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Chapter 998: The Reappearance of Gorath
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
No matter what, it was a good news for Zhang Tie that he could scour the injustice and might appear in Taixia Country in his original look.
It was Zhang Tie's pleasure to see that the Supreme Court of Taixia Country could cancel off the order for arresting him; however, Zhang Tie also understood the stress facing him even if the Supreme Court of Taixia Country did it. Because the real culprit who framed him was still hiding somewhere. As long as Zhang Tie didn't find that culprit, he would never be safe and would be a target wherever he was.
That culprit might be at least a shadow knight who had formed 3 chakras and could dispatch enormous resources. If Zhang Tie couldn't find him, the moment he reappeared in his original look, Zhang Tie was sure that this guy would deal with him in a much fiercer way. This situation would become most dangerous for Zhang Tie.
Therefore, the biggest danger for Zhang Tie was not the arrest order from the Supreme Court of Taixia Country, but that culprit. Compared to the original status, the status of Cui Li was more suitable for Zhang Tie to fight that culprit.
The result of the battle would be determined by the overall strength. Therefore, Zhang Tie came to the core of Tiewei Mountain alone.
With purgatory samsara method, Zhang Tie could rapidly increase his overall strength. If he didn't come to join the fun in the core of Tiewei Mountain and kill some earth demon knights, he felt not living up to himself and wasting such good opportunities.
Additionally, Zhang Tie wanted to see and experience the fiercest collisions between humans and demons in the holy war.
Tens of thousands of knights fought at the same time, such a large-scale battle might only be seen in the holy war.
After entering the 2nd loop of Tiewei Mountain, Zhang Tie activated a super hiding rune effect and reduced his qi to the level of a common black iron knight; additionally, he was looming in the black mist caused by the abyss vines. Without arousing the attention of anyone else, he rapidly flew across the region covering over 700 miles between the 1st loop and the 2nd loop of Tiewei Mountain and rapidly approached to the edge of the 1st loop of Tiewei Mountain.
The closer the mountain ranges were to the core of Tiewei Mountain, the higher they would be. If one could reach high enough in the air, one would find that the entire Tiewei Mountain was like a blooming flower and a ripple that spread from the center. Such a strange terrain could only exist in the Earth-elements Realm.
Zhang Tie had already disguised as Gorath who had long disappeared once again. Wearing a black stickup robe, he had silver hair and a pair of icy and gloomy eyes above his slightly brutal and persistent hooknose. Flying in the black mist, he looked like a black vulture and a ghost.
The incarnation Gorath was Zhang Tie's umbrella.
In the core of Tiewei Mountain, if Zhang Tie appeared in his original look, he was finding trouble for himself; if he used the look of Cui Li, as was warned by Guan Qianchong's words a few days ago, the moment someone found that Cui Li could use purgatory samsara method on earth demon knight, the status of Cui Li that Zhang Tie had spent a lot of efforts in management in the past 3 years would be deserted. It was too silly for him to do that as he had made a great success in the status of Cui Li and gained a bounty land in Taixia Country.
At present, tens of thousands of human knights and demon knights were converging in the core of Tiewei Mountain. Facing so many powerhouses, Zhang Tie should be careful.
Additionally, although having come to the core of Tiewei Mountain, Zhang Tie didn't know what he would do here at all. If there was a big trouble, just have the black-robed knight Gorath shoulder it. If demons and the Three-eye Association wanted to seek for revenge in the future, they would look for Gorath. After all, Gorath had already made a lot of troubles, in the worst scenario, he would give up his status as Gorath. Whatever, it was just one of his incarnation. Without Gorath, he might be Ballas, Dallas in the future as long as he wanted it.
With such a cunning thought, Zhang Tie turned into Gorath.
The large-scale battle in Tiewei Mountain attacked the attention of all the human rulers and knights. It was the first fiercest collision between humans and demons by now. It was reasonable for Zhang Tie the most famous murderer in Taixia Country and Gorath the mysterious knight in a black robe to join the fun here.
When in Waii Subcontinent, Gorath and Zhang Tie "almost" appeared in the southernmost and northernmost ends of the subcontinent on the same day; additionally, they didn't have any common point. Gorath was even known as the most famous voodoo pharmacist master. Zhang Tie didn't have a chance to touch and learn any skills about voodoo pharmacist in his growth experience and was strange to everything in this circle. Therefore, no matter what, nobody would link Gorath to Zhang Tie.
In this world, besides Zhang Tie himself, nobody else knew that Gorath was Zhang Tie. That was the subtlety of this status.
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When Zhang Tie reached the highest 1st loop of Tiewei Mountain, he caught sight of a fierce combat in a deep valley which was covered with black shrubs.
They were battle auxiliary personnel instead of human knights.
The so-called battle auxiliary personnel were all Hua fighters whose ranks varied from LV 6 to LV 15.
When the large-scale battle between human knights and demons turned white-hot, these battle auxiliary personnel served as sentinels towards air across Tiewei Mountain.
Any demon knight flew over somewhere, these battle auxiliary personnel would rapidly transmit the intelligence to the human strongholds so that they could make corresponding arrangements. The information control center in the center of Black Armor Battlefortress collected many timely information about the demon knights' whereabouts, which originated from these battle auxiliary personnel who were responsible for observing the air force of demons.
Compared to combats between human knights and demon knights, these people were battle auxiliary personnel. However, it didn't mean that they didn't need to fight; conversely, they were fighting all the time.
It was very dangerous for these battle auxiliary personnel if they were discovered by demon knights. Many battle auxiliary personnel sent the intelligence by remote-sensing crystals at the cost of their lives. Besides demon knights, the ground forces that demons arranged tentatively in Tiewei Mountain were also the formidable enemies of all the battle auxiliary personnel in the Earth-elements Realm.
7-8 corpses of spider demons were scattering in the valley from the east to the west. Most of these corpses were split open from the middle of their bodies, scattering blood and guts everywhere. The latest two dead spider demons' body was still faintly twitching.
Spider demon was a branch of the demon. Its lower body was similar to that of a spider with a grim and ugly face. However, it excelled at hiding itself and could move rapidly and steadily on cliffs like flying.
In Tiewei Mountain, the large number of spider demons that demons dropped were always the formidable enemies of battle auxiliary personnel.
Two battle auxiliary personnel were evacuating as they fought spider demons.
The two battle auxiliary personnel both wore mountainous black and brown soft armors. Some underground shrubs were purposefully stuck onto their armors for concealing effect. Besides, they wore a complete gas-defense respiratory mask with eyeglasses.
If they appeared on another occasion in such a dress, it would be hilarious; however, it was not hilarious here at all because they were both covered with blood, most of which belonged to those spider demons. Even in such a fierce combat, they still didn't take off their gas-defense respiratory masks. Because human fighters below knight level could not fully resist the toxicity in the air of the first abyss which was released by the abyss vines. The toxicity was contained in the underground black mist. After breathing such air for a few hours, fighters below knight level would feel numb and stiff all over. As a result, their movements would be influenced.
The black matt assault swords drew fatal arcs in the valley one after another. Although spider demons constantly fell down, the number of spider demons gradually increased.
With bloody eyes, the spider demons aspirated stinky qi through their mouthparts as they kept chasing after the two human fighters no matter how many partners had been killed.
Before death, those split-open spider demons successfully left injuries on the two Hua fighters' bodies.
The two battle auxiliary personnel were both LV 9 fighters; those spider demons varied from LV 7 to LV 9, who were dauntless in a large quantity.
With a sound of "Zi...", when one of the two human fighters stabbed an assault sword into a spider demon's mouth, a dark red LV 8 spider demon immediately broke into that fighter's defense circle. Because the fighter could barely notice it with his eye corners, the spider demon stabbed a short spear into the human fighter's lower abdomen...
"Ahh!" That human fighter roared. When he clenched the short spear by one hand, he pulled his assault sword out of the spider demon's mouth by the other hand. Closely after that, with a fierce sweep, he chopped off the LV 8 spider demon's head.
"I will drag them, hurry up, go..." The injured fighter roared. Instead of escaping away, he turned around and rushed towards those spider demons who were chasing after him...
Chapter 999: Iron and Blood
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
"No, we will leave or die together..."
Seeing the fighter whose lower abdomen was injured turning around and rushing towards those spider demons, the other fighter screamed as he closely followed the first fighter and rushed back towards those spider demons too. At the same time, he stabbed his matt assault sword into a LV 7 spider demon's lower abdomen and forcefully gashed downwards, causing a huge wound. As a result, the bloody intestines of the spider demon flew out of the wound below its lower abdomen immediately with a sound "Huala".
After being heavily wounded, the spider demon uttered a sharp, jarring scream. Before death, it stabbed its short spear towards that human fighter ferociously.
In front of a LV 9 human fighter, the LV 7 spider demon was obviously weaker. Its counterattack before death didn't leave any wound on that human fighter. The human fighter directly kicked the wrist of its claw which held the weapon and broke it. Closely after that, he stabbed his sword directly into its heart.
After a spasm, the LV 7 spider demon fell down on the ground and didn't move anymore...
The human knight whose lower abdomen was severely wounded had killed another LV 7 spider demon. The two human fighters both used powerful, sharp, direct and fatal battle skills that they learned in the army of Taixia Country. In front of such low-level opponents, this battle skill could turn humans into the most effective killing machines which were urgently needed on the battlefield.
After a few seconds, some purplish-red spider demons had appeared behind the black brambles in the distance who were dashing towards here.
Those purplish red spider demons looked bigger than common spider demons, which indicated that they were LV 9 spider demons.
Given the battle strength, a LV 9 spider demon could match that of a LV 9 human fighter; additionally, LV 9 spider demons were trickier. Even in normal situations, a LV 9 human fighter and a LV 9 spider demon could be well-matched in strength, not to mention this moment when spider demons outnumbered human fighters who had already been injured.
