There is a beast in the bright morning.

Chapter 254 Price

"Boom!"

A bolt of lightning ripped through the sky, illuminating the terrified face of the mythical creature.

Looking at the dark clouds above the Deer Man Shop and the little golden man standing on the clouds, the eyes under the mask of the four-legged creature were filled with despair: "My lord, why have you come?"

"You audacious monstrous creature, how dare you unlock the heart lock of the Pixiu without permission! Today, I, the deity, am hereby ordered to arrest you and bring you to justice."

After the golden man on the dark cloud finished speaking, he pointed at the Qilin (a mythical creature), and a beam of celestial light fell down, causing the earth to crack open. The Qilin then fell directly into the crack.

"Ah~ Help me, Pipi, please save me! I was wrong, please forgive me."

Feeling the pressure constantly squeezing from all sides, the Qilin felt like it was about to suffocate, and its head felt dizzy.

"Pipi, save me... Uh!" The Qilin opened its eyes again and found itself lying on the bed. There was no more little golden man, no more dark clouds, and no more deep cracks.

"Oh, it was just a dream. That scared me to death." Just as the Qilin was about to breathe a sigh of relief, it suddenly felt a tightness in its chest and couldn't breathe properly, as if something was pressing down on it.

Reaching its paw towards its chest, it touched a fluffy mass and was immediately startled: "What is this?"

After pressing the switch on the bedside lamp, as the light came on, the Qilin finally saw what was lying on top of it.

"When did Haochen come in? No wonder I felt like I was being crushed by a mountain."

"Wake up, Haochen, wake up!" The Qilin grabbed Haochen and shook him a few times, even tugging at his ears or pinching his cheeks, trying to wake him up.

It turned out that Haochen seemed to be sleeping too soundly, and Ren Sixiang could not wake him up no matter how much he shook him.

"Being woken up is already annoying, and now I have to take Haochen back, which makes me even more annoyed."

Si Bu Xiang looked at Hao Chen, who was sleeping like a log, and hesitated about whether to send him back to his own room.

Hao Chen had actually woken up when the Four-Faced Beast turned on the light, but he pretended to be asleep in order to stay.

After thinking about it for a long time, the four-legged creature finally decided that it was too much trouble and that Haochen should sleep in his own room tonight.

"Fortunately, they haven't taken away Tianlu's pillow yet, which saves us from having to look for it again."

When Tianlu and Qixiang slept in the same bed, they had a special pillow. However, now that Tianlu has moved to sleep with Bixie and Qishiqi, Qixiang has not put away Tianlu's pillow.

After moving Haochen to the spot where Tianlu used to sleep, the Four-Faced Beast couldn't help but let out a heavy breath: "What has Haochen been eating lately? He seems to have gained a lot of weight. Is the food too good?"

Just as the four-legged creature was muttering about whether or not it should put Haochen on a diet, a mosquito flew over and circled around Haochen's ear.

The annoying buzzing sound made Hao Chen frown slightly, but this small movement was noticed by the Qilin.

Suddenly, the four-legged creature understood: what did "sleeping too soundly" mean? It turned out that Hao Chen was pretending to be asleep.

"You little devil, Haochen, I was just calling you like that, and you still managed to fall asleep."

The four-legged creature suddenly had an idea to teach Hao Chen a lesson. It pretended to be casual and said, "Hao Chen, are you pretending to be asleep? I know. Get up and go back to your room to sleep."

Upon hearing what the strange creature said, Hao Chen froze, not even daring to breathe deeply.

The four-legged creature, which had been watching Hao Chen closely, curled its lips when it saw Hao Chen's little movements, thinking that Hao Chen was indeed pretending to be asleep.

"Oh dear, I've heard that when a Pixiu falls asleep, its muscles become quite stiff, and if someone lifts its claws, it won't let go. Let me see if that's true."

As the four-legged creature spoke, it grabbed one of Hao Chen's paws, making the paw form a 90° angle with its body.

When Hao Chen realized that the four-legged creature was grabbing his claws, he was a little dazed. His first thought was that the four-legged creature was trying to trick him.

