Castle of Black Iron

Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

After seeing the 4 people of Zhang family and Huaiyuan Palace walking out of the crowd and kowtowing in front of Zhang Tie, some smart ones finally understood why Zhang Clan enjoyed such a privilege in the opening ceremony of Iron-Dragon Sect. Zhang Clan was the only family that received two golden invitation cards and had 4 juniors being enrolled as the disciples of Iron-Dragon Sect. In the beginning, they all thought that Fire Dragon Hermit especially favored the branch of Huaiyuan Palace in Jinwu City. Now they knew that they were of the same family. Of course, Fire Dragon Hermit would treat them better. That might also be the reason that Fire Dragon Hermit selected his bounty land in Youzhou Province.

Zhang Tie’s disciples absolutely confirmed Zhang Tie’s identity. Before the “amazing” feeling faded away, they had become extremely excited when they remembered so many legends and stories about Zhang Tie.

The Supreme Court had already canceled off Zhang Tie’s order for arrest while the truth of the tragedy in Fuhai City was gradually exposed. In this situation, Zhang Tie’s halos became more brilliant. It was really their great honor to have such a master.

However, their master looked too young. Given his look, he was definitely the type of youngest fellow apprentice among his disciples. Becoming an earth knight at such a young age, he was definitely a top talent among the top 7 sects in Taixia Country, not to mention the other human countries. With such a great master, they would definitely have a bright future.

“Stand up!” Zhan Tie told his two nephews and two disciples from Huaiyuan Palace genially. The four people then picked themselves up in a restrained way. Closely after that, Zhang Tie’s voice turned solemn, “Later on, we’re just master and disciples in Iron-Dragon Sect as usual. Two of you are my nephews, the other two are clan disciples of Huaiyuan Palace. You share the same blood and forebears with me. However, I have to treat you as same as all the disciples; sometimes, I will even treat you stricter. In front of the other disciples, you’re forbidden to seek for any special treatment or become arrogant and ruin the friendship between disciples; otherwise, if I find that, I will punish you severely and drive you out of the sect. Am I clear?”

“Clear!” The 4 juniors answered in unison.

After becoming a master for so long, Zhang Tie had been adapted to this role. As the master of Iron-Dragon Sect, he was always dominating; as an earth knight, he was always commanding. Each of his movement was shocking. With these words, Zhang Tie wanted to warn Zhang Chengxu, Zhang Chengze, Zhang Yueshan and Zhang Yawei; meanwhile, he wanted to imply the other disciples to not treat the 4 people specially by flattering them in the public or bullying them secretly because of jealousy. Anyone who dared play any trick would be labeled as ruining the friendship between disciples. The moment Zhang Tie said it, all the others had understood it, including Zhu Dabiao.

Although he was once Zhang Tie’s friend, he knew that he was just Zhang Tie’s disciple in Iron-Dragon Sect. Previously when Zhang Tie was a black iron knight, Zhu Dabiao might feel a bit uncomfortable with this master; however, Zhang Tie was already an earth knight, who was qualified to be his master now. If not that Zhu Dabiao came from the Yanzhou Provincial Governor’s Clan, he would be not qualified to be Zhang Tie’s disciple at all. How could one become the disciple of an earth knight so easily? In Taixia Country, the more talented ones could be masters regardless of age. If Zhu elders or his father knew that he dared neglect Zhang Tie based on the former friendship between him and Zhang Tie, they would immediately rush in Iron-Dragon Sect to break his leg before Zhang Tie punished him.

A beggar would envy another beggar who was luckier than him one day; a LV 9 fighter would envy a LV 10 fighter who was more powerful than him. Everybody could be jealous about the others who were better than them in one aspect; however, if one person was much better than another one in one aspect that the latter couldn’t even dream about catching up with the former, the latter would not envy the former one anymore. Like that a beggar would not envy a king who lived better than him, a LV 9 fighter would not envy an earth knight who was much more commanding than him although he might hope that he could also be a knight one day.

Watching the familiar, young yet secret, commanding face on the golden chair, Zhu Dabiao respected Zhang Tie sincerely; neither did he envy Zhang Tie. He just sighed with emotions that there were so many wonders in this world. This young man who saved him out of the shadow demon’s dungeon became his master. This might be pre-destined.

Zhang Tie slightly raised his arm while Zhang Chengxu, Zhang Chengze, Zhang Yueshan and Zhang Yawei from Huaiyuan Palace who were related to him by blood immediately moved back into the crowd by lowering their bodies. At the same time, Zhang Chengxu and Zhang Chengze silently received the hand towels from two senior sister apprentices on their sides and wiped out their tears by them. Although they felt complex, they both guessed that their father Zhang Yang must have known that Fire Dragon Hermit was their uncle. Therefore, their father especially brought them to the opening ceremony of Iron-Dragon Sect.

