Just then, several pairs of green eyes emerged from the wall beside Chen Hao.

Feeling the green light shoot into the corner of his eye, Chen Hao startled and immediately turned his head to look at the stone wall beside him. There, amongst the rugged stone, he saw three dark purple shadows.

Subsequently, the stone wall trembled violently, and countless uneven pieces of broken stone peeled off from the wall where the dark purple shadows were.

Eventually, the shaking of the wall ceased, and three Food Ghosts emerged from it.

The so-called Food Ghosts are the Yin Souls of certain deceased wild beasts. Because these beasts had previously reincarnated from human Yin Souls, it led to a rare few having their lower bodies as beasts and their upper bodies as humans after death; these half-beast, half-human Yin Souls are known as Food Ghosts. They think like humans but also possess the carnivorous nature of wild beasts.

Before the third generation Nether King, due to their rarity, many noble and official families liked to keep Food Ghosts as mounts for travel and for gambling, preventing these Yin Souls from reincarnating. After the third generation Nether King ascended the throne, he decreed a ban on keeping Food Ghosts and had them confined to the forest north of Netherworld City and the first layer of Hell to watch over it.

In the mortal world, before the establishment of the Onmyoji Regulatory Association, many Onmyoji in remote areas would keep Food Ghosts to help capture specters, much like police officers working with police dogs. However, after the establishment of the Onmyoji Regulatory Association, aside from some remote areas, the majority of the East Country has prohibited the keeping of Food Ghosts.

Because Food Ghosts can suddenly attack and injure people, Onmyoji typically either forcibly send them to the Netherworld using spells upon encountering them or capture them to exchange for rewards at the Onmyoji Regulatory Commission. Aside from the Netherworld and Hell, the East Country Onmyoji Regulatory Commission is the place that houses the most Food Ghosts in this world.

As he looked at the three Food Ghosts with green light in their eyes, Chen Hao was greatly shocked.

Not long ago, in his grandfather's diary, he had incidentally read about Food Ghosts: Depending on the amount of flesh consumed, Food Ghosts can be divided into four ranks characterized by the color of their eyes - white, yellow, red, and green, which is also the main way to judge the ferocity of Food Ghosts. White and yellow eyes indicate that they consume less raw flesh and are gentle in nature; red eyes suggest a daily diet of raw flesh and a vicious nature; green eyes mean they have consumed a large amount of human flesh, and are extremely brutal and cruel.

The light in the eyes of these three Food Ghosts was exceptionally bright!

Thinking of the thousands of human heads outside the cave, Chen Hao couldn't help but speculate that the bodies beneath those heads had all been devoured by these three Food Ghosts.

The three Food Ghosts glared at Chen Hao with menace, their red and thick tongues protruding from among the sharp, glinting teeth.

To confront such ferocious opponents, Chen Hao didn't hesitate to separate his Yin Soul from his body, withdrawing from his mouth two blades of the Nether King's Great Ancestor to combine into the Nether King's World-Slaying Blade.

"Awoooo!" One of the Food Ghosts let out a deafening howl. Its lower body covered in radiant fur, in life it had been a snow wolf living in the highland snow mountains, filled with hatred for the humans who had shot it to death, which is why its Yin Soul, due to the remaining resentment, could not transform into a human Yin Soul after death and became a Food Ghost.

"Woof! Woof!" The other two Food Ghosts, with yellow and black fur on their lower bodies respectively, had been hunting dogs of nomadic herdsmen in life. It's often said that dogs comprehend human nature best; the obsession that made them become Food Ghosts after death was naturally their reluctance to leave and memories of their masters.

"Come on, little creatures!" Chen Hao provocatively called out to the three Food Ghosts. In fact, all three Food Ghosts were behemoths, with the shortest one's head reaching up to Chen Hao's neck.

Outside the Fairy Cave, upon hearing the howling of Food Ghosts from within, King Xin, who was being controlled by Yuqiao using the Nether King's Power, was startled as he realized that Chen Hao was no longer behind him.

"What is he doing in there?" King Xin asked anxiously, her face twisting into an even more fierce grimace.

"Destroy that face!" Ye Yuqiao replied coldly, her gaze still filled with indifference. However, unlike the calm expression of just moments before, her brows were slightly furrowed as she felt the Nether King's Power within her begin to deplete.

"What!" King Xin's eyes, already bulging from their sockets, widened even further, springing from their orbits like they had springs attached, and the scarlet blood vessels spread throughout her purple eyes, revealing her inner turmoil without reservation.

"Ahh!" King Xin's voice trembled as she tried to scream with all her might.

Ye Yuqiao could clearly feel every ounce of resistance against the Nether King's Power inside King Xin increasing rapidly, which made it difficult for her—the power of the Nether King already on the verge of depletion.

"Ahh!" King Xin continued her screaming, as if she were in a desperate final struggle. Chen Hao had guessed correctly: the head inside that cave was her lifeline, her true heart.

At that moment, two heads with trailing long black hair started to split from the shoulders of the King Xin at the far left. This time, her doppelgänger was not an exact replica of her; it had dark purple skin with pitch-black, lusterless eyes without pupils, revealing King Xin's most primitive appearance. She was one of the earliest red-clad vengeful ghosts to appear in this world.

As the lower bodies emerged beneath the heads of the two new copies of King Xin, Ye Yuqiao noticed that every new head was tilted. To be precise, they were distorted as if twisted, one side of the neck still attached to the body, the other split open and detached, the severed wound still dripping with blood.

Seeing King Xin attempting to split into new doppelgängers and enter the cave to stop Chen Hao, Ye Yuqiao immediately exhausted the last of the Nether King's Power within her to temporarily immobilize King Xin, preventing her new doppelgängers from continuing to divide.

"Boyfriend, it's up to you now," Ye Yuqiao secretly communicated to Chen Hao, "If you don't hurry up, your Yuqiao is going to be in danger!"

"Mhm!" Chen Hao's voice immediately resonated within Ye Yuqiao's mind.

At this moment, inside the cave, Chen Hao was in a life-or-death negotiation with three exceptionally ferocious carnivorous ghosts. Having eaten a large amount of human flesh, the movements of these three carnivorous ghosts were extremely fast, each time dodging the blasts of Nether King's World-Slaying Blade's energy.

Chen Hao, facing three enemies at once, had to wield his blade to fight them off while avoiding the surprise attacks from the carnivorous ghosts, making him extremely busy.

However, knowing that Ye Yuqiao was about to face danger, Chen Hao unhesitatingly directed an attack at the ice column encasing the head.

"Awoo!" Just at that moment, the snow wolf carnivorous ghost lunged fiercely, biting off Chen Hao's head in one swift move.

But the moment its teeth sunk into Chen Hao's neck, his left hand, bearing the Hand of Death, also landed on the forepaw of the ghost.

With a "bang," Chen Hao's headless body collapsed thunderously, and the head that the snow wolf carnivorous ghost had carried in its mouth rolled onto the ground as the ghost itself was dispatched to Hell.

And the ice column that had been struck by the energy of the Nether King's World-Slaying Blade…

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