Besides Lu Clan and Gu Clan, most of the elders of Yan Clan of Chaoyang Prefecture, Liu Clan of Changshan Prefecture, Ximen Clan of Xingbei Prefecture and Sun Clan of Guide Prefecture in Youzhou Province were familiar with Zhang Tie. Of course, there were also many strange faces. However, Zhang Tie had seen less than 1/4 of the 40-odd knights on the airboat for the first time.
Although Gu Clan's elder had complex moods, the elders of the other clans didn't think as much as Gu Clan's elder. They just nodded towards Zhang Tie with a smile as they surrounded Zhang Tie and Mountain Lifting Hermit in a very friendly manner. In a split second, Zhang Tie was like a moon surrounded by stars. Many clan disciples of knights on the airboat were Zhang Tie's personal disciples. Therefore, these elders treated Zhang Tie better.
Additionally, Zhang Tie was an earth knight. In the knight's world, strength was the most important thing. Zhang Tie's knight rank and the fame of Qianji Hermit represented his high position among them. Of course, he was highly respected.
Guo Hongyi was here too.
Zhang Tie remembered that Guo Clan only had 3 knights in total. It was out of Zhang Tie's imagination that Guo Hongyi came here herself.
Among the male knights, Guo Hongyi stood alone and looked as cold and arrogant as frost, which was pretty eye-catching.
When Zhang Tie threw a glance at Guo Hongyi, Guo Hongyi also threw a glance at him. Closely after that, the two people's eyes touched each other silently.
Only after throwing one more glance at Guo Hongyi, Zhang Tie's arm had been tightly hugged by Bai Suxian. As a result, Guo Hongyi turned her head away at once.
It took all the knights and elders 2 minutes to greet Zhang Tie.
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"Qianji Hermit and two knights of Iron-Dragon Sect have arrived. There should be 38 knights in Youzhou Province, 43 of them. Please take a short rest inside. We will set off for Yanzhou City right now!" Zhang Taixuan in the uniform of provincial governor opened his mouth. Closely after that, the movable cover on the deck of the airboat slowly slid and covered the deck. Closely after that, the airboat started to move towards Yanzhou Province.
As Zhang Tie's Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory was close to the border between Yanzhou Province and Youzhou Province, Zhang Tie and Bai Suxian were the last ones to board the airboat.
Mountain Lifting Hermit and Bai Suxian were among the knights.
Although being an elder of Iron-Dragon Sect, Mountain Lifting Hermit didn't have any foundation in Youzhou Province. Neither did he have any clan in Taixia Country. Therefore, even if he didn't come here, nobody could hurt him.
Bai Suxian's other identity was the princess of Lord Guangnan's Mansion. This time, Lord Guangnan's Mansion would also respond to Xuanyuan Order. Additionally, the number of knights dispatched by Lord Guangnan's Mansion would not be less than that of Bai Suxian.
Additionally, some clans only needed two knights, but they needed three. Although it seemed that the clan had contributed more, it was actually a means for these clans to protect themselves. On the battlefield, 3 clan knights who were familiar with each other and knew each other well could form a 3-in-1 battle formation. Such a 3-in-1 battle formation could greatly enhance the survivability of the 3 clan knights on the battlefield. Dispatching 3 clan knights would have a higher chance to come back alive than dispatching 2 clan knights.
Closely after Zhang Taixuan's words, they entered the airboat from the deck.
There was also a lobby in the airboat, in which some food and drinks were placed. Although there were less than 50 knights here, it still looked spacious. After Zhang Tie arrived, all the knights from Youzhou Province who responded to Xuanyuan's order from Youzhou Province had gathered here.
If it was in normal times, they might feel like chatting with each other as it was rare for so many clan knights across Youzhou Province to gather together. However, at this critical moment, of course, they didn't feel like having a party here. It would take them over 3 hours to arrive at Yanzhou City from Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory by airboat. After exchanging greetings with each other, Zhang Taixuan made a brief speech as the provincial governor of Youzhou Province. After that, they found a place to sit down in the lobby. Closely after that, they closed their eyes, entered meditation or took out earth-element crystals from their portable storage bags and started to absorb them.
