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

Yet, the time the black ox had given Li Qingshan was just ten millennia!

As Golden Cicada had said, the nine provinces were like a well. There was an infinitely vast world up above and even further up was beyond the Nine Heavens.

If he spent ten millennia only to become a Daemon King, it would mean he completely failed. He would not have even completed half the journey. He would have let down all the trust brother ox had placed in him. He would only be a useless piece of trash. Even if he died, there would be no regret.

Ten millennia is too short. All I can do is seize every moment!

Lolth came to a vague understanding of why the Golden Cicada Spirit King treated him with special respect.





Chapter 527: Just Let Them Be | Legend of the Great Sage




The thick clouds shifted northward, sprinkling everywhere they passed by with snow.

Heavy snow drifted across Moon Court lake.

“Moon demon, are you bold enough to face me in battle?”

A tremendous voice descended from above, rolling like thunder as it kicked up great waves.

Wen Zhengming’s long robes ruffled in the wind and snow. It was very difficult to believe that a voice like that could come from such a skinny and small chest unless one witnessed it in person.

He scanned the surface of the lake attentively and thought through his plan again. He would be responsible for issuing a challenge at the beginning and drawing the moon demon out of the lake before showing weakness and retreating in defeat, fleeing for his life through the air. In the end, his three senior brothers would join the battle, and the four of them would work together and cast the Sword Formation of the Four Seasons. The moon demon would then be done for, with only death as his escape.

The plan did not sound particularly complicated. It was just provoking and agitating the enemy, misleading the enemy with a false impression of weakness, faking a hurried retreat, before unleashing an encirclement of ambushes. They were all common strategies the school of the Military used.

However, plans were not necessarily better the more complicated they were. The more complicated a plan was, the more that could go wrong. The crux of the issue was still about who used it and what kind of opponent they were using it against.

The various matters of the past indicated the moon demon would always strike back viciously against challenges. He should have been the same this time. Once he began fighting, he would be stepping into a trap!

But a while later, heavy snow continued to drift across the lake, yet Northmoon was nowhere to be seen.

Wen Zhengming came up with an idea and arrived outside the central island. The island was shrouded in heavy mist that was as thick as milk. It was impossible to make out the island.

Don’t tell me he just happens to not be in Moon Court lake? These night roamers are all his subordinates. If I attack there, I’ll definitely be able to force him out.

Wen Zhengming pressed his hand against the hilt of his sword and became slightly more cautious. He passed through the thick mist slowly, but he did not sense any attacks, nor did he run into any obstructing formations. He made it onto the island as easy as that.

The scenery there was the same as before. The buildings rising and falling constantly, but there was not a single shadow to be seen, nor was there any aura. The entire place had been evacuated already.

Wen Zhengming never expected to run into something like this. After a moment of consideration, he informed his three senior brothers. Another three figures descended from above, kicking a few piles of accumulated snow into the air. After seeing the situation on the island, they also frowned.

“Junior brother Wen, what is this all about?”

Wen Zhengming said, “Looks like the moon demon is no longer here, and he’s evacuated all the otherfolk.”

“No, he definitely won’t just abandon his position as a water god. The Water God Seal cannot leave the region of water for too long. He’s definitely still in Moon Court lake. He probably caught wind of us, which was why he hid beforehand. We can’t be careless. It’s very likely for Ink Sea to send other wretched daemons to support him.”

“The plan is already useless. All we can do is take on a little more risk and search for him in the water!”

“If the four of us work together, what danger will there be unless the Dragon King of Ink Sea personally intervenes?” the talented scholar in white said proudly, “As long as he doesn’t flee the moment he sees us, we have a seventy percent chance at killing him on the spot.”

A mere obstruction of water posed no obstacle to the four of them at all. They were about to dive into Moon Court lake and carry out their search.

“Hold on, someone is spying on us!”

The scholar in white’s expression changed. He had the highest cultivation, vaguely serving as the leader of the four.

The other three sensed it too. Wen Zhengming said, “It must be Northmoon, that wretched daemon. Can we locate him?”



The scholar in white closed his eyes before shaking his head gently a while later. He sensed that the entire shoreline was spying on them. They were unable to accurately determine the moon demon’s location.

All of this was clearly reflected in the Watermirror disc.

Li Qingshan sat with his legs crossed and the Watermirror disc placed over his knees. He currently resided deep underground, within a twisted river that branched from the main flow.

The place was extremely well-hidden, but to Golden Core cultivators, they could still find him with their senses of auras even if he were hidden beneath the earth.

However, Li Qingshan’s body did not give off even the slightest aura. He had merged with the flowing water.

He seemed to have become a spirit turtle, diving to the depths of the seas. No one could find him and all the disputes of the world had nothing to do with him. He only waited for the passage of time, for the seas to be replaced with land.

Li Qingshan had practised the Spirit Turtle’s Method of Sea Suppression for many years now, but this was the first time he had behaved in accordance with the spirit turtle’s nature. He came to a slight comprehension.

The strongest aspect of the spirit turtle was not for battles against others, but pursuing good fortune and avoiding calamities.

Originally, he had been troubled over failing to come up with a way to deal with the combined attack of the four grandmasters, but now, he suddenly discovered that by taking a step back, the world was his. No matter how powerful the four grandmasters were, it would be useless if they could not find him. At the end of the day, they were the ones wasting time, not him.

Realising that, his aura became more and more obscure, basically ungraspable.

Even if someone with a higher cultivation stood right before him, they would struggle to sense his existence once they closed their eyes. Even if they used their soul sense, it would only glide past him and overlook him.

As a result, their first search was destined to end in failure.

Around dusk, they met up on the island again. Their complexions were rather ugly.

Moon Court lake was already so vast and the moon demon had dug out countless rivers and branches, with most of them leading to the complicated underground. Yet, they were unable to sense even a hint of daemon qi, so they were afraid to let any affluent slip by.

Even after spending an entire day, the four of them had yet to search through all the water. With such a wide region, finding the moon demon was as difficult as finding a needle in the ocean.

Moon Court lake was obviously not as large as the ocean, but the issue was the moon demon would not stay put like a needle either. He would not wait for them to come find him. Clearly, as long as they approached where he was hiding, he would immediately change his position.