At the sight of those LV 9 spider demons, the human fighter who had been slightly bruised instantly grabbed the waistband of his comrades-in-arms who was severely wounded and carried him on the back before escaping away.
"B*stard, Liu Xing, put me down..." The severely wounded one roared.
The fighter just lowered his head silently and kept rushing forward with his full effort. With one person's weight on his body, all of his wounds had been cracked while blood kept flowing out of there; additionally, he could not move as agilely as before...
Under the gas-defense respiratory mask, the runner's eyes turned bloody while his mouth corners were bleeding. However, he still insisted on running while gritting his teeth. Under this circumstance, he only had a firm belief——he would never drop his comrade-in-arms; he would live or die together with his comrade-in-arms...
As human fighters of Taixia Country, they were not afraid of fighting demons to death in the Earth-elements Realm!
The LV 9 spider demons were moving so fast and swiftly that they soon narrowed the distance to 50 m. At such a high speed, it would only take them a few minutes to catch up with the two human fighters.
"Put me down..." The severely wounded fighter's voice suddenly turned calm. When he uttered, he had already stabbed the sharp tip of the assault sword into his neck, causing blood to flow off, which immediately made his camouflage soft armor's collar wet, "When I count 3...if you don't put me down, I will commit suicide...1..."
"We can both escape away..." The runner had already exerted his utmost speed as he tightly carried the severely wounded one. At the same time, his sweat ran down like raindrops, his wounds were torn open once again, spraying blood all over while the main artery in the back of his neck started to bulge like that of a running battle horse. Each step forward, the main artery would pulse one time...
He didn't give up; instead, he just kept challenging his upper limit while gritting his teeth.
"If you put me down, you could have a narrow chance to escape; if you carry me, neither of us would survive...2..." The sword tip deepened into his neck while his blood dropped into the gaps on the runner's soft armor with the warmth of the bromance...
"3..."
The runner's heart raced as he felt the irresistible will and decisiveness of the one on his back. When his comrade-in-arms uttered "3", the runner felt his comrade-in-arms increased his strength on his sword. The runner immediately put down that severely wounded fighter.
"Xiaoyue likes you. If you could survive back, take care of her and say sorry to her on behalf of her brother!"
After leaving such a will, the severely wounded human fighter decisively turned around and rushed towards those LV 9 spider demons...
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When he rushed towards those spider demons, he released his LV 9 battle qi totem for the first time. It was an awe-inspiring proud bloody scorpion with its tail raising in the air. He jumped high and flew over some LV 7 and LV 8 spider demons all the way towards a LV 9 spider demon.
The LV 9 spider demon's battle spike directly penetrated through his body. Thankfully, he faintly twisted his body when the spike touched his body, causing it to miss his heart.
After drawing a sword qi in the air, he chopped off the head of the LV 9 spider demon by his matt assault sword and had it sent flying off, spurting out blood higher than 1 m...
With a battle spike below his heart, the severely wounded human fighter continued to collide the second LV 9 spider demon. This spider demon's battle spike stabbed into the fighter's chest once again; however, the fighter's matt assault sword precisely stabbed into the spider demon's heart. Both parties roared at the same time; meanwhile, they stirred their own weapons in the opponent's body. As a result, the spider demon fell down; the severely wounded fighter spurted out blood which covered the crystal mirror of his gas-defense respiratory mask.
The proud bloody scorpion started to lose its balance. The fighter's one leg turned weak and he knelt down.
At this moment, the 3rd spider demon rushed over here with a grim look.
Although his sight became blurry while his vision was also reduced by the bloody mirror of his gas-defense respiratory mask; however, the human fighter didn't fall down. He just watched this LV 9 spider demon rushing towards him with a disdainful look...
This time, the 3rd spider demon's battle spike directly penetrated through the fighter's throat and neck. The fighter didn't dodge away; instead, he pushed his body forward while stretching out his arms. He faced the sharp battle spike of the spider demon with his neck on his own initiative.
The battle spike penetrated through the fighter's throat and neck; however, this fighter hugged the LV 9 spider demon and detonated an explosive device on his body...
A white phosphorous munition rose up. In a split second, the two bodies started to burn heavily. At the same time, the LV 9 spider demon uttered an earthshaking miserable scream...
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When the runner heard the last sound, he turned around and saw the fierce unyielding torches.
With hot tears flooding out of his eyes, the runner became stimulated and kept dashing forward at a higher speed...
High-power white phosphorous gel bomb was one of the necessary equipment of all the human fighters who were responsible for auxiliary combats. Compared to the white phosphorous gel bombs used in airships, such high-power white phosphorous gel bombs were smaller and more destructive. The original intention of such a bomb was to deter demon fighters; however, in many situations, it was used by common fighters to commit suicide on the battlefield of Earth-elements Realm.
As for Hua fighters, they could only fight demons to death instead of being captives.
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In only a few minutes, the screaming spider demons had been burned into charcoal lying on the ground while the escaping human fighter was in a dilemma once again.
The flames attracted a LV 10 wing demon who was flying in a low height. A LV 10 wing demon plus a lot of spider demons, they soon cornered this LV 9 human fighter.
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Standing still against the edge of the cliff, that human fighter panted heavily while his assault sword was still dropping blood. Only in a couple of minutes, he had a few more wounds, two of which were on his back, from where his bones could even be seen. A LV 8 spider demon's corpse had lain in front of him. 7-8 spider demons surrounded him in a fan shape over 10 m away. That LV 10 wing demon was flapping its wings and gazing at him with its brutal and bloody eyes like targeting at a prey which could not escape any longer.
"You cannot escape. As long as you surrender to us. You will have the best treatment. You could survive on and live better!" The LV 10 wing demon uttered its hoarse voice. At the same time, it threw a fearsome glance at the object on the human fighter's waist which looked like a bitter gourd.
The human fighter held a short sword by one hand and tightly held that bitter gourd-shaped object by the other hand.
The bitter-gourd shaped object was a high-power white phosphorous gel bomb. The LV 10 wing demon could hurt this human fighter by its battle qi, this human fighter could also throw this white phosphorous gel bomb at the wing demon and threaten it.
The outcome of being struck by human's high-power white phosphorous gel bomb had been presented by that charcoal-like corpse of that spider demon.
As the LV 10 wing demon was smart, it didn't want to lose its own life in front of this human fighter who was almost dead; instead, it intended to adopt a safer method to deal with this human fighter. If it could capture a Hua fighter alive, his military exploit would be greater than that of killing a Hua fighter.
"F*ck you!" The human fighter replied to the wing demon.
At the same time, the human fighter rushed a few steps forward and threw a black item towards the wing demon...
Chapter 1000: Saving Liu Xing
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
The LV 10 wing demon blew the black object into pieces from 10 m away. However, the object just broke apart like a rock without any phosphorous flame...
Of course, a high-power white phosphorous gel bomb would burn up even if it was broken.
Actually, it was not the real high-power white phosphorous gel bomb; but a common piece of stone, which attracted the attention of all the spider demons and the wing demon.
When the stone broke apart in the air, a LV 8 spider demon being closest to this human fighter burned up as it uttered a shrill miserable shriek like wild beast's whine.
The human fighter successfully made a feint to the east but attacked in the west. He solved a LV 8 spider demon who was closest to him.
When the LV 8 spider demon burnt up, all the surrounding spider demons were startled and hurriedly jumped away, causing a chaos, the human fighter had already stabbed his assault sword into another LV 7 greyish-blue spider demon and pulverized its body.
The flaming LV 8 spider demon jumped and screamed like a lunatic. Its eyes were destroyed in the shortest period by the high-temperature flames. As a result, it could not identify the direction anymore. Being driven mad in pain, it made the team of spider demons chaotic. However, that human fighter took advantage of this chaotic situation and killed another LV 7 spider demon with the cover of this spider demon.
At this moment, LV 9 spider demons and that LV 10 wing demon struck the flaming spider demon's body with their battle spikes and battle qi and ended its pain in the shortest period and had it become a burning firewood on the ground.
In the blink of an eye, the human fighter had been cornered to the cliff once again with more wounds and burning traces on his camouflage soft armor. However, three more demon spiders were killed.
Pitifully, the human knight let out a sigh inside, 'LV 9 spider demons responded too fast. Additionally, they were a bit farther than me just now. If I were a bit closer to them, I might have killed one LV 9 spider demon with my high-power white phosphorous gel bomb at the risk of suffering more wounds...'
'Even now, it's not a poor military exploit, I've killed 3 more demons. Before death, I should have a chance to kill a LV 9 spider demon.'
In the gas-defense respiratory mask, the human knight gazed at a LV 9 spider demon while a beautiful and warm face occurred to his mind, 'Xiaoyue likes me?'
The human fighter didn't know whether he should cry or smile after knowing that news under this circumstance. However, when he remembered the figure which had turned into a burning torch, the human fighter felt faintly painful inside.
'Dahai, I'm sorry, I'm afraid that I will not have a chance to see Xiaoyue anymore.'
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"Kill him..." The LV 10 wing demon roared as it felt being teased by this human fighter.
At the same time, the wing demon released its battle qi towards the human fighter together with the attacks of all the surrounding spider demons...
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In the last moment, the human knight fiercely smashed his remote-sensing crystal onto the cliff behind him. Closely after that, he rushed towards that LV 9 spider demon at the risk of his life...
If there was no accident, in a few seconds, some more corpses would appear here, including a human corpse. By then, the combat would come to an end.
However, there was an accident, Gorath appeared above the battlefield with an icy and gloomy look...
Without any omen, Gorath pointed at that wing demon while his battle qi flew out of his finger and charged at that wing demon in the shape of a wild wolf. All of a sudden, the LV 10 wing demon's body was shattered while its flesh and blood sprayed over. Closely after that, the wild wolf charged at those spider demons one after another like tearing and biting weak preys. After it circled around the human fighter, the last 7-8 spider demons cracked one after another orderly like crackers being lit in the legend; as a result, their flesh and blood covered the battlefield.
