"These are vampire bats!" Xie Xiaofeng suddenly exclaimed urgently, "Not only do they suck blood, but their teeth are also coated with a potent poison!"

"Ah!" Tang Jing continued to scream shrilly with her eyes closed, not daring to look at the vampire bats clinging to the car window, baring their fangs as if ravenous for a meal, "What should we do?"

Xie Xiaofeng turned to look at Chen Hao, whose face was ashen, and had been scared out of his wits, leaning on Ye Yuqiao's shoulder like a terrified child.

Xie Xiaofeng couldn't help but let out a few mocking laughs, finding such a frail Chen Hao a rare sight these days.

"Xie Xiaofeng you bastard, you still have the nerve to laugh at a time like this!" Tang Jing slightly opened her eyes and angrily said to Xie Xiaofeng, her left hand weakly slapping his shoulder. At that moment, several cracks had appeared on the car window beside her from the bats' knocking.

Xie Xiaofeng took Tang Jing's hand, teasing her, "Look how scared you are. It's just this little bat, watch me, Xie Xiaofeng!"

Having said that, Xie Xiaofeng closed his eyes and shouted, "Fire Spell, Earth Fire!"

Seconds later, the vampire bats clinging to the car glass made high-pitched "squeak squeak" sounds and soon a large number flew away, as numerous streaks of orange-yellow light flooded into the car.

"There, the bats are all gone now!" Xie Xiaofeng said to Tang Jing with a smile.

Tang Jing opened her eyes, only to see that the glass was no longer in place, and the van was now surrounded by orbs of fire. She let out a relieved sigh, hastily pulling her hand away from Xie Xiaofeng, "You jerk, taking advantage of me at a time like this!"

Xie Xiaofeng chuckled and then, looking at Chen Hao, he said teasingly, "The jerk here is so scared he's turned foolish, how could he take advantage of you? Hahaha, when it's crucial, you still need me, Xie Xiaofeng!"

Chen Hao looked at Xie Xiaofeng with an expressionless face, still not having recovered his lost soul from the fright.

"Boyfriend, you haven't been scared foolish, have you?" Ye Yuqiao asked earnestly, her hands cradling Chen Hao's face.

After a long while, Chen Hao's mouth twisted bitterly a few times, and he shook his head, his face bearing an expression of wanting to cry but having no tears.

Ye Yuqiao, caught between laughter and tears, gently patted Chen Hao's back, whispering comfortingly in his ear, "It's okay now, the bats have all gone!"

Chen Hao nodded repeatedly, without saying anything, clearly still in a state of shock.

"Let's hit the road again!" Xie Xiaofeng said, stepping on the gas pedal.

Right after the van's engine started up again, Xie Xiaofeng suddenly killed the ignition, because he had sensed a wave of Demonic Qi drawing near. Meanwhile, Tang Jing, still unsettled beside him, suddenly opened her eyes wide in shock and, holding her breath like him, focused on the scene ahead.

Three seconds later, under their watchful eyes, countless crimson specks appeared in the space above the tunnel ahead. Only when those crimson specks came closer did the two realize they were the red eyes of innumerable vampire bats.

"Ah!" Tang Jing's scream, predictably, rang out yet again.

And as for Chen Hao, he simply closed his eyes, pretending this was all just a terrible nightmare.

"Fire Spell, Earth Fire!" Xie Xiaofeng summoned countless orbs of fire on the ground once more.

However, to Xie Xiaofeng's surprise, this time, the orange-yellow blazing fireballs failed to scare away the aggressive incoming wave of bats.

By the time he snapped out of his astonishment, the red-eyed vampire bats had once again densely slammed into the windshield.

Compared to the ordinary bloodthirsty bats from earlier, this wave possessed the force of demons, and so when they struck the glass, it immediately shattered.

Seeing this, Xie Xiaofeng rapidly forced the Five Elements Magic out of his body, which then flowed through the cracks in the windshield and out of the car.

"Whoosh whoosh," a dazzling firelight appeared around the van, burning many of the bats clinging to the glass to death. These flames were the result of Xie Xiaofeng casting a spell to transform the Five Elements Magic that had leaked outside the car. The surviving bats quickly fled.

Immediately after, Xie Xiaofeng stepped on the gas pedal, trying to leave the tunnel before the next wave of bats arrived.

However, before the car had moved even a few meters, one of the front tires was punctured by several bats.

"Damn it, damn it, it seems like the tire was punctured by the bats!" Xie Xiaofeng exclaimed anxiously. Then, he rolled down the window; barely had he stuck his head out when several bats suddenly attacked from behind, their sharp and lethal fangs aiming straight for his neck.

A moment of crisis!

"Whoosh whoosh," the sound of a gale whistled by Xie Xiaofeng's ear, followed by a series of piercing shrieks from the bloodthirsty bats.

This gale was in fact, the Sword Qi emanating from Chen Hao. Although his eyes were closed, he could still sense everything around him through his hearing.

Immediately after escaping the close call, Xie Xiaofeng pulled his head back into the car and closed the window tightly. Thinking back on how close he had come to being bitten by the bats, he was still shaken. After pausing, he turned to look at Chen Hao and said, "You jerk, you saved me just now, didn't you? Thanks!"

Chen Hao smiled. Since the moment he had closed his eyes from fear not long before, he had discovered his hearing had become exceptionally sharp. He could pinpoint exactly where on the car window the bats were tapping, could hear the sound of the air rushing in after the glass was broken, and the bats' shrieks. It was as if by closing his eyes, his heart could perceive a more truthful world.

This feeling was so familiar; it made him think again of his previous life as Ye Heng and he finally understood why Ye Heng could remain composed and kill countless enemies without opening his eyes amidst a sea of soldiers. Because the heart can see clearer and farther than the eyes.

"Boyfriend, you've improved again!" Ye Yuqiao's elated voice rang out in Chen Hao's mind.

"This was just a fluke!" Chen Hao silently said, "I always thought that the martial arts inherited from the previous life's Ye Heng were not very useful, only good for fighting with others and not suited for exorcising demons. Now I know I was too shallow before! Martial arts practice is about cultivating the heart, improving the realm, and perfecting the details."

Ye Yuqiao smiled to herself, her admiration for Chen Hao growing by the moment.

"You jerk, what do we do next?" Xie Xiaofeng asked urgently.

"You fix the car. I'll keep watch nearby, and Yuqiao with Tang Jing will stay inside the car."

"Alright!"

Chen Hao took a deep breath and reached to open the van's side door, his eyes still tightly closed.

The moment he opened the door, his ears caught the sound of several bats flapping their wings, drawing near.

"Whoosh whoosh!" The biting Sword Qi burst forth from Chen Hao's body, accurately slicing the advancing bats in half.

After closing the door, Chen Hao, with his eyes still closed, slowly walked to the driver's side door to usher Xie Xiaofeng to safety. During this process, with his Sword Qi, he killed nearly a hundred bloodthirsty bats without letting a single one get close to him.

He was waiting for the third wave of bloodthirsty bats.

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