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Chapter 804: The Reversal

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

The fierce battle lasted for 6 hours...

In the final collision, Zhang Tie forcefully broke the other hand of the demon general. With a ground-breaking howl, the demon general skewered through Zhang Tie's left chest by its single horn, picking up Zhang Tie and threw him away...

Before Zhang Tie was sent flying backward, Zhang Tie rammed the demon general's face with his knee due to his experienced, powerful battle skills and fast responsiveness.

The two knights sprayed their blood while their "aiding strength" halos disappeared at the same time. They then fell onto the dry and hot lava from 100 m in height.

A large area of blood stained the rocks beneath their bodies and was further evaporated by the rocks...

...

Zhang Tie even thought that he was dead because he lost his senses and consciousness. When his senses and consciousness returned to his body, he felt extremely painful all over like being torn apart.

Zhang Tie even didn't know how many of his bones were still intact.

It took Zhang Tie 2 minutes to kneel down with one leg. Being soaked by the blood flowing down the wounds on his forehead, Zhang Tie's sight turned completely red. He almost could not open his eyes. Panting heavily, Zhang Tie felt that the air which carried the smell of sulphur also dried up and turned hot. Each time he took a breath, he would feel like eating a handful of hot red sand.

Compared to the scorching sense in his throat and lungs, Zhang Tie felt that his left half of body turned wet like being soaked in water.

Lowering his head, Zhang Tie took a look at his left chest. There was a bloody hole of about 3 cm above his heart, causing his left half of body to soak in the gurgling blood from there.

If he didn't lower his left shoulder just now, his heart must have been penetrated through.

The demon general's single horn penetrated through the point which was close to Zhang Tie's heart and left lung. As a result, Zhang Tie's left hand could not move at all.

Zhang Tie attempted to control the blood vessels, muscles and tissues on his left shoulder; however, it became extremely difficult for him to do this, which was very simple in normal times. Zhang Tie felt that this body didn't belong to him anymore.

Finally, he hardly pressed the blood vessels around the hole by his right hand. After slightly recovering his abilities and senses, Zhang Tie slowly prevented his wound from bleeding.

Kneeling down on the ground by one knee, Zhang Tie could hardly pick himself up.

He had not imagined that the demon general who had suffered from the attack of six alchemist's bombs and stayed in magma for half an hour with one broken hand could still have such a terrifying battle force.

'Is this the battle force of a senior black iron knight who has almost promoted to a earth knight?'

'If not because of my strong body, my powerful strength and my emperor-level secret skill's restrictions about the weird, poisonous battle qi in my body, I would have long died. Perhaps, any other black iron knight would have been killed.'

Zhang Tie wanted to force a bitter smile; however, before he twitched his facial muscles, he had spurted out blood once again...

After spurting out blood, Zhang Tie felt like he lost all of his strength. Feeling kneeling on a bunch of cotton, Zhang Tie vacillated to the left and to the right and almost fell down.

This was a response that his body made when his physical strength, spirit and will were overdrawn.

At this moment, a faint sound drifted from afar. Zhang Tie raised his head and found that the demon general was struggling to pick himself up. However, he failed. After swaying for a while, its hands could not keep balance for it, causing it to fall down once again.

After over 10 seconds, the demon general struggled to pick himself up once again. Finally, it knelt down on the ground by one knee as it panted heavily with rising and falling chest.

Being over 100 m away from each other, the two knights ferociously gazed at each other.

The demon general was more shocked than Zhang Tie. It didn't believe that Gorath could break his hands and make it so embarrassed. It could not believe that Gorath would match it on the battle force in the close combat.

It was the demon general's first time to see such a human knight.

Even though the demon general's two hands were broken, if it could only move one foot, it could continue fighting.

The two knights were both severely wounded. They could barely stand up. In this case, they were not matching their battle forces, but their recovering abilities. As long as one of them could recover the standard of a LV 6 fighter, the one would be able to determine the other's fate.

The two knights just gazed at each other tightly. At the same time, they started to pant heavily and gradually recover their physical strength...

...

Only after 10 more minutes, a loud sound reverberated around this space, which originated from outside. After hearing this loud sound, Zhang Tie and the demon general both became stunned.

The demon general watched Zhang Tie as it sneered with a hoarse sound, "It's my...subordinate...one more knight...you...you're dead!"

Zhang Tie's heart pounded.

There were two points that he had not imagined today: first, he could kill over 10 knights with this fatal trap; second, there was one more demon knight left, who would appear at this moment.

Zhang Tie realized that all of his spiritual energy had been overdrawn while hopelessness occurred to his mind...

'Is this my destiny?'

'No, no way, no way...' Zhang Tie roared inside.

The combat of aiding strength between two knights was very abstruse. It was not a pure comparison on isolated strength. It was more like how two huge bells compared with their resonating strength. When the two bells of different sizes sounded, their resonating strength and invisible soundwaves would not only influence themselves but also influence the other opponent.

The smaller bell had to avoid from being influenced by the bigger one with a greater energy at a higher frequency.

Due to the difference in battle force and level, if he wanted to resist the demon general's aiding strength, Zhang Tie had to consume 10 more times' spiritual energy than the demon general.

Additionally, they had to consume their spiritual energy to maintain the calculation and perception of their powerful knight' consciousness. As they were heavily wounded, their spiritual energy was also sharply weakened.

Zhang Tie didn't know how much spiritual energy did demon general have, he only knew that his spiritual energy had been overdrawn. He felt empty in his mind.

Gritting his teeth, Zhang Tie tightly gazed at the wall where the loud sounds drifted from. He hoped that those walls could stand a bit longer or a guy whom neither Zhang Tie nor the demon general knew would appear...

...

Only after a few minutes, Zhang Tie had been nearly hopeless. After the last loud sound, a rock wall in the distance was blown up into pieces while a figure rushed out of the dust.

At the sight of that guy, the demon general burst out into laughter, making Zhang Tie completely hopeless.

That guy was a knight of Three-eye Association. Zhang Tie even knew him. Zhang Tie met him in Tokei City, the capital city of Titanic Duchy last time.

Zhang Tie remembered that that guy was Quintin, the employed knight of Senel Clan which had been exterminated by him. After the extermination of Senel Clan, this guy directly became a subordinate of the demon general.

Suspending dozens of meters high in the air, Quintin was holding a longsword and watching the underground space with a dumbfounded look and a brilliant battle qi. He looked both shocked and vigilant. It seemed that he had not imagined about such a scene before.

"Demon general, what happened?" Quintin asked with a shocked voice.

"Hurry up, kill Gorath..." The demon general barely stood up after recovering some physical strength and spiritual energy. It seemed that it didn't want its subordinate to see it kneeling down on the ground by one knee.

The moment it stood up, the demon general had gazed at Zhang Tie and issued an order to him.

The demon general just kept its eyes on Zhang Tie. It didn't pay attention to the weird look that flashed by Quintin's eyes when Quintin noticed its weak look.

Zhang Tie became silent completely at this moment. Since Quintin flew in, Zhang Tie had been keeping his eyes on this new visitor...

Quintin hurriedly descended to the side of the demon general with a concerned look, "Where are other knights? What happened to your hands, demon general?"

"Other knights have already died. It was a trap. My hands have been wounded by alchemist's bombs. I'm okay. Hurry, kill Gorath. This guy has a very terrifying recovering ability. Kill him right now..." The demon general urged.

A shrewd light flashed across Quintin's eyes as he replied, "Yes, sir...". He camouflaged to rush towards Zhang Tie; however, it slashed at the demon general...causing the latter's head to fly off. Spurting out 30-cm high blood from its neck, it fell onto the magma with widely opened eyes. It seemed that the demon general had not imagined that its head would fly off. Neither did it believe that its subordinate human knight could kill it at this critical moment...

After swaying a short while, the tall figure of the demon general finally fell down, causing a loud "bang". Its head was sent flying dozens of meters high. Before it landed, Quintin had punched it into blood mist. After that, it slashed the demon general's body into two halves...

Two blood points sprayed onto Zhang Tie's face.

Zhang Tie kept his eyes tightly on Quintin without a blink...

After killing the demon general completely, Quintin let out a deep sigh. After looking around, he moved his eyes onto Zhang Tie before finally bursting out into laughter "Hahahaha..."

In the laughter, Quintin lowered its body and tore off half of the demon general's clothes and took a necklace with a plate from its neck. After that, he stopped his movement. After being still for a few seconds, it burst out into louder laughter...

Zhang Tie had never imagined that the demon general would be killed by its subordinate knight of Three-eye Association.

However, Zhang Tie knew now that a greater crisis was coming.

...

"You've long arrived outside there, right?" Zhang Tie asked calmly as he struggled to stand up.

Quintin stopped laughing. Narrowing his eyes, he watched Zhang Tie with a complacent look, "Right, Gorath is indeed smart. Then, guess why I killed the demon general?"

"Of course it was because of me!" Zhang Tie barely twitched his facial muscles and forced a smile, "But I don't understand what do you want from me?"

"Cause you have one thing that I need!" Quintin replied as he slowly walked towards Zhang Tie. At the same time, he started to scan over each place on Zhang Tie's body with greedy eyes, especially Zhang Tie's fingers and neck where pendants or rings would always be worn, "I remember that we met in Tokei City last time, right?"

