"That hypothesis is impossible!"

Having said that, Ye Yuqiao stood up straight, leaving Chen Hao's embrace, wrapped her arms around Chen Hao's neck, and said with tearful eyes, "Boyfriend, promise me that you will always protect me from now on, don't let me fall into crises like today. It would be best if you never leave my side. I will listen to you from now on and stay by your side obediently."

Chen Hao frowned, as Ye Yuqiao had never shown her vulnerability so completely and unreservedly like she did today, suddenly making him feel the weight of a heavy responsibility on his shoulders.

Of course, he readily accepted such responsibility, because it also affirmed his capabilities from another perspective—he could protect the person he loved.

"You can rest easy and leave yourself in my care, little girl," said Chen Hao as he wrapped his arms around Ye Yuqiao's waist.

Ye Yuqiao's body trembled as she nodded, and then she threw herself into Chen Hao's embrace, crying her heart out. Although Chen Hao had seen Ye Yuqiao cry badly before, he had never felt her fear and unsettlement like he did today.

This was a Ye Yuqiao who seemed very weak.

After crying for a while, Ye Yuqiao left Chen Hao's embrace and, with a fighting spirit clear on her face, said, "I need to train more in the future, and you have to teach me martial arts. I am a queen; I can't be as embarrassed as I was today."

Chen Hao couldn't help but smile wryly, thinking that training wasn't really for the purpose of her absorbing the Nether King's Power. After kissing Ye Yuqiao's lips, he said, "Don't you have such a great boyfriend to protect you? Didn't we just agree on that?"

"But just to be safe, I still need to learn some self-defense skills," Ye Yuqiao huffed, then suddenly furrowed her brow and asked, "Say, will you teach me martial arts?"

"I will, of course I will. The queen has commanded, how dare I disobey," said Chen Hao, scratching his head helplessly.

"That's more like it, only then do you deserve to be my boyfriend!" Ye Yuqiao said. After that, she stood up, walked half a circle to Chen Hao's back, and sprawled over it, saying, "Boyfriend, I'm tired from crying, carry me quickly."

"Alright!" agreed Chen Hao, lifting Ye Yuqiao onto his back, then summoned a Nether Acupoint in front of them and leaped into it. When they reappeared, they were already outside the palace.

The moment they appeared, the guards and eunuchs who had been stationed in front of the palace door immediately scattered in every direction.

"Yuqiao, I accidentally absorbed a lot of Yang Energy; it must all be from those Onmyoji. It's time to give it back to them," Chen Hao said.

"Why give it back to them? Just turn all that Yang Energy into Yin Qi Spiritual Power," Ye Yuqiao said with her eyes closed.

Chen Hao laughed loudly and said, "How come you've become so mischievous all of a sudden?"

"Now that I have a boyfriend who dotes on and takes care of me, shouldn't I be allowed to be a bit mischievous?"

"Alright, alright, alright!" Chen Hao said repeatedly. After speaking, he bent down, intending to let Ye Yuqiao get off, while saying, "Yuqiao, get down for a moment, I need to force out the Yang Energy I've absorbed first and give it back to them."

"No, no, no! I don't want to get down, you figure it out yourself," Ye Yuqiao said, clinging tightly to Chen Hao, resembling a koala clinging to a eucalyptus tree.

"Are you really planning on being mischievous to the end?"

"I want to be mischievous, and you're not allowed to have any complaints, and you definitely can't be mean to a little girl!"

"How could I bear to be harsh with you?" Chen Hao said helplessly. After sighing silently, he carried Ye Yuqiao on his back and forced the Yang Energy he had acquired from the Absorption Formation out of his body. His figure shook, and a large amount of Yang Energy radiated out in all directions.

A few minutes later, he arrived at the palace gate still carrying Ye Yuqiao on his back.

"Yuqiao, look at this palace gate," he said.

Ye Yuqiao opened her eyes, looked up, and after a gasp of surprise, she turned to look back at the palace behind them and asked in a puzzled tone, "Isn't this the gate of Wood City? What's going on?"

"We actually entered through this gate today. I guess whenever someone comes in, Xu Sheng would use a Barrier to separate the palace from this place and raise a fog here, and then remove it once we leave. Moreover, anyone who comes in would naturally think this is the entrance and wouldn't consider that there might be a palace behind it."

"So that's it. No wonder I found it strange today; I always felt the palace and the city gate seemed to be in the same location, but after seeing the palaces inside, I stopped doubting it. So it wasn't my illusion, but his deceptive magic," Ye Yuqiao remarked.

"That's why the city gate and the buildings are made to look alike and symmetrical, to confuse people and remain undiscovered. If it were in the real world, anyone would find it suspicious; but in the context of that wood-carved city, everyone takes it for granted."

"It's so complicated," Ye Yuqiao sighed. "I really don't understand why he would go to such trouble to do this?"

Afterward, Chen Hao, while still carrying Ye Yuqiao, explained to her in detail the secrets he had uncovered, including the process and the rationale behind them, as he walked along.

After he finished speaking, Ye Yuqiao rolled her eyes helplessly and exclaimed, "It's really too complex, boyfriend, you are so amazing to have discovered all this."

"Aren't you particularly admiring me now?"

