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Chapter 1286: You Should Read More Books
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
It soon came to late October as it turned a bit cold. However, demons' strike was still surging towards the west border of Taixia Country. As a result, Wuzhou Province, Zhuzhou Province and Yinzhou Province almost collapsed consecutively. Cities in Taixia Country almost collapsed every day. Taixia Country was shocked as a whole. Tens of thousands of miles' land on Eastern Continent were covered with smoke signals while the battle flames of the holy war started to spread over the Eastern Continent…
Wuzhou Province, Zhuzhou Province and Yinzhou Province were neither barren provinces nor lower provinces, but medium-sized provinces in Taixia Country. They were much more powerful than lower provinces and barren provinces. When demons' vanguard entered the three provinces and gradually expanded, the battle situation facing the west border of Taixia Country almost made every commoner of Taixia Country concerned.
Over these months, wing demons were always mentioned in the news about demons. As it was wing demons who invaded the three provinces, a lot of news were about wing demons. It was said that demons had assigned over 100 million LV 9 wing demons as the vanguards. Besides, there were thousands of wing demon knights in the vanguards.
Within the three provinces, billions of commoners deteriorated into refugees as they were evacuating towards eastern provinces…
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In a mountain area of Helan Mountain Range, all the maple leaves had turned red after the autumn arrived. Like wildfires, they spread over one hundred square miles.
As the sun had just come out, the dew in the woods had not fully evaporated. A frost was suffusing in the valley. With the sound of footsteps, over 20 people suddenly drilled out of the woods in embarrassed looks with luggage on the back, male or female.
At the sight of those dense and high maple trees hundreds of meters in front of them, the front ones had cheered up, "Sugar maple, we've got something to eat…"
After hearing that there were something to eat, all the people became spirited as they accelerated towards that maple woods…
As for starved ones, nothing was more attractive to them than food.
"Wait for me…wait for me…leave some to me…" A panting fat man at his 50s lagged behind those people for a distance. Given the extremely dirty and broken golden silk robe of ministry councilor and the expensive fox-fur robe of the fat man, they must have traveled a lot of days in the woods.
Watching those people running towards those maple trees, leaving him alone, the fat man couldn't help but swear, "You…b*stards…how could you only care about yourself at this moment…and leave your owner alone…when this owner leave out of here, I will punish you by beating your butt…none of you could get any copper coin from this owner…"
In front of the team were some bodyguards in leather armor and wristbands who looked strong and powerful with weapons in hand. Although they looked embarrassed, they were much more agile than the fat man. After reaching that maple woods, one of them selected a 30 m higher maple wood whose diameter was about 2 m as he made a cut on the trunk; closely after that, some dense, slightly tawny fluid started to flow off the cut.
After taking some by his dagger and putting it into his mouth, the person immediately started to receive the fluid with his iron-sheet kettle.
All the other men also imitated him. Some people in the uniform of servants directly approached their mouth onto the cut and started to suck the dense fluid…
"Thankfully, it's autumn…when it comes to winter, there will be no syrup…" Someone said as he drank the fluid.
"This one…this one…choose this one…yours look too dark…the more transparent the syrup is, the sweeter it will be…"
The maple woods became noisy at once.
A person who looked like a steward at his 40s with a thin face and three wisps of long beard didn't run towards here; instead, he just walked leisurely behind these people. Among all these people, this steward looked tidiest with fewest broken places on his clothes.
This steward directly walked to the front of the bodyguard who rushed into the maple woods first. The sturdy bodyguard hurriedly gave the kettle of syrup to the steward.
After having two mouths of the syrup and licking his lips, the steward looked much better as he said, "God bless us. I've not imagined that we could meet such a large area of sugar maple woods at such a critical moment!"
"Thanks to Steward Li's guidance; otherwise, we could never leave Helan Mountain Range!" A servant hurriedly flattered him soon after Steward Li finished his words.
Steward Li neither looked pleasant nor blamed the servant for speaking the wrong words; instead, he just revealed a smile which looked profound more or less. He then told the bodyguard who gave him the kettle, "Although few fierce magical beasts above LV 10 is left in Helan Mountain Range, there're still many wild beasts below LV 10. You bodyguards need to be alert by shifts. We will rest 2 hours here. After being full, fill all your kettles with syrup. It seems that we will leave Helan Mountain Range after hundreds of miles. With syrup, as long as we could drink some water in later days, we will survive ourselves…"
"Yes, sir…" The bodyguard replied. After looking around, the bodyguard's eyes turned a bit weird. Before he said something, two women had walked over here with an enchanting smile in a bashful way. The steward threw a glance at the bodyguard, who hurriedly lowered his head and walked away…
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When the fat man entered this maple woods, the others had rested for over 10 minutes.
Previously, the fat man moved slowly. After being flurried, he fell down, bruising his forehead and spraining his ankle. As a result, he moved slower.
When he came to the maple woods, the fat man's face had turned green and white while his forehead had been covered with fine sweat drops. The fat man instantly threw himself onto the ground and sat against the trunk of a maple tree while panting heavily.
"Owner, try some. This humble man especially kept it for you. I wanted to prepare your drink, therefore, I ran so fast just now…" A servant gave a kettle of syrup to the fat man as he licked the syrup over his lips.
"Hmm, Liu Shan is most loyal to me…after leaving this damn place…this owner will reward you greatly…" The fat man said while panting. Only after throwing a casual glance at the servant, he had grabbed away the kettle and drank it as if he didn't mean to leave even a bit to the servant.
"Thanks, owner; thanks, owner…" The servant called Liu Shan smiled while narrowing his eyes. At the same time, he bowed deeply towards the fat man as he dreamed about the owner's reward.
After bottoming up the syrup served by "loyal" Liu Shan, the fat man felt a bit better. However, he still had a pain in his sprained foot. Soon after he put down the kettle, the fat owner had turned around and saw his two concubines sitting on both sides of Steward Li and drinking his syrup.
Of course, this was not the point. The point was that the two concubines had completely stuck to Steward Li's clothes. One concubine even whispered to Steward Li in an enchanting way while having one breast stick to Steward Li's arm. The other concubine was helping Steward Li rub his shoulders.
At the sight of the two bitches' movements, they had long forgotten about the existence of the owner. Those outsiders would mistake them as Steward Li's women.
People's hearts would be seen in adversities. Since their airships crashed in Helan Mountain Range by accident a few days ago, this fat owner had felt that something was wrong with his two "beloved concubines" as if they were staying with Steward Li longer and longer. Just now, the two b*tches directly ran over here, leaving the fat owner behind.
In a split second, the fat owner felt extremely furious as he immediately threw his kettle towards Steward Li and the two b*tches.
As the three people were over 10 m away from the fat owner, the fat owner didn't hit his target; instead, he only hit a maple tree beside the 3 people.
The sudden noise startled all the others who were resting here.
With exclamations, the two beloved concubines turned around as they immediately saw their owner whose eyes almost burned.
The steward also turned around. Although the steward changed his look, he didn't dodge away.
However, the moment he was going to reprimand Steward Li, he realized that they were all escaping and he was inconvenient in movement; if he stirred up the steward, he might not have a good result. Therefore, he directly lost his temper towards his two concubines.
"Liu Shan…" The fat owner roared as he pointed at the two beloved concubines with a quivering finger, "Come over there, draw the two b*tches over here and slap each of them 10 times!"
Only after being slightly hesitated, Liu Shan had rolled up his sleeves and walked over there.
Steward Li and the two beloved concubines of the fat owner had stood up. After hearing the fat owner's order, the two women changed their looks at once as they tightly held the sleeves of Steward Li and hid behind Steward Li. Seeing their response, the fat owner was more furious as he realized that the two b*tches had long been on the side of Steward Li.
At this critical moment, women's response was real. If the two women still treated the fat owner as their husband, they would kneel down and beg for his forgiveness; however, they hid behind Steward Li, which meant that they only had Steward Li in their hearts.
"Steward Li, please give way to me, owner let me…" Liu Shan told Steward Li politely and carefully.
Before Liu Shan finished his words, he had quivered all over as a wisp of blood flew out of his mouth corner. He lowered his head and looked at his chest with widely opened eyes.
A dagger had been inserted into Liu Shan's chest. Steward Li was holding the handle of the dagger. Not until then did Liu Shan know when Steward Li had a dagger in hand; neither did he believe that Steward Li could kill him…
Liu Shan had seen Steward Li holding a pen and using abacus; however, he had not seen Steward Li holding any dagger.
Steward Li looked gloomy. His hands didn't quiver at all. He clutched the handle of the dagger, exposing the green veins on his hand. Under the shocked eye light of Liu Shan, Steward Li forcefully wrenched the handle of the dagger.
As the dagger had hit Liu Shan's heart. After Steward Li wrenched the handle of the dagger, Liu Shan immediately spurted out a mouth of blood over Steward Li's face. At the same time, he fell down and died.
The sudden event and the strong killing qi of Steward Li startled all the others in the maple woods.
"Murderer…" A timid servant exclaimed as he immediately scrambled away towards far.
The two women behind Steward Li had been scared too much that they directly stood on the ground. More people were dumbfounded. The fat owner also exclaimed like a pig being slaughtered, "Zhao Wu, Zhao Wu, Steward Li is mad, hurry, catch him…".
The sturdy safeguard immediately ran towards Steward Li with saber in hand. However, he just watched Steward Li instead of launching a strike.
Steward Li wiped off the blood from his face. After that, he threw a glance at that servant who was running far away. Zhao Wu immediately caught up with the servant as he stabbed into the servant's heart…
At the sight of this scene, all the other servants exclaimed as they ran towards the outside of the woods with great fear.
"Kill them all…" Steward Li said icily.
Those bodyguards then rushed towards those escaping servants…
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As was imagined, only after 1 minute, all the bodyguards had returned with bloody sabers. They then surrounded the fat owner with brutal and greedy eye light like a flock of wild wolves surrounding a fat pig.
