Legend of the Great Sage

y no ordinary sixth heavenly tribulation!

With how mighty the heavens were, how could a measly man stand a chance!

Can I? Li Qingshan questioned himself.

If he used the thought processes of the spirit turtle, his cultivation was nowhere near consolidated enough.
He had progressed far too quickly, which led to an unstable foundation.

And, it was very easy to invoke the wrath of heaven, where the heavens triumphed over humanity!

Clitter clatter! Loose rock fell like rain inside the dwelling.

Crack! A colossal stalactite snapped off, falling towards Li Qingshan.

With a boom, it fell into the water, producing a great wave.
Li Qingshan was nowhere to be seen.

“All these matters, coming too suddenly!” Li Qingshan recited proudly, riding the waves.
“The world spins and time presses!”

His daemon qi rushed into the air, stirring up the winds and clouds, contending against the heavens!

“Ten millennia is too long.
All I can do is seize every moment!”

A flash of lightning turned the surroundings like daytime, completely illuminated the abyss.

Boom!

An extremely deep rumble rang out.
It was better described as the beat of a drum than thunder.

With lightning as the sticks and the heavens as the drum, it struck away!

The hollow mountain that held on arduously immediately collapsed, like it had collapsed inwards.
It swallowed Li Qingshan immediately, making him fall towards the abyss.

Li Qingshan’s organs were in agony and his bones were close to shattering.
Blood swelled up in his throat, dyeing his lips red.

Never had he faced such terrifying might from the heavens, basically like it was swatting flies.
Most sorrowfully, he was that pitiful fly.

Listening to the anger of the heavens, he licked his lips.
His blood surged.

His wings extended to the limit, and he clenched his fist firmly, throwing a punch up!

A single person burst out from the rubble, overlooking the ocean and facing the heavens.

The colossal waves gathered like mountains, like giant hands that wanted to drag him into the depths, yet also trying to hoist him up into the air.

“The four seas surge and the clouds and waters rage.
The five continents tremor and the wind and thunder roars!”

He grinned and laughed aloud, spreading his arms towards the sky.

“Come!”

So what if I’m a fly? So what if I’m an ant? This is the life I want.
This is me, Li Qingshan!

The sky full of wind and lightning shot towards him, condensing into a colossal axe of lightning that cleaved down right over him!

There was not even a single bolt of regular lightning.
Right from the beginning, it was an armament of tribulation lightning.

The heavy air, the terrifying forces, and the invisible laws restrained him from all directions.
It formed an air-tight barrier, like it was trying to suffocate him.

Without any regard, he just threw a punch.

Boom! Space shook, becoming riddled with countless cracks.
It knocked the axe of lightning away.

At this moment, a colossal, black figure appeared in the depths of the ocean.
It gave off a disgusting stench.

Li Qingshan narrowed his eyes.
That was a drowned corpse, having swelled up and rotted due to floating in the water for too long, now bloated.
Its pale-white skin was bulging with green veins, and its belly seemed like it was about to burst.

At a closer glance, the corpse’s appearance had become unclear due to the rot, but it did bear some resemblance to Li Qingshan.

Li Qingshan shuddered inside as great terror overcame him.
That was his appearance upon death.
As a matter of fact, there was nothing solemn or stirring about it.
It was just disgustingly ugly.

At this moment, armaments of tribulation lightning condensed.
Blades, spear, swords, halberds, axes, battle axes, hook swords, forks… all the weapons that could be imagined appeared, all hanging in the sky, pointing towards him.

Meanwhile, he seemed to be caught in a nightmare, staring at the corpse blankly.

Suddenly, the corpse stood up with a roar.
It moved with unimaginable agility, leaping into his body!

His body began to bloat, and his life force rapidly receded.
His body gave off a foul stench and began to totter.
The world spun around him.

He powered the Spirit Turtle’s Method of Sea Suppression as hard as he could, suppressing this thought.
He suddenly realised. Mṛtyu-māra!

The māra of death, mṛtyu-māra, was the most terrifying demon beneath devaputra-māra.
Normally, the sixth heavenly tribulation only came with kleśa-māra.
Just what kind of sin did he commit to deserve a mṛtyu-māra?

This made no sense at all.
A mṛtyu-māra was something for stopping Human Immortals from becoming True Immortals!