Nearly two and a half months after leaving You Province City, on December 30th, 899 of the Black Iron Calendar, Zhang Tie returned to You Province once more.
This time, Zhang Tie still traveled to You Province by airship, which left him somewhat depressed. If he could fly, the trip from Sun River Prefecture to You Province would take him only four or five hours—easy enough. By airship, however, it took a full day. In terms of convenience, flying there directly was naturally far more satisfying and saved more time. But for a Black Iron Knight to simply pat his backside and fly nonstop to You Province would be rather shocking. He was already exceedingly famous in You Province, and Zhang Tie had no desire to become the subject of gossip again. Thus, he could only obediently take the airship.
Fortunately, the time aboard the airship was not too hard to endure; he could use it for cultivation. Nearly twenty hours of flight time, if fully put to use, was enough for him to absorb another ten Earth Element Crystals.
Although Zhang Tie appeared to have been taking it easy these days, he had not relaxed his cultivation schedule at all. Every day, even at home, he set aside more than ten hours for cultivation. At a rate of one Earth Element Crystal absorbed every two hours, he continuously condensed his Earth Chakra.
Zhang Tie's speed in absorbing Earth Element Crystals was astonishing. Each day, he consumed either four or five of them. Therefore, over these two-plus months, he had already absorbed more than three hundred Earth Element Crystals.
Inside the airship's sleeping cabin, after absorbing the last Earth Element Crystal in his hand, a complex geometric pattern composed of triangles and circles at the outermost edge of a