Castle of Black Iron

Everything in Palace Tree had suddenly become “clean” in Zhang Tie’s consciousness as they were completely in another state. Zhang Tie couldn’t describe it; however, he found that everything that he could see appeared to lose their “names”, including Heller’s clothes, the stone steps and the furnishings in the lobby of the Palace Tree.

Everything was independent and interdependent out of the bound of nouns and concepts in his mind. They had recovered the purest, cleanest and most majestic state which carried limitless possibilities.

Zhang Tie watched the stone steps at foot quietly as he couldn’t remember that they were called steps; they were not square, humble stones anymore. In this world, nothing was really square and humble. They just existed in a lofty and beautiful state. When Zhang Tie looked at them, they were also looking at Zhang Tie. After that, both Zhang Tie and the stone steps became “pleasant”. All of a sudden, Zhang Tie felt being full of tranquility and sweetness.

In this state, Zhang Tie felt like watching a lover who had left him for a long time and how a jewelry trader gazed at a top-notch jade.

He was startled by this feeling as he thought that there was something wrong with his mind. Looking at the stone steps, he felt pleasant as if he were looking at his lover and the most perfect jade in the world.

As Zhang Tie’s attention dispersed, he immediately exited that bizarre realm. Everything in front of his eyes recovered, including Heller’s clothes, stone steps and the furnishings in the lobby of Palace Tree.

Everything remained unchanged. At the same time, Zhang Tie couldn’t sense that tranquility and pleasure anymore. Everything in front of his eyes recovered their original looks as they didn’t look lofty or beautiful anymore.

‘Is this the real experience of the consciousness of universal laws?’

Zhang Tie went downstairs the high platform as he walked out of the lobby and came to the hillside under the calm gaze of Heller. As long as he focused on his attention, he would enter the same bizarre state again.

It was already pitch-dark outside the lobby of Palace Tree. Grasses and woods were verdant on the Immortal Mountain. A waterfall flew off a mountain stream in the distance like a Milky Way. In the dim light given out by the colorful mist in the sky, the undulating ranges in the far were like having a sound sleep. In the farther place, it was the billowy ocean…

Squatting down, Zhang Tie looked at a common small grass as he felt pleasant again.

It was not a small grass anymore.

Even though rooting in soil, it was still as clean as crystal.

Although growing in the hillside, it was as lofty as the mountain.

Foiled by luxuriant flowers, the glass was distinctively beautiful.

It was just an existence that integrated with the universe. Its delicate body was full of firmness and freedom.

In this strange state, the grass could last tens of thousands of miles like a mountain and cover the sky and the sun like a tree. Even a drop of dew on the grass could surge like billows in the ocean…

Everything in the universe was the reflection of rules. Even a speck of dust was as brilliant as the myriad of stars; because the rules to maintain the existence of a speck of dust was nothing different than that to maintain the existence of the myriad of stars and the universe as a whole.

In front of the same rules, why would there be humbleness and loftiness?

It was a human heart which discerned them. The human heart was the biggest thief that stole the secret of universal laws. By being sincere and silly could one reveal the secret of universal laws.

Those concepts which could be named were not eternal concepts!

Those laws which could be explained were not real universal laws!

Those rules which could be made were not real rules!

In a split second, Zhang Tie had understood the truth that Meng Shidao was pursuing. Additionally, his comprehension of “sincerity” instantly reached an extremely high realm.

This was the world that one could see with class I consciousness of universal laws.

As night breeze blew over the hill, the grass slowly waved itself towards Zhang Tie with a smile.

Zhang Tie could even get gnosis from common grass. Immersed in a bizarre realm, Zhang Tie felt that the rocking delicate grass was performing a rapid “dodging” skill facing the stormy battle qi strikes.

The grass was people; people were grass; the wind was as aggressive as saber and sword…

Right outside the Palace Tree, Zhang Tie suddenly strode forward. At the same time, he shook weirdly. Closely after that, he strode out for the second time as his body tilted backward, making it an unimaginable gesture in others’ eyes.

Closely after that, Zhang Tie strode out for the 3rd times. This time, he tilted backward completely and was almost parallel to the ground, with less than 3 cm in between. When he strode out for the 4th time, he sprung up and entered the breeze like a weightless feather. Then, he accelerated his footsteps. In a split second, the entire hillside was covered with his weird movements. He loomed in the breeze as swiftly as a lightning bolt and as solid as a mountain. What weird movements! Even though Zhang Tie cut into the breeze, it appeared that the tender night breeze could barely touch the corner of Zhang Tie’s clothes…

After a short while, all the frames on the hillside had disappeared. Zhang Tie still stood on the original position with his eyes closed as if he had not moved at all, leaving 49 bizarre footprints on the ground around him.

When Zhang Tie moved with the wind, Heller had already walked to Zhang Tie’s back silently as he watched Zhang Tie’s weird movements out of a bit amazement.

“Congratulations, Castle Lord, you’ve created another great skill. Combining with your gnosis of “One Step, One Scenery”, you could easily deal with surging battle qi strikes. Although the realm of “One Step, One Scenery” couldn’t be reached by everyone, such weird movements could be cultivated by everyone. I think such weird movements could rank among top skills that could be available to people below knight level. If you push it into the world, you would shock the world for sure. Iron-Dragon Sect has got a new trump card. Castle Lord, why not dub it?”