Legend of the Great Sage (Chapter 301-Chapter 400)

“Let’s go together. It’s faster if you take this.”


Arriving outside, Han Qiongzhi was just about to pull out the flying shuttle, and Li Qingshan agreed with her. Her expression eased up before immediately stiffening again. No matter when, she could never afford to embarrass herself as the first young lady of the Han family. Even if she had a good impression of him, she could not try to coddle or suck up to him. Not to mention that this guy even had the audacity to brush her off back on Benevolence island.

A cloud shot into the air, flying directly towards Jiaping city.

As he travelled back along the same path as before, Li Qingshan felt rather sentimental.

Han Qiongzhi had always been a bold and easygoing person, but when she faced him, she would think about Hua Chengzan’s intentions behind these arrangements. She wanted to get closer with him, but she was also afraid of embarrassing herself. If she acted up whenever she felt like it like before, wouldn’t she just be like those little girls in love? That was even less of her style.

In Li Qingshan’s eyes, her usual behaviour was no different from a little girl’s, yet she just had to act mature right now, which was very awkward for her. For a moment, she was actually unable to say anything to him at all.

Fortunately, Li Qingshan’s sentiment left just as quickly as it had arrived. A while later, he began conversing with Han Qiongzhi, and only then did she ease up slightly, but she remained tense. She did her best to maintain a grasp over her actions. This just happened to be one of her weak points.

As they spoke, all Li Qingshan felt was that this first young miss Han’s personality seemed to have changed suddenly and drastically. She became reserved. Although she lost some of her sharpness, she became slightly less easy going too, which perplexed him. However, they were not exactly close, so it was not like he could get to the bottom of this.

Never did he think that his chaotic battle to vent his gloominess in the school of the Military had touched on her tender feelings.

After travelling for four hours, they saw a lone mountain in the distance, standing beside a great river. A hawk perched on there, watching over the city that stretched into the distance.

The cloud vanished below him, and Li Qingshan landed firmly on the top of the mountain. He looked around. It has been a while, Jiaping.

The Black Hawk commander, Fang Enshang, brought all the Black Wolf guards to receive them. There were quite a few old acquaintances among them. They all saw how a great Scarlet Wolf guard beauty stood beside Li Qingshan, who wore his Scarlet Wolf uniform. Just her composed bearing had surpassed all regular women. They were unable to describe their admiration for her, and they felt a tinge of sour jealousy.

They had all personally witnessed Li Qingshan joining the Hawkwolf guard back then. He was just a kid from the mountains, but little did they think that in just a short year or two, he would have risen to such a level.

Fang Enshang bowed politely. “Greetings from Fang Enshang.”

Li Qingshan returned the gesture to Fang Enshang, while Han Qiongzhi went up and patted his shoulder. “Little Fang, long time no see. Why’re you still at the sixth layer?”

Fang Enshang said, “Your language sure is unforgiving, second senior sister. How can my talent match yours, senior sister, or this fellow Qingshan right here? When I first met him, he was only at the fifth layer.” Because Han Qiongzhi was the secondary disciple of the school of Legalism, she was known as the second senior sister.

“You flatter me. I think it’s commander Fang’s bearing that’s changed the most. You’ve become much more mature.” Li Qingshan felt much of Fang Enshang’s naivety was now replaced with the bearing of a commander.

“You’re two men, yet you sing praises for one another. Don’t you find it embarrassing? So tell me just what is going on.”

Having escaped the awkward situation of being alone with Li Qingshan, Han Qiongzhi turned back to normal and immediately took control of the situation. As she asked for the full story regarding this matter, she requested Fang Enshang to take them to Zhou Pei’s corpse.

Clearly, Han Qiongzhi had a lot of experience with dealing with matters like this. Li Qingshan was willing to follow along with her too, remaining silent and contrasting against her.

In the chilly morgue, Fang Enshang lifted a white cloth and exposed a naked corpse that had turned blue. Sure enough, the word “traitor” was carved into the body.

Li Qingshan had seen plenty of corpses before, so he was mostly unfazed. All he did was furrow his brows in thought. He did not feel like daoist priest Qiu was someone who would do something like this. This was more like a method of revenge used by third-rate figures of the jianghu.

To a very large extent, the Truth-seeking society had not been destroyed by the Hawkwolf guard, but by Niu Juxia, who had killed his way out. Even if they knew Zhou Pei was a spy, their grievances did not run so deep. Just slitting his throat would have been more than enough.

Han Qiongzhi was unafraid too. She studied the naked corpse without any bashfulness that a normal woman would possess. Instead, she became angered. “They’re out of their minds to provoke the Hawkwolf Guard like this. Little Fang, do you have any leads?”

Fang Enshang said, “I was just about to say. We had an informant report yesterday that daoist priest Qiu had appeared in the north-west. He seemed to be travelling in the direction of Ancient Wind city.”



Li Qingshan’s doubts became even heavier. He had experienced daoist priest Qiu’s craftiness first hand. Why would someone like him leave behind traces that regular informants could spot? And, wasn’t Ancient Wind city where the Qian family once stood?

His second trial mission actually pointed there once again. Was this a coincidence, or was there another reason for this?

Han Qiongzhi covered the corpse with the white cloth quickly and said to Li Qingshan, “We’ll go right now!”

Li Qingshan hesitated. “I don’t think this is as simple as it seems.” He stated his doubts.

If this were in the past, Han Qiongzhi would have definitely mocked Li Qingshan as a worrywart. However, after everything he had been through, she knew he was not a coward. However, it would not be in line with her character if she did not charge over to Ancient Wind city immediately, sniff out Qiu Ruiliu, and cut him to pieces.

“Then what do you think we should do?”

Fang Enshang was slightly taken aback. How rare. To think that even his second senior sister would have a moment when she would ask for the opinion of someone else. In the school of Legalism, she never listened to anyone apart from the two commanders.

Li Qingshan considered it for a moment. “Let’s just go with what you said!”

Although he had his doubts about this, he trusted Hua Chengzan’s judgement. They should not encounter any danger in this mission, or Hua Chengzan definitely would have warned them.

Why would an Altar Lord of the White Lotus cult set up such a large trap, even going as far as exposing themselves, just to ambush two Qi Practitioners? If they really did not care about their own safety, they might as well just come to the Hawkwolf Guard and massacre to their hearts’ content. Wouldn’t that be better? Why did they have to lure them to such a remote place like Ancient Wind city?

The most likely possibility would be that Qiu Ruiliu had gathered another group of independent cultivators and had set up a shoddy trap. With his abilities, he could kill whoever came at him as long as they were below Foundation Establishment.

Han Qiongzhi said, “Then why’d you say that?”

Li Qingshan shrugged. “There’s nothing wrong with being more careful.”