And at that moment, an eerie sound suddenly emanated from the mountain.

"Listen, what's that sound?" Xie Xiaofeng, who was in a half-asleep state, suddenly exclaimed.

Ye Yuqiao, Tang Jing, and Tang Chao, who were beside him and somewhat sleepy, all looked alert.

The four of them listened carefully, and in the noise of the wind, in addition to the rustling of leaves, they could hear the mournful crying of female ghosts, the sharp and strange laughter of fierce ghosts, and the roaring and bellowing of evil spirits.

After smelling a series of strong Yin Qi, Ye Yuqiao sprang up and said, "There are many ghosts approaching us, at least ten thousand of them!"

"Fire Magic, Flame of Purgatory!" Xie Xiaofeng suddenly cast a spell, and then dozens of lantern-sized fireballs slowly rose up in the nearby woods, illuminating the originally dim and foggy mountain forest.

The four of them saw that from all around them, all sorts of diverse, differently-featured Wandering Souls and wild ghosts were rapidly floating towards them.

These tens of thousands of ghostly souls had been urgently summoned from the surface of King Ning's Manor by the Empress Dowager. She had previously decreed that if the Four Heavenly Kings did not return by three in the morning, these ghosts were to make their appearance.

"So many!" Tang Chao exclaimed with cold sweat starting to appear on his forehead.

"Hmph! It's just the right time!" Xie Xiaofeng said with a slight upward curl of his lips, "I was just worried that there would be no chance for me, Xie Xiaofeng, to show off what I can do!"

After speaking, Xie Xiaofeng closed his eyes, clasped his hands together to the left and right, and recited, "Five Elements Forbidden Magic, Flame of Purgatory!"

"Ah! Forbidden Magic!" Tang Jing was astonished. After a moment of shock, she looked at Xie Xiaofeng beside her and asked in amazement, "Xie Xiaofeng, you've actually been secretly cultivating Forbidden Magic!"

Xie Xiaofeng did not respond but instead opened his eyes wide, looking ahead with a malevolent glint in his eyes!

Last time they had gone to Dao County and caused havoc in the Ghost Market, Xie Xiaofeng had acquired two precious Five Elements Stones. Ever since then, he would lock himself in his room after school every day, practicing Yin Yang Five Elements Magic, and had absorbed the Five Elements Magic from one of the stones, causing his magic to grow tenfold.

Due to Xie Xiaofeng's extremely high talent in cultivating the Yin Yang Five Elements Magic, once his mana increased, he independently figured out several moves of the Forbidden Five Elements Spells.

Suddenly, the forest shook violently, with numerous large cracks appearing near the tents, followed by fiery magma gushing up from the surface and spilling out from the cracks, flowing and surging through the undulating mountains. The light of the magma bathed the entire world in a yellow hue, and the forest trembled even more violently as the lava spread unrestrained.

Watching the surroundings turn into something resembling purgatory, Ye Yuqiao, Tang Chao, and Tang Jing were all stunned. The power of this Yin Yang Art was indeed stronger than that of ordinary spells, no wonder so few were able to master it.

Any ghosts that came into contact with the molten lava immediately dissipated!

The ghosts that had been approaching the four of them turned around and fled back the way they had come, their terrified and mournful cries filling the air.

A quarter of an hour later, the ghosts had dispersed, and their cries could be heard intermittently in the distance, as Xie Xiaofeng withdrew his spell.

The forest that had resembled purgatory now returned to its usual tranquility and darkness.

"Xie Xiaofeng, I didn't expect this! A true case of 'a scholar grows in three days'!" Tang Jing admired Xie Xiaofeng. In the blink of an eye, her look of admiration turned to disdain as she snorted, "But you dared to secretly cultivate Forbidden Magic, be careful the Association comes after you!"

"The president of the Association is lying in the tent right now! Haha!" Xie Xiaofeng laughed out loud.

