In order to promote to 9 change earth realm, Zhang Tie had consumed all the 3 earth demon knights that he had captured while escorting the airship troop from Xiangshan Prefecture. As the 3 earth demon knights were not top in battle strength, after refining their water chakras using Purgatory Samsara Method, Zhang Tie consumed over 800 water-element crystals to light 324 scales on his water chakra.
Zhang Tie silently completed this promotion in the apartment of the hotel.
After sitting on the bed overnight with crossed legs, Zhang Tie got off the bed and warmed himself up. After that, he went to the washroom to wash his face and rinse his mouth calmly.
After opening the faucet and washing his face, Zhang Tie raised his head as he saw a 40-year old Hua man with a gentle and sharp look in the mirror. This was Zhang Tie's look with his body-changing immortal bloodline. Over the past 2 months, he had been active in Heavenly Craftsmanship City with this look. His current name was Tie Changgong.
As Zhang Tie had not shown his attainments in rune instrument manufacturing before, nobody across Heavenly Craftsmanship City would recognize Zhang Tie after reading the name of Tie Changgong from the back.
There were too many rune instrument manufacturing masters in Heavenly Craftsmanship City. Besides those from Taixia Country, many rune instrument manufacturing masters from other subcontinents also gathered here. Almost every day, fresh faces would come here while some old faces would leave. Therefore, Zhang Tie's current look was not a problem at all.
"I've already promoted to 9 change earth realm, do I still want to stay in Heavenly Craftsmanship City?" Zhang Tie muttered as he looked at his own look in the mirror. Closely after that, he shook his head.
After promoting to 9 change earth realm, Zhang Tie didn't bring too much surprise to Zhang Tie. After staying in Heavenly Craftsmanship City for 2 months, Zhang Tie realized how difficult it was for him to realize his dream.
Over the past hundreds of years, Zhang Tie was not the first rune instrument manufacturing master who wanted to make weapons that could kill knights in Heavenly Craftsmanship City. However, nobody succeeded over the past hundreds of years. Compared to forming chakras, this road seemed to be steeper and more difficult to climb.
In the trouble-reappearance situation of Xuanyuan Hill, Zhang Tie had checked the confidential materials of the headquarters of all the human trade unions over the past 2 months. He found that not only him, even the entire country and the top 7 sects of Taixia Country were carrying out secret research on this aspect. Weapons and means that could kill knights had become one of the most confidential topics in human rune instrument manufacturing union, alchemists union, pharmacists union and animal controllers union over the past hundreds of years. Rune instrument manufacturing masters wanted to invent mechanical equipment that could kill knights; alchemists wanted to invent more powerful alchemist bombs that could kill knights; Pharmacists Union was developing terrifying voodoo that could kill knights; Animal Controllers Union was developing some strange things that could devour knights. All these were carried out in the name of resisting demons. However, nobody knew whether the top professionals of those trade unions wanted to pull knights off the throne of human rulers.
The reason why alchemists were so great was that only alchemist's bombs could kill black iron knights in some special environments. However, earth knights could barely be killed by alchemist's bombs. None of the other trade unions could reach such a high level in the research of alchemist's bombs.
Undoubtedly, any professional who could invent something that could kill knights would become the king of that trade. However, such a king had not appeared so far.
Facing such a tough challenge, even Edward in Castle of Black Iron couldn't provide more help to Zhang Tie. Zhang Tie could only rely on himself. Edward's rune instrument manufacturing skill had already reached the level of rune instrument manufacturing master, which was even higher than that of Zhang Tie who was a major craftsman. Edward could make what Zhang Tie specified; however, he couldn't carry out pioneering research and invention. All his knowledge and skills were fixed.
Zhang Tie's confidence didn't waver. However, during the period in Heavenly Craftsmanship City, he had figured out the tough challenge that he was going to face. It was a high mountain in front of him. Nobody could climb to the top of the mountain from the foot of it.
