She thought of someone, perhaps that person would sense Chen Hao's presence.

That person was her Yang Soul.

She opened the fiery cavern and leaped into it.

Seeing her Nether Soul Body enter again, Ye Yuqiao's Yang Soul opened her eyes. Her dim pupils flickered with a tear, and she asked, "Why have you come again? Surely, nothing has happened to Chen Hao?"

Her voice was as faint as paper, the fiery torment of several dozens of days almost destroying her will.

The belief that sustained her was Chen Hao.

How she wished to see Chen Hao once more, to see if he had gotten thinner or put on weight recently.

"How did you know something happened to Chen Hao?" Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body asked, feeling extremely surprised. At the same time, she also felt a sense of loss, indeed, in the tacit understanding and sensing of Chen Hao, she was not a match for her Yang Soul.

She was so envious!

"Ah!" Ye Yuqiao's Yang Soul exclaimed in shock, tears in her eyes expanding and filling her entire sockets, "What happened to Chen Hao?"

Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body's expression darkened, and she slightly bowed her head, falling into silence.

"What exactly happened to Chen Hao?" Ye Yuqiao's Yang Soul shook the shoulders of her Nether Soul Body, pressing her urgently, "Tell me, tell me quickly!"

After a while, Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body finally looked up, her face already covered in tears.

She looked at her Yang Soul with a helpless and self-blaming gaze.

"Last night, King Nanlin attacked him while I was away, and then he disappeared. I can't even sense the Nether King's Heart!" Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body explained, "What do I do? I am so scared, truly scared. What if King Nanlin has taken the Nether King's Heart? And then Chen Hao is gone!"

After pouring out her heart to her Yang Soul, Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body had already cried herself into a tearful mess. Ever since she learned of Chen Hao's disappearance and couldn't sense the Nether King's Heart anymore, she had been forcibly holding back her overwhelming fear and worry. Now, seeing her Yang Soul, she could no longer restrain herself and vented all her negative emotions unrestrainedly.

After all, both of them loved Chen Hao equally, and both regarded him as vital as their own lives.

"What!" Ye Yuqiao's Yang Soul turned ashen, her whole being stiffened. This news was like a disaster for her, nearly destroying her completely.

"Why, why didn't you protect Chen Hao!" she angrily questioned her Nether Soul Body.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body cried, pleading. She clung to the hand of her Yang Soul, and with a humble tone said, "You've spent more time with Chen Hao than I have, and you have a better connection with him. Please, go outside and see, maybe you can sense his presence."

"Alright!"

Then, they left the fiery cavern.

After more than two months, Ye Yuqiao's Yang Soul finally returned to the Netherworld.

All of this felt so incredibly long for her.

Snow still fell on the Huiyin Mountains. Looking at the mountains covered in pure white snow, she remembered the warm scene from around this time last year when she and Chen Hao kissed amidst the ice and snow.

"Can you sense anything?" Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body asked urgently.

At that moment, Ye Yuqiao's Yang Soul suddenly shed two lines of hot tears. In the surrounding air, she smelled the remnants of Chen Hao's Yang Energy and scent.

That scent was so familiar, so dearly missed!

She closed her eyes, following Chen Hao's lingering scent in the air, feeling it extend into the distance, continuously calling Chen Hao's name in her heart.

After a long wait, as Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body waited anxiously, Ye Yuqiao's Yang Soul finally opened her eyes.

A gleam of surprise shot out from her eyes.

"Have you sensed something?" Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body asked excitedly as she clasped her hand.

Ye Yuqiao's Yang Soul nodded, pointing southwest, "There is a stronger presence of Chen Hao's residual aura and Spiritual Power in that direction."

"Really!" Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body looked in the direction of the southwest. Although reluctant to admit it, she couldn't deny that her Yang Soul had indeed established some special tacit understanding and connection with Chen Hao, something she might never accomplish herself.

It's like a person might only fall in love for the first time once in their life, and in a lifetime, one might only meet someone irreplaceable. Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body had already missed her chance to be that irreplaceable one to Chen Hao in this life.

A quarter of an hour later, the two arrived at the southwest end of the Huiyin Mountains, landing near a steaming hot spring.

After looking around, Ye Yuqiao's Yang Soul gradually found clues near the spring.

"Chen Hao must've appeared here last!" She said, pointing to the spring below.

Without a second word, Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body grabbed her Yang Soul and together, they jumped into the spring. Quickly, they swam to the bottom, where they found the sealed door.

After exchanging a glance, the two returned to the shore.

"Chen Hao is very likely inside the barrier beyond that sealed door," Ye Yuqiao's Yang Soul said, her face lighting up with joy, "He isn't dead!"

"Wuu wuu wuu!" Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body cried once more, but this time the tears were of joy.

For her, it was enough to know that Chen Hao was still alive.

Watching her Nether Soul Body weeping, Ye Yuqiao's Yang Soul felt a pang of sympathy, as if looking in a mirror. That reflection was like another self, perhaps an even more real self.

She gently patted the Nether Soul Body on the back to soothe her.

"This Huiyin Mountain range used to be inhabited by the Dust Tribe, but after the Netherworld Azure Bird turned it into a sea of fire, the Dust Tribe hid within a hidden realm. This spring's sealed door could be the entrance to that hidden realm," Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body speculated, "I will try to open this sealed door as soon as possible, and then you will go inside to bring him back to me!"

"Me, go find him?" Ye Yuqiao's Yang Soul was surprised.

"You are more suited to find him than I am. You must bring him back!"

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Dawn rose.

In the Dust Realm, in the town of Chendust, flowers bloomed earlier than the morning sun, filling the air of this garden town with fragrance and heralding the arrival of a new day.

Underneath the northwestern corner of the town, there was a prison; Chen Hao had been locked inside the night before.

Early in the morning, the commanding officer who had escorted Chen Hao ordered him to be taken out of his cell.

However, Chen Hao was no longer in the prison; he had easily escaped last night when the night was deep and quiet.

At this moment, he had already reached the heart of the Dust Realm—Dustsett City.

He stood at the gate, waiting for it to open. In his hand, there was a ring...

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