The blood from the sky and plasma from those spider demons covered the human fighter's body. The human fighter still rushed forward as he couldn't stop himself due to the inertia. When he stopped, he turned around and couldn't see any alive spider demon anymore besides a large area of blood and fragmented pieces of spider demons. All the spider demons and the wing demon who had dominated the battlefield had been exterminated in a split second.
The wild wolf-shaped battle qi gradually dispersed; instead, a figure in a black robe slowly descended with an icy and terrifying qi.
At the sight of that knight in a black robe, the human fighter's heart pounded as his throat felt dry. He couldn't utter a voice because he was really shocked by the power of the wild wolf-shaped battle qi. He had seen the battle qi strikes in the shape of living beings; however, he had not seen such a vivid, agile living being. It was like a real living being, which was both spiritual and extremely powerful...
Given the icy qi of the knight in a black robe, the human fighter could not identify whether this gloomy knight was a black iron knight or an earth knight; however, no matter what, the knight in the black robe could easily kill the human fighter like how he killed those demons just now if he wanted.
"Thanks...for saving my life, senior!" The human knight uttered hardly as he cupped his hands towards the knight in a black robe.
After saying that, the human fighter felt that knight in the black robe raised his head and threw a glance at him. Although being dozens of meters away, Zhang Tie's blood almost froze when he saw clearly the face of the human fighter.
Although this human fighter wore his gas-defense respiratory mask, his face as a Hua fighter could still be clearly seen by Zhang Tie through his lotus-flower eyes.
It was over 3 years ago when he saw this face last time. Zhang Tie remembered that this person led him to his knight's tower and introduced Lion Fortress to him when he entered the Lion Fortress for the first time.
——Liu Xing, Xing means stars, stars in the sky!
This was how this man introduced himself at that time.
Zhang Tie was familiar with this name as he was the second "Liu Xing" that Zhang Tie knew.
Three years ago, Liu Xing was a logistics major general in the think tank of the Lion Fortress; it was out of Zhang Tie's imagination that he could join the most unsafe troop which was responsible for auxiliary combats in the Earth-elements Realm...
Chapter 1001: The Backbone
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
When the first high-power white phosphorous gel bomb was ignited, Zhang Tie had caught sight of the flame although he was over 70 miles away. When he arrived here, he saw Liu Xing being cornered by the LV 10 wing demon and those spider demons...
Actually, Zhang Tie could save Liu Xing right away; however, he wanted to take a look at Liu Xing's performance for the time being.
It was out of Zhang Tie's imagination that this frail-looking major general could be still dauntless and righteous in the dilemma. Additionally, Liu Xing was very smart who killed 3 demons at the critical moment.
When Zhang Tie found that Liu Xing had determined to die together with a LV 9 spider demon, he finally gave a favor to Liu Xing.
In front of an earth knight, some LV 9 spider demons and one LV 10 wing demon were as weak as ants.
Zhang Tie indeed appreciated Liu Xing's performance. However, Zhang Tie was more interested in the high-power white phosphorous gel bomb that Liu Xing had just thrown out.
Under the gaze of Liu Xing, Zhang Tie walked to the burning charcoal-like spider demon. Squatting down, he checked its corpse carefully.
The hard shell of the spider demon had been carbonized; however, its bloody flesh was still burning.
Zhang Tie put his hand into the flames and broke off an atrophied leg of the spider demon. Taking it, he watched the leg burning into ash before patting his hands and stood up.
Major General Liu Xing was really shocked when he saw the leg burning in the hand of this gloomy and eccentric knight in a black robe without causing any harm to him.
"White phosphorous gel bomb?" Gorath uttered a strange, hoarse and icy voice-like sound caused by the frictions between broken ice cubes and glass.
"Hmm...rght!" Liu Xing stealthily swallowed his saliva. After answering Zhang Tie's question, he didn't say anything else.
Zhang Tie felt that he was a bit intense and vigilant under the gas-defense respiratory mask. Therefore, Zhang Tie nodded inside, 'Although being saved, Liu Xing still didn't reveal any secret that he knew about white phosphorous gel bomb. He still remained vigilant like qualified soldiers of Taixia Country would act in the dangerous moment.
"I've not imagined that Taixia has already produced small-sized white phosphorous gel bombs."
After hearing this, Liu Xing remained silent.
Zhang Tie was really surprised about it. In Selnes Theater of Operations, if each human fighter could be matched with such a mini white-phosphorous gel bomb, they could defeat that LV 9 demon corps and those demonized puppets corps. At that time, the main task of airship troops of allied human forces was to give a big blow to the super demon corps by white phosphorous gel bombs. Pitifully, until the Selnes Theater of Operations was collapsed, humans' airship troop could not make this dream come true. Only in the Upton Battle did that super demon corps suffer a great loss from the strike of human airship troops by white phosphorous gel bombs for the first time.
However, the white phosphorous gel bombs being dropped from airships were very huge. Each of them would weigh hundreds of kilograms at least. Since white phosphorous gel bombs were invented, minimization of white phosphorous gel bombs was always a problem, which could not be solved by human countries since the end of last holy war. A few years ago, when Zhang Tie was in Youzhou Province, he didn't hear that the troops of Northeast Military Region were equipped with such a minimized weapon. It was really out of Zhang Tie's imagination that Taixia Country had already invented such a minimized weapon only in a few years and applied them in small-scale combats in Earth-elements Realm. Whereas, given the current situation, these minimized white phosphorous gel bombs could not be produced on a large scale yet; troops could only be equipped with a limited number of such a minimized weapon. Therefore, Liu Xing only carried one minimized white phosphorous gel bomb and used it at the critical moment.
Such a portable white phosphorous gel bomb was not very harmful to fighters above LV 9; however, it posed a great threat to fighters below LV 9. On the battlefield, as long as each human fighter carried about 3 portable white phosphorous gel bombs, they could definitely defeat the super demon corps even though one of ten human fighters would be killed.
Facing the super demon corps of 10,000 population led by the demon general in Waii Subcontinent, all the human countries across Waii Subcontinent only needed to compose an allied elite force of about 3 million people and match them with 9 million minimized white phosphorous gel bombs as well as bearing over 30% loss, they would be able to crack down the super demon corps in an all-round manner.
Zhang Tie who had experienced the battle in Selnes Theater of Operations understood the significance of this minimized white phosphorous gel bomb pretty well. From a certain perspective, if this portable weapon could realize a mass production, Taixia force would be able to maintain the strategic balance with the demon corps in the frontline once again; instead of being fully passive.
Although he was still wanted in Taixia Country, Zhang Tie sincerely felt happy about Taixia Country. The technical breakthrough in portable white phosphorous gel bomb was even more important than having 10 more heavenly human knights. Because such portable weapons could save numerous human lives on the battlefields in the future.
Since the holy war broke out, none of the news that Zhang Tie heard about the holy war was good. All of them were about how demons occupied new lands and humans collapsed. The minimization of white phosphorous gel bomb was the most thrilling news that Zhang Tie had heard.
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"May I know...your name, senior?" After being silent for a short while, Liu Xing asked Zhang Tie on his own initiative when he saw Zhang Tie's flickering eyes in a weird manner.
"You don't need to know my name!" After disguising as Gorath, Zhang Tie maintained the weird and distant personality of Gorath. After throwing a distant glance at Liu Xing, he said, "I saved you this time; I'm afraid that you will not have such a good luck next time. I've just flown all the way here from that direction and didn't find any demon fighters. If you want to leave, you'd better choose that way!"
"Thanks!" Liu Xing replied hardly.
"I like hard bones. Brat, take this, wish you good luck!" Zhang Tie said as he threw a vial of senior recovery medicament towards Liu Xing. Closely after that, he flew off and disappeared into the black mist.
Actually, Zhang Tie didn't leave far away from Liu Xing. After flying about 15 miles away, when he confirmed that Liu Xing's faint light observation instrument could not observe him anymore, he stopped and watched Liu Xing on the ground.
Although Liu Xing couldn't see Zhang Tie, Zhang Tie could see him clearly by his lotus-flower eyes.
Generally, Zhang Tie was sympathetic; however, he was not a Yes Man, except for the current situation. He didn't want to see this Hua fighter called Liu Xing being killed; therefore, he prepared to escort him back to the Black Armor Battlefortress safely. Whereas, the status Gorath was not suitable to do that; therefore, he could only protect Liu Xing in the dark.
In Waii Subcontinent, Zhang Tie's comrade-in-arms called Liu Xing had already died. In the Earth-elements Realm, Zhang Tie didn't want to see another dauntless Liu Xing as young as the late one being killed once again. Zhang Tie would feel a bit reassured unconsciously when he saw this Liu Xing survive himself.
Under the silent gaze of Zhang Tie, Liu Xing hesitated a bit on the ground for a short while before taking the vial of senior recovery medicament that Zhang Tie had gifted him. With the effect of the senior medicament, only after resting for less than 2 minutes, Liu Xing had already rapidly returned to the place where the first white phosphorous gel bomb was ignited.
Zhang Tie knew that a Hua fighter was lying there forever. Although the Hua fighter's body had burned into ash, his spirit was still as firm as the torch that he incarnated in at the last moment of his life. It was the blazing in the dark ceaselessly.
When Zhang Tie saw the first flame, he had accelerated towards there; however, it was still too late. He only saw the most brilliant scene of the Hua fighter at the end of his life, which deeply moved Zhang Tie and reminded him of his days in Iron Blood Camp.
Without such dauntless men, Taixia Country and Hua people would not be prosperous anymore.
Although that late Hua fighter was sharply different than Zhang Tie in both battle strength and social status, Zhang Tie respected him pretty much. As Zhang Tie had experienced numerous combats and grown up from a commoner, he had an emotional resonance with this human fighter. In many situations, emotional resonance surpassed classes and social statuses. Zhang Tie saw a soul, a battle soul which belonged to the proudest and bravest fighter. Such a soul was the backbone of humans.
