Tang Hao Blocks the Road

Today was the fifteenth day of the journey.

The southbound convoy had already crossed the entirety of Silves Kingdom and entered Balak Kingdom. Spirit City, at the southernmost edge of the Heaven Dou Empire, was now less than a week away.

The convoy had traveled mostly along official roads, taking remote paths only when they could serve as shortcuts.

And now was precisely the time to take one.

They were between two low hills. Passing through here would save them at least several dozen li of travel.

The mountain path was somewhat narrow, like a shallow ravine. It was not long, only a few li, but it was fairly level.

There would be no problem for the carriages to pass through.

In order to greet the Grand Finals with greater strength and in better condition, the members of all fifteen competing teams seized every moment to cultivate or practiced team coordination whenever they had time, doing everything possible to improve themselves and their teams.

Especially those members stuck at the rank-39 bottleneck, just one step away from becoming rank-40 Soul Ancestors. They cultivated so intensely that they practically forgot food and sleep, rarely leaving their carriages.

If they could break through before the Grand Finals began, reach rank 40, then quickly find a suitable Spirit Beast to obtain a Spirit Ring and advance to the Soul Ancestor realm—

Then both their personal strength and their team's overall combat power would improve tremendously.

The seven girls of the Martial Soul Hall Second Team were no exception. Under Rui Wen's lead, they each entered a meditative cultivation state.

Under Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan's control, the carriage rolled steadily onward.

The Spirit Hall group at the front had already entered the valley, while the competing academy convoy and the five hundred knights of