Why do you always want to be my Taoist partner?

"But this was something we both agreed to. When we separated, we parted ways without complaint. In the past few years, I have never done anything more inappropriate with my senior and junior sisters except kissing."

Bai Sheng's breathing became a little rapid. She felt as if she was about to know an answer, but she didn't understand why she suddenly wanted to pursue this answer.

Obviously...it has nothing to do with her.

And Jiang Li continued to speak.

"I know that I am a fickle person. I only get excited about people for a short time. When I get tired of them, I will unconsciously want to push them away. So I never touch their bodies. In this way, even if we break up in the end, it won't cause any harm to them."

"I won't defend myself either. I am just such a scumbag. I want a lot of love for me."

"like?"

"Yes, love." Jiang Li whispered softly.

“Love is the most luxurious, precious and most crazy thing in the world.”

No.

My love is the most despicable, mean and hypocritical thing in the world. The so-called three-minute enthusiasm for people is just to have a reasonable reason to leave you, nothing more.

Jiang Li said to himself coldly in his heart.

Chapter 14: Chapter Do you dare?

Bai Sheng stared blankly at Jiang Li in front of him.

She always felt that everything became hazy and unreal after meeting Jiang Li. She also couldn't understand why the two of them started discussing the topic of love after only knowing each other for a short while.

"Senior Brother Jiang Li... seems to be very popular with girls." Bai Sheng turned his face away and said in a low voice.

"A delicate girl likes someone who can give her a sense of security, a thoughtful girl likes someone who can take care of her emotions, and a strong girl likes someone who can rely on her. There are many kinds of girls in this world, and there are different ways to deal with them. If you find the right way, you will naturally be liked by others. This is the same as practicing swordsmanship. If you can counter every move, you will naturally win every battle."

Jiang Li did not hide his evil intentions, but he did not show any smugness at all. Instead, he felt a sense of inexplicable melancholy.

"Then Senior Brother Jiang Li...why did you tell me this?"

"Didn't you ask that?" Jiang Li blinked at her.

Bai Sheng was stunned.

At this moment, she suddenly realized that it seemed that she was the one who took the initiative to talk about these topics with Jiang Li. It was so strange.

Jiang Li looked at the cute girl in front of him and suddenly burst into laughter.

"So Junior Sister Bai Sheng should be wary of scumbag senior brothers like me. Junior Sister Bai Sheng is very naive. If she continues to be naive, she will be easily deceived in the future."

Bai Sheng's cheeks puffed up slightly, and she seemed to be a little resentful. She picked up the chopsticks and started eating, deciding not to talk to Jiang Li anymore.

But the food Jiang Li cooks is really delicious.

Moreover, Jiang Li took the initiative to help her serve another bowl of rice!

Jiang Li put down his chopsticks, looked at Bai Sheng who was still holding the bowl in front of him, and said with a smile, "Eat slowly, it's okay, it's prepared for you anyway."

Bai Sheng suddenly raised his head and met Jiang Li's gentle eyes.

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"what?"

"I knew Junior Sister Bai Sheng would definitely come to see me today, so I fished all night last night and fished for a while in the morning. I made just enough for the two of us to eat."

"why?"

"Because Junior Sister Bai Sheng will definitely think that my sword skills are amazing, and then she will come to me."

Bai Sheng stared blankly at Jiang Li in front of her, and she suddenly became a little scared.

All of this is under his control, so what exactly is his purpose...?

Bai Sheng suddenly realized that maybe he was waiting for him to ask questions and then fall into the trap step by step. However, he did not hide anything from her and every word he said was true. So what could the trap be?

What...is he after?

But Bai Sheng would still ask, is this an open conspiracy?

"Brother Jiang Li...why did you teach me swordsmanship?"

"You finally asked." Jiang Li smiled, "Because I want to ask Junior Sister Bai Sheng about something."

Bai Sheng suddenly felt as if something had stabbed her chest for no apparent reason. She frowned slightly and asked, "About Senior Sister Bing Ning?"

"Yes."

"What do you want to ask, Brother Jiang Li?"

"Is she... doing well lately?"

As Mu Bingning's best friend, it didn't matter if he answered this question. Bai Sheng nodded gently, "Senior Sister Bingning is doing well. Her cultivation has now reached the peak of the late Nascent Soul stage and is about to enter the Out-of-Body stage."

While she was saying these words, she was also carefully observing Jiang Li's expression. When Jiang Li heard the answer, he smiled with some relief, but his eyes drifted away, as if he was in a trance.

"Brother Jiang Li... why are you asking these questions?"

"There are still some things in my heart that I can't forget."

Jiang Li murmured in a low voice, and then laughed at himself. Bai Sheng couldn't help but ask, "Back then... Senior Brother Jiang Li pursued Senior Sister Bing Ning, right?"

