Castle of Black Iron

“Now that my opponent is a shadow knight in its 3 change realm, just pay me 30,000 crystals of earth, water, wind and fire elements respectively, plus a piece of space-teleportation equipment. Put those element crystals in the space-teleportation equipment and give it to me…”

Zhang Tie quoted soon after Sagus’ words.

Zhang Tie’s price shocked all the knights in Xuanyuan Fortress.

As for common knights, this price was astronomical; however, Zhang Tie knew that Sagus would never miss such a rare, public opportunity now that it could assign a heavenly demon knight to assassinate me.

In the eyes of demons, an earth knight was not worth that much; however, a human knight who could get the essence of sword song and invented Fiery Oil, all-purpose medicaments, incendiary weapons and solved the food crisis in the theater of operations was definitely a great threat facing demons in the holy war. Given the angle of view and judgment of commander-in-chief, it could afford such a bit price for the life of this human knight.

As demons lived under the ground, they naturally had more means to acquire items such as element crystals and silver secret items than humans. Given the quantity of silver secret items in the space-teleportation of the demon general that Zhang Tie killed, demon knights absolutely had more silver secret items than human knights, not to mention the other resources.

Shadow knight in its 3 change realm was just a piece of cake for Zhang Tie. What counted most at this moment was to induce Sagus to continue to bet with him like a gambler who had lost a lot step by step on the premise of consuming the overall strength of demons.

With the onset of the large-scale battle between humans and demons, Sagus would definitely disagree to exchange over 200 million Hua captives for Zhang Tie’s life. Even if he agreed, demons and Three-eye Association would also transport more Hua captives to the frontline from their rear end. Zhang Tie aimed at eliminating the similar actions of driving innocent Hua captives forward as cannon fodder on the battlefield.

“Fine, I agree…”

As was predicted, Sagus instantly agreed with Zhang Tie’s request.

Sagus waved its hand, fetching that demon knight in its 3 change realm who fought Zhang Tie ferociously last time. Closely after that, it spoke something to a knight-level bodyguard on its side. The knight-level bodyguard then turned around and entered the nest-like battlefortress of demons. After a short while, it came out, holding up a tray with a sanguine finger ring on it.

With that sanguine finger ring, the wing shadow demon knight in its 3 change realm flew towards Zhang Tie.

It stopped when it was 1,000 m away from Zhang Tie. After throwing its grim and bloody glance at Zhang Tie, it licked its lips and threw the sanguine finger ring towards Zhang Tie silently.

Although the sanguine finger ring flew towards Zhang Tie as fast as a lightning bolt, Zhang Tie caught it at once. After checking it, Zhang Tie found it was a top-notch product, containing 30,000 crystals of water, wind, wind and fire elements respectively and tidily.

So many knights were gazing at Zhang Tie’s finger ring.

“Commander-in-chief, please keep this object for me. If I died, please hand everything inside this finger ring to my family members in Fire-dragon Bounty Territory!”

Even the performance should be complete. At this moment, if Zhang Tie put away the finger ring in the public, he might arouse others’ suspicion. Because if he really fought to death, these items would become the booty of the opponent, in which case, he would be doubted as a traitor of humans. On the premise that Zhang Tie was not sure that he could win the duel, of course, he should hand these valuables to a reliable person; otherwise, his death, if there was, would be futile.

Zhang Tie said solemnly which indicated his decisiveness for such a duel. Of course, Sagus and the other demon knights didn’t feel that they suffered a great loss after hearing that.

Soon after Zhang Tie’s words, a shadow knight had flown out of Zuoqiu Mingyue’s side. Zhang Tie threw that finger ring to him when the latter was 1,000 m behind. After taking the finger ring, the shadow human knight threw a deep glance at Zhang Tie before returning to Zuoqiu Mingyue’s side, leaving Zhang Tie and that shadow demon knight who fought Zhang Tie last time in the center of the battlefield.

“Brat, I will break your neck today. Can we start the fight now?” That shadow demon knight was itching for a try with a silver secret item——long spear in hand.

After flying out of Zhang Tie’s sleeve, the Devouring Dragon instantly incarnated into a longsword. Zhang Tie pointed at the shadow wing demon knight with his long sword and was ready for the combat immediately with a solemn look, “I’m ready…”

The shadow wing demon knight’s eyes sparkled. Closely after that, Zhang Tie and that shadow wing demon knight disappeared from where they were standing and collided with each other ferociously in the middle of the battlefield.

The moment the duel came to a start, Zhang Tie had given out a golden halo, indicating that he had released his aiding strength——supreme protection.

“It’s the light of a gentleman…”

“Ahh, aiding strength, it’s aiding strength of Qianji Hermit…”

The golden halo around Zhang Tie immediately aroused the exclamations of many knights in Xuanyuan Fortress. It was the first time for most of those knights to see Zhang Tie’s light of gentleman and aiding strength.

