Legend of the Great Sage (Chapter 601-Chapter 700)

Ru Xin quietened down. “Those words weren’t from me. My mother told me that!”


“Your mother!? Did she also make you plunge your head into a water tank or lock you up in a dry well?” The actual question Li Qingshan wanted to ask was not this, but he was unable to bring himself to ask that when he saw her expression.

“Why would my mother play tricks on me!?” Ru Xin stared at him in surprise like he was an idiot.



Li Qingshan rolled his eyes before smiling gladly. She’s finally back to normal at least.

Ru Xin suddenly took out a neatly-folded Communication talisman. She listened quietly for a while and said, “My master is calling me. Hmm? Chu Tian is awake!”

“I better see for myself too then!”

Li Qingshan smiled. He also knew that cultivation was not something that could be accomplished in a single stroke. Since he had already seen what he needed to see, what he needed to do next was comprehend in peace and search for the meaning within.

The two of them took off into the sky together. When they passed through the clouds, Li Qingshan suddenly asked, “If you don’t tell me, of course I wouldn’t know what I mean to you. And, if you want to know what you mean to me, you can just ask me. People aren’t water. They can help one another to understand!”

Above the clouds, the sun shone brilliantly as the blue sky stretched as far as the eye could see. The pure-white sea of clouds rose and fell, extending into the horizon.

Ru Xin was mildly taken aback. She smiled resplendently. “Perhaps!”





Chapter 616: Awakening | Legend of the Great Sage




In the stack room under Benevolence island, Chu Tian floated in the Water of Recollection and shone with a faint glow; he seemed like a soaked sea sponge. His sea of consciousness that was as disordered as stagnant water began to bubble and surge with waves, churning forcefully.

Suddenly, Chu Tian’s eyes opened once again, gazing into the darkness before him. They were no longer hollow and empty, shining with a hint of intelligence.

Where is this?

Thunk! In struggle, he threw a punch at the glass, followed by a second punch, a third punch… His fist became a bloody mess very soon as blood spread through the faint, blue Water of Recollection.

Crack! The glass fractured! His strikes became even more forceful as the cracks rapidly spread. In the end, the glass shattered with a whoosh. The Water of Recollection poured out, and he fell onto the ground. He wanted to prop himself up, but he felt feeble for a moment, unable to move at all.

The light in the passageway approached from the distance, lighting up one by one. In the end, even the surroundings lit up. Hua Ci arrived before Chu Tian. “You’ve finally awakened!”

Chu Tian faltered for quite a while before barely making out. “Who are you? And who am I?”

……

Qian Rongzhi gradually opened her eyes. She discovered that she was lying on a bed and covered with a thin blanket. She heard the sound of waves from below, and the smell of lotus flowers was everywhere.

In a daze, she felt like this tiny room was heaven, as she had just returned from hell.

This is… the Waterside Pavilion of Listening Wind!

After blanking out momentarily, her memories returned very soon, filling her head. She propped herself up, and the thin blanket slid off her body. Only then did she realise that she was bare. She subconsciously rubbed her skin. Her skin that had been ripped to pieces had already recovered, just as smooth and bright as before, but it did seem a little pale due to a loss of blood.

She climbed out of bed and walked over to the mirror, only to see an enchanting figure in the reflection with tall breasts, a smooth belly, and slender legs. Her appearance was not unrivalled, but it could be regarded as beautiful.

However, her face was gloomy, completely lacking the pride or dissatisfaction a woman would have when they checked themselves in the mirror. Her gaze was calm and unperturbed, like she was gazing at a rotting corpse.

She turned her body and showed her back to the mirror, but she continued to stare at the mirror. The posture was extremely strange, like a human gorgon.

A snake also existed on her clean, smooth back. It was still the colourful, tiny snake, but it had become much larger, forming a figure-eight and biting its tail as if it was trying to devour itself. However, it did not move at all as if it had fallen asleep.

A smile appeared on her pale face.

She recalled what had happened back then. Several dozen hell snakes bit away and wreaked havoc in her body. Originally, the tortures of hell would appear periodically, but several dozen snakes meant this pain would be endless. Now that was the most realistic situation of those souls that ended up in hell.

However, she would never simply await her doom. She maintained a sliver of clarity in the pain that almost collapsed her mind, urging the original, colourful snake to devour the other venomous snakes one by one.

Devouring mindlessly, the colourful, tiny snake even ended up treating its own tail as another venomous snake, trying its hardest to devour itself. It had only settled down and fallen asleep under her comforting. That was also when she fainted.

Qian Rongzhi looked away and made her way out of the door.

Gu Yanying sat on the edge of the terrace, holding a long fishing pole in her hand with the line dangling in the lake of lotuses. She looked back. “Have you slept well?”

Qian Rongzhi went up and knelt down formally, lowering her head. “Qian Rongzhi sincerely asks master to pass on the Illustrations of Naraka!”

Gu Yanying extended her hand and gently felt Qian Rongzhi’s face, sliding down to her neck and gripping it gently. “Perhaps killing you right now would be the best choice, don’t you think?”



“I concur, or your disciple will end up killing you sooner or later, master!”

“My foolish disciple, why must you torture yourself like this?”

Gu Yanying let out a long sigh and showed a hint of pity. This was not an act, but it made Qian Rongzhi even more furious than any humiliation or coercion. She straightened herself, and the hell snake on her back immediately awakened, flickering its forked tongue.

“And why must you torture yourself like this, master?”

“Then I’ll wait and see what happens. Heh, I’ve caught one.” Gu Yanying swung the fishing pole, and a carp leapt out of the lake. She swung it towards Qian Rongzhi. “Go cook it and treat your master to some filial respect!”

Qian Rongzhi was taken aback. She had never done something like that in her entire life. Although she had been harassed in the Qian family, she was still a Qi Practitioner after all.

“Go. I’ll never pass the greatest, secret cultivation method of the school of Legalism to you so easily or casually!”

“Yes, master.”

……

Li Qingshan arrived in the underground stack room on Benevolence island with Ru Xin and saw Chu Tian wrapped in a blanket, sitting there quietly. His cultivation had been completely destroyed, no stronger than a mortal, but he gave off a feeling deep like an abyss and lofty like a mountain.

“I’ll leave here up to you. He has recovered some of his memories from his past life, but the memories of his current life seem to be completely missing. However, you can’t be too certain about that either.”

Hua Ci handed things over to Ru Xin and made his way out. He had already completed his responsibilities as a doctor.

Li Qingshan and Ru Xin glanced at one another before looking at Chu Tian on the ground.

“Fellows, please tell me why I have lost the memories of my current life, as well as why I suffered such heavy wounds.”

Chu Tian asked. Actually, what he wanted to ask the most was where had the Heaven Climbing Vine buried in the depths of his soul had gone? Did the two of them take it?

Li Qingshan was unable to adjust to this. If the original Chu Tian was a rowdy primary schooler, then the person before him was a level-headed university professor. They were poles apart.