"Besides element crystals, I've got a lot of silver secret items and treasures from the Earth-elements Realm …" Sagus' voice drifted from afar.
"Silver secret items and treasures from the Earth-elements Realm?" Zhang Tie pretended to consider it for a short while before demanding an exorbitant price, "Sure, but I need at least 100 silver secret items to fight a shadow knight in its 9 change realm!"
'100 silver secret items? Do you think silver secret items are as common as cabbages?' Of course, Sagus was not an idiot. Silver secret items were different than element crystals. Generally speaking, although element crystals were precious and humans didn't have as many element crystals mines as demons, human knights could guarantee the balance of supply and demand of element crystals on the whole. For element crystals, humans could even call more human knights to explore and serve in the Earth-elements Realm, which would strengthen the power of human knights in the Earth-elements Realm. Hungry mutated beasts were the most dangerous mutated beasts. The same principle applied to human knights. One of the most important reasons that Sagus could give so many element crystals to Zhang Tie just now was that Zhang Tie knew that Zhang Tie couldn't turn those element crystals into something that could improve the battle strength of human knights right away. Because human knights couldn't be trained with element crystals alone. Additionally, a knight's demand for element crystals was not limitless. Additionally, the number of element crystals that a human knight could absorb in a certain period was limited. However, silver secret items were different. If Sagus took out silver secret items and these silver secret items fell into the hands of human knights in the blink of an eye, they would greatly improve the overall battle strength of human knights. On the battlefield, such a behavior was nothing different than providing support to the enemy.
Therefore, Zhang Tie's exorbitant demand was directly rejected by Sagus.
"100 are too many. I could at most give you 5 plus some treasures from the Earth-elements Realm as compensation …"
A human knight and a sage-level demon knight were bargaining for the "compensation" of honor on the battlefield. In the eyes of outsiders, it was a bit hilarious; however, none of the human knights at present and the sage-level demon knight at present laughed; because they all knew what was behind such an exchange — — it was the prelude to a life-and-death duel between the most powerful human knights and demon knights. Such a bloody duel would only lead to the death of one party.
Hearing Zhang Tie's bargaining with Sagus, all the human knights in the sky above Xuanyuan Fortress didn't feel that it was hilarious; instead, they all became intense inside.
Many human knights felt that Zhang Tie should stop the 3rd duel. As a shadow knight in its 9 change realm was only one step away from a heavenly knight, its battle strength could never be matched by a shadow knight in its 3 change realm or 6 change realm. Even though Zhang Tie's sword skill could be two times more powerful after awakening his unrivaled sword bloodline, he still had a slim chance to win the duel.
"Commander-in-chief …" Ye Qingcheng on Zuoqiu Mingyue's side couldn't help but open his mouth at this moment as he wanted Zuoqiu Mingyue to stop Zhang Tie. Because if Zhang Tie continued, Zhang Tie would have a slim chance to win. Ye Qingcheng was afraid that Zhang Tie would be carried away by the successive victories and the great reputation.
Zuoqiu Mingyue slightly raised his hand as he said calmly, "Let's wait and see …"
After hearing Zuoqiu Mingyue's words, all the heavenly knights on Zuoqiu Mingyue's side exchanged a glance with each other silently. Ning Taisheng slightly raised his mouth corners as he gazed at Zhang Tie in the distance with a gloomy look. Nobody knew what he was thinking about. As for Zuoqiu Mingyue, if Zhang Tie's two duels really made him worried, he had a great doubt at this moment. Based on his understanding about Zhang Tie, Zuoqiu Mingyue felt that Zhang Tie was abnormal today. He knew that Zhang Tie was definitely not greedy for element crystals and silver secret items. Zhang Tie's performance today might have a special purpose.
"5 silver secret items?" Zhang Tie revealed a disdainful smile. At this moment, even though Sagus was falling into the pit step by step, Zhang Tie couldn't look happy; instead, he should be more vigilant and calculative. "Do you think I'm a fool? How about this, I will give you 10 silver secret items. How about having a shadow knight in its 9 change realm fight a heavenly knight of Taixia Country?"
