"You don't need to try and cozy up to me. Since you know I followed Xiao Hei all the way here, you should be able to guess why I've come!"

Chen Xiao suddenly realized that the purpose of his trip was not to sympathize with this guy.

He even felt that this Tu Shanche had used some kind of bewitching magic on him.

After all, Granny Jin Hua said that this guy was actually a fox.

"Hehe, you're talking about Li Qin, right?"

Tu Shanche chuckled twice. "Don't worry, I haven't mistreated her. She's living very well in the Qingqiu Secret Realm. Of course, you can take her away at any time."

"You've already imprisoned her, and you say you haven't mistreated her?"

Chen Xiao sneered, "Do you think too highly of yourself?"

Tu Shanche awkwardly touched his nose: "I admit that I have indeed done some despicable things, but we demons have always only focused on the result, not the process. Believe me, I am sincerely doing this for Hei Pi. This little guy is a rare spiritual fox. The reason I did this is because I cherish his talent."

"I just didn't expect him to have such a relationship with you. It seems that nothing is impossible. In this bustling world, what cannot be escaped is fate."

Listening to Tu Shanche's eloquent speech, Chen Xiao found that he couldn't even feel any hostility towards this person.

"What human genius, demon genius, were you talking about just now? What's going on? You seem to know a lot?"

"Not much, but I've lived to be almost three thousand years old, so naturally I've experienced more things than others."

Tu Shanche said in a calm tone, "However, the more you know, the more you don't know."

Good heavens, I'm talking to you about serious matters, and you're playing philosophy with me?

Chen Xiao increasingly felt that this Demon Lord was mysterious and unpredictable. He thought for a moment and asked, "I once encountered a green fox in Dongyang. He trapped me in the Qingqiu Illusion, and I heard that the middle-thousand world where you demons live is called the Qingqiu Secret Realm. Are these two Qingqius related?"

"You're quite young, but it seems you know quite a bit."

Tu Shanche nodded gently. "The Qingqiu Secret Realm is the birthplace of our Qingqiu fox clan. Other demons can only be considered to be living there. The Dongyang green fox you mentioned is probably one of my unworthy nephews. Unfortunately, I have too many nephews, and I can't remember which one it is."

"As for the Qingqiu Illusion, it is a unique illusion array of our Qingqiu fox clan. Did you see something terrifying in that Qingqiu Illusion?"

"Yes."

Chen Xiao nodded.

What he saw in the Qingqiu Illusion was still vivid in his mind.

Looking at Chen Xiao's furrowed brows, Tu Shanche chuckled: "You don't need to worry too much. What you saw in the Qingqiu Illusion is just the worst of thousands of results. This illusion was originally meant to destroy people's will and make them collapse, so you don't need to take it to heart."

"Tu Shanche's statement is the same as Tianzhao's. It seems that old woman Tianzhao didn't lie to me."

Chen Xiao said to himself.

Then he spoke slowly and firmly, "The worst of thousands of results is still a possibility, but I will never allow this possibility to have even a sliver of a chance of happening!"

Tu Shanche looked at Chen Xiao and was silent for a long time.

He suddenly sighed, "I am not alone!"

Chen Xiao looked at Tu Shanche in confusion, not quite understanding what he meant.

"What you don't want to see happen, I also don't want to happen."

Tu Shanche said faintly, as if explaining, but more like sighing.

"Because I have already experienced similar situations five times."

Five times?

This number made Chen Xiao slightly stunned, "Are you referring to... the Heavenly Dao?"

Tu Shanche has lived for less than three thousand years, and the Heavenly Dao descends on the Nine Provinces every five hundred years, which means he has experienced it five times.

Therefore, Chen Xiao almost subconsciously thought of what Tu Shanche was talking about.

Tu Shanche nodded: "The Heavenly Dao has come five times, and humanity has been defeated five times. Each time was a crushing defeat, and each time was worse than the last."

"Not even once did you win?"

Chen Xiao frowned and asked tentatively.

Tu Shanche shook his head: "No, if there is a chance, I hope it will be next time, because if we fail this time, humanity will have nowhere to retreat... the worst of those thousands of possibilities may happen."

"Who exactly are you?"

Chen Xiao suddenly realized that this Tu Shanche knew more than anyone he had met before.

"As you know, I am Tu Shanche, originally from the Qingqiu fox clan living in the Qingqiu Secret Realm, and now, like you, I take it as my responsibility to save the world."

Tu Shanche said it so naturally, almost without thinking, as if he had practiced it hundreds or thousands of times.

"Take it as my responsibility to save the world?"

Chen Xiao raised his voice, then sneered and shook his head, "I never thought that way. Don't try to morally kidnap me."

"You don't think that way, but you are doing it. You are only missing one of the five great sacred relics, right?"

Tu Shanche said with a chuckle.

"..."

Chen Xiao was speechless for a moment, "You're monitoring me?"

"No need, I can tell with one glance."

Tu Shanche's gaze fell on Chen Xiao, as if he could see through him, making Chen Xiao feel a chill in his heart.

This feeling was something Chen Xiao had never experienced before.

"If you have any questions, ask them as much as possible. I will answer everything I know and say everything I can."

Tu Shanche's tone was like that of a confidant and a mentor.

Chen Xiao had many questions he wanted to ask. He thought about it and quickly came up with two questions.

As long as he understood these two questions, then other questions would be easily solved.

"What exactly is the Heavenly Dao organization? I heard they come from the Celestial Realm, so where exactly is the Celestial Realm?"

After hearing this question, Tu Shanche smiled slightly, but did not answer directly.

Instead, he answered a question with a question, throwing a question to Chen Xiao: "How do you view the world you are in?"

What kind of ridiculous question is that?

Chen Xiao was completely confused.

"To be honest, I don't quite understand what you mean by asking this question? Is this a philosophical question? Or a geographical question, or a physics question?"

Tu Shanche's question was too general, and Chen Xiao didn't know how to answer it.

And he didn't realize that unknowingly, Tu Shanche had already begun to guide him.

"Or I should put it another way."

Tu Shanche thought for a moment and said, "Have you ever thought that actually you, and me, and this entire world, are just playthings of one person?"