Zhang Tie looked around his disciples. When he moved his eyes onto Zhu Dabiao, Zhu Dabiao also looked up at Zhang Tie. Zhang Tie revealed a faint smile. Zhu Dabiao hurriedly lowered his head out of respect.

“Dabiao!” Zhang Tie called genially.

Zhu Dabiao’s fat belly quivered all over at once as he hurriedly walked out of the crowd and bowed towards Zhang Tie like what a disciple should do in front of his master, “I’m here!”

“Taixia Country is going to experience a great chaos. In the future, if you don’t have a great battle strength, how could you protect yourself when in danger? You’re born to be alive. However, in the road of cultivation, no pain, no gain. You could not be indolent in cultivation. If you have questions, you could ask your senior brothers and sisters. Don’t lag behind!” Zhang Tie said genially.

Zhu Dabiao was overwhelmed by the unexpected favor. Now that Zhang Tie talked to Zhu Dabiao independently although in the tone of his master, it indicated that Zhang Tie had not forgotten about the friendship between them. However, in this situation, given the positions in the sect, their friendship became a master’s sincere care about his disciple.

Zhang Tie told Zhu Dabiao about similar words before. However, when Zhu Dabiao heard that at that time, he burst out into laughter. On the same evening, he even invited Zhang Tie to play women in brothels such as Peony Pavilion. At that time, he just treated Zhang Tie’s words as a sincere suggestion. However, after a few years, when he heard similar words on such an occasion, Zhu Dabiao was deeply moved as his eyes turned red. Zhang Tie was both his good master and bosom friend. ‘If not care about you sincerely, who would talk about it to you?’ Zhu Dabiao was not an idiot. Of course, he could identify whether Zhang Tie’s words were sincere or not. “I see, master, I will bear your words deep in mind and never lose your face!”

“I don’t care about my face. Even if I lost my face, I would still not lose a hair!” Zhang Tie sighed with emotion, “After being wanted by the Supreme Court of Taixia Country as a scapegoat and being blamed and hated by almost everyone across Taixia Country, ordinary reputation damage couldn’t touch my heart at all. As long as you could survive dangers in the future, I will be reassured. Sometimes, one is alive and could give hope to one’s family and friends count most!”

“Yes, I see, master!”

When Zhu Dabiao moved backward, he could feel a special “energy” from his back. Needless to say, it was from his male cousins, one of the Zhu Clan being enrolled by Zhang Tie. Although being male cousins, they didn’t get along well with each other since young.

Zhu Dabiao just killed his time; by contrast, his male cousin was ambitious to be the pillar of Zhu Clan since young. One was flying in the sky, the other was climbing on the ground. They were not on the same channel at all. Actually, his male cousin disliked Zhu Dabiao as he always felt that Zhu Dabiao wasted one precious opportunity of Zhu Clan.

Even though fellow apprentices of a sect would compete with each other. On this occasion, undoubtedly, those being named by Zhang Tie were especially taken care of by their master himself. Even though Zhu Dabiao was average and even hindered the other disciples, given Zhang Tie’s special care about him at this present, Zhu Dabiao immediately became special among the 121 disciples.

Therefore, his male cousin was amazed and jealous of him. By contrast, Zhu Dabiao felt like having a cool drink of a huge bowl of iced plum soup in the hottest days of a year.

“Liu Xing!”

“I’m here, master!”

The moment Zhang Tie called Liu Xing, Liu Xing walked out of the crowd at once.

“In the next a few days, you need to supervise your junior fellow and sister apprentices to cultivate hardly. When I’m not on the airboat, everything will be hosted by your Uncle Master Bai!”

“Yes, master!”

“Alright, take them off!”

Zhang Tie wove his hands while all the disciples left the room orderly. During the minutes in the room, they were shocked so much that they could not recover their composure for quite a long while.

After all the disciples left, Bai Suxian who had been standing on Zhang Tie’s side immediately pouted her mouth as she told Zhang Tie in a jealous way, “Have you noticed how your female disciples look at you?”

With a tender and enchanting exclamation, Zhang Tie immediately embraced Bai Suxian with his arms and had her lie on his legs. A 30 seconds deep kiss made Bai Suxian soft all over. With face blushing like red clouds at sunrise and sunset, Bai Suxian’s eyes shimmered like flowing waves.

“Stop having a bee in your mind. The airboat will fly towards Zhongzhou City. If I don’t come back, just wait for me in Zhongzhou City for a few days!”

“What are you going to do there?” Bai Suxian put her arms around Zhang Tie’s neck as she slightly bit Zhang Tie’s ear and exhaled as fragrant as an orchid. It seemed that Bai Suxian had almost become blood-boiled.

“I have to complete something!”

Zhang Tie threw a glance at the wall clock and found that it was almost 5 pm…