Upon seeing Li Xiulian lunging at him, yet again, Xie Xiaofeng pushed Li Xiulian away forcefully with his hand, sending her crashing onto the bed.

"Be gentle!" the middle-aged doctor behind him lamented. "She's a patient!"

"She's not a patient, she's perfectly normal!" Xie Xiaofeng retorted loudly, striding forward to press Li Xiulian, who was once again trying to rise and counterattack, back onto the bed before turning back and shouting at Tang Jing, "Tang Jing, quickly take the teddy bear away!"

After blankly blinking her eyes, Tang Jing agreed and stepped forward to pick up the plush bear from the bed, while at the same time, she expelled Yang Energy from her body to prevent being possessed again by Zhou Peng's Yin Soul.

"No! Don't take it away!" cried Li Xiulian, whom Xie Xiaofeng was restraining, her hoarse voice was slightly tearing, "Please, don't take it away!"

Tang Jing ignored Li Xiulian's pleas and carried the teddy bear, about 1.4 meters in length, out of the hospital room door.

It was just as she passed by the middle-aged doctor.

Suddenly, a green light flashed in the doctor's eyes.

Tang Jing was taken aback. Before she could think of a way to respond, the middle-aged doctor shoved her violently, slamming her against the wall.

At that moment, a powerful and eerie resentment spread throughout the room.

Ye Yuqiao turned to look at the doctor and saw his hands already on the attack, clutching at her throat.

Compared to Tang Jing, the middle-aged doctor was evidently much stronger, choking Ye Yuqiao almost instantly.

Luckily, Xie Xiaofeng came to her aid immediately, ramming into the male doctor and knocking him away.

"Goddess, are you alright?" Xie Xiaofeng asked anxiously.

Ye Yuqiao gasped heavily and shook her head.

Just then, Zhou Peng and Li Xiulian, both possessed by the boy's Yin Soul, attacked the two from both sides.

One had lost their mind to a ghost's possession; the other had lost their mind for the sake of a ghost.

At the critical moment, Xie Xiaofeng cast a spell, shouting, "Wood Technique, Bind!"

As soon as the words were spoken, numerous tree roots and vines burst through the floor tiles, entwining the bodies of the middle-aged doctor and Li Xiulian.

"Let's see where you can run to now!" Xie Xiaofeng sneered at the middle-aged doctor. In fact, his taunt was directed at the ghost child inhabiting the doctor's body.

All of a sudden, the resentment in the hospital room grew more intense.

The ghostly boy left the body of the middle-aged doctor and zipped out of the room.

To prevent the ghostly child from escaping, Xie Xiaofeng immediately exhausted a large amount of Power of the Five Elements within his body to cast another spell, "Earth Technique, Barrier!"

Instantly, four high walls rose from the ground around the psychiatric hospital, then a roof was formed overhead. In the blink of an eye, the outside turned dim and lightless, with only the white lights in the room and corridor bleakly illuminating, as if it were night.

"Goddess, Tang Jing, I'm going after that ghost child. Be careful!" Xie Xiaofeng urged. With that, he dashed out of the room and pursued the direction where the malevolent spirit had fled.

After a short while, the middle-aged doctor regained consciousness, and seeing his body and limbs tightly bound by the tree roots and vines that had emerged from the ground, he showed an astonished face and asked Ye Yuqiao, "What happened? How did all these bizarre roots and vines come out of the ground?"

Ye Yuqiao didn't pay him any attention and instead moved forward to help up Tang Jing, who was currently sitting against the wall on the floor.

"Let me go, and give me back my bear!" Li Xiulian kept shouting at Ye Yuqiao.

"Tang Jing, are you alright?"

Tang Jing shook her head slightly, a trace of pain in her brow, obviously the collision was not light.

After helping Tang Jing up, Ye Yuqiao walked over to Li Xiulian with the stuffed bear in hand and said coldly, "Stop playing the fool, I just want to ask you, was your husband driven to death by your son?"

"Hahaha!" Li Xiulian let out several sinister laughs, her expression twisted, her laughing terrifying.

"If you insist on playing the fool, once we catch your son's yin soul later, we will definitely make it scatter to the winds," Ye Yuqiao said with a fierce look.

It seemed she was not joking, nor making a threat, but truly meant what she said.

"No," Li Xiulian's eyes showed horror, "you can't hurt him anymore, he was miserable enough in life! It's all my fault, I'm the one to blame, punish me if you must."

Ye Yuqiao wasn't moved in the slightest by Li Xiulian's act of taking the blame for her son.

Except for how she treated Chen Hao, as well as Tang Jing and Xie Xiaofeng, she was still the cold fourth-generation Underworld King when dealing with others.

This had not changed.

"Then I'll ask you again, was your husband driven to death by your son's yin soul?"

"Yes, indeed he was!" Li Xiulian finally admitted it, then broke down in tears. Her eyes looked normal at that moment, a complete change from just a minute ago.

"Then why did your son drive him to suicide?" Ye Yuqiao asked.

"Because my son hated him!" Li Xiulian explained through tears, "He confided his feelings to my husband, wanting him to persuade me not to put so much pressure on him. But my husband, out of fear of me, never dared to speak to me, and he rarely showed care for him due to always being busy with work. My husband was once his only hope, but in the end, he was disillusioned and desperate."

"Then he should hate you even more, you were the one who always put so much pressure on him. Why didn't he drive you to death?"

"I don't know!" Li Xiulian cried harder, "He was my baby, I raised him since he was little, maybe he couldn't bear to see me dead."

"Maybe he wanted to torment you," Ye Yuqiao guessed, narrowing her eyes, "just as you tormented him all his life."

Li Xiulian sobbed and shook her head in denial, "I wasn't tormenting him, everything I did was for his own good! Do you know how fierce competition is nowadays? If I don't pressure him now, he will resent me for not pushing him to study hard when he gets out and starts working."

"You are incorrigible!" Tang Jing couldn't help but rebuke, "Don't you realize even now that you did nothing wrong? Don't you feel that he hates you enough? He was driven by you to hang himself! Dead, do you understand?"

Li Xiulian was sobbing uncontrollably.

"Sigh!" A middle-aged doctor let out a sigh, "It is truly 'a parent's heart is always with their children.'"

"Why isn't it 'a child's heart is always with their parents'?" Tang Jing glared at the doctor and asked, "Is it that whatever is done for the child's sake is justified, and worthy of sympathy? If that's really the case, then it's like the saying goes—'The more pitiable, the more detestable.'"

The doctor was left speechless. His viewpoint on children's education was the same as Li Xiulian's.

At this moment, Xie Xiaofeng had arrived at the psychiatric hospital's office.

The ghostly boy was inside!

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