When Zhang Tie and Bai Suxian returned to their tent, Hundred Sword Divine Lord, Cloud Dragon Divine Lord, and Moon-Reflecting Divine Lord had also returned to the Taiyi Mystical Sect's tent.
Once inside, the three Sky Knights sat together with grim faces. After several minutes of silence, Hundred Sword Divine Lord finally spoke.
"It seems Zhang Tie's strength has not declined. He is still as formidable as ever..."
Even within a tent where eavesdropping was impossible, Hundred Sword Divine Lord used voice transmission, speaking directly to the other two. With this method of communication, even if a fourth person were inside the tent, they would not be able to hear what the three were saying.
"Didn't news come from Xuanyuan Hill that Xuanyuan Changying had nearly exhausted every means to treat Zhang Tie's injuries, yet achieved no result? At the state banquet at Xuanyuan Hill, our people used a secret technique to observe him and found that Zhang Tie did not seem to have fully recovered. The spiritual energy and Battle Qi fluctuations around him were both extremely weak. How is it that today, he appears not to have weakened in the slightest?" Moon-Reflecting Divine Lord's old, chicken-skin-wrinkled face was dark and gloomy.
"I heard that after Zhang Tie returned to Torch Dragon Territory, he activated the Blood Sacrifice Furnace and sacrificed several thousand Devil Race Warriors in blood. They say that furnace is incomparably miraculous—if Devil Race blood is used for sacrifice, it can heal virtually any injury. The wounds Zhang Tie failed to recover from at Xuanyuan Hill may have been healed by the Blood Sacrifice Furnace!" The smile that usually lingered on Cloud Dragon Divine Lord's face was gone, replaced by solemn gravity.
"That Blood Sacrifice Furnace truly is a supreme treasure none of our great sects