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Chapter 779: Deepening into Enemy's Rear

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

As he had just promoted to a knight, Zhang Tie was discovered by scouts last time as he was inexperienced. Actually, as long as a knight was not in a rush with his journey by turning himself into a meteor or releasing a powerful knight's qi on purpose in the evening, he would be barely discovered by people at over 10,000 m above the ground.

At this height, even common airships would be barely discovered, not to mention a person.

Especially in the wild, as long as he avoided the major human cities and agglomerations, he could barely be discovered by people. After triggering a senior concealing skill, Zhang Tie's qi abruptly reduced by some levels. Even knights could not sense his existence.

Before daybreak, the brilliant Faerie-dragon Stars had already risen to the highest point in the sky. When the first sunglow reached the land, Zhang Tie had been over 4,000 miles away from Huaiyuan Prefecture.

Zhang Tie was not concerned about the affairs in Huaiyuan Prefecture. As Huaiyuan Palace and the other major clans in Jinyun Country, Qilan Country and Benolis Castle had already reached a privity on common defense. If any of the above parties encountered the raid of demon knights, the knights of the other parties would rush there for support as soon as possible.

Even though the major forces of all the clans had evacuated from Waii Sub-continent, each clan still left a clan knight and a corps to safeguard the interest of their own clan. Therefore, no matter what, Qilan Country and Jinyun Country had at least 8-9 knights at present. Therefore, before Kalay Mountain Range was broken through by demons, the entire Qilan Country and Jinyun Country were as firm as the Mountain Tai. Unless the knights of demons or Three-eye Association were idiots, they would never enter the encirclement of human knights of the same rank and wait to be beaten. Even the demon general would not do such a stupid thing without having an absolute advantage.

Unless being raided by knights, Hurricane Corps would not disrupt Zhang Tie from enclosed cultivation. Additionally, in a short period, it was almost impossible for Huaiyuan Prefecture to be raided by the knights of demons and Three-eye Association. This was a major reason why Zhang Tie dared leave Huaiyuan Prefecture without any concern.

Additionally, Zhang Tie was not used to be waiting for troubles from demons and Three-eye Association. He preferred to take the initiative.

Zhang Tie had been considering seriously before he headed for Ice and Snow Wilderness.

Zhang Tie had three reasons to do this.

First, If he took the initiative, he could beat demons and Three-eye Association and weaken the power of demons so as to slow down their pace towards the south.

Second, if demons and Three-eye Association broke through Kalay Mountain Range one day later, more commoners in Blackson Humans Corridor would be able to escape away from this continent. Meanwhile, Huaiyuan Palace could maintain its prosperity for a longer period.

In the holy war, it was each human knight's responsibility to weaken the power of demons and Three-eye Association. The above two reasons were for the public interest.

Privately, there was a more important reason, namely, Zhang Tie wanted to rip off demons and Three-eye Association greatly, whether for wealth or resources for cultivation.

Zhang Tie once plundered a lot from Senel Clan. He also gained some useful knight's widgets from that knight of Three-eye Association. Zhang Tie believed that the other Three-eye Association clans and knights also had a lot of wealth and resources.

Of course, he should do that for both public and private interests.

Other human knights had also thought about this before. However, nobody dared do that by deepening into the demon's area alone and fighting many knights of demons and Three-eye Association at the risk of his life. The reason was that no knight of demons and Three-eye Association dared deepen into the territory of Jinyun country and Huaiyuan Palace and launched a raid.

If he had no Castle of Black Iron and the soul-based incarnation skill, Zhang Tie would not do it either. It was too dangerous, as long as he was besieged by knights of demons or Three-eye Association, he might be killed. No human knight dared do that. As long as a knight was besieged by more than 3 enemy knights of the same rank, he would probably be killed.

Additionally, Zhang tie had the body-changing ability and "King Roc Sutra" which enabled him to change his look freely. Otherwise, even if he made it, he might also expose his ability. Meanwhile, he would arouse an animosity between Huaiyuan Palace and demons and Three-eye Association. He might push Huaiyuan Palace into a dangerous situation and have it mired in the crazy revenge of demons and Three-eye Association.

However, with all these conditions, Zhang Tie would feel sorry about himself if he didn't do it.

'No matter what I will do, just let Gorath find demons and Three-eye Association some troubles. Since I was in enclosed cultivation in Huaiyuan Palace, nobody would doubt me for that!'

After leaving Huaiyuan Prefecture once again, Zhang Tie felt free.

At a navigation speed of 700 miles per hour, Zhang Tie had already flown across Kalay Mountain Range in the middle of Blackson Humans Corridor and arrived at the north region of Blackson Humans Corridor at dusk. Such a constant high speed would definitely make all the knights dumbfounded.

After flying across Kalay Mountain Range, Zhang Tie continued to fly towards the north at the same speed. The closer he was to the north, the more ruined scenes would he see on the land.

He could see burning villages and farmlands and deserted cities everywhere.

The entire north region of Blackson Humans Corridor was chaotic. Besides demons, the small squads of thieves and bandits were as many as locusts after autumn. They could occupy mountains or cities themselves. Even though half of the north human region was not collapsed, it was actually in an anarchic state. The law of jungle prevailed.

After flying across Kalay Mountain Range, it took Zhang Tie 6 hours to arrive at the Selnes Plain.

Millions of dead bodies could not be eliminated in just a couple of years. Even during the night, from 10,000 m above the ground, Zhang Tie could still see the weird, colorful ptomaine miasma covering the entire Selnes Plain.

That ptomaine miasma reminded Zhang Tie of Tirsiris the dangerous woman, 'I wonder where is that woman.'

On the way, Zhang Tie saw a lot of demonized puppets troops moving southwards. However, he didn't stop.

After flying over Selnes Plain, Zhang Tie arrived at Titanic Duchy. It took him less than 1 hour to fly across Titanic Duchy and arrive at the Verov Federation which was neighboring Titanic Duchy and deepened into the hinterland of demon's region.

When he noticed those high rising grave tower demons, a city appeared in front of Zhang Tie.

It was a key city, which could be judged by its scale and the number of grave tower demons around the city.

Except for a few places, the entire city was pitch-dark under demon's ruling in the evening. It was pretty silent. Those commoners who were forced to become slaves didn't have night lives. Curfew took effect in the evening. Those bright places in the evening were the major agencies of this city.

After flying over 10,000 miles, Zhang Tie finally found a target city. Therefore, he became spirited at once.

After referring to the map in his memory, the information about this city became clear at once——Glivec City, a major industrial city in the south of Verov Federation. It was the second largest city of Verov Federation after the Democracy City, the capital city.

In Zhang Tie's memory, Verov Federation belonged to Arthur Clan.

In the last 100 years, three presidents of the Verov Federation came from Arthur Clan. Additionally, Arthur Clan controlled the largest military-industrial complex in the territory of Verov Federation. However, such a clan chose to betray humans instantly the moment the holy war broke out. They converted three corps of federal defense army into demonized puppets and helped demons control this country in the shortest period.

Arthur Clan's power was much more powerful than that of Senel Clan.

Zhang Tie pretty much hated such Three-eye Association clans who hid among humans with great power and betrayed humans at the critical moment.

It could be said that each Three-eye Association clan was founded on millions of innocent people's corpses.

Zhang Tie descended silently. The bright places in this city became Zhang Tie's best beacons and targets.

He flew towards a very magnificent building.

The moment he came close to that building, Zhang Tie had already heard the melodious music from the building. There might be a party in the garden of the building.

Zhang Tie silently landed in the shadow of some cherry-apple trees with shrewd light in eyes. His powerful spiritual energy silently covered the entire building like a breeze, enabling him to acknowledge everyone's movement in this building.

Zhang Tie had not seen such a ridiculous party before: all men were drinking and laughing loudly in a formal dress on the lawn; however, all women, including those female servants were naked and quivering in the chilly night wind...

After a few seconds, a shrieking man with disheveled hair in a cage like a beast was carried into the garden by some strong guards...

"Musker...I will curse you even if I die. I curse Arthur Clan to die in one's boots...you devils..."

Chapter 780: A Massacre

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

Watching that man being carried out, all the other gentlemen stopped doing what they were doing. With a brutal smile, they just watched him roar exhaustively in the cage.

"Ding...ding..." A man with a beautiful handlebar mustache knocked at his glass. All the others then became silent. That man then looked around with a satisfactory smile, "May I have your attention, please? I will introduce a person to you, this is Mr. Fiddes, the chief editor of "Federal Democracy Daily". Mr. Fiddes always found Arthur troubles. He used to magnify the problems of Arthur Clan. Do you remember the Black Hole Case about the military expenditure of Federation which was published by "Federal Democracy Daily" in the year 890 and the president impeachment closely after that? That time, Mr. Fiddes almost brought us a big trouble. On the year 891, when I became the major of Glivec, the Federal Democracy Daily criticized that I was elected as the major through electoral fraud. He even appealed to the Federal Parliament to set up an investigation committee so as to investigate the major election of Glivec City. How brave was Mr. Fiddes!"

That cage was put on the ground while that man roared inside the cage, "I've not imagined that you Arthur Clan belong to Three-eye Association...You've already got everything, why do you betray the federation and have so many people die for you?"

