Legend of the Great Sage (Chapter 701-Chapter 833)

In the blink of an eye, the illusion vanished, only leaving behind the pitch-black background with lines of bloody words. That was the blood oath contract that bounded the cave masters of the Lair of Demons. Right below the contract were eight vague figures.

Four of them seemed to be forcefully dug out from the background. The outline they left behind corresponded to the Silkworm Madam and the other three. There were another two that were extremely blurry as if they had been gently erased with an eraser. One of them even had a bloody handprint over them, which went without saying who they were. The last two remained as clear as before, which were the third cave master and seventh cave master that had gone out.

“Hmm? The Blood Oath Scroll seems to be forged from the hide of a demonfolk, and one that’s a Demon King at the very least!”

Li Qingshan said and passed the Blood Oath Scroll to Xiao An. If they wanted to set up an oath, he obviously had to leave it up to the meticulous her.

When Yu Wufeng and the Gentleman of Heavenly Blubber saw this, they both became extremely astounded. He actually just handed over an arcane treasure like that? Aren’t they even wary of each other?

Xiao An accepted the Blood Oath Scroll, and the Samādhi Flames of White Bone surged out, enveloping the arcane treasure. Although it was masterless, it was still an arcane treasure after all, so it took her quite a while to refine it. A tiny skeleton appeared at the very top of the Blood Oath Scroll, which was the imprint she had left behind.

Li Qingshan asked, “How’s it? Is it any good?”

Yu Wufeng and the Gentleman of Heavenly Blubber became extremely nervous. Their lives, freedom, and everything depended on the Blood Oath Scroll.

“The cave masters of the Lair of Demons have always been maintained at around eight people. Even at most, it never exceeds ten people, which is roughly the limit of the Blood Oath Scroll. Moreover, once those who are bound by it undergo the third heavenly tribulation, it won’t be a lethal threat anymore despite remaining effective. In other words, the Blood Oath Scroll can turn ten second heavenly tribulation cultivators, daemons, or otherfolk into slaves. You can say it’s quite a nice arcane treasure. We’ll be needing these people.”

“I see. As long as we possess this Blood Oath Scroll, we can immediately establish a powerful sect or organisation, and it can guarantee absolute loyalty too.” Li Qingshan nodded. The Blood Oath Scroll truly was an arcane treasure after all. If it was used well, it would even be worth more than arcane treasures for battle. Then he said with some pity, “Sigh, if I had known earlier, I would have been a little less heavy-handed.”



However, cultivators were different from mortals, and the cave masters were all the cream of the crop among cultivators. If he did not kill them, they would be an endless source of trouble even if they only had a breath left in them. It was even possible for them to escape back to Savage mountain and use the formations against them.

“They’re too weak. They're a waste of spots.”

Xiao An’s calm voice made Yu Wufeng and the Gentleman of Heavenly Blubber shiver inside. Although she had never mentioned it, she had thought through everything for Li Qingshan. All Li Qingshan had to do was point her in a direction.

Li Qingshan smiled. “Fair enough. With how large the south is, I refuse to believe that I can’t recruit eight subordinates. Oh right, is it possible to alter the blood oath? That way, we’ll have four subordinates. The seventh cave master is probably a piece of trash too, but the third cave master might be worth anticipating.”

“Once the blood oath has been written, it cannot be altered. If you want to rewrite the oath, then you have to choose between releasing or wiping out those that are bound.”

“Wipe them out then!” Li Qignshan said casually. Then he glanced at the Gentleman of Heavenly Blubber. This fatty had not uttered a single word of truth.

The Gentleman of Heavenly Blubber jiggled and said in a hurry, “Please give me your wise judgement, sir. I’ve never refined the Blood Oath Scroll, so I would never know it included so many details.”

Xiao An used her index finger to touch the figures of the third and seventh cave masters gently. The vicious skull appeared on the pitch-black background of the Blood Oath Scroll again.

Smack! Smack!

Two bloody handprints slammed down on the two figures, dripping with blood.

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Chapter 771: Secluded Cultivation | Legend of the Great Sage




In a certain swamp in the south, there were no towering trees, just surging sludge and miasma.

A small, dark-green flower bloomed quietly in the swamp, giving off a strange fragrance that stubbornly penetrated the heavy reeking of blood in the surroundings.

Blood splattered on a man’s chest. He stood in a place littered with corpses, chomping away on a thigh with his mouth filled with razor-sharp teeth. Muscles rippled across his body with a faint, grey colour as if he was carved from stone. He gave off a tough and brutal bearing, eating as he cursed aloud.

“You pigs! You actually touched my K?itigarbha flower. You must be tired of living!”

“Yes, yes, yes. We deserve death. We didn’t know it was cave master Stone’s K?itigarbha flower! You are far superior to us, a bigger person, so please spare us pigs!”

A group of people lay on the ground, trembling away. In order to search for a thousand-year K?itigarbha flower, they had gone to such great lengths, but they never thought they would run into such a vicious person who killed half of their clansman right off the bat. It filled them with grief and fury, but all they could do was kneel and beg for their lives.

“Hmph, spare you? You can all go die!” Cave master Stone snickered and raised his hand.

Everyone knew they were done for. Their eyes were filled with fear, but no one tried putting up a stand. That was not strength they could contend with. All they could do was shut their eyes and wait for their deaths.

Smach!

It sounded like a clump of wet mud had struck the ground after being thrown down from high up.

The attack they had been imagining never arrived. Some people gathered their courage and looked around. The imposing cave master Stone had vanished. There was a pile of bright-red flesh where he previously stood.

It was as if an invisible hand had descended from above and crushed cave master Stone in a single stroke.

Everyone was dumbfounded. They all believed it to be a miracle.

……

The moment Xiao An wiped out the two cave masters, Yu Wufeng and the Gentleman of Heavenly Blubber both felt sympathy for them. Now, only the two of them remained out of the eight cave masters of the Lair of Demons.

Xiao An brushed the Blood Oath Scroll gently with her hand, and the bloody words were wiped clean, leaving behind the pitch-black background. After a moment of thought, she began to set down new rules.

The head of the deceased Demon King appeared on the Blood Oath Scroll. Two bloody streaks of tears flowed out of its empty eye sockets, spreading across the background. The colour contrasted so drastically that it was almost blinding, flowing into bloody words.

There were actually many ways to control a person’s fate within the cultivation community, but the person under control would definitely try everything that they could to break out of a situation like that. If they became desperate, they would even be willing to go as far as perishing together with the person controlling them. It was very easy to lead to backlash.

If Li Qingshan only controlled Yu Wufeng and the Gentleman of Heavenly Blubber’s lives and did not constantly keep an eye on them, perhaps they were not bold enough to openly work against him, but it was very likely for them to divulge his secret or come up with various methods to deal with him.