra. By then, the chakra flame that Zhang Tie formed was more than tens times more powerful than that when he promoted to a sage knight.

Zhang Tie then flew into Demon Deity's Abyss with the endless chakra flames.

The chakra flames that Zhang Tie released could just cover the entire Demon Deity's Abyss. Zhang Tie flew downwards leisurely along with the 6,000 miles long chakra flames in an overwhelming manner…

Facing the terrifying chakra flames, the demonic qi inside Demon Deity's Abyss was burned up and dispersed. Meanwhile, those demons' nests on the cliffs were being melted and batches of demons flew out of the dense mass of nests in a flurried way. However, before these demons figured out what happened, they had been caught in the chakra flames and turned into ashes.

Some demons' nests were very deep. Additionally, the tunnels inside their nests were very complex. Those chakra flames in shape of dragons and snakes flew into those nests and burned everything along the sinuous maze-like route. Before Zhang Tie's arrival, his fire dragons or fire snakes had already spurted out of the nests below.

Almost none of the demons could survive Zhang Tie's chakra flames. Tens of thousands of demon generals and ordinary demon soldiers would turn into ashes per second. Even supreme immortal demon generals had been devoured by Zhang Tie's chakra flames when Zhang Tie was 10,000 m away from them.

Wherever Zhang Tie passed by, not a single demon would survive. The cliffs of Demon Deity's Abyss were completely meltdown like candles as their surface turned as smooth as silk. The surface of the overall Demon Deity's Abyss changed greatly.

There were relatively more demons and demon nests left near the entrance of Demon Deity's Abyss on the top. When Zhang Tie reached increasingly deeper, he found the effect of his lightning strikes became more and more evident and fewer demons could survive.

Zhang Tie didn't even calculate how many demons had turned into ashes all the way from the top to the bottom of Demon Deity's Abyss; because it was definitely an enormous figure.

The entire Demon Deity's Abyss was deeper than 20,000 miles. When Zhang Tie reached its bottom, the night had fallen.

The original topography at the bottom of Demon Deity's Abyss couldn't be seen at all. When Zhang Tie came here with overwhelming chakra flames, he found the bottom of Demon Deity's Abyss was like hell. It was steaming everywhere. Not a single demon could be seen here. Additionally, he saw over 100 huge basin-like pits here evenly. Those huge pits were filled with scorching magma.

There was a pitch-dark cave on a place thousands of meters high on a cliff. The diameter of the cave was thousands of meters. All the black demonic qi was coming out of that pitch-dark cave. Because the cave was almost vertical to the bottom of Demon Deity's Abyss, only a part of its entrance was affected by Zhang Tie's lightning bolts.

After taking a look at that entrance, Zhang Tie instantly hid his chakra flames and entered that entrance frankly, 60 miles per step. Only after more than 10 steps, he had crossed the 600 miles long cave and came to the deepest place of that cave.

It was a colossal underground karst space in the deepest place of the cave. A 10,000 m high statue of demon deity with bloody eyes, sharp ears, four arms and cattle hoofs was standing inside this underground space. It was covered with pitch-dark scales.

This statue was giving out black demonic qi through its mouth constantly. Meanwhile, the last 70,000-80,000 demon generals and Heavens-Reaching Demon Emperor inside the Demon Deity's Abyss were gathering around the statue and watching Zhang Tie entering here from air leisurely with panic, enmity and despair in their eyes.

Zhang Tie burned down all the way here from the entrance of Demon Deity's Abyss, sparing no chance for them to escape at all. As a result, they could only gather here and prepared to have a duel with Zhang Tie.

Heavens-Reaching Demon Emperor was the most powerful ox-head demon. Because of his pair of huge golden horns, he was called Heavens-Reaching Demon Emperor. According to the legend, there were four demon emperors, namely Six-Armed Demon Emperor, Versatile Demon Emperor, Black Mountain Demon Emperor and Heavens-Reaching Demon Emperor. Heavens-Reaching Demon Emperor was the most powerful one among them. As Heavens-Reaching Demon Emperor always defended in Abyss Demon Domain, when humans heard his name, they would become fearful at once. Over 200 years ago, Star Emperor and Force Emperor launched a common attack towards Abyss Demon Domain. Heavens-Reaching Demon Emperor blocked the two human immortal emperor's common attack alone till the other demon emperors' arrival.

However, no matter how powerful this demon emperor was, he was just an animal in a cage for Zhang Tie.

"Dragon Emperor, Zhang Tie…" Heavens-Reaching Demon Emperor almost squeezed out the four words through his teeth, causing the air in the karst cave to undulate.

Zhang Tie only took a casual glance at Heavens-Reaching Demon Emperor and tens of thousands of demon generals behind him as if they were nothing. Closely after that, he fixated onto that huge statue. The pair of bloody, grim eyes with golden pupils of the statue looked familiar.

Undoubtedly, it should be the statue of the Demon Overlord. It was Zhang Tie's first time to see Demon Overlord's look.

When he wanted to return to Taixia Country from Motian Realm in terms of King Roc in the "dream", Zhang Tie only encountered the projection of a pair of eyes and a huge arm of the Demon Overlord in the Chaos Space; instead of his matrix.

There was a high platform for sacrifice at the foot of this statue, on which was a huge bloody pool. The surroundings of the entire bloody pool were embedded with human bones. Additionally, there were mountains of human skulls around the bloody pool, each of which was higher than 1,000 m. There were hundreds of millions of human skulls. Given the size and volume of those human skulls and bones around the bloody pool, Zhang Tie found they belonged to kids; instead of adults.

Demons were offering sacrifice to demon overlord with human kids here. Zhang Tie didn't know for how many years had they carried out this evil rite.

When Heavens-Reaching Demon Emperor found that he was neglected by Zhang Tie, he roared as he rushed toward Zhang Tie with a mace. He then slashed toward Zhang Tie with his mace from 10,000 m away, arousing a strong battle qi in an overwhelming manner…

However, Zhang Tie disappeared immediately. Before Heavens-Reaching Demon Emperor's attack arrived, Zhang Tie had already reappeared next to Heavens-Reaching Demon Emperor. At the same time, he went through Heavens-Reaching Demon Emperor's protective battle qi easily like going through a layer of silk. Under the astonished eyes of Heavens-Reaching Demon Emperor's, Zhang Tie lightly put his hand on the latter's head.

"Now that you like to offer sacrifice so much, you should enjoy being sacrificed!" Zhang Tie's voice reverberated in each demon's awareness.

"Ah…" Heavens-Reaching Demon Emperor shrieked. In the blink of an eye, his 2-m high frame had started to shrink and deflate like a balloon. Meanwhile, that pair of golden horns were losing their luster. Finally, his frame collapsed and turned into ashes. The most powerful one in Motian Realm died in Zhang Tie's hand in this way without any resistance and became the first sacrificial offering with Zhang Tie's secret skill All of Infinite King Roc Sutra.

It was not that Heavens-Reaching Demon Emperor was not powerful; but that Zhang Tie was much more powerful than him. What Heavens-Reaching Demon Emperor to Zhang Tie was what a toddler to a heavyweight champion in the ring. The former was too weak.

"Kill him." Watching their most powerful one being killed by Zhang Tie with great fear, all the remaining demon generals broke down mentally completely. Before Zhang Tie launched a strike toward them, some demon generals had roared. In an instant, all the remaining demon generals rushed toward Zhang Tie disorderly with furious red eyes. To kill Zhang Tie or to be killed!

Looking straight into the bloody eyes of that statue of Demon Overlord, Zhang Tie said, "You're powerful. Pitifully, you've already repelled by all the universal rules in this world. As a result, your matrix couldn't even enter this world or those neighboring space. Additionally, none of your descendants or your projections could defeat me. I know that you can see what's happening here. You should see how I am gonna burn all of your descendants into ashes," Zhang Tie said with a sneer, "From today on, the nightmare will not belong to humans, but demons! If you want wars, I will give you wars…"

After leaving these words, Zhang Tie punched out.

All of a sudden, a sun appeared in the underground karst space. There was a huge light&shade of golden spike shrimp in the core of the sun.

If not form his immortal chakra, he could not realize the universal rules. Only when he formed his immortal chakra could Zhang Tie release the power of his punch of universal rules.

At this moment, the whole world was quivering.

The windstorm higher than 20 million Celsius degrees devoured everything in the karst cave immediately.

The 70,000-80,000 demon generals who were rushing toward Zhang Tie…

The colossal statue of Demon Overlord…

The blood pool and the mountains of bones…

All the terrifying, grim and sorrowful things…

All those above were wiped out by Zhang Tie's punch!

The entire underground karst space was shattered and disappeared. Meanwhile, a huge space entrance like that above the core area of Mountain Ruins appeared here.

"Heller, let Castle of Black Iron integrate with the space ball of Motian Realm!"

After leaving a sentence to Heller, Zhang Tie entered that space entrance with one stride.

…

In the weird and unpredictable chaos space, Zhang Tie was wandering leisurely while being circled with golden light. However, his speed was even faster than that of the king roc in his "dream".

At this moment, the pair of golden pupils reappeared in the black mist in the nihility with infinite fury and fierce qi. Closely after that, the black mist in the nihility formed into the projection of the huge Demon Overlord as same as the statue he saw just now. Meanwhile, the Demon Overlord's projection punched at Zhang Tie with his four fists.

At this moment, a giant pagoda appeared in Zhang Tie's hand as numerous runes were flowing over its surface. When the giant pagoda cast strong light onto the projection of demon overlord in the Chaos Space, it instantly shattered the latter. Meanwhile, the giant pagoda's gate opened and absorbed all the broken black mist.

