Holding a lantern, guiding souls across, Lady Hou comes from the underworld.

"Ah Chen!"

Ruan Mingzhu suddenly screamed, her face filled with terror: "I heard her speaking from inside my body."

Murong Chen, however, did not hear a sound.

He held Nguyen Minh Chu's hand and comforted her, "The fact that you can possess her body proves that her soul has been sealed."

"Now all we need to do is enter the 'Blood Array,' seize her body, force out her soul, and then we can completely replace her!"

Upon hearing this, Ruan Mingzhu was frightened, but she knew that only by doing so could she "come back to life".

She has waited fifty years and doesn't want to wait any longer.

The so-called "blood array" is the array used to refine "Yin Yang Sha".

In addition to incorporating seven drops of essence blood, fourteen strands of the most Yin soul, and twenty-one strands of living soul, it also contains other elements.

Below, there must be the remains of twenty-eight people who died unjustly, and a mouthful of "ghostly saliva" that has turned into blood.

Above this secret room lies the Eastern Palace Thousand Autumns Garden, a place of extreme yin, capable of both nurturing corpses and locking away souls.

The Yin energy gathers at the top, which is equivalent to setting up a barrier above the formation, so that it is not disturbed by the positive energy of the Yang world.

Currently, the "Blood Array" only needs a wisp of extremely Yin soul to activate...

At this moment, Nguyen Minh Chau felt both scared and nervous.

She walked to the blood pool and watched as the blood boiled continuously under the influence of the "spirit saliva".

The spirits of the dead and the spirits of the living fought and devoured each other in the pool, their blurry faces displaying a ferocious expression.

Ruan Mingzhu simply closed her eyes, but just as she was about to throw herself into the pool, a cold laugh suddenly reached her ears.

A force pulled her in, forcing her to freeze in mid-air.

Then, the soul suddenly sprang out of the body and plunged into the pool water without warning.

Faced with the newly arrived soul, the "things" below naturally took good care of it, almost swarming up and swallowing it up in an instant.

Upon seeing this, Murong Chen's expression changed drastically, and he immediately exclaimed, "Mingzhu!"

By the time he rushed to the edge of the pool, the ghost of Nguyen Minh Chu had already vanished.

Clearly, she had become one with the formation.

Murong Chen's face was ashen as he glared angrily at Xia Ximo beside him, his entire being radiating a chilling aura. "Just who are you?"

Wuyou, who was already sweating bullets inside the Soul-Crossing Lamp, couldn't help but say, "This person has a very special aura that doesn't belong to him. You need to be careful."

Xia Ximo certainly sensed it, but she didn't take it seriously.

Based on the memories of Ruan Mingzhu after she was possessed, it can be confirmed that this person is none other than the former crown prince Murong Chen.

The skeleton trapped in the secret chamber of Fu Lou was his.

It is unknown what exactly released him from inside and endowed him with abilities beyond those of ordinary "evil spirits".

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to so easily possess the body of the current Crown Prince Zhao Li.

"You should ask yourself that question."

Xia Ximo coldly retorted, "You committed evil in life, and caused chaos after death, yet you still want to be the emperor of the mortal world?"

"wishful thinking."

Hearing her words, Murong Chen became even more furious. In a flash, he was in front of Xia Ximo, and stretched out his hand, which was shrouded in murderous aura, to strangle her.

Unexpectedly, before they could even touch their opponent, they were held back by a strange force.

Then, the person in front of him simply raised his hand and waved it, and he was thrown into the pool.

But the souls in the blood array were clearly afraid of him. When they saw him enter the water, they scattered and fled in all directions, not daring to approach him as before.

Xia Ximo guessed that it was probably due to the "evil aura" on his body.

Murong Chen was defeated in one blow, only then realizing that the woman dressed as a "servant" in front of him was not someone to be trifled with.

He was soaked in blood, but instead of laughing wildly, he suddenly raised his arm and waved it, and the evil spirits at the bottom of the pool turned into wisps of black mist that swirled around him.

Blood streamed down his face, turning his eyes a deep crimson.

Wuyou suddenly reminded him, "He's trying to use the power of the formation to deal with you!"

"Although this formation is incomplete, it is extremely sinister and might even...affect the living outside!"

As soon as it finished speaking, the entire secret room began to shake.

Just as Xia Ximo was about to speak, he caught a glimpse of a figure at the entrance to the secret chamber out of the corner of his eye. It was Ren Fengjue.

She was momentarily distracted when she heard Wuyou shout, "Watch out!"

Looking back, a bloody, mangled head flew right towards me.

Although it's not particularly lethal, it's still disgusting.

Xia Ximo frowned, about to exert force with his fingers, when suddenly a hand wrapped around his waist and pulled him backward.

Then, a tall figure blocked her way.

Ren Fengjue was agile and quick-witted. He leaped over with the help of the candlestick on the table and used it as a "weapon" to knock the head to the ground.

With one candlestick missing, the room suddenly darkened. He turned around and could barely see Xia Ximo's expression. "Are you alright?"

Xia Ximo didn't answer him, but instead ordered, "Get out of the way."

"..."

Lord Ren has lived for nearly twenty-one years. He has heard each of these four characters before, but he has never heard of them put together.

Just as he was about to speak, the secret room shook again, and all the lights went out.

Then, a rustling sound came from above.

Xia Ximo looked up and then realized that Qianqiu Garden was above...

Wuyou speculated, "Judging from the noise, it sounds like something is crawling out of the ground. Could it be...?"

"The corpse."

Xia Ximo coldly took over the conversation.

The bodies of those killed by Nguyen Minh Chau are buried beneath the Thousand Autumn Garden.

Right now, it's likely that Murong Chen is using the power of the "Blood Array" to raise those vengeful spirits.

Unconscious spirits, attached to corpses, will be unafraid of sunlight and might even wreak havoc within the Eastern Palace…

Xia Ximo hadn't expected things to get so complicated, and quickly instructed Ren Fengjue beside him, "It's chaotic outside, go out and rescue people."

His aura was unique, and those evil spirits could not harm him.

But others…

Wuyou immediately said, "When a spirit possesses a corpse, its eyesight will be weakened. If you encounter these spirit corpses, do not make any noise. If you are discovered, try to hold your breath."

Although Xia Ximo didn't know if this was true, she quickly relayed it.

Ren Fengjue was taken aback, but didn't ask any further questions, choosing to believe him, and only said, "Then you..."

"I can handle it."

Her answer was too firm.

Ren Fengjue was worried, but the situation was urgent and he could not refuse.

So much has happened these days.

Although he had already noticed something strange about her, he still chose to believe her from the bottom of his heart.

This kind of trust had never occurred among anyone he had ever known before.

She was the only one.

"it is good."

Ren Fengjue responded and decisively walked out of the secret room.

Seeing him leave, Xia Ximo glanced into the darkness, his eyes cold and clear, with a faint crimson mark at the corner of his eye.

The next second, she moved with lightning speed, flying above the blood pool.

Murong Chen looked up in surprise and saw a figure in mid-air, full of power, with a faint aura of the netherworld emanating from him.

Although he had never been to the underworld, he had heard of the terror of the Lord of the Underworld.

At that moment, when his eyes met hers, he felt a tremor.

Xia Ximo spread her fingers and asked him, almost enunciating each word clearly, "Are you going to come out on your own, or do I have to do it to you?"