"It's you, you've finally shown yourself again!" Chen Hao said.

"You still underestimate the Yang Energy Spell you've learned!" the shadowy figure repeated.

Chen Hao hummed, wondering if the shadowy figure meant that the spell learned from the "Yin Yang Arts to Subdue Evil" could be used against King Nanlin.

"You still underestimate the Yang Energy Spell you've learned!" the shadowy figure said again, having already said it three times.

"I heard you!" Chen Hao said impatiently.

Another flash of light passed, and then the shadowy figure appeared.

"Important things need to be said three times," the figure in black said, "otherwise, you definitely won't take them to heart."

"I remember it now!" Chen Hao nodded earnestly. "But I'm about to die right now."

"With me here, you won't die!" the shadowy figure said in a relaxed tone.

Chen Hao sighed in genuine admiration, "Indeed, every time I feel like I'm about to die, you come out to save me. This makes me have to wonder if you're interested in me."

"The main reason I save you is that if you were gone, I would cease to exist as well."

"Right," Chen Hao suddenly remembered something, "the last time I was captured by King Nanlin and taken to the Netherworld, did you come to save me then?"

"Why bring that up all of a sudden?"

"Just tell me if you did or didn't."

"I did!" The shadowy figure did not lie.

"Then, did you see a woman wearing a mask and capable of transforming into a firebird?" Chen Hao continued to ask.

For a long while after that, the shadowy figure did not speak. He had promised Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body that he would not tell Chen Hao, but he did not want to lie to him either.

After a moment of silence, the shadowy figure changed the subject, "You can use the 'Yin Spirit Solidifying Blood' technique to freeze the blood in King Nanlin's body!"

"Yin Spirit Solidifying Blood!" Chen Hao was successfully distracted by the shadowy figure's comment. "But I didn't bring the Blood Moon Evil Subduing Sword to the Netherworld; without it, I can't use the 'Yin Spirit Solidifying Blood' technique."

"You can consider yourself as the Blood Moon Evil Subduing Sword! Just like in your previous life when Ye Heng could achieve unity between man and sword," the shadowy figure hinted to Chen Hao.

"But that was martial arts, this is Yin Yang Arts. Can it be the same?" Chen Hao was somewhat skeptical.

"Try it and you'll know," the shadowy figure said. "I'm going to leave now. I'll appear again when you're in danger next time."

"Ah!" Chen Hao was caught off guard. "You're leaving just like that? I still have so many questions to ask you."

"Actually, what Niu Tou said wasn't wrong!" the shadowy figure added one last thing before leaving.

"Which saying?"

At that moment, blinding white light shot into Chen Hao's eyes. Opening them, he saw King Nanlin right in front of him.

The Nether King's Heart had not yet left his body; it was so close.

Without hesitation, Chen Hao began to recite the incantation for the 'Yin Spirit Solidifying Blood' technique, as hinted by the shadowy figure.

Immediately, he felt a chill rise within him, which then spread throughout his body. Surprisingly, driving this coldness throughout his blood and veins was the Yang Energy inside him.

He had always thought that Yang Energy was only for maintaining body temperature and providing the warmth needed for the Yang Spirit to survive in the mortal world. It turned out that Yang Energy could also be cold and sinister, just like Yin Qi.

As he finished reciting the incantation for the 'Yin Spirit Solidifying Blood' technique, he felt the Yang Energy inside him transform into a mysterious and cold force, continuously flowing into King Nanlin's body through the tree roots that had pierced into him.

Looking at King Nanlin, he noticed that the smirk on King Nanlin's face had become stiff. At the same time, the blood tree roots that had pierced into his body and left eye stopped ravaging him.

Chen Hao had done it; he had managed to freeze King Nanlin's blood and Spiritual Power using the 'Yin Spirit Solidifying Blood' technique!

The desire to survive ignited his potential, allowing him to do as the shadowy figure had said, treating himself as the Blood Moon Evil Subduing Sword.

Although the Spell had frozen King Nanlin, the branches formed from King Nanlin's blood were still inside his body, and the Nether King's Heart that had almost detached from his left eye had not reverted to its place.

Therefore, without the support of King Nanlin's Spiritual Power, the two suspended figures began to fall from the sky.

With a "splat."

As luck would have it, they both fell right into the warm spring pool.

Just moments after the two plunged into the water, Lin Huashan returned on the back of a flying sculpture and arrived at the edge of the spring.

"Chen Hao!" Lin Huashan shouted towards the steaming spring.

After she called out a few times, the water in the spring suddenly formed a rapidly swirling whirlpool. Standing by the pool, Lin Huashan saw at the center of the whirlpool a golden seal door.

The door began to slowly open.

Soon after, Chen Hao and King Nanlin were sucked into it.

"Ah! Chen Hao!" Lin Huashan let out an alarmed shriek and then leapt into the whirlpool.

At that moment, Yi Ning also arrived at the scene, and upon seeing Lin Huashan shout "Chen Hao" and leap into the whirlpool, she hesitated for a moment before jumping into the spring herself.

Not long after, the sealing door closed, and the spring returned to its tranquil state.

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Ye Yuqiao, together with the Clan Leaders of the five great families, had led an army of eighty thousand to the northern part of the Dayang Mountains, a few hours away from the Black Forest.

Hearing that snow had begun to fall on the Huiyin Mountains, Ye Yuqiao couldn't help but look up at the sky repeatedly. She was hoping that the first snowfall of the year on the Dayang Mountains would come at this very moment, so she could share the same season and gaze upon the same scenery as Chen Hao.

Time passed, and instead of the awaited snow, what approached them on the road ahead were billowing clouds of yellow dust rising to the sky and the rumble of an ominous sound.

Accompanying the rumble was the ground trembling and vibrating repeatedly.

"Stop!" Ye Yuqiao pulled on the reins.

Zhou Ke, not far behind her, raised his hand and turned back to shout at the eighty thousand soldiers in the three square formations behind him, "Quick, stop!"

"There's movement ahead," Ye Yuqiao said, looking toward Zhao Chong, "Go check it out."

"Yes!" Zhao Chong replied expressionlessly, then galloped forward.

As Zhao Chong moved further away, the trembling of the ground grew more intense.

Not long after, Zhao Chong suddenly reined in his horse, which raised its front hooves, pawing at the air and letting out a long neigh.

Immediately, plumes of yellow dust rose up around Zhao Chong, engulfing him within. Under the pale moonlight, through the dust, Ye Yuqiao saw countless giant shadows.

The eighty thousand soldiers behind her were agitated, terrified by the frightful shadows.

Shortly after, a white figure burst out from the cloud of dust!

It was Zhao Chong!

When Zhao Chong returned to Ye Yuqiao's side, she asked, "Where's your warhorse?"

"Dead!"

"How did it die?"

"It was killed by a stone serpent beast!"

"Stone serpent beast!" Ye Yuqiao was quite shocked; she had read about the stone serpent beasts in ancient texts, "I saw many giant figures."

"That's right, there were indeed many stone serpent beasts!"

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