The snow on the Huiyin Mountains was falling heavier and heavier.

Concerned that Chen Hao might be ambushed by Yi Ning and Ning's forces, Niu Tou arranged for more soldiers to guard the outside of Chen Hao's tent.

The snowy nights in the mountains were very quiet and also very boring. After idly watching the snow outside for a while, Chen Hao returned to his tent.

He suddenly missed the days in the mortal world, missing Xie Xiaofeng and Tang Jing and, of course, missing Ye Yuqiao as well.

As he lay on the bed, Chen Hao reminisced over the past events he had experienced with Ye Yuqiao in the mortal world, and suddenly, he felt a sensitivity—he felt that Yuqiao in the mortal world and Yuqiao in the Netherworld weren't quite the same, as if they weren't the same person.

He didn't understand why he suddenly had this feeling, why he felt that Ye Yuqiao had become distant and unfamiliar.

And this feeling was very strong.

He was also reminded of the nightmares he had been having over the past few days, as if the Yuqiao pleading for help in his dreams was the Yuqiao he knew and loved.

"Alas!" Chen Hao turned over, unable to fall asleep because of the sudden sense of melancholy welling up in his heart.

Just then, amidst the howling cold wind outside the tent in the snowy wilderness, he thought he heard the sound of intense fighting.

Immediately, he got up, about to activate his Nether Vision in his left eye to look outside the tent, when suddenly a soldier rushed in and said urgently, "General Chen, it's not good, the ones who attacked you just now have come back!"

"What!" Chen Hao's expression was very surprised; he hadn't expected Yi Ning and Ning's troops to return so quickly.

"But this time, they are launching a surprise attack on the soldiers' camp!" the soldier continued.

Chen Hao frowned, puzzled, wondering if Ning's forces had changed their strategy and wanted to take advantage of this moment to take over the Huiyin Mountains.

At that moment, two brilliant flashes of light suddenly passed through Chen Hao's eyes, and he looked terrified. He had sensed an extremely profound influx of Yin Qi Spiritual Power approaching.

The comer shouldn't be Yi Ning or anyone from Ning's forces but someone else, he guessed.

He rushed out of the tent and saw a man with graying hair and a gloomy face. On this elderly man, Chen Hao sensed an aura of ancientness.

"Who are you?"

"King Nanlin!" King Nanlin said with a cold laugh, his gaze upon Chen Hao somewhat ferocious.

Chen Hao and the guards standing behind him were both shocked upon hearing the name "King Nanlin." Chen Hao then noticed that the soldiers Niu Tou had sent to protect him had all fallen to the ground.

"You go first, don't worry, I won't be in trouble!" Chen Hao said softly to the soldier behind him.

The soldier, trembling, nodded and then fled as fast as he could to the right. He was well aware that staying would only hinder Chen Hao.

"King Nanlin, have you come for the Nether King's Heart?" Chen Hao asked.

King Nanlin shook his head and said with a sinister smile, "Besides the Nether King's Heart, I've also come to kill you!"

Chen Hao clenched his fist, anger flaring in his eyes, and said, "It just so happens that I also want to kill you."

"Let's not rush to fight," King Nanlin narrowed his eyes and said, "I really want to know, who exactly is the girl who saved you last time?"

"Which time? Which girl?"

"It was I who brought you to the Netherworld that time, the girl who can turn into a phoenix and wears a mask!" King Nanlin explained, "If she hadn't arrived in time to save you, I would have already obtained the Nether King's Heart."

"Oh?" Chen Hao's brows furrowed deeply. He had always believed that after he was brought to the Netherworld by King Nanlin, it was only because the Dark Law King, King Shuanglin, and King Wumeng—the three Dharma Kings—intervened that he escaped calamity.

He had not expected that there was also a mysterious woman involved.

Seeing Chen Hao's confused and puzzled look, King Nanlin felt extremely surprised, "Could it be that you still don't know what happened then?"

Chen Hao stared at King Nanlin steadily, neither admitting nor denying.

King Nanlin stood with his hands behind his back, scoffing with a chuckle, "It seems that you also don't know about that masked girl. How strange. She saved you without regard for her own life, yet she did not want you to know who she was."

"Masked and turned into a phoenix!" A strange light flashed in Chen Hao's eyes. He remembered something: a few days ago, which was the first day he woke up after being unconscious and severely injured for a long time, he seemed to have seen a phoenix in a daze.

"Could it have been just a dream?" Chen Hao fell into deep thought, filled with doubts and panic. If he was not mistaken, the phoenix he saw at that time was Ye Yuqiao.

"No! How could Yuqiao be the one who turned into a phoenix!"

Just at that moment, taking advantage of Chen Hao's moment of distraction, King Nanlin suddenly launched an attack on him.

He moved like a phantom in front of Chen Hao, directly clawing at Chen Hao's left eye with his left hand, which was gathered with an enormous amount of Yin Qi Spiritual Power.

Feeling the force of a strong surge of Yin Qi Spiritual Power bearing down on him, Chen Hao's eyes glinted sharply, and he instinctively shot out a burst of Netherfire from his left eye.

King Nanlin dodged to the side, then a circle of Yin Qi Spiritual Power erupted from within him. In an instant, all the Yin Qi Spiritual Power in his body turned into a ball of fire.

Chen Hao couldn't dodge in time and suffered several burns on his body.

However, it did not take long for the Nether King's Heart above his left eye to heal those wounds.

"Half of this Nether King's Heart was originally mine, and then that shameless scoundrel, in order to monopolize the entire Nether King's Heart, locked me up underneath the Gate of the Nether King," King Nanlin said with a face full of hatred, "But later on, his four generations of descendants used their lives to seal the Gate of the Nether King. Such retribution, ah!"

"But now the Nether King's Heart is with me!" Chen Hao said. "I have no interest in your past grudges, nor do I want to argue with you over to whom the Nether King's Heart should belong. All I know is that the Nether King's Heart was the first gift she gave me when I came to this world, and I will not let it fall into your hands, no matter what!"

"Who is she?"

"Guess!" Chen Hao said. Before his voice faded, he instantly moved beside King Nanlin and sprayed Netherfire towards King Nanlin with his left eye.

Although he moved with extreme speed, King Nanlin was faster.

Having dodged the Netherfire thrown by Chen Hao, King Nanlin retreated dozens of meters. Last time, because Chen Hao had been in a state of selfless cultivation, King Nanlin had captured him to the Netherworld effortlessly; but now, the awake Chen Hao standing before him was somewhat more difficult to handle than he had anticipated.

Chen Hao glanced at the surrounding mountains. Soldiers from each faction had been caught by surprise in the Ning army's sudden assault. In an instant, he guessed that Yi Ning and King Nanlin must have formed an alliance, and the strategy was to create a diversion, using thousands of Ning soldiers to tie up the twenty thousand guarding the Huiyin Mountains, and then King Nanlin would deal with him.

He looked at King Nanlin again. Although he was far less adept in the use of Yin Qi Spiritual Power than King Nanlin, he could still dodge if he couldn't overtake.

Thus, for quite some time, Chen Hao continued to employ a dodging battle tactic, and King Nanlin could neither get close nor cause him harm.

Until a voice came from the sky.

"Chen Hao!"

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