Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone

When the stable owner saw how generously Zhang Fei spent, his face immediately broke into a wide smile. He quickly led over his finest horse and fitted it with a saddle.

Zhang Fei swung into the saddle and squeezed his legs against the horse's flanks.

"Hyah!"

The horse let out a long neigh, its four hooves flying as it raced toward Fanos Province.

Zhang Fei had calculated it long ago.

Suotuo City was roughly four hundred kilometers from Notting City. Balak Kingdom, known as the granary of the Heaven Dou Empire, was mostly flat plains, with no towering mountains or treacherous roads.

Traveling by horse along the official road, one day would be enough.

Zhang Fei urged his horse onward at full speed, his figure gradually vanishing beyond the horizon.

Four hundred kilometers was neither particularly far nor particularly near.

Setting out at noon, Zhang Fei rode without rest, crossing Balak Kingdom and entering Fanos Province.

After an entire afternoon and nearly the whole night, the outline of Notting City finally appeared on the horizon before dawn.

It was a city far smaller than Suotuo City, its walls low and quiet beneath the morning light.

Zhang Fei did not enter the city.

He went to the stables outside the city, handed the horse over to an attendant, and instructed him to care for it properly and feed it well.

Following the direction he remembered, Zhang Fei hurried northwest from the city.

About twenty li northwest of Notting City lay Holy Soul Village.

He moved swiftly, racing through the fields like the wind. He covered the twenty li in less than half an hour, and the sky had begun to brighten faintly.

Holy Soul Village was even smaller and more rundown than Zhang Fei had imagined.

There were only several dozen