There is a beast in the bright morning.

Chapter 291 Return

"Buzz..."

The gate, which had been closed for who knows how many years, was slowly pushed open, and a series of footsteps approaching from afar broke the silence of the hall.

Hao Chen looked at the newcomer calmly: "Dark Night, how long has it been since the Eternal Night?"

"You are?!"

An Ye frowned as he looked at Hao Chen, feeling that the other's face was familiar, as if he had seen him somewhere before.

The next moment, An Ye's pupils shrank sharply, and he pointed at Hao Chen: "How come your appearance is exactly the same as Master's portrait? Could it be that you are Master's offspring?"

"..." Hao Chen was speechless. He had just completed his final transformation and was in a great mood, so he deliberately changed into a boy's appearance. How could An Ye have mistaken him for someone else?

Hao Chen suspected that An Ye had lived too long and must have developed presbyopia.

Before Hao Chen could explain, An Ye said excitedly, "Dao Zi, I am your father's disciple and the current apparent controller of the temple."

After a pause, An Ye continued, "After Master dealt with Eternal Night, he went into seclusion for hundreds of thousands of years. Because he never appeared, the outside world was saying that Master had passed away due to his severe injuries."

"May I ask if you could tell me about my master's situation? Could it be that what's being said outside has already..."

An Ye paused here, but kept glancing at Hao Chen's expression out of the corner of her eye.

Hao Chen did not answer An Ye's question. Instead, he got up and walked towards the outside, which An Ye took as an admission.

For a moment, An Ye felt a little sad, but after seeing Hao Chen in front of him, An Ye secretly vowed in his heart that he was too weak to stand by his master's side back then, and now he must protect his master's descendants.

It's only because Hao Chen didn't know what An Ye was thinking that things would have been so difficult; otherwise, it probably wouldn't have been as simple as just beating him up.

Through his conversation with An Ye, Hao Chen also learned about some major events that had occurred after he fell into a deep sleep.

First, it is stated that the Temple remains the dominant force in the Dark Universe, with the Forbidden Zones and Extreme Path forces ranking below it.

Secondly, after the Eternal Night, the Supreme Beings changed their title to Emperor, calling themselves Great Emperors, thus dividing the era from the one before the Eternal Night.

However, the current cosmic environment is extremely poor. Hundreds of thousands of years have passed, and only a handful of people have achieved the status of Great Emperor.

Just as they were discussing the current state of the temple, Dark Night suddenly hesitated, which made Hao Chen have a bad feeling: "Dark Night, has something happened to the temple? Tell me the truth."

“Yes!” Dark Night replied immediately, “One hundred thousand years after Master fell into slumber, Qiongtian, Aohun, Paoxiao, and Black Spade suddenly disappeared. I searched the entire universe but could not find any trace of them.”

"If you can't find them, then don't bother looking. Let them go." Hao Chen waved his hand. He knew that Qiong Tian and the others had most likely gone to the Third Realm to look for Chen Ying, since they were essentially Chen Ying's subordinates.

After receiving Hao Chen's decree, An Ye was puzzled but accepted it nonetheless, since his relationship with Qiong Tian and the others was only so-so.

And so, Hao Chen appeared in the temple as a descendant of the Eastern Emperor Daoist, a Daoist disciple.

Because of An Ye's presence, although the people in the temple were surprised by Hao Chen's sudden appearance, they ultimately respected Hao Chen.

Then Hao Chen found some time to send the Four-Faced Beast to a small world far away from the Dark Universe, since he hadn't figured out how to deal with it yet.

However, considering the fact that the Four-Faced Beast is weak in combat, Hao Chen arranged for Ru Yan and one of his clones to secretly protect the Four-Faced Beast for its safety.

Hao Chen was unaware that Ru Yan would attack the Four-Faced Beast out of jealousy. Fortunately, his clone intervened and suppressed it, but that's another story.

After resolving the issue of the four non-mutable creatures, Hao Chen made an excuse to go out alone.

It was at this moment that Haochen realized how terrible the current cosmic environment was.

Hao Chen traversed several star regions, but he had fewer than a handful of ancient life-bearing stars. Most of them were broken and desolate stars affected by the eternal night.

"Alas, this is the karma I have incurred."

