"Chen Hao, save me!"

"Chen Hao, come save me quickly!"

It was that dream again: in the dream, Ye Yuqiao was trapped in a sea of fire, curled up and sitting on the ground, crying.

This dream had appeared every day during this period, except for the few days in the Dust Realm.

Chen Hao tried to approach Ye Yuqiao and extended his hand to her. He was gasping for air, the heat of the surrounding flames and the choking smoke made it hard for him to breathe.

However, when his hand was about to finally grasp Ye Yuqiao's hand, a coldness that sharply contrasted the surrounding heat invaded his body, bone-chilling and deep.

Immediately after, the sound of harsh wind filled his ears.

The dream began to blur, and Ye Yuqiao kept getting farther away from him.

After taking a deep breath, Chen Hao opened his eyes. The tent ceiling that filled his view, and the light entering from the corner of his left eye, made him realize that everything just now was a dream.

A very familiar dream. Although familiar, he still couldn't avoid breaking out in a cold sweat all over.

He looked to his left, and there was Ye Yuqiao sitting at the head of the bed, her face resting on the edge, sleeping peacefully. Upon seeing her face, serene and beautiful even in its haziness, Chen Hao's nervously racing heart began to calm, and his breathing slowly eased.

After a while, Chen Hao's mind started racing, recalling many things: he remembered the Ghost King's army of one hundred thousand attacking the Huiyin Mountains; he remembered summoning the spirits of the Dust Tribe's soldiers to disrupt the Dark Law King's army of one hundred thousand; and he also recalled summoning the Netherworld Abyss to contend with the army led by King Wumeng and King Qingyu.

Finally, he remembered that he had passed out due to the excessive depletion of his Spiritual Power from being unable to close the Netherworld Abyss.

Although he didn't know what happened afterward, seeing that he was still in his tent, he figured that the main peak of the Huiyin Mountains must have held.

In addition, seeing Ye Yuqiao sleeping so peacefully and the quiet calm around him with no trace of any tense atmosphere, he thought that reinforcements must have arrived, and the Ghost King's army must have retreated.

Looking at Ye Yuqiao, Chen Hao smiled sincerely from his heart.

Just as he was about to lift Ye Yuqiao onto the bed, an image suddenly flashed through his mind.

He recalled seeing a phoenix just before he lost consciousness.

Instantly, Chen Hao became petrified, staring blankly. When he came to his senses, his complexion turned deathly pale, his eyes filled with fear, and his breathing and heartbeat started to quicken again.

He closed his eyes, trying to remember seriously, wanting to confirm whether the image that had suddenly popped into his mind had really happened.

After a long time, Chen Hao opened his eyes, a bright clarity shooting from them, his face not hiding the panic within.

Because he had confirmed that the image was real. Before he fainted, he truly did see that phoenix.

He felt very afraid. The phoenix had always been by his side, and a frightening truth was gradually becoming clear before him.

He took a deep breath and closed his eyes again, trying to calm his heart so as not to disturb his thoughts.

But he didn't understand why he was so uneasy. According to others' descriptions, the phoenix had once saved him and seemed more like his guardian spirit.

However, his heart was rejecting and resisting the phoenix.

He felt as if there were a veil between him and his heart, and that veil seemed like a lie, a deception. Therefore, he had been blinded, unable to see into his own heart, which was why he couldn't understand the fear and panic he felt at the moment.

He scratched his head with both hands, his face full of pain.

After some time, he tried to rid himself of the various unsettling emotions and began to follow his heart, carefully recalling the events of this time period, to unveil that layer of veil shrouding deep within his heart:

"Every person has many sides, and the one you see might not necessarily be the one you are familiar with, nor the one you are familiar with necessarily be their true side."

First, he thought of the words Niu Tou had warned him not long ago.

He remembered that it was when he had actively gone to seek out Niu Tou and Ma Mian. At that time, Niu Tou and Ma Mian both behaved very strangely, as if they were hiding something from him, and then Niu Tou left him with such an intriguing sentence.

Back then, Chen Hao felt there was more to her words, but he couldn't decipher the hidden meaning.

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"Why have you lost weight?"

"Did you miss me?"

Following that, he recalled the scene where he met Ye Yuqiao in the Dust Realm. At the time, because he was so overwhelmed by the excitement of seeing Ye Yuqiao, Chen Hao seemed not to pay much attention to these two sentences she said. It was only now, upon reflection, that he realized how strange those words actually were.

They sounded more like what one would say during a reunion after a long separation;

Moreover, the impression he got at the time was that it was a Ye Yuqiao who had been reunited with him after a long time.

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"Chen Hao, hold me tight."

"Kiss me!"

The scene shifted to the morning they left the Dust Realm.

Chen Hao still remembered, he had said he needed to return to the Netherworld, and Ye Yuqiao suddenly looked sorrowful. He had asked her if it was because she didn't want to return to the Netherworld, and without a word, Ye Yuqiao had taken the initiative to make love to him.

At that time, Ye Yuqiao had been very earnest, very emotional, and now, in hindsight, Chen Hao suddenly realized that the passion seemed to stem from an impending separation.

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Thinking back to this point, Chen Hao's heart began to feel uneasy again. He felt he was getting closer to a certain truth.

This truth seemed terrifying and related to that phoenix, as well as to everyone around him.

And he was not prepared to face that truth.

His consciousness and emotions were experiencing a violent storm.

He wanted to break off his thoughts, to escape, to distance himself from his own heart.

However, he was no longer in control at this point, and new scenes began to appear in his mind: he saw Lin Huashan, who was inside the Barrier that imprisoned him.

At that time, he was interrogating Lin Huashan.

"Besides me, Niu Tou and Ma Mian as well as the Dust Tribe Clan Leader Zhou Ke were there. It wasn't just them, almost everyone saw that woman. Zhao Chong even had the audacity to say he didn't recognize that woman. It seems they had agreed to keep you in the dark, treating you... as if you were a fool!"

"There was something I didn't get to finish saying that day in the Dust Realm. I feel that the woman who transformed into a phoenix looked very much like, very similar to, very alike to Yuqiao!"

"Chen Hao, although this idea seems ludicrous, it truly is what I believe. Is it possible that there is another Yuqiao in this world, like Ye Yuqiao's twin sister, or possibly..."

Remembering every sentence Lin Huashan had said at that time sent chills down Chen Hao's spine, making him feel cold.

Because every sentence from Lin Huashan was like a perfect answer, perfectly explaining all his doubts.

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The scene shifted again, going back to more than twenty days ago, Chen Hao..

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