After Sleeping Foothill City-Domain first came under attack, it encountered several more crises over the following year. However, all of them were resolved through the joint efforts of Zhu Zonghu and the many mystic cultivators.
A year later, the garrison dispatched a unit to station near the fief.
Although the garrison was small in number and carried more symbolic than practical significance, these people represented King Xi's will and possessed a certain deterrent force. This indeed made Sleeping Foothill City-Domain much more stable. Though attacks still came from time to time, Zhu Zonghu was at last able to devote most of his energy to internal construction.
Amid the countless disturbances, time flowed on, and in the blink of an eye, more than twenty years had passed.
The Sleeping Foothill territory had taken on an entirely new appearance. The city-domain had expanded three times in succession, Hao Clan-style Creation ring halls had been built throughout the city, and it now possessed its own Creation weapon factories, no longer needing to live at others' mercy. The great defensive formation surrounding the entire city-domain had finally been completed three years earlier.
In truth, city-domains that possessed both a Creation defense system and a protective grand formation were not common on the Earth Continent. Creation was one matter; the chief difficulty lay with cultivators. Such a grand formation could not be erected merely by finding a few cultivators. These methods were mostly held by great sects and major schools, and required a large number of cultivators versed in them to participate in the construction.
But Sleeping Foothill City-Domain was different. More than thirty-five thousand mystic cultivators had now gathered here, including several Mystic Venerables who had transitioned from True Law into the Turbid Canon.
The method they used took the Celestial Xia grand formation