Watching these grim and terrifying faces which were usually familiar and humble, the fat owner became scared too much that he even had a pee in his pants. Sitting against the maple tree, he had nowhere to go. He had not imagined that all the bodyguards had been bought over by Steward Li. "Ste…Steward Li…what…what are you doing?"
"Previously, I want you to die in a relatively graceful manner as you were once my owner. However, I've not imagined that you could lose your temper here. Don't blame me for that then!" Steward Li walked over here. Although he had wiped off the blood from his face, his face still looked red which was pretty terrifying.
"You…you want my wealth?" The fat owner realized it at once.
"Whatever, you have no posterity and have so many diseases. You couldn't even f*ck women. Isn't it worthless for you to keep so many properties? Why not let me enjoy them for you?" Steward Li sneered which sounded a bit terrifying.
"You…aren't you afraid of being punished by God?"
"Being punished by God?" Steward Li burst out into laughter at once as if he had heard a joke, "It's really funny for you to say that. If you believe in God's punishment, how could Boss Hong of Huaien Cloth Store die soon after becoming your sworn brother for less than 1 year? Don't you think that I don't know that?"
After hearing Boss Hong, the fat owner's face turned pale at once as if he was struck by a lightning bolt. At the same time, his body quivered all over as he pointed at Steward Li with a finger and stammered, "You…you…you…".
"I will let you die clearly. Don't you feel strange why you're getting worse with more and more diseases these years and have no posterity? Even doctors couldn't help you?"
"You did that…" The fat owner quivered all over. Closely after that, he shook his head as he said, "Impossible. All the doctors said that I was suffering from the shortage of sperms and weak sperms. Because of my physique, I could barely make women pregnant!"
"Hahaha, if you have posterities, it will not be my turn to inherit your properties…" Steward Li burst out into laughter, "Do you remember what I usually told you? Even though you're rich, you have to read more books. There're gold and beauties in books. You read too few books. Additionally, you despise scholars. Now you know that, if you read too few books, it would be useless no matter how much money you have. Because you don't even know why you have no posterities and are getting worse spiritually and physically. The method is not strange at all. I just added some potassium iodate in your salt. After so many years, of course, you're getting worse. If you could read some more books like me, you will know that demons and Three-eye Association had used the same method to strike and exterminate Hua people. If you read some more books, you will know the secrets…"
"Potassium iodate?" The fat owner muttered as this name was too strange to him. It sounded that he had heard about this thing before, "Is…isn't it used to add iodine to human bodies in case of a big neck?"
Steward Li let out a sigh as he said, "This is why, if you could reincarnate into another person, you have to read more books. Otherwise, you don't even know the difference between potassium iodate and potassium iodide and don't know why you're getting worse spiritually and physically. Although you can widely open your eyes, you're living nothing different than a blind. If it were before, demons and Three-eye Association must like such a kind of idiot like you. Although they're utterly different, you think they're same just because they sound similar to each other…"
In the beginning, the fat man thought that it was caused by excessive drink and sex; he had not imagined that he was framed by someone. The elements of the salt that he ate 3 times a day had long been changed by someone. Therefore, he was getting worse spiritually and physically.
"I will kill you…" The fat owner immediately sprung up with a grim look as he wanted to charge at Steward Li. However, the moment he sprung up, he had been forcefully kicked by a bodyguard onto his chest and fell down, causing him to spurt out a mouth of blood. He then shouted with a miserable smile, "You will be punished by God. Even if you kill me, don't dream about taking my properties."
Steward Li sneered as he said kindly, "Didn't you sew the gold notes inside your fox-fur robe? How could you take away your gold checks after I kill you? Do you really think this airship crash is an accident? Without this accident, how could I know that you've carried all of your properties with you?"
"You…"
The fat owner still wanted to say something; however, Steward Li had released his battle qi while chopping off his head, spraying his blood over the trunks of maple trees on one side. The fat owner's head then rolled away with widely opened eyes…
After chopping off his head, Steward Li immediately peeled off the fat owner's fox-fur robe, exposing the brilliant gold checks inside. The minimal par value of those gold checks was 10,000 gold coins…
The surrounding bodyguards panted. When Steward Li looked around them, all the bodyguards' hearts pounded as they lowered their heads at once. All the bodyguards knew the power of Steward Li; otherwise, Steward Li couldn't buy over them all these years.
Steward Li took out those piles of gold checks from the corpse's fox-fur robe and put them in his portable luggage before saying, "Now we're grasshoppers on the same rope. Don't think too much. I will pay you what I promised you. As it's chaotic in Taixia Country. We could leave Huanzhou Province by chance and settle down somewhere. Later on, I will be your owner. You will live much better than now if you follow me…"
"As you will, owner…"
"Fine, clean up these corpses. Dig a pit here and bury them all…"
"Yes, sir!" Zhao Wu and the other bodyguards started to dig a pit on the ground with their tools and buried all the corpses.
Only after such a short while, the 2 beloved concubines of the fat owner had been scared too much by the series of accidents. Watching Steward Li walking towards them with a bloody face, the two enchanting women quivered all over with pale faces.
"Steward Li, later on…we will both follow your orders…"
"Steward Li, we…our sisters…will serve you well later on…"
Steward Li just walked towards them with a glassy-eyed look. Even though the two women begged for his forgiveness, he still killed them, one prick for one life.
After that, Steward Li squatted down and cleaned his dagger on the collars of the two women. After that, he said, "You were just two prostitutes previously. Owner bought you over given your beautiful looks and provided you good clothes and delicious food. However, you betrayed him. How do I know whether you will not betray me one day? Do you really think that the man will not kill you if you could make him happy on the bed? You're just b*tches. Do you think that you could dally with a man based on your tricks and beautiful looks? Do you think that the man couldn't live without you…" After cleaning his dagger, Steward Li stood up. Watching the two human corpses which were gradually turning colder, he shook his head as he made a conclusion, "You should read some more books…"
In less than 10 minutes, all the corpses had been buried, leaving a faint, bloody smell in the maple woods.
After doing all this, the moment Steward Li was walking out of the maple woods, followed by his bodyguards, they stopped as their pupils contracted.
A 17-year old young man was standing in front of them. They didn't even know how long had this young man stood there.
The young man didn't carry any weapon as if he was a noble childe who was making an autumn outing.
The young man looked at the maple leaves, then the fresh blood stains in the woods before shaking his head and saying pitifully, "The red color of the maple woods looked beautiful previously; however, after being covered with blood, it turned dazzling!"
Steward Li narrowed his eyes as he couldn't see through the true abilities of this young man. However, there was no servant on the side of this young man. What was more, this man looked too young that he didn't look like a powerhouse. Therefore, Steward Li had a fluke mind that he could kill this young man here.
"Zhao Wu, kill him!" Steward Li sent an order to Zhao Wu.
Soon after receiving Steward Li's words, Zhao Wu had rushed out.
Watching Zhao Wu rushing over here, the young man rubbed his fingers, causing a sound. The sound was seemingly magical. The moment the sound deepened into the consciousnesses of everybody else, all the people at present became stiff all over at once. They couldn't even move.
The young man watched these people as he shook his head and said which carried a bizarre heart-breaking resonance and strength, "I don't even want to contaminate my hands by killing you myself. You'd better commit suicide to beg for my forgiveness!"
Soon after the young man's words, all the stiff bodies had taken their weapons and stabbed into their own necks or chests forcefully.
The strong bloody smell diffused over the maple woods once again…
Chapter 1287: A Problematic Region
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
Of course, this young man was Zhang Tie.
Even Zhang Tie had not imagined that he could see such a hideous scene in this maple woods of Helan Mountain Range. Over these days, as Zhang Tie had seen so many righteous, loyal men and strange commoners who assisted each other when in evacuation in Peacewest Military Region, he felt very disgusted the moment he saw these people.
All the maple leaves were red in the woods. Those corps turned a large area of land red too, which looked miserable, icy and brutal…
Just now, Zhang Tie tried a hypnosis soul-controlling secret skill in Bloody Soul Sutra on these small figures. Zhang Tie could have these small figures commit suicide only by moving his own lips.
Steward Li penetrated a dagger through his own heart. He was gazing at the sky with extremely pale eyes even though he was already dead.
Greed and betrayal always existed wherever there were people. However, Zhang Tie was still shocked when he saw servants and concubines screwing up their master. Watching the painful expression of Steward Li, Zhang Tie suddenly thought about a question——as all humans have their hideous side, will I also suffer from such a betrayal due to others' greed?
When it occurred to Zhang Tie's mind, Zhang Tie's heart pounded. Closely after that, Zhang Tie forgot about it. As it was in the holy war, it was not necessary for him to be worried about that here.
Although this Steward Li was as weak as an ant in Zhang Tie's eyes, this person had terrifying thoughts and means.
As Zhang Tie had not read too many books, he knew less about medicaments and pills. Therefore, if Steward Li didn't mention it, Zhang Tie didn't even know that potassium iodate would make male lack sperms, not to mention that demons and Three-eye Association once changed potassium iodide into potassium iodate in the table salt of Hua people before the Catastrophe. Most of the people didn't have such a remote knowledge. Even though Zhang Tie was a knight, he didn't know all the details of the knowledge and history before the Catastrophe.
Zhang Tie only knew that Blackhot City lacked iodine in the inland. At his mom's request, he would always buy 2 bags of table salt for his family each year. Additionally, the iodine indeed existed in terms of potassium iodide; instead of potassium iodate. Even if the salt was added with potassium iodide, his mom who was responsible for the food and drinks of the family still prevented them from eating too much table salt.
Only after thinking about it for a short while, Zhang Tie had dropped it. As for Zhang Tie, if he wanted to know the dangers and influences of potassium iodate to human beings or how demons and Three-eye Association screwed up Hua people by changing the elements of their table salt before the Catastrophe, he only needed to enter the trouble-reappearance situation of Xuanyuan Hill and look them up in the database of Human Pharmacists Union Headquarters. He could definitely get the most authoritative and professional literature and research materials over there. Otherwise, he could directly ask his elder brother Zhang Yang. Zhang Yang was also a pharmacist, who must know much more than Steward Li on this aspect.
