After reflecting on the past, wiping away her tears, Xinyu's bloodshot eyes once again showed a fierce light as she said coldly, "I'm hungry, I want to eat something!"

"Haven't you already eaten the coroner's Yin Soul today?"

"But I'm not full!" Xinyu turned back and shouted at Zi Que, "We've already been careful enough not to attract attention. I didn't expect that we would still be targeted by the Onmyoji! Since that is the case, there's no need for us to hide anymore!"

Zi Que sighed helplessly and after thinking for a while said, "We can still go somewhere else. The world is so vast, how can there not be a place for us!"

"No!" Xinyu shook her head and said loudly, "We have already been in the village behind us for more than two thousand years, we were here first, why should we be the ones to leave? It's those people who should go!"

With that, Xinyu turned into a wisp of white smoke and drifted toward Xu Family Village at the southwest of the hill.

Five minutes later, Xinyu arrived at the entrance of the village chief Xu Ke's house, only to be repelled and sent flying by a Yellow Talisman at the door.

Soon after, Zi Que arrived.

"Xinyu, shall we just let it go?" Zi Que said to Xinyu, who was lying on the ground, trying to help her up, but he could only watch as Xinyu slowly got up from the ground.

"Zi Que, will you help me?" Xinyu glared at Zi Que with wide eyes and asked, "If you are going to help me, then tear off that talisman on the door. If you're not helping, then just watch as I get my soul dispersed by that talisman!"

Seeing that Zi Que remained silent for a long time, Xinyu hummed in disappointment and then charged at the chief's house entrance again.

However, just as Xinyu was about to hit the talisman on the door, Zi Que tore it off before she could reach it. Seeing this, Xinyu cried tears of joy and hugged Zi Que from behind, sobbing, "Zi Que, this is the real you! I remember you said that you would spend the rest of our days making it up to me, indulging me!"

Zi Que slowly turned around, his hands instinctively wanting to embrace Xinyu, but in the end, he withdrew them. He bowed his head and kissed Xinyu's forehead, his voice low, "Yes, I once promised to pamper you for a lifetime, to let you behave willfully. It's not just a few lives, even if it's something as foolish as stirring conflicts among warlords, I would be willing to do it a thousand times, just to see you smile!"

Xinyu looked up at Zi Que, her hands wrapped around his neck, her tears turning into a laugh as she said, "You are still the king I knew back then, and I am still your princess!"

Afterward, Xinyu and Zi Que entered the village chief's house and consumed the Yin Souls of the family of four. Before leaving, Xinyu left the bloody words "leave or wait for death" on the walls of the village chief's house.

The next day, early morning.

Yin Yang Master Association.

Ren Deshan, who had spent the night at the association, got up from bed and walked slowly to the window, pulling aside the curtains.

"Ah!" Ren Deshan suddenly let out a loud exclamation. He saw a thick fog engulfing the outside of the window, which looked exactly like the scene from the previous afternoon when the white-clothed female ghost, Xinyu, had appeared.

"President Ren, what's wrong?" Hearing Ren Deshan's exclamation, Liu Yongping, the head of the Spirit Division, and Wu Bin, the head of the Technique Division, who had stayed the night with him, were awakened and asked.

"Fog, a very thick fog!" Ren Deshan said somberly while activating his Yin Yang Eyes. Subsequently, through the fog outside the window, he saw the figure of the white-clothed female ghost, Xinyu.

A moment later, Xinyu floated in front of Ren Deshan and said, "Tell the kid whose left eye spits out flames last night to come to Xu Family Village's back mountain before noon today, or else all you Onmyoji better prepare to die!"

As soon as Xinyu's voice faded, all the thick fog outside the window surged toward Ren Deshan in an instant. Ren Deshan was startled and hastily stepped back several paces.

When Xinyu had completely disappeared into the fog, the fog dissipated in the blink of an eye along with any trace of Xinyu's spirit. After a moment of stunned silence, Ren Deshan immediately called Chen Hao to inform him of the situation.

Half an hour later, Chen Hao, Ye Yuqiao, Tang Jing, along with a person called Tang, from Tang dynasty, all arrived at the Yin Yang Master Association one after another.

Once everyone was seated in the meeting room, Chen Hao said, "Everyone, I've come up with a method to deal with the Hand of Death. However, it requires everyone's cooperation. I plan to extract everyone's Yin Soul and put it into the Soul-collecting Bottle. As long as you're without your Yin Souls, there's no need to fear the Hand of Death. Once we take care of the white-dressed female ghost and the man with the Hand of Death, I'll use the Summoning Life-Returning Spell to return everyone's Yin Souls to their bodies."

Pausing for a moment, Chen Hao turned his gaze to Liu Yongping and added, "Don't worry, it will definitely be foolproof. If you don't believe it, you can ask team leader Liu here. I've used this method on him before."

Liu Yongping was first shocked then nodded absentmindedly. He remembered the time when he pissed off Chen Hao by injuring Ye Yuqiao, leading to Chen Hao burning his Yin Soul to nothing. His Yin Soul was almost lost forever.

Although he still felt a lingering fear upon recollection, Liu Yongping believed that things would be just as Chen Hao had said, perfectly safe. After all, the Chen Hao standing before him was no longer the impulsive Chen Hao of the past.

The current Chen Hao had already become the hope of not just Y City but the entire Onmyoji community in the East Country, symbolizing much more.

"President Chen, we'll listen to you!" Ren Deshan said, looking resolutely at Chen Hao.

Chen Hao smiled. He never would have imagined that Ren Deshan, who had clashed with him on several occasions, had now become the person in the association who supported him the most and was also the assistant he relied on the most.

"President, we'll all listen to you!"

"That's right!"

At five minutes past noon, inside a small hill outside Xu Family Village. Seeing that Chen Hao had not shown up yet, Xinyu waiting on the hill became furious and roared, "Zi Que, since those Onmyoji refuse to hand over that kid from last night, let's teach them what regret truly tastes like!"

Zi Que hummed in acknowledgment, then transformed into a fog, carrying Xinyu toward the Yin Yang Master Association in the center of Y City.

At that moment, the Yin Yang Master Association had already set up their defense, just waiting for the arrival of Xinyu and Zi Que. However, at that time, Chen Hao was not inside the association; instead, he was hiding in a room of a nearby hotel.

Since his Yang Spirit had ended with his life and only his Yin Soul remained, Chen Hao couldn't live on temporarily by the body of the Yang Spirit like other Onmyoji. For the sake of safety, he could only watch from a distance and monitor the situation inside the association through Nether Vision.

As Zi Que and Xinyu had not arrived and feeling somewhat idle, Chen Hao's gaze settled on Ye Yuqiao, and he couldn't help but let his gaze penetrate through Ye Yuqiao's clothes to the inside.

"Naughty!" Ye Yuqiao reprimanded him softly with just one word, and didn't say anything else.

After a long while, Ye Yuqiao's face had turned red under Chen Hao's gaze. Suddenly, the Nether Bell tinkled, emitting a crisp sound.

"Your Majesty the Queen, a fog is approaching the association. Tell everyone to be on alert!"

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