"A secret?" Chen Hao asked with a look of surprise on his face.

Just as Chen Hao was about to perform the soul-separation technique, he, Ye Yuqiao, and Lin Huashan suddenly found themselves sinking a few inches.

"What's happening?" Chen Hao exclaimed in shock, looking down only to realize that the ground beneath their feet had turned into a mud pit, trapping all three of them.

Lin Mo, being a Yin Soul, floated in the air and avoided the trap.

"The Rain Demon has turned into rainwater to erode the sand and soil, creating this mud trap. It wants to bury us deep beneath the ground!" Ye Yuqiao explained. Then, she urgently called out to Chen Hao, "Quick, let your Yin Soul leave your body!"

"Right!" Chen Hao nodded and immediately closed his eyes to perform the soul-separation technique.

"Dad, what shall we do?" Lin Huashan screamed, seeking help from Lin Mo.

Lin Mo, hugging Lin Huashan's arms, shouted and mustered all his strength to pull Lin Huashan from the mud. Then, gritting his teeth, he held her across his arms.

Half a minute later, Ye Yuqiao and Chen Hao were sunk up to their waists in the mud. Fortunately, by then, Chen Hao's Yin Soul had left his flesh and was floating above the mud pit.

Chen Hao's Yin Soul bent down, gathered the power of the Nether within his left hand at his left eye, grabbed Ye Yuqiao's arm, and with a slight effort, yanked her out of the mud and tossed her into the air.

After that, Chen Hao stood upright, stretched out his left hand to hook Ye Yuqiao's slender waist in mid-air, and pulled her into his embrace.

"Hold on to me tightly, so you don't accidentally fall back down!" Chen Hao told Ye Yuqiao.

"No!" Ye Yuqiao shook her head, her expression somewhat haughty. "It should be you holding on tightly to me. If you let me fall into the mud pit by accident, then you'll never see me again."

"Why have you suddenly become so capricious?" Chen Hao wore a helpless expression.

"Didn't I learn it from you?" Ye Yuqiao hummed softly. "Besides, I am a queen; this isn't caprice, this is assertiveness, this is dominance. You've become more and more unruly now; even daring to bully me. I can't continue to indulge you like I did before!"

"Ah!" At that moment, Lin Huashan suddenly screamed. She saw a swiftly spinning whirlpool forming in the mud beneath her feet, completely sucking in Chen Hao's physical body. "Chen Hao, your body has been sucked in!"

"It's okay," Chen Hao turned, smiled at Lin Huashan, and said, "I won't die, it will float back up on its own in a bit!"

As soon as the words were out of his mouth, Lin Huashan screamed again. Several giant mud hands suddenly stretched out from the mud, attacking them, one of which was striking straight at her and Lin Mo.

Seeing this, Chen Hao first hugged Ye Yuqiao and lightly dodged a mud hand that was grabbing at his feet. Then he rushed towards Lin Mo, concentrating the power of the Nether in his left foot. Before the mud hand could hit Lin Mo and Lin Huashan, he kicked it to pieces, splattering them with sticky mud and sand.

Then, Chen Hao grabbed Lin Mo's left arm with his right hand, flung him forcefully, and threw both of them into the deep night sky, away from the mud trap; he, holding Ye Yuqiao, floated to the roof of a nearby mud house, narrowly avoiding the mud hands' attack.

Immediately after, Chen Hao pulled out a blade forged by the Ancestor of the Nether King from his pocket with his right hand and, while still tightly hooking Ye Yuqiao's waist with his left hand, asked, "What's the secret of these two knives?"

Ye Yuqiao unsheathed her main blade and touched it to Chen Hao's secondary blade. Instantly, both blades, which were originally glowing green, turned purple.

"I know this secret," Chen Hao said, "Does the change in color mean the power of the knives will increase significantly?"

Ye Yuqiao gave Chen Hao a disdainful look.

Chen Hao laughed heartily, thinking to himself that's how it always works in games.

"Quick, say you like me!" Ye Yuqiao suddenly said to Chen Hao.

"Ah!" Chen Hao was taken aback, but quickly blurted out the words "I like you." After saying this, Chen Hao asked in confusion, "Why suddenly say you like me?"

At this moment, what came to Chen Hao's mind was the scene of conversing with the Nether King's Heart in the void, which made him wonder if the secrets of these two swords had anything to do with borrowing power from the Nether King's Heart at that time.

Ye Yuqiao suddenly giggled and explained, "You're really silly, I just suddenly wanted to hear you say it, your thoughts are way too complicated for no reason."

Chen Hao's face darkened slightly, feeling a hint of grievance. The Ye Yuqiao in front of him was becoming hard to read again.

"I need to maintain the mystery you feel towards me!" Ye Yuqiao said to Chen Hao, her eyes shimmering with a mischievous smile. She paused and then let out a childlike, bell-like laughter, "Alright, enough teasing. Now close your eyes and feel the power of Nether on your left eye!"

"Oh!" Chen Hao nodded absentmindedly, his mind mush from Ye Yuqiao's antics. He closed his eyes and sensed the Nether King Orchid Heart emblematic of Ye Yuqiao in his left eye.

"Dummy, I like you too!" Ye Yuqiao's shy voice suddenly rang through the space, "Since our hearts are in tune, let's join the two swords as one!"

"Hearts in tune? Join the two swords?" Chen Hao felt somewhat lost, but his heart pounded fiercely.

"Hmm, isn't it so?" Ye Yuqiao asked, sounding somewhat annoyed.

"Yes, of course it is!" A warm current suddenly flowed through Chen Hao's heart – his affection and love for Ye Yuqiao were intense.

All of a sudden, Chen Hao felt a strong aura of sword qi attacking him, roaring in his ears like a violent tempest. He felt the world spinning, as if he were being swept by the wind into the sky. The fierce wind made it impossible to open his eyes, but he could faintly feel himself drawing closer to the Nether King Orchid Heart.

With a loud "Ah!" Chen Hao opened his eyes and saw a purple blade appearing in front of him. The blade was about a meter long, three times the width of the Evil-Banishing Moon Sword, and had an elegant, sharp curve to its edge, though the tip was missing a small piece.

"Is this blade the combination of the two daggers?" Chen Hao asked in amazement.

"Mhm!" Ye Yuqiao nodded, "This blade is called the Nether King's World-Slaying Blade, the war blade used by my great-grandfather during his campaigns in the Netherworld. After the tip broke, he simply put the Nether King's World-Slaying Blade into the furnace of Purgatory Fire to be reforged into two blades wielded by the Ancestor of the Nether King."

As she spoke, Ye Yuqiao handed the Nether King's World-Slaying Blade to Chen Hao's chest, saying, "From now on, this blade is yours to keep."

"Is this like a dowry from your family?" Chen Hao joked.

Ye Yuqiao smiled shyly and urged, "No being naughty, take it!"

Taking a deep breath, Chen Hao received the Nether King's World-Slaying Blade from Ye Yuqiao's hands.

The moment he gripped the handle, Chen Hao felt a fierce surge of sword qi and a significant weight. This was a blade that had been stained with countless drops of blood and souls, and it had existed for tens of thousands of years, perhaps even longer, since the day it was forged.

Seeing Chen Hao's stunned gaze, Ye Yuqiao chuckled and teased, "You're not intimidated by this blade, are you?"

"Yes!" Chen Hao nodded seriously, "To me, taking this blade means taking on the mission of caring for you, I will be responsible for your future to the very end!"

Ye Yuqiao smiled mistily, her cheeks flushing slightly.

Suddenly, there was a loud "bang"...

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