Netherworld.

Polar Ice Land.

Beneath the silver moonlight, the entire Polar Ice Land shimmered with a silvery glow, turning what should have been an ink-black night sky into a white haze.

Apart from the howling of the snowstorm and the sound of ice cracking, there were no other sounds in the Polar Ice Land.

In the Polar Ice Land, any life that could make noise had already been frozen to death; those that hadn't been frozen to death did not make a sound.

These creatures were all in hibernation, and no one knew when they would awaken.

They are the ancient beasts of legend.

No one has ever counted how many ancient beasts still exist in this vast and boundless icy wasteland because none who have seen the ancient beasts here have ever made it out alive.

Even during the era of the Ancestor of the Nether King, the soldiers he led had halted before the Polar Ice Land, not daring to continue their conquest forward.

As a result, the Polar Ice Land became one of the few areas in the Netherworld that hadn't been annexed to the royal lands.

At this moment.

On the grasslands to the south of the Polar Ice Land, countless eyes were fixed on every exit. Enduring the bitter cold, they waited here, wanting to know whether King Wanfa would come out alive and, even more so, whether the Ghost King would emerge from his seclusion after a month.

While the watchers hidden throughout the grasslands were contending with the bone-chilling cold, a golden bird suddenly flew out from a concealed patch of grass and straight into the Polar Ice Land.

Everyone was taken aback because the bird had no life or soul.

It was a spirit talisman bird.

The fact that a spirit talisman bird could forge ahead against such a fiercely cold wind was astounding! It indicated just how terrifying the power infused into the bird must be.

After some time, the flame of the spirit talisman bird vanished from the sight of the people on the grasslands as it reached the central area of the Polar Ice Land.

In fact, it had another name—the Mockingbird.

It began to circle in the sky frantically, emitting bursts of shrill, mocking cackles.

Ordinarily, the jeering of a spirit talisman bird would hardly stir any commotion at this time; however, this spirit talisman bird was different. It carried the blood of the Nether King from Ye Yuqiao's body as well as the Nether King's Power, and its mockery would rouse the ancient beasts slumbering below into alertness and fury.

Indeed, after the Mockingbird screeched as it circled the sky some forty or fifty times, a deep roar emanated from the icy ground below, and the snow-covered ground began to tremble as innumerable cracks appeared on the icy surface.

Then, a streak of blue flame shot across the sky, incinerating the Mockingbird to ash.

Although the Mockingbird perished, its screeches had only begun the prelude, and more and more ancient beasts that had been dormant for a long time started to awaken.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" To the south of the grassland, the sounds of the ice bursting resounded through the Polar Ice Land.

It was clear to everyone that the mysterious spirit talisman bird's taunts had awakened the slumbering ancient beasts, with the obvious intent to use them to kill King Wanfa, who was inside, as well as the Ghost King who might have been in seclusion there for many years.

Meanwhile, in the iron tree forest on the eastern side of the Polar Ice Land.

King Wanfa, who was lying with his eyes closed on an iron tree, suddenly opened them. Before, in order not to attract the attention of the only ancient beast that wasn't sleeping and was still young, he had been hiding his power and his breathing, concealing himself like a dead thing within this iron tree forest.

At this very moment, a great number of ancient beasts had awakened, and he feared he would soon be discovered. Escaping the Polar Ice Land now seemed almost impossible, and furthermore, it was time for him to leave the Polar Ice Land.

..

Early morning.

As soon as the sky lit up, Chen Hao and his party boarded the long-missed Exorcism Special Vehicle, heading for the next stop.

As the vehicle slowly left Rainbow Town, Chen Hao couldn't help but sigh, "We have finally left Rainbow Town. Including our time in Rainbow Paradise, we've stayed here for nearly fifty days."

"Yeah," Tang Jing sighed, "we almost parted ways in Rainbow Paradise, but fortunately, we are still together in the end!"

Next, Chen Hao shared his plans to go into seclusion for cultivation in the Yang Wood Forest to the south of King Qingyu's residence with Tang Jing and Xie Xiaofeng.

"Damn it, when you go into seclusion, I will take good care of Yuqiao for you!" Xie Xiaofeng joked.

Tang Jing gave Chen Hao a disdainful look, then turned to ask Chen Hao and Ye Yuqiao sitting in the back, "If the damn guy goes into seclusion, what are we going to do? Should we also go into seclusion to improve our cultivation?"

"Yes, yes, yes!" Chen Hao nodded repeatedly, "You two can pick a quiet place to cultivate on your own, and Yuqiao will cultivate with me."

"Naughty!" Ye Yuqiao silently sent a secret message to Chen Hao, knowing that the 'cultivation' Chen Hao was talking about was not the same as what Tang Jing had in mind.

"Tang Jing, how can you be so spineless? Are you scared of seeing ghosts without the damn guy around?" Tang Jing mocked with a disdainful tone, "Without him, we three can still continue on the path of subduing demons and exorcising ghosts. We've been too dependent on Chen Hao in the past, so it's a good opportunity for us to gain some experience while he's cultivating. Besides, I've recently come to understand many new forbidden Onmyoji techniques that I haven't used in battle yet."

After saying that, Xie Xiaofeng suddenly reached out and touched Tang Jing's left arm. In an instant, Tang Jing's left arm turned into a pile of withered grass.

"Xie Xiaofeng," Tang Jing exclaimed in surprise, "what kind of forbidden spell is this?"

"This could be considered a technique of transforming into the five elements, but previously I could only transform myself. Now I can turn others into objects of the five elements, though for now it's limited to people's arms."

After speaking, Xie Xiaofeng reached out and touched Tang Jing's left arm again.

He intended to restore Tang Jing's arm.

However, things did not go as he had planned, and Tang Jing's left arm remained a pile of withered grass.

"Tang Jing, I..." Xie Xiaofeng forced a silly smile, but it looked ugly and pale.

"Xie Xiaofeng! You big damn fool!"

..

At noon, the Exorcism Special Vehicle left D City and the King Mieji's Residence, entering the surface area controlled by King Qingyu's Residence.

The Yang Wood Forest that Ye Yuqiao mentioned was located on the east side of King Qingyu's Residence—in East Town of J City, situated over two hundred kilometers to the northwest of Rainbow.

By evening.

The Exorcism Special Vehicle drove into the urban area of J City.

The distance from J City's downtown to East Town was not far; it would take less than an hour's drive. However, Chen Hao had decided to enter the Yang Wood Forest for secluded cultivation tomorrow and needed to properly say goodbye to Ye Yuqiao tonight.

The two of them might not see each other for a month after this, which would be the longest separation they had experienced since they met.

Just as they arrived in front of a hotel, Chen Hao's cell phone rang.

It was a call from Zhang Chuiping, the chairman of the National Yin Yang Master Association for newcomers.

"I bet there's some tricky business afoot."

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