"I'm sorry!" King Xin sobbed, appearing pitiable with her teary eyes.

King Shuanglin's eyes widened as he wondered if he had heard wrong, the usually proud and haughty King Xin had actually apologized to him. To anyone familiar with King Xin, this was absolutely inconceivable.

Thinking of King Xin's recent offer to grant him a favor and her sudden change of attitude, King Shuanglin felt that King Xin wasn't intentionally being capricious to mock him; there had to be some hidden distress.

As for what that distress might be, King Shuanglin didn't know and didn't want to. King Xin had intended to grant him a favor, and now it would seem ungracious to insist on fighting with her over Chen Hao, especially since King Xin seemed so embarrassed, an expression she had never shown before.

"Since King Xin has asked to keep the person, I can only agree," said King Shuanglin, though his heart was reluctant since the boy who had killed King Ning was right within reach.

"King Shuanglin, thank you!" King Xin looked up at him and said, full of humility and gratitude. "I promise you, within seven days, I will personally deliver this boy's Yin Soul to your residence in the Netherworld."

"So it seems that you want the boy's physical body," King Shuanglin mused, his mind speculating on why King Xin seemed so sad upon meeting Chen Hao and her sudden motive for keeping him.

King Xin's eyes suddenly widened, a sharp, lethal light and icy coldness reappeared in her gaze. Clearly, she didn't want King Shuanglin to pry into this matter.

Seeing that King Xin seemed slightly angry, King Shuanglin's lips curled into a small smile, like a docile lion, and he said, "King Xin, then let's agree on this. In seven days, I'll have fine liquor prepared at my home in the Netherworld, waiting for you to bring the boy's Yin Soul!"

"Mhm!" King Xin nodded firmly.

"Then I shall take my leave!" said King Shuanglin as he cupped his hands, casting a glance at Miss Tao Hua from the corner of his eye before turning into a mist of ice and departing. Little did he know that after this goodbye, he would never have the chance to see King Xin again, because King Xin...

After sensing that King Shuanglin's spiritual power had faded into the distance, King Xin immediately turned and leaned close to Miss Tao Hua. She reached out and tenderly stroked Tao Hua's cheek, which was red from being slapped, and said, "Sister, did I hurt you with my slap?"

Miss Tao Hua had stubbornly endured the heavy slap from King Xin, but now faced with King Xin's gentle care, her strong heart felt as if it had been stabbed deeply by a soft knife, and she couldn't help but shed tears of grievance.

"Sister!" Miss Tao Hua threw herself into King Xin's arms, sobbing heavily.

"There, there, don't be sad," King Xin said, patting Miss Tao Hua's back. "Your sister didn't mean to hit you; please don't be angry with me."

At that moment, King Xin's face was filled with worry, her eyebrows deeply furrowed, her eyes filled with tenderness—so unlike the cold and harsh person people usually thought her to be.

"Mhm!" Miss Tao Hua nodded, then stepped back from King Xin's embrace and turned to look at Chen Hao, who laid unconscious upon the clouds, and asked, "Sister, why do you suddenly want to keep this boy, is it possible that he..."

"Yes!" King Xin's eyes sparkled with teary light, and a strange joy appeared on her face. "He is the final piece of the puzzle that I have been looking for."

The Peach Blossom girl smiled, her joy for King Xin coming from the bottom of her heart. However, her worry soon crept onto her delicate, peach blossom-like face like the chill in the clouds above, strikingly evident.

"What's wrong? Don't you want to be happy for your sister?" King Xin questioned.

Looking up at King Xin, the Peach Blossom girl's eyes flickered with hesitation. After a long pause, she said, "Sister, I notice you always like staring at that man's face, so out of boredom, I watched Chen Hao today. He doesn't seem as detestable as he did at first."

"Oh?" King Xin smiled slightly. "Are you saying you can't bear for your sister to kill him?"

"Yes!"

"It seems Peach Blossom has grown up!" King Xin said mockingly, staring at Peach Blossom. "If you really like him, sister will make him stay by your side forever, in another way."

"Just like that man?"

King Xin nodded, then she and the Peach Blossom girl hurriedly dragged Chen Hao toward the Jade Maiden Mountain.

In fact, Chen Hao, tightly entwined by peach branches, had not inhaled the poisonous peach blossom fragrance into his body that morning. The reason he pretended to be unconscious was to let the Peach Blossom girl take him to meet King Xin on Jade Maiden Mountain.

What Chen Hao hadn't expected was that before he even reached the so-called Jade Maiden Mountain, both King Xin and King Shuanglin had appeared, and he almost got taken away by King Shuanglin, narrowly escaping a calamity. Chen Hao knew well that at this moment, whether it be his Yin Qi Spiritual Power or Yang Energy Power, neither was a match for King Shuanglin;

What surprised Chen Hao even more was that the Peach Blossom girl had actually spent the entire day sitting on him, examining his face. It couldn't help but make him feel slightly smug, wondering if the Peach Blossom girl had been completely charmed by his handsomeness?

"Yuqiao, Yuqiao!" Chen Hao called out frantically in his heart. With his eyes closed, he once again directed his gaze towards the Nether King's Heart in his left eye, only to see Ye Yu, Ye Fei, Xie Xiaofeng, and Tang Jing still lying unconscious under the Nether King Orchid Heart. He was very worried about Ye Yu's condition at the moment, wanting to enter the Nether Acupoint to check on her, but also afraid of startling his prey, worried that King Xin might refuse to take him to Jade Maiden Mountain afterward.

Only by getting to Jade Maiden Mountain could Chen Hao find out the reason behind King Xin's collection of heads, as well as see the man that King Xin and the Peach Blossom girl referred to, and uncover the secret of "him being the last piece of the puzzle" that King Xin was looking for.

Night had fallen deeply.

After flying at high speed above the clouds for a while, King Xin glanced sideways, catching a glimpse of the floating Chen Hao in the sea of clouds using her peripheral vision. From the first moment she saw Chen Hao, she knew he was feigning unconsciousness. The reason she didn't expose his act was that she wanted Chen Hao to go to Jade Maiden Mountain even more than he did.

Once on Jade Maiden Mountain, she could cut off that mouth of Chen Hao's and attach it to a face that was missing only a mouth.

The face belonged to a man in his thirties, every part looking exceedingly natural except for the mouth. However, it was in fact a pieced-together face, with all parts and organs including the skull, hair, and ears being small portions snipped from numerous men's faces.

This man...

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