At the same time, a growl drifted from the Chaotic Space…

…

Not knowing how long had passed, Zhang Tie finally saw the space bubble in his memory in a space mezzanine of the Chaos Space which was much more complex than a maze.

When he flew in the space bubble, he instantly saw a vast brilliant ocean.

Right then, the Infinite Immortal Prison flew out of the mouth of King Roc's and turned into a huge pagoda as high as 600 miles. After that, it opened the gate at its bottom and absorbed the entire ocean before returning to Zhang Tie's mouth.

…

After absorbing the ocean of energy, the king roc went through heavy black mist and space mezzanines toward one direction, leaving a streak of golden light…

'Taixia Country, I'm back…'

Chapter 2007: A Rainy Day in the Capital City

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

It had been drizzling since the early morning. At noon, it started to rain heavily. As a result, the entire Xuanyuan Hill was covered with misty rain.

Because of the heavy rain, very few people appeared on the streets of Emperor Xuanyuan's royal city. Only some people were trotting hurriedly in raincoats.

In late months, with the soaring attack of demons in the west and the loss of Lizhou Province and Xianzhou Province, the atmosphere across Xuanyuan Hill was as gloomy as the weather. Everyone felt being depressed like having a huge stone in the heart. It was a bit better inside Emperor Xuanyuan's royal city; however, outside the royal city, all the boites and clubs were suffering economic depression abruptly.

As the country was faced with a crisis, few people felt like pursuing pleasure anymore.

In order to support generals and soldiers in the frontline, it was said that even His Highness had sent an order to curtail various expenditures in the royal palace. Even all the diplomatic receptions of the court of state ceremonial and those ambassadors of the other countries had been canceled off. Of course, the subordinates dared not go too far. Even if some guys who were lavish with their money could only close their own doors and enjoy themselves. Everybody kept a low profile in the public.

The entire royal palace was also covered in the gloomy misty rain.

The rainwater that poured down the dark clouds which were like lead and ink washed the pink golden glazed tiles above the magnificent palaces which carried cornice brackets. After that, it turned into pure white water curtains and flew off the eaves like tens of thousands of small waterfalls. As a result, the entire Emperor Xuanyuan's royal palace was suffused with vapor.

Many armored knights of Royal Guards were standing still under the eaves and on the stairs outside the palace solemnly with weapons in hand. They were safeguarding the Nine-Heavens Palace in the heavy rain and fog. At this moment, even these knights could hear His Highness' growls from Nine-Heavens Palace.

"What do they mean by 'They're too busy to attend to other things'? Did the three major sects reply to you in this way? The entire country is facing a crisis. It's the right moment for those major sects to serve the country. Heavens-Fortune Sect and Demonic-Slaughter Valley have already assigned semi sage-level powerhouses to the west with their knights. How could the three major sects refuse to assign their forces to the frontline because of Yun Zhongzi? How could they just fold their arms and look on demons?"

Standing on the royal stairs inside Nine-Heavens Palace, Xuanyuan Changying became such furious that he roared towards a chancellor with flame in his eyes, "Don't the three major sects know the proverb 'with the skin gone, to what can the hair attach itself?'"

The entire Nine-Heavens Palace was reverberating with Crown Prince Changying's voice. The chancellor who had just reported to His Highness looked gloomy as he became silent. All the other senior officers and officials in the palace were in dead silence. Even a pin drop could be heard. Everyone knew that Yun Zhongzi was taken as a shield by the three major sects. If they assigned all of their knights to the west, I don't think that Yun Zhongzi would attack the three major sects' bases during that period. The true reason was that the three major sects were so powerful that they didn't even hold Crown Prince Changying in awe. Since the battle at Yinhai Desert, the three major sects' actions had been increasingly more arbitrary. However, Xuanyuan Hill couldn't do anything to curb the three major sects.

After losing his temper, Crown Prince who was panting gradually recovered his composure. He knew that it was useless for him to lose temper towards the three major sects no matter how furious he was; instead, it might be jeered by the three major sects or be taken as the evidence to waver his authority by the three major sects. If he continued to lose his temper, the rumor that Crown Prince was incompetent and roared at his major officers and officials in Nine-Heavens Palace would spread across the entire country in a few days.

"Li Yunji, is there any news about Yun Zhongzi?" After recovering his composure, Crown Prince Chang Ying waved his hand, asking the official to return to his team. Closely after that, he fixated onto Li Yunji, the president of the supreme court.

"Erm… Yun Zhongzi is a sage-level knight whose trace is erratic. The Supreme Court has already sent an order to arrest him; however, we have not got any news about Yun Zongzi till now!" Li Yunji answered with a guilty conscience.

After hearing Li Yunji's words, Crown Prince Chang Ying's face turned gloomy at once as he continued, "Does it mean that the Supreme Court could do nothing to deal with Yun Zhongzi? He could do whatever he wants to do?"

"Erm…" After hearing Crown Prince ChangYing's words, Li Yunji became silent at once.

Watching Li Yunji's look, Crown Prince Changying almost lost his temper again. However, when he took a look at Meng Shidao who was always silent, he controlled his anger again.

As Li Yunji was recommended by Meng Shidao, Crown Prince Changying had to respect Meng Shidao to a certain degree. To be honest, shadow knights were not weak. However, Li Yunji's capability could barely match his position. He behaved too regularly. He could do nothing about those slightly excessive things. As the president of the Supreme Court who had so many human and material resources, Li Yunji couldn't share Crown Prince's burden at this critical moment at all; therefore, he let Crown Prince down very much.

At this moment, Crown Prince Changying had already regretted that he followed Meng Shidao's words and declared Yun Zhongzi guilty too early. If he followed Mr. Fang's opinion, namely not to declare Yun Zhongzi guilty too early; instead, owe Yun Zhongzi's vengeance to the three major sects to the old scores between the two parties. In this way, a sharp sword would hang over the three major sects' heads while their tails were stamped. At this moment, the three major sects dared never behave such presumptuously.

The current situation was absolutely opposite to the judgment that Meng Shidao made when he suggested Crown Prince. Yun Zhongzi became a criminal. The three major sects didn't appreciate Xuanyuan Hill; instead, they didn't have any concern anymore. As a result, Xuanyuan Hill's influence on the three major sects was becoming weaker.

Crown Prince Changying then took another look at Meng Shidao. After the battle at Yinhai Desert, Crown Prince Chang Ying gradually felt that he couldn't see through his master anymore. Only after a few years, the relationship between the two people had not been as bosom as that before anymore. Recently, Zuoqiu Mingyue the commander-in-chief was defending demons with his army outside. Given that Meng Shidao was said to promote to a sage-level knight soon, even the interior minister as a heavenly knight also favored Meng Shidao. Therefore, Meng Shidao the premier almost became the most influential person in the Nine-Heavens Palace. Meanwhile, the Gobbling Party was also expanding rapidly. As a result, Crown Prince Changying became a bit fearful.

"Is there any other proposal?" Crown Prince asked all the major officers and officials in the court with a hint of tiredness. If there were no more questions, he planned to declare adjournment. Over these days, because of the poor battle situation facing Taixia Country, each early meeting would last long; sometimes, it would last till the evening. All the stress facing the entire empire appeared to be borne by Crown Prince.

"I've got a proposal, Your Highness!" a general of the top four armies walked out of the team as he said in a muffled sound, "The battle situation in the frontline is critical. Demons are encroaching our territory step by step. It has been the life-or-death situation facing the entire country and Hua people. As long as demons broke through Tongguan Pass, the overall situation facing Taixia Country will completely deteriorate. Although the commander-in-chief was in charge of the frontline, the materials and human resources in the rear end have not been in a good place. It was like how two people were fighting at the risk of their lives. However, Taixia Country still has one hand for free. Therefore, I suggest Your Highness to issue the decree of military control in all the provinces across the country. The commander-in-chief and the top four armies will coordinate with all the demands for the warfare so that we could exert our full efforts to fight demons!"

Soon after this general opened his mouth, he instantly got the favor of many officers. However, before Xuanyuan Changying opened his mouth, the interior minister had jumped out and opposed him after taking a look at Meng Shidao who remained silent, "Ridiculous. The main force of demons has not reached Tongguan Pass yet. Why did you say that Tongguan Pass was going to be broken through? It's an alarmist talk. Recently, many provinces in the western theater of operations have been under the control of the top four armies and Lord Zuoqiu, isn't it enough? If all the provinces across Taixia Country are under military control, the country might have been in chaos before demons arrived. The Ministry of Interior Affairs never agreed with military control across the country…"

When the Interior Minister posed his opinion, he instantly won the favor of many officials.

If Taixia Country as a whole was under military control, the authorities of the commander-in-chief and officers would definitely soar. By contrast, Premier and those officials would become humble. Of course, the general's suggestion would arouse officials' opposition.

Both parties then started to quarrel in the Nine-Heavens Palace immediately. They could barely reach an agreement. This proposal had already appeared in the court for more than once. So were similar quarrels.

"Let's talk about it later!" Xuanyuan Changying waved his hand as he decided to postpone this proposal for the time being.

