"Chen Hao, save me!"

"Chen Hao, save me!"

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"Yuqiao!" After a cry of alarm, Chen Hao woke up from his dream. When he woke, he found that his body was covered in cold sweat.

He had that nightmare again: Ye Yuqiao was surrounded by flames, then crying out to him for help.

After gasping for air a few times, he got out of bed, walked out of the tent, and found that the sun was already high in the sky.

Because winter was approaching, even with the sun high above, the chilly mountain breeze couldn't dispel the coldness in the air.

He really wanted to send a secret message to Ye Yuqiao at that moment, to tell her he had that nightmare again. However, thinking that Ye Yuqiao would surely persuade him it was just a dream, he gave up the idea.

With Ye Yuqiao absent and Zhou Ke having left with fifty thousand soldiers, the Huiyin Mountains were very quiet, so quiet that he felt bored.

Now, the only people he knew in the entire Huiyin Mountains were Niu Tou and Ma Mian. However, Niu Tou and Ma Mian had become strange, as if they were reluctant to see him.

After leaving the tent, he wandered aimlessly around the mountain, and, profoundly bored, he sent a secret message to Ye Yuqiao who was far away in the Dayang Mountains, "Yuqiao, I'm so bored."

After a long while, Ye Yuqiao finally replied, "Chen Hao, I'm discussing important matters with several clan leaders right now, I'll talk to you later."

Upon hearing Ye Yuqiao's words, Chen Hao complained inwardly, "So important matters make you so great! I don't even want to talk to you."

"Jerk! What did you say!" Ye Yuqiao's voice rang out again.

Chen Hao was startled, thinking to himself that he had blurted out his thoughts, then he said with a wry smile, "Young people are prone to grumbling, those were just words spoken in a huff, don't take it to heart, young lady, ha ha, ha ha!"

"Naughty, how annoying! I'll settle the score with you later!"

Although the conversation with Ye Yuqiao was short, just hearing her voice made Chen Hao's originally dull mood lighten considerably.

After walking some more, and seeing the soldiers training on horseback in the parade ground, he suddenly felt the urge to ride. So, he dashed to the stable like the wind, took a Pegasus, and then rode it up into the high sky.

Following a stream flowing down from the main peak of the Huiyin Mountains, Chen Hao rode the Pegasus from the main peak to the southwestern part of the Huiyin Mountains.

Chen Hao saw that at the end of the stream, there was a rather inconspicuous pool, from which steam was constantly rising, like a hot spring.

"I had no idea there was a hot spring here!" exclaimed Chen Hao, his face full of surprise.

Then, he rode the Pegasus toward the pool. But when he was still some distance from the pool, the Pegasus suddenly let out a long neigh, became somewhat frenzied, and then turned tail and galloped back into the high sky.

It was frightened, as if it had sensed something mysterious and terrifying in the pool.

"Hey, don't turn around!" Chen Hao said hastily. "I haven't bathed in many days, and it would be perfect to take a dip in the hot spring."

The horse shook its body fiercely, whinnying to express its disapproval.

"Then wait for me at the top of the nearby mountain," Chen Hao said, soothing the horse as he stroked its head. "I'll find you after my bath."

The horse let out another shrill neigh, clearly disagreeing with Chen Hao's plan.

Chen Hao ignored it and jumped down deftly from the horse, landing next to the pool. After squatting down to test the water temperature with his hand, he then took off his clothes and jumped into the pool.

"Ah, this is refreshing!" Chen Hao felt extremely comfortable internally, "Next time, I must bring Yuqiao here to enjoy the hot spring together."

Meanwhile, on a nearby mountain, the horse was still neighing as if trying to persuade Chen Hao to flee quickly.

After soaking in the spring for a while, Chen Hao finally got out.

Just as he was about to put on his clothes, he felt as if his whole body was covered in sand, and an immediate sense of discomfort washed over him.

He wiped his left arm with his right hand, then examined his right palm closely, and discovered that the particles weren't actually sand, but rather dust much finer than sand, a few of which were even emitting a golden glow.

In a flash, the feeling of discomfort intensified; he felt dirty all over.

So, he immediately jumped into the stream beside the pool and used the rushing water to wash the dust from his body.

"Ah, it's freezing!" Chen Hao's body shivered violently, his entire body instantly turned red from the cold. Fortunately, he could circulate the Yang Energy within his body to keep himself warm.

After rinsing in the stream for a while, Chen Hao got out of the water. After he had put on his clothes, he activated the Nether Vision Technique with his left eye and looked toward the bottom of the pool.

To his surprise, he found that at the bottom of the pool there was a door that had been sealed.

The Sealing Talisman was filled with an immense amount of ancient Yin Qi Spiritual Power, preventing his left eye from seeing through it to the inside.

"So there is a terrifying and mysterious seal beneath this pool, no wonder the horse was so panicked earlier, too scared to approach!" Chen Hao suddenly realized.

"This means that the reason this pool turned into a hot spring could very well be due to magma underneath the sealed door." Chen Hao speculated, "I can't imagine what kind of world lies beneath this sealed door."

Afterward, Chen Hao took a few steps back and found more dust falling off his body.

"Wow, still not clean!"

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When Chen Hao returned to the main peak, it was already midday.

After moving the horse back to the stable, he returned to his tent and lay down on his bed, somewhat exhausted.

Not long after, Ye Yuqiao's voice rang in his mind: "You jerk Chen Hao, what are you doing right now?"

"Thinking of you."

"Are you really being that well-behaved?"

"Of course, little girl, are you as well-behaved as me?"

"Of course I am!" Ye Yuqiao's voice was somewhat shy, "By the way, what did you do this morning?"

"Rode a horse, and then went to soak in a hot spring."

"Hot spring?" Ye Yuqiao's voice was filled with surprise, "Where did you soak in a hot spring?"

Chen Hao laughed twice, and just as he was about to eagerly tell Ye Yuqiao about his discovery, Ye Yuqiao suddenly said, "Chen Hao, I have to get busy, we'll talk later."

Chen Hao's face darkened, and his enthusiasm vanished in an instant. He thought if Ye Yuqiao were a modern person from the mortal world, she would definitely have been a top student during her school days and would become a workaholic after starting work. In any case, they were not the kind of people who lived in the same world.

Afterward, holding onto the speculation that Ye Yuqiao might be an ordinary person from the mortal world, Chen Hao gradually fell asleep.

At this moment, to the east of the Huiyin Mountains, Lin Huashan was getting closer and closer;

Besides her, there were two other groups converging on the Huiyin Mountains.

One was King Nanlin who had just come out from the Tianjing; the other was Yi Ning, daughter of King Ning, leading the Ning army.

They were all heading for Chen Hao!

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