Castle of Black Iron

As they grew increasingly deeper, Zhang Tie felt an increasing pressure that acted upon his protective battle qi.

It was like how a diver deepened into the ocean. The deeper he reached, the greater pressure he would suffer from the sea water.

However, Zhang Tie was not in the ocean, but in the scorching magma.

In the same depth, the pressure of magma was 2.5 times that of the water pressure. Canglan Palace of Bloody Soul Temple was about 5,000 m deep in the magma, the pressure at which location was equal to the water pressure deeper than 12,500 m. Anyone below knights would be crushed into pieces by such a great pressure, not to mention battle spirits who had formed protective battle qis. Even knights would not feel good under such a great pressure.

The maximal depth that underwater robots and submarines which humans invented before the Catastrophe was about 12,000 m. If a huge solid iron ball was thrown deeper than 10,000 m underwater, it would be compressed greatly by water pressure.

Han Zhengfang “bound” Zhang Tie to him by the secret method of Bloody Soul Temple and moved towards the depth of the magma so that he could crush Zhang Tie into pieces using the sheer terror of nature.

The protective battle qi of a shadow knight was definitely more protective than that of an earth knight. Under the same pressure, Han Zhengfang was confident to win the combat in the end. Additionally, due to the greater density and pressure of the magma, Zhang Tie’s benefit as a divine dominator was completely restricted.

Han Zhengfang immediately reversed the result of this combat in such an insidious way.

Zhang Tie had taken a lot of fiery lotus seeds; therefore, he could adapt to the heat of magma; however, he had to sustain the great pressure of the magma.

Han Zhengfang didn’t attack Zhang Tie; instead, he just dove towards the depth of the magma. In a short while, they had reached over 10,000 m in depth. The deeper they reached, the more magma there would be. It was absolutely a bottomless magma sea.

Zhang Tie knew what Han Zhengfang was thinking about. Of course, he would not just wait for death. At such a critical moment, Zhang Tie was also trying his utmost efforts to reverse the situation.

Zhang Tie started to attack Han Zhengfang. As he was just 30 m away from Han Zhengfang. Even though he didn’t run his lotus-flower eyes, he could also target at Han Zhengfang easily. He just launched his battle qi towards Han Zhengfang after going through the magma between them.

Han Zhengfang was not anxious about fighting Zhang Tie anymore; he just blocked Zhang Tie’s attacks as he kept diving towards the depth of the magma.

“Heheheh, just move; you will not move later…” Han Zhengfang’s sneer full of killing intent drifted into Zhang Tie’s ears.

Zhang Tie soon knew Han Zhengfang’s meaning. When he reached 20,000 m deep into the magma sea, he could barely attack Han Zhengfang with his battle qi anymore due to the great pressure from all directions.

The deeper it was, the denser the magma would be and the greater the pressure would be. As a result, 30-m thick magma was as hard as 30-m granite protective layer for his battle qi. Even though his battle qi could still reach Han Zhengfang, its lethality would be weakened greatly. Han Zhengfang could easily block it only by raising his hand.

If Zhang Tie attacked Han Zhengfang at such a depth, he could not do any harm to Han Zhengfang; additionally, it would accelerate the consumption of his battle qi and physical strength. In this situation, Han Zhengfang could easily collapse Zhang Tie’s attack at a trivial price.

Zhang Tie stopped attacking Han Zhengfang; Han Zhengfang didn’t attack Zhang Tie. They were not idiots. The one who could stand until the last minute would succeed.

The pressure from all directions constantly compressed Zhang Tie’s protective battle qi. Han Zhengfang’s protective battle qi was also greatly compressed. After reaching 25,000 m in depth, Zhang Tie became more and more befuddled; he even became breathless. His chest and back felt like being gradually compressed by two iron sheets, causing his chest to become increasingly hotter. The gaps between Chaos and Zhang Tie’s body were extremely narrowed. The entire Chaos started to be out of shape due to compression. Zhang Tie could hear the slight sound of frictions from Chaos due to deformation, “Kakakaka”.

All of a sudden, Zhang Tie felt his upper lip becoming cold while two lines of nosebleed ran out of his nostrils constantly.

It was blazing white light in front of his eyes, which indicated that the temperature of the magma had reached above 1,000 degree Celsius. Zhang Tie looked around and found it was a vast magma sea; additionally, the bottom of this magma sea should be deeper than 100,000 m.

Han Zhengfang was also bearing the high temperature and pressure 30 m away. His protective battle qi was also less than 1 m away from his body; however, he was much better than Zhang Tie; at least he didn’t run nosebleed constantly.

With 30-m scorching magma between them, Han Zhengfang couldn’t see Zhang Tie; however, he could clearly sense Zhang Tie’s physical and spiritual situation.

