Legend of the Great Sage

ingshan.

Li Qingshan curled his lip.
He had not used any force at all, but he still appreciated her acting.
She truly was a natural spirit.
It was very spirited.

Why would daemonic beasts care about the rules of the Human realm? The nine-coloured deer did not care about the Hundred Herbs garden or the Myriad sect either.
She was only concerned about Ruan Yaozhu’s safety.

“You’re despicable!” Ruan Yaozhu glared at Li Qingshan, having truly been angered by him, tempted to just kill him on the spot.

“You know me.
I always do everything I say I would,” said Li Qingshan.

“Then did you do everything you promised me?” Ruan Yaozhu only felt like neither death nor life was an option at that point.

Li Qingshan was unable to answer her.
He sighed gently.
“Yaozhu, will you trust me one more time?”

Ruan Yaozhu’s heart skipped a beat, but she did not give him an answer.
She finally rose up into the sky, flying between the tribulation clouds.
“Qingshan, promise me one last thing.”

“Go on.”

“If I fail the tribulation, please spare her.”

“Yaozhu!” The nine-coloured deer said tearily, “You definitely won’t fail! We’ll be together forever!”

“Alright.
As long as you give it your all, I won’t touch a hair on her regardless of what ends up happening.
However, as long as you even consider death, it won’t be able to escape my watch.”

“I won’t consider death.
I want to become a Human Immortal, to exterminate demons and guard the orthodoxy!” Ruan Yaozhu ground her teeth.

“Alright!” Li Qingshan smiled.
He no longer wanted to distract her anymore, so he released the nine-coloured deer.

At this moment, the might of the heavenly tribulation peaked, and it all condensed into a single point.
The nine-coloured deer cried out, “An armament of tribulation lightning!”

Li Qingshan was not unfamiliar with this sight, but he could not help but sigh.
“This is it?”

As it turned out, the “armament of tribulation lightning” was a small sword around half a metre long.
It clearly possessed tremendous might, but Li Qingshan had never seen such a delicate “armament of tribulation lightning” before.
He could not help but curse, “Damned heavens, why do I get huge blades and axes when I face the tribulation?”

He had basically witnessed the definition of “the heavens are unfair” now, just like the exams he took in his past life.
They were the same subjects, yet the difficulties of the exams differed.
They were the same mark, yet the schools they could enter were different.

The nine-coloured deer sneered.
“Hmph, you’re really going to tell me you don’t know that?”

Li Qingshan smiled.
“Of course, I know.
There are no gods watching over up above.
Justice lies within the blade!”

He stared at the tiny sword, and his gaze became extremely deep and distant as if he had realised something.

In the past, he only treated heavenly tribulations as a phenomenon of nature and went on about some cliches like “obedience is mortality and defiance is immortality.”

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However, just who could defy the Dao and nature? Just who could not abide by it?

Were raging rivers also supposed to be tests from the heavenly Dao to those who crossed the river? Where defiance led to success and obedience meant being washed away, becoming a floating corpse? Perhaps that did make some sense, but that was still just the fantasy that people came up with.

Since he had already become a god, Forging his Soul back into the Void and comprehending the laws of the world, he discovered many man-made traces within the heavenly tribulation.
This probably was not some test from the heavenly Dao at all!

He found the significance behind the armaments of tribulation lightning to be extremely familiar.
That’s right, it bore great resemblance to Sovereign Xi’s lightning.
There was a tremendous difference in terms of quality, like a drop compared to an ocean, but they shared the same origins when it came to quality.
It truly was filled with the might and dignity of the heavenly Dao because Sovereign Xi was basically the embodiment of the heavenly Dao.

Since Sovereign Wa had succeeded in mending the heavens, Sovereign Xi had returned to the heavenly Dao too.

Then who was the one who set down these laws to massacre the cultivators in the world?

But regardless of who it was, they clearly showed great grace towards the path of nature that Ruan Yaozhu walked, so the might of the heavenly tribulation was much weaker.

The tiny sword also rampaged through the air, leaving behind blinding traces as it attempted to kill Ruan Yaozhu, but compared to everything that Li Qingshan encountered, it was only like a modest display of what it was truly capable of, like a patient, guiding teacher.

However, Ruan Yaozhu was still under life-threatening danger, clearly unable to handle the test of the armament of tribulation lightning, and her inner demons began to stir.