What Meng Chin was thinking was right, Han Bai wouldn't have a chance to find Xiao Fan anymore. Also, on the side, Xiao Fan majorly due to Qian Ki made out of the trap set for them and continued to run into the mountains while being chased.
On the slopes of the mountains, there was little to no place to hide, but that wasn't a problem for the three of them since they even when holding to their Body swords had no problem to lose the hunters, who were mostly lower cultivation than them.
So not even the map Han Bai had gotten could help them if it even mapped these regions.
To this, Xiao Fan was happy with Qian Ki, who also saw them succeeding in escaping, yet Du Lan thought otherwise. She had seen the person standing above the tree while shooting her bow from behind the two in melee not having the luxury to look around.
The person she saw was easily identified as the elder of the Rising Fox Sect, which meant that they weren't successfully escaping, but being toyed by her. Yet for now, she wouldn't tell her two companions about this as what did it help them?
So Du Lan keeping her mouth shut about it, they continued towards the first mountain peak.
When they had gotten to the top that wasn't high enough to have snow on it, the first thing they did was to look below them, and below them, they could see how the Rising Fox Sect disciples were swarming around the mountain.
Noting that they were slowly being surrounded did make them panic a little as even if they know what the enemy is doing, they, themselves couldn't do anything about it.
There was too many of them, and them being only three people using even the most basic strategies was impossible.
Using Du Lan's arrows wasn't a possibility either.
Seeing as the quiver on her back had just a few arrows in it, and those she was most definitely saving for something critical.
Then following a small discussion regarding what they should do, they decided to keep moving towards the Liang Dynasty, simply hoping for it to work out. There were no other plans right now, so no one questioned such a plan and begun to get down the other mountainside.
Yet as they were doing this, they were always being watched by one person who could climb a mountain swiftly and then relocate to tell her disciples. The person was Meng Chin, who was making this interesting as she could while keeping in mind there wasn't much time anymore.
Even Cao Cao watching the chase was somewhat happy in the actions of Meng Chin as her thought process was the same as his. And soon Cao Cao got to see the plans of Meng Chin flourish as the disciples surrounded Xiao Fan on front of a mountain cave.
The three of them were at the entrance of the cave while most of the disciples were around the door, waiting for more disciples to gather.
Xiao Fan, at this point, was becoming frustrated by how easily they were getting caught by now, and his frustration was also showing in the way he spoke.
¨Du Lan, have any other ideas anymore?¨
The plan to continue to travel without resistance was her plan while Xiao Fan had opposed it.
Du Lan looking at him could only sight as he didn't know it was all useless anyway, they couldn't escape.
¨Argh, can you shut up for a minute¨ But she was also irritated by his complaining.
Qian Ki on the side didn't want to come between them two arguing, it was not for her, plus she had her focus on the enemy, which was for her.
In the meantime, the Rising Fox Sect disciples were merely waiting for more of them to gather, not even entertaining Qian Ki by giving some blood.
So, for now, Qian Ki could only wait for the two of them to come up with an idea while keeping the enemy in check.
Thankfully behind her, the two of them were slowly getting into an agreement.
¨We can't split again!¨ Du Lan dismissed his idea.
¨There is no other way than to split anymore I don't want to see you two captured¨ Xiao Fan defended his idea.
¨What good does it do if the two of us escape while you get imprisoned¨ The two of them were openly discussing not minding if being heard.
¨We can't get a better deal right now or do you want to be imprisoned by them?¨
¨No...¨ But before she got more words out of her mouth Xiao Fan stopped her from doing so.
¨See! Now just listen to me and run while I give you time. They will not kill me¨ Xiao Fan wasn't given her any space this time.
He would certainly give the two of them much more space to argue with him about things he didn't worry so much or didn't see, however, this time everything was in front of him and he cared a lot.
Du Lan hearing him in the tone that wasn't used by him regularly could only murmur and listen to his plan. She also knew that Xiao Fan wouldn't have much trouble being imprisoned for his knowledge was too much wanted; no one would torture him.
This in mind and the elder also being here somewhere she agreed to his plan with a regretting nod.
¨Good girl Lan'er¨ He spoke after which he looked at Qian Ki ¨Were leaving Ki'er¨
Qian Ki, who was facing her back towards Xiao Fan, hearing Du Lan agree to this could also only regretfully accepts this decision and walked backwards slowly, keeping her eyes on the enemy.
Xiao Fan and Du Lan having now ended their arguing did the same and walked into the cave where then Xiao Fan with one slash destroyed a large pillar holding the mouth of the cave up.
The Rising Fox Sect disciples seeing this didn't even bat their eye, they were actually happy about what their conclusion was. The block wouldn't take them for long to clear; meanwhile, the three of them were now splitting and were doing so in the best possible way.
This in mind, they weren't sad about their hands being a little ruined from moving the rocks so that they would get into the cave.
Then from a small crack, they had made into the wall the disciples then swarmed inside one by one.
The last one of them coming in was not a disciple but Meng Chin, who was still taking her sweet time in all of this.
