Several minutes later, Ye Yuqiao suddenly pushed Chen Hao away and then bent down, coughing while spitting blood onto the ground.

A glint shot out from Chen Hao's eyes, and he quickly steadied Ye Yuqiao's shoulders, anxiously asking, "Girlfriend, is it those strange insects invading your body again?"

"Mhm!" Ye Yuqiao said weakly, then closed her eyes, using the Nether King's Power within her to eliminate the insects in her body.

Chen Hao's face was filled with urgency, and his heart ached for her. He looked around and noticed not only the pervasive scent of flowers but also countless butterflies fluttering around them.

Thus, Chen Hao casually grabbed a butterfly from nearby and scrutinized it closely before his eyes.

After inspecting for some time, Chen Hao found that there was nothing particularly special or strange about this butterfly.

Where exactly were these insects coming from? Chen Hao was completely puzzled.

"Boyfriend!" Ye Yuqiao then opened her eyes, slowly straightened her back, and looked at Chen Hao, asking, "Seeing me like this, don't you feel heartache for me?"

At this time, Ye Yuqiao had already eradicated the insects in her viscera and was using the Nether King's Power from outside her body to resist the Nether King's Power. During that kiss with Chen Hao, she had been paying attention to the changes in her body, yet still, the insects had unknowingly invaded her body.

"My heart is almost breaking!" Chen Hao said, leading Ye Yuqiao's hand to touch his left chest. "The little girl inside my heart, you have to be well from now on, otherwise, the man living in your heart will ache for you!"

"There isn't a man living inside my heart, oh!" Ye Yuqiao said with a light smile, then stretched out her hand and wrapped it around Chen Hao's neck, "What lives inside my heart is a boy."

"One day, that boy will become a man worthy of your reliance, accompanying you to eternity!"

"Sooner or later, the little girl inside your heart will also become an understanding woman for you."

"No need, I'm already very satisfied with the little girl, so satisfied that I find no fault at all!" With that, Chen Hao kissed Ye Yuqiao's forehead.

"Although I'm also very satisfied with the little boy now, in order not to make him too proud, I should still pick on him a bit. He needs to keep striving, boyfriend, the little girl has entrusted everything to you!"

Chen Hao smiled and pulled Ye Yuqiao into his arms, saying, "I feel so happy!"

"If it weren't for these strange insects, I'd be even happier," Ye Yuqiao said softly with her eyes slightly closed. "It's so unfair, why is it that you and Xie Xiaofeng are both just fine?"

"Right, it's really strange, why is it always you girls who get hurt?" Chen Hao said with a puzzled face.

...

The day had brightened.

A new day had arrived.

First thing in the morning, Ye Yuqiao took Chen Hao and instantly returned to C City from New Lan Town.

When the two entered the coffee shop near the Yin Yang Master Association in C City, they quickly found a man in the northeast corner of the coffee shop.

"The man Xie Xiaofeng arranged to meet should be him!" Chen Hao whispered into Ye Yuqiao's ear, "Look at him, his whole body radiates a strong Yang Energy. He seems to be an Onmyoji as well!"

"Mhm!"

Shortly thereafter, Chen Hao, holding onto Ye Yuqiao's hand, approached the man at the northeast corner of the coffee shop.

Upon seeing Chen Hao and Ye Yuqiao, the man was taken aback and then suddenly rose, ready to leave. He had already noticed that he possessed an immeasurable amount of Yang Energy and Ye Yuqiao lacked Yin Soul; neither of them were ordinary people, and their coming to find him was certainly not for a simple matter like renting.

As the man passed by them, Chen Hao immediately stopped him and asked, "You used to be an Onmyoji, didn't you?"

"I am not!" The man said darkly, "Move aside, I know you're not here to rent, and I don't want to waste time on you!"

The corners of Chen Hao's mouth lifted into a slight grin. The man's vehement and resistant reaction to this matter indicated that he surely knew some important secret.

"I have something to ask you, and if you don't tell me, I won't let you leave!" Chen Hao said, looking very arrogant.

"Who the hell are you? How dare you block my way!" The man glared angrily, his speech suddenly carrying the authority of a leader.

Chen Hao guessed that this man must have once held a key high-level position within the Yin Yang Master Association. After a cold laugh, Chen Hao said, "Chen Hao, the Chen of 'East Ear', the Hao of 'Chen Hao'!"

"Ah!" The man suddenly froze, his eyes filled with surprise. It was only after a while that he regained his composure, somewhat excitedly he said, "You're Chen Hao, the Y City Yin Yang Master Association's Honorary President who consecutively destroyed King Ning and King Xin, those two great Dharma Kings, also known as the miraculous Chen Hao!"

"Uh," Chen Hao gave a wry smile and then nodded.

"Chen Hao!" The man suddenly excitedly grasped Chen Hao's hand, "You've finally come, I've been longing for your arrival!"

Chen Hao showed a puzzled expression and was momentarily at a loss.

"Boyfriend, looks like you've become quite famous now, eh? Any Onmyoji would recognize you," Ye Yuqiao's voice rang in Chen Hao's mind at that moment, her tone laced with a hint of sarcasm.

