Why do you always want to be my Taoist partner?

He leaned close to Zhu Qiutang's ear and whispered softly.

"I'm here, don't worry."

But Zhu Qiutang's eyelashes drooped slightly. She had always been pessimistic. Jiang Li's enthusiasm for her at this moment only made her feel more and more flustered. She didn't want everything about her to be involved in unfamiliar variables. She was clearly prepared. In the future, when she would practice sword with Zhu Taozhi, she would definitely beat Zhu Taozhi to prove her efforts over the years. But she didn't want to live anymore. She felt so tired and just wanted to have a good sleep and never wake up again.

But now Jiang Li held her tightly in his arms, and she was a little afraid of this warm hug.

"I still hate you, why don't you just leave me..."

Jiang Li raised his hand and slapped Zhu Qiutang hard on the butt. Before she could respond, he reached out his hand again, cupped Zhu Qiutang's cheek, then lowered his head and kissed her on the lips.

"you……"

"Don't say it."

Zhu Qiutang was out of strength, and her body gradually softened. She tried to slowly raise her hands and gently hugged Jiang Li's back. The sound of rain in her ears was no longer noisy, as if it had become gentle again at this moment.

She always felt that she was sinking little by little, and she didn't know where she would sink to.

..............................

"It's really touching."

At the same time, a female voice with a hint of sarcasm came into the ears of Jiang Li and Zhu Qiutang. He and Zhu Qiutang looked in front of them, and the phantom who called himself "Ziyou" who had disappeared before appeared again.

Jiang Li looked at the shadow in front of him with complicated eyes.

One could say that he was the one who took advantage because of the pink mist, but he really didn't think so. He never thought that he was a person with good self-control. Many things would happen a second time after the first time, and then he would just give up.

Zhu Qiutang looked at Ziyou with complicated eyes.

The innocence she had guarded for twenty years was lost in this way, and she was even the one who took the initiative to wag her tail and beg like a puppy. With her pride, this was enough to make her feel ashamed to death.

"Why do you want to block the heavenly calamity for her?" Ziyou looked at Jiang Li.

"What does it have to do with you?" Jiang Li's fingertips moved slightly, and the next moment, the sword appeared in his hand.

"You'd better not think of using your sword against me. Even though I am only a remnant soul, killing you two is as easy as crushing an ant."

"I have been waiting here for three thousand years, waiting for a couple who love each other to come here. You said before that you are just friends, so now I ask you, do you love her?"

Jiang Li didn't reply.

For him to say that he loves someone in person is probably more painful than death, so he remained silent. Zi You waited for a long time but he didn't make any sound, but she was not angry. "It was my negligence. You were even willing to block the calamity for her. How could you not love her?"

A vine suddenly grew out in front of the two of them. The vine grew very fast, and in a moment it was as tall as Jiang Li. On the vine, there were two purple flowers.

"If you eat the petals of this flower, you will forget the person you love most in this life, but at the same time, your cultivation will increase to the tenth level of the Refining Void Realm overnight."

"The choice is up to you." Ziyou's voice was filled with undisguised mockery.

Jiang Li stared at the flower in front of him in a daze for a long time.

Zhu Qiutang's voice was very clear, "If you plan to eat it, I will never stop you."

"Even if I eat this flower, I will not forget you." Jiang Li turned his head and looked at her, "There is still someone living in my heart, who has lived there for a long, long time. Maybe if I forget her, I won't be so painful anymore, right?"

"Then why are you hesitating?" Zhu Qiutang asked calmly.

Black flames appeared in her hands and burned the flower that belonged to her to ashes in an instant. Jiang Li looked at the flower in front of him and did not speak for a long time.

If I forget, will I stop feeling pain?

Jiang Li picked the flower.

For some reason, many women's eyes appeared in his head. He liked to pretend to be confused, but he was not stupid. Yue Ji and Bai Sheng were waiting for him, waiting for the day when he dared to take a step forward, and then they would throw themselves into his arms.

Maybe if I forget, there will be no more pain. If I forget, I won’t have to torture myself anymore.

Jiang Li seemed to hear a voice in his ear constantly tempting him. He had already picked up the petal and placed it to his lips.

As long as you give up, you can deceive yourself forever and live a selfish and happy life.

Just... forget.

That face suddenly appeared in Jiang Li's mind again.

On the evening of the summer night when they parted in high school, the two were walking on the side of the road, and he heard her ask, "Hey, if we don't see each other often in the future, will you forget me?"

Jiang Li finally threw the flower to the ground.

"If I forget, then I won't be myself." He raised his head and laughed.

Purple mist began to appear around the two of them. He looked at the purple shadow in front of him, and the shadow seemed to become more and more blurred. He seemed to hear a hypocritical laughter, but her laughter sounded like crying.

