Legend of the Great Sage

eard that, he was furious. Not only is this damned bald ass trying to steal my woman, but he’s even trying to act superior to me!

The conditions that this prince Tsangyang had put forward were truly fantastic, but he was not worried that Qiu Haitang would accept them.
If her mind could be changed so easily, he would not have come to the Lightning province in the first place.
There would not have been so many ties between them back then too.
They would have lost each other in the sea of people a long time ago.

“Yes, he might have forgotten about me already.
He has always had plenty of women by his side, and it’s true that he’s fickle.
No, perhaps he’s never taken the matter of love particularly seriously in the first place…”

Qiu Haitang criticised Li Qingshan mercilessly.
He was basically trash among trash as a man.
Everyone felt like leaving a man like that was basically the justice enforced upon him.

Even Li Qingshan’s face had darkened, but he could not help but admit she really had not wrongly accused him of anything.
He could hear the attachment within her voice too, so he continued to listen quietly.

A smile appeared on prince Tsangyang’s face.
His persistence over the recent years had finally paid off.
Several years might have been very long to mortals, but it was nothing to him who had lived seven lives.

Female cultivators had always been relatively rare, and those that could reach her cultivation were even rarer.
On top of that, she was naturally beautiful and striking, and she had practised the arts of mesmerisation, which pushed her beauty to the limits.
As long as he had her, how could regular women still catch his eye? It would be of great benefit to his practice of the chan of delightful union.

Other schools of buddhism viewed esoteric buddhism as heretical, and the chan of delightful union was almost a demonic path.
Those who did not possess great wisdom and great willpower could not practise and adhere to it.
They understood the buddhist truth that form was emptiness and emptiness was form through sexual desire and love, so it would always lead to the transcendence of lust.

However, he felt guiltless.
This was of great benefit to Qiu Haitang as well.
If she could see through the emptiness of appearances and convert to buddhism, she too would enjoy endless benefits.
She was basically his natural cultivation partner.

Qiu Haitang said all of that in a single breath and paused for a moment.
Suddenly, she changed her tone.
“But what does that have to do with me? And what does that have to do with you?”

Prince Tsangyang was taken aback.

Qiu Haitang said, “Why must you always calculate the costs and benefits to such a precise degree? Why must there always be something in return for how you feel or what you do? I love him.
That’s my problem.
What, if the buddha doesn’t give you benefits, you’d stop believing in the buddha?”

Prince Tsangyang was annoyed.
“He’s just a measly wretched daemon.
How can he compare to the buddha?”

“How are you so muddle-headed, your highness? I’m not talking about Li Qingshan, but love! To me, that’s something even more important than the buddha.
Even if Li Qingshan has let me down in countless different ways, I’ve never wanted anything in return from him, much less does he owe me anything.
Speaking of which, he’s very powerful.
Your highness, in consideration of the care you’ve shown me over the years, I really do not wish to drag you into this matter, so I’ll take my leave right now.”

Qiu Haitang bowed gracefully, turning around to return to her room.

The crowd was silent, whether inside or outside.
As people of the Lightning province, nothing was more important than the buddha.
They could not accept this reason, but they were still touched by it.

“Hold on.
Where are you going?” Prince Tsangyang felt like he had just lost something extremely important to him, so he felt empty inside.

“Obviously to find him.” Qiu Haitang smiled back at him, without any resentment or regret.

Prince Tsangyang became even more reluctant to see her go.
He could not help but say, “He has made an enemy out of Great Xia, out of the Human Sovereign.
He no longer has much time left!”

“And so what?” Qiu Haitang was unsurprised.
She did not feel like that was a particularly big deal, but when she considered the thought process of other people, she said in thought, “Yeah, that’s why you have the courage to persevere like this, unafraid of offending him…”

“How can you say that, Haitang? I confessed my love to you many years ago,” said prince Tsangyang furiously.

However, he felt a little guilty inside.
Back then, he had first confirmed Li Qingshan had been launched out of the nine heavens.
He never thought Li Qingshan could still return.
No one wanted to provoke a powerful enemy.

Qiu Haitang did not delve deeper into the matter.
“Alright then.
Please don’t be angered, your highness.
If you’re willing to accompany me and explain this to him, then I’ll have wrongly accused you.
I’ll definitely apologise.”

“You’re trying to send me to my doom!”

How could prince Tsangyang agree to that? Li Qingshan had killed a Corpse Emperor and destroyed the Spirit Kṣetra temple.
Just how terrifying of a power was that? Just how violent of a personality was that? Even Si Long was momentarily powerless against him.

If he went up to him and told him to the face that he liked his woman, would that not just be asking to die?

Qiu Haitang smiled.
“I will speak for your highness.
At least it won’t be a certain death.
Actually, he’s not as terrifying as the rumours say.
If I were you, I’d go even if it’s certain death.
As long as I can make the person I love believe in my love and remember my appearance, so what if I end up facing eternal damnation?”

She seemed to shine with invisible light, drawing over everyone’s gaze, yet also so bright that they could not stare at her directly.
She gave off an unbelievable feeling.

When mortals spoke lightly of death, that was probably only in the heat of the moment.
They would only lose a few decades, but to cultivators, that was centuries or even a millennia of freedom.
That was time spent while preserving youth, free from the torture of sickness and pain, with the opportunity to become immortals.
If they were killed, perhaps they truly did face eternal damnation, even losing the opportunity to undergo rebirth.

As a cultivator who pursued longevity, she truly had shocked everyone by saying something like that.

Prince Tsangyang’s expression changed again and again.
Not only had he failed to obtain her, but he had even suffered a great blow to his reputation as the Love Monk of Seven Lives.
His wisdom, cultivation, and status were all much higher than hers, yet he came nowhere close when it came to love.
He felt like he had been slapped across the face.

Li Qingshan sighed inside. Alright then.
This woman’s madness is getting worse and worse! In the past, she was only an infatuated young woman, but now, she’s almost become a saintess of love.
Though, I like it!