Just as Chen Hao closed his eyes ready to practice the "Return to Yang Spell" once more, suddenly, he felt a deep sense of resentment emerging nearby.

He abruptly opened his eyes, activated the Nether Vision Technique in his left eye, and looked in the direction from which the resentment was coming.

A few seconds later, his sight pierced through the dense forest and fell upon the mental hospital in the eastern town.

Chen Hao was startled and murmured to himself, "Could it be that there are ghosts causing trouble in the mental hospital?"

Eventually, his gaze stopped moving forward inside a hospital ward.

By this time, the resentment had vanished without a trace.

"How did the resentment disappear so suddenly? Could it just be passing through?" Chen Hao pondered aloud.

Suddenly, the sound of a woman's extremely mournful and sorrowful crying reached his ears. He saw a woman sitting on a bed inside the ward, with a somewhat vacant and unfocused gaze, and tears were continuously streaming from her eyes.

The sights and sounds of the moment made Chen Hao feel a chill down his spine, his back turning cold. Just as he was about to avert his gaze, the woman suddenly said to the stuffed bear she held in her arms, "Child, Mommy is sorry, Mommy is sorry!"

..

After leaving Yang Wood Forest, Ye Yuqiao returned to her hotel in J City.

As soon as she appeared in the room, Tang Jing, who had been sleeping, suddenly sat up and said, "Yuqiao!"

Ye Yuqiao was startled, then walked over, reached out with both hands, and gently caressed Tang Jing's warm cheeks as she asked, "Tang Jing, you didn't have a nightmare again, did you?"

Tang Jing smiled and shook her head, moved over to make space, and pulled Ye Yuqiao onto the bed beside her.

After Ye Yuqiao took off her shoes and crawled under the covers, Tang Jing turned to face her and asked teasingly, "Yuqiao, where did you run off to in the middle of the night?"

Instantly, Ye Yuqiao's gaze became a little panicked, and then she looked away from Tang Jing's staring eyes, saying nothing.

Tang Jing laughed lightly and then suddenly moved in close and gently kissed Ye Yuqiao's cheek, chuckling, "Yuqiao, you must've sneaked off to see that jerk, didn't you?"

Ye Yuqiao muttered a "hm," and said softly, "But I didn't let him see me."

"That's really sad!" Tang Jing embraced Ye Yuqiao, "You couldn't resist going to see him on just the second day, and he still has a long time to go with his cultivation."

"Actually, I went to see him last night," Ye Yuqiao said, growing increasingly embarrassed.

"Oh, Yuqiao!" Tang Jing couldn't help but laugh again, "I didn't expect you to like him so much! Back in Rainbow Paradise, when that jerk disappeared for over twenty days, how did you cope?"

Ye Yuqiao pursed her lips, shook her head, her face turning slightly red, obviously reluctant to bring up that painful past drenched in tears.

Seeing this, Tang Jing gave an awkward smile, then kissed Ye Yuqiao's cheek again, saying with a laugh, "While that jerk is away, I'm going to kiss you every day, just to make him mad, haha!"

"He's so petty, he would definitely mind! Let's sleep, Tang Jing!"

"Wait, Yuqiao!" Tang Jing shook her head slightly.

"What is it?"

"If you had to describe that jerk as an animal, which one do you think would suit him best?"

"A monkey!" Ye Yuqiao replied without hesitation, "And the particularly mischievous, annoying kind."

..

The next morning, as soon as daylight broke, Xie Xiaofeng received a call from Lu Yuan, the president of the Yin Yang Master Association in J City. Over the call, Lu Yuan informed him that another twelve-year-old child had suddenly died at home two hours ago. The child was the top student at J City's First Elementary School, always ranking at the top in grades and having won the Mathematics Olympiad championship for his age group multiple times.

After hanging up, Xie Xiaofeng expressed his sincere concern, "If this keeps up, the city will be out of talents for the future!"

It wasn't long before Ye Yuqiao, Xie Xiaofeng, and Tang Jing followed Lu Yuan to the deceased child's home to investigate.

Just like yesterday and the past month, this prodigious child suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest in the morning, and then he passed away.

In his room, Ye Yuqiao did not smell any suspicious Yin Qi.

"Still no progress!" Xie Xiaofeng said helplessly, "Is it really the case that without that bastard, we accomplish nothing?"

"With or without him, it's all the same!" Ye Yuqiao said expressionlessly, not seeming to care about Xie Xiaofeng's feelings, "This case is just too bizarre. Maybe we should check out the former home of Li Xiulian."

Xie Xiaofeng furrowed his brows and nodded, asking, "Yuqiao, why are you so certain it's her child's doing?"

"Intuition!"

Half an hour later, a group of people arrived at the former home of Li Xiulian.

Upon entering, they all felt an intensely deep resentment, likely left behind when Zhou Peng hung himself in suicide.

"Such deep resentment shows how much he must have hated life!" Xie Xiaofeng remarked while looking around the dusty room, "If he really killed those children, how could we not feel the intense resentment emanating from him?"

As they walked into Zhou Peng's room, the resentment in the room suddenly increased manifold.

"This is where he hung himself!" Lu Yuan told the others.

On the desk in Zhou Peng's room, Ye Yuqiao found a sketchbook. It was full of eyes filled with different emotions. It was clear Zhou Peng enjoyed drawing eyes, and he did it so vividly that they seemed to be real eyes staring back.

...

Night had fallen deep.

Another fruitless day had passed.

If nothing unusual happened, tomorrow another teenager would suddenly die at home.

In the room.

Having just finished bathing, Ye Yuqiao stepped out of the bathroom to see Tang Jing approaching her with hands behind her back, saying, "Yuqiao, I have a present for you."

"What present?" Ye Yuqiao asked with a light laugh.

After a giggle, Tang Jing extended her hand and presented a plush monkey in front of Ye Yuqiao.

"A monkey!" Tang Jing laughed, "Didn't you say last night that the bastard resembles a monkey the most? Since he's not around these days, let's have this monkey stand in for him. That way, you can relieve your yearning."

Ye Yuqiao genuinely smiled and took the monkey from Tang Jing's hands. After looking it over, she nodded slightly and said, "It does resemble that bastard, Chen Hao, a bit."

"So, are you still going to sneak off and see Chen Hao tonight?"

Ye Yuqiao nodded, explaining, "He failed practising the 'Return to Yang Spell' last night, so I'm worried about him."

Before long, Ye Yuqiao was back in the Yang Wood Forest.

She quietly approached Chen Hao.

However, when she drew near, Chen Hao was not at the previous spot.

Just then, Ye Yuqiao sensed Chen Hao's presence drawing closer to her.

Before she could turn around, Chen Hao swept her up in his arms.

"Yuqiao, sneaking a look at me again?"

"You!" Ye Yuqiao's complexion reddened slightly, a mix of embarrassment and anger, then she chided softly, "You're not practising seriously!"

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