With the establishment of the Heavenly Thunder Empire, thousands of years have passed since then, and the Heavenly Thunder Empire has gradually developed into one of the three major empires of the Star Continent, and its own military strength is the first of the three empires.

And with the support of one of the three major empires, Lei Zong's strength has also risen, and he has grown into a top first-class force in one fell swoop, if it is not for the lack of support from top powerhouses, there is no problem in promoting to a super first-class force.

Today's Ye Fan is not the fledgling kid he was at the beginning, and he still knows a lot about the distribution of forces in the Star World, so until the great name of the Lei Sect has the protection of the Lei Sect, it is not so easy for other forces to eliminate the Ye family.

Without the Ye family, the military strength of the Heavenly Thunder Empire will drop by at least two or three percent, in that case, the military strength of the Heavenly Thunder Empire will become the weakest of the three empires, and it will inevitably be taken advantage of by the other two empires at that time.

Even on the other hand, the Ye family has made great contributions to the Heavenly Thunder Empire for thousands of years, and the credit is very high, so whether it is public or private, the people of the Heavenly Thunder Empire will definitely do their best to protect the safety of the Ye family.

Therefore, as long as Elder Taishang and the others returned to the Ye family, they would almost be at ease, and seven days with a face was enough for Elder Taishang and the others to return to the Ye family, so Ye Fan had already put his mind at ease.

Ye Fan continued to move forward as before, and when it was close to noon, he had already come to the front of a huge canyon.

The canyon that appeared in front of Ye Fan at this time was composed of two huge peaks, and there was only a canyon tens of meters wide in the middle, or a rift valley, this was the famous Fengyun Gorge, the terrain itself was very steep, and there were strange peaks and mountains as high as thousands of zhang on both sides, even if it was a powerful person, it was impossible to fly over Fengyun Gorge.

The most important thing is that Fengyun Gorge is a natural barrier of Tianlei City, although it is very far away from the border of Tianlei City and Tianlei Empire, but after leaving Fengyun Gorge, it is a large plain, and there is no obstacle until Tianlei City.

Because of the importance of Fengyun Gorge, the Heavenly Thunder Empire also attaches great importance to it, just because it is located in the hinterland of the Heavenly Thunder Empire, unless the border of the Heavenly Thunder Empire falls, it will not be used here at all, so the Heavenly Thunder Empire did not arrange a large army here, but only sent a battalion of soldiers to guard it, but instead deployed heavy troops in Tianyun City, not far from Fengyun Gorge.

The natural topography of Fengyun Gorge, coupled with the small number of troops stationed, has made it one of the largest bandit gathering places in the Tianlei Empire, with more than tens of thousands of bandits inside, and they are divided into different large and small forces.

The forces here specialize in robbing near Fengyun Gorge, because Fengyun Gorge is a traffic artery, so there are a lot of caravans coming and going, plus the bandits in Fengyun Gorge have a long history, and they know the topography of Fengyun Gorge very well, so they have dealt with the encirclement and suppression of the Tianlei Empire army several times.

But the final result was a failure, which led to the bandits in Fengyun Gorge becoming more rampant, and folk rumors were that behind these bandits, there was the support of powerful forces, and most of their income was handed over.

The combination of these reasons has led to the bandits in Fengyun Gorge becoming stronger and stronger, and those caravans that pass can only spend a lot of money to hand over to those bandits in exchange for the power to pass.

These bandits also know the truth of the long stream, so they generally don't kill everything, their purpose is to rob money, not kill people, so those caravans are willing to spend some money to save their lives.

Fengyun Gorge is also the only place for Ye Fan to return to Tianlei City, so Ye Fan is almost certain that it is impossible for him to pass through Fengyun Gorge safely.

This time, Ye Fan did not stop to rest, but gathered all his attention and continued to walk towards the Fengyun Gorge.

Seeing Ye Fan enter Fengyun Gorge, the people behind him who were following him suddenly showed excited looks, although they were not the same force, but these people tacitly chose Fengyun Gorge as the place to start.

Because after passing Fengyun Gorge, it is a smooth road, if the robbery fails, it is likely that Ye Fan will take the opportunity to escape, and Fengyun Gorge is undoubtedly the best place to start, as long as the front and back of Fengyun Gorge are blocked, when the time comes, Ye Fan will really be unable to escape.

Ye Fan secretly operated his fighting spirit, and rode the sitting Black Wind Horse towards the front, until he reached the center of Fengyun Gorge, and suddenly there were bursts of footsteps around him.

I saw that from the surrounding mountain peaks, countless figures suddenly rushed down, the strength of these people was not particularly strong, most of them were cultivators below the rank of general, but there were also many strong among them.

Ye Fan hurriedly swept away, the number of these figures was no less than a thousand, and there were many king-level powerhouses among them, the number was very considerable, and these people were not chaotic at all between the runs, and they still maintained a formation, not like bandits at all, but like a well-trained army.

"Whoosh"

There was a sudden sound of breaking wind in the sky, Ye Fan looked up, and found that more than ten figures suddenly appeared in the sky, the speed of these figures was extremely fast, and they all jumped directly from the high peaks, obviously everyone was extraordinary, at least above the strength of the emperor rank.

The speed of these people was very fast, and they fell to the ground in the blink of an eye, in front of those people, and at this time, Ye Fan found that these people were actually divided into several camps, and these more than ten figures fell in front of these camps.

Ye Fan sat on the Black Wind Horse, his face never changed at all, the strength of these people was not high, and there were many of them, so he had already discovered the existence of these people.

More than a dozen figures in front of those people also showed their true colors at this time, these people include old men, middle-aged people, and a few women, but without exception, these people all have a strong evil aura on their bodies, and they are obviously murderous masters.

And the strength of these more than ten people is not simple, especially three of them, an old man in sackcloth, the old man is extremely tall, but he is very thin, like a hemp stalk, as if a gust of wind can blow him down.

There is also a burly middle-aged man, the middle-aged man is sturdy, but his face is very ugly, covered with pitted pockmarks, especially there are two scars in it, which makes his face look even more unsightly.

The last person turned out to be a woman, a middle-aged woman, the woman's appearance was very beautiful, obviously when she was young, she was also a big beauty, but this woman's lips were very red, not the normal red, but blood red like blood.