Chapter 8: The Elders (Two Chapters in One)
Seeing Elder Murray pounce on him, he directly came to the knight in close combat and began to fight with bayonets, Zhang Tie was also startled.
Elder Murray's speed was fast, but Zhang Tie's speed was not slow, and after he avoided Elder Murray's first blow, his body had already retreated to 300 meters away.
"Didn't Elder Moon also forget to invite me to drink the best wild spring from the Eastern Continent on the airship outside the Heavenly Cold City, I don't think it's sweet enough and want to put sugar in it?" Elder Murray was furious at the moment, and Zhang Tie didn't have time to explain to him, but yelled at Elder Murray, who was still surprised, while dodging Elder Murray's attack.
This incident, only two people were present at the time, and it was also the personal experience of two people, not to mention that it was just such a small detail when drinking tea, and the possibility that others could know it was very low.
"Brother Murray, wait a minute!"
As soon as Zhang Tie's voice fell, Elder Moon's face changed, his body turned into a streamer, and he rushed directly to Elder Murray to pull Elder Murray back.
In this short sentence, Zhang Tie dodged Elder Murray's three attacks again, and never fought back.
Zhang Tie felt that in terms of hand-to-hand combat, Elder Murray was only a little stronger than the knight who chased him, and what was really terrifying about Elder Murray was his brilliant longbow, which was most suitable for long-range combat.
"You also believe that this person is Zhang Tie?" The angry Elder Murray's face turned completely purple, and he looked very powerful, "How could Zhang Tie become a knight, this person dares to use such a method to make trouble in my Huaiyuan Hall, it is obviously to laugh at my Huaiyuan Hall No one!" β
"A few years ago, I wanted to see Zhang Tie outside the cold city. The details of drinking tea are difficult for outsiders to know! Elder Moon looked at Elder Murray with a stern expression.
"But it's not completely impossible, there are some secret methods. Soul searching and reading is as easy as a snap, if Zhang Tie falls into the hands of the demons, then it is not surprising that the demons know these details......" Elder Murray said, but the movements in his hands slowed down.
"If this person is really pretending to be a shadow demon, we will join forces to kill him later, this moment's effort. He can't run either! β
Hearing Elder Moon say this, Elder Murray finally stopped, but still looked at Zhang Tie with angry eyes. Seems to want to see what tricks this guy in the shadow fiend can do.
Zhang Tie also stood still in the sky at a distance of fifty meters between the two people.
"You said you were Zhang Tie, what other evidence do you have?" Elder Moon asked Zhang Tie in a flat tone.
Zhang Tie smiled, "Did Elder Murray forget?" Didn't I use the bloodline crystal to verify my identity once in the ancestral vein hall of the Sect Pavilion? What am I saying at the moment, the two elders think that it may be fake, then it is better to test it again, I can continue to wait here, the two elders go to get the bloodline crystal, and I can also go to the Zongren Hall with the two elders again, anyway, it is not far away! Zhang Tie pointed to the location of the Sect Pavilion at his feet.
Hearing Zhang Tie say this, even the angry Elder Murray was stunned, but he didn't expect Zhang Tie to be so straightforward. If Zhang Tie is really a fake, then how can he be so confident. You must know that under the bloodline crystal, no matter what conspiracy and disguise are not hidden, the shadow demon can become Zhang Tie's appearance, and even some secret methods can let others know Zhang Tie's memory, but the bloodline inheritance is something that no one can imitate.
The two elders glanced at each other, nodded slightly in tacit understanding, and then the two elders didn't say much, Elder Murray stayed here, Elder Moon turned around and turned into a streamer, and flew towards the Zongren Pavilion, at the speed of a knight, it was only two or three minutes back and forth, even if Zhang Tie was a demon commander, Elder Moon didn't believe that Elder Murray couldn't even hold on for two or three minutes.
As soon as Elder Moon left, looking at Zhang Tiena's calm and calm appearance waiting for Elder Moon to return, Elder Murray finally couldn't hold back, he looked at Zhang Tie with a suspicious look, "You...... Is it really Zhang Tie? β
Zhang Tie sighed and looked at Elder Murray calmly, "The first time I met Elder Murray was in the Ancestral Vein Pavilion, that time we had our own insistences, and the result was a little unpleasant, but the last time I was outside the city of Ampton, I was chased and killed by the demon knights, Elder Murray rushed to the rescue, in the midst of the crisis, Elder Murray's long howl was like thunder, but it also let me know the concern that Elder Murray had in his heart, Zhang Tie thanked Elder Murray again here!" β
After speaking, Zhang Tie bowed deeply to Elder Murray again.
