Why do you always want to be my Taoist partner?

Jiang Li also noticed the gazes falling on him at this moment. He originally thought that no one was paying attention to them, but he forgot that Mu Xuezhi was beside him. No matter where she went, she would be the focus of the crowd. Many people must have pricked up their ears to eavesdrop on his conversation just now. He should have used telepathy earlier.

But even though he was being stared at by so many people, Jiang Li did not show the slightest sign of blushing or embarrassment. Instead, the next second, his eyes became gentle, and a faint smile appeared at the corners of his lips. With his image of a handsome man with rosy lips and white teeth, it was as if the man who was commenting on the beauty of other people's legs was not him.

"Greetings, Sect Master Mu."

Instead, the silver-haired girl in the light blue skirt turned around and saluted respectfully towards Mu Xuezhi. Mu Xuezhi's eyes showed a little confusion, but her expression was still calm, "Do you know me?"

“Ten years ago, when I was young, I had the honor of seeing Sect Master Mu come to ascend the Heavenly Path.”

"Oh." Mu Xuezhi responded lightly.

Jiang Li thought that her image of a cold and arrogant fairy was indeed confirmed. In front of outsiders, she really looked so cold and unapproachable. But Jiang Li had clearly seen her smiling charmingly and also seen her angry and gritting her teeth. Thinking about it this way, was this a benefit for him alone?

"Master Mu, are you here to climb the Heavenly Road again?" Jiang Miao asked softly.

Naturally, she was respectful to Mu Xuezhi. After all, she was a senior in the way of swordsmanship and the number one female swordsman in Zhongzhou. Ten years ago, when she saw Mu Xuezhi ascending the Heavenly Road with such an elegant posture, that scene was almost engraved in her mind and lingered for a long time.

Mu Xuezhi thought for a moment and said, "No, I just happened to accompany the sect disciples to ascend the Heavenly Road. He has something to ask of Aotian Sword Emperor."

This time Jiang Miao shifted her gaze to Jiang Li. Although she tried hard to hide it, there was still a hint of disgust in her eyes.

After all, how can a normal girl have a crush on a guy who gives scores!!!

Jiang Li took a step forward at this moment, and spoke in a humble and polite tone, "Why don't you go first with that young man? I'll just wait behind you."

Jiang Miao nodded slightly, then turned around and walked to the side of the ascension road again. The green-shirted swordsman Zhao Qiu Sheng seemed to be ready as well. He took a deep breath and took a step forward.

Jiang Li was watching the two people happily from the side, and climbed up the steps with a serious expression. The higher he went up the steps, the thicker the fog became. Gradually, Jiang Li could no longer see the figures of the two people, and he began to transmit his telepathic message to Mu Xuezhi.

"Actually, I did this for a purpose."

Mu Xuezhi ignored him.

"Didn't you say that the Sword Sect is full of sword fanatics? What if I show too much talent in swordsmanship and she falls in love with me, or even pesters me to practice swordsmanship? So let her have a bad impression of me first, to avoid trouble later."

Mu Xuezhi finally responded to Jiang Li, "Didn't you just say that she has nice legs and is a pretty beauty? Are you willing to let her go?"

"Well, if you weren't around I would definitely want to flirt with her, but with you around, you overshadow her looks and it would be boring to flirt with her."

Jiang Li shook his head. Mu Xuezhi obviously didn't believe Jiang Li's words. She just asked calmly, "When will you climb the stairs?"

"I'll wait until they all come down before I climb up."

"Do you think you can just walk up the road to heaven and then come down? When you reach above the 200th floor, there will be a sword master from the Sword Sect coming to challenge you on every step. It took me seven days to reach the 627th floor."

"Ah? It takes so long." Jiang Li scratched his head, "Wait a little longer, it's a good time to heal my wounds."

"Do you know you're afraid now?"

"I'm injured, so I definitely can't compete with them. It's not fair."

