"I'm sure the Marquis won't object. With a Golden Core cultivator holding the fort, this game of chess is still very promising. It might seem like the Moon Devil has gotten his way, but senior Zhou will make him realize sooner or later that this is his greatest mistake. "Hwa Seung-zan said this, but he was not so optimistic inside.
"Hmph, I won't let this matter rest. How dare you use my Thunder Slaughter Sword to roast a chicken!" Zhou Tong's face twitched again.
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After the meeting of the Hundred Schools of Thought ended, Liu Chuanfeng invited Li Qingshan to visit the school of Novels. Li Qingshan naturally refused.
Liu Chuanfeng pretended to be angry. "Qingshan, the school of Novels is your home. It's too outrageous of you to pass by like this without entering."
Unable to refuse, Li Qingshan went to Cloudwisp Island.
He passed through the bamboo forest and saw the flickering lights in the bamboo house.
Li Qingshan could sense the presence of many presences. This place was no longer as empty as it had been in the past.
At Liu Chuanfeng's command, a group of children of all ages came out to welcome him. The oldest was only fifteen or sixteen years old, while the youngest was only ten. They said in unison with their tender voices, "Greetings, eldest senior brother!"
Then, they stared at Li Qingshan with sparkling eyes. Liu Chuanfeng often used Li Qingshan's glorious deeds to encourage them. He also talked about the results of his hard work in teaching them.
Li Qingshan sighed. After three years of war, the school of Novels was probably the only one that had become more prosperous.
The main reason was that the school of Novels did not have any decent disciples to begin with. Most of these new disciples were only at the second or third layer of Qi Practitioner. It was better for the school of Mohism to create a few puppets than to send them to their deaths.
Some people were destroyed because they were weak, while others were safe because they were too weak.
They sat down and talked. Unknowingly, two to four hours had passed.
Li Qingshan stood up and bid farewell. He wanted to hurry back to the Chain mountains with Little Ann, but he was stopped by Hwa Seung-zan. He had just finished talking with Liu Changqing. He was just about to ask Li Qingshan to return and take charge of the general affairs of the Hawkwolf Guard.
He had never heard of a Scarlet Eagle Commander. Apart from the day of the succession, he would not appear at all. Now that the war had come to an end, there were many things for the Hawkwolf Guard to do. He was about to take charge of the situation.
"Littleflower, I'll leave everything to you. I want to go into seclusion for a while."
Li Qingshan patted Hwa Seung-zan's shoulder. Before he could finish, Hwa Seung-zan exclaimed, "You still want to go into closed-door training? Didn't you just come out of closed-door training?!"
He had never heard of a cultivator going into seclusion so frequently.
Locking oneself in a cave abode was not considered seclusion. Only when one's cultivation had reached a certain bottleneck, or when one's accumulation had reached a certain level, would they choose to break through through secluded cultivation.
"Heh, I've comprehended something recently."
Li Qingshan was telling the truth. He had learned a lesson from his battle against Helicoverpa Rosa. He had yet to comprehend it in detail. And, after refining Moon Court lake, he had yet to consolidate the slivers of comprehension he had obtained. All of this required time.
"Alright then!" What else could Hwa Seung-zan say? To cultivators, the most important thing was still cultivation. Everything else, like the Hawkwolf Guard or the overall situation of the world, was extremely secondary. "Though, the path of cultivation is about progressing step by step. If you're in too much of a hurry, you'll end up with less speed. It's easy for you to suffer from qi deviation. "
"I know. You should be careful when you interact with the Moon Devil. Don't end up getting hurt instead." Li Qingshan obviously understood the principle of progressing step by step. He had not actually spent a lot of time and effort on the Arts of the Boundless Ocean.
However, he also had to practise an extremely profound ability like the Nine Transformations of the Demonic and Divine, and he had to maintain his status in the world of daemons. He never had enough time. He had always wanted to learn the path of artifact forging, but he never had the time.
He hoped the situation would ease up for a while after the war ended, so he would have more time to cultivate!
"This tiger is far too vicious. It's not something I can fight. I just want to tame it so that it can hurt fewer people. "
Li Qingshan smiled. "That's not easy either. We've gained a powerful rival in love."
"A rival in love."
Hwa Seung-zan suddenly discovered he had missed something. What would the Marquis of Ruyi think about the Moon Devil's public confession of love to Gu Yanying? The exchange this time would probably lead to unexpected problems.
And, the development of the matter seemed to verify Hwa Seung-zan's guess. The Marquis of Ruyi had never turned down Liu Changqing's request, but he did not agree to it either.
Liu Changqing was afraid of handing over the Watermirror disc so easily, so the matter was shelved just like that.
Li Qingshan obviously was not in a hurry. The one who should be in a hurry was Zhou Tong. This had been a stroke of inspiration in the first place. It was an idle move. If it succeeded, then that would be for the best. If it failed, then there was nothing to be pitiful about.
In reality, he had already forgotten about this matter.
In Qing Xiao's dwelling in the Chain mountains, Li Qingshan's eyes were firmly shut. The blue light on him rose and fell like waves, producing the faint sound of waves.
Apart from diverting a part of his attention so that his clone could continue refining water and expanding the god seal, he had already submerged his mind into his sea of consciousness.
His mind had already completely sunk into his sea of consciousness. In the boundless sea of consciousness, it was like a huge mirror, clearly reflecting the two figures.