Elder Murray didn't say anything about Elder Murray's killing of the head of the Senel family, at that time, he was not around, if he said it, it would be impossible to explain, and it made people suspect that it was better to bury that incident in his heart than this.
Hearing Zhang Tie say these two things accurately, Elder Murray's snow-white long eyebrows trembled, and the sharp momentum on his whole body suddenly slowed down by half.
"I know what Elder Murray is suspicious, I was chased and killed by the demon knights, and before Elder Murray arrived, I was forced to flee into the earthly river, the river in the earth is extremely complicated, fortunately, I practiced a not weak water nature on Qianlong Island, and earned a life for myself in the river, but in the end, I was taken to an underground space by the water of the river, and in that underground space, I had an adventure, and I was promoted to a knight in less than a month!"
A hint of emotion appeared on Elder Murray's face, and then before Elder Murray could say anything, Elder Murray's figure had already risen from the Zongren Pavilion under the feet of the two of them and returned here.
In Elder Moon's hand, what he was holding was a bloodline crystal.
Elder Moon, who came back, didn't say much, and directly threw the bloodline crystal to Zhang Tie, "Since you have already used it, you should know how to use it!" β
Zhang Tie looked at the crystal in his hand that exuded a blurry brilliance, with a ball of red blood tumbling in the middle, and didn't say much, just in front of the two elders, under the scorching gaze of the two elders, he pierced his finger with the tip of the crystal, and let a few drops of his blood fall on the crystal.
Zhang Tie's blood was absorbed by the crystal, and when he met the red blood in the crystal. The red light of the blood crystal bloomed, illuminating the surrounding sky hundreds of meters like a sunset, and not only that. The crystal floated in the sky as if it had no weight at all.
The red light of the crystal means that the person in front of him is the bloodline of Huaiyuan Gong, and the crystal can float, which means that the drop of blood that dripped into the crystal is already the true blood flowing from the knight's body.
Seeing this scene, Elder Moon and Elder Murray both frowned, surprised and delighted.
Seeing the red light emitted by the bloodline crystal had already attracted the attention of some people under their feet. Elder Moon waved his long sleeves and put away the bloodline crystal, "Let's go." Let's go back to the ancestral hall first! β
Zhang Tie followed the two elders and flew directly towards the ancestral hall of Huaiyuan Hall below.
It was the first time for Zhang Tie to come to such a place as the ancestral hall, and he followed the two elders to land on the terrace outside the ancestral hall, and then walked into a magnificent hall.
The end of the great hall. There is a huge metal statue. There are more than 20 meters high, a person holds a bow and shoots, the arrow points directly at the door of the main hall, it is extremely powerful, the hall is full of giant pillars that can be hugged by several people dozens of meters high, several huge purple gold copper tripods are placed in several corners of the main hall, which burns a special whale oil, when the oil burns. There is no smoke, but there is a singularity. The calming fragrance, the power and wealth of Huaiyuan Hall and the family heritage are all displayed in this hall.
As long as he looked at the three words of Huaiyuantang on the huge metal statue, Zhang Tie knew that this person was the founder of Huaiyuantang - Zhang Huaiyuan, and he was also his ancestor.
At the foot of the huge statue of Huaiyuan Gong, it is like a staircase. From high to low, from top to bottom, there are long rows of spiritual positions, all of which add up to tens of thousands, divided into more than twenty rows. Standing neatly and solemnly at the feet of the giant. At the bottom of these spiritual seats, there is an offering platform, and in the center of the offering platform, there is a piece that is nearly one meter high. The whole body is so translucent that there is no trace of impurities in the huge black crystal.
The qiΔ here is very solemn.
Seeing the ancestral tablets and the statues of the ancestors in Huaiyuan Hall, Zhang Tie didn't say much, and saw that there were incense and burners on the offering table in front of those spiritual seats, so he walked there directly, picked up three incense sticks, and lit them.
"Huaiyuantang disciple Zhang Tie today to worship the ancestors and martyrs, I hope that the ancestors in the spirit of the sky, can protect my Huaiyuantang prosperity, bloodline, can protect my father and my mother longevity, never disaster, my father and my mother are sick and old, a qiΔ pain and sorrow, a qiΔ sword and fire and water difficulties, please add to me, I am willing to bear it!"
