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At the border of the Jia Ma Empire, in Desert City near the Tagore Desert.
The Ice Emperor Hai Bodong, whom everyone was waiting for, was currently standing at the entrance of an old shop, gazing toward the direction of the Yun Lan Sect. Compared to the high-spirited Ice Emperor Hai Bodong of two years ago, he now looked a whole cycle older!
This was not just in terms of mindset, but also his physical appearance!
"Sigh~, the Sect Grand Meeting between the Four Great Empires should be starting soon, right? But in my current state, what use is there in going back? Just to add more fuel to the jokes?"
Sighing, Hai Bodong muttered to himself, his face filled with a bitter expression.
Two years ago, after finishing his challenge with Yun Shan, Hai Bodong stepped down from the position of Clan Leader of the Mittel Clan. Subsequently, he left the capital of the Jia Ma Empire and began traveling everywhere, seeking a further breakthrough in his strength.
The first stop he chose was the Tagore Desert.
Normally, with Hai Bodong's cultivation as a Dou Huang, he would have enough power to protect himself even within the Tagore Desert. But as fate would have it, he happened to run into a conflict with the ruler of the Tagore Desert—the Snake-People Clan.
The final result was that he was sealed by Queen Medusa of the Snake-People Clan, and his strength plummeted from the Dou Huang realm down to the Dou Ling realm.
Forget about tempering himself to increase his strength; at that moment, Hai Bodong felt as if the entire sky had collapsed. Fortunately, he managed to escape with his life from Queen Medusa's hands and arrived at Desert City.
Just like that, in the days that followed, Hai Bodong opened a small shop selling maps in Desert City and lived here in seclusion. Fortunately, Desert City was not a major city within the Jia Ma Empire.
Even if Hai Bodong's cultivation was sealed at the Dou Ling realm, it was enough for self-preservation here. However, given Hai Bodong's personality, since his cultivation was currently sealed at Dou Ling, he was definitely too embarrassed to go back!
Therefore, during these days, Hai Bodong ran his small shop while simultaneously seeking a way to break the seal inside his body. He naturally knew the date of the Sect Grand Meeting. But what was the use of knowing?
With his current Dou Ling cultivation, was he going there just to be served up on a platter? So, he could only stand here and sigh alone.
"Whish, whish, whish~"
The wild wind swept through the air, carrying the dancing yellow sand.
After watching silently for a while longer, Hai Bodong hunched his back and returned to the small shop behind him.
On the other side, at the foot of the Yun Lan Mountain, everyone waited and waited, but there was no sign of Hai Bodong.
"Tengshan, what exactly is going on with your Hai Bodong? On such an important day, he actually won't show his face?"
Jia Xingtian, who truly couldn't wait any longer, pulled Mittel Tengshan over at this time and asked.
Following the fall of Jia Xingtian's voice, everyone else also focused their gazes on Mittel Tengshan. However, facing Jia Xingtian's inquiry, Mittel Tengshan could only give a face full of bitter smiles.
"Old Jia, I truly don't know where the Grand Elder has gone either!"
"Two years ago, after the Grand Elder stepped down from the Clan Leader position, he only told me he was going out to travel and train for a period of time. But as for the specifics, the Grand Elder didn't say, and I didn't dare to ask!"
In fact, compared to the others, Mittel Tengshan was the one who was most anxious.
Although he had now become the Clan Leader of the Mittel Clan and possessed the cultivation of a Dou Wang himself. However, with Hai Bodong, the stabilizing pillar of the clan, missing, the clan had experienced a certain amount of turmoil recently.
He had come here today mainly to wait for Hai Bodong. But seeing as Hai Bodong had failed to show up even on such an important day as the Sect Grand Meeting, tell me, how could Mittel Tengshan not be anxious?
One must know that once the Mittel Clan lost Hai Bodong, their family's status would instantly drop by a large margin!
This was something the entire Mittel Clan could not accept. Seeing that Mittel Tengshan appeared even more anxious than they were, Jia Xingtian also knew that he likely wouldn't be able to get any information out of him.
"Sigh~, this Hai Bodong, could he have forgotten what day it is today?"
Fa Ma couldn't help but complain at this time.
"If he simply forgot what day it is, that would be fine, but if..."
Yun Shan finally spoke up at this moment.
However, although his words were unfinished, they caused a shock in everyone's hearts!
"No, the Grand Elder must have been delayed by some matter and couldn't come! It must be so!"
These words from Mittel Tengshan sounded more like self-consolation. In reality, at this moment, everyone had an idea of what was going on. That was, Hai Bodong had definitely met with some kind of accident!
Now, it just depended on whether this accident was big or small.
Immediately, the crowd fell into silence.
Of course, among them, Xiao Lin had actually guessed the truth.
"It seems Hai Bodong must have offended my future granddaughter-in-law and has now been reduced to selling maps, right?"
For some reason, thinking of this, Xiao Lin suddenly felt it was somewhat funny.
Just thinking about Hai Bodong's personality and how he now had to spend his days selling maps in the desert—that truly could only be described by the word "miserable"!
Hold it in, cannot laugh!
Xiao Lin told himself over and over in his heart before he managed to suppress the urge to laugh.
"There's also Medusa. If there's a chance, I could go meet my future granddaughter-in-law..."
Thinking silently in his heart, Xiao Lin did not voice any thoughts regarding Hai Bodong's failure to arrive.
After waiting for another period of time and finding that Hai Bodong still had not arrived, Yun Shan decisively chose to wait no longer!
"We cannot continue waiting like this."
"If we wait any longer, we likely won't make it to the Chu Yun Empire in time. As for Hai Bodong, we can only leave it to fate. If nothing has happened to him, I hope he can make his own way to the Chu Yun Empire by then. If an accident has occurred..."
Although Yun Shan did not explicitly state the following words, everyone knew what he meant.
Hearing Yun Shan say this, Mittel Tengshan opened his mouth but ultimately said nothing more.
After all, this was the only way for now, wasn't it?
At the same time, Mittel Tengshan began to silently pray in his heart, hoping that Hai Bodong was alright. At this time, because of Hai Bodong's failure to arrive, the morale that had just been boosted by Yun Shan's breakthrough to the Dou Zong realm had dropped slightly once again.
One must know that if Hai Bodong was not present, their Jia Ma Empire would only have two Dou Huangs left!
This was absolutely unfavorable for the Dou Huang battlefield of the Sect Grand Meeting.
Just like that, after waiting for Hai Bodong to no avail, the group could only set off toward the Chu Yun Empire. Because they had already spent quite a bit of time waiting for Hai Bodong, the group had to speed up their journey afterward.
At the same time, because they had to look after the group of people in the team with lower cultivation levels, this speed could not be too fast!
In this way, traveling day and night, the group spent two days and two nights before finally arriving at the Chu Yun Empire!
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