Seeing Chen Hao suddenly frozen in midair, Ye Fei was startled, and before he could figure out what was happening, he was frozen just like Chen Hao, likewise unable to feel his body, and time seemed to have come to a standstill too.

Ye Yuqiao shouted loudly, and a powerful and oppressive force burst forth from within her, solidifying the surrounding air.

Immediately after, she looked around and realized she was encircled by a barrier—if not for her quick intervention, she would have been immobilized just like Chen Hao and Ye Fei.

"Who are you? To actually freeze the air around us," the man asked, his voice shaking with surprise.

Ye Yuqiao snorted coldly, her face expressionless as she said, "I am asking you, are you from the City of Time and Yin?"

"Ah!" the man exclaimed in shock. Clearly, Ye Yuqiao was correct; and just as clearly, he did not wish others to know he came from the City of Time and Yin. He started to speak, then stopped, aware that every extra word might reveal information about himself. So, the most pressing thing for him was to kill to silence them!

"Time-space Barrier!" the man suddenly shouted, and through the reflection on the glass window, Ye Yuqiao caught a glimpse of the man's hands quickly shaping gestures, as if he was casting a spell.

No sooner had the man finished speaking than Ye Yuqiao felt another violent change secretly taking place around her.

Thereupon, she casually tore a purple rift in the air and immediately leaped into it, before the air's changing currents could swallow her up.

Watching Ye Yuqiao and the purple rift disappear in front of him, the man shook his head in disbelief, murmuring to himself, "This girl is no ordinary person!"

"Ah!" Yun Zhongtian cried out in astonishment, dumbfounded by the scenes unfolding before his eyes, as if he were dreaming or in a movie, "Where did she go?"

The man turned around, looking around uneasily, then shook his head, muttering, "I don't know."

Just then, a purple rift appeared in the air behind the man, and the next moment Ye Yuqiao's left hand reached out from the rift, seizing the man by the back of his neck.

"Watch your back!" Yun Zhongtian's warning came far too late.

"Ugh!" The man immediately felt a suffocating sensation, and as he struggled, he exerted his full strength to cast a technique, his voice hoarse as he said, "Time-space Barrier, Time-space Vanish!"

In an instant, the air generated an almost unbearable pressure, swiftly converging towards Ye Yuqiao's left hand.

A stream of black Nether King's Power surged out from Ye Yuqiao's palm, then rapidly spun around her arm, resisting the strange, oppressively advancing force.

In a short while, the Nether King's Power was distorted by the peculiar force's pressure, and Ye Yuqiao's left hand also felt an unbearable strain.

At that moment, a sphere of black Nether King's Fire emerged on Ye Yuqiao's left palm, igniting the man's body. Immediately after, Ye Yuqiao's left hand retracted into the rift. Originally, she had wanted to capture the man alive for interrogation, but upon realizing that she couldn't, she shifted her strategy to kill the man—better to kill him than allow him to escape later.

No sooner had Ye Yuqiao's left hand retracted into the purple rift, a profound blackness emerged in the air where the rift had been. In an instant, the blackness expanded into a cube nearly twenty centimeters on a side and then disappeared.

"Ugh-ah!" The man let out a soul-burning scream as the Nether King's Fire consumed his flesh and spirit, a pain permeating every nerve and bone marrow he had never experienced before—far worse than he ever imagined death to be!

At that moment, the man closed his eyes, enduring the pain as he cast a spell.

The minute hand on the wall clock suddenly moved counterclockwise, completing a full circle.

And everything in the office returned to the moment one minute earlier: Ye Yuqiao had just jumped into a purple crack.

"Ah!" Yun Zhongtian exclaimed in surprise, "Where did she go?"

In an instant, the man moved next to Yun Zhongtian, and almost at the same time, a purple crack appeared in the air behind him.

"Let's go!" the man hurriedly said to Yun Zhongtian, and as soon as he finished speaking, he disappeared with Yun Zhongtian from the office.

Seconds later, a purple crack appeared above Chen Hao's left eye, expanding instantly into a narrow line that sliced through Chen Hao's left cheek as Ye Yuqiao's hand emerged, wrapped in the black Nether King's Power.

"Hiss hiss hiss!" The sound of ice cracking resounded, and the barrier holding Chen Hao in the air burst under the strike of the Nether King's Power wielded by Ye Yuqiao.

With a "thump," Chen Hao fell to the ground.

"Ah!" A sharp light suddenly shot out from Chen Hao's eyes, "What exactly happened just now?"

"You were trapped by that man with a barrier," Ye Yuqiao's voice immediately echoed in Chen Hao's mind. As soon as she finished speaking, she also appeared beside Chen Hao.

After helping Chen Hao up, Ye Yuqiao walked over to Ye Fei and shattered the barrier around him with the Nether King's Power.

Upon breaking free from the barrier, Ye Fei almost mirrored Chen Hao's initial reaction.

After answering Ye Fei's questions for Ye Yuqiao, Chen Hao looked at Ye Yuqiao and asked, "Yuqiao, where did that man and Yun Zhongtian go?"

Ye Yuqiao frowned and pondered for a while before replying, "They escaped! Boyfriend, let me tell you the truth, I noticed that his movement techniques are very similar to those of Man Qingting."

"Man Qingting!" Ye Fei was startled, and the corner of his mouth twitched strangely. Not long ago, he had a special encounter with Man Qingting.

Hearing Ye Yuqiao's words, a gleam flickered through Chen Hao's eyes, and he said with surprise, "I remembered something, Man Qingting once told me that she was resurrected by the blood of a person from the City of Yin and Time! Perhaps you're right, Man Qingting might be using the same techniques as him."

"Blood awakening!" Ye Fei exclaimed, "So you also knew she was a zombie."

Chen Hao glanced at Ye Fei with disdain, "Ye Fei, we are Onmyoji, of course we knew. Instead, how did you know she's a zombie?"

Ye Fei smiled wryly, then while thinking, he said, "It's a long story. Not long ago I was close to dying, and she wanted to bite me to prevent me from dying, to turn me into a zombie, but I didn't agree."

"Good thing you didn't agree!" Chen Hao snorted with amusement, thinking to himself that you already have multiple lives, you would resurrect even if you died. If you had been turned into a zombie, it's hard to imagine what would have happened.

"Let's go, we will discuss more back home," Ye Yuqiao said.

"Okay!"

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