One was Li Qingshan, while the other was Helicoverpa Rosa.
From when they first met to every single time they met, every single word they spoke, he did not miss out on anything. Then, it went to the sex in Cobweb city, the bitter battle below Cobweb city, the indulgence and venting after victory, and everything.
Li Qingshan recalled her every expression and every movement like he was recalling a lover.
From a certain perspective, enemies were indeed closer than lovers. Hating a person would make him think about them every single day, but loving someone was very difficult to achieve.
Of course, Li Qingshan did not hate Helicoverpa Rosa. What he recalled was more excitement and passion.
Her wounds and daemon qi should have recovered long ago! Why hasn't she come for revenge yet? What secret weapon is she preparing?
The tiger demon roared inside, desiring another battle with her! He could imagine that this battle would definitely be extremely difficult, but this was also where the interest lay.
He was no longer the Li Qingshan of the past either. Controlling Moon Court lake held extraordinary significance to him. Apart from the direct benefits, it was more important for his mind.
As a result, he devoted his mind to the figure of the spirit turtle that radiated with an extremely tranquil aura once again, comprehending and sensing it.
On the other side of the dwelling, Little Ann clasped her hands together. Between them was the blood daemon core she had obtained from killing Blood Shadow.
The Blood Demon Core was like a pool of blood, constantly changing its shape. It let out a strange hiss, like the wailing of ten thousand ghosts in hell.
Little Ann freed up her left hand and swung it upwards.
The twenty-one Skull Prayer Beads dispersed, turning into a skull that circled above her head.
She lifted up the blood daemon core in her right hand with some difficulty. Its shape had already changed completely, becoming a thin piece that rippled like flowing water.
She suddenly pushed upwards, and the blood daemon core flew up. The skull opened its mouth and sprayed the Samādhi Flames of White Bone at the blood daemon core.
She formally began refining the Blood Sea Banner.
At the same time, in Moon Court lake.
Li Qingshan did not stop refining the surrounding waters for a single moment. Under the control of a single will, his main body and clone advanced together, all for the sake of becoming stronger.
Before he knew it, four months had passed.
Li Qingshan spent half a month and refined another river that spanned five hundred kilometers. He temporarily stopped advancing and gazed at the Water God Seal in his hand. It was still translucent, glowing with blue light. However, the patterns on it had become clearer and more complicated. It was no longer a flat piece, beginning to take on a three-dimensional feel.
And, he could clearly sense that the water spread out in all directions with Moon Court lake as the centre. Moon Court lake was like a thumping heart, while the rivers were the arteries that transported blood.
However, Helicoverpa Rosa still had not come to challenge him, which gave him a sense of danger. Or did daemons have a different concept of time than humans?
Li Qingshan dared not be careless, but he was not overly worried either. He believed that he would definitely grow stronger faster than Helicoverpa Rosa.
If she was willing to delay, then that was fine. After delaying for eighty to a hundred years, there would be no need for a battle to the death. She could just lie down and wait for him to arrive.
After a short rest, Li Qingshan continued his search for a water vein connected to Moon Court lake that had yet to be refined. What he wanted to find the most was a water vein connected to the underground rivers, but he had yet to find it.
There was nothing he could do about it. There were just too many rivers connected to Moon Court lake, and every single one of them twisted and turned. It was very difficult to determine their direction from one end. Some seemed to be underground rivers, but they would come to the surface after traveling underground for a period of time.
Some clearly flowed in the direction of the territory, but they would be obstructed by the mountains. After a few turns, they would end up somewhere unknown.
"Just where is it?"
In the Chain Mountains, Li Qingshan muttered to himself. He opened his eyes and glanced at Little Ann. She was still focused on refining the Blood Sea Banner.
Within the Samādhi Flames of White Bone that burned quietly, a long, blood-red banner had already vaguely taken shape. Li Qingshan could already sense the great power it contained. It surged like the ocean, boundless and boundless.
I originally thought it would be very easy to find. If I had known earlier, I would have gotten her to divine it first. Oh right, why don't I test the spirit turtle's divination abilities?
Li Qingshan suddenly had a flash of inspiration. In the past four months, he had gained an even deeper understanding of the Spirit Turtle Transformation. Not only had his two abilities, the Spirit Turtle's Profound Shell and the Watermirror's Image, had become even more profound and profound.
He had gained a deeper understanding of the spirit turtle's original abilities as well.
Li Qingshan closed his eyes again. The spirit turtle's daemon core in his body flickered with light. At the same time, he held the Water God Seal through his clone five hundred kilometers away and sensed the ripples of Moon Court lake.
Unknowingly, he focused on the centre of Moon Court lake. There was a towering island there.
Suddenly, he saw a vortex at the foot of one of the islands.
Below the swirl was a cavern that constantly swallowed the lake water.
He had always been searching around Moon Court lake, but he had never paid any special attention to what was happening in the lake. That was because a swirl like that was far too common in Moon Court lake. It was not worth paying special attention to.
And, looking at the size of the cavern, it was impossible for it to produce such a majestic underground river. If it were in the past, even if Li Qingshan discovered the cavern, he would not have paid any attention to it.
Li Qingshan believed in the spirit turtle's senses. He immediately arrived above the swirl and channeled daemon qi into the cavern. Under the push of the Water God Seal, it rapidly extended underground. To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for me. Your support is my greatest motivation. m
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