"Everything?" The man with a handlebar mustache burst out into laughter, "Mr. Fiddes, you're really naive. Do you think that the so-called votes in the hands of the slaves could have any decisive role? Do you really think that Arthur Clan would like to hand their own fate to those silly, vulgar, dirty and short-sighted slaves and mobs? Do you really think that the so-called democracy of the federation and those thin paper in your hand could bring you something? There's indeed a black hole in the military budget of the federation. However, it has lasted more than 100 years, instead of 7-8 years. All the military budget of the federation have flown into our Arthur Clan. My vote calculation was also fake. So what?" The man shook his head as he watched that man in the cage with a sarcastic look, "You don't know that, the life or death of human slaves like you can only be determined by us. This is the real order..."

"I swear you to die in one's boots!" That man called Fiddes swore loudly in the cage.

"Although Mr. Fiddes is naive, you're brave enough. Therefore, I will reward you with something. You can enjoy a free show!" The man patted his hands while two naked women with collars over their necks were pulled out by someone like pulling dogs by iron chains. Additionally, a strong male dog was pulled out. The two women looked delirious.

"Meara, Helena..." That man in the cage became excited when he watched the two women. He started to ram the steel bars on the cage forcefully as he asked, "Fitrich, what did you do to them? You beast. What did you do to them? If you are a man, just fight me..."

"Hahahaha..." That man called Fitrich burst out into laughter, "As you called me a beast, I will show you how your wife and daughter enjoy making love with a real beast. Honestly, your wife and your daughter don't taste bad. But I've been tired of playing with them. So I will just gift them to my dog..."

After hearing this, the others burst out into laughter too. Many men at present became excited about what would happen next. Some of them couldn't wait to catch those naked female servants on their sides and start to harass them. Those women just quivered. None of them dared resist them. This party immediately became extremely licentious.

"Beasts...you beasts of Three-eye Association..." That man being closed in the cage swore loudly while widening his eyes.

When that man was swearing, a servant fed something to the dog. That male dog's eyes instantly turned red. He started to pant towards the two women. The two women's skins also turned red as they laid on the grassland and started to touch themselves with their hands. At the same time, they groaned and twisted their bodies.

"Beasts...you beasts...you beasts of Three-eye Association will die in one's boots!" The man in cage forcefully rammed the steel bars while bleeding all over and breaking his skull. He started to burst into loud sobs...

This might be the cruelest thing for a man.

When the male dog started to gaze at the two lying women and became crazy, it was set free by that manservant. The male dog instantly charged towards the two women.

All the men at present were waiting for the next show. It was not the first time to watch similar shows. They all knew what would happen next. All the men in the party became thrilled.

Being stimulated by medicine, when the male dog arrived at less than 0.5 m away from the two women, it suddenly stopped. Closely after that, it started to sob as it moved back one step after another as if it had seen something extremely terrifying...

"What's the matter?" The man called Fitrich threw a glare towards that servant.

The lackey instantly turned his face, "Ahh, young master, I've just fed it medicine, I don't know why it's different than before..."

Soon after that man finished his reply had his head exploded, spraying his white brain over Fitrich's face and glass. Fitrich became stunned. Before he shouted, "assassin", an extremely terrifying qi had covered this place and frozen the entire garden.

Fitrich turned his face abruptly. Under the powerful qi, each one felt like carrying a mountain while the movement became difficult. He tried his best to faintly rotate his pupils as he saw a hook-nosed old man in a black robe slowly walking out of the shadow of the cherry-apple tree with chilly eyes.

The old man raised his hand once again while a snake-shaped sharp battle qi instantly flew out of his finger and penetrated through the head of the major general, the most powerful one among the guests, spraying his colorful brain over the grassland.

'He's a knight, a powerful knight.' Given the powerful battle skill and the terrifying snake-shaped battle qi that flew out of the old man's finger, Fitrich instantly recalled a powerful battle skill——Flexible Snake Finger. It was the most difficult one among all the finger battle skills. As long as it was mastered, it would be very powerful. According to the legends, after mastering this battle skill, as long as one pointed at something, a flexible snake would fly out of his finger as fast as a lightning bolt, which could even match steam ballista.

Zhang Tie pointed his finger at each step. Each time, he would explode a guest's head in the garden while the plasma and brain blossomed like brilliant flowers over the grassland.

None of these people who colluded with Three-eye Association and did such brutal things would be innocent.

Zhang Tie made a massacre.

The battle skill he used was actually not flexible snake finger.

Zhang Tie had read the secret book about flexible snake finger in Huaiyuan Palace. In the trouble-reappearance situation, Zhang Tie had almost read all the secret books in the Secret Books Pavilion.

He was just imitating the flexible snake finger based on "King Roc Sutra". Although being similar, it was enough for him to deal with these fishes.

When Zhang Tie walked to Fitrich, all the guests who were waiting for the good show had been killed.

There were over 70 corpses in the garden while the rich bloody smell started to cover the garden...

Zhang Tie triggered his spirit while all the naked women passed out.

"I'm...a member of Arthur Clan...if you kill me...Arthur Clan will revenge you...our clan has knights too..." Fitrich stammered with a pale face.

Like having not heard that, Zhang Tie just watched Fitrich with a cruel expression. His terrifying, weird claws instantly caught Fitrich's head. In a split second, Fitrich had started to quiver all over like getting an electric shock. At the same time, he rolled his eyes...

With his powerful spiritual energy, Zhang Tie read Fitrich's mind in a faster way. Only after a few seconds, Zhang Tie had already got what he wanted. After that, he forcefully broke this b*stard's head.

Until he saw Zhang Tie breaking Fitrich's head did that man in cage slowly close his eyes and died.

Watching the two women twisting their bodies with red skins on the ground, Zhang Tie knew that they had been destroyed by medicine physically and spiritually. They were just shells whose vitality had been exhausted. Even if he didn't show up, they could only survive 2 hours at most.

Zhang Tie broke their heart vessels and ended their pains by pointing at them.

Chapter 781: Setting a Trap

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

It was Zhang Tie's first time to kill two common women. Although Zhang Tie's reason was that such a tragedy happened in demon's area every day in the holy war, he still felt frustrated when he saw the two women died.

After that, a killing intent filled his heart.

Besides those naked women who had passed out and laid on the ground, none of those at present were alive. Those naked women were sex slaves in the mansion of the major. They were commoners at the beginning. But now, their only responsibility was to be f*cked by these b*stards of Three-eye Association. They could not even survive themselves, not to mention dignity.

Zhang Tie closed his eyes and recalled the things in Fitrich's memory. After that, he revealed a faint, terrifying sneer.

After throwing a glance at the scene, Zhang Tie instantly released 10 tracing tentacles onto the grassland.

Tracing tentacle was a special, hidden spiritual mark which could only be seen by Zhang Tie. In Zhang Tie's eyes, the tracing tentacles were like golden dandelion seeds. They just silently landed in the grass with the breeze.

As long as Zhang Tie could see them, he could control the movement of these tracing tentacles and attach them to specific objects or humans. Zhang Tie had tried that and found that even if he was in the state of his incarnation, as long as his original body could release tracing tentacles, his incarnation could also pass his will and act on these tracing tentacles. Among all the rune skills that Zhang Tie mastered, this was the only one that Zhang Tie could use through his incarnation indirectly.

After releasing the tracing tentacles, Zhang Tie started to walk around the mansion of the major. Only after a few minutes, he had plundered the entire mansion.

All the atrocious b*stards and lackeys of Three-eye Association in the mansion according to the memory of Fitrich were cleared by Zhang Tie.

In front of Zhang Tie's powerful spiritual energy, all those b*stards in the major's mansion could not resist. All of their heads were exploded by Zhang Tie.

Zhang Tie killed 317 people in the major's mansion, 34 of which had blood ties with Arthur Clan, including Fitrich's two sons. The younger son was only 12 years old; however, that no-good son of a b*tch had killed over 30 commoners in Glivec City in the last couple of years, over 10 of which were 20-year old beauties. He was brutal, lascivious and cunning. Zhang Tie didn't show his mercy to this remnant of Three-eye Association. In the terrifying look of that son of a bitch, Zhang Tie pointed at him and sent his skull flying away, spraying his brain over his bed.

All the remnants of Three-eye Association clans should be killed! If such a person survived, he would kill numerous commoners in the future.

Zhang Tie made his determination.

There was a safe in the study of Fitrich. Although Zhang Tie knew the code of the safe, in order to not expose the secret that he mastered the "soul capture skill", Zhang Tie broke the safe by force. He then moved the 4 million-odd gold checks and some senior vials of medicament into Castle of Black Iron.

After clearing the mansion of the major, Zhang Tie burned everything in the mansion. Closely after that, he woke up all the innocent servants and naked women in the mansion and let them escape.

With shrill shrieks and the rising flames from that building, the Glivec City became chaotic.

Zhang Tie just stood on the tip of a bartizan in the major's mansion like an owl. His black robe and silver hair flew with the night wind with a great killing qi.

However, none of those escaping slave servants noticed such a person on the tip of the bartizan.

When the major's mansion burned down, a camp less than 1 mile away from it sounded the miserable clarino.

It was the encampment of the elite city guards regiment of Glivec City, which was controlled by Fitrich himself. It was the devoted troop of Arthur Clan. As Arthur Clan treated it as a major force for stabilizing the situation and suppressing the rebels, therefore they arranged it in Glivec City.

Zhang Tie didn't rush over there right away; instead, he just watched that main building burning like a huge torch. After about 3 minutes, Zhang Tie revealed a sneer and he rushed towards that camp.

