"Dingling, dingling!" The bell for the end of class rang.

As soon as class was over, Chen Hao's phone also began to ring. Seeing it was a call from Ren Deshan, a sense of foreboding immediately arose within him.

After answering the call, he heard Ren Deshan speak in an extremely low and sorrowful tone, "President Chen, something terrible has happened. Two of our onmyojis from the association, Li Jian and Long Jiu, died in a car accident just now."

Upon hearing this, Chen Hao's heart gave a violent shiver, and his complexion turned grave. In an instant, he thought of the car accident he had seen through Nether Vision on the rooftop moments earlier. After a pause, he asked with a trembling voice, "Was the accident near the police headquarters?"

"President Chen, how did you know?" Ren Deshan's somber tone was abruptly filled with surprise.

Chen Hao was stunned for a moment before he finally said, "I'm heading to the association right now!"

After hanging up the phone, Chen Hao said to Ye Yuqiao, sitting next to him, "Yuqiao, the car we saw in the accident just now had two of our fellow members from the Yin Yang Master Association inside. They're both dead!"

Ye Yuqiao first showed a look of shock, then frowned deeply and said, "It seems this matter is no trivial one, my two premonitions might have been right!"

"Damn it, goddess! What are you guys talking about?" At that moment, Xie Xiaofeng suddenly came up behind Chen Hao and Ye Yuqiao and asked.

"Xie Xiaofeng, you're just in time. Please excuse us from our next class; we have an urgent matter and have to leave now!" Chen Hao quickly said to Xie Xiaofeng.

With that, Chen Hao hurriedly left with Ye Yuqiao.

"Hey, damn it, what's so urgent?" Xie Xiaofeng called after their departing figures.

Suddenly, Xie Xiaofeng's face showed a trace of pain, as the Power of the Five Elements within him flared up once more. He had been secluding himself for cultivation recently and still needed more time to fully absorb and harness this vast amount of power. For now, he was unable to join his comrades in battle.

"I need to step up the pace!" Xie Xiaofeng murmured to himself.

Fifteen minutes later, Chen Hao and Ye Yuqiao rushed to the Yin Yang Master Association.

As they pushed open the door, a wave of sadness hit them like a tide.

At that moment, on the floor of the association's hall lay the bodies of Li Jian and Long Jiu. Their colleagues from the association had already gathered around them. Everyone was hanging their heads in silence, which became the most oppressive and sorrowful symphony of the moment.

The scene reminded Chen Hao of the day of the funeral, when the same people had mourned.

Although he had not interacted much with Li Jian and Long Jiu, Chen Hao still vividly remembered them standing behind Liu Yongping, silently weeping for the departure of his grandfather.

"President Chen, you're here!" Ren Deshan said looking towards the door, his voice a bit excited.

Following this, everyone's gaze fell upon Chen Hao. Beyond their sorrow, each face was marked with questions, all hoping Chen Hao could unravel the mystery weighing on their hearts.

Chen Hao didn't say a word but walked hand in hand with Ye Yuqiao to the front of Li Jian and Long Jiu's bodies. They observed several minutes of silence before he finally opened his eyes and looked at Ren Deshan to ask, "Have you seen their Yin Souls?"

Ren Deshan shook his head, then continued to say, "I also asked some familiar soul reapers, and they said they hadn't received any notice of Li Jian and Long Jiu's life spans ending prematurely. And the few who died in car accidents on the northern road of Xu Family Village in the past two days also had not reached the end of their lifespans!"

"Xu Family Village?" At that moment, Chen Hao's mind flashed with the car accident he and Ye Yuqiao had witnessed from the rooftop using Nether Vision the night before last. "You mean the village about ten kilometers to the north of the suburbs? Was the location of the accident on the north side of a hill? And did three people also die that night?"

Ren Deshan nodded surprisingly, then sighed and said, "President Chen, how did you know?"

With a sigh, Ren Deshan continued with a grim face, "Yesterday night, two more accidents occurred in the same place. First a car carrying four people crashed, leaving no survivors, and not long after, an investigating police officer had an accident, fatally crashing into the wife of the father and son who died the night before!"

"This is too strange!" Chen Hao said, brows deeply furrowed. At this moment, he pictured the woman who knelt beside the two bodies, weeping inconsolably, that he saw the night before last.

"But there's something even stranger!" Ren Deshan said, his face dark with agitation. He then proceeded to tell him about the incident this morning when forensic expert He Ping came to see him, up to the encounter with the ghost in white in the office just now.

After listening to Ren Deshan, the Onmyoji looked at each other, all feeling that this matter was extraordinarily strange and baffling.

"It shouldn't have been the white-dressed female ghost who came to find President Ren just now!" Liu Yongping speculated, "Li Jian and Long Jiu may be young, but both their experience and mana are not to be underestimated. They should have had no problem dealing with that white-dressed female ghost."

"Exactly!" Many of the Onmyoji agreed.

"Your Majesty, what do you think?" Chen Hao sent a secret message to Ye Yuqiao in his heart.

After a long while, Ye Yuqiao finally responded: "Didn't I feel the Nether King's Power twice? Maybe this white-dressed female ghost has an accomplice?"

"President Chen," Ren Deshan looked at Chen Hao, "what do you think we should do next?"

Chen Hao narrowed his eyes and coldly said, "The only option is for me to drive to that road myself tonight. And President Ren, you should be careful. Why don't you stay at the Association tonight? If everyone else is fine, stay and keep President Ren and our two colleagues company."

As he spoke, Chen Hao's tone became sorrowful, and his gaze fell upon the bodies of Li Jian and Long Jiu lying on the ground.

The night was deep.

The moonlight was bleak.

On the outskirts of the northern suburbs of Y City, the cold wind was biting.

At around ten o'clock, a car left the downtown area of Y City and started driving on the road towards Xu Family Village. The driver was Tang Chao, with Chen Hao and Ye Yuqiao sitting in the back seat.

Before long, the car was only a hundred meters from the location where three car accidents had happened in the past two days.

"Brother Chao, slow down!" Chen Hao instructed.

After taking a deep breath, Tang Chao nodded, looking a bit nervous.

Seeing Tang Chao like this, Chen Hao felt somewhat helpless. If he could drive, he wouldn't have asked Tang Chao to suffer this ordeal.

The car slowly moved forward.

After advancing nearly twenty meters more, suddenly, the fog around them thickened.

Feeling a Yin Qi approaching, Tang Chao promptly hit the brakes.

"Why aren't you continuing to drive?" A strange woman's voice suddenly sounded inside the car.

Tang Chao's heart skipped a beat. Unconsciously, a white-dressed female ghost had appeared on the passenger seat next to him.

After glaring at the female ghost, Tang Chao said, "You've got nowhere to run?"

The female ghost was startled, and then realized that she was surrounded by a fierce Yang Energy inside the car, all emanating from Chen Hao seated behind her.

"Were they all your doing?" Chen Hao asked.

"That's right!" the female ghost laughed coldly, "You've got guts, daring to come looking for me in person?"

"You're pretty bold yourself!" A light was already flickering in Chen Hao's left eye.

Just then, Ye Yuqiao sitting beside Chen Hao, her eyes shining brilliantly, felt the strong presence of the Nether King's Power!

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