Castle of Black Iron

‘8 wing demons and 1 human knight flew into the mountain cave?’

After hearing this news from those bats, Zhang Tie became dubious at once. It was not strange for wing demons to hide in this mountain cave; neither it was strange for a human knight to stay inside; the point was those wing demons and a human knight stayed with each other.

‘Is that human knight the missing earth knight or someone else? It’s a problem. What was more, why would this human knight stay with wing demons?’

As bats had limited intelligence, Zhang Tie couldn’t get details from these bats even being a top animal controller. He couldn’t know how the human knight looked. Zhang Tie only knew that that human knight almost flew into the mountain cave together with 8 wing demons at the same time. Those bats didn’t know the levels of those wing demons; however, Zhang Tie knew that the human must be at least a black iron knight as he could fly.

Given the environment here, Zhang Tie judged that the 8 wing demons seemingly had not broken out a fight with that human knight. None of the bats in the mountain cave were involved in either. Given these signs, Zhang Tie judged that the human knight probably was on the same side with those wing demons.

In Taixia Country, those humans who stayed with demons must be remnants of Heavens Reaching Church…

Zhang Tie revealed a cold smile. He had been longing for catching some more b*stards for bloody furnace these days and here they came.

After triggering a hiding rune effect and placing some tracing feathers near the entrance of the mountain cave so as to remind him when someone else entered, Zhang Tie flashed into the mountain cave like a lightning bolt.

Powerhouses were always dauntless. As Zhang Tie was growing more and more powerful, he wouldn’t fear about it even if there were 9 earth knights in the mountain cave at this moment.

It was very dim inside the mountain cave. After flying a few miles, Zhang Tie had seen some strange small insects which looked like the combination of fireflies and spiders. Besides giving out light like fireflies in flight, they could even spit out fine noddle-like webs onto the palisades and stalactites on the top of the mountain cave, making this mountain cave a bit fantastic…

These illuminant small insects were the favorite food of bats. However, their fine webs could stick bats’ wings and scare them too much. Being protected by those fine webs, these illuminant small insects maintained a subtle balance with bats in the mountain cave.

Additionally, the feces that bats left in the mountain cave for so many years could survive smaller insects such as salamanders, centipedes, snakes and dark mice. Therefore, there was an inter-dependent macroecological system in the entire mountain cave.

There were not too many bypasses and gaps in this mountain cave. Some of them were too narrow to pass or were dead ends. Therefore, there was basically only one path in the mountain cave. Zhang Tie even discovered some corpses of Hua fighters with miserable looks whose guts and brains had been eaten up. Therefore, Zhang Tie determined to catch all the 8 demons and the human knight of Three-eye Association…

After twisting in the mountain cave for about 60 miles, Zhang Tie came to a dangerous place in the mountain cave and stopped there…

In the mountain cave, Zhang Tie slightly looked at this place with slight frown.

It was deep underground as it turned more and more spacious. Zhang Tie even saw some special fungi here. However, this place looked very dangerous as the space abruptly narrowed and became deeper. It turned into a tunnel which was only 3 m in height and 2 m in width and extended all the way towards the depth of the underground space.

There were hard granite rocks outside the small entrance, so were inside the tunnel. The tunnel was surrounded by hundreds of millions tons of rocks. Being similar to a magnifying rat’s hole, the moment he entered it, he would barely come out easily if someone blocked the two ends unless he made a spree killing inside.

At the sight of this tunnel, Zhang Tie’s heart suddenly pounded as he felt that this distant and narrow tunnel was full of killing intents.

Zhang Tie didn’t enter it immediately; instead, he looked around the entrance of the tunnel. With the effect of lotus-flower eyes, the rocks surrounding the winding small tunnel gradually turned transparent as the overall look of the small tunnel gradually became clear in Zhang Tie’s eyes.

In this case, even though Zhang Tie had lotus-flower eyes, he could still only see through about 10,000 m in thickness as the granite rocks contained some quartz and metal. The rocks over 10,000 m away would form a thick color temperature barrier and block what was behind it.

Although Zhang Tie was taking the seeds of fiery-flame red lotus, he could at most see through granite rocks about 10,000 m in this case.

The winding tunnel’s length was over 10,000 m; therefore, Zhang Tie couldn’t see what was over 10,000 m away. However, at least everything in this tunnel was normal within 10,000 m.

