There is a beast in the bright morning.

Chapter 192 Age

Having witnessed Chi You's wisdom, the forces of Qingqiu Holy Land naturally agreed to allow Hao Chen and Zhan Hu to enter the Demon Emperor's Secret Realm.

Of course, Hao Chen didn't care whether these forces acted voluntarily.

"Alright, let's open the secret realm quickly."

Seeing that this group seemed to be deliberately stalling for time, hoping to wait for support from their respective holy lands, Chi You couldn't help but let out a cold snort.

The next moment, a scene of mountains of corpses and seas of blood appeared before Elder Qingqiu's eyes. The corpses of gods and demons fell from the sky, and countless undead were howling and roaring.

An endless killing intent swept over his entire body, and the Qingqiu elder was covered in cold sweat, his body trembling uncontrollably.

Seeing this, the others quickly pulled their younger relatives down to kneel before Chi You, pleading, "Lord True Lord, spare our lives!"

After Chi You's scare tactics, these forces realized that things were out of their control.

If they don't do as Chi You says, they won't even get support from the Holy Land.

Moreover, to put it bluntly, even with the support of the Holy Land, they do not believe they can contend against a True Immortal at the True Monarch level.

"Damn it, how could a True Immortal be interested in the Demon Emperor's Secret Realm? Could it be that they are after the Demon Emperor's inheritance? But it's not even certain whether the Demon Emperor's inheritance is actually in the Secret Realm."

The Qingqiu elder bitterly took out an ancient jade pendant, which was the token to open the Demon Emperor's Secret Realm.

The next moment, the jade pendant emitted a hazy light, and a wave emanated from it, as if it had crossed time and space and come from ancient times.

Others might not be able to sense the mystery within, but Chi You, being a true immortal, could naturally feel the immortal aura emanating from the jade pendant.

"Such a profound aura. It seems the rumors are true; the Demon Emperor is indeed a powerful figure in the realm of immortals."

However, soon, a look of confusion appeared in Chi You's eyes. After all, based solely on the aura emanating from the jade pendant, Chi You was certain that the Demon Emperor was far stronger than her.

It should be noted that in the universe she inhabits, the strongest being on the surface right now is the Ancestral Dragon from the Dragon Realm, a peak Immortal King.

Even so, Chi You felt that the aura of the Ancestral Dragon could not compare with that of the Demon Emperor.

This can only mean one thing: the Demon Emperor's cultivation level definitely surpasses that of the Immortal King.

Even so, the Demon Emperor still perished, and died under mysterious circumstances.

Therefore, Chi You guessed that the Demon Emperor must have touched some terrible taboo, which led to his demise.

Chi You then relayed her conjecture to Hao Chen, hoping that he could try to find out the truth behind the Demon Emperor's fall after he went inside.

Chi You's intuition told her that there was a great secret behind the fall of the Demon Emperor, and that this secret might be enough to overturn the current cosmic order.

Upon hearing Chi You's words, Hao Chen wanted to slap Chi You's face with his claws and make her take a good look in the mirror, wondering what she was dreaming about in broad daylight.

"Chi You, you overestimate me. I'm only at the peak of the Human Realm right now. You want me to challenge someone at the Quasi-Immortal Emperor level? Are you out of your mind?"

"Alright, enough with the nonsense. I have a recipe for a super-effective tonic pill. If you can get this done for me, the recipe is yours, plus a month's supply of medicinal herbs. In short, are you in or not?"

Hao Chen's吐槽 (tu cao, meaning to complain or criticize) stopped abruptly as he was drawn to Chi You's words.

"The ultimate tonic pill, the super version, if Zhanhu were to take it, then..."

Thinking of this, Hao Chen became excited. For his own happiness, no, for Zhan Hu to improve his health, Hao Chen nodded in agreement.

Zhanhu, who was standing to the side, saw Haochen and his master exchanging glances, seemingly discussing something, and their eyes kept glancing in his direction. Suddenly, he felt a chill in his stomach and his kidneys started to ache.

Just as Zhan Hu was wondering if Hao Chen was plotting against him again, a thunderclap flashed across the sky.

Then, an enormous bolt of lightning tore through the sky, revealing a passage.

It seemed that opening the passage had taken a great deal of energy. The Qingqiu elder was pale and trembling as he bowed to Chi You, saying, "True Lord, the passage has been opened."

"Alright, thank you for your hard work." Chi You nodded, then looked at Hao Chen: "Alright, go in now, don't forget to tell you what to do."

"Okay, okay, you can rest assured. For happiness, oops, I mean to help Zhanhu recover, I will do my best." Haochen gave Chiyou an "OK" sign.

"What are they saying? I don't understand." Zhan Hu silently questioned himself when he heard Hao Chen say something about it being for him.

The thought of the super-effective tonic pill mentioned by Chi You made Hao Chen wish he could end this trip to the secret realm as soon as possible and go back to test the effects of the tonic pill with Zhan Hu.

With a single step, Hao Chen's entire body flew towards the passage, and the others, seeing this, prepared to act after Hao Chen went inside.

However, the next moment, there was a "thud" and Hao Chen's head seemed to hit something, and his whole body fell downwards at an even faster speed.

"Holy crap, what's going on? Zhanhu, catch me!"