On the battlefield, even knights would have a greater chance to survive themselves if they were more powerful. On this occasion, of course, knights would not like to waste their time. Only Zhang Taixuan and Lu Dingzhi who looked like famous scholars seemed to be birds of a feather as they were still in the mood to play chess at this critical moment.
Mountain Lifting Hermit and Bai Suxian also found a place to sit down. Under the admiring eyes of the others, Mountain Lifting Hermit took out a water-element crystal from his portable space-teleportation equipment and started to absorb it.
Watching everyone else cultivating and meditating, Zhang Taixuan and Lu Dingzhi left the lobby too. Zhang Tie then told Elder Muray and Elder Muyu to follow him out of the lobby.
After all, Zhang Tie was the grand elder of Huaiyuan Palace. It was too normal for a grand elder to leave something to two clan elders at this critical moment.
After coming to the far end of the lobby, Zhang Tie found a small conference room and pulled the two people in. The moment they entered the room, Zhang Tie pretended to take something out of his coat and put it in the hands of the two elders of Huaiyuan Palace.
"Erm, we're all elders of Huaiyuan Palace... I got this item in the Earth-elements Realm by luck. I will... lend it to you for the time being. With it, you would have more confidence in the battlefield. When you come back and don't need it... just give it back to me!"
After telling the two elders using battle qi, Zhang Tie directly opened the door and left before the two elders of Huaiyuan Palace objected.
Watching the items in their hands, Elder Muray and Elder Muyu felt shocked inside …
"This is …" Elder Muyu forcefully swallowed his saliva as he raised his head and watched Elder Muray.
Elder Muray's hands also quivered as he said, "There's something inside …"
In the two space-teleportation finger rings, all kinds of medicaments, food and water had been prepared. There were also over 200 earth-element crystals in each finger ring, which could allow a knight to survive 10 years without any supply. Besides, there was a silver secret longsword which was used for close combat in each finger ring, which was floating in the space-teleportation finger rings while giving out brilliant light.
Besides Zhang Tie, among all the elders of Huaiyuan Palace, only Zhang Taixuan the clan head had gained a space-teleportation finger ring when he served as the provincial governor of Youzhou Province until now.
Zhang Tie gifted two such precious space-teleportation equipment at once. Additionally, there was a silver secret item in each of the two space-teleportation equipment. If this was not a big deal, there must be no big deal in this world.
The two elders of Huaiyuan Palace had not imagined that Zhang Tie could give them such a precious space-teleportation equipment.
"Elder Mushen, the name of Qianji is always out of our expectation …" Elder Muyu let out a sigh as he was sincerely convinced …
"Take it. It's Elder Mushen's sincerity …" Elder Muray also sighed with emotions.
With such a precious space-teleportation equipment which could greatly increase their chances of survival on the battlefield, of course, the two elders didn't refuse it.
The moment Elder Muyu wanted to put the finger ring on his finger, he found that Elder Muray had directly put the finger ring into a mithril rune necklace over his neck and put it away carefully. After thinking for a short while, Elder Muyu imitated Elder Muray as he took off the finger ring and hung it over his neck with the necklace.
This was called not showing off one's wealth!
A black iron knight wearing a portable space-teleportation finger ring was too eye-catching for ordinary knights except for a few super major clans and some powerful elite disciples of the top 7 sects in Taixia Country.
After hiding the finger ring, the two elders exchanged a glance with each other before revealing a smile. After that, they opened the door and returned to the lobby …
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Even Zhang Tie and the two elders of Huaiyuan Palace didn't notice that when Zhang Tie took out the two space-teleportation items from Castle of Black Iron, Zhang Taixuan who had just walked to the door of a quiet room with Lu Dingzhi slightly moved his colorful finger ring.
Besides Zhang Taixuan who was walking on the way, nobody else could notice it.
"Brother Lu, it's here …" Zhang Taixuan pushed open the door with a smile, revealing a table and two cattail hassocks in the room.
"Hahaha, it's my first time to experience Brother Taixuan's chess skill. Brother Taixuan, don't hide it …" Lu Dingzhi burst out into laughter.
"Brother Lu, you're going to the western border. You're still in such a mood before fighting demons on the battlefield. It's really a piece of cake for me to have a talk with Brother Lu today. I can learn from Brother Lu's cultivation skill …" Zhang Taixuan said modestly.
