Legend of the Great Sage

n.” The Clam King of Mirage Sea seemed to read Li Qingshan’s thoughts and smiled.

She sat back down again and picked up a cup of wine, toasting it at him from afar.

“Thank you, fellow.” Li Qingshan rejoiced inside, also picking up his cup.
He was about to drink it all.

“Qingshan.” Xiao An pressed down on his shoulder again.
Earlier, it was to stop him from fighting, but now, it was to stop him from drinking the alcohol.

Li Qingshan looked at Xiao An in surprise.
Xiao An bowed towards the Clam King of Mirage Sea.
“Thank you for your hospitality, but we still have other matters to attend to, so we should be going.”

“We still have to drink together, don’t we?” The Clam King of Mirage Sea fiddled around with the Myriad Poison Ancestor’s soul nascence as her smile fluctuated.

“Haha, we’ll definitely have the opportunity in the future, but we really do have something urgent to attend to.
Thank you for that, fellow.
We’ll be leaving first…”

Li Qingshan also felt that something was amiss and stood up.
At this moment, the spirit turtle actually sent him a strong warning, but before he could do anything else, he felt the world spin around him.
He suddenly looked at the censer in the surroundings.
“The incense is poisoned!”

But that made no sense.
Even the Myriad Poison Ancestor’s poison could not kill him, so let alone breathing in some smoke.

His body swayed and sat back down, leaning on the table and snoring away.

“But it’s fine even if you don’t drink.” The Clam King of Mirage Sea took a slow sip, and her appearance suddenly blurred.
It was like a thick layer of frosted glass had covered her face.
Her voice became distant as well, no longer possible to tell her gender or age from it.

Only a pair of eyes remained clear.
The blend of colours swirled and rippled in them like a kaleidoscope as she looked at Xiao An.

“What are you trying to do?” Xiao An stood in front of Li Qingshan with her sword, completely unaffected by the smoke.

“You sure are strange! Hehe, can’t you tell what I’m trying to do? The Mirage sea is such a dangerous place, so how can people come and go as they please? Even he doesn’t believe this is so simple, constantly remaining vigilant, so of course it’s not going to be that simple.
They all say that the illusions I create can prey on cultivators!” The Clam King of Mirage Sea licked her lips.

“Because that’s what he thinks?”

The thing that Xiao An worried about the most finally happened.

The Myriad Poison Ancestor’s soul nascence had been resolved so easily because the month-long indoctrination by the Great Banyan Tree King had made Li Qingshan believe the Clam King of Mirage Sea would help him.

However, seeing the true face of the Mirage sea and reaching an ominous result through divination made him raise his guard and develop hostility.
The hostility fed off almost a hundred floors of fighting too, making it grow.

If this were the real world, then these thoughts would be nothing.
Even parents and siblings, friends and couples, regularly felt hostility towards each other, but it would be fine as long as it did not erupt.
However, this place reflected the inner mind of a person, and the Clam King of Mirage Sea was far too powerful and strange.

“Have you ever heard that illusions arise from the heart?” The Clam King of Mirage Sea smiled.

“He’s never treated you as an enemy.” Xiao An was afraid to tell her theory to Li Qingshan because she was afraid it would make him develop even more hostility.
It would become even more dangerous then.

“Otherwise he’d be dead already,” the Clam King of Mirage Sea said slowly.

It was exactly because they shared the popular belief and treated the Clam King of Mirage Sea as an enemy that those cultivators died in the Mirage sea.
The outcome of a battle against a peak third heavenly tribulation Daemon King within an illusion obviously went without saying.

“What are you trying to do?” Xiao An knew that fighting was useless, so she stowed her sword away.
She let Li Qingshan lie flat, resting his head on her thighs.

“Please let him sleep for a while and have a ‘good’ dream.
If he doesn’t wake up, you can’t blame me.
That’s his dream.”