Yuhu Mountain had only offended the Ghost and Demon clans, as well as the Heavenly Court. True to the righteous style of the Heavenly Court, it would naturally not execute the miners. One could only imagine that the Ghost and Demon clans were unwilling to give up and would soon return.
Practitioners needed to reach the Earth Immortal realm in order to fly on swords. Most of the miners could not reach this level; disbanding them on the spot would mean they could not travel far before being easily recaptured.
Furthermore, Zhou Chuan considered that more ascenders would arrive in the Nether Realm in the future. If he failed to establish a faction to protect them, their fate would simply be reduced to becoming mining slaves for some faction.
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