Jiang Li didn't lie at all. His injuries would take at least one or two months to heal. If it were someone else, the injuries could be fatal at any time, even a breath. At this moment, he felt pain all over his limbs, but he was just holding on.

Soon, Jiang Li and Mu Xuezhi saw two projections appearing on the steps of the road to heaven in front of them. The projections were the Sword Sect's Saint Jiang Miao, and the Knife Sect's Saint Yun Qiu Sheng. At this moment, both of them were holding weapons in their hands, struggling against the oncoming sword energy.

There were marks engraved under each step. The two of them had already climbed more than a hundred steps within the time of an incense stick, and their current number of steps was the same. Jiang Li watched from the side, his eyes always fixed on the saint named Jiang Miao, and he was smiling happily.

"Can't you hold yourself back a little?"

"No, I was just impressed by her Wujian Jue Meridian. It's amazing that she could cultivate to this level."

"Did you see it?"

"I am a peerless doctor." Jiang Li shrugged.

He is a peerless doctor who obtained the system skill book by krypton. It is the only SSR he has drawn in all the years since he obtained the system. The secret method of opening the Tianyan Divine Acupoint was also learned from that skill book, but the key is that this thing is useless. Even a peerless doctor needs medicinal herbs to cure diseases. But in this world with thin spiritual energy, many of the recipes recorded in them have become extinct, not to mention that Jiang Li really has no chance to use them.

Wu Jian Jue Mai, one of the most amazing physiques in the world, her comprehension and cultivation speed are a hundred times faster than that of ordinary people, and her soul is also very special, more than twice as strong as that of the cultivators at the same level. The strength of her soul is directly granted by the rules, and her perception of the rules is also more acute, which means that when it comes to comprehending the sword's power, she will get twice the result with half the effort. This physique sounds very Long Aotian, but there is only one big drawback.

As long as she fails to break through to the fifth level of Mahayana by the age of twenty-five, she will die.

Her silver hair is the most easily distinguishable feature of her Wujian Juemai. However, this Juemai is not hopeless. There are several kinds of elixirs that can prolong her life, allowing her to live one or two hundred years longer. Those are elixir recipes from ancient times. Jiang Che doesn't need to help at all. They exist naturally in this world and can be found by almost anyone who looks through ancient books. The only trouble with the elixir recipe is that the collected herbs must be refined with strange fire.

Strange fire refers to the rare fire from heaven and earth collected by alchemists, but if Jiang Li remembered correctly, it seemed that the alchemists in this world who possessed rare fire had either retired or died. It seemed that one or two were still alive, but he could not remember clearly. However, rare fire did not have to be rare fire from heaven and earth. Any bloodline spiritual fire would be fine, such as the flames of the three ancient mythical beasts, the Golden Crow, the Phoenix, and the Vermillion Bird. A little bit more, the Qilin fire, or the fire spit out by a fire dragon that is more than three thousand years old would barely be fine, and it could be supplemented by the level of the alchemist.

Jiang Li was only interested in physique. After all, he had a bit of a stamp collecting habit. He himself had many strange physiques, such as the Wood Spirit Body, the Flower Spirit Body, the Natural Sword Body, the Immaculate Taoist Body, the Savage Body... Anyway, there were more than twenty kinds in total. Sometimes he even forgot what other functions his physique had.

These physiques were naturally collected from the senior sisters in Xuantian Dao Ji Zong, but to be honest, all these physiques added together were not as strong as Youlan who was standing next to him at this moment. Youlan's chaotic body was the strongest in the world, without a doubt.

It would be great if he was a Chaos Body. The dual cultivation of a Chaos Body would not only improve his cultivation, but also his soul. If his soul was strong enough, he could press the Dark Moon Immortal in his head to the ground and rub it hard.

But what he said just now was true. He didn't know why, but after returning from the Northern Territory, Jiang Li always felt that his standards had become higher and he became more and more bored with many things.

