There is a beast in the bright morning.

Chapter 314 Finally meet

As the first rays of sunlight shone down, Haochen emerged shakily from a cave.

Looking back at Zhanhu and Oleander, who were fast asleep in the cave, Hao Chen's lips twitched. Last night, he clearly wanted to sleep with Walnut, but who knew that Zhanhu and Oleander would be waiting for him in Walnut's box instead.

As expected, he was carried directly into the cave by Zhanhu.

"You wretched walnut! I was planning to tell you a bedtime story, and this is how you repay me."

After rubbing his sore mouth and using his divine power to cleanse his body, which had been ravaged by Zhan Hu, Hao Chen tiptoed outside. He had important business to attend to today.

What Hao Chen didn't know was that Zhan Hu woke up right after he left.

Watching Hao Chen's departing figure, Zhan Hu wondered what Hao Chen was going to do before dawn. Surely he wasn't going for a morning run; he'd never heard of Hao Chen having that habit.

"Have a look."

Zhanhu rolled over, but heard the oleander making a murmuring sound, which startled him so much that he froze, thinking he had woken the oleander.

Fortunately, the oleander was just changing its sleeping position and didn't seem to be waking up.

Zhanhu breathed a sigh of relief, habitually licking the oleander, leaving his saliva as a mark to prevent it from being disturbed by any inconsiderate animals while it slept after he left.

On the other side, after leaving the cave, Hao Chen ran towards Nanshan Mountain, only to be spotted by Bixie and Tianlu, who had gotten up early.

Because of something on his mind, Bixie had some insomnia, so he dragged the sleepy Tianlu along early in the morning to go hunting.

Instead of finding their prey, they ran into Hao Chen. When Tian Lu saw Hao Chen's hurried appearance, he suddenly realized something and instantly came to his senses: "Bixie, look! Where is Hao Chen rushing off to? Let's follow him and see."

Before Bixie could agree, Tianlu pulled and dragged Bixie along.

When Zhanhu saw this scene, his eyes turned cold. He was glad that he had followed. Otherwise, if Haochen and Bixie Tianlu had been left alone, Haochen would have been in serious trouble given his personality.

Unaware of the situation, Hao Chen quickly arrived at Nanshan and deliberately opened an alternate dimension cave before entering.

After Hao Chen went inside, Bi Xie, Tian Lu, and Zhan Hu, who followed behind, hurriedly followed before the cave closed.

It was only then that Tianlu noticed that, besides him and Bixie, Zhanhu had also come along.

Tianlu cast a puzzled look at Zhanhu: "Why did you come along too?"

Zhanhu curled his lip, then glared at Tianlu as if asserting his dominance: "Why can't I come? Didn't you smell my scent all over Haochen?"

“You…” Tianlu opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but was interrupted by Bixie.

"Tianlu, stop arguing. Haochen has already gone far away." Bixie pointed to the empty space ahead.

For some reason, ever since entering this cave, Bixie felt a strange sense of anticipation. His intuition told him that something he had been waiting for, or perhaps a beast, was here.

After navigating several twists and turns, Hao Chen quickly arrived inside the cave.

Inside the cave, there was a self-contained space, just like the outside world, with mountains, water, trees, and even a small villa.

Hao Chen quickly spotted the Four-Faced Beast squatting in front of the villa and rushed over: "Four-Faced Beast, you weren't waiting for me here all this time, were you?"

Si Buxiang nodded, looking aggrieved: "Little Coal Ball, Little Blue Circle's memories have all returned. When will you take me to reunite with Little Plum Blossom?"

"Uh..." Hao Chen suddenly felt guilty. He had completely forgotten about it if Si Bu Xiang hadn't brought it up.

As if sensing something, the Four-Faced Beast pouted and said, "You haven't forgotten, have you?"

"How could that be! I'll take you back after this is over."

Admitting it was impossible, so Hao Chen could only try to divert the Four-Faced Beast's attention: "By the way, Four-Faced Beast, how's the matter I asked you to handle going?"

“They’re all here.” The Four-Faced Beast said, taking out a crystal ball from its body: “The locations of the clones you asked me to find are all here.”

"Thanks, Four-Faced Beast." Hao Chen took the crystal ball, a smile involuntarily creeping onto his face.

Inspired by the Dao I am, Hao Chen chose to create several clones and send them to other worlds to devour their fortune, Dao, and laws.

When the time is right, he will be able to retract his clone, fuse all laws, and forge his own path.

"Now is the time to reap the rewards."

Hao Chen took a deep breath, raised his hand and pierced through the void, creating a spacetime tunnel: "Four-Unlikes, I'll trouble you to come with me."

The Pixie who arrived later looked at the Four-Faced Beast stepping into the passage in shock. It turned out that the Four-Faced Beast he had been waiting for was actually so close to him.

"The Four Unlikes!!!" Before Bixie could say anything, he leaped into the space-time tunnel.

"Bixie, wait for me, let's go together." Tianlu gritted his teeth and followed Bixie into the time-space tunnel after seeing Bixie jump in.

Zhan Hu followed without saying a word, wanting to know what Hao Chen was doing.

……

In the main hall of the Xuantian Sect, Qin Hao looked up at the sect master and the elders of the law enforcement hall above him, his eyes filled with a trace of sorrow, but mostly with anger.

He never dreamed that as the senior disciple of the Xuantian Sect, he would one day be jointly interrogated by the sect leader and the elders of the Enforcement Hall in front of all the sect disciples because he was framed by a junior disciple who had just joined the sect.