Only in Lion Fortress, over 100,000 Hua fighters were assuming battle auxiliary tasks. Additionally, they were on shifts yearly. Although these people were far weaker than human knights on battle strength, through the baptism of the most brutal combats in the Earth-elements Realm, those who could survive back would become the backbones in Hua armies.
At this moment, Zhang Tie finally understood why the ruling party of the military of Taixia Country dispatched so many human fighters to assume battle auxiliary tasks in the Earth-elements Realm.
Under the silent gaze of Zhang Tie, Liu Xing came to the front of the ash and took off his gas-defense respiratory mask. His face had been covered with tears...
Kneeling down in front of the ash, Liu Xing looked for a nameplate in the ash. Closely after that, he cupped the ash into his bag. After that, he put away the nameplate and carried his bag once again before wearing his gas-defense respiratory mask. After doing all this, he ran towards the direction that Zhang Tie had told him while gritting his teeth...
Chapter 1002: Demon Suppression General
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
Zhang Tie flew over some bushes from over 50 m high in the air like a black spirit. At the same time, four spider demons who were hiding in the bush were split into halves like watermelons silently, spraying their blood over the ground.
When Zhang Tie killed these spider demons, Liu Xing was meticulously passing a valley and didn't know that the four spider demons hiding over 7 miles away in front of him had just been killed...
After 2 days, Liu Xing had reached the 1st loop of Tiewei Mountain and entered the core region of Tiewei Mountain with the protection of Zhang Tie in the dark.
In the past 2 days, Zhang Tie had killed 7 waves of spider demons on the route of Liu Xing within 20 miles, totally 86 spider demons; additionally, he captured 4 alive wing demons. A stone for two birds.
As long as he could kill 360 spider demons, he would gain a new fruit of source of spider demons, with which, Zhang Tie's essence would grow by 1/12; the energy and potential of each surging point would increase by 1/12 which was equal to lighting another 82 surging points; besides, his endurance, physical strength, spiritual energy and life expectancy would increase by 1/12 respectively; namely, his battle strength would increase by 1/12.
From a perspective, the effect of a fruit of source was greater than absorbing the energy and earth elements of some earth demon knights. It was almost like promoting to 1 change earth knight.
Of course, Zhang Tie would not give up gaining such a fruit.
The 4 alive wing demons were thrown into Castle of Black Iron. Previously, these wing demons were useless to Zhang Tie and Zhang Tie would kill them as soon as possible. However, after Zhang Tie gained the bloody sacrifice furnace, these wing demons became rare raw material for bloody sacrifice. As long as it was not discovered by others, these wing demons would help him a lot in the future.
Not only wing demons, but any demon that could be teleported into Castle of Black Iron alive and didn't lead to any fruit also would help him a lot. Although the others regarded the core region of Tiewei Mountain as a very dangerous place, Zhang Tie treated it as a treasury of demons. Purgatory Samsara Method, small tree, plus bloody sacrifice furnace could squeeze each demon's value.
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After killing the last spider demons, when Zhang Tie flew over the last ridge in a few minutes, he immediately suspended in the air as the horizon in front of him became open.
In the skyline, Zhang Tie saw a floating human battle fortress. Some human knights were patrolling in the sky in front of the battle fortress.
He had already officially entered the core region of Tiewei Mountain. In the distance, he saw hundreds of colorful battle qi smokes and tornadoes raging in the sky, thick or slim. They looked like flickering lightning bolts in the black mist in the skyline. Those battle qi smokes and tornadoes meant that at least hundreds of human knights and demon knights were fighting in the sky above the plain!
Although human knights and demon knights were fighting fiercely in the distance, the battle fortress looked relatively calm. Hundreds of colorful battle qi smokes and tornadoes looked like ornaments in the skyline, which didn't make people in the floating battle fortress intense at least in Zhang Tie's eyes, 'Is that a skirmish?'
Zhang Tie looked back with his flickering lotus-flower eyes and caught sight of Liu Xing.
After passing that valley, Liu Xing accelerated his movements. He might know that a human base was not far from him.
The low-level spider demons that Zhang Tie killed just now might be the closest to the human stronghold. After entering the patrol region of human knights, Liu Xing would not easily meet any demon fighters.
'Well, I have to leave. In the future, Major General Liu Xing have to seek blessings for himself!
Licking his lips, Zhang Tie looked at the distance for a short while. After that, he dodged from human knight's patrol route and flew towards the hundreds of battle qi smokes and tornadoes...
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1 month later, in the God's Will Battlefortress of Tiewei Mountain, a tall and sturdy old man in a brilliant golden battle armor and a long bloody marshal's cape was watching the looming demon battle fortress in the black mist in the distance while leaning on a huge sword in the highest tower in the floating battle fortress.
A huge construction site was below the God's Will Battlefortress. There was a big entrance on the construction site which led to the underground mining area of Tiewei Mountain. At this moment, tens of thousands of logistics personnel of Lion Fortress were busy packing the earth-element crystals and transporting them into the God's Will Battlefortress. The entire God's Will Battlefortress was like a fierce beast safeguarding its own nestle. Lying here quietly, it sharpened its claws and teeth and gazed at the demon battle fortress in the distance with hostility.
The demon battle fortress was another fierce beast which gazed at the human battle fortress with hostility too.
In less than 400 miles' linear distance, hundreds of battle qi smokes and tornadoes rose and swung in the air and adorned the gloomy sky in the Earth-elements Realm.
Knight-level powerhouses would die every day between the two battle fortresses, human or demon. In wider space behind the two battle fortresses, more human and demon fighters were fighting constantly on the ground. Some demon knights reached the back of the human battle fortress; similarly, human knights also reached the back of the demon battle fortress. Skirmishes occurred everywhere. People or demons would bleed and die in each second.
The old man in golden armor watched the demon battle fortress in the distance calmly while his eyes were like ancient wells. A vertical wrinkle between his eyebrows turned clear. Common vertical wrinkles would be slightly curved and slim; however, his vertical wrinkle was as straight as a sword. It separated his forehead from the middle and reached his ophryon; additionally, the vertical wrinkle was bloody like having been soaked in blood. It looked as aggressive and shocking as dense black clouds.
According to the legend, when the old man came to Xuanyuan Hill at a young age for the first time and met Shui Yuecang, the No. 1 fortune teller in Taixia Country, Shui Yuecang let out a deep sigh after watching his look seriously, "The vertical wrinkle between your eyebrows is as straight as a sword. It separates your forehead from the middle and penetrates through your ophryon. It goes against your wife, son, father and mother. Given your look, before you came to this world, your father had died. Your mother died due to difficult labor. In the future, you will barely have a wife who could accompany you for the rest of your life. However, the place between your eyebrows is wide like a sea and high like a mountain, which indicates that you will have a great power and majesty in the future with a strong will. It's a rare demon suppression vertical wrinkle that could not be seen in 100 years. Besides going against your family members, it also goes against your enemy. In the future, you will definitely have a military power. You're born to be a defender. You will hold the entire Taixia Country in awe. Although you're born to have no parents, what you will do in the future will enable numerous people to have parents when they're born. Although you have no wife, you will make thousands of families harmonious and happy. Although you have no child, you will be regarded as the father by numerous people. As you will protect the safety of all the living beings in the world in the future as a general at the risk of losing your life, I have to bow to you on behalf of the civilians in Taixia Country and all the living beings in the world..."
Although it was his first time to meet Shui Cangyue, the No. 1 fortune teller in Taixia Country, Shui Cangyue had bowed to him on his own initiative.
After meeting Shui Cangyue a few years ago, the second holy war broke out. This man joined the army as a LV 8 fighter. Additionally, he requested to enter the Earth-elements Realm where the casualty was the highest.
Since he entered the Earth-elements Realm, this man had not left the Earth-elements Realm over the past 200 years and became the legendary human in the Earth-elements Realm.
Through lasting numerous combats, the LV 8 human fighter had become a powerful heavenly knight and ruled the Lion Fortress as Demon Suppression General. Being on an equal footing with the generals of the top four armies in Taixia Country, he had become the pillar of the military of Taixia Country.
Numerous proud and fierce human fighters had entered the Earth-elements Realm; however, they all behaved like docile lambs in front of him, including the knight-level commanders of the top four armies of Taixia Country and the nobles and royal households from the other continents.
This man said all the human knights entering the core region of Tiewei Mountain should follow his order. Even the elder who led the team of Taiyi Fantasy Sect, one of the seven major sects in Taixia Country dared not enter the core region of Tiewei Mountain.
This man was called Du Guyi.
Many human knights didn't see as many demons as those whom he had killed over the past 200 years in their whole lives. This man himself could not even remember how many demons he had killed. Perhaps, only demons knew how many demons this man had killed. Besides being despairing, demons hated him very much.
——Anyone who could kill Gu Duyi will be rewarded as a Lord!
This was the value of Gu Duyi's head on demon's side.
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Gu Duyi watched the skyline and faintly frowned. Meanwhile, his killing qi formed into black snowflakes and drifted down from his side, which was a special phenomenon of a heavenly knight. Nobody knew what this heavenly knight who had stayed in the Earth-elements Realm over 200 years and experienced two holy wars was thinking about at this moment.
A breeze blew over with some moisture while a knight in blue battle armor appeared in the looming vapor. After shaking for a second like a shadow in the water, it walked out of the vapor and stood behind Gu Duyi quietly while cupping his hands.
"Lord!"
"How's it going?" The demon suppression general just asked calmly without turning around.
"There was indeed a great chaos in the back of demon battle fortress a few days ago. A human knight destroyed a secret base in the rear end of demon battle fortress and killed over 5 demon knights, including one earth demon knight and many demon fighters below LV 15. After suffering such a big loss, the demon battle fortress was shocked and dispatched a shadow demon to chase after the trouble-maker..."
"Who's that ballsy?"
"I have no idea!" The man behind Gu Duyi answered honestly as he didn't feel embarrassed at all, "But I'm sure that one is not a member of us!"
