Legend of the Great Sage

p>It was exactly because this world was weak enough that no one had actually responded and rushed over here despite so much time having passed.

“It’s just far too weak.
Don’t tell me they’re rushing over on horseback?”

Li Qingshan never imagined he would actually guess correctly.
A large group of men were rushing over here at this exact moment on horseback.

“Actually, I have a feeling that it’s exactly because I considered these things when I was traversing through outer space that it brought us to this small world.
I told you, it likes me.
As long as I can get out of here, I can definitely refine it.”

“Without the kunpeng’s feather, how are we supposed to get out of here? If your thoughts really can control it, why didn’t you think of returning to the nine provinces?” Li Qingshan questioned.

“Err, of course, this is all my speculation.
It’s not exactly accurate,” Gu Yanying said seriously. 

Actually, if she wanted to keep the kunpeng’s feather, she was probably better off staying here than returning to the nine provinces.
However, the fall of an asteroid had still been far too conspicuous.

“I believe you.
Hand it over!” Li Qingshan reached for the kunpeng’s feather.

“Hey, what are you doing? This is my…” Gu Yanying put up a fierce struggle, but how could she stand a chance against Li Qingshan’s brute force? He forcefully pried open her hands and took away the kunpeng’s feather, which earned him a glare.
“Li Qingshan!”

“How’s that?” Li Qingshan fiddled around with the kunpeng’s feather and tried to analyse it with the Divine Talisman of Great Creation.
Sure enough, apart from resonating with the phoenix slightly, it faced the violent rejection of the spirit turtle, ox demon, and tiger demon.

That was expected.
It had always been difficult to merge together the most powerful of bloodlines.
The figures of the four remaining transformations of the demonic and divine did not include the existence of a kunpeng either.

“If you’ve seen enough, then give it back!” Gu Yanying huddled up close to him in a rather nervous manner.

Li Qingshan grinned inside.
No matter how graceful and composed she seemed, it was just because she had yet to encounter something dear to her. 

He bellowed out as a result, “You short-sighted woman! The kunpeng’s feather is so extraordinary, yet you actually treat it like a regular arcane artifact or treasure.
If it possessed intelligence, it definitely would have flown into a rage already.
Your powers might be restrained, and you might feel absolutely feeble, but in the eyes of the owner of this feather, does your strength really make such a great difference?”

Gu Yanying shuddered and suddenly lost all of her strength, making her feel feeble as never before.
With what Li Qingshan said, she suddenly felt like she saw a glimmer.

“Originally, you were a frog in a well.
Now, you’ve just become a bug in a well, but when a hawk soars through the sky, it probably won’t even notice you, whether you’re a frog or a bug.” Li Qingshan held the kunpeng’s feather between his fingers confidently.
“If there really is a legacy inside, then the standard it uses to measure its successor definitely isn’t strength, but something else!”

He was talking from his experiences.
A black ox had once accompanied a kid from the mountains for his entire childhood, and it was not because of how powerful he was.

“That’s… reasonable!”

Gu Yanying’s eyes lit up, filled with undisguised admiration.
Even when he saved her life earlier, she had not been so excited.
She clasped her hands.
“Thank you.
My sights are still too narrow after all.
I’ve made such a great deal out of my own strength for nothing.”

“Deal with it quickly then!”

“Definitely!” Gu Yanying took the feather back from Li Qingshan eagerly.

“We’re back to the original problem.
I hope I can return to the nine provinces as soon as possible,” said Li Qingshan.

“I have a piece of good news and a piece of bad news right now.
Which one do you want to hear first? I better just tell you the bad news first! When it traversed through space with us, it used up all of the powers it originally possessed.
Although it’s currently recovering slowly through a method that I don’t understand, it’s really, really slow.
It’ll probably take a century!”

“A century!” Li Qingshan frowned hard.

“Or two centuries.
We need to gather enough power for our next journey through outer space.”

“Then what about the good news? Hold on, I know what it is!”

The good news abruptly came to Li Qingshan.
The flow of time in large worlds and small worlds was different, and they might differ drastically.
Even something like a day in heaven being a year in the mortal realm was common.

According to the clues that brother ox had left behind, the temporal ratio between beyond the Nine Heavens and the nine provinces was very likely to be a day to a decade.
The disparity between this small world and the nine provinces probably was not that great, but it definitely was not small either.

As a result, a century would not be too long.
It might even just be equivalent to a single period of secluded cultivation in the nine provinces.

“This world is restraining us and trying to destroy us, but it’s given us what we need the most, time! I need time to obtain the kunpeng’s legacy, while you need time to train and toughen up mentally.
After all, you’ve cultivated far too quickly.
The so-called feats that would even take geniuses a millennia has only taken you a tenth of the time, but some things can’t be made up for through talent.”

“That is indeed good news!”

Li Qingshan nodded.
Gu Yanying was extremely right about that.
Many of the times, advantages existed alongside disadvantages.

Concepts like disposition, comprehension, and toughening up sounded abstract, but they had an extremely great influence on a cultivator.
So-called bottlenecks basically all arose from these concepts.

In the past, the great dream he had faced with the Clam King of Mirage Sea had benefited him greatly.
Now that he mentioned it, it was slightly similar to his current predicament.
He had also lost all of his powers and had to face pain and various setbacks, but that had still been a dream after all.
Right now, he would have to face an actual world.
What he would get out of it would definitely be much deeper.

To the mediocre, staying here was a waste of time, as they would not be able to cultivate at all.
But to them, this was the perfect place of training.