Legend of the Great Sage Chapter 857 - The Merfolk Sea Fair (Twelve)

Xiao An returned to the corner of the hall and reconnected the branch to its original place.

At that moment, green buds appeared on the branch again, blooming with peach blossoms. They blossomed brilliantly, with even greater splendour than before.

What she did almost left Ji Changfeng and everyone else even more surprised than the strike from earlier.

Just how frail was a peach branch? Yet, she had wielded it as a sword, unleashing such an unrivalled stroke. All of its vitality should have been depleted already. When the aura vanished from the branch, it should have crumbled immediately.

She had actually reconnected it and made it blossom again. Who knew how many times more difficult that was than reviving a dead branch. She had basically converted life from death.

Xiao An gazed at the blooming peach blossoms for quite a while before finally turning around, returning to Li Qingshan’s side.

The two years had not gone to waste. She had gained a deeper comprehension of the Path of White Bone and Great Beauty and was not far off from the third layer now.

“You’ve worked hard!” Li Qingshan smiled as he poured her a cup of alcohol and massaged her shoulders, behaving with great hospitality.

It shocked the cultivators who had just witnessed his arrogance. Was the “King of Savages” merely a signboard, where he was actually only a deadbeat who relied on the mysterious lady, Xiao An, to get by? 

Even Ye Duanhai experienced similar thoughts. Was this Xiao An perhaps a Reincarnated Celestial? Otherwise, it would be absolutely impossible for her to possess a path of the sword like that given her age.

If that were the case, many things would make sense. With just the path of the sword and her ability to instantly hide her aura, she only required a treasured sword and an ambush by surprise, and there would be nothing strange about the Myriad Poison Ancestor losing his body. Yu Wufeng’s defeat would have made perfect sense too.

However, little did Ye Duanhai know that when they fought against the Myriad Poison Ancestor, Xiao An had yet to ob

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