There is a beast in the bright morning.

The Beach Cup Finals began with an outcome that Hao Chen never expected.

The Little Tigers, as the former champions of the Cosmic Cup, were told by the organizers that they did not need to participate in the qualifying rounds and could directly participate in the final.

Hao Chen was naturally delighted with this. He could take advantage of the qualifiers to show Zhan Hu around this world and get to know Bai Chen, his adopted son from the future.

But in reality, there was no selection process at all. The organizers notified the Little Tigers shortly afterward that they should come to participate in the finals the next day.

Yes, there are only two teams participating in the Beach Cup competition: the Little Tigers and the Transcendent Team, which appeared suddenly with no known members.

When Haochen heard the news, he thought there was something wrong with his ears.

In his mind, even though the conditions for participating in the Beach Cup are different from the past, requiring six team members to participate, it is still worthwhile.

But surely it's not like only the Little Tigers and the Transcendental Team signed up, right? It's impossible that other teams can't even field six players, including both official and substitute players.

After inquiring with Piggy Hero and his friends, Hao Chen learned that there were indeed quite a few teams that had registered, but these teams were forced to withdraw from the competition immediately after registering due to various unforeseen circumstances.

Therefore, in the end, only the Little Tigers and the Transcendental Team remained.

At this moment, Hao Chen also realized that something was wrong.

First, Bixie and Sibuxiang suddenly disappeared. Although they were unharmed in the end, he and Tianlu were led to this world of ball games.

Next, a clue about the four-legged creature appeared on the poster for the Beach Cup competition, as if it was deliberately guiding Hao Chen to decide to participate in the competition.

And when the Shadow Master appeared for the second time, the bright aura of the Demon Ancestor emanating from his body was dazzling.

Looking back on the series of events, Hao Chen felt as if a powerful hand was controlling everything from behind, and that his target seemed to be him.

"Could all of this be part of the Demon Ancestor's scheme?"

However, Hao Chen thought for a moment and then shook his head, denying the conjecture: "The Demon Ancestor is such a roughneck that he just charges straight in when something happens. He probably wouldn't think so much."

Just as Hao Chen was still wondering who the mastermind was, Bai Chen's image suddenly popped into his mind: "Wait, maybe Bai Chen, this adopted son, knows something."

As someone who came from the future timeline, even if Bai Chen arrived as just an egg, Hao Chen thought that Bai Chen might know something, such as the truth behind this matter, or what would happen next.

Thinking of this, Hao Chen excitedly began searching for Bai Chen, but after searching for a long time, he still couldn't find Bai Chen in the base.

Just then, Rabbit God walked in, pulling the four-legged creature along and carrying large and small bags.

Upon seeing this, Hao Chen hurriedly stepped forward to ask if the Qilin had seen Bai Chen.

The four-legged creature turned to look at Rabbit Lord, and said somewhat uncertainly, "Rabbit Lord just said that he seemed to have seen your little pig friend at the candy store, buying lollipops with Bai Chen and Pipi?"

Upon hearing this, Hao Chen looked at Rabbit Lord, who then nodded and said, "That's right. When I and Four-Likes went to buy local specialties, we did see Piggy Hero taking Pipi and Bai Chen into a candy store."

After asking for the name of the Rabbit God Candy Shop, Hao Chen hurried over and actually found Bai Chen inside.

Seeing Tianlu and Baichen eating lollipops in the candy store, Haochen angrily pushed open the door and said, "Tianlu, I'm so good to you, I always think of you when I have something good, and you actually eat candy behind my back."

Hao Chen's sudden appearance startled Tian Lu. He quickly chewed up the lollipop in his mouth and swallowed it in a few bites. Then he looked at Hao Chen with an innocent expression and said, "Hao Chen, what did you say? I don't understand."

Seeing Tianlu's blatant attempt to cover up his embarrassment, Haochen couldn't help but chuckle to himself. How could he possibly be angry with Tianlu?

Hao Chen then walked to Tian Lu's side, stretched out his paw and scraped the corner of Tian Lu's mouth, then put the paw covered with lollipop crumbs into his mouth and licked it, a sweet taste welling up in his heart.

"Tianlu, at least lick your lips clean. And why are you so nervous? I'm not going to eat you."

Upon hearing this, Tianlu realized what was going on. Yes, what was he so nervous about? He wasn't stealing Haochen's food.

After teasing Tianlu, Haochen turned his gaze to Baichen, who was watching the show from the side, and winked at Baichen, signaling him to come with him.

Seeing this, Bai Chen sighed inwardly. He guessed that his mother probably wanted to ask him about the future.

However, to prevent any unnecessary changes, Hao Chen from the future timeline had already made preparations. He only gave Bai Chen the names and general personalities of the four unlike creatures, and did not tell Bai Chen anything else.

However, Bai Chen felt that his mother probably wouldn't believe him, so he stayed where he was and remained silent.

But Hao Chen interpreted these actions in a different light.

"You little brat, you dare to disobey now, what will you be like when you grow up?" Hao Chen smiled, he had plenty of ways to deal with disobedient children.

"Come with me, good son." Hao Chen appeared beside Bai Chen in an instant, grabbed Bai Chen's tail with one paw, and dragged him outside.

"Huh?!" Only then did Bai Chen come to his senses, frantically digging at the ground, trying to grab onto something: "Mother, no!"

