"I know an ancient curse," Chen Hao said, "a curse told to me by a man who came to kill me not long ago. And he learned this curse from…"

Chen Hao paused, a slight smile lifting the corners of his lips, then continued, "from one of the Snow Mountain Tribe's elders whom you killed just a few days ago!"

Hearing this, the Second Generation Nether King's expression turned to shock, his face filled with panic, and his eyes widened with unease.

"That's right, the curse that weakens the Nether King's Heart!" Chen Hao said, and immediately began to recite the spell.

A few days before parting with Tu Yi and Han Shuang, Chen Hao had asked Tu Yi to tell him the curse that weakens the Nether King's Heart.

Tu Yi was initially unwilling to do so, but after much persuasion from Han Shuang, he finally disclosed it to Chen Hao.

"No!" the Second Generation Nether King cried out, his voice trembling. He could distinctly feel the Nether King's Power flowing back into the Nether King's Heart in his chest.

Moreover, he felt that the half-piece of the Nether King's Heart within him was completely out of his control!

After a while, Chen Hao finished reciting the spell and then opened his eyes, smiling at the Second Generation Nether King.

"Don't be smug!" the Second Generation Nether King retorted, clearly disgruntled, "Even if you have weakened the Nether King's Heart in me, you still don't have the ability to kill me!"

Chen Hao's spell had only significantly weakened the Nether King's Power in the Second Generation Nether King, not completely frozen the Nether King's Heart inside him.

The Second Generation Nether King's blood still flowed with a lesser amount of Nether King's Power, enough to resist Chen Hao's subsequent attacks until the spell wore off.

This was one reason why the elder of the Snow Mountain Tribe, despite being oppressed by the Second Generation Nether King, never used this spell against him.

Weakening the Nether King's Heart in the Second Generation Nether King wasn't hard, but killing him was certainly not easy.

However, facing such a situation, Chen Hao remained undeterred, saying, "I told you, you will ultimately die by my Yin Yang Arts."

As his words fell, Chen Hao's body suddenly emitted myriad rays of golden light, with copious amounts of Yang Energy overflowing from him.

Then, the Yang Energy that flowed from his body fused into a gigantic Yang Energy sword and thrust horizontally into the Second Generation Nether King with the speed of lightning.

The Second Generation Nether King felt no pain, but his skin turned ominously dark.

His blood and the Nether King's Power had been frozen by Chen Hao using the taboo Blood Solidifying Great Spell.

"You!" This time, the Second Generation Nether King was utterly panicked. He could feel his breath, but all other sensations were gone.

"Now do you still think I can't kill you?" Chen Hao asked coldly, sneering.

The Second Generation Nether King remained silent, his eyes slowly filling with despair.

Yet, he wasn't completely desperate.

He still had one last sliver of hope.

He had a contract with the Nether King's Heart within him, so even in death or complete dissolution of his soul, the Nether King's Heart would resurrect his soul and his body.

This was the main reason the elders of the Snow Mountain Tribe had not used the spell to weaken the Nether King's Heart against the Second Generation Nether King.

The Second Generation Nether King was undying!

However, all of this could change in the presence of Chen Hao, who also possessed the Nether King's Heart.

As long as Chen Hao could piece together the two halves of the Nether King's Heart before it resurrected the Second Generation Nether King. Then, everything within the two halves, including the contract he had made with the Nether King's Heart, would vanish.

The Second Generation Nether King looked at Chen Hao, no longer speaking.

At this moment, his life and death were completely in Chen Hao's hands.

Then, Chen Hao raised his hand and placed it on the Second Generation Nether King's shoulder, saying, "Give up, your death is imminent!"

"Before I kill you, I have a lingering question I wanted to ask you. During your period as the Second Generation Nether King, you already had half of the Nether King's Heart, so why did you sacrifice your Yin Soul to come to this ancient city and usurp the Nether King's Heart here, imprisoning yourself here forever?" Chen Hao asked.

"Do you think I enjoyed it?" the Second Generation Nether King said hoarsely. The only way he thought he could save himself now was by buying time, so he was willing to answer Chen Hao's question at this moment.

"More than 40,000 years ago, by chance, I learned about my origins, the Nether King's Heart, and the ancient city through the lingering soul of my mother. I deliberately had my men steal the Great Ancestor's primary blade, then pretended to search for the blade as a pretext to look for the Demon-Sealing Scroll containing the map fragments throughout the Netherworld," the Second Generation Nether King continued, speaking extremely slowly.

"In order to open the Gate of the Nether King and release the spirits of my biological father and grandfather, the Hell King, I lied to Jie, telling him his father's body was inside the Gate of the Nether King. Later, Jie was deceived, and tried everything to open the Gate of the Nether King, but the Great Ancestor discovered my intentions. If not for my threat to reveal my origins, the ancient city, and his betrayal of Jie's father and other secrets, he would have killed me!"

"Eventually, after negotiations, he agreed to pass on the Nether King's position and Heart to me, on the condition that I swear by the Nether King's Heart: I agreed to continue the contract he had with the elders of the Snow Mountain Tribe, that even if it meant sacrificing my life, I would prevent the Gate of the Nether King from being opened."

"So, a thousand years later, when the Gate of the Nether King was burst open by the Primordial Demons of the Underworld, you had no choice but to sacrifice your Yin Soul and seal the Gate, coming here to usurp the half Glacier Heart here and shifting your ambition to rule both the yin and yang realms from the Netherworld to this place," Chen Hao followed up by interpreting the Second Generation Nether King's words.

"That's right!" the Second Generation Nether King nodded meaningfully.

Just as he was about to continue, Chen Hao suddenly stabbed the Nether King's World-Slaying Blade into his body from behind.

"Ugh!" the Second Generation Nether King let out a gruesome scream.

"Don't think I can't see that you are deliberately buying time!" Chen Hao whispered behind the Second Generation Nether King's ear.

"I... I still have many things left unsaid, such as the seventeen guards possessing the Hand of Death, and how the talents and elites were brought here," the Second Generation Nether King said in extreme agony.

Chen Hao let out a cold, mocking laugh, then said, "I no longer need you to tell me these things, and I am not interested in knowing either."

After saying this, Chen Hao again stabbed the Second Generation Nether King several times with the Nether King's World-Slaying Blade until he killed him.

Following that, his eyes emitted black Nether King's Fire, burning the Second Generation Nether King's body and soul.

Then, he infused a massive amount of Nether King's Power into his left hand and slowly reached into the Second Generation Nether King's body to extract the other half of the Nether King's Heart.

A flash of purple light, and the seal set by the Second Generation Nether King on the Nether King's Heart resisted against Chen Hao, a surge of sealing power burst forth, engulfing Chen Hao's left hand in an instant.

Pain spread across Chen Hao's face, then he infused even more Nether King's Power into his left hand.

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