Castle of Black Iron

It was as normal as encountering a lot of rural nouveau riche in high-end consuming places in the downtown. Besides Lion Fortress, Xuanyuan Hill must rank top with the most number of knights among human cities on the earth surface.

Knights had sharp senses about the qis of each other. Almost the moment Bai Suxian recognized her ”good ladybro” on that gaily-painting pleasure-ship, that young female over there also discovered Bai Suxian and Zhang Tie at the same time.

Standing on the prow of the boat, Zhang Tie and Bai Suxian looked pretty elegant and dignified with clothes swaying in the air. One was a woman of a woman, the other was a man of a man. They were definitely like an immortal couple.

There were 4 young men and 3 young women on the deck of that gaily-painting pleasure-ship. Besides the woman who hugged a lute in the middle of them, all the other 6 ones were black iron knights at a young age with outstanding looks.

When Zhang Tie was watching those women on the gaily-painting pleasure-ship and guessing who was Fang Xinyi, Bai Suxian had already flown off the boat with beserk battle qi like an aggressive hen. She directly charged towards that gaily-painting pleasure-ship by stepping on the water.

Besides sage-level ones, common knights could not fly here. However, their battle strengths remained unchanged. It was already something for her to step on the water.

’What a beauty!’ Zhang Tie could never imagine that Bai Suxian dared fight another woman on the Golden Water River close to the emperor’s imperial city.

However, someone knew Bai Suxian’s character better than Zhang Tie. When Bai Suxian flew off, another figure also flew off the gaily-painting pleasure-ship and also rushed towards Bai Suxian on the water.

”Boom...”

The two women jumped into the sky and collided against each other. At the same time, the berserk battle qis caused a wave higher than 30 m like detonating an alchemist’s bomb. When the wave fell down, it started to spread over, driving the calm water level berserk at once.

Watching this, exclamations drifted from all the cruises and boats in the far.

The first 2-m high wave hit the opposite gaily-painting pleasure-ship and Zhang Tie’s boat almost at the same time.

As a result, the gaily-painting pleasure-ship as long as dozens of meters started to rock heavily in the water. The youths on the deck of the gaily-painting pleasure-ship used their strength by foot at the same time and stabilized the ship. At the sight of this, the female who was hugging a lute became scared too much.

When the wave arrived at Zhang Tie’s boat, Old Zhou changed his face at once. Before Old Zhou made a response, Zhang Tie had stepped onto the deck at the prow, causing a white wave to rise from below and cupped the boat to over 4-m high in the air in the shape of a water lotus flower like a huge hand, avoiding the first wave steadily and safely.

At the sight of such an amazing scene, more exclamations drifted from the boats and gaily-painting pleasure-ships in the distance in unison. Someone faintly shouted, ”Arhh, the water god is manifesting his power!”

Such a scene also made Old Zhou’s face turn pale. However, he still tried his best to stabilize the boat at the stern while holding his paddle.

The nearest boat was over 300 m away from Zhang Tie’s boat. Within 100 m, there was only one cruise and a gaily-painting pleasure-ship. The two ships were both huge. Therefore, the two ships were not capsized although they rocked heavily on the river and caused passengers to become flurried. As for that boat in the distance, when the first wave arrived, its height and power had declined greatly. Additionally, the boatman directly turned his boat and used the stern to bear the first wave. Besides making the inside of the boat wet, the surging wave pushed that boat over 100 m away.

Before Bai Suxian and that figure who flew off the gaily-painting pleasure-ship started the second round of the fight, a roar had drifted over here from the Horse Bridge, ”Who dared be that excessive on the Golden Water River?”

With that roar, a fully-armored knight jumped off the Horse Bridge and darted towards them like a lightning bolt on the river.

When the male knight arrived, he directly stood on the water as he looked at Bai Suxian and the other woman, those knights on that gaily-painting pleasure-ship and Zhang Tie on the prow one after another. When he caught sight of Zhang Tie whose boat was cupped by a ripple, he slightly narrowed his eyes.

