Time waited for no one. In the blink of an eye, Zhang Tie had entered secluded cultivation for over one month.
During this period, the black invitation cards that the three major sects sent to Zhang Tie were still fermenting. The entire Mountain of Brightness was in an uproar. Commoners in Taixia Country were also in a heated discussion. Even the censorate of Xuanyuan Hill was criticizing the three major sects for their selfishness and turning a blind eye to the crisis in the holy war. By sending black invitation cards to Immortal Qianji at this moment, they had completely become the accomplices of demons. How despicable! Some censorate even demanded Crown Prince Changying to launch an expedition against the three major sects.
At this moment, commoners, knights and officialdom in Taixia Country all supported Zhang Tie. As a result, the three major sects suffered great stress and were condemned by thousands of people.
In the same month, many knights and major clans visited Iron-Dragon Sect in Youzhou Province to support Zhang Tie. After knowing that Zhang Tie was in secluded cultivation, these people didn't stay there for too long. Most of them expressed that they would support Zhang Tie at Yinhai Desert on January 29 next year. After leaving some gifts or contact information, they left.
At the critical moment, some people would look down on the future of Iron-Dragon Sect. However, some loyal and upright people who admired Zhang Tie or friends and partners who were on good terms with Zhang Tie started to support Zhang Tie.
The broad connections and good reputation that Zhang Tie and Jinwu Business Group had built in Taixia Country over these years started to exert their influence.
Guan Clan, Heavens Fortune Sect, Lord Guangnan's Mansion, Zuoqiu Clan of Biyong Palace, Demons-kill Valley, all the major clans in Northeast Military Region, the clans and sects of provincial governors, over 10 billion soldiers and officials in the Western Theater of Operations of Taixia Country, even knights in the Earth-elements Realm, the censorate of Xuanyuan Hill, generals of the top four armies in Taixia Country and barbarians in South Border voiced their support for Zhang Tie and criticized Taiyi Fantasy Sect, Heavens Holding Pavilion and Qionglou Pavilion.
Meanwhile, due to the black invitation cards, Zhang Su and the old mansion of Zhang Su temporarily suspended Zhang Su's rotating chakra ceremony. These days, Zhang Su had already left the army and didn't cause any disturbance in the army.
However, Zhang Tie didn't know all this. He was just eating lotus roots and fruits in Castle of Black Iron and strengthening his battle strength silently. Nobody would disturb him at this moment.
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The first snow in Youzhou Province arrived on December 4th this year. After one day of heavy snow, the entire land of Youzhou Province, including Iron-Dragon Sect, had been covered with white.
On the night of December 5th, goose feather-like snowflakes were still falling from the sky. The sky was dark, and there was no light from the moon or stars. There was no one around Wild Duck Lake, which was more than 100 kilometers away from the Mysterious Heaven Peak. Only the thousands of acres of withered reeds could be seen swaying in the cold wind. When the wind blew by, the reeds would let out ghostly cries and wolf howls.
The surface of the lake near the shore was already showing signs of freezing. At this time, there was naturally no one here.
Right then, the water in the middle of the lake moved silently as it separated from the middle. Zhang Tie then walked out of the lake.
This was an exit of one of the three secret tunnels in the backroom of Iron-Dragon Sect. The lake here was connected to an underground river below Mysterious Heaven Peak. Zhang Tie came here through the secret tunnel of the underground river.
Iron-Dragon Sect was now the focus of attention of the public. Many pairs of eyes were gazing at Iron-Dragon Sect. Zhang Tie didn't want to expose his trace to others. He'd better make everyone think that he was in secluded cultivation. Therefore, he chose to leave through the secret tunnel.
The cold wind and the pitch-dark darkness didn't affect Zhang Tie at all. After looking around, Zhang Tie instantly rushed into the sky and entered the clouds. With the roaring north wind, he flew towards the south at the speed of over 10000 m per second, which was about 30 times that of the speed of sound.
In the air, Zhang Tie triggered his super hiding skill. As a result, he became as illusionary as mist in the air. Additionally, he didn't make any sound in the air at all.
When he was at the bank of Weishui River, after promoting to a shadow knight, Zhang Tie's maximal speed could reach above 8,221 m. After fully recovering his wounds, especially after promoting to 3 change realm of shadow knight in the tower of time, Zhang Tie's overall battle strength had surged once again.
In the stage of shadow knight, each time he promoted to a shadow knight, he could increase his flight ability by more than 10%, almost 13%. Zhang Tie was amazed by such a situation.
Zhang Tie didn't know why. He thought that perhaps a shadow knight had already formed a complete water chakra. As the air was full of moisture, it would be helpful for him to fly. What was more, after promoting to a heavenly knight, a shadow knight needed to form a wind chakra, which was related to speed. Therefore, each time he formed a new wind chakra, he might have a great increase in his flight ability as a divine dominator.
