True Person Muxuan and Li Zhan left the military camp and headed toward the City Lord's Mansion on the other side of the inner city.
In the end, Zhou Hao had asked for no reward. He had only asked True Person Muxuan to look after the Iron Ox Tribe after he left Jade Dragon City for the Immortal Sect.
This was only right and proper. Whether Zhou Hao joined the Jade Dragon Sect or went to the Upper Sect for its entrance trials, his tribe was already under Jade Dragon City's protection. True Person Muxuan readily agreed.
Li Zhan walked silently behind his master, but the turmoil in his heart was nothing like the calm he showed on the surface.
Why?
Why give that opportunity to Zhou Hao?
That should have been my opportunity!
Thinking of all he had worked for over the years, only to be outdone by a tribesman he had met just a few days ago, Li Zhan felt fire churning in his eyes.
From the moment he had first succeeded in cultivating the Chiming Nine Heavens Map as a child and sensed two Supreme Stars, Li Zhan had known that his future did not lie in the Great Wild Plains!
The Great Wild Tribes were too small. So what if his family became the hegemon among the clans of the Great Wild Plains?
It would still be just a little tribe in some remote backwater.
Compared with those top-tier Immortal Sect clans and powers, it was still an ant, one that could be crushed with a casual flick of the hand.
Joining an Immortal Sect and becoming an Earth Immortal, Loose Immortal, or even a Heavenly Immortal—that was what his future should hold.
For that, Li Zhan had been willing to abandon everything. He had even