Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem When staying with his family members at home, time always passed quickly; especially after the new year, it had already come to the end of January. Zhang Tie had stayed at home for almost one month.
During this period, besides staying with his family members, Zhang Tie also paid attention to the situation facing Ice and Snow Wilderness.
As for Sacred Light Empire, it was evidently not a good idea for them to launch an expedition to Ice and Snow Wilderness in winter. Because in winter, the two ports where the expeditionary fleet of Sacred Light Empire docked had been frozen, which would cause a great difficulty to the supply of the expeditionary fleet. Ice and Snow Wilderness was in the northernmost border zone of Waii Subcontinent. It was close to a vast uninhabited region. In winter, the northwest wind would cause billows on the sea. As a result, the fleet would move slowly against the wind, not to mention that they might encounter icebergs drifting down from the north. In the evening, as long as an iceberg was careless, a battleship might be severely damaged or directly sunk by a drifting iceberg in the ocean.
The merchant ships and businessmen of Sacred Iceland Kingdom on the Western Continent paid close attention to the movements of Sacred Light Empire. After spending a lot of gold coins, the intelligence network of Sacred Iceland Kingdom on the Western Continent started to run at a high speed. As a result, intelligence about the expeditionary fleet of Sacred Light Empire converged in Saint Petersburg almost every day.
According to the intelligence from all aspects, Pontiff Sarlin estimated that the expeditionary fleet of Sacred Light Empire would launch an expedition in the middle of February or the beginning of March this year.
In this way, Zhang Tie became reassured. After completing his rotating chakra ceremony, he would have enough time to deal with this crisis in Ice and Snow Wilderness.
What Zhang Tie was considering now was not whether he could defeat the expeditionary fleet of Sacred Light Empire; instead, he was considering how to make Sacred Light Empire feel painful and afraid so that those priests of Sacred Light Empire would not dare attack Sacred Iceland Kingdom anymore. As long as Sacred Iceland Kingdom was mentioned, those priests of Sacred Light Empire would have a headache and feel guilty.
If Zhang Tie couldn't solve this problem well, based on the national power of Sacred Light Empire, even if they repelled the first wave, there would be the second wave and the third wave. In the future, there would be endless troubles.
Gulas and Dali had already returned to Ice and Snow Wilderness safe and sound before the end of the year. They didn't find their desired ally and reliance in Taixia Country. The main reason was that the major clans in Taixia Country were too picky. They would never choose Ice and Snow Wilderness as an ally. If not in the Treasures Meeting, Gulas and Dali might not attract the attention of the major clans in Taixia Country. Some of the source of berserk energy that they brought to Taixia Country were sold; however, not too much. As for many buyers, the so-called source of berserk energy in Ice and Snow Wilderness was actually a relatively good medicament of berserk energy. At most, this medicament could be used for life. However, it was not easy to activate the power of this medicament. Not every fighter could activate it. Low-level fighters might need the source of berserk energy; however, after promoting to knights, such a thing would be meaningless. In the Treasures Meeting, things that were not valuable to knights could barely be outstanding.
Gulas and Dali didn't bring back the powerful ally that Sacred Iceland Kingdom needed; however, they brought back the news about Xuanyuan Hill and the riots in Taixia Country.
The finance minister of Taixia Country was infiltrated by Three-eye Association (for people in other continents and subcontinents outside Taixia Country, all the human forces that surrendered to demons could be called Three-eye Association. The so-called Heavens Reaching Church was just another name of Three-eye Association in Taixia Country in the eyes of people in other continents. Although they had different names, they were doing the same thing). As a result, the catastrophe of bloody figures broke out across Taixia Country. This event caused a great shock in Sacred Iceland Kingdom, not to mention Western Continent and other subcontinents. Even Pontiff Sarlin asked Zhang Tie about the current situation facing Taixia Country through remote-sensing crystal out of concern.
As for people in other continents and subcontinents, the extremely powerful Taixia Country was a complex existence in their hearts. The prosperity and power of Taixia Country made people in other continents and subcontinents admire, yearn for, even envy and hate Taixia Country. However, undeniably, Taixia Country and Hua people were the pillars and the hope of humans in the war between humans and demons. Any turbulence in Taixia Country would arouse a great shock in the outside world.
Since the catastrophe in Xuanyuan Hill started, those who felt fear at the first moment were not Hua people in Taixia Country, but the top figures in other continents and subcontinents outside Taixia Country. These people were crystal clear that if Taixia Country collapsed in civil strife, they would have no chance in this holy war anymore. This holy war was like a terrifying storm. Taixia Country was the largest human battleship in this storm. If this largest human battleship was overturned, all the other sampans would be smashed into pieces by the huge waves in this terrifying storm. Without Taixia Country to resist demons, humans would face the darkest day.
