Zhang Tie's body had completely regained its formidable functions. He could even sense the powerful fluctuations brought by the ceaseless generation of new Battle Qi and spiritual energy every moment within the voids of his qi sea and Sea of Consciousness.
This newly generated Battle Qi and spiritual energy were already at the Phantom Knight level, as immensely powerful as Zhang Tie had been at his peak during the battle at the Wei River. Yet what left Zhang Tie silent and incredulous was that, just as before, the instant this new Battle Qi and spiritual energy emerged, they were completely devoured by the two strange black-hole-like energies entrenched in the voids of his qi sea and Sea of Consciousness, vanishing without a trace.
It was like a miner laboring diligently underground and digging up gold ore, only for someone to toss it into a pitch-black bottomless abyss the moment he carried it out of the mine. It was enough to turn delight into instant dejection and despair.
Zhang Tie did not open his eyes, but he could already taste that bitterness in his mouth.
To Zhang Tie, this was an unquestionable blow—a tremendous blow.
Even the Blood Sacrifice Furnace, which could repair a knight's damaged chakras, remained powerless against the energy brought by the Thunder of Annihilation.
Zhang Tie had never expected such an outcome.
He had originally thought that, under the effects of the Blood Sacrifice Furnace, even if it could not immediately cure him and restore him fully to his peak condition, it would at least affect those two strange black-hole-like energies—gradually suppressing them, eroding and dissolving them, or slowly driving them out. But Zhang Tie had never imagined that after sacrificing 100 level-nine Blood Men, the Blood Sacrifice Furnace would still have no effect whatsoever on the