However, it was unnecessary!
"Even if you've read too many books, it doesn't work if you don't follow the path of righteousness." Zhang Tie let out a sigh with emotions as he took out the gold checks from Steward Li's body.
These people deserved to die. However, money was not guilty. Zhang Tie shouldn't waste these gold checks which were worth over 600,000 gold coins. Such a bit of money was not worth mentioning for Zhang Tie; however, the amount of 600,000-odd gold coins was already an astronomical figure for commoners.
Only after bending his body, he would enable 50,000 refugees to have a residence. Of course, Zhang Tie would like to do that. Zhang Tie was not that high-hearted. As for a person who grudged drinking a bowl of rice brew only to save some copper coins, Zhang Tie knew better about the power of money when in dangerous and a chaotic world.
After throwing those gold checks into Castle of Black Iron, Zhang Tie didn't stay here anymore; instead, he walked towards the depth of the maple woods. This was an ugly performance that revealed the hideous side of humans that Zhang Tie met in Helan Mountain Range over the past 2 months.
Of course, Zhang Tie was not here especially to watch this performance.
It was just a coincidence. Actually, this maple woods was the most dangerous place in Helan Mountain Range; instead of only providing those dead guys with syrup. Those guys who only thought about hundreds of thousands of gold coins couldn't see the dangers at all…
At this moment, besides knight scouts such as Zhang Tie, there were also a lot of human fighters in Helan Mountain Range. These human fighters were sentinels and field scouts of Black Armor Army in this region. Their mission was almost like that of Zhang Tie's, namely being the eyes and ears of Blackwater Base in Helan Mountain Range. Because there were too many sentinels and field scouts, the messages that they sent back to Blackwater Base could complement and verify the messages sent by Zhang Tie and the other earth knight scouts. Sometimes, when these sentinels and field scouts discovered the traces of local knights, they could even send the message to Blackwater Base and have Blackwater Base send an early warning to Zhang Tie and the other earth knight scouts in the nearby. Therefore, these sentinels and field scouts were also unnecessary forces of humans in Helan Mountain Range——In holy wars, those in battlefields were not only knights.
Zhang Tie received the message from Blackwater Base 2 days ago. He was told that a large number of human sentinels and field scouts had disappeared in this region of Helan Mountain Range on the border between Yunze Prefecture of Huanzhou Province and Jishi Prefecture of Wuzhou Province and lost contact with Blackwater Base completely in late 2 weeks. 2 days ago, an earth knight scout assigned by Blackwater Base to this region, also one of the 20 earth knight scouts from Youzhou Province lost his contact with Blackwater Base too.
As a knight scout, even though Zhang Tie didn't discover anything, he should also send a message to Blackwater Base every day to express that he was still alive and in his post. This was also one of the methods that scout knights adopted to send an early warning to Blackwater Base. They were sending an early warning back to the base at the risk of their lives. If an earth knight lost contact with Blackwater Base for 2 days for no reason, he probably would have been killed by the enemy.
As too many human sentinels and scouts had disappeared in this region of Helan Mountain Range and Zhang Tie was mainly patrolling the neighboring region, therefore, Blackwater Base sent an order to Zhang Tie to have him take a look over here.
Other knights could barely discover a problematic place in the mountain range which covered over 500,000 square miles for 10 days; however, it only took Zhang Tie 2 days to discover this problematic region which covered over 10,000 square miles and confirmed that the problem might be in the vast maple woods or nearby.
Zhang Tie just walked into the maple woods leisurely. Even if he stepped onto tree leaves, he didn't make any sound. Although there was still dew in the shrubs and weeds, they couldn't stick to Zhang Tie's clothes at all as if they were isolated by a bizarre strength. Zhang Tie just walked in the woods like a shadow.
Only after walking a few minutes in the maple woods, Zhang Tie had discovered something from less than 300 m away from where Steward Li made the spree killing for money.
Zhang Tie saw a metal pipe which was 20 cm in length and 2 cm in width on a trunk of a tall sugar maple. The inside of the metal pipe had been frozen by syrup.
Zhang Tie drew that metal pipe out of the trunk. The metal pipe was black with one sharp end. After looking at it carefully, Zhang Tie identified that it was a multi-purpose tool carried by field scouts of Taixia Country. With this tool, they could release a needle quietly. The needle could kill a target or a wild prey which had no defensive mentality quietly within 50 m. Additionally, this tool could accelerate blood flow when it was stabbed into people's body as the wound could be hardly healed. Of course, they could also insert this metal pipe into the trunk to drink and collect syrup.
A field scout would never casually drop this tool. Given the spot, this pipe had been inserted into the trunk for a few days.
Zhang Tie looked at the ground under the trunk and found some special trace with the sensory perceptions of knight's consciousness. After walking less than 10 m along the trace, he had seen a small bloody piece of camouflage coat of a wild scout…
Zhang Tie picked the small piece of cloth. Closely after that, he looked up at the sky and made a bizarre hand gesture. Soon after that, a woodpecker and 4 titmice have flown over here. After flying around Zhang Tie for a short while, the woodpecker and 3 titmice flew away while the other titmouse landed onto Zhang Tie's palm which carried a small piece of camouflage cloth. After jumping up a couple of times in Zhang Tie's hand, it nodded and flew away towards another direction of the maple woods.
Zhang Tie then followed that titmouse…
Chapter 1288: Tracing
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
Under the guidance of the small titmouse, Zhang Tie had another discovery over 100 m away…
That was a patch of ground whose color looked a bit deeper than the surrounding land. Right here, Zhang Tie sniffed a faintly bloody and stinky smell. Some small pieces of camouflage cloth scattered over 20 square meters while a cluster of ants was busy carrying fine flesh and bones into their own nests…
At the sight of such a spot, Zhang Tie circled around this place for a short while. After that, he stood somewhere as he made a hand gesture; at the same time, a scene occurred to his mind——a field scout who was sucking syrup in this maple woods suddenly found an enemy. As the enemy was much more powerful than him, he determined to escape right away; pitifully, when he arrived here, he had been caught up by that field scout. Only with one punch, the enemy had completely shattered the human field scout's body into blood foam, spraying over the ground in terms of a fan shape and became the food of the ants…
Along the direction of the fan shape, Zhang Tie found a distorted scout's matt longsword.
Zhang Tie picked the longsword and looked at it carefully. He didn't find any breach on the blade. Zhang Tie guessed that it should be bounced back by at least an earth knight's protective battle qi.
A brave Hua fighter then sacrificed in this maple woods of Helan Mountain Range quietly, leaving not even a complete corpse or a name, except for that distorted longsword, which indicated the decisiveness of this fighter before his death.
Being not far away from where the field scout fought to death, Zhang Tie found another two shattered bodies of field scouts, a broken remote-sensing communications device and some equipment.
The 3 field scouts could form a group in the army of Taixia Country. Now that a group of 3 field scouts died so miserably here, it could be imagined that there must be more casualties in this maple woods.
When field scouts were taking actions or executing missions, they could not gain the supply from the base; especially in the Helan Mountain Range, they had to be self-sufficient. In this case, syrup would be the best supply for field scouts. If demon knights knew this law, they only needed to wait here for groups of Hua field scouts.
The earth human knight who was responsible for patrolling this region probably had been killed. Among the demons in this region, there should be at least one top earth demon knight.
Zhang Tie's eyes gave out an aggressive light as he licked his lips with a faintly grim smile…
Although the other humans might feel that demon knights were terrifying and tricky; as for Zhang Tie, the more, the better. Even the war between demon and humans in the west border of Taixia Country had turned white-hot, knights were minorities among humans and demons respectively. Over the past 2 months, Zhang Tie had been longing for demon knights so much. Besides the first black iron wing demon knights that Zhang Tie met here on the first day, Zhang Tie only killed 3 more black iron wing demon knights who intended to slide into Huanzhou Province from Helan Mountain stealthily. As for Zhang Tie, the 4 wing demon knights were just like kittens or puppies. The more, the better.
Even Zhang Tie could only meet 4 black iron wing demon knights; not to mention the other human earth knight scouts. If they were unfortunate, such as that missing one, they might meet a powerful opponent.
If not shoulder such a heavy responsibility, Zhang Tie even wanted to hunt demon knights in the frontline or the areas which had been occupied by demons.
Out of his imagination, Zhang Tie could meet a big fish over here.
The titmouse kept hovering beside Zhang Tie. After Zhang Tie checked these traces, he directly followed the titmouse deep into maple woods. However, only after flying over 200 m away, that titmouse had started to hover beside Zhang Tie once again.
Zhang Tie took out some food and fed the titmouse before having it leave.
After the titmouse flew away, Zhang Tie made another hand gesture. Only after a few seconds, a grey fox had run over here as he continued to lead Zhang Tie towards the depth of the maple woods.
Over 15 miles away, the grey fox got its reward and left jubilantly while a uang continued to lead Zhang Tie into the depth of the maple woods…
After the uang, two boars continued to guide Zhang Tie. After that an owl guided him…
The demon knights in this woods might not know the outcome of being hostile to an inheritor of "Great Wilderness Sutra" in a vigorous mountain area where lived various animals. They were actually hostile to the whole world; instead of one person…
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On the way, Zhang Tie found some more corpses of human fighters…
2 hours later, at the entrance of a mountain cave in the depth of this maple woods, a mutated viper moved around Zhang Tie for a couple of times…
Zhang Tie stretched out his hand and stroked the head of the viper. After that, he directly poured some all-purpose medicament into the stomach of the mutated viper which was preparing for hibernation. The viper stuck out its tongue and licked Zhang Tie's palm before drilling into the weeds a few meters away by twisting its body.
Zhang Tie took at look at this mountain cave for a short while before walking inside quietly.
