But, after covering only a short distance, suddenly, many tiny things emerged from the woods beneath them.

Chen Hao looked down and to his utter surprise, what floated up were numerous slender, withered branches and twigs.

"Flying branches?" Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body said with disbelief.

"It shouldn't be!" Chen Hao shook his head, "It might be insects or something."

Having said that, for safety's sake, Chen Hao ascended dozens of meters into the air.

At that moment, the sweet fragrance of licorice drifted up from below.

"Don't smell it!" Chen Hao said alertly, "These scents may be poisonous."

He remembered, over a year ago, having encountered a flower demon that released insects through its scent.

Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body quickly covered her nose and said, "It feels so eerie."

Chen Hao had intended to enter the Nether Acupoint, but then he thought that he might bring the poisonous scents into the Nether Acupoint too, so he dismissed the idea.

Below them, a dense mass of branches had risen, resembling the rolling waves of the sea.

"Yeee, yeee, yeee, yeee," those branches suddenly made a noisy, strange sound, like that of cicadas.

"It's so noisy!" Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body said with an annoyed expression. She wanted to cover her ears but found her hands were not enough.

Out of frustration, she directly spewed a lengthy flame towards the area below.

However, once the flame burned those branches, they seemed to awaken and began to emit a red glow one after another.

And then, their bodies began to swell and expand, transforming into black insects with wings, their eyes the size of soybeans, glowing a deep red.

"Did I do something wrong?" Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body exclaimed in shock.

"It seems so!" Chen Hao frowned slightly, "It's possible that they shrink into branches when it's cold, but turn into insects when heated."

"It does seem I was wrong," Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body said with a look of remorse, "Sob, Chen Hao, I'm sorry, please don't scold me."

"Why would I scold you? I'm not at all surprised that you've done this. What's most important now is to figure out how we're going to deal with those insects."

Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body then bit Chen Hao's ear, looking utterly dejected.

"Besides breathing fire, I can't do anything else. The queen has fallen, and it's up to the Yang King now," she said to Chen Hao through a private communication.

Chen Hao's eyebrows trembled slightly, not knowing what to say.

Just then, suddenly, an extraordinarily bright fire burst out from below them, and the insects began to combust spontaneously, causing billows of dark green smoke to emerge from their bodies.

"There's nowhere to hide!" Chen Hao immediately cast a spell, summoning the Six-Character Sealing Barrier to surround himself and Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body, keeping them separate from the potentially toxic smoke.

In no time, the perimeter of the Barrier was engulfed in dark green smoke. And within the smoke, the insects crowded around the Barrier in dozens of layers.

"What should we do?" Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body asked, "Chen Hao, I'm really scared!"

Chen Hao's eyes suddenly narrowed to slits and he said, "Stop lying to me, there's nothing in this world that can make you feel scared."

"How boring!" Ye Yuqiao said coldly, her face devoid of fear.

Chen Hao sighed resignedly and muttered, "Just as I thought!"

"Quick, think of something!" At this point, Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body got down from Chen Hao's back and then pulled him to sit together on top of the Barrier.

Then she gradually lay down, her head resting on Chen Hao's thigh.

"Hey!" Chen Hao glanced sideways, "Sis, what time do you think it is, and you still feel like lying down. Don't you feel scared at all?"

"With you here, what do I have to be afraid of?" Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body laughed, "You are the personal guard of the queen, and you are also the queen's knight. Remember to protect your queen well; that's your highest honor."

Chen Hao gritted his teeth and said, "What kind of bullshit reasoning is that? You've got an answer for everything!"

"Bang, bang, bang!" At this moment, those self-igniting creatures started slamming into the Six-Character Sealing Barrier, creating an incessant noise.

Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body covered her ears and said, "I'm not listening, I'm not listening!"

"Childish!" Chen Hao silently thought to himself.

He could clearly feel that these creatures might be small in size but possessed profound Spiritual Power. And as their bodies burnt more intensely, their Spiritual Power was also continuously rising.

In the cruel Polar Ice Land, the creatures that had survived this long were not to be underestimated.

Watching the Six-Character Sealing Barrier being hit and twisted, Chen Hao said helplessly, "If we really have no other choice, let's hide inside the Barrier for now."

"Okay!" Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body agreed with a laugh, appearing completely carefree.

"If only I were King Shuanglin," Chen Hao sighed, "then I could make everything around us turn to ice, turning those creatures back into branches."

"Damn it, do you think those branches started floating just now because of the blood in my body?" Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body suddenly asked, her expression very serious.

"Very likely!"

After he spoke, a light suddenly flashed in Chen Hao's eyes as he remembered something.

"That day inside the Demon-Sealing Scroll, the Ancestor of the Nether King's power incarnated something that told me about the Dog Tribe's faith in the Volcano King and flames. This forest is close to the Dog Tribe's territory, and you have inherited the blood of the Netherworld Azure Bird, so it looks like you were right."

"Wuu wuu," Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body suddenly burst into tears, covering her face, "It seems I've made a mistake again."

"Cut it out!" Chen Hao narrowed his eyes.

A while later, just as Chen Hao was about to hide inside a Nether Acupoint.

Suddenly, the fire on the packed bodies of the creatures outside the Barrier was extinguished, and then ice began to form around the Barrier.

Chen Hao was stunned, unsure of what had happened outside.

Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body stood up, pointing excitedly, "Damn it, look, they've turned back into branches, it's truly unbelievable. If only I could do the same."

"Do you want to turn into a creature?"

"No!" Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body shook her head, "In the winter, I'd like to become a bear, then I could hibernate in a cave."

Chen Hao glanced at Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body and said coldly, "So, in the summer, you want to become a dog and go around biting people?"

Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body humphed angrily, "Of course not, I just want to bite you, and then be all over you every day."

No sooner had Ye Yuqiao spoken than a sudden "boom" sounded.

Both were startled.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

The loud noise rippled around, and then the ice formed around the Barrier began to break and fall.

Then, the two of them saw that six white giant beasts were surrounding the Barrier.

"It's them!"

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