After glancing around, Chen Hao asked Hua Shan, "Has Tai Shan left?"

"He didn't just leave, he fled!" Hua Shan said. "Clearly, he's afraid of you!"

"Why didn't you stop him from escaping?"

Hua Shan gave a wry smile, then sighed. "His abilities are on par with mine. Neither of us could do anything to the other, otherwise, we wouldn't have been locked in a stalemate for so many years!"

"Besides," Hua Shan lifted his right hand, passed it over his right shoulder, and pointed behind him to the colossal wave racing eastward. "If I had gone after him, who would have stopped this tsunami?"

Looking at the enormous wave, Chen Hao was dumbstruck. He hadn't expected the apocalyptic scenes from the movies to be so vividly real right before his eyes.

Turning around, Chen Hao swallowed hard and asked with a tremble, "Do you really have a way to stop the tsunami?"

Hua Shan teleported next to Chen Hao, clasping Chen Hao's left arm with his right hand as he said, "A tsunami is the least of our worries. I'm more afraid of that mountain behind us."

Chen Hao turned and looked at the mountain that had emerged from the seabed. Through his Yin Yang Eyes, he saw a large mass of green miasma gathering above the mountain.

From an Onmyoji's perspective, the green miasma signified the presence of beasts.

Beasts, also known as beastmen, rarely appeared in the history of the mortal world. The last time Chen Hao saw beastmen in the mortal world was two years ago in Y City, when he faced a pack of wolf beasts, including an ancient one. Coincidentally, that incident also involved Tai Shan.

"There are lots of beasts on that mountain!" Chen Hao exclaimed. Judging from the mass of green miasma, there had to be at least thousands of beasts on that mountain.

"It seems you've missed something!" Hua Shan said. "And it looks like your geography isn't very good."

"Geography?" Chen Hao was puzzled.

"The mountain wasn't there before; it has just risen from the seabed! That thunderous boom you heard, along with the tsunami you see, happened because it emerged!" Hua Shan explained.

"Ah!" Chen Hao was stunned, finding it hard to believe.

Suddenly, the sound of urgent wind whistled by his ear. In an instant, he was taken by Hua Shan to the front of the colossal wave that had risen to about seventy to eighty meters.

Looking up at the massive wave, Chen Hao's mouth hung open wide enough to swallow a coconut. He couldn't begin to imagine what kind of scene it would be if the wave crashed into the coastal cities.

At that moment, Hua Shan released Chen Hao's hand, closed his eyes, and as he cast his spells, he said, "Spatial barrier, fivefold enhancement!"

Chen Hao's eyes widened as the gigantic wave that stretched for dozens of kilometers and was over seventy meters high hit an invisible wall and then bounced back, subsequently forming a three to four-meter-high wave wall that surged toward the mysterious mountain that had risen from the sea.

"Pushed back!" Chen Hao was both shocked and delighted, then looked at Hua Shan with eyes filled with admiration.

He then noticed that Hua Shan's complexion was extremely pale, resembling someone who was utterly exhausted and overdrawn.

After a slight smile, Hua Shan slowly closed his eyes and then his whole body began to fall.

Alarmed, Chen Hao immediately leaped downward...

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...

Ten minutes later.

Chen Hao arrived at a villa with the unconscious Hua Shan on his back.

He vaulted over the villa's iron gate and arrived at the front door of the house inside.

"Thump thump thump!" Chen Hao knocked on the door.

The back door opened after a short while.

"Chen Hao, it's you!" The person who opened the door was Chen Hao's good friend, the Campus Hero Ye Fei.

"Ye Fei, sorry to disturb you!" Chen Hao said as he set down Hua Shan, "Hua Shan just fainted, and your house was the closest, so we came to you for help."

"No problem!" Ye Fei frowned and shook his head, "Your timing is perfect, I actually have something to ask you?"

"Are you thinking of asking about the earthquake that just happened?"

"Exactly!" said Ye Fei as he helped the unconscious Hua Shan to the living room sofa, "The tremors were so distinct. I looked up the news online and according to the initial official reports, there might have been a tsunami in the East Sea."

Having said that, Ye Fei had already walked over to the sofa and laid Hua Shan down flat upon it.

Chen Hao glanced upstairs and asked, "Is your wife not at home?"

"It's the start of the school term, she usually stays at school and only comes home on weekends."

"How's your father-in-law doing?"

"For now, he's fairly stable, he'll start his last round of chemotherapy next week," Ye Fei answered.

Chen Hao's expression became grave, then he lowered his head to avoid Ye Fei's gaze.

A few days before, when he had met Niu Tou, he had made a point to ask about Ye Fei's father-in-law's condition, and according to the Book of Life and Death, Ye Fei's father-in-law would be reporting to the Netherworld in two months. Afraid to make Ye Fei sad, he had not told him about it in advance.

"I just came back from the East Sea with Hua Shan!" Chen Hao brought the conversation back to the main issue, "Indeed, there was a tsunami in the East Sea, caused by a mountain over a thousand meters high suddenly rising from the sea!"

"Over a thousand meters! Just came out of the sea like that!" Ye Fei was shocked beyond measure!

"I also saw Tai Shan," Chen Hao continued, "I guess there used to be a Barrier there, but it was Tai Shan who broke the Barrier, and that's how the mountain surfaced."

"Him again!" As soon as he heard the name Tai Shan, Ye Fei's eyes filled with loathing. It had been Tai Shan two years ago who had single-handedly caused the disaster in City H. To this day, City H has not recovered from that catastrophe.

"I wonder what his purpose is this time?" Chen Hao said with great concern, "We can only find out after Hua Shan wakes up."

"By the way, how did Hua Shan faint?"

"In his attempt to stop the tsunami, he exhausted some kind of power from his body, so he fainted. If it weren't for him, I reckon by daylight City H would have vanished from this world."

After finishing, Chen Hao stood up, "I'll go check out that mountain in the East Sea, and come back tomorrow."

"You mean the mountain that just appeared?"

Chen Hao nodded: "That mountain is gathering a large amount of evil energy, probably with many beasts on it."

"Should I come with you?"

"No need," Chen Hao shook his head, "Stay here and look after him! Once he wakes up, press him for details and don't let him run off. If he refuses to say anything, threaten him that if something happens later, he shouldn't come to us for help."

Leaving Ye Fei's home, just as Chen Hao was about to use the power of the Nether King's Heart to teleport above the East Sea, the pained voice of Ye Yuqiao suddenly resounded in his mind—"Chen Hao, it hurts so much!"

"Yuqiao, what's wrong, I'm coming back now!"

Immediately, Chen Hao hurried back to the Netherworld, inside his own Yang King's Mansion.

Entering the room, he saw that Ye Yuqiao was lying on the bed making faint moans, her complexion extremely pained.

"Yuqiao, I'm back, what's wrong?" Chen Hao asked, holding Ye Yuqiao's hand tightly.

Suddenly, he felt...

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