After Zhang Tie finished speaking, he knelt on the ground respectfully, and after bowing three times, he stood up and inserted the incense into the incense burner.
Murray and Moon two elders have long heard that Zhang Tie has been filial piety at home since he was a child, Zhang Tie's family was in Heiyan City, life was hard, his mother made rice brew to subsidize the family, that rice brew, there are two or three copper plates a bowl, Zhang Tie loved to eat rice stuffed rice when he was young, but after the age of four, he no longer ate more, the family asked why, his words, seeing his mother making rice brewing hard, seeing his father tired from work, so he couldn't bear to eat more, so that his parents would suffer more and make less profit, and later the Zhang family returned to Huaiyuan County, Zhang Tie used a book of "Zhu Xin Shen Calculation" to save his father from the embarrassment, and then later, Even if Zhang Tie invented a full-effect medicine and became the pillar of the family, he has played a pivotal role, making money every day, and at home, he never adds a rough voice to his parents, obeys his parents' words, and often pretends to be a child to laugh at his parents......
These news about Zhang Tie are all market matters, and it is naturally impossible for the two elders to know and pay attention to them, but after Zhang Tie gave birth to three amazing sons, with the deepening of the attention of the elders in Huaiyuan Hall to Zhang Tie, these things have slowly spread to the ears of the two elders through various channels.
At this moment, listening to Zhang Tie's prayer, the two elders were full of emotion in their hearts, the ancient Chinese saying, parents in the hall, father is heaven, mother is earth, if there is a filial son in the family, respect heaven and love earth, no need to ask more, the family will naturally be blessed, auspicious and blessed, even if the family is in the midst of misfortune, can also be detached, with their own divine blessings. Zhang Tie brothers are both filial sons, and it has only been a few years since the family returned to Huaiyuantang from Heiyan City, but in these years, the Zhang family has been weathering every year, and now this Zhang Tie is soaring into the sky, promoted to knight, this is not only the Zhang family, the entire Huaiyuantang Jinhai City lineage will also be prosperous because of this, Huaiyuantang can have one more knight, and the strength will also go to a higher level - Baixing filial piety first, this ancient Chinese saying. Honesty does not deceive me, although there are few words, but the words are concise and profound. A cardinal who speaks of the blessings and misfortunes of heaven and earth.
Seeing that Zhang Tie finished praying, Elder Moon asked Zhang Tie to sit and wait for a while, and then pointed at a golden thread covered with runes on a table in the main hall, and a battle aura flew out, and the golden thread let out a soft sound, and in that soft sound, Zhang Tie felt a strange power spread out from this hall like ripples. Fleeting.
"Elder Moon, what is this for?" Zhang Tie asked curiously.
At this moment, Elder Moon and Elder Murray had already taken a 180-degree turn in their attitude towards Zhang Tie. The two of them glanced at each other with a smile, but it was Elder Murray who opened his mouth first, "This is the sound of the Golden Reel, as long as this Golden Reed speaks." Within a thousand miles. The sound transmission jade plates carried by several family elders will vibrate, and they will rush to this ancestral hall as quickly as possible? β
"Isn't that the same as a remote sensing crystal?"
"Almost, but the remote sensing crystal is a natural thing, and it can only be one-to-one, but this sound transmission gold and sound transmission jade plate are alchemy things, which can be one-to-many, and the distance of its effect. There will also be limitations, and the two can only resonate. But it can't convey too much information like a remote sensing crystal! β
Zhang Tie nodded, indicating that he understood, he didn't expect that there was such a thing in Huaiyuan Hall.
"Your matter is very important, it's best to wait for the two elders who stayed in Huaiyuan Hall, Elder Mu Yu and Elder Mu Ke, to come together, and then you can explain it to everyone!" Elder Moon added.
The five elders in Huaiyuan Hall, in addition to Zhang Tie's sixth uncle and Elder Mu Yuan who went to the Eastern Continent, there are also four elders in Huaiyuan County at this moment.
"Okay!"
At this time, even the hot-tempered Elder Murray was sitting quietly, waiting for the arrival of the other two elders, which was a major matter and had to be explained clearly to the other two elders.
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More than ten minutes later, Elder Moon saw Zhang Tie's ears move, and his heart couldn't help but move slightly.
"What, do you feel it too?"
"Zhang Tie felt that an elder had flown more than fifty kilometers away, and that elder had already released his battle qi on the way to full speed, and that battle qi was very strong, so I felt it!"
