"You first have to admit that I'm more talented than you,"

"And for the next half month, Yuqiao has to sleep with me!"

Hearing the two conditions proposed by Xie Xiaofeng and Tang Jing, Chen Hao couldn't help but smile. Clearly, the serious and awkward atmosphere inside the car had somewhat eased up by now.

After chuckling, Chen Hao looked at Xie Xiaofeng and Tang Jing one by one and replied, "Xie Xiaofeng, I agree to your condition. Since you really want to delude yourself, I won't stop you; but I can't agree to your condition, Tang Jing, at most three days!"

"No, at least seven days!" Tang Jing insisted, hands on her hips.

Chen Hao frowned slightly, thought for a moment, and then reluctantly agreed, "Alright, seven days it is. Does this mean we can put this matter to rest?"

"No way!" Xie Xiaofeng shook his head.

Chen Hao's face darkened as he said coldly, "What exactly do you want?"

"Yuqiao, no no no, I mean Lord Nether King, can I still call you goddess like before and tease you and the idiot?" Xie Xiaofeng asked, looking at Ye Yuqiao who was hanging her head low.

Ye Yuqiao lifted her head and nodded repeatedly at Xie Xiaofeng.

"Yuqiao, are we still besties then? Can I still secretly kiss you like before?" Tang Jing asked.

Ye Yuqiao's furrowed brows suddenly smoothed out, and an enchanting smile appeared on her stern face as she said, "Of course."

"Hey, what are you two talking about? You've just learned the true identity of Yuqiao, but she is still the same person you knew before, my! The handsome and wise Chen Hao's girlfriend!"

"Now, I finally understand why Chen Hao sometimes calls you 'Your Majesty'; turns out you really are a queen. But since you've agreed, I'll no longer hold back. How we treated you before, we'll treat you the same way in the future. If there's any trouble, the idiot is responsible."

"That's right, if we accidentally make Yuqiao angry, you remember to hold the idiot accountable!"

"Why should it be me?" Chen Hao exclaimed, his eyes wide open.

"Because you're her boyfriend!" Tang Jing rolled her eyes as she spoke.

"Alright then!" Chen Hao said helplessly, wrapping an arm around Ye Yuqiao's shoulders and pulling her into his embrace, "Let me reintroduce her, this is my girlfriend Yuqiao, the Fourth Generation Underworld King of the Netherworld. Please bear with us for any troubles in the future."

"Certainly, certainly!" Xie Xiaofeng and Tang Jing nodded with a smile. Instantly, the atmosphere in the van returned to its usual relaxed and cheerful state.

Ye Yuqiao looked up and met Chen Hao's gaze, her eyes revealing a dazed smile.

"Xie Xiaofeng, hurry up and find a good restaurant, I've been starving all day," Tang Jing commanded Xie Xiaofeng, while patting his shoulder with her left hand.

"Okie dokie!" Xie Xiaofeng cheerfully agreed and then started the Exorcism Special Vehicle, moving forward slowly.

However, just as the van had accelerated and not gone more than twenty meters, Xie Xiaofeng suddenly slammed on the brakes.

"Ah!" Tang Jing's scream was on cue, "Xie Xiaofeng, what are you doing? Why on earth did you suddenly brake like that?"

"Quick, look at the man up ahead!" Xie Xiaofeng pointed towards a man standing on the sidewalk a few meters ahead, "Doesn't that guy look familiar?"

Tang Jing, Chen Hao, and Ye Yuqiao looked in the direction Xie Xiaofeng was pointing.

The man was carrying a business briefcase and was dressed in a suit, constantly glancing at the watch on his left hand. Beside the man stood a young woman also dressed in business attire. Judging by their stance, they seemed to be waiting for a ride.

"Indeed, this guy looks very familiar, where have we seen him before!" Tang Jing said.

"I remember now," Chen Hao's eyes gleamed with insight, "Do you still remember the old lady from the mountain village? Her son died in a mining accident, and after his death, his Yin Soul was wrapped up in a spider demon's web. The old lady died soon after learning of her son's demise, unable to wait for her son's soul and was consumed by grudges, failing to descend to the Netherworld. Every night, her Yin Soul would be stir-frying vegetables waiting for her son's return."

"Right, right, right, that's exactly the old lady's son!" Tang Jing echoed excitedly, "That was during the New Year, and afterwards, we even wrapped dumplings and ate the New Year's Eve dinner with the old lady and her son!"

"Yeah!" Xie Xiaofeng nodded, thinking that such a unique New Year's Eve dinner was unforgettable for a lifetime.

"Who would have thought that there are two people who look so similar in this world," Tang Jing exclaimed, "They are the spitting image of each other, like twins."

"I remember that the old lady's son had a red birthmark on the back of his left earlobe. Boyfriend, use your Nether Vision to check if that man has one on his earlobe too," Ye Yuqiao urged anxiously.

At that moment, a luxury business van pulled up next to the man they had once known. The young woman beside him stepped up swiftly and opened the door, inviting him into the vehicle.

Chen Hao immediately activated his Nether Vision.

