However, when the Hound Flesh-Eating Ghost was running behind Chen Hao's head towards the entrance of the Fairy Cave, someone suddenly blocked its path.

That person was Ye Fei.

But it was a somewhat different Ye Fei: his eyes shimmered with a sky-blue light that was nearly identical in color to the sea; his pale face was somewhat fierce, clearly less rational than usual. Below his chest, the abdomen that had been torn and half-eaten minutes before by the strangely lost Flesh-Eating Ghost was rapidly regenerating new tissue and organs.

A slight upturn at the corners of Ye Yuqiao's eyes, she clearly understood that the mermaid's heart within Ye Fei was at work, resurrecting him. Unlike Chen Hao's method of resurrection, which involved reclaiming and healing the lost blood or destroyed organs back into his body, Ye Fei's blood and organs were regenerating through division.

King Xin's eyebrows furrowed deeply; she could distinctly feel a force around them growing exponentially by the second, and this force originated from Ye Fei who, like Chen Hao, seemed incredible to her standing at the entrance of the cave.

Gnashing its teeth, the Hound Flesh-Eating Ghost glared fiercely at Ye Fei, exhaling rapid breaths from its mouth.

After letting out a ferocious bark, it leaped forward, lunging at Ye Fei.

"Whoo!" The Hound Flesh-Eating Ghost let out a piercing cry as Ye Fei easily grasped its neck with a single hand, displaying great strength.

With a strange grin on his face, Ye Fei twisted his left hand, breaking the humanoid head of the Hound Flesh-Eating Ghost from its neck.

"Ah!" The Kings Xin gasped in shock.

"Hmph!" At that moment, Ye Yuqiao let out a cold laugh.

"What are you laughing at?" The four Kings Xin glared angrily at Ye Yuqiao, then spoke in unison, "I'll kill you now, then take down those two boys next!"

Although King Xin said this, in her heart, she was feeling very anxious; before long, Chen Hao would be resurrected, and the treasured human head inside the Fairy Cave would fall into his hands, so she was most eager to get there quickly and prevent Chen Hao's resurrection.

Besides, to King Xin, Ye Fei, who stood by the cave entrance, seemed tricky to deal with.

In such a situation, anyone else would have been too late, but King Xin had time because she had enough avatars.

Thus, three of the Kings Xin rushed toward the Fairy Cave, leaving one behind to exact revenge on Ye Yuqiao.

"Hmph!" The King Xin standing before Ye Yuqiao chuckled softly, then transformed into a cloud of red smoke, charging at Ye Yuqiao.

"Ying ying ying!" At that moment, the Blood Moon Evil Subduing Sword materialized out of nowhere, standing in front of Ye Yuqiao, who lacked the Nether King's Power. It was enveloped in intense Spiritual Power, just like the Evil-Banishing Moon Sword, this power also being drawn from Chen Hao's flesh.

However, unlike the Evil-Banishing Moon Sword, the Blood Moon Evil Subduing Sword was not something King Xin could easily flick off to the horizon, because it had drawn the Hand of Death's Nether King's Power from Chen Hao. In addition, the Blood Moon Evil Subduing Sword had the natural effect of freezing blood.

So, not long after clashing with the red-smoke-formed King Xin, the Blood Moon Evil Subduing Sword used its Spiritual Power to execute a move that froze King Xin's blood and forced the Hand of Death's Nether King's Power out of the blade, completely suppressing King Xin.

With a dreamy smile, Ye Yuqiao felt grateful that the two swords had successively come to her rescue in times of crisis. Moreover, she could smell Chen Hao's scent on both swords, as if Chen Hao himself was standing in front of her, protecting her. The feeling was sweet and comforting.

At this moment, at the Fairy Cave entrance, seeing the three Kings Xin approaching, Ye Fei let out a roar and charged forward to confront them.

King Xin planned for two avatars to engage Ye Fei while allowing the other to enter the cave to prevent Chen Hao's resurrection.

But Ye Fei was not about to give her that opportunity.

As two of King Xin's avatars tangled with Ye Fei, the remaining one tried to enter the cave, but a powerful force suddenly shot out from Ye Fei at the entrance, forming a seal that radiated a pale blue light.

"You!" King Xin roared in fury, not wanting to be delayed by Ye Fei for another second.

Suddenly, a wild, red wind whipped up around Ye Fei, filled with terrifyingly powerful Spiritual Power.

After letting out a bellow, the red wind suddenly converged into one figure, King Xin, while Ye Fei's body had been dismembered into pieces.

The entire process took less than a second, and King Xin had completely defeated Ye Fei, who possessed the power of the mermaid.

"Hmph!" Rolling her eyes, King Xin walked toward the Fairy Cave, not expecting Ye Fei to be much easier to deal with than she had imagined.

What followed unexpectedly was that, although Ye Fei had been reduced to pieces, the seal he had set up at the entrance remained intact.

Immediately, King Xin expelled fifty percent of her Spiritual Power from her body, slamming into the seal.

After showcasing a flash of pale blue light, the seal repelled King Xin's Spiritual Power.

A look of disbelief appeared on King Xin's face; she couldn't believe that Ye Fei, who she had killed so easily, could have set up such a formidable seal.