When Xuanyuan Changying prepared to declare adjournment, Meng Shidao who had been silent for long in front of the team of officials suddenly took one step forward and spoke to Xuanyuan Changying, "A few days ago, the provincial governor of Jinzhou Province has submitted a written statement to me that the Youzhou paddies that Your Highness introduced to Jinzhou Province two years ago had already had a big harvest this year after one year's breeding and planting. This autumn, all the first batch of Youzhou paddies across 266 million square meters' land in Jinzhou Province have won a big harvest with 20% more yield than one year before. The entire Jinzhou Province was shocked. All the civilians and major clans in Jinzhou Province are going around spreading the news with great pleasure. Therefore, Jinzhou Province prepares to expand 10 times more planting area of Youzhou paddies. According to the written statement of the provincial governor and major officials in Jinzhou Province, Your Highness is invited to preside the spring sacrifice in Jinzhou Province this year for the sake of the morale of all the civilians in Jinzhou Province."

This was almost the only good news that Xuanyuan Changying had heard in the Nine-Heavens Palace today. After asking about the situation facing Youzhou paddies in Jinzhou Province, Xuanyuan Changying laughed out aloud as he said, "Agriculture is the foundation of the country. Of course, we should encourage them to do that. Now that Jinzhou Province has such great passion as a whole, I will go to Jinzhou Province to preside the spring sacrifice for them this year!"

After hearing this news, Xuanyuan Changying was inspired greatly. Because spring sacrifice was always presided by Emperor Xuanyuan in the past. When Emperor Xuanyuan was here, he would select one of those provinces which won big harvests in each year and preside spring sacrifice in that province so as to encourage agriculture and stabilize the country. Since Crown Prince was in charge of the country, it was the first time for a provincial governor to submit a written statement to invite Xuanyuan Changying to preside spring sacrifice.

Youzhou paddies were known as high yield. Two years ago, Xuanyuan Changying suggested planting Youzhou paddies in Jinzhou Province. Unexpectedly, he saw such a great harvest two years later. What a great meritorious deed! Therefore, Xuanyuan Changying felt very happy.

When Xuanyuan Changying declared adjournment, he suddenly saw a white light beam shooting down the clouds outside.

Bang!

Closely after that, all of them in the Nine-Heavens Palace were greatly shocked by the loud explosion in the air above Emperor Xuanyuan's royal palace. Even the water in the two pools under the imperial stairs, where Xuanyuan Changying was at, was covered with ripples due to shock…

There were few thunders in winter, not to mention such a destructive earthshaking thunder.

'Who's that?'

Clank!

Before the shiny, white light beam disappeared, a person had appeared at the gate of Nine-Heavens Palace in the abrupt thunder. Watching him, a knight guard instantly roared.

With clanks, everyone in the palace looked at the gate, including Xuanyuan Changying.

A teenager was looking straight into Xuanyuan Changying's eyes at the gate of Nine-Heavens Palace with a calm look.

Xuanyuan Changying became dumbfounded as he rubbed his eyes…

"Brother Changying, long time no see…" Zhang Tie heaved a deep sigh as he entered the gate decently…

Chapter 2008: Killing the Craftiest Man

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

At this moment, those imperial guards outside Nine-Heavens Palace appeared to be frozen. One knight had just left the ground and was going to charge at Zhang Tie; the other had already drawn out his long sword and tilted his body forward as he wanted to block Zhang Tie; however, when Zhang Tie strode in Nine-Heavens Palace, the two knights were both fastened by an invisible force. The knight in the air maintained his gesture when he left the ground; the other knight who wanted to block Zhang Tie was also holding high his long sword still.

A force that was similar to that of one's private realm yet was greater than it had already covered the entire royal palace.

Not only the two imperial guards outside the gate, besides Xuanyuan Changying, everyone else in the Nine-Heavens Palace was being frozen by that great force. They could neither utter any voice nor make any movement besides moving their eyes and head.

Zhang Tie's sudden arrival greatly shocked all the major officials and officers in the palace. They also found that they couldn't make any movement anymore at this moment as they were frozen by a terrifying qi including their spiritual energy, battle qi and bodies.

They could see, hear and move their heads; however, they couldn't do anything else including uttering a voice.

So did Meng Shidao. He just watched Zhang Tie with great shock and disbelief on his face.

Being thrilled, Xuanyuan Changying found the weird behaviors of all the others in the palace immediately. Although Zhang Tie appeared, those officers and officials in the palace didn't have to stay still and remain silent at all.

'What happens…'

Zhang Tie remained unchanged; however, his qi felt a bit strange.

Zhang Tie didn't feel powerful; instead, he felt pretty leisure and comfortable like a teenager; instead of a knight.

"You're really… Zhang Tie?" Watching Zhang Tie walking over here calmly, Xuanyuan Changying stammered. Even though Zhang Tie had already walked to the front of him, Xuanyuan Changying still didn't believe that this man was Zhang Tie.

Immortal Qianji had disappeared in the space crack in the battle at Yinhai Desert. How could he suddenly appear in the royal palace all in this way? All these were weird and hard to understand for Xuanyuan Changying. Therefore, he had a lot of questions about that.

'Is this Zhang Tie disguised by a wing demon?' Xuanyuan Changying was ready to take precautions against Zhang Tie when this whim occurred to him.

"Brother Changying, I am Zhang Tie. Please take it easy. You will know everything in the future…"

Zhang Tie had already predicted the responses of everyone in the palace; therefore, he instantly controlled the entire royal palace the moment he arrived. Besides Xuanyuan Changying who was still able to move to a certain degree, all the others could only watch Zhang Tie and listen to his words at this moment. Zhang Tie was especially here to kill Meng Shidao and cleaning the biggest threat facing Taixia Country; instead of holding a public hearing with those major officials and officers in the palace on revealing the crimes of the premier.

Although Xuanyuan Changying always missed Zhang Tie, he found that he didn't know what to say in front of Zhang Tie; instead, he could only watch Zhang Tie walking towards Meng Shidao calmly.

Watching Meng Shidao's amazed look, Zhang Tie slightly shook his head. In his "dream", Zhang Tie saw Meng Shidao leaving Nine-Heavens Palace. After that, the entire country faced a great catastrophe. Who knew that the most insidious and dangerous enemy facing Hua people were not Abyss Throne and tens of thousands of demon knights who ate humans' hearts and dug out humans' brains in the frontline, but the premier whose power was closely next to Crown Prince Changying?

"Do you want to say something to me?" Zhang Tie asked Meng Shidao.

Closely after Zhang Tie's words, Meng Shidao found that he could open his mouth.

After hundreds of whims occurred to him, Meng Shidao asked Zhang Tie as he pretended to be calm in front of so many officers and officials in the palace, "What do you want?"

"I want to kill you!" Zhang Tie replied. Almost at the same time, he punched at Meng Shidao and shattered the entire person, one of the three top chancellors in Taixia Country, in front of those officials and officers in the palace.

Watching that blood mist in front of him, Zhang Tie flicked his finger. Closely after that, a terrifying chakra flame appeared out of void and burned up the blood mist, leaving nothing at all.

Although those officials and officers in Taixia Country couldn't move, almost all of them had been petrified by this scene, including Xuanyuan Changying…

As one of the three top chancellors of Taixia Country, the leader of the Gobbling Party and a sage-level knight, Meng Shidao was talking about national affairs with the others just now; however, in such a short period of time, Zhang Tie had suddenly appeared and killed him in front of them like killing an ant in the Nine-Heavens Palace. They might not even see such a crazy scene in their dreams. However, it truly happened right in front of their eyes.

After killing Meng Shidao, Zhang Tie suddenly felt that a mountain in his heart was moved away. All of a sudden, he felt relaxed. Although Meng Shidao was just a semi-sage level knight, it felt even cooler than killing an immortal emperor for Zhang Tie.

"That thing being suppressed by Xuanyuan Sword beneath the royal palace is too dangerous. As for the royal households, that thing is a gold ore and rarity which could be explored and a bottomless abyss and source of disaster. That thing couldn't be left in this world any longer!"

After killing Meng Shidao, Zhang Tie left some words to Xuanyuan Changying secretly. After that, he turned around and walked out of the palace in one step. Then, he disappeared in front of Xuanyuan Changying.

Everything in the palace was still frozen. The rain that fell off the eaves were still in the air. All the humans and things in the palace were still too. With only one step, Zhang Tie had entered the Imperial Ancestral Temple inside the royal palace. In a backroom that was designed for Emperor Xuanyuan to meditate in, a secret tunnel leading to the underground space had been opened.

Zhang Tie then walked in frankly. The tunnel was full of traps and thick metal doors. Even the walls were made of alloy steel and heavy lead which could isolate sound and spiritual strength. However, these things were useless in front of Zhang Tie. All the doors had been fully opened before Zhang Tie approached them. Of course, those traps were useless for him.

At the end of the tunnel, Zhang Tie saw the two items in a backroom at the deepest place of the royal palace which he saw in "dream": the bright Xuanyuan Sword which was suspending in the air and the huge heart under the sword.

That heart was almost like a human heart. However, it was many times bigger than that of a human heart. The entire heart was giving out crimson light. Its surface looked like being covered with magma which was cooling down. Additionally, that heart would jump once per 10-odd seconds. Additionally, it was releasing a qi which was even much more terrifying and powerful than that of a sage-level knight.

Zhang Tie tried to move the heart into his portable space-teleportation equipment; however, he couldn't. Zhang Tie wondered when Emperor Xuanyuan or Dragon Emperor acquired this heart. However, evidently, Emperor Xuanyuan and Dragon Emperor must have treated this heart as the key and tunnel leading to the greater power. Therefore, they didn't destroy it. Otherwise, with the power of Xuanyuan Sword and the emperor-level secret method, even though Emperor Xuanyuan was only a sage-level knight, he could also destroy this heart at his full efforts.

