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

“Look, he’s almost dead! He’s almost dead! Hurry up and look up! Don’t miss the most fascinating part!” The Clam King of Mirage Sea pointed at the reflection of the dream in the sky and called out like she was experiencing convulsions.

Xiao An suddenly looked up. Li Qingshan collapsed in the white desert and was gradually swallowed by the sand.

At the same time, his aura became extremely weak. He had never sustained any damage, but he was basically on the brink of death.

Xiao An threw herself over and shook him vigorously. She called out, “Qingshan! Wake up! This is just a dream!”

The reflection of the dream completely sank into darkness.

“It’s over. It’s a splendid dream, enough for people to sigh in amazement. It makes those people who conjured monsters and enemies in their nightmares seem like feeble cowards. Now that’s a nightmare truly worth watching, but it’s proven to us yet again that even someone as courageous and fearless as him actually has great fear lurking in his heart, and that fear can kill!”

The Clam King of Mirage Sea stood up and explained to a non-existent crowd. She said words of praise at first before sighing and ending it all with a smile.

But at this moment, the reflection of the dream lit up once again. The Clam King of Mirage Sea suddenly looked back. “Hmm? How is it still not over? Don’t tell me- don’t tell me that’s not his greatest fear just now?”

By the time Li Qingshan woke up in the cowshed, the Clam King of Mirage Sea was utterly dumbfounded. She let her mouth drop without any care for her image, and the melon seeds in her hand scattered on the ground.

“This is…”

ps： 没想到这么快就三十多名了，不过这次不能懈怠，要建立新的目标，保持动力，离二十多名只差三十票，一起努力吧朋友们！





Chapter 820: Perhaps Life is a Pointless Struggle | Legend of the Great Sage




“Qingshan.” All Xiao An saw was Li Qingshan furrowing his brows heavily in his sleep as if he was in great pain.

The Clam King of Mirage Sea sat back down, no longer unconcerned like before. Instead, she sat seriously and gazed at the reflection of the dream above. Li Qingshan raced about in the dream. The setting of the dream remained at the ordinary little village, but she showed nightmarish fear.

She asked Xiao An, “Where is this?”

“Crouching Ox village, the place where he was born.” Xiao An glanced at the Clam King of Mirage Sea.

“In other words, this is two decades ago… It’s just like what I had guessed… So this is his greatest fear. So this is his greatest fear. It’s not pain and death, it’s not forgetting everyone and dying alone. He’s afraid that… this is all a dream!”

The Clam King of Mirage Sea’s voice trembled.

Xiao An noticed her abnormal behaviour and said in thought, “Since you’ve said that all creatures feel fear, then you’re no different. What would your greatest and deepest fear be, Clam King of Mirage Sea?”

The Clam King of Mirage Sea sighed, but she avoided giving a direct answer. “I really do want to save him right now, but it breaks the principle of my very existence, so he’s dead for sure.”

During the past millennia, perhaps the cultivators who accidentally entered the Mirage sea and sank into nightmares had already been killed by the monsters in the nightmares before they could even face their greatest fears.

However, he had lasted until now with his extraordinary courage and fearlessness towards death, entering a deeper nightmare. However, he was also forced to face his greatest fear. This had already become a dead end with no way out.

No one could defeat their greatest fears. No one! Everything only became more difficult the more someone tried. The more courageous they were, the deeper their fears would become. This most primitive, deepest, longest lasting and strongest feeling had always been the cornerstone of willpower.

“I don’t believe it,” Xiao An said stubbornly.

“Alright, then let’s see it for ourselves!”

The Clam King of Mirage Sea was no longer satisfied with just spectating from the side. Instead, she directly dove into Li Qingshan’s dream, gazing at the downtrodden Li Qingshan. She was overcome with sighs, but also slightly eager too.

In the reflection of the dream, Li Qingshan dug up the white rock from the witch’s backyard and blanked out for an entire night. Afterwards, he made his way out and arrived by the well.

“Is it finally going to end?”

The Clam King of Mirage Sea borrowed the villager’s eyes to gaze at the downhearted Li Qingshan by the well. She could not help but sigh.

If this were a result dream, then suicide was indeed a way to break free. However, dying in the deepest nightmare would only lead to death. Even his soul would be destroyed before being digested by clam qi. The rumors of the South sea were not all false.

However, Li Qingshan stood up and made his way out of the village.

The Clam King of Mirage Sea was stunned, so all of the villagers were stunned too. Big brother Li and the sister-in-law wanted to rush over and stop him, but the Clam King of Mirage Sea stopped them. She did not want to complicate this. She wanted to see just what this man would do, not to mention the fact that when this man made a decision, how could a farmer and a farmer's wife stop him?

When Li Qingshan stood before the butcher’s shop in town and gazed at the ox head blankly, the Clam King of Mirage Sea peered through the butcher shop owner’s eyes to see this.

“You still refuse to accept this and want to verify it? This black ox bears great significance to you. It’s basically an irreplaceable pillar of support to you, but you’ve seen it for yourself now. ‘Miracles’ don’t exist. ‘Dreams’ don’t exist either. You’ll finally give up now, won’t you? Go back, go back to your Crouching Ox village!”

However, Li Qingshan burdened himself with the ox head and made his way off into the distance.

The Clam King of Mirage Sea watched as he travelled into the distance. She was surprised.

“What are you trying to do? You still don’t know that all forms of struggle are pointless!”

As a result, she followed him. She watched him wander through this exitless maze, searching for a dream that never existed in the first place. He was disappointed again and again, but it was never enough to make him despair. He encountered temptations after temptations, but it was never enough to make him stop.

Before she knew it, she had spent several decades in this dream with him.

Finally, he stopped and looked back one day. The shade of death crept over, which he could clearly sense. After a moment of thought, he laughed aloud and said his final words.

“Regret my ass!”

With earth-shattering force, it left even the Clam King of Mirage Sea shocked. She murmured to herself, “He’s actually defeated this nightmare; no, it’s not defeating exactly. There was no chance for it to be defeated. He just continued to struggle, refusing to admit defeat, even until the final moment of his life. Hehe, what an utterly foolish idea!”

Vaguely, she seemed to see a black ox standing with an indomitable spirit. The Ox Demon, with its Great Strength, Sinks in the Mud. Perhaps life was a pointless struggle, but struggling in its very essence was most pointless!

Perhaps this world did not have brother ox, Xiao An, or the Nine Heavens, but even when he had forgotten certain things and lost the various abilities of the Nine Transformations of the Demonic and Divine, this spirit had already been firmly engraved in a place even deeper than fear in his heart.

Perhaps you might never defeat fear, but that did not stop you from continuing with your battle.

Moo!