As Zhang Yushan led her fellow Onmyoji through the streets to clean up wandering souls and stray ghosts, someone seized that moment to break into the Yin Soul Prison built beneath the A City Yin Yang Master Association and unlocked all the cell doors that had been sealing the Five Elements Yin Souls.

The so-called Five Elements Yin Souls refer to those Yin Souls that possess one of the attributes "metal, wood, water, fire, earth" after death. Usually, the attribute carried by these types of Yin Souls is related to the cause of death. For example, water ghosts died by drowning, fire ghosts were burned to death, and earth ghosts were suffocated by sand or buried alive. The resentment these people felt at the moment of death combined with the natural Five Elements to form the Five Elements Yin Souls after they died.

After listening to Zhang Yushan, Chen Hao rolled his eyes and asked doubtfully, "Were only the Five Elements Yin Souls released?"

"Exactly!" Zhang Yushan nodded, looking very anxious. "President Chen, I am an Onmyoji who practices Yin Yang Five Elements Magic, and every single Five Elements Yin Soul in this Yin Soul Prison was sealed by me personally. I placed seven different seals on every cell door."

"Oh!" Chen Hao nodded vacantly, even though he didn't understand what Zhang Yushan was trying to convey; it sounded like she was quite formidable.

"President Chen!" Zhang Yushan suddenly stood up, her emotions extremely agitated as she looked at Chen Hao. "Unless it's an Onmyoji with vastly superior Yin Yang Five Elements Magic than mine, no one can unlock these cell doors!"

Chen Hao nodded repeatedly, still looking confused.

Zhang Yushan took two steps towards Chen Hao and asked again, "Have you ever heard of the Five Elements Reincarnation Formation?"

Chen Hao first nodded blankly, then shook his head repeatedly, embarrassedly smiling and saying, "I haven't heard of it, really haven't!"

"This Five Elements Reincarnation Formation is the greatest forbidden art among the Yin Yang Five Elements Magic; there are but three Onmyoji in the world capable of activating this formation," Zhang Yushan explained, her pupils shrinking in dimness. "Not only does the Five Elements Reincarnation Formation possess the power to reverse the vital channels of living people and grant them a new life, but it also breaks any Yin Yang seals within several hundred kilometers!"

"That's amazing!" Chen Hao exclaimed, and then after a pause, he asked, "Do you know the Five Elements Reincarnation Formation, President Zhang?"

Zhang Yushan, who had been patiently explaining to Chen Hao, finally couldn't suppress the impatience in her heart, and said somewhat angrily, "President Chen, the situation is urgent; I am not in the mood for jokes! The Five Elements Yin Souls from the Yin Soul Prison have been taken away, most likely to activate the Five Elements Reincarnation Formation. Once this formation is activated within your city, even the ghosts and spirits sealed by generations of Onmyoji will be released!"

"Our city?" Chen Hao was startled, "Why would it be activated in our city? Also, what does activating the Five Elements Reincarnation Formation have to do with the Five Elements Yin Souls?"

"You don't know, President Chen!" At this moment, Ren Deshan, who had been sitting silently to one side, finally spoke up. He told Chen Hao that Y City was surrounded by mountains with heavy Yin Qi, and also had an entrance to the Netherworld, making it a favored haunt for numerous evil spirits. From ancient times till now, many famous Onmyoji emerged from Y City, and it had the highest number of Onmyoji family clans in East Country.

"That's right!" Ren Deshan had just finished speaking when Zhang Yushan continued. "Moreover, this Yin Yang Five Elements Magic was created over three thousand years ago by a double-surnamed Onmyoji from within your Y City, and surely there are many secrets concerning Y City and Five Elements Magic!"

Pausing for a moment, Zhang Yushan went on to explain, "President Chen, to activate the Five Elements Reincarnation Formation, besides needing a large amount of Five Elements Yang Energy Power, an equal amount of Five Elements Yin Qi Spiritual Power is also required! In my opinion, the Five Elements Yin Souls being taken away is very likely because someone wants to extract some Five Elements Yin Qi Spiritual Power from them."

Hearing this, Chen Hao finally understood. Zhang Yushan's urgency in rushing from Y City to meet him was to tell him that someone wanted to activate the Five Elements Reincarnation Formation, releasing the ghosts and evil spirits that generations of Onmyoji had worked hard to seal!

After a long period of contemplation, Chen Hao asked Zhang Yushan, "The Yang Energy Power from the Five Elements needed to activate the Five Elements Reincarnation Formation, doesn't it have to be drawn from the Five Elements Stone?"

"Exactly!" Zhang Yushan's eyebrows immediately furrowed even deeper, her expression becoming one of concern. "The reason I came to see you today is firstly to inform you of this matter and see if we can prevent that mysterious person from activating the Five Elements Reincarnation Formation; secondly, I want to make a trip to Dao County to question the Li Family, who are merchants of the Netherworld!"

"Dao County, the Li Family!" Chen Hao was startled, wondering how the Li Family from Dao County could be connected to all this.

After a hum of agreement, Chen Yushan began sharing the results of her covert inquiry over the past few days.

As everyone knows, Five Elements Stones are extremely precious treasures, and a stone the size of a fist typically sells for about five million East Country currency. Among all the Onmyoji friends that Chen Yushan knew, she was aware of only six people who possessed Five Elements Stones.

After suspecting that the unsealing of the Yin Soul in the prison had something to do with activating the Five Elements Reincarnation Formation, Zhang Yushan called those six friends who had the Five Elements Stones. To her surprise, she found out that among these six people, two had their Five Elements Stones stolen, three had theirs purchased at a high price by a mysterious buyer with an unknown identity, and the last one was assassinated two months ago.

Zhang Yushan's desire to visit the Li Family in Dao County stemmed from the fact that as Netherworld merchants, they would certainly have bought and sold a large number of Five Elements Stones. A vast quantity of these stones is required to activate the Five Elements Reincarnation Formation, so it was highly likely that some would have been purchased from the Li Family. Therefore, she planned to personally visit the Li Family to see if there indeed had been large purchases of Five Elements Stones during this period and, if so, who the buyer might be.

After Zhang Yushan finished speaking, and after a moment of thought, Chen Hao said, "Then I'll accompany you to Dao County! If this turns out to be true, I have a way to force the Li Family to reveal the true identity of the buyer."

"Chairman Chen, are you serious?" Zhang Yushan suddenly became very excited, "That would be amazing!"

"You two continue talking, I'll step out to make a phone call."

After leaving the hall, Chen Hao went out into the street to call Ye Yuqiao, telling her that he had to go to Dao County for something and wouldn't have time to cook for her at noon.

To Chen Hao's delight, just like the last time he went to Hetou Village, upon hearing he was going to Dao County, Ye Yuqiao said she wanted to accompany him and asked him to wait for her at the Yin Yang Master Association.

After hanging up the phone, Chen Hao squatted at the entrance of the Yin Yang Master Association, waiting for Ye Yuqiao to arrive. The thought that he would soon be meeting with Ye Yuqiao again made the air around him suddenly feel suffused with sweetness.

It was the sensation of being in the throes of a passionate romance!

Ten minutes went by.

Ye Yuqiao hadn't shown up yet, but a familiar face had come before Chen Hao.

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