"Qing Lin, is it somewhere around here?"
The three Xiao brothers brought Qing Lin to a stretch of dunes east of Stone Desert City, following her sense of where it was.
There was nothing here. People rarely came this way, and even a Magical Beast was hard to come across.
Most people would not take a little girl's words seriously, but Xiao Yan had always felt that Qing Lin possessed certain special abilities, which was why he trusted her so much.
"Yes, young master. I can sense that this was the last place she appeared. And it doesn't seem like she left very long ago, probably only a few days."
Qing Lin knew nothing more specific. After all, her perception was vague. Had the other party's aura not been so powerful, she could never have sensed her presence from across an entire city.
"All right. Since Qing Lin says it was here, let's search this place."
Xiao Yan, Xiao Ding, and Xiao Li began searching the dunes, but apart from yellow sand and strong winds, there seemed to be nothing unusual here.
"Other than being a little hotter and drier than elsewhere, there doesn't seem to be anything here."
Xiao Ding cultivated wood attribute Dou Qi, making him keenly sensitive to temperature and skilled at probing his surroundings, yet even he found nothing unusual.
Xiao Yan believed Qing Lin would not lie. That could only mean his search had not been thorough enough.
He stood atop a dune. If there was nothing on the surface, only two places remained unexplored: the sky and underground.
The blazing sun hung high over the desert, and the sky was cloudless for thousands of miles. There was nothing up there at all. In that case, what he sought was most likely underground.
"Second Brother,