There is a beast in the bright morning.

Chapter 227 Hao Chen's Wasted Efforts

Early in the morning, Haochen was still asleep when he was pulled up by the four-legged creature.

"What are you doing, you four-legged creature? I was sleeping soundly! Hah~"

Hao Chen yawned, about to crawl back into bed to continue sleeping, but the Qilin grabbed Hao Chen's tail: "Wait a minute, what did you do last night? Tell me honestly."

"Last night?" Hao Chen swallowed hard, quickly filtering through his memories of what he had done.

"I think I slept with Tianlu in my arms last night, not with Qixiang. Why does he look so angry?"

Hao Chen thought for a long time but still couldn't figure out why the Qilin was angry.

Seeing this, the four-legged creature had to remind Haochen: "Where did you get the gold last night? Think about it carefully!"

"Gold?" Hao Chen's heart skipped a beat. Could it be that things had been exposed? But he thought he had handled it quite cleanly.

However, thinking about the consequences of being discovered, Hao Chen decided to play dumb: "I don't understand what you're saying, the gold is wild gold that I dug up in the ground."

"Wild gold? Then why haven't I found any?"

"That might mean you're not a Pixiu, since Pixiu are known for finding treasures."

The four-legged creature was amused by Hao Chen's explanation, thinking that Hao Chen really wouldn't shed a tear until he saw the coffin. But that was fine too, so that he and Rabbit Lord wouldn't have to be soft-hearted later.

The four-legged creature didn't say anything more and pulled Hao Chen downstairs.

Hao Chen's intuition told him not to go downstairs, but before Hao Chen could react, the Si Bu Xiang put the leash that Tian Lu had used before around his neck and pulled him downstairs.

"Are you out of your mind, you idiot? I'm not Tianlu, and you're putting this thing on me? Take it off right now, or I'll get angry."

It's unclear what material the leash of this strange-looking dog was made of, but Hao Chen didn't break free immediately and was dragged downstairs by the strange creature.

As soon as Hao Chen went downstairs, he saw the furious Rabbit Lord and the Xie Zhi behind him.

"Hello, good morning, Rabbit Lord!" Hao Chen greeted Rabbit Lord first, but subconsciously ignored Xie Zhi, after all, the power of Xie Zhi's horn had left a deep impression on him.

"Haochen, where is my gold? That was what I prepared for the Qilin."

"They ate it." Hao Chen was about to argue, but after glancing at the Xie Zhi, he decisively chose to follow his heart and admitted that the gold had been eaten.

"You ate it?! All of it?"

Rabbit Lord was in a bad mood. He originally planned to use the gold to make a pure gold statue of the Qixi Festival and give it to the Qixi Festival. However, Hao Chen squandered it without him noticing.

Even if he were to start preparing again now, it would probably be difficult for him to acquire so much gold in a short period of time.

Seeing Rabbit Lord's transformation from anger to current dejection, Hao Chen realized that he had indeed gone too far this time.

"Alright, Mr. Rabbit, it's just a little bit of gold. I'll compensate you."

As Hao Chen spoke, he activated his limited divine power. With the fusion of Yin and Yang laws, pieces of gold appeared out of thin air, and soon a pile of gold appeared on the ground.

Seeing that he had almost finished collecting the gold, Hao Chen immediately stopped working, panting heavily as he lay on the ground, thinking to himself that it was inconvenient not being his original body, and that he had too little divine power.

Rabbit picked up a piece of gold from the ground and bit it. After discovering that it was real gold, he looked at Hao Chen with a surprised expression: "Hao Chen, you can conjure gold yourself, why did you take mine?"

Hao Chen rolled his eyes at Rabbit Lord, not noticing how exhausted he was after turning the gold into gold: "Of course, you use your own divine power to turn the gold into gold and then eat it. The divine power gained is not enough to compensate for the consumption."

Upon hearing Hao Chen's explanation, Rabbit realized he had asked a very stupid question, so he stopped talking and instead looked at the gold on the ground, thinking about how to take it back.

"Rabbit Master, now that I've returned the gold to you, I'll be leaving now." After resting for a while, Hao Chen prepared to slip away, as the long horns of the Xie Zhi made him somewhat uncomfortable.

"Alright, I'll let it go this time."

With Jinzi back, Rabbit Lord no longer held Hao Chen accountable for what he had done before, and besides, he could tell that Hao Chen was somewhat tired.

But as expected, something unexpected still happened. Just as Hao Chen was about to make a quick getaway, the Xie Zhi moved, its long horn poking at Hao Chen's buttocks, hitting the bullseye.

"Ouch~ It hurts!!!"

"Why? I've already paid it all back, why are you still poking me?" Hao Chen covered his buttocks, tears streaming down his face uncontrollably.

“You will definitely have to pay compensation, but stealing is wrong, so this is your punishment.”

After saying that, Xie Zhi glared at Hao Chen, which made Hao Chen tremble and look at the Qilin and Rabbit with a wronged expression.

The four-legged creature quickly turned its head to look elsewhere, as if it dared not interfere with the affairs of the Xie Zhi at all, after all, it had shed physiological tears over the mahjong parlor incident.

Rabbit Lord awkwardly helped Hao Chen up, saying, "I'm sorry, I was just worried you wouldn't admit it, so I called Mr. Xie here."

"Then you really know me well."

Hao Chen was filled with regret. If he had known it would turn out this way, he would have been better off using his divine power to conjure gold himself.

