Xiao Zan had completely abandoned his original idea!
He now knew that, given their strength, it was fundamentally impossible for them to carry out that scheme!
However, His Highness the Crown Prince still drew out a thousand-kilometer-wide area and granted it to him as a hereditary fiefdom.
Seeing that His Highness the Crown Prince had bestowed it upon him sincerely, Xiao Zan sincerely kowtowed to thank his master for the favor!
He decided to build a sturdy fortress here and guard the northern frontier of the Great Zhou Dynasty!
His Highness the Crown Prince politely declined to name it, leaving the decision entirely to him!
After some thought, Xiao Zan nodded and decided to name the city where the fortress stood Northern Nether City!
His Highness the Crown Prince thought the name was quite good, so he personally wrote out the three characters and had Xiao Zan carve them atop the solitary peak of a great mountain.
In the time that followed, His Highness the Crown Prince devoted himself to teaching his personal disciple Xiao Zan and the seven thousand Eastern Palace Guards, leading them in frenzied cultivation.
In such remote and desolate places, demons and monsters were most plentiful!
Over nearly seven years, His Highness the Crown Prince and the others built Northern Nether City with countless stark white bones.
Most of these bones came from ferocious creatures that had crawled out of the Bottomless Abyss.
These ferocious creatures were not only naturally savage, but also enormous, with exceptionally fierce and powerful combat abilities!
Under the tempering of these abyssal creatures, the Eastern Palace Guards' combat strength soared wildly, and their cultivation levels rose steadily as well!
Xiao Zan had already reached his opportunity to undergo the tribulation!
On this day, the weather was clear and pleasant, with not