An elite troop could almost finish its convergence in 3 minutes.

When Zhang Tie arrived above the camp, he saw about 6,000 soldiers in the square of the camp. Many people were running here and there. As the commissioned officers issued the orders, all of the soldiers had already converged there. The fastest squad had already rushed towards the gate of the camp.

That was what Zhang was waiting for.

With weird laughter, Zhang Tie descended to 100 m above the gate of the camp. He rubbed his hands and launched his first attack in an overwhelming way.

A black boa-shaped battle qi was immediately released. As long as over 20 m, it charged towards that squad like a falcon hunting for chicks. When it reached the squad, it instantly opened its bloody mouth and revealed its grim fangs and devoured the entire vanguard of the squad.

The commissioned officers and dozens of soldiers in front of this squad had become flesh and blood before they realized what happened.

It was not over. After devouring dozens of people ahead of the squad, the boa kept surging forward. After sweeping over 200 people, it exploded onto the ground, causing a huge pit with a diameter of several meters with a ground-breaking loud sound like dropping an alchemist's bomb. The rocks flew out of that huge pit and swept soldiers one after another. Being affected by the fragile rocks, those soldiers were injured or killed at present.

Over 100 soldiers being closest to the huge pit wailed and fell on the ground at once.

"Knight..."

"Knight!"

"Knight's assassin!"

When the commissioned officers and soldiers of the city guards regiment found Zhang Tie in the sky, they shrieked at once. Meanwhile, all the city guards who were rushing out to control the situation of the major's mansion became flurried.

If a knight was a prehistorical huge crocodile in the water, they were just plankton in front of a knight. It was meaningless even though they outnumbered the knight.

Zhang Tie charged downwards and started the bloody massacre...

From then on, the entire city guards' camp was filled with flurried and terrifying roars and sounds of breaking bodies. No more battle calls could be heard.

Before Zhang Tie promoted to a knight, he could slaughter those LV 9 fighters of demons corps like killing dogs outside Upton City, not to mention these newbies. His moving speed of over 100 m per second, attacking frequency of over 100 times per second, attacking range of over 100 m and his knight's consciousness which could cover the entire camp became the nightmare of this elite city guards regiment in Glivec City.

After a few minutes, Zhang Tie glanced at the slaughterhouse where there were lying thousands of incomplete corpses and rushed to the sky before flying towards the city gates as fast as a meteor, ignoring the remaining alive fishes.

After breaking the two city gates and clearing all the city guards near the city gates, he flew towards those high grave tower demons.

There was a troop of over 200,000 demonized puppets outside the city gates of Glivec City. They were encamped near the grave tower demons. As those demonized puppets outside the city had sensed the chaos in the city, they started to converge and prepare for the emergency.

However, those commissioned officers who commanded these demonized puppets had long been killed by Zhang Tie in the major's mansion. Therefore, those demonized puppets became a bit chaotic.

Zhang Tie's targets were those grave tower demons instead of those common demonized puppets. Even if those demonized puppets noticed him, they could do nothing but shriek on the ground.

Any powerful living beings would have their own weaknesses. The typical example was the parent worm of demonized puppets. No matter what state was this parent worm in and how many demonized puppets could this parent worm control and convert, the parent worm itself had no ability to protect himself at all.

When Zhang Tie came to the first grave tower demon, the latter had already sensed Zhang Tie's killing intent as it started to shrink itself by creeping its body...

Zhang Tie rubbed his hands while another black boa-shaped battle qi flew out of his hands towards that grave tower demon. It exploded the entire grave tower demon from its root, causing it to fall down like a flesh mountain...

Numerous demonized puppets started to wail...

The 7 grave tower demons outside the city gates of Glivec City were turned into piles of smelly, suppurating and bleeding flesh.

After killing these grave tower demons, Zhang Tie rushed into the demonized puppets' camp and killed almost 30,000-40,000 demonized puppets. After that, he rushed towards northwest like a white meteor and disappeared in a split second...

...

After over 10 minutes, a black beetle arrived at the Glivec City silently and rested on a leaf of a cherry-apple tree in the garden of the major's mansion...

Chapter 782: Big Trouble

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

All the servants and slaves had escaped away from the major's mansion. Otherwise, they would die for sure as the funeral objects and the victims facing the fury of Arthur Clan.

Zhang Tie was resting on a leaf of a cherry-apple tree in the garden of the major's mansion in the incarnation of a beetle. The beetle turned into the same color as the trunk of the cherry-apple tree. Even if a knight was standing under the tree and noticed such a small insect on the back of the leaf, he would never pay special attention to it. Because there were so many small insects in this garden. This garden was a mini ecological system.

Some smart and brave servants even slid into other rooms of the major's mansion and took some belongings. After that, they set a fire and burned all the evidence.

Before leaving, Zhang Tie just burned the main building of the major's mansion; however, when Zhang Tie came back, a small half of the buildings in the major's mansion had been burning. Thanks to the artificial lake which covered about 2,000 sqm between the garden and those buildings, the garden was not influenced by the fire accident in the major's mansion.

The Glivec City became completely chaotic tonight. For many people, this was a good chance for them to escape away from this city.

The elite city guards regiment that was cleared, the city towers that Zhang Tie had destroyed and the disordered demonized puppets spared a chance for those people to escape away from this city.

In the ruling area of demons and Three-eye Association, each city was actually a huge prison. The b*stards of Three-eye Association were the managers of the prison. Demonized puppets and the army of Three-eye Association clans were jailers and hatchet men in the prison. Demons were the owner of the prison. However, most of the people became slaves and food of demons and prisoners who were waiting for death. Nobody would like to live in such a prison.

After escaping away from Glivec City, those people could only depend on themselves. Generally, as long as they had sufficient preparations, they could choose to hide in mountainous areas in the wild being far away from the city.

...

In the shadow of the flames, a man and a woman ran into the garden with simple luggage on their back who dressed like servants of the major's mansion.

"Lily, wait for me a moment..." That man told the woman.

"Ahh, Noah, what're you going to do? There're corpses all over here..." Watching those headless corpses in the garden, that woman was very fearsome and looked pale.

"I remember that the keys of the blood slaves camp in the south of the city are carried by Atlie. I have to save my dad and mom out of the blood slave camp. As it's chaotic tonight, I have to seize the mere chance." That man said with a bad look. After that, he kept identifying those corpses and searched their clothes one after another, "This food should be eatable, Lily, hurry up, take away the food on the tables. In the next few days, we need to rely on this food before entering the mountain. Take some more salt..."

After hearing the man's words, that woman hurriedly ran to the tables and started to pack those food on the tables with quivering hands.

The man took all the purses that he found from those corpses without any hesitation. Finally, he found a bunch of keys from a corpse in a purple ceremonial robe.

"I got them..." That man uttered a low voice. Closely after that, he stood up and ran to the side of that woman. After carrying the packed food, he hurriedly left with that woman.

1 hour later, two batches of people arrived here. After searching over those corpses, they left too. The last batch of people even peeled off the clothes of some corpses, leaving them lying on the grassland in only underwears, which looked pretty weird.

Zhang Tie knew that someone would come here for investigation for sure. When he withdrew out of Fitrich's memory, Zhang Tie had known that Arthur Clan had independent clan intelligence and detectives in Glivec City. Even Fitrich didn't know some of those intelligence and detectives. Their job was to report some major events in Glivec City to Arthur Clan. It was also a means that Arthur Clan adopted to control this country and its clan members.

The news that Glivec City was attacked by a human knight must have been transmitted to Democracy City.

Democracy City was the capital city of Verov Federation, the biggest city in the federation and the nestle of Arthur Clan. After being the actual ruler of Verov Federation, Arthur Clan kept the name unchanged, making it sound a bit ironical.

Arthur Clan, with 4 knights, was the most powerful clan among all the Three-eye Association clans.

Yonas Arthur was the key figure in the entire Arthur Clan. He was both a knight and the ancestor of Arthur Clan, who pushed Arthur Clan to the first clan in Verov Federation.

110 years ago, when Yonas Arthur promoted to a knight, it shocked the entire Verov Federation. This person had always been the pride and symbol of the entire Verov Federation. Even a city in the east of the federation was named after him.

After Yonas Arthur promoted to a knight for over 100 years, 3 of his offsprings became the presidents of the federation, 4 became the chief justices of the federation and 2 became the speaker of the federal parliament. Right in 100 years, Arthur Clan absolutely consolidated its position in Verov Federation.

Besides Yonas Arthur, Arthur Clan had 3 more employed knights, one of whom went on an expedition with the demonized puppets corps of Arthur Clan and "disappeared" after fighting human knights outside Mocco City. After that, Arthur Clan dispatched another employed knight called Dimma to join the clan's demonized puppets corps.

Zhang Tie learned it according to Fitrich's memory. That "missing" knight of Arthur Clan was killed by Zhang Tie when he was almost dead. Zhang Tie also met that knight called Dimma in Mocco City. The moment he killed Scala, that knight had appeared. Thankfully, he played a trick to escape successfully.

To be honest, Zhang Tie had a "bosom relationship" with Arthur Clan.

The fourth knight of Arthur Clan was a mysterious figure called Sigri. Even Fitrich didn't know much about Sigri. Even though Fitrich had met Sigri three times, each time they met in major occasions of Arthur Clan when Sigri just stood silently on the side of Yonas in a black robe and grim look.