In this mountain area covering hundreds of thousands of square miles, there were at least 1,000 such kinds of mountain caves. Some mountain caves were shallow as they were on the mountainside. Zhang Tie could see through such mountain caves easily with lotus-flower eyes; some mountain caves were dozens even hundreds of miles deep which contained numerous bypasses and gaps like Dragon Cave in Hidden Dragon Island. Even though Zhang Tie had lotus-flower eyes, he could not see through such mountain caves.
Undoubtedly, this mountain cave belonged to the latter type.
The inside of the mountain cave was gloomy and dark. Only after entering it for less than 100 m, it had been completely dark. Additionally, over 100,000 bats were living inside. Bats' feces had been thick in the mountain cave. Of course, Zhang Tie's arrival didn't shock those bats. Instead, after communicating with these bats, Zhang Tie got a more useful intelligence from these bats——2 days ago, 8 wing demons and a human like him flew into the mountain cave together…
Chapter 1289: A Delicate Trap
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
'8 wing demons and 1 human knight flew into the mountain cave?'
After hearing this news from those bats, Zhang Tie became dubious at once. It was not strange for wing demons to hide in this mountain cave; neither it was strange for a human knight to stay inside; the point was those wing demons and a human knight stayed with each other.
'Is that human knight the missing earth knight or someone else? It's a problem. What was more, why would this human knight stay with wing demons?'
As bats had limited intelligence, Zhang Tie couldn't get details from these bats even being a top animal controller. He couldn't know how the human knight looked. Zhang Tie only knew that that human knight almost flew into the mountain cave together with 8 wing demons at the same time. Those bats didn't know the levels of those wing demons; however, Zhang Tie knew that the human must be at least a black iron knight as he could fly.
Given the environment here, Zhang Tie judged that the 8 wing demons seemingly had not broken out a fight with that human knight. None of the bats in the mountain cave were involved in either. Given these signs, Zhang Tie judged that the human knight probably was on the same side with those wing demons.
In Taixia Country, those humans who stayed with demons must be remnants of Heavens Reaching Church…
Zhang Tie revealed a cold smile. He had been longing for catching some more b*stards for bloody furnace these days and here they came.
After triggering a hiding rune effect and placing some tracing feathers near the entrance of the mountain cave so as to remind him when someone else entered, Zhang Tie flashed into the mountain cave like a lightning bolt.
Powerhouses were always dauntless. As Zhang Tie was growing more and more powerful, he wouldn't fear about it even if there were 9 earth knights in the mountain cave at this moment.
It was very dim inside the mountain cave. After flying a few miles, Zhang Tie had seen some strange small insects which looked like the combination of fireflies and spiders. Besides giving out light like fireflies in flight, they could even spit out fine noddle-like webs onto the palisades and stalactites on the top of the mountain cave, making this mountain cave a bit fantastic…
These illuminant small insects were the favorite food of bats. However, their fine webs could stick bats' wings and scare them too much. Being protected by those fine webs, these illuminant small insects maintained a subtle balance with bats in the mountain cave.
Additionally, the feces that bats left in the mountain cave for so many years could survive smaller insects such as salamanders, centipedes, snakes and dark mice. Therefore, there was an inter-dependent macroecological system in the entire mountain cave.
There were not too many bypasses and gaps in this mountain cave. Some of them were too narrow to pass or were dead ends. Therefore, there was basically only one path in the mountain cave. Zhang Tie even discovered some corpses of Hua fighters with miserable looks whose guts and brains had been eaten up. Therefore, Zhang Tie determined to catch all the 8 demons and the human knight of Three-eye Association…
After twisting in the mountain cave for about 60 miles, Zhang Tie came to a dangerous place in the mountain cave and stopped there…
In the mountain cave, Zhang Tie slightly looked at this place with slight frown.
It was deep underground as it turned more and more spacious. Zhang Tie even saw some special fungi here. However, this place looked very dangerous as the space abruptly narrowed and became deeper. It turned into a tunnel which was only 3 m in height and 2 m in width and extended all the way towards the depth of the underground space.
There were hard granite rocks outside the small entrance, so were inside the tunnel. The tunnel was surrounded by hundreds of millions tons of rocks. Being similar to a magnifying rat's hole, the moment he entered it, he would barely come out easily if someone blocked the two ends unless he made a spree killing inside.
At the sight of this tunnel, Zhang Tie's heart suddenly pounded as he felt that this distant and narrow tunnel was full of killing intents.
Zhang Tie didn't enter it immediately; instead, he looked around the entrance of the tunnel. With the effect of lotus-flower eyes, the rocks surrounding the winding small tunnel gradually turned transparent as the overall look of the small tunnel gradually became clear in Zhang Tie's eyes.
In this case, even though Zhang Tie had lotus-flower eyes, he could still only see through about 10,000 m in thickness as the granite rocks contained some quartz and metal. The rocks over 10,000 m away would form a thick color temperature barrier and block what was behind it.
Although Zhang Tie was taking the seeds of fiery-flame red lotus, he could at most see through granite rocks about 10,000 m in this case.
The winding tunnel's length was over 10,000 m; therefore, Zhang Tie couldn't see what was over 10,000 m away. However, at least everything in this tunnel was normal within 10,000 m.
After thinking about it for a few seconds, Zhang Tie flew into the small tunnel slowly as he fully triggered the effect of his lotus-flower eyes.
After flying about 13,000 m in the small tunnel, Zhang Tie stopped once again; because he could already see the scene on the other end of the tunnel.
After extending over 9,000 m in linear distance, the winding tunnel reached a huge bubble-shaped underground space. If this winding tunnel was one's intestine, that underground space was like one's stomach. On the other end of this underground space, there were some slightly bigger entrances which could lead to far away…
Besides the superficial look of this underground space, Zhang Tie could see everything in this space through the thick granite rocks.
A human knight was lurking on top of the underground space near the other end of this narrow tunnel while hiding his qi. If not lotus-flower eyes, Zhang Tie could almost not see him at all. Additionally, 6 wing demon knights were lurking at the entrance of the other entrance of the underground space. Furthermore, 2 more wing demon knights were flying in the underground space as if they were looking for something. They even looked at the other end of this narrow tunnel now and then…
All the 8 wing demons were knights, 5 of them were two-winged black iron knights, 3 of them were earth demon knights who had started to grow out the second pair of wings. Although that human knight was hiding secretly, his look was still clearly exposed under Zhang Tie's lotus-flower eyes. That human knight looked grim in grey hair. Given his look, he was already old. What was more impressive was the terrifying black pigmented nevus between his eyebrows…
Zhang Tie's heart pounded, 'Gao Tianzhao, the founder of Gao Clan of Time-honored Flavor Palace in Lingzhou Province, a top figure in Heavens Reaching Church who's wanted by the Supreme Court in Taixia Country, whose daughter has married Han Zhengfang's son.'
If not have seen the wanted image; especially being impressed by that black nevus between the two eyebrows of Gao Tianzhao, Zhang Tie could not identify him at once.
Although being in concealment, that human knight was still keeping a close eye on the exit of that narrow tunnel while narrowing his eyes.
Even though he had not reached there, Zhang Tie could still sense the strong killing intent from that spacious underground space.
Gao Tianzhao and those demon knights were lurking inside for someone.
'That's a trap!'
In this case, even an ordinary shadow knight might be killed if he entered the trap set by one shadow human knight and 8 demon knights.
'Who's their target?'
After thinking about it for a short while, Zhang Tie got the answer at once——This trap will target anyone who probably breaks in.
'After one human earth knight and a lot of field scouts and sentinels lost their contacts with Blackwater Base, of course, the one who probably is assigned here to investigate about the situation in this region is me who "looks not bad"!'
'They're trapping me…'
'It's not a coincidence for Heavens Reaching Church and demons to attract me here by making troubles; but how could they confirm that I would find this place?'
'Unless they have guessed that I'm an animal controller who could use animals to locate them. If so, those corpses that I saw in the mountain cave must be purposefully left by them.'
'However, aren't they afraid of scaring me away? If they're targeting me, that's evidently a big loophole. How could an earth knight casually enter a trap ambushed by 9 opposite knights? Do they target someone else? But who else would come except for me?'
Zhang Tie's eyes gleamed. All of a sudden, he patted his head as he thought it through.
'They had guessed that I'm an animal controller; however, they had not imagined that I'm cultivating "Great Wilderness Sutra", the ability of which could not be matched by any other animal controlling skills. The other animal controllers who had not cultivated "Great Wilderness Sutra" probably locate this mountain cave too with the help of animals; they could also get information from those bats that some giant things flew into the mountain cave recently; however, those animal controllers could never know the number of these arrivers and their physical features.'
'Therefore, this trap became perfect. Because the opponents didn't know that I'm cultivating "Great Wilderness Sutra", they're trapping me in this way. Of course, they don't know that I have lotus-flower eyes and could see through everything before entering their trap…'
'F*ck, 9 knights, 1 shadow knight of Heavens Reaching Church, 3 earth wing demon knights and 5 black iron wing demon knights. Demons and Heavens Reaching Church really gave me face. What a great trap…'
Zhang Tie licked his lips…
'The 9 knights means shiny water chakra for me. How alluring they are! But the point is the great dangers in the allure…'
'What should I do?'
Chapter 1290: Qianji Hermit's Countermeasure
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
When Zhang Tie stayed still in the gloomy narrow tunnel, with the effect of hiding rune skill, Zhang Tie almost combined with those rocks in the surroundings as he could completely hide his qi.
Those knights who were ambushing over 10,000 m away couldn't notice that Zhang Tie at all.
Although Zhang Tie's body remained still, he was racking his mind and looking for the solutions while many thoughts occurred to his mind like meteors.
As they were fat, if not have a fierce bite, Zhang Tie would feel that he was wasting treasures. Zhang Tie was not clear about the real battle strength of Gao Tianzhao; however, as a shadow knight of Heavens Reaching Church, Gao Tianzhao should not be weaker than Ockham in battle strength. Facing such a shadow knight whose battle strength was unknown and had made preparation in ambushing him, Zhang Tie was not sure whether he could keep Gao Tianzhao alive.
