Han Feng Vanished; Xiao Yi Xian: I'll Live Off This for the Rest of My Life

Xiao Yan signaled to Yao Ye that it was time to leave.

He had planned to turn back and escort her to the Jia Ma Empire, but she said she needed to visit its northeastern border, where it met the lands of the Snake-People Tribe and the Black-Corner Region.

"In that case, I'll wait for your return in the Jia Ma Empire, Master Xiao Yan—"

Regret flickered through Yao Ye's beautiful eyes. She pressed her red lips together, then leaped lightly onto the towering city wall without another moment's hesitation.

Xiao Yan watched her stand motionless atop the wall until she had shrunk to a tiny black dot. He sighed, turned away, and looked no more.

Next stop: the Black-Corner Region.

It was a place where countless fighters killed and died, where blood and tears soaked ground strewn with corpses. There was no order, no law. If you were strong enough, cunning enough, and ruthless enough, you could make a name for yourself in that man-eating land.

And right beside it stood Jia Nan Academy.

To reach Jia Nan Academy, one had to cross the Black-Corner Region.

For Xiao Yan as he was now, though, the region was no longer some deadly lair. He could simply charge straight through.

He patted the Eight-Winged Black Snake Emperor beneath him and said gently, "Let's go. Try to reach the Black Domain Great Plains before dark."

"As you command!"

White Fang grinned. His eight wings shuddered, whipping the wind around him. In an instant, he was a hundred meters away, a streak of black light racing toward the horizon.

Jia Nan Academy.

On the lush Back Mountain of the Outer Academy, a young woman in green stood gracefully within a Bamboo Grove. Her mere presence seemed to lift the tranquil landscape to another