On February 6, the 9332nd year of Black Iron Calendar, Zhang Tie's airboat finally slowly landed in the airport of Xuanyuan Hill.
Even though Bian Heng was experienced, when he caught sight of Xuanyuan Hill in the sky, he was still shocked for quite a while. Not until Zhang Tie called him did he respond to it. Closely after that, he followed Zhang Tie towards the door of the airboat and prepared to get off the airboat.
Besides Bian Heng, only Zhang Chenglei, Zhang Tie's eldest son and Zhang Su, Zhang Tie's cousin, the others of Jinwu Palace, Iron-Dragon Sect and those women of Yin-Yang Sect in Castle of Black Iron didn't follow Zhang Tie here.
Those women of Yin-Yang Sect were very busy in Castle of Black Iron. They lived very fulfilling lives every day. They didn't have time to care about other things at all. Additionally, as the holy war had not come to an end, they didn't want to come out for the time being. Therefore, Zhang Tie just let them do whatever they wanted in Castle of Black Iron. As Zhang Tie was here to negotiate about the holy war between Taixia Country and humans instead of playing in the water, Yan Feiqing and the other members of his family stayed in Youzhou Province as it was not suitable for them to follow Zhang Tie here.
Before the hatch door of the airboat was officially opened, Bian Heng was shocked by a sudden boom from outside the airboat. Closely after that, he released his protective battle qi and asked, "Assassins?"
"Not assassins, but salute!" Zhang Tie told Bian Heng with a smile.
"Salute? What's that?" Bian Heng asked out of curiosity.
There was no salute in Motian Realm. Therefore, Bian Heng was very strange about this etiquette.
As the salute was still sounding thunder-like "bang bang bang", Zhang Tie seized the chance to explain to Bian Heng what was salute and its usage.
"That's weird, that's weird!" After hearing Zhang Tie's explanation, Bian Heng couldn't help but shake his head with an unimaginable look as he said, "According to your description, cannons were originally lethal weapons on the battlefield. I've not imagined that they could be used to welcome people. That's really rare!"
"This tradition doesn't belong to Hua people; instead, it originated from the Western Continent. I'm afraid that using cannon as a ceremonial tool is similar to using axes and weapons as ceremonial tools!"
The salute in this age was greatly different than that before the Catastrophe. The salute in Black Iron Age was completely made by pressurizing steam and releasing it rapidly. In order to make it louder, the barrels of the salute were even processed with rune technology so that the sound could be amplified. All the carriages of the salute were huge specially-made objects, which could only be seen in Xuanyuan Hill. It was the honor of Taixia Country.
In order to welcome Zhang Tie, an over 20,000 m long airboat landing field had been cleared in this airport. A whole phalanx of saluting cannons was parking not far away and firing them tidily and orderly.
The airport was crowded with banners and people. Almost all the big figures in Xuanyuan Hill had arrived.
The imperial households assigned three princes here. The three princes were standing in the front and the middle of the crowd. On the left side of the three princes were the officials and military officers of Taixia Country represented by the three chancellors and nine ministers. On the right side of the three princes were the Hua dignitaries represented by the six lords of Taixia Country.
At this moment, almost all the officials above Class 3 in the imperial court of Xuanyuan Hill had arrived and were welcoming Zhang Tie respectfully. Because two of the three chancellors and nine ministers were not here, one was Meng Shidao, the premier of Taixia Country; the other was Li Yunji, the president of the Supreme Court who was in the prison of Xuanyuan Hill. It was said that Meng Shidao was ill.
It was said that Meng Shidao didn't come here to welcome Zhang Tie. It was said that Meng Shidao didn't come here to welcome Zhang Tie. It was said that Meng Shidao didn't come here to welcome Zhang Tie. It was said that Meng Shidao was sick. Li Yunji, the president of the Supreme Court of Youzhou Province, was arrested by a commander of God's Will Army on the way back to Xuanyuan Hill. Closely after that, he was escorted back to Xuanyuan Hill and put into prison. As for the golden Xiemao rune that Li Yunji presented in Youzhou Province that day, it was also proved to be "fake". Since Li Yunji was put into prison, the position of the president of the Supreme Court had been vacant.
