There is a beast in the bright morning.

Chapter 114 Spying

The Jiuli tribe was one of the few large tribes of the human race in ancient times. Its leader, Chi You, possessed extraordinary cultivation and was also very ambitious.

Under Chi You's leadership, the Jiuli tribe once swept across the entire human race with overwhelming force, intending to unify the human race and become the dominant power in the three realms.

However, Chi You acted in an extremely domineering manner, disrespecting heaven and earth, and only respecting himself. He believed only in his own power and often committed acts of extermination to intimidate other tribes.

This forced other tribes to unite and form the Yanhuang tribe to fight against the invasion of the Jiuli tribe.

Subsequently, the Jiuli tribe and the Yanhuang tribe, led by Emperor Yan and Emperor Huang, fought continuously. Both sides displayed their supernatural powers and even invited gods and mythical beasts from all over the world to help them, which further caused the situation in the Three Realms to become unstable.

In the end, to achieve final victory, Chi You mobilized the entire Jiuli tribe, slaughtering countless lives, capturing their souls, and forging a cool, black-glowing Human Emperor Banner.

When the Emperor's Banner was unleashed, countless ghosts emerged, causing turmoil in the Three Realms and forcing the Yanhuang tribe into a series of defeats.

However, this act was against the will of Heaven and displeased Heaven and Earth. It also enraged the Heavenly Emperor Haotian, who dispatched heavenly soldiers and generals to the mortal realm to help the Yanhuang tribe defeat the Jiuli tribe and become the legitimate ruler of the human race.

However, Chi You, possessing supernatural powers, would not sit idly by and wait for death. He used the entire Jiuli tribe as a sacrifice to set up an unparalleled killing formation and fought a decisive battle with the Heavenly Emperor of the Heavenly Court and the Yan Emperor and Yellow Emperor of the Yanhuang tribe at Zhuolu.

After this battle, the human race lost the Jiuli tribe and Chi You, and even the fearsome Human Emperor Banner disappeared without a trace.

There are rumors that Chi You was killed by the Heavenly Emperor and the Yellow Emperor at Zhuolu, and his physical body was cut into several pieces and sealed in various places.

But only the Heavenly Emperor and the Yellow Emperor, who participated in the battle, knew that when Chi You finally showed signs of defeat, he escaped by using the Human Emperor Banner and disappeared without a trace.

In order to eliminate future troubles, the Heavenly Court, after some investigation, recently learned that Chi You's former mount, the War Tiger, remained in the Red Maple Forest, presumably entrusted by Chi You to guard something there.

The Heavenly Court suspected that what Zhanhu was guarding was related to Chiyou's whereabouts. In addition, Haotian had recently met with a mysterious person and reached some kind of cooperation with him, helping him collect the aura and blood of Pixiu Haochen.

Haotian saw through the Heavenly Mirror that Zhanhu and Pixiu Haochen had just met, so he ordered the Heavenly General Wang Er to descend to earth to search for the things that Chiyou left for Zhanhu to guard, and to collect information and blood of Haochen.

Wang Er also considered that Zhan Hu and Hao Chen joining forces would be a bit troublesome in terms of strength. In order to avoid conflict, he thought he would sneak in quietly after Zhan Hu fell asleep at night and search for Chi You's relics first.

What he didn't expect was that he wasn't the only one with the same idea; Hao Chen's companion, Pixiu Tianlu, also shared it.

Tianlu was seen leading Bixie through the red maple forest, stopping and starting intermittently, while Tianlu kept sniffing the air.

Bixie rubbed his eyes, yawned, and said, "Ha~ Tianlu, what are you doing? I was sleeping soundly, why did you suddenly wake me up?"

Tianlu licked the saliva from the corner of his mouth and said, "Bixie, don't sleep yet. I smelled treasure in here this morning, but Zhanhu is outside, so we can't look for it. Now let's take advantage of Zhanhu sleeping and quickly find the treasure."

After hearing this, Bixie's face darkened: "But Tianlu, this should be Zhanhu's stuff, we can't beat him."

Tianlu said nonchalantly, "It's alright, Bixie. Haochen is here too. If all else fails, we'll have the Four-Unlikes carry us."

Seeing that Bixie was still hesitant, Tianlu used her ultimate move, hugging Bixie's paw and shaking it affectionately, while blinking her big, watery eyes and saying, "Bixie, please, will you come with me to find the treasure?"

"This is the only time you're allowed to do it!" Under Tianlu's coaxing and cuteness, Bixie decisively gave in.

"I knew you were the best at warding off evil spirits."

Tianlu happily snuggled against Bixie's face, while Bixie reached out and ruffled Tianlu's head with its paw: "Alright, let's hurry up and look for it. The sooner we find it, the sooner we can go back. Otherwise, when Sibuxiang wakes up and sees that we're not here, it will be worried."

"That's true! Let's find a talisman quickly."

Upon witnessing this scene from his hiding place in the void, Wang Er thought to himself, "Since these two guys are also looking for what Zhan Hu is guarding, and judging from their appearance, they seem quite confident in finding it, I might as well let them search for me."

As expected of a Pixiu, Tianlu possessed an innate and keen sense for treasures, and quickly found a clearing paved with bluestone slabs in the red maple forest.

Bixie's eyes flashed with divine power. After surveying the open space, he said uncertainly, "Tianlu, be careful. There seems to be a formation on this."

