Castle of Black Iron

The city was still covered with flames while the airships that scattered just now had already gathered in the distance and started to fly eastwards once again. An airboat was suspending above the burning city. All the demons had disappeared. The 3 earth human knights who chased after demon knights just now had already returned. When Zhang Tie flew back from afar, he saw many human knights flying towards him.

The bloody head of the earth wing demon knight in Zhang Tie’s hand indicated Zhang Tie’s military exploit. At the sight of that bloody head, all the human knights watched Zhang Tie with evidently respectful and admirable looks.

If not Zhang Tie’s timely arrival, it was hard to say how many people among these human knights could survive.

Zhang Tie’s young look shocked those human knights so much and made himself more formidable. They could barely imagine such a young shadow knight in Taixia Country. That was unbelievable! Of course, some shadow knights could recover youth after taking precious medicines. Most of the human knights at present felt that this young man might have taken many precious medicines. They had indeed heard about such precious medicines. However, none of these human knights had ever seen them. Because such precious medicines would always be collected by minor top clans or powerhouses. They were treasures for all the female knights. Nobody would like to auction these precious medicines. Only a couple of human knights felt a bit familiar with Zhang Tie’s look. However, they didn’t believe that the young man was Zhang Tie.

“Immortal, may I know your name?” One old man of the three earth human knights who fought demons just now asked as he bowed towards Zhang Tie.

Immortal was an honorific appellation for shadow knights in Taixia Country. Not until now did these human knights think that Zhang Tie was a shadow knight.

“I’m Zhang Tie from Huaiyuan Palace in Youzhou Province!”

“Qianji Hermit…” Someone couldn’t help but exclaim when he heard Zhang Tie’s name.

Qianji Hermit was so famous that everyone at present had heard his name. However, these human knights could not imagine that Zhang Tie would be so powerful and kill demon knights as easily as killing a chick, whether it was a black iron demon knight or an earth demon knight.

Under the “amazed” gazes of these people, Zhang Tie flew over there and gave that bloody head to the middle-aged man who looked anguished with bloody eyes while saying, “Here’s the head of the earth demon knight who killed your elder brother. Pitifully, I could not save your elder brother. It’s an admirable and heroic deed for your elder brother to fight an earth demon knight to death. Dead people couldn’t be resurrected; please restrain your grief…”

Zhang Tie’s eldest brother also fought to death on the battlefield, which always made his parents, his second elder brother and him grievous. Therefore, Zhang Tie could understand the anguished feeling of this human knight who lost his elder brother and determined to revenge for this human knight by beheading that earth demon knight.

Watching Zhang Tie giving the head of the earth demon knight to him, the middle-aged human knight dropped off his tears at once as he took the head with quivering hands. Although being in the sky, he still knelt down in front of Zhang Tie as he said, “Zhang Yushan from Qingxi Palace, Wuzhou Province appreciates Qianji Hermit for your righteous deed. Qianji Hermit saved our Qingxi Palace out of danger and venged for my elder brother. As long as one member of Qingxi Palace is left in the world, we would never forget about your great kindness…”

“Hurry, stand up!” Zhang Tie immediately pulled up the middle-aged man.

After feeling the great strength from Qianji Hermit’s hand, the middle-aged knight could only stand up. Closely after that, he undid an emerald plate from his waist which was carved with some words and gave it to Zhang Tie, “This is my portable token. Please take it. Later on, if Qianji Hermit needs my help, you could have someone bring this token to Qingxi Palace. Zhang Yushan would definitely shrink from no sacrifice…”

After feeling Zhang Yushan’s solemn attitude, Zhang Tie took it solemnly too; otherwise, Zhang Yushan might feel that Zhang Tie despised Qingxi Palace.

Not until Zhang Tie took the token did Zhang Yushan seemingly feel reassured as he said in a bit sorrowful and resolute manner, “As my elder brother has just fought to death, I need to deal with the funeral affairs for him. Additionally, my clan suffered a loss more or less. We’ve got some airships. The airship troop of Qingxi Palace is waiting for me to command. I have to go now…”

After saying that, Zhang Yushan extended his thanks to Zhang Tie and the other knights who fought together with him just now before flying far away.

Not until then did Zhang Tie understand that those airships that were attacked by wing demons just now were withdrawal forces of Qingxi Palace in Wuzhou Province.

After Zhang Yushan left, Zhang Tie learned what happened from the others through a brief talk.

The burning city beside them was Xiangshan City in the Xiangshan Prefecture of Wuzhou Province, which was a standard Class A major city. Xiangshan City was also one of the transit bases in Wuzhou Province from Xiangshan Prefecture to Helan Prefecture. Yesterday, the withdrawal airship troop of Qingxi Palace was resting and reorganizing in Xiangshan City. Unexpectedly, when they were going to evacuate today, a team of wing demon vanguard raided them. As a result, 1 earth human knight and 3 black iron human knights were severely injured; Xiangshan City and Qingxi Palace which was going to evacuate suffered a great loss. Thankfully, Xu Baoan the Cheji General of Wuzhou Province was patrolling in the nearby by airboat. When he saw the battle qi smokes and tornados in Xiangshan City, he hurriedly came over here and weakened the force of demon knights. However, humans were generally in a disadvantageous position.

When they were having fierce combat with wing demon knights and were on the brink of collapse, Zhang Tie’s arrival reversed the battle situation at once.

Besides a human knight of Qingxi Place and a human knight who was responsible for defending Xiangshan City fought to death before Zhang Tie’s arrival, Zhang Tie himself killed 2 earth wing demon knights and 2 black iron wing demon knights. Besides, the other human knights killed another 4 black iron wing demon knight in later pursuit. Given the casualties, humans gained a triumph…

After hearing that he was in Xiangshan City, Zhang Tie knew that Gao Tianzhao had flown over 1,200 miles towards the west from the mountainous area of Helan Mountain Range and entered Xiangshan Prefecture after penetrating through Helan Prefecture in Wuzhou Province which neighbored Helan Mountain Range…

He was in the frontline of the holy war…