Legend of the Great Sage (Chapter 501-Chapter 600)

The demonfolk all sank into rage. They demonified and rushed over.

At this moment, Li Qingshan’s gaze instead skipped over them and landed on the statue of the demon again. He noticed something, He’s not demonifying. It’s the exact opposite. He’s resisting demonification.

The demonfolk arrived right before him, and the Heavy Water sword became over thirty meters long—Siege Breaking strike.

Li Qingshan gripped it firmly with one hand as it whistled out horizontally, cutting through seven powerful demonfolk. Sword qi erupted in their bodies, tearing them to pieces.

Li Qingshan clearly saw the shockwave from the sword qi being blocked by an invisible barrier when it reached a few meters away from the statue. He understood something else. The statue is probably the centre of the hall.

Li Qingshan strode forwards. With a flick of his wrist, the Heavy Water sword whistled back.

As if he had pulled a veil of blood over him, sprays of spurting blood bloomed before him. Countless bloody, dismembered corpses swept past like a storm.

Li Qingshan simply ignored all of this. He only raised his head and continued to stare. The demon’s eyes are not filled with fury, but pain.

Just what was this statue hiding?

Only the female demonfolk rushed towards the gilded door opposite of Li Qingshan. She was not under the control of lust, and her desire to survive had triumphed over her fury.

Li Qingshan tossed over the Heavy Water sword without even looking. It sailed over as a blue arc, passing through the demonfolk’s body before returning to Li Qingshan’s hand.

The demonfolk froze up and exploded.

Li Qingshan finally arrived before the stature. From this perspective, the demon male was extending his arms towards the sky.

“He’s not fighting anyone, but praying. Praying for what? To who?”

“I heard that as long as you can understand the secret in the statue, you can escape from here,” Duoge said suddenly.

“The statue possesses some kind of cultivation method.”

Xiao An arrived behind Li Qingshan and said firmly.

Li Qingshan rubbed his chin and nodded.

He was not a supreme genius like Xiao An, but the feeling that the statue gave him was far too familiar.



When brother ox had passed the Nine Transformations of the Demonic and Divine to him, he had used a similar method. The eight demonic and divine figures still remained in his sea of consciousness, and they definitely hid an inheritance greater than what the statue before him offered.

He had already comprehended the true spirit of the ox demon and tiger demon from the figures. Now that he looked at this statue, he felt like it was not too difficult to understand.

……

“Impressive. He actually managed to notice the Demon Suppression Statuary with a single glance.”

The Unraging monk chuckled. When regular people saw the statue, they would only think it was a relatively more vivid and realistic statue. Who would have thought it would actually be hiding something else.

“Noticing it is one matter. Whether he can comprehend it or not is another.”

The Dauntless monk said without approval, but he was rather perplexed inside. Li Qingshan did not come off as a person with an exceptional ability to comprehend, so how had he managed to notice the secret in the statue at first glance?

The existence of the Demon Suppression Statuary was a secret that was no longer a secret in the Chan Monastery of Deva-Nāga. Among the past disciples who entered the Demon Suppression hall for trials, plenty of them had been talented and bright, noticing the existence of the Demon Suppression Statuary. However, never had anyone managed to comprehend this cultivation method. They could not even comprehend the simplest first layer.

Even with the Dauntless monk’s current level of knowledge and cultivation, he could only detect part of the statue’s very essence, unable to truly comprehend it.

It was rumored that this cultivation method was not prepared for the monks of the monastery, but for the demonic prisoners who were once locked up here. It required people with an extremely strong demonic nature to cast aside their wickedness and repent, going from the demonic to buddhism.

However, this clearly was anything but simple. Not a single demonfolk had managed to comprehend it over the past few millennia.

The Unraging monk put forward a question. “If he really comprehends the Demon Suppression Statuary, what are we supposed to do?”

Speaking of which, the Demon Suppression Statuary was the greatest cultivation method of the Chan Monastery of Deva-Nāga. Even the Chant of Deva-Nāga paled in comparison. However, because no one had ever managed to practise it throughout all these millennia, it was not renowned. If an outsider managed to learn it, then…

“That’s utterly impossible!”

The Dauntless monk said flatly. Over the past few millennia, whether it were the monks of the monastery or the demonfolk imprisoned here, there had been countless figures of extraordinary intellect, yet none of them managed to comprehend the Demon Suppression Statuary. How could a measly Foundation Establishment cultivator like him achieve that?

Even if he truly possessed an exceptional ability to comprehend and understand, he was a Hawkwolf guard, so what demonic nature could exist within him? If there was no demonic nature, what demons was it supposed to suppress?





Chapter 571: Remorselessness of the Demon Heart | Legend of the Great Sage




The Unraging monk shook his head with a smile. “The human heart is deep and deceptive. Normally, it only shows the tip of the iceberg, and it’s bound by common customs and courtesy, making it even more unpredictable. With how cruel and ruthless his attacks were earlier, I don’t think they were only to triumph over the opponent anymore. Everyone has a buddha nature within them, but everyone also has a demonic nature within them. You can’t deny that, can you, senior brother?”

“I don’t deny that, but if his demonic nature truly is so unbearable, why would he be so kind to the cannibalistic little demonfolk?” The Dauntless monk pointed out. Duoge was currently searching for the demon hearts scattered across the square with his head lowered.

Demon hearts were made of something different. They were the only remains not destroyed by Li Qingshan’s sword qi.

“Perhaps he has always been suppressing the demonic nature within him.”

The Unraging monk said, but even he himself felt it was quite unlikely. If one’s demonic nature could be suppressed so easily, then the world would be filled with kind-hearted people. Why would they still need the Demon Suppression Statuary?

Never did they think that Li Qingshan was constantly using the Spirit Turtle’s Method of Sea Suppression, a cultivation method even more wondrous and powerful than the Demon Suppression Statuary, to suppress his demonic nature. Otherwise, he would have become a demon a long time ago.

……

Xiao An stared at the “Demon Suppression statue” and shook her head before long, giving up on comprehending the Demon Suppression Statuary it contained.

“What, even you can’t comprehend this cultivation method?” Li Qingshan asked curiously. He had never seen anything that could stump Xiao An.

Xiao An said, “The statue is a part of the entire Demon Suppression hall. It’s called demon suppression and not demon slaying or demon purging, which only demonstrates the creator of this place didn’t create the Demon Suppression hall to kill or torture. He had a heart of benevolence.”