Five minutes later.

Xie Xiaofeng was busy changing the tire, while Chen Hao stood by holding a flashlight to light the area for Xie Xiaofeng.

At this moment, Chen Hao's eyes were still closed. He knew full well that in such a dark tunnel, ears could see more clearly than eyes.

This feeling was undoubtedly wonderful for him. Relying on his ears' feedback, he felt he could better sense everything moving around him and more clearly predict the trajectory of the attacking bats.

Suddenly, Chen Hao heard a large wave of flapping wings rapidly approaching from ahead. He opened his left eye, which had activated Nether Vision, and a purple light flashed across it. His vision pierced through the darkness ahead, and he saw another swarm of bloodsucking bats with red eyes, only this time, the Demonic Qi emanating from this group of bats was noticeably heavier than the second wave he had encountered earlier.

Afterward, Chen Hao closed his eyes again, using his ears to pinpoint each attacking bat's position in the darkness even more accurately.

"Woo woo hoo hoo!" Suddenly, a shrieking wind sounded through the tunnel, but it was not the wind—it was the Sword Qi that Chen Hao had summoned outside his body.

"Squeak squeak squeak"—the bats screamed as their bodies were invisibly split into two halves by the formless Sword Qi.

Upon hearing this commotion, Xie Xiaofeng, who was busy changing the tire, looked forward in surprise and let out an exclamation.

"What's wrong?" Chen Hao asked curiously, thinking to himself that all the bats had been eliminated. He opened his eyes and saw a mass of red "smoke" rolling towards him like a tidal wave. To be precise, it should be a cloud of blood mist, coming from the bats that had just been killed by his Sword Qi.

"Boyfriend, the blood contains poison!" Ye Yuqiao's anxious voice echoed in Chen Hao's mind.

Chen Hao's heart chilled. His first instinct was to duck inside the vehicle, but he immediately dismissed the idea because the windows of the Exorcism Special Vehicle were already devastated and full of holes, no longer capable of keeping out the toxic blood mist that was almost upon him.

"Xie Xiaofeng, you get back inside the vehicle first!" Chen Hao urgently told Xie Xiaofeng.

Xie Xiaofeng nodded, then quickly put down the tools in his hand and returned to the driver's seat.

After that, Chen Hao took a few steps forward, stopped walking, and then pressed all the Sword Qi in his body outward to blow the rolling blood mist toward the outside of the tunnel.

Chen Hao opened his eyes and let out a long sigh of relief, as he had anticipated that once outside the tunnel, the cloud of blood mist would immediately be dispersed by the winds of the mountain.

However, to his surprise, just as he finished exhaling, the blood mist he had driven out of the tunnel with his Sword Qi came rolling back once more. The air in front of him also suddenly filled with a strong surge of Demonic Qi.

This Demonic Qi was the same as what he had sensed back at the fork in the road. It was this very Demonic Qi that was pushing the blood mist back into the tunnel.

What kind of demon stood behind this Demonic Qi?

With this question in mind, Chen Hao activated the Nether Vision Technique in his left eye and after a few seconds, following the direction from which the Demonic Qi had come, his vision passed through the tunnel, over mountains, and through lush forest, until it landed on a giant bat the size of a human in a cave several kilometers away.

This giant bat was none other than the Bat Demon King, one of King Mieji's sworn brothers.

"A bat cultivated into a demon!" Chen Hao inwardly exclaimed in shock, feeling goosebumps all over his body and still somewhat afraid of bats that resembled rats in appearance.

"Boyfriend," Ye Yuqiao's voice aptly sounded in Chen Hao's mind, "This Bat Demon seems to have cultivated for at least two thousand years, not to be underestimated."

Chen Hao hummed in response, then closed his left eye to reach out to the Nether King Orchid Heart, activating a stream of Nether King's Power coursing through it.

He opened his eyes, and a black force of the Nether King's Power burst forth from his left eye, shooting like a meteor towards the Bat Demon King a kilometer away.

In a few seconds, the Nether King's Power reached in front of the Bat Demon King.

Seeing this, the Bat Demon King, caught off guard, first looked stunned with a fierce gleam in its eyes, then turned into a crimson mist and seeped into the cliffs inside the cave.

With a "bang," the Nether King's Power followed the crimson mist and struck the cliff. Immediately after, the inside of the cave violently shook, and debris fell.

"Bang, bang, bang!" The Nether King's Power collided several more times with the cave's inner rock walls and then rapidly went back into Chen Hao's left eye.

But at this moment, Chen Hao no longer had the chance to concern himself with the situation inside the cave, because suddenly, the toxic blood mist had reached him at an unimaginable speed, like the gaping maw of a great beast about to swallow him whole.

Immediately, he turned to look at the van, summoned a Nether Acupoint inside it and drew Tang Jing, Xie Xiaofeng, and Ye Yuqiao into it. When he turned back around, a nauseating stench of blood hit his nose, and the poison mist was already inside his body.

Immediately, his complexion and lips turned purple, and dark red blood flowed from his seven orifices.

He died of poisoning before he had time to feel the pain of being severely poisoned, collapsing onto the ground.

