Castle of Black Iron

When Zhang Tie was fighting Heavenly Hunyuan, Yun Zhongzi was overlooking the mountain gate of Taiyi Fantasy Sect in clouds as his robe swayed in the air.

The mountain gate of Taiyi Fantasy Sect was located in Taiyi Mountain. The core region of Taiyi Fantasy Sect was 6,000 miles around Taiyi Mountain. Taiyi City was less than 300 miles away from the mountain gate of Taiyi Fantasy Sect.

Taiyi Mountain was a place endowed with the fine spirits of the universe, being enshrouded with smoke. A waterfall was pouring down in an overwhelming manner like a white curtain, making it pretty immortal.

What the disciples of Taiyi Fantasy Sect were pleasant about and proud of was Misty Peak where the main palace of Taiyi Fantasy Sect was located.

Misty Peak was an artificial peak. Instead of being built on the ground, it was floating in the sky on the basis of a large amount of air floating gold that Taiyi Fantasy Sect had gained. For hundreds of years, Taiyi Fantasy Sect built rockeries and pavilions on the peak. Floating on the main peak of Taiyi Mountain, Misty Peak was like a legendary immortal's residence; it was the symbol of the prosperity of Taiyi Fantasy Sect and made Taiyi Fantasy Sect the first sect in the country.

In latest years, Taiyi Fantasy Sect built 12 smaller air-borne sceneries and buildings around Misty Peak. Adorned with each other in the sky, they were a grand scenic spot.

Each year, many people from both home and abroad would pay a visit to Taiyi City and look at the marvelous Misty Peak with reverence from far away.

Being on the top of Taiyi Mountain, Misty Peak overlooked the rest of the world like the noble head above Taiyi Fantasy Sect.

After the duel at Yinhai started for a few minutes, Yun Zhongzi had received the message.

It was a peddler selling news in Taiyi City who sent the message to Yun Zhongzi; instead of Zhang Tie. Yun Zhongzi only used one earth-element crystal to drive the peddler mad, who even gifted Yun Zhongzi a military remote-sensing communications device, telling Yun Zhongzi that he would receive the news soon after the duel started at Yinhai.

Everyone across the country was paying attention to this duel. Besides Gold and Power Law, people from all walks of life had opened gambles with high attention. Therefore, that peddler didn't even ask about Yun Zhongzi's profession. He just treated it as a business of high profit.

The news reached Xuantian City from the Gobi Desert outside Shazhou Province hundreds of thousands of miles away, then to the peddler, then to Yun Zhongzi. Although it was fast enough, the process took almost 7-8 minutes.

After receiving the news, Yun Zhongzi reaffirmed it and took out that lowest-level, extremely crude cup-sized remote-sensing communications crystal device and rubbed it into ashes along with its metal shell, making it go with the wind.

The order from the emperor could not be followed when the general was too far away.

Yun Zhongzi was not a general. Neither was Zhang Tie an emperor. Therefore, Yun Zhongzi neglected the request of the "humble head" of the Great Wilderness Sect on not interfering with this conflict.

Yun Zhongzi neither broke his promise nor violated the law or the intention of his superior. When in the Dongtian of Great Wilderness Sect, Yun Zhongzi had told Zhang Tie unless Zhang Tie was greater than him in battle strength, he would not follow Zhang Tie's order. As of now, Yun Zhongzi the elder of Great Wilderness Sect and Zhang Tie the head just "negotiated" with each other.

The result of this negotiation was that Yun Zhongzi came to the nestle of Taiyi Fantasy Sect on the day the duel started at Yinhai.

Taiyi Mountain looked beautiful from the sky. It was a prosperous sect. Covering thousands of miles' land and rivers, it was domineering.

Watching the scenery under foot, Yun Zhongzi's eyes gradually turned gloomy. The prosperity of Taiyi Fantasy Sect reminded Yun Zhongzi of the tragedy of Great Wilderness Sect. Therefore, his killing intent gradually boiled.

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"Who are you? It's the territory of Taiyi Fantasy Sect. Nobody else is allowed to stay in this fly zone..."

Soon after Yun Zhongzi crumbled that remote-sensing communications device, two black iron knights of Taiyi Fantasy Sect had arrived in front of Yun Zhongzi, who looked like rangers. One of them instantly asked Yun Zhongzi in a stern pattern.

In common linen robe, Yun Zhongzi almost hid his qi as a sage-level knight. Given his look, he was too common. Being utterly different than those young guys who promoted to knights at a very young age, he looked like a grey-haired person who finally promoted to a knight after 100-200 years' cultivation.

