"So the head inside is not actually his, but was pieced together from parts resembling him which you cut off from the hundreds of heads you collected?"

King Xin shook his head and then laughed coldly, "You are mistaken. It's not just hundreds of heads, but thousands! It took me nearly ten years to find these thousands of heads and then slowly piece them together to resemble him. After dozens of reconstructions and reshaping, I finally managed to create the head you just saw that looks exactly like him. Now it's missing only your mouth!"

The more King Xin spoke, the more excited and terrifying her tone became. After laughing uproariously to the heavens, she continued, "Once I sew your mouth on, I will personally choose a body that satisfies me to place under his head, then put a soul inside him. Then, he will come to life and be with me forever, as my puppet and lover!"

"You!" Chen Hao clenched his teeth and glared furiously. King Xin's actions filled him with horror and anger. "You actually killed so many innocent people just to create one face, and you deprived them of their right to reincarnate. You're utterly heartless and insane!"

"What's a few thousand lives?" King Xin scoffed coldly. "Forget thousands, even tens of thousands would be worth it to me! To me, the lives of you people from the mortal world are worth less than a dog's."

"Pah!" Unable to contain himself, Chen Hao spat at King Xin, then scoffed, "Don't be delusional. Even if you could perfectly recreate a person, he's still not the real him. You should know, he never liked you, and he wanted you to never see him again."

"Shut up!" King Xin shouted loudly, clearly angered by Chen Hao's words.

"I won't shut up!" Chen Hao taunted with a smug look on his face. "He never liked you. You're just unrequitedly in love. How could anyone like a ruthless woman like you... Urgh!"

Chen Hao suddenly let out a muffled scream. His throat was being squeezed by an invisible force emanating from King Xin.

"I'll cut off your mouth now and see how you can spout such nonsense!" King Xin glared at Chen Hao in fury, then raised her right hand, which held a sharp scalpel, to Chen Hao's lips.

"Ahh!" Chen Hao screamed terribly, his mouth being slowly sliced open by King Xin's surgical precision with the scalpel. Bright red blood trickled drop by drop from his chin to the snow below, with the stream of blood quickening as the wound was torn wider.

Unable to breathe or scream as his throat was being increasingly constricted by the force emanating from King Xin, all of Chen Hao's nerves suffered intense stimulation and torment. His face turned crimson with suffocation, unable to vent the bone-chilling and blood-curdling pain, and his eyes were bloodshot from the strain.

Suddenly, a black and purple light flashed from Chen Hao's left eye.

King Xin immediately became alert.

She saw a dazzling purple flame suddenly burst from Chen Hao's left eye and rush toward her. King Xin quickly retreated nearly a hundred steps to evade the purple flame's assault.

"Ahh!" Chen Hao gnashed his teeth and roared, as the purple flames continued to shoot out from his left eye.

King Xin frowned and, full of confusion, watched Chen Hao, not making any movements, waiting for Chen Hao to exhaust the flames.

Meanwhile, deep within the Nether Acupoint, Ye Fei slowly opened his eyes after feeling a violent tremor.

Ye Fei was the first among the four absorbed into the Nether Acupoint by Chen Hao to awaken, all thanks to the Heart of the Merman within him.

The peach blossom girl's paralyzing fragrance was potent enough to knock a regular person unconscious for more than seven days. With the Nether King's Heart, Chen Hao needed only one day to flush the toxin from his bloodstream. Ye Fei took two days, and the three lying next to Ye Fei—Ye Yuqiao, Xie Xiaofeng, and Tang Jing—would need even longer.

After struggling through a bout of intense dizziness, Ye Fei slowly got to his feet. He was shocked to see the Nether King Orchid Heart above his head emitting a black and purple glow, and murmured to himself, "Where am I?"

Then, he crouched next to Xie Xiaofeng, gently shaking his body while calling out Xie Xiaofeng, Ye Yuqiao, and Tang Jing's names. A minute later, seeing no response from the three, Ye Fei gave up in resignation and looked around in confusion, wondering where Chen Hao had gone.

At that moment, feeling a refreshing current circulating through his internal organs, Ye Fei sat cross-legged and began to regulate his breathing, thinking that his body's true energy was healing itself, unaware of the Heart of the Merman within his chest.

Outside the Nether Acupoint.

The pain subsided, and Chen Hao's left eye finally stopped emitting flames.

"Ah!" King Xin was startled. She saw that the wound she had made with her scalpel near Chen Hao's mouth had healed, and the blood that had dripped onto the snow and been absorbed was now flowing back into Chen Hao's body, leaving the ground as pristine and white as before.

"Is all this because of the cursed power in your left eye?" King Xin said coldly, her eyes filled with murderous intent. "If that's the case, I'll break the seal on your left eye first before cutting off your mouth!"

"I must kill you today, to avenge those innocent people!" said Chen Hao, his lips curling up slightly, his eyes brimming with confidence.

"Sister, let me deal with him!" Tao Hua pleaded with King Xin, her heart aching slightly from seeing the painful expression on Chen Hao's face earlier. She wanted to end Chen Hao's life herself, in the gentlest way possible, to minimize his suffering.

