Only at this moment, standing amid the battlefield, did Zhang Tie truly understand what it meant for a dragon to swim in shallow waters, for a tiger to fall upon the plains.
No matter how heaven-defying his abilities had once been, for now he could only remain trapped in the ruins of a small inn, painfully contemplating his next move.
If he could enter the Castle of Black Iron now, everything would become simple. No matter what, as long as he stayed safely within the Castle of Black Iron for three years and waited for the weakened period of the "Lin" Character Art to pass, once his strength recovered, who among the humans and devils of this world could stand against him? Even ending the Holy War would be within reach.
But now, unable to enter the Castle of Black Iron and with his strength still unrecovered, every problem became complicated.
The most pressing matter was survival. A true man could bend and stretch; as long as he endured these three years of weakness, everything in the future could still be discussed.
Although the Sovereign Demon God's projection in the chaotic space had ultimately failed to stop him from returning, and could not track his whereabouts after he had used the secret art of the "Lin" Character Art to transform into a Roc King egg and passed through layer upon layer of spatial barriers in a reborn state, there was a high chance that the Sovereign Demon God knew the aftereffects of using this secret art from the Infinite Roc King Scripture and understood his current condition. Though the Sovereign Demon God could no longer descend upon this world, an undying existence of such terrifying power could surely transmit its will to the Devil Race's foremost figures. Perhaps at this