"Grandpa." But his confusion did not last long. He shook his head hard and looked earnestly at his grandfather with those clear eyes of his.
"If I can't go where I want to go, say what I want to say, do what I want to do, or save the people I want to save, how am I any different from pigs and sheep kept in a pen?"
As he spoke, he shook his head hard again, a trace of panic in his eyes as he hugged his grandfather tightly.
"Grandpa, I don't want to be someone like that!"
"I don't want to be unable to do anything when you're suffering, Grandpa."
As the memory reached this point, tears suddenly streamed uncontrollably from Xu Taiping's eyes inside the Mysterious Wasteland Tower.
"Even as a child, I knew I wanted to be as free as a bird. Now, despite being so much older and possessing strength I wouldn't even have dared imagine back then, I've become like a coward, afraid even to face my own true heart."
Murmuring to himself, Xu Taiping slowly rose to his feet.
Yes, from the very beginning, what he had wanted was to save people.
It was only those many misgivings that had left him afraid of everything, not daring to face his true heart.
Boom!
At that thought, a fluctuation of Divine Soul power that only a supreme expert such as Great Emperor Mysterious Wasteland could sense abruptly spread from Xu Taiping.
"What is going on? Not only has this failed to unsettle this young man's Dao heart, it has actually made it purer!"
Great Emperor Mysterious Wasteland was deeply astonished.
Then he straightened once more and asked, curiosity in his eyes,
"Xu Taiping, have you made up your mind?"
"Great Emperor, this junior has made