After thinking about it for a few seconds, Zhang Tie flew into the small tunnel slowly as he fully triggered the effect of his lotus-flower eyes.

After flying about 13,000 m in the small tunnel, Zhang Tie stopped once again; because he could already see the scene on the other end of the tunnel.

After extending over 9,000 m in linear distance, the winding tunnel reached a huge bubble-shaped underground space. If this winding tunnel was one’s intestine, that underground space was like one’s stomach. On the other end of this underground space, there were some slightly bigger entrances which could lead to far away…

Besides the superficial look of this underground space, Zhang Tie could see everything in this space through the thick granite rocks.

A human knight was lurking on top of the underground space near the other end of this narrow tunnel while hiding his qi. If not lotus-flower eyes, Zhang Tie could almost not see him at all. Additionally, 6 wing demon knights were lurking at the entrance of the other entrance of the underground space. Furthermore, 2 more wing demon knights were flying in the underground space as if they were looking for something. They even looked at the other end of this narrow tunnel now and then…

All the 8 wing demons were knights, 5 of them were two-winged black iron knights, 3 of them were earth demon knights who had started to grow out the second pair of wings. Although that human knight was hiding secretly, his look was still clearly exposed under Zhang Tie’s lotus-flower eyes. That human knight looked grim in grey hair. Given his look, he was already old. What was more impressive was the terrifying black pigmented nevus between his eyebrows…

Zhang Tie’s heart pounded, ‘Gao Tianzhao, the founder of Gao Clan of Time-honored Flavor Palace in Lingzhou Province, a top figure in Heavens Reaching Church who’s wanted by the Supreme Court in Taixia Country, whose daughter has married Han Zhengfang’s son.’

If not have seen the wanted image; especially being impressed by that black nevus between the two eyebrows of Gao Tianzhao, Zhang Tie could not identify him at once.

Although being in concealment, that human knight was still keeping a close eye on the exit of that narrow tunnel while narrowing his eyes.

Even though he had not reached there, Zhang Tie could still sense the strong killing intent from that spacious underground space.

Gao Tianzhao and those demon knights were lurking inside for someone.

‘That’s a trap!’

In this case, even an ordinary shadow knight might be killed if he entered the trap set by one shadow human knight and 8 demon knights.

‘Who’s their target?’

After thinking about it for a short while, Zhang Tie got the answer at once——This trap will target anyone who probably breaks in.

‘After one human earth knight and a lot of field scouts and sentinels lost their contacts with Blackwater Base, of course, the one who probably is assigned here to investigate about the situation in this region is me who “looks not bad”!’

‘They’re trapping me…’

‘It’s not a coincidence for Heavens Reaching Church and demons to attract me here by making troubles; but how could they confirm that I would find this place?’

‘Unless they have guessed that I’m an animal controller who could use animals to locate them. If so, those corpses that I saw in the mountain cave must be purposefully left by them.’

‘However, aren’t they afraid of scaring me away? If they’re targeting me, that’s evidently a big loophole. How could an earth knight casually enter a trap ambushed by 9 opposite knights? Do they target someone else? But who else would come except for me?’

Zhang Tie’s eyes gleamed. All of a sudden, he patted his head as he thought it through.

‘They had guessed that I’m an animal controller; however, they had not imagined that I’m cultivating “Great Wilderness Sutra”, the ability of which could not be matched by any other animal controlling skills. The other animal controllers who had not cultivated “Great Wilderness Sutra” probably locate this mountain cave too with the help of animals; they could also get information from those bats that some giant things flew into the mountain cave recently; however, those animal controllers could never know the number of these arrivers and their physical features.’

‘Therefore, this trap became perfect. Because the opponents didn’t know that I’m cultivating “Great Wilderness Sutra”, they’re trapping me in this way. Of course, they don’t know that I have lotus-flower eyes and could see through everything before entering their trap…’

‘F*ck, 9 knights, 1 shadow knight of Heavens Reaching Church, 3 earth wing demon knights and 5 black iron wing demon knights. Demons and Heavens Reaching Church really gave me face. What a great trap…’

Zhang Tie licked his lips…

‘The 9 knights means shiny water chakra for me. How alluring they are! But the point is the great dangers in the allure…’

‘What should I do?’