Zhang Tie quivered all over as he watched Quintin with an unbelievable look. At the same time, a big question mark occurred to his mind, 'How could this guy know that?'

"Last time, you induced me away from the airport and transferred all the wealth that Senel Clan had gained from Tokei City. From then on, I have been seeking for you. I thought that I would not see you ever. Heh, heh, I've not imagined that you reappeared after a few days. You must be curious about how did I know that was you, right? It's simple, you've exposed that you had a space teleportation equipment when you moved all the wealth of Senel Clan away in such a short while. After a few days, the black-robe Gorath appeared on this sub-continent, who killed and plundered Three-eye Association clans. However, those Three-eye Association clans' wealth always disappeared. From then on, I had confirmed that Gorath was you, the very person who robbed away the wealth of Senel Clan outside Tokei City. There should not be two guys who possessed space teleportation equipment and were hostile to demons and Three-eye Association on this sub-continent at the same time. Therefore, I knew you must be a cunning one. You must have many tricks. Therefore, I came here a bit later on purpose, wanting to see whether I could make some profits from your battle. As I've imagined, here it is." Quintin explained with a complacent look.

Zhang Tie had not imagined that Quintin had been looking for him since Tokei City and had figured out that he was the very person who teased Quintin outside Tokei City. Quintin looked bad-tempered. In fact, this guy was especially thoughtful.

Although Zhang Tie looked calm, he was actually extremely anxious. He was trying his full effort to squeeze out the last bit of spiritual energy in his mind sea.

With a bit of spiritual energy, he would be able to return to Castle of Black Iron and survive himself.

However, no matter how hard Zhang Tie tried, his mind sea was like a lemon which had completely squeezed out its juice or had been dried up under the sunshine which could never provide any more juice...

Zhang Tie didn't give up. He kept squeezing while striving for more time.

"Are you afraid of being revenged by demons after killing the demon general?"

"Haha, why? All the other knights have been killed by the black-robe knight Gorath, including me and the demon general. After killing all of us, Gorath had disappeared. They would revenge Gorath, not me, if they want!" A smile appeared on Quintin's face. He had been only 10 m away from Zhang Tie. He raised that necklace he got from demon general and pointed at Zhang Tie, "I serve Three-eye Association only for their cultivation resources. Now, the best cultivation resources and most wealth were in the hands of you and the demon general. As long as I get your space teleportation equipment, I will find a new place and restart my life in a strange face and status. I will have everything that I want. All the responsibilities will be shouldered by you. Thankfully, both you and the demon general were severely wounded. Why do I miss such a good chance?"

Fine sweatdrops oozed over Zhang Tie's forehead.

Watching Zhang Tie's embarrassed look, Quintin sneered as he asked jokingly, "Do you want to strive for more time so as to recover your spiritual energy? Hahaha, very good, I will give you some time then. You have 10 seconds. If you presented your space teleportation equipment in 10 seconds, I will promise you an easy death; otherwise, I could only cut you off one piece after another. But you would have a great pain."

"One..."

"Two..."

"Three..."

Quintin slowly narrowed the distance between him and Zhang Tie. Zhang Tie's sweatdrops had started to drop off his forehead while gazing at Quintin tightly...

'Come out, come out, my spiritual energy, come out...'

Zhang Tie roared inside while he gathered all the will, strength from all the cells and blood drops and turned them into an unyielding fist intention of iron-blood fist before striking onto his mind sea.

Zhang Tie determined to squeeze oil out of rocks in magma, not to mention dried lemon. If not, he would die. 'As for Quintin, he could kill the demon general without any hesitation, not to mention me...'

"Four..." Quintin had already raised his longsword...

"Five..." Quintin had just been 5 m away from Zhang Tie...

"Six..."

Right then, Zhang Tie heard a faint sound of "cracking glasses" in his mind sea. Closely after that, his mind sea experienced an unimaginable, great change like when the universe came into being...

Zhang Tie became stunned for a second, which period was like passing by a distant time tunnel...

After this second, the entire world had become utterly different, including this karst cave. Zhang Tie felt that he existed everywhere.

He recovered his composure in a split second. Because he knew that Quintin had missed his last chance to kill him.

"Seven..."

Zhang Tie just watched Quintin with a strange look while his autumn-frost gold sword which was inserted into the rock wall hundreds of meters away suddenly radiated a golden luster. At the same time, it left the rock wall just like drawing out a piece of bean curd. After leaving the rock wall silently, it floated in the air like a piece of plume...

"Eight..." A fleer appeared on Quintin's face.

The autumn-frost gold sword changed its direction and targeted at Quintin in the air...

"Nine..." Quintin moved to 2 m ahead of Zhang Tie while he was going to slash off his longsword.

"Thank you. You told me that I should not belittle any small figure in this world. There might be no small figure in this world!" Zhang Tie suddenly opened his mouth.

Quintin became stunned as he launched his attack...

...

However, Quintin's head flew off. In the next 0.1 second, his head and body were split into blood mist over the ground by tens of thousands of sword qi...

The blood mist evaporated at once while a stink started to fill the entire space, leaving osseous ashes on the ground...

Quintin disappeared. That necklace that he got from demon general also floated in the air in a weird way. It suspended in front of Zhang Tie like being pulled by an invisible hand.

Zhang Tie stretched out his hand. The necklace then fell onto his hand.

After injecting a bit of spiritual energy into the necklace, Zhang Tie had sensed what was inside it.

A space teleportation equipment, whose length, width and height were 3 m respectively. A lot of resources were piled inside it...

"Hahahaha..." Zhang Tie burst out into laughter...

Being influenced by his laughter, Zhang Tie's wounds ached once again. He then frowned and couldn't stand to take a breath...

Before entering Castle of Black Iron, Zhang Tie took the final look at the demon general and sighed——Alas, humanity...

Chapter 805: Gorath's Shield

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

9 days later, Castle of Black Iron, Immortal Mountain, Sky Waterfall...

The silver dragon-like waterfall from the hillside of the main peak of the Immortal Mountain formed the most splendid scenery in Castle of Black Iron.

Zhang Tie named this waterfall as Sky Waterfall.

The water of the Sky Waterfall originated from the thawed snow. After flushing off the waterfall, the snow water converged into rivers and lakes. The moisture then evaporated and condensed into snow on the top of the Immortal Mountain. The snow froze and condensed into the ethereal cloud; after that, it thawed and flushed off the waterfall once again...

Castle of Black Iron had already formed a macrocyclic ecosphere.

The Sky Waterfall was surrounded by verdant woods, splendid scenery and fresh air. It became Zhang Tie's favorite cultivation site.

In the past 9 days, Zhang Tie sat down there for recovery every day.

At present, Zhang Tie was sitting on a huge, cyan rock being not far from the Sky Waterfall with crossed legs and closed eyes to recover quietly.

Zhang Tie remained still and silent; however, the King Roc Battle Qi which had recovered was rushing here and there in his body. Like an emperor, Zhang Tie was commanding thousands of soldiers and horses to cleanse the final threats and bandits in his body. The final threats were gradually driven away from his cells and entered his right hand's index finger, causing it to turn pitch-dark and bright.

After sitting there for almost 10 hours, Zhang Tie opened his shiny and clear eyes. He stretched out his right hand, releasing a black battle qi and hit onto a rock in the far. As the rock was smoking, it reduced to its half in a split second.

Zhang Tie let out a deep sigh as he watched his finger which had completely recovered its original color, 'What a powerful all-poisons battle qi!'

When he was fighting the demon general that day, he was invaded by the all-poisons battle qi of the demon general. In that case, he tried his best to suppress the all-poisons battle qi; however, he didn't completely clean them off. A few of all-poisons battle qi was still left in his body. Lately, as Zhang Tie gradually recovered and rehabilitated, he finally cleaned up this remaining threat.

Besides being very destructive, the demon general's all-poisons battle qi was capable of eroding other's body. It was very terrifying. If common black iron knights were severely wounded by the demon general like Zhang Tie, even if they could recover their wounds, they had to suffer a great loss so as to eliminate the remaining all-poisons battle qi in their body. By contrast, as Zhang Tie was cultivating an emperor-level secret skill, it was easy for him to eliminate all-poisons battle qi when he was in a good physical condition. In less than 1 day, the dignified emperor-level battle qi had already driven out the remaining all-poisons battle qi from Zhang Tie's body.

After cleaning up the all-poisons battle qi, Zhang Tie became reassured. Picking himself up from the rock, he moved his limbs for a short while. After that, he took a deep breath of the fresh air. Breathing the translucent, cool moisture in the air, Zhang Tie was spirited up all over.

Being aided by his medium-level recovery body and a lot of vials of all-purpose medicament, after consuming another vial of senior recovery medicament, Zhang Tie had completely recovered after 9 days.

Zhang Tie revealed a brilliant smile. Closely after that, he left off the cyan rock and walked towards the palace tree in the distance alongside the mountainous path.

Like how he named the Sky Waterfall, Zhang Tie named the palace tree as Savage Tree House, which sounded average and mischievous; however, it was very vivid. What was more was that this nickname felt warm, which, as a result, would reduce the spacious yet desolate atmosphere in the palace tree. Zhang Tie's initial intention was to make the palace tree the doomsday shelter for his family members. However, there were only Zhang Tie, Heller and his three servants inside it now. Of course, it felt too spacious. Therefore, Zhang Tie felt like a savage living inside it.