In the end, not only did he not gain any advantage, but he also had to turn himself into gold and was even poked by a Xie Zhi (a mythical beast).

"Alright, since it's all over, let's just let it go." The four-legged creature smoothed things over and turned to help Rabbit Lord move the gold to his warehouse.

“What bad luck!”

Hao Chen cursed under his breath, then shouted at the four-legged creature, "Four-legged creature, I have to go out for a bit, don't bother saving my lunch."

Hao Chen planned to go find Bi Xie to clear up the misunderstanding first, which was what he was supposed to do today, but he was delayed by the Rabbit Lord's matter.

Hao Chen did not want Tian Lu to leave the Deer Man Shop and the Four-Faced Beast after regaining his memories, which would lead to the Heavenly Court punishing the Four-Faced Beast.

Therefore, Haochen thought he should first discuss with Bixie whether Tianlu could stay after he regained his memory.

"The four-legged creatures of this world are most likely dead as well," Hao Chen thought sadly.

Although this world was created by Chen Ying, according to Hao Chen's observation, this parallel world is actually closer to the original comic, so the Four-Faced Beast is most likely nonexistent.

History cannot be changed, and Haochen deeply understands this.

In his world, no matter what efforts he made, Bixie and the others still made it to the Heavenly Court. In the end, Tianlu lost his memory, and Bixie was wanted by the Heavenly Court, so he could only hide in Tianlu's belly.

Furthermore, the existence of the Four Unlikes in the future led Hao Chen to believe that something had happened to the Four Unlikes.

"But having come all this way, I can't live with myself if I don't do something."

After making up his mind, Haochen felt as if he had gained something, but upon closer inspection, he found nothing.

Before long, following the mark left on Bixie the night before, Haochen arrived at a cliff.

"These paintings...could they be ancient relics?"

Hao Chen looked at the murals on the cliff. They looked somewhat hasty, but they had a magnificent and grand feel to them, and they also gave Hao Chen a sense of mystery.

"A genius! The person who painted this must be a genius."

Hao Chen was looking at the mural, but as he looked at it, he subconsciously frowned because he found that the scenery in the painting seemed somewhat familiar.

"This four-winged creature looks like Dijiang? And this one with a long tail and wings is Hundun? Could these two beasts, which look very similar, be Bixie and Tianlu?"

Just as Haochen was looking at the mural, Bixie suddenly rushed out and pushed Haochen to the ground.

"Are you here for revenge? You've come to the wrong place. There are no Heavenly Bluebirds here."

"Wait, don't get agitated, I'm here to apologize."

For some reason, when Bixie pinned him to the ground, Haochen's first thought wasn't to resist, but to admit his mistake.

"An angry warding-off evil spirit, it looks like the role of a father, doesn't it?" Hao Chen thought subconsciously, but quickly shook his head and forgot about this terrifying idea.

What Hao Chen didn't know was that this was due to the influence of his clone. Although the time and space were different, this influence could transcend everything.

Bixie did not let go of Haochen because of his words, and remained vigilant. He remembered that it was Haochen who bullied his younger brother Tianlu last night.

Hao Chen thought to himself, "As expected, Bixie's vigilance is still too high."

However, he still said, "Bixie, don't you want Tianlu to regain his memories?"

"What did you say?! How do you know about Tianlu's amnesia? Tell me, were you sent by the Heavenly Court?"

As if it had heard something unbelievable, Bixie became so excited that it grew larger and used its claws to firmly press Haochen to the ground.

Hao Chen looked at the evil paw beside his head, swallowed hard, and then repeated, "I said, don't you want Tianlu to regain his memories?"

"Are you threatening me?!"

"It's not a threat, it's help." Hao Chen also revealed his true form as a Pixiu, breaking free from the Bixie claws.

After the two enormous creatures stared at each other for a moment, Hao Chen shrank first, followed by Bi Xie.

After Hao Chen shrunk, he suddenly noticed a yellow fox with horns on its back on the field.

Just as Hao Chen was still pondering the other party's identity, Bi Xie stepped in front of him and said, "Hua Jiao, go back and wait for me. I'll be back soon."

"Are you sure you don't need my help?" Huajiao looked at Haochen with concern.

"So his name is Sichuan peppercorn. He's all furry and quite cute. I really want to pet him."

Bixie had no idea what Haochen was thinking, but when he saw Haochen staring at Huajiao, he thought Haochen wanted to harm Huajiao.

Meanwhile, high above the nine heavens, there exists a force known as the Heavenly Court. Within the Heavenly Court, the Heavenly Emperor Haotian reigns supreme, commanding all the gods and immortals.

However, at this moment, Haotian encountered a troubling matter: the seventy-seven Pixiu, which the Heavenly Court had painstakingly cultivated, secretly descended to the mortal realm.

"Your Majesty, should we capture Seventy-Seven?"

Haotian shook his head after hearing this: "There's no need to worry about this. They'll meet sooner or later."

Immediately afterward, Haotian asked, "You just said that a black Pixiu appeared next to the Qilin? Are you sure it's not Seventy-Seven?"

"Your Majesty, according to the message from the Bluebird, the black Pixiu is named Haochen, and Seventy-Seven is still in the courtyard."

"I am aware of this matter. You may continue to observe. There is no need to concern yourself with anything else. You may leave."

After dismissing his subordinates, Haotian quietly looked ahead: "Interesting. Without any indication from the Heavenly Dao, a Pixiu has inexplicably appeared. Could he be a variable?"