Upon hearing Hao Chen's voice, Zhan Hu didn't have time to think and immediately lunged forward, trying to catch Hao Chen before he fell.

But the next moment, Zhan Hu slipped and not only failed to catch Hao Chen, he also landed heavily on Hao Chen, almost sending Hao Chen to start a new account.

"Haochen, how are you? Are you alright?"

"Something's wrong. If you don't get up, I'm really going to see Di Ting." Hao Chen nudged Zhan Hu, feeling speechless. He should have known better than to let Zhan Hu come to pick him up.

"Who is Di Ting? Judging from Hao Chen's tone, he seems to know him quite well."

At this moment, Zhan Hu was preoccupied with the question of who Di Ting was, completely unaware of Hao Chen's increasingly hostile gaze.

No matter how hard Zhanhu racked his brains, he couldn't remember who Diting was. After all, Diting should have just successfully reincarnated and possessed the identity of a divine beast of the underworld, so Zhanhu naturally didn't recognize him.

"War Tiger~"

Hao Chen suddenly grew larger, flipped Zhan Hu over, and then straddled Zhan Hu, pulling on Zhan Hu's ear: "You've become bold, daring to disobey me now."

Still feeling unsatisfied, Hao Chen turned around and slapped Zhan Hu on the butt.

Zhanhu flipped over and pinned Haochen down again. He then grabbed Haochen's paws and licked Haochen's paw pads hard with his tongue.

In an instant, Hao Chen felt as if his paw pads were being pricked by many needles, both painful and itchy. He even became somewhat addicted to this feeling and stretched his other paw towards Zhan Hu's mouth.

Seeing this, Chi You felt ashamed, especially when he saw that the people from the Qingqiu Holy Land were all looking at Hao Chen and Zhan Hu, and he was suppressing a laugh.

"If you two want to play around, go do it in private. Nobody will care. Don't embarrass her in front of outsiders like this." Chi You really wanted to say that she didn't know these two idiots.

"You two idiots, I've worked so hard to maintain this image." Chi You punched Hao Chen and Zhan Hu on the head with a fist each.

Hao Chen and Zhan Hu, who had just received the title of outstanding talents, calmed down and stopped what they were doing, walking to the side and touching the bumps on their heads.

To divert attention, Chi You used his divine power to transform into a giant hand and grabbed the Qingqiu elder: "Tell me, did you do something to get in? Otherwise, why can't we get in?"

"No, no, Your Excellency, I wouldn't dare to lie to you even if you gave me a hundred lives!"

Feeling the force on his body, Elder Qingqiu swallowed in fear, his mind racing, wondering if he had missed something.

At this moment, a young man from the sacred land of Qingqiu suddenly remembered something and quickly explained, "Senior, the demon race's secret realm has an age requirement; only those under 500 years old can enter."

Upon hearing this, Hao Chen subconsciously looked at Chi You, as if to say, "You didn't say there were age requirements, did you?"

Chi You was speechless for a moment, clearly unaware of this matter, and thus angrily threw the Qingqiu elder out.

The Qingqiu elder, who had suffered an undeserved calamity, wanted to vent his anger on Chi You, but was afraid of being slapped to death, so he could only take it out on his own juniors.

He slapped the young man on the head, scolding him for not speaking up sooner and causing him to suffer.

The young man was speechless. He looked around and saw that everyone was either from his own generation or from the older generation, and he couldn't afford to offend any of them.

With nowhere to vent his anger, he could only walk aside and sulk alone, drawing circles on the ground: "I'm drawing circles to curse you all."

Before Chi You could come up with a solution, Hao Chen, after learning the reason, immediately had an idea.

He came to Zhanhu's side and tugged at him: "Zhanhu, squat down quickly, I'll take you inside to play."

"Haochen, that won't work. This secret realm has an age requirement. We're all over 500 years old, so we can't go in."

"Hey, hey, hey, have some faith in me, okay? We're both males, how can you say no?"

Although Zhanhu didn't believe Haochen had a solution, he still listened to Haochen and squatted down.

Hao Chen immediately climbed onto Zhan Hu's back and sat down, then closed his eyes and communicated with the World Tree within his body.

The World Tree contains unparalleled creation, which can completely shield him and Zhan Hu from the Demon Emperor's Secret Realm's detection, allowing them to enter smoothly.

Sure enough, a peculiar fluctuation emanated from Hao Chen's body, enveloping Hao Chen and Zhan Hu.

Chi You, who had been watching them closely, suddenly looked surprised. She realized that she couldn't tell Hao Chen's age.

"Alright, Zhanhu, let's go."

With Hao Chen's command, Zhan Hu took to the air and slowly flew towards the passage, clearly still somewhat distrustful of Hao Chen.

Just when Zhan Hu thought he would also be blocked, Shui Lingling and Hao Chen walked through the passage.

The forces watching from the outside world exchanged bewildered glances, not expecting that the other side actually had a way to evade the detection of the Demon Emperor's Secret Realm.

"It's open now!"

"How can we compete with them? They are clearly from an older generation, yet they are shamelessly trying to steal our opportunities."

Hao Chen was unaware of what people outside were saying about him; his gaze was completely drawn to the crimson scene before him.

"Is this a secret realm? Why is it all bare..."