Jiang Li sighed softly, as if Bai Sheng's words brought back his memories. He turned his head and whispered to Bai Sheng, "Four years ago, Mu Bingning and I stepped into the Zhongzhou Secret Realm together. At that time, the two of us explored the Zhongzhou Secret Realm together. It was also at that time that I fell in love with Mu Bingning."

"I like her purity, and I also like her cool, kind nature. So after returning to the sect, I pursued her without any reservation. I wanted to be her Taoist partner, I wanted to be with her, and I wanted to see her smile at me every day."

"At that time, Mu Bingning did not reject me right away. She knew very well that I was pursuing her, and she gave me a chance. She and I admired the flowers under the peach tree, went down the mountain to watch the fireworks, had dinner together in my yard, amused Dabai together, and took Dabai to catch butterflies at Hidden Sword Peak."

"I was very happy at that time, and I was full of hope that maybe after a while, my sincerity would be able to move Mu Bingning, and she would accept my pursuit and become my Taoist partner."

When Jiang Li thought back to that time, a smile unconsciously appeared on the corner of his mouth.

But Jiang Li's smile gradually turned bitter. "When I was pursuing her, I planted a bunch of flowers. I wanted to pick them and give them to her after they grew well. A month later, the flowers became gorgeous and I walked up to her holding the flowers and expressed my feelings to her."

Bai Sheng's heart suddenly tightened for no reason.

"What happened next... seems like you all know it." Jiang Li lowered his head slightly and stopped looking into Bai Sheng's eyes. "She told me that you are not worthy of being my Taoist partner."

Bai Sheng’s mind became increasingly confused.

She had never heard Mu Bingning talk about what happened in the past, but the sentence "You are not worthy to be my Taoist partner" was indeed a funny thing that many people in Xuantian Dao Ji Sect knew. However, based on her understanding of Mu Bingning, Mu Bingning did not seem like someone who would say such a thing.

"It's not her fault, actually." Jiang Li lowered his head slightly, "Maybe she never really liked me, but I misunderstood."

"Maybe she just regarded me as a friend, but I mistook that little bit of kindness for love, and then started to be sentimental, and then brought shame upon myself."

"Perhaps it was because I didn't work hard enough at the time, so my cultivation was low. I was only the second-ranked sword cultivator in Hidden Sword Peak. Of course, I couldn't compare to her noble status as the daughter of the sect master."

"Maybe... it was wrong from the beginning."

Bai Sheng wanted to say something but stopped himself several times, but Jiang Li quickly raised his head and tried hard to smile at Bai Sheng.

"These are all things of the past... There's no need to recall them. But it was because I was too cowardly. After she said that to me, I didn't want to practice sword anymore. I always felt that there was no point in practicing sword. Anyway, no matter how hard I tried, I was not worthy of her. I was just a child picked up from the foot of the mountain."

"I have no ambitions, and I don't seek to attain enlightenment, so I simply stop practicing swordplay."

"When I fell in love with her I planted a bunch of flowers, but now I have a whole garden, so it's no big deal."

Bai Sheng stared blankly at Jiang Li's smile in front of him, but he always felt that there was a broken heart hidden under that smile.

"Are you making fun of yourself?" Jiang Li said softly to Bai Sheng.

"No... maybe there is some hidden story behind what happened back then..."

Jiang Li shook his head, "It's not important anymore."

"I dreamt about her again a few days ago, and I realized that I still had some lingering feelings for her. Now that I've asked about her and heard that she's doing well, I think I should let it go."

Jiang Li rubbed his face and said, "Don't underestimate your Senior Brother Jiang Li. Senior Brother Jiang Li is actually quite open-minded."

He picked up the chopsticks and picked up another river shrimp to his mouth, "Eat, eat. After dinner, show Junior Sister Bai Sheng my back garden."

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Bai Sheng stared blankly at the garden in front of him.

This is Jiang Li's garden. It is full of flowers that he planted himself. Each flower needs to be carefully taken care of, but each flower is in full bloom. At this moment, Jiang Li is no longer in a trance like before. Instead, he is a little proud. He stands beside Bai Sheng and says, "Pick any bouquet you like."

"Is it okay?" Bai Sheng looked up at him.

Bai Sheng carefully kept the two bouquets of white roses that Jiang Li had given her earlier in a jade bottle.

"Of course. I still have a lot. If I don't give some away, I won't have the space to plant new ones."

Bai Sheng hesitated for a moment, then walked into Jiang Li's garden and saw several beautiful white flowers. She moved closer to the flowers, the fragrance was refreshing, and butterflies were flying among the flowers. She suddenly thought of what Jiang Li had just said, "Now I have a garden."

She couldn't help but look back at Jiang Li. When she saw that Jiang Li was smiling at her, she suddenly felt relieved.

She was no longer wary of Jiang Li's smile, because she had gradually understood what kind of person Senior Brother Jiang Li was.

