With their business there finished, Xiao Lin and Ji Li left the Desolate Desert.
They entered a small city soon afterward.
A sweep of his spiritual power told Xiao Lin that the strongest person in the city was only a Dou Emperor.
He paid it little mind.
Xiao Lin and Ji Li were eating at an inn.
At their level, they no longer needed food to survive.
Still, they sometimes liked to satisfy their appetites.
They had spent nearly half a month at the Space Trading Assembly in the Desolate Desert, then fought the Gao Brothers after leaving.
Now they could relax a little.
"Brother Ji Li, what are your plans next?"
Once they had eaten their fill, Xiao Lin asked him.
After killing the Gao Brothers together, the two had grown closer.
There was no need to keep such things to themselves.
"Me? I'll cultivate for a while. I got a Wind Fury Dragon Flame at the Space Trading Assembly, didn't I? Naturally, I'll devour it next.
"Then I'll wait for the next yin year, yin month, yin day, and yin hour!"
Ji Li made no attempt to hide his plans.
"That's when the formation you told me about, the one concerning the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix, will be at its weakest?"
Xiao Lin immediately understood.
"That's right! I've calculated it. It should be at midnight on the first day of the second month, three years from now!"
Ji Li gave him the exact time.
"Three years, then?"
Xiao Lin murmured, his thoughts turning to something else.
Seeing Xiao Lin fall silent, Ji Li did not press him.
In those three years, Ji Li's strength could rise by more than one level!
"And you, Brother Lin? What are your plans?"
After a while, Ji Li returned the question.
"Grow stronger,