Zhang Tie wondered how many clan knights of Arthur Clan would arrive here.

In the demons' area, given such events which had caused a major loss to their own cities, the demons and Three-eye Association's emergency response was consistent with that adopted by humans in similar situations——As long as they found such a person, demons and Three-eye Association would mobilize all of their advantageous forces within the whole territory and besiege that human knight so as to kill him. They would dispatch at least 3 knights as powerful as that human knight.

Zhang Tie waited there silently.

After the last batch of people left with the corpses' clothes, a powerful qi darted towards here from the north in the sky.

After circling around the air territory of Glivec City, he landed in the garden of the major's mansion. Right in those corpses, he looked at those corpses with chilly eyes. He even squatted down to check the death cause of those corpses.

This knight was about 100 m away from the beetle.

At the sight of this knight, Zhang Tie narrowed his pupils slightly, 'This man was the very employed knight called Sigri in Arthur Clan.' Zhang Tie sensed a profound, weird qi from this employed knight.

The way Sigri checked those corpses was extremely disgusting. Besides observing them with eyes, this knight even dipped the brains by fingers and tasted them.

After checking those corpses, Sigri in a chilly and solemn robe stood up and closed his eyes silently.

Zhang Tie felt that Sigri's knight's consciousness was sweeping over the major's mansion.

At this moment, no more living beings could be found except for some insects in the major's mansion. Even the dog had run away, not to mention humans.

Zhang Tie ran his spiritual energy and had one tracing tentacle attach to Sigri's robe as light as a feather.

Due to the powerful sense of black iron knight, Zhang Tie could not attach the tracing tentacle to the body of a black iron knight; however, he could have it attached to the black iron knight's belongings or clothes. This was the strength of the god's rune.

Less than 10 minutes after Sigri landed here, another knight's qi darted towards this city from the south. After sensing the knight's qi in the major's mansion, that knight directly flew towards the major's mansion.

The second knight was another employed knight of Arthur Clan called Dimma, whom Zhang Tie was familiar with.

In the next half an hour, 2 demon knights and 2 more Three-eye Association knights arrived in the major's mansion...

When these knights landed, those tracing tentacles had been attached to these knights' soles, clothes or weapons.

Watching the 6 knights, Zhang Tie silently swallowed his saliva as he realized that he had made big trouble...

Chapter 783: Killing Unther

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

The 6 knights rushed towards here from 6 directions. If Zhang Tie just left Glivec City in a certain direction blatantly, he might have collided with some of these knights.

"According to the intelligence of Arthur Clan, a human knight in a black robe and silver hair raided Glivec City!" Dimma explained to the other 5 knights.

"Is he from the southern human countries?" The knight who came here in the end asked.

"I'm not sure about that. We have to carry out investigation! Based on his look, he didn't fit those knights in the southern human countries!"

"I don't care who he is, I will just chop off his head!" The demon knight uttered a muffled voice with full killing qi.

"The ground troops of 17 northern countries have already moved. They were paying attention to any suspected person at any time. Numerous eyes were gazing at the sky now. All the other No. 1 knights have become vigilant. Even some neighboring countries including Verov Federation had dispatched over 1,000 ground scouting units to carry out an encirclement around the Glivec City. That man could never leave out of here!"

"Alright, let's move. Two in a unit. The two knights in one unit should not exceed 100 miles. As we've not met that guy on the way here, it indicates that he's still not far from here. When any one of us finds the target, stop him right away, all the others will arrive there soon! Arthur Clan will be left to protect Glivec City!"

After over 10 seconds of communication, the 6 knights looked at each other before nodding. After that, they immediately rushed to the sky and rushed in directions as fast as meteors.

Watching the 6 knights leaving the major's mansion, Zhang Tie showed his head out of that leaf of the cherry-apple tree. Watching the 6 knights leaving, Zhang Tie thought for a second before following after one of the six knights.

Among all the 6 knights, that knight's qi was weaker.

Through reading Fitrich's memory, Zhang Tie knew the information about that knight. He was called Unther, an employed knight of Avice Clan, another Three-eye Association. He had just promoted to a knight less than 3 decades ago.

Zhang Tie was also familiar with Avice Clan. After the demonized puppets corps broke the human defense line in Selnes Theater of Operations, Zhang Tie once killed a batch of young elites of Avice Clan in the rear of Avice Clan's corps.

Avice's territory was Highcloud Empire, a country in the 17 collapsed human countries in the north of Blackson Humans Corridor. This clan had 2 knights, a clan elder had gone on an expedition with the army, the rest one Unther was left in the rear.

According to Fitrich's memory, Zhang Tie gradually figured out the situation facing the entire enemy-occupied area. He knew the major clans of Three-eye Association very well. This information was indeed precious.

As an old Hua saying went, "People always eat soft persimmons first." Of course, Zhang Tie would choose the weakest one to kill.

After raiding a city, if he could kill another knight of Three-eye Association, he would deter all the Three-eye Association clans and demons across Blackson Humans Corridor.

...

Zhang Tie had not imagined that demons and Three-eye Association would make such great efforts to chase him in the past 10 days, during which period the entire north region of Blackson Humans Corridor took actions to search for him.

After chasing Unther for 3 days, Zhang Tie in the incarnation of the small black beetle became pretty tired.

After sensing the decisive attitude of demons and Three-eye Association, Zhang Tie directly changed his strategy. He took the initiative instead of following after Unther. After incarnating into the thunder hawk, Zhang Tie landed on the top of a mountain over 100 miles away from the capital city of Highcloud Empire which neighbored Verov Federation and waited for his target.

'As long as demons and Three-eye Association think that I have left the north region of Blackson Humans Corridor, and ended their search for me, the group of 6 knights would disband and return to their own homes.

Those scouting units might continue to carry out their scouting tasks; however, they would not waste advanced resources like knights in this way only for an unidentified knight.

After Zhang Tie raided Glivec City, the atmosphere in the capital city of Highcloud Empire became intense for a few days, during which period, Highcloud Empire also organized hundreds of scouting units to search for the target like headless chickens. However, after achieving nothing for a few days, the intense atmosphere gradually relieved.

Zhang Tie was on a thousand meters high steep peak, which was covered by clouds. Almost nobody else could be found here, not to mention any scouting unit. Even if any scouting unit arrived here, they would not search carefully, either.

A hidden knight was more difficult to be found than a knight flying in the sky.

Zhang Tie found a cave to cultivate on the mountain peak casually as he waited for that knight of Avice Clan.

...

After 7 days, Zhang Tie, with crossed legs in the cave, opened his eyes and ended the illusion of 5 abacuses in his mind. In his mind sea, he had already sensed two tracing tentacles moving close to 500 miles away from this place.

The two tracing tentacles came from Unther.

There was no other knight within 500 miles from Unther.

Zhang Tie knew that the knights' scouting units must have disbanded. Given the direction, Unther was flying towards here from the capital city of Highcloud Empire at a speed of about 300 miles per hour. For common knights, with this speed, they could maintain their own physical strength to the utmost.

Zhang Tie got up and warmed up his limbs, causing cracks all over. After that, he walked out of the mountain cave and watched the shrouding clouds. Meanwhile, he issued an order to the thunder hawk who was playing and scouting outside these days and waited for it to come back silently.

It was daytime. However, It had been snowing in the entire north for 2 days, causing a sharp decline in the temperature. Therefore, the mountain range was already covered with snow.

After 7-8 minutes, with the sound of flapping wings, the thunder hawk came back and landed on Zhang Tie's side. It kept whooping and rubbing its furry head to Zhang Tie's shank.

The thunder hawk didn't come back alone; instead, it carried a female partner. Watching the other thunder hawk which looked faintly slim and had just molted its fur, Zhang Tie smiled, 'Are you kidding me? You brought back a beauty?'

After sensing some qi on Zhang Tie, that female thunder hawk rubbed her furry head with Zhang Tie's other shank in an intimate way too.

"Alright, build your nestle in Castle of Black Iron!" Zhang Tie smiled as he moved the two thunder hawks into Castle of Black Iron.

After doing that, Zhang Tie flew in the air and rushed towards the two tracing tentacles.

In Zhang Tie's consciousness, the two tracing tentacles were like a high-precision radar before the Catastrophe. They could tell him the speed, height and coordinates of that arriver.

After hiding his qi, Zhang Tie kept flying ahead casually. Only after half an hour, he had already caught sight of Unther.

Zhang Tie was at 7,000 m in height while Unther was at 6,000 m. As Zhang Tie was behind a thin cloud, he was not noticed by Unther when he caught sight of Unther.

'As I've imagined, he's alone.' Zhang Tie's eyes turned cold at once.

Zhang Tie knew that this guy had a knight's remote-sensing device. 'If this guy found me, he would send the rescue signal right away. So what? The latest opponent knight is over 900 miles from here. It will take him at least 1 hour to arrive. However, it's enough for me to kill two knights like him in such period.'

Zhang Tie stood still in the air and watched that Unther arriving at his feet.

After that, Zhang Tie accelerated his speed to the utmost and rushed towards Unther with a terrifying qi like a meteor.

...

The moment Zhang Tie released his battle qi, Unther immediately felt his feet being pinched by a hot red needle. He looked up as he shouted, "Who's that?"

The answer was a boa-shaped battle qi which was widening its bloody mouth and exposing its fangs...

