Half a month later, news that Tong Lie had challenged the Northern Meng Dragon King Meng Zhao, one of the foremost young prodigies of the contemporary Divine Land human race, spread far and wide. From powerful nobles and aristocrats to common folk, everyone learned of it.
Tong Lie, a Savage Tribes powerhouse from the Arctic Ice Plains, was willing, under Xie Wanzhi's supervision and witness, to challenge Meng Zhao, the Northern Meng Dragon King, with his Grandmaster cultivation.
If he won, he would naturally only be shattering Meng Zhao's legend of invincibility and grinding the Divine Continent's top young prodigy beneath his feet.
But if he lost, he would acknowledge that the Divine Land's martial arts were profound and vast, beyond anything the Savage Tribes or even the Hundred Clans could compare with. As a Great Grandmaster, he would swear to serve under Meng Zhao for ten years.
Whatever Meng Zhao asked of him during that time, so long as it did not violate Tong Lie's own principles, he would comply and obey.
Of course, Meng Zhao could also refuse this challenge. Tong Lie would not force him, but Tong Lie would regard the Divine Land human race's so-called top prodigy as nothing more than a gutless coward.
Once this matter spread through word of mouth, not long after Xie Wanzhi's defeat, it once again bolstered the human race's confidence. Many martial artists placed all their hopes and aspirations upon Meng Zhao once more.
As the saying went, the times made heroes. Back then, Meng Zhao had relied on those achievements by Mingxiu Lake to stand shoulder to shoulder with Shen Tianci, and it was only through the tacit promotion and momentum-building of the Northern Lands' powerful clans and noble families that this reputation had finally taken shape.
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