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

“No one knows her real name, but she’s the White Lotus Mother. It’s said that she is a mortal incarnation of the White Lotus Bodhisattva who’s come to help people in distress and bring salvation to all. And their vice cult leader, venerable Black Lotus, has a heart of benevolence too. They’re both immortal-like figures. The people here originally revered the ‘Snake God’, but they’ve all converted to the White Lotus cult now. Goldie fort reveres the White Lotus cult too. Oh right, when Huangliang Fei said I was protected by the bodhisattva last night, he was talking about the White Lotus Bodhisattva!”


Li Qingshan could not help but laugh aloud, but his voice was far too childish, so there was not exactly a bold and valiant spirit to it.

Goldie A’bao asked tactfully, “Sir, may I ask why do you laugh?”

“I never thought I’d still be able to run into people I know!” Li Qingshan said.

“People you know? Don’t tell me you’re talking about the White Lotus Bodhisattva and venerable Black Lotus, sir!” Goldie A’bao’s heart trembled. Although he knew “sir A’yue’s” identity was special, he without a doubt felt even more shocked when he found out he was connected to these truly powerful existences. “Once we’ve reached the Fragrant Flower market, you just need to mention the White Lotus cult’s name, and these Bone Eating shamans will definitely melt away without even fighting, sir!”



“I’m not done speaking! It’s a pity that I know them, but they don’t know me. Oh right, don’t tell anyone about this!” Li Qingshan made it clear. Before his strength had recovered, he did not want to have any dealings with the White Lotus cult.

“Yes, yes, yes!” Goldie A’bao was greatly disappointed, and he could not help but become rather afraid. Don’t tell me sir A’yue means they’re his enemies by saying he knows them?How can I still divulge anything rashly?!

This was only because the White Lotus cult had been around for a relatively shorter period. Otherwise, with their ability to brainwash, if they had been around for a few decades longer, Goldie A’bao would probably even consider betraying “sir A’yue”.

“Anyways, the rules in the Fragrant Flower market are extremely strict. Even the fiercest barbarians dare not fight in the Fragrant Flower market. These Bone Eating shamans are all different from regular people, so they probably can’t even get through the city gates. As long as we stay in the city, we’ll be safe.”

Li Qingshan said nothing. Instead, he sank into his thoughts. He had a very deep impression of this altar lord Black Lotus. He was a man of extraordinary bearing who could slip away easily even when Zhou Tong and the school leaders surrounded him. After all these years, it was very likely he had already condensed a golden core. The White Lotus Mother had probably recovered from her injuries too. She was a powerful figure who had clashed with Gu Yanying multiple times back then after all.

Back then, he still did not have a very thorough understanding of the meaning behind this. Only now did he somewhat understand just what kind of power this represented. That “bird woman” hid her strength extremely well, such that even now, he had yet to see it in full perspective. Even if she treated fighting against the White Lotus Mother as a game, the game would be completely pointless if the opponent was far too weak.

The first time he heard about the White Lotus cult was when the White Lotus Mother slaughtered a city to forge an arcane treasure. Back then, he was stunned by the words “slaughtering a city”, but now, he was stunned by the words “arcane treasure”. That was an arcane treasure after all. Even now, he only possessed a single arcane treasure, and that was only because he had taken advantage of Si Qing. The major objective of Si Qing, a mighty prince, in coming to the Ruyi commandery was just to forge the Dragon Arena into the Asura Field, a true arcane treasure.

Now that he would be entering the range of influence of the White Lotus cult, it could not exactly be described as a coincidence. If those two worked together without any suppression or restraint from the Hawkwolf Guard and a few orthodox sects, influencing the range of a few thousand kilometers would be far too easy. If the low population density of the Mist province was taken into account, this range might have been even larger.

They wanted to rebuild the White Lotus cult, so they refused to enter too deeply into the Mist province. The organisations there were twisted together in a complicated way, so getting a hand in there would definitely be difficult. Just the range directly under the Great Banyan Tree King’s control spanned tens of thousands of kilometers.

Li Qingshan had not actually ventured deeply into the Mist province as he fled for his life. The place here could still only be regarded as the outskirts of the Mist province. The Fragrant Flower market was merely the location of a disciple’s clan. They were probably still a few thousand kilometers away from the actual headquarters of the White Lotus cult.

Goldie A’bao suddenly cried out, “Sir, they’re moving so quickly! If this continues, they’ll catch up to us!”





Chapter 712: Countering the Night Attack (1) | Legend of the Great Sage




“Don’t worry, they’ll slow down very soon!”

Li Qingshan said unworriedly. He had never treated these Bone Eating shamans as any sort of opponent. If they really caught up, he could directly abandon Goldie A’bao, and he would be free to go anywhere. Could a mere group of shamans lock onto his scent?

However, he would lose his means of transport, and it would be much more troublesome for him when he looked for the Asura Field. At the end of the day, his appearance as a child still brought much inconvenience, which was why he played around with him for now, waiting for some more time to pass, and he recovered some of his strength. By then, he would go knocking on their doors and make them bleed one by one!

Sure enough, the Bone Eating shamans stopped. Something happened to them!

Goldie A’bao noticed something. “It’s the place we detoured around!”

A huge, multicoloured toad crouched by a pond, blocking the path of the Bone Eating shamans. It gave off faint daemon qi, and its bubble-like eyes locked firmly onto them.

……

“We’re finally back!”

Standing outside the city gates of the Fragrant Flower market, Goldie A’bao exhaled deeply. He entered the city quickly, refusing to remain out there for even a second longer.

A while later, the Bone Eating shamans arrived too. They hid in the jungle and gazed at the city gates from afar. They were extremely furious. They had killed the toad monster after so much difficulty, even losing two tribesmen in the process, who disintegrated in the blink of an eye due to poison, yet they could not even eat the baby now.

“Chief, they’ve entered the city. What do we do?”

The expression of the Bone Eating chieftain was viciously twisted. He was tempted to rush right in, capture that barbarian from Goldie fort, skin him alive, and eat the baby alive. If it were a few years ago, he definitely would have done exactly that. The Fragrant Flower clan was rather powerful, but there was nothing they could do. However, it was different now.

“The damned women of the Fragrant Flower clan have ties with the White Lotus cult. We cannot barge in blindly!” the Bone Eating shaman priest said.

He understood that the Bone Eating tribe could run amok freely in the rainforest, but compared to the White Lotus cult, they were merely a small insect that could be squatted to death at any time.

When the White Lotus cult first established a branch here, many shaman tribes that refused to submit were destroyed overnight. The Bone Eating tribe was able to emerge unscathed not because they were powerful, but because of the exact opposite. They were too weak. They did not even have a person that had undergone the first heavenly tribulation, so they were completely beneath the White Lotus cult’s attention. If they wanted to live long and thrive, they had to understand that certain things could not be provoked!