"The Shadow Demon's Yin Soul is right there!" Chen Hao pointed at the purple Yin Qi in the sky.

"How do you know it's there?" Lin Xiaofan questioned, unable to see the purple mass without her Yin Yang Eyes.

Chen Hao hesitated as he looked at Lin Xiaofan, pondering whether to use a spell to open her Yin Yang Eyes. Remembering how Lin Xiaofan screamed continuously last night when confronted by the ghost in red inside the mirror, Chen Hao immediately felt discomfort in his ears and discarded the thought, reasoning that perhaps it was better for Lin Xiaofan not to see anything at all.

"Because I felt it!" Chen Hao explained, then took Ye Yuqiao by the hand and ran towards the purple Yin Qi.

As they entered the comprehensive university, the trio reached a crossroads when suddenly an unmanned bicycle came crashing over from the right.

The three of them were startled!

In the end, as the bicycle was about to hit Ye Yuqiao, who was standing on the far right, Chen Hao bravely stepped forward to shield her from the oncoming bike.

"Ouch!" After being knocked down by the bike, Chen Hao couldn't help but let out a cry of pain, and the bicycle too fell to the side.

"Are you okay?" Chen Hao and Ye Yuqiao almost exclaimed in unison, each one's immediate concern was for the other.

Seeing this, Lin Xiaofan couldn't help but feel a sense of loss, but soon her face showed a genuine smile.

"Chen Hao, are you okay?" Lin Xiaofan asked.

Chen Hao first shook his head slightly to Ye Yuqiao, then turned his gaze to Lin Xiaofan and asked, "I'm fine, just got hit by a bicycle. By the way, Lin Xiaofan, after the bicycle hit me in the realm and fell to the ground, it wouldn't also fall to the ground in the real world, would it?"

At that moment, Chen Hao remembered how Lin Xiaofan had used a peculiar spell the previous night to shatter all the mirrors in a dormitory building, yet when they returned to reality, the mirrors were unscathed.

"How do you know it wouldn't?" Lin Xiaofan retorted with an embarrassed expression.

"Because you mentioned before that the world in the mirror is a controlled world, so changes within the mirror would not actively affect the real world!"

Lin Xiaofan's eyes sparkled; she had never expected the once clueless Chen Hao to be so meticulous. After a moment, she explained, "Didn't I tell you last night, the Mirror Realm has a third layer—a mending layer that naturally repairs changes made in the first and second layers."

Chen Hao was astounded and found it completely incredible. After some thought, he grew even more puzzled and asked, "If there is a mending layer, then there should also be layers for destruction or even those that overturn reality, right?"

"Enough!" Lin Xiaofan suddenly roared at Chen Hao, her face filled with anger. "Chen Hao, why are you as dumb as a pig when you need to be smart, and so clever when you should be dumb?"

"Lin Xiaofan, what do you mean by that?"

Lin Xiaofan didn't respond to Chen Hao anymore and simply strode ahead.

At this point, Chen Hao looked at Ye Yuqiao with a puzzled face. Yuqiao smiled at him and said, "She's not wrong—you're not smart when you're supposed to be and not dumb when you're supposed to be, and it's particularly annoying!"

Chen Hao's mouth twisted bitterly.

"Alright, let's go!" Ye Yuqiao took Chen Hao's hand and sped ahead.

Five minutes later, the trio finally neared the purple Yin Qi. Below it, there was a lotus pond. Since it was late autumn, everything in the lotus pond had withered; the decaying lotus leaves covered the stagnant water, emitting a suffocating stench.

Feeling the eerie atmosphere surrounding them, Lin Xiaofan couldn't help but get closer to Chen Hao.

The three of them walked toward the pool. Suddenly!

A gust of chilly wind blew over, scaring Lin Xiaofan so much that she quickly clung to Chen Hao's arm. She knew very well that in the Mirror Realm, there wouldn't be any wind or rain.

Sensing Lin Xiaofan's trembling, Chen Hao looked at her helplessly and thought to himself, "Your Majesty, she's really scared."

For a long time, Ye Yuqiao gave no response to Chen Hao.

Seeing that on his left was his ex-girlfriend clinging to his arm, and on his right was his current girlfriend holding his hand, Chen Hao felt extremely awkward. He looked towards Ye Yuqiao's expressionless face, wondering if she would get angry?

As the three of them nearly reached the edge of the pool, Chen Hao suddenly stopped. What he saw floating on the surface of the pool wasn't just withered lotus leaves and water plants, but also strands of black hair.

Immediately afterward, Chen Hao's left eye flickered with a purple glow as he activated the Nether Vision Technique. A second later, his gaze pierced through the water's surface and into the depths below. He could see more than a dozen girls' Yin Souls entwined tightly by the underwater plants. These souls looked emaciated, their skin dry and shriveled like spoiled sugarcane, clearly drained of their Yin Qi and spirits. Moreover, from each of them extended a thick, root-covered tendril connecting to the middle— to the lotus stem's base in the root of the lotus.

Realizing this, Chen Hao sighed in his heart, 'So the mother of the Shadow Demon reproduces through the lotus root, absorbing the girls' ultimate Yin Qi to sustain the embryo's development.'

"Your Majesty, do you see it?" Chen Hao asked Ye Yuqiao in his mind.

"Hmph, jerk!" An angry voice from Ye Yuqiao echoed in Chen Hao's mind, "You'll kneel on the washing board when we get back!"

"We don't have a washing board at home!"

"Then you'll kneel on the washing machine, kneel on the keyboard!" Ye Yuqiao immediately replied. After a pause, she shifted to the main topic, "Be careful, I can already feel the Nether King's Power nearby!"

"Ah!"

At that moment, Lin Xiaofan suddenly let out a sharp scream.

"What's wrong?" Chen Hao quickly looked to Lin Xiaofan. Because his left eye still hadn't turned off the Nether Vision Technique, he accidentally saw through Lin Xiaofan's body.

"I... I just saw someone's head!" Lin Xiaofan said, pointing towards the water surface with a vacant look in her eyes.

At this point, Ye Yuqiao suddenly let go of Chen Hao's arm.

Chen Hao looked at Ye Yuqiao, his face a picture of woe as he explained, "Your Majesty, I really didn't mean to!"

"Ah!" Lin Xiaofan screamed again. "Something seems to have wrapped around my leg!"

Hearing this, Chen Hao immediately looked down at Lin Xiaofan's feet, only to see a slender thread emerging from beneath the ground, entangling both his and Lin Xiaofan's feet.

"No good, it's trying to pull your Yin Souls into the water!" Ye Yuqiao hastily said, "He has the Nether King's Power. The Nether King's Heart might not protect your Yin Soul!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Ye Yuqiao vanished from sight, leaving only a dark shadow behind.

In an instant, Chen Hao saw that the shadow had already reached the bottom of the pool. Then, Ye Yuqiao appeared, grabbed the lotus root under the water with both hands, and snapped it into two pieces.

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