She was letting the hunt buildup into the finale that she could already see happening.
Then again licking her lips, she walked into the cave behind the disciples splitting onto two routes as the cave split into two different tunnels after the opening.
The one Meng Chin took first was the wrong one for her, as Xiao Fan was running in the other tunnel, hoping for some miracle occurring.
So the one she took was where Du Lan and Qian Ki were going down a tunnel where new openings where appearing. Every one of these sub cave openings would give them better chances as the places the enemy would need to go and search increased.
Inside the other tunnel, Xiao Fan didn't have this luxury as his side was only sometimes splitting into sub caves, though that wasn't his biggest worry.
His biggest worry was something below his feet, for the ground below him left marks.
Any cultivator could see even the footmarks from a wood floor if the walker was a mortal.
But a cultivator could step on almost any floor in a way that the footprints left behind wouldn't show too much, and if it wasn't so, they would have already been captured a long time ago.
However, right now, the ground Xiao Fan was taking was so soft that even he couldn't walk on it without leaving a footmark. This had made his escape chances go from decent to almost impossible, which then let Cao Cao, who had changed the ground grin from seeing his defeated face.
Indeed it was so since the disciples noting those marks on the ground could easily follow behind Xiao Fan, who could already hear a large group of people coming behind him.
At this point, Xiao Fan only cursed his luck whilst running fast as he could.
He knew he faced an inevitable capture, but what more he struggles against the capture, the more time the women of his had to escape.
Xiao Fan himself knew that he wouldn't have anything terrible coming at him if he worked with the captors. Maybe he didn't like the idea, but trying to be positive, he saw good things in being captured by them.
First of all, he would still be taken into the real world, and his cultivation wouldn't most likely struggle for too long. Plus attaching himself into one of the elders or groups inside the Rising Fox Sect he could escape or convert the whole sect in a short time.
With this positive thinking, he didn't fear too much hearing the captors' footsteps that were coming from behind him.
And his biggest wish of Qian Ki and Du Lan escaping would become real, they would find another cave entrance and would make their way into the Liang Dynasty.
He would be happy knowing this.
Though that wouldn't help him much.
He, himself had run into a dead-end after a dead-end, and thanks to that, he was now facing the disciples of the Rising Fox Sect.
Ten or two tens Body Warming cultivators wouldn't still be a too much of a hassle, yet what made him struggles was that a few disciples equalled his grade of cultivation.
Still, even this realised by him, he struggles for long as he could against the two of them, meaning an hour or so. However, his struggle hadn't even made the two opponents of him exhausted, not talking about wounded.
His opponents only hardship in this was a command not to hurt him as that meant that if one didn't surrender wilfully could they only run his stamina out.
In this, there was also one thing reminiscent of Meng Chin's betrayal of Han Bai not telling the whereabouts of the golden goose. This was that the two of them had made sure that Meng Chin didn't get the idea of Xiao Fan's whereabouts.
Getting the other disciples not to tell the elder wasn't too hard because most of the people with them were anyway under the two of them.
They relied on these two more capable and beautiful women for protection and such, so no one was making a move to go and tell Meng Chin.
What was their motive for this? The same as Meng Chin herself, of course.
So when Xiao Fan was literally palpitating from the exhaustion already the two women before him began talking.
¨Now that he's done with who goes first?¨ An alluring woman who already had almost everything on her body showing asked the other.
The other one didn't think long ¨I'll go first¨ She said while from the corner of her brown eye gazed upon Xiao Fan, not wanting to wait another minute.
As the two of them started debating who should be the first one to enjoy him, Xiao Fan on the floor was confused, to say the least. Yet despite being confused pondering their words, it didn't take long for him before he realised what the two of them wanted to do.
Consequently, his eyes turned a little panicky when he realised that they were debating who would be the first one to take him for a spin.
Why would they rape him? Were his looks so good that women were interested in raping him?
Du Lan rarely gave him any compliments on his body. Mostly she would note him to get some muscles while Qian Ki seemed not to bother with it and liked him for other reasons.
From other people seeing him, he would sometimes get looks, yet was he beautiful to this extent?
Xiao Fan himself didn't think that he was on the same scale in men as Du Lan and Qian Ki were on the women scale.
But the current situation would seem that he might have this effect on some women, or at least on these two.
¨If we can't decide who will go first what if we go both at the same time?¨ The woman with brown eyes proposed.
¨Then who will watch them? They might not do anything if one of us watches over them, but leaving them unattended will cause trouble¨
The woman spoke as if there were no qualms about the part taking Xiao Fan together with the woman with brown eyes and round face.
¨So what Elder Meng will anyway be angry at us for this, so before she gets here what if we enjoy him to the fullest?¨
The other one realising this understood that what her friend was saying was right, and they had, in the end, no knowledge of when Meng Chin would find them.
¨Then it's settled¨ She spoke, then turning to face Xiao Fan, whose face was fearful, yet a tone of anticipation could be perceived in his eyes.