Legend of the Great Sage Chapter 1075: I’m a Hero

Gu Yanying could tell what he was planning to do, so she tried to persuade him. “It’s best if you be a little more careful.”

“If just a single sword can twist my will, I’ve spent these decades cultivating for nothing!” Li Qingshan said proudly.

“Decades!” Gu Yanying could not help but sigh in amazement. Regular cultivators probably had not even faced the first heavenly tribulation in such a time span, yet he had already made it to this step, which made her feel pressured for some reason.

“How’s that? You regret it now?” Li Qingshan smiled.

“A little.” Gu Yanying smiled as well.

“It’s still not too late,” Li Qingshan said as he drew the Soul Cycling sword with a clang. He gripped the hilt with both hands and shut his eyes, sending his soul sense inside. The blade of the sword lit up.

Gu Yanying gazed at him with a strange expression, scanning him from up to down, sparing absolutely no details as if she was trying to see through him.

She had basically watched him make it to where he was right now step by step. He was not exactly a shrewd and calculating person. As a matter of fact, he was even a little more simple and straightforward than regular people, except he was always shrouded in a thick layer of mist, preventing her from seeing him properly.

A while later, she looked away and unfolded her fan, waving it about gently. She smiled in a self-deprecating manner. Surely she had not actually regretted it?

The heart of the battle demon flashed with blood-red light, and demon qi surged into the Soul Cycling sword, seeping into the blade. Before long, it was dyed with a layer of demonic light. The refinement process unfolded extremely smoothly, perhaps because his cultivation was greater than when he refined the Soaring Dragon sword, or because the Soul Cycling sword had chosen him, but nothing strange happened at all.

Li Qingshan opened his eyes. He was rather puzzled. Is this it?

“Hmm?” Gu Yanying closed her fan with a face full of surprise.

“What’s wrong? Did something happen?” Li Qingshan asked.

“You used demon qi?

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