Castle of Black Iron

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...