"Killing you is also for another reason, that is, to leave this damned place!"

Hearing Chen Hao speak this way, a look of astonishment flashed in the dying Xu Sheng's eyes as he said in an extremely weak voice, "Could it be that you've figured it all out?"

The corners of Chen Hao's mouth curved slightly upward in a cold laugh as he said, "Of course! I certainly know that you are the key to leaving this place. It's your Yang Energy Power that has been sustaining this seemingly exitless world all along. Those who came here before were all deceived by you, thinking they had entered the palm-sized wooden city you so meticulously crafted. In reality, this place is just an empty Barrier you created with a spell, and that wooden carved city actually contains the Yang Energy sealed within your body, maintaining the normal functioning of this void world. So, by killing you, this world will no longer be able to persist!"

Xu Sheng frowned. At this moment, he lay entirely in a pool of blood. Unable to muster the energy to speak anymore, his frown conveyed his doubts to Chen Hao.

"Are you asking me why I discovered this secret?" Chen Hao conjectured.

Xu Sheng blinked his eyes in assent.

"Because you carved only one city, and after I burst through the heavily guarded city gates just now, I saw even more beyond," Chen Hao explained. He paused before adding, "Actually, I began to have my doubts not long after I entered this place. I thought to myself that if what you carved was a wooden city, then there shouldn't be houses with white walls and black tiles here. There's a simpler way to tell—if this truly were the wooden carved city, the people I saw inside the wooden carving in reality should be moving."

Xu Sheng looked extremely distressed. Compared to the Onmyoji who had entered this place before, this young Onmyoji in front of him seemed to have rather unique thoughts.

Because aside from Chen Hao, any Onmyoji who entered this place wouldn't think the problem through so naively but instead would resort to various psychological suggestions to convince themselves that this location was the wooden carved city, and then subconsciously come up with all sorts of reasons to persuade themselves to accept these suggestions.

"I must say you're a genius; otherwise, you wouldn't have created this world free from death," Chen Hao went on, "Beyond that, you are meticulous and profound in thought. If it had been any other Onmyoji that came, even if they could uncover all the secrets here, they wouldn't be able to get close to you, let alone kill you and leave this place. Unfortunately for you, I just happened to come here."

After speaking, Chen Hao crouched down, bringing his face close to Xu Sheng's, his tone carrying a cold murderous intent as he said, "Even more unfortunate is that you have crossed my red line, and I won't just leave you be; after you die, I'll make sure your Yin Soul doesn't meet a good end either. I'll ask you one last question, when you designed this world, you presumably wanted more Onmyoji to enter it, rather than burying that wooden carved city deep in the ground as the rumors said. This place was originally built to imprison people, wasn't it? Has this always been a place where the Yin Yang Master Association imprisoned dissidents?"

A flash of astonishment shot through Xu Sheng's eyes once again, and then he closed them, his face turning ashen. Chen Hao was right; this indeed was a place where the Yin Yang Master Association imprisoned dissidents. Xu Sheng himself was the second Hierarch of the Yin Yang Master Association's history. Back then, the Association was called the Yin Yang Alliance, and its scale was far smaller than it is today.

When Xu Sheng created this world, he did so not only to imprison a few Onmyoji who threatened his position as Alliance Hierarch but also to take revenge on the wealthy people in Red Leaf Town who had refused to extend a helping hand to treat his father when he was a child. When he was on his deathbed, Xu Sheng came here to become its ruler, passed the wooden carved city he had personally sculpted on as a Hierarch's artifact to the next Hierarch, and instructed that any Onmyoji who refused to obey the Yin Yang Alliance should be imprisoned here in the future.

Seeing Xu Sheng close his eyes, showing no willingness to reply, Chen Hao snorted coldly, and a fierce Sword Qi surged from within his body, splitting Xu Sheng's body in two.

Immediately, Chen Hao felt the Yin Yang Qi and the power of Nether Vision recovering within his body. Right then, the ground shook violently, and a thunderous roar erupted from outside the hall. Using Nether Vision to look outside, he saw several holes of varying sizes appear in the sky above the wooden city.

The world was collapsing because of Xu Sheng's death, and those holes were presumably the exits to leave this place.

At that moment, Xu Sheng's Yin Soul left his body.

Before Xu Sheng's bisected Yin Soul could merge back together, Chen Hao directly ignited it with the Netherworld Inferno Flame in his left eye. Just moments ago, Xu Sheng had almost harmed his Yuqiao, and Chen Hao would never spare Xu Sheng for that.

"Ah! Ah! Save me!" Xu Sheng's Yin Soul let out a heart-wrenching scream, followed by wailing and painfully hopping around, sometimes rolling on the ground in an attempt to snuff out the Netherworld Inferno Flame.

Before long, Xu Sheng's Yin Soul was completely burnt to ashes. Outside the palace, due to the barrier, the soldiers and guards possessed by Yin Souls were unable to enter; they could only stand still and listen to the agonizing screams of their overlord, their minds filled with panic and uncertainty about where they should go without Xu Sheng.

When everything became quiet again...

Chen Hao looked at Ye Yuqiao, who had fainted on the ground, his eyes filled with tenderness and pity. He sat down in front of Ye Yuqiao, picked her up into his arms, holding her right hand tightly with his left, and infused her body with Yang Energy.

After a little over two minutes, Ye Yuqiao suddenly opened her eyes and, seeing Chen Hao, couldn't help but let two lines of aggrieved tears flow from her eyes.

Chen Hao bent down to look at Ye Yuqiao, and while wiping away her tears, he said softly, "Yuqiao, it's alright now, everything is fine."

Ye Yuqiao shook her head and then burst into even more sorrowful tears.

"Why are you crying even harder now?" Chen Hao asked as he kept wiping her tears away.

Ye Yuqiao suddenly grabbed Chen Hao's collar tightly with her right hand, her voice hoarse with sobs, "You don't understand, I'm not like you. I've set my heart on you, I want to belong to you and only you forever, don't you understand?"

"How am I different?" Chen Hao asked with a bitter smile.

Ye Yuqiao let go of Chen Hao's collar, and instead started hitting his chest hard, saying, "Didn't you ever do bad things with your ex-girlfriend?"

Chen Hao's expression grew increasingly bitter as he retorted, "And didn't you go to a hotel with Xie Xiaofeng? If I hadn't stopped you then, otherwise..."

"Idiot, didn't I tell you before, I just wanted to teach him a lesson. Are you trying to infuriate me to death?"

Chen Hao smiled, pulled Ye Yuqiao into a tight embrace, and said, "If, I mean if, if you really had been..."

"There are no ifs!" Ye Yuqiao quickly covered Chen Hao's mouth with her hand, "There won't be such a hypothesis!"

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