"I almost forgot, this kid is the one who killed King Ning," King Xin laughed coldly, her gaze sharp. "So, I'll handle him myself!"

"Sister!" Tao Hua showed a sad face.

"Step back!" King Xin cast a sideways glance at Tao Hua, "Don't worry. Your sister will piece together someone who looks exactly like him to stay by your side forever, utterly devoted to you. However, his mouth might not be the same as the one he has now."

Having said that, King Xin instantly turned into a cloud of red smoke.

"Ying ying ying!" A crisp sound of a sword came from behind Chen Hao.

Chen Hao turned around and saw the Evil-Banishing Moon Sword and the Blood Moon Evil Subduing Sword flying toward him at high speed.

"The early bird does not always catch the worm!" Chen Hao muttered to himself, a smile curving at his lips.

By the time Chen Hao turned around, the smoke that King Xin had transformed into had vanished without a trace.

"Where did he go?" Chen Hao felt a surge of panic in his heart.

Suddenly, the ground beneath his feet trembled slightly, and he faintly sensed a formidable power approaching him from below.

That power was, of course, King Xin.

Therefore, Chen Hao used his qinggong to leap into the air and cried out urgently, "Evil-Banishing Moon Sword!"

"Ying ying ying!" The Evil-Banishing Moon Sword responded, signaling to Chen Hao that it knew what to do next.

In the moment that Chen Hao's feet left the ground, a burst of red smoke billowed from the earth, pursuing him closely with a force as mighty as Spiritual Power.

After leaping nearly forty meters using qinggong, Chen Hao turned in mid-air to face the red smoke that was attacking from behind.

Just then, the Evil-Banishing Moon Sword flew into the hollow of his left hand, a tacit understanding formed after spending some time with the sword.

Grasping the Evil-Banishing Moon Sword tightly, Chen Hao infused all the Yin Qi Spiritual Power from his left eye into the sword.

Instantly, the Evil-Banishing Moon Sword glinted with a purple light and thrust toward the red smoke.

Chen Hao originally thought his inner Spiritual Power would be enough to hold a standoff against King Xin for a while, or in the worst case, he could infuse the three strands of Nether King's Power from the Nether King Orchid Heart into the Evil-Banishing Moon Sword.

However, Chen Hao did not expect that at the moment of impact, the red smoke invaded the blade of the Evil-Banishing Moon Sword, contaminating its purple light with a dark red hue.

Then, the red smoke flowed along the blade of the Evil-Banishing Moon Sword into Chen Hao's body.

Next, Chen Hao's body was completely out of his control; he felt a powerful force infiltrating his bloodstream.

"Ah!" Chen Hao let out a hoarse cry, feeling an intense burning pain in his left eye, as if a hand with sharp nails was gouging at it.

He closed his eyes and looked toward the Nether King Orchid Heart in his left eye, only to see the world within the Nether Acupoint violently shaking, with black and purple light flashing over his left eye with each tremble of the Nether King Orchid Heart.

"What are you trying to do?" Chen Hao asked hoarsely.

"Hmph!" King Xin's cold laugh rang out in Chen Hao's mind, "Of course, to dig out your left eye along with the mysterious heart within it!"

"You wish!" Chen Hao gritted his teeth and growled. Just as he was about to infuse the Nether King's Power from the Nether King Orchid Heart into his bloodstream to drive away King Xin, suddenly a better idea flashed through his mind.

"Blood Moon Evil Subduing Sword!" Chen Hao called out loudly.

"Ying ying ying!" The Blood Moon Evil Subduing Sword, hovering nearby, immediately responded. As a sword that had unintentionally come into Chen Hao's possession, it always worried about being forgotten and discarded by its new master, hence it would become especially excited whenever it heard Chen Hao's call.

When the Blood Moon Evil Subduing Sword arrived in front of him, Chen Hao took hold of the Evil-Banishing Moon Sword.

"Yin Spirit Solidifying Blood Technique!" After shouting out loud, Chen Hao plunged the tip of the Blood Moon Evil Subduing Sword into his own chest.

When dealing with Wang Chuan, the zombie, Chen Hao had used the Yin Spirit Solidifying Blood Technique to freeze Wang Chuan's blood, thereby freezing the Five Elements Magic within his body. Since King Xin was currently infiltrating his bloodstream, Chen Hao thought to freeze his own blood using this technique and in turn freeze King Xin within it.

The moment the Blood Moon Evil Subduing Sword pierced his chest, Chen Hao's complexion turned deathly pale.

"Ying ying ying!" The Blood Moon Evil Subduing Sword let out a mournful sound, filled with guilt and fear.

"Ying ying ying!" The Evil-Banishing Moon Sword also chimed in, but its tone was much clearer. Then, it channeled the Spiritual Power that Chen Hao had infused into it back into his body to help him freeze his blood.

Half a minute later, the blood inside Chen Hao's body was frozen, and his skin turned dull, as if covered with bruises.

"Kill me!" Chen Hao ordered the Evil-Banishing Moon Sword and the Blood Moon Evil Subduing Sword.

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