The yellow gelding that pulls the cart has great endurance, but its endurance is inferior to that of the military horse.
There is no comparison between the two in terms of speed.
Even though he ran about a quarter of an hour ahead of schedule, Zhang Xuezhou could already sense the approaching pursuit from behind.
He hadn't even left Fuping County for an hour, and he hadn't even left the northern area at this time.
"Bitter!"
The mount is not strong enough, and the physical strength and demonic power are almost exhausted.
For the first time, Zhang Xuezhou felt that his advantage in escaping was still lacking.
"If you have the conditions, you have to learn a flying technique suitable for the Yin Yang family. If the demon power is gone, at least you can still use the magic power to fly. Even flying three meters high is better than running around in circles right now!"
He patted the horse's butt dully, and then quickly thought about the various abilities he possessed.
Zhang Xuezhou has to say that he seems to have many skills, but he is relatively poor.
Even the emperor and empress found it difficult to teach him. The Yin-Yang Great Compassion Nine Heavens Curse that Zhang Xuezhou practiced obviously brought too many restrictions.
But if Zhang Xuezhou were to change his practice to other realms, the situation he would face would not be much different, such as the Beast Control Sect, various Sword Sects, Knife Sects, etc.
Unless he entered the Confucian school, he would not be able to learn all kinds of techniques.
But then again, if he really fell into the trap of Confucianism, Zhang Xuezhou would not have the time or ability to use a large number of techniques, let alone refining elixirs to survive.
No one is omnipotent. Even Dong Zhongshu, a great scholar who learned many magic techniques, was often embarrassed because his magic techniques were difficult to cope with the ever-changing situation.
Zhang Xuezhou was finally relieved and kept thinking about the possible help that his abilities could bring.
It wasn't until the yellow gelding galloped near a large river where the ice and snow had just melted that Zhang Xuezhou felt happy.
He had almost drowned once before, but now it was more than a day or two before he returned to the real world.
Zhang Xuezhou jumped off the yellow horse, not even taking off his shoes, and then plunged into the glacier water.
The water affinity brought by the Water Avoidance Technique allows Zhang Xuezhou to have the ability to breathe for a short period of time in the water, without the need to come out of the river to breathe from time to time.
"Should we pursue it or not?"
After Zhang Xuezhou went down the river for several hundred meters, two riders arrived belatedly by the river bank.
Looking at the yellow gelding that was munching grass by the river, the two men on the military horse looked at each other.
The person being pursued undoubtedly jumped into the river, but the river was so vast that he could not see his figure at this time.
If they were to go into the water to search, they would inevitably suffer. Whether they could find each other was the question.
Without the horse's hoof prints in the snow to guide the direction, and the lack of Ning Cheng's spellcasting positioning, they would have lost their tracking target when they caught up here.
"We still have to chase him. He is a magician who can tolerate ice water. There is no chance that we can't bear it!"
"That makes sense!"
"One of us is searching upstream, and the other is tracing downstream!"
"If he swims upstream, the distance he can swim must not be far!"
"We weren't too far away from him when we were chasing him. He was at most a mile downstream!"
After a brief exchange, they both dismounted.
As soon as the armor covering their bodies was taken off, the two of them temporarily separated to search.
The cold and biting river water soaked into the body. The two looked at each other from a distance, and the energy and blood in their bodies surged out quickly.
"It's going to freeze to death!"
"We didn't say we were going to kill that kid. Does he deserve to run away like this?"
"No, we can't stand the glacial water. If he jumps into the river just by casting a spell, he won't freeze into an ice sculpture!"
"It's so painful to chase people!"
"Who asked that boy to scold the prefect with his stupid hands? He scrawled so much and the characters were so big that everyone in the city knew about it!"
"Forget it, he didn't name him, and my father's name is not Li X!"
After a few brief conversations, the two of them couldn't help but swim in the river, constantly searching for Zhang Xuezhou's figure.
The ice floes kept hitting their bodies, and their bodies kept turning red, showing their cold flesh that turned white from time to time.
Waves of water vapor continued to emerge from the surface of the river, making the two of them look solemn, and their body muscles could not help but tremble unnaturally.