Whereas, as long as he kept Gao Tianzhao alive, Zhang Tie's battle strength would be greatly improved after enjoying the fruit of bloodline, the fruit of brilliance, the complete water chakra brought by the shadow knight.
Although Gao Tianzhao was tricky, Zhang Tie would feel regretful if he didn't try his best.
'Even though I could catch Gao Tianzhao alive, I should also adopt flexible strategies; I should never expose my real battle strength.'
'Now that demons and Heavens Reaching Church could assign a shadow knight and 8 demon knights to kill me, it indicates that they've determined to kill me.'
Zhang Tie also became alert about the reason that demons and Heavens Reaching Church made such a delicate trap to kill him.
'Is that because of Han Zhengfang's event? It might be. When the turmoil in Xuanyuan Hill broke out, someone saw me in Xuanyuan Hill. After that, Han Zhengfang was in trouble and lost his contact with demons and Heavens Reaching Church. What would demons and Heavens Reaching Church think about it? I'm afraid that only they know that this might be related to me. Additionally, the animosity between me and Heavens Reaching Church was also a reason. What's more, I'm afraid that the Fiery Oil and the all-purpose medicaments that I invented made demons and Heavens Reaching Church flurried.'
'Fiery Oil and all-purpose medicaments were important strategical resources that could intensify the overall strength of Taixia Country and humans in the holy war and help them maintain a balance with demons to a certain aspect. Their functions couldn't be matched by some knights. Qianji Hermit himself is not terrifying; however, Qinaji Hermit who could invent Fiery Oil and all-purpose medicaments is the great resistance facing demons in the holy war and has to be eliminated. I'm afraid that's why Han Zhengfang wanted to kill me.'
'When demons and Heavens Reaching Church are making a delicate trap to kill me, if I exposed my real battle strength and killed the shadow knight that they assigned here, I would be much more threatening to them at once. If so, they might assign a heavenly demon knight to kill me next time.'
'Therefore, in this case, the best way to protect me is to not expose my real battle strength. It's necessary for me to be low-key.'
'If I have to catch Gao Tianzhao and all the other 8 demon knights alive on the premise of not exposing my real battle strength, I have to make a good plan.'
If the others faced such a case, they would definitely be perplexed; however, as Qianji Hermit who had grasped a lot of secret skills, of course, Zhang Tie could work out a countermeasure.
After working out a plan, Zhang Tie slowly revealed a calm smile. At the same time, a barrel-sized red alchemist's bomb appeared in his hand. Zhang Tie then squatted down as he touched the ground. In a split second, he had taken a boulder out of the ground, exposing a huge pit.
Zhang Tie put the alchemist's bomb into the pit. Soon after that, a silver secret longsword floated in the air beside him. Like cutting a piece of bean curd, it cut off a part of the bottom of the boulder. After that, Zhang Tie put the rest boulder on the alchemist's bomb as he turned the part of the boulder into a pile of fine sands using soft strength silently and covered them on the pit. Even a shadow knight could barely discover Zhang Tie's trap if not check it carefully.
Zhang Tie gained the alchemist's bomb from the space-teleportation equipment of Han Zhengfang and Han Yuanhong. There were 500 more alchemists bombs in Castle of Black Iron. Previously, Han Zhengfang and Han Yuanhong might collect so many alchemist's bombs for evil purposes. However, this time, coincidentally, Zhang Tie used it to deal with the remnants of Heavens Reaching Church and demons. It seemed that it was destined to happen.
After burying the alchemist's bomb and leaving a spiritual touch signal, Zhang Tie slowly moved 50 m backward, where he buried another alchemist's bomb silently.
In the next 10 more minutes, Zhang Tie totally buried over 40 alchemist's bombs in the narrow and winding tunnel. After estimating that these alchemist's bombs could collapse the entire tunnel and severely wound Gao Tianzhao, Zhang Tie stopped.
After that, he stroke the place between his eyebrows by his right palm while that jumping body separation rune immediately flew out of the place between Zhang Tie's eyebrows. Right in front of Zhang Tie, a shadow gradually turned as same as naked Zhang Tie.
Although it was not his first time to use his body separation skill, Zhang Tie still felt as strange as looking into the mirror when he saw another him. As Zhang Tie could complete two tasks at the same time easily, there were two angles of view in his mind. It felt really special for him to watch another him from the other's angle of view.
The others might be driven mad by such a feeling. However, Zhang Tie felt as easy as drinking the water. Only in this case did Zhang Tie know that his multi-tasking capability could match his body separation skill perfectly. After combining the effects of two secret skills, Zhang Tie gained a greater effect.
This case reminded Zhang Tie that in the far-ancient age, the so-called multi-tasking skill might be one fundamental ability that everybody could grasp and was as natural as breathing. With the assistance of multi-tasking capability, he could use his body separation skill and secret skills of "Great Wilderness Sutra" much better. However, as time went by, when humans couldn't grasp this multi-tasking skill anymore, it became harder for them to use body separation skill and animal controlling skills. People then gradually took this difficulty as reasonable…
When Zhang Tie thought about it, he took out a set of clothes and a pair of socks to have another Zhang Tie put them on. After a short while, two Zhang Tie just watched each other face to face. Even Zhang Tie couldn't identify any difference between him and that incarnation.
Zhang Tie's incarnation's battle strength was about 40% of that of Zhang Tie's. Additionally, the incarnation grasped all the secret skills that Zhang Tie himself had grasped. The incarnation could use "Super" god's runes which was only a bit inferior to "master-level" god's runes. Furthermore, the incarnation could fight over half an hour with the ability to control objects as a divine dominator…
This was the effect of the most powerful master-level body separation skill. At this moment, even though Zhang Tie's incarnation was standing in front of his dad and mom, it would not be recognized by his parents. Of course, he paid a lot for triggering a master-level body separation rune. As this incarnation was completely formed by Zhang Tie's spiritual energy and battle qi, even though Zhang Tie was powerful spiritually and physically, he could barely use 2 master-level body separation runes within 1 month. Otherwise, Zhang Tie might feel being drained.
The more you paid, the more you would reap. Watching this incarnation, Zhang Tie felt everything was worthwhile.
"You are me!" Zhang Tie told that incarnation secretly. At the same time, he triggered a master-level rapid moving rune on that incarnation.
"I am you. That would be a bit safer." Zhang Tie's incarnation told Zhang Tie secretly too.
After smiling at each other, Zhang Tie entered Castle of Black Iron. Closely after that, he called out that little black beetle. Zhang Tie's incarnation then put the little black beetle in its sleeves before flying towards the other end of the narrow, winding tunnel as fast as how Zhang Tie flew just now…
Chapter 1291: Being Trapped (I)
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
Zhang Tie's incarnation and the little black beetle in the sleeve of Zhang Tie's incarnation were inter-dependent as well as independent. Nobody else could reach such a mysterious realm by combining the top-secret animal controlling skill of "Great Wilderness Sutra" with the master-level body separation skill with the effect of multi-tasking skill except for Zhang Tie.
Zhang Tie's incarnation moved forward rapidly. When it was approaching the winding and narrow tunnel, it purposefully slowed down and looked a bit meticulous. Because even an idiot would know that he was easily ambushed when he entered a vast space from a relatively, hidden space.
Being less than 100 m away from the other end of the tunnel, the little black beetle quietly flew out of the sleeve of Zhang Tie's incarnation and combined with the surrounding palisades in a remote place.
When Zhang Tie's incarnation reached the other end of the tunnel, it stopped at once out of the instinct and meticulousness of an earth knight in this case as if it didn't know there was an ambush in the spacious space. It just stood at the edge of the end and looked around this underground space with shiny eyes.
Under the gaze of lotus-flower eyes whose effect had declined by half, Zhang Tie's incarnation found Gao Tianzhao and those demon wing knights held their breaths at once as they became more careful in case of failing this task. Zhang Tie knew that Gao Tianzhao was still observing his incarnation in the dark. As a shadow knight, Gao Tianzhao was confident to observe Zhang Tie's incarnation without being noticed. Gao Tianzhao was less than 3,000 m away from Zhang Tie's incarnation, who was observing Zhang Tie's movements behind a stalactite on the top of the spacious underground space. Meanwhile, Gao Tianzhao was waiting for the right chance to launch a strike towards Zhang Tie's incarnation.
The two wing demon knights were "performing" good. The moment Zhang Tie came to the edge of this space underground space, the two "baits" had been "shocked". The two wing demon knights then rushed towards Zhang Tie with bloody eyes while uttering weird sounds, one after another, which looked normal in this case.
The two wing demon knights were both black iron knights. As for Zhang Tie, he could catch them alive only after a short while; however, if they were two earth demon knights or one earth demon knight and one black iron demon knight, they might scare Zhang Tie away as they almost had the same battle strength as Zhang Tie superficially. Given this point, the one who set the trap was really considerate.
However, no matter what, the one who screwed up Zhang Tie had not imagined that Zhang Tie had lotus-flower eyes and had already seen through everything in this underground space from 10,000 m away.
"You're really dauntless…" Zhang Tie sneered as he punched towards the two wing demons as fast as lightning bolts. As a result, the two grim wing demons were sent flying backward in a pretty embarrassing way from 100 m away.
"Earth knight…" The two wing demon knights screamed as they turned evidently flurried after realizing that Zhang Tie was an earth knight through "probe". After knowing that they couldn't defeat Zhang Tie, they hurriedly flew back towards the entrance of another tunnel in the far…
In their script, when Zhang Tie saw two wing demon knights escaping away in front of him, he would definitely fly out of the mountain cave and chase after them. After Zhang Tie left the other end of the winding, narrow tunnel for a distance, Gao Tianzhao and the other demon knights would show up and block Zhang Tie's route of retreat. Being dominated by a shadow human knight, the 8 demon knights would kill Zhang Tie in this spacious underground space for sure…
They were confident about their trap. As long as Zhang Tie left the other end of the winding, narrow tunnel, he would be killed by them in this spacious underground space no matter how powerful was this earth knight.
