Xiao Fan followed the traces left in the desert, concealing his aura as he slipped along behind them. After all, a Dou Wang flying at full speed left obvious marks in the sand. He barely needed to examine them.
Following the tracks pressed into the desert by high-speed flight, Xiao Fan pursued them for roughly an hour and a half before finding that they ended here. Instead, numerous pits of varying sizes dotted the sand, and faint remnants of erupted Dou Qi lingered in the air. He guessed a battle had broken out.
Looking at the holes scattered across the desert and sensing that familiar wind-attribute Dou Qi, Xiao Fan understood that this must have been where Xiao Yan had run into Gu He's party after they entered the desert. Upon seeing a powerful member of the Snake-People Tribe, Gu He and the others would naturally have stepped in to help Xiao Yan. After all, this was also an opportunity to make contact with a Snake-People expert.
Xiao Fan took out his map and checked his location. He was not far from the Charm Snake Tribe, one of the Snake-People Tribe's settlements.
Yue Mei was the leader of the Charm Snake Tribe and a Dou Wang. Within the Snake-People Tribe's territory, Medusa's Holy City stood at the center of the desert, with numerous tribes of varying sizes built around it. At the outermost edge stood the Eight Great Tribes, home to the Snake-People Tribe's eight Dou Wang experts, forming a ring that guarded their territory at its heart.
To enter the Snake-People Tribe's Holy City, he would have to avoid not only the Eight Great Tribes on the outskirts but also the numerous small and medium-sized tribes within. Although Hai Bodong's map was extremely detailed, those smaller tribes could relocate