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

The next day, Shen Xihua delivered over a dozen sets of clothes of various colours and styles. They were all made from silk of the highest quality. He even brought many toys for children.

Li Qingshan smiled. He thought about how Xiao An was no ordinary child, so why would he play with these wooden toys? However, he did not mention it. He told Shen Xihua to continue preparing for the ‘Pill Seizing Gathering’.

He was determined to go through with this ‘Pill Seizing Gathering’. However, he soon thought of how a great scheme like this that could overturn the entire jianghu tended to be the specialty of villains. And, his thought of killing everyone in the gathering had an even more villainous vibe.

However, he felt fantastic. It was a wonderful time since Xiao An was about to gain a new life. He sighed emotionally just like a poet. “With death comes birth.” Afterwards, he gained some understanding towards the true meaning behind the Path of White Bone and Great Beauty.

After Shen Xihua left, Xiao An emerged from behind the curtains. He gently caressed the beautiful silk clothing with his bone fingers as he imagined how he would look like when he wore them. He raised his head and their eyes met. There was silence. The only sounds present were the pitter-patter of rain outside the window. However, the two of them felt silent joy inside.

Afterwards, Xiao An began to play with those toys happily, the pinwheels, spinning tops, and bamboo dragonflies.

It surprised Li Qingshan. Afterwards, he thought about how he did not show enough care and concern for Xiao An. Thinking further, he realised that the thing that he seemed to do the most with Xiao An was killing people.

Killing people was not necessarily a bad thing. In this cruel world, it should have been a crucial skill for survival. Adult beasts had to teach younger beasts the art of hunting.

That was how Li Qingshan comforted himself to avoid too much self-guilt. Afterwards, he just sat there and leaned his head against his hand. He thought deeply into the issue of Xiao An’s education. He needed to take him out to see the world more often in the future so that he could feel nature and all those things!

Afterwards, he could not help but begin grinning. He felt warmth. The world was very cruel, but he was not alone.

……

Even a lion would use its full strength to catch a rabbit. The day before the eighth, Li Qingshan finished ingesting all of his Qi Gathering pills such that he was at his peak condition.

By tomorrow, once those bastards all gather in the hall, what am I supposed to say as an opening line?

For the sake of my personal happiness, please die, you twisted lot!

Seems even more villainous.

……

“Am I pretty?” The West Gate Granny asked.

“Y- you are!” A naked man covered in tattoos that depicted nine dragons lowered his head and called out in fright. The blood of his companions slowly flowed beneath his feet. Just because they laughed when they saw this ugly, old woman, they ended up falling apart into pieces.



“Then why aren’t you looking at me?” The West Gate Granny said with a sunken voice.

The man slowly raised his head before becoming stunned. He had never seen such a beautiful woman before. Her cold eyes and nobility shook up his mind, almost making him lose control of himself.

The portrait of a man suddenly appeared before him. The voice that was as beautiful as an oriole’s song asked, “Have you seen this person before?”

He shook his head in a daze, blaming himself for being unable to help her at all.

“Then you can go die!” The shrivelled mouth spat out these brutal words.

The man immediately shattered his own skull with a palm strike. Even before he died, he still gazed at the West Gate Granny with infatuation. He smiled. Originally, he thought that he would only be a pirate for the rest of his life, but he had never thought he would be able to die for the person he loved. He felt happiness from the bottom of his heart.

My life… was all worth it.

Leaving the den of the Water Snake gang, the West Gate Granny said furiously, “Just where did the brat go?”

In the past few days, she followed the most optimal path for Li Qingshan, but she failed to find any signs of him. She completely lost track of him.

Finally, she could not help herself anymore and lost her temper, causing a great massacre. Behind her, the corpses of the Water Snake gang lay strewn on the ground. They would never be able to attack and rob people on the rivers again. Every single one of them smiled happily, dying for the sake of love.

A teenager in red took out a vermillion invitation card from the bosom of the leader and handed it to the West Gate Granny.

The West Gate Granny looked at the invitation card. After a while of thought, she revealed a sunken smile. “I see. This kid has got some brains. I’ve underestimated him. Let’s go to Lakeside city.”

On the eighth of the eighth, near Lakeside city on the Island of Cherishing Flowers

Li Qingshan tidied up his thoughts and took out his knicked Wind-entwining blade, hanging it on his waist. He looked out the window and saw many small boats moving through the wind and rain, stopping at the wharf. Many people emerged from them.

Most of them carried weapons and were vicious-looking. He could tell with a single glance that they were not kind folk. They matched up with the resources from Li Qingshan’s file one by one.

These unorthodox masters were worried about this being a trap, and they were wary of one another, so they all brought their best subordinates, just in case. However, unbeknownst to them, someone within the shade of the green willows was counting them like sheep.

Two hundred and eighty one… Three hundred and forty two… Five hundred and fifty seven.

This lasted until night time. The number had already exceeded Li Qingshan’s expectations.

The island was decorated with lanterns and streamers, with a feast set up in the hall. With Shen Xihua as the host, these martial arts masters gathered in the hall. It was quite the banquet.

Shen Xihua smiled and spoke cheerfully, without giving away anything at all.

Some people said impatiently, “Island lord Shen, where are the pills? Please take them out and show us!”





Chapter 156: The Daemon-trapping Cage of Bi'an | Legend of the Great Sage




Shen Xihua smiled. “Please settle down, everyone. I hope you can enjoy yourselves in my humble abode while I go retrieve the pills.” He retreated to the darkness outside the hall, and his smile immediately vanished. Something seemed to weigh on his mind.

“Sir, the island lord has invited you to the back of the hall,” a servant said to Li Qingshan politely.

Li Qingshan walked through the corridors, and two fierce men leapt out from the bushes in the darkness, blocking his way. “Who are you?”

The servant said in a hurry, “Good sirs, are you guests of our island lord?”

The two people studied Li Qingshan. “Why haven’t we seen or heard about someone like you?”

Li Qingshan said, “Not everyone is available for the likes of you to see or hear about.”

“What did you say!?” The two became enraged. They wanted to draw their blades.

With two thuds, the two of them fell back into the bushes in the darkness, reduced to corpses.

“You can go see the king of hell!” Then Li Qingshan said to the servant, “Let’s keep going.”

The servant shivered and obliged in a hurry.

Shen Xihua rubbed his hands uneasily within his study room. Suddenly, he saw Li Qingshan arrive and invited him to sit down in a hurry before pouring some tea for him. He treated him with the utmost hospitality.