Castle of Black Iron

For the Yin and Yang Sect, some apologists or passionate young people might oppose; but for Zhang Tie, who was really experienced and had seen too much darkness and unfairness, he just laughed at it generously.

In Zhang Tie’s opinion, the only unfortunate thing for Yin-Yang Sect was that it had provoked the Force Emperor; nothing else. Zhang Tie had nothing to do with the resentment between Force Emperor Immortal Palace and Yin-Yang Sect.

Take Jiang Ruoxin and Ji Yuelan for an instance. Others said that the disciples of Yin-Yang Sect were both over dissolute and despicable, male and female; only Zhang Tie knew that Jiang Ruoxin and Ji Yuelan were clean. Jiang Ruoxin was innocent about the love affairs between male and female; even Ji Yuelan, who seemed to be bold and unconstrained, had never had a love affair with a man. Given their daily communication, the two women were nothing different than disciples of ordinary sects. Jiang Ruoxin had a strong purpose in doing things; even though she still had her bottom line.

After Zhang Tie came to Longhuang Pavilion on duty for a few days, Jiang Ruoxin and Ji Yuelan had received transfer orders from Earth-Treasures Department and stayed in Dragon Emperor City. Zhang Tie really wandered what means had Jiang Ruoxin adopted.

These two women are somewhat competent.

Jiang Ruoxin became the assistant of the auxiliary agency of Earth-Treasures Department, while Ji Yuelan became the guardian of the department.

After joining the Dibao Courtyard, the two girls and Zhang Tie gathered in the Apricot Blossom Courtyard for a drink once more. Then, the two girls officially moved out of Zhang Tie’s Apricot Blossom Courtyard.

According to Ji Yuelan, Elder Luo who presided over the Earth-Treasures Department was strict with the immortal generals in the Earth-Treasures Department. In addition to getting married, if she knew that Jiang Ruoxin and Ji Yuelan lived with a man, she would never allow Jiang Ruoxin and Ji Yuelan to stay in Earth-Treasures Department anymore, even if nothing special happened between them. Therefore, the two people had to move out of the Apricot Blossom Courtyard for a more proper place for them in Dragon Emperor City.

After they left there, the Apricot Blossom Courtyard was thoroughly tranquil and became exclusive to Zhang Tie.

In the eyes of outsiders, Zhang Tie was idle every day. In fact, Zhang Tie was busy every day completely beyond other people’s imagination, even on the way between Apricot Blossom Courtyard and Dragon Emperor Pavilion.

Zhang Tie’s daily route to the Dragon Emperor Pavilion was not fixed. While traveling across Dragon Emperor City by his flying lizard, Zhang Tie always widely opened his eyes and pricked up his ears to see and listen if there were any suspicious characters along the way; especially those shadow demons who pretended to be humans.

Through chatting with Hong Yukun and Xu Gang every day, Zhang Tie enriched his understanding of the Motian Realm. He secretly paid attention to useful information and planned the future of the Dragon Emperor Immortal Palace.

Zhang Tie was superficially sleeping soundly in the Dragon Emperor Pavilion every day. In fact, he was traveling spiritually across Dragon Emperor City. The streets and houses in the Dragon Emperor City become Zhang Tie’s fields, where Zhang Tie plowed every day using his spiritual strength in order to find some useful information.

Zhang Tie thought that if demons really wanted to do something in the Dragon Emperor City, they would definitely master the whereabouts of the five elders and two grand justices in Dragon Emperor City. Before demon powerhouses started a war, some demons would definitely lurk in Dragon Emperor City, collect or observe the whereabouts of those influential human figures. Shadow demons were evidently the best lurkers. In Motian Realm, shadow demons were common. As Dragon Emperor City was very large and open, it was very difficult to completely eliminate shadow demons here.

After returning to the Apricot Blossom Courtyard every day, Zhang Tie either immersed himself in the trouble-reappearance situations to cultivate Dragon Emperor’s secret methods and battle skills or to improve the speed of gathering the two energy from the void using his spiritual strength. As a result, Zhang Tie could only sleep less than 3 hours a day.

Dragon Emperor’s  Shocking the World Sutra  was a throne-level secret method and the exclusive brand of Dragon Emperor. Zhang Tie converted his brand secret method into Shocking the World Sutra in the shortest time.

After mastering Shocking the World Sutra left by Dragon Emperor, Zhang Tie got a bold guess.

Dragon Emperor’s words almost carried all of his strongest life-time battle skills, except for Xuanyuan Deity Sutra . There might be one possibility that when the Dragon Emperor left the words and went to the Mountain Ruins, he might have not obtained Xuanyuan Deity Sutra , which was acquired in the Mountain Ruins. Therefore, Dragon Emperor brought Xuanyuan Deity Sutra into the world where he came from; instead of leaving it in Motian Realm. Otherwise, given the character of the Dragon Emperor, if he had mastered the complete Xuanyuan Deity Sutra at that time, he would definitely have left it in Motian Realm.

Mountain Ruins might contain complete emperor-level secret methods, which was confirmed by Hong Yukun’s words.

According to Hong Yukun, long long ago, someone had acquired complete high-level secret methods in Mountain Ruins; actually, more than one person had acquired them over there. One important reason why Mountain Ruins could drive numerous demon and human powerhouses mad was that there had been a legend in Motian Realm that there were deities’ secret methods in Mountain Ruins such as Xuanyuan Deity Sutra .

Now that there might be such a complete emperor-level secret method as Xuanyuan Deity Sutra in Mountain Ruins, didn’t that mean that there might be a complete King Roc Sutra in Mountain Ruins?

The moment this whim occurred to Zhang Tie, Zhang Tie had felt blood boiling all over.

Of course, it was not the time to ponder the treasures in Mountain Ruins. One of the most urgent problems facing Zhang Tie was the Dragon Emperor Immortal Palace.

There were two challenges brought to Zhang Tie by Dragon Emperor Immortal Palace. The first one was that Zhang Tie didn’t want ordinary people in the Dragon Emperor City to be involved in the coming battle of powerhouses. The second one was to let the Dragon Emperor Immortal Palace continue to exist and develop in Motian Realm.

Each of the two challenges was a problem for Zhang Tie, an “outsider”. But in these days, when these two problems were placed in front of Zhang Tie at the same time, when Zhang Tie woke up on one morning, he suddenly found that the simplest way to solve the two problems was to make himself the new Dragon Emperor in the Dragon Emperor Immortal Palace and the representative of Dragon Emperor Immortal Palace in Motian Realm; then, the two problems could be solved easily.

If Zhang Tie did not get the secret methods and battle skills of the Dragon Emperor, the tasks would also be impossible to accomplish. However, Zhang Tie got them; especially after Zhang Tie read all the memory crystals left by the Dragon Emperor carefully and repeatedly, a plan suddenly came to his mind when Zhang Tie rode a flying lizard in the Dragon Emperor City every day.

In the blink of an eye, Zhang Tie had lived in Dragon Emperor City for eight months.