"Then which version of me do you like?"

"I like every version of you!"

Ye Yuqiao smiled dreamily, tilting her head as she lay in Chen Hao's arms and said, "All right, I'll give it to you, that answer was rather clever! Although I know it's just something you say to flatter a young lady, who's to blame when I am one too!"

Ye Yuqiao closed her eyes and chuckled softly, "I'm so sleepy, the queen has eaten her fill and needs a midday rest, just sleep like this, we'll go shopping in the afternoon."

"At your service!" Chen Hao cheerfully agreed, then carried Ye Yuqiao to the sofa to lie down and left a gentle kiss on her forehead.

Ye Yuqiao's eyes curled up into two arches, and holding Chen Hao's hand with both of hers, she laughed lightly, "This feeling is really quite nice, I just hope it can stay like this forever, and you won't bully me anymore!"

"Mhm!" Chen Hao replied earnestly, "Of course not, who would have the heart to bully a young and beautiful girl over and over again, unless he's a jerk!"

"Ah!" With a cry of alarm, Ye Yuqiao suddenly sat up away from Chen Hao's chest, then twisted around to grab a pillow next to her and smashed it into Chen Hao's head, "You are a jerk, so are you saying you still want to bully me? I'll beat you to death!"

A smile spread across Chen Hao's face, such a capricious and coquettish Ye Yuqiao in front of him felt novel and utterly adorable.

After some playful fighting, Ye Yuqiao finally relented and pulled Chen Hao to sit beside her.

Following a brief silence, Ye Yuqiao suddenly asked, "Do you like today's coquettish Ye Yuqiao?"

"Mhm!" Chen Hao nodded without hesitation.

Ye Yuqiao looked up at Chen Hao and said, "However, the coquettish Ye Yuqiao probably only exists today, tomorrow I'll have to revert back to the previous Ye Yuqiao."

"Mhm!" Chen Hao smiled and then hugged Ye Yuqiao tightly. "Yuqiao, thank you, I know you've changed like this today to make me happy. But as I said before, I like every version of you."

Ye Yuqiao nodded slightly.

After another pause, Chen Hao, with a furrowed brow, asked, "By the way, Yuqiao, did you injure that Hand of Death last night?"

"Mhm!" Ye Yuqiao replied, "But it has the Nether King's Power in its left hand, it should heal quickly, and I guess it will come back for us in a few days."

"So, is there a way to deal with it? Like sucking it into a Nether Acupoint?"

"Never use the Nether Acupoint!" Ye Yuqiao said sternly. "Once it enters the Nether Acupoint, the Nether King's Power in its left hand might get stronger by absorbing the Spiritual Power from the Nether King's Heart, just like the Yin Soul of the Shadow Demon not long ago!"

"Right," Chen Hao's eyes sparkled, "Since the Hand of Death and the Shadow Demon get stronger when they come close to the Nether King's Heart, then you should be able to enhance your power too, right?"

"This..." Ye Yuqiao fell silent, her face suddenly flushing with a twin blush.

"What's wrong?" Chen Hao laughed out loud, "Your Majesty, the Queen, what's with the sudden shyness?"

Ye Yuqiao remained silent for a long time.

Chen Hao embraced Ye Yuqiao's somewhat feverish face, then gently lifted her head with his left hand and brought it in front of him. He looked at her closely with a smile and asked, "Your Majesty the Queen, tell me what's the matter? Could it be that you're enamored by my handsome face?"

Ye Yuqiao laughed awkwardly, then lowered her head and stammered, "I'll tell you a secret, actually every time... when I'm near you... I can absorb some Nether King's Power from you, the closer we are, the more I absorb."

As she spoke, her voice became softer and softer, and she stopped before finishing, her face already redder than the not-so-dazzling red sun hanging in the sky at that moment.

"Doing something bad?" Chen Hao was puzzled. After thinking for a moment, his eyes suddenly lit up with understanding of what Ye Yuqiao meant. He looked down at Ye Yuqiao's cheeks, red as if they were about to catch fire, patted her shoulder with a laugh, and said, "Your Majesty the Queen, since that's the case, from now on, we must stay together every day, every hour, every moment to let you absorb more Nether King's Power!"

"Hmph! Naughty!" Ye Yuqiao pursed her lips and shyly smiled, "You just want to cling to the Queen and even find such an excuse.!"

"It's clearly you who want to cling to me, otherwise you wouldn't tell me all this, how did it become me clinging to you." Chen Hao muttered quietly.

"What did you say!" Ye Yuqiao's tone suddenly turned stern, and her left hand twisted fiercely on Chen Hao's right ear.

"Ouch! I'm wrong!" Chen Hao pleaded with a woeful face, "It's me, it's me who likes to cling to you, Your Majesty the Queen!"

A while later, Ye Yuqiao finally let go of Chen Hao's ear. Chen Hao said cheerfully, "No wonder you entrusted the Nether King's Heart to Ye Heng back then, that must be one of the reasons, right?"

Ye Yuqiao lowered her head without replying to Chen Hao, instead grasping tightly onto his left hand.

After a pause, she lifted her head to look at Chen Hao, the blush on her face now greatly faded.

Up to now, you've absorbed three streams of Nether King's Power and two ancient powers into the Nether King's Heart. However, due to your inadequate cultivation, you still can't transform these rare powers into Spiritual Power," Ye Yuqiao changed the subject abruptly, unwilling to discuss the matter of Ye Heng with Chen Hao.

"When will I be able to transform these powers into Spiritual Power?" Chen Hao asked, understanding Ye Yuqiao.

"When you elevate your Nether King's Power to the peak," Ye Yuqiao said, squinting her eyes thoughtfully, "then you should be able to absorb them."

"So when can I cultivate to the peak of Nether King's Power?"

Ye Yuqiao shook her head and sighed, "At best, two to three years, at worst, four to five years or even longer. The most important thing right now is to find a way to deal with the Hand of Death. The one who possesses the Hand of Death has a Nether Soul body. If you can cultivate the Nether Light, you might be able to cope with him."

"Nether Light? What's the difference between that and Nether Light?" Chen Hao asked.

"Nether Light is a move that stems from Nether Eye Power and can only reveal the true form of demons and ghosts; in terms you use in the mortal world, Nether Light is an upgraded version of Nether Light, which can not only expose the true forms of demons but also disperse their souls!" Ye Yuqiao explained.

"Disperse their souls?" Chen Hao fell into deep thought. In a daze, all of a sudden, the scene where he had eliminated the Shadow Demon's mother's Yin Soul in the Mirror Realm flashed through his mind.

At that time, inside the Mirror Realm, after he had drawn the Shadow Demon's mother into the Nether Acupoint, she grasped his neck. Then a black-purple beam of light shot out from the Nether King Orchid Heart on top of his head, directly turning the Shadow Demon's mother's Yin Soul into a wisp of green smoke.

"Could that be the Nether Light?"

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