After entering Castle of Black Iron, Zhang Tie appeared in the water. Widely opening his eyes, he held his breath and looked at the environment. If Heller had not told him that he would appear in the water after leaving Castle of Black Iron, he might have been choked the moment he left Castle of Black Iron.
There was an undercurrent in the water, which was caused by the turbulence of the flowing water in the underground river. Although it was already late at night, Zhang Tie could still see everything clearly in the water with his dark vision. He saw shoals of small fishes swimming above his head and a stretch of vigorous aquatic plants floating beside him at the bottom of the water. Zhang Tie looked around and found nobody was in the water. Therefore, he exerted strength on his feet and floated upwards with that package wrapped in waterproof cloth in his hand.
Over these years, as he promoted to LV 9, Castle of Black Iron had released some of its space ability. Heller established a space tunnel between the water and the Pool of Chaos so that the water flow in the underground river could be constantly transported into the Pool of Chaos. As a result, Castle of Black Iron could be expanded. If Zhang Tie was not worried that the space tunnel would be too large and cause an abnormal phenomenon in the water, Castle of Black Iron would definitely expand many times more than that now.
Even so, Zhang Tie was satisfied. Because he found a method to rapidly increase the basic energy storage of Castle of Black Iron. If he wanted to rapidly increase the basic energy storage of Castle of Black Iron, he only needed to enter Castle of Black Iron from an unnoticeable place in the sea. After that, he could have Castle of Black Iron absorb seawater as much as possible. With such a high efficiency, Zhang Tie was more than 1,000 times faster than before.
This brought Zhang Tie a bit comfort more or less. Although it was a long time and he had lost a lot over the past 12 years, he had gained something. Besides, after completely recovering his human form and eliminating those shadow demon genes in his body using the flower of life, Zhang Tie found that his body and look remained the same as before. He still looked the same as before. These twelve years seemed like only a day had passed. There was not the slightest trace left on his body.
After a few seconds, Zhang Tie's head emerged from the water. He looked around and found that the wilderness was empty. Zhang Tie felt like seeing a flying elephant. He didn't understand Heller's words for a while. 'How could such a solemn Heller be humorous?'
"You mean the time you told me a few days ago is not August 14th, the 903rd year of Black Iron Calendar?"
"Hmm, of course not. The precise time should be March 1st, the 894th year of Black Iron Calendar. Castle Lord has just slept for a bit more than 3 years. 903814 — 894301. Isn't it funny? You only need to change the number …"
Closely after Heller's words, Zhang Tie started to cramp all over. As a result, the patrolling yaksha of Hidden Dragon Island who could exert his unique skill of riding waves immediately sank into the water and was drowned.
"Castle Lord, are you alright?"
Zhang Tie hurriedly resurfaced as he panted heavily twice, "Ahh, it's okay. Heller, could you give me a warning when you want to be humorous in the future? I'm afraid that my heart couldn't stand it!"
"Ahh, do you need a warning for humor?"
"I don't need others' humor. Your humor tests my bearing capacity too much!"
"Ahh, I see. Well, actually, I feel that I'm talented in humor. I will try another way of humor next time!"
"Ahh, please don't!" Zhang Tie was so shocked that he almost sank into the water once again, "You'd better keep your humorous style of changing numbers. With this experience, I'm afraid that it will be much better next time!"
"Hmm, fine!"
After ending the talk with Heller, Zhang Tie digested Heller's "humor" in the water for a short while before swimming to the bank. 12 years turned into 3 years, 1 plus 2 equals 3. Zhang Tie didn't know whether it was Heller's humorous style of numbers; however, he let out a sigh inside.
The surrounding environment remained unchanged, except that the entire castle of Master Abyan had completely disappeared into the lake. Heller said that one week after he entered Castle of Black Iron, his master Zhao Yuan came and wiped the entire castle of Master Abyan out of fury.