The earlier cabins felt a bit crowded; however, the current palace tree felt too desolate.

Zhang Tie thought, 'This might be humanity. People would never be satisfied.'

The moment Zhang Tie entered the palace, he had seen Heller walking towards him.

Heller was holding the space teleportation necklace of the demon general.

"Castle Lord, this space teleportation necklace has been renovated by Edward. It costs some mithril and a blue, golden gem which had been processed by an alchemist!"

After taking the necklace, Zhang Tie found that it had been completely different than its black look before. Even those who had seen that necklace before would not be able to identify it.

The major part of the former necklace was a diamond-shaped three-dimensional pendant. However, it became an angel with open wings now. Although Zhang Tie didn't have an eye for art, he could feel that the angel pendant was unusual. Being only as long as one's thumb, the angel's facial expression and plumes were vivid and sacred. What an amazing artwork! With hands cupping above her head, the angel cupped a top-quality brilliant blue, golden gem like cupping the sun.

The top-quality blue, golden gem was plundered from the warehouse of a Three-eye Association clan. Under the sunshine, it showed four brilliant stony flowers which had a similar effect with that of a cat's eye. It indicated that the gem's strength had been completely activated by the alchemist master.

After being activated by the alchemist master, the blue, golden gem would carry a natural ability to purify poisons in his body. Usually, a single top-quality blue, gold gem would be worth about 300,000 gold coins. However, if it was attached to this necklace, plus the artwork and the space teleportation attribute of this necklace, this necklace would be priceless.

Holding the necklace, Zhang Tie looked around it as he kept nodding, "Nice, nice!"

As he praised it, Zhang Tie directly put it on his neck.

"Castle Lord, you'd better check the items inside the necklace. When Edward processed it, he didn't take out the items from this necklace as he was afraid of destroying the space teleportation function of this equipment. Otherwise, he could have finished processing it for 6 days."

Zhang Tie patted his forehead as he remembered that he indeed had not checked the items inside this equipment. He had not imagined that Edward worked 3 days more due to such a trivial negligence.

"Will space teleportation equipment be destroyed?" Zhang Tie asked Heller as he injected some spiritual energy into the equipment. He then poured all the items from the space onto the ground. Zhang Tie didn't have to worry about losing those items as they were in Castle of Black Iron, regardless of their values.

In a split second, a lot of items had been piled in front of Zhang Tie and Heller.

The comfortable golden luster of earth-element crystals tinged the entire palace golden.

The space in the necklace was about 27 cubic meters. As a small warehouse, it could hold many items.

Most of the items in the space were earth-element crystals, which almost occupied half of the space. A crystal wall as high as 3 m piled up in front of them.

"Even different universes and planes would be collapsed, not to mention a tiny space teleportation equipment." Heller replied calmly. After that, he picked up one earth-element crystal and looked at it carefully, "Castle Lord, You will not worry about the supply of earth-element crystals for a long while!"

"There are 5879 earth-element crystals in total. I can light another 18 scales with them!" Zhang Tie became a bit thrilled as he watched those earth-element crystals. 'How rich was the demon general! Although it's a prize for common black iron knights, it could only help me make a bit progress. Emperor-level secret skill's chakra is a bottomless hole which could be barely filled.'

"Step by step. Better than nothing! Common black iron knights could not afford so many earth-element crystals even if they sold their underwear." Heller joked.

This time, Zhang Tie made a great achievement. Heller also felt happy for Zhang Tie sincerely as if Zhang Tie's achievement was like that of his, which drove him extremely excited.

After hearing Heller's words, Zhang Tie burst out into laughter. He then stretched out his hand when an earth-element crystal flew off and landed on his hand lightly like a piece of the plume. Touching the earth-element crystal and sensing the familiar texture, Zhang Tie sighed satisfactorily.

The earth-element crystal then flew off Zhang Tie's hand and returned. Zhang Tie scanned over the remaining items and finally focused on a shield.

That was the very shield that the demon general held before the fight. It used the shield to defend the high-temperature magma. There were circles of decorative figures which looked like sunflowers on the surface of that shield, making it pretty special.

Compared to its brilliant look in the demon general's hand, this shield had recovered its original color now. It was lying silently on the ground like a common, excellent metal shield. The "sunflowers" surface was reflecting the luster of those earth-element crystals.

'When in close combat, the demon general didn't put away this shield in its body; instead, it put this shield into this space teleportation equipment. It seemed that the demon general intended to use it in emergencies. However, even if the demon general might not have imagined that it was its last time to put it in.'

Under Zhang Tie's gaze, that shield slowly flew off the ground and landed on Zhang Tie's hand.

Seriously, among all the weapons, Zhang Tie was most excel at using shields. When he cultivated in Hidden Dragon Island, he made progress in the highest efficiency on shield defense skill.

This shield weighed about 100 kg. Holding it, Zhang Tie didn't find it being any special.

'It looks common. I just wonder about its raw material. How could it play such a marvelous effect in the demon general's hand? Additionally, how could it integrate with the demon general's body?' Holding the shield, a lot of questions occurred to Zhang Tie's mind.

"How do I use it?" Zhang Tie asked Heller.

Zhang Tie knew that as long as his questions were above Heller's bottom line, Heller would always feel content to answer them.

"In this state, this shield could also work. Like common shields, it could be used to resist physical attacks. However, compared to common shields, it is irresistible. Even if a knight who had formed four chakras would not be able to destroy it!"

"Even if a knight who had formed four chakras would not be able to destroy it?" Zhang Tie became stunned. 'Four chakras? Does it mean that even knights who have formed the wind chakra would not be able to destroy it? Is it a silver secret item? How powerful it is!'

"Right!" Heller nodded, "After injecting your battle qi into it, you could activate its second state. You could have a try. In its second state, you could use it to resist your enemy in 360 degrees. Additionally, in this state, it could completely isolate spiritual attack, not to mention physical attack!"

Zhang Tie injected some battle qi into the shield. The shield then turned brilliant and released a golden luster. Together with Zhang Tie's battle qi, the golden luster tightly wrapped Zhang Tie like how a shell covered a yolk. The current state of the shield was as same as that the demon general used to defend the high-temperature magma surrounding it.

The second state of the shield was very powerful; however, it had to consume Zhang Tie's battle qi. Zhang Tie sensed that his battle qi could stand common black iron knight's uninterrupted dense attack with the shield in its second state for about 10 hours. If he faced a more powerful attack, he would consume more battle qi in the same period. The length of period that he could stand depended on how powerful was the opponent's attack. If his battle qi could not stand the attack, neither would the shield in its second state. Additionally, although his enemy could not hurt him with the shield in its second state, he could not use any battle skill, either. The protective cover formed by the shield could not even be penetrated through by Zhang Tie's spiritual energy...

The second state of this shield was indeed like an all-round irresistible iron tortoise. When in extreme situations, the second state of the shield would play a great role.

"When you injected your battle qi and spiritual energy into the shield at the same time, you could choose the third state of the shield..."

After hearing Heller's words, Zhang Tie tried to inject his battle qi and spiritual energy into the shield at the same time. Closely after that, the brilliant shield disappeared. Almost at the same time, Zhang Tie felt that the sun in the void of his Shrine Palace started to rotate slowly like how a planet revolved around the sun. Meanwhile, it kept releasing brilliant battle qi which seemed to smooth the shield...

Zhang Tie was really startled by the third state of the shield, 'How could my body hold such a shield whose diameter is about 0.5 m? My lower abdomen is not even as wide as 0.5 m.'

Heller understood what Zhang Tie was thinking about.

"It's nothing strange. I've told you before. If you really understand the universal rules, you will know that the so-called size of space and universe are meaningless. Size is just a ruler that humans use to recognize objects. However, rulers are always limited to the cognitive levels of humans' senses! Materials are just forms of energy. However, do you think that the size of energy could be measured by volume?"

Zhang Tie was stunned by Heller's question. After thinking about it for a short while, he moved the shield from his lower abdomen into his hand once again. This time, Zhang Tie finally sensed something abstruse.

The shield didn't appear in Zhang Tie's hand in the form of a material object in a split second; instead, after he injected his spiritual energy into it, the shield gradually turned into a material object. Additionally, the material object was not made of his spiritual energy, but a powerful quake and energy response. He realized that his spiritual energy was just a media. Through the quake and the energy response, Zhang Tie sharply sensed the rapid, surging and converging qi of the four elements in the elements realm.

In a split second, Zhang Tie felt that he was not holding a shield, but a weightless shield mold whose parameters and conditions had been fixed. When the shield mold appeared in his hand, the four elements in the elements realm were cast into a material object according to the preset parameters and conditions just like casting something in a mold with red, hot liquid steel...

Zhang Tie had visited those ironworks and die shops in Blackhot City; he knew it clearly how to cast those molds with red, hot liquid steel. Similarly, they radiated the same brilliance and heat; the difference was that ironworks and die shops were full of sparks of molten steel.

The process that he put the shield in his body was similar to that of casting molds with liquid steel.