After being strengthened three times by 3 change realm of shadow knight, Zhang Tie's flight speed in the air had already easily broken through 10,000 m per second.
After taking so many fruits of redemption these days in Castle of Black Iron, Zhang Tie's strength, recovery ability and endurance in extreme situations had all improved once again. It could be said that Zhang Tie was standing on a new peak of strength and was full of confidence about the future.
Heller's words in Castle of Black Iron reminded Zhang Tie. These days, when Zhang Tie ate those fruits and adapted to the strength brought by the fiery lotus roots, he was also thinking about this question.
To put it simply, the relationship between strength and explosiveness was like gunpowder before the Catastrophe and the time after the gunpowder was ignited. The greater one's strength was, the more "gunpowder" he would carry. Additionally, the shorter the chemical reaction time after igniting gunpowder of the same mass would be, the more destructive the gunpowder would be. A barrel of 100 kg of gunpowder would take 1 day to complete the explosion after igniting; however, it would take 0.1 second to complete the explosion after igniting. The so-called explosiveness was to release the most powerful strength in the shortest period. Although golden uangs had great strength, they didn't have great explosiveness. Elephants also had great strength; however, they didn't have great explosiveness either.
Theoretically, if Zhang Tie could increase his explosiveness by two times, he would be able to increase the power of his kinetic strike by two times even if his strength didn't increase anymore …
Zhang Tie knew that many animals had great explosiveness, such as fleas or mantises. Pitifully, nobody sold fleas or mantises in Taixia Country. Even pharmacists didn't use these two animals to make medicinal pills. At least so far, Zhang Tie still couldn't think of anything that could meet the conditions of redemption and possess great explosiveness. Therefore, he could only think about the fruit of redemption which could increase his explosiveness. It was really not easy to find an animal that could meet the two conditions at the same time. Perhaps, he could only wait for a lucky chance.
Heller's words reminded Zhang Tie. Now that the Fruit of Redemption could increase one's strength and explosive force, as long as a certain characteristic of the redeemed animal was powerful enough, the Fruit of Redemption should also increase its defensive force. If the Fruit of Redemption could increase its defensive force, it could definitely become a new Iron-Body Fruit. As long as the small tree could produce more Fruits of Redemption, Zhang Tie could definitely find another way to become more powerful.
This discovery made Zhang Tie a bit thrilled. However, he also needed a lucky chance to get the other fruits.
However, reality waits for no one. Some things were useless no matter how many times you thought about it. For example, if you wanted to kill an enemy, even if you thought about it ten thousand times in your head, even if you wished for it to die, in reality, it would not lose a single hair. It was possible that it would still live a good life. If you wanted to wait for some kind of opportunity, then you might have to wait for a few hundred years to see the day it died of old age.
Instead of waiting for him to die 10,000 times and cursing him in a corner for hundreds of millions of years, it was better to rush to the front of him and slash his neck ferociously.
Because of this, Zhang Tie silently left his backroom and rushed towards the south in the wind and snow as fast as a lightning bolt.
Although it was chilly in the high altitude, Zhang Tie was full of killing intent.
From the beginning to the end, Zhang Tie had not seen the person that he was going to kill.
As for Zhang Tie, it was his first time to kill a person whom he had not even met in such a targeted manner. However, Zhang Tie had to kill this person. If not, Zhang Tie would not be able to eat and sleep well. Additionally, he would feel sorry for himself and the entire Huaiyuan Palace.
The person that Zhang Tie was going to kill was Xuanyuan Wuji, the biological son of Emperor Xuanyuan, the brother of the crown prince, the core figure of Imperial Alliance and the third prince of Taixia Country!
After what happened to Zhang Taiyi, Zhang Tie knew that Xuanyuan Wuji dared set him up by arranging a mole on the side of his elder brother. Therefore, Zhang Tie had already intended to kill the third prince. However, as Zhang Tie had not fully recovered at that moment, he didn't do that for the time being.
After coming back from South Border and recovering his battle strength, Zhang Tie received the black invitation cards of the three top sects. When he received the three black invitation cards, Xuanyuan Wuji had already been determined to kill Zhang Tie.
Xuanyuan Wuji thought that Zhang Tie didn't know the relationship between him and the three major sects as long as he hid behind Imperial Alliance and the three major sects. Therefore, Zhang Tie could play tricks on him recklessly and make Zhang Tie his stepping stone on the road to ascending to the throne. However, he had not imagined that Zhang Tie had long known about his existence and those tricks. In Zhang Tie's eyes, the three black invitation cards that the three major sects sent by the three major sects were the death talismans of Xuanyuan Wuji …
(To be continued.)
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