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

Li Qingshan was afraid of being careless. Just a single fire snake was enough to incinerate an entire city! If he lost control over even one of them and it erupted in his body, it could heavily injure him.

The fire snakes became more and more concentrated, wild and violent, but they did not exceed the limit of what Li Qingshan could withstand. It basically gave him a true demonstration of what a Daemon King was capable of.

After who knew how long, the lake of fire settled down again and fire snakes stopped flying out. The phoenix’s embryo flickered with dazzling light like a miniature sun. It had reached its limit.

Within the scorching flames, Li Qingshan felt like he was about to melt away. Suddenly, he felt his back itch. He pushed his shoulders back and two bones grew from his back, running into the barrier very soon and preventing them from spreading out.

He could not help but twist his body and swing his arms, punching the huge cocoon of flames around him.

With a crack, a fracture appeared in the phoenix’s embryo.





Chapter 530: Emerging From the Cocoon as a Phoenix (Two) | Legend of the Great Sage




With a great boom, the cocoon of flames exploded.

Circular shockwaves pushed the magma away wave after wave, stirring up roaring fire.

Li Qingshan stood in the sea of fire. Under the red glow, his perfect body seemed like a statue forged from bronze. He kept his eyes closed and his head down as his fire-like hair danced fiercely.

Li Qingshan breathed gently. This moment felt like a new life.

This was the first layer of the Phoenix’s Scripture of Nirvā?a.

“Congratulations on advancing with your cultivation.” Golden Cicada’s voice rang out in his head.

“Thanks. What else do you need me to do? Please let me know.”

“Save Lolth.”

“Alright!”

Li Qingshan opened his eyes and magnificent red light flowed through them. A pair of gloriously beautiful wings suddenly unfurled behind him.

They were not wings composed from energy like the wings of wind. Instead, they were real wings, the wings of a phoenix.

Fire swept towards him. He bent over slightly, and the wings furled up too. Streams of wind wrapped around him as he used the wings of wind at the same time. The two powers of wind and fire merged perfectly.

Pushing hard with his feet, there was a thump and the wings suddenly unfurled. He had already soared off into the air, leaving behind a long trail of fire.

Xiao An waved the Blood Sea Banner and followed close behind.

Li Qingshan followed Lolth’s aura and penetrated through the layers of soil and rock. When he grew close to her, he concealed all of his aura again, approaching silently.

Suddenly, he frowned. When he used the Spirit Turtle’s Method of Sea Suppression to conceal his aura, the power of the Phoenix Transformation put up a violent struggle. He was unable to hide his aura perfectly.

In his body, the spirit turtle’s daemon core had already changed. It had gained a smear of bright-red, attached to the azure daemon core. It constantly shifted about, but only on the surface. It was unable to penetrate any deeper.

According to the standard of humans, the demonic transformations of the Nine Transformations of the Demonic and Divine focused on the body, while the divine transformations focused on qi. As a result, even with his Tiger Demon Transformation and Ox Demon Transformation at the fourth layer, the spirit turtle suppressed them with relative ease, yet it was rather helpless against the first layer of the Phoenix Transformation, leading to an intense rejection.

Although he had managed to succeed with the Phoenix’s Scripture of Nirvā?a after quite some effort, he had not truly reached the state where water and fire merged, let alone the realm when water and fire supplemented one another. If he continued cultivating the Phoenix Transformation, this rejection would probably become stronger.

However, he had to find a method around this one way or another.

He remembered that a few cultivation methods in the cultivation world were about simultaneously practising water and fire. He would have to properly research the tricks behind this once he returned to the academy.

With the advantage in strength of the fourth layer of the spirit turtle, he forcefully suppressed the phoenix’s aura. If he fought against anyone in this state, he would not have become stronger. Instead, he would have become weaker due to the internal exhaustion of his energy.

The rumbling and tremors grew closer and closer. Li Qingshan burst out of the earth and found the place rather familiar. It was the great valley where he had originally clashed with Bloodshadow and Strongboulder.

The four grandmasters each wielded a sword, standing in four corners and assembling a formation, trapping Lolth inside.



Lolth’s hair was a mess. She seemed to be in a rather sorry state, but her eyes became calmer and more vicious. She leapt forth, lunging towards the weakest among them, Wen Zhengming. She completely ignored Wen Zhengming’s incoming sword, directly reaching towards his shoulder with her claws.

“The fierce cold of winter seals the land in ice.”

The leading scholar in white chanted slowly. The sword in his hand danced gracefully as frigid sword qi swept over with snowflakes.

A layer of ice immediately appeared on Lolth’s body. She felt a wave of coldness penetrate her bones, completely immobilising her. With a shudder, the ice on her cracked.

The scholar in white thought, This wretched daemon really is a carapaced Daemon Commander after all. Her body truly is tough. If she were a regular Daemon General, she’d be frozen into a block of ice with that strike. She really would be a difficult opponent if I fought alone.

“The soughing wind of autumn turns white due to frost!”

Taking advantage of Lolth’s frozen state, Wen Zhengming pulled back with his sword. With a dance of sword qi, Lolth became covered in a layer of white dew as soon as she had shattered the ice. She slowed down once again.

At this moment, the two other grandmasters struck together.

“The bloom of spring brings clear, bright rain.” “With the sweltering of summer, the sun blazes like fire.”

Drizzle as thin as hair fell continuously and gently, invading every single opening, but it contained extremely sharp sword qi. It could even penetrate Lolth’s fine poison suit, even trying to seep into her body through her pores.

Lolth’s skin immediately became a silvery-grey. She had unleashed her innate ability and only then did she manage to block this flexible yet deep-reaching attack. However, a ball of scorching fire that seemed like the scarlet sun then hurled towards her from behind. Caught in the sword formation, there was nowhere for her to dodge.

With a great boom, firelight illuminated the valley.

Lolth was swallowed by the fire. The four grandmasters swung their swords together as they faced the fire. Their four swords wove into a net, disappearing into the flames.

The flames subsided, and a great big hole had been burnt in the back of Lolth’s poison suit, and her body was covered in slashes. However, with her innate ability of perfect defence, she had managed to forcefully block the attacks.

However, she did use up quite a lot of daemon qi. A visible sign of exhaustion appeared on her face. She had already tried to break out of the encirclement countless times, but every single time ended in failure.

Hidden away, Li Qingshan discovered there was not a lot of damage to the sides of the valley. Logically speaking, a clash between four Golden Core cultivators and a Daemon Commander would be earth-shaking. There would be nothing strange even if the entire valley was destroyed.