Batch after batch of knights came to solemnly bid Zhang Tie farewell before departing. Quite a few even left him a token as they went.
It took nearly half an hour before those knights had finally all left Zhang Tie, each going their separate way, returning home to find their mothers. Only then did the skies above Primordial Pole Mountain finally settle down.
"Ah, what just happened?" Bai Suxian and the others who had been waiting for Zhang Tie flew over.
Zhang Tie smiled and put away the last few tokens in his hand: a small golden saber, a crystal abacus, a purple-bronze Eight Trigrams belt ornament, and a red tooth from some unknown beast. The people who had given Zhang Tie these final four items were the sect master of the Golden Saber Sect in Cloud Province, a lone Earth Knight of Great Xia called Divine Calculator, the head of the Liu Family of Peace Province, and a barbarian knight leader from the Fire Cloud Mountain lineage in the Southern Frontier.
This time, the favors Zhang Tie had received left his hands sore. He had accepted nearly two hundred tokens and remote-sensing communication rings. The earlier tokens and assorted items had been too much to hold, so he had already placed them in the spatial equipment he carried with him.
Perhaps compared with all the gains within the Great Wilderness Grotto-Heaven, forging ties with so many knights was Zhang Tie's greatest harvest this time. Of course, one reason so many knights were grateful to him was indeed that Zhang Tie had "saved everyone's lives." But the more important reason was Zhang Tie's prior character and the many tales about him, which had earned him the knights' profound trust. Every knight knew that even if they truly gave their tokens