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After sleeping until noon, Huang Yun's team finally recovered their spirits.

Huang Yun did not waste time and ordered the team to quickly finish breakfast and lunch, and immediately began to arrange soldiers to search for the footprints left by Chu Yang.

Although most of the soldiers in this army are low-level ghost cultivators, finding footprints has nothing to do with cultivation. As long as there are enough manpower and patience, they can always find some clues.

After all, Chu Yang can't fly yet, and the traces left just last night will not disappear so quickly. After nearly two hundred people carefully searched, Huang Yun finally found the footprints left by Chu Yang.

Then, they began to track along those footprints.

The tracking process was not particularly smooth, because footprints are deep and shallow, and they are always intermittent.

They have to track and identify at the same time, adjust the direction of tracking at any time, and stop from time to time to look for interrupted traces.

Such a tracking speed is obviously not as fast as Chu Yang.

Let alone Chu Yang, even if it is an ordinary person, as long as he runs away, it will definitely be faster than their slow tracking speed.

The difficulty of escaping and chasing is very different. Huang Yun thinks he may need a hound.

After tracking for a whole day, Huang Yun still couldn't catch up with Chu Yang.

However, those low-level ghost cultivators killed a few prey along the way, which solved the problem of food.

Huang Yun was not discouraged. It was good enough to find the footprints left by Chu Yang. He felt that as long as he could continue to chase, he would catch Chu Yang sooner or later.

Night fell again, and Huang Yun began to arrange the army to camp.

This time there were more sentries on duty, and the camping site was backed by the cliff, which made it easier to identify the direction of the enemy after being attacked.

Huang Yun was wondering in his heart whether the thief would come to attack again tonight?

The main target of the thief seemed to be himself, the leader?

Maybe he could set a trap?

Huang Yun ordered people to dig several pits in the camping site and carefully spread branches and leaves.

He hoped that Chu Yang could step into the pit he prepared and be easily captured by him.

Unfortunately, all these actions were seen by Chu Yang.

Chu Yang fulfilled half of Huang Yun's wish and launched another sneak attack at night.

The result of the sneak attack was that neither side gained much. Huang Yun's trap did not work, and Chu Yang still escaped intact.

Chu Yang also failed to capture Huang Yun alive.

However, he did not expect to catch Huang Yun so easily. The purpose of his sneak attack this time was just to cause some casualties to Huang Yun's army, increase the fear in the hearts of those ghost cultivators, and make Huang Yun unable to sleep peacefully.

In one night, Chu Yang only launched two sneak attacks, with a gap of most of the night in between.

He launched a sneak attack at night, killing and injuring more than ten people, causing Huang Yun's entire army to not dare to sleep too deeply.

When Huang Yun thought he would not launch another sneak attack, just when he fell asleep, Chu Yang launched another sneak attack.

It was before dawn, and Huang Yun's sleep was completely ruined.

Chu Yang slept comfortably for most of the night, but Huang Yun's army was tormented and could not rest well.

This behavior seemed to have no meaning. Although Huang Yun could not sleep well, Chu Yang could not cause too much damage to Huang Yun's army.

The pursuit would continue, and the overall situation did not seem to be affected.

But after dawn, Huang Yun found that his army had been reduced again.

This time, two teams, more than 20 people, ran away, including the squad leader and the sergeant in the team.

For those low-level ghost cultivators, it is better to escape early than to die in panic on the battlefield, so that they may live longer, or at least live more freely.

Because of the collective responsibility, those small leaders can only flee immediately when they find that the ghosts under their command have run away.

Huang Yun has already issued a strict order. They do not expect Huang Yun to spare their lives, and they do not have any illusions when they escape.

As a result, Huang Yun only had about 120 soldiers left, and the number of deserters and real wounded soldiers had been reduced by one third.

Huang Yun immediately realized that the situation was not good. If Chu Yang continued to do this, the army in his hands would soon collapse completely, and those low-level ghost cultivators would inevitably run away.

Deserters are an infectious disease. The more people run in front, the faster the people behind will run.

When Huang Yun was having a headache, his reinforcements finally arrived.

The next day, the reinforcements arrived one after another and joined Huang Yun. Huang Yun's army finally recovered to the level of 600 to 700 people.

But after calculating this number, Huang Yun had a headache.

Other teams also had deserters. Although they were not affected by the collective responsibility system, their morale was not much better than his.

In desperation, Huang Yun could only cancel the collective responsibility system and change it to a reward and punishment points model.

First, the low-level ghost cultivators were promised how many basic points they would get after completing the task, how many bonus points they would get if they worked hard to complete the task, and then what kind of rewards they could exchange, including elixirs for cultivation and weapons and equipment.

Then some punishment measures were announced, such as how many points would be deducted for deserters in the team and how many points would be deducted for passive slacking.

This model was obviously more to everyone's liking, and the morale of the army finally recovered a little.

Then there was the pursuit again, and the game between him and Chu Yang still had to continue.

Chu Yang temporarily gave up the idea of ​​capturing Huang Yun alive, and just kept harassing Huang Yun's army, causing casualties to Huang Yun.

Huang Yun's pursuit speed was getting slower and slower, because they had to start hunting to replenish the army's food.

Chu Yang always took them around in the wild, not giving them the opportunity to get close to the village for supplies, which gave Huang Yun even more headaches.

After tossing around for more than half a month, Huang Yun's army was left with less than 500 people.

Including casualties and "disappearances", the army he originally brought into the witch world has lost more than half.

Can this big pursuit continue?

Huang Yun was also unsure.

"We can't catch up with the thief at this rate. Even if we find his trail, we can't keep up with his speed."

"We need a better way to track him. We must save enough time to find his footprints."

"The traps we set up have no effect on the thief. He must be secretly watching us somewhere."

"This is a jungle combat expert. No matter how many ordinary soldiers there are, they can't deal with him."

"We need elite soldiers who can adapt to this combat mode."