Chapter 198

On the desolate plains, two streaks of light flew past, circling in the sky a few times before charging towards the ground.

Rumble —

Their figures suddenly disappeared from the ground. A moment later, a large group of soldiers flew past, but found nothing.

Two thousand feet underground, in a space that was temporarily opened up, a man and a woman were focused on sensing the movements outside.

Only when the commotion was far away did both of them heave a sigh of relief.

"I thought you wouldn't be coming back."

Ji Lanchu looked at Gu Chen and smiled bitterly.

If Gu Chen had not returned in time and helped her out with his superb archery skills, she would have been caught and taken back today.

"I promised you that I would come back, and I will definitely keep my word."

Gu Chen said calmly.

Ji Lanchu nodded. She had originally held a lot of distrust towards Gu Chen, but after the crisis just now and hearing his words, she felt an inexplicable sense of security.

"How long have I been gone? How did you find out?"

Gu Chen asked.

"I don't know either. I was quietly waiting for you in the city, and didn't do anything to attract attention. But then the Heavenly Mirror Prefecture soldiers suddenly appeared. To be honest, for a moment, I suspected that you were the one who betrayed me. "

Ji Lanchu had a look of helplessness on her face. "That's right, how did your scouting go? Is there any chance of breaking through the border? "

Gu Chen shook his head solemnly. "I'm afraid you have to change your mind. The border is already sealed tightly. Perhaps you can go to the other prefectures first, then think of a way to leave the Central Plains. "

Ji Lanchu was silent for a moment.

"I'm afraid that won't work. Since the border of the Serenity Prefecture has been sealed, it's probably the same for other places. Furthermore, we have already exposed our position once again. Their encirclement will slowly shrink. "

She spoke after a long time, her beautiful eyes flashing.

"Let's leave this place first, while the pursuers have left. Later on, the Heavenly Mirror Mansion will definitely conduct a thorough search around that small city. We won't be able to hide this for long. "

Gu Chen suggested. Ji Lanchu nodded, and the two of them used the Earth Escape Technique to return to the surface, fleeing towards a direction where there was no one around.

Over the next few days, the two of them constantly changed their appearances and wandered around the borders, trying to avoid the Heavenly Mirror Mansion's search network.

However, the strange thing was that wherever they went, the Heavenly Mirror Prefecture's soldiers would quickly arrive and conduct a detailed search of the area within a hundred miles.

On several occasions, the two of them even experienced a situation that was extremely similar to what had happened in the small city.

It was as if there was a mole among them, constantly exposing their positions.

Or perhaps the enemy had a Heavenly Eye, making it impossible for them to hide!

If this situation continued, their whereabouts would be exposed time and time again. After many life and death battles, both of them would be injured.

"We can't go on like this! The Heavenly Mirror Mansion's encirclement is tightening, and we will soon be surrounded and killed. How did they discover our whereabouts? "

In yet another dark underground location, Gu Chen swallowed a few healing elixirs. He looked slightly exhausted.

After days of hiding and fighting with the prefecture soldiers, he had expended a lot of energy.

The only thing worth being happy about was that his cultivation had broken through to the mid Nirvana stage under the immense pressure.

"I think I know how they were able to discover our location time and time again."

Ji Lanchu's beautiful face was also slightly pale. It was obvious that she had expended too much energy. She sighed.

"How did they discover us?" Gu Chen listened attentively.

"You and I would never leak this information to anyone, so there are only two possibilities."

"First, someone in the Heavenly Mirror Mansion has a special constitution that allows them to sense our location."

Gu Chen couldn't help but think of Huang Pingzhang. He had inherited Old Monster Duan's All-Seeing Eyes. If he developed it well, he would actually have this ability.

"But the possibility of this is not high. In such a hurry, I don't think the Heavenly Mirror Mansion would be able to find such a genius so quickly. The second possibility is more likely. "

Ji Lanchu's expression turned serious as she spat out two words. "Fated Family!"

"What's that?"

Gu Chen furrowed his eyebrows.

"One Mansion, Two Schools, Three Families, Four Holy Lands, and Five Sacred Sects!"

Ji Lanchu knew that Gu Chen wasn't from the Nine Prefectures, so she explained patiently. "What I'm saying includes the fifteen most powerful forces in the Nine Prefectures."

"One Mansion is the Heavenly Mirror Mansion. The Two Schools are the True Martial Arts Academy and the Mystic Arts Academy. The Fated Family I'm talking about is one of the three families."

"What's so special about them?" Gu Chen muttered.

"The Fated Family specializes in astrology and divination. They can predict a person's fate. They are probably the only ones who can calculate my location."

"I'm afraid that my father spent a lot of money to invite the Fated Family to help."

Ji Lanchu said hatefully.

"There's actually such a thing."

Gu Chen felt that something was wrong. If what Ji Lanchu said was true, then the Heavenly Mirror Mansion was getting closer and closer to finding them.

"The Fated Family's experts are more accurate the more they calculate. At first, they could only calculate our approximate location. But as time drags on, they will soon find us."

Ji Lanchu said, a look of hesitation on her face.

"What do you want to say?"

Gu Chen saw her hesitation. In fact, when the two of them were discussing where to go, he had seen similar expressions on Ji Lanchu's face many times.

"Chen Gu, in fact, it's impossible to completely seal off the borders of the Serenity Prefecture. There might be a way out."

Ji Lanchu gritted her teeth.

"Where?"

"Although there is a way out, it's very dangerous. It's a famous dangerous place in the Nine Prefectures."

She didn't say it directly.

Gu Chen suddenly understood why she had been hesitating. It seemed that she was worried that he wouldn't be willing to accompany her.

"You can tell me. If there's a chance, we can try."

Gu Chen said calmly.

He had even survived the Ghastly Ruins, a place that was said to have no chance of survival. He was no longer afraid of such a dangerous place.

Ji Lanchu couldn't help but take a deep breath and said word by word.

"Desolate God Valley!"

…

Desolate God Valley was located at the border of the Serenity Prefecture. Looking down from the sky, it was a huge rift zone that was shrouded in gray fog all year round.

Within a hundred miles of Desolate God Valley, there were few people. Regardless of whether it was spring, summer, autumn, or winter, the trees here were always bare.

It was quiet and strange. It was as if this place was a forbidden place for life.

"The world of mortals is like a prison, all living things suffer!"

On the quiet ground, a crisp sound of bells rang out.

A group of Ascetic Cultivators dressed in hemp clothes with strange tattoos on their faces stepped on the ground barefoot. They shouted slogans as they walked in the direction of Desolate God Valley.

Ten miles away from them, an unattractive man and woman followed from afar.

"That's Desolate God Valley? What are those people doing? "

The two of them were Gu Chen and Ji Lanchu, who had disguised themselves and arrived at the boundary of Desolate God Valley with great difficulty.

Under the situation where the Fate Clan had calculated their location and was closing in, the two of them had no choice but to take the risk and come to Desolate God Valley to see the situation.

Unexpectedly, before they even reached Desolate God Valley, Gu Chen saw this group of strange people and could not help but ask.