Legend of the Great Sage

mors rippled out from the palm of his hand, shaking off the layer of white frost and revealing the half-transparent blue ice.
Then it passed through the ice and spread across the entire cliff.
The power of tremors was not particularly powerful, but it made the entire cliff shake violently.
Boulders of ice tumbled down.

Crack! From the centre of Li Qingshan’s hand, fractures spread out like a spider’s web, penetrating the Ice Sword cliff deeply.

The cracks spread further and grew wider, extending freely like black bolts of lightning.

Li Qingshan pulled his hand back and turned around, pulling Xuanyue into his arms and kissing her on her soft lips.

“Meow?” Xuanyue widened her eyes, wrapping her arms around his neck firmly and kissing him deeply.

In the blink of an eye, the Ice Sword cliff collapsed loudly.
With an earth-shaking rumble, mountainous pieces of ice rained down.
The ice powder in the air basically dispersed the dark clouds that hung around all year round, swallowing their embracing figures.

The dark clouds dispersed, the ice powder settled, and the moonlight shone.

The Ice Sword cliff turned into glaciers, assuming various beautiful shapes.
They shone coldly and magnificently under the refraction of the moonlight.

Nothing stood in their way to the Dragon province anymore.
The cold winds came and went, pleasant and refreshing.

“It’s time to set off.” Li Qingshan rubbed her head.
Her cat ears trembled, reluctant to leave.
She seemed so small and delicate in his arms, such that he could not help but develop a protective urge over her and worry about her unknown future.
He tried to persuade her.
“Why don’t you go to the Mist province instead? The Great Banyan Tree King is a good friend of mine.
He can take care of you.”

“Like I need you to care!” Xuanyue turned Li Qingshan down bluntly and pushed him away, wiping her mouth forcefully and fuming away in anger.
She was not as adorable and likeable as she seemed.
She had always possessed a stubborn side to her, but within the path of cultivation, who didn’t possess a stubborn side?

Li Qingshan shrugged and embedded an imprint in a jade talisman, shoving it into her hands.
“No matter what danger you face, no matter where I am!”

“I get it! Hmm? What’s that?” Xuanyue accepted the jade talisman and suddenly pointed at the depths of the glaciers.

Li Qingshan followed her finger and looked over.
There was a particularly large piece of ice there, standing in the centre of the glaciers like a miniature mountain.
In the centre was a white, oval object.
It did not give off any special aura, so he had failed to notice it.

“Don’t tell me that that’s the legendary fallen sword?”

Li Qingshan became rather curious too.
He arrived before the ice and discovered it was particularly clear and transparent, as well as abnormally tough.
There seemed to be a huge cocoon in the centre of the ice, constantly radiating with coldness.
He bent his finger and knocked it against the ice gently.
The ice shattered, exposing the white cocoon.
It was only a few meters tall, but the threads that wove the cocoon were fine and white like snow.
They were crystalline like ice and did not resemble silk.
He was unable to send his soul sense inside, nor could he sense any aura of life.

“Don’t be so curious, or you might freeze to death!” Li Qingshan grabbed Xuanyue’s hand, which was about to touch the cocoon.
He pressed his own hand against the cocoon instead.
It was so cold that even he felt it chill his bones.
So this was the source of the Ice Sword cliff?

“I’ll never die.
Quick, take a look what’s inside! If it’s a treasure, I want half! I saw it first!” Xuanyue said.

“Alright, alright!” Li Qingshan said as he unleashed the power of tremors, but he discovered that the cocoon was abnormally tough, and unlike the ice, he could not destroy it through resonance.

“Be a little more careful.
Don’t break it,” Xuanyue said nervously.

Li Qingshan unfurled his phoenix wings, which burned with roaring fire.
They spread over thirty meters across before enveloping the entire cocoon.

The silk melted away, turning into gurgling streams.
Gradually, a figure in the cocoon was exposed.

Xuanyue murmured, “How do we split it?”