After a night of madness, Zhang Tie woke after only a brief rest—less than three hours of deep sleep and meditation.
This was an ultra-luxurious bedroom aboard the airship, covering more than two hundred square meters. The ceiling was a crystal dome that could automatically retract and open. Whenever it opened, anyone lying in bed could see the star-filled sky outside. Large patches of areca palms and weeping figs, along with several special varieties of flowers and grasses, had been planted inside. Thanks to these plants, the air in the bedroom was always fresh and faintly fragrant, without the slightest discomfort—even after Zhang Tie and Bai Suxian had shut the door and spent another night in wild revelry.
During the days this flying boat had been docked in Mysterious Heaven City, its basic fixtures had remained intact. The flowers and plants in the bedroom, for instance, had not been touched. However, Zhang Tie had had more personal items, such as the bedding and bedclothes aboard the flying boat, replaced entirely. Beyond that, after the mountain-opening ceremony, he had also changed the flying boat's originally flamboyant red lacquer exterior to a comparatively low-key silver gray.
This flying boat had been won from Taiyi Mystical Sect. No matter what, Taiyi Mystical Sect was one of Great Xia's seven major sects, with unfathomably deep foundations. Winning something from them and then parading it around everywhere was practically a slap in their face. Divine Fist Sect's little commotion at the mountain-opening ceremony had served as a reminder to Zhang Tie, prompting him to keep a lower profile and repaint the flying boat.
No matter how formidable an Earth Knight might be, if he truly became a thorn in the eye of a great sect like Taiyi Mystical Sect, he would not be able to