'It turns out that silver secret item could exist both in material realm and elements realm; it could exist in both the material state and the non-material state.'

Zhang Tie understood the mystery of the silver secret item at once.

"Can Edward change the shape of this shield?" Zhang Tie asked Heller.

"Unless you determine to let this shield remain in its first state forever and not activate its second state or put it in your body; otherwise, it's out of Ewards's capability. Everything about this shield was preset. Only the one who produced it could change its look!" Heller shook his head.

'It seems that I cannot use this shield; otherwise, everybody would know that I'm the very Gorath. If so, I would have a great trouble and become the target of demons and Three-eye Association.' Zhang Tie thought, 'It seems that this shield is exclusive to "Gorath"...'

As this shield had no name on its surface, neither did it have a name that could only be read by spiritual energy, Zhang Tie didn't know what to call it. However, according to Zhang Tie's habit, now that this shield could only appear in the hands of Gorath from then on, just call it "Gorath's shield" then...

After putting the Gorath's shield in his lower abdomen, Zhang Tie looked at the small tree in the far. The rich fruits on the small tree were greeting him...

At the sight of so many fruits, Zhang Tie felt pretty good, 'No matter what, even if there was no such a silver secret item, the space teleportation item or a single fruit on the small tree, I've already been satisfied by the great achievement...'

Zhang Tie had not dreamed that he could promote to the most powerful and mysterious profession among knights.

If not having read the book-notes of elders of Huaiyuan Palace and the various information about knights which were collected by Huaiyuan Palace, Zhang Tie didn't even know there was such a mysterious, powerful profession among knights at all. The number of knights who could promote to such a profession was even less than that of alchemists.

'All this were benefited from the spiritual strength and the strength of God. After eating so many fruits of brilliance, I finally realized a qualitative change from quantitative change. After making a breakthrough and radiating the brilliance of the strength of God, I finally enter another sacred gate.'

'Besides Castle of Black Iron, this profession will be my greatest trump card and dependence.'

Watching that resplendent fruit of brilliance on the small tree which contained all the spiritual energy of the 13 late Three-eye Association knights, Zhang Tie revealed a smile once again. It made Zhang Tie more excited than having promoted to a powerful, mysterious profession——he could make a big leapfrog on the road of this profession.

Chapter 806: Prelude to Extermination

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

2 leakless fruits which could reinforce the battle qi in the void of his qi sea, 3 iron-body fruits which could make him stronger, 1 fruit of redemption from the appreciation of golden uangs which could increase his strength, 1 fruit of brilliance which contained the spiritual energy of 13 late Three-eye Association knights, 4 fruits of judgment which advanced Zhang Tie's soul fixing skill, cracking skill and tracing skill to super level and his super binding skill to master-level binding skill. It took Zhang Tie 6 days to digest all the above fruits.

It took Zhang Tie 5 days to digest that extremely powerful fruit of brilliance. After digesting it, Zhang Tie's spiritual energy surged to an unimaginable level.

After eating these fruits, Zhang Tie's potential battle strength and fundamental battle force rose to a new record. Zhang Tie then left Castle of Black Iron.

When Zhang Tie was recovering in Castle of Black Iron, the new year of Black Iron Calendar had arrived. When Zhang Tie left Castle of Black Iron, it was already over 9 pm, January 8th, the 899th year of Black Iron Calendar.

After exiting Castle of Black Iron, Zhang Tie reappeared in the underground space where he fought the demon general.

The place remained unchanged. The magma lake was still gurgling while the space downside there was not full yet. The demon general's corpse was still lying on the ground in two halves. Whereas, the moisture and blood of the demon general's corpse had been evaporated completely. As a result, the demon general's corps shrunk greatly. It looked like a broken, dried, salty fish. It had lost its previous dignity completely. As for Quintin, his corpse had almost disappeared, even though its ashes remained.

A tiny, fiery lizard was tearing off the demon general's corps. It seemed that it regarded the corpse as a rare, tasty food. When Zhang Tie appeared out of the void, the tiny lizard was scared too much that it instantly turned around to escape.

'Is this the 8th year since the holy war broke out?' Zhang Tie sighed with complex moods as he exited Castle of Black Iron and watched this familiar place.

The tiny lizard had already broken and disordered the demon general's corps. Zhang Tie noticed a piece of sparkling thumb-sized remote-sensing crystal which had broken into two halves in the broken armor of the demon general. It seemed that the piece of remote-sensing crystal had been damaged when the alchemist's bombs were detonated. At the sight of the broken remote-sensing crystal, Zhang Tie realized that Three-eye Association clans might not have known that their demon general had been killed by me yet.

'It's possible.'

'It was actually very transient and chaotic since the alchemist's bombs were detonated to the time when the high-temperature magma poured down and filled the entire space. The demon general's remote-sensing crystal had been damaged the moment the bombs were detonated. The other Three-eye Association knights were all striving for surviving themselves. At the critical moment, very few of them would consider sending a warning to Three-eye Association clans. Even though some of them did that, they could only brief it; they had no time to predict or clarify anything happening here. They could not clarify how were they, whether the demon general was still alive and the situations facing the other kights of Three-eye Association clans.

Therefore, those Three-eye Association clans might still be in chaos and waiting for the message of the demon general and the other Three-eye Association knights.

'God bless me.' Zhang Tie became spirited.

Closely after that, Zhang Tie left this space and rushed upwards.

...

In less than half an hour, the black-robe Gorath with a gloomy face had flown out of Dragon Cave. After suspending in the sky for a short while, he flew towards Huaiyuan Prefecture like a legendary vampire facing the moonlight as fast as a ghost.

Zhang Tie arrived at Qihai City first.

Qihai City was pitch-dark all over. Looking over it from the air, this city had been filled with demonized puppets both inside and outside. Additionally, many places had traces of being burned.

It seemed that demonized puppets had just occupied Qihai City. The four city walls had been damaged to a certain degree. There were at least 300,000-400,000 corpses outside the city.

As it was built by Huaiyuan Palace, it was matched with powerful city-defense equipment which could kill more demonized puppets.

Millions of demonized puppets were wandering among the corpses inside and outside the city. They were tearing off bloody flesh from those corpses like wild beasts, making the city a hell.

Zhang Tie didn't see any camp of Three-eye Association clans or humans' trace across Qihai City.

An icy eye light flashed across Zhang Tie's eyes when he watched those demonized puppets. Like a black ghost, he descended to that place with the most corpses and released a black smoke over there only by waving his hand.

With Zhang Tie's manipulation, that wisp of smoke swayed for a short while in the air before charging at those corpses of demonized puppets like how a gundog discovered its prey.

Zhang Tie was surrounded by dense demonized puppets. However, being affected by Zhang Tie's super hiding skill, those demonized puppets seemingly treated Zhang Tie as a demonized puppet and ignored him completely. They just sought for food from the corpses; they would bite their partners and growl occasionally.

Zhang Tie silently watched his black smoke drilling into a corpse of a demonized puppet.

Only after two minutes, that corpse had started to decompose gradually while excreting out black pus. The first bubble came into being on the corpse. When the first bubble broke, more and more surrounding corpses started to decompose and excrete out black pus. Silently, more and more disgusting bubbles came into being on the corpses of those demonized puppets...

However, none of the surrounding demonized puppets had noticed that.

This was a ptomaine miasma, which, after being mutated, could be taken as a terrifying biochemical weapon. It was ten times more destructive than its former species. Over the past years, through the cultivation of Heller, Zhang Tie had gained over 1,000 mutated species of the ptomaine miasma. However, not all of them were more destructive and practicable than their parent species. The ptomaine miasma that Zhang Tie released was the most destructive and terrifying species which was cultivated by Heller with over 20 mutated ptomaine miasmas in Castle of Black Iron.

Its infection and propagation were silent without any omen. Besides direct contact, this ptomaine miasma could also be spread through the air. Additionally, its viability was more shocking.

'It's more like how a ghost was released!' Zhang Tie felt calm as he watched the silent change in the surroundings.

'Go get them, kill them all, turn this sub-continent into the most terrifying forbidden zone for living beings; turn all the living beings with dirty blood into corpses and dust over the ground; turn all the cities over the continent into invaders' tombs. Go, go get them, go destroy them. You're my soldiers. From today on, Waii Sub-continent will be your paradise...'

Zhang Tie issued an order to those microorganisms which could not be seen by commoners...

As a response to Zhang Tie's command, all the bubbles over the surrounding corpses broke at the same time.

All the living beings had spirits. As for those terrifying mutated ptomaine miasma, Zhang Tie was their creator, their God and absolute ruler.

...

Zhang Tie flew off once again. 'Qihai City has been occupied. If those Three-eye Association clans are not here, they must be in Yiyang City.'

If they occupied Yiyang City, the southernmost part of Waii Sub-continent, it meant that they had occupied the entire Waii Sub-continent. According to the demon general's plan, Yiyang City was where he held a banquet to celebrate their victory and award those Three-eye Association clans.

Zhang Tie was right. The moment he arrived at Yiyang City, he had caught sight of the tents of those Three-eye Association clans, including that super demon corps.

Those guys had taken Yiyang Mountain as their encampment arrogantly. The largest tent was placed where the former Shrine Palace of Huaiyuan Palace had been in. Given his current battle force, even if Zhang Tie was above the main tent silently, he would not be noticed by anybody as the opponents had no knight left.

