"Oh!" King Xin sneered coldly. Suddenly, her eyes shone with a savage light, and then ten clones identical to her emerged from both her left and right, stepping forward to stand beside her in line.

"Sister, leave this woman to me to deal with!" Tao Hua said, walking behind King Xin. At this moment, her heart was filled with jealousy towards Ye Yuqiao.

"Fine!" King Xin replied with a smile, her face once again revealing both ferocity and a murderous aura.

"In my view," Ye Yuqiao said coldly, her tone colder than the snow that covered everything around them, "it would be best if all of you came at me together!"

"What an arrogant girl!" all eleven King Xins snorted angrily, their originally beautiful faces now completely torn apart by ferocity, filled with killing intent.

As soon as these words fell, the three King Xins in the middle transformed into three red mists and launched a surprise attack on Ye Yuqiao.

Seeing the three red mists closing in fast, Ye Yuqiao said calmly, "I wonder who's the arrogant one now!"

"Girlfriend, be careful!" Seeing that Ye Yuqiao had not yet taken any action, Chen Hao became anxious. Although Ye Yuqiao had the Nether King's Power within her, unlike himself, she could not come back from the dead. If an accident occurred or the Nether King's Power was exhausted, he might lose Ye Yuqiao forever, something he could not bear.

Therefore, unless it was absolutely necessary, Chen Hao would not allow Ye Yuqiao to join the battle. However, in the future, it seemed likely that the enemies and situations they would face would often be of this nature, just like the current situation.

Only by becoming stronger as quickly as possible could he reduce these dire moments, Chen Hao thought to himself as a burning fighting spirit suddenly ignited within him.

In front of them, the three mists had already rushed towards Ye Yuqiao, who was now surrounded by a substantial amount of swirling Nether King's Power.

"You overestimate yourself!" Ye Yuqiao's tone remained calm, but compared to just before, there was now an additional mix of three parts scorn and seven parts intimidation in her voice.

Having said that, Ye Yuqiao lightly clenched her left fist, and the swirling Nether King's Power around her scattered forwards like a nuclear explosion.

In an instant, the three red mists inches away from Ye Yuqiao froze, or more precisely, the air within ten meters in front of her solidified.

If they had not retreated in time, the seven remaining King Xins and Tao Hua would have been trapped in the air by the Nether King's Power as well.

Afterwards, Ye Yuqiao summoned two balls of Nether King's Fire with a black luster between her two palms, then stretched out her hands and instantly incinerated the three red mists in front of her.

Seeing this, the seven King Xins who had withdrawn to a distance were greatly shocked and asked in unison, "Who exactly are you?"

"That's not important!" Ye Yuqiao said, her demeanor partly indifferent and partly haughty, a stark contrast to her earlier jealousy and annoyance in the Nether Acupoint. "All you need to know is that you will soon understand what real suffering is!"

As she spoke, Ye Yuqiao disappeared from sight.

The seven King Xins looked around frantically, sensing the approach of a terrifying and powerful force, yet unable to pinpoint Ye Yuqiao's position and movements.

As the force drew nearer, King Xin's heart grew increasingly fearful.

"Ah, ah!" King Xin suddenly let out a scream of agony as each of her seven clones experienced an intense, crushing pain in their chests.

With agonized groans escaping their mouths, all seven King Xins turned around, only to see Ye Yuqiao standing behind them, hands behind her back, her face expressionless, eyes cold, and head held high in a disdainful pose as if she beheld no one in her sight.

The reason King Xin felt such excruciating pain was that seven invisible strands of Nether King's Power had flowed out from Ye Yuqiao, infiltrating each King Xin and gripping their hearts like seven hands.

"Sister," Tao Hua called out urgently, then spat out a wisp of light pink poison mist towards Ye Yuqiao, which was the Peach Blossom Poison that had knocked Ye Yuqiao unconscious two days earlier. Because the poison mist had mixed with countless fluttering peach petals at that time, Ye Yuqiao had been distracted by the chaos and failed to detect it.

Even if the poison mist approached among petals again, Ye Yuqiao would be wary; even more so now that there were no peach blossoms to conceal it.

"Child's play!" Ye Yuqiao glanced disdainfully at Tao Hua, lifted her left hand, flicked her index finger, and an invisible strand of Nether King's Power shot out, dispersing the incoming poison gas and then piercing Tao Hua's chest like a sharp arrow.

"Ah!"

After a cry of pain, Tao Hua turned into a scoop of light pink petals floating towards the sky. Once reaching midair, the scoop of pink petals fell like a waterfall, rushing down toward Ye Yuqiao with the formidable force of a Tree Demon.

Watching the curtain of pink petals descend, Ye Yuqiao glanced at it casually, then slowly raised her left foot and let it fall back to the snowy ground, creating a surge of wind that swept upwards.

