Hearing Ouyang Yuqing's boastful words, the hunter quickly nodded in agreement.

"Okay, then we'll wait."

The exile caravan arrived at the location of the three of them in a quarter of an hour.

Ouyang Yuqing informed Yang Yi that they would be staying overnight in the hunters' village.

Upon hearing Ouyang Yuqing's words, Yang Yi's face turned from blue to purple, then purple to black.

He was so angry that he wanted to kill Ouyang Yuqing right now.

As the head of the escort team, he actually has to listen to the orders of exiles. If others knew how pathetic he was in escorting criminals, wouldn't they laugh their heads off?

However, he lacked the ability to kill people, and in the end, he gave in and agreed to Ouyang Yuqing's request.

Yes, you read that right.

Ouyang Yuqing was just that arrogant; he didn't care about Yang Yi's feelings at all.

In his mind, an incompetent dog doesn't even deserve to be called a dog.

He now has not only influence but also power, so he's not afraid of that bird.

If that person keeps causing trouble, he wouldn't mind turning around and giving his 'good brother' a piece of his mind.

After Ouyang Yuqing informed Yang Yi, he politely said to the hunter, "Brother, may I ask your name? You can take us to your village chief to discuss the matter of staying overnight."

Upon hearing Ouyang Yuqing ask his surname, the hunter quickly replied, "Your Highness, my surname is Ge and my given name is Peng."

I'll take you to find our old village chief right now.

Upon hearing Hunter Ge Peng's words, Ouyang Yuqing reminded him again, "Brother Ge, please stop calling me Your Highness. I am just a commoner."

Upon hearing this, Ge Peng stubbornly replied to Ouyang Yuqing, "No, you will always be the God of War in our hearts, you are our faith."

Your Highness, please do not deprive us of our faith.

After hearing Ge Peng say this, Ouyang Yuqing thought for a moment and then said to Ge Peng, "Brother Ge, since you think so highly of me, I will respectfully accept your offer. However, please do not call me the God of War King anymore."

If you want to call me that in the future, just call me Great Desert or King of the Northern Desert.

From now on, the desert will be my territory.

Yang Yi was not far from Ouyang Yuqing, so he naturally heard their conversation.

When he heard Ouyang Yuqing claim to be the King of the Northern Desert, he stared at Ouyang Yuqing's retreating figure with a sinister look, and thought viciously to himself: Fine…

Ouyang Yuqing had such thoughts in his mind; he was determined to pass this message on to the Emperor.

If he goes to the desert, far from the emperor's reach, he can become a king himself, and who can control him?

If we let him stay there for a few more years, could he start a rebellion?

How detrimental would this be to His Majesty?

He grew increasingly anxious, but the next post station was still quite a distance away.

He now desperately wanted to drive the oxcart into town immediately, go to the post station to write a secret letter, so that His Majesty could reconsider the place of Ouyang Yuqing's exile.

Ouyang Yuqing was unaware of Yang Yi's true intentions.

He was chatting and laughing with the hunter Ge Peng as he led the exiles toward a village not far ahead.

It took more than fifteen minutes for the main force to reach the village.

Ge Peng pointed to the village and said, "King of the Northern Desert, this is our Ge Family Village."

Our village has been here for generations.

The village has about 130 households. Because many people in the village have the surname Ge, it was named Gejia Village.

When Ouyang Yuqing heard that there were about 130 households, she realized that the village was not small.

He nodded and said to Ge Peng, "Your village has quite a large population."

Upon hearing Ouyang Yuqing say that there were many people in their village, Ge Peng quickly explained, "There are quite a few large families with the surname Ge in our village, but there are also some migrants who came to our village to settle down after fleeing famine."