The main tent was crowded. All the heads of the remaining 11 Three-eye Association clans across Waii Sub-continent and some LV 15 battle spirits of the demon corps were in the main tent.

As was predicted by Zhang Tie, a fierce quarrel drifted from the main tent.

After the demon general and all the knights of Three-eye Association had gone missing for over 10 days, these Three-eye Association clans became flurried. The entire demon corps lost their leader. Nobody knew what was next.

Some proposed to dispatch someone to seek for the demon general and those knights. However, some insisted on waiting for the demon general's return. Some even suggested the army to evacuate right away...

All the LV 15 battle spirits of demons kept silent.

Zhang Tie had thought about killing all of them. However, after considering it for a while, Zhang Tie gave up this thought...

Right then, a plan with which he could clean up the entire super demon corps and all the Three-eye Association clans occurred to Zhang Tie's mind.

Zhang Tie's weird, powerful, hidden spiritual wave of "soul capture skill" gradually spread over the main tent...

Chapter 807: A New Strategy

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

There was an old Hua saying——If you don't take the benefits that the God gifts you, you will be punished by the God; if you don't do it at the right time, you will have troubles!

All the knights of demons and Three-eye Association were exterminated across Waii Sub-continent. Before the arrival of the new knights of demons and Three-eye Association, even before they knew the message that these guys had been cleaned up, Zhang Tie thought that the God was going to gift him something and allow him to do something.

'What does the God want to gift me?'

After thinking for a short while, Zhang Tie realized that the God was going to gift him two things.

First, the wealth that all the Three-eye Association had plundered from the demon's area in the north of Waii Sub-continent.

During the past years in the incarnation of Gorath, Zhang Tie had already gained too much wealth from those Three-eye Association clans which had been struck or exterminated by him. Honestly, that wealth was just a small part of Three-eye Association clans. The greater part of wealth was in the hands of the remaining 11 Three-eye Association clans, which included most of the wealth of the 17 collapsed human countries in the north of Blackson Humans Corridor. The wealth was still scattered in hidden places by these Three-eye Association clans. Therefore, Zhang Tie thought that the God aimed to gift that wealth to him.

As for the second gift, Zhang Tie thought that the God was going to gift him the super demon corps which had overthrown the overall situation of Waii Sub-continent. On the premise of having the double-headed parent worm, the key to control this super demon corps for Zhang Tie was to feed those demon fighters with the double-headed parent worm's eggs.

When the demon general ruled this super demon corps, it was almost impossible for Zhang Tie to do this. Although there was only one knight in the super demon corps, he could still not play any trick. However, now, Zhang Tie got a chance——he could have many methods to feed those demon fighters with that double-headed parent worm's eggs as there was no knight in the opposite camp.

To gain the above two gifts and exterminate all the demonized puppets so as to return the entire Waii Sub-continent to its tranquility was what Zhang Tie should do at present.

...

3 days later, namely January 11th, the remaining Three-eye Association clans and the entire demon corps were scared by a message even though they had not received any message about the demon general, all of their knights, even those scouts who had been dispatched to Hidden Dragon Island.

Whereas, it was already too late.

Even at noon on a sunny day, watching over 10,000 demonized puppets to fall down and struggle on the ground for a while before death, all the members of Three-eye Association clans at present felt that something was wrong.

"Is it done by that b*stard?" A member of Three-eye Association clan whispered as it watched those corpses.

"I don't think so. It's not worthwhile for Gorath to poison these demonized puppets!" Another member of Three-eye Association clan whispered.

When some corpses of demonized puppets were carried over here, they all swarmed up and wanted to figure out what happened.

It was a major event for these Three-eye Association clans which expanded by demonized puppets to watch their subordinates die in this way.

Those demonized puppets had just died over 1 hour ago. Following the order of a head of a Three-eye Association clan, some members moved forward with scalpels and kits and started to dissect those corpses in front of them. Of course, it was not difficult for so many Three-eye Association clans to find some talents who were similar to forensic doctors and coroners.

They should be very meticulous to complete such a complex autopsy and death verification process; it would usually take them at least 1 hour to reach the conclusion for a similar autopsy, except for this time. Before they reached their conclusion through autopsy and experiment, everybody at present had seen changes on those corpses.

"I remember that there was no such a black spot on the face of this corpse!" A member of a Three-eye Association clan questioned.

"Are you sure?"

"I'm sure. There was no such a black spot on that corpse's face just now...look, look, the number of black spots is increasing!" That guy screamed as it pointed at that corpse. Even the one who was dissecting the corpse stopped its work at once.

Right then, numerous black spots appeared on those corpses of demonized puppets lying on the ground. Closely after that, under the gaze of everybody at present, the number of those black spots kept increasing...

Watching the increasing black spots, all the members of Three-eye Association clans at present moved backward at the same time. They started to change their faces. Even those forensic doctors had taken off their uniforms, gloves and tools and floundered and crawled away with scared looks.

In a couple of minutes, small bubbles had come into being on the black spots of the corpses. In the sunshine, the small bubbles soon broke and poured out some black blood. Meanwhile, more and more black spots came into being and the bubbles grew increasingly larger, accelerating the decomposition of those corpses.

"Ptomaine miasma!" One forensic doctor screamed out of fear. Even his voice had changed like how a duck's neck was pinched by a person's hand. All the members of Three-eye Association clans felt a killing qi. As they changed their faces, they started to retreat.

What was worse was that 1,000 more demonized puppets had fallen down and started to struggle outside Yiyang City during this short period.

For these Three-eye Association clans which had joined the war in Selnes Theater of Operations, ptomain miasma was nothing new. However, such a ptomaine miasma was a mutated species which they had not seen before. The ptomaine miasma in Selnes Theater of Operations was colorful; however, this one was colorless, which played a very terrifying effect on demonized puppets.

No commander or commissioned officer would like to have their troops stay in a region being affected by high-risk virus or bacteria, even demons.

After discovering the mutated ptomaine miasma, all the Three-eye Association clans and demon corps had reached an agreement within half an hour——evacuate from Yiyang City as soon as possible; wait for the demon general in a safe place.

Therefore, the contingent of demonized puppets and the demon corps started to evacuate rapidly only after they arrived at Yiyang City for a few days.

For the sake of safety, the members of the 11 Three-eye Association clans and the demon corps even didn't take their demonized puppets troop away with them. Instead, they left ahead of those demonized puppets.

The demon corps evacuated from Yiyang City together with Zhang Tie who was responsible for the safety of logistic supply, water source and food in an incarnation of a LV 12 commissioned officer of iron-armored demons. Across the demon corps, no demon caught the weird look and the wisp of a smile at the mouth corner of the LV 12 iron-armored demon when it evacuated.

In the beginning, Three-eye Association and the demon corps just thought that this ptomaine miasma just broke out in Yiyang City; however, they soon realized that they were wrong——the terrifying mutated ptomaine miasma started to spread over all the cities in the south of Yuanjiang river, including Huaiyuan Palace and Qilan Country. In only one day, over 200,000 demonized puppets had been killed by this mutated terrifying ptomaine miasma.

Evacuation turned into an escape. The demon corps which crossed over Yuanjiang River arrogantly half a month ago started to cross over Yuanjiang River once again. However, this time, they were escaping towards the north.

Those members of Three-eye Association clans and those commissioned officers of that demon corps thought that they could find a safe place to wait for the arrival of the demon general; however, they didn't know that they could not find such a place across Waii Sub-continent unless in the hell...

The terrifying ptomaine miasma just followed the demon corps all the way towards the north. A lot of demonized puppets would fall down every day. More and more demonized puppets died day after day. The terrifying ptomaine miasma started to break out among the demonized puppets in an all-round manner. Every city on their way back would break out ptomaine miasma like dominoes. Whenever they thought that they had already arrived at a safe place would the ptomaine miasma break out once again in a couple of days.

Demonized puppets fell down; members of Three-eye Association fell down; even many LV 9 fighters in that powerful super demon corps were in poor conditions. The entire super demon corps' battle force was sharply weakened.

This time, the demon corps evacuated faster than when they marched southwards.

At the end of February, after abandoning over 80 million demonized puppets, the demon corps reached Kalay Mountain Range once again. Being different, this time, they escaped towards the north as embarrassed as homeless dogs. In the eyes of all the Three-eye Association clans and the demons, the south of Kalay Mountain Range had already deteriorated into a terrifying hell of ptomaine miasma...

Chapter 808: The Capital City of Sacred Iceland Kingdom

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

In each June, the beginning of summer, Gozidari Plain in Ice and Snow Wilderness would welcome the most beautiful season of the year.

This summer, Gozidari Plain was both the most beautiful and the most boisterous place in Ice and Snow Wilderness.

Since the 896th year of Black Iron Calendar, a majestic city had already been built on Gozidari Plain after about 1 million workers' 3.5 years' around-the-clock work.

This city was the 2nd city in Ice and Snow Wilderness and the capital city of Sacred Iceland Kingdom. Before this magnificent city was named by its owner, it had been known as Saint Petersburg by all the Slavs across Ice and Snow Wilderness.

Everybody thought this name was very good, including the elders of the huge bear tribe.

