The earth shook, and with it, the ground split open and collapsed, as several tree roots burrowed up from beneath, coiling around the feet of Xie Xiaofeng and Tang Jing.

Immediately, Xie Xiaofeng forced his Five Elements Mana out of his body and transformed it into countless iron blades, slicing through the tree roots entangled around their feet. In an instant, they plunged towards the collapsing ground.

"Ah!" Tang Jing's scream echoed.

However, very quickly, a thick vine wrapped around Tang Jing's body and pulled her up from beneath the ground, which was Xie Xiaofeng's transformation through the Art of the Five Elements Avatar.

At the same time, hundreds of tree roots, like terrifying hands, clutched at Tang Jing and the vine Xie Xiaofeng had become, trying to drag them back into the collapsed earth.

"Crack, crack, crack!" The vine, like an unstoppable dragon, soared into the air, snapping all the pulling tree roots from Tang Jing and itself.

"Chen Hao, I'll take Tang Jing out first!" Xie Xiaofeng's voice resonated amidst the chaos.

With that said, the vine wrapped around Tang Jing and broke through the thatched cottage's roof.

Meanwhile, Chen Hao, with Ye Yuqiao's waist in his arms, leaped up, closely following behind Xie Xiaofeng.

However, just at that moment, an enormous ancient root suddenly emerged from the soil, and in a blink of an eye, it entangled Chen Hao and Ye Yuqiao, forcefully dragging the two of them into the cracked earth below.

With a "Bang!" the simple thatched cottage, which was a game meat restaurant, collapsed thunderously.

"Chen Hao and Yuqiao haven't come out yet!" Tang Jing, being carried away through the air by Xie Xiaofeng, cried out in alarm.

"That bastard Chen Hao actually failed to escape!" Xie Xiaofeng's tone was filled with disbelief. After that, the vine that was Xie Xiaofeng landed safely with Tang Jing, and then he changed back into human form.

"Smack!" Tang Jing fiercely slapped Xie Xiaofeng's face, "Xie Xiaofeng, you're a bastard too!"

Tang Jing's anger was because after transforming back into human form, Xie Xiaofeng's left hand was caught on her chest.

Xie Xiaofeng was dumbstruck, and only after a long while did he bitterly say, "It was an emergency; I didn't do it on purpose!"

"Now get your hand off me!" Tang Jing snapped.

"Ah!" Xie Xiaofeng, startled, then moved his hand away from Tang Jing's chest; instantly, his neck and face became flushed with redness.

After giving Xie Xiaofeng a fierce stare, Tang Jing immediately walked to the front of the collapsed thatched cottage. But as she approached, the columns and thatch that made up the cottage, as well as everything inside the game meat restaurant, suddenly vanished without a trace, leaving only an empty plot of land.

The neatly pruned trees that had been near the thatched cottage had also disappeared. At that moment, a cold and chilling wind blew, bringing with it a dense fog, and graves overgrown with weeds appeared before Tang Jing. Her gaze followed the undulating terrain upwards, revealing that the entire mountain was covered in graveyards.

"What should we do?" Tang Jing asked.

"It should be fine!" Xie Xiaofeng said, his head still spinning, somewhat lost in the aftertaste of the full sensation in his hand. "With Chen Hao there, and Yuqiao too, don't worry, they'll be all right!"

Seeing Xie Xiaofeng's incoherent state, Tang Jing couldn't help but roll her eyes at him.

"If they don't come out in two hours, I'll go back in and bring them out!" Xie Xiaofeng said, "Let's wait for them in the car for now; it's cold outside!"

Meanwhile, beneath the ground.

After coughing twice, Chen Hao opened his eyes to find himself in such pitch darkness that there was no difference between having his eyes open or closed.

"Boyfriend, quickly shine the Nether Light with your left eye!" Ye Yuqiao's voice resonated in Chen Hao's mind. Right after they were pulled into the ground by the tree roots, to ensure Ye Yuqiao's safety, Chen Hao had immediately used his skill to draw Ye Yuqiao into the Nether Acupoint.

"Okay!"

After Chen Hao agreed, a soft purple light shone from his left eye, illuminating everything in front of him. Looking around, Chen Hao realized he seemed to be in an underground passage. The passage was nearly two meters high and more than a meter wide, filled with a yellow dust.

"Girlfriend, where are we?" Chen Hao asked.

"Underground!"

"You don't need to tell me it's underground," Chen Hao said with a hint of helplessness, then mimicked Ye Yuqiao's tone, "Naughty, mischievous!"

After a light huff, Ye Yuqiao said, "Stop copying me!"

"Haha!" Chen Hao laughed heartily, then slowly advanced, waving his hands to disperse the dirt and sand in front of him.

After a few steps, Chen Hao suddenly stopped.

"What's wrong?" Ye Yuqiao asked.

"It just doesn't feel right not having you by my side," Chen Hao said. "I miss the warmth of your palm!"

"Really? I feel like that's something you'd say to sweet-talk a girl," Ye Yuqiao questioned, "Then hurry up and let me go to the Nether Acupoint, I'll walk with you."

"Haha, no need! The roots that pulled us underground definitely want us dead here. Who knows what kind of lethal thing might pop up all of a sudden, so it's safer for you to stay inside! I can't bear it if you get hurt, it would pain my heart!"

"Okay! You be careful too, I'd be heartbroken as well!"

"I stopped because I think I can feel a particularly strong Yang Energy!" Chen Hao said, frowning.

"Boom!"

At that moment, a series of rapid sounds approached, getting closer and closer, causing the surrounding area to tremble intensely.

"There's a demonic aura!" Chen Hao said with a guarded look.

"Boom!"

The noise drew nearer!

Shortly after, a cloud of rolling dust approached, with two cold gleams flickering within it.

"It's that pig demon!" Chen Hao exclaimed.

Before he could react, the pig demon was already in front of him, piercing his heart with two sharp tusks by its snout, then dragged Chen Hao's body forward, only stopping when it slammed Chen Hao into the wall at the end of the tunnel.

"Stupid humans!" the pig demon said coldly. Afterward, it pulled its tusks out of Chen Hao's body, then stabbed in and out again, perforating his body with dozens of holes before ceasing.

Listening to Chen Hao's dying screams tearing through the air, Ye Yuqiao's heart almost broke, and tears of agony couldn't help but flow.

"Where's that girl?" the boar muttered to itself.

At that moment, a dark shadow crawled out from Chen Hao's left eye, and then Ye Yuqiao emerged from the shadow.

"I'm here!" she said in an icy tone. "How dare a mere demon harm my person!"

As soon as Ye Yuqiao finished speaking, the air around them froze, and the pig demon was rendered immobile. She walked up to the pig demon and with brute force pulled out the two sharp tusks from its snout and plunged them into the demon's belly.

With a "snap," Ye Yuqiao broke the neck of the pig demon.

Afterward, Ye Yuqiao withdrew the Nether King's Power that had frozen the air around them.

With a "thud," the pig demon fell to the ground.

"Yuqiao, how did you come out?" Chen Hao, who had been resurrected by then, with the holes in his body already healed and fused, asked.

"My poor Chen Hao!" Ye Yuqiao said. She then stepped forward, pushed Chen Hao against the wall, and kissed him.

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