The night was deep.

After devouring Yin Souls for two days and nights, the Shadow Demon's wounds had healed, and it returned to the urban area of Y City. It drifted into the hospital, crawled up the walls on either side, pale in color, and hurried along the walls to the outside of Ye Yuqiao's ward.

At that moment, on the bench outside the ward, Tang Chao and Xie Xiaofeng were seated; both bowed their heads in silence, staring at their phones. The white light overhead cast their shadows diagonally across the bench.

Half a minute later, a sinister smile suddenly crossed Tang Chao's face, his eyes brimming with malevolence. He pocketed his phone and stood up in front of Xie Xiaofeng.

Seeing Tang Chao's shadow loom over him, Xie Xiaofeng looked up in confusion and asked, "Tang Chao, what's the matter with you?"

With a "slap," Tang Chao struck Xie Xiaofeng across the face.

Xie Xiaofeng was first taken aback, his eyes gleaming, then he stood up angrily and roared at Tang Chao, "Have you lost your mind, Tang Chao? How dare you hit me!"

Tang Chao sneered and bared his teeth in a vile grin, one that was unlike him, "You stabbed me three times two days ago. Today, I've come for revenge!"

Xie Xiaofeng, shocked, suddenly turned deathly pale and then yelled out, "Chen Hao, Tang Chao's possessed by the Shadow Demon, um! Um!"

Xie Xiaofeng couldn't finish speaking before Tang Chao covered his mouth with his hand.

With another crisp "slap," Xie Xiaofeng received another forceful slap from Tang Chao, leaving two bright red handprints on both cheeks.

At that moment, the door to the adjacent ward opened and Chen Hao's head carefully peeked out from the gap between the door and the wall. He asked, "Why are you two fighting all of a sudden?"

"Idiot!" Xie Xiaofeng, whose left shoulder was firmly held by Tang Chao's left hand, cursed, "Can't you see? He's been possessed by the Shadow Demon!"

"Ah!" A look of terror appeared on Chen Hao's face, and he immediately retreated back into the ward and slammed the door shut.

The Shadow Demon, possessing Tang Chao, was quite surprised and asked Xie Xiaofeng, "What's with this guy? Wasn't he stabbed three times in the chest by you that day? How does he look completely unscathed?"

"How should I know?" Xie Xiaofeng replied, his mouth corners slightly rising in a forced smile, and then added, "Are you scared of him or what?"

Tang Chao huffed, easily lifting Xie Xiaofeng by his strength and throwing him to the ground before striding into the ward.

"Ouch! Ouch!" Xie Xiaofeng cried out in pain as he fell. After seeing Tang Chao enter the ward, he suddenly stopped crying out and smiled, muttering, "Shadow Demon, you've been fooled again!"

By then, the ward was engulfed in darkness, Chen Hao having already closed the window tightly and drawn the curtains together.

As Tang Chao barged through the door into the ward, the first thing he wanted to do was turn on the light. Using the faint white light from the corridor outside, he found the switch and pushed it.

The light didn't come on!

Tang Chao repeatedly flipped the switch on and off, but the light stayed off.

"No use!" came a voice from behind the door. "I've already taken out the light bulb!"

As soon as the voice faded, "Bang!" Chen Hao slammed the ward door shut from behind it.

"You think you can use the same method to deal with me as last time?" Tang Chao asked with a laugh. "This kid is quite strong; you might not be able to beat him."

Chen Hao, guided by the sound, slowly walked toward Tang Chao and spoke with a laugh, "I'm afraid that method won't work anymore. He's not like me, able to be unscathed after being stabbed three times!"

"What's your situation?" Tang Chao asked with doubt. "You were clearly stabbed three times in the chest that night. How did you heal so quickly, even faster than me!"

"Because I am going to be your future nephew-in-law!" Chen Hao chuckled.

"Nephew-in-law? What do you mean?" Tang Chao's tone was very confused.

"Hmph!" Another voice resonated in the hospital room, coming from Ye Yuqiao who lay on the bed. "So indecent!"

Chen Hao chuckled twice. Suddenly, he stretched out his hand to embrace Tang Chao's arms, speaking hurriedly, "If you want to know why, I'll tell you after we go in!"

"Go in where?"

At that moment, the Shadow Demon inhabiting Tang Chao felt the air above its head grow heavy. It looked up, only to see a tower bearing down on both it and Chen Hao.

With a "Bang!" the tower crashed to the ground, trapping Tang Chao and Chen Hao inside.

Inside the tower.

"Shadow Demon, I'd like to see where you can escape to today," Chen Hao said with confidence.

"Oh?" Tang Chao scoffed disdainfully. "I'll just stay in his body and not come out, see what you can do about me then?"

"That's too easy!" Chen Hao coldly retorted.

Having said that, Chen Hao gathered the enchanting power above his left eye into his palms. Then, with a strong shove, he pushed Tang Chao, who then crashed directly into the tower wall.

To the Shadow Demon's surprise!

After Tang Chao hit the tower wall, his physical body managed to leave the Soul Locking Pagoda, while the Shadow Demon was forcibly separated from Tang Chao's body by the tower.

After a long time.

Weird noises echoed inside the tower, the deep voices occasionally bursting with sharpness, reminiscent of a radio signal being interfered with. The voice asked, "Why could that boy's physical body leave the Soul Locking Pagoda?"

"Because I've burned his Yin Soul!" Chen Hao explained. To deal with the Shadow Demon this time, he and Xie Xiaofeng had racked their brains to come up with this method.

The two of them deduced that with the lessons from the past two days, the Shadow Demon would definitely first seek a host before daring to enter the hospital room. Therefore, Chen Hao used the Nether Eye's Fire to burn away the Yin Souls of Xie Xiaofeng and Tang Chao, then arranged for the two to sit outside the hospital room on a bench. The moment the Shadow Demon found them, it would definitely choose to inhabit one of them.

"Hmph!" The Shadow Demon wasn't convinced, and in the darkness, Chen Hao couldn't locate the source of its voice. "Are you saying I've fallen into another trap set by you kids?"

"Exactly!" Chen Hao nodded, then asked, "Do you know why I wanted to be trapped with you inside this Soul Locking Pagoda?"

Before the Shadow Demon could answer, Chen Hao answered for it, "Because I intend to kill you!"

"Every Yin Yang Art in this world can't harm me!" The Shadow Demon's voice was calm, "Although the flames you shoot from your left eye can indeed hurt me, as long as there is fire, your shadow will appear, and then you will be under my control! Hence, you simply cannot kill me!"

"Who said I was planning to use the Yin Yang Arts or the Nether Eye's Fire to hurt you?" Chen Hao sneered. "Did you not just ask me why I am to be your future nephew-in-law?"

"Hmm!"

"Because the girl lying in that hospital bed is your niece!"

"My niece?" The voice of the Shadow Demon trembled, "You're saying that girl on the bed is the Fourth Generation Underworld King!"

Without responding, Chen Hao closed his eyes, murmuring an incantation, "With a body of utmost yang, where can yin reside; with a body of utmost yang, where can yin reside..."

Before long, his Yin Soul and physical body separated, and then his physical body slowly fell backward, out of the Soul Locking Pagoda.

"I shall defeat you with my Yin Soul!" The killing intent was evident in Chen Hao's voice.

"Your Yin Soul thinks to defeat me?" The Shadow Demon laughed with contempt.

Chen Hao's mouth curled up slightly as he pulled out an ancestral blade of the Nether King from his pocket. The blade flickered with a green glow, which soon lit up the entire dark Soul Locking Pagoda...

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