Chapter 498: Ten Tailed Terrestrial Fox

In the next instant, the pillar of light shattered and the golden vortex disappeared, plunging the surroundings back into darkness.

At the same time, the immortal’s hand, wrapped in golden radiance, reached toward Xiao Shou as he angrily shouted, "Hand over the merit!"

"Hmph! You’d have better luck dreaming."

Following a cold snort, a nine tailed Celestial Fox Dharma Form appeared beside Tushan Qing.

Its entire body was silver-white and radiated a beautiful silver light. It opened its mouth and unleashed an immense force of wind, even more violent than a tornado, toward the immortal.

Beside it, the enormous black nine tailed Terrestrial Fox enveloped in profound black merit radiance was blown away from the immortal along with Tushan Qing’s true body and Xiao Shou.

At the same time, the Frostheart Fleeting Battleship gathered its strongest spiritual power and unleashed a powerful spiritual cannon, continuously bombarding the immortal wrapped in golden radiance.

Although the attacks did not injure the immortal in the slightest, they successfully protected Xiao Shou and Tushan Qing from his attacks.

Meanwhile, after being blown away by Tushan Shanhe, Tushan Qing absorbed all the merit radiance into his body.

Immediately, intense black radiance erupted from his entire body.

His already enormous body suddenly expanded tenfold once again.

His beast-shaped immortal armor expanded along with him.

A thick and long black tail grew from behind him, and it astonishingly transformed into the form of a ten tailed Terrestrial Fox.

The enormous black fox towered over everything, seemingly capable of supporting a small section of Heaven and Earth, while its ten tails tore through the void.

The next instant, amidst the black radiance...

Tushan Qing’s enormous body, already comparable to a small world, rapidly shrank.

In the blink of an eye, he had shrunk to the size of a palm and lay on Xiao Shou’s shoulder.

His beast-shaped immortal armor shrank along with him and, surprisingly, fit him perfectly.

"Ten tailed Terrestrial Fox. Has he reached the Ascension stage?"

Seeing this, Tushan Shanhe’s pupils contracted within his Dharma Form.

He knew just how difficult it was for someone who inherited the Terrestrial Fox bloodline to advance.

His heart was filled with disbelief.

At the same time, he gained a new understanding of just how immense the one hundred thousand merit points mentioned by that consciousness truly were.

"Hmph!"

The immortal, however, did not care about this transformation at all.

With a casual wave of his hand, he sent Tushan Shanhe and the Frostheart Fleeting Battleship tumbling away.

Tushan Shanhe’s Dharma Form and the Frostheart Fleeting Battleship’s defensive barrier were both completely shattered, exposing the cultivators standing on the deck to the void.

They were immediately subjected to the erosion of the strange energy within the dark void and hurriedly activated various defensive techniques to resist it.

Tushan Shanhe, however, immediately abandoned his Dharma Form after being struck and flew toward Xiao Shou.

The immortal completely ignored the flustered cultivators.

He casually took a single step, yet his figure instantly appeared before Xiao Shou.

His hand, wrapped in golden radiance, reached toward Xiao Shou’s delicate neck.

The movement appeared slow but was actually incredibly fast.

Although Xiao Shou could see it clearly, he was completely unable to command his body to resist or flee.

At that moment, the shrunken Tushan Qing on his shoulder suddenly shot forward even faster than the immortal had approached.

He directly pierced through the center of the immortal’s palm, pounced toward the immortal’s face, and then rebounded backward.

As he returned to Xiao Shou’s shoulder, a gaping hole appeared in the immortal’s palm, with only flesh remaining to connect the five fingers.

Three bloody marks also appeared across the face beneath the golden radiance.

Two drops of golden blood dripped from the two wounds. The wounds rapidly regenerated and became whole again, once more covered in golden radiance...

Meanwhile, the tiny black ten-tailed Terrestrial Fox flew back to Xiao Shou’s shoulder. It extended its small pink tongue and licked the golden strands of blood and flesh from its sharp claws before saying, "As expected of an Immortal’s flesh and blood, it really is delicious. I wonder how an Immortal’s heart would taste?"

It turned out that in that brief instant just now, Tushan Qing had actually flown over and used his sharp claws and teeth to tear and crush the completely defenseless palm of the Immortal. He had even clawed at the Immortal’s face before flying back.

"As expected of the Tushan Clan. I never thought that apart from Lord Jiuyue, there would be another special existence like you. Coming down here this time has truly broadened my horizons." The Immortal’s figure, shrouded in golden radiance, flashed and instantly moved away from Tushan Qing on Xiao Shou’s shoulder. Looking at his hand, which was once again covered in golden radiance, he spoke at length.

Tushan Qing licked away the last trace of golden blood and flesh from his claws. Black radiance flashed across his body, and his size seemed to shrink slightly once again. "Since you know how narrow your horizons are, why don’t you hurry back?"

"Heh... That won’t do. Destroying the Heaven Origin Realm and ensuring that not a single person escapes is the absolute command I accepted. Even if I die, I must complete it. What’s more, with your cultivation having only just entered the Ascension stage, what can you..."

The Immortal sneered as he spoke.

However, before he could finish mocking him, black radiance shot out again, heading straight for the Immortal’s face.

The Immortal was no pushover. From the very first exchange, golden radiance surged throughout his body. A white-gold immortal armor appeared and covered him from head to toe. Apart from his eyes, not even the slightest part of his body was exposed, completely protected by the immortal armor.

At the same time, twelve palm-sized, exquisitely crafted miniature white-gold swords appeared behind him. In the blink of an eye, they expanded to three feet long and formed a circular sword formation around him.