Compared to Desert City, which served as a hub between the empire and the Snake-People, Desert North City was much smaller and far less prosperous.
When Xiao Yan arrived, he could not help thinking of Xiao Ding and Xiao Li.
Had Xiao Xuan not broken through to Dou Di at that critical moment, Xiao Ding and Xiao Li would probably still have been mere Dou Shi here, while he himself would only just have begun his rise on the road to turning his fortunes around.
But fate was always fickle. Who could have imagined that a Jade Book would fall from the sky at such a crucial moment?
Xiao Xuan had broken through to Dou Di, and the fate of the entire Xiao Clan had changed with him.
At that thought, even more questions arose in Xiao Yan's mind. Why had a copy of "Battle Through the Heavens" suddenly fallen from the sky? Why had Origin Qi, which had vanished from the Dou Qi Continent for over a thousand years, emerged from such a book?
Behind all of this, there seemed to lie an even greater secret. But Xiao Yan had no way to investigate it yet. A secret of this magnitude would probably require him to become a Nine-Star Dou Sheng before he was even qualified to probe it.
As these thoughts passed through his mind, he had already stepped into the sky above Desert North City.
Desert North City was not large. It was only twenty li from its southern end to its northern end. Standing in the sky, Xiao Yan swept his soul power across it, bringing everything within the city into his mind.
"Look! Why is there someone in the sky?" Some idle people in Desert North City spotted a figure actually standing overhead.
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