"Speaking of which, is the Pixiu's body really stiff when it sleeps?" Hao Chen hesitated. He had petted Tianlu when it was asleep, but he hadn't paid attention to these things.

After thinking for a while, Hao Chen decided not to put down his claws and bet that what the four-legged creature said was true.

Seeing Hao Chen raising his paws, the Qilin's fist hardened, and it punched Hao Chen on the head: "Hao Chen, get up! What kind of Qilin sleeps with its paws raised?"

"Ouch!" Hao Chen rubbed his aching head, looking aggrieved. "You lied to me, Qilin, and was it necessary to hit me so hard?"

Realizing he'd been tricked by the four-legged creature, Hao Chen decided to stop pretending and figured he could just be shameless and force himself to stay.

The four-legged creature was a bit of a headache, wondering how it had ended up with this unserious guy, Hao Chen: "Hey Hao Chen, you clearly have your own room, why do you still come here?"

"Haha, I came to see if there were any perverts spying on you while you were sleeping. It seems there aren't any, but for your safety, I think I'll stay in your room tonight..."

Before Hao Chen could finish speaking, the four-legged creature roughly grabbed him and headed for the door.

"Hey, you strange creature, what are you doing? I'm going to sleep in your room to protect you."

"I bet that pervert is you, get out of here!" No matter how Hao Chen shouted, it was no use. The Qi Bu Xiang opened the door, kicked Hao Chen in the butt, and sent him flying.

After getting rid of Haochen, the Four-Faced Beast suddenly felt much quieter. Thinking about how much time had been wasted, it quickly went back to sleep.

Outside, Hao Chen watched as the Qilin slammed the door shut, giving himself no chance. He sighed helplessly, "Who can understand the heart of a furry lover? Is it wrong to want to sleep with a furry creature?"

At this moment, Hao Chen especially missed Zhan Hu in his world, where he could do whatever he wanted without having to worry too much.

"It's time to go back."

Hao Chen glanced back at the room of the strange creature, feeling somewhat heavy-hearted. In the end, he couldn't muster the courage to knock on the door and instead walked directly outside.

Hao Chen, having once again reached the highest peak of Caiyun Mountain, looked around and found the quiet night soothing to his heart.

"let's start!"

With a flick of his claw, Hao Chen sent two drops of bright red blood floating in the air, creating an eerie scene.

But Hao Chen ignored him and instead kept forming various hand seals, injecting runes into the two drops of blood.

As the runes were continuously injected, the blood seemed to undergo a change, becoming even more crimson, like a magnificent ruby, and emitting a faint fragrance.

The next moment, a white Qilin figure flashed through the blood, and Hao Chen breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this.

"Finally, the unique mark belonging to the Four-Unlikes in the blood has been activated. Now it's time to do what I want to do most. I hope everything goes smoothly."

One of the drops of blood was the one Hao Chen had taken from the Four-Faced Beast tonight, but he didn't know how to explain it, so he simply didn't tell the Four-Faced Beast.

The other drop was what Hao Chen asked Qi Shiqi for. Because he suspected that Qi Shiqi was related to Si Bu Xiang, Hao Chen asked Qi Shiqi for a drop of his blood. Qi Shiqi did not ask for the reason and readily squeezed out a drop of blood for Hao Chen.

"With blood as the guide, soul as the bond, and seal as the foundation, we reverse the cycle of time and break the shackles of time and space."

Hao Chen swallowed the blood of the four-legged beast and Seventy-Seven in one gulp, then used his claws as fists to strike the sky.

"Boom!"

As time surged and the boundless void collapsed with a deafening roar, a great silver river emerged, flowing from nothingness towards an unknown land.

"The long river of time!"

Hao Chen looked at the silver river, a hint of excitement flashing in his eyes. Then he took a step forward and instantly appeared on the River of Time, beginning to swim upstream.

An invisible force descended from the darkness, entangling Hao Chen and causing him to suffer an unimaginable catastrophe. Large swaths of his flesh were eroded and peeled away by the power of time.

"It hurts!"