Unexpectedly, Zhang Tie's knight realm has been completely stabilized, Murray Zhang Lai and Elder Moon looked at each other again, both of them were a little surprised, that person whose knight realm is not stable, it is impossible to be so sensitive to the breath of knights, and to stabilize the knight realm, it takes at least ten years or so for ordinary people to be promoted to knights, and a person may have adventures when he becomes a knight, but the stability of this realm is a completely unpredictable process......
Both elders had a vague guess in their hearts.
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In just a few minutes, Zhang Tie felt that the outside of the ancestral hall moved, and the figure had already fallen outside the main hall, and then walked in.
"Zhang Tie......" The elder looked at Zhang Tie, who was sitting with the other two elders, and called out Zhang Tie's name in one mouth, and there was a surprise in his voice that could not be concealed.
"Brother Mu An, don't be impatient, Zhang Tie has already returned, let's wait for Brother Mu Yu to arrive!" Elder Moon spoke.
As an elder, everyone's physical and mental cultivation had reached an extremely deep level, and at this time, even if Elder Mu An was surprised, he kept his mouth shut and didn't say anything more, but walked over and sat down.
Elder Mu An, who sat down, looked at Zhang Tie's indifferent appearance in front of the two elders, and suddenly felt something, and suddenly took a breath of cold air - at this moment, the aura on Zhang Tie's body was completely equal to those two elders, could it be ......
Elder Mu An looked at Elder Murray, who nodded slightly.
A few minutes later, the last elder who stayed behind in Huaiyuan Hall, Elder Mu Yu, also arrived.
The four elders gathered, and all of them stared at Zhang Tie with burning eyes......
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"The mission I received from the coalition headquarters that time was a trap, the Senel family had long known that I would go to Tokyi to investigate, they and several high-level Wing Demons had been waiting for me in Tokyi City for a long time, I was almost not long after I arrived in Tokyi City, I was discovered by several high-level Wing Demons, in the battle with the Wing Demons, my glider fell and was captured by the head of the Senel family, Ke Ze......"
"The rest of the matter, you can probably guess, the Senel family and the Three Eyes Society want to buy me and let me work for the Demon Clan and the Three Eyes Society, I won't do it. They slandered me in a vile way, and finally imprisoned me in a castle outside Tokyi by the Senel family, trying to make me submit! β
"I didn't give in. Instead, I found an opportunity to escape from that castle, because I had some special circumstances, after escaping from the territory of the Senel family, after a period of cultivation, after recovering from my injuries, I improved my strength again. I returned to the Cernes Theater, and at that time, the Cernes Theater had been broken through by the demons. From the Cernes War Zone, to the Republic of Saipan, to the Norman Empire, I followed the ass of the Demon Legion all the way. Looking for a chance to get revenge! β
"This opportunity was not found. The strength and number of the Demon Legion are too much, there are demonized puppets everywhere, I don't even know where the people of the Senel family are, and there is no way to contact them, God didn't give me a chance to take revenge at all, and later, the Demon Legion suffered a heavy setback under the city of Nyin, and the entire Demon Legion was in chaos. After two months of chaos in the demon legion, I still didn't find any trace of the Senel family. Then I left the Norman Empire and came to Ampton! β
"Then in Ampton, I unexpectedly met a familiar person, that person is a young elite of the Arthur family of the Three-Eyed Society, named Salant, I followed that Salante in Ampton, and finally found out that Salant was actually carrying out a conspiracy in Ampton, wanting to cooperate with the Demon Legion to close the gate to the north of the CarrΓ© Mountains."
"Then I informed my brother of what I found......"
"Later, it was the Battle of Ampton, several elders probably knew what happened at that time, I was chased by a demon knight, and finally jumped into the river to escape, but the river brought me into a mysterious underground space, in that underground space, I found a huge pyramid made entirely of crystals, I was very shocked at the time, and I walked in unconsciously......"
When Zhang Tie said this, several elders who could listen to it all exclaimed, "Ah, the Tower of Time!" β
Elder Murray almost couldn't help but stand up, "What happened then?" β
Zhang Tie spread his hands and pretended to be helpless, "Seriously, those things are a long time ago for me now, after I just walked into the golden tower, the demon knight who chased me arrived, and he was also washed into that mysterious underground space by the water in the river, but he was far away from me, and he didn't catch me in time, I almost thought I was finished, there was no way to escape, but what I didn't expect was that after I entered that pyramid, The demon knight couldn't get in anyway, and no matter how much he attacked outside, he couldn't open the door of the pyramid again, so I was a little relieved! β
Several elders nodded secretly, this is indeed the case, the Tower of Time can only enter one person at a time, since Zhang Tie has entered, it is impossible for the knight of the demon clan to enter again no matter what, don't talk about him, even if he calls the demon marshal over, it is useless, I didn't expect Zhang Tiefu to have a big life, and he can still have a glimmer of life in that situation.