As a knight, Unther was not slow-witted. He moved back and launched punches as fast as a lightning bolt with surging battle qi. In a split second, he had collapsed that boa-shaped battle qi...

When the boa faded away, Zhang Tie, in a black robe and swaying silver hair, had already charged towards him like a monster being incarnated by a vulture with sharp killing qi.

Of course, Zhang Tie didn't expect that one off-body battle qi could have any effect. This strike was just saving some time for him to warm up.

"You did that!" Unther narrowed his pupils as he moved back as fast as a meteor.

With weird sound, "jye jye", Zhang Tie charged forward and launched his second round of attack...

Unther moved at a high speed in the sky; however, it was not fast compared to that of Zhang Tie.

With Unther's roars, the close combat between knights broke out. Being constantly attacked by Zhang Tie, Unther was like a buffalo falling into the mire, who could not leave for free. Even his procrastination tactic could be seen through by Zhang Tie.

The two knights started the fiercest combat. The moment their combat broke out, two battle qis had rushed into the air and collided with each other fiercely...

Unther's battle qi was as azure as the sky; however, Zhang Tie's battle qi was magnificent, bright and sacred. If some experts were watching them, they could identify that Zhang Tie's battle qi was the secret skill of Sacred Light Empire.

After killing 2 knights through the close combat, Zhang Tie's close-range attacking strength and comprehensive battle force had improved and became extremely powerful.

Only after 10 more minutes, with a miserable shriek of Unther, Zhang Tie penetrated through Unther's chest by his sharp claws before stretching out Unther's entire spine, destroying his body in a split second. Unther's corpse fell off. However, Zhang Tie caught it in the air.

Zhang Tie plundered all the valuable items from Unther's body. After that, he threw off the corpse and rushed towards the capital city of Highcloud Empire as fast as a meteor.

After 20 minutes, Zhang Tie cleared over 10 grave tower demons in the periphery of the capital city of Highcloud Empire and destroyed two major castles of Avice Clan outside the city and the greater part of the imperial palace of Highcloud Empire. After collecting all the valuable items, he faded away like a meteor once again.

After Zhang Tie disappeared for half an hour, the meteors arrived at the capital city of Highcloud Empire one after another once again.

This time, the entire demon area in the north of Blackson Humans Corridor became shocked...

Chapter 784: Fruits and Butterfly

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

When a large batch of knights of demons and Three-eye Association arrived at the capital city of Highcloud Empire, Zhang Tie had long entered Castle of Black Iron.

Zhang Tie just left the capital city of Highcloud Empire at his navigation speed. In order to confuse his enemy, Zhang Tie even turned into a brilliant meteor, which looked like leaving at its full speed.

As the old Hua saying went, 'Deceit is not to be despised in war.'

After leaving the capital city of Highcloud Empire, Zhang Tie found a remote valley and landed in a cave of two wild bears. The moment he entered the cave had Zhang Tie entered Castle of Black Iron.

After attacking Glivec City for 10 days, he raided the capital city of Highcloud Empire and killed a knight of Three-eye Association, Zhang Tie knew that demons and Three-eye Association would be driven mad by him this time.

'Although I could imagine how demons and Three-eye Association would respond to it. It's nothing to do with me. I will just cultivate in Castle of Black Iron for a few days. I don't care how furious they are; as long as I'm in Castle of Black Iron, it's nothing to do with me. Demon General? So what? Can he bite this father's butt?' Zhang Tie thought.

...

As it was daytime outside, it was daytime in Castle of Black Iron too. The moment Zhang Tie appeared in the palace of the palace tree had he caught sight of Heller.

"Congratulations, Castle Lord, you've got new achievements!"

Zhang Tie smiled, "It was risky this time; thankfully, I'm safe. I know what you want to say. I will watch out. I will cultivate in Castle of Black Iron for a while, leaving demons and Three-eye Association fly into rage. I want to see how long could demons and Three-eye Association be intense this time!"

After hearing Zhang Tie's reply, Heller revealed a smile, "It's nice to hear Castle Lord think in this way. When you killed that knight of Three-eye Association, you had actually disrupted the fighting rhythm of demons and Three-eye Association in the holy war. Castle Lord, you have actually made a great military exploit for the human countries across Blackson Humans Corridor. Sometimes, the so-called war doesn't require the real fight. If you could restrict the moving party by staying still, it would be the best!"

"Fine, thanks for your warning. I understand. 'Restrict the moving party by staying still', I like that expression!" Zhang Tie replied as he walked towards that small tree.

"In former two holy wars, demons and humans had already concluded and developed a set of methods to deal with the raid from an opponent knight. Now that demons could wrestle with humans for such a long time, they would definitely have their means to deal with you. Please pay attention to this point, Castle Lord. Don't be careless only because of two times of success. If a powerful knight could destroy the rear cities and bases of the opponent casually, demons or humans could determine the result of a war only by dispatching an earth knight to the opponent's territory. Actually, given the former two holy wars, neither party would suffer from a destructive strike caused by an advanced opponent knight. The decapitation action and the island hopping action are not impossible. Castle Lord, you should consider about the reason!" Heller reminded Zhang Tie with a profound look.

Zhang Tie stopped his footsteps.

Zhang Tie faintly frowned and turned around to look at Heller, "You mean demons have methods to deal with me?"

"Castle Lord, I mean that you were definitely not the first advanced knight who went to find trouble in the rear of the opponent. In holy wars, any advanced knight might be killed. As demon is a powerful race, Castle Lord, you better not take it lightly!"

Zhang Tie knew about Heller's style. Heller might know something in many cases; however, he would not put it straight. Instead, Heller just implied him in other methods.

Heller's words made Zhang Tie's heart pound. As a result, Zhang Tie recovered his composure as he nodded seriously, "I've remembered your words. Thanks, I will watch out!"

Heller then bowed elegantly towards Zhang Tie, "That's what everybody who cares about you would like to hear!"

...

Zhang Tie came to the small tree and reviewed his achievements.

The fruit of brilliance which was as brilliant as a rainbow——

The fruit of judgment which contained super rapid moving skill——

The fruit of judgment which contained super hiding skill——

The fruit of source of the parent worm of demonized puppets——

Two ripe leakless fruits——

A fruit of redemption of golden uangs which could increase his strength by 71.5 kg once again——

'No fruit of bloodline?'

Zhang Tie became a bit disappointed after circling around the small tree and found no fruit of bloodline. The presumption that he didn't want to see most came true, 'The forming conditions of a powerful fruit of bloodline is indeed much more difficult to gain than that I've imagined.'

Zhang Tie carefully recalled all the details about that knight of Three-eye Association whom he killed for the first time and the hint of the first fruit of bloodline. Finally, he fixed two conditions: the first condition was that he should kill knights who betrayed humans; the second condition was that he should kill knights who were more advanced than Zhang Tie given the words in the hint "brave", "curving fear", "creating marvels", "turning impossibilities into possibilities".

'As I'm a black iron knight, it means that I have to kill the earth knight of Three-eye Association so as to gain the powerful fruit of bloodline.'

Zhang Tie revealed a bitter smile, 'Earth knight? I cannot even defeat the demon general, it's impossible for me to kill an earth knight in a short time. It seems that I have to improve my battle force gradually. When my battle force surpasses that of demon general, I will search for earth knights of Three-eye Association.'

Speaking of the "improve", the contents in the hints of the two fruits of judgment made Zhang Tie spirited up, not to mention the fruit of brilliance which contained powerful spiritual energy.

With the super rapid moving skill, Zhang Tie gained an effect that he dreamt of——an increase of 5% in flying speed.

Zhang Tie felt that he had made a great achievement because of the improvement in flying speed, not to mention other achievements.

With the super hiding skill, Zhang Tie could hide his qi at a higher level.

Watching these fruits, Zhang Tie became reassured. He then started to cultivate carefully in Castle of Black Iron...

...

After 2 days, a colorful butterfly which was 4-5 times larger than that of common butterflies flapped its wings and loomed in the windy and snowy valley where Zhang Tie disappeared like not being affected by the heavy wind and snow...

Behind that butterfly was the demon general's extremely gloomy face in the void...

Chapter 785: Digging the Ground

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

As Castle of Black Iron was not a complete world, there was no elements realm in Castle of Black Iron. Therefore, Zhang Tie could not form chakra in the Castle of Black Iron by entering elements realm. Thankfully, Zhang Tie got 4 earth element crystals from Unther, which barely enabled Zhang Tie to stay three days in Castle of Black Iron. Three days later, Zhang Tie continued to imagine 5 abacuses in his mind at the same time.

After eating the new fruit of brilliance, Zhang Tie's spiritual energy surged once again. The increase of his spiritual energy enabled him to form a hand of spiritual energy in the elements realm to capture earth element. However, as Zhang Tie had not been able to do calculations on 5 abacuses at the same time adroitly, even though he could form the 5th hand of spiritual energy, he could not use all the 5 hands of spiritual energy to capture element crystals at the same time in the elements realm. Therefore, Zhang Tie wanted to master the skill of doing calculations on 5 abacuses at the same time during the period in Castle of Black Iron.

The most difficult part of mental arithmetic by abacus was to imagine 2 abacuses at the same time. As long as he passed that stage, with correct method and sufficient spiritual energy, he would make progress gradually. What he needed was constant training.

