Within the bedchamber.

Seeing Ye Yuqiao faint and tear open a purple crack in the air before her, Xu Sheng was greatly startled. Even as an experienced Onmyoji, he had no idea what this purple crack was.

Seeing the stunningly beautiful Ye Yuqiao lying motionless before him, Xu Sheng couldn't bother about the purple rift, and his excitement uncontrollably led him toward her.

Just as he arrived in front of Ye Yuqiao and came to a halt, suddenly, a powerful aura surged out from the crack.

Xu Sheng was alarmed, and for safety's sake, he took several steps back, feeling anxious and angry. He thought to himself how all these unexpected situations could arise just as the beauty seemed to be within his grasp. Could it really be that good things never come without difficulties?

"What trick is this now?" Xu Sheng muttered to himself.

Under his impatient gaze, to his surprise, someone actually emerged from the crack!

That person was Chen Hao.

Just now, Ye Yuqiao had exhausted her last bit of strength and Nether King's Power to tear a rift in the air, intending to bring Chen Hao here.

"So it's you, kid! How did you get in here?" Xu Sheng asked. Mujing and the palace had two different barriers. While Mujing only had an entrance and no exit, the palace had only exits, which were the city gates.

It had taken Xu Sheng two years to design these two barriers, referring to a great number of ancient books on Yin and Yang and the five elements. He had not expected that Chen Hao would break through them in just half a day. Before this, only Xu Sheng knew the method to break the seal, and those beggars kneeling in front of the palace gate had never made any discovery.

"It's not difficult to get in here!" Chen Hao said coldly, exuding a terrifying murderous aura. If he hadn't arrived in time, this half-naked old fellow would have defiled his Yuqiao, which was unforgivable to him.

"But I'm not interested in talking about that. Right now, I only want to kill you!" Chen Hao said, his fists already clenched.

"Oh? You want to kill me?" Xu Sheng laughed disdainfully. "Don't forget, this is the world I created, I am the master here!"

Chen Hao did not respond, but closed his eyes, preparing to use the Six-Character Sealing Barrier to imprison Xu Sheng. But before his spell could be cast, he suddenly felt all the Yang Energy Power within him disappear.

Chen Hao opened his eyes, his expression somewhat astonished.

"I understand you; your lifespan has ended, and it is only by the demonic power on your left eye that you have an undying body! The Yang Energy within you is not your own, but borrowed from the world. For me, removing that Yang Energy from you is all too easy," Xu Sheng explained.

Chen Hao snorted with laughter, then concentrated all his Nether King's Power within his left fist.

"You want to use demonic power against me?" Xu Sheng immediately sensed it. "Freezing the demonic power in your left eye is not difficult for me either!"

As Xu Sheng spoke, his ten fingers moved ceaselessly, and as his words fell, Chen Hao immediately felt the Nether King's Power in his left fist disappear. He closed his eyes, and the Nether King Orchid Heart in his left eye dimmed.

"You've spoiled my mood; I'll make sure your Yin Soul is scattered to the winds, never to find rebirth!" Xu Sheng's face suddenly twisted into a fierce grimace.

However, what he didn't expect was that, without him casting a spell, Chen Hao voluntarily detached his Yin Soul from his body.

"So you admit you're no match for me and choose to give up voluntarily?" Xu Sheng said, his face full of suspicion.

"No," answered Chen Hao, shaking his head, then explained, "I just want you to die convinced."

No sooner had he finished speaking than a strong Sword Qi surged from within Chen Hao, leaving thousands of blood-red sword marks on Xu Sheng's body.

Xu Sheng's eyes shone with a sharp light; he hadn't expected Chen Hao to know martial arts, let alone that he would wield this Sword Qi with a Yin Soul body. In this world where there was no death and only Xu Sheng could decide life and death, Chen Hao had just shattered all of it not long ago.

In fact, the main reason that all life here has come back from the dead was that underneath the floor tiles of the courtyard of the city center residence in Mucheng, Xu Sheng had carved a huge Resurrection Talisman. In addition to that, Xu Sheng had also set up a Yang Energy-absorbing formation beneath the talisman.

Since only Onmyoji could enter Mucheng, in order to ensure his dominion here would last forever, Xu Sheng devised this strategy to deal with the Onmyoji who made their way into Mucheng. Once deprived of their Yang Energy, these Onmyoji would pose no threat.

Even if the Onmyoji discovered the secret beneath the city center, they could not approach it, because Xu Sheng had stationed several dozen demons there to guard it, and should anyone come close, those stone sculptures would immediately transform into living demons to drive the intruders away.

Everything was so flawlessly arranged.

