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

It formed a fire-red cocoon of flames.

The day when he emerged from the cocoon would be the moment when he spread his wings.

……

Two stone lions crouched before one another. The door was wide open as a few chilly gales whistled by.

A person arrived before the steps and picked up the board by his feet. He rubbed it gently and filled the air with dust, revealing the three words “Proud Sword Manor”.

Yu Shukuang glanced inside. After a moment of hesitation, he did not end up entering.

Because there were many caves that led underground around Salt Mountain city, daemons ran amok and heavily destroyed the place.

The prosperous Proud Sword manor of the past had already been reduced to ruins, and the entire Salt Mountain city had been reduced to a ghost city. No one lived here anymore.

Yu Shukuang had come back to visit a grave. He wanted to tell his wife that Zijian had already found a new home. She had gone to the Sword Collection palace to cultivate.

However, when he arrived outside the city, he was shocked. He rushed over to the grave.

The gravestone still stood firmly, but there was a great pit behind the gravestone. The coffin inside had vanished too.

The coffin had already been buried for over a decade. It no longer gave off any smells that could attract the attention of wild beasts or daemons. And, from the traces of digging, it was clearly the handiwork of a human.

Even if it were graverobbers, they would not take the coffin with them. Who would spend so much effort to unearth a person’s remains?

Yu Shukuang’s face sank heavily. He suddenly remembered someone. Ma Chaoqun!

……

In a cave, a Daemon General shaped like a lynx pounced forward. With a gust of foul air, it moved with startling speed.

There was a white flash, and the Daemon General had been beheaded. Wen Zhengming grabbed the daemon core casually and stowed it into his hundred treasures pouch.

The four grandmasters could not find Li Qingshan, but finding other daemons was far too easy.

Under the detection of their soul sense, even night roamers who were skilled at concealing their auras and carrying out assassinations were as prominent as fireflies in the darkness.

They immediately kicked up a bloody storm underground. Wherever they passed by, whether it was night roamer or daemon, only the fate of death awaited them. They could not even block a single attack.



After all, Daemon Generals who could challenge those at higher cultivation levels like Li Qingshan were far too rare.

“Sister, our scout has been killed!”

Ye Liubo reported to Ye Liusu in a hurry. Under Li Qingshan’s orders, all of the night roamers had retreated underground. They did not know who the four grandmasters were, but they did know the four grandmasters were not people they could stop.

“Continue moving underground!” Ye Liusu ordered resolutely. She took the lead and continued migrating with the night roamers.

The scholar in white suddenly stopped and closed his eyes.

Wen Zhengming asked, “Senior brother Tang, what’s wrong?”

The scholar in white opened his eyes. “There’s a great group of night roamers below us, around ten kilometers away. None of them have undergone the second heavenly tribulation. They’ve currently travelling downwards. There’s also tremendous daemon qi twenty-five kilometers away on the same level as us. It should belong to that spider daemon.”

“Which one do we go for?”

The scholar in white said, “Dealing with the leader first ensures a quick victory. Let’s kill the wretched daemon first and then crush the group of night roamers.”

……

Ye Liubo said, “They don’t seem to be chasing after us!”

Several tens of thousand night roamers travelled in a hurry through the caves. The winding group meandered like a snake, but they did not produce any noise at all.

“We can’t be careless. Continue downwards. With the interference from the underground magnetic field, finding us won’t be easy anymore. Afterwards, we’ll split up.”

“Split up? Won’t we just be taken out one by one?”

“The enemy this time cannot be triumphed over through numbers alone. Otherwise, master would have never gotten us to retreat beforehand.”

Ye Liubo said with worry, “I wonder how master is doing.”

“With what master is capable of, protecting himself won’t be an issue. Let’s move quickly!”

Whenever they came across a branch in the road, they would split up. The group scattered very quickly until only Ye Liusu and Ye Liubo remained together in the end. The surrounding temperature had already become scorching while the rocks began to glow red.

A droplet of sweat fell to the ground, immediately hissing into a cloud of white mist. Ye Liubo was rather irritated as she cut down the stalagmite in front of her with a swing.

“Damn it! Only if I were a little stronger!”

“Don’t say anything more.”

Ye Liusu was in a similarly bad mood, but due to her level-headed nature, she did not show it. She had just established a territory on the surface, only to be forced underground again and even deeper underground than before. She had only just united the night roamers under one banner, yet she was forced to personally dismantle them again.

“But master will definitely deal with them!” Ye Liubo said with full confidence.

“Yeah.”

Ye Liusu was not particularly optimistic about this. The surface of the Green province belonged to humans. Even Daemon Commanders could not move about freely on the surface. However, since she had chosen to depend on him, all she could do was believe in him.



There was a great rumble from above. The cave shook violently as soil rained down.

“What’s happening?”

“They’ve probably run into the Spider Queen. Let’s continue on our way!”

……

Li Qingshan curled up like an infant and lay in the huge cocoon of flames, awaiting his birth.

The surging fire spiritual energy condensed into a scarlet-red phoenix’s embryo in his body. It was covered in delicate, golden inscriptions, pulsing with light like it was a living creature breathing.

The rhythm of Li Qingshan’s heartbeat and breathing gradually synced with it, becoming closely related.

A thought suddenly crossed his head, Why does this feel like being pregnant?

But Li Qingshan soon discovered hatching this embryo was anything but easy. Probably even ten months of pregnancy would be nowhere near enough. It made him frown slightly. It was only the first layer of the Phoenix’s Scripture of Nirvā?a, yet the difficulty had completely surpassed what he originally imagined.

The phoenix’s embryo constantly absorbed the fire spiritual energy like it was insatiable. According to the current rate of progress, even spending a year would be regarded as short.

This was not too long to a daemon, but the exact thing he happened to lack the most right now was time.

Suddenly, an extremely familiar voice rang out in his head. “I’ll lend you a hand. Get ready!”

In the depths of the magma, Golden Cicada watched this as he gently waved his tiny, tender hand. Great waves were immediately stirred up in the lake of fire as flames that were several meters tall flew towards Li Qingshan as fire snakes.

“Alright, much thanks!”

Li Qingshan was overjoyed. As soon as he said those three words, he could no longer spare the effort to talk anymore. He pushed the Phoenix’s Scripture of Nirvā?a desperately, absorbing, converting, and leading the fire snakes into the phoenix’s embryo one by one.

The phoenix’s embryo devoured the flames happily, going from a scarlet-red to gold. The inscriptions on the surface became brighter and brighter too.