"You little tease!" Chen Hao thought to himself, wishing he could pinch Ye Yuqiao's cheeks.

"Big brother, big brother, don't get too excited," Chen Hao said awkwardly, while trying to wriggle his hand free from the man's tight grip, "You said you've been waiting for me? What did you expect me to come for?"

With a sigh, the man stopped himself from saying more and then invited Chen Hao and Ye Yuqiao to take seats. After collecting his thoughts, he said to Chen Hao, "I've been waiting for you because I want to entrust you with a task. I reckon there's no one else in this world that has the capability and is willing to help me other than you."

"Could it be related to the New Orchid Sea's incident?" Chen Hao asked.

The man was extremely surprised and exclaimed, "How do you know about that? Did you actually go and see the New Orchid Sea?"

Chen Hao and Ye Yuqiao exchanged glances, both thinking that it seemed they hadn't sought the wrong person.

"You first tell me, why has your city's Yin Yang Master Association closed its doors?"

"Ah!" In an instant, the man's face turned ashen, "I didn't want our association to close down, either, but we just couldn't recruit any more people!"

"Could it be that you are the President of C City's Yin Yang Master Association?"

"Hmph!" The man suddenly burst into a rage, slamming his hand heavily onto the table, "Don't talk to me about that Cheng Lai, he's nothing but a shameless scoundrel!"

"What exactly happened?"

After stirring his coffee a few times, the man started to explain to Chen Hao and Ye Yuqiao while still pondering:

His name was Xu Qiyu, and he was the Vice President of the C City Yin Yang Master Association. A year ago, the association suddenly received a commission from the mayor of New Orchid Town, saying that the famous tourist spot, New Orchid Sea, had recently experienced some unexplainable strange incidents. Many people had died in the villages surrounding the sea of flowers, so they wanted to ask the then-President Su Fafa to take a few deeply experienced Onmyoji to investigate and offered a reward that was hard to turn down.

The day after receiving the commission, Su Fafa left for the New Orchid Sea with most of the association's members, leaving behind Xu Qiyu and a few young Onmyoji.

By the next day's noon, Xu Qiyu received a call from President Su Fafa. On the phone, Su Fafa told him that the Onmyoji who went to the sea of flowers were vomiting blood, as if they had something strange in their stomachs, so he wanted Xu Qiyu, who excelled in the arcane arts of Onmyoji, to rush to New Orchid Town immediately to try and save their colleagues.

So, after hanging up the phone, Xu Qiyu immediately drove to New Orchid Town.

By the time he arrived at New Orchid Town, it was almost four in the afternoon. Fortunately, no Onmyoji had died yet.

After observing the condition of the blood-vomiting Onmyoji, Xu Qiyu immediately concocted his family's secret talisman water. After drinking the talisman water, the condition of the Onmyoji improved instantly.

In the evening, the condition of the blood-vomiting Onmyoji had significantly improved. After preparing a large pot of emergency talisman water, Xu Qiyu and an assistant went to the nearby villages to treat villagers who were also vomiting blood. Sadly, since the villagers didn't know how to regulate their Yang Energy, they couldn't benefit from the effects of the talisman water they consumed.

It was eight o'clock at night when, while Xu Qiyu was still treating the villagers, the mayor of New Orchid Town suddenly sought him out, bringing with him bad news: President Su Fafa and the Onmyoji under his charge had all died in the sea of flowers.

Upon hearing this news, Xu Qiyu immediately rushed to the sea of flowers. He saw the bodies of his colleagues, with whom he had worked and laughed on a daily basis, lined up in three neat rows at the entrance of the New Orchid Sea.

At that moment, Xu Qiyu noticed two odd things: usually, after a person dies, their Yang Energy often does not dissipate completely until three or even seven days later, yet his Onmyoji colleagues hadn't been dead for two hours, and there was not a trace of Yang Energy left in them; in addition, he couldn't find a single Yin Soul nearby the sea of flowers at that time.

Later, after returning to the city, Xu Qiyu tried to summon the spirits of his deceased colleagues from the Netherworld using necromancy. However, after several days and nights of attempting, he could not summon a single Yin Soul to the mortal world.

...

As Xu Qiyu recounted this, Chen Hao suddenly interjected, "The absence of Yang Energy implies that it must have been absorbed; not finding the Yin Souls could mean that they have been completely obliterated."

Without pausing, Chen Hao then connected this to the insect he had seen inside Ye Yuqiao. The insect was feeding on human blood, which meant it was also consuming human Yang Energy. In this world, those who feed on human Yang Energy are either demons or immortals in training, or ferocious ghosts; moreover, no fierce ghost could obliterate the souls of so many powerful Onmyoji colleagues. Thus, Chen Hao ultimately surmised: there resided either a demon or a formed devil within the New Orchid Sea.

"Boyfriend," Ye Yuqiao's voice suddenly sounded in Chen Hao's mind, for she had already learned of Chen Hao's speculations through the Nether King's Heart, "If there is a demon or devil, why can't we feel its presence at all?"

Chen Hao's brow furrowed. Suddenly, a flash of insight struck him, and he realized an important detail.

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