Castle of Black Iron

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After the Catastrophe, every rule in the world was rewritten.

In the Age of Black Iron, steel, iron, steam engines and fighting force became the crux in which human beings depended on to survive.

A commoner boy by the name Zhang Tie was selected by the gods of fortune and was gifted a small tree which could constantly produce various marvelous fruits. At the same time, Zhang Tie was thrown into the flames of war, a three-hundred-year war between the humans and monsters on the vacant continent. Using crystals to tap into the potentials of the human body, one must cultivate to become stronger.

The thrilling legends of mysterious clans, secrets of Oriental fantasies, numerous treasures and legacies in the underground world — All in the Castle of Black Iron!

Associated Names
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Citadel of Black Iron
COBI
黑铁之堡
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Pretender
Pretender rated it
January 29, 2020
Status: Completed
Not gonna lie, it kind of looks like the novel was cancelled or something like this, lol. A lot of things left open, and the author clearly showed that their world/strength was nothing special too, as both his cultivation method, the little tree and the black tower are things of higher level than his world (and are previously “defeated”, in some way, so bigger forces and enmities).

Still a 4 cause I think the author was forced to leave it like this (and it could have a lot more chapters).
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Lord070
Lord070 rated it
January 5, 2020
Status: Completed
I enjoyed it very much.A novel where te MC isint bland he has a personality, he starts as a h**ny teenager who wants to get laid to a man who has to bear the weight of a family and the expectations of a country or the world by the end, his hardships the women's that he spends some time but knows its not forever. Some things were left unanswerd and that is to bad, the author also didint developted the relations with his women and children. But you shoud definitaly... more>> read <<less
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Szini50
Szini50 rated it
June 18, 2019
Status: c531
Im honestly annoyed with this novel sometimes.

The author makes the MC lose his powers (or some parts of it) multiple Times duringe novel just to postpone the story development. Thats very very anoying because the development is slow af, 531ch. And he still is considering weak. And then those time skips, if there is something I hate most in novels are s*upid time skips. And yes I read a little spoilers and some ch ahead I now there will be even more time skips... Ok Im out. A shame because... more>> its ratcher good and has almost no plot armor I was suprised about that. <<less
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craterman
craterman rated it
December 22, 2018
Status: c540
Starts off pretty strong as it has lots of unique aspects such as cultivation, world building, plot and what not.

As the story progresses it gets more and more interesting... until a bit after chapter 500.

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Spoiler

At this point, the 3rd holy war is only a month or two away and the main character just finished moving all his friends and family out of blackhot city over to Jinyun province which is safer. While doing this he finds out that master Abayan (a pharmacist aka a wanabee alchemist) killed some of the girls from the whatever organization that he slept with a while back so he goes to try to kill him. So far so good. Then comes the fight, he finds out Abayan is a lv14 shadow demon capable of transforming into a human and proceeds to get demolished by abayan, abayan then proceeds to start absorbing the blood and qi of Zhang Tie and starts evolving from it, Zhang Tie then pulls out an item he got at the start of the story and stabs abayan with it that turned out to have the ability to steal abayans power and give it to Zhang Tie making him a part human part shadow demon who has the abilities of both and can blend into both societies, sounded pretty cool to me... but Zhang Tie wansn't having any of it and said he wanted to go back to being a pure human no matter the price... and so Heller helped him do it, at the cost of his flower of life, all his seven strength fruits, and with the fact he can never get seven strength fruits again, he becomes a pure human again. This negates a huge chunk of the prior chapters an nerfs the Zhang Tie in both current strength and in future potential.

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Okay that was pretty shitty and might make some people drop it as it is but does it stop there? Nope, of course not, although the plane might be in full nose dive it can still pull up, right?

Spoiler

As it would turn out Zhang Tie has been in a coma 3 years as well so his strength which has already been nerfed is now several years behind everyone else making him (can you guess it?) bottom of the barrel. All those people he surpassed? Already way stronger than him. The holy war? Already three years in and in full swing, aka we missed some great potential content. Also did I mention his master thinks him long dead? The fruit he got from killing abayan was full of all his knowledge though thats a plus right? Now he can pursue his long time goal of becoming an alchemist right? Nope, he could give the fruit away so he did...

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So pretty much the author suddenly changed how the main character will grow stronger in the future and scrapped that whole alchemist thing the main character has been wanting for a while, not to mention some other changes that make the story, and the the main character just feel completely different, almost like the author of the book changed hands and the new author has a completely different plan in mind on how to progress the story and has decided to scrap 80% of the story so far. So now the plane has crashed and completely brurned...

I'm gonna take one for the team and stick it out a bit longer to see if a rescue team shows up though, wish me luck, I know I'll need it. <<less
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AeonicI
AeonicI rated it
May 17, 2018
Status: c645
The story is in a post-apocalyptic world where most of the techonology has been lost. Knowledge such as mental arithmetic, breeding animals, and teachings in one's way of life are deemed as "secret knowledge" which must not be shared openly. This in turn made them walk another path where they focused more on cultivation.

The MC is in his puberty which explains why the first few chapters were mostly described in how one thinks his age. Tall, sturdy, and piston movements are few of the examples one would find here. It... more>> isn't that bad to be honest.

The side characters on the other hand are one-dimensional. Even his best friends are in this category which makes the story really dull. The first girl he wooed gives the same feeling even though her point if view was shown.

What puts me off isn't his obsession in girls (most guys are the same) but in how the author changes from "telling the story" into a second-person-point of view. The way he "tells" the story is already bad but the writer was not contented and actually starts a paragraph where he directly gives more explanation by y adressing us through "you and your". It's appalling.

It is not a great story. I would rate it 2.5 if possible but it cannot be done so I'll round it off to 3.

Do I recommend reading it?

= I'd say 50/50. Read it like smelling a passing wind. <<less
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