By the time a sliver of light showed in the eastern sky, Zhang Tie had been flying through the air for three or four hours. Tokeyi City had long since been thrown far behind him. The Thunder Falcon was incredibly fast; in those three or four hours, Zhang Tie felt that he had covered nearly a thousand kilometers. Countless mountains, rivers, and cities on the ground had been left behind.
No matter how formidable the Sainer Family's consecrated elder was, there was no way he could find Zhang Tie now. Even if that man later realized what had happened, changed direction, and pursued southward, he would never encounter Zhang Tie again. After leaving Tokeyi City, Zhang Tie had not foolishly flown in a straight line all the way. He had changed his flight path twice midway. He was in the sky, after all, and nothing could hinder his movements. The routes Zhang Tie chose passed over towering mountains, deep ridges, vast rivers, and great waterways—the roughest, hardest-to-cross routes, with the most obstacles, the slowest progress, and the least likelihood that anyone would choose them. Zhang Tie did not believe anyone would choose to pursue him along that route on the ground.
This was Zhang Tie's first exchange with a Knight-level expert. That terrifying figure, whose entire body seemed to blaze with flames, still left Zhang Tie with lingering fear long after he had departed Tokeyi City. If he had been one minute later, or if he had not possessed the ability to create an external incarnation, the final outcome would have been utterly different. That Knight had been too fast. Especially at the end, when the Knight realized he had fallen for Zhang Tie's trick of luring the tiger from the mountain and rushed back toward the airship base from