Legend of the Great Sage Chapter 998 - The Crane Cries in the Snow, the Painter and the Scholar of Ink

“You’re casting me aside as soon as you’re done with me!” Li Qingshan said.

“So what if I am? I’m sick of using you anymore. You can piss off!” Han Qiongzhi chewed the Fruit of Wisdom, and she kicked Li Qingshan away rudely, but her actions gradually became powerless. Light shone through her eyes. The Fruit of Wisdom began to take effect.

“So dizzy! I wonder what’ll happen.” Han Qiongzhi sighed with a smile. “I don’t want to see you again when I wake up. This isn’t a place where you should stay. Go, get out of here…” She murmured like that before finally closing her eyes and collapsing in Li Qingshan’s arms.

Li Qingshan hugged her firmly, unwilling to part with her. Quite a long while later, he kissed her gently on the forehead and patiently dressed her, tidying up her hair. He left behind a formation, a few bottles of Virtue Accumulation pills, and a stack of violet talismans beside her. These were all spoils he had obtained from Si Qing’s sumeru ring.

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Then he paced through the dwelling a few times before suddenly smiling and shaking his head. He mumbled to himself, “I will be back, no matter how long I’ve been gone for.”

Afterwards, he set foot out of the dwelling, vanishing into the whistling wind and snow alone.

“Yeah, I’ll wait for you.”

Han Qiongzhi murmured inaudibly with her eyes shut.

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Li Qingshan remembered how there was still one person he had not seen with his return to the Green province this time. From Liu Changqing, Li Qingshan had heard he had become a recluse many years ago, so Li Qingshan crossed through the wind and snow and arrived in a serene mountainous forest.

Unlike the other places ravaged by the locust plague, the vegetation was still lush, and the lakewater was still tranquil. Within the snow, it seemed particularly neat and beautiful.

“Danqing, are you here?” Li Qingshan called out loudly. 

A short while later, the formation opened and revealed a few exquisite huts. A handsome young man stood in front of the huts and said, “Qingshan, you’re back from the Mist province!”

“You’ve undergone the sec

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