In the dreamworld, upon hearing Chen Hao's call, Tang Jing, who was enveloped in the cold, thick fog, immediately ran towards the direction from which the sound came.

When the image of Chen Hao hanging from the tree branches by vines appeared in her sight—

Suddenly!

Several skeleton hands with only bones extended towards her from the thick fog on both sides, and Tang Jing hastily dodged left and right. Although she temporarily avoided those terrifying hands, several wounds were slashed open on her arms and back by their long, sharp fingernails.

Then, Tang Jing tried to forge a Yang Energy sword, only to find that in the dream, she couldn't summon the Yang Energy within her body at will. After expending nearly all her strength, she managed to form only a Yang Energy dagger in the palm of her hand.

"Tang Jing, save me quickly!" Chen Hao, hanging from the tree, called out to Tang Jing for help.

Just as Tang Jing was about to move forward, she suddenly remembered a phrase Chen Hao had said—"Then let's all remember this, if we encounter each other in the dreamworld, immediately avoid and distance ourselves from the other person! If you don't avoid, it means they are not one of us, and you can kill them without hesitation!"

If it were the real Chen Hao, he definitely wouldn't be asking me to save him but rather telling me to run away, Tang Jing thought. So, after repelling the white bone claws that attacked again with the Yang Energy dagger, Tang Jing turned and swiftly disappeared into the thick fog.

Meanwhile, the Chen Hao hanging from the branch kept shouting, "Tang Jing, don't go, hurry and save me!"

The more Chen Hao said this, the more it affirmed Tang Jing's decision to leave.

After Tang Jing's voice completely vanished into the mist, the Chen Hao hung up in the tree suddenly pulled out a dagger that flickered with green light from his pocket—the blade of the Ancestor of the Nether King—and muttered to himself, "Ah ha, it looks like I can rest assured about Tang Jing!"

Having said this, he used the dagger to cut through the vines wrapped around him and fell to the ground with a "thump."

"Ow, it's killing me!" Chen Hao cried out in agony. At that moment, numerous white bone claws straightened and surrounded him.

With two "whoosh" sounds, Chen Hao slashed with the dagger in his hands to his left and right, producing two long, narrow green light trails in the air, which surged towards the approaching white bones with extremely strong waves of blade energy.

In an instant, all the white bones in front of Chen Hao were swept away by the green light, leaving not a trace behind.

After clearing the white bones, Chen Hao pocketed the blade of the Ancestor of the Nether King and said with a smile, "Nightmare spirits, I've come to clean you up!"

Having finished speaking, Chen Hao stepped into the fog.

A quarter of an hour later, Chen Hao arrived in front of a thorny path on the eastern side at the foot of the Sky Son Peak. In the dense fog covering the path, he saw a curvaceous outline.

"Is that you, Tang Jing?" Chen Hao called out loudly towards the front.

"Chen Hao! Ah!" A painful scream came from afar, "I got my foot caught by thorns, don't you dare come here!" Tang Jing instructed.

After that, Tang Jing let out several more sharp and pained screams.

Hearing Tang Jing telling him "don't come," Chen Hao couldn't help but suspect, Could this Tang Jing be a fake, deliberately saying this to lure me over?

"Then I'm leaving, okay?" Chen Hao waved goodbye to Tang Jing.

"Yes! Be careful!" Tang Jing said through clenched teeth, enduring the pain.

After walking away a few steps, listening to Tang Jing's faint moans, Chen Hao, struggling internally, stopped, turned back to look at Tang Jing, and asked loudly, "Tang Jing, do you trust me?"

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In the real world.

Outside the tent.

Ye Yuqiao and Tang Chao silently gazed at the blazing campfire in front of them, anxiously waiting.

At that moment, hearing a noise behind them, the two turned around to look.

Tang Jing had already come out of the tent with a helpless smile on her face.

Tang Chao immediately stood up, walked over to Tang Jing, and embraced her, gently patting her back to comfort her, "Don't blame yourself, it's enough that you tried your best!"