Zhang Tie flew out of the other end of the tunnel; however, soon after he left there for less than 200 m when Gao Tianzhao had just revealed a faint fleer, Zhang Tie had moved back at the other end of the tunnel. He threw a dubious and meticulous glance at the tunnel behind him, then this spacious underground space, then the two escaping wing demon knights. He looked hesitated…
After seeing Zhang Tie moving back, Gao Tianzhao's fleer instantly froze as he continued to hide there. If Zhang Tie flew hundreds of meters more and was over 1,000 m away from the other end of the winding, narrow tunnel, Gao Tianzhao would be confident to kill Zhang Tie in this spacious underground space. He had not imagined that Zhang Tie could be so careful.
The two wing knights continued to escape towards the entrance of another tunnel in the distance. Right under Zhang Tie's eyes, they entered the other tunnel and disappeared…
At the sight of this scene, most of the earth knights would probably chase after them, except for Zhang Tie.
Zhang Tie was still standing at the end of the winding, narrow tunnel as he gazed at this underground space inch by inch. Meanwhile, a steel spear appeared in Zhang Tie's hand. When he saw a riprap over 800 m away, Zhang Tie directly threw his spear over there.
The spear drew a fiery line in the air and caused a thunder like how it was called Bolt-in-Palm.
With a "boom…", the riprap over 500 m away was shattered at once, exposing a hidden place.
Another spear appeared in Zhang Tie's hand. With another boom, a cave on the top of the underground space over 800 m away was blown up.
As more and more steel spears were thrown away, all the places which might contain enemies had been broken or laid flat by Zhang Tie's Bolt-in-Palm.
Watching what Zhang Tie was doing, Gao Tianzhao became dumbfounded as he wondered whether they had left any loophole…
The latest spear blew up a stalactite over 400 m away from Gao Tianzhao on the top of the underground space.
Gao Tianzhao struggled inside. If he just stayed here, he would be discovered by Zhang Tie's incarnation sooner or later. But Zhang Tie might just be probing and would stop…
When Gao Tianzhao was struggling, Zhang Tie threw out something once again…
'Wait…'
Gao Tianzhao was shocked as this time it sounded evidently different than those in earlier times. Additionally, it might be flying towards Gao Tianzhao.
…
Whereas, before Gao Tianzhao left those stalactites, one thing had arrived at the place above Gao Tianzhao's head. Before Gao Tianzhao fully released his protective qi, that thing had exploded…
"Boom…" With explosive flames, a sound which was much louder than Zhang Tie's thunder-in-palm rocked the entire underground space as numerous spalls and broken stalactites fell off the top of the spacious underground space…
A figure rushed out of the explosive flames. Although he had released his brilliant protective battle qi, he looked pretty embarrassed. Besides losing half of his hair, his clothes turned into rags. Additionally, there were some bloody bruises on his face. He was like a beggar…
"Gao Tianzhao the founder of Gao Clan!" Zhang Tie "exclaimed" as if he had just discovered Gao Tianzhao. However, soon after that, he burst out into laughter as he said, "You look really special. Why do Heavens Reaching Church become so poor? Look at you, you don't even have complete clothes. That's too excessive. That's the outcome of becoming a lackey of demons. Hahaha…"
Not until then did Gao Tianzhao believe that such a trap would fail. However, the small bruises over his body reminded him that the last thing that Zhang Tie threw must be an alchemist's bomb. As the alchemist' bomb exploded too close to him, he didn't even have time to hide from it. As a result, Gao Tianzhao suffered a bit loss. He was ambushing Zhang Tie; however, he was ambushed by Zhang Tie. What a shameful thing it would be if it was exposed to the public! Gao Tianzhao would not be reconciled to that if he didn't figure out how his trap was recognized by Zhan Tie. Gritting his teeth, he watched Zhang Tie in the far instead of charging at the latter immediately, "Junior, how did you find me here?"
"I just felt that this place is a bit dangerous. After leaving the end of this tunnel, as long as the tunnel was blocked by someone, I would barely escape away. I've not imagined that you're really ambushing here. Additionally, you're a shadow knight…" Zhang Tie replied as he slowly moved backward.
"I'm a shadow knight, it's impossible for you to find me." Gao Tianzhao shouted as he didn't believe in Zhang Tie's words.
"Hehe, don't be overconfident. It's true that I could not find you, but my spears could find you!"
"Impossible!" Gao Tianzhao roared, "Bolt-in-Palm is nothing but sh*t in front of me…"
"Bolt-in-Palm is indeed nothing but sh*t in the eyes of a shadow knight; however, I could find you based on the sound of the spear. No matter where you hide and how great your hiding skill is, your body's resonance would not be as same as that of the stalactites in this underground space. I've got a secret skill to test where there were human bodies in this closed space through constant resonances…" Virtual was real; real was virtual. Zhang Tie didn't mind making up a lie at this moment. After all, his byname Qianji Hermit was used to frighten people.
"It seems that I have to kill you…" After hearing Zhang Tie's explanation, Gao Tianzhao's eyes turned solemn at once as he charged at Zhang Tie…
Zhang Tie escaped away instantly…
In front of a shadow knight, unless he wanted to die, Zhang Tie could only escape…
Watching Gao Tianzhao following Zhang Tie into the winding, narrow tunnel, all the other hiding demon knights including the two "baits" showed up as they entered the same tunnel…
Chapter 1292: Being Trapped (II)
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
In the loud sound caused by Zhang Tie's spears, the little black beetle had long drilled out of the winding, narrow tunnel and hid behind a rock in the spacious underground space near the other end of the tunnel…
After the 8 demon knights rushed into the winding, narrow tunnel, the little black beetle immediately entered Castle of Black Iron. Closely after that, Zhang Tie's original body appeared near the other end of the tunnel quietly.
Watching that deep and narrow tunnel, Zhang Tie sneered. Closely after that, he wrapped up his whole body by Chaos. From then on, the hunter and the prey alternated…
At this moment, the fierce chase was happening in the winding, narrow tunnel.
Zhang Tie's incarnation was flying backward rapidly, closely followed by Gao Tianzhao who was full of killing intent. The 8 demon knights were closely following Gao Tianzhao. The three forces were over 1,000 m away from each other. As Gao Tianzhao was a powerful shadow knight, he was constantly approaching Zhang Tie while extending the distance between him and the other 8 demon knights.
"Shii…" A sharp shiny battle qi shot into the palisades of the narrow tunnel after rubbing the edge of Zhang Tie's protective battle qi, leaving a 20-m deeper hole as thick as one's thumb on the palisades. The spalls were easily blocked by Zhang Tie's protective battle qi.
It was Gao Tianzhao's blow by his finger from over 1,000 m away. In the rugged winding, narrow tunnel, this distance was relatively linear. As Zhang Tie appeared in Gao Tianzhao's sight, the latter immediately launched a strike towards Zhang Tie.
"Hahaha, are you getting old? You cannot even target me precisely…" Zhang Tie's heart pounded as he sighed with feeling inside, 'Gao Tianzhao is really something. Even if an earth knight who has reached the 9 change realm couldn't reach the effect of Gao Tianzhao from over 1,000 m. It's just Gao Tianzhao's finger skill; it could be imagined that Gao Tianzhao's battle strength must be very powerful when in real face-to-face battle. Only after a short while, Zhang Tie had realized that Gao Tianzhao was more powerful than Ockham. Therefore, Zhang Tie became more meticulous as he sped up a bit and moved as fast as a lightning bolt. Even so, he still burst out into laughter in a pretty heroic way.
"Zhang Tie, this day next year will be your death anniversary. This old man will slag you with my Unrivaled Bolt Finger!" Gao Tianzhao roared.
"Haha, even Han Zhengfang failed to do it. How could you think that you would do it? I also have an earth-shaking finger skill called F*ck You Finger Skill. What do you think about that…" Zhang Tie erected his middle finger when flying backward.
After that, Zhang Tie came to a turn. Almost the moment Zhang Tie made a turn, Gao Tianzhao's second battle qi-strike had penetrated through the heart of Zhang Tie's shadow on the palisades, causing another small hole on the palisades.
After seeing Zhang Tie escaping away from his sight once again, Gao Tianzhao roared as he hurriedly caught up with Zhang Tie.
The part of the tunnel where Gao Tianzhao attacked Zhang Tie was the only linear distance in the winding, narrow tunnel where Gao Tianzhao could attack his target from over 1,000 m away. After making a turn, the tunnel had become winding as there would be a turn in each dozen of meters or over 100 meters. In this case, unless narrowing the distance between him and Zhang Tie's incarnation to 100 m, Gao Tianchao could barely hit Zhang Tie even if he was a powerful shadow knight. When he couldn't see Zhang Tie, no matter how powerful his off-hand strike was, it would be blocked by the palisades of the winding, narrow tunnel.
8 demon knights closely followed Gao Tianzhao into the next curve.
Almost 2 minutes later, Zhang Tie entered the part of the tunnel where he had buried alchemist's bombs in advance. During the past 2 minutes, Gao Tianzhao had been hundreds of meters closer to Zhang Tie; however, he still couldn't catch up with Zhang Tie…
When Zhang Tie entered this part of the tunnel, Gao Tianzhao had been over 2,000 m away from the 8 demon knights. Given that he only buried the alchemist's bombs in 1,000 m long in the tunnel, Zhang Tie could only choose one of them, Gao Tianzhao or those wing demons behind him.
