This man was very mysterious, King Xin only knew his name was Hua Shan, and it seemed he came from the mystical City of Yin and Time.

What kind of place was the City of Yin and Time? King Xin didn't know either. For the past seventeen years, she had been inquiring and searching for the location of the City of Yin and Time, but alas, to no avail.

Not being able to find the City of Yin and Time also meant not being able to find Hua Shan—the man King Xin had thought of day and night for seventeen years.

Eighteen years ago, King Xin had been dispatched by the Ghost King to the mortal world to govern the land named after her title, King Xin Mansion. Not long after her arrival, major chaos erupted in the netherworld jurisdiction of King Xin Mansion. A group of ancient beastmen led by ancient tiger-people seized many mountains and cities within the mansion, killing numerous humans, Yin Souls, and demons.

The so-called beastmen, simply referred to as beasts in the Book of Yin and Yang Exorcism, are wild animals that are transforming into humans. Unlike demons, beasts have both Yin Souls and Yang Spirits within them, need no cultivation of the soul's essence, and will eventually evolve into complete humans with the same short-lived nature as humans.

It can be said that after completing their transformation, beasts and humans have almost no differences, except in strength. Once the blood seal within their bodies is lifted, the transformed beasts can revert to their beast form at will, possessing strengths and special abilities that humans lack, and can even contend with demons and devils who have achieved their true form.

Hearing about the beastmen taking over mountains and cities, King Xin was greatly enraged and went alone to the areas occupied by the beastmen.

However, by the time she arrived at the beastmen-occupied small town, the beastmen who had been seen around the town were already completely subdued and sealed, all thanks to one man, and that man was Hua Shan.

At that moment, King Xin was not wearing the usual bright red attire but dressed like a common twenty-three- or twenty-four-year-old woman from the mortal world, in a white blouse paired with light blue jeans, looking very pure.

At first glance, Hua Shan just gave King Xin a slight smile and then looked elsewhere. In that fleeting moment of eye contact, King Xin's heart skipped a beat, finding the bronze-skinned man in front of her immensely charming.

Thus, driven by a strange impulse, King Xin approached and greeted Hua Shan first, "Hello, my name is Li Luo."

Hua Shan turned back, his face full of surprise. After a pause, his pupils suddenly contracted several times over, scrutinizing King Xin from top to bottom.

"What's wrong?" King Xin asked with a trembling voice, her heartbeat quickening under Hua Shan's gaze, an unfamiliar feeling for her.

Hua Shan frowned and said in a deep voice, "You're not an ordinary person."

King Xin startled and her eyes widened, her pure appearance instantly shattered.

"How can you tell?" King Xin squinted and asked, "Could it be you're an Onmyoji?"

"Hmph!" Hua Shan suddenly lifted the corners of his mouth into a smile that became increasingly charming and irritating to King Xin. Rarely did anyone dare to laugh so brazenly in her presence, and usually, those who did were turned to ashes by King Xin shortly thereafter. But Hua Shan would not suffer such a fate, only receiving an angry glare from her.

"What are you laughing at?" King Xin asked.

"You didn't kill me, and I was fortunate to escape that Jie; isn't that worth being happy about?"

"How did you know I would kill you?"

Hua Shan laughed again and said, "Would you believe me if I said I can read minds?"

"Then have you read that I've fallen for you?" King Xin suddenly blurted out her uncertain thought. The moment she spoke, the idea took firm hold in her heart. She looked at Hua Shan with a somewhat infatuated gaze and sighed inwardly at such an enchanting smile existing in the world.

"I haven't noticed that yet," Hua Shan said, looking somewhat surprised. After a pause, he leaned in close to King Xin, smiling softly, "But I think you can tell that I don't like you. Not only that, I want to kill you, but killing you would prevent me from learning your true identity."

"It's not hard to know if you really want," King Xin said, leaning her head close to Hua Shan. After smelling the scent on Hua Shan, her cheeks flushed, and her heart pounded as if a deer were running wild inside. It took her a while to regain composure before she continued with a trembling voice, "As long as you're willing to tell me your true identity, I'll tell you mine."

"Hua Shan, from the City of Yin and Time!"

"Li Luo, from the Netherworld."

"So you're from the Netherworld, not interested!" Hua Shan said coldly and then disappeared in an instant.

"Think you can leave!" King Xin let out a cold laugh, "You'll never escape the palm of my hand."

...

Four o'clock in the morning.

As Chen Hao flew steadily above the clouds for a while, he suddenly felt weightlessness, and the ethereal sound of wind by his ears also became intensely whistling. He opened his eyes only to find the clouds above his head. He then looked down to see a layer of hazy fog beneath, with the shadow of mountain after mountain looming dimly within the mist.

So, Chen Hao executed the Nether Vision Technique with his left eye.

