Legend of the Great Sage

kmarks obediently.

The Spirit Reverend of Ocean Returnance accepted the bookmarks casually and gave him a jade slip.

Li Qingshan browsed through it slightly, only to find it indescribably deep and profound.
He tried to comprehend it further and images immediately began to flash through his eyes; sometimes the vast sea of stars and other times blood and corpses strewn everywhere; sometimes the terrors and horrors of a world’s destruction and other times the vigour and energy of saving the world…

Then the images condensed into supernatural figures, either gentle or terrifying, either dancing around or beastial.
For a moment, it was like a riotous reverie of demons, making his mind stir and tempting him to dance along.
An unmatched sensation of delight rapidly spread through his chest, almost bursting out of his body and rushing beyond the heavens until it filled the entire universe.

The Spirit Reverend of Ocean Returnance silently observed Li Qingshan.
He did not warn him about how dangerous it was to casually browse the entire Heavenly Tome of Liberty with his current cultivation.

The Heavenly Tome of Liberty was probably the most dangerous and unpredictable heavenly tome that was most prone to cultivation deviation out of the Myriad Heavenly Tomes.
It was filled with contradictions and disputes, chaos and impermanence.
If he remained careful and prudent, cautious like he was hesitating, he would struggle to attain the will of “liberty”.
However, if he let himself be washed away by the great joy and laughter, dancing to its tune, he would definitely fall into madness and confusion.

Even he had taken significant time before he managed to complete the calculations, but it was only in a rudimentary form.
The path that belonged to the lord of the māra, Maheśvara, could not be trodden by any simple person.

However, from the moment Li Qingshan began cultivating, the struggle between the demonic and the divine in his heart had never stopped.
The tiger demon’s frenzy left him bloodthirsty and battle-hungry, and he loved the ape demon’s ability to do whatever it wanted, yet none of it could destroy the qilin’s bit of benevolence at the end of the day.

The various demonic thoughts and the many divine natures constantly struggled together, tugging at one another.

He was once known as the hero king, using novels to spread martial arts in an attempt to achieve true equality.
He had once possessed benevolent thoughts, wanting to save all the living creatures in the world, but he had also gone as far as to destroy an entire world for the sake of contending against a powerful enemy.

He had never been ensnared by the contradictions.
He stayed true to himself, without any regrets or resentment.
From a certain perspective, the Heavenly Tome of Liberty was basically made to fit him.
At the very least, he would not suffer from cultivation deviation that easily.

He removed his soul sense from the jade slip as if he was not attached to that sense of liberty and delight at all.
He clasped his hands.
“Thank you for your guidance, senior.
This cultivation truly is extremely wondrous.
I will comprehend and practise it properly so that I can make it to new heights!”

He could not help but rejoice in his gamble with Le Tian.
Otherwise, who knew how many years he would have to spend working for the Myriad sect before he could obtain this Heavenly Tome of Liberty.
Time was far too important to him.
The benefits of the gamble had already begun to show itself.

The Spirit Reverend of Ocean Returnance thought, Sure enough, the warning was unneeded.
This kid’s will is so staunch and unyielding that he cannot be treated as a regular person.
He is an outstanding genius! If he doesn’t die along the way, he’ll definitely achieve great things.
He’ll be far more than just a direct disciple of the Myriad sect.
Though, I wonder whether he’ll be a curse or a blessing to the Myriad sect.
I need to continue observing him!

He waved his hand in an unconcerned manner.
“If there’s nothing else, you can go! Don’t get in the way of my reading.” He turned around and left.

Li Qingshan had achieved his objective of remaining in the Myriad sect, and he had obtained an extremely important heavenly tome too.
He should have been completely satisfied, yet he felt lost as if he had missed something important.

From the corner of his eyes, he saw the bookshelves that stood several metres tall, connecting with the ceiling.
Suddenly, he had a flash of inspiration.
He recalled the books that had flooded his face like thousands of butterflies earlier.
Through his exceptional memory, he found the books one by one on the shelves and noticed something surprising.

Most of the books were not cultivation methods, but various tales, writings, records, and rumours.
They were all stories.

He yelled out before the Spirit Reverend of Ocean Returnance completely disappeared, “Hold on!”

The Spirit Reverend of Ocean Returnance looked back with his hands on his back.
His body did not move at all as his head almost swivelled all the way round.
“What else?”

“Senior, you like novels?”