Only after thinking about considering it for less than 0.1 seconds, Zhang Tie had made a decision——I will let go Gao Tianzhao first and keep those wing demon knights in the spacious underground space…
Gao Tianzhao closely followed Zhang Tie into the part of the tunnel which was full of alchemist's bombs as he didn't discover anything abnormal over there. When all the wing demon knights entered the middle of that part of tunnel, all the alchemist's bombs were detonated by Zhang Tie at the same time…
The earth-shaking bombs drifted from the winding, narrow tunnel as the entire underground space started to rock like a small-scale earthquake. The spalls also fell off the top of the tunnel like raindrops. A fierce flame caught up with Gao Tianzhao rapidly in the tunnel with a strong impact wave, rocking the protective battle qi of Gao Tianzhao. Closely after that, Gao Tianzhao changed his face greatly. In the loud explosive sounds, Gao Tianzhao felt that a part of the tunnel over 1,000 m long had collapsed behind him. However, those 8 demon knights were right in that explosive region. After the explosions, they must have been buried by numerous spalls; even if they were not killed, they might have been severely injured…
At this moment, it would be hard for Gao Tianzhao to clear out that section of the collapsed tunnel even if he wanted.
"Alchemist's bombs? You buried alchemist's bombs in the tunnel…" Gao Tianzhao exclaimed as he was driven mad like a rat whose tail had been stomped by someone.
"Hahaha, just a preventive measure. Even a human earth knight scout has disappeared in this region, how could I not make any preventive measure in this region? Otherwise, I would have long been killed by Han Zhengfang…"
"Damn it…"
Zhang Tie was so cunning that even Gao Tianzhao was scared by his deed. The fatal trap that they made must have killed the target if it were someone else. However, in front of Zhang Tie, the fatal trap made by 1 shadow knight and 8 black iron demon knights could not gain any extra advantage at all from the beginning. Although Zhang Tie's countermeasure had not severely injured Gao Tianzhao until now, the sense of frustration made Gao Tianzhao more uncomfortable as he determined his mind to kill Zhang Tie…
With a shrill roar, Gao Tianzhao's eyes suddenly turned red as his body turned into a bloody shiny fog with moisture. Right in the bloody shiny fog, numerous runes were flying. Closely after that, the shiny fog suddenly turned into a 3-eye huge boa with two wings, which chased after Zhang Tie at a greater speed with a pretty grim look…
This time, Zhang Tie was really startled. It was Zhang Tie's first time to see the real body of a shadow knight's virtual image. That process was too amazing. Zhang Tie could only change into another person with the help of his body changing immortal bloodline; however, the process that a shadow knight transformed into the real body of his virtual image was like how a person transformed into a powerful monster.
In the tunnel, the giant boa was as free as fish in water. Only after a short while, Zhang Tie had felt that the real body of Gao Tianzhao's virtual image was rapidly narrowing the distance between them. At the same time, the bloody and grim qi of the giant boa became hot at once���
'Mamma Mia.' Thankfully, Zhang Tie's incarnation was carrying a portable space-teleportation equipment which contained something; otherwise, Zhang Tie's incarnation would be killed in such a case.
The giant boa crashed here and there in the tunnel at a great speed. After feeling that it turned increasingly noisier behind him, Zhang Tie swore. Closely after that, an alchemist's bomb appeared in his hand. Zhang Tie instantly threw it backward. When the real body of Gao Tianzhao's virtual image approached him, it was exploded.
However, the explosion of the alchemist's bomb didn't hurt the real body of Gao Tianzhao's virtual image at all. It only slightly slowed it down. Although the tunnel was blocked by the boulders that fell off the top of the tunnel, the giant boa directly break them up and passed by.
Before Gao Tianzhao was driven furious, the second alchemist's bomb arrived. Flames, impact waves and the boulders slowed it down once again.
In the following explosions, the advantage of the giant boa in speed was gradually offset by Zhang Tie's alchemist's bombs…
Gao Tianzhao had never imagined that Zhang Tie could have so many alchemist's bombs.
…
6 minutes after the consecutive explosions, 8 injured wing demon knights flew out of the other end of the tunnel and returned to where they ambushed Zhang Tie just now; they were wounded all over their bodies as their wings were broken.
Among those 8 wing demon knights, 3 black iron knights were severely injured as they were covered with blood; they couldn't fly anymore. Although the other 5 earth wing demon knights were also injured and some had holes on their wings, they were not that severely injured like the 3 black iron wing demon knights due to their powerful protective battle qi.
Soon after they returned to this spacious underground space, all the wing demons had become relaxed. However, the moment they stopped releasing their protective battle qi, Zhang Tie had launched a strike towards them. At the speed of over 10 times the speed of sound, Zhang Tie charged at them from the dark in Chaos. Almost at the same time, the strong qi of Three-Kill Punch and the gloomy cutting edges of Gold-Eaten Dagger had covered all the wing demon knights at present…
Chapter 1293: Destroying the Enemy One by One
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
With a "boom" caused by the shadow knight's battle qi strike, numerous bats flew out of the mountain cave in a flurried manner. At the same time, Zhang Tie also flew out of the mountain cave and entered that fiery maple woods…
Almost the moment Zhang Tie's incarnation arrived at the air territory above the maple woods, a golden light had shot towards him as it stretched out its sharp claws and caught Zhang Tie's incarnation at once. In a split second, they flew towards the east at a speed which was twice the speed of sound.
Only after 3-4 seconds, the real body of the virtual image of giant boa had rushed out of the mountain cave. Closely after that, it looked up and caught sight of Zhang Tie on the back of that golden thunder hawk over 2,000 m away. Zhang Tie was turning around and laughing at the entrance of the mountain cave…
The moment he burst out into laughter, Zhang Tie had spurted out a mouth of blood. However, Zhang Tie still maintained a smile as he shouted, "F*ck you. If you have guts, come and catch me; otherwise, you're my son…"
At the sight of the great speed of the thunder hawk, Gao Tianzhao had given up catching up with Zhang Tie's incarnation. 'Even if I try my utmost effort, I couldn't catch up with Zhang Tie. Additionally, Zhang Tie is flying towards the east that means he must have already contacted Blackwater Base. After being told that I'm here, the Black Armor Army's shadow knights or heavenly knights might be on the way here. If I go to east at this moment, it's nothing different than seeking for death.'
The real body of the virtual image of the giant boa quivered as Gao Tianzhao's original body reappeared in the haze of light and runes.
"I will kill you…" Gao Tianzhao roared towards the sky with bloody eyes while floating in the sky. His sonic waves blew up many bats that flew out of the mountain cave into the bloody mist…
Gao Tianzhao's sound failed to catch up with Zhang Tie. Gao Tianzhao didn't know whether Zhang Tie had heard about him or not; no matter what, Gao Tianzhao saw Zhang Tie erecting his middle finger towards him!
After Zhang Tie escaped away from such a delicate ambush. Gao Tianzhao was so furious that he almost spurted out blood. Through this wrestle, Gao Tianzhao finally knew why Zhang Tie could win the name of Qianji Hermit only in a few years.
After his plan failed, the preoccupancy was to evacuate from Helan Mountain Range before the arrival of human powerhouses.
Gao Tianzhao estimated that he could at least have 2 hours to evacuate. He realized that it was too dangerous to stay here. After throwing another glare at the little black point of Zhang Tie diminishing in the skyline, Gao Tianzhao immediately turned around and flew back into the mountain cave.
The way of evacuation was a tunnel behind that spacious underground space where they prepared to ambush Zhang Tie. That bypass led to Wuzhou Province. If they evacuated from underground space, even Taixia Country's powerhouses couldn't catch them. They had already arranged it in advance. Additionally, the 8 demon knights were still in the mountain cave, Gao Tianzhao had to take them away…
Before entering the mountain cave, Gao Tianzhao contacted somewhere in the distance by his portable remote-sensing communications finger ring and noticed them that their plan failed. After the opposite inquired about the reason, it sent an order to Gao Tianzhao——We've underestimated the subtlety of Zhang Tie. We'll deal with him later on. This action comes to an end. The powerhouses of Taixia Country might be already on the way here, evacuate as soon as possible!
After ending the communication, Gao Tianzhao flew into the underground space unpleasantly. Meanwhile, he was imagining about the cool feeling when he killed Zhang Tie with maltreatment next time.
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When Gao Tianzhao flew towards the spacious underground space once again, Zhang Tie recovered his composure as he put away his gold-eaten dagger; closely after that, he teleported the last earth wing demon knight who was in a coma due to severe wounds into Castle of Black Iron.
5 earth wing demon knights and 3 black iron wing demon knights. The moment Zhang Tie thought about this achievement, he couldn't help but reveal a smile under his helmet.
That was Zhang Tie's fortunate day! According to Zhang Tie's estimation, the 5 earth wing demon knights were all top guys among earth wing demon knights who had reached higher than 6 change realm. If not being powerful, they would not have been assigned here. When he thought about the water chakras of the 5 earth wing demon knights, Zhang Tie couldn't stand but flow out his saliva.
In this case, it was as easy as how a lion fought some rabbits for Zhang Tie to deal with those flurried wing demon knights who had been wounded by alchemist's bombs with the ability of divine dominator. At Zhang Tie's full efforts, the moment he launched an attack towards them, they had been destined to lose the battle.
Not until Zhang Tie's god-eaten dagger scratched their bodies did they imagine what was happening.
After being attached to the master-level cracking rune effect, this gold-eaten dagger caused nearly 2 times greater injuries to those demon knights. The combination of master-level cracking rune effect and gold-eaten dagger brought Zhang Tie a surprise.
Facing various factors, Zhang Tie ended this battle as fast as he could.
In Zhang Tie's mind sea, a tracing feather was approaching the spacious underground space at a high speed. Zhang Tie knew that was Gao Tianzhao. Therefore, Zhang Tie took out a golden spear and entered the winding, narrow tunnel.
The part of the tunnel where Gao Tianzhao struck him by unrivaled bolt light finger skill was where Zhang Tie prepared to give Gao Tianzhao a surprise. That place was narrow, deep and relatively straight like a deep well. If he launched a strike over there, Gao Tianzhao could never avoid from his strike. Therefore, Zhang Tie could gain the maximal kinetic strike effect with his golden spear.
'However, before Gao Tianzhao returned, I should send a message to Blackwater Base.'