After washing his face and rinsing his mouth, Zhang Tie tidied up his clothes before leaving the apartment. Before leaving, he entered Castle of Black Iron as fast as a lightning bolt and took a fruit of redemption from the gratitude of golden uangs. After that, he moved his mouth and opened the door of the apartment.
This apartment was a hotel called Steam World in Heavenly Craftsmanship City. There were so many hotels in Heavenly Craftsmanship City which were especially prepared for rune alchemists. This hotel that Zhang Tie chose was neither the best nor the worst. Like Zhang Tie's current identity and look, it was not eye-catching at all.
The Heavenly Craftsmanship City was established on the largest mining area in Military Province. Therefore, metals were the most common things in the city. If anyone wanted to mine ores, he or she could find high-quality ferromanganese iron ores by digging a few meters into the ground at any place in the city.
When Zhang Tie walked out of the hotel, it was already afternoon. The entire Heavenly Craftsmanship City was busy.
Zhang Tie could barely see chimneys in other Class A cities in Taixia Country; however, it was very common in Heavenly Craftsmanship City. The entire Heavenly Craftsmanship City was almost surrounded by numerous chimneys, large or small. The black smoke from the chimneys made the blue sky of the entire Heavenly Craftsmanship City blurry. The moment he walked out of the hotel, Zhang Tie had smelt the faint smell of coal tar in the air.
From the perspective of environmental protection, Heavenly Craftsmanship City was a heavily polluted city. No matter what era it was, the sound of steel and machines could never be compatible with green hills and clear waters. However, nobody in Heavenly Craftsmanship City cared about that. Even the blue color in the sky of Heavenly Craftsmanship City had a special name in Military Province — — Heavenly Craftsmanship Blue.
Among the cities that Zhang Tie had seen, only Kalur, the city of machines in Waii Subcontinent could match the temperament of Heavenly Craftsmanship City. If Kalur could be 10 times more prosperous and cover 100 times more area, it would almost be as prosperous as Heavenly Craftsmanship City.
With the arrival of the holy war, especially after demons invaded Taixia Country last year, the orders and output of battle fortresses and steam weapons factories in Heavenly Craftsmanship City had experienced an explosive growth. Numerous huge airships were taking off and landing in the sky of Heavenly Craftsmanship City and transporting the products in Heavenly Craftsmanship City to all directions.
Zhang Tie raised his head and threw a glance at the sky. Closely after that, he pulled up the dust-proof mask on his hood and covered a small half of his face. After leaving the hotel for 50 m, he jumped onto a free trolley bus outside the hotel and drove towards the eastern district of Heavenly Craftsmanship City …
Over 10 minutes later, after changing two trams, Zhang Tie got off the trams. After passing through the familiar streets and lanes of Heavenly Craftsmanship City for a few minutes, Zhang Tie came to the gate of a building being completely made of iron and steel with bizarre, complex geometrical shapes. On the signboard above the gate, Zhang Tie saw
There was no sign on this building. Neither was there any post outside the gate. There was only a thick iron gate in front of Zhang Tie and a special device on the lock outside the iron gate.
Zhang Tie took out a gold coin and inserted it into the slot of the device on the lock. Closely after that, he ran his spiritual energy and wrote a rune of common consolidating rune on a mithril rune writing board beside the slot of the gold coin. With the effect of the gold coin and that rune, this thick iron gate slowly opened automatically. Zhang Tie then flashed in.
This was a place where rune instrument craftsmen gathered in Heavenly Craftsmanship City. The entrance fee was 1 gold coin each time. Additionally, one had to reach the level of rune craftsmen and "show one's hand" on the mithril rune writing board at the gate before the gate would be opened automatically. The iron gate which required 1 gold coin and a rune to be opened was already a senior rune instrument craftsmen.
There was an aisle behind the gate. Two tough guys were standing behind the gate to ensure that only one person could enter. After passing through that aisle, Zhang Tie entered a bar.
