I don't know how long it took, Zhang Tie opened his eyes.

Zhang Tie looked at the earth element crystal in his hand that had completely lost its golden luster, and began to reveal the same pale milk background, shook his head slightly and smiled bitterly, ended his meditation, collapsed with his feet, and then put the useless crystal in his hand on the table in the room.

On that table, neatly placed in seven rows of earth element crystals, three in each row, at this time, all the earth element crystals have become like the one in Zhang Tie's hand, from gorgeous to plain, the pure earth element in the crystal has been emptied, at this time, the earth element crystal, like the empty bottle left by drinking wine, has no effect.

Zhang Tie glanced up at the time displayed by the wall clock in the room.

-- December 29.

Unknowingly, this time he had been cultivating in the underground palace for a month and a half, and the twenty-one Earth Yuan Crystals in his hand were also consumed rapidly, and the twenty-one Earth Yuan Crystals had been exhausted before they had even lasted for two months. This is still only a quarter of his ability to extract the earth element in the crystal, if he uses all his abilities, these twenty-one earth element crystals are not enough to consume himself for two weeks.

This cultivation also made Zhang Tie completely understand the incomparably difficult and long road of condensing the second chakra and advancing to the Earth Knight.

Because of the relationship between the "Bead Heart Divine Calculation" and the glorious fruit that he had just eaten that almost doubled his spiritual power again, Zhang Tie could already use his spiritual power with one heart and four uses at this moment, allowing his spiritual power to conjure up four hands in the elemental realm to capture those earth-based elemental crystals, and the speed of his cultivation. It has improved fourfold, but that's it, this month and a half of cultivation. The condensation progress of the second chakra of the Infernal Peng King Sutra had only just completed about one-sixth of the scale.

Zhang Tie estimated that if he expelled the increase in the cultivation effect brought about by the twenty-one Earth Yuan Crystals, and simply cultivated in his current state, then it would take at least eleven months to advance to the realm of the Black Iron Knight's Second Scale.

What does this mean, that's what it means. In his current state, if he wants to condense the second earth chakra of the Infernal Peng Sutra, he will have to practice hard for 330 years.

This is still the result of being able to use one's heart and one mind, and if you still cultivate at the same speed as you can use one's heart and one purpose. He cultivated to death and used up the knight's lifespan of about 400 years, even if he let himself live to be 500 years old, he could still only spin around in the realm of the black iron knight's hundred scales. For the rest of his life. can no longer advance to the Earth Knight.

It is very difficult for the Black Iron Knight to condense the second chakra, for every Black Iron Knight, this is a long journey, and the complexity of the second earth chakra of the Emperor-level secret book "Infernal Peng King Sutra" is huge, which makes this difficulty many times higher, and the level of the earth knight in front of Zhang Tie has become the peak of the sky.

In the state of single-mindedness, it takes 330 years of penance to advance to the Earth Knight, and in the state of single-mindedness, it takes more than 1,300 years of penance to advance. For this result, Zhang Tie was completely speechless. He knows. In ancient times, in those brilliant and glorious civilizations, people's cultivation could not be so hard, and in the cultivation of that era, there must be more ways to increase the speed of cultivation a lot-sufficient to the luxury of high-quality Earth Yuan Crystals, more powerful Gathering Yuan Arrays, or some more secret methods and Dongdong to assist cultivation, only under the combined effect of these conditions, the cultivators of the Knight Realm of that era could continue to raise their own realms and enter higher realms one by one, otherwise, There will also be cheats such as "The Book of the Infernal Peng" and "The Book of the Broken Sun" left.

And in this era, the resources that allow knights to speed up their cultivation have become scarce, so in this era, the core task and issue of knights' cultivation, that is, to obtain and monopolize more, can speed up the cultivation resources condensed by their own chakras, only in this way can the vast majority of knights be able to advance again and set foot in higher realms in their lifetimes.

Later generations are moving forward in the footsteps of their predecessors, and the changes in the cultivation environment have made it impossible for these latecomers in this era to walk as easily as their predecessors.

Zhang Tie, who was staying, came to the open space outside the room, and was slowly playing a set of iron-blooded fists with a slow and dignified rhythm, moving his muscles and blood.

At this time, the iron-blooded divine fist in Zhang Tie's hand, showing a completely different realm, has been anode yin, from rigidity to softness, between the wind and clouds, but it contains terrifying power, although Zhang Tie's movements are slow, but the air in the entire underground palace is driven by him, and a small cyclone is naturally formed around him. The cyclone was like a whirlpool driven by the currents in the sea, with Zhang Tie's movements, one by one, one by one, one by one, always alive and sometimes extinguished.

