10 Reaching The City Gates (1/2)

Sofie looked towards the colourful scorching sun city in the distance and started looking around herself with both excitement and nervousness.

The scorching sun city was after all the place her big sister had trained, studied and cultivated for 5 years! Thinking about this, Sofie could not help the nervousness mixed with excitement slowly building up inside her, as the city in the distance grew closer by the minute.

The surroundings were filled with all kinds of red plants and even a few trees with a dark read tree trunk and light red leaves in the crow of the trees making them look both beautiful and mystifying at the same time.

The trees were scarce and only appeared around the scorching sun city because of the high density of fire qi in the city. According to Ling Yue, the red trees were called phoenix blood trees and they could be used to refine weapons and all sorts of furniture. Legend also said that phoenix blood trees only appeared at a place where a phoenix had died, but that was only legend.

”What is a phoenix?” Sofie grew quite interested in the so-called phoenix and decided to ask Ling Yue about it.

”A phoenix is a bird of sorts? Like a giant bird completely coated in fire? I have not really seen a phoenix before, but I heard a little about them from elder sun before. The scariest thing about them is how strong they are. Elder sun said that the weakest pure blood phoenix would have reached the 4'th major realm…” Ling Yue said as a trace of awe flashed through her eyes.

Sofie felt like it was hard to imagine a giant fire bird and could not help but think of an oversized chicken coated in flames desperately flapping its wings trying to fly into the sky.

A small chuckle escaped from her lips before she could supress it in time, earning yet another weird look from a certain senior sister.

Sofie really did not know why, but the image of an oversized chicken coated in fire started to make her hungry, as her stomach started rumbling in response.

”Are you hungry? We will be at the scorching sun city soon, at that time we will get something to eat.” Ling Yue said to Sofie, as she seemed to have heard her stomach that started rumbling all of a sudden.

Sofie blushed slightly, as she tried to hide herself away. Sadly, her stomach did not agree with her hiding away and started rumbling with a slightly higher sound than before. Making Sofie want to jump into the closest hole in the ground, as she felt her face burning with embarrassment.

Ling Yue decided it was a good idea not to say anything and acted like she did not hear anything at all.

This would all have been fine if a certain senior brother in front of them did not turn around and look towards both Ling Yue and Sofie with a weird light flashing through his eyes before turning around again.

Sofie could almost imagine how red her face looked and finally started to regret not eating more before leaving the little village.

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The group of disciples continued to move towards the scorching sun city and the city grew bigger and bigger the closer they got.