"Because it's simply impossible for sixteen people to return while only one person does not!" Chen Hao explained.

"Why?" Zi Que continued to question, his face twitching as he endured the burning of the Nether King's Fire.

Chen Hao's eyes suddenly widened several times, and he said with conviction, "Because of human nature! At critical moments, everyone will only trust themselves, everyone becomes selfish, unless they're not human!"

Zi Que fell silent, at a loss for words.

A cold light suddenly flickered in Ye Yuqiao's eyes. Chen Hao, who had spoken such words, seemed unfamiliar to her, yet she could not help but view him in a new light.

"When you were first arranged to come to the mortal world, was it actually because you did not intend to return to the Netherworld? In other words, were you ordered to remain in the mortal world?" Chen Hao asked Zi Que.

In an instant, Zi Que's twitching face showed panic. From his dodging and frantic eyes, it was apparent he was like someone whose unspeakable secret had been discovered.

Ye Yuqiao was shocked! If what Chen Hao said was not wrong, then the one who gave the order was her grandfather, the Second Generation Nether King. Consequently, she couldn't help but send a secret message asking Chen Hao, "Bastard, what makes you conclude this?"

Noticing a tinge of anger in Ye Yuqiao's tone, Chen Hao hurriedly explained, "Your Majesty the Queen, I was merely speculating, don't be angry, okay?"

"Kid, you're very clever!"

However, at that moment, Zi Que affirmed Chen Hao's speculation, as the Nether King's Power in his left arm was extinguishing the Nether King's Fire that was burning him.

Ye Yuqiao hummed displeasedly! Chen Hao, meanwhile, was secretly pleased with his own cleverness.

"Go home and kneel on the keyboard!" Ye Yuqiao said, clearly unhappy.

"Oh!" Chen Hao agreed helplessly in his heart.

"Indeed, it was the Second Generation Nether King who secretly ordered us not to return!" Zi Que went on to say, "The sixteen who were beheaded for returning were all impostors. Such an arrangement was naturally meant to deceive the heavens to keep this matter unknown."

Ye Yuqiao's face turned pale as she asked, "Why?"

Zi Que looked at Chen Hao and asked, "Kid, have you guessed the reason?"

Chen Hao shrugged and said, "All I know is that if all seventeen of you had stayed, there would have been seventeen absolute rulers in the mortal world!"

"Exactly!" Zi Que nodded in acknowledgment, "If it hadn't been for falling in love with Princess Xinyu, I might still be a monarch of a nation to this day."

"It seems that it really was the Second Generation Nether King who wanted to control the mortal world through the seventeen of you!" Chen Hao remarked. After a pause, he continued to ask, "What about after the death of the Second Generation Nether King? You shouldn't have had secret contact with the Third Generation Nether King, otherwise, the Fourth Generation Underworld King would also know this secret."

As he spoke, Chen Hao turned his gaze to Ye Yuqiao, who was frowning deeply.

Zi Que let out a cold laugh and said, "Some things are far more complicated than you imagine, and what you see may not be the truth."

"Oh?" Chen Hao frowned, "Does this matter have something to do with the ancient city?"

"What!" Zi Que was dumbfounded. After a long while, he managed to regain his composure, his face still filled with surprise as he asked Chen Hao, "You actually know about the ancient city!"

"Ah!" Chen Hao was greatly startled. In fact, he had spoken off the cuff, just having a vague feeling that the ancient city might be related, and this feeling had no basis at all, being purely conjectural. Unexpectedly, he had stumbled upon the truth.

"What exactly is the ancient city like?" Chen Hao asked.

Zi Que shook his head and let out a cold laugh, then transformed into a mist and merged into the naturally formed dense fog around them. As he transformed, the mist, still carrying a dim dark light from Ye Yuqiao's Nether King's Fire, stood out abruptly against the hazy white fog.

"Don't let him escape!" Ye Yuqiao said to Chen Hao.

"Got it!" Chen Hao nodded. After a life-and-death struggle, the Spiritual Power within him had doubled. He closed his left eye and saw the Nether King Orchid Heart within. Through the connection with the Nether King Orchid Heart, he caused it to shoot out a black and purple beam of light.

That light was extremely soft, its sensation akin to that of the gentle purple Nether Light—this was the Nether King's Light.

Chen Hao opened his left eye, and at the moment he did so, the Nether King's Light also shot out from his left eye, shining towards the thick fog in front of him.

Wherever the Nether King's Light touched, the thick fog would be instantly dispersed.

In just a split second, the Nether King's Light caught up with the fast-escaping dark-light-shrouded mist.

"Hiss hiss hiss!" A faint noise sounded, followed by countless particles shimmering with purple light, the Primordial Spirits and Primordial Soul particles, drifting into the air. Finally, as the dense fog that was the incarnation of Zi Que completely evaporated, only a stream of black-swirling Nether King's Power was left hanging in the air.

"Is he dead?" Chen Hao asked doubtfully. At this moment, he was dizzy and pale, appearing very weak.

"Those purple Primordial Spirit and Primordial Soul particles come from his Nether Soul!" Ye Yuqiao, supporting Chen Hao, said, "Quick, absorb that stream of black Nether King's Power!"

"Okay!" Chen Hao agreed, and then summoned a Nether Acupoint above the distant black-swirling Nether King's Power, absorbing it into the acupoint.

After closing the Nether Acupoint, Chen Hao's complexion became even paler, and he gasped, asking, "Yuqiao, why do I suddenly feel so tired?"

"Casting the Nether King's Light consumes a great amount of Yin Qi Spiritual Power, and there's too little Spiritual Power in your body!" Ye Yuqiao explained to Chen Hao. After speaking, she turned into a shadow and in a flash, took Chen Hao back to his room.

"Just rest a bit and you'll be fine!"

"Got it!" Chen Hao nodded.

Seeing Chen Hao suddenly revitalized, Ye Yuqiao asked in surprise, "Weren't you very weak just now? How did you become so spirited all of a sudden?"

Chen Hao shrugged, replying, "Not sure, it might be because I absorbed that Nether King's Power!"

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Half a month later.

In City H, within a hospital.

On the outer bench of an examination room, behind a newspaper whose headline read "Campus Hero, City's Hero or a Bane?", was a face marked by grave concern. The person was absentmindedly flipping through the newspaper, anxiously waiting for his examination results.

At that moment, a nurse came out of the examination room and called out loudly, "Is there a Wang Chuan here? Your examination results are ready!"

Immediately, Wang Chuan put down the newspaper in his hands, tossed it aside on a seat, and quickly entered the examination room.

Twenty minutes later, Wang Chuan came out of the examination room looking ashen. The doctor had told him that the cancer cells in his body had begun to spread again. A month ago, when he had come to this hospital for a checkup, his results had been very healthy.

"Could it be due to the failure of properly casting the Five Elements Reincarnation Formation?" Wang Chuan pondered to himself.

Stepping out of the hospital, Wang Chuan looked up to the sky and sighed, "It seems I must go back once more! Xie Xiaofeng!"

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