Jiang Li looked at the girl standing among the flowers and started to smile.

The fact is that if you want to tell someone directly what you are like, the credibility is particularly low. But if you tell the other person about your own experiences and let her guess what happened and draw her own conclusion, these ideas are all her own thoughts, and people will always subconsciously believe what they think.

This is the art of deception in its simplest form.

But in fact, Jiang Li did not lie, otherwise if Bai Sheng confronted Mu Bingning, this lie would instantly collapse. But everything he said just now was actually true. Even if Bai Sheng really asked Mu Bingning, Mu Bingning would not be able to refute a single word.

There is only one real lie. How could little Mu Bingning destroy Jiang Xiaoli's spiritual heart?

He admitted that he had been a little attracted to Mu Bingning, because he was also a love-brained person. Unfortunately, his love-brain only lasted for a short time, and he would give up if he couldn't get her. The time cost required to conquer Mu Bingning was not proportional to the benefits after the conquest, so Jiang Li chose to give up.

Perhaps Mu Bingning was indeed one of the triggers now, but it was just a small part. Jiang Li no longer cared about it. He looked at Bai Sheng in front of him and suddenly felt that this gentle junior sister was unexpectedly cute.

Stupid and stupid.

While thinking this, footsteps were heard behind them. Jiang Li looked back and saw a young man in black clothes with a long sword on his back. The moment his eyes fell on Jiang Li's face, they locked onto him.

"Qin Gou from Hidden Sword Peak, I heard that Senior Brother Jiang Li's swordsmanship is unparalleled, and I want to have a duel with him."

"I wonder if you dare, Brother Jiang Li?"

Chapter 15: Chapter What is the Sword Intent?

"Don't dare."

Jiang Li was quite surprised by the appearance of the young man in black in front of him. Logically speaking, Qian Tingsheng knew that he was a tough nut to crack. If he wanted to cause trouble for him again, it should be during the Hidden Sword Peak competition.

It's somewhat funny that he doesn't even have this little bit of patience.

"Senior Brother Jiang Li is at the initial stage of foundation building, and I have just entered the middle stage of foundation building. Why shouldn't Senior Brother Jiang Li dare to do so?" There was a hint of teasing and sarcasm in Qin Gou's eyes.

"Your aura is strong, and the hand holding the sword doesn't have any calluses. It's obvious that you focused on training your body during the Qi and Body Refining stage, so you delayed your training time. Judging from the color of your skin, you should be practicing Immaculate Golden Body. So even if you are only in the middle stage of Foundation Establishment at this moment, I think an ordinary late stage Foundation Establishment cultivator may not be enough for you to defeat."

Jiang Li slowly explained Qin Gou's training methods, then took a step back, "So why should I fight you?"

Qin Gou, who was exposed by him, had a little more surprise in his eyes, but he had made a lot of preparations before coming. Qin Gou narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at Jiang Li in front of him, "But I think... Brother Jiang Li, you must have a sword fight with me today."

"You proposed a duel. As long as I don't agree, if you dare to fight, when we get to the Discipline Hall, it will be considered bullying your fellow disciples. The minimum penalty is confinement for seven days, and the worst is thirty strokes of the cane. You know that, don't you?" Jiang Li spread out his hands innocently.

There was a faint smile on his face from beginning to end, or to be more precise, a condescending and sarcastic attitude.

"I naturally understand what Senior Brother Jiang Li said, but if I remember correctly, when Senior Brother Jiang Li was driven out of the cave, the elders only allowed Senior Brother Jiang Li to build a wooden house on Hidden Sword Peak. However, Senior Brother Jiang Li not only built a bamboo house, but also reclaimed a piece of wasteland on Hidden Sword Peak... This is not allowed."

Qin Gou looked at Jiang Li's flower field.

Jiang Li's expression remained unchanged. This flower field was indeed cultivated by him, but it was a small matter that no one would care about. However, if someone really wanted to make a fuss about it, he really had no way to do it.

He sighed softly.

What a mess this is.

Seeing that Jiang Li did not move, Qin Gou slowly drew out the long sword on his back. A faint spiritual light had already covered the long sword. He believed that as soon as he drew his sword, most of the flowers in the flower field in front of him would die.

But Jiang Li still didn't seem to be ready to take action.

Qin Gou glanced at him sideways, sneered, and then drew his sword towards his flower field without hesitation. Jiang Li did not close his eyes, so he could clearly see the magic sword in Bai Sheng's hand fly out of her hand. After a clang, Qin Gou's sword and her sword blade collided in mid-air, and then returned to the hands of each other's sword masters.

Bai Sheng in front of him had clenched his fists slightly, holding the sword in his other hand, and looked at Qin Gou in front of him, "Senior Brother Jiang Li has made it clear that he doesn't want to fight with you, why are you so aggressive?"