"Maybe it is, shine the flashlight here."

After hearing Li Yonghui's order, Xie Chunhe walked towards Chen Hao while taking out his phone and turning on the flash.

As he came about two steps in front of Chen Hao, suddenly, the Chen Hao whom he thought immobilized by Li Yonghui's Yin Yang Arts threw a punch and hit Xie Chunhe's face.

Instantly, stars burst before Xie Chunhe's eyes, and he pointed at Chen Hao, dizzily saying, "You, weren't you immobilized by the president's spell?"

Chen Hao sneered with disdain on his face, "To think he tried to use the Soul-Bewitching Technique to immobilize me with his meager skills."

Before he finished speaking, Chen Hao punched Xie Chunhe on the other side of his face, knocking him out cold. After Xie Chunhe fell to the ground, Chen Hao walked up to Li Yonghui, grabbed the front of his collar with his left hand, lifted him up, and demanded, "I just heard him calling you president. Are you the president of the F City Yin Yang Master Association, Li Yonghui?"

Li Yonghui glared furiously at Chen Hao and unexpectedly cast the Soul-Bewitching Technique at close range again.

As with the previous attempt to cast the Soul-Bewitching Technique on Chen Hao, right when Chen Hao's Yin Soul was affected, Ye Yuqiao's voice echoed in Chen Hao's head, waking his Yin Soul.

Seeing Chen Hao's pupils dulling, Li Yonghui let out a smirk, thinking he had succeeded; but before his smile could fully bloom, Chen Hao's eyes lit up with a cold gleam as his Yin Soul was roused by Ye Yuqiao, visibly panicking Li Yonghui. Before he could free himself from the grip on his collar, Li Yonghui took a heavy punch from Chen Hao in his left eye.

"Ugh!" A thunderous ringing filled Li Yonghui's head.

"I'll ask you one more time, are you the president of the F City Yin Yang Master Association?" Chen Hao tightened his grip slightly on Li Yonghui's neck as he asked in an icy tone.

Li Yonghui coughed lightly twice, then nodded repeatedly, his voice hoarse, "Yes, I am the president of the F City Yin Yang Master Association, Li Yonghui."

"Who sent you to follow me?"

"This...!"

Seeing Li Yonghui's hesitation, Chen Hao suddenly snorted in anger.

A glint of sharp light flashed through Li Yonghui's pale eyes as he trembled, "It was an order from the National Yin Yang Master Association headquarters to follow you."

"To do what?"

Li Yonghui looked at Chen Hao, hesitated for half a second with a defeated expression, and said, "Nothing much, just to report on your whereabouts."

No sooner had Li Yonghui finished speaking, than Chen Hao's left fist unceremoniously hit his stomach.

"Ow, that hurts, stop hitting me, haven't I told you everything?"

Chen Hao shoved Li Yonghui away in anger, almost causing the still-dazed Li Yonghui to fall to the ground.

"Don't think I haven't realized you're lying to me!" Chen Hao's face darkened with a hint of anger in his tone, "If the National Yin Yang Master Association wanted to have someone follow me, they would have done so months ago. Why wait until I arrived in F City to have you follow me? Surely, there must be something here you don't want me to discover, such as..."

Chen Hao suddenly stopped talking, then examined Li Yonghui with a strange look.

Li Yonghui quickly diverted his gaze from Chen Hao's stare, clearly feeling guilty. Noticing Chen Hao's expression growing increasingly grim from the corner of his eye, he asked tremblingly, "Such as what?"

"Pat, pat, pat!" Chen Hao lightly patted Li Yonghui's plump and rough face with his left hand, scoffing, "That's for you to tell."

Suddenly, Li Yonghui's eyes focused narrower, hesitating whether to reveal the truth to Chen Hao.

Before he could make up his mind, Chen Hao asked, "Did you report the incident of me taking that woman to the National Yin Yang Master Association?"

Chen Hao brought this up suddenly, aiming to use the question to probe Li Yonghui: whether Li Yonghui answered yes or no, if he didn't specifically ask which woman, it would suggest that Li Yonghui might very well be aware of the woman's identity, and Li Yonghui, possibly even the National Yin Yang Master Association, might be involved with soul trading.

"Hmm!" Li Yonghui, still in thought, dumbly nodded his head.

Chen Hao was startled; he hadn't expected Li Yonghui to confess so readily. Now it seemed Li Yonghui was aware of the woman that had been taken, and the National Yin Yang Master Association had sent Li Yonghui to follow him, evidently not wanting him to uncover the secretive soul trading operation.

Yet, as they say, fate has its own plans; thanks to various coincidences, Chen Hao and his group first arrived at a remote village, encountered the old lady and her son, and then, in such a large county town, they happened to come across the Yang Spirit of the old lady's son.

Since there was no need to extract more information from Li Yonghui, Chen Hao knocked him out with a punch. There was an urgent matter to attend to now; he needed to reach the hospital before people from the soul trading operation withdrew.

