Castle of Black Iron

Zhang Tie gained his freedom in the fiery flames of Gao Tianzhao's broken Heavens-eaten Boa...

The moment Zhang Tie escaped away from the trap, Zhang Tie had been able to use his Thor's Hammer once again. In a split second, Zhang Tie called two silver secret longswords out of Castle of Black Iron and prepared to give Gao Tianzhao a heavy blow. Kill him when he was sick! However, after seeing everything in front of him, Zhang Tie stopped at once.

He was in a hidden mountain cave. The dull red magma in the magma pond made the entire mountain cave look red. The mountain cave was closed in the surroundings. Only that magma pond led to outside. On the earth near the palisades, there was some magma. Given the current situation, the Heavens-eaten Boa should arrive at this place through that magma pond. Zhang Tie really wondered how Gao Tianzhao found such a secret place. The magma pond must be connected to a magma lake or a magma river. It was as hard as finding a needle in the ocean by finding such a secret place in the underground space.

Due to the existence of the magma pond, the temperature in the mountain cave was about 50-60 degrees Celsius. Besides making people suffocated, the air in the mountain cave was also thin. Commoners could barely survive this place or stay here for a long time. However, such an environment was just so-so for a shadow know or an earth knight.

Gao Tianzhao was lying on the ground naked. He was scorched like a roasted duck which was tossed out of the oven. Crouching on the ground, Gao Tianzhao was showing the white in his eyes and spitting black blood. Additionally, he would twitch time and then.

Zhang Tie was really startled by Gao Tianzhao's look. If not fight Gao Tianzhao all the way here, Zhang Tie couldn't believe that the one who looked more miserable than a beggar could be Gao Tianzhao.

'Is this guy dying? He's got a complete water chakra. I will suffer a great loss if he just dies in this way.'

When he thought about that, Zhang Tie hurriedly put away his Thor's Hammer and two silver secret items. Being vigilant, Zhang Tie walked over there and squatted down before checking him carefully.

'Thank God, he's alive. His water chakra doesn't seem to collapse. However, Gao Tianzhao has already lost his battle strength for the time being.'

Watching Gao Tianzhao who was as poor as a chick whose hair had been plucked up, Zhang Tie poured some all-purpose medicaments into Gao Tianzhao's stomach so as to prevent his injuries going worse. After that, he threw Gao Tianzhao into Castle of Black Iron like picking odds and ends from refuse reaps before standing up...

Right then, Zhang Tie's remote-sensing crystal finger ring rocked. Zhang Tie found it was a message from Blackwater Base...

——No. 136, powerhouses of Blackwater Base have already arrived at the coordinates that you marked on the map in Helan Mountain Range and are searching for you. How're you? Do you need any help? Waiting for your response...

When Zhang Tie was thinking about how to reply it, he received the same message once again.

——No. 136, powerhouses of Blackwater Base have already arrived at the coordinates that you marked on the map in Helan Mountain Range and are searching for you. How're you? Do you need any help? Waiting for your response...

A few seconds later, he received the same message for the third time.

Although being not in Blackwater Base, Zhang Tie could almost feel the anxious look of the Hua official who was texting him from Blackwater Base.

When in the stomach of the Heavens-eaten Boa, Zhang Tie didn't pay attention to his remote-sensing communications finger ring. Therefore, he didn't know how long had Blackwater Base insisted on trying to contacting him. Zhang Tie realized that Blackwater Base wondered whether he was still alive or not.

The moment Zhang Tie wanted to reply to Blackwater Base, he suddenly became hesitated as he thought about his thunder hawk. He realized that there might be some moles of demons and Heavens Reaching Church in Blackwater Base. If someone was keeping a close eye on Zhang Tie, Ye Qingcheng might not be the only one who saw Zhang Tie leaving the base by riding a thunder hawk. As Ye Qingcheng was gazing at him as a heavenly knight at that time, Zhang Tie could sense it; however, if someone watched him by telescope in a room of Blackwater Base or on the nearby ground, Zhang Tie might ignore that because there were many ground-to-air observation posts in Blackwater Base at that time.

When Zhang Tie thought about that, he made a reply after a consideration.

——I'm still alive. I've got enough medicaments and materials with me. But I need to recuperate myself. I'm in a hidden place and might not be able to execute the mission as a scout in a short period anymore.

Zhang Tie and Blackwater Base communicated in terms of independent and special codes. Besides Zhang Tie himself, even though the others gained his remote-sensing communications finger ring, they could not pass the message in the correct way. Of course, they could not decipher the messages received by this finger ring. Now that Blackwater Base could receive the correct information, it indicated that Zhang Tie was still alive.

