Castle of Black Iron

After penetrating through the army of demons, Zhang Tie looked back as he saw a tunnel whose length, width and height were over 500 m respectively. There wasn’t even one demon knight throughout the tunnel. All the ordinary earth demon knights and black iron knights near that tunnel unconsciously stayed far away from Zhang Tie.

Demon knights were valiant; however, they were not idiots. Neither would they seek for death when they were clear that they were destined to die. With his sword and song, Zhang Tie had scared those demon knights so much that very few of them dared confront with Zhang Tie’s blade anymore.

The fact that he himself scared the army of demon knights really made Zhang Tie arrogant.

Besides Zhang Tie, the other human knights and demon knights were in a fierce battle while colorful battle qis flickered in the sky and collided with each other alongside sabers and swords. Most of the knights had not ended their first fight in such a short period. Many knights launched battle qi strikes towards the opponent collectively. Some of them had not even found their opponents. The 4 heavenly knights in higher altitude were still fighting. However, those knights below them couldn’t involve in their fight. Occasionally, some aftermaths of the battle between heavenly knights would escape downwards…

“What..why is she here?” Zhang Tie noticed Guo Hongyi when he looked back as he was a bit shocked.

“Go die…” A destructive wind approached from far. Zhang Tie slightly moved aside rapidly to dodge away from a fierce battle qi strike. Although it passed by Zhang Tie, it rubbed against Zhang Tie’s protective battle qi ferociously. Based on its destructive ability, the battle qi strike was definitely from a shadow knight.

The moment Zhang Tie raised his head, he had seen a dark, purple shadow wing demon knight charging at him with a grim look.

This shadow wing demon knight was a fat piece of meat for Zhang Tie. If it were underground, Zhang Tie would definitely catch it alive; however, in this case, as he had already attracted the attention of the public by his “sword song”. If he killed this shadow demon knight at this moment, even the Monarch Abyss and those heavenly demon knights would be shocked, which would not be good for him.

Additionally, shadow demon knights’ protective ability and knight’s consciousness were a level higher than that of earth demon knight. If Zhang Tie wanted to kill this shadow demon knight, he could only use kinetic strike skills. Even if he used the most implicit “inch strength” strike, if he couldn’t kill that shadow knight instantly, the shadow demon knight would know his secret for sure. By then, his ability as a divine dominator would be exposed to the public.

It was not opportune for Zhang Tie to reveal his trump card to the world. At least a shadow demon knight didn’t deserve him to do that.

‘However, this shadow demon knight is a good training partner. As I’ve just got the insight of “Sword Song” and top swordsmanship, I urgently need a training partner. Given the power of “Sword Song” and the top swordsmanship, it’s okay for me to use them to challenge a shadow demon knight…’

‘Alright, I will play with it then.’

As the shadow demon knight was flying towards him, Zhang Tie determined his mind in a split second.

Zhang Tie continuously moved towards the shadow wing demon knight while extending his sword light. Closely after that, they wrestled with each other. On the battlefield beside Weishui River and under the gaze of so many human knights and demon knights, the legendary fight between an earth knight and a shadow knight rose the morale of all the onlooking human knights as it was absolutely impossible for an earth knight to defeat a shadow knight…

In this case, even though Zhang Tie didn’t use his ability as a divine dominator, he still didn’t think that a shadow demon knight’s strike was terrifying and irresistible. With a sword in hand, he was not afraid of the strike of shadow demon knight at all. Not only that, even a powerful shadow demon knight had to treat the “Sword Song” and the top swordsmanship meticulously.

However, shadow demon knights might have already received the order of Sagus the Monarch Abyss of demons and were requested to kill Zhang Tie. Only after this shadow wing demon knight fought Zhang Tie for a short while, another shadow iron-armored demon knight had approached as it wanted to join hands with the first shadow wing demon knight to kill Zhang Tie.

In such a large-scale battle in the sky, it was normal for two shadow demon knights to kill an earth human knight.

“Aren’t you shameless? Do two shadow knights fight an earth knight? Do you think that there’s nobody in Taixia Country…” Before the shadow iron-armored demon knight joined the fight, a growl had sounded while the shadow human knight whom Zhang Tie had seen many times on Ye Qingcheng’s side accelerated towards them with a pair of golden sword breakers, eyes widely opened. After slashing his golden sword breakers, he instantly launched two surging battle qi strikes, blocking the second shadow demon knight.

