The earth knight who followed Bai Suxian to Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory last year had already left Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory and returned to South Border when Bai Suxian and Zhang Tie returned to Youzhou Province. However, Bai Suxian's subordinates stayed in Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory. Some of them stayed on Immortals Gathering Peak and waited for Bai Suxian's order; some of them established manors, workshops and farms in the hills and basins at the foot of Xuantian Eighteen Mountain Peaks, forming the first independent market town in Iron-Dragon Sect. Among those people, there were a lot of skilled craftsmen. These people became the first batch of subordinates of Iron-Dragon Sect.
In any sect in Taixia Country, besides masters, apprentices and elders, there were also a lot of producers and service people attached to this sect. Sects such as Taiyi Fantasy Sect and Heavens Fortune Sect could almost produce everything; neither could they not touch any fields. Sects in Taixia Country were super armed interest groups based on economic interests, secret methods inheritance even bloodlines. The Sect Master and Sect Master were the heads of this super armed interest group.
Such groups had a strong vitality in Taixia Country. They didn't collapse after thousands of years. In the age of science and technology before the Catastrophe, due to various reasons, the existence and function of sects were in a low position for a period. However, after the Catastrophe, sects in Taixia Country started to develop vigorously once again.
Xuantian Eighteen Mountain Peaks of Iron-Dragon Sect covered over 10,000 square miles. Besides Xuantian Eighteen Mountain Peaks, there were a large area of basins, hills and slopes at the foot of the mountain. Additionally, water was plentiful. Zhang Tie's target was to establish a unique Class A city in Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory, even in the entire Northeast Military Region based on Xuantian Eighteen Mountain Peaks.
Such a target could not be achieved in a day. Besides money, population and the attraction of this Class A city counted most. Zhang Tie was not worried about that. After all, the gate of Xuantian Eighteen Mountain Peaks of Iron-Dragon Sect had already been built. Iron-Dragon Sect finally had a base and a reputation. Zhang Tie was confident to realize this target step by step as Iron-Dragon Sect grew more and more prosperous.
After getting off the airboat, Zhang Tie had a short talk with Lu Yishan before taking Bai Suxian, Bai Zhengnan, Mountain Lifting Hermit and Donder to a warehouse which was not far from the landing place of the airboat.
Zhang Tie knew what they wanted to see here. Therefore, he didn't waste time to whet their appetite. Some things indeed didn't need to be seen tomorrow.
On the way, Lu Zhongming and Lin Huanxi were evidently interested in the fact that Bai Suxian and Mountain Lifting Hermit could rule a mountain peak respectively in Iron-Dragon Sect. Therefore, they asked Bai Suxian and Mountain Lifting Hermit about the situation facing Iron-Dragon Sect.
"Actually, his identity as the head of Iron-Dragon Sect is just relative to those disciples of Iron-Dragon Sect. You've already seen that he treats me and Mountain Lifting Hermit like how he treated Mountain Lifting Hermit and me in Earth-elements Realm. However, he became the team leader this time. We've long reached an agreement that as long as we don't violate the rules of Iron-Dragon Sect, he, the head of Iron-Dragon Sect, would not interfere with the internal affairs of each mountain peak. If you want to have disciples, you can have them; if you don't want to have disciples, you can cultivate in seclusion on your mountain peaks!"
After hearing Bai Suxian's frank introduction about the situation facing Iron-Dragon Sect, Lu Zhongming and Lin Huanxi exchanged a glance with each other silently.
Only after a short while, Zhang Tie had led them to the front of a closed warehouse. The warehouse was made of steel. It was covered with blue corrugated steel tiles which looked pretty firm. The gate of the warehouse was tightly closed. On the opposite side of the gate was a spacious airport for airships.
"What's there? Is it an airship? But if it's an airship, this warehouse looks a bit low!" Standing in front of the warehouse gate, Donder raised his head and looked at the height of the gate as he asked curiously.
The others also looked at Zhang Tie with a dubious look.
Zhang Tie revealed a smile towards them as he said, "You will know it soon!"
Even though there was a gate between them, Zhang Tie could still clearly see the items piled up in the warehouse.
On February 3rd, namely the second day after he completed his rotating chakra ceremony as an earth knight, Zhang Tie had people transport it here by airship. Besides Zhang Tie, even Mountain Lifting Hermit and his disciples had not seen it before.
After saying that, Zhang Tie clapped his hands. Closely after that, the gate of the warehouse was opened. Zhang Tie entered the warehouse first, closely followed by the others out of great curiosity.
