After leaving Clearview River in the Nine Heavens Grand Domain, Zhang Tie took only a little over six hours to return to Dragon Emperor City.
When Zhang Tie returned to Dragon Emperor City, it was just past four in the afternoon, not yet evening. Spring shone brightly over Dragon Emperor City, and everything was as it had been. During the four days Zhang Tie had been away from Dragon Emperor City, no one in the city had realized that their Dragon Emperor had left the Forbidden City and gone outside to "pull off something big"...
Just as when he had left, Zhang Tie returned to the Forbidden City through the secret passage outside Dragon Emperor City without anyone noticing, entering the cultivation chamber beneath the Hall of Union.
God generals remained in seclusion for very long periods. Four days meant nothing to a god general. Everything in the chamber was unchanged, and Leng Manxue had not contacted Zhang Tie either, presumably believing that he had gone nowhere.
The moment he returned to the chamber, Zhang Tie activated the Illusory Body Divine Bloodline and reverted to his own appearance. Then he removed the clothes he had worn back from the Si Family castle. With a blaze of Dragonflame True Fire, he reduced them directly to smoke and ash. The last trace of evidence from his trip was thus completely wiped out.
Of course, aside from this set of clothes, Zhang Tie had also brought several things back from Azure Hibiscus City. His gains could truly be called substantial.
Qian Changqing's spatial ring, the spatial ring Xue Yuxiu had given Zhang Tie, and a steward's storage ring from the Si Family castle that Steward Si had controlled were all now on Zhang Tie's person. In the blink of an eye, Zhang Tie