Castle of Black Iron

“When I count three, if you’re still here, I will detonate the bomb…” that fighter roared.

Right then, the semi-transparent spider had already slid off rapidly and quietly from the top of the mountain cave right above the fighter’s head by a thread.

The two shadow knights just watched him calmly.

“You’re just a weak fighter. Your struggle is meaningless.” the shadow knight surnamed Huang sighed, “Immortal Qianji is known by his secret methods. How could he be scared by you and such a tiny alchemist’ bomb…”

“At this moment, Zhang Tie has already been poisoned by Soul Leave. He has no ability to fight back!” that fighter said and threw a glance at the two shadow knights as he began to count, “One…”

However, before he counted two, the semi-transparent spider had already fallen near his neck and gave him a bite as fast as a lightning bolt.

In a split second, that dare-to-die fighter became stiff as a layer of white frost covered his face. Even his pupils turned white.

The two shadow knights got off the last step and came to the front of that fighter. The shadow knight surnamed Huang pinched his hand so that he could take off that alchemist’s bomb. After invalidating its switch, they started to observe Zhang Tie.

The middle-aged fighter was nothing different than a dead man or a stone statue as for the two shadow knights. He couldn’t pose any threat to the two shadow knights anymore.

“He’s Zhang Tie!”

“True, Immortal Qianji has a young face. He’s Zhang Tie, the Immortal Qianji!”

“Hahahaha, I’ve not imagined that we could find Zhang Tie here. What an easy job!” that shadow knight surnamed Huang burst out into laughter loudly and pleasantly, “Zhang Taixuan, Zhang Taixuan, although you’re smart, how could you have them all? You’re just preparing them for His Majesty. You’ve really saved us a lot of time!”

Immortal White Bone also burst out into laughter, “That’s true. If not Zhang Taixuan was too greedy, how could we control Zhang Tie so easily? As long as we have Zhang Tie, the recipes of fiery oil and all-purpose medicament would fall into the hand of His Majesty easily. By then, fiery oil and all-purpose medicaments across the world would be under the control of His Majesty. In this way, His Majesty would ascend to the throne sooner or later. Pitifully, being driven by Zhang Taixuan, Liu Changxiong wanted to abduct Zhang Tie’s parents but was killed by an earth knight called Zhang Gui whom Zhang Tie arranged in Jinwu City…”

“Known as Immortal Qianji, Zhang Tie has myriad secret methods such as Chaotic Treasure Body, Thousands of Beads Mental Sutra, Fiery-Dragon Sutra and the cultivation method of divine dominator. All these are top rarities. Pitifully, Zhang Taixuan might have already achieved them if they were with Zhang Tie…”

“Just let him hand them in. These rarities could only incur troubles for an earth knight. If he didn’t, we would sweep out Huaiyuan Palace and kill all the members of Zhang Clan. Is Huaiyuan Palace trickier than the Great Wilderness Sect and Bloody Soul Temple?” Immortal White Bone sneered.

“Haha, you’re right, immortal!”

“Zhang Tie was bound by Dragon Binding Shackle. That person should have the key. It might be hidden in his portable space-teleportation equipment…”

“Hmm, let me check it…”

When the two shadow knights saw Zhang Tie, they both became delighted. However, they had not imagined that all of their words had been heard by Zhang Tie.

The two shadow knights also knew the power of Soul Leave. However, Zhang Tie’s state puzzled them completely. Therefore, they were not vigilant at all while the secret exposed from their talk shocked Zhang Tie too much.

The “His Majesty” that they mentioned about must be a brother of Crown Prince Changying. Otherwise, they would not have said: “His Majesty would ascend to the throne sooner or later”. Because Crown Prince Changying had already ascended to the throne in Xuanyuan Hill.

Additionally, the power on the side of this “His Majesty” might be closely related to the extermination of the Great Wilderness Sect and Bloody Soul Temple. It could even exterminate great powers like the Great Wilderness Sect and Bloody Soul Temple in a short period. What a great force! The extermination of the Great Wilderness Sect was still a puzzle while the Bloody Soul Temple was heard to be exterminated by the major sects and the imperial households of Taixia Country. Was there any dominator behind that?

Especially the extermination of Bloody Soul Temple, the aftermath of which was still influencing the overall situation of Taixia Country as of today. If it was purposefully schemed by someone, it would be horrible.

It was Zhang Tie’s first time to know that he had long become the target of another “His Majesty”.

Both all-purpose medicament and fiery oil made people drool with envy. That “His Majesty” had already bought Zhang Taixuan over and arranged the employed knight Liu on Zhang Yang’s side only for Zhang Tie’s all-purpose medicament and fiery oil. If Zhang Gui was not staying on the side of Zhang Tie’s parents, the outcome would be out of Zhang Tie’s imagination.

Although Zhang Taixuan had been bought over by that “His Majesty”, they had not gained full mutual trust. That was why Zhang Taixuan did that.

However, Zhang Taixuan himself was involved in a great crisis together with Huaiyuan Palace.

Hearing them talking about killing everybody of Huaiyuan Palace with such a calm look, Zhang Tie was full of killing intent abruptly.

The two shadow knights instantly discovered the place where the fighter hid his space-teleportation equipment.

Immortal White Bone stretched out his hand as he peeled off the skin on the fighter’s hand. Closely after that, he rubbed the latter’s wrist into pieces, exposing a nano-bead as large as soybean in the latter’s flesh and blood.

That fighter appeared to be still alive; however, he couldn’t move. When his wrist was broken, he revealed a bitter look.

After getting the nanobead, Immortal White Bone directly wiped off its blood on the fighter’s clothes as he smacked his lip, “Although this nanobead’s look is of the lowest class and it has a very little space, Zhang Tiaxuan has truly spent a lot by giving it to a subordinate dare-to-die fighter…”

“Hahaha, If it was me, I would also do that. That’s highly profitable…”

The two people then moved the item out of the nanobead as they saw a bizarre palm-sized metal key covered with runes…

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