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Just now, he witnessed his father, Huo Yugong, being beheaded by one of the evil disciples with a single sword strike, dying instantly without even a complete corpse.
"Brother Li, where are you?"
"I am terrified!"
As the fire intensified, the cries of countless dying people drew ever closer to the backyard.
He had no time to worry about anything else.
She could only suppress her grief, turn around, pick up her son who was still smiling in his sleep, and walk quickly towards her sister in the next room.
I woke up my younger sister, who had just fallen asleep.
"Sister? Why are you here?" Huo Yugong's youngest daughter rubbed her sleepy eyes, whispered in confusion, pouted slightly, and lazily yawned.
"Speak not, and leave with me quickly."
The words have not yet fallen.
He then grabbed his sister's hand and, without letting her get dressed properly, hurriedly left.
"Sister, what are you doing..."
“The three wolves with severed hair have infiltrated the Immortal Abode and killed our father. Now only my sister and I are left.”
Upon hearing her sister's words, Huo Yugong's youngest daughter was stunned, her mind went blank, and she couldn't believe it.
Her still-childish body followed her older sister's hurried pace, seemingly oblivious to her surroundings.
However, the raging fire that illuminated the night sky, and the pitiful cries for help from the maids, protectors, and servants in the immortal abode, all confirmed that what my sister said was true.
"Father... he actually..."
When Huo Yugong's youngest daughter came to her senses, she was already speaking incoherently, clearly because she was extremely agitated.
Holding her son in her arms and tightly grasping her younger sister's hand, the older sister made her way through several twists and turns, using a hidden side door in the backyard, and headed straight for the small gate.
Just as he was about to open the small door and escape from the fairy abode.
By the light of the fire in the night, he noticed a glint of cold light flashing outside the door through the crack.
"Could that light be a reflection of sword energy?"
He became suspicious and immediately felt that this door was not a safe passage, as it might be fatal.
"The Three Wolves with Severed Hair have accomplices! They're trying to wipe out my Fire Rain Manor!" Hearing the approaching sounds of fighting and pleas for mercy, his heart burned with anxiety...
"Sister, let's take the secret passage..." the younger sister suggested in a low voice.
These words were like a sudden awakening.
He recalled the secret place he had visited with his father, and immediately changed direction, heading straight for a seemingly ordinary stone mountain in the backyard.
arrive at the destination.
Without him saying anything, his sister went to the natural depression on the rocky hill and explored it, twisting it several times in a specific order.
"Boom!"
One side of the rocky mountain slowly caved in, and then moved horizontally.
A narrow, deep tunnel appeared, and the two sisters stepped into it without hesitation. The tunnel entrance returned to its original state.
The tunnel was not completely dark; several luminous pearls were embedded in the walls for illumination.
Follow this hidden escape route.
The two sisters, along with their child, escaped the ravaged Fire Rain Manor and found themselves deep inside the cellar of an ordinary farmer's house.
"Hold the child tight, I'll go find a ladder, we need to leave right away," the older sister whispered urgently.
The younger sister nodded in agreement and took the baby boy from her older sister's arms.
Using the faint light of the luminous pearl, she walked straight to a hidden door in the cellar, retrieved a lightweight wooden ladder, and simultaneously carried the gold and silver pouches she had previously stored there.
339. Hell on Earth
The two sisters followed each other as they left the cellar, opened the hidden door above, and saw the light of day again.
The younger sister skillfully activated the mechanism, causing a massive boulder weighing thousands of pounds to fall into the cellar passage.
Completely seal off the exit of this secret passage.
"Sister, where should we go?" the younger sister asked.
He looked at his still-childish younger sister, then at the baby boy in his arms, weighed his options for a moment, and whispered, "Let's get away from here first and find the military commander under Brother Li."
The younger sister nodded silently and took the brocade pouch on her back.
In the darkness of night.
The 29 sisters, one after another, trudged along the bumpy dirt road, and were about to approach the Han family's military camp stationed around Huoyu Mountain Villa.
By the dim light of the military camp.
He was shocked to discover that a group of men in black, wielding long swords, were patrolling the area, seemingly searching for something.
"Do the thieves already know our identities and are specifically searching for us here?"
Faced with this scene, he felt a surge of panic and involuntarily took a half step back.
"Crack!"
A dead branch suddenly snapped at my feet, the originally faint sound amplified infinitely in the quiet darkness.
"There's something unusual there, go check it out."
Several men in black, carrying swords, walked towards them.
The two sisters were sweating profusely and dared not linger. They quickly and carefully retreated and changed positions.
Suddenly, dozens of torches lit up in the woods.
"There's someone over there!"
"Oops!"
The two sisters' expressions changed drastically, and they turned and fled.
However, the two sisters, fleeing in panic, did not notice that the group of men in black chasing them was not going all out, but rather seemed to be deliberately driving their prey.
The darkness of the night made many details difficult to discern, and thus they were overlooked.
They kept running away.
The two sisters had no choice but to approach Fire Rain Manor again and hide among the ordinary Baiyue tribes who depended on the immortal dwelling for survival.
Facing the raging flames of Fire Rain Manor, that was their home.
The raging fire, like the flames of hell, shot straight into the sky, illuminating the dark night but unable to dispel the sorrow and fear in the sisters' hearts.
Behind them, a group of ferocious pursuers were closing in, and they seemed to have been driven into a corner, surrounded by enemies with nowhere to escape.
She gently lowered her head, gazing at the tender baby girl still sleeping peacefully in her arms, and an endless sense of despair and sorrow welled up in her heart.
"Brother Li, I'm so sorry..."
To save her daughter and sister's lives, she decided to abandon them and lure away her pursuers alone, fighting to the death.
The fire rain agate clutched tightly in her hand shimmered with iridescent light amidst the interplay of fire and night, while the baby girl's innocent face gradually blurred through her tears.
Her heart was breaking, and she was in unbearable pain.
"Brother Li, I'm afraid I won't be able to keep our marriage agreement..."
"May you find a partner more virtuous than me..."
"I only ask that our daughter live..."
Tears welled up in her eyes, and she struggled to breathe several times.
Suppressing her grief, she gently placed the Fire Rain Agate, which belonged to Li Kai, deep into the swaddling clothes with trembling fingers.
He then tied it around his daughter's neck.
Looking around, she hid her daughter in a vegetable basket next to the wall of a house, and covered it with another empty bamboo basket.
Wiping away her tears, she pretended to be strong.
He turned around, took his younger sister's small, delicate hand, and solemnly instructed her:
"I'll lure those villains away. Once I'm out of sight, you immediately run in the other direction, understand?"
"We must survive!"
Before she could finish speaking, tears streamed down her face, and she sobbed uncontrollably.
Sensing her older sister's intentions, the clever younger sister immediately hugged her sister's slender waist, firmly objecting.
340. Pressing forward step by step
"Father has left us, sister, are you going to abandon me too?"
"If we escape separately, there might still be a glimmer of hope." The older sister, with tears in her eyes, broke free from her younger sister's tight grip on her wrist and resolutely refused: "This time, you must listen to me and not be willful."