Castle of Black Iron
chapter-1169

Chapter 1169: Fighting a Powerful Enemy at Full Efforts (I)

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

Zhang Tie moved his eyes away from the top of the gate. After a few more steps forward, Zhang Tie stood in front of the gate. He lightly put his hand onto the gate as he felt that this gate, which was higher than 10 m, was made of abyss magical iron. The material of this gate could match that of his Chaos. Even in Lion Fortress, weapons being made of abyss magical iron were available to knights.

The gate was closed tightly. After entering the gate, Han Zhengfang latched the gate with a bolt from inside. As a result, outsiders could barely enter it, except for Zhang Tie. Zhang Tie could clearly see the internal structure of the lock of the abyss magical gate with his lotus-flower eyes.

The lock of the gate was 7-star interlinked lock, which was a unique top-class lock in Taixia Country. If not know the method, one could never open it. Because one 7-star interlinked lock had 7 holes in different depths inside, one had to rotate the key 7 times; each time he rotated his key, he had to pay attention to the depth, angle and number of turns. Only after manipulating it 7 times consecutively could one open it. Han Zhengfang opened it using a key.

After observing it for a short while, Zhang Tie had already borne the structure of 7-star interlinked lock in mind. He then took a slow, deep breath before starting to prepare for the coming fight.

He took out the gold-eaten dagger, a silver secret longsword and a silver secret heavy hammer that he gained from the Earth-elements Realm; after that, he took out another silver secret dagger. Zhang Tie had the 4 weapons float around himself. After making a full preparation, Zhang Tie started to open the gate.

Zhang Tie triggered the ability of a divine dominator to slowly open the 7-star interlinked lock on the gate of the Canglan Palace of Bloody Soul Temple. After unlocking it, the metal bolt behind the gate floated up itself silently too.

The gate slowly opened like two feathers, exposing the inside of Canglan Palace of Bloody Soul Temple to Zhang Tie.

The inside of the palace was much more luxurious than that outside. The surface of the entire palace was covered with Class IX crystals. There were some buildings made of gold in the palace. The entire palace was as large as a football court. What made it bright were not long-lasting fluorites but legendary luminous pearls. In the rear end of the square of the palace, there was a bloody pool whose diameter was 10 m. There was a huge black crystal coffin in the middle of the bloody pool. Besides, the surroundings of the bloody pool and the surface of the huge black crystal coffin were all covered with brilliant gilded runes.

This bloody pool reminded Zhang Tie of the bloody sea; however, this bloody pool was much smaller than the bloody sea; additionally, there was only one person in the crystal coffin.

Immersing himself in the dense blood of the black crystal coffin, Han Zhengfang looked like falling asleep.

The black crystal coffin was about 70 m away from the gate. Zhang Tie didn’t enter it immediately. He just stood outside the gate. As it was an adventure, Zhang Tie didn’t know the concrete situation of Han Zhengfang at this moment. However, he had witnessed Han Zheng’s battle strength in Xuanyuan Hill, which was far greater than that of a shadow knight. Han Zhengfang’s performance reminded Zhang Tie of his master Zhao Yuan. ‘Han Zhengfang must have hidden his real battle strength when he was the finance minister of Taixia Country. This master of Heavens Reaching Church might have long promoted to a heavenly knight.’ Zhang Tie thought.

Generally, an earth knight could never defeat a heavenly knight. Although he was a divine dominator, Zhang Tie would never throw an egg against a rock. However, this situation was very special. After fighting Meng Shidao; especially after using secret methods constantly to escape away from the grey mist and Xuanyuan Hill, his vitality had been severely reduced. At this moment, Han Zhengfang was definitely in the weakest and unfenced condition.

He might not have the second chance to defeat such a terrifying enemy. Even risking his life, Zhang Tie would also have a try. He was too gutless if he dared not launch such an attack towards Han Zhengfang at this moment.

Zhang Tie had determined his mind. This time, he had to fight Han Zhengfang and kill him even risking his life. If not kill this enemy who screwed him and did harm to his family members for a couple of times, Zhang Tie would never sleep well.

