Castle of Black Iron

In each holy war, the fight for honor between human knights and demon knights was always the most splendid and ferocious component when two armies were confronting with each other.

Starting from the first battle between Taixia Country and demons in the west bank of Weishui River, the fight for honor between human knights and demon knight had been proceeding every day. Each party would win or lose in each round. Usually, it underwent between knights on the same level. Each knight could fight for their own meritorious service in the fight for honor. As long as both parties reached an agreement, a lower-level knight could pose a challenge to a higher-level knight.

The latter rarely happened. However, each fight for the honor of the second kind would become the classic in the holy war. Especially if the lower-level knight challenger won the fight, he would definitely be a hero. Such a victory would sap the opponent’s morale and enhance the morale of his own party in an inestimable manner. Additionally, the latter one was similar to a wager for both parties as it could determine many other aspects besides the result of that fight. It was almost impossible for a lower-level knight to fight a higher-level knight like seeking for death without condition.

Zhang Tie’s wager was his own life. He would like to save the 100 million Hua people who were going to be cannon fodder on the battlefield in terms of the fight for honor.

As for smart ones, this was not a smart way. It was even a bit ruthless and lacked considerations. As for some iron-hearted knights, he was a bit merciful. However, as for Zhang Tie, watching the over 100,000 demon knights above the demon camp, he was pretty calm inside. Zhang Tie only followed his own heart. He couldn’t bear that 100 million commoners were killed by his incendiary mines. Therefore, he would like to give a try, regardless of the result…

Many sophisticated affairs actually could be solved in simple ways. As for knights on the culmination of battle forces in the secular world, the simplest way to solve problems was to fight, as was said by Zhao Yuan——everything determines on whether to die or not and your own heart!

A fight had to end with life or death while following one’s own heart. As for the pattern of a fight, it was a matter of intelligence!

After thinking through it, Zhang Tie felt pretty frank and bright inside. He would not fear even if the number of demon knights increased tenfolds.

Zhang Tie realized the difference between him and his master Zhao Yuan. Zhao Yuan might directly rush towards the opponent and only care about the result of the fight and his own heart. However, Zhang Tie wouldn’t. Because Zhang Tie had too many trump cards. If he didn’t make full use of his trump cards, set traps for demons and get him out of others’ suspicion, he would even feel sorry for himself. Zhang Tie was not silly.

‘Would anyone doubt that I’m a shadow knight who cultivates King Roc Sutra after seeing my battle qi tornado which symbolizes that I’m an earth knight?’

‘Of course not…’

‘Because I will accomplish the promotion to a shadow knight in the fight under the gaze of all the knights at present.’

“Zhang Tie, I heard you’ve already left Xuanyuan Fortress 2 days ago. I’ve not imagined that you could come back. I admit that I’ve underestimated you…” Sagus’ voice drifted across the entire battlefield from the large formation of demon knights.

Given Sagus’ words, it had already admitted that Zhang Tie was qualified to talk with him on the battlefield along with Zhang Tie’s great battle strength and meritorious service. Usually, Sagus ignored ordinary earth knights, even shadow knights. On this battlefield, not everyone could be qualified to have the opposite commander-in-chief open his or its mouth. Similarly, Zuoqiu Mingyue might not respond to the words of a knight who was casually selected among demons.

“I’ve not imagined that a sage-level demon knight could assign a heavenly demon knight to assassinate me. Sagus, I indeed overestimated you…” Zhang Tie said loudly and aggressively in the air as he didn’t fear about the identity of the opponent at all.

With a distance of over 60 miles, even if he didn’t use lotus flower eyes, Zhang Tie could still see clearly that Sagus was sitting decently on the “skull” seat on the top of the central demon battlefortress and looking at him icily while a band of heavenly demon knights were surrounding it.

“In a holy war, some would always die. As long as we could win the war, we would adopt all the possible means. It’s not demons’ patent by assigning a heavenly knight to assassinate an important opponent. In the last holy war, your Demon Supression General Du Guyi assassinated our demon’s crown prince…” Sagus said calmly instead of being driven furious by Zhang Tie’s words, “You should be proud of being assassinated by our heavenly demon knight. Only you’re worth my assassination among all the earth knights of Xuanyuan Fortress. The others don’t deserve that…”

“As Abyss King, you only sap the morale of so many earth human knights in Xuanyuan Fortress by playing with words. I’m really disappointed with you, Sagus…” Zhang Tie roared as he pointed at the army of over 100,000 demon knights on the other side, “Is there anyone among you who dare fight me like a knight on the battlefield of fight for honor? Have your demon knights forgotten about and betrayed the dignity and honor of knights and only deal with your enemy by despicable means? Do you only launch strikes like humble worms in the dark? Where’s your courage and vigor as demon knights?”

