Legend of the Great Sage

bably the only possible way to balance these various extreme and pure powers was by imitating the way a world was created and operated.

In the past, when he fought against the Demon King in the Asura Field, he had relied on his control over earth, fire, wind, and water to turn the tides, but from that moment onwards, the Demon Suppression Statuary had been deeply suppressed.
When he comprehended the Ape Demon Transformation, he broke this balance again, but now, he witnessed a whole new type of balance.

In hindsight, a major reason why he could balance earth, fire, wind, and water was because he was located in the Asura Field.
The Asura Field served as his “space”.

Once he left the Asura Field, the powers faced influence from everything in his surroundings, so the extremely subtle balance no longer existed.
All that remained was a rough balance.

But now, he saw an opportunity.
The Ape Demon Transformation just happened to represent space.

I understand now.
When I cultivated the first four transformations, the balance had already been established.
After that, what I need to balance is no longer the divine and demonic natures.
Instead, I need to construct a world within me.
The Ape Demon Transformation is not a troublemaker that breaks the balance between the demonic and divine, but a crucial power for truly creating a world.

When Li Qingshan thought up to there, the Ape Demon Transformation broke through to the second layer.
Originally, he was worried that even the slightest increase in his cultivation would lead to the fourth heavenly tribulation, but he no longer had that worry now.

Power leaked out and scattered from his body.
His aura declined, but his power became much more consolidated and condensed.

A great sword forged from scrap metal could never match a treasured sword of regular size.
Perhaps it could be used to smash people in battle, but if it were to be improved, it had to be further forged and reforged.

He powered the Spirit Turtle Transformation at full force, deducing from the rudimentary form of a world before him.

If he had not seen it with his own eyes, the deduction process alone would have been an almost-impossible mission.
Everything he saw today was what he had obtained, and he was still comprehending the laws that the small world operated on.
As such, everything was as simple as it could get.

After completing his inference, a model took shape in his head.
He began to imitate it.

Firstly, he compressed and reassembled his powers, constructing them with a better method.
If he were in his daemon form right now, his stature would definitely be shrinking rapidly.

No, that still doesn’t work.
The Ape Demon Transformation is too weak.
Space cannot contain the earth, fire, wind, and water unless I increase the Ape Demon Transformation to the fifth layer as well.
The first and second layers aren’t really an issue, but later on, the power will begin to grow abruptly, and the fourth heavenly tribulation will definitely descend upon me, Li Qingshan thought with furrowed eyebrows.

He came up with an idea very soon.
“Please watch over me!”

“Alright!” Gu Yanying and Rāhu Xiaoming were both serious.
Their paths had coincided together, and their lives were in each other’s hands, so watching over him was but a trifle.

Li Qingshan shut his eyes and burst into great flames.
Vaguely, it was possible to make out a phoenix dancing within the fire.

The phoenix’s nirvāṇa, rebirth in flames!

This was the first time Li Qingshan had proactively used the Nirvāṇa Rebirth.
In the past, he had always been beaten to his death, using the Nirvāṇa Rebirth because he had no other choice.

The feeling this time was very different.
He was in the best shape he had ever been, both in terms of his body and his mind.
On top of that, he had a world providing him with spiritual qi.

With the rebirth, everything was now on a clean slate.
Before his powers had even begun to recover, he devoted himself to constructing a new balance.

The ox demon stood still while the tiger demon leapt about.
The spirit turtle submerged while the phoenix soared.

The ape demon spread his arms that constantly elongated, embracing them all.

With a rumble, his daemon core shattered, and a world was born within his body.

Li Qingshan was overjoyed.
The world was so measly and insignificant.
It was still in a primitive, rudimentary form, but it was complete with everything despite its size.
By everything, that was earth, fire, wind, water, and space.

However, his aura had become much weaker, all because he suppressed the ox, the tiger, the turtle, and the phoenix to the second layer.

In the beginning, the transformations of the Nine Transformations of the Demonic and Divine were all very weak.
With his foundational cultivation at the second layer, it would not be strange at all if his powers regressed to Daemon General.
Even at most, it would be Daemon Commander.
However, he was clearly still a Daemon King right now.

If making Navy Li’l Fatty take a risk by devouring the space-devouring beasts was a gamble and going from a bicycle to a motorbike, then right now, he went from a steam engine to a nuclear reactor.
He underwent a change in quality.

With that, he could continue cultivating the Ape Demon Transformation.
That was not exactly difficult to him.
Once his Ape Demon Transformation reached the fifth layer, then the power of the other transformations could completely recover.
By then, he would possess unprecedented power, basically equivalent to having undergone the fourth heavenly tribulation.

However, the most wondrous part of that was according to his calculations, he still would not trigger the fourth heavenly tribulation once that occurred.
He would maintain his cultivation at Daemon King, allowing him to return to the nine provinces and reunite with Xiao An with ease.

“How is this possible? Just what is your cultivation method?”

Rāhu Xiaoming was astounded.
This was not an aura that a Daemon King was supposed to possess.
Regular cultivators often relied on undergoing tribulations to change like this.
How could he just jump around on the same spot as before and immediately learn how to fly?

“The Nine Transformations of the Demonic and Divine!”

Li Qingshan told him the truth, both out of trust and confidence.
He also wanted to learn some related information from Rāhu Xiaoming.
After all, brother ox definitely would not be a figure without renown.

Rāhu Xiaoming thought about it for a while before shaking his head.
“I’ve never heard about him.”

A cultivation method like this definitely should not have been unknown, so the only explanation was it had been newly-created, and it had only been taught to him.
Perhaps it was made for him.

“I really am a little envious of your good fortunes.
Don’t tell me that’s your father?”

“My father is a father.
That’s my brother!” Li Qingshan laughed aloud and waved his hand.
“Devour away, Li’l Fatty!”