Legend of the Great Sage (Chapter 101-Chapter 200)

The bald Daemon General trembled, and a pink gas emerged around him. The Iron Plate corpse that charged over seemed like it had stepped into a vat of acid. With a series of hisses, white smoke rose up from its body. Its powerful body that had been strengthened with metal and refinement was completely eaten away in the blink of an eye. All that was left was a ball of pale, red flames that returned to Xiao An’s hands.

The Iron Plate corpse that could even kill sixth layer Qi Practitioners could not even last a single attack. It had not even been enough to make the enemy move a finger.

Li Qingshan was astounded. He became extremely fearful of the pink gas.



The bald Daemon General moved extremely quickly and without any rhythm at all. They could not escape. Li Qingshan released his violent daemon qi and immediately reached thirty feet, smashing through the earth above his head. He grabbed Xiao An and tossed her outside. “You go first!”

The pink gas spread rapidly, enveloping Li Qingshan’s surroundings. Hisses rang throughout the secret room. Large portions of the stone floor weakened and collapsed. To think that Li Qingshan had wanted to deal with him using poison. He had finally witnessed what poison actually was.

There was an azure, blue colour within the surging pink gas. It originated from a spherical barrier composed of countless hexagons, which protected the area around Li Qingshan and stopped the invasion of the pink gas. As a result, Li Qingshan eased up slightly. Fortunately, the Spirit Turtle’s Profound Shell was sturdy enough. Now, he had to think of a way to get out of this situation.

He stomped down with his hoof. Explosive power filled both his legs, causing the ground to crack. His steel-like body creaked as it twisted, using the force to launch himself into the air.

The bald Daemon General took another strange posture, with his body bent forward and his bald head directed at Li Qingshan. His tall body contracted significantly, like a spring that had been forced down before being let loose suddenly.

All Li Qingshan saw was a blurry figure charge towards him ten times faster than he had launched into the air.

Thunk!

A large crack appeared on the indestructible Spirit Turtle’s Profound Shell. Li Qingshan was knocked off his trajectory, from flying up vertically to horizontally. Who knows just how many walls he smashed through before becoming deeply embedded in the soil.

He was shocked. He had just achieved the strength of two oxen, so he had absolute confidence in his strength. However, the Daemon General was still much stronger.

The bald Daemon General sprang up from the ground and rubbed his head in a daze. He raised his head and looked at Li Qingshan, as if he had never imagined that he would fail to destroy Li Qingshan’s Spirit Turtle’s Profound Shell.

At this moment, two prayer beads whistled down from above, directly striking the Daemon General’s bald head.

The Daemon General raised his head. A petite figure landed behind him with lightning speed, surging with pale, red flames. She used all of her strength, directly converting a portion of her own flesh and blood into flames to deliver the most powerful thrust she had ever unleashed.

Li Qingshan instead panicked. He called out, “You idiot! Get out of here!” Daemon Generals were not existences who could be defeated with tricks like that. He disregarded the poison and punched out as hard as he could.

The Daemon General did not try to avoid the attack. He said sluggishly, “Are you daemons? Why do you attack me?” His voice was slightly slurred, but Li Qingshan still managed to make out what he was saying.

Everyone present stopped like an invisible hand had interfered with the situation. Li Qingshan’s punch stopped before the Daemon General, while Xiao An’s hidden blade remained three inches away from his bald head. The falling Skull Prayer Beads halted above the Daemon General’s head too.

Li Qingshan slowly pulled back his fist and laughed dryly. “Exactly. Daemons shouldn’t fight among themselves.” He glanced at Xiao An. “Why don’t you get over here!” Xiao An stowed away her hidden blade and prayer beads and returned to Li Qingshan’s side.

Li Qingshan reverted to human form and clasped his hands. “May I learn your name, great Daemon General? I am Black Mountain. I’ve cultivated for five centuries in the mountains, and I’ve barely managed to assume a human form. I had no intentions of offending you. It truly is my fault.”

“I’m Milliped. What does offending mean? And what’s ‘fault’?”

Li Qingshan was slightly relieved, having confirmed that this Milliped was not angry about what had happened earlier. He seemed to be slightly dim, and his reactions were extremely sluggish.

He suddenly thought of something. By Milliped, that’s basically just a millipede. This guy is actually a millipede daemon, so it’s no wonder that he’s so powerful and fast, yet his reaction speed was so slow.

He had once heard Xuanyue mention a lot of common knowledge regarding daemons. Daemons with flesh and blood were primarily divided into four groups, the scaled, the furred, the feathered, and the carapaced.

The scaled referred to animals of the water, the furred referred to terrestrial animals, the feathered referred to animals capable of flight, and the carapaced referred to insects.

Among them, the carapaced possessed the largest variety. There were countless insect daemonic beasts. No one knew just how many insects there were in the world.

Insects were born without much intelligence, completely acting on instincts, so there were many that could become daemonic beasts. However, there were far fewer that could condense daemon cores or reach even higher realms of cultivation compared to the other categories.

However, insect daemons would often be the strongest. Whether it be strength, speed, endurance, or tenacity, they would exceed all other daemons of the same cultivation level.



An ant could carry four hundred times its weight. A flea could jump a hundred times its length, and it could jump once every four seconds for several dozen hours on end. The tenacity of cockroaches was as clear as day. These creatures all resided at the bottom of the food chain, but if they had the opportunity to turn into daemons, they would immediately reach the very top. They would become the most terrifying hunters in the world.

However, insect daemons had one fatal flaw, which was their very low intelligence. Even if they gained self-consciousness after condensing a daemon core, they would not be particularly clever. Intelligence was basically their weakness.

Li Qingshan came up with an idea as a result. He asked, “Milliped, why have you eaten my things?”

Milliped said, “I didn’t know it was yours. No, it’s all mine, everything underground.”

Li Qingshan said, “Do you want more?”

“Yes!” Milliped opened his mouth and saliva flowed out.

Li Qingshan said, “There’s no more food here, but there’s plenty above ground, so why don’t you go there?”

Milliped shook his head like a motor. “Can’t go above ground.”

“Why not?”

Milliped’s dazed expression revealed a sliver of fear. “Orders. I can’t go against them.”

Li Qingshan rejoiced. He had gotten him to speak so easily. He sure was simple. He was much easier to handle than someone clever like Xuanyue. Intelligence would always be the most important standard for comparing creatures. Humans used this only advantage of theirs to suppress all other beings by themselves. If they were dim-witted, it would be useless no matter how powerful they were.

“There’s none left here. I’ll go up and grab some more for you, okay?”

“Okay, okay. Go quick, go quick!” Milliped’s eyes lit up and urged him on.

So simple! Li Qingshan was slightly stunned. It was so simple that he felt rather embarrassed. In order to make it more convincing, he followed up with, “Then what do you like to eat?”





Chapter 193: An Ox Munching on Peony | Legend of the Great Sage




Milliped considered the question seriously, while Li Qingshan grew nervous. He was afraid this Daemon General would say something along the lines of, “You!” He would be done for if that were the case.