Zhang Tie guessed that this heart belonged to a substitute of Demon Overlord who arrived here hundreds of millions of years ago. Given the qi of this heart, Zhang Tie knew the substitute of Demon Overlord who arrived here had already formed 4 immortal chakras. Fortunately, at that time, people killed his substitute through common efforts or a superhero appeared and killed him, leaving his heart alone.

Last time, in his "dream", Zhang Tie remembered that Demon Overlord would like to arrive at this world again through this heart. It might be the most important task for Meng Shidao to protect this heart in Xuanyuan Hill.

The small tower of Infinite Immortal Prison directly flew out of Zhang Tie's mouth. Feeling the existence of Demon Overlord's heart, the small tower started to fly around the heart fast as if it was very happy. Before Zhang Tie sent an order, the small tower had opened its portal and absorbed in that heart. Closely after that, Zhang Tie opened his mouth and allowed the small tower to flow into his mouth.

After taking another look at Xuanyuan Sword, Zhang Tie didn't move it; instead, he turned around and left this backroom.

After Zhang Tie left there, all the portals in this tunnel closed themselves.

Zhang Tie then reappeared in the Imperial Ancestral Temple. With one step, he had come to the air above the royal palace. Closely after that, Zhang Tie walked towards the Gobbling Province, 60 miles per step.

After Zhang Tie left Nine-Heavens Palace for more than one minute, all the officials and officers in the palace could move and speak at once.

In an instant, the Nine-Heavens Palace was in hubbubs.

Almost at the same time, the news that Zhang Tie suddenly appeared in the royal palace and killed Meng Shidao with one punch had spread over the country.

As hundreds of officers and officials in the royal palace had seen it, of course, they couldn't cover this news.

In their eyes, Zhang Tie's battle force had reached an unpredictable level and was far greater than a sage-level knight. What a semi-sage level knight to Zhang Tie was what a baby to a knight! Meng Shidao didn't even have a chance to launch a counter-attack…

Chapter 2009: Shattering Morality Stele

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

After leaving Xuanyuan Hill, Zhang Tie arrived at the Gobbling Province soon. He directly came to the place where the Far-Ancient Morality Stele was located, VastUniverse Mountain in Morality Prefecture.

It was the holy land of Gobbling Party. Many backbones of the Gobbling Party always came here and executed the rite "Touch the Stele". At this moment, the Far-Ancient Morality Stele had been tinged with red by the glow of the setting sun.

Zhang Tie directly stood on the top of the over 210-m high Far-Ancient Morality Stele as he observed this huge black stele which became the source of the nationwide catastrophe in his "dream".

He saw at least 200 backbones executing the rite "Touching the Stele". However, those people had not found that one person was on the top of the stele for the time being.

However, only after a few seconds later, Zhang Tie had heard someone growl.

"Audacious, who are you? How dare you profane the holy thing!"

At this moment, an exasperated voice drifted from a close distance. Zhang Tie realized that he had been discovered by a knight of the Gobbling Party who was responsible for the safety here without even raising his head.

It was an earth knight. When he was 1,000 m away, he had already shouted as he slashed towards Zhang Tie's head with a brilliant long sword which was a silver secret item without any mercy. He wanted to kill Zhang Tie and shatter him into shreds.

In his "dream", Meng Shidao offered sacrifice to the Morality Stele with the lives of millions of backbones of the Gobbling Party. However, in the eyes of these backbones of the Gobbling Party, the Far-Ancient Morality Stele under Zhang Tie's foot was still a holy thing that could never be profaned.

After hearing that knight's voice, those followers of the Gobbling Party who were executing the rite "Touching the Stele" finally noticed that someone was standing on the top of the Far-Ancient Morality Stele. Therefore, they all looked up and swore at Zhang Tie.

When that earth knight's sword qi approached 100 m away from Zhang Tie, it had disappeared silently.

Before touching Zhang Tie's protective battle qi, the sword qi had disappeared as if it was devoured by an invisible huge mouth.

There appeared to be an unsurmountable invisible obstacle in the space around Zhang Tie.

This situation had been completely out of that earth knight's understanding. He didn't know why his sword qi suddenly disappeared when it approached Zhang Tie. That earth knight could barely accept the fact as he slashed towards Zhang Tie with his sword again. The second slash was more powerful…

…

Zhang Tie lowered his head and watched the Far-Ancient Morality Stele under his foot. His great spiritual energy had already penetrated into the stele. He was observing and learning the structure of the Far-Ancient Morality Stele, ignoring all the attacks and the curses of those people downside there.

According to the legend, the raw material of Far-Ancient Morality Stele violated the ionization rule of all the materials. The stele was said to be able to defend the attack from any element, energy and material. The atoms and porous structure of the material of that stele were fixed in any state. Therefore, in many people's eyes, Far-Ancient Morality Stele was eternal and could never be destroyed. Any strike would be ineffective to it. Even time couldn't leave any trace on its surface.

Previously Zhang Tie also believed in it; however, at this moment, this legend was nonsense for Zhang Tie.

On his level, Zhang Tie understood that nothing in the world was eternal. Anything would perish in the end. It was one of the universal laws. Nobody or nothing was an exception. Even the universe itself was destined to break up one day since it came into being in the infinite time and space.

As for ordinary forces, Far-Ancient Morality Stele was eternal.

Through Zhang Tie's observation, he apparently felt two powerful forces of universal laws inside the Far-Ancient Morality Stele. One force was related to time; the other was related to space. The first one froze the raw material of the Far-Ancient Morality Stele in the macro world; therefore, time didn't exist for the Far-Ancient Morality Stele. As long as Zhang Tie could break the force of the universal law of time, he would break the stele.

The force of the universal law of space formed an entrance leading to another space inside the stele which had not been opened yet. The two forces of universal laws were bond with each other in a powerful secret method. The secret method was releasing a qi which could devour all the powerful, negative energies. When Zhang Tie observed the Far-Ancient Morality Stele, he found that the powerful secret method inside the Far-Ancient Morality Stele was still absorbing the negative energy from the realm of thoughts.

A golden light was fixed on the convergence of the two spaces by the two forces of universal laws inside the Far-Ancient Morality Stele.

In his "dream", when Zhang Tie clashed against the Far-Ancient Morality Stele, he found something wrong with the space tunnel inside the Far-Ancient Morality Stele. A golden light appeared to be fixed by the stele. Now, he felt the existence of that golden light, which was similar to that of Xuanyuan Chang Ying. It was the qi of Xuanyuan God Sutra.

All these couldn't be seen by lotus-flower eyes or sensed by pure spiritual energy. If one wanted to sense everything inside the Far-Ancient Morality Stele, he had to form at least two immortal chakras.

Perhaps this explained why Meng Shidao could expose Far-Ancient Morality Stele to the public without any concern.

The movement of material and relative displacement variation between two materials led to time. All the movement of materials was caused by force. With an extreme force, one could touch the secret of the universal law of time.

According to the Hua legend, when the universe came into being, the clean energies rose and became the sky; the dirty energy declined and formed the earth. It actually referred to the evolution of energies of different frequencies in the space and materials. The clean energies were high-frequency energies, which represented an extremely divergent state of energies; the dirty energies represented the extremely convergent state of energies.

According to Zhang Tie's prediction, the ultimate direction of Infinite King Roc Sutra and Xuanyuan God Sutra might both lead to the pursuit of force. The ultimate purpose of Infinite King Roc Sutra might be the extreme divergence of force, with which one could be unrivaled across the universe. By contrast, the ultimate purpose of Xuanyuan God Sutra might be the extreme convergence of force, with which one could create everything in the universe based on the four elements. In the end, both sutras could help people completely realize and master the universal laws of force.

Those above explained why one with extreme force could almost approach the truth. It was also Zhang Tie's wholly new realization about force after forming three immortal chakras.

The forces of universal laws in the Far-Ancient Morality Stele could only be broken by force of universal law.

That knight of Gobbling Party was still attacking Zhang Tie. In an instant, he had slashed towards Zhang Tie with his sword for the fourth time. Meanwhile, those backbones of Gobbling Party were still jumping and swearing at Zhang Tie at the foot of the stele.

Standing on the top of the stele, Zhang Tie ignored all these. After closing his eyes for two seconds, he opened his eyes and punched at the stele.

Meanwhile, Zhang Tie inserted half arm into the Far-Ancient Morality Stele.

As a result, the entire stele rocked once while releasing a terrifying, invisible impact wave immediately. In an instant, all the backbones at the foot of the stele and that earth knight who was attacking Zhang Tie became basic particles and dispersed.

All the mountains and buildings within 14 miles turned into powder at once.

Additionally, the ground across Morality Prefecture of Gobbling Province rocked once like suffering an earthquake.

Closely after that, a golden crack started to radiate from the place where Zhang Tie inserted his arm in. In a wink, the crack had started to expand as more cracks appeared over the Far-Ancient Morality Stele.

Bang!

After a short silence, the Far-Ancient Morality Stele which was taken as the holy thing by the Gobbling Party was shattered by Zhang Tie with one punch. From then on, there was no Far-Ancient Morality Stele in the world anymore.

At the same time, that golden light flew out of the stele and became a majestic middle-aged man in front of Zhang Tie…

Chapter 2010: Going Back Home

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

Zhang Tie was familiar with this man in front of him too much. Perhaps nobody across Taixia Country was familiar with this image; because this man���s picture was on the gold coins issued by Xuanyuan Bank.

He was the only man who could leave his picture on the gold coins in Taixia Country. Undoubtedly, this man was Xuanyuan Emperor who had disappeared before the third holy war between humans and demons.

