Castle of Black Iron

Zhang Tie’s journey in Ninghe Prefecture not only influenced the entire territory of Ninghe Prefecture but also almost the entire territory of the northeast military region.

After Zhang Tie returned to Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory and accompanied his wives and kids for 2 more days, the aftermath and shocks of his journey in Ninghe Prefecture gradually became greater.

Everybody was saying that Qianji Hermit left 3 treasures to Ninghe Prefecture, which could solve the problem facing Ninghe Prefecture for sure.

First, soybean seeds; second, earthworms; third, an item being held in a box that nobody knew what it was.

These days, nobody had seen Zhang Tie collect soybeans in Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory or Youzhou Province; therefore, many people guessed that these soybeans might have been prepared by Zhang Tie in advance or brought from the Sacred Iceland Kingdom. Many people who had seen Zhang Tie’s bloody sacrifice furnaces knew that Zhang Tie carried an extremely powerful space-teleportation equipment. Those soybeans could be absolutely held in that space-teleportation equipment.

The soybeans indeed came from Castle of Balck Iron. Being a mutated high-yielding soybean cultivated by Heller, they were named as No. 1 soybean by Zhang Tie. No. 1 soybeans could produce about 750 kg per mu. Besides, they were nutritious and contained far more aura value than that of ordinary soybeans. The grain shortage facing Ninghe Prefecture was diffused by Zhang Tie using these high-yielding soybeans that he stored in Castle of Black Iron.

Zhang Tie didn’t give too many No. 1 soybeans to Ninghe Prefecture. Besides meeting the demand for soybeans in the official fields in Ninghe Prefecture this summer, even the official mansion of Ninghe Prefecture could only borrow tens of thousands of soybeans, not to mention the others who expected to get some No. 1 soybeans from Ninghe Prefecture from the mouth of the tiger.

Although they couldn’t get any soybeans from Ninghe Prefecture, they could expect something from the other two things.

The earthworms that Zhang Tie brought to Ninghe Prefecture were dug in designated places in Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory and in the wild outside Jinwu City.

In consecutive days, in the places where Zhang Tie had people dig earthworms had been crowded with people. Earthworm being dug from these places were purchased in a large scale at the price of one silver coin per earthworm.

Many people who purchased earthworms came here by airboats on behalf of the major clans on their back. Therefore, More airboats accessed to Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory and Jinwu City these days than ever.

Some smart ones in Fire-Dragon Prefecture had already started to collect these earthworms and raised them for sale.

Earthworms were easily produced. Additionally, its price was super high. Of course, those people who came here by airboat didn’t mind such a bit of money. They only wanted to know whether these earthworms were useful or not and the function of these earthworms. Whatever, the fame of Qianji Hermit had been spread all over the world.

People’s name was like the shadow of a tree. Nobody felt that Qianji Hermit would do something useless at this critical moment. As long as these earthworms had unimaginable functions, they would be of great significance even strategic significance to those major clans in Taixia Country which had tens of thousands of mu fertile farmlands respectively. These major clans didn’t even care about spending hundreds of gold coins even thousands of gold coins to get these earthworms.

However, this small amount of money was an astronomical figure for commoners. Even a copper coin for one earthworm would indicate 100 times profit for those pedlars who raised earthworms for sale, not to mention one silver coin for one earthworm.

After taking No. 1 earthworms out of Castle of Black Iron, Zhang Tie drove a lot of people in Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory and in the wild outside Jinwu City mad, forming a unique earthworm industry in Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory and Jinwu City, which shocked the entire world.

To be honest, even Zhang Tie had not imagined about this result. He had not imagined that any of his actions would arouse the attention of so many people and any of his casual movements would drive commoners mad and have so many major clans imitate him.

Zhang Tie didn’t know that there was a term especially for expressing this effect before the Catastrophe——celebrity effect.

Zhang Tie was now the “celebrity”, one of the most brilliant celebrities among humans. Zhang Tie’s story was legendary. Since he came back from Ice and Snow Wilderness, his name had already shocked both Eastern Continent and Western Continent. In the eyes of numerous people, even some knights, Zhang Tie was a legendary figure. Each of his actions would arouse the attention of numerous people.

In the eyes of many people, this event proved that Qianji Hermit really had mysterious abilities as his byname Qianji.

Besides awakening an immortal body-changing bloodline and grasping a lot of secret methods, he even founded a religion which drove foreigners mad. Additionally, he was even proficient in agriculture. What a Qianji Hermit!…

Those tiny earthworms made numerous people excited in June.

Even Cheng Honglie was curious about the function of Zhang Tie’s earthworms through remote-sensing communications device after assigning 10,000 officials to Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory to be trained by Zhang Tie.

Zhang Tie replied briefly——those earthworms could make the soil more fertile. Of course, the fertile soil could lead to better crops.

When earthworms were connected to Qianji Hermit, another gossip spread over Taixia Country only in a few days. Some knight issued a post in the Mountain of Brightness and expressed that he or she saw Qianji Hermit in Xuanyuan Hill…

On the same day when Qianji Hermit appeared in Xuanyuan Hill, Han Zhengfang’s identity was exposed. Han Zhengfang was the culprit of the tragedy in Fuhai City. Zhang Tie was screwed by him. All this reminded people that the fuse of the army of swans in the sky above Xuanyuan Hill on the 15th day was designed by Qianji Hermit…

If so, Qianji Hermit must excel at animal controlling skills and could control the overall situation in the world individually. He exterminated Heavens Reaching Church easily by unveiling the conspiracy of Heavens Reaching Church so as to make himself innocent. Closely after that, he stayed outside the plot as if nothing was related to him. What a formidable Qianji Hermit!

Zhang Tie neither admitted the gossip nor denied it.

In the turmoil and boisterous scene, Zhang Tie received a message from his dad on June 18. Zhang Ping wanted Zhang Tie to come back to Jinwu City and said that he had something to negotiate with Zhang Tie.

After receiving the news, Zhang Tie became muddle-headed. However, he dared not waste any time. The moment he received the news, he had left for Jinwu City alone…