No, it could no longer be called an interrogation, but coercion, forcing Qin Hao to admit to a fabricated crime, and he might even have his cultivation abolished as a result.

"Qin Hao, do you know your mistake!" The Xuan Tian Sect Master looked coldly at Qin Hao below.

His gaze made it seem as if Qin Hao wasn't the senior disciple of the Xuantian Sect, but a complete stranger.

Looking at the sect leader above him, Qin Hao said firmly, word by word, "I am not wrong."

"Insolence!" The Xuan Tian Sect Master glared angrily, his aura as a peak Nascent Soul cultivator making no attempt to conceal it, causing the disciples below to tremble with fear.

Seeing that the disciples below were intimidated, the Xuan Tian Sect Master then concealed his aura.

Following the sect leader, the law enforcement elder also stepped forward, looking at Qin Hao with regret: "Qin Hao, as the senior brother, instead of thinking about how to help your junior brothers and sisters cultivate, you stole your junior brother's Foundation Establishment Pill."

"In this way, as long as you admit your mistake today, I will put in a good word for you with the sect leader and only strip you of your cultivation. You will still be the senior disciple of the Xuantian Sect."

When the elder in charge of law enforcement also spoke up to criticize Qin Hao, and even wanted to abolish his senior brother's cultivation, the disciples below began to discuss among themselves.

Then one by one, they decisively chose to stand on the moral high ground and began to criticize Qin Hao, showing no trace of their former respect.

“You, you all…” Qin Hao felt only sorrow in his heart.

The dignified sect leader and the law enforcement elder who was fair in rewarding and punishing, actually forced him, the senior disciple in the Mahayana stage, to admit his mistake based on the one-sided testimony of a Qi Refining stage disciple.

Boom! !

Just then, a deafening thunderclap suddenly resounded outside the Xuantian Sect.

"Sect Master, something terrible has happened! The sky outside has cracked!!"

"What?!" The Xuan Tian Sect Master was shocked and was about to go out to see what had happened.

However, at this moment, a Qi Refining stage disciple suddenly jumped out, pointed at Qin Hao and said, "Senior Brother, I know I shouldn't accuse you of stealing my Foundation Establishment Pill, but you can't collude with the extraterrestrial demons and attempt to destroy the sect."

"What?! Senior Brother is colluding with the demons?! That can't be true!"

"What do you mean it's fake? If he wasn't colluding with the demons, how could Senior Brother have reached the Mahayana stage before he was even thirty? He must have been practicing the demons' techniques."

"Yes, yes, I saw Senior Brother practicing demonic arts in the forbidden area last time."

……

Just as the disciples of the Xuantian Sect were discussing and concluding that Qin Hao had colluded with the demons and cultivated demonic arts, they failed to notice the change in Qin Hao's gaze.

If Qin Hao's eyes had previously held a hint of kindness, now they were filled with nothing but coldness.

"I'm a Mahayana cultivator, yet I'm being framed by a bunch of ant-level beings and have my cultivation destroyed. My clone is living such a miserable life."

Hao Chen felt the surging Mahayana stage mana within his clone and was speechless. He silently took out the Human Emperor Banner.

Since you all say I colluded with the demon race to cultivate demonic arts, then I'll have to have a good talk with you ants. It's impossible for a human emperor to cultivate demonic arts.

Meanwhile, above the Xuantian Sect, Bixie looked at Sibuxiang with teary eyes, wanting to go up and hug Sibuxiang, but fearing that it was all just his illusion.

"Little Plum Blossom, long time no see! You've lost weight!" Si Bu Xiang smiled and squinted as he walked toward Bi Xie, then bent down and rubbed his cheek against Bi Xie repeatedly.

"Four-Faced Beasts, it really is you, you're back..."

Sibuxiang imagined many scenarios of meeting Bixie, and also thought about what he would say to Bixie after they met.

But when he actually met Bixie again, Sibuxiang found that he couldn't say the words he had prepared.

Finally, the Four-Faced Beast hugged the Evil-Repelling Beast tightly, repeatedly saying, "I'm back, Plum Blossom. I will never leave you again."

Tianlu, watching the two beasts hugging each other after their reunion, said with a hint of jealousy, "What? You guys should include me too!"

"The Four Unlikes!"

"Little Plum Blossom!"

After exchanging a glance, Bixie and Sibuxiang walked over to Tianlu together. Sibuxiang squatted down on the ground and with a forceful pull of its paws, it hugged Bixie and Tianlu tightly: "Little Blue Circle, how could we forget you? We promised to be together for a lifetime."

"By the way, Sibuxiang, what are you and Haochen doing here? And where did Haochen go?"

Tianlu then realized that they had all been there for so long, and Haochen should have come out to greet them as well.

To this day, they haven't even seen a trace of Haochen.

However, just as Si Bu Xiang Xiang began to explain, Zhan Hu's pupils shrank, staring in disbelief at the Emperor's Banner that blotted out the sky below.

"Those are the master's things?! How did they end up with Haochen?"

Even though the Human Emperor Banner was emitting black smoke in Hao Chen's hands, Zhan Hu still recognized it as the weapon of his master, Chi You.

After a thousand years, he and his master have been separated, reunited, and separated again. Now, can they reunite once more?!

Zhanhu was overjoyed; Chiyou was not only his master but also family to him.

……

Inside the Xuantian Sect, Qin Hao held the Human Emperor Banner in his hand. With each shake, a Xuantian Sect disciple would fall into eternal sleep.

"Everyone, your senior brother will guide you to immortality, so do not resist."