Legend of the Great Sage

take-” He only managed to say the first half when he discovered he was being raised into the air rapidly.

“And your soul nascence too.”

Li Qingshan flicked his right hand gently, and the pull suddenly became a push.
His soul nascence immediately soared through the air.
The grandmaster’s face of surprise and fury melted away, becoming riddled with cracks that poured out with light.
He slammed head-first into the King of Chu’s Seal.

Boom!

The soul nascence exploded, and the violent power whistled hundreds of kilometers away, sweeping aside all of the lightning and swords with ease.
The golden seal came to a sudden halt in its fall too, being lifted several dozen meters into the air instead.
A layer of golden light faded away.

Li Qingshan shielded his eyes from the light and took a look, clapping his hands.
“How useful!”

“Li Qingshan!” The palace master growled.
Li Qingshan looked over, and anger flashed across his face.

“One with the sword!” The palace master swung the Heaven Leaning sword, and a blinding streak of light suddenly shot out from the top of Great Buddha mountain.

“You’re asking to die!” Li Qingshan flapped his wings and turned into a scarlet streak of light to receive the attack.

The palace master beamed with joy inside.
As long as he paused even for a moment under the golden seal, they could still put him to death.

Right when the two streaks of light were about to collide, Li Qingshan shifted a few meters away out of nowhere, brushing past the palace master.
He tilted his head and sneered.
“Idiot!”

With a boom, Li Qingshan landed on Great Buddha mountain again, making his way towards the grandmaster of the school of Miscellany.
“Again!”

“Stop him, fellows!” the grandmaster of the school of Miscellany cried out and fled without any hesitation.
He had already made a tidy profit by obtaining the treasured blade.
He did not want to pay with his life at a time like this.

Li Qingshan stopped and looked away.
All he saw was a cold flash, and a spear thrust towards him.
The tip trembled, splaying with cold light like stars across the night sky, enveloping him.
It also resembled the rise of a black dragon, able to pierce and destroy everything in its path. 

Li Qingshan did not dodge or look at the tip of the spear.
He gazed at Yue Wuyang behind the spear indifferently.

“Black Sand hell!” Jin Fugui roared furiously, and black sand flooded the surroundings, enveloping Li Qingshan and Yue Wuyang.

Within the roaring sand, the spear stopped before the scarlet eye.
It only needed to advance another three inches, and it could pierce Li Qingshan’s right eye.

Li Qingshan did not move.
He did not even use any abilities to block as if he had halted the spear with his gaze alone.

“Why didn’t you block?” Yue Wuyang asked.

“Why didn’t you thrust?” Li Qingshan smiled.

Yue Wuyang said nothing.
He did not go through with the strike because Li Qingshan did not dodge, or because he did it for the sake of Han Qiongzhi.
There was something else on top of all of that, a voice warning him again and again inside, You’ll die! You’ll die! You’ll die! He was not afraid of dying, but he did not want to die so pointlessly.

“I don’t want to break Qiongzhi’s heart.” Li Qingshan turned away and no longer looked at Yue Wuyang anymore, making his way forwards.

The tip of the spear trembled, and Yue Wuyang remained in the posture of thrusting the spear.
A good while later, he let out a long sigh and stood with the spear beside him.
He clasped his hands at the sky.
“Your majesty, forgive me, but I cannot partake in this battle!”

Li Qingshan made his way through the black sand and felt the pain from the depths of his soul again.
Suddenly, he waved his hand twice like an adult shooing away an annoying child.
“Piss off!”

The black sand suddenly gathered towards, sweeping back into Jin Fugui’s hand.
He scratched his nose and smiled wryly.
“I’m still your superior after all-” Seeing Li Qingshan raise his eyebrows, his heart lurched inside, and he said to the Fierce King of Chu in the sky, “Your majesty, there are many details of suspicion involved.
The Hawkwolf Guard requires closer investigation.”

“Are the two of you even human?” The Fierce King of Chu was furious.
He did not say that to insult them.
Instead, he was questioning their allegiance.

Yue Wuyang shut his eyes and said nothing, but Jin Fugui smiled.
“I’m a Golden Hawk commander of Great Xia!” Even if you’re the governor of a province, mighty with a king’s authority, you have no right in sending the two of us to our deaths! Especially sending us to our deaths over such a strange matter.

“Alright, alright, alright!” The Fierce King of Chu was livid.
In the blink of an eye, his encirclement around Li Qingshan had fallen apart.
He gazed at the figure with drifting scarlet hair.
He had only rebirthed once.
Even the powers he used were no longer as great as earlier, and he had even lost his weapon, yet the feeling he gave off had completely changed.
It was as if he had replaced him as the King of Chu and now controlled everything within the palm of his hand.

By now, the grandmaster of the school of Miscellany had already used the opportunity to flee.
Li Qingshan stood on the cliff and bellowed out, “Get your ass back here!” His voice boomed like thunder, but it did not contain any abilities.

“Kid, I thought you died from stupidity!”

With a flash, the Treasure Gathering basin split open, and the Blade Spirit of Frenzy Flower appeared, cutting through the grandmaster of the school of Miscellany in a single stroke.