When all the thoughts turned into an irresistible killing intent, Zhang Tie’s eyes shot out shrewd light as he roared, “Go die…”.

The distance of 70 m was almost equal to face-to-face for a knight and a divine dominator. Zhang Tie’s first round of strike arrived at the coffin before his “roar” as the sound transmission speed in the air was only 340 m per second.

The silver secret grim hammer which weighed a few tons fell onto the black crystal coffin ferociously like a sudden lightning bolt.

Zhang Tie gained this heavy hammer from the demon knight of Augulas Clan on the battlefield of the Earth-elements Realm. As a silver secret item, this heavy hammer carried two terrifying attacking skills which could even frighten knights. First, it could shatter goods; Zhang Tie had tried its shattering ability in Castle of Black Iron by crashing it onto a piece of gold brick. The result was that the gold brick was shattered.

Gold was a metal with the greatest ductility. One gram of gold could be extended to a large area of gold foil by a hammer. However, this silver secret heavy hammer could even shatter a piece of gold brick. It could be imagined how it would damage a human body.

Second, “bolt” harm. As long as it could hit the living being, besides the shattering effect, it could also realize the effect of a lightning bolt, causing people to be stiff all over. Zhang Tie tried it on himself lightly. As a result, the shield in his hand was shattered; additionally, the effect of “bolt” passed on Zhang Tie himself, causing his hair to stand and his body to numb all over for quite a while.

Terrifying shattering strike and the effect of “bolt” harm which could delay one’s moving ability. What a great match!

The real object of the huge hammer was 6.8 tons in weight and longer than 3 m, which was taller and bigger than Cui Li. Therefore, Zhang Tie felt a bit hard manipulating it with the ability of divine dominator. This huge hammer would consume him one hundred times more spiritual strength than that on ordinary weapons. Although Zhang Tie had gained many silver secret items in the Weapons Mountain of the Hieron Ruins, none of those silver secret items could match this one which he gained from the demon knight.

Zhang Tie saw the virtual body of this silver secret item. It was a huge far-ancient mammoth which was hundreds of meters high and had two 10-m longer huge fangs while being covered with scales. Each foot of the virtual body of this silver secret item was like a huge pillar that led to the sky. Each stomp would cause an earthquake.

The flat side of this huge hammer was similar to the footprint of its virtual body. The two fangs incarnated into the two spikes on the top of the huge hammer.

This heavy hammer was the real Thor’s hammer.

When the hammer was less than 1 m away from the coffin, Han Zhengfang opened his eyes in a split second in the coffin with a shocked expression. Han Zhengfang could never imagine that he would be raided even in Canglan Palace.

However, he didn’t have time to make a counter-attack anymore because the striking speed of divine dominator was too fast that nobody could escape at that moment…

As a result, the black crystal coffin was shattered into ashes in a split second like a paper-made matchbox being put under a forging press. The moment the crystal coffin was shattered, under the great pressure, the blood in the bloody pool were sent flying in the air in terms of round liquid particles…

The heavy hammer hit Han Zhengfang’s chest directly. If a huge rock was put on Han Zhengfang’s chest, it would be the standard trick in streets——breaking the rock on one’s chest by a hammer.

Han Zhengfang was directly sent into the earth; meanwhile, many crystal bricks on the ground of Canglan Palace of Bloody Soul Temple were shattered…

When the huge hammer fell off, gold-eaten dagger and the other two silver secret items firmed targeted on Han Zhengfang’s two body parts. Only after less than 0.01 second, two silver secret items had penetrated through Han Zhengfang’s heart and lower abdomen.

0.01 second later, Zhang Tie launched his 3rd round of attack by releasing the berserk dragon-shaped battle qi towards the deep pit which was caused by the huge hammer.

The entire Canglan Palace of Bloody Soul Temple quaked while being covered with smoke and dust.

In the smoke and dust, Han Zhengfang slowly floated up from the huge, deep pit nakedly while being wrapped by his fiery protective battle qi.

