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

Xiao An suddenly pressed down on his shoulder, leaving Li Qingshan slightly surprised. Out of his trust for her and the fact that the spirit turtle gave no warnings, he sat still.

The Clam King of Mirage Sea’s hand entered Li Qingshan’s forehead extremely gently, like she was extending her hand into a pool of water. She produced a colourful ripple before soon pulling out a jade-green soul nascence.

The soul nascence that was shaped like an infant currently had its eyes closed, slumbering away. It did not put up any resistance at all.

Li Qingshan touched his head, only to discover that it was completely fine. He could not help but be amazed. That was simply unbelievable. Even something that the Great Banyan Tree King found to be troublesome had been resolved with such ease by her.

“This is just my specialisation.” The Clam King of Mirage Sea seemed to read Li Qingshan’s thoughts and smiled.

She sat back down again and picked up a cup of wine, toasting it at him from afar.

“Thank you, fellow.” Li Qingshan rejoiced inside, also picking up his cup. He was about to drink it all.

“Qingshan.” Xiao An pressed down on his shoulder again. Earlier, it was to stop him from fighting, but now, it was to stop him from drinking the alcohol.

Li Qingshan looked at Xiao An in surprise. Xiao An bowed towards the Clam King of Mirage Sea. “Thank you for your hospitality, but we still have other matters to attend to, so we should be going.”

“We still have to drink together, don’t we?” The Clam King of Mirage Sea fiddled around with the Myriad Poison Ancestor’s soul nascence as her smile fluctuated.

“Haha, we’ll definitely have the opportunity in the future, but we really do have something urgent to attend to. Thank you for that, fellow. We’ll be leaving first…”

Li Qingshan also felt that something was amiss and stood up. At this moment, the spirit turtle actually sent him a strong warning, but before he could do anything else, he felt the world spin around him. He suddenly looked at the censer in the surroundings. “The incense is poisoned!”

But that made no sense. Even the Myriad Poison Ancestor’s poison could not kill him, so let alone breathing in some smoke.

His body swayed and sat back down, leaning on the table and snoring away.

“But it’s fine even if you don’t drink.” The Clam King of Mirage Sea took a slow sip, and her appearance suddenly blurred. It was like a thick layer of frosted glass had covered her face. Her voice became distant as well, no longer possible to tell her gender or age from it.

Only a pair of eyes remained clear. The blend of colours swirled and rippled in them like a kaleidoscope as she looked at Xiao An.

“What are you trying to do?” Xiao An stood in front of Li Qingshan with her sword, completely unaffected by the smoke.

“You sure are strange! Hehe, can’t you tell what I’m trying to do? The Mirage sea is such a dangerous place, so how can people come and go as they please? Even he doesn’t believe this is so simple, constantly remaining vigilant, so of course it’s not going to be that simple. They all say that the illusions I create can prey on cultivators!” The Clam King of Mirage Sea licked her lips.

“Because that’s what he thinks?”

The thing that Xiao An worried about the most finally happened.

The Myriad Poison Ancestor’s soul nascence had been resolved so easily because the month-long indoctrination by the Great Banyan Tree King had made Li Qingshan believe the Clam King of Mirage Sea would help him.

However, seeing the true face of the Mirage sea and reaching an ominous result through divination made him raise his guard and develop hostility. The hostility fed off almost a hundred floors of fighting too, making it grow.

If this were the real world, then these thoughts would be nothing. Even parents and siblings, friends and couples, regularly felt hostility towards each other, but it would be fine as long as it did not erupt. However, this place reflected the inner mind of a person, and the Clam King of Mirage Sea was far too powerful and strange.

“Have you ever heard that illusions arise from the heart?” The Clam King of Mirage Sea smiled.

“He’s never treated you as an enemy.” Xiao An was afraid to tell her theory to Li Qingshan because she was afraid it would make him develop even more hostility. It would become even more dangerous then.

“Otherwise he’d be dead already,” the Clam King of Mirage Sea said slowly.

It was exactly because they shared the popular belief and treated the Clam King of Mirage Sea as an enemy that those cultivators died in the Mirage sea. The outcome of a battle against a peak third heavenly tribulation Daemon King within an illusion obviously went without saying.

“What are you trying to do?” Xiao An knew that fighting was useless, so she stowed her sword away. She let Li Qingshan lie flat, resting his head on her thighs.

“Please let him sleep for a while and have a ‘good’ dream. If he doesn’t wake up, you can’t blame me. That’s his dream.”





Chapter 819: The Depths of the Soul, the Reflections of the Dream | Legend of the Great Sage




The Clam King of Mirage Sea prodded the Myriad Poison Ancestor’s soul nascence. The enemy that had left Li Qingshan feeling utterly helpless was currently sleeping, as delicate as a real infant.

In this world of the Mirage sea, the Clam King was paramount. Whether it was the poisoned wine or the poisonous smoke, they were all a medium. The thing actually behind this all was still the Clam King of Mirage Sea’s unbelievable power. No matter how vigilant Li Qingshan was, she only needed to blink her eyes to pull him into a dream.

“I’m willing to have this dream for him,” Xiao An clutched Li Qingshan’s head and said to the Clam King of Mirage Sea.

“No matter how close the two of you are, there are some things you can’t replace him in. I originally planned on letting you have a dream too, except your heart is completely empty. I can’t reflect anything, let alone a nightmare.”

“A nightmare!” Xiao An said.

“Oops, slip of the tongue.”

The Clam King of Mirage Sea stuck out her tongue to hide her gentle smile. Her composed, noble, imposing, beautiful image from before suddenly collapsed. She seemed more like a child who had succeeded in a prank now, but her true intentions remained a mystery, like the faces that constantly flowed and changed.

Xiao An understood now. To a very large degree, her appearance and even the way she spoke and acted originated from Li Qingshan’s imaginations. Only now that Li Qingshan was asleep did she gradually show her true side.

Normal people would not be able to see this true side, as when people interacted with one another, first impressions and false imaginations were unavoidable. The very existence of the Clam King of Mirage Sea would be affected as a result. Just like how the Mirage sea was different in everyone’s eyes, the Clam King of Mirage Sea had a thousand different faces too.

Only Xiao An practised the Path of White Bone and Great Beauty, with no concept of form or self, so the Clam King of Mirage Sea’s image was not supported by impressions and imagination, which presented her current unstable “true side”.

They both lamented in a similar way inside, What a strange existence!

What a wondrous existence!

“Alright, the dream is complete. Let’s take a look. It can go with the alcohol!” The Clam King of Mirage Sea smiled and pointed at Li Qingshan’s head from afar.

Li Qingshan’s head glowed, and the ceiling suddenly turned into a colourless, transparent gas, fluctuating with colour under the glow. It gradually formed a scene, hanging above.

The endless sand sprawled out into the horizon. The poplars, ruins, vestiges, and remains painted an image of desolation. Li Qingshan stood on a sand dune. “This must be the Mirage sea!”

The “Xiao An” right beside him replied, “It should just be an illusion!”

“This nightmare seems very special!” The Clam King of Mirage Sea watched on in great interest.