During last year's Battle of the Wei River, Zhang Tie had rescued more than two hundred million Great Xia citizens from the Devil Race's main camp through a wager. They had originally been meant to clear mines for the Devil Race. After being rescued by Zhang Tie, nearly more than half of them—over a hundred million people—had now come to Torch Dragon Territory, choosing to settle there and become Zhang Tie's subjects.
Originally, transporting more than a hundred million people from the banks of Great Xia's Wei River to Torch Dragon Territory within a short time had been a task virtually impossible to accomplish. Nor did Torch Dragon Territory possess such capability. Fortunately, Torch Dragon Territory now had countless allies. The great families and major sects from every province that cooperated with Torch Dragon Territory in producing Torch Oil each dispatched an airship fleet or several flying boats, each taking responsibility for transporting hundreds of thousands, several hundred thousand, or several million people. Through everyone's combined efforts, these people were finally brought to Torch Dragon Territory.
The Celestial Mechanism Sect and Prince of Guangnan's Mansion, for example, each dispatched flying boats and airship fleets, coordinated forces from all sides, and each took responsibility for transferring nearly ten million refugees.
In present-day Torch Dragon Territory, there were nearly a thousand towns like Heaven's Grace Town, each with a population of around a hundred thousand, scattered throughout the territory. All these towns shared one feature: their names invariably contained one character from these twelve words—"Thousand-Machine True Lord, divine might like a mountain, grace akin to rebirth."
These towns had only sprung up across Torch Dragon Territory in the past month or two. Their inhabitants were the innocent citizens Zhang Tie had rescued. Those twelve words—"Thousand-Machine True Lord, divine might like a mountain,