Hiss!
Chen Mo was deeply startled by the sight and couldn't help drawing in a sharp breath.
He instinctively circulated his True Qi, alert and on guard. Then the scene before him began to blur. At last, it shattered like glass with a crash, breaking apart and vanishing completely.
His vision cleared again. Where was the baby?
There was only the empty, cold rear annex, with straw scattered across the floor, blue-brick walls, and a dim oil lamp. And the white-haired woman, sprawled on the ground, unable to move.
The Yellow Robe Infant was gone. Even its cries had vanished.
Everything had returned to the familiar room.
But... what had that baby he'd just seen been?
Its face, its appearance, even its voice and movements... had all been utterly vivid.
Chen Mo blinked a few times and looked ahead again, but the Yellow Robe Infant was nowhere to be seen.
"An illusion?"
Chen Mo knew that when some people were under too much pressure, or missed something intensely, they could easily experience similar hallucinations. It was a kind of "thinking of something by day and dreaming of it by night."
But Chen Mo had entered the Inner Family, and his mental state was good. His Six Roots and Six Senses were keen.
His instincts told him that what he'd just seen had definitely not been an illusion.
But no matter how Chen Mo tried, he couldn't see the Yellow Robe Infant again, so in the end he had to let it go.
Chen Mo looked down at the woman and was shocked to find her lying stiffly on the ground, lifeless.
Dead!?
Just moments ago, the woman had been full of life.
Though the Ghost Curse resentment in her body had been growing, her Guard Qi had also been increasing,