While the situation in Great Xia churned in chaos, Zhang Tie waited calmly aboard the airship for the Iron Dragon Sect's airship to arrive. At the same time, he remained in contact with Prince of Guangnan's Mansion, preparing to carry out some initial development of the fief he had been granted in the Southern Frontier.
The fief Prince of Guangnan had bestowed upon him was a stretch of land centered on Primordial Pole Mountain, with a radius of over a thousand kilometers. Located in the Southern Frontier, it had once been renowned as one of the ten greatest perilous lands.
Of course, "one of the ten greatest perilous lands" was an old description. In the past, the powerful magnetism of Primordial Pole Mountain, together with that fiery cavern beneath it where even knights who entered met death without life, had indeed made it a fearsome place that people dreaded even from afar. But now, with the sudden emergence of the Great Wilderness Grotto-Heaven, and everyone knowing that the flaming cave beneath Primordial Pole Mountain was the entrance to the Great Wilderness Grotto-Heaven, this perilous land was naturally no longer perilous—it had become a treasure land.
Basically, no one could live on this fief. Those able to come here were generally knights, or barbarians living in the surrounding mountains and forests. Thus, Zhang Tie's so-called development did not mean making any great moves on the surface or building cities, since the conditions simply did not permit it. In the initial stage, his development merely consisted of having Prince of Guangnan's Mansion build a castle atop Primordial Pole Mountain where people could set foot and stay.
Building a castle in such a place would naturally have been a task beset by a thousand hardships and ten thousand difficulties for others, but for