However, five minutes later, as he watched plumes of rolling black smoke rise toward the sky, and as the flames gradually engulfed building after building, merging the heavens and earth with their glow, Wang Chuan found no joy in the scene.

He realized something was missing!

The absence of people's cries, shrill screams, and wails.

The reason he wanted to destroy the city was to hear it descend into panic, to listen as the screams and wails around him went from piercing to hoarse, and finally from hoarse to despair. According to his plan, by this point, numerous people should have been driven by the thick smoke and raging fire to the brink of desperation, then one by one leap from the towering buildings.

However, none of this happened.

Even though explosions and roars sounded one after another; even though the smoke and blaze had turned the surroundings into a scene akin to the apocalypse; even though high-rise buildings crumbled one after another in the distance under his watchful eye. For Wang Chuan, who could neither smell the delicious scent of blood nor hear the pain-filled cries of people, it all seemed fake, like a dream.

So, Wang Chuan left the destroyed Jingwen Middle School, left the devastated central district of Y City.

As he was about to leave the central area of Y City, Wang Chuan unexpectedly discovered that beyond the city center, which hadn't fallen to the inferno, cars continued to weave through the streets in an orderly fashion, unaffected by the catastrophe at the center. Some vehicles even maintained their composure right up to the moment they collided with fallen traffic lights, as if they hadn't seen them at all.

When he reached a road that hadn't been damaged by his Five Elements Spells, Wang Chuan was shocked to find that there was no one in any of the cars that were passing by.

"Am I dreaming!" Wang Chuan roared to the sky. After the blood inside his body became tumultuous, Wang Chuan suddenly reverted to his zombie form.

No matter how he roared, how he used spells to destroy, or how he searched, this world gave him no response.

This was a cold, emotionless world!

Wang Chuan, who had wanted others to fall into madness and pain, was now himself plunged into madness and pain.

..

After the violent ground shaking, Man Qingting, Xie Xiaofeng, and Ye Yuqiao took cover on the rooftop of a tall building a few miles away.

However, the trio had been on the rooftop for less than a minute when the shaking stopped.

After a while, realizing that the anticipated catastrophe hadn't occurred, Xie Xiaofeng took a deep breath of relief and asked the two stunningly beautiful girls next to him in astonishment, "Why did it suddenly stop? Could it be that Wang Chuan has had a change of heart?"

"Could it be some kind of accident?" Man Qingting asked Xie Xiaofeng, "Like his Power of the Five Elements inside him being insufficient?"

"Impossible!" Xie Xiaofeng shook his head, dismissing Man Qingting's suggestion, "Judging from what we saw earlier, the Power of the Five Elements within Wang Chuan was enough to turn the entire district of Y City into a sea of flames!"

"Let's go back and check!" Ye Yuqiao said.

"Okay!" Man Qingting nodded.

No sooner had her words reached Ye Yuqiao's ears than Ye Yuqiao found herself standing on the roof of a stadium, facing a football field that had become a sea of fire.

Not far away, Ye Yuqiao spotted a familiar figure.

"Lin Xiaofan!" Xie Xiaofeng's surprised voice rang out just as Ye Yuqiao was about to speak.

"You're here!" Lin Xiaofan turned back to look at the three of them and said, approaching them, a mirror in her hand.

Instantly, Ye Yuqiao understood everything: at the critical moment, it was Lin Xiaofan who had used her strange ability to transport Wang Chuan into the Mirror Realm.

"Who is this girl?" Man Qingting asked, looking curiously at Lin Xiaofan.

"His ex-girlfriend?" Ye Yuqiao said.

"Him? You mean..." Man Qingting started to say, then stopped, a strange expression on her face.

Upon approaching the trio, Lin Xiaofan asked Ye Yuqiao, "How is Chen Hao? I heard from Tang Jing that he's sick with not just any ordinary illness."

"He's fine!" Ye Yuqiao coldly retorted, her expression extremely indifferent.

Lin Xiaofan's expression darkened as he glared angrily at Ye Yuqiao.

Seeing the two women, both with special relationships with Chen Hao, at odds with each other, Xie Xiaofeng hurriedly intervened, asking, "Lin Xiaofan, what brings you here?"

Lin Xiaofan looked at Xie Xiaofeng and sneered, "If I had come even a little later, I'm afraid this place would be looking like the end of the world by now!"

"You?" Xie Xiaofeng's face displayed disbelief, "Are you saying you took care of Wang Chuan?"

"No!" Lin Xiaofan shook his head, then showed the mirror in his hand to the three of them and continued, "I've taken him into the Mirror Realm!"

"What!" Xie Xiaofeng was shocked, his eyes nearly popping out of their sockets. "Lin Xiaofan, have you lost your mind from a fever or something? What nonsense are you talking about?"

"Can't be bothered to explain to you," Lin Xiaofan rolled his eyes at Xie Xiaofeng, then pointed at Ye Yuqiao and said, "If you have any questions, just ask her."

"Since you've locked him in the mirror already, then why has this soccer field still turned into a sea of fire?" Xie Xiaofeng abruptly turned the conversation, clearly having come to terms with Lin Xiaofan's incredible claim by this point.

"Generally speaking, if the world inside the mirror is damaged, there's a third backup Mirror Realm that restores the destruction. However, some damages cannot be promptly fixed by the third level Mirror Realm, such as this soccer field right here," Lin Xiaofan explained.

"This..." Man Qingting and Xie Xiaofeng were both confused, while Ye Yuqiao, who had once entered the Mirror Realm, understood this principle.

"Ping!" At this moment, the mirror in Lin Xiaofan's hand suddenly cracked.

"Not good!" Lin Xiaofan exclaimed, "The guy I brought into the Mirror Realm is too violent. I reckon it won't be long before this mirror shatters, and then he will come out."

"Just take him to another mirror, right?" Xie Xiaofeng murmured.

"But that's not a permanent solution!" Lin Xiaofan said with a grim face, "My abilities are also being drained. You all need to go in and get rid of him before he escapes from the mirror!"

"Let's go in!" Ye Yuqiao coldly said, "We'll give it a try!"

"I'll come with you," Lin Xiaofan added, "At a critical moment, I can take you out."

...

Meanwhile, within the Netherworld.

Inside the Zhao Family home.

Just as Zhao Chong was planning to rush to the mortal world upon hearing the report from his subordinates stationed in Y City that something unusual had happened there, a servant suddenly came up to report, "Master, a guard from the Nether King Palace has delivered a message. The Dark Law King urgently summons you, requiring your immediate presence at the Nether King Palace."

"Tell that palace guard that I just left, that I'm not at home, and to wait for me a bit."

"Family Leader Zhao!" Before Zhao Chong could finish, the messenger guard barged in abruptly, "I am ordered by the Dark Law King to escort you to the Nether King Palace!"

"Who allowed you to come in?"

"I was wrong, I hope Clan Leader Zhao can forgive..."

The guard's words were cut off as he turned into a pile of dust.

"To the Nether King Palace!" Zhao Chong stated sternly, his face dark with anger, "It seems like someone is deliberately trying to stop me from going to the mortal world!"

He was filled with anxiety.

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