At this moment, the sky was flashing with lightning again. Jiang Li and Zhu Qiutang looked up at the same time. The thunder fell down in an instant, but it did not fall on them, but on the purple shadow in front of them. The shadow did not struggle and was completely annihilated by the thunder. After the thunder ended, only a small purple flower was left on the ground.

Jiang Li walked to the purple flower in confusion. He picked up the flower and after a moment, many memories of Ziyou appeared in his mind.

It turned out that the phantom was not the saint named Ziyou, but just a flower she had planted. Saint Ziyou also had a Taoist partner. They were monks from different sects. At that time, Zhongzhou and Western Regions were at loggerheads and wars continued. Her lover was bewitched by the fox tribe in Western Regions and willingly betrayed Zhongzhou and went to Western Regions.

She was left alone in Zhongzhou and suffered all kinds of ridicule. Finally, the two met on the battlefield. The man looked completely unfamiliar. He drew his sword at Ziyou without mercy, but unexpectedly, he was killed by Ziyou in the end. Before he died, the man kept begging for mercy thinking of their old friendship, but she still chose to swing the sword.

For the next thousand years, she was trapped in her own inner demons. The image of the man she first met always appeared in her mind. The encounter was so beautiful, but the final ending was so absurd.

She spent a lot of effort and finally planted this Purple You Flower. As long as she ate this Purple You Flower, she would be able to completely forget the man. However, the Purple You Flower had already matured, and she suffered from pain and entanglement for a hundred years until she died of depression. She did not eat the Purple You Flower. The blood she spat out before her death fell on the Purple You Flower, so the Purple You Flower became intelligent and became the king of flowers in the Valley of Ten Thousand Flowers.

Ziyouhua does not understand the warmth and coldness of the world. The thousand years of practice have made her confused. Sometimes she thinks she is Ziyou, and sometimes she thinks that she is just a flower she planted. The purpose of being planted is to let Ziyou eat her, so that she will forget the lover who has tortured her in her mind for thousands of years.

So she has been waiting eagerly, waiting for a pair of Taoist lovers to appear. No matter who falls in love with whom, she just wants to be eaten. This is her mission.

But Jiang Li and Zhu Qiutang both rejected her. She no longer had the patience to wait for the next three thousand years, so she triggered a thunder tribulation and self-destructed.

The purple ghost flower in front of him was the true form of the purple ghost flower. Three thousand years of spiritual nourishment had made it a spiritual flower that was truly close to the holy level. If one ate this flower, he would forget the one he loved most. Even if a cultivator in the foundation-building stage ate it, his cultivation would directly soar to the tenth level of the fusion stage.

This is a spiritual medicine that is close to the holy level, and naturally it has an effect equivalent to the rules of heaven. Jiang Li looked at this purple flower and began to ponder it seriously.

How can I eliminate this side effect?

Chapter 160: Chapter Until the day you smile at me

Jiang Li put away the purple flower, and the thick fog around the two of them had completely dissipated. At this moment, they were no longer restricted from flying with swords. In fact, a day and a night should have passed.

He remembered it quite clearly, after all, he and Zhu Qiutang had practiced dual cultivation countless times. At this moment, Zhu Qiutang was still wearing the black palace skirt that Jiang Li had prepared for her. It was time for them to leave here.

"Let's go." Zhu Qiutang said lightly.

"Wait a minute." Jiang Li grabbed her hand, then gently pulled Zhu Qiutang into his arms. He leaned close to Zhu Qiutang's ear and said, "After we leave here, will you deliberately be cold to me?"

"will not."

"I don't believe it. You look so cold right now." Jiang Li bit her ear in dissatisfaction. "Maybe you will forget me after you go back?"

"Won't."

"I don't believe you hesitated." Jiang Li hugged her tighter, "You can't forget me. I will start looking for a solution to your misfortune as soon as possible. When the time comes, I will come to the North Territory to find you."

"No need to bother you."

Jiang Li reached out and pinched Zhu Qiutang's snow-white buttocks hard.

"You..." Zhu Qiutang's cheeks turned red with anger.

"If you continue like this, I will be angry." Jiang Li complained first.

"If you're angry, then be angry!"

Jiang Li slowly loosened his hand, then moved closer to her and kissed her lips gently, his voice sounding childish, "I'll kiss you when you're angry."

Zhu Qiutang wanted to push him away, but she didn't have the strength. She always felt that there was still some dirt in her body that had not been cleaned up. Her mind was very confused. It was obvious that he had only known Jiang Li for two days.

"You treat me like this, what about Taozhi?"

"My relationship with her is probably not as close as you think."

"I clearly saw you go into her room and sleep yesterday."

"We just slept together, we didn't do anything else." Jiang Li blinked at Zhu Qiutang innocently.

Before Zhu Qiutang could ask, Jiang Li looked into her eyes and said softly, "Compared to her, I like you more."

"You just feel sorry for me, I don't need your pity." Zhu Qiutang lowered her eyelashes.

