Chu Hao sneezed, sniffing, and said, "Which beauty is thinking of me? Alas... Being handsome and talented, there's no way around it. Life is indeed as lonely as the snow in the vast sky."

Chu Hao indulged in self-admiration for a moment, but realized he didn't have much time left. In half a day, it would be the fifth day.

With the remaining time, he could only try to search.

He continuously flew downward, for more than two hours, when he suddenly felt a strong presence of Evil Qi to his left.

"Such strong Evil Qi!"

Chu Hao flew over and found a broken bone axe ahead, the Evil Qi emanating from it.

As Chu Hao quickly approached, he instantly felt a terrifying surge of Evil Qi.

"This Evil Qi rivals that of the Evil Qi pit." Chu Hao found it unbelievable.

Suddenly, Chu Hao's eyes stung, a female ghost in white appeared—it was the White-eyed Female Ghost living in his eyes, Xiao Bai!

Xiao Bai seldom appeared; she liked to stay at the edge of the black Evil Qi pit. Only there could she feel her existence.

Xiao Bai said, "Sect Master."

Chu Hao nodded and asked, "Xiao Bai, why did you come out?"

Xiao Bai pointed at the bone axe ahead and said, "Xiao Bai felt a familiar aura, so she came out. Sect Master, what is this?"

A familiar aura?

Could it be that this bone axe is related to the Evil Qi pit in his eyes?

Chu Hao shook his head, slowly approaching the bone axe as piercing cold Evil Qi assaulted him, making it seem unbearable if he got too close.

At this moment, Chu Hao noticed Xiao Bai approaching the bone axe; she was formed from Evil Qi, and the bone axe's Evil Qi didn't repel her.

Xiao Bai turned back and said, "Sect Master, its aura is very familiar, just like my home, it seems like something missing inside."

The home she referred to was the black Evil Qi pit in Chu Hao's eyes.

"Really?"

Xiao Bai slowly felt the sensation and said, "It seems to want us to take it away with us."

Unexpectedly, Xiao Bai could communicate with it!

Chu Hao asked, "How to take it?"

Xiao Bai replied, "Its main body is not here, let us go out and find it."

Indeed, this is not the real world; it's a kind of Ultimate Illusion Technique.

System prompt: "Trigger Black Iron Level Mission, store the bone axe in the Evil Qi pit; complete the mission to gain 300,000 Merit Points."

System prompt: "Upon completing the mission, you will receive a Purple Diamond Treasure Chest."

This mission is both easy and difficult; as long as we find Mustard Seed Mountain outside, but the problem is, after so many years, no one knows where it is buried.

The time has come.

A force pulled them from within Mustard Seed Mountain, returning them to the original place.

Chu Hao, Shang Yingdie, Unfeeling Woman, Wang Shuyu, Gu Yan, Lin, Yan Zhongtian, Tai Yisheng, Gu Mu.

Nine people in total, except Qi Tian, who has already been kicked out of this world.

Inside, Chu Hao had not yet encountered Gu Mu; this person is quite mysterious, a resident of this world.

Suddenly, Chu Hao saw a mark under Gu Mu's ear and neck!

A crescent moon mark, exactly like Tai Yisheng's.

Chu Hao was puzzled; though he had heard of these two, they weren't from the same clan, why did they both have identical marks!

At this moment, Chu Hao felt a chilling gaze; Tai Yisheng was staring at him.

Chu Hao remained calm; he had robbed this guy, and now Tai Yisheng most wanted to kill someone. If exposed now, it would certainly be a life-and-death situation.

Tai Yisheng was indeed near the point of explosion, staring at everyone's face, wanting to see who was guilty.

"Ladies and gentlemen, you've returned."

An elderly man with long eyebrows and beard greeted everyone.

There were doubts among them, Shang Yingdie asked, "Senior, have six months passed outside?"

The elderly man with long eyebrows and beard nodded, saying, "Half a year has passed, now is not the time for elaborate explanations; this place is not safe, I will send you away."

"What happened?" Gu Yan asked.

The elderly man with long eyebrows and beard, trembling all over, said, "Deep within Netherworld Hell, powerful Evil Ghosts have appeared, sweeping through the Human World."

Foreign Ghosts have appeared?

Shang Yingdie and Gu Yan looked terrified; they were from the end of the Ancient Path Civilization era and had experienced that catastrophe.

Shang Yingdie was the first to rush out, saying, "Do not worry about us."

She wanted to be the first out, to see the Foreign Ghosts.

In fact, Shang Yingdie and Gu Yan had never seen a real Foreign Ghost themselves; they knew from their seniors' tales that Foreign Ghosts swept through the Yang Realm, and those who saw them were already dead.

Chu Hao followed quickly; he too wanted to see how terrifying these Foreign Ghosts really were, capable of destroying an Ancient Taoist Civilization.

The sky was as red as fire.

In the direction of the Holy City, smoke and dust filled the air, rising gradually, faint explosions could be heard.

At this moment, the Imperial Palace was already deserted. When they came to the outside of the Imperial Palace, they saw a scene that would remain unforgettable!

Piles of corpses like mountains, fires burning intensely, resentment surged, you could hear the sound of bodies bursting in the fire, sending chills down one's spine.

All of these were people from the Holy City, so many dead, bodies heaped, blood flowed like rivers.

Someone was crying, a little girl from the tribe, clutching her mother's body and crying, "Mother, wake up, I'm scared."

The little girl hugged her mother's body, crying like a waterfall, amidst a pile of corpses.

Her mother would not wake in this life, and the little girl was only seven or eight years old.

Someone else pointed ahead, yelling, "Ghosts! Fierce Ghosts have come from Hell, run! Run!"

An Imperial Palace's General, whose child had just been born, touched his wife's cheek with tears, saying, "Take the child and leave quickly, don't look back."

"My husband, boohoo..."

His wife cried heartbreakingly, the child also cried, seemingly sensing the departure from blood-kin.

The General was tremendously powerful; he was one of the top experts in the Imperial Palace, shouted, "Go! I'm going to fight my way back and gain you some time."

The General wielded a long halberd, leading a group of Soldiers to charge into the depths of the front line.

He figured that he might not return once he went, never to see his wife and child again, but he still had to go, because if he didn't, everyone would die.

Chu Hao witnessed this scene, a pang of bitter sorrow enveloping his heart.

Perhaps, living in modern times, he had not encountered such things, but at this moment, his heart was deeply moved.

"Boom!" A loud explosion, the earth trembled.

Suddenly, a giant rotting elephant appeared, towering a hundred meters high, immensely colossal, with a single foot, entire plots of buildings collapsed.

"Corpse Ghost!"

Chu Hao was startled; he had seen these outside Fengdu before, initially thinking it was a Foreign Ghost, but unexpectedly, they were merely tools of the Foreign Ghosts.

Chu Hao swiftly dashed to the vicinity of Emperor's Gate, this hundred-meter tall building was the iconic architecture of the Holy City, but now had turned into ruins.

"Boom" "Boom"