Legend of the Great Sage

 Since you already know I’m not some beauty, why won’t you let me go, king?

“Haha, I for one think I’ve made the right choice in coming here today.”

Hu Xian’er saw no disgust on his face at all.
Instead, his round eyes shone with interest, which captivated her slightly.
Was there really a man who did not care about her identity?

The Suffering Subduing abbot rose up from the ground, smashing apart the floorboards and throwing out a string of prayer beads.
They turned into golden specks and whistled over.

The string of śarīra prayer beads amounted to a hundred and eight in total.
It was refined from the śarīra left behind by the past monks of the Salvation temple.
Not only did it possess startling might, able to pierce rock and metal, but it could even freely change its trajectory mid-air, making it undodgeable.
Who knew how many demons had died to it throughout history.

The leader of the Abstruse temple waved his arms around and wielded the lightning, arriving beneath Li Qingshan with a flash.
They wanted to hit him with a pincer attack from above and below.

“Hero king, just release me first! I’ll only drag you down like this!” Hu Xian’er said frantically.

Looking at the lightning and prayer beads from afar filled her with more fear than she had ever experienced in her life.
If they hit her, even if it was not the full brunt of the attack, she would probably revert to her true form.

“If these two pieces of trash can even touch a hair on you, I’ll write my surname backwards.”

Li Qingshan’s gaze pierced the thick floorboards as he pressed down with his right hand.

The leader of the Abstruse temple was about to unleash the lightning when his right hand suddenly became immobilised, frozen mid-air.
The lightning exploded in his hand.

“Lightning is not that easy to play around with!”

The leader of the Abstruse temple suffered from the same problem as Xue Hanfeng.
They both tried to use their ultimate move to finish him off instantly, pushing the might of the technique to the limit regardless of the consequences.
On top of that, lightning was powerful, but it was inherently the most difficult to control.
Having been momentarily affected by the ability, it immediately lost control and made him suffer a backlash.

Then Li Qingshan looked at the incoming prayer beads.
“It’s merely a set of subpar spiritual artifacts!”

Right when he was about to counter it, there was a gust of wind from behind.
The leader of the Five Poisons cult, who had remained on the floor the entire time, suddenly leapt to his feet, producing a strange croak that resembled a toad’s.
Surging true qi condensed into a scorpion’s tail that shot towards Li Qingshan’s back.

“The Demonic Arts of Five Poisons!”

Tie Xiong paled in fright.
He had participated in the expedition against the Five Poisons cult, but he never managed to recognise that the old man on the ground was actually the leader of the Five Poisons cult.

The leader of the Five Poisons cult had suffered an absolute beating at Li Qingshan’s hand, such that his face was black and blue.
He had even lost all of his teeth, truly beaten to a point where even his mother would not be able to recognize him.
On top of that, who would have thought a great demon who once rampaged through the world would curl up under a table like a dog? He carefully hid his face from view too.
If Hu Xian’er had not been thinking about him the entire time, she definitely would not have recognised him either.

The leader of the Five Poisons cult was at the tenth layer of the innate realm, so his current cultivation surpassed even Li Qingshan’s.
He had broken free from the seals on his acupoints a long time ago, but after learning Li Qingshan’s identity, he did not have the courage to act rashly.
He lay on the ground the entire time.
He waited until an opportunity arrived and was about to flee immediately.

But for some reason, when he recalled the beating, it filled him with resentment, leading him to launch this lethal strike.

He did not even stick around to see how his move would pan out.
He unleashed his ultimate movement technique, the Centipede’s Walk, and fled from the parlour.

“Li Qingshan, this is what you get for disrespecting me!”

“I almost forgot about you! Get back here!”

Li Qingshan reached out without even looking back, and the leader of the Five Absolutes cult halted.
Power of belief turned into a huge hand, pulling him back and bringing him in front of Li Qingshan as a shield.

The leader of the Five Absolutes cult widened his eyes.
Golden light glistened in his eyes as the prayer beads filled them.

He could only power the Demonic Arts of Five Poisons with everything that he had, releasing his true qi externally in defence.

However, how could his frantic actions contend against a full-powered strike from the Suffering Subduing abbot?

In an instant, his protective true qi shattered, and the one hundred and eight prayer beads slammed into his body.