Legend of the Great Sage

clap of thunder had exploded right by their ears.
By the time they had recovered from the shock, cries rang through the mountain manor.

“Oh no, the main building’s been struck by lightning!”

“The formation’s fallen! It must have struck the central point!”

“How is it that coincidental?”

“Where’s the two manor lords?”

“Still in the building!”

Dark clouds hung low in the sky.
Following the clap of spring thunder, even more lightning began to build up in the cloud layer, all pouring down on the building.
The lightning twisted and expanded on the stone walls.

“Don’t tell me this is the heavenly tribulation of ascension?”

In the secret room below the building, Li Qingshan and Gu Yanying were completely aware that this was not some heavenly tribulation.
It was just a regular lightning storm, but it just happened to occur above the mountain manor and each bolt just happened to come for them.

The rumbling echoed through the secret room, deafening them.

“You got lucky! Otherwise, if a bolt struck you! No one would be able to save you!”

Li Qingshan yelled at the top of his voice.
Gu Yanying basically spent every single day cultivating on the terrace, regardless of the wind and snow.
She just happened to have not gone up there today, dragging him into the secret room to check the treasures in preparation for leaving the mountain which allowed her to avoid this disaster.

“It’s not good luck! I observe the clouds every single day! If I hadn’t brought you here! You would have died to the lightning long ago!”

Gu Yanying yelled at the top of her voice too.
Since young, she had always like to fly, so she was completely familiar with the various kinds of clouds.
Lightning clouds and regular clouds were completely different.
As soon as she noticed changes in the weather, she dragged Li Qingshan here.
This was the lowest point of the mountain manor, as well as the sturdiest and safest place.

“Why didn’t you tell me sooner!?”

“Surprise!” Gu Yanying smiled.

“Surprise your grandfather!” Li Qingshan rolled his eyes, but he saw Gu Yanying’s smile stiffen and point behind him, roaring out, “Be careful, lightning!”

How could there be lightning here? He had even closed the heavy stone door to the secret room.

Originally, Li Qingshan thought she was joking, but looking back, he saw a ball of lightning that had passed through the stone door somehow, wandering around silently.
The air was filled with a strange stench.

“Fucking hell…”

“Boom!”

Violet light filled the secret room.

After a good while, the lightning clouds dispersed and the stone door opened up.

Li Qingshan and Gu Yanying crawled out, dirtied and covered in dust.
A good half of the building above them had collapsed and flames rose up in the mountain manor.
The figures of people rushed about to put it out.

However, when the lightning ran amok earlier, it had killed several people, so no one dared to emerge.

By now, the fire had already spread completely.
Even the innate realm masters were powerless.

The mountain winds whistled, feeding the flames and turning the mountain manor into a sea of fire.
The lone mountain seemed to have been set alight, like a huge torch.
Even from dozens of kilometers away, it was possible to see the fire.

“Oh no, my novels!”

Li Qingshan’s face changed.
He had spent an entire winter writing the Legend of the White Ape King to the fifth volume, before having his subordinates make over ten thousand copies by hand.
With this fire, it had all gone up in ashes.

“Don’t worry.
I’ve ordered them to seal them in chests, before being buried in the ground.
They’re impervious to fire and water!”

Li Qingshan eased up.
Earlier, he had used the Divine Talisman of Great Creation again to stay alive, which used up a lot of power of belief.
He had already reached an extremely dangerous point.
Once it completely ran out, he would be forced to gamble his life with the heavens with his naked body.

He produced a whirlwind to force back the heat waves.
The two of them stood within the roaring flames as a plume of black smoke rose up into the sky, circling around the mountain like a black dragon brandishing its claws, staring at them in malice.

Gu Yanying gazed at the sky, “Looks like the heavens are urging us to get on with our path!”

Li Qingshan said, “Then let’s set off and go make a mess! Let’s make the entire world aware of my, the Descended Tiger Li Qingshan, and you, the Soaring Divine Hawk Gu Yanying!”

“Erm, could you drop the two nicknames?”

Li Qingshan grinned, “Nope.”