Of the three, Feng Yexiao was a Supreme Elder of the Taiyi Mystical Sect. The scholarly-looking man was a Supreme Elder of Jade Tower, while the bald knight was a Supreme Elder of the Heaven-Wielding Pavilion.
As Supreme Elders of Great Xia's six major sects, they would be treated as honored guests even at Xuanyuan Hill. Anywhere in Great Xia, they had long regarded others' fawning and reverence as natural as breathing. How could they ever have imagined receiving such treatment one day—coming to the Iron Dragon Sect, only to be barred from even entering its main sect hall, with Zhang Tie making them stand outside to speak?
At first, they thought they might have misheard. But seeing Zhang Tie's blade-cold gaze, they understood. They had not heard wrong. Zhang Tie truly would not allow them into the Iron Dragon Sect's main hall and was making them stand outside.
Embarrassment, humiliation, and rage finally turned into Feng Yexiao's somewhat shrill, hysterical laughter. "Worthy indeed of the Thousand-Machine True Lord—so arrogant and overbearing that you do not even place the Taiyi Mystical Sect, Heaven-Wielding Pavilion, and Jade Tower, three of Great Xia's six major sects, in your eyes. Good, very good. The Iron Dragon Sect truly is peerlessly powerful! Hahaha..."
"Only after a man humiliates himself will others humiliate him. You barged into my Iron Dragon Sect's mountain gate without announcing yourselves. That I allow you to stand here is already leniency, for the sake of our shared status as human knights. As for entering my Iron Dragon Sect's ancestral hall, you must first ask whether I permit it!" Zhang Tie said calmly.
"Is that so?" The burly, bald Phantom Knight from the Heaven-Wielding Pavilion stared at Zhang Tie with wolfish eyes. He suddenly raised one foot as if to step