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

Although the original blood oath covered all aspects too, there was something that could never be included in the oath, which was preventing the cave masters from increasing their cultivations and undergoing the third heavenly tribulation. The first generation of cave masters would have never severed their own paths of cultivation for this. Instead, they secretly reached an agreement that whoever underwent the third heavenly tribulation would become the “King of Savages”. They would be able to unify the Lair of Demons and establish their own sect.

However, why would Xiao An keep this flaw around? The moment Yu Wufeng tried undergoing the third heavenly tribulation, he would immediately set off the curse of the blood oath. The blood oath was not a fair, reasonable “treaty” among the eight cave masters anymore either, but well and truly a “slave contract”. It had returned to being used for its original purpose.

Even without this restraint, he would never try to face the tribulation recklessly. The third heavenly tribulation was extremely dangerous. Even the slightest mental perturbation could claim his life.

Yu Wufeng exhaled deeply and made his way out of his dwelling. He gazed towards the south and said quietly, “Master, do you know about your disciple’s current circumstances?”

Of course, contacting others without permission also broke the blood oath, and even if he had permission, he could not divulge Li Qingshan and Xiao An’s secret. The conditions were like invisible shackles, binding him firmly such that he could not take a single wrong step.

“All I can do is wait for the news of Savage mountain being taken to spread. Once it reaches the South sea, there’ll still be a chance for a turnaround!” Yu Wufeng glanced in the direction of the hall. “Li Qingshan, you have no idea what you’ve provoked. That’s definitely an existence you cannot defeat!”

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Li Qingshan had no idea someone was muttering his name. He currently placed all of his focus on the Traitorous Demon sword on his knees. The straight, slender edge shimmered with a dim glow, while the hilt happened to be a mass of flesh, wriggling about around a huge eyeball. It seemed rather disgusting.

Under Li Qingshan’s control, the eyeball swiveled and met his eyes.

In that moment, he used his eyes to look at the Traitorous Demon sword while making the eye look at him. The two figures overlapped.

He practised the technique from the Sword Collection palace, tempering the Traitorous Demon sword again while tempering his heart of the sword at the same time.

He was not a sword cultivator. Condensed within his body was a demon heart and not a sword cultivator’s sword embryo, sword seed, or a sword nascence after they had undergone the third heavenly tribulation. These were two completely different paths of cultivation, but it did not stop him from comprehending the path of the sword and tempering his heart of the sword.

Although he was doing multiple things at the same time, refining the Traitorous Demon sword, tempering his heart of the sword, and practising the Demon Suppression Statuary were actually all the same.

His body produced a demonic flash, and he turned back into his Demon Commander form. After three months of cultivation, his outer appearance had changed slightly too. The smooth, flowing lines now became a little jagged.

Unlike regular cultivation methods, the Demon Suppression Statuary was a cultivation method that accepted great diversity. Whether it were humans, demonfolk, or daemons, they could all practise it and convert their cultivation into demon qi. As a result, their appearances after demonifying constantly changed too.

Originally, he stood three meters tall, clad in heavy armour. That was the will within the Demon Suppression Statuary he had comprehended without digesting. It was merely an empty husk. Afterwards, his slender stature and flowing figure came from the influence of the Arts of the Boundless Ocean and the Ocean pearl. Now, the effects of the heart of the sword began to manifest too.

Regular cultivation methods focused on a single aspect, but the Demon Suppression Statuary was different. It did not care about the cultivator’s past, nor did it place any conditions on the cultivator’s future. It really was all-inclusive. Wanting to unleash its full power instead required dabbling around and drawing parallels.

A demonic light flowed out of the eye, enveloping the hilt and sword and becoming brighter and brighter, denser and denser. Only after a very long while did this light dim. The iris of the eye had vanished. It had depleted another demon heart.

Li Qingshan recovered his usual form. He exhaled deeply and got up to move about a little. All he saw was that Xiao An had turned into a shiny skeleton, also sitting with her legs crossed. Her bone hands formed the buddha’s seal as she sat in the raging flames, solemn in bearing.



Li Qingshan had given all the corpses he had amassed over the years to her. There were many existences that had undergone the second heavenly tribulation among them. Especially after the battle in the Demon Suppression hall, he had collected a mountainous pile of demonfolk corpses, which she completely converted into the Samādhi Flames of White Bone.

Probably because of undergoing the second heavenly tribulation, the flames seemed to become more pure, no longer giving off a single hint of evil. Even if other cultivators saw it, they would only think it was holy fire. They would never imagine that this kind of fire fed off flesh, blood, and souls.

Xiao An continued practising the Path of White Bone and Great Beauty, tempering her white bones and consolidating her current cultivation. This process had already continued for several months now. Her white bones became even firmer and more glossy, while the White Bone ?arīra seemed like it had been condensed by fire.

As a cultivation method that brother ox had personally passed to her, the Path of White Bone and Great Beauty was inferior to the Nine Transformations of Demonic and Divine, but it still surpassed all cultivation methods of this world. Several years ago, she had basically possessed the strength to sweep aside all second heavenly tribulation existences already. Now that she had undergone the second heavenly tribulation as well and condensed a White Bone ?arīra, just how strong had she become? Li Qingshan was very much looking forward to finding out.

After gazing at her for a while, he sat back down and continued cultivating.

Time passed by in a hurry. Li Qingshan inserted the demon hearts Duoge had given him into the Traitorous Demon sword one by one.

The Traitorous Demon sword had always possessed the ability to devour demon hearts and strengthen itself. With Li Qingshan’s refinement, it gradually changed, shrinking by a third of a meter from being almost three meters long. Its slender blade had become much thicker too, while the fleshy structure on its hilt seemed to be hardening.

His demonified form changed as well, becoming much sharper and more distinct. Even the oval visor over his face bent up along the middle, just like the ridge of a sword.

He infused another demon heart into the sword, and Li Qingshan opened his eyes. Xiao An stood nearby, waiting for him to rouse.

Li Qingshan was mildly surprised. The white bone was covered in another layer of flesh and blood, turning into a great beauty. The issue was that she was completely bare. Only her draping, seaweed-like hair barely managed to cover up certain parts of her.

Seeing Li Qingshan rouse, Xiao An smiled and directly threw herself into his arms.

“You’ve finished cultivating?”

Li Qingshan smiled too, embracing her gently. He sensed the tremendous life force hidden within her petite body, together with the death that contained eternal silence. The two of them merged together in a wondrous manner, turning into this body that was as fair as jade.

It was said that “white bone” and “great beauty” was for people to understand that lust was all but an empty illusion. No matter how great the beauty was, it would still be reduced to a set of white bones in the end. Li Qingshan personally believed he did not possess such “great wisdom”. He had always been a very lustful person.