This place wasn't close to any city, but it wasn't so isolated that the group would need months of travel to reach cities and places where the strongest could take advantage of local opportunities.
The group needed to be close enough to places where the Sovereigns of the team could go back and forth for jobs and missions that would guarantee them opportunities for growth and financial accumulation.
Meanwhile, the area they chose couldn't be part of the territory of any powerful force, but it couldn't be weak either.
Although the cultivation threshold in this world was level 114, that didn't mean every area of the planet could be useful for reaching it.
Some locations in this world pose challenges for cultivation beyond level 105.