Legend of the Great Sage

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If it were just the others, then so be it, but he was a sword cultivator who wielded an arcane treasure.
With how proud he was, why would he submit to Li Qingshan?

Holding onto a final sliver of hope, he called out, “Cave master Yu!”

“Marquis of Serene Sea, stop wasting time!” Yu Wufeng gripped the Fogbow sword and said coldly.

“Yeah, do you want to die or do you want to live? I’d rather hope you choose to live.
Although finding second heavenly tribulation cultivators is quite easy in the vast south, there really aren’t a lot of truly useful masters.
But if you really want to die, I’ll help you out!” Li Qingshan said.

The Marquis of Serene Sea felt despair.
Li Qingshan was already an extremely powerful opponent, and on top of that, there were still the three peak assassins of the Shadow palace and the three strongest cave masters of Savage mountain.
He also managed to identify the six remaining people, all renowned demonic cultivators of the south, but they were all standing behind Li Qingshan now, listening to his command.
This was a force to be reckoned with across the entire southern region.

His voice trembled.
“I’m a marquis.
Are you really bold enough to kill me?”

Li Qingshan smiled.
“Kill him!”

Before he had even finished speaking, the three black figures behind the Marquis of Serene Sea vanished.
Ghost Shadow drifted over, locking onto him with killing intent.
The Fogbow sword exited its sheath, and the Gentleman of Heavenly Blubber extended his hand.
The remaining six figures in cloaks struck out at the same time, forming a wave of certain death that hurtled towards him like a tsunami.

The Marquis of Serene Sea could not dodge, escape, or block.
All he could do was yell at the top of his lungs, “I want to live!”

Li Qingshan raised his hand, and all of the attacks halted as if the tsunami had been frozen up the moment it was about to slam down.

“It’s good that you want to live.
Come and swear an oath!”

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If the battle of Savage mountain had only shaken up the south because of its inconclusive outcome, then Li Qingshan’s appearance in the commandery city of South Sea had answered all of the questions.
Not only did it reveal the end result of the battle of Savage mountain, but it also revealed the change in the overall situation of the south.

After getting the Marquis of Serene Sea to swear the oath, he arranged a banquet in the marquis’ estate to entertain the ten cave masters.

These ten renowned figures of the south toasted Li Qingshan together, formally swearing their allegiance to him.
The cultivator who recognised Li Qingshan as his foster father even referred to him as “my king”, no longer calling him sir or commander.

Li Qingshan was confused by that.
He asked for the reason, and the cultivator said, “Who doesn’t know in the south? He who unifies Savage mountain is known as the King of Savages.”

Li Qingshan laughed aloud, accepting the title in delight.

The Marquis of Serene Sea called him shameless inside, but he forced out a smile on the surface and also sang his name loudly, “My king.”

After the banquet, Li Qingshan immediately set off and continued his battles.
He basically took down all the second heavenly tribulation cultivators of the south apart from the Myriad Poison cult, completely realising the boast he made when he first came to the South Sea commandery—Those who abide by me will prosper, and those who defy me will die!

Savage mountain basically rose up overnight, becoming a tremendous organisation only second to the Myriad Poison cult.
If it were not for the fact that Li Qingshan had yet to undergo the third heavenly tribulation, he could have founded a major sect.

The Mist province was astir!

When Li Qingshan accepted the orders and took office in the Mist province as the White Hawk commander, he had already attracted the attention of countless.
This was both due to the brilliance of the two great geniuses, as well as the fact that the cultivators had all wanted to use this to predict the future situation of the Mist province and the Green province.

Some people guessed that this was the Great Xia empire’s plan, intentionally sending them to the Mist province, which was equivalent to sending political hostages to alleviate the situation between the two provinces.
However, even more people believed that the Great Xia empire was no longer trying to intervene between the two provinces like in the past.
Instead, they intentionally wanted the provinces to weaken one another while maintaining absolute strength in the central Dragon province.

Li Qingshan and Xiao An were merely two chess pieces to accelerate the war, two pitiful sacrifices.
Plenty of people wondered with ill intentions, How will the Chan Monastery of Deva-Nāga respond when they lose two genius disciples?

The moment Li Qingshan arrived in the South sea, he killed the White Hawk commander and successfully replaced him, demonstrating viciousness that was completely unbefitting of his identity as a buddhist disciple.
However, this was instead a minor matter across the Mist province.
Over two years had passed since then, so Li Qingshan’s name gradually faded from view.
He would only be mentioned from time to time when they tried to guess the outcome of that battle.

Only when Li Qingshan used the Blood Oath Scroll to rein in ten cave masters and waged battle throughout the entire south did his name ring once more, but the prefix to his name was no longer his post, “White Hawk commander”, or his identity, “the Unraging monk’s disciple”.
Instead, it was “King of Savages”.

The title of king had always been a term of reference that only third heavenly tribulation existences had the right to possess.
The King of Chu, the King of Yue, Monk Kings, Daemon Kings, Great General Kings—they were all supreme cultivators, where only a single one would emerge from millions.
They stood on an absolute level of authority across the nine provinces.

With Li Qingshan’s cultivation, he did not have the right to be known as a king, but the first cave master of Savage mountain from the founding generation had once said that anyone who underwent the third heavenly tribulation could refine the Blood Oath Scroll and unify Savage mountain.
If this happened, the other cave masters would refer to him as the “King of Savages”.
The seven other cave masters of that generation had agreed with him.

According to everyone’s belief, this was something only a powerful cultivator of the third heavenly tribulation could achieve, so it made perfect sense to call them “king”.

However, no one expected someone to actually achieve this with a cultivation at the second heavenly tribulation.