Douqi Continent.
Northwest Continent, within the Jia Ma Empire, which had recently risen to fame.
Once a major city ranked near the bottom of the Jia Ma Empire, it had now leapt to become the empire's second most prosperous city.
The reason was simple. Although Wutan City, once the seat of the Xiao Clan, no longer bore any trace of that family, and that once-powerful clan should have received only a few scant mentions in the city's history, the city had flourished because the Xiao Clan had produced a Xiao Wujiu.
The only thing people still talked about was that outstanding son of the Xiao Clan. Yet the clan's departure had caused those forces seeking to curry favor and attach themselves to it to lose their final target, leaving behind only those who had not come to flatter them...
"Protector Mo, do you think we can really wait for Xiao Wujiu here as the Elder instructed?" Protector Xuan said boredly. They had been lying in wait here for over a month.
Ever since they had captured someone from Jia Nan Academy who had been returning to the Xiao Clan, they had been waiting for someone to come rescue him. But the results had been poor, and there had been no news at all from the real target.
At first, the Elder had waited with them. But after Xiao Wujiu failed to appear for a long time, he simply had Protector Mo and him stand guard while the Elder went looking for opportunities. Rumor had it that he had set his sights on the soul of a sixth-tier alchemist...
"You'd better say less about the Elder's affairs. If someone with ulterior motives hears you, you won't get off lightly!"
Protector Mo looked disdainfully at the increasingly impatient Protector Xuan beside him.