After leaving Fengming City, the party continued all the way to the east. They saw more people along the way, and the cities they passed through flourished more than the last. The journey became a lot smoother for Yan Liqiang's party.
Those nefarious Blackwind Bandits never appeared again, and they seemed to have become nothing more than a distant memory.
On the other hand, the prestige behind Sun Bingchen's identity as a patrol inspector began manifesting itself again. Every time Sun Bingchen arrived at a new destination, they would be received by local officials. Under such circumstances, it wasn't easy for anything to happen to their party.