After a long growl which undulated 600 miles' clouds, the streak of golden light turned into Xuanyuan Emperor in front of Zhang Tie. What a shock! However, Zhang Tie thought it through immediately.

In an instant, Zhang Tie finally met Emperor Xuanyuan above Vast Universe Mountain.

"My respect to you, Your Majesty, I'm Zhang Tie!" Zhang Tie cupped his hands towards Emperor Xuanyuan with a smile.

Emperor Xuanyuan watched Zhang Tie for a short while; then he fixated onto the place where Vast Universe Mountain covering 600 square miles was just now with a complex look. After that, he let out a long sigh, " Infinite King Roc Sutra , you must be Zhang Huaiyuan's descendant!"

As an emperor, it was not difficult for him to master some knowledge about identifying people from his ears. Therefore, Zhang Tie was not curious about how Emperor Xuanyuan knew his background. As for the secret method, Zhang Tie didn't even cover it. Given the delicate responses between two emperor-level secret methods, Emperor Xuanyuan knew Zhang Tie's trump card immediately.

"Zhang Huaiyuan is indeed my ancestor. Your Majesty really have sharp eyes!"

After watching Zhang Tie for a short while, Emperor Xuanyuan asked him again, "Have you been to Motian Realm?"

Nine-Heavens Immortal Spring only existed in Motian Realm. People couldn't form their immortal chakra without drinking Nine-Heavens Immortal Spring. Only those who had formed immortal chakras could break the far-ancient mortality stele. After listening to Emperor Xuanyuan's words, Zhang Tie knew that Dragon Emperor must have already told Emperor Xuanyuan about everything clearly.

"Here's the calligraphy work that Dragon Emperor left in Dragon Emperor's Pavilion before leaving Motian Realm. Dragon Emperor has already left his lifetime learnings inside this calligraphy work. Your Majesty, I think you'd better keep it!" Zhang Tie said as he took that calligraphy work "I die, people live" out of Castle of Black Iron and gave it to Emperor Xuanyuan.

When Zhang Tie handed the calligraphy work left by Dragon Emperor to Emperor Xuanyuan, the latter realized that Zhang Tie had already known everything that he could immediately.

After taking that calligraphy work, Emperor Xuanyuan became silent for half a minute before opening his mouth again, "Does Dragon Emperor Immortal Palace still exist?"

"I've already inherited all the learnings of Dragon Emperor in Motian Realm and become the new dragon emperor. Dragon Emperor Immortal Palace still exists. It's even more powerful than before. To a certain degree, perhaps I should call you brother!" Zhang Tie stroked his nose as he continued, "But I've established marital relations with Brother Chang Ying. From this aspect, I shall call you uncle. But I feel uncomfortable about the two appellations. I prefer to call you Your Majesty!"

After hearing Zhang Tie's words, Emperor Xuanyuan became stunned for a short while. After that, he shook his head with a bitter smile. Finally, he guffawed. When he finished his guffaw, Emperor Xuanyuan asked Zhang Tie calmly, "Where's Meng Shidao?"

"I've already killed him!"

"Well done!"

"Your Majesty, why were you trapped in the far-ancient morality stele?"

"It's difficult to embody in a simple sentence!" Emperor Xuanyuan said as he shook his head.

Zhang Tie then stopped asking him about that. After looking afar, Zhang Tie found that many knights in Morality Prefecture had already discovered the abnormal situation here and were on the way here.

Although Emperor Xuanyuan was a bit weak now, he was still the most powerful sage-level knight in Taixia Country and could barely be defeated. Therefore, Zhang Tie didn't worry about his safety.

"As I'm already the ruler in Motian Realm, I don't mean to be called His Majesty in Taixia Country anymore. However, the bloodline, rivers and mountains of Dragon Emperor should be sustained in this world!" Zhang Tie talked to Emperor Xuanyuan straightforwardly, "The overall situation facing Taixia Country is forbidding. Xuanyuan Hill needs to be chaired by Your Majesty. Demons are capturing territories in the frontline of Taixia Country. Hundreds of millions of Hua generals and soldiers are fighting demons. See you, Your Majesty!"

After leaving these words, before Emperor Xuanyuan replied, Zhang Tie had strode towards west, 60 miles per step. Closely after that, he had disappeared in the eyes of Emperor Xuanyuan.

Watching the direction where Zhang Tie disappeared for quite a while, Emperor Xuanyuan flew towards Xuanyuan Hill before the arrival of those knights from Morality Prefecture, leaving a streak of golden light.

Before returning to Youzhou Province, Zhang Tie went to the frontline.

Ten minutes later, a terrifying white light beam suddenly broke through the clouds and descended to demons' encampment in Military Province, where gathered tens of thousands of demon knights and corps. It was a reinforced Embrace of Twilight Goddess…

That white light beam could be seen from tens of thousands of miles away.

Two minutes later, before that light beam's remaining halos in the clouds and the sky dispersed, another light beam descended to the encampment of demons in Lizhou Province. After a short while, the third light beam appeared in Xianzhou Province.

This action was not different than that one in Zhang Tie's "dream" essentially. If there was, Zhang Tie was more powerful than that one in his "dream". Demons' strategy remained unchanged. After occupying the Military Province, and fixing their encampment over there, the army of demons continued to capture territory in Taixia Country in two routes. However, they had not pushed to the Tongguan Pass yet.

When Zhang Tie launched a strike, he destroyed an encampment and two main forces of demons immediately.

…

Zhang Mansion, Jinwu City, Youzhou Province…

After receiving the news from Xuanyuan Hill, Zhang Yang hurriedly returned to Jinwu City by airboat and told his parents that Zhang Tie had returned to Taixia Country and appeared in Xuanyuan Hill. When they heard the news, the entire family was in silence at once.

"Zhang Yang, is… is that real? Has Zhang Tie really come back?" Zhang Tie's mom asked Zhang Yang while her hands trembled, dropping her chopsticks onto the floor. Meanwhile, her eyes were filled with tears.

Zhang Tie's dad dropped off tears too. Meanwhile, his lips quivered silently.

"I've received the news from Emperor Xuanyuan's royal palace. Zhang Tie killed Meng Shidao in the Nine-Heavens Palace. The entire Xuanyuan Hill has been in uproars. Just now, I've received the same news from Commander Cheng and Jinwu Business Group's director in Xuanyuan Hill. I've already had people contact His Highness. His Highness said that man was definitely Zhang Tie…" Zhang Yang said in a wobbly voice with excitement as his eyes turned a bit red. He was kneeling down on the ground and reporting it to his parents; instead of just standing there.

"Ah, hurry, take out the rice brew that I've made for Guoguo. When Zhang Tie comes back, he must want to eat my rice brew…" Zhang Tie's mom stood up, quivering all over with excitement. Meanwhile, she walked towards the kitchen and said, "Have them prepare for it, I will cook some dishes for Guoguo. Guoguo must come back…"

"Yea, yea, Guoguo should have not taken food…"

At the moment, Zhang Mansion had over 100 famous cooks and a multitude of servants and maids. The old man and the old woman didn't have to cook food themselves at all. Therefore, after hearing Zhang Tie's mom's words, the entire family fixated onto Zhang Yang with puzzle…

However, Zhang Tie's mom insisted on going to the kitchen herself. So did his father…

"Dad, mom…"

At this moment, they suddenly heard a familiar voice. Zhang Tie's dad and mom stopped their movement immediately. When they turned around, they saw Zhang Tie standing outside the gate with tears over his face…

Chapter 2011: Aftermaths

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

Zhang Tie moved too fast!

He appeared in the Nine-Heavens Palace of Xuanyuan Hill and killed Meng Shidao all of a sudden. Closely after that, he arrived at the Gobbling Province and destroyed the Far-Ancient Morality Stele. Then, he came to the Western Theater of Operations of Taixia Country and wiped out demon camps and two routes of main demon forces. After that, he returned home. During this period, none of the parties being involved was able to make a timely response to it, including demons, the Gobbling Party and all parties in Taixia Country.

When the news that Meng Shidao the premier of Taixia Country was killed by Zhang Tie in Nine-Heavens Palace was spread, the entire Xuanyuan Hill entered a state of emergency.

In an instant, all the streets across Emperor Xuanyuan's royal city were in hubbubs when it was raining heavily. All the knights and troops of Zodiac Guards in Xuanyuan Hill had been mobilized and started to carry out curfew in Xuanyuan Hill. All the troops of Top Four Armies outside Xuanyuan Hill started to enter Xuanyuan Hill. As a result, the bleak streets in Xuanyuan Hill were covered with fully-armored fighters and armored vehicles.

So many disciples, butlers, interest spokesmen, ears and eyes of major clans in Xuanyuan Hill started to ask about the details of the assassination in Nine-Heavens Palace. All the ambassadors and envoys in the other countries' embassies in Xuanyuan Hill had made full use of their relationships so as to acquire more genuine details.

After hearing the dreamlike information from Emperor Xuanyuan's Royal Palace, everyone became petrified as they couldn't identify whether it was true or not. Zhang Tie was said to descend from the sky with an earth-shaking thunder. When he appeared, the entire royal palace seemed to have frozen. All the knights of royal guards and maids of honor, even all the officers and officials inside the royal palace were frightened by that great power. They could neither speak nor move. Zhang Tie just walked in the Nine-Heavens Palace and turned Meng Shidao, who could neither speak nor move, into ashes with one punch.