Inside the warehouse, there was a crystal lens fluorite lamp. These fluorite lamps illuminated the entire warehouse, making it as bright as day. Inside the warehouse, there were three strange objects covered in a layer of cloak. They were very large.
Right under the gaze of everyone else, Zhang Tie walked over there as he pulled the cloak and opened it abruptly, revealing the real look of the items inside the cloak.
A bizarre aircraft with a pair of wings higher than 4 m, longer than 9 m and wider than 11 m appeared in front of them with silver aluminum alloy luster.
Under the illumination of the lights in the warehouse, the entire aircraft looked like a marvelous halos, which was dazzling.
Besides Zhang Tie, all the others including Feng Cangwu and Zhang Tie's disciples were dumbfounded.
"It's a glider … ah, no … it's too large. Additionally, there's no propeller in front of the glider … is it an antique that you collected? But … how … how could it be so new?" Bai Suxian's elder brother responded it first. After all, airships and gliders were not strange to most of the people in this age. All those who could touch airship troops could touch them. As for those who knew the history and science of humans before the Catastrophe, they could immediately find that this was a propeller plane before the Catastrophe.
There were no propeller planes in this age. With the exhaustion of petrochemical energy before the Catastrophe, airships were the only airships in this age that were driven by steam. Although there had been people trying to invent coal-burning planes in the past hundreds of years, it was destined to be a distant dream. The function, weight, volume of the steam engine, the coal it carried and the maximal take-off weight that it could produce were always unsolvable problems. Even if the weight of the whole plane was considered as air except for the steam engine and the coal it carried, it still couldn't fly.
Someone once asserted that in this era, it was impossible for anyone to come up with an airplane.
Almost everyone believed that humans could only produce three kinds of aircraft in this age, namely, glider, airship and airboat. Strictly speaking, glider couldn't be regarded as an aircraft for carrying out tasks.
However, what appeared in front of everyone was indeed a plane.
The plane in front of him had a two-cockpit structure. Behind the water droplet-shaped cockpit, there was a steam-powered crossbow that could flexibly change direction.
Everyone was looking at the plane, and no one even noticed that in a corner of the warehouse, there were more than a dozen thick green metal buckets that were more than a meter tall piled up.
When they were wondering why Zhang Tie put a frame here, Zhang Tie had already "seen through" this aircraft inside and outside. As the most excellent and experienced glider driver, Zhang Tie knew the flight principles and operating skills of aircraft very well. Plus, he designed the dual-drive engine. Therefore, he knew the working principle of the dual-drive engine better than anybody else. With such a foundation, Zhang Tie instantly understood each detail inside this aircraft and the function of each control lever and button in the cockpit with his lotus-flower eyes.
Only after throwing a glance at this aircraft, Zhang Tie had already mastered the operating skills of this aircraft.
Under the amazed eyes of the others, Zhang Tie nimbly jumped onto the wing of the aircraft. After that, he slid open the cover of the cockpit and stretched half of his body inside. After that, he pulled up the fuel supply button. After that, he jumped off and ran to the nose of the aircraft. After that, he caught the propeller by one hand and forcefully rotated it from a clockwise direction...
The dual-drive engine used the engine mechanical stroke to start. In the process of starting, an external force must be used to make the engine rotate first before the engine would start.
Zhang Tie didn't dare to use too much strength. Based on his current strength, he was afraid that the engine would be destroyed if he used too much strength. Therefore, he only used a bit of strength. After two seconds, the engine of the plane stopped and didn't move anymore.
"Ahh, what's this? Is this a real aircraft? But what's the use of an aircraft? "Lu Zhongming asked out of amazement.
Soon after his words, Zhang Tie had caught the propeller for the second time and rotated it in a clockwise direction once again...
A loud boom and a heatwave from the exhaust hole of the engine immediately swept over the surroundings like a gust of wind. As Bai Suxian and Lin Huanxi were not far from the nose of the aircraft and were on the side of the propeller, the airflow caused by the rotation of the propeller instantly raised their skirts.
The combustion of alcohol was different than that of other petrochemicals. The combustion of alcohol was quiet and pure. It could only produce water and carbon dioxide; instead of striking black smoke and unpleasant smell...
"Impossible, I'm not dreaming, am I?" Watching the rotating propeller and sensing the strong cold wind caused by the propeller, Donder widely opened his eyes as he exclaimed out of disbelief.
At this moment, nobody would feel that Donder was ungentlemanly. Because everybody had the same words in their hearts...
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