"The knight of the demon clan is guarding outside, I don't dare to go out, I began to think that I would die in that tower, because there was nothing to eat in the tower, but I didn't dare to go out, because the knight of the demon clan must be guarding outside, I began to feel that I had been in the tower for a few days, but I didn't expect that I was not thirsty or hungry, and the whole person's body did not have any discomfort, it was very empty inside, and there was nothing to do, and the knight of the demon clan was guarding outside, so I just cultivated in the tower!"
"I don't remember how long I cultivated in that tower, but I remember a few times when I was almost tortured crazy by that person's environment, but thinking that the demon knight was outside the pyramid, I forced myself to keep cultivating, cultivating, cultivating, and later, I entered a state of tranquility, and I forgot the time, forgot the demon knight, and just devoted myself to cultivating, until one day, when I found myself feeling hungry for the first time and wanted to find something to eat, I came out of that pyramid and found myself promoted to knight......"
"Ah, how many years have you been in that Tower of Time?" Elder Moon asked.
Zhang Tie frowned seriously and thought, and finally shook his head helplessly, and sighed, "In that state, I forget how long I have been in the Tower of Time, I feel like I have been in it for a lifetime, and that time is too long and too long......"
Of course, this is Zhang Tie's lie, if Zhang Tie tells a few elders that he has been in the Tower of Time for fifteen years and is successfully promoted to knight, then all the elders will have to fry the pot, and at the same time, they will be more curious about their own cultivation techniques and opportunities, because even if it is fifteen years, it is still too short and too short for the promotion of knights, and he said that he can't remember, so how long he has been cultivating in the Tower of Time, let a few elders think about it for themselves, they think it is appropriate for as long as it is appropriate, Anyway, according to the information he learned from the Knight of Garet, there is more than one speed of time in the Tower of Time, how much time did he spend in the Tower of Time, even if Huaiyuantang wanted to solve this mystery, he would have to wait until 60 years later, and if it really came then, what if he let people know that he was promoted to knight in the first fifteen years?
The elders of Huaiyuan Hall looked at each other one by one......
Everyone knows that there are some secrets hidden in Zhang Tie's words, such as how he escaped from the prison of the Senel family, such as how his strength can improve so quickly, but this kind of question has been brought by Zhang Tie's words, Zhang Tie doesn't want to talk about it, who can force him.
If you don't keep a secret, you will lose your country, if you don't keep a secret, if you don't keep a secret, you will lose your life, in this world, who doesn't have a little secret of their own, even the billboard hanging on the side of the road for everyone to see has a back that no one can see, let alone a person, the elders of Huaiyuantang also have their own secrets, and they have things that they don't want everyone to know, so none of the elders will really ask about some details that Zhang Tie deliberately blurred, because there is no need at all. The most important thing is that there are only two things, Zhang Tie is a person from Huaiyuantang, he has been promoted to knight, and he is standing in front of several people, Zhang Tie at this moment is no longer the same Zhang Tie as before.
"Do you remember where the Tower of Time is, when will the Tower of Time be opened next?" Seeing that everyone was silently digesting what Zhang Tie had said, Elder Mu An asked a question that everyone was most concerned about.
"Well, when I came out of that underground space, I had already marked all the way to the time when the Tower of Time was reopened...... It should be 60 years later......" Zhang Tie made an effort to recall, frowning, "When I left that pyramid, I seemed to feel a message running into my head, and after leaving the underground, I remembered that the message told me was the next opening time of the Tower of Time, right...... 60 years later! β
Hearing Zhang Tie say this, all the elders breathed a sigh of relief again.
"Do the elders have any questions?" Elder Moon glanced at the remaining three elders.
Several elders looked at each other and shook their heads.
"Then, from today onwards, our Huaiyuan Hall will have one more family elder, the only family elder in the entire Weiyi Subcontinent who has been promoted to knight before the age of twenty-five!"
Zhang Tie was stunned for a moment, what, the family elder...... (To be continued......)