Meanwhile, a kilometer away in the cave, a crimson mist flowed out from the cliff inside the cave, then solidified back into the Bat Demon King.

Confirming that Chen Hao had fallen dead, the Bat Demon King looked up to the sky with an excited laugh and said, "That little punk Chen Hao is dead, and from today onwards I'm the new number two, hahaha!"

Having said that, the Bat Demon King couldn't wait to leave the cave, flying into the forest on the west side of Daw Zhou Mountain, eager to report the news to the Cyclops Demon King.

"Cyclops number three, Cyclops number three!" The Bat Demon King shouted from the top of a towering ancient tree, his face unable to hide his excitement.

Before long, a green mist approached him, and then the Cyclops Demon King appeared.

"Bat number three, seems like you got the name wrong, you should be calling me Cyclops number two!"

"Hmph!" The Bat Demon King suddenly puffed up his chest, "Just accept your loss, that punk Chen Hao has been poisoned to death by me."

"What!" The Cyclops Demon King was shocked, finding it incredible. In its view, it hadn't been long since Chen Hao had successively defeated King Ning and King Xin; his strength must indeed be extraordinary—it was hard to believe he could be poisoned to death by the Bat Demon King in such a short time.

After a pause, the Cyclops Demon King asked, "Where's that punk Chen Hao's Yin Soul then?"

King Mieji had made a rule: whoever killed Chen Hao had to bring Chen Hao's Yin Soul back to prove it.

"It hasn't left the body yet," said the Bat Demon King, "I came to you right after poisoning him to death. If you don't believe me, come see for yourself."

According to the rules the two had set earlier: when one was dealing with Chen Hao, the other could not enter the combat area with any excuses during their fight with Chen Hao, otherwise, it would be considered a loss.

Therefore, the Cyclops Demon King suspected that the Bat Demon King was tricking him, trying to lure him to the east side of Daw Zhou Mountain to verify whether Chen Hao was truly dead. Once it set foot in Daw Zhou Mountain, the Bat Demon King would claim victory on the grounds of its violation.

"Bat number three, you really are cunning!" the Cyclops Demon King said with a cold smile, "Lucky for me, I'm quite smart and didn't fall for your trap!"

"Who's trapping you!" said the Bat Demon King grimly, "Do I, the Bat Demon King, need to do that? Believe it or not, I'm going back to report to the eldest brother about killing Chen Hao and prepare some tables of good wine and food, then wait for you to come back tonight and call me 'second brother'!"

Hearing this, the Cyclops Demon King trembled and wavered, wondering if the Bat Demon King had indeed killed Chen Hao.

After a long silence, seeing that the Bat Demon King still stood in front of him without leaving, the Cyclops Demon King suddenly laughed smugly and pointed at the Bat Demon King, "Bat number three, caught in the act, huh! If you truly killed that punk Chen Hao, why would you still be standing here and not leave? You're truly sly, but let me tell you, your second brother here isn't so easily fooled!"

"To hell with you, believe it or not!" shouted the Bat Demon King, furious and embarrassed, "I came here just to give you a heads-up, be ready to call me 'second brother'! Your second brother here will leave first, remember to come back early tonight, don't try to weasel out or delay, because you'll have to call me 'second brother' sooner or later."

"Haha, number three, whatever you say now, I won't believe it!" the Cyclops Demon King laughed, thinking the angrier the Bat Demon King got, the more accurate its guess must be.

After parting with the Cyclops Demon King, the Bat Demon King returned to the east side of Daw Zhou Mountain. However, when it arrived in the tunnel, it found that, although the minivan was still there, Chen Hao's body was gone.

"Ah!" The Bat Demon King immediately panicked.

Then, thousands of vampire bats flew out from its body, spreading to every corner of Daw Zhou Mountain, searching for Chen Hao's figure.

Not long before, Ye Yuqiao had leaped out from the Nether Acupoint, taking the poison-stricken and dead Chen Hao into the Nether Acupoint.

Thus, no matter how much the Bat Demon King searched, it could not find Chen Hao.

Inside the Nether (Acupoint).

Having inhaled a lot of poisonous blood mist, Chen Hao barely revived each time before succumbing to the poison again. It wasn't until Ye Yuqiao used the Nether King's Power to remove the poison from his body that he finally escaped the cycle of death.

"I'm so tired!" Chen Hao said with a pale face, having lost count of how many times he had died in total.

After speaking, Chen Hao passed out.

Night had fallen.

Having slept for nearly half a day, Chen Hao finally woke up. By then, his complexion had improved a lot.

"Boyfriend, feeling better?" Ye Yuqiao leaned over and asked softly next to Chen Hao's ear, her soft legs cushioning his head.

After giving Ye Yuqiao a slight smile, Chen Hao slowly sat up, then asked, "Is that bat demon still nearby? Have we thought of any ways to deal with it?"

"It's still around!" Ye Yuqiao replied, "Just now, we thought of a few methods that work on regular bats, but we don't know if they'll have any effect on that Bat Demon."

"If we're not absolutely sure, let's not go out just yet. Let's think of another way."

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