"...Where did Fellow Daoist Li come from?"
Just as Mu Guyue's heart relaxed upon hearing Teng Zhang say it was nothing, his tone suddenly shifted, and he asked another question.
"My lord, my husband came here to help me. I naturally vouch for everything concerning him..."
Mu Guyue spoke without thinking. By rights, the matter should have ended there. Teng Zhang's purpose had been to investigate why the Red-Eyed Flame-Horned Beast Clan's experts had suddenly increased their scouting activities.
Now that the truth had been uncovered and it was confirmed that the Red-Eyed Flame-Horned Beast Clan was not plotting anything, they only needed to strengthen their precautions afterward.
This was not without precedent. Even though this place was the front line of the war between the two sides, some powerful cultivators who accidentally entered the region would head straight through it rather than detour around it.
Some of the patrol squads dispatched by their Black Devil Race, along with scouting teams sent out on missions, had also vanished without rhyme or reason after leaving. In the end, they had never returned.
Presumably, in a few more days, the Red-Eyed Flame-Horned Beast Clan would reach the conclusion that some unforeseen powerful cultivator had entered this place. Those squads had simply been unlucky enough to run into that person and had been casually wiped out.
She had allowed him into the military camp, and she had already informed the generals in the central command tent beforehand. That meant that if Li Yan had any problems, she alone would bear all responsibility for everything that followed.
Moreover, Li Yan was her family. Yet from Teng Zhang's meaning, he seemed determined not to let the matter rest. Mu Guyue immediately felt that he had come here with the intention of deliberately targeting them.
And