Meng Shidao the premier of Taixia Country probably promoted to a sage-level knight. Additionally, there were a large number of knights among those officers and officials in the palace. Who could control tens of thousands of knights inside the royal palace and kill them at his will? This sounded like a myth fabricated by a kid. Zhang Tie couldn't become such powerful even though he had promoted to a sage-level knight. This news posed a great challenge to the intelligence and nonsense of the listeners.

Many senior guild halls, boites and clubs inside Emperor Xuanyuan's Royal City which were bleak just now immediately became as boisterous as markets while many limos started to drive out of those large mansions or ambassies and appeared on the streets of Xuanyuan Hill.

After hearing the gossip that Meng Shidao was killed by Zhang Tie, a large batch of backbones of the Gobbling Party; especially students of the imperial college gathered outside Emperor Xuanyuan's Royal Palace and urged to meet Meng Shidao with high spirits…

In the forum of Mountain of Brightness, a passage written by Mr. Knoweverything called "Did Immortal Qianji come back and kill Meng Shidao inside Emperor Xuanyuan's Royal Palace?" became the hottest post in the forum. In the blink of an eye, over 100,000 people had viewed it…

Even though Crown Prince Changying had been ruling the country for so many years, it was his first time encountering such an emergency. Therefore, he also felt helpless.

All the officers and officials were still quarreling aloud inside Nine-Heavens Palace.

"Lord Meng is one of the three top chancellors of Taixia Country. Even though that man is Zhang Tie, Zhang Tie must be killed as he violated the majesty of the royal palace in the public. He's nothing different than demons. Your Highness, please issue Zhang Tie's crime and assign people to catch him at once…" Some imperial officers who had joined Gobbling Party roared exhaustedly in the palace and urged to claim for Zhang Tie's responsibility.

"Immortal Qianji has disappeared for so many years. His whereabouts are always mysterious. We're not sure whether that man was Immortal Qianji or not. Perhaps he's disguised by a shadow demon. Even though he was Immortal Qianji, now that he killed Meng Shidao the moment he arrived, he must have his reason…" Some officers of the top four armies refuted those imperial officers aloud.

Those imperial officers were not knights; therefore, they urged to kill Zhang Tie. However, all the knights inside the Nine-Heavens Palace had already sensed the terrifying power of Zhang Tie. Who could catch him? Who could kill him? If anyone of them wanted to catch Zhang Tie, they might face the same tragic outcome as Meng Shidao when Zhang Tie appeared in the palace next time.

Compared to the quarrels between those imperial censors and some officers, most of the officers and officials inside Nine-Heavens Palace were in silence. Some looked solemn; some's eyes were full of fear; someone looked thrilled; some were in meditation; some were as dumb as cicadas in the winter…

The only common point between them was that all the officers and officials and those who carried portable remote-sensing devices immediately noticed those people who had great stakes with them about what happened in Nine-Heavens Palace.

Zhang Tie returned and killed Meng Shidao. This was a great event that definitely shocked the entire country…

At this moment, Xuanyuan Changying still felt contradictory and puzzled.

His Highness didn't know why Zhang Tie would appear in Nine-Heavens Palace; neither did he know what Zhang Tie had experienced over these years. However, he could feel that man was indeed Zhang Tie. As Zhang Tie killed one of the top three chancellors of Taixia Country in front of His Highness, he had already committed a capital crime. However, would His Highness send an order to catch Zhang Tie?

'If not catch Zhang Tie, the laws of the imperial court would be useless? How do I deal with the Gobbling Party? If I send an order to catch him, it would bring us more terrifying trouble…'

'Why did Zhang Tie kill Meng Shidao? How did he know that item was suppressed beneath Emperor Xuanyua's Royal Palace?'

These questions always lingered in Xuanyuan Changying's mind, making him upset.

Since he became the crown prince, Xuanyuan Changying had almost not been in such a tricky dilemma.

"Your Highness, a large batch of people of Morality Agencies in Xuanyuan Hill have been gathering outside the royal palace and are urging to meet… meet the premier…" When Xuanyuan Changying was upset, an armored guard rushed in and reported to him loudly at the gate of Nine-Heavens Palace.

As for Xuanyuan Changying, this news was like pouring fuel on the fire.

When Xuanyuan Changying asked people to pacify those members of Morality Agency of Gobbling Party outside the Nine-Heavens Palace, he received a message from a finger ring which had been silent for dozens of years…

All the officers and officials in the imperial court found that Xuanyuan Changying suddenly became stunned. One minute later, Xuanyuan Changying's face flushed. After that, he sent an order in a wobbly voice, "Let Zodiac Guards catch all the rioters outside Nine-Heavens Palace and put them into jails. Seal up the Morality Agency in Xuanyuan Hill. Any member of the Morality Agency who dares resist must die!"

All the officers and officials in the imperial court were in a daze as they didn't know why His Highness wanted to deal with Gobbling Party all of a sudden. In this case, shouldn't His Highness reassure the Gobbling Party?

However, it was not an end. Closely after that, Xuanyuan Changying took a glance at those officers and officials in the imperial court and sent an order to those commanders of the top four armies, "Meng Shidao and Gobbling Party collude with demons. All the forces of the top four armies across the country should ban all the morality agencies and catch all the presidents and backbones of those morality agencies. If anyone of them dares resist, kill them, even though they're involved with local major clans and sects. You have to right to kill them before reporting it to me!"

All the moguls in the military of Taixia Country had been complaining about Gobbling Party over these years, including Zuoqiu Mingyue and those influential figures in the top four armies. They had long been disgruntled about Meng Shidao. After hearing His Highness' order, those armored commanders of top four armies immediately walked out of the team of officers and took the order.

"Your Highness…" Li Yunji, the president of the supreme court screamed.

After taking a look at Li Yunji, Xuanyuan Changying directly pointed at him as he sent a merciless order, "Arrest him!"

…

When such a sharp reversal happened in the Nine-Heavens Palace, some ambassadors of some big countries on the Western Continent were gathering in the room and exchanging intelligence with each other in a secret small parlor of a club in the diplomatic quarter of Emperor Xuanyuan's Royal Palace.

The event that Zhang Tie killed Meng Shidao with one punch in Nine-Heavens Palace also touched the nerves of all the ambassadors in Taixia Country.

All the big changes that happened in Taixia Country would influence the battle situation facing Taixia Country in the holy war. The changing battle situation was also related to the future of all the humans on the Western Continent. Therefore, these ambassadors had to figure out what had happened in Emperor Xuanyuan's Royal Palace and Nine-Heavens Palace as fast as possible.

When Mr. Knoweverything wrote that passage in the Mountain of Brightness, all the ambassadors had already received the strictest decrees from their own countries.

There were too many unbelivable, magical gossips.

As those ambassadors had different agents, they might get the complete intelligence through exchanges.

After analyzing it together for a short while, almost nobody believed that the gossip from Emperor Xuanyuan's Royal Palace was true. They all believed that Meng Shidao was already dead; however, the murderer might not be Zhang Tie.

"Does anyone in Xuanyuan Hill want to stage a coup?"

"If it true, it must be the military of Taixia Country. However, Zuoqiu Mingyue is still in the frontline. It doesn't seem true."

"Perhaps His Highness has already been tired of his current role. Meng Shidao has already become the stumbling block on his way!" Francia Empire's ambassador shook the wine in his glass as he squinted his eyes and said, "We've got intelligence. In recent years, the relationship between Meng Shidao and His Highness has long deteriorated. Although being the former master of His Highness, Meng Shidao couldn't win any trust from His Highness any longer…"

"If it's true, Immortal Qianji might be disguised by someone else at the request of His Highness. There's an employed sage-level knight in the royal palace. It's not hard to do that. I think the gossip is hyperbole. It probably is the conspiracy between His Highness and the military of Taixia Country…" the ambassador of Rhesa Republic said as he nodded with a solemn look.

"Probably. If the gossip is true, Zhang Tie's power must be out of our imagination. I'm afraid that even sage-level knights are not able to resist his strike. That's amazing and absolutely impossible…" the ambassador of Barbarian Alliance said as he raised his chin and joked, "If there's really such an amazing guy among humans who could match a god, Zhang Tie should be in the Western Theater of Operations of Taixia Country at this moment and kill all the demon knights over there. If possible, he'd better destroy the entire encampment of demons in Military Province. Apparently the gossip from the royal palace is just a lie, hehe…"

Crackle…

Soon after the ambassador of Barbarian Alliance finished his words… the ambassador of Francia Empire had already dropped his glass of wine onto the carpet, leaving an area of deep wine stain on the expensive carpet made of camel's hair.

In an instant, all the other ambassadors in the room fixated onto the ambassador of Francia Empire.

The ambassador who was talking with confidence widened his mouth like an idiot, pupils expanded. After a short while, he forcefully swallowed his saliva as he rolled his eyes once before watching the ambassador of Barbarian Alliance, saying "Demons… demons' encampment in Military Province and the two routes of main forces of demons… were… just destroyed by someone…"

The entire room was in dead silence at once…

Right then, a terrifying qi came from Emperor Xuanyuan's Royal Palace as a light&shade suddenly rushed into the sky from the royal palace with a powerful sword qi and flew far away in a streak of golden light…

…

"Old Man Taiyi, come out and see me!" A majestic voice suddenly sounded above the base of Taiyi Fantasy Sect, which rocked the ground over 600 miles.

All the knights and disciples in the base of Taixia Fantasy Sect were stupefied by this sudden voice.

After getting out of the Morality Stele in Gobbling Province, Emperor Xuanyuan didn't return to Xuanyuan Hill right away; instead, he came to the base of Taiyi Fantasy Sect.

