After a moment, Chen Hao slowly rose to his feet, holding Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body in his arms.

He looked towards a mountain in the southeast, only to see that man standing under the moonlight, staring at him with icy eyes.

Clearly, as soon as the power of the Nether King's cave was withdrawn, that man would attack again.

"Chen Hao," Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body clung tightly to Chen Hao's neck, "I'm scared!"

At that time, she was genuinely afraid. Apart from fearing the man whose approach was too swift for her to know how to respond, she was also afraid of being sucked away by the strong gravitational force from the Nether King's cave.

"Don't be afraid! I'm here," Chen Hao's gaze was resolute, and his heart, accustomed to battles, was relatively calm.

He was telling himself to calm down, to listen to the wind around him, to slow down everything he saw so that he could catch a glimpse of that man's figure.

"You just stay inside the column of light, I'll try to deal with him," Chen Hao pondered seriously, "If that doesn't work, then I will summon the Nether King's cave again."

Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body hummed in acknowledgment, saying, "Chen Hao, I believe in you."

A column of light filled with dense dust fell upon Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body, and at the same time, the huge vortex in the sky disappeared.

After leaving the column of light, Chen Hao closed his eyes and concentrated on listening to everything around him.

Immediately, he detected a slight disturbance in the air in front of him. Opening his eyes, he saw that man was already about ten meters in front of him.

Next, Chen Hao moved swiftly like a phantom, followed by a sharp pain that appeared on his left face and then spread throughout all the nerves in his body.

Although he could capture the trajectory of that man's actions, he couldn't respond in time.

Afterward, he continued to suffer punches and kicks from the man. Each blow, loaded with severe Spiritual Power, inflicted bone-chilling, heart-piercing pain on Chen Hao.

By the time Chen Hao had infused the power of dust into his bloodstream, turning into a cloud of dust, that man had already left more than twenty scars on his body.

And the entire process, in the eyes of Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body standing behind, was merely the blink of an eye.

Watching this scene, Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body was completely dumbfounded.

When Chen Hao turned into a pile of dust, that man began walking towards her.

Instantly, snowflakes formed around that man, and as he thrust forward, those snowflakes began colliding with the golden column of light where Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body was.

The man feared not the light, but the dust particles floating within the column. These particles would hinder his movements and expose him in front of Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body.

Standing beside Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body without the advantage of speed would be tantamount to seeking his own death.

Watching that man, Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body felt helpless. Although her flames could incinerate that man into ashes in an instant, he did not give her a chance.

With a swoosh, all the dust within the column of light was dispersed by the snowflakes.

Then that man disappeared again.

"Ugh!"

A heart-wrenching scream shattered the surrounding silence of the night!

However, the one who screamed was not Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body, but that man.

In the moment he reached Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body, Chen Hao unexpectedly stood in front of her, and then thrust the dagger of the Ancestor of the Nether King into the man's abdomen.

Chen Hao was simply trying to prevent the man from harming Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body, and since he couldn't merge the Nether King's World-Slaying Blade in time, he hastily stabbed forward with the secondary blade made by the Ancestor of the Nether King.

At the moment he thrust forth with the secondary blade made by the Ancestor of the Nether King, he couldn't determine from which direction the man would attack and just acted instinctively to stab to his left.

"You!" The man stared at Chen Hao with an incredulous expression, not expecting him to be so fast. Just a moment ago, Chen Hao had been nothing but dust.

Chen Hao too was surprised by his own performance as he had only intended to protect Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body.

It seemed like a long time before both the man and Chen Hao came to their senses.

Just as Chen Hao was about to infuse the Nether King's Power into the secondary blade of the Ancestor of the Nether King, the man disappeared, only to reappear twenty meters away.

A dazzling scarlet flame then burst forth from Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body, surging like a fire dragon towards the snow-capped mountains to the southwest.

In fact, from the moment the man got stabbed by Chen Hao to when he retreated to a distance, it took only an instant.

Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body had reacted swiftly, almost immediately shooting flames the moment she saw the man reappear. However, her flames were a step too slow.

"All of you must die!" The man coldly stated, his eyes as icy as the undulating snow-capped mountains under the cold moon behind him.

Taking advantage of this moment, Chen Hao quickly merged the two blades of the Ancestor of the Nether King into the Nether King's World-Slaying Blade.

At the instant the Nether King's World-Slaying Blade merged, he saw the man turn into a phantom and speed past him with lightning speed, heading straight for Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body behind him.

"Uh!"

Another heart-wrenching scream echoed!

This time, the scream was from Chen Hao.

Seeing the phantom appear, without a second thought or reaction, he lunged in front of Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body as a burst of Spiritual Power exploded from within the man's body toward Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body. It struck Chen Hao instead.

Then, he was knocked back along with Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body by the powerful force.

After hitting the ground, Chen Hao immediately vomited blood.

"Chen Hao!" Tears shimmered in Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body's eyes, not expecting Chen Hao to risk his life for hers like that.

As another lightning-like phantom dashed by, the man reappeared in front of the two.

"You're impressive," the man said, "to be able to keep up with my speed twice. But still, you must die."

As he spoke, a blade formed of concentrated Yin Qi Spiritual Power appeared in his left hand.

Chen Hao saw the ice blade for only an instant before the man disappeared again.

"No good!" Chen Hao tensed up. At that moment, no matter what he tried, he couldn't prevent the man from harming Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body.

Because the man was simply too fast.

Just as he was about to turn back and look behind him, a scream had already sounded.

Surprisingly, the one who screamed was the man.

By the time Chen Hao fully turned around, he saw that the man's back had been struck by a fierce flame!

However, the one releasing the flames was not Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body, but...

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