Chapter 364: A Destructive Strike


    Trantor: WQL Editor: Millman97


    Through the porthole beside him, Zhang Tie saw airships covering the sky, causing a colossal dark shadow; he felt shocked at the scale of the operation.


    These actions further disyed Huaiyuan Pce’s power to Zhang Tie.


    After forming a matrix in the air, two groups of airships covered thousands square meters in the air.


    Thankfully, it was evening. If such a swarm of airships passed by in the daytime, the wide area of ck shadow would bring an extreme sense of fear to people on the ground.


    They boarded the war airships which were built for Huaiyuan Prefecture’s troopst year. They were as long as 400 m and weighed more than 300 tons. They could navigate 4500 km at a speed of 160 km/h one time. Therefore, they were qualified to be known as the kings of the skies.


    Being different from the cigar-shaped airships that Zhang Tie took before, the triangr shape of the war airships looked extremely like a ray in the sea while its huge body afforded it a superrge capacity.


    At this moment, sitting in the airship, Zhang Tie was watching the elites of Huaiyuan Pce on the other side of the passengerpartment. He felt as if he were sitting in the passenger cabin of a giant passenger liner.


    In flight, it was so stable that passengers couldn’t feel it was flying rapidly at all.


    Soon after Zhang Tie boarded, all the students of Hidden Dragon Pce had found out the cause of this action and the details of action. Zhang Tie’s puzzlement finally was rified.


    The whole action benefited from the environmental sanitation worker in Stars Viewing City who had discovered what happened to Zhen n Mansion of Heavens Cold City before dawn, allowing big figures in Huaiyuan Pce to make necessary preparations before this event was exposed to the public.


    For Huaiyuan Pce, the alleged remedy was to cover what happened in Zhen n Mansion in a short period so as to spare time for Huaiyuan Pce to implement the action and let the sleeping dogs lie.


    Before dawn, those earth-shattering words on the exterior wall and the gate of Zhen n Mansion had been cleaned up. All the personnel who knew what happened in the Mansion had been isted temporarily in case they leaked the news; those who had established partnerships with the Mansion had also been controlled as soon as possible. Since the morning after the event in the Zhen n Mansion, some elites of Huaiyuan Pce had stood outside the gate of the Mansion in the uniform of guards of the Mansion after changing their appearance.


    Looking from outside, everything inside Zhen n Mansion was as normal as usual. Even those business partners of the Zhen n essed the Mansion and dealt with their daily deliveries as usual.


    Nobody across Stars Viewing City had noticed the abnormal situation in Zhen n Mansion during the next day after the event happened; in the same day, elites of Huaiyuan Pce had figured out the Zhen n’s arrangements with Huaiyuan Pce and the Long Wind Business Group ording to the clues left in the Mansion and the words left by Zhang Tie.


    When he found that weird statue being worshipped in the hidden room of the Mansion, Zhang Tie didn’t know what it represented, he only felt it was rted to demons; however, that statue had caused a great earthquake in Huaiyuan Pce.


    This was the first time that the Three-Eye Association of demons had reappeared since the second holy war between human beings and demons. It was much more severe than what Zhang Tie had imagined. Historically, any country or n found to be involved with demons would be cleaned, causing the death of hundreds of millions of living beings.


    Huaiyuan Pce as a whole started to jump like a barbarous ox whose bottom had been shed.


    Zhang Taibai’s wife had been arrested and interrogated secretlyst night.


    The Zhen n’s moles in Huaiyuan Pce and Long Wind Business Group had also been arrested when the students from Breaking Heavens Department left Hidden Dragon Ind this morning.


    Until the students were up in the air, this action was still an operation that was only known by a minority. Only after the n elites boarded on the airships and had lost contact with outside could they gain details about this action.


    The same thing happened in Hidden Dragon Pce, all the students who knew that the Zhang n was going to raid Heavens Cold City tonight were in airships or forbidden from leaving Heavens Breaking Department. The n did this to ensure their safety and the secrecy of the operation.


    As this action was rted to demons, the n should be very careful about it. The Seniors Association of Huanyuan Pce were not sure whether demons or demons’ckeys were hiding in Huaiyuan Prefecture and whether the action would arise other chain reactions or not. If a powerhouse above LV 15 was hiding on Hidden Dragon Ind and started a war, it would be a devastating blow for the future of Hidden Dragon Pce.


    Therefore, after most of the students from Breaking Heavens Pce left Hidden Dragon Ind by airships, a senior from Seniors Association of the Zhang n had already brought a batch of powerhouses to Hidden Dragon Ind.


    After covering up what happened in the Zhen n Mansion in Stars Viewing City for two days, Huaiyuan Pce chose to raid the nest of the Zhen n in Heavens Cold City with its n elites after travelling a thousand miles and determined to destroy it.


