The Black Iron Castle
Chapter 1968

Baleful God

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Heaven of Light?

The name was far too strange. Zhang Tie had never heard of it before, yet merely hearing it gave one a hazy, ethereal sense of immortal aura drifting through the air.

Zhang Tie stared fixedly at the three-dimensional map in his Sea of Consciousness for a long while. He discovered that there was only one route to the highest level of Mountain Ruins: beneath the level called Heaven of Light stood an enormous tower-shaped structure known as the Sky-Piercing Tower. Like a colossal pillar, it linked the uppermost two levels of the Sky-Piercing Realm. It was the sole passage connecting Heaven of Light to the level below, and the only route in or out of Heaven of Light.

"You said that place is the most dangerous part of Incomplete Mountain. What exactly is so dangerous there?" Zhang Tie asked Tang Mei curiously.

"To be honest, I don't know either!" Tang Mei shook her head slightly.

"You don't know?" Zhang Tie's voice rose sharply.

"Does Brother think I'm a god, knowing everything?" Tang Mei shot Zhang Tie a glance, then brushed the hair at her temple aside. That small gesture suddenly made her seem far more womanly in Zhang Tie's eyes. "Since Incomplete Mountain collapsed, no one has ever entered its highest level. Even as the mistress of Wa Emperor Palace, I can't possibly know everything. The reason I say that place is the most dangerous is merely based on my own deductions!"

"Deductions?" Zhang Tie was somewhat dumbfounded. "You dared stake yourself on nothing but your own deductions? You're that certain?"

"Of course. My deductions are backed by sound reasoning, rigorously derived from the information I know. They aren't blind guesses!"

"Fine, then just tell me what dangerous things you think are in there!"

"Other than the

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