Legend of the Great Sage

ally received such cold treatment in the Mist province.

However, he already understood what was being implied behind all this.
“No matter what kind of danger you run into, don’t rely on anyone standing up for you.
Even if you’re killed, no one will be there to avenge you!”

“Message received!” Li Qingshan smiled.
He said to Xiao An, “This place doesn’t want me, but there’ll be a place that wants me.
Let’s go!”

As a result, he did not stop in the Mist capital and headed straight to the South Sea commandery.
The two of them stopped every now and then.
After a dozen or so days of flying, they finally reached the commandery city of South Sea at dusk.

The air became hotter and more humid.
When he took in a breath, he felt like he had sucked in a lung full of hot steam.
Trees that stood over a hundred meters tall were commonplace and several-hundred-meter-tall trees were not rare either.
If this were his past life, they would be hundred-storey-tall skyscrapers instead.
They formed a primitive yet three-dimensional world, and the commandery city of South Sea happened to be built within it.

More accurately, it was built on a huge tree that almost stood one thousand five hundred meters tall.
The bark was riddled with holes and wrapped in pathways constructed from wooden planks.
People in strange attires entered and emerged from these holes, making their way around the wooden pathways like tiny ants.

The thick tree branches supported structures upon structures and forts upon forts.
People made their way around on skyways woven from vines, moving between the branches.
The place was clamorous and bustling, no different from a regular human city.

Before Li Qingshan had come to the South Sea commandery, he had done some homework.
He knew that the further south, the thicker and larger the trees would become.
Everyone lived among the trees, and unless it was absolutely necessary, they would never go to the ground.
Some people had never even visited the ground in their entire lives.

Sunlight struggled to penetrate the thick canopy, so the ground never saw the light of day.
Thick mist floated along the ground constantly as life-threatening miasma.
The layers upon layers of leaves formed a terrain that was akin to a bog, which was heaven to various daemonic beasts and venomous insects.
Even the plants that lived in the shade all year round were filled with aggressiveness.

Under an extreme environment like this, even cultivators would be in danger, let alone mortals.
It was impossible for barbarian tribes composed of mortals to exist.
Only powerful shaman tribes could survive here, and they had to constantly face the test of death.

As a result, the boundary between good and bad became extremely blurred.
Only survival took priority.
Most of those who managed to survive in these circumstances were gritty, vicious, and crafty, willing to do anything for the sake of survival.
Whether it was man or woman, old or young, they all desperately seeked power.

As a result, demonic and evil arts that could rapidly increase strength were prominent, regardless of how bloody the cultivation method was or how severe the side-effects were.
It was absolutely impossible for a pure and peaceful cultivation system to exist here.
If they could not even survive today, why would they think about what happened in a decade’s time?

Gambling their lives went without saying.
Lives were worth nothing, whether it was someone else’s or their own.
The more afraid of dying a person was, the shorter their lives would be.
As a result, no matter if demonic cultivators prospered or declined, they could never be completely eradicated.
The strong that emerged from this piece of land all bore the deep marks of demonic cultivators no matter what cultivation method they practised.

“From today onwards, we’ll be living in a place like this.
Doesn’t seem too bad.
It’s a pity that we’re still very far away from the sea.
Once I visit the Hawkwolf Guard, let’s go take a look at the ocean!” Li Qingshan said in complete anticipation. 

Despite practising the Arts of the Boundless Ocean for all these years, he had yet to see the ocean of this world! The true ocean surged with waves and was boundless.

As the landmark structure of the Hawkwolf Guard, a silver-white hawk perched on a massive branch high up on a huge tree.
At first glance, they actually matched together, like a regular hawk perching on a branch.

Li Qingshan flew over and attracted countless gazes.
A vigilant voice rang out from the Hawkwolf Guard.

“Who are you?”

“The White Wolf commander, Li Qingshan!”

 ps： 再次感谢“sjnzh12”同学的打赏，给本书又增添了一位盟主，虽然在写作的过程中，总会遇到各种各样的问题，更新想快也快不起来，正是有这样连绵不断的支持，我才能坚持下去，并努力的越写越好。