Besides being disheveled and covered with blood, a large area on Han Zhengfang’s chest sunk while his skin as a whole was covered with dense cracks and bloody streaks. Therefore, Han Zhengfang looked like a ferocious ghost with Zhang Tie’s gold-eaten dagger in hand.

The gold-eaten dagger was targeting at Han Zhengfang’s right eye while quivering and struggling like a terrifying venomous snake being pinched by Han Zhengfang. Just now, if Han Zhengfang didn’t grasp the gold-eaten dagger, his head must have been blown up.

At this moment, Zhang Tie had already entered Canglan Palace. Han Zhengfang watched this guy in the grim black battle armor as he roared furiously, “Who are you…who the hell are you?”

Like having not heard Han Zhengfang’s question, Zhang Tie just gazed at the gold-eaten dagger in Han Zhengfang’s hand and his body while contracting his pupils all of a sudden.

Han Zhengfang’s current situation was completely out of Zhang Tie’s imagination. The dagger didn’t actually penetrate through Han Zhengfang’s heart. At the most critical moment, Han Zhengfang contracted his heart and caused it to move aside a bit to dodge from the fatal blow. He responded to the blow on his lower abdomen in the same manner. Therefore, although two parts of his body were penetrated, neither of them was fatal for a knight.

In the blink of an eye, Han Zhengfang had controlled his muscles, tendons, meridians, and skin to close the two wounds. As a result, he stopped bleeding right away.

Even the most destructive gold-eaten dagger was clutched by Han Zhengfang.

By contrast, the first blow harmed Han Zhengfang most. With that blow, Han Zhengfang’s skin, skeletons and guts had been covered with cracks.

At this moment, Han Zhengfang’s qi was the standard qi of a shadow knight. Compared to what Zhang Tie saw and felt in Xuanyuan Hill, Han Zhengfang’s overall strength seemed to have reduced by a realm. This might be the price that Han Zhengfang had to pay for breaking through Xuanyuan Hill.

Zhang Tie was right. Han Zhengfang indeed had declined from the level of a heavenly knight to a shadow knight. Although the secret methods of Bloody Soul Temple were unrivaled, any secret method had to be paid. After a heavenly knight who had not completely formed his fire chakra pushed his level to the semi-sage realm by a secret method in a short period, he had to bear the price of collapsing his wind chakra.

It was like eating viagra. One might stand and be as strong as a mutated beast overnight; however, after the effect of the medicine, he had to bear a sequelae; the more ferocious the medicine was, the severer the sequelae would be and the greater compensation would be required; especially the secret method that Han Zhengfang used to separate into 9 bloody humanoid mist when he escaped from Xuanyuan Hill, which made him suffer a great loss. He almost could not reach Canglan Palace. In that desperate situation, he had to suffer the price of declining to a lower level and the great loss of his vitality.

Han Zhengfang had not imagined that he could be raided in his Canglan Palace.

Neither did Zhang Tie imagine that Han Zhengfang could still be as powerful as a shadow knight. Therefore, he only realized half of the desired effect of the first round of attack.

The current situation was out of the imagination of both Zhang Tie and Han Zhengfang.

“Who are you?” Han Zhengfang glared at Zhang Tie as he roared with muffled thunders for the second time. Meanwhile, his shadow-knight level battle qi surged.

Any shadow knight could not be profaned by ordinary knights, no matter how weak he was.

“Go die…”

Zhang Tie’s boiling killing intent formed a resolute battle intently. He was not scared by Han Zhengfang’s imposing manner; instead, he became spirited all over. ‘Shadow knight, so what? This father swears to kill a shadow knight today. In Han Zhengfang’s muffled roars, Zhang Tie also roared in a muffled way as he rushed towards Han Zhengfang and launched an attack on his own initiative by punching and slashing his sword…

‘When two enemies encountered in a narrow path, the braver one would be the winner!’

Zhang Tie had borne this resolute belief deep in mind since he joined Iron-Blood Camp…