Legend of the Great Sage

avens.
Our priority right now is to free second sister so that she can preside over the entire situation and scoop that stone lion out of the water first!”

Li Qingshan was surprised.
“Second sister! The Ocean-upheaving Great Sage, the Serpent Demon King!?” And that stone lion must be the Mountain-moving Great Sage, the Lion Spirit King, in Ruin’s End.
He wondered whether his other self had met with him yet.

“That’s right.”

“Where is she?”

The Macaque King did not directly answer him.
His six ears perked up, and he listened quietly for quite a good while before spitting out a single word sharply, “Dragonsgrave!”

“What kind of place is Dragonsgrave?”

“The ancestral grave of the Dragon clan.
All true dragons go there and wait for their deaths when they sense death approaching.” The Macaque King fumed.
“Those bastards from the heavenly palace sure are vicious.
They actually locked her up in a wretched place like that!”

“How do I reach Dragonsgrave?”

“There’s only one way.”

“Become a true dragon.”

“I see!”

Li Qingshan sank into his thoughts for a while.
If he had guessed correctly, the last divine transformation should have been the True Dragon Transformation.

The true dragon, the phoenix, the qilin, and the spirit turtle corresponded with four legendary spirits.
They were natural spirits that already existed since the formation of the universe.

“And then?”

“And then…” The Macaque King listened closely for a while longer before telling Li Qingshan the locations of the Heaven-stirring Great Sage, the Peng Demon King, and the Soul-controlling Great Sage, the Snub-nosed Moneky King.
“As long as you tell this to second sister, it’s enough.
You don’t have to worry about the rest.”

If he included brother ox beyond the Nine Heavens, the second sister in Dragonsgrave, and the six-eared bro right here, he knew the location of six of the Great Sages.
There was still one missing.

As a result, Li Qingshan asked without good intentions as if he was in thought, “Then, six-eared bro, what about the last one?”

The Macaque King’s ears perked up.
He listened around again before scratching his ears.
“This… he has problems at home, so you don’t have to worry.”

“But aren’t we his ‘family’? You’re all trapped, so where’s he?”

“This…” The Macaque King was unable to answer that.

“Don’t tell me he became…”

“Shut your mouth!” The Macaque King flew into a fury and bared his teeth.

Li Qingshan was completely unthreatened.
Then he asked, “Why were you suppressed originally?”

The Macaque King suddenly widened his eyes, which spun around rapidly.
He abruptly let out a strange cry and leapt up.
He began to expand, reaching a hundred metres, a thousand metres, ten thousand metres tall… until he filled the entire white space, struggling, roaring, and ready to declare war at the world!

The Cakravadaparvata mountains rumbled as the entire Hell realm shook violently.

The Tower of Gazing Home collapsed, the Road to the Yellow Springs was broken, and the River of Forgetfulness flowed in reverse.

The six realms of saṃsāra and the trichiliocosm were all affected, leading to many earthquakes, rockslides, storms, and floods.
Great gales uprooted colossal trees and swept up great waves on the ocean.

King Pingdeng’s expression suddenly changed.
As long as they had yet to Merge the Void with the Dao, even True Immortals were not indestructible.

The Ten Hell Guards exchanged glances, all wanting to retreat.
If it were not for King Pingdeng’s presence, they would have scattered a long time ago.

Kṣitigarbha sat unfazed, chanting away softly as if he was comforting him yet also suppressing him.

Li Qingshan stood within the centre of the storm, experiencing the unbelievable power and might.
This was no regular monkey after all, but the Wind-coursing Great Sage.

His cultivation at the sixth heavenly tribulation was completely insignificant.
Even just a gentle breeze could erase his existence.
Even with how furious the Macaque King was, he did not harm him at all, probably because he acknowledged him as his eighth brother!

Li Qingshan understood that he was simply too heart-broken.

A while later, perhaps due to Kṣitigarbha’s chanting, the Macaque King gradually calmed down.
“Don’t ask anything more about it.
There are also things that I don’t know!” He extended a claw that seemed as vast as a grassland.
“Enter my palm.
I’ll send you out of here!”

Li Qingshan leapt onto the Macaque King’s palm.
“You…” This time, the Macaque King did not interrupt him, but he had no idea what to say.
Even after becoming a Great Sage, would it all still be so painful?

The Macaque King said, “Qingshan, I will convert everything you’ve comprehended here into a letter of wind.
You don’t have to comprehend it all again outside.”

“Alright.” Li Qingshan nodded.
This was extremely helpful to him.
Probably even many True Immortals and arhats never received such great treatment, yet he did not thank him.

The Macaque King smiled in satisfaction.
“You have to believe that we’re different from those guys up in the heavens!”

Li Qingshan knew he was referring to him as well by “we”.
He nodded.
“I believe!”

The Macaque King cheered up again and grinned.
“That’s more like it!” Then his cheeks swelled up before he blew hard.

Li Qingshan suddenly felt like his body had become weightless.
He was hoisted up by a great gust of wind, such that he became a part of the wind.

He flew out of this white land immediately, over the Cakravadaparvata mountains, over the Ten Courts of Yanluo.
He saw the king of hell that came after him before.

King Pingdeng seemed to sense him, gazing up, but he did not see him.

He even saw the large ghost who sold tickets to the Tower of Gazing Home who was currently crushed under the tower, howling out in pain.
He could not help but smile.
When he looked around again, he had already left the Hell realm, returning to the Human realm.

In the Formless realm, the Macaque King gradually shrank, conjuring his three heads and six arms again.
He covered his eyes, ears, and mouth, not seeing, not listening, and not speaking, yet he wept in dejection.
They rolled down his cheeks, turning into stone.

“Wukong, why?”