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No matter when, the thick curtain of night protected all creatures that traveled after dark.
There were relatively few people active at night, and even with Night Vision Potions, visibility at night could not compare to daytime. If the distance was too great, the potion's effectiveness would be greatly diminished.
After using up the twenty-odd water-element crystals in his hand, Zhang Tie opened his eyes. Outside the cave, wind and snow still raged, but heaven and earth had already turned utterly black. The gloomy sky was covered by a heavy layer of leaden clouds, and not even starlight could be seen.
It was time to act.
The giant python lay sleeping obediently beside Zhang Tie, not daring to move about. Zhang Tie rose to his feet and tossed the water-element crystals into Castle of Black Iron. With a thought, Chaos Armor appeared over him, encasing his entire body from head to toe in hard, savage-looking armor.
Zhang Tie cast a master-level Concealment Technique on himself. The pitch-black Chaos Armor immediately became hazy like a chameleon's skin, blending completely into the colors of the cave background, revealing the lines and texture of stone.
When Zhang Tie stepped outside the cave, the armor turned gray-black again. Snowflakes drifting down from the sky landed upon Chaos Armor, and in an instant, large patches of snowflake-like speckles appeared across its gray-black surface.
Without a sound, Zhang Tie shot up from beneath the cliff in an instant, swift as lightning. He plunged into the leaden clouds more than twenty