Legend of the Great Sage

voiding his bow.

“Is there something that the two fathers are dissatisfied about with me?” Li Fengyuan pouted.

Feng Xiwu said, “Don’t forget about your bloodline.
Since you are a phoenix’s child, you shouldn’t lower your head to anyone, even us!”

Li Qingshan smiled.
“I hate kneeling in front of others the most, and I also hate others kneeling in front of me.
As for that “grace of birth” or whatever it is, that’s even more bullsh*t.
You don’t owe us anything.”

Feng Xiwu and Li Qingshan exchanged glances and smiled.

Li Fengyuan sank into his thoughts, and his eyes twinkled.
He bounded up from the ground and clapped his hands cheerfully.
“I get it, I get it! There is no higher or lower.
There is no duality! I definitely won’t disappoint the two fathers, no, I won’t disappoint myself!”

Xiao An sighed inside.
It really was the phoenix’s legacy after all.
This ability to comprehend, this intelligence, was extraordinary.

Feng Xiwu said, “But let me make this clear.
Each day you don’t have my recognition is each day you can’t leave Fire Melt mountain.
Qingshan, you don’t have any objections, do you?”

“Heh, do whatever you like.
I’m going to go and consolidate my cultivation! Fengyuan, learn well from your second father.
There’ll be a time when you soar through the sky in the future.”

Actually, Li Qingshan never had any interest in that.
Time was much more important and much tighter to him than to Feng Xiwu.
He had to advance valiantly as much as possible so that he could uphold his promise of the Nine Heavens.

It was just that he never liked to stand beneath others, nor did he want to be the “second”, which was why he contested it.
Now that this had all been decided, he tossed all the other specifics to Feng Xiwu to handle.
Feng Xiwu had the time anyway, and Li Qingshan believed he was much more appropriate when it came to education.

Not only was this child who had been born with knowledge extremely intelligent and wise, he even possessed strength that neared Daemon Kings due to numerous fortuitous coincidences and efforts.
At the same time, he was extremely curious too.
If he was not properly guided, he would probably become a little imp of chaos right now and a great misfortune of the world in the future.

Even without getting too ahead of himself, undergoing the third heavenly tribulation was only a matter of time for him.
The possibility of failure basically did not exist.
He might not even have to spend a lot of time.
Even the Ten Daemon Kings might not be able to keep a pure-blooded phoenix of the third heavenly tribulation at bay.
Before him, Daemon Kings transformed from regular birds and beasts would basically be like an entire cultivation realm beneath him.

When it came to this aspect, Li Qingshan was a hybrid of many bloodlines, which led to many different innate abilities, but not a single bloodline was pure after all.
They even conflicted with one another, so they instead paled slightly in comparison to the phoenix’s bloodline.

Of course, that was just being unappreciative.
If regular people obtained a body of the demonic and divine, they would not utter a single word of complaint.
His bloodlines continued to strengthen too, until they reached absolute purity.
By then, even this supreme divine bird would be left in the dust.

Li Qingshan left the phoenix’s nest and sat down beneath the divine wutong tree.
Xiao An leaned against him gently in his lap and said right by his ear, “Qingshan, during the time you slumbered, the world has already descended into chaos.
The flames of war rage.”

“Really? Has the Mist province and Green province declared war?” Li Qingshan gathered his attention.
He felt refreshed as he sniffed the faint fragrance of sandalwood on her body.

“They already declared war two years ago.
There’s been around a dozen major battles and countless more smaller ones.
Five great cultivators have died, but they’re in a state of semi-truce right now.”

“Why?” Li Qingshan was surprised.

“Because both provinces are experiencing plagues,” said Xiao An.

“The locust plague of the Green province and the demon plague of the Mist province.”

“I know about demon plagues.
This isn’t like the first time demonfolks have launched an incursion.
But the locust plague.
Don’t tell me it’s-” Li Qingshan’s heart skipped a beat.
He remembered the Soaring Locust King underneath the Demon Suppression hall, who had once sworn to seek revenge on him.