Zhang Tieren was moving with his fist intent, but his mind was seriously thinking about his future cultivation path, sorting out the harvest and insights of this cultivation.

At this time, Zhang Tie knew very well what the problems and solutions he had to face, as far as the current situation was concerned, the most direct and powerful thing that could speed up his cultivation was the Earth Yuan Crystal, as long as he could obtain enough high-quality Earth Yuan Crystal, then the speed of his condensation of the second chakra could be greatly accelerated. But this kind of thing is too rare, and the Norman Empire only took out 20 gifts in the wheel ceremony, which can already be regarded as a heavy gift, and the elders of Huaiyuantang can get 4 per year, this amount of Diyuan crystals is completely a drop in the bucket for themselves, and it is not enough to even plug the teeth, and its role is very limited.

It seems that I will have to pay more attention to the matter of the Earth Yuan Crystal in the future.

In addition to the Earth Yuan Crystal, the second way for me to improve my cultivation speed is to continue the multi-purpose cultivation of the "Bead Heart Divine Calculation", but my current state of single-mindedness and four-use is already the limit of my current ability, and it is the result of my long-term accumulation, and it seems that I have to accumulate slowly to reach the realm of one-heartedness and five-use in the next step.

Finally, it can increase the speed of cultivation. There are only foreign objects such as the Juyuan Array or other secret methods that are unknown, and the Mountain of Light does have trading information on these things, but those trading locations are mainly concentrated in the Eastern Continent and the Western Continent. It is a face-to-face transaction between knights, in a remote place like the Weiyi Subcontinent, in that Mountain of Light, there is almost no transaction information at all, and more than 70% of those transactions are bartered, and most of them are exchanging Earth Yuan Crystals. This Earth Yuan Crystal seems to have become a kind of hard currency among the Black Iron Knights, and there are not many things that can really be bought with gold, except for the Juyuan Tower. I really can't get too many things to exchange at the moment, and it seems that if you want to get these things, you can only depend on chance.

The Three-Eyed Society and the Demons can buy the knights of the Terrans, and the Three-Eyed Society and the hands of the Demons. I think there will be a lot of good things too.

Zhang Tie's thoughts. In the end, he stopped at the few pieces of knight equipment and potions that he had scavenged from the Three-Eyed Knight he had killed in the Cernes War Zone......

The fist wind in the dungeon quietly became a little more solemn......

After punching down again, the qi and blood in his body began to become lively again, and the future cultivation path in his mind suddenly became clear, Zhang Tie put away his fists, stood up, flicked his clothes, and then walked out of the underground palace.

As soon as Zhang Tie opened the door of the dungeon, the legion commander outside knew it. Because of this, Zhang Tieyi returned to the ground from the underground palace. The first thing I saw was the director of the corps commander.

At this moment, the sun had just set outside, and the weather was a little gloomy, and the chill in the air was a little more chilly than when Zhang Tie entered the underground palace.

Seeing Zhang Tie again, the director of Xingyuan only felt that he had not seen him for more than a month, and the aura on the body of this Elder Mu Shen became even deeper, especially the eyes, which seemed to have a power to pierce the golden cave iron, which was mainly the result of Zhang Tie's spiritual power increasing after eating the fruit of radiance, of course, the effect of other fruits would also be reflected in Zhang Tie's aura a little bit, but the director of Xingyuan didn't know, he thought that this was the result of Zhang Tie's cultivation, his heart was awe-inspiring, and his attitude was more respectful.

"It's okay for this time!" Zhang Tie asked casually.

"One qiē is normal!" As he spoke, Director Xingyuan handed over the three Hurricane Legion briefings in his hand.

Zhang Tie took the briefings, each briefing was swept by ten lines at a glance, and the information on it was already completely understood, and after reading the three briefings, Zhang Tie took less than twenty seconds.

For Zhang Tie, there are only two really important things for the Hurricane Corps in the past month or so -- the establishment of the Hurricane Corps' third-level combat units has been adjusted, and the subordinate corps of the Hurricane Corps has begun to station in the three cities to take over the urban defense and public security of the three cities.

