Hearing Chen Hao admit himself that he wasn't Hua Shan, Tao Hua's expression lit up with joy, and she excitedly looked at King Xin and said, "Sister, did you hear that? Chen Hao admitted with his own lips that he's not Hua Shan!"

However, to Tao Hua's surprise, King Xin shook her head after hearing this and said in a hoarse voice, "No, no, he is Hua Shan!"

"Sister!" Tao Hua was shocked and at a loss for words. She had thought that once Chen Hao admitted he wasn't Hua Shan, King Xin would come to her senses, but contrary to expectations, King Xin did not do so and instead seemed even more broken.

"I am Chen Hao, not Hua Shan!" Chen Hao declared, his eyes filled with certainty.

The decisive blow he had planned for King Xin was to confuse the King, on the brink of collapse, into mistaking him for Hua Shan; then, once King Xin believed he was Hua Shan, to reveal to her the truth that he was not.

In this back-and-forth manner, not only would King Xin suffer excruciating torment, but her mind would also become confused, losing the impression of Hua Shan. With this, combined with the previous destruction of the face Hua Shan had pieced together, it would be enough to destroy King Xin.

"Ah!" King Xin clawed at her head and screamed, her face contorted with pain and ferocity. Heartbroken and dazed, she tried hard to recall images of Hua Shan, but the Hua Shan she remembered took on the appearance of Chen Hao before her.

"Ah!" King Xin fell to her knees and screamed again, then buried her head in the ground and wailed, "You obviously are Hua Shan, why do you deny it now!"

"Sister!" Tao Hua stumbled over to King Xin's side, knelt in front of her, and gently lifted King Xin's upper body into her embrace.

"Tao Hua," King Xin shook with sobs in Tao Hua's arms, "that face was destroyed, the face that sister painstakingly pieced together was ruined by them!"

Tao Hua muttered an "Mhm," then pointed at Chen Hao and said, "Sister, it was he who led people to destroy that face, let's kill him and have our revenge! After all, we have time; if need be, we'll spend another ten years piecing together a new face."

King Xin looked at Chen Hao, paused, and then tears once again welled up in her eyes.

"No, we can't kill him!" King Xin shook her head, "He is Hua Shan!"

Tao Hua frowned slightly, somewhat angrily said, "Sister, believe me, he is not Hua Shan! Don't worry, I remember what Hua Shan looks like, and once I've pieced together that face again, you'll remember who Hua Shan is!"

"Tao Hua," King Xin cried even harder, "sister hasn't made a mistake, really hasn't. Sister clearly remembers, his hands once caressed sister's face, he even kissed sister, he truly has grown to look this way!"

In an instant, Tao Hua's expression darkened, and a fierce light flashed in her eyes. She loosened her grip on the emotionally shattered King Xin, slowly got to her feet, and with eyes filled with murderous intent fixed on Chen Hao, said, "Sister, since you're convinced he is Hua Shan, then I will bring his head to you!"

No sooner had her voice faded than Tao Hua transformed into countless pale pink peach blossom petals, swirling towards Chen Hao, each bearing the profound power of the Tree Demon.

Seeing the countless spinning peach blossom petals flying at him like knives, Chen Hao immediately summoned the Nether King's Power from within the Nether King Orchid Heart.

However!

"Don't you touch him!" Just as Chen Hao was about to wield the Nether King's Power to face the barrage of petals, King Xin's angry voice suddenly erupted.

Immediately, a red gale roared with fury, sweeping through and destroying the myriad of petals. This red tempest was the embodiment of King Xin, who, in her effort to protect the man she believed to be "Hua Shan," inflicted severe injury on Tao Hua, her sister of many years.

"Ah!" Tao Hua's screams echoed all around.

Seeing this scene, Chen Hao was greatly surprised.

Soon after, the red tempest reverted to King Xin, while the scattered peach blossom petals could no longer reform into Tao Hua.

"Tao Hua!" King Xin's tone was full of sorrow, "I'm sorry, sister never meant to hurt you, I just couldn't watch you kill him!"

"Sister," Tao Hua's faint voice arose in the air, "I understand, I don't blame you. It's a pity, I can't be with you anymore, thank you for all the care and love you've given me over the years!"

"Sister, I was wrong. I never actually wanted to hurt you, it's just that..." Speaking, King Xin choked up, then collapsed onto the snow-covered ground littered with peach blossom petals, crying inconsolably.

"Sister, I really don't blame you!" Tao Hua's voice became lighter and more urgent. "I have to go now, you must take care of yourself."

As soon as Tao Hua finished speaking, millions of pink Primordial Spirit and Primordial Soul particles rose slowly from the snowy ground, ascending into the air.

"Chen Hao, take care as well!"

Chen Hao hadn't expected Tao Hua's final words before her departure to be of concern for him. Tao Hua's death had not been in his deadly plan, but it struck King Xin even more profoundly.

"Don't go, Tao Hua!" King Xin collapsed on the snowy ground, wailing and pleading through tears so hot they melted the thin layer of snow wherever they fell.

Not long after, the pink Primordial Spirit and Primordial Soul particles disappeared into the grayish white of the night. The fallen King Xin was still in tears, her eyes lackluster, her expression forlorn and desperate.

Chen Hao crouched down beside King Xin, suddenly feeling compassion for the cold-blooded woman before him.

"Tell me," King Xin said expressionlessly, her vacant gaze fixed on the snowy ground before her, "are you really Hua Shan?"

"I'm not!"

"Wuu wuu!" King Xin let out a piercing, hoarse wail, followed by trembling sobs.

"Finish her off, don't hesitate!" Ye Yuqiao's voice suddenly echoed in Chen Hao's mind.

"Mm!" Chen Hao mentally responded with a nod, realizing that he truly might have gone soft on this murderous woman if Ye Yuqiao hadn't reminded him in time. He activated the Hand of Death and placed it on King Xin's left shoulder, neither too heavily nor lightly.

Afterward, King Xin's Yin Soul began to struggle within her, trying to leave her flesh. Normally, if King Xin used her Spiritual Power to stabilize it, the Yin Soul would calm down. But the utterly despondent woman didn't seem inclined to do so this time.

"Stop resisting," Chen Hao told King Xin, "I can offer you release."

"Is it really release?" King Xin asked, "and not just sending me to the Eighteen Levels of Hell?"

"Mm!" Chen Hao nodded, "As long as your Yin Soul is willing to leave the body, I can grant you complete release, just like Tao Hua."

Immediately after, King Xin's Yin Soul left her body.

"Thank you, Hua Shan!" King Xin's Yin Soul said as she looked at Chen Hao, "Before I go, I have one question for you."

"I don't like you," Chen Hao said coldly, "If a man truly likes you, he will make you feel his presence."

As he spoke, two streams of black and purple Nether King's Power shot out from Chen Hao's left eye, one casting on King Xin's Yin Soul, and the other on the entity of her Nether Soul.

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