King Nanlin thought Chen Hao would either take refuge in a Nether Acupoint to avoid the flames or turn into dust, but ultimately, Chen Hao's choice surprised him.

Chen Hao charged directly toward the fierce fire!

He stood in front of King Nanlin, his body already enveloped in flames.

He did not turn into dust to shake off the flames clinging to him; instead, he allowed those crimson roots to pierce into his flesh, and into his left eye as well.

Doubt filled King Nanlin's eyes as he remembered how, before falling into the Dust Realm, Chen Hao had used Yin Yang Arts to freeze the blood in his body.

"Could you be planning the same trick again?" King Nanlin wondered to himself, "Even if this kid freezes my blood, what then? By the time he does, I will have taken the Nether King's Heart from his body, and both his flesh and Yin Soul will have been reduced to ashes by the fire."

At that moment, an extremely cold Mana traveled via the roots that had pierced into Chen Hao's body, flowing into King Nanlin.

Realizing that his own blood was about to freeze, King Nanlin not only forced more Spiritual Power into the roots extracting the Nether King's Heart from Chen Hao's left eye but also tried to boil his blood to fend off the freezing.

"Agh!" Chen Hao, gnashing his teeth and with a twisted visage, roared at King Nanlin. It was unclear whether his screams stemmed from the unbearable scorching or from the effort to unleash even more Yang Energy Power into King Nanlin.

About half a minute later, much of Chen Hao's flesh and blood had been charred by the flames. Since the Nether King's Heart had been sealed by King Nanlin's Spiritual Power, it could not heal him as it had before.

Suddenly, King Nanlin's eyes darkened, his complexion turned ghastly, and the blood-red roots sprouting from his being also seemed to bear a faint tinge of bruise.

In the clash between Yang Energy Power and Yin Qi Spiritual Power, Chen Hao triumphed over King Nanlin, freezing the Dust King's blood with a Yin Soul Blood-Freezing Spell.

According to the plan he and Ye Yuqiao had made, once he managed to freeze King Nanlin with a spell, it would be Ye Yuqiao's turn to appear and incinerate him with the Nether King's Fire.

However, Chen Hao suddenly sent a secretive message to Ye Yuqiao, "Yuqiao, don't come out yet!"

"What's wrong?" Ye Yuqiao was puzzled.

"I feel that I can defeat him with my own strength!" Chen Hao said through gritted teeth, the pain of burning intensifying, "It's about to erupt!"

"Erupt?" Ye Yuqiao, who was in the Nether Acupoint, looked up at the Nether King Orchid Heart overhead.

At first glance, the Nether King Orchid Heart appeared calm, merely shining a bit brighter than usual. However, upon careful observation for a few seconds, Ye Yuqiao noticed its size pulsating in a regular pattern of expansion and contraction.

The Nether King Orchid Heart was throbbing, gathering energy for an eruption!

Ye Yuqiao's face lit up with surprise; she could foresee the aftermath of the Nether King Orchid Heart's impending burst. However, her expression quickly turned grim, despair evident in her eyes.

Because of Chen Hao's efforts, the Nether King Orchid Heart could, at most, erupt one more time, having reached its limit. No matter how much Yin Qi Spiritual Power Chen Hao absorbed in the future, he could not advance further unless—

Ye Yuqiao dared not continue that thought—it entailed a sorrowful conclusion.

"No, it won't happen!" Ye Yuqiao muttered to herself, shaking her head, "I should believe that Chen Hao and I will have a good ending, believe in miracles. Just like this time, Chen Hao came back to life, didn't leave me. So, I won't leave him either!"

Suddenly, a blinding light shot into Ye Yuqiao's eyes. Squinting through the intense brightness, she looked toward the Nether King Orchid Heart and saw a giant black-purple column of light burst forth from it, piercing through the Barrier of the Nether Acupoint and leaving behind a black-purple hole.

Instantly, the hole began to spin.

And in the realm of Dust, above Chen Hao and King Nanlin, a massive black vortex appeared in the sky.

Chen Hao struggled to lift his head to look at the vortex that seemed to cover the entire sky, wondering if this was the result of the eruption of the Nether King Orchid Heart?

"Yes," Ye Yuqiao's voice rang out again, "This is the Nether Acupoint, and you have successfully cultivated the Nether Acupoint!"

Chen Hao smiled, but the smile appeared somewhat pallid against the backdrop of his agony.

"Does this mean that I am one step closer to the Nether King's Power?"

"Mhm!" Ye Yuqiao responded. Indeed, after cultivating the Nether Acupoint, Chen Hao was just one step away from the Nether King's Power. But this step would be a chasm that Chen Hao couldn't cross.

She was reluctant to tell Chen Hao, fearing it might break his heart.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh!" Sounds like a howling wind arose, omnipresent, as a tremendous suction force flowed out from the giant vortex above, shaking everything beneath it. From the clouds in the sky to the swirls of dust descending upon the sunken city, from the towering trees rooted deep in the ground around Chen Hao to the giant rocks in the mountains, all showed clear signs of being affected by a dragging gravitational pull.

"Chen Hao, you must learn to control this Nether Acupoint!" Ye Yuqiao urged urgently, "Otherwise, you will suck everything beneath into the Nether ****, and it will deplete all the Spiritual Power in your body."

"What should I do?" Chen Hao's voice was weak, and he was feeling dizzy.

"Focus on the target you want to clear away, amplify the desperate desire in your heart to get rid of it, and use your will to direct the invisible gravity around you to converge on your target!"

Chen Hao looked at King Nanlin and expressed his inner desire to eliminate King Nanlin using the method taught by Ye Yuqiao, then controlled the invisible gravity to transfer onto King Nanlin through sensing the forces around him.

However, he felt powerless, as the gravity seemed difficult to shift.

"This invisible gravity is the transformation of your body's Spiritual Power, you can completely control it!" Ye Yuqiao kept prompting Chen Hao.

"The Spiritual Power in my body is my strength!" Chen Hao's confidence surged; his pale face showing veins as he tried hard to manipulate the surrounding gravity with his thoughts.

At that moment, countless stones and trees uprooted, while the water in the riverbed and the fish within the river rose toward the sky.

"Ah!" Chen Hao gasped for air, feeling completely exhausted and unable to go on.

"I am so close to cultivating the Nether King's Power, I must do this! I will defeat the Ghost King, I want the eternal covenant!" Chen Hao motivated himself internally.

Hearing Chen Hao's strong inner voice, Ye Yuqiao felt deeply pained.

Suddenly, the blue on King Nanlin's face was replaced with a flush of red, and his eyes suddenly shot out a bright light! Realizing that his death was imminent, he made a final struggle to break the freeze on his blood from the Yin Soul Solid Blood Spell!

Instantly, the crimson roots that had pierced into Chen Hao's body turned into flames, turning Chen Hao into a man of fire.

At that moment, the surrounding howling noise ceased, and the trees, rocks, and river water that had been lifting toward the sky all fell back to their original places.

King Nanlin's heart shook violently...

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