Legend of the Great Sage

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They all said that the sight of great beauty being reduced to white bone could make the ignorant understand that beneath the beautiful appearance was terrifying white bone, and that all appearances were merely an illusion.
However, when he saw her appearance of white bone, he still felt affectionate, fond of her from the bottom of his heart.
He did not feel any sensation of terror at all.
He felt like every single bone gave off a different sense of beauty.

It had to be mentioned that there had always been something wrong with his sense of beauty.
He had always found his daemon form a little cooler and sicker than the handsome Northmoon and the hale and hearty Li Qingshan.
He was tempted to just maintain his daemon form forever and run around on the vast earth and mountains naked!

He had seriously considered that once he no longer had to hide his identity anymore and had settled all grudges, he would set off on the shore of the South sea and go streaking across the nine provinces, all the way to the Frost province!

Haha, that’ll leave everyone dumbfounded! Would I be a pervert then? No, you’re better off saying I’m being true to myself than being a pervert.
Don’t tell me my true self is a pervert? Whatever, who cares what you call that.
It’s fine as long as it’s me.

Li Qingshan agreed with Qiongqi very much from certain perspectives.
Calculations of pure rationality over the costs and benefits and constantly drawing on advantages and avoiding disadvantages could result in longevity, but if everyone was like that, how was he different from anyone else?

At least renouncing evil and embracing good could receive favours from good people, earning a reputation and establishing a proper force, but what could renouncing good and embracing evil bring? Since evil people were evil, they would never acknowledge debts and favours they owed to others.
This was completely a behaviour and ideology that brought no benefit at all.
It challenged the status quo purely for the sake of fun, just like a mischievous, stubborn child, but it also had an element of great liberty and doing as one pleased.

In the book “Water Margin” he had read in his past life, the original forms of the one hundred and eight fine men were revealed right in the beginning—they were a hundred and eight heavenly spirits and earthly fiends imprisoned within the Demon Subduing Hall.
There were both people who committed brutal, evil deeds like murder and feasting on the hearts of others, as well as those who upheld justice through violence among them.
They seemed vastly different, but they were no different in nature.
Whether it was good or evil, they did as they pleased, beyond the concept of rationality.
Only the word “demonic” remained.

The book could achieve popularity and be praised by all precisely because it vividly depicted the concept of a demonic nature, allowing the reader to stand in the shoes of these fine men and do things that they usually could not and dared not, acting as they pleased and having a hearty time!

The ‘demonic’ and ‘divine’ in the Nine Transformations of the Demonic and Divine are not just ‘good’ and ‘evil’! The spirit turtle focuses on preserving its longevity and avoiding unnecessary trouble, while the phoenix cherishes its own feathers too.
Even if they won’t go out of their way to commit evil, they will never have the spirit of stopping and helping out just at the sight of injustice.

The many thoughts flowed through Li Qingshan’s head, giving him a deeper understanding of the Nine Transformations of the Demonic and Divine.

At the same time, Ru Xin took off everything on her and sat down in the Jade Melting cauldron, shining with the lustre of jade.
After eating a precious ten-year Virtue Accumulation pill, she began powering up the Jade Melting cauldron and refining herself like a pill.
At the same time, she used the Heavenly Tome of Cloud Furnace to form a cloud furnace in her body, refining the Virtue Accumulation pill.

Alchemy was about a combination of fire and water.
The Jade Melting furnace surged with fire and water, and with a twirl of her hands, it gathered in her palm, actually merging together in a wondrous manner and turning into a fiery cloud.
The cloud gradually permeated the surroundings and swallowed her.

The powers of water and fire actually surged through the cloud furnace in her body as well, and it was even more pure than the water and fire from the Jade Melting furnace.
It merged together naturally too, rapidly refining the Virtue Accumulation pill.

Regular cultivators could never achieve this.
Even if they could, they would never do it like this.
The potent effects of the pill immediately filled her entire body.
Although she had become as tough as jade, she was close to bursting.

This method of cultivation doubtlessly came with intense pain, but she seemed to turn into an actual rock, devoid of any sensations.
Her face did not change.
Only her eyelashes trembled gently.

She focused on multiple things at the same time, controlling the Jade Melting cauldron and suppressing the medicinal effects externally while circulating the Heavenly Tome of Cloud Furnace, tempering her body as she refined the Virtune Accumulation pill.
At the same time, she had to balance the powers of water and fire both externally and internally.
She had pushed her cultivation speed to the limit without the slightest hesitation.

Even a single step in the wrong direction came with the danger of blowing up the cauldron.
By then, it would not just be the Jade Melting cauldron, but the cloud furnace within her too.
She was not in a hurry to break through to the second heavenly tribulation.
Instead, this was the danger that came with practising the Heavenly Tome of Cloud Furnace.

The history of the nine provinces was as vast as the smoke and sea.
There had been far superior cultivation methods from other worlds that had reached here than just the Heavenly Tome of Cloud Furnace.
Even if cultivators would view them as treasures and keep them to themselves once it fell into their possession, the reason why they had never become widespread was because they were nothing but difficult to practise.
The demand they placed on talent was nothing but high as well.
Even if they were fortunate enough to possess the aptitude and had overcome all the difficulties involved, it still came with great danger and risk.
Who knew how many geniuses had died because of it.

Perhaps because Chu Tian saw something in her when she treated him, the Heavenly Tome of Cloud Furnace was extremely compatible with her, where she progressed very rapidly.
Of course, the tremendous amount of resources that Li Qingshan had provided her with played a crucial role as well.
Just the ten-year Virtune Accumulation pill from the Myriad Poison cult was a serendipity.

Cultivation was timeless.
Day and night interchanged and time flew. 

A rumble echoed from the distant horizon.
She opened her eyes.

“It’s… finally here!”