'When Gao Tianzhao saw me leaving by thunder hawk, he didn't seem to be too amazed. Combining with the terrain of this underground space where they wanted to trap me, it means that demons and Heavens Reaching Church have already known that I have the mount of thunder hawk. Soon after I exposed the secret that I have a thunder hawk, demons and Heavens Reaching Church have known that, what does this mean?'
Zhang Tie's eyes turned gloomy as he immediately sent a message to Blackwater Base…
——I'm ambushing in the underground mountain cave of Helan Mountain Range. Gao Tianzhao and some demon knights set a trap to kill me. Thankfully, I've escaped away. However, I'm severely injured and looking for somewhere to recuperate. Additionally, demons and Heavens Reaching Church might have already known that I have a mount of thunder hawk…
After sending this message to Blackwater Base and attaching the coordinates of this place on the map, Zhang Tie put away his remote-sensing communications finger ring.
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When he sent back the message to Blackwater Base, the thunder hawk flew out of the cloud and dove into a lake in Helan Mountain Range together with Zhang Tie's incarnation. In water, Zhang Tie's incarnation put its portable space-teleportation equipment into the mouth of the thunder hawk. Closely after that, Zhang Tie's incarnation turned into waterdrops and powders together with its clothes in a split second.
Over 10 seconds later, the thunder hawk flew out of the lake alone.
After doing that, Zhang Tie recovered his composure and waited for Gao Tianzhao calmly in the part of the winding, narrow tunnel…
Chapter 1294: Fighting the Shadow Knight
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
As a part of the winding, narrow tunnel had been collapsed by Zhang Tie's alchemist's bombs, if Gao Tianzhao wanted to go back, he had to clear the ruins. However, it was nothing difficult for such a powerful shadow knight to do it. Gao Tianzhao completely blew up those boulders and spalls in the winding, narrow tunnel by force. With a rumble, Gao Tianzhao soon cleared out a way in the tunnel…
Under the gaze of lotus-flower eyes, Gao Tianzhao was approaching the spacious underground space. Zhang Tie could sense that Gao Tianzhao had been completely relaxed after fighting him just like the 8 wing demon knights. It seemed that Gao Tianzhao was focusing on clearing out that tunnel so as to evacuate from here with those demon knights as soon as possible.
Holding a golden spear, Zhang Tie remained still and calm as if he were a piece of icy, lifeless black granite. Standing solemnly and quietly on the other end of the winding, narrow tunnel, he felt his battle qi surging inside. At this moment, even Zhang Tie himself felt a bit strange. Facing a shadow knight, he should be a bit intense; however, Zhang Tie didn't feel intense in front of such powerful knights anymore, even though the shadow knight was much more powerful than him; instead, he only felt tranquil.
All the way from Blackhot City to now, after experiencing so many battles, Zhang Tie's heart realm had long been as hard as steel and as pure as crystal and diamond facing a battle. That was the heart realm of real powerhouses.
After breaking through the collapsed tunnel, Gao Tianzhao started to accelerate towards the spacious underground space.
The moment Gao Tianzhao entered the sight of Zhang Tie, Zhang Tie accelerated to over 14 times the speed of sound in a split second in the tunnel as he threw out his golden spear. When the golden spear left Zhang Tie's hand, its speed reached over 20 times that of the speed of sound immediately, which meant about 6,800 m per second. At the same time, Zhang Tie attached a "cracking" god's rune effect to the golden spear…
This kinetic strike was the most powerful strike that Zhang Tie had ever launched since fighting Ockham. This strike was greater than the most powerful strike which Zhang Tie launched towards Ockham in both speed and strength. It indicated Zhang Tie's wholly-new realm and battle strength after breaking through 5 change earth realm after absorbing the water chakra of Ockham.
Zhang Tie had calculated the time and the distance. Almost the moment the golden spear left Zhang Tie's hand, Gao Tianzhao had entered Zhang Tie's sight. The golden light almost touched Gao Tianzhao's protective battle qi at the same time. Gao Tianzhao couldn't even have time to respond to it.
Gao Tianzhao had not imagined that he could encounter the secondary strike in the winding, narrow tunnel where Zhang Tie had ambushed them with alchemist's bombs. It was psychological blindness that everyone would have in this case. After being ambushed by Zhang Tie in the place where he prepared to ambush the opponent, Gao Tianzhao had been aggrieved; however, who could imagine that he could encounter the secondary strike after the opponent left?
When the golden spear approached him as fast as a lightning bolt, Gao Tianzhao didn't even see clearly what it was. However, Gao Tianzhao lost his guts immediately after noticing this thing's super great speed and the unrivaled sharpness that could penetrate through and destroy everything. Gao Tianzhao realized that he could neither evacuate nor make a turn. In the split second, he couldn't even fully release his protective battle qi before the golden spear reached Gao Tianzhao's chest…
When a 680 kg golden spear collided with Gao Tianzhao at the speed of over 6,800 m per second, it released over 15 billion Joules of kinetic energy in a split second on a tiny point.
The great power of the kinetic strike was restricted to an extremely small scope, causing greater destruction. In a split second, the rocks beside Gao Tianzhao had turned into ashes. Only after bearing a split second, Gao Tianzhao's protective battle qi had been broken through. Closely after that, the golden spear immediately penetrated through Gao Tianzhao's body, vaporizing all of his clothes and shattering all of his remote-sensing communications finger rings. Besides, Gao Tianzhao was sent flying back against the rocks, causing a huge pit which was dozens of meters in depth. The golden spear broke into pieces; some broken parts of the golden spears directly flew out of Gao Tianzhao's body, causing the secondary strike onto his body. The shock wave did the third time harms to Gao Tianzhao…
The entire underground space started to rock. It was as destructive as detonating hundreds of alchemist's bombs, which was over 10 times more destructive than that just now.
Gao Tianzhao was so angry that his eyes almost popped out of eye sockets as he spurted out blood constantly. His hair and beard had been burned by the kinetic energy and high temperature of the golden spear in a split second.
If it was someone else, he would have long been killed; however, as a shadow knight, the moment his body was penetrated through by the golden spear, he had released his protective battle qi, diffusing the greater part of the harms caused by the broken pieces of the golden spear and all the impact waves in the mountain cave…
If Gao Tianzhao was given a bit time, he could completely cure his injuries and leave out of here alive. Pitifully, Zhang Tie didn't spare any time to Gao Tianzhao.
"Who are.." Not until then did Gao Tianzhao see clearly who was ambushing him. Pitifully, Gao Tianzhao didn't have lotus-flower eyes. Of course, he couldn't see through Zhang Tie's face under the Chaos. Before he uttered "you", Zhang Tie's second blow had arrived.
In Chaos, Zhang Tie was holding Thor's Hammer in an extremely grim look. In the smokes and high temperature brought by the impact waves, he forcefully knocked onto the protective battle qi that Gao Tianzhao had just released by Thor's Hammer at the speed of over 14 times the speed of sound as fast as a lightning bolt like a ruthless God of Death who was ready to reap a life…
Chaos, Thor's Hammer plus Zhang Tie's weight made it to 7,486 kg in total. At the speed of over 5,000 m per second, Zhang Tie reached a new height in strength.
The shattering effect and lightning harm of Thor's Hammer with the kinetic energy of over 93 billion Joules fell onto the body of Gao Tianzhao once again.
Soon after Gao Tianzhao's protective battle qi was released, it was collapsed once again together with the hard rocks behind him. As a result, Gao Tianzhao was bleeding from eyes, ears, mouth and nose all over. Each of his wounds was enlarging and bleeding like running water. Gao Tianzhao directly sunk about 100 m into the rocks…
"Argh…" Gao Tianzhao roared as he started to launch a counterattack by punching towards Zhang Tie by two fists. At the same time, he released his battle qi…
However, Zhang Tie didn't spare any chance to Gao Tianzhao.
Zhang Tie kept surging forward as bravely as a God of Battle. The moment Gao Tianzhao punched his battle qi, Zhang Tie's Thor's Hammer had arrived again. The large flat side of the hammer collided with the shadow knight's two fists with the kinetic energy of over 93 billion Joules…
The collision between such terrifying kinetic energy and the battle qi of a shadow knight in a narrow tunnel would cause greater harm. Zhang Tie almost lost his control of the hammer. At the same time, a great strength directly hit onto Zhang Tie's body. Although Chaos and Zhang Tie's protective battle qi diffused the greater part of the strength, Zhang Tie still uttered a muffled sound; at the same time, blood surged to his throat. However, he swallowed it…
The great strength sent Zhang Tie over 100 m backward.
In the second collision, Gao Tianzhao was sent over 50 m deeper into the rock. At the same time, Gao Tianzhao's fists were completely shattered, leaving two bald wrists which were spraying out blood in a grim and terrifying way…
A lot of rocks collapsed from the top. After swallowing his blood, Zhang Tie gritted his teeth while launching the third time strike towards Gao Tianzhao after uttering a muffled roar…
In this case, Zhang Tie was deeply convinced that the braver one would win the battle in such a narrow path. He could only exert his utmost efforts to fight Gao Tianzhao.
After losing his fists, Gao Tianzhao turned into a bloody mist while being surrounded by numerous flying runes. Before Zhang Tie's strike arrived, Gao Tianzhao had turned into the real body of the virtual image of a giant boa as long as 100 m. The moment it quivered its body, it would cause an earthquake.
However, the wings of this real body of the virtual image of giant boa had been broken. Additionally, there was a big bleeding hole in its body. When Zhang Tie rushed over here for the third time, the giant boa suddenly opened its bloody mouth while its weird, black battle qi formed a huge black swirl in its mouth. Various bizarre runes were rotating in the huge black hole. When Zhang Tie approached it at the speed of 14 times the speed of sound, he was suddenly drawn by the strange suction in the swirl. He then slowed down at once. However, he felt like losing his control.
Before Zhang Tie made any response to it, the real body of the giant boa directly swallowed Zhang Tie…