Legend of the Great Sage

to me all the time normally, but you cannot lie about this, or, or… Sigh, just do it for my sake!”

Li Qingshan smiled.
“Master, do you think I have a need to lie right now? Even if I go and smash in the Demon Suppression hall right now, who here can stop me?”

“Don’t make that kind of joke!” The Unraging monk glared at him.

“Though, let me just make this clear first.
Even if the group of people from the Sword Collection palace have nothing to do with the Demon domain, I regret nothing.
You should all be aware that I became a guest elder of the Sword Collection palace a long time ago.
A few days ago, I went to the Sword Collection palace to pull out my sword, but I ran into some accidents along the way…” Li Qingshan explained everything he had gone through in the Sword Collection palace until he rushed over to Great Buddha mountain.
“In the end, that bitch constantly provoked me through mental messages.
You might be able to put up with it, but I can’t, so I just gave her what she wanted!”

“I see.
Nicely done! If you can even put up with something like that, then you wouldn’t be human,” The Unraging monk praised him.
“Others might not be convinced, but I’m convinced.
Hahahaha, damned disciple, I haven’t misjudged you!” His laughter rang throughout Great Buddha mountain, filled with delight and relief.

The monks looked at one another.
In the blink of an eye, the cruel, forceful Demon King had become a sentimental and righteous hero.
This twist was just a little too exaggerated.

Even if the Dauntless monk refused to believe it, he still found that it made perfect logical sense.
It explained everything that happened in the grand hall very well.
Suddenly, he remembered an item and removed a sumeru ring from his sleeve.
It was the master of the Sword Collection palace’s sumeru ring.

Back then, Li Qingshan had cut down the palace master with a single slash before going off to assist Xiao An.
He was in no shape to pay attention to these small details, so the sumeru ring remained on Great Buddha mountain.

The Dauntless monk originally wanted to return it to the Sword Collection palace, but he abruptly remembered that there was a xiezhi’s horn inside that could detect lies.
“Li Qingshan, let me take out the xiezhi’s horn.
Do you have the courage to repeat what you just said? Hmm?”

“Senior brother, what’s wrong?” the Unraging monk asked.
The other Monk Kings all cast inquisitive gazes over too.

The Dauntless monk blanked out for a moment.
He took out the xiezhi’s horn first, but he did not make Li Qingshan repeat everything.
Instead, he then took out a jade slip that was deep-violet in colour, reeking with demon qi.
It was as clear as day that this did not come from the nine provinces.
Then he took out a small, black ball.

“A blasting thunder! No wonder.
Dauntless abbot, there’s probably more than just the one in there!”

Gu Yanying recognised it with a single glance.
The small, black ball was a treasure of the school of Mohism, a blasting thunder, or in other words, a bomb.
Only grandmasters of the school of Mohism could refine it, and it was renowned for its powers.
It was known to possess the same might as the detonation of a soul nascence, and it had an extremely low requirement on the user.

However, while it was powerful enough, it could not discriminate between friend or foe, blowing them up together.
If regular cultivators used them, then they were looking to die, while countless things could happen in an instant in a battle between great cultivators, so they were difficult to use.
As a result, they were normally only used when attacking formations, which was why they were known as blasting thunders.

The Dauntless monk was stern.
He nodded.
“There’s over thirty of them…”

The Monk Kings looked at one another.
The sword cultivators of the Sword Collection palace were renowned for not relying on anything apart from their swords, so why had they stockpiled so many blasting thunders? The school of Mohism had a monopoly over the blasting thunders as well, such that they fetched for an extremely high price.
Just one of them could be exchanged for an arcane treasure.

The Unraging monk became fearful at the thought of what could have happened.
The Demon Suppression hall was extremely tough, but it could not withstand an attack like that.

Gu Yanying sighed with a smile.
“Looks like they’ve schemed for all these years, only for it all to fall apart because of an accident.
What’s recorded in the jade slip?”

“A Demon Sovereign Sword Classic…”

The Dauntless monk let out a great sigh.
This was clearly a cultivation method that only demonic cultivators practised.
Perhaps he could pass it off somehow as the palace master obtaining the cultivation method coincidentally and only keeping it around for study, with other uses for the blasting thunders.
However, there were many more things in the sumeru ring that proved the connection between the palace master and the Demon domain apart from these two objects.

The truth was like a louse on his bald head.
It could not be any more obvious.

“Do you still need me to repeat what I just said?” Li Qingshan asked.

“That won’t be necessary.”

The Dauntless monk waved his hand powerlessly.
He had no idea what to say.
As it seemed, Li Qingshan had instead saved the Chan Monastery of Deva-Nāga.
If they really let the Sword Collection palace open the demon cavern, perhaps the great cultivators would have still had a chance at survival, but the several thousand disciples would be dead for sure.

However, thanking Li Qingshan was something he could never bring himself to do.
He smiled wryly.
“So I’ve really been asking to be humiliated, and I’ve almost made such a huge mistake!” If they really killed Li Qingshan then and there and allowed the palace master to free himself up, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

The Unraging monk tried to persuade him.
“There’s no need to blame yourself, senior brother.
It’s all because the Sword Collection palace’s scheme is too deep.
We never would have suspected it in the first place!”

“Junior brother, we’ve made you suffer,” said the Dauntless monk.
If he had not made a “poor judgement of character” and accepted this “wretched daemon” as his disciple, the Chan Monastery of Deva-Nāga would have been reduced to a demon cavern already.

“That’s fine.
I forgive you.” Li Qingshan smiled.
That punch really had been quite satisfying.

“Li Qingshan, I can thank you, but One Will is still a buddha nemesis!” the Dauntless monk said sternly.
Just stealing all the śarīra of the past eminent monks was unforgivable to him.

“Cut the bullshit.
If you have the balls, go and kill her!”