Half an hour later, Mu Yan opened the door, one hand on her waist and the other holding her stomach, slowly and carefully walking out of the dilapidated house.
If one were to only observe her movements, they would think she was an incredibly gentle mother.
However, behind her, the door that had just been opened was now filled with corpses.
Their eyes were wide open, not a single one able to close, filled with endless fear, pain, and despair.
As if they had seen the most terrifying hell.
Mu Yan did not look back at the bloody scene behind her, but instead threw a newly lit torch behind her.
The raging fire, under the brilliant sun, began to burn.
The billowing smoke rose into the sky, shrouding the sky above the house in a gloomy gray.
By the time a group of men in black arrived on horseback, the place had already turned into a charred wasteland, with no sign of anyone.
Several men in black looked at each other, seeing the fear and disbelief in each other's eyes.
At that moment, a white horse carrying a woman came rushing in like the wind.
The woman appeared slender, dressed in purple, wearing a bamboo hat and a veil, only revealing her exquisite facial features.
Upon seeing the ashes of the ruins before her, the woman's voice was cold and chilling, "What's going on? Where is the fetus I wanted?"
"Back... back to the leader, we don't know how this happened, it should have been foolproof..."
"Useless!!" The woman raised the whip in her hand and fiercely struck them several times before gritting her teeth, "Find it, even if it's a corpse, dig it out for me!"
"Yes, leader!"
After a moment, several men in black hurriedly reported, "Leader, there is no body of the pregnant woman inside."
"Are you saying she escaped?"
"Leader, rest assured, although we didn't arrange for anyone around the house, we have sealed off this mountain. If that woman really escaped, she definitely wouldn't be able to leave this mountain."
The woman with the veil tightly gripped the reins of the horse, her face turning pale and then green.
If it weren't for the fear of being discovered that she was trying to obtain an immortal fetus, she should have come to retrieve the fetus herself without any mishaps.
She thought that dealing with just a young girl would be foolproof.
But she didn't expect...
"Search! Thoroughly search for me!" the woman said fiercely, "Even if you have to dig three feet into the ground, find this woman and her child for me!"
"Yes, leader!"
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After leaving the dilapidated house, Mu Yan did not flee into the mountains as the group of the woman in white had expected.
Instead, she turned in the opposite direction and headed deeper into the mountains.
The further she went into the mountains, the denser and more secluded the trees became.
Layers of decaying leaves slowly turned into marsh under the soaking rain.
The forest was filled with countless venomous creatures, snakes, rats, and even unknown beasts that rivaled yellow-level martial artists.
No one could have guessed that Mu Yan would venture deeper into the mountains.
Because for a fragile pregnant woman, entering this dense forest was a dead end.
Yet Mu Yan's expression was remarkably calm, and although her steps were heavy and slow, they were also resolute.
Roar! A beastly roar came from the front.
The leaves rustled, and a giant golden leopard leaped out from the front, its green eyes greedily and ferociously fixed on Mu Yan, covered in blood.