Gu Duyi suddenly narrowed his eyes while the black snowflakes on his side froze in the air...
Chapter 1003: The Problems Facing Taixia Country
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
"He's not a member of us..." The demon suppression general burst out into laughter. At the same time, the black snowflakes on his side vaporized in a split second while the sharp sword-shaped vertical wrinkle between his eyebrows became vivid as if the sword was going to fly out of its sheath from his forehead and make a massacre. "If this person could survive the chase of demons, I would like to see him."
"He's really a talent; however, it's not easy for an earth knight to survive the chase of a shadow demon!" The one who came out of the vapor replied, "Will we..."
Gu Duyi raised his hand and interrupted him calmly, "Wealth and rank are the matters of destiny. Now that we've come to Tiewei Mountain, dying is as usual as living even for knights. We're not here for discovering talents, but for opposing demons. If he is a real talent, he would survive himself even if he was chased by a shadow demon; if he's dead, he's just so-so. Only those who survive themselves are qualified to be praised. If he's dead, he has just fulfilled his responsibilities to be a human knight and didn't spend his life in vain..."
Over 200 years' combats in the Earth-elements Realm, this old man standing in the highest tower had treated death as usual as life.
Standing behind the old man, the knight just listened to him carefully without any objection. Because each word of this old man was definitely correct in the eyes of the subordinates of this old man. This old man had never made any mistake and would never make any mistake at all.
"How's Feng Yexiao of Taiyi Fantasy Sect?"
"Feng Yexiao and a team of new knights of Taiyi Fantasy Sect are fighting as guerrillas in the periphery of the 1st loop!" Although the knight behind Du Guyi answered calmly, his words sounded disgruntled, even a bit disdainful, "Previously, Feng Yexiao intended to kill that earth knight-level shadow demon in Tiewei Mountain with his team members so as to gain a bounty land for Taiyi Fantasy Sect and accumulate military exploits and prestige for himself in Taiyi Fantasy Sect. However, he had not imagined that the earth knight-level shadow demon had been killed by another earth human knight only after a few days since he came to Black Armor Battlefortress. Therefore, Feng Yexiao lost his face and felt being slapped on his face invisibly!"
"Is that guy who killed the earth knight-level shadow demon is called Cui Li?"
"Yes, Cui Li entered Earth-elements Realm 3 years ago. It's said that he had a wonderful experience in a wild mountain and gained the "Fire Dragon Sutra" which was left by Fire Dragon Hermit. 3 years ago, many human knights explored hieron ruins from the Lion Fortress. Due to the participation of a demon knight and a knight of Three-eye Association, Cui Li suffered a lot of troubles. It was even said that Cui Li had already died in the hieron ruins in a very righteous way. I've not imagined that this man has promoted to an earth knight in the hieron ruins in only about 2 years and could come out of there alive!" That knight faintly hesitated before asking, "Lord, do you think this Cui Li is..."
The demon suppression general faintly narrowed his eyes and asked, "Has Guan Qianchong met him?"
"Yes, he has; additionally, Guan Qianchong has agreed to reward him..."
The demon suppression general revealed a smile, "If so, this man must be innocent. If there's some problem with him, he could not have passed Guan Qianchong's interrogation because Guan Qianchong is the gate of hell. There're so many bizarre secret methods and skills in the world. Nobody dares say that he knows all of them. Now that Cui Li could gain the "Fire Dragon Sutra" which has long been lost, he must have a great luck. This man might have a special experience in the hieron ruins. Besides, as he killed an earth knight-level shadow demon, he must be a blessed fighter!"
"However, Cui Li might not know that he has offended Feng Yexiao. Feng Yexiao is domineering. After losing his face this time, he might find Cui trouble in the future!"
"With one more shadow human knight on our back, it's not bad. No matter what, Feng Yexiao and Taiyi Fantasy Sect would not surrender to demons. Don't be over furious. Now that Cui Li could come out of the hieron ruins alive, he might have made a big achievement. In the future, Feng Yexiao might force Cui Li to show us his special talents!"
The simple sentence of demon suppression general was full of his wise philosophy about the world.
"Xuanyuan Hill is too indulgent with sects such as Taiyi Fantasy Sect. The holy war has turned white-hot. The demons' strikes are like tides; however, these sects still want to maintain their own forces at this critical moment. Don't they know that there will be no complete eggs when the nestle topples over? If Taixia Country was extermined by demons, these sects would have no place to stay! Is the gossip real? Has Emperor Xuanyuan..."
The demon suppression general immediately turned around and gazed at the knight behind him with his dignified eyes while an overwhelming stress and invisible qi of heavenly knight collided with the knight.
Before finishing his words, the knight uttered a muffled harrumph; meanwhile, he was forced to move one step back while bleeding at his mouth corners. However, he still looked at the demon suppression general's eyes frankly and straightforwardly.
After half a minute, the demon suppression general's dignified eye light slowly faded away, "Remember, our battlefield is Earth-elements Realm, the affairs of Xuanyuan Hill has nothing to do with us. As soldiers of Taixia Country, our only job is to kill demons as long as we're alive. No matter what happens on the earth's surface, it has nothing to do with us."
"Yes, sir!" The knight wiped off the blood stains from his mouth corners and replied in a muffled voice.
The demon suppression general let out a long sigh, "It seems that the knights in the battle fortress are too leisure and don't bleed too much. It has been over 2 months since the last large-scale battle. Even you started to have a bee in your head. Pass my order, launch a large-scale strike at the demon battle fortress in formations 1 hour later..."
"Yes, sir!"
The vapor reappeared in the tower while the knight who had received the order swung in the vapor like a shadow for a short while before disappearing...
Only after half a minute, the entire battle fortress had become boiled like an actuated machine while numerous knights in the battle fortress had stopped what they were doing and started to prepare for the coming large-scale battle at the fastest speed...
The Demon suppression general turned around and threw a glance at the demon battle fortress in the distance. Only at this moment when nobody was on his side did the demon suppression general look a bit worried.
Nobody knew what Du Guyi was thinking about.
As for this old man who had fought over 200 years in the Earth-elements Realm and experienced the 2nd holy war, although this large-scale battle between human knights and demon knights in Tiewei Mountain is related to the ownership of millions of earth-element crystals. It's not what Du Guyi was really concerned about. To a certain extent, the result of this large-scale battle, even the lives of over 10,000 human knights who had converged in the battle fortress or his own life didn't count most.
The battle between humans and demons was precisely the wrestle between Hua people and demons. As for Hua people, the result of 1 or 2 large-scale battle between humans and demons, the lives of 10,000-20,000 human knights including the lives of some heavenly knights who were called old guys by others like Du Guyi were not decisive. Even the Lion Fortress which was regarded as the greatest power and pass in the Earth-elements Realm would be broken through by demons one day, it was not a big deal. Before the Catastrophe, humans didn't have any power in the Earth-elements Realm, but they could still survive.
Humans might lose this large-scale battle. Over 10,000 human knights who joined the coming large-scale battle including Du Guyi himself might die. However, basically, it didn't matter at all. What counted most was that Hua people and the entire Taixia Country could be able to reorganize more large-scale battles and shoulder more failures after losing such a large-scale battle 100 times and 100 heavenly knights like Du Guyi. This was the key factor for Taixia Country to last forever and confront demons constantly.
At this moment, what the demon suppression general concerned most was the problem facing Xuanyuan Hill; instead of the Earth-elements Realm.
One year before the 3rd holy war, Emperor Xuanyuan had disappeared. Nobody knew where he had gone. In the beginning, Xuanyuan Hill could cover it with the excuse that Emperor Xuanyuan was in cultivation. Now, this excuse didn't work anymore.
The top chancellors in Taixia Country had been officially noticed after Emperor Xuanyuan disappeared 1 year later. At the beginning, only rulers and very few people knew about that news. As time went on, the chain reactions after Emperor Xuanyuan disappeared gradually occurred. Not only Xuanyuan Hill, but even the officialdom and commoners had also known this news. However, nobody dared say it in the public.
After Emperor Xuanyuan disappeared, the entire Taixia Country and Hua people lost their head at the critical moment. Dark forces had long been increasingly surging across Eastern Continent while all the unpredictable factors were rapidly developing in Taixia Country.
A few months ago, the surging elements tide shocked the entire earth elements-realm. At that moment, even Du Guyi thought that a prince in Taixia Country had formed an earth chakra of emperor-level cultivation method and would be able to compete for the throne with the crown prince. When Emperor Xuanyuan disappeared, a prince could defeat the crown prince was definitely not a good news.
Demon suppression general was worried about this a few months ago. He felt that nothing was worse than this at this moment. However, he found that none of the princes in Taixia Country had formed an earth chakra of an emperor-level cultivation method at all a few days ago.
This news had just been confirmed yesterday. Through months' investigation of the clan elders in the clansmen register center, they finally confirmed it, which was even more shocking than the disappearance of Emperor Xuanyuan.
'If none of the princes of Taixia Country have promoted to an earth knight in terms of "Xuanyuan God Sutra", who's that one? Besides "Xuanyuan God Sutra", is there another complete emperor-level cultivation method in the world?'
As long as he thought about this question; especially the possible worst answer, even demon suppression general who had ignored his own life felt chilly inside...
Without Emperor Xuanyuan, even though the imperial force of Taixia Country could not frighten top sects which were ruled by sage-level old monsters such as Taiyi Fantasy Sect. Therefore, the balance between the top seven sects and the imperial household of Taixia Country which had been preserved hundreds of years would be broken.
If Xuanyuan Hill lost its head, the entire Taixia Country would lose its ruler. Chancellors, courts and major local clans, everybody and every agency would feel unsafe; plus troubles caused by Heavens Reaching Church, Taixia Country might easily be in a big chaos facing troubles domestically and foreign invasions. Before demons broke in, Taixia Country might already have a big problem inside.