Even though it was daytime, many people had gathered in this bar. They were chatting in twos and threes.
The moment Zhang Tie entered, two people at a table had waved their hands towards him.
Zhang Tie pulled off his dustproof mask and walked over there. After that, he pulled out a chair on one side of the table and sat down.
Two Hua rune instrument masters were sitting on one side of the table. They were both over 50 years old. One was tall and sturdy with a long beard and hair. The other looked a bit delicate in glasses.
"Old Tie, you're late today. I thought you wouldn't come." That slovenly rune instrument master said casually.
"I've lit another surging point today. Therefore, I'm a bit late!" Zhang Tie said calmly as he took a bottle of liquor and made a glass of lemon wine for himself. Most of the rune instrument masters didn't like alcohol. Because alcohol could dull one's brain and cause spiritual energy waves. After drinking for a long time, one's hand would even tremble. It was a taboo for rune instrument masters. Although the lemon wine in this bar was liquor, its alcohol content was very low. It tasted like soda and champagne for ladies. It was also the most popular drink for rune instrument masters here.
"Hahaha, Old Tie, do you want to promote to a knight? If that day really comes, I will definitely gift you a big gift when you hold your rotating chakra ceremony …" The boorish rune instrument master burst out into laughter as he patted Zhang Tie's shoulder forcefully twice.
Of course, he was joking. Because Zhang Tie was just a LV 10 strong fighter who had just grasped the battle qi release skill so far, which matched the power level of most of the rune instrument masters. Those talented rune instrument masters who spent most of their time on this field could barely make a big breakthrough in cultivation. Over 99% of the rune instrument masters who could promote to a rune instrument master or above would barely promote to a knight in their whole lives. This was the objective law of development and growth. Like how a great athlete and an accomplished pianist could barely be the same person, even if a qualified person worked very hard, he could only make some achievements in one field in his whole life. Those who could make achievements in two or more fields were absolutely rare.
The reason why Zhao Yuan the Alchemist Demon was that he was not only a super great alchemist but also a powerful heavenly knight. Few people could match Zhao Yuan the Alchemist Demon across Taixia Country.
Zhang Tie was also a knight, a rune instrument master and a powerful animal controller. However, Zhang Tie's fame was based on Castle of Black Iron and the fruits of plunder. Without the fruits of plunder, Zhang Tie could never reach the level of a major craftsman in the rune instrument manufacturing field.
The two rune instrument masters sitting at the same table with Zhang Tie were Zhang Tie's new friends in Heavenly Craftsmanship City. They were both major craftsmen. The slovenly rune instrument master was called Lin Xiuxian, one of the local tyrants in Heavenly Craftsmanship City. This guy had stayed in Heavenly Craftsmanship City for over 50 years. According to him, there was nothing that he couldn't do across Heavenly Craftsmanship City.
The other delicate and gentle rune instrument master was called Zhu Daqian. Zhu Daqian was born in a major clan in Taixia Country. According to him, he was sent to Heavenly Craftsmanship City by his family with high hopes. When he promoted to a "craftsman master" one day, he would go back to his clan to take charge of the affairs on his own. In the beginning, Zhang Tie believed it. However, when Zhu Daqian was drunk and spilled the beans, Zhang Tie knew that this guy was exiled to Heavenly Craftsmanship City by the clan head because of a woman.
Zhang Tie was speechless. Additionally, this guy was called Zhu Daqian, which made Zhang Tie speechless. Each time he saw Lin Xiuxian who didn't take a bath for a couple of weeks and Zhu Daqian who insisted on changing a set of clothes every day, including his dust-proof mask, Zhang Tie felt that the two people were named wrongly. If their names were exchanged, they might be more compatible.
"Have you brought the item that I want?" Zhang Tie asked as he moved his eyes onto a half-m long lead barrel on Lin Xiuxian's side …
(To be continued.)
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