Legend of the Great Sage (Chapter 201-Chapter 300)

Deep underground, vicious daemons gathered from all directions.

The vast cavern was lit by moss, but several dozen pairs of eyes shone even brighter. Most of their irises had narrowed into slits, clearly rather unaccustomed to such a bright environment.

Perhaps vicious, perhaps cold, or perhaps arrogant, the gazes clashed and produced sparks in the air.

The sounds of foul breaths rose and fell once another another. They were restless like volcanoes before eruption. From time to time, there would be deep growls or roars, like the thunder in the sky, resounding through the cavern.

Daemon qi gathered in the darkness, constantly entangling and exchanging information with each other. However, they maintained a cautious distance from one another.

The tremendous figures resulted in a series of black shadows, writhing, swaying, and twisting.

In the past, they lived without any contact with each other, but today, they had all been gathered here because of a person.

Suddenly, their gazes gathered in a single location.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

The heavy footsteps caused the ground to shake. It was still very far away, but violent daemon qi had already gushed into the cavern. This was the way daemons greeted one another, but it was filled with arrogance and provocation. Normally, it was enough to lead to a battle.

All of the daemons withdrew their daemon qi and lowered their heads, as if they were subjects awaiting the arrival of their king.

They could all sense that he had grown stronger. He was like a sharpened blade, shining with bloodthirsty light.

A colossal figure appeared at the dark entrance. The entrance was towards the top of the cavern and was several meters wide, but it was still not large enough for him. Simply raising his head would cause his two sharp ox horns to scrape against the ceiling and produce a series of sparks.

The black shadow leapt into the air. Its colossal body was not clumsy at all; instead, it was like a tiger descending from the mountains.

He landed on the ground with a rumble. His scarlet hair danced like fire, while his scarlet pupils glanced past the daemons like a blade. The daemons all lowered their heads even further.

On his shoulders, Xiao An and Milliped stood to the left and right. Xiao An had assumed her skeletal form, with the two Skull Prayer Beads hovering above her head.

Milliped, on the other hand, napped by leaning against Li Qingshan’s head. However, the powerful daemon qi he gave off still slammed against the surroundings wave after wave, scattering the daemon qi from the other daemons.

Li Qingsahn swung his hand, and food ran down like rain, piling at the centre of the cavern. There was food that had been cooked by humans, as well as fresh beef, lamb, and pork. Merging together, they gave off an enticing fragrance.

Basically all of the daemons drooled. Despite how long they had lived, they had never seen so much and so many rich foods.

“This is my promise. Now, let’s eat!” Li Qingshan’s deep voice was like resonating metal, able to penetrate through anything.

His words were like a spark to a room full of explosives. The daemons all lunged forward, each more vicious and powerful than the last. Hunting and eating was an ability that they had been born with.

After a few roars and growls as a test, they naturally assembled themselves into a certain order. The strongest daemons ate first.

The blackwater salamander gulped down a pile of fresh fish. He felt glad. Thankfully, he had come, or he would have missed out on such a great feast.

The boulder viper coiled up and swallowed an entire ox. With a wave of its tail, it ate another goat.



The way the ice frog ate was the strangest. It would open its mouth to a terrifying size and exhale cold air, freezing all the cooked food before sucking hard. Its body would immediately swell up, and all of the frozen food would be sucked into its body, like it was a bottomless pit.

The other daemons paced around restlessly in the surroundings.

This seemed to be an ancient, primal ceremony, like how the ancestors of humans danced around fire, creating human culture.

Milliped caught a whiff of the food and opened his eyes by a crack. Li Qingshan passed the alcohol and food he had already prepared to him. He had a great feast before laying down on Li Qingshan’s shoulder and falling asleep.

Li Qingshan shook his head. Originally, he had brought him to keep up his appearance and say a few words to rile up their morale, but as it seemed, there was no need for that.

He did not take out all the food right at the beginning. Hunger was the main driving force for hunting. When his three strongest daemon soldiers were half way done eating, he ordered them to stop and let the other daemons eat.

However, daemons that were eating also happened to be the most vicious, so why would they listen to Li Qingshan’s command? They ignored him and continued to wolf down the food.

Li Qingshan got to work. He grabbed the boulder viper’s head with his huge claws and pressed it against the ground. The boulder viper wrapped around him a few times instinctively like a thick belt, but it discovered that his body was even tougher than metal. The piercing pain from its head made it return to its senses. Those claws could actually pierce its armour.

The other arm wrapped around the blackwater salamander’s neck. While the blackwater salamander could slide out, it obediently remained still.

The ice frog wanted to eat a few more mouthfuls while he was busy, but a bone sword pointed at him. The flames shone in Xiao An’s eye sockets.

The bone sword had been refined from the skeleton of the first senior brother from the Pheasant’s Grace mountain.

Although a sword did exist within the artifact forging section of the Path of White Bone and Great Beauty called the Buddha Slaying sword, it was not something that Xiao An could forge right now. As a result, this sword had no other uses apart from its toughness.

However, a tough sword was enough for a supreme swordsman.

The ice frog was immediately stunned by the sword intent. It became afraid to move. It felt like as long as it moved by even an inch, it would have to suffer a devastating attack.

With the three strongest daemon soldiers subdued in an instant, the other daemons became afraid to move as well.

Milliped opened his bleary eyes and asked, “They’re being disobedient?”

Li Qingshan smiled. “You’d best ask them!”

The three daemons expressed their allegiance in a hurry, and Li Qingshan released them. He said nothing more apart from expressing that he had the authority to distribute food. The leader would always have to express the authority he possessed to the group and give the rule breakers a tough beating.

The other daemon soldiers immediately became much more orderly as they ate. After all the food had been split among them, the daemons still seemed dissatisfied. They seemed to become even hungrier after having not eaten in a long time.

“The human cultivators have already begun to venture underground!” Li Qingshan finally spoke. He used daemon qi and his voice to convey his message.

All of the daemons raised their heads in alertness. They understood the danger that humans posed.

“They’ve come to kill us, to take the daemon cores in us, to take the spiritual herbs from our caverns. From today onwards, you will listen to my command. You will not fight alone. We must band together and face the enemy together. After this, I will redistribute food among you according to your merit in battle!”

“Now, let’s go and kill all the humans!” Li Qingshan raised his right hand before swinging down viciously.

Various growls and roars resounded through the caverns, causing loose rocks to fall. The daemon army moved out.

Li Qingshan stood at the very back. Only when all the daemons had left the cavern did he mumble to himself extremely softly, “The name of the operation this time will be the Enemy of Humans.”