“How about that, do you start to run nosebleed? Haha, it’s just a start. Even knights could not bear the great pressure from the magma. Nosebleed is just an omen for your body to lose blood. Gradually, your eyes will be filled with blood; your eyeballs will jump out of your eye sockets; your innards will push your blood out of your body like squeezing water out of the sponge. When your protective battle qi finally collapses, your brains will spurt out of your ears, eyes, nostrils and mouth; your belly will blow up; your intestines and guts would be burned into ashes in the magma.

“I don’t care who you’re. This magma sea is your graveyard. Even being injured, a tiger is still a tiger; I could not be bullied by an ordinary earth knight, even though you’re a divine dominator. You will become the first earth knight that I kill…”

Han Zhengfang said as he continued to dive downwards. In the blink of an eye, the two people had reached over 30,000 m in depth.

All of a sudden, the blazing white light suddenly turned bloody. It was not because the temperature here suddenly fell; Zhang Tie knew that his eyes had started to be congestive while some blood capillaries in his eyes had started to crack. Zhang Tie knew that his eyes must be filled with blood streaks. Each time Zhang Tie’s heart beat, he would feel being a kid walking with 1,000 kg’s burden on his back.

If it was just a small lake, Zhang Tie could still teleport all the magma here into Castle of Black Iron in order to reduce the pressure around him and make Han Zhengfang abandon his plan. However, it was a vast magma sea. Even if he opened the siphon tunnel linking this magma sea to Castle of Black Iron, it was also almost in vain; before he dried up the magma sea, he might have already been crushed into pieces by the great pressure, not to mention the sequela that he might face after exposing the trump card of Castle of Black Iron.

This was almost the most dangerous moment for Zhang Tie. In such a desperate situation, almost all the trump cards of Zhang Tie became ineffective at once.

‘I couldn’t enter Castle of Black Iron, neither could I use the ability of a divine dominator. Will I be killed by Han Zhengfang? Couldn’t I even kill a severely injured shadow knight?’

Some alveoli had started to crack while Zhang Tie almost spurted out a mouthful of blood; however, he gritted his teeth and swallowed it forcefully.

‘No, never, I will never die here!’ Zhang Tie roared inside.

In desperation, a firm belief occurred to Zhang Tie’s mind. When his head was almost crushed, Zhang Tie suddenly recalled the scene when he manifested his virtual image of king roc for the first time when he promoted to an earth knight. He sensed the domineering realm of King Roc Sutra once again.

‘For free! For free! For free!’ This was what rocs pursued for the rest of their lives.

‘Who could restrict my freedom?’

‘If the earth restricts me, I will break the earth by foot!’

‘If the sky restricts me, I will tear up the sky and break the void!’

‘If I flap my wings, everything will succumb to me!’

‘Who could restrict my freedom? Who could restrict my freedom? Who could restrict my freedom?’

With bloody eyes, Zhang Tie roared towards the sky as he punched against his own lower abdomen by two hands at the same time…

‘In the universe, who could make the emperor succumb to him?’

‘Ka…’

A crow sounded in the hot sun in the battle qi void of his lower abdomen. Closely after that, the hot sun gave out dazzling light, manifesting the virtual image of king roc. With another crow, a bizarre golden rune flew out of the king roc’s mouth and disappeared in Zhang Tie’s two chakras.

At this moment, Han Zhengfang suddenly became still as he changed his face greatly.

Just now, Han Zhengfang felt like pulling a car by tank using a rope; at this moment, he felt the car that he pulled suddenly became a mountain. No matter how he tried, he couldn’t move it anymore.

‘Lock of bloody chakras is a secret skill of Bloody Soul Sutra , I could have defeated all the low-level enemies in it.’

‘No way, no way. How could that be? How could that be? Nobody in Bloody Soul Temple had encountered such an exception since the establishment of Bloody Soul Temple.

Han Zhengfang suddenly became puzzled.

If he could, Han Zhengfang really wanted to see what happened to Zhang Tie. Pitifully, Han Zhengfang’s vision was completely blocked by the dozens of meters thick scorching magma. He could feel the external situation of Zhang Tie; however, he couldn’t feel the situation inside Zhang Tie’s body. Additionally, he couldn’t approach Zhang Tie any more due to the existence of the lock of bloody chakras. Actually, the distance between them had been fixed.

Zhang Tie moved and took the initiative, followed by Han Zhengfang. As a result, Han Zhengfang became the locust being shackled by the lock of bloody chakras and experienced what Zhang Tie experienced just now. Just now, Han Zhengfang pulled away a “sedan” by a “high-horsepower tank”; in the blink of an eye, Zhang Tie became as powerful as a steam turbine. How could a tank’s engine match that of a warship?

