An Earth Knight absorbed elemental crystals while fighting a knight at the ninth transformation of Phantom Nine Transformations. To any knight, that would have been madness. But Zhang Tie was not mad, and everything he did flowed as smoothly as drifting clouds and running water. It took only a moment for all the knights watching Zhang Tie to grasp the key—on the battlefield, Zhang Tie was splitting his attention three ways.
Many people had seen knights and skills capable of splitting one's mind in two, but this was the first time many had seen a skill that split one's mind in three.
At this moment, one part of Zhang Tie's mind was focused on the Silver Secret Treasure shield in his hand, one was controlling Dragon Devourer's true secret-treasure form, and the last was absorbing elemental crystals.
Zhang Tie defended seventy percent of the time and attacked thirty percent. Though he was being suppressed by the Ironclad Devil using Phantom Nine Transformations, that Ironclad Devil's attacks could do nothing to Zhang Tie, and Zhang Tie was not visibly at a disadvantage.
Zhang Tie had just displayed the consummate art of uniting fist and sword. Now, however, he was displaying the consummate art of uniting sword and shield. Even in Zuo Qiu Mingyue's eyes, Zhang Tie's defense could only be described with one phrase—seamless as heaven's robe.
Dragon Devourer transformed into a silver dragon, dancing through the space ten to twenty meters around Zhang Tie, Sword Qi spilling in every direction.
Inside Dragon Devourer's perimeter was Zhang Tie's protective Sword Qi. His protective Sword Qi could be hard or soft, able to attack and defend. Within that was his protective Battle Qi. Inside the protective Battle Qi was his Silver Secret Treasure shield, and only after that came Zhang Tie's body.