Soon after his voice, that streak of golden light came to Emperor Xuanyuan's hand. It was Xuanyuan Sword.

Xuanyuan Sword in hand, Emperor Xuanyuan's qi soared many times in an instant, Closely after that, he slashed towards the main palace of Taiyi Fantasy Sect.

——The main palace of Taiyi Fantasy Sect which had just been restored for a couple of years was smashed again…

…

In Lord Guangnan's Mansion in the southwest of Taixia Country…

Only after half a day, the entire Taixia Country had been in uproars because of news one after another.

Lord Guangnan even wanted to fetch all of his trusted subordinates to analyze the overall situation and discuss the countermeasures.

At this moment, Fang Xinyi, as Lord Guangna's concubine entered his study room. Despite Lord Guangnan's brothers and subordinated generals were there, Fang Xinyi directly knelt down in front of Lord Guangnan and kowtowed towards him, urging, "Lord, please save Qionglou Pavilion given that I've been serving you sincerely for so many years…"

"Heaven may be forgiven for its iniquities, but man shall not live for his sins!" Lord Guangnan sighed as he shook his head. "I could only save you. As for the future of Qionglou Pavilion, it's out of my control…"

Chapter 2012: The Agreement between Zhang Tie and Demon Overlord

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

"Lizhou Province and Xianzhou Province have recovered three days ago. Lion Fortress has reentered Military Province. The overall situation facing Taixia Country on the frontline is good. It's said that demons on the Western Continent have started to return to the underground world. The allied human forces on the Western Continent have started to launch counter-attacks…"

When Zhang Gui, the old slave of Zhang Tie, reported it to Zhang Tie, he bowed with great respect. He dared not even raise his head. When he did not receive any reply from Zhang Tie, Zhang Gui continued, "Emperor Xuanyuan has already sent invitations to the presidents of countries in those continents and sub-continents and prepared to hold a conference in Xuanyuan Hill after recovering Military Province. They want to negotiate about the overall war plan and attempt to drive all the demons back to the underground world. Given the information from Xuanyuan Hill, Taixia Country and Western Continent probably prepare to join forces in the Realm of Disasters in the end…"

"Hmm, not bad!" Zhang Tie who was standing behind Pandora replied as he loosened his grasp. After that, he took one step backward and took a look at the lines and painting scroll that he and Pandora left on the paper and nodded.

It was a brisk and natural landscape map that Zhang Tie and Pandora created together. A slim and graceful maiden was standing in a pavilion on the hillside and watching the valley in the far with a gloomy look. This painting looked such vivid. She looked very similar to Pandora given her back, long hair on her back and her frame.

After they finished this painting, all the other women hurriedly gathered around the table and spoke highly of the painting.

At this moment, besides Bai Suxian, Yan Feiqing, Guo Hongyi, Linda, Beverly, Fiona, Aimei, Aixue and Pandora, Aurola, O'Lina, Sabrina and the six Spencer sisters were all present. All of Zhang Tie's wives and concubines were here.

Because all the women had taken cross-realm fruits, their faces remained unchanged even after so many years.

They were in one of Zhang Tie's attics in Xuantian Peak. At this moment, besides Zhang Tie's beautiful wives and concubines, only Zhang Gui was here and reporting something to Zhang Tie.

It was already March, a few months later after Zhang Tie's return. Over the past months, too many things had happened in Taixia Country and Western Continent. The overall situation facing Taixia Country in the holy war had long reversed.

Since he returned to Youzhou Province, Zhang Tie had not left Youzhou Province at all over the past months; instead, he always stayed with his family. Besides the first days after he returned when he met Zuoqiu Mingming, Cheng Honglie and the other batches of guests from Heavenly Fortune Sect and Lord Guangnan's Mansion, Zhang Tie didn't see anybody else. He just spent all of his time on his family.

Zhang Tie had already got married to Pandora and brought her to Youzhou Province from Demons Slaughter Valley. The news that Zhang Tie picked Pandora in Demons Slaughter Valley had already spread across the country. With a son-in-law like Zhang Tie, Demonic Slaughter Valley's reputation soared.

After taking Pandora back to Youzhou Province, Zhang Tie took Aurola, O'Lina and the six Spencer sisters back to Youzhou Province from Ice and Snow Wilderness too. As for Zhang Tie, it was like a home-centered man going to the market to buy ingredients for food.

With such a great power, Zhang Tie could safeguard humans by fighting demons; sometimes, he found that he could also protect his family with the same power and enable these women to go back to his side.

Although Zhang Tie had long been a grandpa, the entire Youzhou Province was busy doing one thing——prepare for Zhang Tie's marriage.

Zhang Tie had already promised these women to hold a grand wedding ceremony for them in Youzhou Province. He wanted them to wear wedding gowns and ceremonial robes again.

Zhang Tie felt as if he owed them something. Since they chose to stay with Zhang Tie, although they had got their status and positions in Zhang family and already bore children, they had not held a wedding ceremony and wore wedding gowns yet, including Beverly, Fiona, Yan Feiqing and Bai Suxian. However, Zhang Tie always felt pitiful about that. Therefore, after coming back, he determined to hold an unprecedented, grand wedding ceremony for those women so as to fix all the regrets.

Zhang Tie still remembered their expressions when he gathered all the women and told them that he wanted to hold a real wedding ceremony for them.

"This painting still lacks a corresponding poem!" Aimei and Aixue suggested in unison as their mind acted upon the mind as twins.

"Of course, the landscape of Taixia Country should match a Taixia poem. I'm not good at Taixia poem; Feiqing, it's your turn…" Pandora said with a smile as she gave the painting brush to Yan Feiqing.

Yan Feiqing didn't refuse her; instead, she took the painting brush and left two lines of small graceful words on the painting.

——Rain takes away the clouds with the fresh wind. River accompanies green mountains with flying birds.

——With morning glow, tea culture and night-illuminating glass, we miss you both awake and drunk!

"Nice…" They all acclaimed it in unison. Yan Feiqing's last words perfectly expressed the mood of those women.

Zhang Tie burst out laughing as he put his arms around Yan Feiqing and kissed her face like a playboy. After that, he turned around and asked Zhang Gui as if he was asking something trivial, "How's Gobbling Party recently?"

"The forces of Gobbling Party across the country have almost been exterminated. Most of members of Morality Agencies have already exited those agencies. Besides Northeastern Military Region, former members of Morality Agencies are exposing the dirty things about Morality Agencies to the public everywhere across the country. As local authorities showed mercy on those who admitted their mistakes sincerely, few people were sent into the jails. Almost everyone is speaking highly of His Majesty's kindness and Your Honor's righteous deed of killing Meng Shidao the great evil force in Taixia Country…"

As for an organization like Gobbling Party, after Meng Shidao was killed, the Far-Ancient Morality Stele which was taken as the spiritual ballast of many die-hard fans of Gobbling Party was broken up, Emperor Xuanyuan returned to Taixia Country and that Meng Shidao framed Emperor Xuanyuan was exposed to the public, it was doomed to fall in an instant. Nobody would like to be involved with it.

Zhang Tie was very gratified by Xuanyuan Hill's deed. It was indeed boundless beneficence for them to eliminate hidden threats and reduce turmoils across the country at the minimal cost. To the final analysis, the reason that many commoners joined Gobbling Party lay in that they wanted to gain extra benefits from doing that; instead of their belief or high requirement on their own ethics. Even though many people of major clans and officials joined Gobbling Party with no nobler motive and purpose.

"Aw, there's one more thing…"

"Go ahead!"

"I heard some gossip in Xuanyuan Hill that when humans on Eastern Continent and Western Continent drive demons back to the underground space, they will establish allied human forces of 300,000 human knights. Those people in Xuanyuan Hill and those ambassadors of countries on the Western Continent in Xuanyuan Hill have already secretly released the news that they would like to recommend you as the commander-in-chief of allied human forces. They hope that the allied human forces could enter the underground world and wipe out all the demons under the leadership of Your Honor…"

Closely after hearing Zhang Gui's words, none of those women in the room commented on that painting and poem any longer; instead, they all watched Zhang Tie with wide eyes.

Zhang Tie then replied which nobody else could understand as he shook his head, "Demons couldn't only be wiped out through wars or massacres!"

Those people had such a simple idea. On the way back to Taixia Country from Motian Realm, Zhang Tie had already traveled across demons' nest in the underground abyss of Earth-Element Realm, they all thought that demons came from the underground abyss. Actually it was not absolutely right. In fact, under the underground abyss in Earth-Element Realm, there was an odd black ocean in the core of this planet. That place is linked with the world where Demon Overlord is in. Although Demon Overlord couldn't come to this world from there, the powerful demonic qi and energy could peep into the black demon ocean and breed demons one after another over there. Even though allied human forces could reach there and wipe out all the demons over there, they would find that new demons came into being from there.

If they wanted to eliminate demons; they must kill the Demon Overlord. If they wanted to kill the Demon Overlord, they must eliminate the greed, envy, animosity, fool and stupidity in their hearts. Only these negative moods and behaviors of humans which could hurt themselves were the source of the power of Demon Overlord.

Real demons were neither in abyss nor in hell, but in the grimmest and grinnest place in people's heart.

Unless their hearts were filled with light, the wars between humans and demons would never cease.

The real holy war was not the battle between human and demons; but between people and the dark and grimness deep in everyone's heart.

They might not understand it for the time being; neither did Zhang Tie want to explain about it.

