Legend of the Great Sage Chapter 939 - Purging Demons (Seventeen)

Li Qingshan had once asked the Great Banyan Tree King, “What kind of a place is the Demon domain exactly?”

The Great Banyan Tree King said, “The Demon domain is just a general name. It includes countless worlds, connected by demon caverns, which form a tremendous body. If the demonfolk successfully invade the nine provinces, then it will become a new Demon domain, and all living creatures will become ‘demonfolk’. Demonfolk spread the ideology of the demonic path, blaspheming immortals and buddhas and defiling morality. They spread through the trichiliocosm like a plague.”

Li Qingshan then asked, “If the Demon domain is so powerful, how do the nine provinces stand a chance?”

“A world has a world’s laws. The strongest that can enter the nine provinces are only Demon Kings that have undergone the third heavenly tribulation. Existences stronger than that cannot reside here. After all, no matter how powerful an individual is, they still can’t contend against an entire world.”

“Why would they need stronger existences? They only need to send enough Demon Kings, and wouldn’t they win with ease?”

“I don’t know the exact details either. It’s said that the Demon domain’s status across the trichiliocosm is similar to that of demonic cultivators in the nine provinces. They’re relatively powerful, but they don’t have the upper hand. They face constant oppression and persecution from the ‘righteous path’. It’s just a corner of the battlefield here.”

Li Qingshan came to a realisation. It was just like how a large-scale war would definitely include countless group and individual clashes. Neither side would send an entire army to kill a single soldier, as it would not be worth it at all. It might even cost them the overall battle.

Back then, he had still been feeling rather melancholic. It involved the rise and decline of countless races, the slaughter and sacrifice of countless powerful cultivators, but as it turned out, this was only a corner of the battlefield. It was that insignificant!

However, he dismissed these laments very quickly a

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