The two of them no longer considered the slower waterway, instead they found a post station and bought four swift horses.
Before they left, the two of them thoroughly cleaned themselves in the town and changed into brand new clothes.
Shen Luo employed a small trick, secretly stuffing their previous clothes into a cart headed in another direction.
After all this was done, they immediately mounted their horses and began their journey, riding one horse and leading the other, swapping every two hours. They sped along the road, covering more than two hundred miles in a very short time, and Gu Hualing still failed to appear.
"It seems that Gu Hualing might indeed be using her sense of smell to track us down, we've probably thrown her off our trail," Bai Xiaotian said happily.
"Let's hope so." Shen Luo spoke noncommittally, a shadow hung heavily over his heart.