Tang Jing gently pushed Tang Chao away and chuckled, "Brother, I'm not blaming myself!"

Once the two had settled down in front of the fire, Tang Jing looked at the campfire and said, "It was Chen Hao who killed me!"

"What!" Tang Chao exclaimed in shock, "He killed you without being sure of your identity?"

"No," Tang Jing said with a smile, shaking her head. Under the flickering firelight, her cheeks were tinged slightly red. "I was trapped in thorns, and he couldn't bear to see me suffer, so he killed me. He wanted me to trust him, trust that he would definitely be able to eliminate the Nightmare Soul!"

Ye Yuqiao's heart soured at the sight of Tang Jing's peach-like appearance, and she silently cursed Chen Hao for being a bastard. However, the thought that if she were in the dreamscape, Chen Hao would surely sense her real from her false, suddenly made her heart feel warm.

"Now only Chen Hao and Xie Xiaofeng are left," Tang Chao looked thoughtfully into the fire.

Tang Jing nodded and murmured, "I wonder what Xie Xiaofeng's situation is now?"

Meanwhile, in the dreamscape, Xie Xiaofeng was sitting cross-legged on the ground, his strategy being to defend and wait for the attack, waiting for the Nightmare Soul that was also trapped in the dreamscape to come to him.

Based on the dreamscape that Tang Jing and Tang Chao had just described in the bamboo forest, Xie Xiaofeng calculated: in Tang Jing's dreamscape, a total of two Nightmare Souls had pretended to be Chen Hao and Ye Yuqiao; in his own dreamscape, three Nightmare Souls had posed as Chen Hao, Tang Chao, and Ye Yuqiao; and in Tang Chao's dreamscape, there were Nightmare Souls shaped like four other people. So, Xie Xiaofeng estimated that there would be at least four Nightmare Souls attacking.

Suddenly, a burst of hurried footsteps sounded from afar, growing closer quickly!

Xie Xiaofeng's eyes shot a sharp gleam as he looked in the direction of the footsteps. He saw Chen Hao being chased by several enormous rats.

The rats were as large as a tiger, and the two iron teeth that protruded from their mouths and gleamed were shockingly big!

"Xie Xiaofeng, come help quickly!" Chen Hao cried out to Xie Xiaofeng for help.

"Alright!" Xie Xiaofeng quickly got to his feet, ran a few steps forward, and then shouted toward the front, "Art of Wood, no escape!"

No sooner had the words fallen than countless cracks suddenly appeared in the ground nearby, and thousands of thick roots and vines burst out from the earth.

However, these thousands of roots and vines not only entangled the massive rats, but also wrapped around Chen Hao, who was sprinting towards Xie Xiaofeng.

"Xie Xiaofeng, are you crazy? Why are you entangling me?" Chen Hao shouted angrily at Xie Xiaofeng.

Xie Xiaofeng's lips curled into a smug smile. He strolled over to Chen Hao and explained coldly, "Did you know that I've known Chen Hao since we were three? I know him very well. Although he is indeed very afraid of rats, he would rather be bitten to death by them than ask me for help!"

Having said that, Xie Xiaofeng gathered the little Yang Energy he had in his left fist and then swung it at Chen Hao's left cheek.

Chen Hao's left cheek instantly twisted and deformed, transforming into the face of the long-haired, sinister-looking, and pale-green skinned Nightmare Soul.

"Tell me the truth, how many accomplices do you have?" Xie Xiaofeng asked, his voice carrying a spine-chilling coldness.

The long-haired Nightmare Soul didn't answer but instead bared its teeth in a grimace, trying to intimidate Xie Xiaofeng!

Xie Xiaofeng looked at the Nightmare Soul with an expressionless face: "I'll ask you one more time, how many accomplices do you have?"

The Nightmare Soul still did not respond.

Xie Xiaofeng squinted his eyes, which carried a hint of murderous intent. He closed his eyes and shouted, "Art of Wood, extreme punishment!"

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