At the sight of Yun Zhongzi, the two rangers had listed Yun Zhongzi as such a kind of person.

After throwing a faint glance at the two knights, Yun Zhongzi replied calmly, "I'm here for killing people..."

The two knights became stunned. Before they realized what happened, Yun Zhongzi had made them into a bloody rain, one punch for one person.

After seeing blood, Yun Zhongzi's eyes turned red. Before the warning bell of Taiyi Fantasy Sect rang, Yun Zhongzi had shot towards Misty Peak like a shell with a large number of lightning bolts while the powerful battle qi wave of a sage-level knight appeared on him.

His first earth-shaking strike fell onto the main palace of Taiyi Fantasy Sect.

With a loud boom, the main palace of Taiyi Fantasy Sect was shattered while the entire Misty Peak rocked. The rising smoke and dust and the loud sound aroused the attention of the entire sect.

The mountain gate of Taiyi Fantasy Sect had not been provoked like this for so many years. Therefore, their knights and disciples didn't respond to it timely.

When his second strike fell onto Misty Peak closely after the first strike, most of rockeries and pavilions over Misty Peak started to be broken while numerous boulders rolled down, causing a large amount of battle qi smokes and tornadoes to rise into the sky.

"Audacious..." An earth knight rushed over here immediately. However, before he finished his words, Yun Zhongzi had punched him as fiercely as a mutated tiger, breaking his protective battle qi and turning him into ashes.

When his third strike reached, Misty Peak had started to incline.

At this moment, a female shadow knight in above 7 change realm who could pose a bit threat to Yun Zhongzi finally arrived with a slim long sword, a secret item. From 1,000 m away, she had slashed towards Yun Zhongzi in an overwhelming manner...

'Here comes someone great.' Yun Zhongzi sneered while shielding the slash using his protective battle qi; at the same time, he launched his fourth strike.

When the sword qi touched his protective battle qi, it directly penetrated through it in the void and exited from the other side, leaving Yun Zhongzi safe and sound.

"Sage-level knight..." the female knight changed her look at once as she sent a warning to those knights of Taiyi Fantasy Sect who were rushing over here, "Everyone, retreat. Quick..."

Before she finished her words, Yun Zhongzi had accelerated towards her...

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On the airboat of the Supreme Court, Jianghe Prefecture, Jiangzhou Province...

Lan Yunxi and Elder Muyu were telling what they saw in Dragon-Tiger Mountain to the chief justice of Jiangzhou Province in details.

The news that the third prince was killed had long rocked the entire country. The Supreme Court had long dispatched imperial powerhouses to Jiangzhou Province for investigation. As witnesses, Lan Yunxi and Elder Muyu were "invited" into the airboat of the chief justice of Jiangzhou Province.

"I've told you that Elder Muyu and I flew into the air the moment the first assassin appeared. Because the assassin's target was the third prince, who was accompanied by two shadow knight bodyguards, we didn't move closer in case of any misunderstanding. Therefore, we survived..."

Lan Yunxin explained calmly to the chief justice of Jiangzhou Province. Right then, she suddenly stopped as her face turned pale. At the same time, her body rocked and quivered for a couple of seconds...

The chief justice of Jiangzhou Province and Elder Muyu were both stunned by her abnormal movement.

"Aah, miss, what happened..."

Lan Yunxi didn't speak. She was in a daze while pouring out tears.

Just now, Lan Yunxi received a piece of news——Yun Zhongzi the sage-level knight of Great Wilderness Sect launched a raid to Taiyi Fantasy Sect and destroyed Misty Peak. The mountain gate of Taiyi Fantasy Sect was scattered around in a mess. Besides, Lan Yunxi's master Zhu Qianqian, one of the four elders of Taiyi Fantasy Sect, who cared about Lan Yunxi so much these years was killed...

The message was sent by her senior sister apprentice. When Lan Yunxi received this news, Taiyi Fantasy Sect had already sent an emergency gathering order to all of its knights and let them return to the location of the sect.

Within one day, Lan Yunxi's fiance and her master had been killed, which shocked Lan Yunxi greatly without any warning...

After Xuanyuan Wuji was killed, Lan Yunxi didn't cry; because they didn't have any affection at all; instead, it was merely a trade. Since the beginning, Xuanyuan Wuji was strange to Lan Yunxi. Whereas, the death of her master made her extremely distressed. She felt that the whole world was dim. After her father's death, she lacked one more person who cared about her most.

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At the same time, above Yinhai.

