The next day, Iron Gate Fort was sealed shut, and Li Banfeng began to inquire about the surrounding situation.
There were many villages around Iron Gate Fort, inhabited by simple farmers. He encountered two cultivators at the First Layer of Farming Cultivation; the rest had no cultivation level.
Li Banfeng found out the location of Flying Eagle Mountain. It was more than twenty miles from Iron Gate Fort. The Grass Bandits there had a formidable reputation, seemingly even greater than that of Iron Sheep Mountain. Both their Fort Master, He Zhenlei, and Luo Dagui the cannoneer, were figures whose names alone made locals lose courage.
These bandits' "achievements" were not few; through the villagers' stories, Li Banfeng particularly picked up on the word "ruthless."
Every year, they would take away more than half of the villages' grain. The slightest resistance would often lead to the slaughter of a village.