Soon after Zhang Tie finished his dull words, so many demon knights had roared among the large formation of demon knights while releasing so many battle qi smokes and tornadoes. The entire large formation of demon knights was in an uproar. Additionally, an irate look flashed across Sagus’ face. Those heavenly demon knights beside Sagus just gazed at Zhang Tie and couldn’t wait to tear apart Zhang Tie alive…

“Your Majesty, please let me fight him. I swear to bring that b*stard’s head back to adorn Your Majesty’s seat…”

“Your Majesty, let me kill that d**chebag…”

So many earth demon knights were hammering their chests and growling for the fight.

Zhang Tie’s words irritated all the demon knights. As knights, they could be brutal, vicious and fish-blooded; however, they had to keep their dignity and honor. Because knights themselves symbolized dignity and honor; especially demon knights who usually regarded themselves as brave and dauntless ones. None of the demon knights at present could imagine that they would be despised by a teenager of Taixia Country. Therefore, all of them were driven mad.

Sagus indeed had not told a lie. As for a sage-level knight, besides Zhang Tie, Sagus indeed despised all the other earth knights of Taixia Country but Zhang Tie. However, the moment it said that, its loophole had been caught by Zhang Tie, sending the entire camp of demon knights into commotion.

However, as Abyss King of demons, although Sagus was irritated by Zhang Tie’s words, he didn’t lose its mind. Instead, it recovered its composure at once. Only by raising its hand, the camp of demon knights had been quiet while Sagus’ icy eye light fell onto Zhang Tie from hundreds of miles away.

“Zhang Tie, as an earth knight, only our demon’s crown prince could counterbalance you in this level. Pitifully, our demon’s crown prince is not in the army of demon knights at this moment. If you want to irritate me and have me assign brave earth demon knights to kill you, you’re absolutely wrong. The battle should be carried out between knights of similar battle strength. If you want to show off your bravery, you should challenge more powerful ones to match your dignity and honor…”

“Hahaha…” Zhang Tie burst out into laughter heroically, “Don’t you want to assign a high-level knight to kill me? Why not make it extravagant? I’m here waiting for you. That shadow demon knight who fought me last time should be in its 3 change realm. It’s said that you demons have enough treasury. As long as you could afford it, you could assign the same shadow knight to have a duel with me again.”

‘That’s insane! Qianji Hermit must be insane!’ Many human knights felt worried inside after hearing that Zhang Tie was going to challenge a shadow demon knight. ‘Is Qianji Hermit that poor? How could he strive for such a battle at the risk of his life? Even though Qianji Hermit has got the essence of sword song and could counterbalance a shadow demon knight, it doesn’t mean that an earth human knight could kill a shadow demon knight. No matter what, the sharp gap between two levels couldn’t be fixed easily; especially in the fight for honor, the longer their duel lasts, the more evident advantages would shadow knight have in speed, strength, endurance and striking strength and the more disadvantageous it would be for the earth knight. Qianji Hermit is really taking a big risk this time…’

After hearing Zhang Tie’s words, Feng Yexiao the elder of Taiyi Fantasy Sect revealed a sneer.

“I disagree…” Zuoqiu Mingyue’s voice had drifted over the battlefield before Sagus opened its mouth, carrying a bit sense of interrogation and condemnation, “General Mushen, it’s too dangerous. Do you know what you are doing?”

“Thanks for your concern, commander-in-chief. However, as guerrilla general of Taixia Country, I could not follow your decree. All the battles are at my discretion and I will be responsible for my death, if that happened…” Zhang Tie answered Zuoqiu Mingyue calmly…

Sagus’ eyes were flickering in a shrewd way under its black helmet as it kept its eyes on Zhang Tie. Soon after Zhang Tie’s words, Sagus had burst out into laughter as its icy voice had drifted across the battlefield, “Fine, what’s your condition…”