After receiving Zhang Tie's message, Blackwater Base waited for half a minute before sending another message.

——How long will it take you to recover?

——About 1-2 months!

Zhang Tie dared not make it too short. The difference in battle strength between an earth knight and 8 demon knights was greater than 10 times. In such a case, it was already fortunate for Zhang Tie to keep his life. If not have so many trump cards, Zhang Tie might have been killed this time. Even if he told them that he could recover in 3-5 days, they would not believe in that.

Actually, it was already amazing for a knight to recover in 1-2 months after fighting a knight who was higher than him in level. It indicated that Zhang Tie was at least not completely passive facing the ambush of a shadow knight. It proved Zhang Tie's great power and fitted the powerful image that Qianji Hermit left to the public.

——Fine, please contact Blackwater Base after you recover! End!

——Received, end!

In the communication, Zhang Tie didn't tell them where he was. Blackwater Base also didn't ask him about that tacitly. Zhang Tie knew that Blackwater Base had already paid attention to the contents in his last message.

After contacting Blackwater Base, Zhang Tie sent a message to Bai Suxian and Mountain Lifting Hermit respectively and told them that he was safe. After that, he looked around that space before entering Castle of Black Iron while rubbing his hands.

If those people in Blackwater Base knew that Zhang Tie was safe and sound and had caught Gao Tianzhao and all the 8 demon knights alive. The entire Blackwater Base might be in an uproar at once.

...

"No. 136 received the message and replied: received, end!"

A female Hua official in short hair was putting her hands on a mini pyramid-shaped remote-sensing communications device in a safety communications room of the control center of Blackwater Base. After receiving Zhang Tie's last message, she turned around and reported it to some guys behind her.

Ye Qingcheng and two knights of Blackwater Base were standing behind this female official who was responsible for contacting Zhang Tie. After receiving Zhang Tie's messages, they all became reassured.

Ye Qingcheng listened to her reply as he asked her with a slight frown, "How's the situation over Helan Mountain Range?"

"General Zhao has already sent a message. They have found a lot of corpses of human scouts and sentinels in that maple woods that Zhang Tie reported. Meanwhile, they found the combat traces of knights in that underground tunnel. The entire underground tunnel was collapsed. The combat was very fierce. It should at least be caused by a shadow knight. Additionally, at least 5 demon knights' qis were discovered in that tunnel. However, all the demon knights and Gao Tianzhao have disappeared and could be barely traced." A knight who looked gentle beside Ye Qingcheng replied kindly.

Even in the room, Ye Qingcheng was also talking with the knight beside him secretly. Even though the female officer who was responsible for contacting Zhang Tie on one side didn't know that No. 136 is Zhang Tie's byname in Blackwater Base. It was classified. Commoners could not know that. It was a confidential method adopted by Taixia troops which had passed the test of two holy wars.

"At least?" Ye Qingcheng turned around at once as he accented unconsciously as if he was not satisfied with this blurry word.

"Yes, besides the traces of combats between powerful knights, there were also a lot of explosive traces of alchemist's bombs in the underground tunnel, the two regions mixed with each other, causing great destruction. Therefore, we could barely identify the highest battle strength level among them. It should be at least a shadow knight!"

"Alchemist's bomb?" After hearing that word, Ye Qingcheng became slightly stunned. Closely after that, he became relieved, "It's not difficult for Zhang Tie to get some alchemist's bombs!"

"Jinwu Business Group have started to stockpile alchemist's bombs a few years ago. Zhang Tie probably escaped away from the fatal trap of Gao Tianzhao with the help of his portable alchemist's bombs. Qianji Hermit should have preventive measures!"

"It's your turn. Before Blackwater Base arrived at Helan Mountain Range, I want to know who else has seen Zhang Tie leaving the base by riding his thunder hawk..." Ye Qingcheng said with a sort of killing intent, "Now that he has revealed his tail, catch him out of there..."

"I see!" The gentle knight replied as a shrewd light flashed by his eyes.

In late weeks, the vanguards of demons aggravated their strikes in Wuzhou Province, Zhuzhou Province and Yinzhou Province. More and more demons were discovered in Helan Mountain Range and Weishui River in an increasing frequency. After the 11 advanced bases of humans completed their gathering steadily and consolidated the defense line in the rear of Peacewest Military Region, in order to prevent Wuzhou Province, Zhuzhou Province and Yinzhou Province from be fully isolated by the vanguards of demons and for less loss, the 11 advanced bases of humans had been thinking about officially pushing the defense line of the advanced bases to Helan Mountain Range and Weishui River...