Zhang Tie then swam towards the bank. Perhaps only by swimming in the lake that was caused by such a terrifying strength could Zhang Tie truly sense the terrifying strength of the man known as the alchemist demon. Such a strength was completely out of Zhang Tie's imagination. In front of such a strength, LV 9 fighters like Zhang Tie and LV 14 battle demons like Abyan were nothing different than ants.
Zhang Tie's heart was filled with awe and self-mockery. He didn't know the level of his master Zhao Yuan. As for him, after lighting the 30 surging points on his spine, he still didn't know how to promote to LV 10. In the words of his master Zhao Yuan, the so-called LV 9 was just a start on the road of cultivation.
When he thought about this, Zhang Tie became more eager to return to Huaiyuan Palace. Because there were not only his relatives and friends, but also the secret cultivation methods for promoting to LV 10.
Zhang Tie swam to the bank and came to the reeds. After that, he rapidly put on his clothes. The golden carp of his double-carp swords fell onto the ground. Later on, it was wrapped by Abyan's bloody light and brought into Castle of Black Iron. Therefore, it was not lost. However, the soul crystal gifted by Zhao Yuan had been broken in the fight with Abyan.
After putting on a set of common clothes, Zhang Tie walked out of the reeds and walked towards Blackhot City.
On the way, Zhang Tie found that the roadsides were barren. The farmlands had been covered with weeds. There were many graves on the hillsides. Some wild dogs with red eyes were wandering in the wild. At the sight of Zhang Tie, some wild dogs even dared to follow him. Zhang Tie kicked some stones and killed two of them. After that, the rest of the wild dogs escaped away with tails between their legs.
At the sight of this, Zhang Tie's heart gradually turned cold. Although he didn't know what happened to Blackhot City, everything in front of him had clearly told him that Blackhot City had suffered a great change.
After coming to the south gate of Blackhot City, Zhang Tie was startled by the broken city wall and the widely opened city gate. It seemed that this city had suffered a catastrophe. It was dilapidated and desolate everywhere. It was pitch-dark on the city wall. Only some men with long spears were sitting crookedly at the city gate. The entire city seemed to have been abandoned. Such a city was far from being as boisterous as before.
Those men were sitting in the doorway of the city gate with a bonfire. They were roasting something around the bonfire. Not until Zhang Tie arrived at the city gate did the guy who was sitting opposite to Zhang Tie realize that a person had arrived outside the city gate. Therefore, he exclaimed at once.
"Ahh, someone's coming …"
The moment that man shouted, all the other people sitting in front of the bonfire turned around at once. Closely after that, they picked up the long spears on their shoulders and rushed towards Zhang Tie at once.
"Who's that?" A 40-odd strong guy with a ferocious face glared at Zhang Tie and asked.
Zhang Tie frowned at these people. Their clothes were messy. They didn't look like soldiers of the regular army at all. Their postures of holding long spears, their reactions and coordination were not good. They were absolutely like a group of commoners who only had a bit of brute force. In other words, they were just a motley crew.
"Who are you?" Zhang Tie glanced at them and asked.
"Ahh, you can talk and blink. You're not those damn zombies!" Hearing Zhang Tie's words, one guy let out a sigh at once as he put down his long spear. However, after glaring at him, the ferocious guy hurriedly raised his long spear in a bashful way.
"Brat, who are you? Where do you come from? What do you want to do in Blackhot City?" That 40-odd years old guy asked Zhang Tie loudly. "Brat, who are you? Where do you come from?
Zhang Tie didn't reply. He just moved one step forward and stretched out his hand. He forcefully pulled the long spear out of the 40-odd guy's hand. Like magic, he raised his hand and changed the direction of the long spear. Closely after that, the sharp spearhead was placed on the neck of the 40-odd guy's Adam's apple.
Zhang Tie moved so fast that those people only felt dazzled in front of their eyes. In the blink of an eye, Zhang Tie had already grabbed one of their long spears and pinched the life of the most powerful guy among them.
"Now, it's my turn. Who are you? Where do you come from? What's the current situation in Blackhot City?"
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