No matter what, shadow knights were not as cheap as white cabbage. As demons had one more shadow knight than humans, the surplus shadow demon knight just fought Zhang Tie while the other shadow demon knights were fighting the shadow human knight. Zhang Tie then started to practice his new swordsmanship…

In the distance, Sagus the Monarch Abyss of demons was watching Zhang Tie with flickering eyes. He had wanted his heavenly demon knights to fight Zhang Tie for a few times; however, every time he looked up, he would sense the clear and cold eye light of Zuoqiu Mingyue. Even from hundreds of miles away, Zuoqiu Mingyue was still paying attention to its movement. If Monarch Abyss assigned powerhouses, Taixia Country would definitely make a response to it. In this way, they wouldn’t be able to kill that earth human knight; instead, more and more knights would be involved in.

‘Would all of my knights join in the battle?’

‘No.’ Sagus vetoed this idea. Although this idea was alluring, it was not facing second- or third-rate human knights on the battlefield; instead, it was facing the entire Hua empire that had been confronted with demons for almost 1,000 years. Given the battlefield and line of defense which was preset by the opponent, it was not favorable for demons to throw the helve after the hatchet…

‘Perhaps, the opponent is waiting for me to do that. That eye-catching earth human knight might be a loop preset by the opponent…’

Sagus the Monarch Abyss of demons calmed down slowly.

“Who’s that Hua knight?”

As of now, Sagus was convinced that those representatives of Heavens Reaching Church on its side had already known that special Hua knight’s identity. Now that he could be so attractive at the beginning, he was definitely not a commoner in Taixia Country. Members of Heavens Reaching Church must know his identity.

“He’s Zhang Tie, the Weiji General of Taixia Country. He invented Fiery Oil and all-purpose medicament…’ The lackey of Heavens Reaching Church knew Zhang Tie’s identity as fast as possible.

No other human knights could be so powerful at such a young age. Zhang Tie’s look almost became his signboard.

‘He’s the very one who invented Fiery Oil and all-purpose medicament, solved the problem of grain supply facing the rear end of the western theater of operations and established the air cavalry troops for Taixia Country?’

Sagus the Monarch Abyss did not expect it while the whim that it had just abandoned hung over its mind once again.

‘I will make a decision after figuring out the deployment that humans make on the ground…’

Sagus the Monarch Abyss stared at Zhang Tie fiercely who was fighting that shadow wing demon knight. After bearing Zhang Tie’s look in mind completely, it moved its eyes onto the ground.

The other human knights and demon knights had been in a fight in the sky. However, the two corps of 200,000 iron-armored demons that rushed out of the camp of demons were galloping on the ground towards the bank of Weishui River like entering an unpopulated region…

On the ground in the west of Weishui River, there was not a fighter of Taixia Country at all. Therefore, the iron-armored demons didn’t encounter any opponent. However, it didn’t mean that the corps of 200,000 iron-armored demons could rush to the bank of Weishui River smoothly. Conversely, they faced fatal traps in each step forward…

The ground leading all the way to the bank of Weishui River was covered with incendiary landmines. Each step forward would cause the death of some LV 9 iron-armored demon fighters.

Flames spurted out of the ground one after another. Each flame indicated that at least one demon fighter became a burning torch. After a short while, the demon fighters had been burned into ashes.

In sprint, the iron-armored demons had learned how to reduce their casualties to minimum by changing their formation——they enlarged their gap so that an incendiary mine would not kill more than 2 iron-armored demon fighters. Additionally, their formation constantly shrank in the flames. By narrowing the width of the vanguard, the later teams of iron-armored demons would suffer fewer casualties…

However, even so, the corps of iron-armored demons still couldn’t avoid from being damaged by incendiary mines while those iron-armored demons in front were becoming wailing biological fuel by batches in the flames of incendiary mines…

The closer they were to Weishui River, the greater the density of incendiary mines under the earth would be. Later on, the quantity and density of incendiary mines on the bank of Weishui River became so abnormal that those demon fighters fell down in rows instead of one by one…

Such a scene made Sagus crumb the handle of his throne which was made of human skulls…