With another boom, Zhang Tie's 36.6 ton hammer which was applied with Class IV consolidating rune finally broke apart in the strong impact wave as it couldn't bear the destructive strikes.

It was the second heavy hammer that Zhang Tie lost in this combat. Except for silver secret items, ordinary metal weapons could never sustain the destructive strength of Zhang Tie's kinetic strike.

When the heavy hammer broke apart, the Heavens Ruler of Heavenly Hunyuan weirdly broke through Zhang Tie's protective sword qi and three swirling silver secret shields and struck onto Zhang Tie's protective battle qi like crossing the void.

Zhang Tie's protective battle qi rocked heavily as it collapsed. When the Heavens Ruler almost touched him, Zhang Tie roared as he forcefully clipped the sharp blade of the Heavens Ruler by hands like a pair of iron pliers.

The armor over his arm collapsed as Zhang Tie's hands bled heavily. However, such a milli-second delay enabled Zhang Tie to escape from it. When the Heavens Ruler touched his body, Zhang Tie had shifted to miles away, avoiding the sharp strike of the Heavens Ruler.

The strike at tens of thousands of meters high fell onto the ground in vain, drawing a huge sand trench over 1,000 m long.

Although Zhang Tie had avoided this strike, his chest armor still sustained a part of this strike, causing his chest armor and back armor to collapse and fall off completely.

"One more..." Zhang Tie roared which could be heard 60 miles away. At the same time, the third heavy hammer appeared in his hand. Closely after that, Zhang Tie in broken outfit rushed towards Heavenly Hunyuan who was holding Heavens Ruler in a domineering manner at nearly 8 miles a second like a meteor or a fiery phoenix.

On the airboat, Zhang Tie's three sons and Bai Suxian had poured out tears when they saw heavily wounded Zhang Tie rushing towards Heavenly Hunyuan with the same weapon in an unyielding manner.

All the onlooking knights were in silence as they were all shocked by Zhang Tie's unyielding battle will and the weird Heavens Ruler in the hand of Heavenly Hunyuan instead of Zhang Tie's battle strength as a divine dominator.

"He better escape..." Wu Dingtian the head of Demons-Killing Valley murmured and shook his head as he saw Zhang Tie rushing towards Heavenly Hunyuan again.

Even as a divine dominator, Zhang Tie was just a shadow knight, which was three levels lower than a sage-level knight. Every shadow knight would be hopeless facing a sage-level knight, even a heavenly knight; except Zhang Tie, who was still in battle. However, it was not most fatal. As for Zhang Tie, the most fatal thing was the Heavens Ruler in the hand of Heavenly Hunyuan besides the sharp gap between levels.

Heavens Ruler was the most well-known golden secret item in Taixia Country. There were many legends about Heavens Ruler. Not until today was it unveiled to the public. This golden secret item had a powerful, mysterious space teleportation ability as it could almost ignore any spatial distance or physical defense and directly touch its opponent. Besides his protective battle qi, any external defense of Zhang Tie was ineffective for the Heavens Ruler. At the same time, Heavens Ruler appeared granting Heavens Hunyuan with an abnormally high speed spatial movement and powerful space defense ability, which could offset the high speed and long-distance striking ability that Zhang Tie was proud of as a divine dominator.

"Grandpa, save him. I know you could save him..." Pandora pulled Wu Dingtian's hand as she beseeched her grandpa who was also a sage-level knight with tears.

"I could only give him a hand. It depends whether he could escape..." Wu Dingtian took a look at Pandora as he instantly closed his eyes. Meanwhile, he made a strange right hand gesture on his back.

In the blink of an eye, the wind around Yinhai had grown stronger as onlooking knights were shocked by a black line rolling over the skyline in the distance.

When Zhang Tie and Heavenly Hunyuan were in the fiercest combat, sandstorm the most terrifying natural disaster in the Gobi Desert arrived without any omen...

After receiving the news from Taiyi Fantasy Sect, the face of Taiyi Old Man who was standing on the airboat had turned black as he felt pretty bad. Feeling the sandstorm behind him, Taiyi Old Man squinted his eyes as he immediately fixated onto Wu Dingtian from hundreds of miles away.

Wu Dingtian threw a distant glance at Taiyi Old Man.

By far, Shenkong Old Man of Qionglou Pavilion had already left Yinhai. After receiving the news that Yun Zhongzi launched a raid towards Taiyi Fantasy Sect, Shenkong Old Man instantly turned back to the nest of Qionglou Pavilion in case of the same disaster.