So, Chen Hao quickly returned to the Exorcism Special Vehicle and then told Xie Xiaofeng to immediately drive to F City Civilian Hospital.

A quarter of an hour later, the Exorcism Special Vehicle arrived at the entrance of F City Hospital. Concerned that the hospital authorities might prevent them from entering the morgue, Chen Hao's Yin Soul left his body to go to the morgue alone.

Three minutes later, Chen Hao reached the entrance to the morgue. Just as he had anticipated: the hospital's morgue was indeed temporarily closed to the public, with several security guards stationed at the entrance.

Since Chen Hao was a Yin Soul, the security guards could not see him, allowing him to smoothly pass through the gate into the morgue.

As he quickly approached the end of the morgue corridor, Chen Hao immediately saw several figures busily at work. These people all radiated more Yang Energy than ordinary people, obviously Onmyoji. They were busy packing up items from the soul transaction office and putting them into several boxes placed at the entrance.

Chen Hao moved closer and activated Nether Vision in his left eye. He found that the boxes contained Peach Wood Swords, red candles, Spirit Talismans, Soul-collecting Bottles, and other tools required for arranging Yin Yang Arts. In addition, Chen Hao also discovered several books resembling ledgers. When his vision pierced through the pages of these books, he found they contained lists of clients who had completed soul borrowings and returns in recent years, along with detailed information and fees.

"If I can get my hands on these ledgers, I could expose them in front of all the Onmyoji at the national Yin Yang Master Association meeting," Chen Hao thought excitedly.

Feeling the approach of Chen Hao's Yin Soul, an Onmyoji standing at the entrance and supervising turned around and shouted at Chen Hao's Yin Soul, "Where did you come from, Yin Soul? Scram, don't come any closer!"

Chen Hao looked coldly at the Onmyoji and said, "Do you know who I am?"

"Dead ghost, scram! I don't care who you are, if you don't scram, I'll scatter your soul to the winds!"

"Whoosh whoosh," Chen Hao suddenly turned into a gust of wind and arrived in front of the Onmyoji, a surge of Sword Qi spreading from his Yin Soul body, slicing up the Onmyoji's body with fine cuts in an instant.

"Ah!" the Onmyoji screamed loudly. Suddenly, he pulled a Yellow Talisman from his body and threw it at Chen Hao.

"Whoosh whoosh," another sound like a gust of wind, and the Yellow Talisman was shredded into confetti by the Sword Qi inside Chen Hao.

Startled, the Onmyoji took a soul-locking rope from his pocket and threw it. Just like the Yellow Talisman, it was cut in two by Chen Hao's Sword Qi before even reaching him.

Next, the Onmyoji changed tactics, concentrating the Yang Energy in his body into his right palm and instantly forged a Yang Spirit sword, thrusting it at Chen Hao.

Chen Hao then released even more Yang Energy from within his body, turning it into a Yang Energy Shield as a countermeasure.

Seeing that the Yin Soul in front of him was releasing even more Yang Energy than he himself possessed, the Onmyoji couldn't believe his eyes and said incredulously, "Why do you have so much Yang Energy!"

At this moment, feeling the violent clash of two masses of Yang Energy outside the door, the Onmyoji inside the soul transaction office all ran out.

"Because I'm Chen Hao!" Chen Hao explained.

"Ah!" the Onmyoji in front of him exclaimed in shock, "So you're the Chen Hao!"

After exclaiming, the faces of the Onmyoji all showed despair, thinking it was all over.

"Are you all from the F City Yin Yang Master Association?" Chen Hao asked in an interrogative tone.

After some hemming and hawing, someone among the group of Onmyoji nodded and admitted to it. Seeing the strong Yang Energy swirling around Chen Hao, the Onmyoji knew they were no match for him and instantly gave up resistance.

"Who did you give the big sum of money you earned from performing soul borrowings and returns for wealthy people?"

"Half went to the Yin Yang Master Discipline Committee, a quarter to the hospital, and the remaining quarter we kept for ourselves," the Onmyoji who had fought with Chen Hao said in a low voice. This person, named Cao Yang, was the vice president of the F City Yin Yang Master Association and had been dispatched by President Li Yonghui to Yongjia County to specifically manage the operation of this soul transaction office.

After hearing Cao Yang's words, Chen Hao was astonished and lamented, "The hospital also got a quarter, what entitles them to so much?"

"Because it's inconvenient to transport live corpses whose Yang life has not yet expired into F City from other cities, the local county hospital's ambulances need to transport the live corpses under the guise of medical emergencies so as not to raise suspicion," Cao Yang explained.

"I see!" Chen Hao nodded, "Alright, you can leave now, leave everything to me."

"Ah!" Cao Yang was stunned, "You mean we can go now?"

Chen Hao nodded, then said with a feigned impatience, "Hurry up and scram before I change my mind."

Immediately, the Onmyoji fled without looking back.

After watching the Onmyoji leave, Chen Hao quickly took the ledgers from the boxes, glanced through them swiftly, stuffed the ledgers into his bag, and then quickly left.

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