Two seconds later, his vision pierced through the hazy fog underneath, and the continuous undulating mountains came fully into view. Above these mountains, Chen Hao saw a cluster of purple Qi and thought, "That Qi must be the accumulation of Yin Qi leaked from King Xin's body—this mountain is Yu Nv Mountain!"

"Welcome to Yu Nv Mountain!"

Suddenly, King Xin's cold, icy face appeared in front of Chen Hao, blocking the view of the mountains and clouds beneath.

Since Chen Hao still hadn't closed his Nether Vision Technique in his left eye, his gaze unconsciously shifted from King Xin's face to the body wrapped in a red dress.

She has a good figure—this was the first thought in Chen Hao's mind;

I'm doomed—Chen Hao's second thought.

Luckily, Yuqiao was still unconscious—the third thought.

In just a short second, Chen Hao's mind had undergone earth-shattering changes.

Once he had composed himself, Chen Hao looked at King Xin and said, "Did you know all along that I wasn't unconscious?"

"Isn't this exactly what you wished for?"

The corners of Chen Hao's mouth lifted slightly, revealing a light smile.

"It's just too similar!" King Xin murmured, her fierce gaze suddenly becoming somewhat infatuated. Whether it was Chen Hao's lips or his smile, both were incredibly reminiscent of Hua Shan, which inevitably made her think of him.

"My goodness, that look is so sinister!" Chen Hao inwardly marveled, "Could she have been captivated by my handsomeness, like that Tao Hua girl?"

"So you weren't dizzy after all!" Tao Hua's angry voice came through, and then she drifted to Chen Hao's side, lifting her hand to harshly pinch Chen Hao's face, which was as cold as a stone. "You fooled me!"

"How could a man be fooled by a woman in the same way twice?" Chen Hao said with a mischievous smile, "Unless that man likes you and is willing to do so."

At the same time, Chen Hao couldn't help thinking about what Ye Yuqiao's reaction would be if she saw Tao Hua pinching his face. Would she tear Tao Hua into pieces in a fit of rage or him instead, or maybe tear both of them to shreds.

"So you're saying you like me, which is why you willingly pretended to faint?"

"You should be able to tell that I obviously don't like you!" Chen Hao said smugly.

Hearing Chen Hao say this, King Xin's heart trembled fiercely. When she'd first met Hua Shan, he'd said something similar, making her feel even more that Chen Hao and Hua Shan were alike.

"Why don't you like me?" Tao Hua asked with a sullen face, "Is it because I'm not pretty?"

"Liking someone doesn't need a reason, but not liking someone can have any excuse, and your not being pretty is one of them."

King Xin's heart trembled again, she shook her head, and a tear glistened along her eyeliner, sliding to the corner of her eye, then was torn apart by the everywhere present fierce wind. She didn't understand why every word Chen Hao said was so similar to what Hua Shan had said back then.

Unable to resist, memories once again flooded King Xin's mind.

After meeting for the first time and learning each other's names and origins, Hua Shan disappeared before King Xin by using some strange technique. However, it didn't take long for King Xin to find him by following the scent of Yang Energy from his body.

It happened five days later, after numerous close calls, King Xin finally caught up to Hua Shan while he was fighting a group of werewolves.

Watching the row of werewolves with fierce gazes, Hua Shan spread his arms to protect King Xin behind him, and with a furrowed brow, he said, "Be careful."

"You care about me!" King Xin said with a light laugh.

Hua Shan turned his head to look at King Xin, his tightly furrowed brows suddenly relaxing as he said, "I do care about you, but I would care about anyone else here; this is universal love!"

"Awooo!" The werewolves in front let out a loud howl, then charged at the two of them.

Just as King Xin was preparing to fight back, the unexpected happened. Black vortexes appeared in the air in front of them, twisting the space, and soon after, all of the werewolves were devoured by these vortexes, disappearing without a trace.

"Ah!" King Xin exclaimed in surprise, "What kind of strange technique is this?"

Hua Shan didn't answer the question in King Xin's heart, but instead showed a faint smile and said, "Farewell, we may meet again. Don't follow me anymore."

"Wait!" King Xin quickly grabbed Hua Shan's hand and forced out the spiritual power from inside her body to surround Hua Shan, preventing him from slipping away. But even so, in an instant, Hua Shan still vanished before her.

By the time she smelled the scent of Yang Energy from Hua Shan's body, he was already thousands of miles away on a mountain. Then, King Xin used her mana to transform into a stream of red smoke and disappear into the air.

Half a second later, the red smoke that King Xin had transformed into reappeared beside Hua Shan. At that moment, the two stood atop a lush green mountain peak, with a waterfall rushing down beneath them.

Seeing that Hua Shan seemed intending to leave again, King Xin asked anxiously, "Why don't you like me? Do you think I'm not good enough for you?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Hua Shan disappeared once more, leaving only one sentence: "There are many reasons not to like someone, and the reason you mentioned is one of them."

By the time King Xin located the scent of Hua Shan's Yang Energy, he was already a distant figure in the sky.

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