"Mhm!" Ye Yuqiao nodded, then tilted her head to leave a sweet kiss on Chen Hao's cheek, and said, "Fantastic!"

Chen Hao's face immediately lit up with a smile, beaming with joy. By this time, he was almost at the barracks with Ye Yuqiao on his back.

"Ah!" Suddenly, a piercing and shrill scream of a vengeful ghost rang out nearby. The two looked towards the direction of the scream and saw several Onmyoji chasing and beating some eunuchs who had been possessed by malevolent spirits. Ye Yuqiao recognized one of them as the eunuch who had been bullying the beggar-looking Onmyoji at the palace gate the evening before.

Now that the Onmyoji had their Yang Energy restored, they naturally wanted to settle scores with the Yin Souls and malevolent spirits that had oppressed them for years.

Seeing this, Chen Hao and Ye Yuqiao exchanged a smile.

"Stop looking, let's go find Luo Luo and Uncle Fu quickly," Ye Yuqiao said.

As it happened, just as Ye Yuqiao's voice faded, the clear cry of a cat came just in time, followed by Uncle Fu flying towards them in a hurry, exclaiming, "Chen Hao, quick, save me, those Onmyoji want to kill me!"

"Chase, chase, chase, don't let that cat get away, don't spare a single one!" A flurry of shouting and cursing came from the alley behind Uncle Fu.

Chen Hao was furious, thinking that these Onmyoji who had restored their Yang Energy had all gone mad, venting the anger in their hearts from over the years, killing any Yin Soul they saw, regardless of whether they were good or bad.

After holding the cat possessed by Uncle Fu in his arms, Chen Hao, filled with rage, walked to the mouth of the alley.

Immediately, the Onmyoji all halted their steps.

After a moment of confusion, someone amongst the Onmyoji suddenly shouted, "This kid is indeed human, but the girl on his back has only a Yang Spirit; there must be something wrong with her."

"Right," a malicious glow flashed in the eyes of several Onmyoji, and having suppressed their desires for so long, they now harbored evil intentions toward Ye Yuqiao, "We need to examine that girl thoroughly."

After a chorus of agreement, that group of Onmyoji began to stride toward Chen Hao and Ye Yuqiao, swarming in on them.

"See, I told you these people can't be trusted. If I had known, I wouldn't have let you return their Yang Energy earlier," Ye Yuqiao said coldly, very angry inside.

Chen Hao glared furiously ahead, his eyes filled with a murderous intent. Those Onmyoji had committed a grave taboo against him by daring to utter such offensive and disrespectful words about Ye Yuqiao before him.

To him, this was unforgivable.

"Sword Qi, annihilate!" As the group of Onmyoji approached, a terrifying wave of Sword Qi erupted from his body, rampaging toward the Onmyoji.

By the time the sound of the Sword Qi faded, all of the Onmyoji had fallen to the ground, emitting agonized screams of pain.

In the end, Chen Hao still chose not to kill them, but he didn't let them off lightly either, using Sword Qi to sever the Achilles tendons in their left feet.

Seeing this, Uncle Fu, held in Chen Hao's arms, was so frightened that all of his cat fur stood on end.

"If I had known you were like this, I should not have returned the Yang Energy to you," Chen Hao said angrily.

The Onmyoji lying on the ground were all stunned, then cried out in shock.

"What, was it you who saved us?"

"Chen Hao!" Suddenly, from the front of the alley came Luo Luo's cry for help.

"Ah! So you are Chen Hao."

"Who is Chen Hao?" Among the Onmyoji lying on the ground, most of them had arrived here before Chen Hao had made a name for himself in the Onmyoji circle of the East Country and naturally hadn't heard of Chen Hao.

However, today, they would all likely remember Chen Hao.

Half a minute later, Luo Luo and Zhang Chuiping approached, both with bruises on their faces, with Zhang Chuiping being tightly supported by Luo Luo, appearing to have been seriously injured.

Just as Chen Hao was about to ask why, Uncle Fu spoke before him: "These two were injured by this mob while trying to save me."

"What!" Chen Hao was greatly enraged, "You bastards, if it wasn't for this cat's help, you couldn't have been rescued so quickly!"

"Spare our lives, we realize we were wrong!" Seeing Chen Hao's anger, several Onmyoji on the ground immediately begged for mercy.

"So you are Chen Hao, I've long admired your name," Zhang Chuiping greeted Chen Hao while enduring the severe pain in his chest.

"You must be Luo Luo's husband, right?" Chen Hao smiled, "Are you alright?"

"Just some physical injuries, I'll recover soon enough, but these people are probably so repressed that they lost control and went a bit mad. Please show your mercy and forgive them this time," he pleaded.

Chen Hao frowned, he was about to speak when suddenly, a voice came from a hole in the sky above.

"Damn it, not good!"

It was Xie Xiaofeng's voice.

Instantly, Chen Hao looked up at the sky, only to see a black dot slowly expanding until Xie Xiaofeng's figure became clear in front of him.

Immediately, Chen Hao put Uncle Fu down on the ground and then, holding Ye Yuqiao, soared into the air to catch Xie Xiaofeng.

"Damn it, Goddess, it's bad, Tang Jing has been taken away by King Mieji!"

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