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

Li Qingshan thought about his request and took out a string of prayer beads, tossing it to the One Lamp monk.

The One Lamp monk accepted the prayer beads extremely cautiously and inspected them. The prayer beads were not some powerful arcane artifact or arcane treasure, but it did have quite the history and legacy. All the monks in the monastery who had some status recognised it. It also contained the aura that the Unraging monk had left behind, which was almost impossible to fake.

He raised his head and said, “You really are Li Qingshan who made a mess of the Courtyard of Secular Affairs! The Scarlet Hawk commander of some prefecture!”

“The Clear River prefecture. Can I go now?”

The One Lamp monk subsided his flow and tossed the prayer beads back. He had basically verified Li Qingshan’s identity. However, he was still in some disbelief, “Junior brother, have you undergone the second heavenly tribulation already?”

“Yeah, just recently!”

“Junior brother, you still haven’t reached the age of thirty, right?”

“I’m close!”

The One Lamp monk was amazing, Junior brother, you really are a talented genius. Of course you would catch the Unraging master’s eye and be accepted as his first disciple. Have you come back this time to pay respects to the Unraging monk and to undergo tonsure to become a monk?”

“I don’t have that plan for now.”

The two of them conversed a little in front of the Demon Suppression statue. Li Qingshan just found this One Lamp monk to be a little simple-minded and unskilled with handling people. He openly lectured him without mincing his words, persuading him to leave the secular world and become a monk. After being carefully rejected by Li Qingshan, he both sighed and shook his head, exasperated at Li Qingshan’s reluctance.

Li Qingshan remained cheerful. He did not get angry. After all, he did not see the arrogance he usually saw on these “first senior brothers” from the One Lamp monk for once. Also, when he persuaded him to become a monk, his intentions were even slightly more pure than the Dauntless monk. He seemed to be in bitter hatred, as if he was trying to say “It’s such a great thing, so why can’t you understand it? I’ve spent several decades of my life as a monk, so how can I be lying to you?”

After learning Xiao An had already undergone the second heavenly tribulation, the One Lamp monk’s eyes flashed. His heart stirred slightly.

After formally joining the Chan Monastery of Deva-Nāga, every single disciple felt pressured, while the pressure he felt was especially heavy. He was an orphan, having grown up in the monastery. With his extraordinary cultivation talent, he received the attention and care of all, making him one of the potential successors of the abbot.

However, Xiao An had taken away a lot of his glory with her arrival. Whether it was his buddhist nature, his root of wisdom or his ability to debate, he was nowhere close to being the opponent of this child who was several decades younger than him, let alone bearing and looks. Originally, he still possessed an advantage in terms of cultivation, but now, even his only advantage no longer existed. He could not help but become rather despondent, but his fighting spirit immediately became roused.

“Please wait here, senior brother. I’ll be right back!”

“Hold on, junior brother. The eighth floor of the Demon Suppression hall is extremely dangerous. There are many powerful and crafty Demon Commanders. The Unraging monk has once told me to never set foot on the eighth floor, so I’d advise you to stop here!”

Li Qingshan was just about to advance to the eighth floor when he was stopped by the One Lamp monk and given sincere advice again.

“The reason why I entered the Demon Suppression hall this time was to go to the eighth floor to study the eighth Demon Suppression statue. My master had agreed to it too.”

The One Lamp monk became rather uncertain inside, The Unraging master forbids me from entering the eighth floor, but he permits him. Is it because I’m weaker than him? But he’s just undergone the second heavenly tribulation recently. Isn’t he underestimating me a little too much?

He thought of a possibility and asked, “Will you be disguising yourself as a Demon Commander and sneaking over to the Demon Suppression statue, junior brother?”

“Of course not. I’m naturally going to kill my way over. Only then can I show off the might of our monastery, right?”

Li Qingshan smiled as he flicked the Traitorous Demon sword. Too many battles had never been a worry to him. In order to cultivate the tiger demon, he had to make use of all opportunities of battle.

“If that’s the case, I’ll come with you. If we work together, you’ll have a better chance!” The One Lamp monk said enthusiastically.

In that moment, Li Qingshan shivered all over. He vaguely sensed danger lurking up ahead!





Chapter 748: The Eighth Floor of the Demon Suppression Hall | Legend of the Great Sage




Li Qingshan studied the One Lamp monk in surprise. Originally, he did not feel any danger, but just because he had said he wanted to come with him, he experienced such a great sense of danger. Surely it was not because the monk seemed honest and kind on the surface but was actually scheming something!

As a result, he persuaded, “Senior brother One Lamp, since my master’s said you shouldn’t go to the eighth floor, he must have his reasons for that. You better stay here and continue cultivating!”

“Even if you go down there alone, you’ll be fine, yet somehow you’ll be in danger if you include me? If there isn’t any danger at all, how can you call it a trial?”

The One Lamp monk disagreed with Li Qingshan. He was certain the Unraging monk was favouring his own disciple. He refused to accept this, insisting to go down and compete against him.

That sounds a little familiar! If you don’t stab me in the back, of course you’ll be quite formidable help! Li Qingshan curled his lip and thought inside.

The One Lamp monk was so persistent that he just gave up on changing his mind. He would just adapt to the circumstances when he needed to. Just like the principle of “if they aren’t bald, they aren’t vicious, and if they’re aren’t vicious, they aren’t bald”, he really had to keep up his guard just in case was stabbed in the back.

As a result, the two of them worked together and entered the eighth floor of the Demon Suppression hall!

……

The Dauntless monk stood on a cliff on Great Buddha mountain, looking at the thousands of followers and the distant mountains below. His kasaya danced in the wind, as if it was about to drift away with the wind.

“Senior brother!”

The Unraging monk bowed towards the Dauntless monk from behind. Xiao An brought her palms together.

“What do you have to say?” The Dauntless monk said without looking back.

As a result, the Unraging monk repeated what Li Qingshan said earlier. Sure enough, the Dauntless monk became furious, “Hack down people? What does he take this place for? If we actually needed to hack- purge demons and evil, would we even need him? Does he really think that you and me are only for display?”

“There’s always a day when you and I must depart too!” The Unraging monk smiled, “The kid might not be a part of buddhism and behaves insolently, he’s still a person of honour who knows to pay back his debts of gratitude.”

“You can stop there. Since he finds our monastery to be too small for him, I won’t force him to do anything. He can go wherever he wants. However, One Will definitely will not be going with him, just in case it ruins her path of cultivation.”

The Dauntless monk then said to Xiao An, “One Will, I won’t delve into the fact that you arbitrarily left the Bodhi Realm of Emptiness this time. You can go back and cultivate!”

“I’m willing to go to the South sea as a buddhist missionary!” Xiao An said in a way that was neither offensive or deprecating.