When there was a big problem inside Taixia Country, as long as Taixia was fully defeated by demons in the Earth-elements Realm, Taixia country would be completely defeated on the earth's surface. That was what the demon suppression general really worried about.
This potential concern could not be solved at least now.
If Emperor Xuanyuan appeared timely, this problem could be solved; however, if he appeared a bit late, demons would not spare a chance to Taixia at all even if Emperor Xuanyuan wanted to solve this problem...
Chapter 1004: Large Battle Formations
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
1 hour later, over 12,000 human knights flew out of the human battle fortress like bees flying out their beehives. Being dense, they covered the sky.
Less than one out of a million people living on earth's surface could have a chance to see over 10,000 human knights flying together at the same time.
When the number of humans reached 10,000, it would be endless. Over 10,000 human knights flying in the sky completely covered the sky...
Precisely, 12474 human knights participated in the large-scale attack, over 95% of them were black iron knights while the rest ones were earth knights and shadow knights.
Those knights came from all the countries across each continent. The number of Hua knights from Taixia Country ranked 1st, those from western continent ranked 2nd; there were also many knights in red hair, blue eyes and different skins.
12474 was a very special figure as it could be divided with no remainder by 81.
Why? Because the basic number of knights required for 3-in-1 formation was 3. Three 3-in-1 basic formations could form a bigger 3-in-1 formation of 9 members; 3 bigger 3-in-1 formations could form a large 3-in-1 formation of 28 members while 3 large 3-in-1 formations could form a supreme 3-in-1 gold formation of 81 members.
Like perfect steps, 3,9,27,81 corresponded to four levels of 3-in-1 formation respectively, namely, black iron, bronze, silver and gold.
12474 knights contained 154 golden 3-in-1 battle formations, each gold 3-in-1 formation became a larger unit of formation of knights at this moment.
Among the 12474 human knights who flew off at the same time, there were three old friends of Zhang Tie, namely, Filton, Cecilia and Bolam.
When they flew off, only after throwing a glance at each other, the three knights had connected their knights' consciousness and formed the basic 3-in-1 battle formation in a split second...
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Feng Cangwu whom Zhang Tie had not seen for a long time was also one of them. He looked bearded in a hand-me-down battle armor like an uncle who used to kill time in pubs. Compared to that 3 years ago, his sharpness and dashing spirit had been fully reserved; however, his qi field had become stronger.
There was a gourd-shaped container on his waistband. Before joining the large-scale battle, he undid that gourd and swigged it quite a while.
"Leave some to me!" A partner on Feng Cangwu's side shouted. Feng Cangwu then threw that gourd towards that man. After drinking some, he threw it to another knight on his side. The 3rd knight bottomed it up directly as he smacked his lip and sighed with emotions, "Tasty...". Finally, he threw the empty gourd back to Feng Cangwu.
It was a special all-purpose medicament in the gourd. It was the latest product of Jinwu City, which could activate the effect of the medicament in the shortest period.
'Come on!' Feng Cangwu roared inside as his battle intention boiled up. Additionally, he opened his knight's consciousness and linked it to that of the other two human knights, forming another basic 3-in-1 battle formation...
Only in a few seconds, the 12474 human knights had become 4158 basic unit of a 3-in-1 unit. As a result, the core area of Tiewei Mountain was immediately covered with battle clouds.
In this situation, individual knights only needed to form a 3-in-1 battle formation with two partners.
The moment the 4158 basic units of 3-in-1 formation came into being, the figure which was covered with golden light had flown off the tower and reached the highest place among those human knights. At the same time, a golden light rushed into the sky from that man. A sharper knight's consciousness descended and covered dozens of square miles immediately. 12474 knights opened their knight's consciousness at the same time. After connecting with the milky way, their knight's consciousness entered a wholly new, complete knight's consciousness like how water drops converged into a stream before entering an ocean...
A great order appeared...
3-in-1 black iron battle formations started to form a complete knight's consciousness of a bronze battle formation of 9 members by automatically connecting 2 more black iron battle formations. The bronze battle formation of 9 members would form a complete knight's consciousness of a silver battle formation of 27 members by connecting two more bronze battle formations. The silver battle formation of 27 members would form a complete knight's consciousness of a gold battle formation of 81 members by two more silver battle formations. 154 3-in-1 gold battle formations would finally form an unprecedented powerful knight's consciousness...
Through the gradual combination of 3-in-1 battle formations, the loose large formation of over 12,000 human knights slowly turned regular like gears being processed.
At this moment, 12474 human knights shared the same knight's consciousness. Everyone's senses and knight's consciousness had been promoted to a higher level...
At this moment, black iron knights could sense the consciousness of earth knights; earth knights could sense the consciousness of shadow knights; similarly, shadow knights sensed that they had become heavenly knights. The only heavenly knight became the supreme consciousness of this large battle formation.
Besides the knight's consciousness, everyone's qi sea faintly connected with each other and could attack and defend together...
Many light beams rose up from the large battle formation. Each knight was blessed on strength, speed, recovery capability and sacred defense...
Like a huge golden wheel composed of 154 huge knife flywheels, the entire large battle formation flew towards the demon battle fortress in an overwhelming manner.
When the large human battle formation reached halfway, they had been blocked by the large demon battle formation.
The large demon battle formation contained over 14,000 population, more than that of the large demon battle formation. Besides, the large demon battle formation was weird and looming in black mist. It looked like a huge mouth and quagmire which constantly changed its shape as if it was going to devour the universe.
An ox-headed demon higher than 3 m was standing at the highest point of the large demon battle formation with a burning huge ax in hand and watching the approaching large human battle formation with its fiery bloody eyes.
"Du Guyi, all the earth-elements crystals here have almost been exploited, this mine will be abandoned in 2 months. Will you insist on such a large-scale battle?"
The heavenly demon knight uttered a muffled voice which sounded like a thunder.
"Of course we will. The battle would never come to an end until demons were exterminated!"
The demon suppression general's thunder-like dignified muffled sound also drifted to the heavenly demon knight from above the large human battle formation.
After hearing this, the huge ax in the hand of the heavenly demon knight burned fiercer abruptly. At the same time, a bizarre eye light flashed by as the heavenly demon knight suddenly burst out into laughter, "Your Emperor Xuanyuan has disappeared for so many years. He might have long died. Taixia is destined to be chaotic. Do you want to further consume the knights from the Western Continent and the other continents by this chance so that Taixia Country could maintain its absolute advantage over other continents in the chaos?"
The demon commander's words were really malicious.
"Gandise, given your words, I have to kill you!" The demon suppression general replied in a calm yet extremely icy voice.
"Hahaha, I've collected over 100 human knight's heads including that of black iron human knights, earth human knights and shadow human knights, except for a heavenly human knight's head..."
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Over 20,000 human and demon knights collided with each other immediately without any buffering...
In the sky, over 10,000 thunders sounded at the same time as if stars were born and died in a split second...
The black mist within 100 square miles was cleaned by the great shock wave caused by the collision. Additionally, the ground in the core of Tiewei Mountain started to shake like the surface of a drum being beaten by a heavy hammer. The ground below the collision area was cracked immediately, causing some thousands of meters long huge trenches. The terrain of a part of the region changed in a split second. All the weak living beings who didn't escape away due to so many corpses here these couple years had drilled into their own caves and dared not expose their heads while trembling all over.
Over 20,000 human and demon knights collided as if the God was driven mad...
The large demon battle formation widely opened its mouth and wanted to devour the entire large human battle formation; however, the large human battle formation wanted to cut the large demon battle formation into pieces and grind them.
Facing such a fierce collision, any individual strength would be trivial. Even heavenly knight would be shattered in such a fierce collision immediately.
Each trivial strike was caused by a gold battle formation composed of 81 human knights while the fiercest strike gathered the strength of over 10,000 human knights.
Accordingly, the battle qis of all the knights in the large formations had formed a huge protective battle qi so as to respond to the opponent's strike.
Similarly, although being protected by such a huge protective battle qi, all the strikes against the large battle formation would be passed to all the knights in the large formation. Even though, those knights who were struck by the opposite large formation would also bear a greater stress and impact than other members of the large formation. After they bore the stress and impact first, the stress and impact would pass to other knights in a degressive state.
The collision between two large battle formations was like two prehistorical huge beasts colliding with each other. The moment the battle broke out, it had become earthshaking...
Neither human nor demon knights had noticed that a black little beetle was hiding on a rock in the distance and watching the collision between two large battle formations with a wide open mouth. It was shocked too much that it almost drooled...
Chapter 1005: The Most Brutal Battle
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
Like two powerful and fierce beasts colliding with each other, neither of them could devour the other completely; however, as long as they collided with each other, it would be earthshaking and cause blood and flesh to spray everywhere.
The large formations of humans and demons were like two powerful and fierce beasts who usually fought and collided with each other. Although neither of them could devour the other, both of them would be injured and bleed...
The large demon battle formation suffered the first wound.
After many times' fierce collisions, the first piece of bloody flesh was torn off from the demon's large battle formation.
Through fierce strikes of humans' large battle formation, the bigger unit of 81 demon knights was separated from the demon's large battle formation and was cut off the connection with the overall knight's consciousness and battle qi of the demon's large battle formation...
In this situation, being separated from the large battle formation was as fatal as jumping off a train which was at its full speed on the bridge.
Before the 81 demon knights escaped in all directions, the strike of human's large battle formation had arrived...
When a dazzling light flashed by, over half of the 81 demon knights became bloody flesh and powder and fell off the sky. The remaining demons of the gold battle formation escaped rapidly in all directions like flies. However, the 154 knife flywheels of human's large battle formation quickly spun and swept over. Wherever they reached, at least one or a few demon knights would lose their lives in the blink of an eye.
Those who were killed were even earth knights.
In a split second, only less than 10 of the 81 demon knights could escape away from the extrusion and collision of the human's large battle formation...
Zhang Tie was dumbfounded by what he saw.
