Legend of the Great Sage

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He felt like he was cursing himself, but he was not wrong.

The Spirit Turtle Suppresses the Seas!

Li Qingshan recovered control over his body.
Blinding light filled his eyes as the One Lamp monk slammed over heavily with a tail of light.

“Can you stop? Demon Suppression Tower!”

Li Qingshan powered his demon heart, and a colossal Demon Suppression Tower enveloped him.

With a boom, the Demon Suppression Tower rocked, and the One Lamp monk rebounded away.
The halo had been forcefully shattered, and his bald head was all bloodied.

Li Qingshan snickered.
With how powerful his demonic nature was, he really did come close to impregnable if he used the Demon Suppression Tower for defence.

The One Lamp monk became even more furious.
He shook his head and wanted to continue fighting.
Suddenly, the buddha’s voice rang out in his head again, urging him to go to the ninth floor.

Perhaps that blow to the head was effective, as he also began to sense that something was amiss.
He gazed at the Demon Suppression tower in front of him before glancing back at the Demon Suppression statue behind him.
For a moment, he began to waver.

Under the Demon Suppression statue, the door that led to the ninth floor suddenly opened up.
A powerful suction appeared within the gaping entrance.
Fierce winds whistled about, sucking the One Lamp monk over.
In a daze, he did not put up any resistance, flying straight towards the doorway.
He was about to fall into the ninth floor.

Suddenly, he came to a halt.
A Chain of Demon Suppression wrapped around the One Lamp monk’s legs, and the other end of the chain was coiled around Li Qingshan’s hand.
He smiled.
“You son of a turtle, don’t even think about that!”

The voice roared furiously, “If you still refuse to let him go, you might as well just tear him into two!”

Others might have hesitated there, afraid to use any strength, but what kind of person was Li Qingshan? He went from a one-handed grip to a two-handed grip and began pulling it backwards like it was a tug of war.

“Come at me.
Who’s afraid of who? I’ll take you on!”

He silently crushed the bead on the string of prayer beads the Unraging monk had given him.
He truly never expected everything to develop like this.
Fortunately, he had the spirit turtle’s warnings, which kept him on guard the entire time.
If he was accidentally pulled into the ninth floor, his life would probably be in danger.
The thing suppressed on the ninth floor definitely was something else.

Rip! The One Lamp monk’s robes ripped open along his waist.
Afterwards, the skin around his waist began to pull apart too.
Blood poured out like a spring, sucked away into the door.

“Apologies, senior brother One Lamp, but as a disciple of buddhism, if I don’t go to hell, who goes to hell? Even if you die, you can’t end up in the hands of the demonic path.
Isn’t that right?”

Li Qingshan sighed.
He did not loosen his grip at all.
If the One Lamp monk ended up on the ninth floor, he would not even have a chance of surviving.
It was even possible for him to be used as a bargaining chip against the Chan Monastery of Deva-Nāga

Compared to that, he was better off taking a gamble and hoping that the Unraging monk could make it in time.
But as it seemed, he also had to consider how to explain this to the Unraging monk if he could not make it in time.
“Master, I saved half of senior brother One Lamp.
There’s no need to thank me!”

At this moment, the Chains of Demon Suppression suddenly slackened!

 ……

“Oh no, something has happened!”

The Unraging monk just happened to be talking to the Dauntless monk on Great Buddha mountain when his heart skipped a beat, and his face changed drastically.
He rushed to the back of the mountain in a hurry and arrived on the eighth floor of the Demon Suppression hall.

“Qingshan,what happened? Why is this lamp in your possession?”

Li Qingshan sat with his legs crossed in a corner of the hall, fiddling around with the One Lamp monk’s lamp.
The speck of firelight had already been extinguished!

In front of him was a Demon Suppression Tower!

“Master, you’re finally here! I managed to save senior brother One Lamp, and in the whole too!”

Li Qingshan placed particular stress towards the end.
With a wave of his hand, the Demon Suppression Tower vanished.
The One Lamp monk laid inside, currently unconscious.
He did not seem injured, but his waist had been stretched out to a point where it was particularly long and slender.

In the final moment earlier, the One Lamp monk’s lamp suddenly erupted with light.
Li Qingshan felt the force from the other side of the door loosen, so he took advantage of it and pulled the One Lamp monk back.

When he checked the lamp, it had already run out of oil.
Who knew whether it had awakened from the One Lamp monk’s agony, or that the buddhist treasure was intelligent and automatically protected its master!

“What happened?”

At this moment, the Dauntless monk and Xiao An rushed over too.

Li Qingshan explained what had happened.
He sighed.
“If it weren’t for me, the Chan Monastery of Deva-Nāga would have lost a genius disciple and an arcane treasure.
If you still won’t let her go, abbot, that would be far too mean of you!”

Xiao An said, “Qingshan, the abbot has already agreed to let me accompany you to the South Sea commandery!”

“That’s fantastic!” Li Qingshan rejoiced and smiled.
“The abbot has a clear sight of the greater good.
Even we, the disciples of the younger generation, have been motivated by you!”

The Dauntless monk shot a fierce glance at him and waved his hand.
Golden light scattered down. 

The One Lamp monk roused slowly.
His eyes were still rather lost.

The Unraging monk suddenly smacked him over the head, A Blow and a Shout!

The One Lamp monk shuddered, and his eyes cleared up.
He looked around and remembered everything that had happened earlier.
He felt both ashamed and guilt-ridden, tempted to just throw himself at a pillar and end his life there.
He bowed deeply.

“Abbot… I… junior brother… It’s all because my willpower wasn’t firm enough that I was taken advantage of by the demons! Please punish me, abbot!”

The Unraging monk said, “There’s no need for you to blame yourself so much.
The thing suppressed down there is one of the Seventy-two Daemon Kings of the past, the Soaring Locust King.
His cultivation completely exceeds yours.
Even I’m not his opponent.
You’ve spent your entire life cultivating in the monastery, so you have a pure mind.
That’s both your advantage as well as your flaw, just like how the pure are easy to defile.
This disciple of mine has always been a rock from latrine, both foul and tough, which is why I don’t have that worry.
I didn’t think you’d develop a competitive mentality of blindly comparing yourself to others!”