Legend of the Great Sage

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His pace obviously presented Gong Yuan with the opportunity to push the All Waters to Ruin’s End to the limit.

But for some reason, he simply continued onwards like this, step by step, at a steady pace.

Is he really that confident in his own strength? Even I wouldn’t try to use my cultivation to compete against Gong Yuan like this, as there’s absolutely no chance for victory.
Even if the Fire Devouring King did that, it would be a certain defeat.
He might be a great genius, but it’s impossible for him to win.
The outcome has already been determined.

Ji Changfeng could not help but shake his head.
He was forced to activate the formation, not because he was trying to assist a side, but because he was afraid Gong Yuan would destroy the Feilian hall.

Originally, there had still been a few courageous cultivators of the South sea who stuck around, but they had all been forced out by the coldness now.
There was no need for them to gamble with their lives just to see a good show.
If they had died from the fallout of the battle, now that would be called an accident.

Large parts of Li Qingshan’s body suffered from frostbite and necrosis.
His eyes became fogged up as well, covered in a layer of frost.

However, he continued to gaze at Gong Yuan with his blind eyes.
He could no longer see the noble, cold Merfolk Queen, but a pitch-black, bottomless abyss.

He could not help but recall a saying, When you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you.

That was exactly what he felt right now.
The abyss was ice-cold and deathly still, but it seemed to possess its own consciousness.
However, what he felt was not terror and despair, but a calling from the depths of his soul.

It was exactly because of this wondrous feeling that he had not been in a hurry to fight back.

When the earth had frozen over, the tiger bones had turned brittle, and even the phoenix had lost its endless vitality, but the spirit turtle’s will instead became especially clear.
The Spirit Turtle’s Method of Sea Suppression operated at an unprecedented speed, glowing with a divine light.

What’s going on?

Li Qingshan was baffled.
He had felt very comfortable even back then when he met Gong Yuan’s gaze on the back of the whale.
Now that Gong Yuan was using her full strength, this was not just comfortable anymore, but absolutely delightful.
There was not a single hint of malice left on his face.
His expression had become extremely peaceful.

What’s going on? Gong Yuan also wanted to know why Li Qingshan could still walk towards her when he should have been frozen long ago.
Why was the expression on his face “baffled”, and why did she take a liking to the aura he gave off, even instinctively wanting to be on closer terms with him?

What on earth is going on? Even Ji Changfeng found this difficult to understand.
If he only looked at their expressions, he would never believe they were about to fight each other to the death.

Finally, Li Qingshan stepped over the table of white jade that had frozen over and shattered, arriving before Gong Yuan.
Their auras entangled together, and the feeling of intimacy peaked.

If I can remain in this state, breaking through to the fifth layer of the spirit turtle would be a piece of cake.

Li Qingshan sighed inside, but he also felt a hint of delight.
The Nine Transformations of the Demonic and Divine started off easy and became more difficult as he progressed.
The wondrous power that Gong Yuan gave off offered without a doubt a new window of opportunity to the spirit turtle’s cultivation.

Gong Yuan simply shut her eyes as if she was silently sensing something.

She practised All Waters to Ruin’s End all year round.
Even when she left the ocean and was surrounded by numerous people, she felt like she was still inside the sea abyss, facing the unfathomably deep Ruin’s End.
It left her utterly exhausted, leading to a severe inner demon.

Easily falling into a hysterical rage was one of the external symptoms of an inner demon.
If she could not keep the inner demon under control, then not only would she struggle to increase her cultivation, but she would even face the risk of suffering from qi deviation.

Inner demons were different from a demonic nature.
It was very difficult to resolve them through external methods.
They could only be settled personally by the cultivator.
Many cultivators ended up being destroyed by this aspect, which was the so-called qi deviation, or going insane.

This was not as simple as falling into the demonic path and becoming a demonic cultivator, but losing control over the mind.
It was just easier for demonic cultivators to suffer qi deviation compared to regular cultivators.

When mortals lost control over their minds, it was only going insane.
Cultivators all possessed very great power, so once their minds were unable to keep this power under control, the end result went without saying.

But at that moment, her mind experienced unprecedented peace.
It was so comfortable that she almost wanted to moan.

Neither Gong Yuan nor Li Qingshan knew that the mysterious Ruin’s End just happened to be the spirit turtle’s home, its final resting place.

Because newly-born spirit turtles could not survive in Ruin’s End, adult spirit turtles would breed and produce offspring outside Ruin’s End.
Once the little spirit turtles grew up, they would return to Ruin’s End like the rivers flowing into the ocean.

This was a cycle.

The environment of Ruin’s End was far too deathly still, such that only spirit turtles would take a liking to it.
When it came to other water-elemented divine beasts, even if their power rivalled the spirit turtle, they could endure the environment, but they could not remain there for long periods of time.

However, to the spirit turtle that pursued peace and longevity, that was the ideal paradise.
Just like the so-called “Mother River” to humans, they treated Ruin’s End as their mother.
At the same time, the mysterious will of Ruin’s End, or perhaps better described as the laws of Ruin’s End, treated spirit turtles like its beloved children.

That was why such a wondrous reaction would occur between the two of them.

But at this moment, Li Qingshan was in an extremely dangerous state.
His body was powerful, but it was virtually on the brink of being frozen.
His expression remained as peaceful as before, gradually extending his hand.
With every single movement he made, the sounds of his body cracking and shattering rang out.
Even his tiger bones had become extremely brittle in the extreme cold.

As if ten millennia had passed, his hand finally pressed down on Gong Yuan’s shoulder.

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