After exchanging glances, the eleven or twelve Yin Yang Masters behind Zhang Chuiping lowered their heads and walked over to stand behind Ma Xiaokang one after another.

To this, Zhang Chuiping was furious, "You people are outright traitors!"

"Haha!" Ma Xiaokang let out a loud laugh, "Zhang Chuiping, the wise adapt themselves to the times. Do you understand this principle?"

As he spoke, Ma Xiaokang took two steps forward towards Zhang Chuiping and said, "If Chen Hao had agreed to cooperate with me a few days ago, the situation would definitely not be like this. If you want to blame someone, blame that boy. He's really too full of himself. I'm giving you a piece of advice now, take those few fools behind you who are not afraid of death and run away quickly!"

After he finished speaking, Ma Xiaokang laughed heartily as he looked up to the sky, then left with the twelve Yin Yang Masters who had temporarily betrayed Zhang Chuiping.

When Ma Xiaokang and his people disappeared around the corner ahead, one of the Yin Yang Masters standing behind Zhang Chuiping asked, "Zhang Chuiping, Chen Hao is imprisoned. What should we do next? Should we run, or should we fight them to the death?"

"No, I believe Chen Hao could not possibly have been captured so easily!" Luo Luo shook her head and said with great certainty, her eyes also very resolute, "Even the Wood City couldn't trap him!"

"But didn't Ma Xiaokang just say it? It's a Barrier Seal cast jointly by six council members. I'm afraid this seal is several times more difficult to break than the Wood City," a senior Yin Yang Master sighed, "Chuiping, let's escape quickly. It's just like this now in the world of Yin Yang Masters. With just the few of us, it's impossible to change anything."

"Yeah, think about it, we're really ridiculous, actually hoping a child would help us see the light of day again."

"But hasn't what he did before shown us the first light of dawn?" Luo Luo argued, "If a person who can defeat even the three Dharma Kings can't let us see the light of day again, then who can?"

As she spoke, tears had begun to well up in Luo Luo's eyes. She neither believed Chen Hao would be imprisoned nor was she willing to leave just like that today.

"Wife, then what do you mean?"

"Believe in Chen Hao. He will definitely appear later!" Luo Luo cried out, then turned around to look at the remaining six or so Yin Yang Masters behind her, and continued, "Besides me, everyone here was rescued by Chen Hao from the inside of Wood City. If it weren't for Chen Hao, we would still be begging and enduring starvation inside Wood City. Even if the situation later on is worse, it won't be worse than in Wood City. At least there's still the choice to die and have our souls scattered. Besides, we still have hope; we can still make our future better. Given that, why shouldn't we choose to fight for it, to believe?"

After hearing Luo Luo's words, including Zhang Chuiping, the other Yin Yang Masters were all immensely inspired, nodding repeatedly, and ultimately decided to stick to their original thoughts and to report and expose the evil deeds of Luo Pengfei and others during the Yin Yang Master Association meeting.

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"Dong! Dong! Dong..Dong!" The bell rang out nine times in succession, and the time was nine o'clock in the morning.

To the east of the garden that housed the headquarters of the Yin Yang Master Association, there was a spacious and tall building. As the only modern structure in the garden, this building served as the conference center built specifically for the annual Yin Yang Master meetings, with a capacity of over four hundred people.

At this moment, all the invited Yin Yang Masters were already seated inside the conference center. However, the seats on stage prepared for the seven council members were empty.

Seeing that the seven council members were delaying their appearance, the crowd became noisy, and the atmosphere suddenly grew tense.

Backstage of the conference hall.

"President Luo, everything is ready, everyone is sitting inside; should we initiate the seal?" Du Xiao, the National President of the Yin Yang Master Association, asked urgently, pacing back and forth.

"Huang Can, have they answered the phone yet?" Luo Pengfei asked, at this point he was almost frantic with anxiety, yet he still pretended to remain calm. Starting from seven o'clock this morning, he had asked Huang Can to contact the subordinates responsible for guarding the Soul Corpses in various places. But until now, subordinates from all but the D City location could not be reached. He had a foreboding feeling that something was seriously wrong.

"President, we haven't gotten through yet. I guess the signal's not good where they are because those places are too isolated," Huang Can replied.

Luo Pengfei twisted the corners of his mouth, a fire of anger burning in his eyes. After pondering for a while, he asked, "Did you make contact with them last night?"

"Yes!" Huang Can nodded, "We contacted them all at ten o'clock last night, telling them to release the Soul Corpses precisely at 9:11. Maybe they're busy with it right now."

After that, Luo Pengfei fell back into deep thought.

Not long after, he suddenly stood up and said, "Let's go in for the meeting first. If we haven't contacted them before 9:11, we'll cancel the initiation of the sealing spell, and inform the people in D City in charge of the Soul Corpses to cancel their release."

"President, are you going to give up? We've been preparing for this for so long!" Du Xiao said disappointedly, his face filled with reluctance.

"I've waited two hundred years for this day; I'm not afraid to wait another year!" Luo Pengfei declared.

"But what if the Soul Corpses in other places are released? And yet we let all those Onmyoji go back?" Du Xiao continued to ask.

"What are you suggesting then?"

"Implement the sealing spell, imprison all the Onmyoji, regardless of the situations elsewhere, our city's Soul Corpses are a certainty. Besides, we still have nearly five thousand Soul Corpses inside the Feipeng Sect. We first occupy D City as our base, and then secretly connect with our allies to expand step by step to the surrounding areas."

Luo Pengfei frowned, then turned to look at the others and asked, "What do you all think?"

"Although I've always looked down on Du Xiao, this is one time I support his opinion," Ma Xiaokang said.

"If we start something, we should see it through!" said the normally silent and reticent council member Xiao Yutai.

Luo Pengfei's brow furrowed deeply, and after a long moment of contemplation, a glint appeared in his eyes as he declared, "Well then, let's take action!"

With that, Luo Pengfei led the six council members from backstage towards the conference hall.

As soon as the seven of them stepped onto the stage, thunderous applause erupted from the hall.

The seven smiled, nodding and waving to the audience as they exchanged triumphant, scheming smiles with each other.

"I protest, I protest!" At that moment, a voice of opposition rang out from the audience seats.

Suddenly, the entire venue fell silent, looking towards where the voice had come from.

There stood Zhang Chuiping at the very back of the audience seats, holding a megaphone, with Luo Luo and nine others standing behind him.

"These seven people on stage are utterly unworthy to be our council members. Du Xiao and Luo Pengfei, these two despicable men, have no right to be the leaders of us all!"

Just then, two security guards rushed in, attempting to remove Zhang Chuiping from the premises.

"Don't push them out!" Luo Pengfei said, "Since I let them come in, I dare to confront them face to face."

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