Castle of Black Iron - Chapter 1275

Chapter 1275: 1275
Besides Lu Clan and Gu Clan, Zhang Tie was also familiar with a couple of elders of Yan Clan of Chaoyang Prefecture, Liu Clan of Changshan Prefecture, Ximen Clan of Xingbei Prefecture, Sun Clan of Guide Prefecture in Youzhou Province at present . Of course, there were also some strange faces . However, Zhang Tie was familiar with over 3/4 of the 40-odd knights on the airboat .



Although Gu elders felt complexed, the other clans' elders didn't think as much as them; instead, they all nodded towards Zhang Tie with smiles as they came over here to greet Zhang Tie and Mountain Lifting Hermit . Zhang Tie immediately felt like being a moon surrounded by a myriad of stars . As the clan disciples of many knights on the airboat were Zhang Tie's indoor disciples, of course, they treated Zhang Tie much better .

Not to mention that Zhang Tie was an earth knight . In the knight's world, people won respect by battle strength . As an earth knight and Qianji Hermit who enjoyed a great reputation among humans, of course, Zhang Tie was especially venerated .

Guo Hongyi was also at present .

Zhang Tie remembered that Guo Clan might only have 3 knights . He had not imagined that Guo Hongyi could come here alone .

Being independent among those male knights, Guo Hongyi was distant, arrogant and pretty eye-catching .

When Zhang Tie looked at Guo Hongyi, Guo Hongyi was looking at him too .

Soon after Zhang Tie threw a glance at Guo Hongyi, his arm had been tightly embraced by Bai Suxian and pasted onto her plump and soft breasts . Guo Hongyi turned around at once .

It took them 2 minutes to greet Zhang Tie .

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"Qianji Hermit and the other two knights of Iron-Dragon Sect have arrived . 38 knights should arrive; however, 43 people actually arrived . Please take a rest for the time being . We will set for Yanzhou City now!" Zhang Taixuan in provincial governor's uniform said . Closely after that, the movable cover slowly covered the deck while the airboat left for Yanzhou Province .

As Zhang Tie's Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory was between Yanzhou Province and Youzhou Province, Zhang Tie, Elder Muray, Elder Muyu, Bai Suxian and Mountain Lifting Hermit boarded the airboat in the end .

Mountain Lifting Hermit and Bai Suxian actually didn't need to come .

Mountain Lifting Hermit was always alone . Although being an elder of Iron-Dragon Sect, he didn't have any undertaking in Youzhou Province . Neither did he have any family in Taixia Country . Even if he didn't come here, nobody would blame him .

Bai Suxian's another identity was the princess of Lord Guangnan's Mansion . As Lord Guangnan's Mansion also responded to the Xuanyuan command by assigning many knights to join the war . Therefore, Bai Suxian didn't have to come .



Additionally, some clans assigned 3 knights when they only needed to assign 2 . With 1 more knight, although it seemed that these clans had contributed more to the war, actually, it was just a method for the clans to protect themselves . Because on the battlefield, 3 clan knights who were familiar with each other could form a 3-in-1 battle formation . Through long-term practice and cooperation, the 3-in-1 formation was far more powerful than average . After forming a 3-in-1 formation, the 3 clan knights could have a much greater viability in the battlefield . That was to say, 3 clan knights could have a greater chance to survive back than 2 clan knights .

After Zhang Taixuan's words, they all entered the airboat from the deck .

There was also a lobby inside the provincial governor's airboat . Some drinks and food were put on the tables . This lobby still looked very spacious after holding fewer than 50 knights . After Zhang Tie's group arrived, all the knights who responded to the Xuanyun command within Youzhou Province had arrived .

If it was in peaceful time, when so many knights across Youzhou Province gathered, they might feel like chatting with each other . However, at this critical moment, of course, they didn't feel like having a party anymore . It would take them over 3 hours from Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory to Yanzhou City by airboat . After greeting each other and Zhang Taixuan's brief speech as Youzhou provincial governor, they had taken seats . With closed eyes, they entered meditation with crossed legs or took out earth-element crystals from their portable storage bags and absorbed them .