"Love is not pity. According to what you said, there are so many pitiful women in the world. Wouldn't I have to fall in love with them one by one?"

Jiang Xiaoli has never lost in a debate.

"So what do you like about me?"

"Why do I need a reason to like someone?" Jiang Li reached out and gently stroked her hair. "I like you, that's what I like. I feel safe when I hold you, I feel wronged when I see you being cold to me on purpose, and I want to kiss you when I see your eyes. That's what I like."

"I do not like you."

"It doesn't matter, you will fall in love with me one day."

"What if not?"

"No, no, I still want to be good to you."

"What if I find you annoying?"

"I'm thick-skinned, so I'm not afraid."

"You..." Zhu Qiutang was finally speechless.

Jiang Li kissed her forehead gently again.

Sometimes when listening to women talk, you can't just listen to what they say, you have to listen to why they say it. If Zhu Qiutang really hated him, she wouldn't let him hug her, nor would she let him bite her ears. She was just panicked. She was used to living a lonely life and relying on herself. So when someone suddenly came up to her and said he liked her and wanted to be nice to her, even if she felt warm, she would subconsciously want to push the other person away.

It takes a lot of patience with such girls until they feel truly safe, and then they will open their hearts to you.

Zhu Qiutang's eyes suddenly turned red, and she felt her nose was sore, so she raised her head, not wanting to let the tears fall anymore. She had hardly cried in the past twenty years, but after meeting Jiang Li, she seemed to like crying again.

"Let's go and find a place with good scenery. I'll draw a picture for you."

Jiang Li and Zhu Taozhi flew out of the wisteria garden on their swords and finally returned to the entrance of the Valley of Ten Thousand Flowers. Their auras were no longer concealed. Soon, the two Mahayana monks who had followed Zhu Qiutang appeared in front of Zhu Qiutang. Zhu Qiutang calmly said that everything was fine, and the two of them disappeared into the darkness again.

Zhu Taozhi quickly contacted Zhu Qiutang with the sound transmission jade, and Zhu Qiutang glanced at Jiang Li.

Jiang Li smiled helplessly, indicating that you can answer casually.

Zhu Qiutang brought the sound transmission jade to her lips. After a moment, Jiang Li saw the corners of her lips curled up, as if she had turned into that charming and enchanting woman again.

"Jiang Li and I are doing something interesting. See you later...at the entrance of Wanhua Valley."

After saying this, she cut off the sound transmission jade and ignored Zhu Taozhi's attempts to contact her using spiritual energy. Jiang Li looked at Zhu Qiutang in front of him with a helpless look and reached out his hand to her.

"Let's go."

Zhu Qiutang held his hand and followed him obediently.

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By the lake of Wanhua Valley.

There is a huge gardenia tree by the lake. At this moment, Zhu Qiutang is sitting under the tree. Jiang Li is drawing for her seriously. Zhu Qiutang's eyes are staring at Jiang Li in front of her quietly, and she unconsciously reveals a bit of deliberate coldness.

"If you keep looking at me so coldly, I'll spank you again." Jiang Li grumbled in dissatisfaction, and Zhu Qiutang's cheeks flushed slightly. "You dare?"

"Do you think I dare to do it?" Jiang Li sneered. Zhu Qiutang put her hands on her thighs a little uncomfortably. Jiang Li carefully finished drawing the picture for her. There was no one around them at the moment, so Jiang Li came to her and handed her the painting.

Zhu Qiutang looked at the woman in the painting. Her eyes were slightly cold, but she also inexplicably revealed a sense of fragility. She was looking at the painting seriously, but Jiang Li suddenly put his hand on her shoulder and pushed her gently, and Zhu Qiutang leaned against the tree.

Jiang Li lowered his head, Zhu Qiutang raised his head, and the two looked at each other.

The rain had stopped. The sunlight poured through the gaps between the leaves, casting spots of light on the ground. Zhu Qiutang bit her lips lightly, her eyes becoming a little flustered.

"Are you... gonna kiss me again?"

"Do you want me to kiss you?"

"I don't want to." Zhu Qiutang answered decisively.

"I want to kiss you precisely because you don't want me to. I like the way you are cold to me but can't push me away." Jiang Li laughed.

Zhu Qiutang closed her eyes and said, "Then kiss me, just think of it as... being bitten by a dog."

"Wang Wang Wang!"

Jiang Li moved close to Zhu Qiutang's lips and lightly touched her pink and soft lips. Zhu Qiutang's body soon became weak. They kissed like this for a while. Jiang Li suddenly grabbed her arm and turned her body around. Zhu Taozhi's wrists were grabbed by his hand. The next second, Jiang Li stretched out his hand and slapped her snow-white buttocks.

Her snow-white buttocks were covered by the black skirt, but they were still as round as a full moon. Jiang Li clearly did not use heavy force, but Zhu Qiutang could not help but whimper. She tried to struggle, but was slapped by Jiang Li again.