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

She was like a snake about to eat a person. Dim, cold light flashed through her eyes as she pursed her lips. She smiled. “Looks I can use the medicinal enhancers I’ve kept around now.”


The ugly man and his companions were the medicinal enhancers she had prepared for her breakthrough to the sixth layer. They could provide large quantities of true qi at crucial times.

Li Qingshan frowned. He turned the mechanism. As the stone door opened again and light landed on her face, it was like magic. Wherever the light reached, her expression would change slightly, and when the light engulfed her completely, she had recovered her image as a gentle and kind elder sister.

Li Qingshan felt that compared to him, she was more like those demons and daemons of the legends.

The light cast a long shadow in the cave. Li Qingshan looked at the owner of the shadow. “Diao Fei?”

Diao Fei faltered. “I heard that you’ve returned.” His cultivation had already reached the fourth layer. Although he had not improved as quickly as Li Qingshan and Qian Rongzhi after they had joined the Hawkwolf Guard, he had not been wasting his time either.

The three people that had once joined the Hawkwolf Guard together were reunited once again.





Chapter 261: The Fifth Layer | Legend of the Great Sage




Below the mountain, they ordered a few side dishes, three bowls of congee, and a few steamers of steamed buns at a breakfast stall.

Originally, Diao Fei wanted to go to a restaurant, but Li Qingshan said, “Morning is not the time to drink.” As a result, they came here.

With three Hawkwolf guards seated, no one else dared to set foot into this place anymore, while the people originally there dispersed in a hurry. Only when Diao Fei tossed out ten taels of silver did the boss’s bitter expression ease up.

Xiao An had her head lowered as she ate a steam bun. Diao Fei faltered. “How old is she?”

Li Qingshan smiled. “If you have something to say, you’re welcome to cut right to the chase!”

Qian Rongzhi helped Xiao An to another steamed bun and smiled too. “So why are you looking for me? We’re all familiar with each other, so there’s no need to hold back. You can just tell me what you need.”

Diao Fei stifled his voice. “Did you know that the disciples of the three mountains have all died underground?”

Qian Rongzhi said, “Everyone in the Clear River prefecture knows about that.” However, everyone was focused on how the disciple of the Sword Collection palace had appeared and killed a Daemon General, so this matter actually did not receive much attention. The decline of three small sects was nothing compared to the turmoil of the entire world.

Diao Fei sighed heavily. “You know, I’m technically a disciple of the Green Vine mountain too.”

Li Qingshan said, “Then I need to congratulate you on avoiding a disaster.”

“Curses and blessings come hand in hand. Who knows which is what.” Diao Fei’s eyes became lost. He had been squeezed out of the sect in the past, which was why he had joined the Hawkwolf Guard. Originally, he wanted to focus on cultivation and find an opportunity for revenge, but the people who had squeezed him out were all dead now.

In just a single day, his grievances had turned into nothing. Diao Fei had also received a letter personally penned by the Green Vine Elder, who requested him to come back to the Green Vine mountain.

Li Qingshan understood what he meant by curses and blessings coming hand in hand. All the disciples of the Green Vine mountain were dead, so they obviously had to gather the disciples scattered outside. There were not a lot of disciples like that, but they would immediately go from outcasts to core figures of the sect.

Although most of the disciples of the Green Vine mountain were dead, their foundation and resources remained. When the resources of an entire sect were concentrated on these few core figures, the benefits would be tremendous. At the very least, it would be better than staying in the Hawkwolf Guard. However, just what kind of place was the Hawkwolf Guard? It definitely was not one where people could come and go as they wished. He needed to plead with the vice commander, Qian Rongzhi.

Sure enough, Qian Rongzhi said, “Resigning from your post in the Hawkwolf Guard won’t be easy.”

Diao Fei knew he needed to back up what he said, so he had already prepared a bribe. He glanced at Li Qingshan, hesitating over whether to take it out before him or not.

“I need to pay a visit to the government office, so I’ll be leaving first.” Li Qingshan immediately stood up and lifted up Xiao An, making his way out the door.

At the back of the government office, Zhou Wenbin was strolling through the garden as the caretaker reported, “Sir, Li Qingshan is waiting outside, wishing to see you.”

Zhou Wenbin said, “Welcome him in!” As Li Qingshan strode over, Zhou Wenbin became slightly surprised inside. Li Qingshan seemed to have changed in these few months. He had gone from the third layer to the fourth layer, but just describing it as rapid progress in cultivation did not seem to be sufficient. He seemed to have developed a frightening bearing.

“Greetings, sir.”

Zhou Wenbin returned the greeting in a hurry. He no longer dared to consider himself a senior or sir to Li Qingshan anymore.

Li Qingshan stated his reason for visiting and Zhou Wenbin agreed to it, guaranteeing him that it would be no problem.

Satisfied with that, he caught up slightly with Zhou Wenbin before turning down Zhou Wenbin’s urgings to stay a little longer, bidding farewell and leaving.

After he left, Zhou Wenbin sighed gently. “He truly isn’t someone who would be satisfied with dwelling in a small pond!”



Li Qingshan returned to the mountain. He did not run into Qian Rongzhi and Diao Fei again. He directly entered the dwelling, turning the stone disc and closing the door.

Exhaling gently, Li Qingshan took out over a dozen spiritual stones and placed them in the grooves of the Spirit Gathering formation. The lines engraved in the rock immediately lit up, and spiritual qi rapidly gathered into the formation. The densest part was the centre of the formation.

Li Qingshan handed a few things over to Xiao An, reminding her to feed Milliped regularly.

Afterwards, he sat down at the centre of the formation and began practising qi, urging on the flow of true qi through his body.

Since he had returned to human society, his cultivation as a Qi Practitioner was very important. Once he went to the Academy of the Hundred Schools, there would probably be many Foundation Establishment cultivators there, so he could not always rely on transforming to kill his opponent. Even if he left behind no traces, it would still raise suspicion as time went on. And, there would be less trouble if his cultivation was higher.

Li Qingshan placed most of his attention on practising qi this time.

However, that did not mean Li Qingshan had stopped his daemon cultivation. Daemon cultivation was just much simpler than practising qi. All it required were large amounts of resources, and right now, the last thing that Li Qingshan lacked was pills.

The hundred treasures pouches, over a thousand of them, had provided Li Qingshan with a tremendous quantity of various pills. It would be enough to sustain his cultivation for several months at the very least.

He took out a handful of Qi Gathering pills first. Even on the lower end of the scale, there would be several hundred of them. He then shoved it all into his mouth. As soon as they reached his belly, it would be surrounded by a layer of daemon qi as flexible and as tough as flowing water. The daemon core in him would bob up and down, gradually transforming the pills into daemon qi.