For a drop of kindness, one should repay it with a gushing spring—this was the principle of conduct Zhang Tie's parents had taught him since childhood. What was more, this time the Celestial Mechanism Sect had truly sent charcoal in the snow, helping the Zhang Family, then in dire straits, safely weather its hardest years. Zhang Tie was sincerely grateful. Every word of his promise rang like a hammer striking the ground, straight from the heart, never empty politeness. This was the first time Zhang Tie had ever spoken to someone with such solemnity.
Though the Zhang Family seemed not to have weathered any great storms during the years Celestial Mechanism Sect knights had been stationed there, and those knights had never truly acted on the Zhang Family's behalf, in reality, at such a critical time, the Celestial Mechanism Sect's willingness to accept Zhang Tie's son as a disciple and send an Earth Knight to guard the Zhang Family was enough to intimidate all the petty scoundrels plotting against them into not daring to make a single move.
What was more, Zhang Tie had never expected Feng Cangwu to stake his cultivation in the Celestial Mechanism Sect to stand guarantor for him. Friends like that, like Mountain-Bearing True Person, were true comrades who could bare their hearts and guts to him when the crucial moment came.
For friends like these, for the Celestial Mechanism Sect's immense kindness, what was one promise worth? If such a day truly came, Zhang Tie would go fight for the Celestial Mechanism Sect without even furrowing his brow.
Seeing the sincerity and resolve on Zhang Tie's young face—young enough to make one jealous—Zhou Hongbang could not help but be moved. A gentleman's word was beyond the pursuit of four galloping horses; he could hear that