Next, King Xin used seventy percent of her Spiritual Power to challenge the seal before her.

Just like before, her Spiritual Power was bounced back by the seal.

"Impossible!" King Xin shook her head, desperation apparent on her face. "What on earth is this seal all about?"

"The energy within this youngster far surpasses yours!" At that moment, Ye Yuqiao's unhurried voice drifted into King Xin's body. "What's present before you isn't any seal, but the higher-level mermaid power!"

King Xin's eyes widened; panic thoroughly set in her heart. So, she pushed out all the spiritual power in her body and lunged toward the so-called mermaid power mentioned by Ye Yuqiao.

"Whoosh whoosh!" Accompanied by several howling sounds, the mermaid power that blocked King Xin's path was finally shattered by her spiritual power, and it shrank into an irregularly shaped orb, faintly flickering with pale blue light, and fell to the ground.

This was the mermaid's heart!

And it was a superior mermaid's heart at that.

Suddenly, the mermaid's heart burst out with dazzling light, forcing the King Xin, who was about to hurry into the cave, to close her eyes.

When the light faded away, King Xin saw that a complete Ye Fei lay before her again.

King Xin shook her head, full of astonishment. Although she was curious about Ye Fei and the mermaid's heart, she had more important matters to attend to right now.

Thus, she stepped over Ye Fei's body and instantly moved to the end of the Fairy's Cave.

"Ah!" A second later, an ear-piercing scream of utter exertion erupted from within the Fairy's Cave.

For the carefully reconstructed human head she had gone to great lengths for was now destroyed, its facial skin shattered into fragments scattered on the ground, with hair hanging from a stone wall. And Chen Hao, the one who had destroyed the head, was now nowhere to be found.

"I will kill you all, I will kill all of you!" King Xin roared with a ferocious face, on the verge of collapse at this moment.

In the blink of an eye, King Xin had already arrived at the cave entrance. She had intended to come and kill Ye Fei, but Ye Fei was no longer there.

Immediately after, she looked ahead, and Ye Yuqiao also had vanished.

"Where have you gone, where did all of you go?" King Xin yelled in shrill frustration, her mood completely broken.

"Rumble rumble!" The earth shook and the mountains quaked. King Xin's enraged roars, loaded with abundant spiritual power, caused trees to be destroyed into debris wherever the sound waves reached, rocks to crumble into lime, and the Fairy's Cave behind her to collapse entirely due to her furious voice.

"Hua Shan, I was so close to obtaining you!" King Xin cried tearfully, then fell to her knees, face ashen, completely broken down.

At this moment, within the Nether Acupoint.

Xie Xiaofeng and Tang Jing were still unconscious, the newly revived Ye Fei had yet to wake up, and Chen Hao was tightly embracing Ye Yuqiao.

The numerous close encounters with danger had left both individuals feeling haunted. Death wasn't as terrible as losing each other to them.

"That really was a close call just now!" Ye Yuqiao, leaning in Chen Hao's arms with closed eyes, sighed, "Thank heavens for the Evil-Banishing Moon Sword and the Blood Moon Evil Subduing Sword; they deserve a good reward!"

"Never again can we allow something like that to happen!" Chen Hao said urgently, frowning deeply. "I must work harder to become stronger."

"Mm!" Ye Yuqiao murmured in agreement, Chen Hao's scent and warmth making her feel secure, "Do we need to cultivate more?"

"Yes, yes, yes, cultivating more, that's the top priority!" Chen Hao nodded vigorously in agreement.

After chuckling, Ye Yuqiao left Chen Hao's embrace, raised her hand and pinched Chen Hao's face, saying, "Naughty, always thinking about these things!"

"Not at all," Chen Hao retorted with a smile, "I'm obviously doing it for your benefit!"

Gazing at Chen Hao, tears suddenly welled up in Ye Yuqiao's eyes, and then she plunged into his arms, clutching him tightly and choking out, "Boyfriend, I honestly thought I'd never see you again, it was so frightening!"

Chen Hao patted Ye Yuqiao's back without uttering another word, but in his heart, he reinforced his resolve to become stronger.

After a while, the two separated, the tense and fearful emotions in their hearts dissipating after the long embrace, replaced by the full sweetness and the bliss of having each other.

"What do you think has happened to King Xin by now?" Ye Yuqiao asked.

"She must be hopelessly desperate and on the brink of collapse," Chen Hao speculated. "Even if not, she's very close to it."

Ye Yuqiao frowned and said, "What if she goes mad and starts killing people indiscriminately down the mountain?"

"Then shall I deliver her the fatal blow?" Chen Hao said, looking smug.

"Fatal blow? What are you talking about?" Ye Yuqiao looked worried, "We finally hid in the Nether Acupoint, and you want to go out again? Couldn't that be too dangerous?"

"No worries," Chen Hao said dismissively with a smile, then joked, "If I really encounter some misfortune, you can imitate King Xin and patch together a face just like mine."

"Stop it!" Ye Yuqiao scowled and lifted her left fist to give Chen Hao a hard punch on the chest, "You're not to joke like that ever again."

"Right!" Chen Hao nodded with a smile, "Don't worry, I'll definitely be fine!"

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