Besides practicing distraction, "mental arithmetic by abacus" could also enhance the spiritual energy of the cultivator. Therefore, this secret skill was worthwhile and would bring rich rewards to the cultivator. Even though Zhang Tie could not form his earth chakra, he was not worried about wasting time by practicing 'mental arithmetic by abacus". As long as he mastered the "mental arithmetic by abacus", he could accelerate the speed of capturing elements in the elements realm. As the old Hua saying went "When you want to chop woods, you'd better polish your knife". As it required a black iron knight at least 300 years to form the second chakra, Zhang Tie took the cultivation of 'mental arithmetic by abacus' as the second most effective means for him to form his earth chakra.

Through this journey, Zhang Tie advanced his senior rapid moving skill to super rapid moving skill; additionally, he further improved his 'mental arithmetic by abacus'. Therefore, even if he left the demon's area right now, Zhang would still feel to have a worthwhile trip.

However, Zhang Tie didn't want to leave out of here for the time being. He felt that he could kill 1 or 2 more knights of Three-eye Association by chance. However, Heller's words were reverberating in his mind. Zhang Tie became vigilant to demon's means. Zhang Tie had made the determination, 'As long as I find anything wrong, I will escape right away.'

After staying in Castle of Black Iron for 36 days and eating 5 leakless fruits, Zhang Tie could finally do calculations on 5 abacuses adroitly at the same time. Therefore, Zhang Tie decided to leave Castle of Black Iron.

It was already February 17th, the 896th year of Black Iron Calendar, half an hour after Zhang Tie left Huaiyuan Palace.

'When I raided Glivec City for the first time, demons and Three-eye Association's order was disrupted for 10 days. This time, over 1 month has passed since I killed a knight of Three-eye Association and raided the capital city of Highcloud Empire. It's time to have some fun with Three-eye Association and demons.'

Zhang Tie chose to leave Castle of Black Iron at night.

Before leaving, Zhang Tie had been used to check the situation outside through the marvelous arch door in his mind sea...

Standing in the palace of the palace tree, Zhang Tie closed his eyes when the scene across the valley appeared in Zhang Tie's mind.

The entire wild bear's cave had already become a huge, deep pit. The two wild bears' flesh and furs had scattered over the cave. At the sight of this scene, Zhang Tie became stunned at once. It was completely out of his imagination.

'What happened?'

Zhang Tie continued to broaden his vision. After over 1 month, the valley where he hid in had changed its look completely——the two hills on both sides of the valley had almost been bulldozed. Those rocks in the valley had been shattered and moved away. The entire valley had been dug, exposing high-density huge pits on the ground like having been hit by meteors.

Of course, the huge pits were not caused by meteors. Zhang Tie knew they were caused by powerful battle qi of knights.

Facing such a fierce strike, no ant would survive in the valley, not to mention the two wild bears.

There were still many huge braisers in the valley. Tens of thousands of humans slaves were digging something forcefully facing the heavy wind and snow. They were leveling the two hills on both sides of the valley. In the periphery of these human laborers were the camp of over 70,000 demonized puppets. It felt that they were looking for something.

'In the barren wilderness, what are demons and Three-eye Association looking for? Needless to say, they are looking for me!'

Although there were other possibilities, Zhang Tie realized that knights of demons or Three-eye Association must have discovered that he was hiding in this valley.

Zhang Tie's heart pounded when he became vigilant. Zhang Tie had not imagined that demons could have such means to find him here. If he didn't have Castle of Black Iron and just hid here, he must have become a corpse.

Zhang Tie opened his eyes in the palace of the palace tree with a shrew light in eyes. After that, he ran his spiritual energy and woke up that small, black beetle who was having a sound sleep in the cave on the cliff next to the Abyss of Chaos. The beetle moved its tentacles and climbed out of its cave right away. Closely after that, it flew towards the palace tree rapidly.

Only after over 10 seconds, the small, black beetle had flown by the gate of the palace tree and appeared in Zhang Tie's vision. Zhang Tie stretched his arms while the beetle landed on his palm.

Zhang Tie came to the platform under the small tree and sat down there with crossed legs. After applying a super hiding skill on the little thing, he incarnated into that little, black beetle.

After flying around his original body, which was sitting there with closed eyes, it left Castle of Black Iron and appeared in the deep pit where was once the cave of the two wild bears.

Zhang Tie flew at a low height. In the pitch-dark night, he was only about 3 cm away from the ground. After flying out of the deep pit, Zhang Tie saw two human slaves passing by that deep pit with a wheelbarrow which was filled with soil and rocks. He then hid still at the bottom of the wheelbarrow while concealing his qi.

Although Zhang Tie remained still, his consciousness was still active. He sensed two tracing tentacles right on the side of this valley, which was very close to him.

The tracing tentacles were attached to the weapons of two knights of Three-eye Association over 1 month ago in the major's mansion of Glivec City. They were still there now. The tracing tentacles released by senior tracing skill could be effective for 100 days independently and sensed in 1,000 miles. As knights didn't frequently change their weapons, they probably were the very two knights of Three-eye Association.

After that, Zhang Tie was sure that his trace had been exposed.

Zhang Tie then became more careful. He didn't fly around; instead, he just stayed at the bottom of that wheelbarrow and observed the surroundings.

As Zhang Tie didn't know how did the demons and Three-eye Association trace him, he had to respond to them carefully.

The two human slaves looked so miserable——four scrawny shanks, four heavily worn shoes which exposed the greater part of their feet. They pushed the wheelbarrow hardly while stepping into the muddy valley one step after another.

It was the coldest weather in the north; additionally, it was in the evening when it was below zero degrees in the wild. The partly melting snow was icy, causing chilblains and wounds of different sizes on the four feet. One of the slaves' feet had been swollen and turned into black green.

At the sight of that, Zhang Tie knew that the pair of feet would almost be paralyzed. Even if this person was moved in good conditions, he had to have his shanks amputated to survive himself.

It was out of many people's imaginations to see such a pair of feet walking on the ground in such a worse situation.

Zhang Tie could hear them faintly panting.

"Harvey...I...I cannot stick to it..." Given the source of the voice, it was from that guy whose feet had turned black green, "Wi...wish you live well...if possible...leave out of here...to the south..."

"Schuck, don't say that...we...we will survive...stick to a few more days...stick to a few more days..." Another one cried.

"No...my two legs...have become numb, not to mention my feet...I feel that my legs have turned into logs...additionally...I've just seen Beneya...she's pulling Tess's hand...Tess is cradling her furry toy, a small Barbie bear...they are waiting for me in front and waving their hands to me..." The voice became weaker and weaker...

"Tomorrow...tomorrow it will be sunny...your feet will be..."

Before that one called Harvey finished his words, the two feet on his side had staggered while Schuck fell down...

"No..." As Harvey shouted, some demonized puppets had charged at Schuck and torn open his chest and body. At the sight of this, ten more demonized puppets rushed towards here...

Followed by terrifying chewing sounds...

With a sound "Pah..." the slave called Harvey was whipped while a man in leather boots walked towards him and scolded, "What are you looking for, keep working if you don't want to die. You might be that one tomorrow...you, the yellow-haired one, yes, you, come here, push the wheelbarrow together with him..." The man in leather boots pointed at a slave a few meters away. After receiving the order, that slave hurriedly paced up towards here.

With faint sobs, the wheelbarrow moved again...

Resting at the bottom of the wheelbarrow, Zhang Tie just watched that human slave to fall in front of him and became the food of demonized puppets...

That human slave just watched the bottom of the wheelbarrow until he was dead...

Zhang Tie felt that that man was looking at him silently. Zhang Tie's heart then became colder than snow.

...

After over 20 minutes, the soil and rocks on the wheelbarrow were finally dumped into a deserted place away from the valley after passing 3 checks...

It was snowing in great flakes once again...

Zhang Tie left the wheelbarrow and flew towards a tent in the far in the dancing snowflakes.

Chapter 786: Soul-chasing Butterfly

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

The tracing tentacles were right in the tent, which meant the two knights of Three-eye Association must be in the tent.

If Zhang Tie's hiding skill had not advanced to the super level, Zhang Tie would never dare to move closer to the two knights in the incarnation of a little, black beetle given the sharp perception of knight's consciousness.

Flying in the snowflakes, the beetle's qi became as light and white as snowflakes. He gradually moved closer to the tent.

There was a camp of over 10,000 soldiers outside the tent. A burning braiser was set outside the tent. When Zhang Tie got close to the tent, he saw two soldiers walking towards the tent with two food containers.

The two containers obscured the direction of the two people in front of them. Zhang Tie took advantage of this and rested on the bottom of a container and followed the two soldiers in the tent.

At the sight of two soldiers with food containers in hand, one bodyguard outside the tent stopped them.

"Stop, what are you doing here?"

"Two lords want to take some night snacks. There are two cooked snowcocks. We're told to send them here!" One of them answered.

The moment the bodyguard opened the food containers had the aroma of cooked chicken drifted out. Zhang Tie could almost hear the bodyguard silently swallowing his saliva.

"Alright!" The bodyguard opened the curtain of the tent and let the two soldiers in.

They then entered the tent.

When the second soldier entered the tent, Zhang Tie who rested on the bottom of his container lightly "flew" onto the bottom of an armrack like a snowflake. In the first soldier's shadow, he was not noticed by anybody.

Compared to that of outside, it was brightly-lit inside the tent. Besides, there was an aroma of liquor and meat.

