Why do you always want to be my Taoist partner?

Jiang Li's bones were about to fall apart, while Mu Xuezhi stood there, closing her eyes, as if she had some epiphany. However, her dress was now tattered, and the bright moonlight fell on her porcelain-white body, giving her the aura of a holy fairy falling into the mortal world.

Jiang Li suddenly wanted to record this scene, but using a photo stone to record it was too... shameless. He was not capable of doing such a shameless thing.

So the sanctimonious Jiang Xiaoli simply sat on a chair beside him, set up the easel and prepared the paints, and began to sketch everything he saw on the drawing board.

The moment Mu Xuezhi opened her eyes, Jiang Li had just finished his painting.

The magic sword in Mu Xuezhi's hand appeared again. Jiang Li thought that Mu Xuezhi was going to chop him. Just as he was about to dodge, Mu Xuezhi's sword shot towards the sky. The power of this sword was very different from her previous ones. Although they had the same origin, the sword power gave people a sharper and colder feeling, but there was no longer that lonely and desolate feeling.

"How about this sword?" Mu Xuezhi retracted the magic sword in her hand and asked Jiang Li calmly.

"It's pretty good, better than before."

"What are you drawing?" Mu Xuezhi asked again.

Jiang Li coughed twice, "The moonlight is beautiful, and I was moved by the scene, so I painted a picture."

Mu Xuezhi walked in front of him, her torn dress swaying gently in the wind. She saw Jiang Li's painting. The woman in the painting had her dress torn. She was standing under a lonely moon with her eyes closed.

Jiang Li's painting skills are good. The women in his paintings always have a hint of loneliness. Mu Xuezhi was silent for a moment, "Do you want to be beaten again?"

"I'm just waiting for you to have an epiphany before asking you. If you don't like it, I'll tear it up." Jiang Li answered confidently.

"Your painting skills are good." Mu Xuezhi's sword was hovering in front of Jiang Li's neck without her noticing. "But if this painting is seen by other men, I will chop off your head and hang it on the top of Xuantian Dao Jizong Mountain."

"The Sect Master is so fierce, crying is annoying."

Jiang Li carefully put away the painting while talking nonsense. Mu Xuezhi just turned around and heard Jiang Li ask behind her, "Sect Master Mu, I have a small question."

"You said."

"Why can't other men watch it, but I can?"

Mu Xuezhi turned her head and looked at Jiang Li's face, which seemed to reveal a slightly smug expression at the moment. However, there was no shyness or anger on her cheeks. Instead, the corners of her pink and tender lips were raised, and her smile was like a blooming flower.

"you guess?"

"Do you want to guess?" Jiang Li also laughed.

"You seem to be very good at taking advantage of others." Mu Xuezhi's voice suddenly became colder.

"The sect leader's eyes are so cold." Jiang Li looked at her cold eyes and said softly.

"is it?"

"Yeah... women are creatures who change their attitude faster than turning the pages of a book." Jiang Li sighed softly, "The Sect Master's mind is really hard to guess."

"I never meant to keep you guessing."

"I know." Jiang Li thought for a moment, "It's really strange. Sometimes I hate you to the core, but sometimes I can't help but want to be attentive to you."

"Then you are really a cheap person." Mu Xuezhi's eyes were full of contempt.

"Can't you give me a chance to blame you? Every time I think the Sect Master is pure and innocent, like a fairy from heaven, she always reveals some of the cuteness of an ordinary woman, which makes me want to get closer to her. But every time I get closer, she pushes me away again."

Mu Xuezhi sneered, "Go on, I'll listen to you."

"I won't say anything more. Sweet words won't fool you." Jiang Li smiled calmly. "People like me have always been very clear about a principle, which is to retreat when faced with difficulties. If there is absolutely no chance, then never try it. Otherwise, if you fail, you will easily fall into madness."

"so?"

"Nothing." Jiang Li felt that he had conveyed enough, so the meaning of this sentence was enough. He smiled at Mu Xuezhi and said, "I overstepped my bounds."

Jiang Li took out the painting again and placed it gently on the table.

"I thought I loved the Sect Master's purity, but when I saw the Sect Master, I couldn't help but have desires. I thought my love was pure, but now it seems that I was just deceiving myself."

"Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that the Sect Master and Mu Bingning look too much alike?" Jiang Li muttered to himself, then laughed again, "I was offended just now, I promise I won't do it again in the future."

Jiang Li said this very seriously.

"You'd better not." Mu Bingning's eyes were still full of contempt.

"Well, all right, then, Sect Master, go to bed early. I'll come and practice swordplay with you tomorrow morning."

After Jiang Li finished speaking, he turned and walked out.

Mu Xuezhi looked at his departing back and her eyes fell on the painting on the table. The painting floated up and appeared in front of Mu Xuezhi. She couldn't help but admire Jiang Li's painting skills, which were indeed superb. Mu Xuezhi had never seen a person paint so exquisitely. She always felt that there was an indescribable atmosphere in the painting. The woman in the painting stood under the lonely moon above her head, as if deserted and lonely.

Lonely?

Over the past few hundred years, she has never felt lonely. The time was too long, so long that she had long since become indifferent to everything. She had gradually lost the so-called human emotions, including joy, anger, sorrow, fear, love, hate, and desire. Perhaps this was the so-called becoming an immortal.

She stared at the painting in front of her for a long time. The lonely moon cast a desolate moonlight. She was like a silent sculpture, looking at the woman in the painting. Her eyelashes gradually drooped, as if she was a little tired.

Chapter 209: Chapter Settlement of Accounts

On the desolate path in the moonlight.

Jiang Li's steps were brisk. He didn't feel melancholy or sad at all. Instead, he was smiling happily.

But as he laughed, his smile gradually disappeared. Finally, he let out a long sigh, found a stone, and sat there for a long time. Then he returned to his bamboo house, wrapped himself in a quilt, and went to sleep.

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Jiang Li's life has become very regular recently. He teaches Su Yaoyao how to practice sword in the morning, and goes to Mu Xuezhi to continue practicing sword in the afternoon. If he goes to find other girls in the afternoon, he will go to Mu Xuezhi to practice sword in the evening.

He and Mu Xuezhi would not talk nonsense these days. Even though Jiang Li's sword would occasionally accidentally cut Mu Xuezhi's clothes, there was finally no greed in his eyes anymore. Instead, there was clarity and calmness.

The hour of sword practice with Mu Xuezhi every day not only made Mu Xuezhi's sword skills more powerful, but it also greatly helped to consolidate his cultivation. After all, his cultivation level was improved overnight.

Su Yaoyao has already practiced the Moon-Slaying Sword Technique to the seventh level, but the brand in her body has been backlashing badly recently. Apart from when Jiang Li and she were practicing sword, she would often lose control inadvertently. When he was sleeping in his room, he would occasionally hear panting from the next room at night. One night, when he was half asleep and half awake, the little fox lay on top of him, with her skirt lifted up, as if she was about to do something bad to Jiang Li. Then she was caught by Jiang Li and spanked hard, and then she woke up obediently.

Mu Xuezhi's sword power has indeed improved. Her sword power is no longer obsessed with cutting off emotions and thoughts, but is moving closer to the direction of Jiang Li's swordsmanship. A sword is just a sword, it does not carry any emotions. Her improvement is the result of the holes she made in Jiang Li's body during every sword fight.

Before I knew it, it was the end of the month.

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"The sect master's sword skills have greatly improved. It is difficult for me to teach you anything more."

Jiang Li silently put away the Xuehua Sword in his hand. He was still panting at this moment, but it was not because he was weak. If it were someone else with the same cultivation level, they would not be able to last even a minute under Mu Xuezhi's hands. She was the well-deserved number one female swordsman in Zhongzhou.

"I won't be here next time. If you have any confusion about swordsmanship, just send me a message and I will come as soon as possible." Jiang Li said softly, then turned around naturally and walked towards the gate of the courtyard.

Mu Xuezhi stood there looking at his back. After hesitating for a long time, she slowly raised her hand, as if she wanted to say something to Jiang Li, but before she could say anything, Jiang Li had disappeared from her sight.

Jiang Li seemed like a different person during this period of time.