In this battle, collective strength had been fully exerted. Even Zhang Tie could not survive the strike which the human's large battle formation launched towards the separated gold battle formation of 81 demon knights.
The aftermath of that strike caused an earthquake and a huge deep pit whose diameter was about 100 m. Facing such a destructive blow which gathered the strength of over 10,000 human knights, even shadow knights would be killed immediately, not to mention earth knights.
Such a battle was too brutal even for knights.
All the knights in Waii Subcontinent would be exterminated immediately facing such a large battle formation. Certainly, the large-scale collisions between humans and demons could only be seen in Earth-elements Realm. Due to its amazing formidable force, the casualty was amazing too. What a terrifying consumption!
After the first piece of bloody flesh broke off the demon's large battle formation, two pieces of bloody flesh almost broke off their own large formations at the same time.
The demon's large formation was like a grim quagmire and huge mouth. The moment the gold battle formation of 81 human knights broke off, dozens of them had been devoured by the huge mouth of demon's battle formation like animals being mired in the swamp. The other human knights of the gold battle formation escaped in all directions while the slower ones were devoured by the demon's large formation which constantly changed its shape.
Finally, only less than 20 of the 81 human knights escaped away successfully.
The 81 demons who broke off the demon's large formation didn't have a better fate than the last batch of demon knights who had broken off their large formation. Because they were completely surrounded by the human's large formation. Like a piece of meat falling into the meat grinder, before the 81 demon knights escaped out of the human's large formation, they had been ground into pieces by the meat grinder.
Watching such a collision on the ground, Zhang Tie felt an unprecedented shock inside.
Those human knights being devoured by the demon's large formation might be dignified and unrivaled on the earth's surface; however, their fates were only determined in a few seconds in the Earth-elements Realm the moment their unit was separated from the large formation. They were as hopeless and despairing as common fighters facing such a fatal blow.
This was the most brutal side of the holy war. Even knights became as trivial as grass facing such a large-scale battle formation.
Watching such a fierce collision, Zhang Tie understood that why those people in the core of Tiewei Mountain directly ignored the hundreds of battle qi smokes and tornadoes. Because those combats were just appetizers of this large-scale battle.
In the large-scale battle where dozens of knights would be exterminated in a split second, those battles participated by hundreds of knights were just necessary touches of both parties, through which, both parties could keep up the proper pressure against the opposite.
The battle continued. Those human knights who survived themselves after breaking off from the large battle formation didn't escape. After leaving the effect of the two large formations, they gritted their teeth and continued to chase demons who had broken off their own large formation.
This large-scale battle was expanding. The two large formations were the core of this battle. As more and more knights broke off, more and more skirmishes broke out surrounding the core while battle qi smokes and tornadoes rushed into the sky one after another.
The entire core of Tiewei Mountain was shaking and covered with brilliant battle qis. Even clouds and mist were broken apart. What a hell!
Watching such a battle, as a member of human knights, Zhang Tie gradually felt hotter inside.
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At this moment, a figure flew towards him while hiding its full-body battle qi. It tumbled and immediately fell into a pitch dark underground trench which was hundreds of meters in depth being not far away from Zhang Tie.
Before entering the trench, the figure spurted out blood.
At the sight of this guy, Zhang Tie became thrilled. It was a black iron demon knight, who had been severely wounded. It seemed that it wanted to hide here for the time being.
'Hehhehheh, this father was thinking about having some fun; now that you are here...'
After blinking its eyes, the little black beetle took a look at the battlefield in the far, then the deep trench in front of him before flying towards that underground deep trench...
Chapter 1006: Knocking out the Black Iron Demon Knight
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
The little beetle flew into the deep trench...
The deep trench was hundreds of meters deep. Like a dried and bleak riverbed, the deep trench was covered with jagged rocks of grotesque shapes and black mist. It had many branch roads. The demon knight just hid here for the time being to recover itself. Honestly, this was a good place for the demon knight.
Of course, it was also a good place for Zhang Tie.
Zhang Tie remembered the location of that demon knight in the deep trench. After flying less than 5 minutes in the deep trench, Zhang Tie found the demon knight.
The demon knight was hiding in a very secluded cave among some boulders at the bottom of the trench. Oozing sweat and quivering all over faintly, it was dealing with its wounds.
This was an ox-horn black iron demon knight who had been wounded. Its chest armor had been scorched and was gurgling blood.
Only after throwing a glance at this guy, Zhang Tie had known that this guy had survived an earth human knight's attack.
Generally, according to Zhang Tie's observation over the past one month, both human and demon knights had reached a privity in head-on battles and duels——they only fought the opponents of the same level.
Hua people believed that common soldiers would always fight common soldiers and generals would always fight generals.
Sometimes, such a privity would be broken. When they could not find opponents of the same level, they might attack those inferior ones.
Earth human knights who survived the fragments of the large formation might encounter black iron demon knights on the battlefield where they would definitely kill the inferior opponents immediately.
This poor demon was the one who survived the fragment of the demon's large formation and encountered an earth human knight unfortunately.
Perhaps, he was not poor but lucky.
Given the current situation, this guy was indeed very lucky. After breaking off the demon's large formation, he had 1/10 probability to survive the human's large formation. Closely after that, it encountered an earth human knight. It had 1/3 probability to escape from the earth human knight. Overall, this guy could only have 1/30 probability to survive itself. Therefore, this demon knight must have a very good luck.
However, not so much. Because it met Zhang Tie.
In this situation, Zhang Tie was definitely a "demon eater".
After activating a super hiding skill on the little black beetle, the little black beetle was like a light feather in the black mist. When Zhang Tie saw the demon knight, the demon knight didn't see him.
Sweat dropped off the demon knight's face one after another. The demon knight was lowering its head and applying a black adhesive onto the wounds of its lower abdomen, causing the wounds to release smoke. At the same time, the demon knight gritted its teeth and panted while its muscles on the lower abdomen twitched unconsciously. It seemed that the black adhesive didn't feel good.
Zhang Tie then drilled out of the gap between rocks on the side of the demon knight and entered in the small space behind the demon knight. After that, Gorath in a black robe appeared behind that demon knight quietly like a ghost out of the void.
Gorath was affected by a super hiding rune too; it was completely like a lifeless piece of rock.
When Zhang Tie appeared less than one arm's length behind that demon knight, he was still not discovered by the demon. When it found this place just now, the demon knight had confirmed that nobody was here; therefore, it just concentrated on dealing with its wounds at this moment.
Zhang Tie just watched this guy mercilessly.
Through such an angle, Zhang Tie discovered some unusual things on this demon knight.
This guy's soft armor was very excellent. Over the past 1 month, Zhang Tie had killed and captured about 12 living black iron demon knights. As those black iron knights on the battlefield didn't know whether they could survive, they would not carry surplus items besides soft armors and weapons which could never match that of this guy.
Besides an excellent knight's soft armor, this guy also carried a space-teleportation equipment. The black adhesive which was used to deal with injuries were taken out of its space-teleportation equipment. It was rare for black iron demon knights to carry any space-teleportation equipment. Very few earth demon knights could have space-teleportation equipment, not to mention black iron knights.
With his lotus-flower eyes, Zhang Tie saw a hammer-shaped silver secret item swimming in the qi sea of the lower abdomen of this guy.
Zhang Tie immediately realized that this was not a common demon knight.
There were major human clans and influential officials; similarly, in the hierarchical pyramid of demon society, there were also major demon clans and bigwigs. Knights from major clans and powerful families definitely have more items to protect themselves on the battlefield.
After licking his lips, Zhang Tie revealed a merciless smile on his icy and insidious face. At the same time, he reached his weird claw towards the neck of the demon knight...
When Zhang Tie licked his lips, the demon knight realized that something was wrong. However, it thought that it was not a threat. Until it heard the sound behind him, the demon knight turned around to take a look at his back...
The demon knight saw a weird claw reaching towards its neck...
At the sight of the weird claw, the demon knight's pupils shrunk immediately. It seemed wanting to do something or utter an amazed shriek; however, it was too late. That weird claw caught its neck fiercely and pressed its head against the ground ferociously before it uttered any voice and made any response...
The weird claw was unimaginably powerful. The demon knight felt that its neck and head were under a huge mountain. Closely after that, its head ferociously collided against the ground.
With a loud sound "bang...", the hard ground cracked. The demon knight's nose slumped at once while its teeth flew out of its mouth. Its head felt like being beaten by a huge, heavy hammer. It felt dizzy as it spurted out blood at once.
As the demon knight was sitting on the ground to treat its wounds with crossed legs just now, when its head was pressed against the ground, it looked like a little girl who practiced her basic skills of dance. With this gesture, it could barely move at all and felt especially embarrassed.
"Who're you?" The demon knight roared when it caught sight of the lower hem of a black robe through its eye corners. Pressing its neck, the back robe one was squatting down on its side.
What it received was a heavy blow on its left ribs, which was barbaric, fierce and straightforward.
The blow broke 7-8 ribs of the demon knight, causing it to spurt out blood once again. Closely after that, Zhang Tie punched its right ribs, breaking some more ribs and causing it to spurt out more blood. After then, Zhang Tie punched at the middle of the demon knight's back. Finally, he punched at the back side of the demon knight's head...
The demon knight wanted to struggle; however, under Zhang Tie's great stress, he had no chance to struggle at all.
Each time Zhang Tie punched at it, this narrow space would feel like being beaten by a huge steam forging hammer as the earth would faintly shake. The demon knight was also like a tube of toothpaste. Each time Zhang Tie squeezed toothpaste out of the tube, he would cause the demon knight to spurt out blood...
Besides uttering "Who're you?", the demon knight didn't utter any voice until he became completely faint.
Zhang Tie then clapped his hands and stood up. It was much easier for people to kill a tiger than catching it alive; similarly, it was much more difficult for Zhang Tie to knock out a black iron demon knight than directly killing it. Thanks to his over one month's "precious experience", it only took Zhang Tie less than a minute to knock out this prey alive.