But unfortunately, the candy store owner had cleaned the floor so thoroughly that there was nowhere to grip.

Watching his mother drag him away bit by bit, Bai Chen looked pitifully at Tianlu: "Uncle Tianlu, help me!"

However, Bai Chen clearly overestimated Tianlu. When Bai Chen asked for help, Tianlu immediately pretended to be blind and dragged Piggy Hero inside to pick out lollipops.

"Little Bai Chen, you'd better pray for yourself. Apart from Bixie, no one dares to mess with Hao Chen."

……

After some interrogation, Hao Chen still couldn't get any information from Bai Chen about what would happen next, and could only temporarily believe that Bai Chen really didn't know.

"Really, Mother, you're so rude. How did Father and Stepmother ever fall for you?"

Bai Chen stomped angrily on the feathers on the ground. Thinking about how his mother had mercilessly scratched his paw pads, he was so angry that his teeth itched. He wondered who had invented this way of torturing people; it was too cruel and inhumane. He had almost laughed himself silly just now.

After hearing Bai Chen's complaint, Hao Chen puffed out his chest smugly: "Of course I snatched Zhan Hu and Oleander back, so what if you have a problem with that? If you do, you'd better keep it to yourself."

"..." Bai Chen was speechless. If he didn't know where his father, mother, and stepmother slept, he would have been intimidated by his mother's tone.

Mother said such nice things, like she was taking something, making people think she was the one initiating it, but in reality she was the one being taken advantage of.

Thinking of this, Bai Chen's lips curled up, and his paw pads seemed less itchy.

Looking at Bai Chen's expression, Hao Chen knew that the little guy must be thinking bad things about him. Unfortunately, he didn't have the ability to hear the thoughts of others, so he couldn't find an opportunity to tease his son.

I have to say, while the feel of playing with my adopted son isn't as good as playing with Four-Faced Beast or Tianlu, it's still pretty good overall.

The next day arrived quickly, and Haochen and his group arrived at the Beach Cup competition venue. Under the arrangement of the confused, Si Bu Xiang and his companions sat in the seats for the players' relatives and friends to watch the game.

Looking around at the audience filling the seats, Hao Chen gained a new understanding of the importance of competitive ball in this world. It really is a strange world where competitive ball is life itself.

"Welcome everyone to the Beach Cup Finals."

The referee appeared in the middle of the arena on a hovering flying saucer, excitedly announcing, "Now, please welcome the defending champions of the Cosmic Cup, the Little Tigers, to the stage."

"Here, I would like to solemnly introduce that this competition is also the first competition for our strongest Son of the Sun, Piggy Hero, to step back into the arena."

At this point, the referee paused, waiting for the audience below to process the news before continuing, "Now, please welcome the Little Tigers' opponent for this match, the Chaotuo Team, to the stage."

As the referee finished speaking, Hao Chen followed Piggy Hero onto the field. Hearing the cheers, Hao Chen smiled and said, "Piggy Hero, I didn't expect you to be so popular."

"That's right." Piggy Hero said, glancing down at Ah Wu beside him, and silently thought, "Ah Wu, I'm counting on you."

On the other side, Ah Wu seemed to sense something, looked up at Piggy Hero, and nodded to him.

As the Little Tigers took to the court, the Transcendental Team followed suit.

However, when they saw the players from the team that had transcended their limitations, Piggy Hero was immediately stunned.

"How is this possible? Joe Belle, what are you doing here?"

"And Ah Jian, why are you with Joe Belle?"

Meanwhile, sitting in the seats for family and friends, the group of Piggy Heroes from another parallel world looked at the Shadow Master in the Transcendent Team with equally shocked expressions: "Wasn't he destroyed by Hao Chen? How come he's still here?"

Looking at Barrett in the Outcast team, Mihu also showed an incredulous expression: "How could this be? How could he be on the other side? This is troublesome."

As a former Son of the Sun, Mihu naturally knew Barrett's importance. Even though his strength was not as good as Joe Belli and Piggy Hero, as the captain of the Eternal Team, he was still not to be underestimated.

Compared to Joe Belli, A-Jian, Shadow Master and Barrett, Hao Chen's gaze was fixed on the last two members of the Transcendent Team.

"The dense demonic laws indicate that they not only absorbed the power of the Demon Ancestor, but may have also cultivated his techniques. Who are they?"

Golden runes flashed in Hao Chen's eyes as he pushed his pupil technique to its limit, attempting to see through the opponent's true form.

But all that could be seen was pitch blackness, obscured by the laws of demonic cultivation.

However, as Hao Chen integrated the Yin-Yang origin into his pupil technique, he soon saw that one of the true forms had six black tentacles. However, Hao Chen felt that he seemed to have seen the other party somewhere before, and it looked somewhat familiar.

The other was a large, fat worm covered in ice crystals.

Just as Hao Chen was wondering about the other party's origins, a familiar voice entered his ears.

"The one with six tentacles calls himself Chaos Demon Lord Sorenson, and was found by the Demon Ancestor from some other world."

"Another creature resembling a giant insect is the Heavenly Silkworm Demon Lord of the Snow Mountain Heavenly Silkworm Clan, one of the ten most ferocious beast races."

Hao Chen looked in the direction of the sound, his pupils suddenly contracted, and he exclaimed, "How could it be you, Qiong Tian!"