Near Fishing Sea in the Vast Desert stood one of Immortal Traces' exits. Chunyangzi, Xie Jiugui, ran his little tavern in Fishing Sea, specializing in gathering intelligence.
Yet when Xu Yue and Meng Qi returned to the Vast Desert, they were completely different from before.
Outer Scenery Second Heaven!
It seemed there were quite a few Outer Scenery powerhouses throughout the main world. Most of the Earth Ranking consisted of Grandmasters, and it had already listed two hundred of them. Naturally, there were even more Peak Experts and ordinary Outer Scenery experts.
But once that number was spread across the vast Real World, it was normal for ordinary cities to have no Outer Scenery experts stationed there at all.
Take the Vast Desert, for example. The bandit chief known as the "Vast Sea Evil Blade," who dominated the desert, was already the ceiling among the horse bandits. Though several others were as famous as him, the strongest bandit chiefs were at most at the Outer Scenery Triple Heaven.
Each of them was like a local emperor, their word absolute. Whoever they said should die would die.
Even ordinary local aristocratic clans had to pay tribute to the horse bandits.
It was not that Peak Experts could never emerge among horse bandits. Rather, Peak Experts had already outgrown the constraints of being horse bandits. The hundred nations of the Western Desert stood side by side. Besides the support of Crying Old Man's faction, the strongest nation, Hale Kingdom, also possessed one Grandmaster, two Peak Experts, and another eleven Outer Scenery experts combined.
This established its status as the strongest nation in the Western Desert.
As for the smaller nations, they generally needed only a peak expert as king, along with one or two ordinary Outer Scenery experts among their upper ranks,