Perhaps it was not bad for them to maintain the current situation. From then on, humans would live above earth; demons would live underground. The two species just did whatever they wanted in their own territory. Without demons, humans would also be troubled with wars, killings, turmoils and oppressions. With the help of such a terrifying species which always cast covetous eyes on humans, there might be fewer killings and wars between humans and the order above earth might be more harmonious.

Their holy war might not have come to an end yet; however, it had already almost come to an end for Zhang Tie.

Over these days, through that heart that was suppressed in the Infinite Immortal Prison, Zhang Tie had reached a secret agreement with the Demon Overlord. After the agreement was reached, Zhang Tie would not fight demons who had returned to the underground world any longer; neither would Demon Overlord allow its demon army to appear above earth. None of the human cities would be collapsed by demons anymore. Additionally, all the remaining demon forces would evacuate back to the underground world. As long as Zhang Tie was alive, this agreement would remain valid and all the humans and human cities above the earth would be under Zhang Tie's protection.

This agreement meant that the vast Earth-Element Realm between earth and the abyss where demons lived in would be the real battlefield between humans and demons in the future.

When they were all pondering Zhang Tie's words, they suddenly heard an urgent voice from outside the attic.

"I've got something important to report to Elder Mushen…"

Zhang Tie realized that it was Elder Muen's voice…

Chapter 2013: An Ant Was Trying to Shake a Giant Tree

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

Elder Mushen…

Only those elders and some disciples of Huaiyuan Palace still called Zhang Tie Elder Mushen till now across the country. However, Zhang Tie didn't mind it. Besides these people, nobody else across Taixia Country dared call Zhang Tie in that way; especially after Zhang Tie killed Meng Shidao, destroyed the Far-Ancient Morality Stele and reached his heyday.

The arrival of Elder Muen shocked Zhang Tie to a certain degree. Recognizing that Elder Muen was urgent given his voice, Zhang Tie directly had someone take Elder Muen into a parlor of the Suzerain's Pavilion.

When Elder Muen reached the sky above Xuantian Peak, he was instantly blocked by patrollers headed by Zhao Bing, who were Zhang Tie's disciples. Therefore, he directly opened his mouth over there and transmitted his voice into the Suzerain's Pavilion. He hoped to shock Zhang Tie and meet the latter with this trick.

"Elder Muen, what are you here for?" Zhang Tie asked Elder Muen straightforwardly at the sight of him without any greetings.

With a grave look, Elder Muen didn't waste any time either. However, after hearing Elder Muen's first words, Zhang Tie's face turned gloomy at once. "Yunxi is in trouble!"

Zhang Tie instantly sprung up as he asked Elder Muen with shiny eyes, "What happened to her?"

"10 days ago, Yunxi suddenly left TigerEmbracing City with the reason that her master called her. All the elders of Huaiyuan Palace thought that Yunxi was going to receive the interrogation from the Supreme Court back in Taiyi Fantasy Sect. Therefore, we didn't mind it. Although Yunxi grew up in Taiyi Fantasy Sect, she had been staying in Huaiyuan Palace over there and didn't have any relation with Taiyi Fantasy Sect. Neither was she involved in the conspiracy that Taiyi Fantasy Sect exterminated the Great Wilderness Sect and Royal Alliance. We thought that Yunxi would come back soon. Unexpectedly, someone sent this item to Tiger Embracing Mountain last night and urged to give it to me and the other elders. After reading it, we had no other means but to seek for your help, Elder Mushen!"

As Elder Muen explained, he took out of a piece of crystal and gave it to Zhang Tie.

Only sage-level knight could leave motion pictures in a piece of crystal. The first piece of crystal of motion pictures that Zhang Tie saw was from Fang Qingming.

With bit confusion, Zhang Tie injected a bit of spiritual energy into that piece of crystal. In an instant, he saw motion pictures——In a gloomy backroom whose floor was covered with red light, Lan Yunxi was quietly lying on a stony bed well dressed, as if asleep. Closely after that, he saw a mirror in the space, the image on the mirror was Taiyi Old Man who looked gloomy.

As it was presented from the first perspective, as long as Taiyi Old Man was facing the mirror, Zhang Tie could see Taiyi Old Man's face too.

With a bit hatred on his grim face, Taiyi Old Man in the mirror uttered, "Zhang Tie, Lan Yunxi is in my hand. If you want to meet Lan Yunxi, you'd better follow my arrangement… ahem… ahem…" Taiyi Old Man said with a gloomier face as he coughed weakly, "After this piece of crystal reaches Huaiyuan Palace, you must go to the Vast Peace Inn, Fighting Righteous City, Flying Dragon Prefecture, Light Province in three days. There's a letter in the wardrobe of No. Heavenly 7 room. Follow the order in the letter first. If you don't do that, I will have people send you Lan Yunxi's head next time!"

Closely after these words, the motion pictures in the piece of crystal turned dark.

After putting away that piece of crystal, Zhang Tie asked Elder Muen with a calm look, "Who sent it to Huaiyuan Palace?"

"It's a boss of an inn in TigerEmbracing City. We've checked him. He was hypnotized by someone. He just sent this item to Huaiyuan Palace involuntarily like a puppet. He received this item from someone else 5 days ago. However, that inn didn't remember that man's look any longer!"

"I will deal with it. I will take back Lan Yunxi!"

"Although the other elders of Huaiyuan Palace and I don't know why Taiyi Old Man threatened you, we all believe that it's not something good. I'm afraid…" Elder Muen said with a worried look.

"Don't worry. I will deal with it," Zhang Tie said with a calm look.

When he saw Zhang Tie recovering his composure again, Elder Muen also became reassured.

"Thank you!" Elder Muen then stood up and prepared to bow towards Zhang Tie. However, before he made it, Zhang Tie had already stopped him by pulling his hands.

"Elder Muen, you don't have to do that. I was also a member of Huaiyuan Palace. Even though I'm not now, I won't allow Huaiyuan Palace to be humiliated…"

"After that event, although Yunxi always looked strong-willed, we all knew that she was heart-broken. If not that event, you and Yunxi…" Elder Muen stopped with a deep sigh, "The destiny is making fool of you!"

After being silent for half a minute, Zhang Tie talked to Elder Muen again, "Elder Muen, go back to Huaiyuan Palace please. You will receive my message soon!"

"Hmm, see you!" Elder Muen could only leave here for the time being. The entire Huaiyuan Palace couldn't deal with this event except Zhang Tie.

At this moment, Taiyi Old Man was already the No. 1 criminal as for the Supreme Court of Taixia Country; instead, Zhao Yun and Yun Zhongzi had been acquitted. A few months ago, Taiyi Old Man was heavily injured by Emperor Xuanyuan in the base of Taiyi Fantasy Sect. However, he escaped in the end. The entire Taiyi Fantasy Sect was being rectified in recent months, which shocked the world. As a result, Taiyi Old Man didn't show up over these days. When he showed up, he targeted at Huaiyuan Palace and Zhang Tie. On this occasion, those elders of Huaiyuan Palace could never defeat Taiyi Old Man who was a sage-level knight and save Lan Yunxi! Of course, they could only seek for Zhang Tie's help.

After Elder Muen left there, Zhang Tie returned to his attic and told those women that he was going to leave Iron-Dragon Sect for a couple of days at most. After saying these brief words, Zhang Tie took to the skies with one step from the Suzerain's Pavilion and flew towards one place at a high speed. He moved 60 miles with one step. In the blink of an eye, he had already seen a vast ocean under his foot…

Given the direction, Zhang Tie didn't go to the Light Province of Taixia Country; instead, he left Taixia Country for the Western Continent at a high speed.

As he had experienced an absolute failure in "dream", Zhang Tie would never allow Taiyi Old Man and Ancestor Shenkong to threaten Huaiyuan Palace and Jinwu Palace when he came back again.

After saving Emperor Xuanyuan, Zhang Tie prepared to have Emperor Xuanyuan deal with the awful mess of the three major sects. No matter what, Emperor Xuanyuan was the most suitable person who could deal with it. However, it didn't mean that Zhang Tie wouldn't take any precautions about emergencies.

Actually, Zhang Tie had already been to the bases of Qionglou Pavilion and Taiyi Fantasy Sect before Emperor Xuanyuan arrived there on the day when he left the Gobbling Province. He left special marks on the two old d**chebags. As long as the special marks were with them, they could never escape from Zhang Tie's chase even though they were in another space.

Taiyi Old Man and Ancestor Shenkong could never imagine that the gap between them and Zhang Tie was insurmountable. Zhang Tie's tricks were completely out of their imaginations. They had long been in Zhang Tie's control. However, they didn't know it yet.

The reason why Zhang Tie didn't kill them when he came back was that he wanted to leave them to Emperor Xuanyuan and wanted to know their secrets in case of other unprecedented cases.

Ancestor Shenkong was not as fortunate as Taiyi Old Man. After Ancestor Shenkong received the news that Taiyi Fantasy Sect was in trouble and was going to escape, he was blocked by Yun Zhongzi and finally killed by Emperor Xuanyuan.

However, Taiyi Old Man was seeking death this time; therefore, Zhang Tie had no other choice but kill him.

At this moment, nobody else might know Taiyi Old Man's whereabouts except Zhang Tie.

Zhang Tie soon came to a mountain cave in an unpopulated area in the west of Holy Light Empire in the Western Continent. In the blink of an eye, he had found a hidden portal in the deep mountain cave. He then released a bit of spiritual energy and opened the portal quietly, revealing a tunnel that was covered with red light. Zhang Tie then walked in the tunnel leisurely…