Faced with this situation, Hao Chen could not remain indifferent, so he had to spend a lot of divine power to enlighten the stars and bring those dead stars back to life.

Furthermore, in order to speed up this process, Hao Chen directly used the physical body he had left behind from his previous transformation to evolve the star field.

However, due to a mistake, Hao Chen accidentally sent his physical body into the river of time.

Looking at the physical body floating in the river of time, golden runes flashed in Hao Chen's pupils. He saw that this physical body would bring him help at some point, so he chose to leave it alone.

In the following period, Hao Chen continued to repair the cosmic environment and secretly made some arrangements.

Following Hao Chen's series of actions, the universe revived tens of thousands of years later, and the Golden Age appeared.

But Hao Chen suddenly disappeared, and no matter how hard An Ye searched, he could not find any trace of Hao Chen.

The only clue was a letter left by Haochen.

Looking at the letter in his hand, An Ye couldn't help but clench his fist: "Dao Zi, what kind of love is it that is worth you and your master waiting across the years?"

An Ye did not know where Hao Chen had gone; he only knew that Hao Chen had gone to find what he called friendship and family.

Even though An Ye tried to conceal Hao Chen's disappearance, it was still exposed.

It has now been confirmed that the Eastern Emperor Daoist has disappeared, and now the Daoist Child is also gone.

The universe entered a golden age, with countless geniuses emerging and new enlightened beings soon appearing.

Just then, internal strife broke out within the temple, with some high-ranking officials joining forces with the forbidden zones in an attempt to seize control of the temple.

Dark Night was seriously injured due to carelessness and had to flee the temple. Beset by internal and external troubles, the temple's dominance was challenged.

To set things right, Dark Night had no choice but to risk traversing the river of time to find Hao Chen's whereabouts. However, although Dark Night eventually found Hao Chen, he arrived at the wrong time.

Meanwhile, Hao Chen was unaware of what had happened at the temple. He was standing on a cloud, looking down at the endless colorful cloud mountain range.

Hao Chen said in a daze, "Finally, I'm back!"

Many years have passed, and Hao Chen's memories of Caiyun Mountain, the Deer Man Shop, and the Four Unlikes have begun to fade.

Fortunately, he's back now, and everything can start over.

After admiring the beautiful scenery of Caiyun Mountain, Hao Chen's inner desires were also aroused, and he couldn't wait to find a furry creature to pet.

"I haven't touched anything furry in so long, I'm dying to get some. I'll go and satisfy my craving before Zhanhu's memories return."

With that in mind, Hao Chen flew toward the Deer Man Shop, and along the way he did not forget to change his body from human form back to a growing Pixiu.

However, just as Hao Chen was about to arrive at the Deer Man Shop, he ran into an unexpected guy.

"Is this my true self?!"

"Original body?!"

Hao Chen never expected to encounter his Dao Wo Shen at this time, and Dao Wo Shen never expected that his true form would suddenly appear in front of him.

The next moment, Daowo seemed to realize something and turned to run away.

Seeing this, Hao Chen chased after him without thinking. He was certain that Dao Shi was feeling guilty and was definitely hiding something from him.

However, perhaps because he hadn't strolled around Caiyun Mountain for too long, Haochen wasn't as familiar with it as Daowoshen, and as a result, he lost track of Daowoshen.

"Damn it, it's supposed to be my clone, but it's not listening to me."

Just as Hao Chen was complaining, he suddenly heard a noise coming from the bushes next to him, along with Zhan Hu's familiar voice.

Out of curiosity, Hao Chen parted the grass, only to see a scene that made him blush: "Zhan Hu, what are you and Oleander doing? Stop right now."

"Uh, Haochen, what are you getting so worked up about? I was just licking the oleander's fur!" Zhanhu looked at Haochen, feeling that Haochen was acting strangely today.

Seeing Zhanhu and Oleander so intimately, Haochen suddenly realized why he had run away earlier. It turned out he hadn't kept a close eye on Zhanhu and was worried about getting beaten up.

Thinking of this, Hao Chen no longer cared what Zhan Hu and Jia Zhu Tao were doing. Anyway, they couldn't run away. The most important thing was to find Dao Wo Shen and share his memories.

Zhanhu watched Haochen leave in a huff, scratched his head in confusion, and then turned back to help Oleander tidy up its messy fur.