    By then Zhang Tie understood how smart those big figures in Huaiyuan Pce were. Their tactic was always as swift and ferocious as a lightning bolt.


    In the airship, a strange senior military officer of Huaiyuan Prefecture was talking about the situation in Zhen n of Heavens Cold City and the operation.


    "As the Zhen n has settled in Heavens Cold City for over 100 years, it is a local power in Langye Prefecture. Its deep-rooted power has already spread throughout most of Heavens Cold City. After more than 100 years’ development, the total poption of the Zhen n, including its direct line of descent, branch families, and various rtives, has reached 110,000 people. The city guard army of Heavens Cold City includes over 45,000 people, among which, almost all the military officers are part of the direct lines and branch families of the Zhen n. Besides the city guard army of Heavens Cold City, Zhen n has another n armyposed of about 3,000 n elites — ck Armor Army. Our task is to destroy a fort base of ck Armor Army outside Heavens Cold City!"


    When the senior military officer mentioned ck Armor Army, he pointed at the Bluestone Pass Fort to the northeast of Heavens Cold City on the map with his pen.


    "Bluestone Pass Fort is a station of ck Armor Army and the portal of Heavens Cold City in the northeast. It’s precipitous on terrain. About 1,500 members of ck Armor Army defend here. They are very powerful. After clearing out the guards there, we will control the northeast portal of Heavens Cold City! Thereafter, the Zhen n will have no way to retreat. With the help of our airship and mobile enforcement troop, we can destroy and upy the Zhen n’s other forts and passes. We need to eliminate them all. No member of the Zhen n is allowed to escape!"


    "Sir, what if someone in the forts surrenders, will... we take them as prisoners?" a girl who’d joined the operation asked. She then felt the others all looking at her; therefore, her voice gradually slowed down.


    After gazing at that girl for a while, the military officer slowly said, "ck Armor Army is an armed forceposed of the students of Zhen n. As we’ve confirmed that Zhen n is colluding with demons and is a member of demons’ Three-Eye Assoiation, we will deal with them ording to the order of Seniors Association and the universal rule of human race on this kind of n. None of them should be kept alive; even if they surrender, keep killing them to eliminate any further dangers!"


    Hearing this, not only the girl who asked this question, even the faces of Ma Aiyun and the other girls beside Zhang Tie turned slightly pale.


    "The only troop that we can allow to surrender are those average soldiers of the city guard army of Heavens Cold City who have put down their weapons and surrendered at their own discretion. For others, we should kill them all, including the direct lines and branch families of the Zhen n and those who dare to attack us!" that military officer continued to exin icily.


    Then, he slowly nced over all the members in the airship, "There’s one point that you should understand that this is a war between demons and theirckeys. If you are merciful and pitiful to any one of them, you might cause hundreds, even thousands, of innocent people to die. If you leave theckeys of demons alive, anyone among you might die in the future. The decree of the existence of Three-Eye Association is to coordinate demons to eliminate human race or turn them into docile ves! If we kill them, we are saving innocent people and striving for our right to live freely."


    The airship then became silent...


    The only pitiful thing for Zhang Tie was that he was not assigned in the same group with Lan Yunxi. At this moment, Lan Yunxi was in another airship. ording to the operation’s n, Lan Yunxi was not going to raid the other fort bases of the Zhen n like Zhang Tie’s group but probably be assigned to destroy the nest of the Zhen n.


    Zhang Tie patted Ma Aiyun’s shoulder tofort her. Then, he closed his eyes. He imagined two abacuses in his mind and started to practice mental arithmetic by abacus so as to slowly enhance and recover his spiritual energy.


    After sweeping away the Zhen n Mansion that night, as he predicted, he gained another Fruit of Brilliance which increased his spiritual energy by more than forty times. It was a big harvest. After eating that fruit, Zhang Tie obviously sensed that his mental arithmetic by abacus had reached a limit as he touched an invisible film. Zhang Tie really expected to tear off the film and checked what was behind it. Faintly, Zhang Tie felt it was a very important bottleneck for his cultivation.


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    Six hours after they boarded the airships, they ate some rations to supplement their physical strength, followed by another long boring wait.


    After almost a full night’s flight, the airships finally parted and headed for their own tasks. At this moment, everybody had been woken up to prepare for the uing war.


    The contour of a city with sparsemplights faintly appeared below the clouds.


    Zhang Tie’s airship directly sped up towards the northeast of this city...


    Several minutester, a war airship floating above the thin clouds dropped the first white phosphorous gelbustion bomb of 500 kg into a fort in the mountain range...


    Then, the 2nd, the 3rd, the 4th...


    As a result, white light shed one by another in the fort; white light shed across the other ces almost at the same time, causing great chaos across thend.


    mes started to spread across thend, making it bright all over. In a split second, the forts below became a sea of mes...