The body and battle qi of the wing shadow demon knight was purple-red. Looking at it from afar, people could see a golden light and a purple-red luster wrestling with each other like two fierce dragons. Battle qis were shooting towards different directions from the middle of the battlefield as fast as lightning bolts. The collisions between Zhang Tie and that shadow demon knight were as loud as thunders. Almost since the start, the duel had become white-hot as they started the most dangerous close combat almost at the same time…

The shadow demon knight determined to kill Zhang Tie. Therefore, it had already exerted its utmost effort since the beginning. So did Zhang Tie…

Shadow demon knight’s strength, speed, defensive power, endurance and lethality of battle qi couldn’t be matched by earth knights. However, Zhang Tie had made progress in cultivating the “Big Sword Sutra” these days; especially in that bloody sacrifice ritual of those d**chebag knights of Three-eye Association 2 days ago, during which process, he had recovered the water chakra of Ockham and broken through his swordsmanship using the greater part of the energy of the bloody sacrifice. Therefore, although it was only a short period, Zhang Tie had made much greater progress in his cultivation base of swordsmanship than that when he got the essence of sword song…

Watching Zhang Tie’s crisscrossing sword light facing the strike of the shadow demon knight, his grand and longsword qi like big rivers and his sword awareness like flying waterfall and galaxies, which were as light as cicada’s wings, as heavy as mountains, as hot as the sun and as concealing as a dragon entering the clouds, all the knights who cultivated swordsmanship in Xuanyuan Fortress were in daze as they felt thirsty. Even Zuoqiu Mingyue’s snow-white long eyebrows quivered as he had not imagined that Zhang Tie could reach such a high realm in the cultivation base of swordsmanship only in less than 2 months.

The wing demon had an advantage in speed in the sky; especially a shadow wing demon knight; however, Zhang Tie’s supreme protection offset the wing demon’s advantage in speed in the sky. The wing demon’s protective battle qi was powerful; however, Zhang Tie’s sharp Devouring Dragon couldn’t be born by an ordinary knight. The wing demon had an exceptional striking strength; however, the protective sword wind outside Zhang Tie’s protective battle qi could automatically face and shatter the strike of the shadow wing demon knight before the latter fell onto Zhang Tie…

Previously, Zhang Tie didn’t know about the name of this powerful skill that he acquired when he got the essence of sword song. After reading the “Big Sword Sutra”, Zhang Tie knew that this extremely powerful skill was called protective sword wind.

Zhang Tie could better understand the great power of protective sword wind; especially in combat.

Protective sword wind could not reach far. Like Zhang Tie’s shadow, the protective sword wind only existed within over 10 m around Zhang Tie. However, protective sword wind could be either rigid or soft, aggressive or defensive; it could appear out of the void and disappear in the void. It had already become an integral part of Zhang Tie’s body and instinct. As long as Zhang Tie ran his spiritual energy, he would bring about his protective sword wind. Sometimes, protective sword wind could even manifest automatically when it sensed the strike. It could be more powerful and sharp than sword qi like the blade of Devouring Dragon, and as tender as protective battle qi. All the strikes from the shadow wing demon knight should penetrate through Zhang Tie’s protective sword wind before hitting Zhang Tie’s protective battle qi.

With supreme Protection, protective sword wind, protective battle qi, body built by too many iron-body fruits, medium recovery body and great vitality, Zhang Tie’s physique and defensive ability had been out of everybody’s imagination except Zhang Tie himself.

In this case, that shadow wing demon knight was so dejected that most of its strikes against Zhang Tie had been offset by Zhang Tie’s protective sword wind before falling on Zhang Tie’s protective battle qi. As for the rest energy, even though it could penetrate through or break the protective sword wind and fall onto Zhang Tie’s protective battle qi, its destructive power would be weakened a lot…

Even so, the shadow wing demon knight’s overall strength was still something due to the sharp gap between levels; especially that long spear in the claw of the shadow wing demon knight. As a silver secret item, each prick of the long spear would send a scorching snake flying out, which could even melt metals. The shadow wing demon knight also performed its long spear at its utmost efforts. In the sky, Zhang Tie would be surrounded by hundreds of burning snakes at any time which seemed to burn Zhang Tie into ashes in a split second…

On the premise of not exposing the other trump cards, such combat was still pretty hard for Zhang Tie; however, it was what Zhang Tie wanted.

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The mesmerizing, fierce combat lasted over 2 hours under the gaze of over 200,000 human and demon knights…

At the most ferocious moment, the long spear pierced through Zhang Tie’s protective battle qi and came out from the back of Zhang Tie’s left shoulder. Zhang Tie also broke the arm of the shadow demon knight which was holding its long spear by his Devouring Dragon. The shadow wing demon knight flew backward rapidly as it growled and released its virtual image——a hundred meter long, bizarre, burning bird. The huge bird pricked at Zhang Tie with its sharp claws and peak, which looked more aggressive than before…

After uttering a long growl, Zhang Tie integrated with his longsword and turned into a 100 m long silver sword light, penetrating through the virtual image of the shadow wing demon knight.

The entire battlefield became quiet while over 200,000 knights held their breath at this moment.

Zhang Tie and that shadow demon knight both stayed still in the air. After that, the shadow demon knight turned around its head as it moved its wings and threw a glance at Zhang Tie…

With a loud sound “bang”, the shadow wing demon knight exploded in the air, spraying blood foam and flesh in the sky and tinting the sky red.

Zhang Tie pulled the long spear out of his left shoulder by his right hand; the blood tinted half of his body red. At the same time, Zhang Tie swayed in the air as he spurted a mouthful of blood, which seemed “pretty miserable”…

Zhang Tie won the combat. Qianji Hermit killed the shadow demon knight!

All the knights of Taixia Country in Xuanyuan Fortress cheered up immediately. It was always a legend that a knight could kill another one on a higher level in the fight for honor. Fortunately, they witnessed this legend…

Feng Yexiao’s face turned pale in a split second…