Over the past 3.5 years, steel plants, cement plants, machinery plants, foundries and workshops of different sizes started to sprout up like mushrooms after rain across Gozidari Plain so as to build Saint Petersburg. As a result, the entire Gozidari Plain became much more prosperous than before.

As over 10 million immigrants poured in Ice and Snow Wilderness, they brought sufficient, cheap labor forces, lots of technicians, engineers and talents from all walks of life. Meanwhile, these people released a vast market demand. Additionally, the 90 million gold coins that Zhang Tie invested in building Saint Petersburg released a powerful cash flow in the hinterland of Ice and Snow Wilderness. The very cash flow guaranteed the economic prosperity.

With the construction of Saint Petersburg, the cash flow of 90 million gold coins flew in all directions from the hinterland of Ice and Snow Wilderness like trickles. As a result, Saint Petersburg's orders spread over the entire Ice and Snow Wilderness from the most remote mountain bear tribe to the most prosperous Ewentra Archipelago. The entire Ice and Snow Wilderness started to rotate slowly like a steam engine being activated. Meanwhile, it released a vast development potential and led to a vigorous scene all over.

When Blackson Humans Corridor was in its worst situation, the Ice and Snow Wilderness, which had been regarded as a wilderness by numerous people, started to reach its heyday.

'Who brought Ice and Snow Wilderness to its heyday?'

Even a 3-year old kid in Ice and Snow Wilderness could answer this question——His Majesty Peter.

As Saint Petersburg was going to be completed, Peter Hamplester's authority as the tsar of Saint Petersburg was gradually adopted by more and more people.

...

At dawn, a xiphodon cavalry team finally arrived at Ginqing Lake Delta Region of Gozidari Plain after one night's gallop where Saint Petersburg, the capital city of Sacred Iceland Kingdom, was located. From here, they could see Elzida Mountain in the distance.

This cavalry team consisted of less than 30 people. All the cavalries wore an armor made of mutated whale's leather. They even smelt fishy. If you looked at them carefully, you might see white salt as fine as sand on the binding sites between the pieces of their leather armors. Generally, such a phenomenon was caused by three reasons: first, their leather armors were picked up from the ocean; second, their leather armors were soaked with their sweat; third, the combination of the above two situations.

At the sight of Saint Petersburg, the head of the cavalry team stopped his mount, followed by all the others. Watching the preliminary contour of Saint Petersburg in the distance, they all felt shocked inside.

The city wall was made of white steel rocks which were extracted from Elzida Mountain. In the morning sunshine, it looked as pure and white as the cleanest snow on the top of Elzida Mountain which had existed there for over 1,000 years. Being different than the natural greatness of Elzida Mountain, this city's contour presented an artificial magnificence.

"Here we are!" The head of the cavalry team turned around and watched his subordinates. He then accented, "The city built by His Majesty Peter, also the capital city of Sacred Iceland Kingdom!"

All the cavalries' eyes radiated a special brilliance. Watching this city, many of them felt proud. Over 3 years ago, this sense of pride just belonged to their tribe, though.

The head just clamped the stomach of his xiphodon by his legs. Closely after that, his xiphodon had rushed forward, followed by all the other cavalries...

This cavalry team then rushed towards Saint Petersburg along the Marly River. After a few minutes, they met another cavalry team who were galloping their xiphodons towards them. The population of the new cavalry team was twice that of theirs. Besides, the members of the new cavalry team looked more capable than them with more excellent equipment.

"Stop, report your status, please!" The commissioned officer of the new cavalry team raised his arm to stop this travel-stained team when they were 50 m away from each other.

"I'm Hags, the head of the sea bear tribe!" The head of the travel-stained cavalry team raised up his identification plate and shouted, "I have an emergency military intelligence to report to His Majesty Peter!"

After knowing their purpose and checking their identities, the commissioned officer gave way to them. Not only that, he even led them to Saint Petersburg.

With the convoy of this cavalry team, the sea bear tribe's cavalries smoothly passed another two cavalry teams' obstruction and one roadblock and finally arrived at Saint Petersburg after over 40 minutes of travel.

This city looked utterly different than they saw from afar just now.

The design of Saint Petersburg was very special. Looking down at it from the air, you would see that the contour of this city was like a special snowflake. This city was surrounded by six inter-connected huge, outstanding diamond-shaped battle fortresses. Being linked with the 6 diamond-shaped battle fortresses was a standard hexagonal city wall. The city gates were on the hexagonal city wall behind two diamond-shaped battle fortresses.

With this structure, Saint Petersburg looked especially beautiful. What was more, with such a design, this city had a terrifying defensive ability. Each and every enemy had to face the counterattack from the city-defense weapons on two battle fortresses and one part of city wall at the same time. If the opponent wanted to attack any battle fortress, they had to suffer a great loss; additionally, after destroying any one battle fortress, they would definitely ram onto the sharpest and the firmest joint between two parts of the city wall and be struck by weapons from the two parts of the city wall at the same time.

The cavalries of the sea bear tribe felt that the design of Saint Petersburg was very fabulous. However, at this moment, these cavalries didn't have time to appreciate it. After entering the city from a southeast city gate, they directly rushed towards the Summer Palace of the tsar in the center of this city.

Saint Petersburg had 6 thoroughfares, all of which converged in the core area of this city.

The core area of this city was the Summer Palace of Sacred Iceland Kingdom.

In Ice and Snow Wilderness, summer was the nicest and most precious season; therefore, that man's residence, also the hub of the authority of Sacred Iceland Kingdom was called Summer Palace by people.

It was very boisterous in the city. Over 2 million people were living in Saint Petersburg. Many new buildings appeared on the two sides of the thoroughfares which could hold 12 vehicles in a row. Additionally, new buildings were rising everywhere, making the entire city vigorous.

Besides private cars, there were also public buses on the thoroughfares of Saint Petersburg.

After entering the city, all the cavalries slowed down.

In Saint Petersburg, besides Grey Palace warriors and fighters of Thor's Hammer, only heads and elders of tribes across Ice and Snow Wilderness and their retinue could ride their mounts on the thoroughfares. What a special honor!

When they passed by the square of Grey Palace, Hags, the head of sea bear tribe found that Grey Palace was holding a grand ritual today as numerous clergymen in white costumes and black costumes were gathering on the square. Mountain people, mountain sea! Everybody was waiting for something with a solemn and desired look...

"Are they holding a ritual?" Hags asked the commissioned officer of Thor's Hammer who escorted them all the way here.

"His Majesty had just conferred His Excellency the Maxim as the archbishop of the entire Ewentra Archipelago a few days ago. It's the first time for His Excellency the Maxim to hold the mass of ode after advancing to the archbishop. Therefore, so many clergymen were attracted and gathered in the square!" The commissioned officer answered respectfully.

As the cavalry team of the sea bear tribe had been on the way during the past few days, they had no connection with the outside. Therefore, Hags was shocked inside when he was told that the first archbishop of Ancient God Church had appeared, but not the heads of the major bear tribes across Ice and Snow Wilderness.

Hags had heard about Maxim before. In less than 4 years, this guy had already consolidated the supreme position of Ancient God Church in Ewentra Archipelago and developed numerous believers of Ancient God Church in Ewentra Archipelago. Even many bigwigs and councilmen had been developed into clergymen and believers of Ancient God Church by him.

Maxim was once just a logistics clerk of a small, remote tribe in Ice and Snow Wilderness. What made him well-known was his precious note called "God's Favor is the Spring", which recorded how Peter presented the God's will in the underground ruins of Haidela Glacier Crack as the one had witnessed and experienced it himself.

In Ancient God Church, besides the sacred book "Book of Eternal", Maxim's "God's Favor is the Spring" was almost the most favorite book of all the believers and clergymen of Ancient God Church.

Of course, Maxim became outstanding not only because of a note and a sacred book but also because of his wisdom and talents. Hags knew that another powerful star who was on an equal footing with the heads of the bear tribes across Ice and Snow Wilderness would rise in Saint Petersburg from today on.

If not an emergency, Hags even wanted to stop to take a look at the ritual. By the way, he intended to scrape acquaintance with the first archbishop who came from Peter's followers.

The entire Summer Palace occupied over 200 hectares. It was absolutely a scaled-down Saint Petersburg. The blocks near the Summer Palace had already been converged with mansions and castles of bigwigs of Sacred Iceland Kingdom. Not only those rich ones from Ewentra Archipelago who strove for buying real estates here at high prices, even the heads and elders of bear tribes were proud of having one castle or mansion near the Summer Palace.

The Summer Palace was strictly guarded by Grey Palace warriors and the elites of Thor's Hammer.

The cavalry team of sea bear tribe stopped outside Summer Palace. After reporting their intention here, only Hags, the head of the sea bear tribe and two of his subordinates were allowed in. All the other soldiers of the sea bear tribe had to wait outside Summer Palace.

The Summer Palace was divided into front palace and harem. The front palace was where the hub of the authority of Sacred Iceland Kingdom was located and where the Helm Elders worked.

Under the guidance of a commissioned officer of the front palace, Hags finally came to the palace where the helm elders worked after many passes and saw the 5 helm elders.

The five helm elders of Sacred Iceland Kingdom were knight elders of three tribes.