"After the Lantern Festival, we can let the first batch of elite special forces drive to the Karré Mountains to prepare for future battles!" Zhang Tie casually set the time for the ninth-level team of the Hurricane Legion to leave for the Karley Mountains, and this time, when calculated, is half a month after the end of the year.

After the adjustment of the establishment, on the premise of not affecting the combat strength of other units as much as possible, there are only 418 members of the entire Hurricane Legion who can be drawn out to form a combat force of level 9 or above, and these 418 people, the lowest level of the ninth level, and the highest level of thirteen, these people will form the elite special operations group of the Hurricane Legion, and the entire brigade is divided into three squads, responsible for the battle of the Hurricane Corps in the Karré Mountain Theater.

Zhang Tie sighed secretly, the combat power that a hurricane legion can draw out above the ninth level and below the thirteenth level is only equivalent to the two battalions of the demon legion, this power comparison is too great, the strength of the various countries in the Weiyi subcontinent can only be able to compete with the demon legion when they are united, if they fight alone, no legion will be the opponent of the demon legion.

For these warriors, in the future in the Carré Mountains, there will be a bitter battle.

Director Xingyuan quickly wrote down Zhang Tie's order in his notebook.

"Also, the mobile unit responsible for taking over the work must make separate financial statements and independent accounting every quarter, and the one qiē pension of the soldiers of the mobile unit shall be paid according to five times the average pension of the mercenaries of several major mercenary groups of Ames, since you want to make money, then show your spirit, you must make a little money, if the mobile unit loses money for two consecutive months, let the commander automatically resign, transfer from the command post of the mobile force, and replace it with a capable person!"

Zhang Tie said as he walked, and the director of the line followed Zhang Tie while recording quickly, and the pen used to record orders did not stop.

"Ordered the garrison corps, from January 1 next year, in the three cities under the command of Huaiyutang, there are abductors and traffickers who kill people as slaves, there are those who force good people to kill prostitutes, there are those who rape women, and those who rob other people's goods are killed, and those who find that officials and businessmen collude with officials to accept bribes, and how much money and goods officials bribe, more than one gold coin, the goods will be turned into gold coins for the officials to swallow with their mouths, if they do not die, neither blame, if they die, then all their family wealth will be confiscated, the thieves will cut off their fingers, the fraudsters will cut off their ears, and the rest of those who violate other laws and regulations of Huaiyuantang will be punished twice! At the same time, the Judge Advocate General of the Hurricane Corps and the Commander of the Hurricane Corps jointly set up a circuit military court to supervise the military discipline of the garrison corps in the three cities. If there is an incident of harassing the people and violating military discipline and military law in the garrison corps, let the corps commander personally explain to me. ”

Zhang Tie's third order can be described as murderous, especially the collusion between officials and businessmen, this swallowing gold was originally a way to commit suicide, this gold is heavy, swallowing into the stomach, will penetrate people's intestines, if the official swallows the bribe-taking gold coins, then, the person who accepts bribes more than one gold coin will face a catastrophe, and those who accept bribes more than ten gold coins are basically difficult to live, this article is equivalent to drawing a red line between officials and businessmen to distinguish normal exchanges and bribery, The person who dares to collect black money should weigh his stomach in advance to see if he can put the black money in it.

The establishment of a circuit military tribunal to directly focus on the second-instance cases of dissatisfaction with the first-instance verdict is the sharp sword of military law and military discipline that Zhang Tie raised on the heads of all the soldiers and officers of the Hurricane Regiment.

Zhang Tie, who was born in an ordinary family in Heiyan City, knows that it is not easy for little people to survive, when they opened a rice brewing shop in their house in Heiyan City, there was a tax official who came to make it difficult to ask for bribes, although the tax officer was just a small person in Heiyan City, but it was this little person who made Zhang Tie's father and mother sad all day long, and almost made the rice brewing shop that maintained the livelihood of the Zhang family unable to open, until later, Zhang Tie's brother joined the city guards of Heiyan City, and found an opportunity to take a few friends to teach the little tax official a hard lesson. The tax collector was honest......

At that time, the holy war had not yet arrived, and Heiyan City was quite calm, but it was in that calm environment that it was not easy for the little people to survive, not to mention that at this time, the troubled times came, and countless little people were bumpy and displaced, and their lives were like grass mustard.

If it wasn't at this time, he would sacrifice severe punishment and use thunderbolt means to deter Xiaoxiao and protect the weak, Zhang Tiedu felt that he was sorry for his life in Black Flame City and his title of knight. (To be continued......)