Castle of Black Iron

All the 100,000 more human knights in Xuanyuan Fortress were keeping their eyes on Zhang Tie when Zhang Tie returned. Their eye light contained admiration, shock, reverence, pure jealousy and favor and worship from female knights. Zhang Tie glanced over them and kept most of their expressions in mind.

For instance, Feng Yexiao and his disciples of Taiyi Fantasy Sect looked like how a group of misers behaved when they saw someone on their side hit the jackpot of 5 million gold coins; especially Feng Yexiao whose expressions really made Zhang Tie feel cool. Those disciples of Taiyi Fantasy Sect who dared sneer at Zhang Tie previously almost dared not look straight into Zhang Tie’s eyes at this moment.

Although Zhang Tie had not promoted to a shadow knight, his heroic deed of killing an earth demon knight in a split second by sword scared those people of Taiyi Fantasy who disliked him before. Now that Zhang Tie could kill an earth demon knight as easily as slaughtering livestock, it would not be difficult for him to kill them.

As for Feng Yexiao, he just tightly pursed his mouth as he pretended to be dismissive; however, he still couldn’t hide his jealousy and a bit fear in his eyes when he looked at Zhang Tie.

Zhang Tie felt pretty cool…

The first one who rushed towards Zhang Tie was Bai Suxian.

Under the gaze of the public, the red-eyed princess of Lord Guangnan’s Mansion directly threw herself into Zhang Tie’s arms as she put her arms around Zhang Tie’s neck and said, “You scared me too much…”

“I’m fine. Look, I’m back.” Zhang Tie comforted Bai Suxian as he patted Bai Suxian’s back.

“When did your swordsmanship become so powerful? I’ve not seen that before.” Bai Suxian asked out of curiosity. Since she got acquainted with Zhang Tie, she only saw Zhang Tie use his punches and spears in front of her. However, he barely presented his swordsmanship in front of her.

“Haha, you will know that in the future…”

As it was on the battlefield, it was impolite for them to show off their love. Only after having a brief talk with Bai Suxian, Zhang Tie had returned to the army of knights in Xuanyuan Fortress by pulling her hand.

The moment Zhang Tie returned, he had seen Guo Hongyi being taken away by two law enforcement knights. Before leaving, Guo Hongyi turned around and threw a glance at Zhang Tie. Although Guo Hongyi looked calm, it seemed that she had a lot of words to say…

“Harrumph, foxtrel. She’s always looking for a chance to entice my man…” Bai Suxian whispered to Zhang Tie.

Just now, Zhang Tie only saw Guo Hongyi break into the battlefield; however, he was confused about the details. After hearing Bai Suxian’s words out of jealousy, Zhang Tie seemingly understood something, “What’s wrong with Guo Hongyi?”

“Don’t you know that?”

“Do you think I’m a telescope, clairaudient or a heavenly knight?” Zhang Tie pinched Bai Suxian’s waist as he added, “I was fighting so many demon knights just now; how could I know everything within hundreds of miles?”

“Well, don’t care about it. Someone disobeyed the command on the battlefield…” Bai Suxian smiled as she shifted the topic right away instead of talking about Guo Hongyi with Zhang Tie anymore.

Zhang Tie knew that Bai Suxian and Guo Hongyi disliked each other and it was almost impossible for him to hear anything good about Guo Hongyi from Bai Suxian. However, he couldn’t put her to ‘torture’ in the public, therefore, Zhang Tie didn’t ask Bai Suxian about Guo Hongyi anymore.

The demon army was experiencing a change. On the land covering thousands of miles about 120 miles away from the west bank, those war giants started to transform into war trees while rooting in the earth, covering the entire sky over 120 m away from the west bank with grey mist…

Only after a short while, those war trees had started to grow out leaves and trunks. Among those leaves and trunks, dense bizarre fruits gradually came out, which served as the portable supply of the demon army.

Given the morphological transformation of demon war giants, they were going to be stationed here for a long time. As the morphological transformation started, some floating battle fortresses of demons also gradually moved backward to the center of the camp of hundreds of millions of demons.

Zhang Tie was shocked too much by the morphological transformation of the war giants of demons. Zhang Tie knew that Chinese caterpillar fungus could change its morphological existence between plant and animal. However, demon’s war giants were much bigger than Chinese caterpillar fungus. Those war giants being transformed from war trees were like skyscrapers. As a sharp war weapon, war tree’s crown was as large as a cloud as it covered several square miles’ land.

After seeing demons’ encampment and the evacuation of floating demon battlefortress, Xuanyuan Fortress and those floating human battle fortresses also slowly moved back to over 120 miles away from the east bank of Weishui River. With a distance of about 300 miles, two parties started a confrontation with each other.

