Castle of Black Iron

Since they left Xuantian City, it was Zhang Tie’s first time to assign a task to his disciples.

Although there was not any extremely talented person among his disciples, all of them were smarter than average people. All of these disciples knew that Zhang Tie took them out to practice them and make them coordinate with each other. Their performance in this task would be directly related to Zhang Tie’s comments about them and might determine their position in Iron-Dragon Sect in the future.

More than one disciple had such a thought. Actually, all the disciples of Iron Dragon Hermit were very active in front of Zhang Tie. After receiving Zhang Tie’s order, all of his disciples started to move rapidly while gritting their teeth, including those female disciples who had vomited so severely at the sight of those corpses that their faces even turned pale.

Among Zhang Tie’s disciples, 53 of them were LV 9 fighters. If they were distributed into three teams, two teams would contain 18 members respectively while one team would contain 17 members. With the arrangement of Liu Xing, the 53 people were soon distributed into three teams and left the small village in three directions as fast as possible so as to search for the alive bloody figures. The rest disciples started to put out fire and deal with the corpses in the village...

Zhang Tie just watched his disciples doing all this. Standing on Zhang Tie’s side, Xu Yian looked at Zhang Tie and Zhang Tie’s disciples who were busy doing their jobs as his eyes flickered...

”Where’s the nearest city?” Zhang Tie asked Xu Yian.

”The nearest big city is Xingyu City over 250 miles away. Xingyu City is a Class A city where massive forces were stationed in. If the situation here was spread to Xingyu City, I’m afraid that Xingyu City will assign rescue here very soon!”

Zhang Tie nodded, ”Just let me know if you need any help!”

”Thanks, Hermit!” Xu Yian looked at Zhang Tie’s disciples before asking, ”Hermit, are all these people...your disciples? I wonder about the location of your sect.”

”Hmm, they’re all my disciples. Iron-Dragon Sect is in the Fire Dragon Bounty Territory of Northeast Military Region!”

After hearing Fire Dragon Bounty Territory, Xu Yian was shocked once again. He knew that most of the bounty territories in Taixia Country were rewarded due to great military exploits. Now that Fire Dragon Bounty Territory was so similar to the appellation of Fire Dragon Hermit, it indicated that this bounty territory was made by Fire Dragon Hermit himself through great military exploits.

’If he did not have a great talent, how could Fire Dragon Hermit have such a large area of bounty territory?’

After hearing Zhang Tie’s words and watching those young men who survived themselves, Xu Yian confirmed his mind once again.

’No matter what, I have to ask for a chance for these young men who survived this catastrophe in Xujia Village.’ Xu Yian made a decision inside.

”Oh, I found that you’ve reached LV 10 and have a great battle strength. I wonder about the secret method that you’re cultivating?” Zhang Tie asked Xu Yian.

Xu Yian shook his head before replying, ”This humble man is just a little figure, how could I have a chance to practice any secret method. I’m just cultivating Heavenly Blue Sutra .”

” Heavenly Blue Sutra ?” Zhang Tie slightly frowned as this name was too strange and sounded a bit weird.

”The predecessor of Heavenly Blue Sutra is God Sutra . However, as it’s incomplete, I could at most promote to LV 13 battle general. This humble man didn’t have a chance to join a major sect. Therefore...” Xu Yian became embarrassed before continuing, ”But I will be satisfied with it if I could promote to a LV 13 battle general in my life based on my qualification...”

After hearing Xu Yian’s answer, Zhang Tie suddenly remembered that he was cultivating the emperor-level ”King Roc Sutra” and had gained a lot of secret methods that were above baron level and could help people promote to knights due to various reasons.

In Zhang Tie’s opinion, ** sutra that could help the cultivator promote to knight’s realm was really valuable secret methods. However, Zhang Tie forgot that it was very difficult for most of the cultivators to gain a ** sutra in both Waii Subcontinent and Taixia Country.

’When in Waii Subcontinent, I almost lost my life only for a ** sutra. Even I had to pay such a high price for a ** sutra at that moment; not to mention the others.’

’Lan Yunxi told me that the secret methods below sutra could be further divided into five levels, namely; dao, law, sutra, genre and skill. ** dao could enable people to promote to a battle spirit; ** law could enable people to promote to a battle demon; ** sutra could enable people to promote to a battle general; ** genre could enable people to promote to a battle master. The predecessor of ”King Roc Sutra” is the most average ”Barbarous Ox Skill” which could only enable people to promote to LV 11.

”Which kind of secret method does God Sutra belong to?”

