Half an hour later.

Xie Xiaofeng was still crying, only now, with his head bloody and battered, he no longer ran into the walls but curled up in a corner, grieving quietly to himself.

During this time, Ye Yuqiao and Man Qingting had exchanged glances several times, but after much hesitation, the two, who were both of a similarly cold disposition, finally chose not to offer comfort. Instead, they stood silently to one side, looking on.

Suddenly!

The room shook violently, and the furniture within tumbled and toppled over.

Although they felt a rush of panic inside, both Ye Yuqiao and Man Qingting quickly regained their composure, pressing their bodies against the wall and using their palms to steady themselves against it.

Before long, the shaking of the room intensified, resembling a sailboat caught in a storm at sea.

Ye Yuqiao had tried to open the door just before, only to find that outside was a white light world blocked by an invisible wall, empty and filled only with blinding white light. The same held true outside the window.

And Xie Xiaofeng, curled up in the corner, seemed completely unaffected by the shaking, remaining motionless with his head buried in his grief.

Another half a minute passed, and the room was in complete disarray, the chandelier from the ceiling having fallen to the ground, and the air was filled with a hazy white dust.

Just as Ye Yuqiao and Man Qingting were wondering when the shaking would stop, suddenly, a huge crack appeared in the ceiling, and a dazzling white light shone through. The brightness was so intense that it forced both Ye Yuqiao and Man Qingting to close their eyes.

A few seconds later, feeling the shaking had come to a halt, Ye Yuqiao opened her eyes and found that they had returned to the Mirror Realm they were in before.

"Humph! Let's see where you can run to now!" Wang Chuan's voice then floated into their ears.

After a startle, Ye Yuqiao looked down at their feet and found that she, Man Qingting, and Xie Xiaofeng were all entangled at the ankles by a tangle of vines.

"Wang Chuan!" Xie Xiaofeng rose to his feet and roared at Wang Chuan, "What did you do to that young lady just now?"

"Charred to ash!" Wang Chuan said coldly, his eyes squinted.

Upon hearing Wang Chuan say this, Xie Xiaofeng's face turned ashen, and his eyes dimmed. Although his physical body was still alive, in that moment, his soul

Laughing one moment, suddenly, Wang Chuan stopped laughing, his face contorting hideously. His mouth gaped open, and a massive surge of Five Elements Magic poured forth, engulfing Ye Yuqiao, Man Qingting, and Xie Xiaofeng like a tidal wave.

At the same time, countless more vines sprouted from the ground beneath their feet, binding their bodies as nimbly as serpents.

"Evil-Banishing Moon Sword, unsheathe!" Ye Yuqiao shouted.

"Ying ying ying," along with the sharp, urgent sound of a sword, the diminished Evil-Banishing Moon Sword burst out from Ye Yuqiao's pocket and instantly returned to its original size.

Suddenly, a gust of Sword Qi, swift as a gale, dispersed from the blade of the Evil-Banishing Moon Sword, severing the vines that had entwined around the three of them.

Seeing this, Ye Yuqiao was taken aback because, until then, she had never seen the Evil-Banishing Moon Sword emit Sword Qi, and this Sword Qi seemed to be the same as that from Chen Hao.

Having freed themselves from the vines, Man Qingting was just about to lead Ye Yuqiao and Xie Xiaofeng away when the air, filled once more with Five Elements Magic, froze again, trapping the three of them within.

"Alas!" Man Qingting sighed helplessly.

Xie Xiaofeng, on the other hand, stood with a vacant stare, lost in the grief of Lin Xiaofan's death.

Meanwhile, Ye Yuqiao took out the Nether King's World-Slaying Blade from within her body once again and said to Man Qingting, "As soon as the ice around us cracks open, take this kid and run first!"

"And what about you?" Man Qingting asked.

"Just take care of yourselves!" Ye Yuqiao said sternly, her eyes filled with menace.

With that, she closed her eyes and thrust the Nether King's World-Slaying Blade into the ice at her feet.

Outside the ice, Wang Chuan repeated his earlier trick, transforming the Five Elements Magic that surrounded him into fire, then incorporating the melted ice water into the flames that engirdled him, finally advancing with blazing, soul-devouring flames that seemed able to destroy everything, towards the trio.

After a long while,

Wang Chuan transformed himself into a fire phoenix again; at that moment, the Nether King's World-Slaying Blade in Ye Yuqiao's hands began to tremble violently and flashed with a black glow.

Since she had very little of the Nether King's Power in her body at the time, Ye Yuqiao could only infuse all the Nether King's Power inside her into the Nether King's World-Slaying Blade. After receiving the power from Ye Yuqiao, the Nether King's World-Slaying Blade began to exert force.

"Sss sss sss!"

The frozen air around them cracked open with a loud, piercing sound.

"Can we get out?" Ye Yuqiao asked through gritted teeth.

Man Qingting's gaze followed the largest and longest cracks in the ice layer, looking all the way to the end of the cracks. She saw that with just a bit more, those narrow, winding cracks could tear open a section of the ice layer overhead.

"Just a little bit more!" Man Qingting exclaimed anxiously.

At that moment, the furiously burning flames of the fire phoenix rushing towards her were blindingly intense.

"Ah!" Ye Yuqiao screamed with a gnashing of teeth as she drove the Nether King's World-Slaying Blade deeper into the ice, a dozen or so centimeters more.

"Sss sss sss... Bang!"

Finally, those cracks overhead continued to spread, tearing a gap of about thirty centimeters wide in the thick ice layer.

"Go now!" Ye Yuqiao said weakly.

Man Qingting quickly grasped Xie Xiaofeng's hand and then clung to Ye Yuqiao's arm.

"I am now connected with this blade!" Ye Yuqiao said urgently, "Go, quickly! Leave me behind!"

At that time, the crack in the ceiling was rapidly closing and the Nether King's World-Slaying Blade that had been driven into the ice below was completely frozen in place.

"Go!" Ye Yuqiao gasped with her last breath.

In an instant, Man Qingting and Xie Xiaofeng disappeared from sight.

Ye Yuqiao looked ahead, the "fire phoenix" was already upon her, and the brilliant flames forced her to close her eyes.

"Ha ha!" Wang Chuan laughed wildly from within the heart of the flames. Soon, he would burn the girl that Chen Hao cherished to death, to let Chen Hao experience the pain he had felt.

"Roar!" Wang Chuan let out a thunderous roar, "I will burn you to ashes, and let that kid Chen Hao taste the bitterness of losing his beloved!"

Feeling the scorching heat from the approaching flames, the weakened Ye Yuqiao collapsed to the ground. Since she had injected all of her Nether King's blood into the Nether King's World-Slaying Blade, her hand remained on the hilt of the blade.

Chen Hao's smiling face, his anger, and various other expressions flashed through her mind.

"Now I need a promise from you."

"What kind of promise?"

"An eternal promise!"

She recalled the eternal oath she had made with Chen Hao not long ago.

"Chen Hao, I'm sorry, I couldn't keep our eternal promise!" Ye Yuqiao said sadly.

Tears fell from the corners of her eyes!

She realized how much she didn't want to leave!

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