Her expression was cold, but it was not because she was not good at observing people's expressions. It was because she had met so many people that as soon as she looked into the other person's eyes, she could see what the other person was thinking. This was also the reason why she felt that Jiang Li was hypocritical back then.

She could always sense Jiang Li's ill intentions, so she habitually wanted to push Jiang Li away. But if she really thought about it carefully, Jiang Li didn't do anything bad to her. This contradiction made Mu Xuezhi a little annoyed.

If she had to say something, she actually owed Jiang Li a little bit at this moment, because during this period of sword practice, she had left many sword wounds on Jiang Li's body, but Jiang Li had never complained.

Now her sword power has definitely improved, and she has even vaguely glimpsed the threshold of becoming a saint. But she is also very clear that what Jiang Li can teach her now is already the limit, so he will not come again.

Mu Xuezhi's eyes inadvertently looked at the flowers on the wooden stand. It was late autumn, but the flowers were still blooming beautifully. Now she could restrain her sword power, and the flowers would not wither easily. When she walked out of the courtyard, she found that the tree at the gate of the courtyard had grown lush branches and leaves.

Every time Jiang Li came, he would use his spiritual energy to warm this tree that had been withered for a long time, so the tree could now regain its vitality. Mu Xuezhi stood under the tree and looked at the sky for a long time.

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"What are you thinking about?" Su Yaoyao's ears trembled slightly.

"Thinking about women." Jiang Li came back to his senses and looked into Su Yaoyao's eyes. Su Yaoyao was startled, and her snow-white fox ears twitched again, "Huh?"

Jiang Li pinched her ear and said, "It's okay. I'm going on a long trip tomorrow and will be back in about half a month. Remember to take care of yourself while I'm away. If you encounter any problems, go find Yue Ji and she will help you solve them."

Su Yaoyao nodded obediently.

Jiang Li continued to lie on the lounge chair to bask in the moonlight. At this moment, he was lying by his garden. He had finally finished teaching Mu Xuezhi how to use the sword. He regarded this trip to the Northern Territory as a vacation for himself. It would be nice to have a good rest.

As he lay there, he gradually felt sleepy. In his daze, he vaguely sensed a familiar breath. He opened his eyes and looked at the woman in front of him who was wearing a black Taoist robe.

"Hmm?" Jiang Li sat up a little, "What's wrong?"

"I was just walking around and happened to come to you." Mu Xuezhi's voice was very calm. She was the kind of woman who could feel completely justified even when she was lying.

Jiang Li nodded and lay back down. The starry sky fell into his eyes. Su Yaoyao was very sensible and brought another chair. However, Mu Xuezhi did not sit down, but looked at Jiang Li's garden.

“Did you plant these flowers?”

"Yes."

Mu Xuezhi came to his garden and murmured the names, types, and years of Jiang Li's flowers one by one. Jiang Li's garden was taken care of every day and was especially well taken care of.

"It seems you like these flowers very much."

Jiang Li shook his head, "Not really."

"Ok?"

"I planted these casually before. Bringing a bunch of flowers when trying to seduce junior sisters and senior sisters will greatly increase your success rate. After all, many people in the sect are idiots who practice swordsmanship. How can they understand romance?"

"You are really honest."

"Later, whenever I went down the mountain to travel, I could not help but bring back beautiful flowers and cultivate them well. As a result, the flowers grew more and more. Now I don't have the heart to seduce women, but the flowers are still blooming. It's a pity to pluck them away."

Mu Xuezhi suddenly realized something at this moment.

In the past, this guy would hook up with a different senior sister every two weeks in Xuantian Dao Ji Sect. But it seems that in the past two months, after he became closer to Mu Bingning's good friend Bai Sheng, he no longer hooked up with any women in the sect.

She found that she was increasingly unable to guess what Jiang Li was thinking about. She also didn't know why she was walking in the sect and ended up here. Maybe she just wanted to come and take a look. As for why? She didn't know either.

Mu Xuezhi returned to her chair and sat down, asking calmly, "Why don't you have the heart to flirt with women anymore?"

"Yaoyao, it's time to take a bath." Jiang Li glanced at Su Yaoyao, who left the place obediently. Jiang Li thought for a while, "I have been focusing on you for a while now."

