Zhao Chong had just arrived beside the Purgatory Fire Pool when the mysterious woman immediately emerged from the pool.

"Has something big happened?" the woman asked. She had made an agreement with Zhao Chong that, unless there was an extremely urgent matter, he should not come looking for her at the Purgatory Fire Pool after the Ghost King finished his seclusion.

"The Ghost King wants to eliminate Niu Tou and Ma Mian," Zhao Chong explained.

The woman's face showed surprise. She had considered that someday the Ghost King would make a move against Niu Tou and Ma Mian, but she had not expected that day to come so soon.

"What's your next move?" the woman asked Zhao Chong, even though she already had an answer in her mind.

"Your plan is my plan," Zhao Chong replied cleverly, "otherwise, I wouldn't have come to find you."

The woman slightly lowered her eyes, avoiding Zhao Chong's gaze. Sometimes Zhao Chong's gaze was too earnest and too lovesick, making her feel undeserving, afraid that she would fail to live up to such seriousness and affection.

After a long pause, the woman murmured to herself as if speaking to no one in particular, "Chen Hao and she have been hiding in an ancient tomb, you need to go find them."

"And then?"

"Then bring them to the Netherworld."

"So you're saying the Zhao Family has to leave the Netherworld City?" Zhao Chong asked evenly.

The woman nodded, "Yes. I must go and save Niu Tou and Ma Mian. Go back now, inform your people to prepare to leave the Netherworld City. When my flames burn down the Nether King Palace, your people should take the opportunity to quickly leave the Netherworld City amidst the chaos."

"You're going to burn down the Nether King Palace!" Zhao Chong was incredibly shocked.

The woman hummed in agreement, explaining in a helpless tone, "If I don't burn down the Nether King Palace, I'm afraid the Ghost King won't change his location. Also, I need your assistance."

"What do you need me to do?"

"To kill, and to save."

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Having left the eighteen layers of Hell, Zhao Chong hurried back to the Zhao Residence non-stop. Unlike other clan leaders, there were very few people in Zhao Chong's residence, just about a dozen guards and a few servants responsible for cleaning and cooking. The other valiant and battle-skilled members of the Zhao Family, along with his trusted warriors, had long since been dispatched from the city by him for various reasons.

Therefore, after dismissing the few servants, Zhao Chong only needed to take his dozen guards to leave the Netherworld City. To the north of the Netherworld, where the southern grasslands of the Polar Ice Land met the southwest, there was a mountain range named Huiyin Mountain. The original troops of the Zhao Family, along with the army secretly assembled over the past few months, were stationed there.

"Brother Zhao Chong!"

Just as Zhao Chong was arranging for the guards to leave the Netherworld City in the hall, an oblivious Lin Huashan entered the hall and approached him.

"I see everyone packing up, why are you rushing everyone to leave?" Lin Huashan asked with confusion as she looked at Zhao Chong.

"Huashan, your timing is perfect," Zhao Chong said as he stood up and approached Lin Huashan, "I have something to tell you, go pack your things, we are leaving the Netherworld City now."

"Leaving Netherworld City!" Lin Huashan was greatly shocked, "Brother Zhao Chong, do you mean you're also rebelling like the other clan leaders?"

Zhao Chong frowned and, without answering Lin Huashan's question, said, "You better go and get ready. They will escort you out later."

Having said that, Zhao Chong was about to leave. Suddenly, Lin Huashan grabbed his sleeve and asked, "Brother Zhao Chong, aren't you coming with us?"

Zhao Chong gently moved Lin Huashan's hand from his sleeve and explained, "You go ahead, I still have some matters to deal with."

Lin Huashan hesitated to speak and after a few seconds, nodded, "Then I'll go and get ready."

After separating from Lin Huashan, Zhao Chong sent his most trusted guard, Ah Wu, to rush to the residence of Zhou Family Clan Leader Zhou Ke, to tell him to immediately prepare to leave Netherworld City. As soon as Nether King Palace was set ablaze, he was to immediately lead people out of Netherworld City.

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At this moment, on Naihe Bridge.

The staff, radiating a crimson glow, hung in midair like a blood moon.

This staff was known as the Beast Blood Ruin Staff, and it was found by the Ghost King among the collapsed palace ruins within the Gate of the Nether King.

The Beast Blood Ruin Staff could incite the beasts' blood to burst into chaos, confusing and unsettling the minds of mythical creatures, thereby weakening their combat power. Under the radiance of this staff, Ma Mian and Niu Tou, being mythical creatures, were gradually overwhelmed with pain. Originally brandishing a long knife and a whip, their eyes now saw stars, and their feet were as heavy as if they were filled with lead, making it hard to step.

"Kill all of their clones!" commanded the Ghost King from one end of the Naihe Bridge.

"Kill!" Over ten thousand city guards responded in unison and then rushed forward, flying over the Naihe, thrusting their swords at the clones of Ma Mian and Niu Tou.

The Ghost King then stepped back a few paces, a cold smile on his face as he watched each clone of Ma Mian and Niu Tou fall amid the sword and blade shadows.

Half an hour later, the city guards slaughtered all of Ma Mian and Niu Tou at the base of the city wall and then surged up the wall. At this point, Ma Mian and Niu Tou, dizzied by the Beast Blood Ruin Staff's effect, were incapable of resisting or splitting into new clones, and could only be slaughtered like lambs to the slaughter.

Gradually, the clones of Ma Mian and Niu Tou became fewer and fewer.

"Haha!" The Ghost King let out a loud sinister laugh, looking upward, as he was quickly about to seize control of the gates of the Netherworld.

However, just at that moment.

A huge, blinding flame appeared above the Nether King Palace, and the temperature inside the entire Netherworld City began to rise.

The Ghost King and the four Dharma Kings turned around to look towards the location of the Nether King Palace.

It was a gigantic firebird, almost identical to the Phoenix from the legends of the mortal world.

"The Netherworld Azure Bird!" King Shuanglin exclaimed in shock, horror flashing in his eyes, "It's that woman! The woman who suddenly came to save Chen Hao twenty days ago!"

Dark Law King and King Wumeng's expressions also turned bitter, as the intense flames emanating from the woman's body left a deep impression on them.

"This is bad!" exclaimed the Ghost King in panic, "What does she intend to do?"

No sooner had the Ghost King spoken than a series of loud booms "bang... rumble rumble, rumble rumble" reverberated and the splendid Nether King Palace collapsed, flames surging and igniting atop it.

Even the pure gold pillars that supported the Nether King Palace melted into liquid gold under the firebird's flames.

"Ah!" Cries of panic echoed from the populace. The destruction of the Nether King Palace was the ultimate symbol of supremacy in the Netherworld, and for most people, its destruction was akin to the end of the world.

Watching the merciless firebird with its wings outstretched in the sky, the Ghost King's eyes also lit with fire. In this moment of silence, his face flushed red with rage; he was too angry to speak.

The four Dharma Kings were left in stunned silence.

On the east side of the Netherworld City, the Zhao Family had already set out to join forces with the Zhou Family Clan Leader's people at the northeast corner. Meanwhile, Zhao Chong...

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