The Nightmare Beast on the Phoenix Bow rolled its eyes, its gaze filled with terror, and it kept trying to persuade Li Yu with obvious fear:

"We're not running away! We're just temporarily avoiding the limelight."

Li Yu was surprised to hear this, because although the Nightmare Beast often boasted, it was actually quite bold.

Having spent so much time with it, he had never seen a Nightmare Beast so afraid.

An existence that can frighten even the fearless Nightmare Beast into trembling is probably ten times more dangerous than the Underworld.

It is clear that the place this gate leads to is definitely not ordinary.

Although Li Yu was being watched closely by Ming Yuan, she had already begun to move quietly toward Xiao Hei, trying to increase the distance between herself and Ming Yuan and the gate.

"Clap!" Mingyuan clasped his hands together, unleashing his full power.

Under his full effort, the silver dragon chains on the gate gradually unlocked one by one, making a crisp sound.

With each chain unlocked, the terrifying aura emanating from the gate grew even stronger.

The creature inside seemed to sense the door loosening and began pounding on it even more frantically, trying to break free immediately.

The impact was deafening, like thunder, making one's heart tremble involuntarily.

The oppressive feeling emanating from the crack in the door made the entire mountain of bones creak and groan. It seemed poised to collapse at any moment.

Bai Gu, who was confronting Lu Fan, was shocked by what he saw, and his face instantly turned pale.

He disregarded continuing his fight with Lu Fan, hastily retreated, and then immediately knelt heavily before Ming Yuan, pleading with all his might:

"My lord! You mustn't!"

As the skeleton spoke, it kowtowed and continued to roar, "Now is not the time!"

Mingyuan remained motionless as if he hadn't heard anything, his gaze fixed intently on Li Yu, filled with murderous intent.

Helpless, the skeleton could only lower its head deeply, keeping its forehead touching the ground, and persuaded again:

"Sir, once the door is opened, the aura will be leaked!"

"If 'they' discover us, those old monsters in Zhongzhou will surely use the full power of the nation to exterminate us!"

"Shut up!" Upon hearing this, Mingyuan not only showed no intention of stopping, but became even more furious. He now only wanted to kill Li Yu in front of him to eliminate any future troubles.

The blood-stained body of Mingyuan swayed precariously, while the white mist emanating from him gradually merged with the gate behind him.

Just as the last silver dragon chain was about to break and the gates of the underworld were about to open, the skeleton finally had no choice but to lie on the ground and shout with all its might:

"king!"

Upon hearing the address "White Bone," Mingyuan shuddered violently.

The word "open" that was on the tip of his tongue was ultimately left unsaid.

A difficult hesitation flashed in his eyes, as if he had remembered something more important than killing Li Yu.

At this moment, Mingyuan finally snapped out of his madness, regained his senses, and slowly lowered his raised hand.

Almost as soon as he lowered his hand, the white gate behind him was once again wrapped with silver dragon chains, and then slowly descended.

Sensing the sudden change outside the door, the thing inside seemed extremely unwilling and pounded on the door even more frantically, as if it wanted to break free of the door's restraints immediately.

The sounds of thumping and banging echoed continuously, but ultimately could not change the fact that the door remained tightly shut.

An unwilling hum emanated from the giant gate, which was forcibly dragged back into the void by the silver dragon chains.

Only when the gates to the underworld completely disappeared behind the abyss did the skeleton, who had been lying on the ground, finally breathe a sigh of relief.

He secretly rejoiced. If the king had opened the gate on a whim, ruining the century-long plan, he would have become the eternal sinner of the entire Underworld Clan.

Mingyuan, having retracted the gates of the underworld, still stared intently at Li Yu. Having already memorized Li Yu's aura, he regarded him as an opponent worthy of his serious attention.

"The Tenth Star Lord, Li Yu!"

"Okay...okay."

"Hiss..." The sinister smile on Mingyuan's face froze instantly, and a burning pain shot through his chest once again.

As the effect of the Heart-Piercing Strike was triggered again, that powerful force of the rules descended once more, attempting to erase him from this world once more.

Mingyuan, who had already been forcibly delaying for a long time, finally could no longer hold on.

His life force quickly faded, and the white mist around him, like a deflated balloon, spread wildly from the large hole in his chest.

The body had reached its limit and was beginning to dissolve at an alarming rate due to the high temperature.

However, just before Mingyuan's body completely disintegrated, he suddenly calmed down, and even a smile appeared on his face.

Mingyuan slowly raised his head to look at Li Yu and said softly:

"Li Yu, we will meet again."

As soon as he finished speaking, a raging fire erupted from Mingyuan's heart, quickly spreading and completely engulfing his body.

The spirit of the Netherworld slowly detached from its body and floated out.

At the same time, a ghostly flame appeared out of nowhere, as if tearing open a spatial rift and instantly pulling the struggling Netherworld Spirit into it.

Li Yu squinted at the will-o'-the-wisp. He could sense that this aura was extremely similar to the aura from the white gate earlier.

Thinking of what Mingyuan had just said, that they would meet again, it was clear that they had not completely killed their opponent this time.

Considering that he had already killed Mingyuan once before, and also recalling that mysterious and terrifying gate to the underworld from earlier...

"Resurrected from the dead..."

Li Yu couldn't help but wonder, could this Netherworld really be unkillable?

He subconsciously glanced at Lu Fan not far away, after all, Lu Fan also possessed the incredible ability to withstand one of his attacks without dying.

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