At Lu Yi's speed, it was only afternoon when he guided his Flying Soul Tool to a point not far from the Mingdou Mountain Range.
The last time he had come here, he had been on his way to wipe out the "Hand of Death" Bandit Gang.
Back then, their group of more than a dozen had relied on Dai Yueheng's connections to borrow Level 4 Flying Soul Tools from a Star Luo Empire garrison on the border with the Heaven Dou Empire.
But the standard-issue Flying Soul Tools had been too slow. In the end, Xuan Zi had dragged everyone else through the air himself, and they had not arrived until deep into the night.
Now Lu Yi had covered the same distance in just over half a day, more than doubling their speed.
The Mingdou Mountain Range had formed when the Douluo Continent and the Sun Moon Continent collided, their tectonic plates squeezing together to create a range running north to south. It was also a gray zone where the influence of the Sun Moon Empire, the Star Luo Empire, and the Heaven Dou Empire overlapped.
That murky jurisdiction had given Evil Soul Masters and bandit groups like the "Hand of Death" Bandit Gang room to survive.
The mountains stretched thousands of li in length and hundreds of li in width. Beyond the few strictly guarded roads, other bandits and Evil Soul Masters surely still lurked there.
But those bandits loved burrowing into every nook and cranny. Even with an empire's resources, searching such a vast region was like looking for a needle in the sea. Lu Yi had no intention of hunting Evil Soul Masters here.
Although there were no checkpoints along his route, Lu Yi still climbed as high as he could while crossing the Mingdou