Legend of the Great Sage

someone had stolen his love.

Little did he know that while Si Long’s words did have an element of exaggeration due to his emotions, it was not actually a lie.

Nine-tailed foxes were blessed with beauty by nature.
From birth, they possessed endless charms, earning the good graces of all.
Wherever they went, it would always lead to a struggle.
The Yousu clan even ranked first in terms of charms among the nine-tailed foxes, so they were even more disastrous with their beauties.
Even gods and immortals had once died over them.
On top of that, this Nine-tailed Fox Empress, Su Mirao, had been specially selected from the best among the best in the Yousu clan in the Kingdom of Green Hills.

If that were not the case, it was impossible for Si Long to lose his composure like this, much less shake Li Qingshan’s will.
After all, neither of them were innocent, inexperienced men who had not seen women before.
In their lifetimes alone, they had basically witnessed many vicissitudes.

“I’m very sorry.
The person I’m waiting for has already arrived.”

Right as Si Long expressed his sincerity, a single reply from the Nine-tailed Fox Empress completely shattered all of his fantasies.

Si Long roared out, “I don’t believe you! Tell me! Who is it exactly?”

“Look right before you.
Why, isn’t it him?”

The Nine-tailed Fox Empress’s slender hand grabbed Li Qingshan’s sleeve gently.
Her voice seemed to possess a hint of shyness and sweetness.

Happiness came too suddenly!

Li Qingshan felt woozy, basically wondering whether he was dreaming or not, or perhaps he had fallen into an illusion woven by the Nine-tailed Fox Empress a long time ago and everything he saw and felt was fake.
However, he had confirmed a long time ago that everything happening before his eyes was not an illusion.

Logically, it was impossible for an illusion like that to exist.
No matter how great the Nine-tailed Fox Empress’s hidden strength was, no matter how special her bloodline was, the power of the techniques she could use in the World of the Nine Provinces was limited.
Si Long had only managed to overcome this limit through the will of the heavens, the heart of the people, and the nine cauldrons.
Even with that, he still viewed Li Qingshan as a great enemy, so how could he be dancing in the palm of her hand?

If it isn’t an illusion, then am I actually the person she’s waiting for…

Li Qingshan bit the tip of his tongue viciously and circulated the Spirit Turtle’s Method of Sea Suppression, trying his best to maintain his mental clarity.

No, I can’t believe it so easily.
Even if everything isn’t an illusion, it might be a lie by this vixen so that we end up fighting viciously.
Though, if I emerge victoriously, I’ll never spare her.

There was one person who refused to believe this even more than him.
Si Long was furious.
“You’re lying to me! He didn’t even exist five thousand years ago! Even with his rebirths and reincarnations, it’s enough for him to be reborn over a hundred times.
How would you know he would be born here? If he really is the person you’re waiting for, why didn’t you meet with him much sooner, waiting for exactly this day before you mentioned it? Su Mirao, what are you trying to do exactly?”

The Nine-tailed Fox Empress shook her head gently.
“Everything was the lord of the kingdom’s arrangements.
What can I do about it?”

“How’s that possible?”

Si Long shuddered inside.
The lord of the Kingdom of Green Hills was definitely a Daemon Immortal, having undergone the seventh heavenly tribulation at the very least.
He never imagined someone like her would interfere with the measly World of the Nine Provinces.

Although he had just said he would become a Human Immortal, and then a True Immortal, so she could accompany him openly, he understood exactly how difficult this process would be and how slim his chances at succeeding were.

The path of cultivation was more difficult the further one went.
Throughout the countless creatures in the trichiliocosm, only so many were able to become immortals.
The entire Myriad sect had only produced a single True Immortal in a million years.
That was a million years in the Human realm.

During this process, countless stars had been born and countless worlds had been destroyed.
Human Sovereigns like him were like common carp.
There were an immeasurable number of them.
Who wasn’t a genius of startling talent? Yet in the end, they all struggled to break free from the cycle of rebirth, saṃsāra.

True Immortals had broken free from saṃsāra, no longer existing among the five elements.
They coexisted with the world and shone with the celestial bodies.
The difference between a True Immortal and a Human Sovereign like him was basically even greater than the difference between him and a mortal.

As for the great cultivators and female Daemon Kings, they had not even made it past the basic threshold to become an immortal, so they could not really understand Si Long’s shock.

Li Qingshan’s scarlet eyebrows pressed together slightly.
He sank into his thoughts.

If that was the case, everything made sense.
A nine-tailed fox of unmatched talent would waste five thousand years in the nine provinces all because of an order from a superior, not because of something like infatuation.

“The lord of the kingdom placed me in this world and made me wait here for a fated person.
She said I don’t have to go out of my way to look for that person, as they will come to me one day.
She wanted me to marry him, to become his virtuous wife and assist him in realising his dream, reaching beyond the Nine Heavens.”

Li Qingshan suddenly raised his eyebrows.
His scarlet eyes burned like fire.

Beyond the Nine Heavens—what a long time it has been since he last heard those four words!