"I'm not talking about our city's Yin Yang Master Association, but the national one that governs the discipline of all Yin Yang Masters!" Tang Jing said with a worried expression.

"Come on! I'm not afraid of them!" Xie Xiaofeng said nonchalantly, "Who in this association hasn't practiced forbidden arts? They formed an alliance and created this association just to monopolize the forbidden arts and ensure their dominance."

Tang Jing sighed helplessly and said, "It looks like you're bound to be a troublemaker in the future, why do I have to have companions like you and Chen Hao!"

Ye Yuqiao quietly watched Tang Jing and Xie Xiaofeng, thinking that having these two as companions, she should feel reassured for Chen Hao.

Thinking of Chen Hao, Ye Yuqiao became a bit anxious. She had no idea what Chen Hao was doing in the dream realm at the moment, nor did she know when he would wake up from it.

Soon after, there was a series of strange noises around them.

Xie Xiaofeng once again used earth and fire to light up the forest.

"Ah! Undying skeletons!" Xie Xiaofeng exclaimed in shock. He knew very well that even his strong Yin Yang Five Elements Magic couldn't eliminate the undying skeletons.

"What do we do now?" Tang Jing asked urgently. Her Yin Yang Arts were equally ineffective against the undying skeletons surrounding them.

Xie Xiaofeng looked at Ye Yuqiao and said, "Only Chen Hao can deal with the undying skeletons, so for now I will use an Earth Shield to protect us. As long as Chen Hao can get back before the Earth Shield is broken through, we'll be okay!"

"Okay!" Ye Yuqiao nodded and then turned to instruct Tang Chao, "You go and bring Chen Hao out!"

After Tang Chao carried Chen Hao out, Xie Xiaofeng cast an earth spell, creating thick earthen walls on all six sides, enclosing the five of them inside. Seconds after being plunged into darkness, Xie Xiaofeng summoned a string of fire to illuminate the enclosed space.

Shortly after, "boom, boom" noises were heard from the earthen walls—the undying skeletons were clawing at the outer wall with their bone claws.

Ye Yuqiao sat on the ground, placing Chen Hao's head on her lap, and then stared blankly at Chen Hao with his eyes closed.

Meanwhile, Chen Hao in the dream realm had just woken up.

After yawning and stretching, Chen Hao slowly got to his feet. Rubbing his sleepy eyes, he looked around and realized the thick fog had lifted and the red sun was already hanging overhead.

"How long have I slept?" Chen Hao muttered to himself. Last night, after wandering around the foggy forest and failing to find the nightmare soul, he simply leaned against a banyan tree to sleep. Though it was only an hour and a half in the real world, he'd slept for a full nine hours in the dream realm.

"Come out and fight me, three nightmare souls!" Chen Hao shouted to his surroundings.

After shouting for a while, he leaned back against the banyan tree, reached into his shirt's collar, and took out the rhino horn pendant that Chen Jing had given him, chuckling, "I never thought it would really be a supreme treasure!"

Before entering the dream realm, Chen Hao had always thought the rhino horn pendant was useless until last night when he sent Tang Jing into the dream realm.

Just as he put the Nether King Ancestor's hand back into his pocket, a red-eyed evil ghost with menacing claws suddenly leaped out of the nearby bushes and attacked him.

In a moment of crisis, a dazzling purple flame suddenly burst from Chen Hao's left eye, burning the soul of the Red-eyed Evil Ghost to nothing.

Chen Hao was astonished. Ye Yu had told him that once his Yin Soul left his body, he wouldn't be able to use the Nether Eye Power. Afterwards, Chen Hao tried to use the Yin Yang Mana, and to his surprise, the Yang Energy Power contained within his Yin Soul was as abundant as that within his physical body.

"What's going on?" Chen Hao wondered. At that moment, a silver light suddenly shot out from under his collar and upwards into Chen Hao's eyes.

Chen Hao looked down...

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