Legend of the Great Sage

eady become firmly ingrained.
Neither of them trusted each other.
Moreover, the smiling Li Qingshan with his arms crossed and the silent Xiao An behind prevented them from acting recklessly.

The two of them raised their hands and gained the recognition of the Eight Point formation very quickly.
They bellowed out together, and under their control, the light rippled, surging about like the tide.
Talismans drifted through the air, and eight vicious beasts faded in.
Their roars boomed through the centre of the mountain.

“We’re injured, so we can’t last for too long.
If you want to retrieve the scroll, please move quickly!” Yu Wufeng said.

Li Qingshan smiled and made his way over, entering the Eight Point formation fearlessly.
Xiao An’s dark pupils turned into the Samādhi Flames of White Bone, blazing away as she stared at the two of them.
The Buddha Slaying sword was already in her hands.
If they tried to do something else, she would kill them immediately.

The eight vicious beasts moved aside and formed a path, but they were still filled with reluctance.
They brandished their claws and bared their fangs, wanting to lunge over at all times.

Li Qingshan arrived before the stone pedestal and picked up the Blood Oath Scroll before backing out.

Yu Wufeng and the Gentleman of Heavenly Blubber sat on the ground, gasping for air, but their eyes were glued to the Blood Oath Scroll.
The arcane treasure that they had dreamt of for all these years was merely inches away right now.

Li Qingshan unfurled the Blood Oath Scroll, and an evil nature together with demon qi flooded his face.
In that moment, a black, vicious, non-human skull actually appeared in his eyes.
Its hollow eye sockets gazed at him, and two streaks of blood tears flowed out.

In the blink of an eye, the illusion vanished, only leaving behind the pitch-black background with lines of bloody words.
That was the blood oath contract that bounded the cave masters of the Lair of Demons.
Right below the contract were eight vague figures.

Four of them seemed to be forcefully dug out from the background.
The outline they left behind corresponded to the Silkworm Madam and the other three.
There were another two that were extremely blurry as if they had been gently erased with an eraser.
One of them even had a bloody handprint over them, which went without saying who they were.
The last two remained as clear as before, which were the third cave master and seventh cave master that had gone out.

“Hmm? The Blood Oath Scroll seems to be forged from the hide of a demonfolk, and one that’s a Demon King at the very least!”

Li Qingshan said and passed the Blood Oath Scroll to Xiao An.
If they wanted to set up an oath, he obviously had to leave it up to the meticulous her.

When Yu Wufeng and the Gentleman of Heavenly Blubber saw this, they both became extremely astounded. He actually just handed over an arcane treasure like that? Aren’t they even wary of each other?

Xiao An accepted the Blood Oath Scroll, and the Samādhi Flames of White Bone surged out, enveloping the arcane treasure.
Although it was masterless, it was still an arcane treasure after all, so it took her quite a while to refine it.
A tiny skeleton appeared at the very top of the Blood Oath Scroll, which was the imprint she had left behind. 

Li Qingshan asked, “How’s it? Is it any good?”

Yu Wufeng and the Gentleman of Heavenly Blubber became extremely nervous.
Their lives, freedom, and everything depended on the Blood Oath Scroll.

“The cave masters of the Lair of Demons have always been maintained at around eight people.
Even at most, it never exceeds ten people, which is roughly the limit of the Blood Oath Scroll.
Moreover, once those who are bound by it undergo the third heavenly tribulation, it won’t be a lethal threat anymore despite remaining effective.
In other words, the Blood Oath Scroll can turn ten second heavenly tribulation cultivators, daemons, or otherfolk into slaves.
You can say it’s quite a nice arcane treasure.
We’ll be needing these people.”

“I see.
As long as we possess this Blood Oath Scroll, we can immediately establish a powerful sect or organisation, and it can guarantee absolute loyalty too.” Li Qingshan nodded.
The Blood Oath Scroll truly was an arcane treasure after all.
If it was used well, it would even be worth more than arcane treasures for battle.
Then he said with some pity, “Sigh, if I had known earlier, I would have been a little less heavy-handed.”

However, cultivators were different from mortals, and the cave masters were all the cream of the crop among cultivators.
If he did not kill them, they would be an endless source of trouble even if they only had a breath left in them.
It was even possible for them to escape back to Savage mountain and use the formations against them.

“They’re too weak.
They're a waste of spots.”

Xiao An’s calm voice made Yu Wufeng and the Gentleman of Heavenly Blubber shiver inside.
Although she had never mentioned it, she had thought through everything for Li Qingshan.
All Li Qingshan had to do was point her in a direction.

Li Qingshan smiled.
“Fair enough.
With how large the south is, I refuse to believe that I can’t recruit eight subordinates.
Oh right, is it possible to alter the blood oath? That way, we’ll have four subordinates.
The seventh cave master is probably a piece of trash too, but the third cave master might be worth anticipating.”

“Once the blood oath has been written, it cannot be altered.
If you want to rewrite the oath, then you have to choose between releasing or wiping out those that are bound.”

“Wipe them out then!” Li Qignshan said casually.
Then he glanced at the Gentleman of Heavenly Blubber.
This fatty had not uttered a single word of truth.

The Gentleman of Heavenly Blubber jiggled and said in a hurry, “Please give me your wise judgement, sir.
I’ve never refined the Blood Oath Scroll, so I would never know it included so many details.”

Xiao An used her index finger to touch the figures of the third and seventh cave masters gently.
The vicious skull appeared on the pitch-black background of the Blood Oath Scroll again.

Smack! Smack!

Two bloody handprints slammed down on the two figures, dripping with blood.

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