"Not at all, not at all. Compared to the predecessors in Taixia Country, my skill of maintaining a calm mind is far worse. Hopefully, I won't be laughed at!"
The two people burst out into laughter as they started to play chess in the room …
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After taking out two more space-teleportation equipment and two more silver secret items, Zhang Tie didn't intend to show off; neither did he intend to rope in the elders of Huaiyuan Palace; instead, he just wanted to be reassured. On the battlefield between humans and demons, even knights were risking their lives. As a member of Huaiyuan Palace, when he saw the two elders of Huaiyuan Palace going to the battlefield, Zhang Tie just thought that he could help the two elders of Huaiyuan Palace to survive themselves on the premise that he was able to do so. If Elder Muray and Elder Muyu were killed on the battlefield in this way without doing anything, Zhang Tie might feel guilty for the rest of his life.
Zhang Tie knew that Elder Muray had a silver secret longbow. However, that longbow could only be used in long-distance combat; instead of close combat. Therefore, Zhang Tie left two melee weapons in his space-teleportation finger ring.
Only after a few days, Zhang Tie had gifted 4 space-teleportation equipment to Elder Muray and Elder Muyu. Additionally, Zhang Tie still had a lot of space-teleportation equipment.
After gifting the two space-teleportation equipment to Elder Muray and Elder Muyu, Zhang Tie returned to the lobby and sat down beside Mountain Lifting Hermit. Eyes closed, he visualized dozens of abacuses in his mind and started to calculate.
1 minute later, Elder Muray and Elder Muyu also came back. Both of them looked normal. After sitting down in their own place, they started to cultivate quietly.
Only after a short while, the lobby which was covered with dozens of knights had become quiet.
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In Zhang Tie's mind, the 27 abacuses were carrying out four complex calculations with "Pi Pi Pa" sounds...
After coming back from Ice and Snow Wilderness, Zhang Tie's spiritual energy surged once again. As a result, Zhang Tie's multitasking ability of Thousands of Beads Mental Sutra could reach 27 tasks at the same time.
After reaching 27 tasks at the same time, Zhang Tie felt that he had already reached the limit of Thousands of Beads Mental Sutra and his mind. After reaching this step, even though he had more spiritual energy and could visualize more abacuses, he could not make the 28th abacus have the ability of multitasking ability.
27 was a magical number.
Hua people said that 9 was the extreme number. 27 happened to be 3 times that of 9. Hua people said that one gave birth to two, two gave birth to three and three gave birth to everything else. 27 happened to be the cube of three. It was a natural number, an odd number and a composite number. Additionally, it was the 7th number of Lucas Number, 1/27. It was an infinitely recurring number with a cycle of 037...
Like how the number of fruits on the small tree was limited, Zhang Tie knew that there was a limit to the multitasking skill, which was 27.
Through constant attempts, Zhang Tie could visualize over 1,000 abacuses in his mind sea, even more. Zhang Tie felt that he had a great surplus of spiritual energy. However, he could only control 27 abacuses at the same time. As for the other abacuses, he could also control them at the same time; however, all the abacuses would be linked to each other. Actually, he could only calculate 20 calculations at the same time …
After trying for a while, Zhang Tie confirmed that he couldn't control 27 abacuses at the same time. Therefore, he finally gave up. When Zhang Tie wanted to disperse the last abacus in his mind sea, Zhang Tie's heart raced when he saw over 1,000 abacuses in his mind sea.
As a whim occurred to Zhang Tie, over 1,000 abacuses in his mind sea started to move at a stroke.
However, this time, Zhang Tie didn't have those abacuses do calculations; instead, he had those real abacuses gather together and form some huge walls which were covered with numerous abacus beads …
These huge walls instantly reminded Zhang Tie of the dense calculation gears in those steam computers which looked like skewers of sugar-coated haws …
'That's really similar.'
If he visualized the round beads in the abacus as gears, and then visualized the other structures of the steam computer, would he be able to visualize a steam computer in his head?
A wisp of spiritual light flashed across Zhang Tie's mind sea …
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"We've arrived at Yanzhou City …"
Before Zhang Tie made an attempt, a voice had drifted into Zhang Tie's ears …
Over 3 hours had passed in the blink of an eye …
Zhang Tie opened his eyes at once …
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PS: At the end of the month, I'm begging for monthly tickets! (To be continued.)
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