Traveling in this kind of weather where the ice and snow are just melting requires courage, not to mention that they have been riding horses in the cold wind for a long time. Searching in such cold and biting river water at this time will undoubtedly add insult to injury, and the body will fall into almost the limit of support.
After searching for nearly half a quarter of an hour to no avail, both of them could not help but crawl back to the river bank, shivering in the cold wind.
"I can not make it!"
"I can't do it either!"
"Then the boy must be even worse, right?"
"It's likely that the movement is frozen somewhere in the river!"
"I want to make a fire to... keep warm!"
"I want, too!"
When the martial arts practitioner's proud body could no longer hold up, the two of them fell into an extremely embarrassing situation, and finally had to hold the military horse to keep warm.
The weather in early spring in the North is unbearable.
What the pursuers said was indeed true. Even the warriors couldn't bear it, and neither could Zhang Xuezhou.
After swimming along the river for two miles, he jumped out of the glacier.
The ice water stained by the sky clothes was quickly shaken off. Zhang Xuezhou muttered, "The Golden Crow Emperor is my good friend," and then held the Golden Crow Feather to keep warm.
The water-avoiding technique was not the cold-avoiding technique. He avoided the water, but he didn't avoid the bone-chilling cold.
If it weren't for the invulnerability of the Heavenly Clothes to the glacier, Zhang Xuezhou's body would have been frozen.
He shivered to keep himself warm, and then wrung out the water from his shoes and socks.
Facing the cold wind and waves, the shoes suddenly became stiff.
Zhang Xuezhou had no choice but to put on the new pair of shoes given by Rong Li.
He put on his shoes and stepped on them a few times, feeling that his escape was a hell of a job.
However, with the obstruction of the river, the pursuers would be delayed for a long time by taking a detour or forcibly crossing the river.
Zhang Xuezhou calculated and estimated the degree of recovery in his body.
He couldn't fly high in the sky at the moment, but there was no problem in using his weak demonic power to glide for tens of meters. This allowed him to overcome some obstacles and then rush back to Chengdu at a faster speed.
"My cousin should go to Fuping County in the next two days before buying horses. I will take my cousin's horses and run away. There is no way I can run out of the northern region!"
He thought for a moment, and then considered the two cavalry following behind him, and felt that his father Yan had done a very good job.
After excluding Ning Cheng's tracking of the spell, and the two cavalry behind him failing to follow him, Zhang Xuezhou felt that the matter was probably over. When he left the northern border and took another wave, or when Dong Zhongshu could cast a spell to remove the mark of the spell, things would be over. Will completely eliminate hidden dangers.
He looked at the two small unmoving black spots in the distance, and his body swayed into the low mountain near the river bank.
"What?"
"He actually knows how to get in and out of the Hundred Thousand Mountains?"
"Is it really true that people from the evil country are here?"
"Damn it, he's just jumping around in the river, he's just going to get drowned!"
"No need to worry, Ning can still detect the mark of the spell moving there!"
"Hey, I've explained the matter, should I be let go? The yellow gelding he sent me is here. I want to collect the horse now!"
There was finally a convergence on the river bank.
When Ning Cheng and others hurried over with their master and father Yan, they saw that the two men responsible for the pursuit were still shivering with the horses to keep warm.
But the information given by Master Yan was too important, and it was obvious that he would continue to track it no matter how much he shivered.
"Are you keeping this news true?"
"Let me go, and I'll keep it safe!"
The master yelled, struggling unwillingly with his bound body.
He looked at the yellow gelding on the river bank, and couldn't help but get excited when he thought of the flying horse he was riding.
"Ning Lu, give him a magic mark and then let him go. If he lies unabashedly, I'll kill him again!"
Cheng did not know how to defend with heavy troops, while the Northern Army made repeated attacks. However, what stood in front of the Northern Army was not the people of the evil country, but countless mountains.
Lacking familiarity with the terrain, the Northern Army repeatedly lost its way and eventually had to withdraw.
Having a guide who knows the terrain is obviously of immeasurable benefit.
The four of them stared at each other, realizing that the previous lesson-style pursuit had turned into a end-of-the-world pursuit.
No matter whether Zhang Xuezhou is in the north or somewhere else, they have to find him out.
(End of chapter)