Besides the 3 elders of the huge bear tribe, two elders of the iron bear tribe and wild bear tribe also had arrived in the helm palace after receiving the message.

The 5 elders had been long waiting for the arrival of Hags.

At the sight of the 5 elders, Hags hurriedly told the 5 elders about the latest news.

After listening to Hags' words, the 5 elders exchanged a solemn and amazed glance with each other. Watching Pontiff Sarlin slowly nodding his head, the 5 elders then stood up at the same time. Elder Toles watched Hags, "Let's go tell the news of the sea bear tribe to His Majesty!" After saying that, Elder Toles glanced at Hags' two subordinates.

"They are the bravest fighters of the sea bear tribe. After landing, they deepened into the demon's area in Blackson Humans Corridor for investigation and got the latest, detailed intelligence! They could explain what they saw to His Majesty." Hags hurriedly introduced.

After listening to Hags' introduction, the two fighters of the sea bear tribe both chested out. No fighter would miss such a special honor to show off themselves in front of His Majesty.

The 5 elders then became silent. They then hurriedly took Hags and his two subordinates away from the Helm Palace. After passing by a long winding corridor and a royal garden in the front palace, they finally came to a magnificent parlor.

"Where's His Majesty?" Elder Gouras asked a beautiful, female commissioned officer who was serving them in the parlor.

"His Majesty is taking a rest!" The tall and plump female commissioned officer in a purple longuette answered respectfully.

Although eunuchs still existed in some palaces, there was no eunuch in Summer Palace. The harem of Sacred Iceland Kingdom adopted female commissioned officers as servants in the harem of Summer Palace. Most of these female commissioned officers and maids came from tribes across Ice and Snow Wilderness, a few of them even came from major clans of Ewentra Archipelago.

'He's still taking a rest?' Those elders forced bitter smiles at the same time. As His Majesty Peter had returned to Ice and Snow Wilderness for over 1 month, his gossips in the harem had also drifted into the elders' ears, they had not imagined that His Majesty Peter was still taking a "rest" when the sun had risen such high.

When that female commissioned officer went to report to Peter about their arrival, the 5 elders and the 3 representatives of the sea bear tribe could only wait in the parlor silently.

After that tall and plump female commissioned officer in a purple longuette left the parlor, she entered the harem. A few minutes later, she came to a magnificent palace.

Some maids and two female commissioned officers were standing outside a room with solemn looks inside the palace. Listening to the exotic sounds drifting from the room, they all blushed; however, they still "stuck to" their own posts and pretended to be calm.

Over the past 1 month, there were always groans, sounds of "pah pah pah" and occasionally screams drifting from the room between 10 pm and 12 am, except for some hours in the midnight.

Only Queen O'Laura entered the room at the beginning; however, after a couple of days, more and more madams were called in.

As for those maids and female commissioned officers who had always been serving Peter outside the bedroom over the past one month, most of them could even judge which madam was being favored based on the groans.

"Is His Majesty still inside?" That tall and plump female commissioned officer asked another female commissioned officer in a low voice.

"Listen..." That female commissioned officer implied her with her eyes while her face blushed.

After listening to that for half a minute, that tall and plump female commissioned officer's face also blushed.

Loud frequent sounds "Pah Pah Pah Pah" drifted from the bedroom. Meanwhile, sobs reverberated in the bedroom.

"Who's that?"

"Madam Sabrina who was taken in by His Majesty last night!" That female commissioned officer answered.

Of course, that tall and plump female commissioned officer was familiar with the name Sabrina. However, it was out of her imagination that this notorious woman could sob like a virgin.

"Perhaps, His Majesty could enjoy a fresh sense of conquering a virgin from a mature woman like Madam Sabrina. That's why he loves her so much!" The female commissioned officer whispered.

"Some elders want to see His Majesty!"

"According to the rules set by Queen O'Laura for the harem, if elders have something urgent to report, they could have female commissioned officers enter the bedroom and pass it to His Majesty directly!"

After hearing that, the tall and plump female commissioned officer bit her lips before plucking her courage to open the door and enter it.

Sabrina stopped sobbing...

After 2 minutes, the bell outside the bedroom finally rang. Hearing this, those maids and female commissioned officers who were waiting outside the bedroom swarmed in at once...

...

After 10 minutes, Zhang Tie left his resting palace and walked towards the parlor where the elders were waiting for him.

It had been over 1 month since Zhang Tie completed his action and left Blackson Humans Corridor. Zhang Tie estimated that the situation in Blackson Humans Corridor should have been discovered by humans...

If they didn't know about the current situation facing Blackson Humans Corridor till now, it was unnecessary for them to continue fighting demons anymore.

Chapter 809: Preparation and Shock

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

Right in the parlor, when Zhang Tie entered, the 5 elders and the 3 representatives of the sea bear tribe stood up and bowed towards Zhang Tie at the same time.

"Your Majesty!"

"Hmm, relax yourselves, take a seat!" Zhang Tie glanced over the 5 elders and Hags, the head of the sea bear tribe.

When he caught sight of Hags, Zhang Tie had almost got their intention. The sea bear tribe had been responsible for spying on the northern coastal areas of Blackson Humans Corridor during the past few years so as to master the recent situation of demons near Sacred Iceland Kingdom. If demons prepared to attack Ice and Snow Wilderness, they would definitely take drastic measures in the northern coastal areas of Blackson Humans Corridor.

Watching them taking seats, Zhang Tie sat on the main seat.

"A female commissioned officer told me that you have an urgent military intelligence to report to me. Are demons taking drastic measures in Blackson Humans Corridor once again?" Zhang Tie asked with a solemn look.

Zhang Tie exerted his disguise talent to the utmost. When he spoke, his facial expression and tone were both vivid.

When he asked, Zhang Tie prayed inside——God, forgive me. Although it's not kind to do that, please allow me to be innocent this time given that I was always honest before.

Elder Toles opened his mouth, "This intelligence is indeed about demons. We were also shocked when we got this intelligence. All of us thought it was of great significance; therefore, we came here to report it to you, Your Majesty!"

"What's that?' Zhang Tie faintly frowned as he asked in a muffled and dignified way.

After exchanging a glance with each other, the 5 elders finally moved their eyes on Hags.

After taking a deep breath, Hags stood up and uttered, "The demon corps in Blackson Humans Corridor might...might have been exterminated. Even that demon corps and those Three-eye Association clans in Blackson Humans Corridor had disappeared!"

Zhang Tie sprung up from his chair due to an extreme shock. After that, he slowly sat back. Watching Hags with a solemn look, he asked in a slightly icy tone, "As the head of sea bear tribe, do you know what responsibility you should assume when you talk about that in front of me and the helm elders?"

Under the "dignified" gaze of Zhang Tie, Hags gritted his teeth, "I know, I will be responsible for each word that I said here today. I would like to take the punishment for any mistake in my intelligence!"

"Fine, tell me about your reference and how did you know that!"

"After the demon corps passed by Kalay Mountain Range last year, sea bear tribe had received the order of helm elders. We were requested to strengthen the surveillance over the northern coastal areas of Blackson Humans Corridor. From then on, I had dispatched mutated-shark cavalry elites to strengthen our surveillance over the northern coastal areas of Blackson Humans Corridor. This March, the abnormal phenomena in northern coastal areas of Blackson Humans Corridor aroused our attention. Our soldiers' cavalries found that the demonized puppets which had reached the south of Blackson Humans Corridor started to retreat towards the north since March. As a result, those empty coastal areas were crowded with numerous demonized puppets surging northwards in a short period. After verifying this intelligence, we reported it to the helm elders immediately..."

Elder Gouras interrupted at this moment, "When we got the intelligence from the sea bear tribe, the helm elders were very intense. At that time, demon corps had already occupied Blackson Humans Corridor completely. Therefore, their sudden abnormal movement reminded us that demon corps were going to prepare for attacking Sacred Iceland Kingdom. Therefore, we even let Ewentra Mixed Fleet enter Class II readiness posture. However, what happened next was more abnormal..." Elder Gouras threw a glance at Hags to let him continue.

"The soldiers of sea bear tribe kept monitoring the northern coastal areas of Blackson Humans Corridor. We found that the demon corps didn't prepare for the war in the northern coastal areas; instead, they kept moving northward and retreated into the northern inland regions. Because there were demonized puppets all over on the land, our soldiers didn't deepen into the inland regions. By mid-April, something more abnormal happened. All the demonized puppets disappeared from the northern coastal areas of Blackson Humans Corridor. At the beginning, we thought that demons were playing tricks. Therefore, we observed it for two weeks meticulously. By late April, after not seeing any demonized puppet for over 10 days, some brave soldiers of sea bear tribe finally deepened into the inland cities to investigate!"

"They didn't see any alive demonized puppet in those inland cities; instead, they saw numerous broken corpses of demonized puppets with terrifying looks. Given their looks, those demonized puppets might have been affected by a terrifying ptomaine miasma. After finding this situation, we reported it to the helm elders at once; meanwhile, some bravest soldiers of sea bear tribe started to deepen into inland cities. Their report was very shocking. All the demonized puppets across Blackson Humans Corridor might have disappeared. There were only a large number of decomposed corpses in those cities where those demonized puppets had stayed. As for the two bravest soldiers on my side, one of them deepened into Hurricane Plateau of Golan Empire in the past one month, the other entered Kalay Mountain Range; however, they did not find any trace of demonized puppet..."

