Castle of Black Iron

Water elements were gradually drawn from water element crystals by Zhang Tie like a trickle and were filled into the sophisticated geometric patterns on Zhang Tie's water chakra. As a result, those empty geometric 3D patterns were gradually becoming solid at a conspicuous speed...

Zhang Tie had already lit 357 scales of his water chakra, with only 3 to go before a circular object was completely closed.

At this moment, only Zhang Tie could sense that his emperor-level water chakra was slowly rotating like a huge millstone in the peripheral of his void. Like a huge whale that was going to jump out of the tranquil sea level, it silently disrupted the water elements in the elements realm. Being close to the water chakra from its inside was earth chakra. Being close to the earth chakra from its inside was the first chakra that Zhang Tie had formed when he promoted to a black iron knight. The first chakra had many appellations, such as surging points chakra, black iron chakra, the chakra of heart and light of dragon, etc... The energy core of the first chakra contained the secrets of the secret method that each knight was cultivating. The great power of knight's consciousness originated from this core.

Even though Zhang Tie had not completely lit his water chakra, he still experienced some abnormal phenomena. Mysterious and powerful energy had already started to flow gloomily between water chakra and earth chakra. After being lubricated by water chakra, the earth chakra had started to be more vibrant while it was emitting some strange brilliance, in which, mysterious feather-shaped runes loomed one after another. Right in the middle of the energy core, a huge bird loomed there as if it was going to hatch any time.

Zhang Tie knew that the huge bird that was going to hatch was the virtual image of King Roc. When he fully lit his water chakra, the virtual image of King Roc would integrate with his body.

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It seemed that it had been too long or transient when Zhang Tie fully absorbed the water elements from the crystal in his hand and lit a corner of a tiny geometric pattern on his water chakra, Zhang Tie finally opened his eyes.

For several weeks consecutively, Zhang Tie absorbed 4 water elements crystals before getting up each day. Such a cultivation efficiency might be terrifying for other earth knights; however, it was too slow for Zhang Tie.

As Zhang Tie had adapted to the terrifyingly high cultivation efficiency brought by Purgatory Samsara Method, when he formed water chakra by absorbing water elements from crystals, he felt like returning to the Stone Age from the human society before the Catastrophe. Additionally, as each scale on the water chakra of King Roc Sutra would require a lot of water elements, even though Zhang Tie had been cultivating and absorbing almost 100 water element crystals since he joined the no. 46 air cavalry regiment, there was still a long way to go before he lit the 358th scale.

However, Zhang Tie became especially calm in this case. He told himself to be carefree. 'Patience is a virtue. It's the best time for me to cultivate my disposition. Besides being powerful physically, knights should also have a strong mind and self-discipline. Since I promoted to a knight, I had been promoting to higher levels faster. Additionally, I could absorb water elements dozens of times faster than others. As I don't lack water element crystals and would promote to a shadow knight only after lighting 3 more scales. If I couldn't wait to lit them with such good conditions and couldn't stand the temporary loneliness outside the threshold of shadow knights' world; and just want to seek for the shortcut in a faster way, such a mentality would definitely leave an irreparable loophole and shortcoming in my soul for the rest of my life. It would definitely become the hurdle for me to reach higher peaks. It might even become a fatal shortcoming that my enemy would use to capture me.'

As for the reasons that he joined No. 46 air cavalry regiment, besides the reaon that Zuoqiu Mingyue knew, Zhang Tie wanted to strengthen his heart in a purely traditional manner in the identity of an ordinary officer and promoted to a shadow knight step by step.

It was his original intention to become an air cavalry while a calm cultivation was to purify his heart. By changing his identities, Zhang Tie was actually making a bizarre journey of purifying his heart.

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After opening his eyes, Zhang Tie sat on a simple camp bed with crossed legs. The four water element crystal on the bedside had been empty. It was an officer's dorm, which was almost as constrictive as his attic in Blackhot City. However, such a dorm was already a luxurious configurement in the camp. It was also matched with a private washroom where the officers could take a bath; instead of queuing up in the bath house.

The dorm was clean and tidy.

The head of Zhang Tie's bed was facing the only window of the dorm. When Zhang Tie opened his eyes, he saw the dim sky through the gap between the curtain and the wall.

Zhang Tie waved his arm, teleporting the 4 empty water element crystals into Castle of Black Iron at once. After that, Zhang Tie entered the washroom. After a short while, the sound of the shower had drifted from there.

10 minutes later, Zhang Tie walked out of the washroom naked while drying his wet hair using a towel. He then put on clothes and arranged his dorm well before leaving.

It was still dim outside, except that the eastern skyline was a bit yellowish.

Two fluorescent lamps lit up the corridor. There was a lawn and a parterre outside the dorm. The verdant cypresses were evergreen while the grass in the lawn had turned yellowish while being covered with thick frost. Like a snowy day, the moment Zhang Tie exited his dorm, he had felt chilly as the desolate chill in late autumn drilled into Zhang Tie's collar.

Unconsciously, Zhang Tie had joined No. 46 air cavalry regiment for over 1 month. Through daily training with air cavalries, Zhang Tie had been constantly absorbing water elements from crystals and learning the Big Sword Sutra. It soon came to November.

Strangely, over the past 1 month, demons didn't launch any battle which involved over 1,000 people in the air and on the ground, although skirmishes never stopped during this period. The entire battlefield seemed to be the stage of knights. After the dogfight over 1 month ago, brave knights would pose a challenge to the opponent's knights of the same level for a duel each day. As such duels underwent under the gaze of hundreds of thousands of knights of both parties, neither participant would retreat...

The duel between two knights on the same level was the stage that could mostly display the courage and power of knights of both parties as the most heart-wrenching mode in the holy war. Through such a combat mode, many heroes presented themselves to the public while many elites and powerhouses lost their lives. Since the first holy war, such heroic combat had become the most splendid and fiercest mode between human and demon knights. A lot of renowned legends and popular names among human knights came from such duels. In the Western Continent, such combat mode was the source of bardian poems and the realistic reason for the appearance of knight novels.

Such duels were called combats of honor. After Zhang Tie joined No. 46 air cavalry corps for 1 week, the news, that battles of honor had started, spread over the camp through various channels and became the most frequent topic among fighters in the air cavalry regiment.

Battles of honor happened everyday. Black iron knights and earth knights were the main forces of battles of honor. Both parties would win, lose or tie. At least neither party could have an overwhelming advantage given the current military exploits.

When everybody was talking about the news of daily battles of honor, Zhang Tie just focused on his own job quietly as an onlooker and audience.

Over the past 1 month, Zhang Tie only did two things in the first air cavalry battalion of No. 46 air cavalry regiment. In the daytime, he led all the air cavalries of his battalion to carry out ultra-low altitude jump intensive training and the drill and coordination of formation of air cavalries in the air. In the evening, Zhang Tie mustered up all the officers above team leader to reduce tactics in a conference room and concluded their views. After doing all this, Zhang Tie would return to his dorm, where he would further light his water chakra and comprehend the secret of Big Sword Sutra besides short deep sleep.

Such days were so rich for Zhang Tie that he had not realized that it had already been 1 month.

Lately, Zhang Tie always felt a bit restless when he exited his dorm and breathed the increasingly chilly air. Demons' ground forces and air cavalries were both too quiet which was not a good omen...