”Did you two fight here just now?” That male knight asked Bai Suxian and the other woman.

The two women replied with a cold harrumph at the same time as they turned around and ignored the knight’s question.

”F*ck...” The earth knight was driven mad. He looked at Bai Suxian and the other woman before losing his temper on everybody at present, ”All of you, all the knights here follow me for the investigation. If anyone of you dares to oppose me, I will kill you...”

After delivering this command, the earth knight even threw a deep glance at Zhang Tie. Among all the knights at present, Zhang Tie was the most unfathomable. Expert’s movements were always outstanding. Although the other earth knights might also be able to cup the boat by water using the battle qi, he could never do it as easily as Zhang Tie. Besides posing a high requirement on the power of his battle qi, this effect also required an extremely great controlling ability of water flow.

Zhang Tie had not imagined that his trip to the Golden Water River could come to an end in this way. However, what happened this time reminded Zhang Tie of the nature of women. If Bai Suxian and that woman were just commoners instead of knights, Zhang Tie believed that the two people must have started to scratch faces and stretch hair.

After throwing a glance at that woman carefully, Zhang Tie had known her identity without Bai Suxian’s introduction.

Honestly, given her look, Fang Xinyi was not that kind of top beauties which would attract men’s attention for the first time. She was just as beautiful as Bai Suxian. However, this woman looked even whiter than Bai Suxian like milk. Additionally, this woman had a very special temperament. She was tender, cold and brilliant. At the sight of her, Zhang Tie felt that a delicate and charming rose was lying on a layer of frost tenderly and felt like pitying her.

No wonder Bai Suxian’s dad was fascinated by her. Such a special temperament was especially attractive to old men. Even Zhang Tie’s heart raced.

When Zhang Tie looked at Fang Xinyi, Fang Xinyi also looked at him. They then exchanged a glance with each other.

After Bai Suxian noticed that Fang Xinyi was glancing at Zhang Tie, she became intense at once as she hurriedly moved and blocked Fang Xinyi’s sight in case that Zhang Tie was robbed away from her.

Fang Xinyi turned her head once again.

Another two knights came over here on water and surrounded them with solemn looks while putting their hands on the handles of their swords at their waists. Although the other guys on the gaily-painting pleasure-ship felt unwilling to do that, they could only tell the boatman to turn the ship towards the wharf beside the Horse Bridge.

”Old Zhou, thanks for your ride. Please carry us over there too. Bear my words in mind. If you want to have a try, you can find me in the Fire-Dragon Prefecture in Youzhou Province!” Zhang Tie told Old Zhou as he hid his battle qi, causing the boat to steadily decline while being cupped by the ripple.

Bai Suxian returned to the boat by stepping on water. After that, she watched Fang Xinyi going back to the gaily-painting pleasure-ship with fierce eyes as she swore her in a low voice, ”B*tch!”

...

In the gate tower at the bridgehead of the Horse Bridge, Zhang Tie, Bai Suxian and those knights on that gaily-painting pleasure-ship were respectively brought into different rooms for the time being. Even Old Zhou and some irrelevant personnel on the gaily-painting pleasure-ship were requested to write a testimony.

After glancing around the equipment in the room which common black iron knights could not escape from, Zhang Tie revealed a smile, ’Looks like I’m not the first visitor here.’

”Ahh, who are those guys on the Horse Bridge?”

”They are earthly branch guard under the affiliation of Recreational Affairs Ministry, also known as Hua Zodiac Guard. They’re responsible for guarding the 12 bridges and the portals of the emperor’s imperial city on the Golden Water River!” Bai Suxian threw a glance at Zhang Tie in an embarrassed way as she said, ”Forgive me for that. At the sight of that foxtrel, I wanted to kill her...”

”It’s alright. Everybody gets impulsive at some moments. We will just rest here...” Zhang Tie waved his hand generously as he added, ”It’s fine as long as you don’t suffer a loss!”

