"You said you have a secret method that could let you advance to Earth Knight within a few years?"
"Of course. Other than me, there is no second person under heaven who can learn this secret method, nor is there a second person who can use it!"
"What secret method is it?"
Zhang Tie burst out laughing. "What the hell does whatever secret method I have got to do with your Taiyi Mystical Sect? No matter how powerful your Taiyi Mystical Sect is, how can you control me? I simply won't tell you—what can you do about it?"
Feng Yexiao sneered, wearing the lofty, arrogant air of someone who had seen through everything. "Do you think a secret method that can allow knights to rapidly condense chakras and advance to higher ranks grows like cabbages? You say you have one, and therefore you do? The Taiyi Mystical Sect is foremost among Great Xia's seven major sects. We possess hundreds of millions of books and countless classics, many of them lone copies from ancient times that even Xuanyuan Hill does not have. Our sect gathers talent from all corners of Great Xia, with masters as numerous as clouds and elites as plentiful as crucian carp crossing a river. Throughout my countless years in the Taiyi Mystical Sect, aside from Demon Refiner Zhao Yuan's Purgatory Reincarnation, I have never heard of any other secret method that could let someone advance to a higher rank within a few years. Nor have I heard that any other sect in Great Xia possesses such a method. You think you can casually sever your connection to Zhao Yuan with a few words? You are far too naive!"
Zhang Tie felt secretly alarmed. As expected, none of these high-ranking knights were simple characters. He had only just