After staying in the tent for over 10 seconds, the two soldiers hurriedly left.

...

"Hmm, I've not imagined that the snowcocks here taste so good!"

A sound drifted from 20 m away from Zhang Tie. Zhang Tie exposed his little head from the bottom of the armrack and looked around the tent.

Two knights were drinking and eating at a table opposite to Zhang Tie.

They were the very two knights of Three-eye Association that Zhang Tie had met in Glivec City before. One of them used a sword, the other used a saber. Their weapons were put beside the table, where they could reach easily.

"How many more days will we stay here?" A knight tore apart a snowcock's leg and gnawed it while saying, "We've already stayed here for over 1 month. Sethi, do you think that the demon general has made a mistake?"

"Cologne, demon general could make a mistake; however the soul-chasing butterfly of demon general won't make any mistake. That black-robe knight must have been here after killing Unther!" The other one replied.

"If so, why we've not found him for so many days?"

"There are three possibilities. First, that guy is still here, but with the protection of a secret method; therefore, we couldn't find him yet. This is why we're here. Second, that guy has been killed by someone in a split second here and left no remains at all. Therefore, the soul-chasing butterfly failed to find him. However, this possibility is very low. Third, that guy might have cultivated a weird spiritual, secret method. He used a small piece of his soul to attract the soul-chasing butterfly to this place; however, he has already escaped in another direction!"

Cologne shook his head, "During the past one month, our Three-eye Association's intelligence system have already excluded all the knights across Blackson Humans Corridor. Obviously, that guy doesn't belong to any human country in Blackson Humans Corridor. I really wonder where does that black-robe guy come from?"

"Only in such a chaotic world could such knights who wander across all the Sub-continents like wild wolves and vultures only for cultivating resources be nerve-wracking. Afraid of being wanted by the Mountain of Brightness, these knights dare not find trouble in humans' territory. Therefore, they could only find trouble in our territory. In each holy war, such guys were very tricky. Being influenced by this guy, demon general has to suspend the plan of the south. He has to spend his efforts to kill this guy. Demon general doubts that this guy is still within our territory, therefore, he is using his soul-chasing butterfly to find the trace of that guy. As long as that guy is less than 300 miles away from the soul-chasing butterfly, his location could definitely be locked by the soul-chasing butterfly once again. Even if he masters some soul-based secret skill and dropped a bit of soul as the bait every time, he could only stand a few times."

"Pitifully, that soul-chasing butterfly could only last for 60 days since it was hatched!"

"Therefore, the Class-II warning in the territory might last another one month. Unless we can catch that guy in this period, the red warning won't be canceled off!"

"Due to that guy, many plans have been disrupted..."

"That guy is really powerful. He has definitely lit over 100 scales. He killed Unther in less than half an hour!"

"Therefore, this Class II warning was very necessary. Any knight, when meeting that guy, might lose his life!"

...

Through their talk, Zhang Tie learned many key information right away.

Zhang Tie finally understood how his location was locked by demons and Three-eye Association. 'The soul-chasing butterfly must be an odd living being. It seems to be able to sense and perceive certain people's qi within 300 miles. That's powerful!' Zhang Tie was a bit scared when he realized that the demon general chased after him using a soul-chasing butterfly. 'Although it's very cool to go deep into the enemy's rear which may bring a great achievement, it's also very risky.'

'Besides soul-chasing butterfly, demons and Three-eye Association have another method to deal with me. They triggered the Class II warning across their territory. After that, all the knights of demons and Three-eye Association across their territory started to combine with each other, 2 in a unit in case of risks in independent action. Therefore, I also lost my chance to attack them one after another.'

...

After being full, the two knights in the tent decided to take a round in the valley.

After they left the tent, the little beetle instantly slid out of the tent and entered Castle of Black Iron.

Zhang Tie in the palace of the palace tree opened his eyes right away.

'Soul-chasing butterfly?'

'This soul-chasing butterfly really poses a great threat to me.' Zhang Tie didn't know whether this thing could sense the existence of his incarnation. He wanted to learn about this living being first.

Zhang Tie took out his knight's plate and entered the Mountain of Brightness at once.

Whenever Zhang Tie used his remote-sensing crystal and knight's plate in Castle of Black Iron, the marvelous arch door in Zhang Tie's mind sea would send a special energy to cover Zhang Tie's communication tools. Only in this case could the remote-sensing crystal and knight's plate be used to contact the outside world. In Heller's words, only Zhang Tie could contact the outside world in Castle of Black Iron.

Mountain of Brightness was inclusive, which could not be touched by commoners. Zhang Tie believed that he could find an introduction about soul-chasing butterfly in the Mountain of Brightness.

——Chakra's tiger, welcome to Mountain of Brightness.

A line appeared in Zhang Tie's mind sea.

After entering the Mountain of Brightness, Zhang Tie felt like entering a web forum that humans established by scientific means before the Catastrophe. The Mountain of Brightness even contained retrieval service.

After inputting soul-chasing butterfly in the retrieval box by his spiritual energy, Zhang Tie clicked "enter" by his spiritual energy.

A dialogue box then appeared in Zhang Tie's mind.

——This retrieval service fee is 1,000 gold coins. You've got 100,000 gold coins left in your account, will you continue?

——Yes——No

'1,000 gold coins? It would cost my dad's 90 years of salary in Blackhot City. That's too expensive.'

'However, that's the value of information, especially when this information is involved with my life, it's not expensive.'

After swearing inside, Zhang Tie clicked "Yes" without any hesitation.

After a few seconds, many titles about purchasing or eggs of soul-chasing butterflies appeared. Each egg of soul-chasing butterfly was worth about 1 million to 1.5 million gold coins.

Some posts were about organizing teams so as to hunt for soul-chasing butterflies in the abyss of the earth-element realm sent by some knights.

A few messages were paid to read at a high price which ranged from tens of thousands of gold coins to hundreds of thousands of gold coins. They were about how to extend the service life of soul-chasing butterflies by 3-5 days using medicine.

When Zhang Tie noticed a title "Soul-chasing butterfly and the extermination of the Great Wilderness Sect in Taixia Country", he quivered all over...

Chapter 787: Being Firm

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

The article "Soul-chasing butterfly and the extermination of the Great Wilderness Sect in Taixia Country" was free to read. The author of the article was anonymous. It took Zhang Tie over 10 minutes to read that article three times carefully. After that, he started to consider about it.

Soul-chasing butterfly was an exotic species in the abyss of the underground world. It had very special property——after a knight gained its egg, the knight would have a telepathy with the soul-chasing butterfly after it hatched as long as he fed it with a bit of his own blood. With the help of the soul-chasing butterfly, the knight would be able to find or lock anyone.

A person would leave his odor in a certain territory or space. Gundogs and military dogs might easily identify a person's odor and find the owner through his odors. In addition to such an odor, there was another invisible odor, which came from one's inner properties. It was released from one's spiritual energy or soul. Soul-chasing butterfly's strength was that it could sniff such an invisible "odor" like gundogs and find its owner through this special "odor".

Through many studies, as long as one had stayed in one place, his "soul's odor" would remain there for 72 hours after he left there. After putting one soul-chasing butterfly in that place where the man had stayed, the soul-chasing butterfly would be able to precisely identify that one's "soul's odor". After that, it would be able to sense that one's location within 300 miles.

Zhang Tie remembered two key data about soul-chasing butterfly——3 days and 300 miles.

Of course, the two data would variate slightly due to physical differences between different soul-chasing butterflies. For instance, some soul-chasing butterfly would be able to sense their targets within 310 miles while some could only sense their targets within 290 miles; some soul-chasing butterflies could still precisely identify the person's "soul's odor" after the person left the place for 74 hours; some could not precisely identify the person's "soul's odor" after the person left the place for 65 hours.

According to the presumption of Northmountain Cloud in the article "Soul-chasing butterfly and the extermination of the Great Wilderness Sect in Taixia Country", there were two reasons about the relevance between soul-chasing butterfly and the extermination of the Great Wilderness Sect in Taixia Country": First, it was said that an elder of the Great Wilderness Sect deepened into the underground abyss and controlled a mutated soul-chasing butterfly by soul-based animal controlling skill. Compared to common soul-chasing butterflies, the mutated soul-chasing butterfly not only had a longer service life but also had a terrifying ability in chasing souls, which was 20 times better than common ones. After getting that special soul-chasing butterfly, that elder of the Great Wilderness Sect cooperated with some people and did some major events by that mutated soul-chasing butterfly. He became famous at once. However, due to the "major events", he enraged some powerful forces in Taixia Country. Finally, those forces joined hands with each other and exterminated the Great Wilderness Sect.

Second, although soul-chasing butterfly could identify everyone's soul's odor, it could do nothing to the soul-based animal-controlling skill of the Great Wilderness Sect. The soul-chasing butterfly could not identify and lock the souls of humans on animals. In the second holy war, the members of the Great Wilderness Sect adopted the soul-based animal-controlling skill to deepen into the demons' territory so as to seek for key intelligence and destroy many actions of demons. Due to this reason, demons and Three-eye Association cleared the Great Wilderness Sect from both inside and outside.

To be honest, this article was very gossipy. Some details were obscure. However, it was useful to Zhang Tie more or less as Zhang Tie learned two information about soul-chasing butterfly——How's the ability of soul-chasing butterfly? Whether he would be found by the soul-chasing butterfly in the state of soul-based animal controlling state or not?

