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"This is the air station?"

Xiao Yan followed Xue Mei to the flying station under the Xue family, which was built on an extremely open open space.

Dozens of huge nest chambers were built on both sides, and some huge figures could be seen resting from the outside.

These are all Thick-winged Birds, a unique type of giant bird-beast. While their bodies are incredibly large, they do not fully possess the bloodline of magical beasts and can be domesticated on a large scale.

Each thick-winged bird has exceptional endurance; once it has eaten its fill, it can fly continuously for three or four days without stopping.

It is precisely because of these unique flying birds and beasts that the entire Gama Empire is closely connected.

In times of war, these birds and beasts would be almost entirely requisitioned by the royal family and sent to the front lines to transport goods.

Only during peacetime will they return to private hands and be used as a means of transporting people or goods.

The entire flight station has about forty nesting chambers, which are built on the left and right sides respectively.

The distance between each nest chamber is more than 100 meters, in order to prevent two thick-winged birds from getting too close and occasionally fighting during mating season.

For safety reasons, these thick-winged birds usually rest in their nesting chambers for a whole day after a round of transport before continuing their flight the next day.

These thick-winged birds have a sedan chair built on their backs, which is usually divided into five rooms and can carry five passengers at a time, with accompanying flight assistants flying alongside them.

Most of these flight assistants were young and beautiful women. Their role, in addition to guiding passengers and facilitating handovers, was to keep the passengers on the Thick-winged Bird entertained.

"I never imagined there were such big birds! They look like a bunch of airplanes!"

These thick-winged birds are all over twenty meters long. Although their passenger capacity is far less than that of airplanes, those who choose to ride on thick-winged birds are usually wealthy nobles or merchants, and they can make a lot of money on a trip.

However, the Gama Empire offers various preferential treatments to alchemists; at the very least, alchemists do not need to spend a single penny to ride these flying birds and beasts.

"These are all flying birds and beasts that are usually used to carry ordinary passengers or goods. Xiao Yan, you are a distinguished guest of the Xue family, so you don't need to squeeze onto the same flying birds and beasts as those people."

As they spoke, Xue Mei led Xiao Yan through a large gate at the end of the flying station. Behind that gate was a beautiful mountain villa.

"This is my Xue family's private manor. My Xue family bought this land outside Blackrock City and spent eight years transforming it into this state. However, that was before I was born."

Xue Mei casually introduced the private manor to Xiao Yan. Even though Xiao Yan was a Dou Ling with greatly improved eyesight, he couldn't see the end of it at a glance.

"Wow, it's huge! It must have cost a lot of money to build here."

It has to be said that the Xue family is really too domineering. Compared with their territory, the Xiao family's territory in Wutan City is just a small courtyard.

"Hehe, not much, just two million gold coins." Xue Mei smiled slightly. For the Xue family, this amount of money was only a few years' worth of income.

In the past, Xiao Yan would have been wide-eyed at the mention of two million, since he was once the apple of his clan's eye, and his monthly allowance was only one thousand gold coins.

Just a few days ago, he sold a piece of amethyst the size of a human head and earned eight million, enough to buy four such manors.

If all of them were refined into Purple Heart Breakthrough Pills, just one pill would be worth three such manors. Thinking about it that way, two million really isn't much.

At the same time, one can't help but marvel at how lucrative the profession of alchemist really is.

If he weren't in a hurry, Xiao Yan might have stayed at the manor for a few more days, but he didn't have the leisure to do so now.

Xue Mei understood his thoughts and didn't waste Xiao Yan's time, leading him all the way to the private flying magical beast's nest.

"We've arrived; this is Yuan Kong."

Snow Fairy pointed to a huge blue bird-beast that was standing and sleeping in front of her.

This thing is a completely different creature from the thick-winged birds outside. Apart from being birds, they have nothing in common.

The thick-winged birds we saw before were only twenty or thirty meters long, but this big blue bird in front of us was at least over a hundred meters long!

They were not even in the same league. Behind this large blue bird stood a magnificent five-story building.

Those qualified to ascend this building are basically the most respected figures in the Xue family. Even in Black Rock City, there are very few people who are qualified.

Even though the big blue bird was sleeping, its snores were like thunder, shaking half the manor.

"This is... a monster?!"

Xiao Yan was slightly surprised, and could even sense the violent energy contained in this magical beast.

"That's right, Yuan Kong is a fourth-tier magical beast, the Azure Sky Sparrow. My grandfather met it when it was young a hundred years ago and raised it. It became the most loyal ally and partner of my Xue family. It can be said that Yuan Kong's contribution to the Xue family's achievements today is indispensable."

Azure Sky Sparrow? Xiao Yan felt that the name sounded familiar. Recalling what Yun Zhi had said before, it seemed that one of the four kings of the Magical Beast Mountain Range was the Azure Sky Sparrow. He wondered if there was any connection between the two.

Monsters have incredibly long lifespans. Don't be fooled by the enormous size of this Azure Sky Sparrow; it might not even be an adult yet.

However, the ability to tame such magical beasts relies on generations of training by the Xue family, a method that is impossible to replicate.

"Let's go up and take a look."

Xue Mei led Xiao Yan to Qing Kong Que and took out a unique whistle.

This whistle can only be possessed by direct descendants of the Xue family, and currently only Xue Ling, the head of the Xue family, and Xue Mei possess it.

This Azure Sky Sparrow only behaves docilely in front of the Xue family. If it is woken up by someone without a whistle, its morning grumpiness is something that ordinary people cannot tolerate.

Snow Fairy blew her whistle, and the sound reached the ears of the Azure Sky Sparrow. The bird, which was resting, slowly opened its eyes and saw a familiar person.

"Yuan Kong, it's me. I'm sorry to disturb your rest, but an important friend of mine needs to go to the Tagor Desert, so I have to ask you for help."

A gentle smile appeared on Xue Mei's face, and the Azure Sky Sparrow obediently lowered its head. Only under the guidance of the Xue family could the others go up from here; otherwise, they would be blown away by the gale created by the Azure Sky Sparrow before they even got close.

"Don't be afraid, come up with me."

Xue Mei walked in front, and Xiao Yan followed behind. The two climbed onto the body of the Azure Sky Sparrow and reached the top of the luxurious high-rise building.

"I apologize that, as this was a last-minute decision, there are no waiters or chefs available in this empty building."

"It's okay, I'm just hitchhiking, I can't be picky, as long as it can fly."

Xiao Yan didn't care at all about Xue Mei's apology; he wasn't there to enjoy it anyway.

"Okay, let's set off then."

Snow Fairy blew her unique whistle again, and Azure Sky Sparrow immediately took action upon hearing the sound.

It flapped its wings continuously in place, creating gusts of strong wind, and then suddenly leaped up and soared into the air!