On the battlefield, if they could have a bit greater battle strength, they would have a bigger chance to survive themselves . On this occasion, of course these human knights wouldn't like to waste their time . Only the personages Zhang Taixuan and Lu Dingzhi seemingly shared the same interest as they felt like playing the game of go .

Mountain Lifting Hermit and Bai Suxian also found a place to sit down respectively . Under the "admiring" looks of those people, Mountain Lifting Hermit took out a water-element crystal from his portable space-teleportation equipment and started to absorb it .

After finding that all the others were cultivating with crossed legs, Zhang Taixuan and Lu Dingzhi left the lobby too . Zhang Tie called Elder Muray and Elder Muyu out of the lobby by a secret means .

They didn't feel strange when the 3 people left . After all, Zhang Tie was the grand elder of Huaiyuan Palace . It was too normal for a grand elder to talk something to two elders of the same clan .

After being far away from the lobby, Zhang Tie drew the two people into a mini-conference . The moment they entered the room, Zhang Tie had pretended to fumble something in his coat before taking out something and putting an item on each elder's hand .

"Erm, we're all elders of Huaiyuan Palace . . . I got these items from Earth-element Realm by good fortune . I will . . . lend it to you . You could have a greater chance to survive on the battlefield with it . When you come back and don't need it . . . you could give it back to me then!"

After saying that to the two elders, Zhang Tie directly opened the door and left before the two elders made any response .

At the sight of the item in their hand, Elder Muray and Elder Muyu were shocked greatly, mentally and spiritually . . .

"This is . . . " Elder Muyu swallowed his saliva forcefully as he looked up at Elder Muray .

Elder Muray's hand also quivered as he said, "There is something inside it . . . "

In the two space-teleportation finger rings, there were various medicaments, food, water and over 200 earth-element crystals, which could enable a knight to survive 10 years in Taixia Country without any supply . Additionally, there was a brilliant silver secret longsword which was used for close combat floating in the space of each finger ring .



Except for Zhang Tie, only Zhang Taixuan the clan head of Zhang Clan obtained a provincial governor's space-teleportation finger ring when he took the chair of Youzhou provincial governor .

Zhang Tie gifted 2 space-teleportation finger rings for one time; additionally, there was a silver secret item in each space-teleportation finger ring . What a generous deed!

Elder Muray and Elder Muyu had not imagined that Zhang Tie could give them such a rarity after calling them out .

"Qianji Hermit could always bring us surprises . . . " Elder Muyu sighed with emotions as he was completely convinced by Elder Mushen . . .

"Put it away, it's Elder Mushen's sincerity . . . " Elder Muray also sighed with feeling .

As this equipment could bring them a greater chance to survive themselves on the battlefield, of course, the two people would not decline it .

The moment Elder Muyu was going to put on the finger ring, he found that Elder Muray directly strung it onto a mithril rune necklace before hiding it under his clothes carefully . Elder Muyu became hesitated for a second before taking off the finger ring from his finger and hanging it over his neck with a necklace .

Being low-key was always good!

If a black iron knight wore a portable space-teleportation finger ring, it would be too eye-catching as only some powerful elites in very few super clans and top 7 sects of Taixia Country could wear it .

After putting on the finger ring, the two elders smiled at each other before opening the door and returning to the lobby . . .

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Zhang Tie and the two elders of Huaiyuan Palace had not noticed that the finger of Zhang Taixuan which wore a colorful finger ring slightly moved when Zhang Tie took out the two space-teleportation equipment from Castle of Black Iron .

Besides Zhang Taixuan who was walking, nobody else had noticed that .

"Brother Lu, here we are . . . " Zhang Taixuan pushed open the door of the silent room, revealing one table and two cattail hassocks which were folded with each other .

"Hahaha, it's my first time to play the game of go with brother Taixuan, brother Taixuan, hope you do not reserve your skills . . . " Lu Dingzhi laughed .

"Brother Lu must have a great psychological diathesis as you're still interested in playing the game of go before going to fight demons on the battlefield in the west border of Taixia Country . Through having "hand talk" with brother Lu, I'm also learning how to be quiet in the chaos and nourish my vital spirit like you . . . " Zhang Taixuan said modestly .