Zhang Tie wondered what he would do if the demon general had more than one egg of soul-chasing butterfly. 'Unless I hide myself in Castle of Black Iron for 60 days after each action, I probably will be besieged by demon general and the other knights. Today, the demon general has 1 soul-chasing butterfly to chase after me, who knows whether he will send 3-5 soul-chasing butterflies to chase after me in the future? As long as he sends over 3 soul-chasing butterflies to chase after me, each of 3 groups of knights could extend their search range to 1,800 miles with one soul-chasing butterfly. In that case, the 3 groups of knights only need to fly towards the north in a line. The moment any group of them found me, they would instantly lock me. I would face tens even hundreds of times more risks by then.'

'Even though I could turn into an incarnation or directly hide in Castle of Black Iron at the critical moment, I would suffer by exposing my secrets. The moment those secrets were exposed, I would have endless troubles.'

'Nothing is free. Emperors will risk their life in common restaurants; handsome boys will lose their semen fluid in brothels; even I will risk exposing my secrets while deepening into the enemy's rear even though I have Castle of Black Iron.'

Zhang Tie considered to leave out of here. He wanted to stop this action. 'To be honest, I've already made a great military exploit——I almost destroyed two cities of demons and Three-eye Association, killing over 10 precious grave tower demons and one knight. Besides, I disrupted the plan of demons and Three-eye Association. With such a glorious achievement, it's reasonable for me to leave even if I face dangers.'

However, Zhang Tie suddenly recalled the pair of swollen and mattery feet and how the owner of that pair of feet was shared by the demonized puppets on the snow land.

'What should I do at this moment so as to make my parents proud and relieved?'

Zhang Tie would always ask the same question whenever he met the situation where he could hardly make a choice...

After being tortured by this question for many times, Zhang Tie's eyes gradually became firm...

Chapter 788: A Protracted Guerrilla

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

Three days later, at dusk, in the Knights' tent outside the valley...

"Elder Cologne, here are this month's earth-element crystals..." a 50-year old man in a brilliant silk robe took out a crate and opened it in front of Cologne. There were 3 golden earth-element crystals in the crate. "As the Class II warning has not been canceled off, these crystals arrived here a bit late, sorry for that!"

"Is everything okay with Bayon Kingdom?" The knight Cologne put away the crate as he asked.

"Everything is okay. Several days ago, the demon general traveled to Bayon Kingdom and didn't find nothing abnormal!" That 50-year old man replied respectfully.

"Hmm, please tell the head, Adam, to be more vigilant these days. When the Class II warning is canceled off, I will return to Salent City!"

"Yes, sir, thanks for your warning!"

Elder Cologne waved his hands. The 50-year old guy then moved backward and left the tent.

After seeing off that guy, Cologne rubbed the 3 earth-element crystals in his hands as he told Sessie with a smile, "Thank God, my February's earth-element crystals finally arrived. I will not waste time in the next few days. When will your earth-element crystals arrive?"

"Hoho, I've already received the February's earth-element crystals before I came here!" Knight Sessie smiled, "You can cultivate here, I will take a look outside for a while!"

"Okay!"

Sessie then left the tent. With two earth-element crystals in the left hand, one in the right hand, Cologne started to cultivate with closed eyes. The tent was gradually filled with knight's enshrouding battle qi...

After Sessie left, a little, black beetle threw a glance at Cologne before flying away from the bottom of the arm-rack to the outside of the tent through a tunnel that he had just dug these days.

As a knight, Cologne could maintain a powerful perceptive and protective ability even if he was cultivating in elements realm. The enshrouding battle qi over this tent was equal to his tentacles and armor. Anyone appeared in the tent would be sensed by him. Therefore, Zhang Tie didn't think this was a good chance to launch an attack on him.

However, Zhang Tie didn't waste time in the tent in the past three days as the one whom he was waiting for arrived just now.

The exit of the tunnel dug by the little, black beetle was right below a rock over 5 m away from the tent. After leaving the tent silently, the beetle appeared below that rock. After throwing a glance at Knight Sessie above the valley, the beetle set off too and flew towards a medium-sized airship which had landed in the far.

That man in a brilliant silk robe put on a bear-hide coat after leaving the tent. He directly strode towards that airship. After shaking off the snowflakes from his coat, he looked up at the cloudy sky before boarding the airship.

"Go back to Salent City!"

The man whose voice was humble in the tent became imposing at this moment.

The crew of the airship became busy right away. After 2 minutes, the airship set off towards Salent City.

Nobody found that one more person had boarded this airship.

Zhang Tie had determined his mind to have a fierce protracted guerrilla with demons and Three-eye Association in the demon's area across the north of Blackson Humans Corridor. As long as he was in the demon's zone, he would not let demons and Three-eye Association live well.

'As long as I could restrict the most part of forces of demons and Three-eye Association within the north of Blackson Humans Corridor, it'd be equal to saving numerous humans' lives.' Zhang Tie knew that what he chose would make his parents proud of him.

'It's just a soul-chasing butterfly. I don't think that I would be defeated by a butterfly. From today on, after doing each killing spree, this father will stay in Castle of Black Iron or wander in the outside in my incarnation for 2 months. Until the soul-chasing butterfly dies will I come out of Castle of Black Iron and do another killing spree. Even if the demon general has 10,000 soul-chasing butterflies, he's destined to eat my sh*t behind me. Although I was unable to defeat the demon general by force, as long as I don't collide with it, it would be useless.'

Zhang Tie didn't believe that the Class II warning across the demon's zone would not be canceled off.

By adopting this tactic, the only cost of Zhang Tie was 2 months' lifespan of soul-chasing butterflies, during which period, he could not cultivate to form his chakra in Castle of Black Iron or in the state of incarnation.

After promoting to a knight, the priority of Zhang Tie was to form his chakra. Therefore, Zhang Tie's next step was mainly targeting at earth-element crystals of Three-eye Association.

Those Three-eye Association clans with employed knights would provide some earth-element crystals to their employed knights per month. The earth-element crystals could not be gained from earth-element realm whenever they wanted; therefore, those clans must have some storage of earth-element crystals in confidential places.

Zhang Tie's next target was Lukas Clan in Bayon Kingdom.

Zhang Tie had enough time to discover the stored earth-element crystals of Lukas Clan. When he discovered them, Lukas Clan had to exterminate.

...

When the airship set off at dusk. After flying for less than 2 hours, it became completely dark. Besides the crew, all the guards and that 50-year old deacon of Lukas Clan who brought the 3 earth-element crystals to Cologne in Highcloud Empire went to bed after having some food.

At midnight, that airship was still flying in the heavy snow and the chilly, wuthering wind. By contrast, the berth cabin of that deacon of Lukas Clan was pretty warm. It was the only room connected to the boiler engine room of the airship.

The blinds of the window were pulled down, the crystal fluorescent lamp was shaded. As a result, the entire berth cabin was pitch-dark, except for the faint sounds caused by the friction between the chains and the gears that drifted from the boiler engine room.

Zhang Tie appeared in the deacon's berth cabin silently while his eyes radiated a weird light. After touching the head of the deacon who had fallen asleep, Zhang Tie disappeared at once. It took him less than 0.5 second to finish this action...

That deacon turned over on the bed and had good dreams one after another...

On the second day, when he got up, he found a little, black beetle lying on his stomach on the table. All in a sudden, the deacon who always hated insects, felt happy inside. He felt that little beetle was very cute. Coincidentally, he was thinking about feeding a special pet food so as to relieve his mood when he was free. This little beetle looked proper.

After putting on his clothes, that deacon carefully took that little, black beetle and put it in his sleeve. After finding that the insect just stayed in his sleeve, he burst out into laughter at once as he felt this little beetle was destined to be his pet...

'I have to keep this as a secret. If someone else finds out that I have a pet in my sleeve, those members of Lukas Clan may not feel that I'm reliable. In that case, I will end up losing my bright future.' The Deacon thought.

...

Two days later, this medium-sized airship finally arrived at Salent City, the capital city of Bayon Kingdom after accomplished its task.

Being close to Golan Empire and one of the earliest countries that were collapsed by demons in Blackson Humans Corridor, Bayon Kingdom was severely managed by demons, especially its capital city, Salent City.

Right outside Salent City, over 30 grave tower demons were standing, the number of which was larger than that in any place that Zhang Tie had ever seen.

Only less than 2 million of the former 6 million people survived in this city, which was once prosperous. All the remaining people had been converted into demonized puppets, who had surged towards the south 1 month ago.

Therefore, Salent City looked a bit deserted at this moment.

...

After getting off the airship, Prudden, the very deacon of Lukas Clan became spirited and hurriedly headed for the imperial palace.

In the car, Prudden watched the streets which looked emptier after the snow. He then touched the inside of his sleeve and found that cute, little, black beetle was still there. Therefore, he became happy at once.

After passing some checks, Prudden finally met Adam, the head of Lukas Clan and the king of Bayon Kingdom in a warm room with fresh flowers.

After reporting to the head, Prudden left the imperial palace.

Before he left the imperial palace, he touched the inside of his sleeve and found that little, black beetle had disappeared.

'Perhaps, that little thing went for food. It might come back soon!' Prudden thought...

...

Two days later, when Prudden came to the imperial palace once again, he saw the little, black beetle entering his sleeve directly.

Prudden was deeply moved...