Until being knocked out by Zhang Tie, that demon knight still maintained that hilarious basic gesture of dance and became feeble all over. Besides a puddle of blood, there were only teeth on the ground.
After throwing a glance at this guy on the ground, Zhang Tie revealed a faint smile. After that, he sent this guy into Castle of Black Iron as a raw material for bloody sacrifice. Zhang Tie didn't care what items did this guy carry as Heller would find all of them wherever they were hidden in its body.
The bangs didn't stop in the sky. It indicated that the large-scale battle was ongoing. After a weird eye light flashed by, Zhang Tie licked his lips once again...
Chapter 1007: Angling
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
After a few minutes, the little black beetle flew out of the deep trench and returned to the original place. After watching the battlefield in the distance for about half a minute, the little black beetle flew off towards the distance along the earth's surface...
In an air territory being far away from the two large battle formations in the distance, two battle qi tornadoes rushed into the sky, which indicated that the two earth knights were fighting.
After one month's observation, Zhang Tie found that over 90% of combats between earth human knights and earth demon knights in the core of Tiewei Mountain would come to an end by one party being defeated instead of being annihilated although the combats broke out every day. He found that the weaker party would always rapidly return to the sphere of influence of its own battle fortress when it realized that it couldn't bear the opposite's attack anymore or felt that the opponent had an overwhelming advantage at the beginning in case of being killed in the shortest period.
Those who could tangle with each other for a long time were always earth knights who had almost the same battle strength. Such combats would always be very fierce or very splendid. As the two parties had almost the same battle strength, it was more difficult for one party to kill the other.
Over the past 1 month, Zhang Tie had fought earth demon knights 5 times; however, he only found 2 chances to kill earth demon knights. As to the other 3 combats, they escaped the moment they found that they were in disadvantageous positions. 2 of the 5 earth demon knights didn't even spare any chance for a close combat to Zhang Tie. The moment they found that Zhang Tie was approaching them, they had escaped rapidly. Facing such cunning earth demon knights, Zhang Tie became speechless.
Compared to the other knights, Zhang Tie's fatality rate had reached about 40% when fighting earth demon knights. What an amazing figure!
After killing two earth demon knights, Zhang Tie had lit 17 scales of his water chakra.
...
The little beetle landed on a remote boulder below the battlefield of the two battle qi tornadoes and watched the combat between the earth human knight and the earth demon knight and the collisions between the two large formations in the distance.
Of course, Zhang Tie expected that humans could take the advantageous position in the collisions between the two large formations. As for the duel between the earth human knight and the earth demon knight, Zhang Tie actually hoped that the earth demon knight could take the advantageous position so that the earth human knight could return to the sphere of the effect of the human's battle fortress.
If the earth human knight took the advantageous position, the earth demon knight would return to the sphere of the effect of the demon's battle fortress. If so, Zhang Tie would not gain any benefit from this combat.
In this situation, if Zhang Tie incarnated as Gorath and rushed forward, the earth demon knight would escape right away when it realized that it was going to be attacked by two earth human knights. If so, Zhang Tie would not gain any benefits at all.
It was definitely a technology for Zhang Tie to hunt earth demon knights in Tiewei Mountain.
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As time went by, the fierce collisions between humans and demons continued. Humans and demons were constantly ground and devoured by the opposite large formation after breaking off their own large formation. Independent humans and demons also grew in population. At the same time, the combats around the large formations grew fiercer.
In Zhang Tie's eyes, if the two large formations were far-ancient fierce beasts, he was a cunning jager who was waiting for fish and shrimps being pushed to the sandy beach by sea waves and tidewater.
2 hours later, Zhang Tie finally gained a chance as the result of the combat between the two earth knights had become clear.
As was expected by Zhang Tie, when the earth human knight felt that he could not bear it anymore, he chose to evacuate; however, the earth demon knight kept chasing after him as it intended to kill him before he reached the protective sphere of the human's battle fortress.
The two light beams flew away one after another. The little black beetle also flew off and chased after the two earth knights rapidly. When the little black beetle passed by a hidden mine, it entered the mine immediately and incarnated into the grim Gorath almost at the same time.
Gorath's lotus-flower eyes flickered and firmly targeted at the earth demon knight in the sky.
The two earth knights soon entered the black mist out of the effect of the large formations. Commoners would not be able to see them anymore, except for Zhang Tie who could still see the earth demon knight even in the black mist.
Zhang Tie flew rapidly along the earth's surface. From a height, due to the super hiding rune effect, Zhang Tie's body almost integrated with the earth. When he entered the black mist, he instantly rushed into the sky and accelerated his speed after the earth demon knight.
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After 20 minutes, Zhang Tie found that the earth human knight had entered the protective sphere of the human's battle fortress. Due to the large-scale battle today, in order to prevent demons from raiding the base of humans, earth and shadow human knights were patrolling in the periphery of the battle fortress. At the sight of the earth human knight, a team of human knights instantly accelerated towards him...
At the sight of the team of human knights, the earth demon knight immediately turned around and evacuated.
Although being over 40 miles away, Zhang Tie could still see what was happening in front of him even in the dense black mist.
Watching the earth demon knight turning around and flying towards him, Zhang Tie immediately stopped.
A whim occurred to his mind——I will let the earth demon knight chase after me rather than chasing after it. It would be easier for me to gain benefits from it. There's an old Hua saying, if you want to gain something, you have to give it to others at first.
After thinking about it for a second, Zhang Tie felt that this whim was feasible.
After releasing his battle qi, he shattered his own black robe and made his hair disordered. After that, he found some ashes from Castle of Black Iron and daubed some on his face. Furthermore, he told Heller to collect some blood of the demon knight and spray blood over his body. Besides, he made his qi as an earth knight look unstable.
Only after a short while, Zhang Tie had looked utterly different.
At first sight, Gorath immediately became an earth human knight who had escaped from the battlefield in a pretty embarrassed manner. Additionally, he seemed to have suffered severe wounds; plus the solemn and insidious poker face, his look was very persuasive.
After all, the role Gorath was used to sacrifice and be his scapegoat. Therefore, Zhang Tie didn't have any stress to do anything in this role.
Zhang Tie could even do more excessive things in order to angle an earth demon knight, not to mention an embarrassed makeover. Zhang Tie would not even lose hair by doing that; therefore, he didn't have any mental stress.
After doing all this, Zhang Tie flew towards the earth demon knight.
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After a few minutes, Gorath, with an unstable and "embarrassed" qi as an earth knight, encountered the earth demon knight in the sky.
After passing by the black mist, the two parties discovered the opponent almost at the same time from less 600 m away.
After changing his face, Gorath turned around and escaped at once. That earth demon knight responded in a split second. With a fleer, it hurriedly caught up with Gorath.
When they encountered, the earth demon knight was rightly on the way that Gorath returned to the human's battle fortress; therefore, Gorath would not return to the human's battle fortress anymore. He could only seek for another way to evacuate. After noticing that Gorath was "severely wounded", of course, the demon knight would not abandon such a good chance as it accelerated immediately.
As Gorath was "severely wounded", he could not fly rapidly. Only after 20 minutes, he had been blocked by the earth demon knight using magnet tactic in a remote mountain being far away from the core battlefield.
Only after a few strikes in the sky, Gorath who was "severely wounded" had "spat" out blood. At the same time, its face turned pale as he dove into a deserted mine in the mountain in a flurried way.
"With demon god on my side, where you're escaping to?" The demon knight fleered as it followed Gorath into the mine.
After entering thousands of meters inside the mine, the demon knight had already caught up with Gorath. Additionally, it rapidly approached Gorath with the help of the narrow space in the mine and started the most dangerous and fatal close combat. It wanted to kill the "severely wounded" Gorath rapidly through close combat.
After responding to the earth demon knight's strike a few minutes in an "embarrassed" manner, "severely wounded" Gorath frankly bore a strike from the earth demon knight with his protective battle qi. After that, when the earth demon knight attacked him, Gorath finally got a chance to catch the demon knight's ankle. Through this movement, the demon knight felt an "inseparable deep love".
The demon knight thought that Gorath's protective battle qi had been collapsed. The moment it prepared to break the human knight's head by one kick, it found that the opponent suddenly changed into an utterly different person——his collapsed protective battle qi reappeared with full energy; at the same time, the human knight caught its ankle when his qi turned as stable as a mountain at once.
Before the earth demon knight realized what happened, Gorath who had held the demon knight's ankle had turned berserk like a tyrannosaurus. He lifted the earth demon knight and crashed it against the ground in the mine like using a knife to break a cucumber.
With a "bang", a huge pit appeared on the ground in the mine.
With an earthquake, soil and rocks in the mine fell down. Through this strike, the earth demon knight was almost knocked out by Gorath. However, before it realized what happened, the weird claw lifted it up and slammed it onto the ground ferociously once again...
In the next 10 minutes, the earthquake in the mine didn't stop at all...
10 minutes later, the earthquake in the mine finally stopped. After a few more minutes, Zhang Tie came out of the mine still in an embarrassed way like being severely wounded.
He lurked on the ground below the necessary flight route through which human knights returned to the battle fortress...
Only after 1 hour later, another earth demon knights followed an earth human knight here.
The opposite scene might happen on the other side of the battlefield; however, the scene that earth human knight was chased by an earth demon knight could only be seen here.
As both parties had enough knights, earth demon knights and earth human knights could only have 50% possibility to win the duel. From Zhang Tie's position, he could see more earth human knights being chased by earth demon knights.
At the sight of the two knights in the sky, Zhang Tie felt pretty thrilled.
As was told by Donder, a sustainable money-making mode was definitely more profitable than a disposable money-making mode...
'Mode!' What a motherf*cking good thing!
Zhang Tie felt that he had absolutely understood the essence of Donder's words.
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After 40 minutes, another earth demon knight followed after "severely wounded" Gorath into the deserted mine.
Ten more minutes later, Gorath came out of the mine once again...