In less than an hour, Zhang Tie's disciples and Bai Suxian had merely taken a trip underground to see firsthand what the site of the Central Province Blood Sea Divine Pool, which had shaken the world, looked like. As for gains, there had not really been much—at most, they had gained a relatively intuitive understanding of the Blood Sea Divine Pool's scale, layout, and the environment in which it had been established, while satisfying everyone's curiosity along the way.
Zhang Tie, of course, was the exception.
When he emerged from underground once more, Zhang Tie's state of mind was utterly different from when he had gone in. Yet on the surface, he revealed no abnormalities at all, as though he had discovered nothing.
As they exited the cave, the rain outside had grown much heavier than before. The protective Battle Qi around Zhang Tie kept the cold falling rain beyond his body. He raised his head to look at the gloomy sky and felt that the air had somehow acquired another trace of chill. That flying boat from earlier had already departed. Now, throughout Flat Sand Valley, only the Iron Dragon remained suspended in the distance.
"Let's go. There's nothing more to see here. We're returning to the flying boat!" Zhang Tie waved his hand and led everyone toward it.
Once they boarded the flying boat again, no one returned to their cabins. Instead, everyone gathered in its command cabin, because Zhang Tie had ordered the flying boat to head to Huian City for a look.
During this Blood Men chaos in Central Province, the name of Huian City, originally an obscure little city, had spread throughout Great Xia.
Huian City lay eighty kilometers south of Flat Sand Valley. At the flying boat's speed, they reached Huian City in just