The war had not come to an end. However, the demons’ attack had been shattered in Weishui River today. Therefore, it was not easy for demons to break the firm line of defense of Taixia Country on the east bank of Weishui River in a short period.

Watching the retreating demon’s floating battlefortress and the safe return of Xuanyuan Fortress and the other human battle fortresses to the air territory above the east bank of Weishui River, hundreds of millions of Taixia fighters cheered up on the ground. Since demons started to invade Taixia Country, Taixia Country finally won a battle in the frontal battlefield.

Although being a small triumph, it was of great importance for Taixia Country as a whole as the morale of all the Taixia troops was raised.

The news of the victory was instantly sent to Xuanyuan Hill. Xuanyuan Hill then spread the good news to all the provinces in Taixia Country officially. On the same night, Xuanyuan Fortress and the other human battle fortresses in the sky were a scene of jubilation…

In such a scene of jubilation, Zhang Tie and Zuoqiu Mingyue were looking straight into each other’s eyes in the latter’s office of Xuanyuan Fortress while banging their fists on the desk.

On the way to Zuoqiu Mingyue’s office, all the knight-level officers and subordinates on Zuoqiu Mingyue’s side in the headquarters treated Zhang Tie much politer than before. However, after closing the door and expressing his intention, Zhang Tie soon irritated Zuoqiu Mingyue.

“Let her go now…” Zhang Tie said while strengthening up his neck.

“Guo Hongyi set off the formation without my consent. According to the military decree, she should be beheaded; however, I’ve only sentenced her to 3-month detention given her gender and dauntless deed in the battle. Additionally, she’s killed a black iron demon knight. Therefore, I didn’t give her a severe punishment…”

“You won’t make any concession, right?” Zhang Tie took in a deep breath.

“I won’t!” Zuoqiu Mingyue refused Zhang Tie’s proposal right away.

With a sound “Pah!”, Zhang Tie dropped his seal of Weiji General and remote-sensing communication finger rings onto the desk as he turned solemn at once, “I resign. You’d better find someone else to supersede me, commander-in-chief…”

Zuoqiu Mingyue widely opened his eyes as he watched Zhang Tie furiously. Pointing at Zhang Tie by finger, he raised his beard while quivering all over, “You resign? Do you know what you’re talking about? You’re proud because of my favor. You’ve made a great military exploit today and gained a high reputation, you should be the good role model for the entire army. How could you become so frivolous? Are you afraid of being derided by the public?”

Zhang Tie looked straight into Zuoqiu Mingyue’s eyes dauntlessly as he replied, “I don’t care about the military exploit. I prefer to offset Guo Hongyi’s violation using the military exploit. As for being proud due to your favor. If I, as a Weiji general, couldn’t even protect a woman from been punished for me, I prefer to resign. I agree if you say I’m proud due to your favor. As for being derided by the public, so what? Previously, I was even a scapegoat and wanted by the Supreme Court. Even Heavens Reaching Church and the Supreme Court of Taixia Country wanted to kill me. By comparison, it’s nothing serious for me to be derided by the public. Whatever, I would not lose a hair or take one meal fewer…”

Zuoqiu Mingyue revealed a smile out of extreme fury, “How dare you threaten this old man?”

“Whatever, I’ve expressed my stance. It depends on you, commander-in-chief…”

Zhang Tie behaved like a rascal in front of Zuoqiu Mingyue.

The two people just looked straight into each other’s eyes without giving any concession…

…

3 minutes later, Zhang Tie opened the door of Zuoqiu Mingyue’s office as he walked out of there with a glassy-eyed look.

The moment Zhang Tie closed the door, a loud sound had drifted from inside the office while the desk was shattered instantly.

After hearing such a sudden noise, the subordinate of Zuoqiu Mingyue awaiting outside the door was startled too. After following Zuoqiu Mingyue for so long, it was his first time to hear Zuoqiu Mingyue lose his temper. As Hua people caused a heavy loss to demons today, everyone was so happy, why did commander-in-chief lose temper at this moment? Therefore, the subordinate moved his eyes onto Zhang Tie with a dubious look.

“Ahem…ahem…” Zhang Tie pretended to cough twice. After that, he rubbed his face softly as he looked at the knight-level subordinate solemnly and said, “I’ve got a lot of gnosis on swordsmanship on the battlefield. I was asking for commander-in-chief’s guidance just now. I’m afraid that the commander-in-chief is deducing the mysteries. Don’t bother him now. After a while, change the desk for him…”

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After leaving the highest tower, Zhang Tie touched that pardon decree in his clothes as he walked towards the Law Enforcement Center of Xuanyuan Fortress…