Ye Liuyun went up to ask where the man in black came from but he was unyielding. He would rather die than answer.
Ye Liuyun chuckled and broke his limbs.
"Not answering me yet?"
He took out his dagger again and cut his flesh one by one.
Liang Xue felt terrified just by the sight of it so she avoided it.
In the end, the man really could not stand it and only hoped to die quickly. "Please, give me a quick death!"
"Tell me where you came from and I'll do as you wish." Ye Liuyun's voice was ice cold and emotionless.
"We are the Governor's guards." The man finally revealed.
"The Governor? Why are you here to kill me?" Ye Liuyun was a little skeptical.
"Not just you, but the two of you. I don't know the reason behind it. I am only carrying the orders," replied the man.
Ye Liuyun looked up at Liang Xue in confusion and found that Liang Xue was also confused. Both of them were puzzled.
So he continued to ask, "How many of you have come? What are your realms?"
"There are six of us. Four in the Second Level of the Genuine Condensation Phase and two in the Third Level of the Genuine Condensation Phase. I've told you everything I know. Hurry up and give me a quick death!" the person begged again.
Ye Liuyun did not hesitate. He broke his neck directly and stored the corpse in his Interspatial Ring. He then turned around to keep the corpse on the ground too.
"Let's move to another place! This person had sent a signal. We can't always ambush in the same spot as we will be discovered easily."
Liang Xue agreed with his suggestion.
So the two of them took advantage of the dark and walked towards the dense forest on the left.
As they walked, they tried to figure out why the Governor had sent killers after them.
"I've never offended the Governor! Could it be that they've come to kill you and decided to just kill me too?" Ye Liuyun asked after thinking for a moment.
"I don't understand either. I have never offended them! Maybe they wanted to kill you as you were the best in the Ye Family! But why did they want to kill me?" Liang Xue was puzzled too.
Not long after they walked, three figures appeared in this dense forest.
"They're gone! I don't know if they're dead or alive," one of them said.
"Of the two Signal Flares, two of them should be found, and most probably dead! There should be one more person, but we don't know where he is," said another man.
"The target might discover us. We can't separate again! We come from the front and the right. Let's take a look at the left," suggested another man in black.
Hence, the three of them chased after Ye Liuyun.
Ye Liuyun and Liang Xue did not go fast. They did not expect these people to catch up so quickly, and so accurately in the way they went.
"Oh no, they're coming."
Once Ye Liuyun heard of the commotion, he immediately used his Divine Sense to lock onto the guard of the Second Level of the Genuine Condensation Phase. He then shot a few arrows and injured the guard soon.
Then he pulled Liang Xue up and ran.
He had the Divine Sense to explore the way, so no matter how dark it was, it would not hinder his escape. Moreover, his bodywork was not bad. Thus, he soon got rid of the pursuit of the two people behind him.
But he did not stop. After running for one night, they did not stop until rays of light appeared in the jungle.
"They have predicted that we wouldn't dare to go deep into the forest. That's why they kept chasing us horizontally. Why don't we go deep into the forest?"
Ye Liuyun suggested.
"Okay!" Liang Xue answered gently, but her face was a little red.
Ye Liuyun felt that she was a little strange.
"What's wrong?" Ye Liuyun continued to pull Liang Xue and changed their direction.
"It's dawn!" Liang Xue whispered.
"That's right! We must hurry up and leave before they discover us," Ye Liuyun said as he quickened his pace.
"Let-let go of me, and we can walk faster..." Liang Xue's voice became softer.
At this moment, Ye Liuyun discovered that he was still holding Liang Xue's hand! No wonder she said it was dawn! It turned out that she was reminding him to let go of her hand.
"Ah! Sorry! I forgot about it when I was nervous!"
Ye Liuyun quickly let go of her hand and apologized to Liang Xue.
"Let's go. It is not the time to pay attention to these now!" Liang Xue said with a red face.
So they continued to walk deep into the mountains. They changed directions many times and often jumped onto trees to move along the way.
However, they were not able to leave the guards too far behind.
He had to admit that these guards were quite good at tracking.
Furthermore, while both of them were at the Third Level of the Genuine Condensation Phase, Liang Xue was not confident in defeating even one of them. Therefore, they had less hope of winning when facing the two guards.
"It's a pity that you're at the Third Level of the Genuine Condensation Phase. You can't even handle a guard! If I had reached this realm, I would've been able to deal with both of them at once!" In order to let Liang Xue relax, Ye Liuyun even joked with her.
"I'm just in a high realm, but I don't have the experience of battling! Unlike you, you were so cruel when extorting a confession! Do you do this a lot?" Liang Xue asked.
"I learned all these tricks from the stories my aunt told me. Furthermore, he was about to kill me. Why should I be polite to him?" Ye Liuyun retorted.
Liang Xue also felt that it made sense. She was not a person who was inflexible in her thoughts. When she was about to speak again, Ye Liuyun suddenly stopped her with a gesture!
"Did you hear the sound of running water?"
Liang Xue listened, but she did not hear anything. She had a questionable look.
"Just follow me!"
Ye Liuyun walked over first.
Liang Xue had already witnessed how strong Ye Liuyun's Divine Sense was, so she trusted him very much and followed him.
Not long after, Liang Xue also heard the sound of flowing water.
They followed the sound of water and found a mountain stream. The water flowed down from the mountain and formed a small waterfall. There was a pool at the bottom of the stream.
In the open space next to the pool was a fruit tree with golden fruits and there were rare herbs growing near the tree.
"Blood vein herb! I've finally found you!" Ye Liuyun discovered the golden blood vein herb within the bushes of rare herbs when he used his Divine Sense to glance through the herbs. It was very eye-catching.
However, Liang Xue did not pay attention to those herbs.
They had been in the mountains for a few days, and they were chased. The sweat all over her body made her feel really uncomfortable. At this moment, when she saw the water, the first thing she wanted to do was to go down and take a bath!
"Shall we go down and take a bath?" Liang Xue suggested in a slightly embarrassed voice.
However, she saw Ye Liuyun looking at her as if she was a monster.
She immediately reacted and explained hurriedly, "Not together, we are bathing separately! Don't misunderstand what I've said!"
"Have you seen the herbs below? Each one is rare! Do you think there is no feral beast guarding this place?"
Ye Liuyun did not notice Liang Xue's slip of the tongue. He released his Divine Sense to search for the ferocious beasts.
"But why hasn't the feral beast appeared?" Liang Xue also felt that Ye Liuyun's words made sense.
However, according to past experiences, if there were any feral beasts, the feral beasts would charge at them to stop them once they have approached the place.
Ye Liuyun smiled and said, "That's because the feral beast is right under the pond. It knows that we can't get past it and we won't be able to gather its herbs. Moreover, there's another group of people eyeing this herb."
After entering the Hengshan Mountains, Ye Liuyun's Divine Soul was used in a very high intensity every day and it had resulted in fast growth in his Divine Soul.
Now, it could practically probe his surroundings within three hundred meters. This entire space could be enveloped by his Divine Soul.
He found that there was a black python of the Fourth Level of the Genuine Condensation Phase at the bottom of the lake.
At the foot of the mountain stream, there were still about eight other people eyeing the medicinal herbs. Furthermore, they were all at the second or third level of the Genuine Condensation Phase. However, there was a cliff between them, so the group of people probably didn't notice him.
The black python was actually monitoring those people. Also, It might not be able to beat them, so it had been watching.