Castle of Black Iron

Chapter 1195: The End of the Leisure Days

Many missing loyal backbones of Heavens Reaching Church and powerhouses were closely related to Bloody Soul Temple. Take Wen Clan in Pingsha Valley of Zhongzhou Province which had been exterminated as an instance, now that these backbone clans and followers couldn’t be discovered while building bloody seas across Taixia Country, they were not common clans and powers. Such clans would at least have one black iron knight. Actually, according to the official report, these loyal followers of Heavens Reaching Church who were exposed due to the catastrophe of bloody figures and bloody sea contained 264 black iron knights, 19 earth knights and 1 shadow knight.

The shadow knight came from Gao Clan of Time-honored Taste Palace in Liang Zhou Province, one of the top 9 immortal provinces in Taixia Country. Han Zhengfang’s wife came from Gao Clan. If not the accident in Xuanyuan Hill, who could imagine that well-known Gao Clan of Time-honored Taste Palace in Liangzhou Province belonged to Heavens Reaching Church.

That wanted shadow knight was Gao Tianzhao, the former clan head of Gao Clan, also the great-great-grandfather of the current clan head of Gao Clan, the forebear of Gao Clan.

Besides Gao Tianzhao, 4 earth knights and over 30 black iron knights of Gao Clan entered the wanted list of the Supreme Court too.

All the knights of Gao Clan had escaped. Those who couldn’t escape just scattered in all directions. They would be arrested and killed by the fighters of Supreme Court. Overnight, the remarkable Gao Clan of Time-honored Taste Palace had collapsed, shocking too many people.

It was an earth-shaking event for the Supreme Court to confiscate Gao Clan. It happened when Zhang Tie was still in the underground magma sea beneath the volcano. Zhang Tie gradually understood the details after returning to Youzhou Province.

Gao Clan was the first supermajor of Taixia Country being confiscated as it was involved in the plot of demons, Time-honored Taste Palace was only inferior to the imperial household of Taixia Country. Therefore, this event had a great influence. All the major clans in Taixia Country had been shocked. It was said that the Supreme Court even found a time-honored altar of Bloody Soul Temple from Gao Clan. Therefore, Gao Clan’s secret identity was exposed. Gao Can was confirmed as the clan being affiliated to Bloody Soul Temple in Taixia Country. However, besides Gao Clan, it was hard to say whether there were any more secret clans being affiliated to Bloody Soul Temple in Taixia Country.

Nobody could imagine that Bloody Soul Temple could bury so many timebombs in Taixia Country after the top 7 sects in Taixia Country joined hands to exterminate the Bloody Soul Temple.

In order to hunt for the knights of Heavens Reaching Church, the judicial minister, one of the top 9 ministers of Taixia Country who had been in Xuanyuan Hill for many years had already left Xuanyuan Hill. He guided and implemented the encirclement and annihilation of these subversives. All the supreme powerhouses in the provincial and prefectural courts across Taixia Country had left to catch them.

Thankfully, the catastrophe of bloody figures broke out very hastily on last November 15th, sparing less time for Heavens Reaching Church to make preparations. If they made well preparations for that, over 10 million bloody figures under the leadership of so many knights would cause dozens even hundreds of times more damages like what once happened in Waii Subcontinent. As long as demon knights could resist the attacks of human knights, the super demon corps on the ground would be unrivaled. By contrast, after losing the guidance of knights, this super corps of bloody figures would be casually separated into smaller troops by human knights across Taixia Country like how a cook dissected an ox. If these bloody figures troops moved slowly or couldn’t break through timely, they would be encircled and annihilated by outnumbered human corps which poured in from all directions.

After causing a great chaos across Taixia Country, those knights of Heavens Reaching Church seemed to have disappeared all of a sudden. At least Zhang Tie had not heard about any major move of these b*stards in the last 2 months.

Even Zhang Gui couldn’t figure out where these people hid in and what they were going to do. Previously, Zhang Gui was following Han Zhengfang and Han Yuanhong. He was not on the same line with those loyal backbones of Heavens Reaching Church who were directly guided and dispatched by Han Zhengfang and prepared for arising riots across Taixia Country. The two systems might have contacts; Zhang Gui also recognized some loyal followers of Heavens Reaching Church; however, he couldn’t get hang of the concrete schedules of these people after they arouse the riot.

According to Zhang Gui, Han Zhengfang’s subordinates belonged to two systems. Although the two systems looked like a unity, they were different than each other. Zhang Gui sought refuge with Han Zhengfang after promoting to a knight. However, Han Zhengfang kept vigilance about him. As a result, Zhang Gui couldn’t participate in some plans. Zhang Gui actually always followed Han Zhengfang’s youngest son Han Yuantu. By contrast, someone in Heavens Reaching Church was more reliable to Han Zhengfang. For instance Gao Clan of Time-honored Taste Palace, which was qualified to be the direct subordinates of Han Zhengfang. Han Zhengfang’s direct subordinates were under the control of his eldest son Han Yuanhong.

When Zhang Gui sought refuge with Han Zhengfang, he didn’t know that Han Zhengfang’s subordinates were divided into two systems. He gradually realized that later on. Zhang Gui guessed that those people and clans whom Han Zhengfang trusted most in Heavens Reaching Church might be those from the secret clans being affiliated to Bloody Soul Temple like Han Zhengfang himself. Those clans and knights that surrendered to Han Zhengfang were always a bit estranged to Han Zhengfang compared to these knights who came from the secret clans of Bloody Soul Temple.

The source of Heavens Reaching Church was involved with the Bloody Soul Temple which was once exterminated by the top 7 sects in Taixia Country. Additionally, Heavens Reaching Church colluded with demons. Therefore, the relationship between Bloody Soul Temple, Heavens Reaching Church and demons was complicated.

Since the beginning of the 904th year of Black Iron Calendar, the entire Taixia Country had been in chaos. Few people could celebrate the spring festival at home in a reassuring way; especially those knight-level powerhouses.

As Taixia Country was becoming increasingly chaotic, as a member of Hua people in Taixia Country, Zhang Tie couldn’t spare any effort in exterminating bloody figures and demons.

On January 17th, after Zhang Tie stayed at home leisurely and comfortably for less than 1 month, he had received the notice of Huaiyuan Palace. He was requested to discuss something in the Ancestral Shrine Palace of Huaiyuan Palace in Tiger Embracing City. All the elders and Zhang Taixuan would attend this meeting.

Given its scale, they were definitely talking about something trivial. As an elder of Huaiyuan Palace, of course, Zhang Tie couldn’t be absent out of no reason. From another perspective, he could manifest his authority as an elder and position in his family by attending this meeting in the Ancestral Shrine Palace. Of course, Zhang Tie had to go there.

On the afternoon of January 18th, after having lunch and hushing his 3 sons and 2 daughters to have a nap, Zhang Tie bade a farewell to his family members. Closely after that, he shot into the sky before flying towards Embracing Tiger City…