"I'm overpraised; my ability to nourish my vital spirit is far worse than that of the late sages of Taixia Country . Hope you do not laugh at me!"

The two people laughed as they started the game of go . . .

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This time, Zhang Tie didn't mean to show off his wealth by presenting two space-teleportation equipment and two silver secret items to Elder Muray and Elder Muyu; neither would like to draw the two elders over to his side . He just did that for his conscience . On the battlefield between humans and demons, even knights would be killed easily . As a member of Huaiyuan Palace, Zhang Tie just expected that the two elders of Huaiyuan Palace could have a greater chance to survive on the battlefields on the premise of his own ability . If Zhang Tie didn't give any favor to the two elders of Huaiyuan Palace and the two elders finally died on the battlefield, Zhang Tie might be conscience-stricken for the rest of his life .

Zhang Tie knew that Elder Muray had a silver secret longbow; however, the longbow was only suitable for long-distance combat; instead of close combat . Therefore, he directly left a weapon that was suitable for close combat in each space-teleportation finger ring .

Only in a few days, Zhang Tie had gifted 4 space-teleportation equipment . However, he still had a lot of space-teleportation equipment . Others would definitely be shocked greatly if they knew that .

After gifting two space-teleportation equipment to Elder Muray and Elder Muyu, Zhang Tie also returned to the lobby and sat next to Mountain Lifting Hermit with eyes closed . He visualized dozens of abacuses in his mind and started to calculate at the same time .

In the next 1 minute, Elder Muray and Elder Muyu came back too . They also sat somewhere with common looks and started to cultivate quietly .

After a short while, the lobby had been quiet although over 40 knights were inside it .

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Zhang Tie was carrying out four arithmetic operations by 27 abacuses at the same time in mind .

After coming back from Ice and Snow Wilderness, Zhang Tie's spiritual energy roared once again . As a result, Zhang Tie could do 27 tasks at the same time .

However, Zhang Tie felt that he had reached the upper limit of "thousands of beads mental sutra" and his multi-tasking ability . After reaching this step, even though he could visualize more abacuses at the same time, he couldn't operate the 28th abacus at the same time .

27 was a miraculous figure .

Hua people said that 9 was the extreme of numbers . 27 was three times that of 9 . 27 was also the cube of 3 . 27 was a natural number, odd number, composite number and the 7th number of Lucas Sequence . 1/27 was an infinite number of circles whose repetend was 037 . . .

Like that the numbers of fruits bore by the small tree were limited, Zhang Tie knew that multi-tasking skill was also limited .

Through constant attempts, Zhang Tie could also visualize over 1,000 abacuses in his mind at the same time, even more . Zhang Tie felt that he still had surplus spiritual energy . However, no matter how much he tried, he could only manipulate 27 abacuses independently at the same time . He could have all the other abacuses move; however, he could only calculate 20 kinds of equations by all the other abacuses at the same time instead of doing independently .

After trying it for quite a while and confirming that he couldn't operate 28 abacuses independently at the same time, Zhang Tie finally gave it up . The moment Zhang Tie prepared to eradicate those abacuses in his mind, the scene that over 1,000 abacuses gathered with each other suddenly reminded Zhang Tie of something .

Zhang Tie ran his spiritual energy while over 1,000 abacuses in his mind moved at the same time .

However, this time, Zhang Tie didn't use those abacuses to do any arithmetic calculations; instead, he gathered those abacuses and turned them into some huge walls being covered with beards of abacuses . . .

These huge walls immediately reminded Zhang Tie of those dense calculation gears like sugar-coated haws on sticks in those steam computers . . .

They were so similar .

'What if I could visualize those round beards as gears and all the other components of a steam computer? If so, I could visualize a steam computer in my mind . '

An enlightenment flashed across Zhang Tie's mind . . .

. . .

"We're arriving at Yanzhou City . . . "

Before Zhang Tie tried it, a voice had sounded . . .

Over 3 hours had passed so fast . . .

Zhang Tie opened his eyes at once . . .