"I was born a madman of Chu, singing the phoenix song to mock Confucius. A green jade staff in hand, I bade farewell to Yellow Crane Tower at dawn..."
The Star Luo Empire-the Mingdou Mountain Range, stretching a hundred thousand li!
As the only route into or out of the Sun Moon Empire, the Mingdou Mountain Range had always been heavily guarded by the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire, with large-scale destructive Soul Tools and elite legions of heavily armored cavalry and infantry. Both empires also had dedicated Soul Masters conducting aerial reconnaissance every day.
Whether they belonged to the Heaven Dou Empire, the Star Luo Empire, or the Sun Moon Empire, the armies guarding the Mingdou Mountain Range were stationed in areas with gentler slopes that favored troop movements. There were only three such areas in the entire mountain range.
The mountains extended southward, covering almost two-thirds of the border. The remaining third consisted of a Soul Beast Forest roughly half the size of the Star Dou Great Forest, known as the Mingdou Great Forest.
The Mingdou Great Forest teemed with mutated soul beasts. For Soul Masters, it was less dangerous than the Star Dou Great Forest, yet offered many precious Soul Rings and Soul Bones.
For armies, however, those mutated soul beasts posed a much greater threat because they were more aggressive. Thus, the armies of all three empires were primarily stationed in the few areas of the Mingdou Mountain Range where the terrain was gentler.
At that moment, in the Mingdou Great Forest, a man who looked like a scholar, dressed in an azure robe and a scholar's crown and holding a folding fan, was singing loudly a tune that seemed not to belong to this world as he sped along a forest path