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

He originally planned on completing all nine layers of the Arts of the Boundless Ocean before carrying out the conversion. That way, he would basically be able to unleash the full strength of the first six layers of the Demon Suppression Statuary. But as it seemed now, it was time for him to make a trade-off. He either had to take advantage of right now, when he was reorganising the various powers in his body, or he had to wait until the next nirvā?a rebirth.

He extended a finger and the blood-like demon heart suddenly shone brightly. He silently practised the Demon Suppression Statuary and the glow slowly receded into the demon heart, becoming glistening with light.

Afterwards, he cast his gaze towards the Ocean pearl. Under the control of his soul sense, the Ocean pearl began to spin, revolving faster and faster. Its circular shape gradually changed and it gradually approached the demon heart.

A droplet of fluid suddenly flew out from the Ocean pearl and landed on the demon heart, which immediately lead to a violent reaction. Red light flickered brightly, illuminating the entire hall. Under Li Qingshan’s endeavour, it took him an entire day before he got the light under control and it gradually subsided. The demon heart became even shinier too.

Next came the second droplet...

Just like that, the days passed one by one. The Ocean pearl became smaller and smaller and the demon heart became brighter and brighter.

Half a year later, when the last droplet of fluid merged into the demon heart, the Ocean pearl completely vanished from the world, which left Li Qingshan a little melancholic. This was the cultivation method he had persisted with all this time after all. However, what brought him even more joy was the demon heart’s changes.

The demon heart that was originally blood-red was now woven with a deep blue. The two colours merged together, making it seem even more magnificent. The benefits of combining these two powers went without saying. Right now, the strength of his human cultivation was definitely even greater than before he underwent nirvā?a rebirth. Right now, even if the White Lotus Mother rushed over here, he could retreat with ease.

Two months earlier, he received good news from his mirror clone’s side. Gu Yanying followed through with their agreement and helped him gather a large quantity of fire element pills and spiritual stones. He paid her off in full, obviously thanks to Si Qing’s generosity, and asked her to continue searching. With these resources, he could get to work with the second layer of the Phoenix’s Scripture of Nirvā?a!

However, there was no need for him to rush. After a lengthy period of cultivation, he needed to rest up a little, so he took out the Asura Field.

……

“Sister, where do you think master’s gone in the past few years? Why hasn’t he visited us even once? The tree king clearly knows, but he refuses to tell us!”

In an exquisite treehouse within the Asura Field, Ye Liusu and Ye Liubo sat together. The steam from the tea curled upwards.

Everything in the house had been sculpted from wood and engraved with beautiful patterns. The air gave off a refreshing fragrance of nature, worlds apart from the gloominess and eeriness underground.

“He’s probably focusing on cultivation right now! At his realm of cultivation, it’s not strange for him to enter secluded cultivation for a few years at once. Actually, there are even regular daemons that entered secluded cultivation for decades at a time. You better stop thinking about it too much and focus more on cultivation!”

Ye Liusu comforted Ye Liubo, but her gaze drifted away slightly as well. Within the cultivation community, the most precious resource was time, but the most worthless resources also happened to be time.

“What! Several decades! I’m going to die!” Ye Liubo was rendered speechless. She lay on the round, wooden table powerlessly and groaned.



“Meetings are always brief, while partings are always long. Haven’t you realised that, Liubo?” Ye Liusu caressed Ye Liubo’s hair and said gently.

With his talent, even becoming a Daemon King would not be a problem. His life span stretched over ten thousand years long. On the other hand, as night roamers, their lives were a little longer compared to human cultivators, but it was nowhere close to the life spans of daemons. They were basically guaranteed to die before him, and that was not even the most brutal part of it all. It was possible for him to travel even faster and even higher, ascending to a higher and more distant world. By then, they would not be separated by time, but by space.

“I don’t care! I don’t care! I want to follow master for the rest of my life! I still haven’t had his child yet!” Ye Liubo called out like a child throwing a tantrum.

Ye Liusu sighed. Just when she was about to say something, the scenery before her changed and a voice rang out from behind, “If you want a child, you just have to try a few extra times and you’ll definitely end up with one!”

She suddenly looked back, only to see a child around twelve or thirteen years old standing a few steps away from a lotus pedestal, gazing at them with a smile. The voice came from him.

“You’re… master!?” Ye Liubo recognised the familiar scarlet hair and eyes immediately.

“Who else could I be?” Before Li Qingshan could even finish, Ye Liubo threw herself over, embracing him firmly. She murmured, “Master, you’ve become so small!” Ye Liusu asked as well, “What happened?”

“Don’t you know? It’s a long story!” Li Qingshan gave a rough explanation of what happened, “... that’s basically what happened. I’m recovering right now, which is why I’ve shrunken, but I’ll recover very soon!”

Ye Liusu and Ye Liubo widened their eyes, completely speechless. Killed Mo Yu and a group of Daemon Commanders! Hunted down by the Dragon King of Ink Sea! Every single matter was beyond their imagination. He mentioned it easily, but they both felt startled by everything he went through. They understood exactly how difficult it had been for him to survive!





Chapter 729: Ye Mingzhu's Betrayal | Legend of the Great Sage




After a conversation, Li Qingshan told them to focus on cultivation and not to fall behind.

“It’s not like I have my sister’s talent. Even if I cultivate for another century, I won’t be able to face the second heavenly tribulation. I might as well stay here instead and spend some more time with you. It’ll be far better than staying in that tiny box. You’re smothering me to death!”

After meeting again after so much time, how could Ye Liubo just leave like this? She embraced Li Qingshan and fumbled around.

“The space in there is anything but small, so it’s more than enough for you!” Li Qingshan slapped her bottom gently. “Right now, I’m not strong enough, so even I have to bide my time, but there will be one day when the nine provinces will be free for me to roam and free for you to roam too!”

“Then we await that day’s arrival. Liubo, let’s go!” Ye Liusu said.

“Fine!” Ye Liubo said with great reluctance.

The moment they returned to the Asura Field, a pitch-black figure suddenly appeared in the room. The darkness consolidated and turned into a night roamer who bore some resemblance to Ye Liusu, except she was much more mature and curvy. It was Ye Mingzhu.

“Mother!” Ye Liusu said, and Ye Liubo bowed reluctantly.

“Liusu, what’s happened?” Ye Mingzhu frowned. After undergoing the second heavenly tribulation and gaining control over the night roamers, her bearing had become even nobler than before. All of her words and actions carried an imposing aura, as well as much more charm.

Ye Liusu roughly told her what had happened.

“I see!” Ye Mingzhu felt a deep sense of regret. As it turned out, he had been heavily injured for the past few years and had lost control over the Azure Field, which was no wonder why there had always been no news. If she had known about this earlier, she would have tried to refine the Asura Field from within. Not only would she gain an arcane treasure, but she could even take it a step further and completely break free from Northmoon’s control. She definitely was capable of something like that with her cultivation, but it was too late for regret now, so she continued to ask some probing questions.