After suffering a heavy loss, a semi-sage hermit forced Yun Zhongzi to leave there using three untriggered thunder of nirvana. Qionglou Pavilion was not as confident as Taiyi Fantasy Sect as there was not even a semi-sage knight in the nestle of Qionglou Pavilion; instead, there was only a heavenly knight deputy head. Therefore, Shenkong Old Man must go back. It was not a joke for a sage-level knight to raid his sect's nest.

Zhang Tie and Heavenly Hunyuan felt the terrifying sandstorm from afar too.

Heavenly Hunyuan squinted his eyes as he threw a glance at the airboat of Demons-Killing Valley too. At the same time, he received the signal of acting right now from Taiyi Old Man.

However, Zhang Tie launched another strike towards Heavenly Hunyuan.

Zhang Tie had exerted his speed to the utmost. However, he couldn't approach Heavenly Hunyuan at all like before. Not only that, Heavenly Hunyuan moved as fast as him as his Heavens Ruler could strike Zhang Tie from over 10,000 m away.

Zhang Tie finally realized that the tactics and strategies that he had deducted before were nothing but sh*t facing a sage-level knight holding a golden secret item.

Although Zhang Tie appeared moving as fast as a lightning bolt, he was actually having close combat with Heavenly Hunyuan. He couldn't get rid of Heavenly Hunyuan's strike at all; he could only seek for a chance of strike when being beaten.

Since the duel started, the largest distance between them had not surpassed 20 miles. The distance of 20 miles was like a 3 m close combat between two LV 6 fighters as for Zhang Tie and Heavenly Hunyuan. Heavenly Hunyuan could pass half of such a distance in one second. What was more amazing was that the strike of his Heavens Ruler could easily cross 20,000 m.

As of now, even though nobody warned him, Zhang Tie had felt that the "Ruler" appeared to be representing a powerful space-teleportation ability, which rightly curbed his strength in speed as a divine dominator on the level of shadow knight. If he promoted to a heavenly knight, the restrictive effect of Heavens Ruler might be dwarfed; however, now, he couldn't do anything to undermine the effect of Heavens Ruler.

Heavenly Hunyuan was not providing any chance of survival to him; instead, he was isolating any chance of survival for Zhang Tie.

It was the toughest, most dangerous and inevitable combat for Zhang Tie.

Before approaching Zhang Tie, the strike of Heavens Ruler had filled each inch of space within tens of thousands of meters with invisible thorns and obstacles. Each step forward, Zhang Tie's protective sword qi and shields had to be cut and impacted for tens of thousands of times. His off-hand battle qi couldn't reach Heavenly Hunyuan unless crossing so many blades in the air.

If Zhang Tie was an ordinary shadow knight, he must have died over 100 times.

"Go die..." With some more wounds, Zhang Tie's kinetic strike fell on the semi-transparent bizarre battle qi which was similar to the mixture of protective battle qi and realm strength hundreds of meters away from Heavenly Hunyuan.

The huge protective battle qi layer quivered a bit, yet it still didn't break. The terrifying power of this kinetic strike penetrated through the protective battle qi layer and directly exited from its back, forming a strong impact wave which swept over the airspace within 10,000 m behind Heavenly Hunyuan and disappeared in the overwhelming black sandstorm...

This was another terror of sage-level knights. After combining with the realm strength, sage-level knights' protective battle qi had become a virtual entity. Any strength of strike would leak from the opposite point of this kind of protective battle qi as if it was invisible.

No matter how powerful one's kinetic strike was, it couldn't work on the huge protective battle qi layer at all.

However, Zhang Tie believed that Heavenly Hunyuan's protective battle qi was not unrivaled or irresistible; instead, it must have its upper limit of bearing and transmission capacity. As long as that upper limit was broken through, the kinetic strike would work on Heavenly Hunyuan in the end. Additionally, it was not easy to drive Heavens Ruler. As for weapons that needed to be driven by force, the more powerful the weapon was, the greater would be the force needed to drive it. This point would remain unchanged forever.

Zhang Tie didn't think he would be defeated. Additionally, Zhang Tie had another trump card. No matter how tough this combat was, Zhang Tie knew that he still had a chance to topple Heavenly Hunyuan before the last moment.

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The irresistible sandstorm finally arrived, causing the center of Yinhai dark completely.

However, the dark was not an obstacle for Zhang Tie or Heavenly Hunyuan.

The high-speed rolling sands were like blades and bullets in the sandstorm, in which, Zhang Tie flew as fast as before; by contrast, the strength of Heavens Ruler appeared to have weakened facing this "natural disaster".