"Now that you've failed, you can continue."

Jiang Li shook his head, "You don't understand me."

Mu Xuezhi turned her head and glanced at him, but found that Jiang Li was still looking at the stars lazily. He didn't look at Mu Xuezhi, but there was a smile on the corner of his mouth. His whole body exuded a sense of laziness.

"I used to flirt with those senior sisters and junior sisters in the sect because I felt lonely. After being rejected by Mu Bingning, I always felt a little unwilling in my heart, so I began to feel lonely. I know that Mu Bingning must have had some unspeakable reasons for rejecting me, but I don't want to ask. Flirting with those senior sisters is actually a kind of revenge. I just hope that she will see me neglecting my cultivation and wandering among the flowers all day long. This is my way of revenge."

"But slowly I started to get tired of it." Jiang Li sighed, "What's the point? In the final analysis, it's just because I'm a stingy, selfish and bad-tempered person. I shouldn't dwell on the past. In the past, I always ignored a lot of people because of Mu Bingning. In fact, there are still many people who truly love me. I know it but I pretend to turn a blind eye."

Jiang Li's voice was very gentle, and it fell into Mu Xuezhi's ears along with the soft evening breeze.

"I admired you before because of your looks and figure. No man would dislike you. But this is not the most important point. I have a love-hate relationship with you. I envy your contemptuous attitude towards love, but I hate your contempt for love. Because every time I think of you like this, I, who have been using all kinds of tricks and methods to constantly seek love, feel like a poor puppy."

"You said you never felt lonely, and never longed for love. You said love was just a lie. I tried very hard to refute you, but later I realized that it was meaningless to refute you. I believe what you said, but I prefer to deceive myself. Living in this world itself has no meaning. If everything is illusory, then you have to find some reasons to live."

"So I wanted to see if the fairies in heaven would ever fall to earth, and if they would ever be tempted by mortals. But after I overcame my inner demons that day, I understood a new truth."

"Why should I care about how you live? I just need to take care of myself. I want to see you no longer be spotless, but in the final analysis it is only because of my own selfishness. I will never be a person like you, but I shouldn't laugh at people like you. We laughed at each other before and despised each other. I always wanted to see you fall into the quagmire, but in the final analysis it was just because I didn't want to appear so despicable in front of you."

Jiang Li finished speaking, but Mu Xuezhi did not speak. The two of them enjoyed the autumn breeze together in silence for a long time, until Jiang Li stood up and stretched. "I'm going to rest. I'm leaving for the Northern Territory tomorrow. If nothing unexpected happens, when I come back from the Northern Territory, I'll go to Huoluo Country and chop off the head of the Blood Soul Sect's leader."

"The New Year is coming soon. It's time to settle the debt owed by the Dark Moon Blood Demon Sect."

Jiang Li didn't look at Mu Xuezhi again. He walked straight to his bamboo building, returned to his room, and closed the door gently.

Chapter 210: Chapter Bad

"Stay awake, we'll leave tomorrow morning."

Jiang Li patted the butt of Dabai who was licking his paws in front of him. Dabai whipped his face with his tail and looked at him with disdain, "Why were you pretending to be a big shot again?"

"Can you see this?"

"It's not the first day I've known you. If you say more than fifty words in a row, you are most likely lying."

"You're slandering my innocence again." Jiang Li grabbed Dabai and rubbed her hard several times. Dabai looked at him with dim eyes, "Is this the woman you've been trying to seduce for a long time but didn't take the bait?"

"Hasn't he taken the bait?" Jiang Li gently stroked Dabai's smooth back.

"What tricks are you using this time?"

"No tricks this time, all sincerity." Jiang Li smiled helplessly, but Dabai glanced at him contemptuously the next second, "Pretend, keep pretending."

"..."

Jiang Li turned off the fluorite lamp in the room, pulled the quilt, and lay down in the bed with Dabai. "Her sword power is moving in the direction of severing emotions and thoughts, but humans are creatures driven by desires. If they lose their desires, they are no longer human. She wants to cleanse the sins of the Dark Moon Blood Evil Sect, which means that her desires are always there. Her sword has not really extinguished her desires, otherwise she should be a wooden person."