Chapter 445: The Gentle Fox

The Ninefold Elixir Gate Master immediately transmitted his voice to the others.

"From now on, the Ninefold Elixir Gate will become a permanent friendly ally of the Eternal Prosperity Sect."

"The Divine Armament Sect is in as well!"

"Count me in too. I believe that the heir personally taught by Young Master Xiao will never be someone heartless and ungrateful."

"He will definitely become someone with a benevolent heart and compassionate nature in the future."

"How long has it been since cultivators with such a temperament appeared?"

"Could it be that cultivators from the Spirit Fox Realm are all like this?"

"Impossible. Have you forgotten how ruthless that person was when selling and...?"

"Don’t forget, precisely because such people are rare, they are precious!"

Tushan Qing, who sensed everything that was happening, smiled with unusual gentleness.

"I never thought the Terrestrial Fox Dharma Form could be used like this."

"Even with the Celestial Fox bloodline, I never imagined that a Dharma Form meant only to protect oneself and one’s clan could actually be divided into shields and connected to protect so many people. Ah Shou is not like the Terrestrial Fox bloodline. His heart is even purer than that of the Celestial Fox bloodline. A child like this... in such a cruel cultivation world, he is simply too gentle."

Tushan Shanhe, who had left under the pretext of capturing Yu Lin, suddenly appeared beside Tushan Qing.

This time, Tushan Qing surprisingly did not contradict Tushan Shanhe. He lowered his voice and said, "Yes. His heart is far too gentle. He always considers others before himself."

That was why, in that vision of the future, Xiao Shou had protected his severely wounded self.

Clearly, his ten-tailed form had been countless times stronger than his current self. Even such a powerful version of himself had ended up covered in wounds. What could Xiao Shou possibly have done under those circumstances?

Yet even then, he had still stood firmly in front of him.

Thinking of this, Tushan Qing’s eyes became slightly blurred.

For the first time in both his human life and his life as a fox, he felt moisture gathering in his eyes.

At the same time, the position of the Dharma Eye between his brows flickered, and a fragment of memory appeared in his mind.

In the vast universe, the man and woman he had once foreseen were riding a gigantic gear-like object into an enormous pitch-black opening.

His ten tails were nearly severed, and he lay beside his precious baby, letting out a mournful cry.

The voice cried out:

"Burn my Space-Time Dharma Eye, reshape time and space, and reverse the flow of time. Return to the past, to the time when he still existed, and change everything... Heavenly Dao, I will never hand him over to you."

As the mournful cry rang out, both the enormous black fox standing in the starry sky and the boy’s corpse disappeared into the pure black flames. At the same time, a tremendous fluctuation capable of causing space and time to collapse vanished from within the black flames. ℴ

Reshaping space and time, reversing the flow of time, returning to the past, to the time when he still existed, Heavenly Dao...

The scene displayed by the fragment of the future vision came to an end.

Yet Tushan Qing remained frozen in place, his face filled with disbelief.

Could it be...

Was the current timeline the altered world created after he had burned his Dharma Eye and reversed the flow of time?

...

Water Dragon Technique, Fire Dragon Technique, Sword Rain Technique.

With Xiao Shou’s Evil Breaking attribute empowering them, countless techniques displayed power far greater than they originally possessed.

The protection of the seemingly limitless shields, the seemingly limitless recovery of spiritual energy, and the seemingly limitless healing of injuries allowed all the cultivators to unite as one.

With overwhelming combat strength, they shattered the demon soldiers’ defensive lines. After the demon soldiers sent out another blood-red signal, the cultivators completely wiped them out and destroyed the teleportation array.

The cultivators had no time to clean up the battlefield. As soon as the battle here ended, they maintained their shield protection and quickly rushed toward the next battlefield.

Fortunately, the Holy City defense forces were not useless. Even after suffering heavy casualties, they had refused to withdraw from the battle before the reinforcements arrived.

When Xiao Shou reached them and once again covered them with shields, healed their injuries, and restored their spiritual energy, they immediately returned to the battlefield.

In this manner, they successively rescued and broke through the five battlefields at the West Gate, Northwest Gate, North Gate, Northeast Gate, and East Gate.

Even though Xiao Shou cultivated the Ninety Nine Calamities Cycles Art and Vitality Restoration Art, giving him far greater spiritual energy and vitality than ordinary cultivators, and even though Fu Young continuously replenished his spiritual energy and vitality while spiritual milk restored his spiritual energy, after these five battles, his spiritual energy and vitality had been consumed to the point of near exhaustion.

His physical strength was completely depleted as well. He could only remain standing with the support of his beloved disciple.

Therefore, once he could no longer sense any aura belonging to the Demon Abyss Clan, he immediately removed the Dharma Form shields protecting everyone and withdrew his divine sense maintaining the connection between the Dharma Forms.

Only then did he finally let out a long sigh of relief, allowing his exhaustion to appear on his pale face.

Seeing this, the Ninefold Elixir Gate Master said with concern, "Young Master Xiao, you’ve really worked hard today. Young Friend Fu, you should accompany Young Master Xiao back to rest first. Leave the cleanup of the battlefield and the follow-up matters to me."

"However, shouldn’t Young Master Xiao withdraw his spirit fire first?"

The Divine Armament Sect focused primarily on the art of forging artifacts and naturally attached great importance to spirit fire. Seeing Xiao Shou nod and prepare to leave with his disciple, the Sect Master could not help reminding him.