The wind collided with the petal stream, scattering it, making it look like a goddess scattering flowers.

Before long, the myriad peach blossom petals dispersed in the air began to whirl rapidly, attacking Ye Yuqiao like a myriad of spinning knives.

Ye Yuqiao quickly gathered Nether King's Power between her hands and, just as the countless spinning peach petals were about to strike, she raised her arms high above her head.

A huge black and purple flame rose between Ye Yuqiao's hands, turning the approaching peach petals into ashes.

This black and purple flame was the Nether King's Fire. Although its power was not as great as the true Nether King's Fire, it consumed considerably less Spiritual Power.

"Ah!" The Tao Hua girl's agonized scream reverberated through the air, followed by the surviving peach petals retreating back into the sky, converging, then returning to the original form of the Tao Hua girl. At this moment, half of the Tao Hua girl's clothes were burnt, and her originally delicate face was blackened by soot, horribly disfigured and extremely pitiful.

After landing, the Tao Hua girl collapsed to the ground, and before losing consciousness completely, she did not forget to glare at Ye Yuqiao one last time with furious eyes.

"Who are you?" the seven King Xins asked hoarsely, gripping their chests where the Nether King's Power was growing stronger. She had tried to expel the Nether King's Power from her body, to no avail. She hadn't expected that someone as formidable as this mysterious young girl would be hidden by Chen Hao's side, which made her doubt that it wasn't Chen Hao but the mysterious girl in front of her who had defeated King Ning.

"I will tear your heart open to see just how dark it is!" Ye Yuqiao said coldly.

"Hmph," King Xin barely managed a cold laugh through the pain that was multiplying, "You still can't kill me like this! Don't think I haven't noticed that the power inside you is running out!"

"Who said I wanted to kill you," Ye Yuqiao responded calmly, her face displaying the ruthless and composed coldness of an emperor. "I've already said, I just want you to experience what it is like to wish for death!"

Ye Yuqiao blinked her eyes and then injected half of the Nether King's Power from her body into the seven King Xins.

"Ah!" The seven King Xins screamed in unison, their faces contorted with the kind of agony that made them yearn for death.

Just as Ye Yuqiao had said, the Nether King's Power, like invisible hands, was mercilessly tearing apart King Xin's heart.

Ye Yuqiao wanted to see what was truly inside the heart of a woman so cruel and insane.

"Don't be smug!" King Xin snarled fiercely, grinding her teeth. At this moment, her face crisscrossed with fissures and her eyes flickering with purple light, she looked no different from a terrifying demon. "Once the power inside you is exhausted, it will be my turn to show you what unbearable pain feels like. I will first let dozens of flesh-eating ghosts ravage your body, and then I will slice the flesh off you piece by piece to feed them!"

"How dare you!" Ye Yuqiao glared furiously, her eyes reflecting an inviolable authority and anger.

"Hiss, hiss, hiss!"

Suddenly, all but one of the six King Xins' bodies were being slowly torn apart by the Nether King's Power. Unlike humans, what flowed from their bodies was billowing red smoke, not blood.

"Ah, ugh!" King Xin's hoarse screams became higher and more piercing, and then even more raspy.

Ye Yuqiao didn't completely destroy the bodies of the seven King Xins because she knew doing so wouldn't kill them. The best method was just like now: to torture King Xin slowly and gradually, forcing her to beg for death without granting it.

"You just wait!" King Xin said painfully, tilting her head to one side, "I'll see how long you can last!"

Not long after the bodies of the six King Xins were fully torn in two and fell to the ground, the red smoke that flowed from them began to gather slowly, eventually forming three new King Xins.

Before they could escape, these three King Xins were invaded by the Nether King's Power that flowed out from Ye Yuqiao and their hearts were gripped once more.

In the midst of her pain, she did not notice that Chen Hao had long since disappeared from behind her, having quietly slipped into the Fairy Cave with swift steps, and ran to the end of the cave, where he stood before the head composed of bits taken from hundreds and thousands of human heads.

Earlier, in the Nether Acupoint, stimulated by Ye Yuqiao's gentle assault, a sudden insight had flashed into Chen Hao's mind—the way to defeat King Xin was to destroy this head.

King Xin had spent nearly ten years and many failures to finally piece this head together to what she deemed perfection. Even if given the same heads and organs again, she might not be able to achieve the same outcome.

This head was to King Xin as Ye Yu was to Chen Hao, the only sustenance and hope, the sole reason for living.

Grief no greater than heart's death; just destroying this head would kill King Xin's heart too, which was as good as killing her.

So, after discussion, the two decided that Ye Yuqiao would hold off King Xin and Tao Hua girl, while Chen Hao would take the opportunity to slip into the Fairy Cave to destroy the head.

Everything was going as smoothly as the two had anticipated; however, at this moment, several green eyes surfaced on the wall beside Chen Hao.

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