Tianlu suggested, "Then let's grow bigger, so we won't have to be afraid of any formations."

After Tianlu and Bixie grew larger, they carefully stepped onto the open ground paved with bluestone slabs.

As soon as they stepped onto it, the formation was activated, emitting a dazzling white light. Then, a large wooden box, more than half a meter tall, appeared in mid-air and slowly descended.

"boom!"

As the wooden box hit the ground, Tianlu exclaimed excitedly, "Bixie, look! The treasure is inside this box, it smells so good!"

Suddenly, Bixie sensed that something was wrong with the atmosphere; a faint killing intent seemed to permeate the air.

"Tianlu, be careful. I have a bad feeling about this."

"Bixie, you're overthinking it. It's just the two of us here. Zhanhu is probably still sleeping."

But at that moment, a sword aura suddenly flew towards them. It was so fast that Bixie didn't have time to think. He instinctively pushed Tianlu away and used his own body to block the sword aura.

“Bie Xie, ah…” Tianlu shouted.

"Dang~"

Just as the sword energy was about to strike Bixie, a small stone flew in from nowhere, carrying the laws of Yin and Yang, and shattered the sword energy.

"Who?!" Wang Er exclaimed in fear from the void.

"Thank goodness we made it in time."

Hao Chen appeared beside Bi Xie and Tian Lu as if by teleportation. After wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, Hao Chen pulled Bi Xie aside and gave him a thorough check-up.

"Bixie, are you alright? Are you hurt?"

"Hey Hao! I'm fine, could you please put my paws down first?" Bixie said, his face flushed. He didn't understand why Haochen had to smell his paws during the inspection.

At this moment, Zhanhu also rushed over angrily. Looking at the wooden box on the altar, Zhanhu's anger flared even more: "Bastards, you thieves, you really have ill intentions, actually trying to steal my lord's treasure."

"This... I'm sorry, we were wrong." Bixie and Tianlu lowered their heads in shame, their faces flushed red from being caught red-handed stealing.

Seeing this, Hao Chen quickly smoothed things over: "Alright, Zhan Hu, they didn't mean it. After all, Pixiu really can't resist a fragrant treasure."

"Haochen, shut up. You're all in cahoots, so naturally you'll side with them." Zhanhu's barely budding goodwill towards Haochen vanished completely.

Seeing that Zhan Hu's anger seemed to have intensified, Hao Chen had no choice but to say, "Zhan Hu, we were indeed wrong in this matter, but we are not the only ones who covet your master's treasure."

As Hao Chen said this, his gaze turned to Wang Er, who was hiding in the void: "Am I right? A little mouse hiding in the void."

"There's someone else?" Zhan Hu was shocked and furious, his eyes filled with murderous intent as he stared intently at the void and shouted in a deep voice, "Come out!"

"I didn't expect to be discovered after all." Wang Er walked out of the void with a magnanimous air.

Hao Chen looked at Wang Er, who was dressed in silver-white armor, and frowned when he sensed that the other's aura was only slightly lower than his own. He asked, "Who are you?"

"You must be a heavenly general from the Heavenly Court!" Before the other party could introduce himself, Zhan Hu pointed out his identity.

But when Hao Chen saw the other party, after Zhan Hu pointed out his identity, he did not refute it, but nodded instead, which surprised Hao Chen.

Hao Chen was somewhat frightened. He realized that he had completely misjudged the strength of the Heavenly Court. The opponent was merely a Heavenly General of the Heavenly Court, and he was not much weaker than him. Moreover, the Heavenly Court had countless Heavenly Generals like him.

"Damn it, the Heavenly Court's strength is too outrageous! How am I supposed to compete?! I'm so angry and cold! When will I ever be able to stand up again?" Hao Chen thought to himself.

Although Hao Chen was surprised by the true strength of the Heavenly Court, the fact that they dared to attack Bixie and the others had undoubtedly angered him.

What Hao Chen didn't expect was that the other party would play by their own rules.

Wang Er sneered, "I am Wang Er, the guardian of the South Gate of Heaven. Today, I am ordered to exterminate you ferocious beasts who have been entrenched in this area. Surrender obediently and come with me to the Heavenly Court's Demon-Slaying Platform."

Hao Chen: "???"

When I type this "?", it means you have a problem.

Hao Chen rolled his eyes at Wang Er: "Are you out of your mind? What makes you think we'll just surrender willingly?"

"Hmph!" Wang Er snorted coldly at Hao Chen and the others, then clasped his hands behind them and said, "Wang Er greets the Heavenly Emperor."

"Heavenly Emperor!!!" Hao Chen and Zhan Hu were startled and quickly turned around to look behind them, only to find that there was no one there, not even a fly in sight.

When they turned around, there was no one there; Wang Er had long since disappeared.

"Being fooled!"

Hao Chen took a deep breath. This was the first time he had ever been teased like this since he was born, and he could hardly contain his anger.

Although Zhanhu was equally angry, fortunately, the things his master had entrusted to him were still there.

After confirming that he was safe, Wang Er crawled out of the ground: "Luckily, I learned the art of earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a type of magic that allows one to escape through the ground) back then."

At the same time, Wang Er was also somewhat troubled, because Hao Chen's strength was much stronger than he had estimated.

A direct confrontation is definitely not an option, given that Zhanhu is quite powerful, and the other two Pixiu are also a problem.

"Never mind, let's go back and report first."