As Hags introduced the two soldiers, Zhang Tie moved his eyes onto them on Hags' side. One of them was LV 11, while the other was LV 12. Watching their tough looks and strong figures, Zhang Tie nodded inside. 'Given their looks, they are definitely dauntless fighters. No wonder they dared deepen into Golan Empire and Kalay Mountain Range to spy on the movements of demon corps.'

"Tell me what did you see." Zhang Tie asked the two fighters.

Starting from the fighter on the left of Hags, the two fighters started to depict what they saw when they deepened into Hurricane Plateau of Golan Empire and Kalay Mountain Range.

Corpses! Corpses! They saw nothing but corpses.

"How did you know that those corpses were of demonized puppets? How did you confirm that those corpses died of a terrifying ptomaine miasma?"

"When demonized puppets surged southwards, there wasn't any alive person across the north of Blackson Humans Corridor. When they moved southwards, all the humans had fought to the death or turned into the food of demonized puppets. We saw too many corpses, some of which might be of humans; however, we believe that most of those corpses were of demonized puppets!"

"Additionally, the skulls of those decomposed corpses were black. Therefore, we're sure that those corpses died of a terrifying ptomaine miasma. In Kalay Mountain Range, even wild beasts or insects dared not draw close to those corpses..."

The two fighters of sea bear tribe replied in muffled and well-organized way.

"How many corpses do you think were there in Kalay Mountain Range?"

The two fighters exchanged a glance with each other.

"We cannot tell you the concrete figure. However, according to our speculation, there should be at least 100 million corpses. We saw corpses from the north of Kalay Mountain Range all the way to the entrance of the underground world on Hurricane Plateau where the demon corps had been discovered!"

'They almost got the concrete figure!' Zhang Tie was more shocked by the two fighters' abilities. They were both brave and smart. No wonder they were favored by Hags.

"Brave fighters of sea bear tribe, tell me your names!" Zhang Tie's voice turned genial.

"I'm Hirokov!"

"I'm Alkin!"

The two fighters answered while chesting out.

Zhang Tie replied with a smile as he pointed at two longswords hanging on the wall of the parlor, "These are rune swords gifted by a major clan in Ewentra Archipelago. From now on, they belong to you, one for one. Only real fighters could live up to such excellent weapons! From today on, you could enter Summer Palace with them."

"Thanks, Your Majesty!" The two fighters of sea bear tribe took a deep breath before forcefully punching their chests. Trying their best to not look too excited, they strode towards the wall and picked off the two longswords in a decent way. After that, each of them put one sword on one side of their waist and returned to Hags' sides.

Being gifted with longswords in the parlor and were promised to enter Summer Palace with the gifted swords was a great honor for any tribal fighter, which made their family members and them proud.

Zhang Tie's award made Hags look more confident. He knew that this award meant the tsar's confirmation about his subordinate fighters and the entire sea bear tribe.

Zhang Tie pretended to think about something. After being silent for a short while, he asked Pontiff Sarlin and the other elders, "What do you think about it, elders?"

"There must be a major accident across Blackson Humans Corridor which even demons could not have predicted. The only problem is that we don't know the whereabouts of the demon corps and the demon general. The demon corps might have been exterminated by the terrifying ptomaine miasma; however, the 17 knights of demons and Three-eye Association couldn't be killed by ptomaine miasma, including the demon general!" Elder Gouras said as he frowned.

"No matter what, the news that all the demonized puppets were exterminated across Blackson Humans Corridor could shock the entire human world. We don't need to risk our lives to explore the whereabouts of the demon general and its subordinate knights and that super demon corps. We only need to release the news that almost 200 million demonized puppets were killed by ptomaine miasma. Someone will help us figure out the reason. It's a good thing for Sacred Iceland Kingdom." Elder Turin said in an experienced way.

"I will do that!" Pontiff Sarlin smiled, "After all, many people have known my byname in the Mountain of Brightness. Additionally, Sacred Iceland Kingdom needs a channel to pass its voice to the public."

All the other elders nodded.

"Could Elder Sarlin see the future of Waii Sub-continent?" Zhang Tie suddenly asked.

"Since half a year ago, the entire Waii Sub-continent had been covered by a dense black fog. From then on, I could not see anything about this Sub-continent. In the beginning, I thought that this black fog symbolized demons. I had even been worried about that for a long time. However, given the current situation, the black fog might be another unknown power!" Elder Sarlin sighed.

Zhang Tie didn't speak anymore. He knew that he had already built the channel, what he needed to do was to wait for the result.

'The threats facing Ice and Snow Wilderness and Sacred Iceland Kingdom were finally eliminated. As demon corps could not occupy Waii Sub-continent for the time being, they would not make their preparations to fight Ice and Snow Wilderness. Therefore, they could not pose any substantial threat to Ice and Snow Wilderness. Given the current situation, unless the demons' heads were idiots, they would never have their demon corps appear on the sub-continent which had been absolutely desolate with over 200 million corpses of demonized puppets due to fatal ptomaine miasma. They could not get any resource from this sub-continent anymore.'

'Compared to the other sub-continents, the Eastern Continent and the Western Continent, Sacred Iceland Kingdom is just a sesame in this world, which is in such a cold and barren land. Demons will never pick up such a sesame at the cost of some watermelons. Nobody would like to do that. As for demons, the entire Sacred Iceland Kingdom had lost its value. After Waii Sub-continent became a wasteland, Sacred Iceland Kingdom had become a Shangri-La. Before occupying Eastern Continent or the Western Continent, demons would not organize its power to launch such an expedition to this place.'

'However, Sacred Iceland Kingdom should keep an eye on moles of Three-eye Association clans. They might want to root, reproduce and expand here like parasites so that they could overthrow the ruling of Sacred Iceland Kingdom in another manner. It was another form of war to handle Three-eye Association clans. Whereas, after the Three-eye Association clans on Waii Sub-continent were exterminated, it would take new Three-eye Association clans at least dozens of years to consolidate their positions and powers in this country. Those Three-eye Association clans don't have a chance to break in Sacred Iceland Kingdom for the time being.'

Zhang Tie fulfilled his promise that he would support Ice and Snow Wilderness to the end in another pattern.

These were the final preparations that Zhang Tie made before returning to Eastern Continent, including the crazy things he had done these days. As Zhang Tie didn't know when would he come back here next time, he took the crazy things that he had done as a communication, compensation, carnival, gift and comfort.

'When O'Laura, Olina or Sabrina made love with me, they desired for sustaining my bloodline, although they didn't say it.' Zhang Tie would sustain his bloodline in Sacred Iceland Kingdom. However, he had to leave for Taixia Country.

Without the holy war, Zhang Tie might pick up his family members from Taixia Country to Sacred Iceland Kingdom or his beloved ones from Sacred Iceland Kingdom to Taixia Country. However, in the holy war, Zhang Tie couldn't bear his friends, family members and clansmen being threatened by demons while he was in a safe place. 'O'Laura, Olina and Sabrina belong to this place, they have everything here. They won't feel like leaving out of here.'

At present, Sacred Iceland Kingdom might be as safe as Taixia Country; however, such a safety was temporary if humans didn't win the holy war.

Donder once said, "One could betray everything but his bloodline."

Faithfully, Zhang Tie could not betray his bloodline.

In the future, the fiercest battle between demons and humans would break out in Taixia Country.

Therefore, Zhang Tie had to return to Taixia Country.

If Taixia remained safe, humans would survive forever.

Even if he was not here, as long as he fought demons and Taixia remained safe on Eastern Continent, it would be a protection for Sacred Iceland Kingdom.

"Over the past years, the Tribal Axis Railway Corporation (TARC) has gathered a great number of profits and assets. With the increasing population across Ice and Snow Wilderness, many more places are to be developed. A few days ago, the TARC and Golden Bank have proposed to build a new railway. How about connecting the next section of the Tribal Axis Railway to sea bear tribe? This section of railway lasts over 1,700 miles. Sea bear tribe could raise fund or dispatch tribal labor forces to participate in the construction of the railway. Sea bear tribe could share 40% of this section of railway and participate to run it!"

It was Zhang Tie's principle to award those who have military exploits. As the sea bear tribe had made a great performance in the past few years, Zhang Tie had to set the sea bear tribe as a good model for all the other tribes across Ice and Snow Wilderness.

Hags, the head of the sea bear tribe sprung up with an excited look immediately as he punched his chest, "Thanks, Your Majesty!"

Of course, Hags was excited. Because he knew that this award meant millions of more gold coins' income for sea bear tribe each year. Although the sea bear tribe was poor, they had a lot of labor forces and could gather some money. In the worst scenario, as long as Hags agreed to use the potential benefits or stock options of the new section of the railway as the mortgage, he could raise a great amount of gold coins from those newly riches in Ewentra Archipelago and Golden Roc Bank.

...

Only after a few hours, an article called "Latest News: Terrifying Ptomaine Miasma Exterminated over 200 Million Demonized Puppets across Waii Sub-continent" was issued in the Mountain of Brightness.

The entire Mountain of Brightness was shocked...