'How's the situation facing Taixia Country? '
It was really hard for Zhang Tie to answer this question. He didn't know how to introduce the current situation to Elder Sarlin. Zhang Tie's personal situation was very good.
After promoting to an earth knight, he had been absolved of his wrongful charges and became famous across the world. Additionally, Zhang Clan's force was growing increasingly prosperous. Besides all-purpose medicament, Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory would soon produce high-energy alcohol which could bring a great revolution. Additionally, he had already returned home and enjoyed the happiness of family ties with his family members every day. His foundation in Taixia Country was growing more and more stable. He had more and more friends. Forces such as Lord Guangnan's Mansion and Heavens Fortune Sect had already established relationships with him. Additionally, he had already killed the culprit who framed him and made a fortune. The Gobbling Party was busy fighting Heavens Reaching Church. It could be said that Zhang Tie had not been in such a good situation since he promoted to a knight. Neither had he lived such a comfortable life. It could be said that Zhang Tie had officially entered a wholly new peak in his life.
Zhang Tie ushered in a new peak in his life. However, the chilly qi of the 3rd holy war had invaded the entire Taixia Country in only a couple of months.
Due to the arrival of winter, the pace of exterminating bloody figures across Taixia Country, especially in the north region slowed down for the time being. The bloody figures who were wreaking havoc across Taixia Country were increasingly dispersed while their activity range, activity region and damages were increasingly greater.
In December, the turmoil of bloody figures only affected 60-70 provinces across Taixia Country; however, in January, besides some barren provinces and Xuanyuan Hill, all the other provinces across Taixia Country had been covered by bloody figures. The turmoil of bloody figures was spreading across Taixia Country. Before January 1, the 904th year of Black Iron Calendar, the catastrophe of bloody figures had caused over 370 million casualties across Taixia Country in less than 2 months. Additionally, the casualty figure was increasing every day. The total number of bloody figures across Taixia Country was estimated to be over 10 million. After over 1 month's encirclement and suppression, although the number of bloody figures was decreasing constantly, the remaining bloody figures and the surviving bloody figures were still killing and causing panic across Taixia Country every minute and second.
In such a chaos, even Youzhou Province was not spared from it.
On January 3, when Zhang Tie was immersed in the festive atmosphere of the new year, some batches of bloody figures from Tongzhou Province had already entered Yangui Mountain Range. They might have already sneaked into Youzhou Province.
After entering the Yangui Mountain Range, these groups of bloody figures disappeared without a trace after slaughtering two small villages in the Yangui Mountain Range. It was the hunters living in the mountains who found the abnormalities in the two small villages when they were visiting their relatives. Therefore, they hurriedly came out to report.
Some batches of bloody figures might have already passed through Yangui Mountain Range and entered Youzhou Province. Therefore, all the regions across Youzhou Province became intense; especially the garrisons in the cities near Yangui Mountain Range had been mobilized. After receiving the message, Zhang Tie's Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory had entered a state of martial law.
At home, Zhang Tie received the message from Huaiyuan Palace. Therefore, he knew it.
Of course, a "good news" about bloody figures came along with this bad news — — the battle fortress prison near the mountain gate of Iron-Dragon Sect that was built at Zhang Tie's elder brother's order had been officially assembled.
This bloody figure prison was named Demon Suppression Castle by Zhang Tie. The entire Demon Suppression Castle could hold 200,000 bloody figures in total. It was a large-scale battle fortress construction business group in Yanzhou Province, Taixia Country that was responsible for such business. After Zhang Tie explained the need and paid 70% of the engineering cost in advance, this battle fortress construction business group completed the construction of Demon Suppression Castle in the shortest period.
Zhang Tie had not seen the new Demon Suppression Castle; however, it was said that it was a bit larger than the Crystal Battle Fortress. After the Demon Suppression Castle was built, the first batch of 1287 bloody figures that Zhang Tie and Jinwu Business Group "purchased" had been locked in the Demon Suppression Castle and were guarded by Jinwu Guards.
The turmoil of bloody figures swept across Taixia Country. However, those backbones of Heavens Reaching Church who "manufactured" these bloody figures had disappeared in the past 2 months. Besides a lot of small fish and shrimps who were caught or killed by the Supreme Court of Taixia Country, very few of those famous knight-level powerhouses of Heavens Reaching Church who were wanted by the Supreme Court of Taixia Country had been caught. It seemed that those people had disappeared, which made people restless. (To be continued.)
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