Bai Suxian revealed a sweet smile directly...

...

The fact proved that women, especially beautiful women with deep background would always receive some special treatment in this male-dominated world.

One woman was the princess of Lord Guangnan’s Mansion; the other was an excellent disciple of Qionglou Pavilion, one of the top 7 sects in Taixia Country. In this situation, after confirming that there was no severe outcome, Zhang Tie and Bai Suxian were only requested to stay there for a few hours. After being warned, they had been set free.

All the knights besides the two women had been implicated and imprisoned for a few hours.

According to the regulation, if knights had a fight and broke the peace in Xuanyuan Hill, they would be imprisoned for 3 months at least or be killed on the spot.

Therefore, Zhang Tie and Bai Suxian were almost not punished.

When they walked out of the gate tower at the bridgehead of Horse Bridge, it was already dark. Zhang Tie and Bai Suxian met Fang Xinyi outside the gate tower once again.

When Fang Xinyi and Bai Suxian caught sight of each other, they uttered a cold harrumph in unison before turning around their heads.

Fang Xinyi was related to her father Lord Guangnan; therefore, Bai Suxian regarded it a family scandal and preferred to keep it a secret. As for Fang Xinyi, no matter what the relationship was between her and Lord Guangnan, it seemed that she didn’t want to reveal it to the public either. Therefore, the outsiders were still confused about their fight until now.

Those young knights staying with Fang Xinyi didn’t feel good. When they were enjoying the lute music on the Golden Water River and commenting on the current political affairs. All of a sudden, a woman rushed towards them like a maniac. If not Fang Xinyi stopped her timely, their gaily-painting pleasure-ship might have been capsized by that lunatic. If so, it would be a bit embarrassing.

Compared to their face, the gaily-painting pleasure-ship became trivial. As ”victims”, they were even imprisoned for a few hours in the cells especially for knights by the Horse Guard under the affiliation of Recreational Affairs Ministry in Xuanyuan Hill and were not set free until evening. Therefore, everybody lost their interest in this place.

At the sight of Zhang Tie and Bai Suxian once again, a domineering and evil guy among those furious young knights sneered at once.

”Princess of Lord Guangnan, you are really domineering. You dared even start a fight on the Golden Water River. However, this is not Xuanyuan Hill; instead of remote places such as Zhaozhou Province. A lord’s mansion is nothing here. If Lord Guangnan’s Mansion wants to make a show of authority, why not exterminate the barbarians in the south border of Taixia Country and establish another military region in the southern border? Why do you show off your battle strength in such a prosperous place?”

After hearing that, Fang Xinyi looked distant while Bai Suxian raised her eyebrows and was going to lose her temper once again. However, Zhang Tie revealed a smile as he shook his head and pulled Bai Suxian away.

No matter what, Bai Suxian started the fight; therefore, she was wrong. It was reasonable for those who suffered losses to complain about that. Therefore, Zhang Tie just pretended to not have heard that.

As Zhang Tie didn’t care about that, Bai Suxian became silent as she threw a glare at that male knight before following Zhang Tie away.

When Fang Xinyi watched Zhang Tie and Bai Suxian walking away, her eyes gleamed at once. As Bai Suxian’s former ladybro, nobody knew Bai Suxian’s temperament better than her. Since she acquainted with Bai Suxian, it was her first time to see Bai Suxian becoming so well-behaved in front of a male.

Zhang Tie was very merciful; however, he forgot that one’s mercy was usually regarded as being afraid of troubles and timid.

In Xuanyuan Hill, many things could not be handled by even an earth knight.

”I’ve long heard that the princess of Lord Guangnan’s Mansion is pretty beautiful; it seems real. With one earth knight on your side, you don’t even respect the top 7 sects in Taixia Country...” Another voice sounded.

After hearing these words, Zhang Tie suddenly stopped...