” God Sutra is a count-level secret method. Although Heavenly Blue Sutra is incomplete and could only enable cultivators to light 297 surging points, it contains a complete God’s Saber Skill . When one promotes to a battle general, this saber skill could display its power...”

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After a brief talk with Zhang Tie, Xu Yian also started to organize those young men who survived the massacre to put out fire and collect corpses. By the way, checking whether there were any alive people left.

Zhang Tie stood still as Xuyian’s words reminded him of one possibility, ’I might be able to recover these incomplete secret methods.’

’Although I’ve lit all of my surging points. I could still simulate the effects of various secret methods and skills benefited from the King Roc Sutra that I cultivate. The process of simulation is actually to light my surging points once again in a bizarre dormant state benefited from a feather of King Roc Sutra . What if I could simulate those lost parts of secret methods through King Roc Sutra in the trouble-reappearance situation?’

When he thought about this, Zhang Tie’s heart palpitated.

’If I could simulate the secret methods above marquis level and could gain the complete skills that are matched with these secret methods, doesn’t it mean that I would gain the complete versions of these secret methods?’

’In Taixia Country, there are all sorts of secret methods below sutra. Now that there is such an incomplete version of Heavenly Blue Sutra which contains a complete God’s Saber Skill , there must be other incomplete secret methods which are more advanced than Heavenly Blue Sutra and are matched with complete skills. As long as I paid attention to that, it would not be difficult for me to find them.’

’After coming to Taixia Country, I reunited with my family members in Youzhou Province in a relaxed way for a few days. Closely after that, I was involved in the tragedy in Fuhai City and had to escape. After such a radical change, I almost forgot that I had a such a trump card.’ Zhang Tie forcefully patted his head when he thought about this.

”What’s wrong with you?” Bai Suxian asked out of concern when she noticed Zhang Tie’s movement.

Zhang Tie replied with a smile, ”Nothing!”

”Actually, you don’t need to blame yourself too much. We’ve already tried our best. If we arrived here a bit earlier, we truly could save more people. However, such a tragedy is unpredictable!” Bai Suxian comforted Zhang Tie in a tender voice.

”I know. Ohh, what’s the name of that skill that you used just now? It looks nice...”

After hearing Zhang Tie’s praise, Bai Suxian’s face shone as she replied, ”It’s called silk traction. It fits opponents below knight level very well...”

”Xu Yian’s words reminded me. Do you know where to find those incomplete secret methods below sutra? I was thinking about that; although these secret methods might be incomplete and could not enable people to promote to knights, the various battle skills that were matched with these incomplete secret methods were valuable; especially those high-level incomplete secret methods. If I could collect some complete battle skills of some incomplete secret methods, I might make a greater improvement in my battle skills through comparison!” Zhang Tie told Bai Suxian.

”Master, why did you not tell me that earlier? If you told me a bit earlier, I would have brought hundreds of incomplete secret methods along with their complete battle skills from Lord Guangnan’s Mansion to you this time!”

”Hoho, no need to move the collections in Lord Guangnan’s Mansion. As they have limited value, if you brought them to me from Lord Guangnan’s Mansion, it might cause gossips. I could find them in Taixia Country too!”

Bai Suxian rolled her beautiful eyes before saying, ”Master, if you want these things, you could find them in the private markets opened by the top seven sects in Taixia Country. You could find almost everything in the private markets of the top seven sects.

”The private markets of top seven sects in Taixia Country?”

”Right. Although they are private markets; actually the 7 private markets have already formed 7 super large cities in Taixia Country within the sphere of influence of the top seven sects respectively. The nearest private market is the Gold and Power Market of Gold and Power Law. After passing Zhongzhou Province and entering the territory of Xuanyuan Hill, you would find Gold and Power Market. I’ve been to Gold and Power Market with my dad when I was young. Gold and Power Market is almost the most prosperous place in human territory. It’s said that you could even exchange for rare space-teleportation equipment in Gold and Power Market...”

”You arouse my interest. After the unrest is pacified, we will take a look in Gold and Power Market and broaden our vision!”

As they talked with each other, another airship suspended in the sky.

The raging flames in Xuajia Village and the Iron-Dragon Airboat on the hillside nearby Xujia Village were too eye-catching. Anyone would know that there was an accident here the moment they saw here.

Before that airship landed, a group of people had already jumped off the airship. They opened their rotachutes in the air and landed on the open land nearby Xujia Village one after another.

The moment these people landed, some battle airships of Taixia Country had appeared and were accelerating towards here from afar...

The rescues of Xingyu City finally arrived, although being late.