King Qingyu frowned. If he were to personally search for the Dark Law King, he could find him within half an hour at the fastest; however, if he were to send scouts instead, it would take at least three hours, by which time the people from Qian Mansion and the Li House would have already been far away.

Eventually, after much deliberation, King Qingyu decided to stay and guard Netherworld City.

Not long after, more than a dozen people arrived at the Nether King Palace one after another. These were the ones the Dark Law King had dispatched to monitor every move of the Qian Mansion and the Li House, engaging in various occupations. They had come to report on the matter of the Qian Mansion and the Li House moving out. Following that, King Qingyu instructed them to oversee the remaining five major family clan leaders' residences, especially the Zhao Residence.

King Qingyu looked toward the south, hoping that the Dark Law King and King Shuanglin would return as soon as possible.

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At this time, the Dark Law King and King Shuanglin had arrived at the Twisted Forest.

By then the Twisted Forest was a sea of crimson flames, with billowing black smoke engulfing the sky above the fire, like a terrifying night sky descending.

Gazing into the flames, they saw many tall shadows of trees and many robust figures of people. These shadows scrambled in the flames like ants on a hot pan, accompanied by agonized screams.

In the midst of the red, the shadows were so purely and terribly black.

In the blink of an eye, the silhouettes of the trees gradually weakened and finally disappeared in the fire; and so did the figures of the people.

The ancient treemen and warriors of the Crow Tribe fell one by one as the Purgatory Fire spread.

"It seems we are too late!" the Dark Law King said in a low voice.

He could sense that, not far to the north of them, there were four strong forces.

He could naturally distinguish that one of the Spiritual Powers belonged to their own King Wumeng;

Another was the Spiritual Power of the prisoner they had marked at Naihe Bridge, the one who had been imprisoned beneath the gates of the Netherworld City;

Among the remaining two forces, the strong Yang Energy must belong to Chen Hao; and the power that belonged neither to Yang Energy Power nor to Yin Qi Spiritual Power was the mysterious woman mentioned by King Wumeng's Yin Soul.

It was a power stemming from the blood.

The Dark Law King did not yet know that it was the blood of the Netherworld Azure Bird.

As he spoke, beneath the crimson firelight, the shadow of the Dark Law King began to stretch again, heading north.

Before long, the Dark Law King suddenly grabbed King Shuanglin's arm, and in an instant, the two disappeared, arriving at the center of those four forces.

Half a mile ahead of the two men was the woman carrying Chen Hao; not far behind them was the Southern Forest King, whose back flame grew less and more intense; and at the very back were the tens of thousands of ravens transformed from King Wumeng.

As soon as they appeared, they felt a scorching heat approaching from both front and back. Looking in each direction, they saw a ball of fierce fire coming from both sides. These were attacks from the woman from the Purgatory Fire Pool and the Southern Forest King, who had felt the approach of the two men's Yin Qi and had made the first move to welcome them.

In an instant, the temperature in the air dropped sharply, and then right by Dark Law King and King Shuanglin, the nearby air solidified into a thick Ice Mountain, separating them from the flames.

This Ice Mountain was a technique used by King Shuanglin in urgent situations. Since this ice was forged from his own Spiritual Power, it was naturally not the type of fire that ordinary fire could melt. Even the Southern Forest King, with his profound Spiritual Power, could only slowly melt this Ice Mountain with the flames he produced from his power.

Seeing this, the woman from the Purgatory Fire Pool felt some regret, regretting that she hadn't directly spewed Purgatory Fire earlier. Now it was too late to spew, as the Dark Law King and King Shuanglin, having gotten a breather, were well-prepared to dodge.

The woman furrowed her brows, sensing great trouble. She knew the two that had arrived were the Dark Law King and King Shuanglin. With King Nanlin and King Wumeng already troublesome enough, now there were two more, and escaping with Chen Hao seemed impossible.

Although she could open her wings of blazing flames again and fly away, once those wings were spread, it was likely that the Nether King's Heart wouldn't have time to revive, and Chen Hao's body and Yin Soul would have been incinerated to nothingness.

"If only I could have the Nether King's Power like her!" the woman thought with unwillingness, "Then I could take you to hide inside a Nether Acupoint!"

The her in the woman's mouth was Ye Yuqiao, who was in the mortal world entangled in battle with the six great serpent kings.

Because Chen Hao's life was uncertain, Ye Yuqiao was struggling to control her chaotic and anxious emotions, unable to focus on dealing with the six serpent kings.

Compared to before, the six serpent kings had changed a lot after their posthumous metamorphosis:

The red Fire Dragon Serpent King had transformed into a snake woman with a humanoid figure, her face aglow with firelight and strange black patterns covering her skin;

The Viper King grew a pair of wings and flew into the sky;

The Spitting Serpent King split into seven heads, constantly spewing seven different types of venom into the air;

The body of the Seven-step Serpent King thickened several times over, becoming thicker than the thickest ancient tree in the Yang Wood Forest; the triangle patterns on its body turned into oddly shaped holes that looked like they had been riddled with countless damage. Every time it moved approximately seven steps, it would exhale poisonous gas from the holes all around.

The other two, the Plum Blossom Serpent King and the Bamboo Leaf Green Serpent King, had just been killed by Xie Xiaofeng using Five Elements Spells not long ago.

Fortunately, there was Xie Xiaofeng. Compared to the preoccupied Ye Yuqiao, he looked to be full of fight. He consistently stayed in front of the two girls, taking on the role of their protector.

"Yuqiao, be careful!" Tang Jing suddenly screamed loudly as the winged Viper King in the air swooped towards her, extending its exceptionally sharp claws.

In the end, it was thanks to the arrows of Yang Energy that Tang Jing shot from her hands that forced the Viper King to regret its attack and allowed Ye Yuqiao to avoid a calamity.

"Yuqiao, what's wrong with you? Has something happened to Chen Hao?" Tang Jing asked. In her eyes, the usually meticulous and cold Ye Yuqiao was rarely so absent-minded, so it must be that something had happened to Chen Hao.

Ye Yuqiao looked at Tang Jing, her eyes slightly reddened.

Just as she was about to speak, a scream from Xie Xiaofeng came from nearby.

Ye Yuqiao and Tang Jing hurriedly looked towards Xie Xiaofeng and saw him with an odd complexion, drenched in cold sweat, and seemingly poisoned. Caught between the Fire Dragon Serpent King and the Seven-step Serpent King, he narrowly dodged the Fire Serpent King's intense flames but couldn't evade the constant release of poison gas from the Seven-step Serpent King's body.

"Five Elements Technique, Earth Shield!" Xie Xiaofeng, in the throes of poison, gritted his teeth and launched a spell, blocking the venom suddenly sprayed by the Spitting Serpent King.

Just then, the Viper King, which had failed in its sudden attack on Ye Yuqiao, came at them again.

This time, however, its target was Xie Xiaofeng.

With a "bang," the Spitting Serpent King shattered the earthen wall summoned by Xie Xiaofeng with its sturdy body.

Following that, the venom once again sprayed towards Xie Xiaofeng.

"Xie Xiaofeng, watch out!" Tang Jing shouted loudly.

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