"Besides 5 silver secret items, 100 tons of abyss iron, 100 tons of mithril, 100 tons of dark crystal, 100 tons of air floating gold, 100 tons of immortal stone, 1 ton of dragon-scale gem, 1 ton of colorful gem, 100 pieces of dragon-soul grass, 100 fruits of cross-world flower …" Sagus said calmly with an alluring voice, "Do you know the fruit of cross-world flower? This fruit is more precious than silver secret items for many humans. With one fruit of cross-world flower, a human woman could stay young forever. What do you think about that?"
The abyss iron, mithril, dark crystal and air floating gold mentioned by Sagus were extremely precious materials for making instruments. The former three were extremely rare. Air floating gold was the core material for making airboats. In Taixia Country, a provincial governor's airboat would consume less than 5 tons of air floating gold. The so-called immortal stone, dragon-scale gem and colorful gem were top-quality materials for alchemists. Dragon-Soul grass could prolong one's lifespan and make extremely precious medicament. The fruit of cross-world flower could drive all the women crazy. The latter two items were all well-known specialties in the underground world.
Before Zhang Tie opened his mouth, all the knights in Xuanyuan Fortress had been breathless after hearing Sagus' words; especially those female knights, who really wished that they were the ones who rushed to the field.
"Commander-in-chief, His Majesty is also looking for the fruits of cross-world flower for his concubines. The imperial palace is a bit short of cross-world flower. There are less than 4 fruits of cross-world flower in the imperial warehouse. Not too many dragon-soul grasses are left. All the dignitaries in the imperial palace are waiting for them. If Zhang Tie agrees, I wonder whether Commander-in-chief could persuade Zhang Tie to transfer some fruits of cross-world flower and dragon-soul grasses to His Majesty …" Ning Taisheng told Zuoqiu Mingyue in a secret way as his eyes flickered.
"If Zhang Tie agrees, he exchanged these fruits with Zhang Tie at the risk of his life. It's up to him to decide. Elder Ning, if you need, you could negotiate with Zhang Tie. If Zhang Tie fights to death, I promise to hand these fruits to Zhang Tie's family members. If anyone wants to take them away, he or she would be my enemy and humiliate and trample on the passion of numerous knights and sergeants of Taixia Country. I will definitely kill him or her …" Zuoqiu Mingyue replied in a secret way as he threw a glance at Ning Taisheng.
Ning Taisheng's face turned slightly stiff. Closely after that, he forced a smile and became silent.
Zhang Tie didn't care about air-floating gold and dragon-scale gems that Sagus mentioned. However, when Sagus mentioned dragon-soul grasses and cross-world flower, Zhang Tie had already agreed inside. Dragon-Soul grasses could be used by his parents while the fruits of cross-world flower could be used by his wives and concubines.
As for Sagus, these items didn't have a direct effect on knights. Many of them were useless to knights. Of course, Sagus could take them out generously; especially the fruit of cross-world flower. This fruit might be precious for humans; however, it was basically useless for demons. Could a woman's youthful look be able to fight a battle? Could it increase its battle strength? Could it be used as food? Of course not. One of the most difficult things for demons to understand was that human women attached great importance to their looks. In the eyes of demons, it was ridiculous. Sagus didn't intend to give these cross-world flowers to demons; instead, he intended to bribe and reward its "human traitors" who were developing among humans with these cross-world flowers …
"The other items are okay, but the 5 silver secret items …" Zhang Tie had already agreed inside; however, he still looked a bit hesitant. At this critical moment, of course, he would not let go of the opportunity to extort more from demons, "It's too few, how about 10 …"
"Only five!" Sagus insisted, unwilling to give up easily.
"I have a request for the 5 silver secret items. I hope one of them is as heavy as possible …"
"The heavier, the better?"
"Yes, I've found that I don't have a proper weapon. Therefore, I want a heavy silver secret item. If you can't even meet this request, let's drop it …"
At the sight of Zhang Tie's Devouring Huge Sword, Sagus flickered its eyes. Closely after that, it moved its hand while a silver secret item appeared in its hand.
The silver secret item in Sagus' hand was a virtual image of a secret item, which was dozens of meters in height. Even though it was over 60 miles away, Zhang Tie could still sense the strong waves of earth element and water element from the giant ape.