Xu Sheng, despite having accounted for countless possibilities, would never have imagined that there would be someone like Chen Hao in this world. His Yang Energy wouldn't be absorbed by the energy-absorbing formation, which meant he could approach the city center;

Even so, Xu Sheng could still have sealed away Chen Hao's Yang Energy Power and Yin Qi Spiritual Power with his formidable spells, but Chen Hao was not only an exceptional Onmyoji, he was also a martial arts master;

And even then, Xu Sheng could have made Chen Hao's Yin Soul leave his body, after which his Yin Soul wouldn't be able to use martial arts against him, but unexpectedly Chen Hao's Yin Soul was able to execute martial arts moves even when separated from his body.

Aside from Chen Hao, probably no one else in this world could stand against Xu Sheng, yet it was Chen Hao who had come here.

Just now, after luring the demons guarding the city center and the residence away from the house, Chen Hao killed them all. Everything was just as he had speculated to Ye Yuqiao: the Yang Energy that revived those demons all came from that house at the city center.

Right at that moment, he lost contact with Ye Yuqiao, who had entered the imperial palace. Immediately, Chen Hao suspected that Mucheng and the imperial palace must be two separate Barriers. So, he hurriedly made his way to the city center residence, and after dealing with the demons blocking his path in the courtyard, he quickly dug up the floor tiles before they could revive. On the dirt-covered side of several tiles, he saw part of the Resurrection Talisman pattern. If he were to flip over most of the tiles in the courtyard, they would assemble into one giant Resurrection Talisman.

Chen Hao was no stranger to Resurrection Talismans. Among the twelve talismans that appeared at the end of the first chapter on Spirit Communication in the "Book of Yin and Yang Exorcism," the Resurrection Talisman was one of them. According to the book, this talisman was intended to prevent the souls in the Soul-locking Bottle from dispersing, yet Xu Sheng cleverly used it to create a world without death.

After lifting the tiles, Chen Hao quickly found the Yang Energy-absorbing formation buried beneath the ground. Apart from absorbing the Yang Energy of the intruding Onmyoji, it also could be used to strengthen Mucheng's Barrier. Being in a hurry to find Ye Yuqiao, Chen Hao didn't think much and simply destroyed the formation, and in passing, absorbed all of the Yang Energy inside it into his body.

Afterward, Chen Hao used his Qinggong to rush to the entrance of the imperial palace. As the Resurrection Formation had already been broken by Chen Hao, those Yin Souls and demons he had killed could no longer revive. After he had disposed of the guards at the city gate, Chen Hao realized that the gate's entrance was not actually the way into the imperial palace.

At that moment, Chen Hao was still unable to make contact with Ye Yuqiao, standing anxiously in front of the palace door, he continuously patted the city gate.

A moment later, a beggar who had been kneeling in front of the palace gate suddenly made an emotional remark, "You can enter but not leave Mucheng, yet you can leave but not enter this palace, how strange!"

Upon hearing this, Chen Hao had a revelation. He thought maybe he had been wrong, perhaps the palace and Mucheng were originally one and the same world. At that moment, a circular shape formed in Chen Hao's mind.

"This circular object is interconnected, so there's no entrance or exit. But if you suddenly add something like a door within the circle, viewed from the front, the door can only lead out, just like this palace; whereas from the other side, the door can only allow entrance, just like Mucheng. Since I could enter Mucheng, that means I must have come in through a door from the palace side. However, the first thing I saw when I came in was the city gate of Mucheng. I understand now!" Chen Hao suddenly looked thrilled.

Immediately, he rushed nonstop toward Mucheng's city gate. According to his theory, although one side of the circular shape was blocked, the other side should be connected.

Before long, Chen Hao left through Mucheng's city gate and arrived in front of a despairingly vast ocean. He activated his Nether Vision Technique, and after five minutes, his gaze penetrated through the churning waves, passed by beautiful small islands, circled around terrifying whirlpools, and finally saw the end of the great sea.

At the end of the sea, there was a transparent Barrier. On the other side of the Barrier was the imperial palace. As Chen Hao had anticipated, looking out from inside the palace, the palace exit matched the city gate entrance of Mucheng exactly; they had indeed come from inside the palace that morning. This is why everything in Mucheng was symmetrically designed, with all the city walls and gates as well as the soldiers' attire being identical, and if there was a grocery store on the east side, there would be another identical store on the west side.

After that, Chen Hao entered the Nether Acupoint and, when he reappeared, he was already in front of that transparent Barrier. Following the trajectory of the rising moon, Chen Hao quickly found the only opening within the Barrier and entered into the palace's garden.

Soon after, Chen Hao began calling out to Ye Yuqiao in his mind. Not long after, he finally received an echo from Ye Yuqiao and was led by her to confront Xu Sheng.

After being ravaged by a burst of Sword Qi, Xu Sheng was already at death's door.

Chen Hao walked up to Xu Sheng, ready to deliver the final blow.

Before making his move, he let out a cold laugh and said, "Killing you serves one purpose, to leave this damned place."

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