Chapter 495: Run Away or Stay

At this point, the ancestors of Xiao Ran’s family in the Immortal Realm should not even know that he existed yet. So it should not be them.

Then who could it be?

What should he do?

Should he listen to Tushan Qing and escape?

Xiao Shou stared at the blue-glowing sphere with the enormous crack running across it. The spherical object known as the Heaven Origin Realm silently occupied his thoughts.

Just as countless thoughts flashed through Xiao Shou’s mind, the golden figure held the sphere of the Heaven Origin Realm in one hand and casually struck out with the other toward Tushan Qing.

There was nothing fancy about this palm strike.

Yet the moment it was released, the small golden palm print rapidly expanded. In the blink of an eye, it had grown enormous enough to cover the area above Xiao Shou and Tushan Qing.

Facing an immortal, Tushan Qing’s reaction could not have been faster.

Almost the instant the immortal within the golden figure struck out, he immediately transformed into his full Terrestrial Fox form with all his strength.

At the same time, he protected Xiao Shou beneath his soft abdomen and used a Dharma Form secret technique through his Terrestrial Fox form, covering his true body with the strongest gigantic shield he could currently create at his level.

After firmly protecting both himself and Xiao Shou, his nine tails fused into one and thrust toward the enormous golden palm print.

Xiao Shou could see nothing beneath the Terrestrial Fox’s abdomen.

He only heard a tremendous explosion as the two sides collided.

The enormous black fox transformed from Tushan Qing violently trembled and began falling continuously toward the pitch-black void below.

Broken sections of black fox tails and scattered strands of fox fur fell even faster than they did, disappearing into the depths of the void as though they had been swallowed by the darkness.

Was this the power of an immortal?

Tushan Qing was so powerful, yet he had actually been defeated by a single attack.

He was someone whom even Xiao Ran had been unable to deal with!

That’s right!

Tushan Qing had ascended to the Immortal Realm before Xiao Ran. Furthermore, when he fought against her, the battle had taken place on immortal soil, meaning Tushan Qing had possessed the advantage of the terrain.

But now they were in the void, where he had absolutely no such advantage.

It was all his fault.

If Tushan Qing had not come looking for him, he would never have entered the void. He would not have come to the Heaven Origin Realm, nor would he have discovered that someone was trying to destroy the Heaven Origin Realm and rushed over to intervene.

It was all because of him.

It was all his fault.

He had been too self-important, thinking that because he was called the Savior, he could never become a burden to anyone. That was why he had acted recklessly.

The title of Savior had made him overestimate his own abilities, causing him to become arrogant without even realizing it.

As he continued falling into the darkness, Xiao Shou looked at the immortal above him, whose golden radiance had rapidly dimmed from a human-shaped torch of light until it became even fainter than a spark, as though it would be extinguished in the next moment and disappear completely into the darkness.

For the first time in his life, Xiao Shou was overwhelmed by deep self-blame.

"Alright. We’ve temporarily escaped his line of sight. I’ll teleport you away immediately. Stay there obediently and don’t come running back."

At that moment, Tushan Qing transmitted his voice to Xiao Shou while in the form of an enormous black nine-tailed Terrestrial Fox.

At the same time, his sharp black claws tore through the void, revealing a pale-red sphere of light resembling the sphere of the Heaven Origin Realm.

The only relatively intact half of his long tail wrapped around Xiao Shou and was about to throw him into the red sphere.

So this was Tushan Qing’s strategy.

Even after being defeated, he still intended to send Xiao Shou somewhere safe.

Xiao Shou was actually so weak and such a burden that Tushan Qing had to sacrifice himself just to help him escape danger.

Then...

Should he escape?

Compared with an immortal, he was far too weak. He was practically no different from an ant that could be crushed with a casual pinch.

If he simply escaped and honestly lived in another world, no one could blame him for being cowardly.

He did not need to think about what would happen to Tushan Qing while he fought the immortal.

After all, this eccentric grandfather had willingly chosen to sacrifice himself so that Xiao Shou could escape.

Therefore, no one had the right to resent him for it.

Countless dark thoughts flashed through Xiao Shou’s mind.

As he watched himself being sent toward the red sphere by Tushan Qing’s black fox tail, one thought after another continuously echoed in his mind.

No one could blame him for this.

No one could resent him for this.

Run.

Run away quickly.

Just as his body touched the realm membrane of the red sphere of light, a scene suddenly flashed through Xiao Shou’s mind.

Back then, under the threat of Yu Lin’s Foundation Building stage pressure, he had desperately found all kinds of excuses and reasons to convince himself to give up his opportunity and flee in embarrassment.

Every time he thought about it afterward, regret, shame, self-loathing, and guilt over his own cowardice would surge through his heart.

Was he really going to become a coward once again?

Would he have to repeatedly experience that same guilt and self-contempt every time he recalled this incident in the future, regretting this choice for all eternity?

With this thought, the confusion in Xiao Shou’s eyes gradually became resolute.

He would no longer simply drift along with the current and let Tushan Qing make all the arrangements.

Instead, he cast a Minor Teleportation Technique and flew onto the shoulder of the enormous black fox transformed from Tushan Qing.