The giant ape pounded its chest and roared as it wanted to break free from Sagus' hand. However, how could a sage-level knight spare the space for a silver secret item to struggle? As Sagus ran its spiritual energy, the golden giant ape gradually turned into a huge, brilliant metal rod in the brilliant light of four elements. The runes on the metal rod were flowing faintly like rippling water. Zhang Tie could faintly see the shadow of a golden giant ape in the brilliant light. Additionally, the two ends of the rod were a bit thicker. Being wrapped in bizarre dragon-shaped grains, it was full of exotic beauty.
"This is a special silver secret item that I gained in the Earth-elements Realm. This silver secret item weighs 18.8 tons. As I didn't find anyone suitable to use it among demon knights, this silver secret item has always been in my hand …"
Demon knights didn't like using rods which had no lethality. Additionally, this silver secret item was too heavy. Common black iron knights, earth knights, even shadow knights couldn't move it. As for heavenly knights, as each heavenly knight had fought for hundreds of years, they would have their own battle styles, habitual weapons and corresponding secret battle skills. They would not easily change a heavy weapon that they had never used and was unfamiliar with and didn't seem to be very destructive. Therefore, this silver secret item was always in Sagus' hand. Even Sagus didn't use it.
Zhang Tie used a sword; additionally, he had just awakened his ancestral bloodline which was related to swords. Of course, Sagus didn't have a good intention by presenting such a silver secret item to him.
As for a powerful knight who had a profound cultivation base on a certain weapon, it was not good for him to change to an unfamiliar weapon; especially that weapon could not be used by commoners.
Even in Taixia Country, rods were also unpopular weapons for knights. Almost none of the over 100,000 knights in Xuanyuan Fortress used rods. As for most of the knights, rods didn't have great lethality. Imagine the result of a desperate fight between two commoners with a sharp saber or sword and a person with a rod. Additionally, it looked a bit silly to use such a weapon. Additionally, rods were rarely used in battle skills. Even if they existed, they wouldn't be high-level. By contrast, spears were better than rods. Although spears had the features of rods, they had greater lethality and more variations. Therefore, 10,000 knights in Xuanyuan Fortress might not be able to find one knight who used rods.
Sagus thought that it had dug a pit for Zhang Tie; however, it didn't know that Zhang Tie's heart had been pounding and his tongue had become dry at the sight of this silver secret item. Even Zhang Tie himself had not imagined that his casual words could really drive Sagus to take out such an item.
However, Zhang Tie didn't look anxious at all. After struggling and hesitating for a short while, he gritted his teeth and made a decision to tell Sagus, "Well, this silver secret item plus those items that you mentioned just now is the price for fighting a shadow knight in its 9 change realm …"
…
This time, a shadow iron-armored demon in its 9 change realm was dispatched by a shadow iron-armored demon in its 9 change realm. Like the previous two times, that iron-armored demon was carrying those items in a space-teleportation item. When it was 1,000 m away from Zhang Tie, it threw the space-teleportation item to Zhang Tie. After taking it and checking the items in the space-teleportation item, Zhang Tie gave it to the shadow knight dispatched by Zuoqiu Mingyue.
The shadow knight took that space-teleportation equipment to Zuoqiu Mingyue. After taking it, Zuoqiu Mingyue checked it. He found that everything was in this space-teleportation equipment except for the silver secret item that Sagus had put in the incarnation of the golden huge ape.
'What does it mean?'
Zuoqiu Mingyue's heart raced as he watched Zhang Tie with sparkling eyes …
…
When Zuoqiu Mingyue took that space-teleportation item, the battle on the battlefield had started once again …
The shadow iron-armored demon knight in its 9 change realm was full of morale. The moment it launched a strike, it had launched an earth-shaking battle qi strike towards Zhang Tie from all directions like a collapsing mountain or a surging flood as if it was going to shatter Zhang Tie into pieces in a split second …
Zhang Tie retreated rapidly as he didn't put down the shield of the silver secret item. At the same time, the Devouring Dragon turned into its dragon-shaped real body and swam around Zhang Tie while resisting the strike of the shadow knight with its sharp sword light.
Under the gaze of over 200,000 knights, Zhang Tie's right hand became empty. Closely after that, a water-element crystal appeared in Zhang Tie's right hand …
'What's he doing? Absorbing element crystals in the battle …' All the onlooking knights raised their eyebrows …
(To be continued.)
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