Hao Chen gritted his teeth, urging his inner source to resist the erosion of time.

His body cracked under the power of time, yet was constantly reborn under the yin and yang essence. This torment once made Hao Chen want to give up, but he dared not and could not.

"Damn it, if I can't even stand such a mere illusion, how am I supposed to enjoy being surrounded by furry creatures every day?"

The thought that one day something might happen to the Four-Faced Beast in his world, but he was too afraid of the pain to help it and could only watch helplessly as it passed away filled Hao Chen with anguish.

"Fight!"

Hao Chen let out a long roar and quickened his pace. Along the way, he saw in the long river of time scenes of two-legged beasts severing dragon veins, two green and white snakes flooding temples, monks riding white horses westward, and monkeys causing havoc in the Heavenly Palace...

Hao Chen stopped when he saw an injured white Qilin.

"Father, Mother, I have to leave, but I'm worried about Little Plum Blossom and Little Blue Circle. I wonder if they'll be sad when I'm gone..."

The white Qilin is the Four-Unlikes, which is Hao Chen's target on this trip. At this moment, it is weakly looking up at the sky, its eyes full of longing and reluctance.

"Four Unlikes"

Hao Chen didn't know what had happened, but seeing the imminent demise of the Four-Faced Beast, he lost his composure and directly chose to burn his own essence in exchange for a supreme Dao Fruit.

A terrifying aura rose from Hao Chen's body, and clusters of Dao flames burned within him.

A vast and boundless ancient realm, seemingly bearing the weight of the entire chaotic world, emerged behind Hao Chen.

In the ancient realm, the Yin-Yang Dao transformed into a human form and walked towards Hao Chen, disappearing into Hao Chen's Immortal Platform.

In an instant, Hao Chen's entire body shone with immortal radiance, as if he could suppress all the heavens throughout the ages.

"Time flies!"

Hao Chen knew that the power he had temporarily borrowed could not last long, so without thinking much about it, he reached out a claw towards the four-legged creature below.

The long river of time surged and churned, only to be torn apart by Hao Chen's claws.

The next moment, the Four-Faced Beast, who was waiting for death to come, suddenly widened its eyes and saw the void suddenly collapse, from which a white bone claw emerged and grabbed straight at it.

However, the Four-Faced Beast was severely injured at the moment and was powerless to resist, so it could only let the skeletal hand grab it away.

After the Four-Faced Beast was taken away, Tianlu rushed over, exhausted. He was stunned when he saw the deep pit on the ground and the Four-Faced Beast that had disappeared.

"Where are you, Four-Faced Beast? Answer me!"

Having failed to find the Four-Faced Beast, Tianlu suspects that the Heavenly Court captured it to threaten him and Bixie.

However, in order to rescue the Four-Faced Beast, Tianlu had no choice but to return to the Heavenly Court.

……

At the highest peak of the Caiyun Mountains, two figures, one in black and one in white, descended from the sky. The moment they landed, the black figure exhaled a breath towards the ground, creating a cloud that caught them.

"I'm so tired, I want to sleep!"

Hao Chen glanced weakly at the Four-Faced Beast beside him. Although burning a large amount of his source energy had given him power, he had also carried the Four-Faced Beast across the river of time to the present moment.

However, due to insufficient origin, his body was extremely weak, and Hao Chen even felt that his remaining origin was not enough to allow this world to be reborn.

After an unknown amount of time, a ray of sunlight shone on the Four-Faced Beast. The Four-Faced Beast rubbed its eyes and touched itself in disbelief.

"Am I about to die? Is this the afterlife, and it looks pretty much the same as when I was alive?"

At this moment, the Four-Faced Beast noticed Hao Chen standing to the side and cautiously stepped forward to touch Hao Chen with its paw: "Wake up, how do you wake up?"

Soon, the Four-Faced Beast noticed Hao Chen's striking resemblance to Tian Lu, and immediately frowned: "His appearance? Could he be the offspring of Little Blue Circle and someone else?"

After thinking for a moment, the Siberian Husky picked up Haochen and put him on its back, heading towards the deer-man shop at the foot of the mountain.