Outside Baiyue City.
Qin Shaofeng and the others had entered the city through the west gate and had not noticed what was happening to the south.
Though the Northern Heaven region was also vast,
Northern Heaven was, after all, the main line of defense against the Ghost Corpse Race's invasion.
Throughout the entire Northern Heaven region, the local customs were exceedingly fierce and hardy.
Even most of the factions under Northern Heaven had something of a military air about them, with endurance of hardship being the most common trait.
Perhaps that was why people from Northern Heaven rarely came here.
As a result, the area outside the west gate appeared quite desolate.
Yet after leaving through the south gate, what met the eye was a stretch of places resembling marketplaces.
Such gathering places extended for a hundred li.
Qin Shaofeng merely swept his gaze over them from the air and gained a new understanding of Northern Heaven once again.
At this moment, however, he had no mood to care about such things.
Three hundred li from Baiyue City.
More precisely, over three hundred and seventy li away, lay the manor Elder Xu had mentioned.
It was a manor in name, but in truth, it was even larger than the Forbidden City Qin Shaofeng had visited before crossing over.
Viewed from afar in the sky, it truly resembled an imperial palace.
He did not know whether the manor was usually occupied.
But at present, dense crowds filled the manor. They seemed to have come to offer birthday congratulations, though they might have been doing something else.
Qin Shaofeng had no interest in considering what these people were doing.
The instant he approached from the high sky, he had completely concealed his aura.
When he appeared above the manor,
or rather, above