At this moment, Zhang Tie was in a special realm where he could clearly sense the marvel when his chakras were bound to that of Han Zhengfang by the secret skill of Bloody Soul Temple.

‘He has 3 chakras. I only have 2; however, my 2 chakras are bigger than his 3 chakras. Therefore, Han Zhengfang’s 3 chakras are covered by my 2 chakras.’

Just now, Zhang Tie was negative; however, now, Zhang Tie took the initiative.

All of a sudden, a whim occurred to his mind. ‘Previously, I couldn’t refine the enemy’s chakra unless I touched his body by my palms; now, as my chakras have already touched his and I took the initiative, whether could I trigger the Purgatory Samsara Method in this situation?’

The moment this whim occurred to Zhang Tie’s mind, it had become as scorching as the surrounding magma.

‘Just do it. Whatever, it’s just a trial. I will not lose a hair.’

Closely after that, Zhang Tie triggered his Purgatory Samsara Method directly.

Zhang Tie’s two chakras immediately drew Han Zhengfang’s water chakra and shattered it like two parts of a huge mill and a merciless grinder…

The moment he triggered it, Zhang Tie had realized that he had made it. In this situation, his secret method could directly act upon on the opposite chakras through the tie between their chakras. The effect was absolutely out of Zhang Tie’s imagination. In this situation, the efficiency of Purgatory Samsara Method could reach dozens of times that of before. It was similar to the difference between steam spinning machine and manual spinning wheel.

Zhang Tie was so thrilled that he quivered all over. He had not imagined about such a terrifying effect after combining Purgatory Samsara Method with the lock of bloody chakras of Bloody Soul Temple.

After succeeding in the first trial, Zhang Tie immediately exerted the Purgatory Samsara Method to the utmost. Like a ferocious beast that bit the blood vessels on the throat of the prey, he spared no chance for Han Zhengfang to launch a counter-attack and escape.

Zhang Tie was very scared about the means of this master of Heavens Reaching Church.

Due to the sudden collapse of his water chakra, Han Zhengfang was immediately severely injured as he spurted out a mouthful of blood at once. At the same time, his protective battle qi also shrunk greatly. Han Zhengfang screamed towards the direction of Zhang Tie at his full efforts with a terrified look as if he had seen a ghost, “Purgatory Samsama…”

Han Zhengfang could never imagine that the guy who already fell into his trap and was shackled by his lock of bloody chakras could grasp the secret method of Purgatory Samsara Method and trigger it in this situation. Even the alchemist demon had not heard about such a talent.

However, Han Zhengfang didn’t have time to be amazed anymore. The moment Zhang Tie triggered his Purgatory Samsara Method, the situations between them was utterly reversed. The Purgatory Samsara Method not only shattered his chakras but also completely froze his spiritual energy.

In legends, the real purgatory was filled with magma and flames; at this moment, Han Zhengfang was in the realm purgatory.

After shattering and absorbing Han Zhengfang’s water chakra, Zhang Tie started to shatter his earth chakra…

Han Zhengfang didn’t know that Zhang Tie couldn’t even stop it. As long as the Purgatory Samsara Method and the secret skill of Bloody Soul Temple combined with each other, the effect was as berserk as a buffalo that had just rushed out of the lair…

When his earth chakra was shattered, Han Zhengfang’s protective battle qi was collapsed. He had been fully used up. Before he uttered a sound, he had been burned into ashes by billions of tons’ high-temperature magma.

This magma sea became the graveyard of Han Zhengfang; instead of Zhang Tie.

Zhang Tie forcefully swam over there and caught that token. Closely after that, he teleported the token into Castle of Black Iron.

Soon after he teleported the token into Castle of Black Iron, Zhang Tie had felt dark in his eyes as he spurted out another mouthful of blood. As his protective battle qi was almost collapsed, Zhang Tie couldn’t bear such a desperate situation anymore. He had long been severely injured. Therefore, Zhang Tie targeted that arch door in his mind sea and entered Castle of Black Iron

After entering Castle of Black Iron, Zhang Tie saw the palace tree, the small tree and the familiar and concerned face of Heller…

“I finally survived back…” Zhang Tie revealed a faint smile. Closely after that, he felt dark in his mind like having shaken off a heavy burden before falling down…

Before he passed out, Zhang Tie heard Edward and his three servants’ exclamations…

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On the evening of November 15th, the 903rd year of Black Iron Calendar, Xuanyuan Hill was in chaos. After a few hours, bloody figures wreaked havoc in 78 provinces of Taixia Country. As a result, the entire Taixia Country was covered with battle flames and smokes. From then on, Taixia country was involved in the 3rd holy war between humans and demons in an all-round manner…