Among the lords of Taixia Country, besides Lord Fairysea, Lord Guangnan, Lord Xuanwu, Lord Jingtian, Lord Dingxi and Lord Yian were all here. The five lords were standing in the front row. Behind the five lords were dukes, marquises and counts. Those below count were not qualified to stand here at all.
Bai Runtian, Lord Guangnan, was standing in the middle of the five lords. Lord Xuanwu, Lord Jingtian, Lord Dingxi and Lord Yian were standing on both sides of Bai Runtian. All the lords were watching Lord Guangnan with admiring eyes.
Among the five lords, besides Cao Clan of Lord Dingxi whose power slightly declined due to various reasons, Lu Clan of Lord Xuanwu, Sun Clan of Lord Jingtian and Qin Clan of Lord Yian were as powerful as Bai Clan of Lord Guangnan. They were all on the same level; especially Qin Clan of Lord Yian. Although Qin Clan's foundation was in Xuanyuan Hill and didn't seem to have too much territory, as Qin Clan controlled Xuanyuan Bank, the largest bank in Taixia Country, the influence of Xuanyuan Bank spread across Taixia Country. Therefore, Qin Clan was faintly the head of the five lords. However, it had passed. As Zhang Tie was the son-in-law of Bai Runtian, Bai Runtian naturally became the head of the five lords. Nobody had any objection.
Behind all the officials and military officers of the imperial household of Taixia Country were ambassadors from Western Continent and subcontinents, even kings and princes. These people had different skin colors and costumes. At this moment, there were over 3,000 of them in the hall.
In the sound of cannon salutes, everybody was standing solemnly and looking up.
Such a grand scene had not appeared in Xuanyuan Hill for at least 100 years.
After the 108 cannon salutes, with the long horn sound of the honor guard, the hatch door of the Xuanyuan-level airboat slowly opened. Zhang Tie then slowly walked out of the airboat with Bian Heng and stepped onto the red carpet on the ground.
The three princes walked onto the red carpet and greeted Zhang Tie.
The three princes were Xuanyuan Changqing the first prince, Xuanyuan Changhong the 6th prince and Xuanyuan Feng the 18th prince of Taixia Country.
Xuanyuan Changqing was already a heavenly knight while Xuanyuan Changhong and Xuanyuan Feng were shadow knights. Pitifully, they didn't cultivate the emperor-level Xuanyuan God Sutra.
Zhang Tie had not seen Xuanyuan Deity Sutra. He just heard that the conditions for cultivating Xuanyuan Deity Sutra were very strict. Therefore, not all the princes of Emperor Xuanyuan were qualified to cultivate Xuanyuan Deity Sutra. Those princes who could cultivate Xuanyuan Deity Sutra and promote to knights were the crown prince, the third prince and the ninth prince.
However, among the three people, the Crown Prince had been assassinated, the third prince had been killed by him, and the ninth prince had been imprisoned because of the involvement of the three major sects and the Imperial Alliance. The whole royal family seemed to be declining, and no one could stand on the stage.
Perhaps, it was too harsh to describe it as withered. To be honest, as the descendants of Emperor Xuanyuan, the three princes in front of Zhang Tie were all elites with top talents. If they were in other places, they could easily make achievements. However, as princes, since they were determined by Emperor Xuanyuan that they couldn't cultivate Xuanyuan God Sutra and were taught to cultivate other secret methods, they were destined to have a hard time in Xuanyuan Hill for the rest of their lives, not to mention ascending to the throne.
After greeting Zhang Tie, the three princes stood on one side while a young woman in a three-screen phoenix crown with red eyes and a handsome and calm young man walked to the front of the team while holding the hand of a 7-8 year old boy in golden imperial costume. The three princes knelt down towards Zhang Tie at the same time and touched the ground with their foreheads.
"Father-in-law, I'm Xuanyuan Yunfei …"
"Father, I'm Shini …"
"Grandfather, I'm Xuanyuan Zhu …"
As the 7-8 year old boy knelt down towards Zhang Tie, he raised his black watery eyes and stealthily glanced at Zhang Tie with a shrewd look. The boy's look was similar to that of Zhang Tie when he was young …
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
