The night had deepened.

"Girlfriend, are you asleep?" asked Chen Hao, who couldn't sleep.

Ye Yuqiao turned over, facing Chen Hao, lifted her hand to pinch his cheek, and said with a hazy look in her eyes, "Not yet, I'm thinking about a lot of things."

"Am I one of them?" Chen Hao asked with a smile.

"Yes, you are, and the most important one at that," Ye Yuqiao said seriously, her tone somewhat emotional, "I must formally inform you that your importance in my heart has been growing increasingly heavy. I hope that from now on, you will take good care of yourself and stop making me worry."

"I have received the notice, and I will strictly follow your majesty's command," Chen Hao said half-jokingly and half-seriously, "You must also formally tell yourself that your importance in my heart has surpassed everything, including myself. I hope that from now on you can protect yourself and stop making me worry about you."

"Oh, by the way," Ye Yuqiao suddenly changed the subject, "what did Zhao Chong tell you today?"

Chen Hao frowned, his face turning somewhat grim. After a pause, he closed his eyes, replaying in his mind the details Zhao Chong had shared with him at the Gate of the Nether King that day.

Through her connection with the Nether King's Heart, Ye Yuqiao saw all of this from Chen Hao's mind.

When Chen Hao stopped reminiscing and opened his eyes, he found Ye Yuqiao's expression had turned exceptionally somber.

"Is everything Zhao Chong said true?" Chen Hao asked, "Was the Ancestor of the Nether King really the third prince of the Hell King?"

After a long while, Ye Yuqiao finally responded with a "hm" and acknowledged the matter.

"So, is everything Lin Huashan's father, Lin Mo, told me all false?" Chen Hao pondered aloud.

"It shouldn't be false," Ye Yuqiao replied coldly, "My great-grandfather being the third prince of the Hell King is not contradictory to the matter of the primordial city! Perhaps the Hell King himself came from the primordial city. So saying my great-grandfather is from the primordial city is not wrong. In fact, Zhao Chong knows more about the matter of the Hell King than I do. Even though I am the great-granddaughter of the Ancestor of the Nether King, after all, this matter is a stain on my great-grandfather's honor, and naturally, he would prefer that fewer people know about it."

"It can hardly be considered a stain," Chen Hao said with a faint smile, "This is at most a power struggle. In the human history of the mortal world, there are countless such incidents and characters. Wherever there are people, there will be conflict!"

"I thought you would be angry, angry that I did not tell you these family matters earlier."

"Who would be willing to be angry with a girl as beautiful as a Heavenly Immortal!" Chen Hao said.

"You," Ye Yuqiao pointed at Chen Hao, "you jerk always make this girl as beautiful as a Heavenly Immortal cry!"

Chen Hao laughed smugly, then suddenly pulled Ye Yuqiao into his arms.

After a brief silence, Chen Hao, with closed eyes, asked, "Girlfriend, Zhao Chong told me that the Ghost King was twice imprisoned within the Gate of the Nether King. The first time was because he had opened the Gate of the Nether King by himself and released three Primordial Demons of the Underworld, so he was punished by being locked inside the Gate of the Nether King. What happened after that?"

After thinking it over, Ye Yuqiao then asked, "Do you now understand the real reason why the recent generations of Nether Kings have used Yin Souls to seal the Gate of the Nether King?"

After a "hm," Chen Hao continued, "It's to prevent the spirits of the Hell King and the other princes from being resurrected by absorbing the Yin Qi of the Eighteen Levels of Hell."

After biting Chen Hao's arm, Ye Yuqiao told Chen Hao: That year, after the three Primordial Demons of the Underworld were released by the Ghost King, the Ancestor of the Nether King only recaptured two of them and sealed the Gate of the Nether King with Yin Souls, leaving the whereabouts of the last Primordial Demon, the one capable of flying through the skies and traversing between Yin and Yang realms—Yu—unknown.

At that time, the Second Generation Nether King sent seventeen guards with the Hand of Death to the mortal world—one mission was to clear up the fierce ghosts that had escaped to the mortal world, and the other was to see if they could find any trace of Yu in the mortal world.

It was a regular night, ten thousand years later, when Yu suddenly led tens of thousands of soldiers, once led by the Hell King's eldest prince, and attacked the Netherworld City.

Because it was an unexpected attack and the Netherworld City was entirely unprepared, it was quickly overrun. The Second Generation Nether King fled the city with the Eight Great Clans overnight and hid in Wind Shelter Valley. Consequently, the Netherworld City and Nether King Palace were occupied by the army from Hell.

Having seized control of the Netherworld City, the first thing Yu did was attempt to open the Gate of the Nether King—to release the other two Primordial Demons and to resurrect the spirits of the Hell King and the other princes.

Seventy-seven years later, the Gate of the Nether King, which had been sealed by the Ancestor of the Nether King with Yin Souls, was finally opened, and the Ghost King was able to escape from the Gate of the Nether King and vanished without a trace from then on.

Later, just as the spirits of the Hell King and the three princes were about to be resurrected, the Second Generation Nether King led the Niu Tou and Ma Mian Battalion and the armies of the Eight Great Clans to fight back at the Gate of the Nether King. In the end, with the collective effort of everyone, the Second Generation Nether King managed to wound the three Primordial Demons and sealed the Gate of the Nether King with his own Yin Soul, preventing the resurrection of the Hell King and the princes.

Not long after, Ye Yuqiao's father ascended to the throne and became the Third Generation Nether King.

Nine thousand years later, a rebel army suddenly emerged in the derelict lands of the southern part of the Netherworld, led by the Ghost King and under the command of the Eight Great Law Kings, forming the Ghost King Battalion.

Thus, the Netherworld began a long-lasting war.

Three thousand years later, the Ghost King Battalion neared the Netherworld City.

At that time, Qian Feng advised the Third Generation Nether King to abandon the Netherworld City, following the example of the Second Generation Nether King who retreated to Wind Shelter Valley, but the Third Generation Nether King ignored Qian Feng's advice and ordered the steadfast defense of Netherworld City.

Within two months, the army led by the Eight Great Law Kings breached the Netherworld City from all sides, and the Third Generation Nether King and the people of the Eight Great Clans hid inside Hell.

Later, the Ghost King Battalion poured into Hell to surround and pursue the Third Generation Nether King and the Eight Great Clans. At the critical moment of life and death, Zhao Chong, the newly appointed Clan Leader of the Zhao Family, suddenly led a cavalry charge into Hell and trapped the armies of the Ghost King and Eight Great Law Kings between them.

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