"Are you angry with me?" Ye Yuqiao sent a covert message to Chen Hao, "Because of Huashan."

"It's not because of her, nor is it because of Zhao Chong, it's because of you!"

"Me?" Ye Yuqiao's complexion turned ashen, and anger flickered across her face, "I've already said, I was just telling the truth."

"But I don't think so!" Chen Hao's voice became hurried, "You feel like you haven't told the truth, it's more like…"

"That feeling, I can't explain it clearly, it's just very strange, very uncomfortable!"

At this point, Ye Yuqiao gestured slightly to Zhao Chong, signaling him to step back.

After Zhao Chong left the tent, she walked up to Chen Hao, then threw herself into his arms, weeping.

"It hurts so much, why do we have to be angry with each other!"

"I don't know, I just feel very strange," Chen Hao said coldly, his rigid and icy hands forgetting to console Ye Yuqiao's back.

Consequently, Ye Yuqiao felt even more heartbroken.

After a while, Chen Hao finally softened, holding Ye Yuqiao tightly in his arms.

"Little girl, stop crying!"

"Okay!" Ye Yuqiao complied, yet her crying became even more intense.

She was thinking about how her Yang Soul would handle this sort of issue. It seemed to her that Chen Hao and her Yang Soul hardly ever squabbled.

After thinking for a while, she couldn't figure out what her Yang Soul would do. Because her Yang Soul would never encounter such a problem, she was the Yuqiao whom Chen Hao liked.

After a long silence, Ye Yuqiao stopped crying and stepped back from Chen Hao's chest.

Chen Hao wiped away her tears, his eyes full of sympathy. Yet, even so, he still couldn't stop the strangeness he felt inside.

"Jerk!" Ye Yuqiao whispered softly, "You made me cry, it's so embarrassing, what if word gets out?"

"Getting the word out might be good, then everyone will know that only Chen Hao can make the Nether King cry. Thinking about it, it's quite impressive."

"Hmph, heartless boyfriend!"

Chen Hao smiled sincerely, feeling warmth in his heart; it had been a long time since he heard Ye Yuqiao call him boyfriend.

It felt good, a feeling he yearned for.

However, Chen Hao soon felt apprehensive. He didn't understand, with Ye Yuqiao right next to him, why he still felt nostalgic?

Apart from strangeness, he could think of no other word to appropriately describe his feelings at the moment.

"It's because I'm not her; that's why you feel nostalgic," Ye Yuqiao thought to herself, her heart filled with immense loss and dejection.

Following a long silence, Chen Hao took Ye Yuqiao's hand and said softly, "Yuqiao, I still want to see Huashan. There are some things that if I don't ask clearly, will keep feeling weird inside."

"Go ahead!" Ye Yuqiao nodded, "But be wary, don't think of her as the Lin Huashan you knew before."

Ye Yuqiao agreed to let Chen Hao meet Lin Huashan, but she was actually reluctant.

"I'll tell Zhao Chong to take you to see Lin Huashan."

"Hey, wait!" Chen Hao hurriedly hooked his arm around Ye Yuqiao's waist, pressing his body against hers.

Ye Yuqiao's cheeks flushed instantly, saying, "What are you doing?"

"I want to kiss you. It feels like there's a crack in our relationship, needs some mending."

Ye Yuqiao "huffed," her eyes flashing fiercely, "I will forgive you this time, but if you dare to get mad at me over some other girl again, see how I deal with you!"

"Such a fierce little girl!" Chen Hao said teasingly, then leaned in to kiss Ye Yuqiao.

...

...

A quarter of an hour later, Zhao Chong brought Chen Hao to a cave halfway up the main peak of the Huiyin Mountains.

Weeds overgrew the entrance to the cave, which was pitch-black inside.

Through his left eye's Nether Vision, Chen Hao saw a Seal Barrier within the cave.

"Huashan is detained inside the Seal Barrier in the cave," Zhao Chong said coldly before opening the entrance to the Seal Barrier.

After exchanging a look with Zhao Chong, Chen Hao walked into the cave.

Once Chen Hao had entered the barrier and the entrance had closed behind him, Ye Yuqiao suddenly appeared behind Zhao Chong.

"Issue the order, within the camps of the five great families, no one is to speak of me taking the form of the phoenix ever again!" Ye Yuqiao commanded with an icy tone.

She deeply regretted revealing her identity in front of the soldiers just before battling the Ghost King Battalion several days ago.

Before Lin Huashan's emergence, she had not thought there was anything wrong with it – as long as no one spoke of it, Chen Hao would never find out. Now that Chen Hao had grown suspicious, she felt that keeping this secret from him was increasingly difficult.

"It's easy enough for our people to remain completely silent, but what about Qian Feng's side? That old fox might find a way to get close to Chen Hao at any moment," Zhao Chong said, his face reflecting his worry.

"From now on, I will stay by Chen Hao's side every moment. If anyone dares to bring up the matter, I will eliminate them before they can speak!"

"Perhaps you should take the initiative to confess this to Chen Hao and release your Yang Soul. That would be better than him finding out later and hating you for it," Zhao Chong said earnestly.

"No! Impossible, why should I give Chen Hao to her? I am also Ye Yuqiao! Why should she be the one to receive Chen Hao's love while I endure more than a decade of loneliness and pain in the Eighteen Levels of Hell?"

At that moment, Zhao Chong patted Ye Yuqiao's shoulder, speaking to her in a brotherly tone, "Have you ever thought about what you would do if Chen Hao one day learns the truth and hates you to the bone?"

Ye Yuqiao shivered, tears welling up in her eyes, and she shook her head repeatedly, "No, no, that day will never come. Chen Hao won't hate me!"

...

...

After entering the Seal Barrier, Chen Hao followed Lin Huashan's aura to the end of the barrier.

Many soldiers were guarding inside the barrier, but they showed no reaction as Chen Hao walked by.

"Huashan!" Chen Hao caught sight of Lin Huashan. She was emaciated and looked haggard, her hands and feet tightly shackled by iron chains under the dim firelight.

Seeing this, Chen Hao felt a pang of compassion.

"Ah!" Lin Huashan gasped, then suddenly lifted her head, and two beams of light shot out from her eyes.

"Chen Hao, you've come, please, get me out of here!" Lin Huashan urged in desperation.

With a steely face, Chen Hao slowly walked up to Lin Huashan.

"Huashan, look into my eyes and tell me, are you working for Qian Feng?"

All of a sudden, Lin Huashan's eyes dimmed, and then, with a trembling sob, she lowered her head and said, "Since you are asking me yourself, you will certainly hear the truth – yes, I have a secret connection with Qian Feng."

Hearing Lin Huashan's personal admission, Chen Hao was struck as if by a bolt from the blue, petrified.

"Chen Hao, even though I did not tell you about this, believe me, I never thought of hurting you or Yuqiao."

"Did you tell Qian Feng about me and Yuqiao?"

After a moment of stun, Lin Huashan nodded.

"How is what you did any different from hurting me and Yuqiao?"

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