Although Zhang Lexuan was a Titled Douluo, finding three people in a city of over a million was scarcely easier than fishing a needle out of the sea.
After her Martial Soul evolved and she became a Titled Douluo, Zhang Lexuan's combat strength could increase by more than a hundred percent when she fought on a moonlit night. In that state, she could even contend with a rank 96 Super Douluo...
As a border city, Maple Leaf City saw an enormous flow of people every day. Even the tension between the Heaven Dou Empire and the Sun Moon Empire could not quench the merchants' thirst for profit.
The Mingdou Mountains, where the Heaven Dou Empire bordered the Sun Moon Empire, were a lawless region under neither side's jurisdiction, home to the likes of the former Death Hand Bandit Group.
Any large-scale campaign against the bandits could escalate into a border invasion...
To safeguard their goods and their lives, merchant caravans had no choice but to pay hefty sums to hire powerful Soul Masters as escorts. Even so, each trip still turned a profit...
Outside Maple Leaf City, a caravan bound for Star Luo City was stopped. It was a sizable caravan, with more than a dozen horse-drawn carriages.
The cargo aboard those carriages consisted of Soul Tools produced by the Sun Moon Empire's Illustrious Virtue Hall.
Although the Sun Moon Empire strictly prohibited selling Soul Tools to the continent's three other empires, as the saying went, money could make even ghosts turn the millstone. Faced with enormous profits, plenty of people still chose to risk their necks smuggling Soul Tools. In fact, every Soul Tool manufactured in the Sun Moon Empire that could be bought in the other three empires had been smuggled in.
These Soul Tools were not