However, as soon as his sight fell upon the man, he let out a gasp of surprise; the look on Ye Yuqiao's face, who lay in his arms, was one of astonishment as well.

"What's wrong? What did you see? Does this man also have a red birthmark behind his ear?" Tang Jing asked anxiously.

Chen Hao shook his head, clearly dazed, and said, "If you use your Yin Yang Eyes, you'll understand."

Xie Xiaofeng and Tang Jing quickly activated their Yin Yang Eyes and scrutinized the man as he was about to get into the car.

"Ah! How can this be!" exclaimed Tang Jing, her eyes sparking with intensity.

Through their Yin Yang Eyes, she and Xie Xiaofeng saw that another man's Yin Soul was attached to the body of the man who resembled the old lady's son. The Yin Soul was of a man around forty years of age, dressed in a suit and covered in bloodstains, likely from a car accident.

What Chen Hao and the others didn't expect was that the Yin Qi of the Yin Soul was perfectly integrated with the Yang Energy of the body, mutually adjusting to maintain an orderly cycle within this flesh.

Typically, if a living person becomes possessed by a ghost, the Yin and Yang energies within them would repel the Yin Qi of the ghost, causing harm to both, which is why it's said that being possessed by a ghost for a long time can shorten one's life and why ghosts cannot possess a person indefinitely.

"This body is indeed the corpse of the old lady's son; I've seen the birthmark behind his earlobe!" said Chen Hao.

"Could it be that someone has stolen the old lady's son's corpse?" Tang Jing said, feeling a shiver down her spine.

Xie Xiaofeng nodded thoughtfully and said, "Have any of you heard the ancient story about the trading of Yin Souls?"

The other three shook their heads.

Just as Xie Xiaofeng was about to explain, the old lady's son had already gotten into the car.

"Follow that car!" Chen Hao urged urgently.

"Alright!" Xie Xiaofeng nodded, then started the engine of the Exorcism Special Vehicle. Since the car had just been refurbished, Xie Xiaofeng had not yet had a chance to repaint the words "Exorcism Special Vehicle" on its body, so it did not attract attention as it did before.

They then followed the business van, tracing its path along the brightly lit city streets under the night sky.

Inside the car, as Xie Xiaofeng drove, he told the other three:

"In ancient times, there was a wealthy merchant who one day set his eyes on the wife of a high official. Despite being rich enough, he was too scared of the official's power to make any move.

One day, the merchant came across a fortune teller in an inn. Seeing that the fortune teller was prophetic and accurate, the merchant confided his affection for the official's wife and said he would reward the fortune teller handsomely if he could help him win her over.

Three days later, the fortune teller approached the merchant and claimed he could help him get the official's wife, but on one condition: they needed to exchange Yin Souls, switching their identities.

It turned out that the official was tired of the constant struggle in the bureaucratic world and envied the merchant's wealthy life of luxury. When he learned from the fortune teller that the merchant fancied his lawful wife, the official sighed in frustration, stating his wife came from a powerful family within the court and he couldn't dare divorce her, much less gift her to the merchant.

Eventually, with both the merchant's and the official's consent, the fortune teller used the Yin Yang Arts to swap their Yin Souls. However, not long after, the official faced execution due to political struggles, being on the losing side of a factional dispute."

After listening to Xie Xiaofeng's story, Chen Hao sighed, "According to what you've said, that bloodied Yin Soul was attached to the old lady's son by a spell of Yin Soul exchange."

"Yes!"

"But that's not right," Tang Jing turned to look at Chen Hao, her face full of confusion, "the mountain village where the old lady lives is thousands of miles away from here, and her son died in a mining accident after his natural lifespan had ended. How could he appear here?"

"Isn't that obvious?" Chen Hao said, his eyes dark as he gazed out of the car window into the night sky, "This means that the old lady's son didn't die a natural death. That mining accident wasn't an accident but a deliberately fabricated event; someone wanted to create the illusion of an accident, have a spider demon take away the old lady's son's Yin Soul, and make everyone believe that he was dead. Then, after the son's burial, his body was stolen."

"Why would they specifically choose the old lady's son, and go to the trouble of traveling to that remote mountain?"

"Because choosing someone from a faraway mountain village ensures that he would not encounter any acquaintances here," explained Xie Xiaofeng on behalf of Chen Hao.

"Ah!" Tang Jing gasped sharply, a shiver running through her, "That's terrifying! If what you're saying is true, then that's just horrifying! Who would do such a thing and why? How is this any different from silencing someone by killing them?"

"For money!" Chen Hao explained, "Didn't you see? The old lady's son was clothed in high-end brands, and he was getting into a car worth millions. If I'm not mistaken, it must be the Yin Soul attached to the old lady's son who paid a substantial sum to an Onmyoji to do this. As for which Onmyoji it was, we will know once we catch and interrogate him."

At that moment, Tang Jing took out her phone and said, "The old lady's son died just a few days before the New Year's festival; let me check the news from this county around that time and see if there's any report of a car accident involving a celebrity or tycoon."

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