This time, when advancing to the ninth transformation of the Earth Knight, Zhang Tie used up all three Devil Race Earth Knights he had captured along the way while escorting the airship convoy from Elephant Mountain County. Because the three Devil Race Earth Knights varied in strength and were not top-tier, after secretly refining the water chakras of the three Devil Race Earth Knights with Purgatory Reincarnation, Zhang Tie also consumed more than eight hundred water-element crystals before barely condensing his water chakra to 324 scales.
Zhang Tie completed this advancement silently within his hotel apartment.
After sitting cross-legged on the bedroom bed for an entire night, Zhang Tie got down, stretched his limbs, then calmly went to the bathroom to wash up.
Turning on the tap and splashing water over his face, Zhang Tie raised his head. Reflected in the mirror was a refined-looking Hua Clan man in his forties, water droplets still clinging to his face, his gaze sharp. This was the appearance Zhang Tie had assumed using the Illusory Body Divine Bloodline. For the past two months, he had operated in Heavenly Works City with this face. His current name was Tie Changong.
Because Zhang Tie had never displayed his attainments in rune refining before, no one in all of Heavenly Works City would read the name Tie Changong backward and recognize him as Zhang Tie.
There were simply too many Rune Refiners in Heavenly Works City. Besides those from Great Xia, quite a few Rune Refiners from other subcontinents had gathered here as well. Fresh faces arrived almost every day, while familiar old faces departed. Therefore, there was nothing suspicious about Zhang Tie's current appearance.
"Now that I've reached the ninth transformation of the Earth Knight, should I keep staying in Heavenly Works City?" Zhang Tie