Unaware of the passage of time, he had flown for two hours straight. Desperate to escape that ghost town of a secret realm, he flew at a breakneck speed.
Finally, Zhou Chuan spotted human habitation and smoke rising from cooking fires. Without a moment's hesitation, he chose to land, though whether he was longing to see living souls or simply in need of supplies, he could not quite say. Having gone without food for days, his stomach was growling. A bath and a hot meal were all he wanted right now.
At a glance, it was a fortified settlement no larger than a village of a few hundred households. Such a tiny township was not something Zhou Chuan remembered existing in Qi State, and he could not name it.
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