Tier Seven Star, one of the three indigenous nations in the desert, the Scorpion Country had developed the Scorpion-tailed People and Eagle-winged People's origins, laws, and path to the higher tiers around sandstorms. They often summoned sandstorms in the desert to attack their enemies and destroy oases, showing off their might and prestige.
Yet the indigenous people of the Scorpion Country still lived in desert oases.
Their survival and growth depended just as much on water and oases; they could not live in the desert on nothing but sand and howling winds.
So when Ghost God Wu Shanshan led Liang Ji's Vassals, flying ships, and Ghost Gods from the Nine Springs Underworld to defeat the Scorpion Country army that had come to attack, then pursued them all the way, she discovered that the fleeing Scorpion-tailed People and Eagle-winged People had escaped into a vast desert oasis.
This oasis was far larger and more prosperous than the oasis city currently occupied by the Dragon Emperor Cult. It even contained a massive lake and a stretch of woodland.
A great many Scorpion Country natives lived in the oasis. When the defeated Scorpion Country troops fled there, Wu Shanshan led the Ghost Gods, Vassals, and flying ships in pursuit.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
Enemy attack...
Bells rang out across the desert oasis, followed by shrill cries. The Scorpion Country natives living there had spotted Wu Shanshan and the others approaching and raised the alarm.
In the next instant, throngs of Scorpion-tailed People and Eagle-winged People rushed out from all over the oasis, hurrying to its edge to form battle lines and activate the various defenses set up there.
Amid a deafening roar, fierce winds descended from the sky. Yellow sand whirled up all around them, joining the winds above. In the blink of an