After feeling that the power of Heavenly Hunyuan appeared to be influenced by this natural disaster, Zhang Tie felt relieved as he intended to extend the distance between him and Heavenly Hunyuan at his full speed.

"You wanna escape? It's too late..." Heavenly Hunyuan reproached gloomily as he had already come to the side of Zhang Tie, being less than 100 m away. Zhang Tie's heart raced as he felt the Heavens Ruler was going to touch him. Strangely, it was not the terrifying strike of Heavens Ruler, but a familiar space wave.

The space wave was not caused by Heavens Ruler; instead, it was similar to the faint space wave from a broken space-teleportation equipment. Zhang Tie was very familiar with this space wave because he had sensed it when his substitute detonated. However, this space wave was dozens of times greater than that caused by his broken space-teleportation equipment.

Before Zhang Tie figured out what happened, he had felt his surrounding space wave being detonated and expanded by tens of thousands of times. The earlier space wave appeared to be a fuse of a powder keg.

The entire space was collapsing while a huge hole appeared in the void. Everything on Zhang Tie's side including the terrifying sandstorm and Zhang Tie himself was towed inside the hole in an irresistible manner like being throwing into a sinking swirl.

Heavenly Hunyuan's face reappeared in Zhang Tie's vision with a sneer. Hundreds of meters away, the Heavens Ruler was hovering above the head of Heavenly Hunyuan and giving out a bizarre light, covering Heavenly Hunyuan. At the same time, it was dragging Heavenly Hunyuan out of the irresistible space suction like an upstream airboat.

"See you, Immortal Qianji. The black invitation cards of three top sects are tricky. You must not have imagined that you're going to die in this way. You're going to be in the permanent dark. It's a natural disaster. Don't blame me, hahaha..." Heavenly Hunyuan's voice reached Zhang Tie full of irony and killing intent.

At the same time, Heavenly Hunyuan had been over 2,000 m away from Zhang Tie. Watching Zhang Tie with a sneer, Heavenly Hunyuan gradually extended the distance between them.

At this moment, Zhang Tie's entire outfit had been shattered. Each inch of Zhang Tie's muscles was like under a mountain as he couldn't move at all. Even his battle qi was diffusing while being torn by the terrifying strength.

"Go to hell..." Zhang Tie roared as he fixed on Heavenly Hunyuan, eye corners almost burst. At the same time, a sword-shaped mark appeared on his forehead while a brilliant light shot out of the mark and entered the forehead of Heavenly Hunyuan from 10,000 m away after penetrating through the light of the Heavens Ruler around Heavenly Hunyuan...

Deity-Killing Sword!

It was the last trump card of Zhang Tie as a divine dominator, which was gifted by Lord Fairysea.

Zhang Tie drove this trick with his full spiritual energy, which shocked the heavens and the earth.

Heavenly Hunyuan could not imagine such a trick. As a result, he spurted out blood as his qi became disordered. At the same time, the light of the Heavens Ruler above the head of Heavenly Hunyuan disappeared. After being an ordinary item, the Heavens Ruler instantly rolled and flew towards Zhang Tie like a piece of paper in the wind.

"No..." Heavenly Hunyuan uttered a shriek as he was also involved in the turbulence in an irresistible manner like Zhang Tie.

Outside Yinhai, the weird sandstorm disappeared weirdly. In the eyes of tens of thousands of knights, Immortal Qianji and Heavenly Hunyuan rolled and disappeared in the pitch-dark chasm in the void. In the blink of an eye, the chasm had disappeared together with the two top powerhouses in Taixia Country.

It was deadly silent above Yinhai...

"Puhh..."Watching the final result, Taiyi Old Man's face turned blue, red and blue again as he spurted out blood, making the Taiji diagram on his posterior chest scarlet...

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At the same time, in a back room of Heavenly Fortune Sect, Xuanzhou Province, the head and a great handful of top powerhouses and elders of Heavenly Fortune Sect were sitting decently and solemnly on the ground and watching the manifestation of divination on the tortoiseshell.

All the powerhouses of Heavenly Fortune Sect had been exhausted for this divination. There was even blood at the mouth corner of an elder.

However, no matter how weak they were, each one of them was widely opening their eyes and gazing at those tortoiseshells which they had tossed in a secret method on the ground.

There was only one manifestation of divination on the classic shells!

"Dragon in the sky..." The head of Heavenly Fortune Sect let out a deep sigh as he said in hoarse and firm voice after gazing at the manifestation of divination for a long while.

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