Everyone in the audience was watching Jiang Miao and Yun Qiu Sheng climbing the stairs attentively. Only Jiang Li brought out a recliner and leaned on it in a very ungraceful manner. He was too lazy to even look at them and simply closed his eyes to rest.

Mu Xuezhi glanced at him indifferently. She was standing next to Jiang Li, but there was no anger in her eyes at this moment. She stretched out her hand and gently placed it on his shoulder. Then she couldn't help but raise her beautiful eyebrows slightly.

Because only at this moment did she realize that Jiang Li's injuries were so serious that they were horrifying. Such injuries must have made his entire body feel as if he were being pricked by needles, but he had been smiling and joking with her these past two days.

No wonder she looks even more miserable, is it because it hurts so much that she’s trying to divert her attention?

Mu Xuezhi gathered spiritual energy at her fingertips, trying to warm up Jiang Li's body, but Jiang Li shivered and opened his eyes, "Cold, cold, cold."

"Bear with it." Mu Xuezhi said calmly.

Jiang Li had no choice but to stop talking and closed his eyes again. It was true that Mu Xuezhi was helping him heal his injuries, but her spiritual energy was too cold and it was also true that the pain was getting worse. Jiang Li tried hard not to let his body tremble and maintain the last bit of decency.

Youlan, who was standing beside him, looked at him calmly, the hatred in her eyes still not diminished in the slightest.

Chapter 258: The Girl I Kissed

"Okay, okay, stop torturing me and let me rest for a while."

Half an hour later, Jiang Li stood up with a bitter face and put away the rocking chair. The spiritual energy that Mu Xuezhi used to warm his body was not ordinary spiritual energy, but the spiritual energy of the ancestor of heaven and earth in the sea of ​​​​qi, which could only be condensed in the Mahayana stage. Even with Mu Xuezhi's cultivation level of the tenth level of Mahayana, her face was inevitably a little pale at this moment.

But in fact, it was not very useful. His injuries were really in his meridians and qi sea, so Jiang Li didn't want her to waste her energy. Mu Xuezhi glanced at him and said nothing, while Jiang Li stretched and said, "Okay, I'm going to leave."

"Now?"

"Yes."

"Don't you want to take a good rest?"

"In fact, it's almost the same if you rest a little longer. The pain will be the same anyway." After Jiang Li said this, he walked naturally to the road to heaven. Before climbing the stairs, he took a look at the projected light curtain. Jiang Miao and Yun Qiu Sheng had already reached the 156th floor. They both took the recovery pill and began to recover their spiritual energy.

Jiang Li stepped onto the first floor.

Eh, I don’t feel it.

The tenth floor.

Eh, still no feeling.

The 50th floor.

Eh, strange, I still don’t feel anything.

Jiang Li frowned unconsciously as he walked. He had seen the reactions of Jiang Miao and Yun Qiu Sheng on the screen before. Both of them looked solemn, but why couldn't he sense even the slightest sword intent, let alone sword power?

It shouldn't be.

He walked to the 100th floor, and finally, a sword force came towards him, which Jiang Li easily caught in his hand with two fingers.

This was also a very interesting sword move at an extremely fast speed. Jiang Li studied it for a while, tried to imitate it, and then moved forward one step.

This is a sword move related to fireworks.

He also caught this sword force and tried to deconstruct its true meaning. In his eyes, these sword forces were particularly weak, and it did not take any spiritual power to deconstruct them. Now that he was at the first level of Refining Void, his spiritual strength was completely different from before. Anyway, deconstructing the sword force did not take any spiritual energy, and he found it quite interesting. After all, he had been in Xuantian Dao Ji Zong for so many years, and he had not seen many people comprehend the sword force.

He had copied the sword energy of those people who had previously comprehended the sword energy, but at this moment, the 999-step road to heaven seemed to be above the 100th step, and there was a sword energy at each step.

It took ten breaths to deconstruct each sword move. Jiang Li walked silently, and with each level he would grab various interesting sword moves in his hands, time, space, fast, slow, furious, double images, traceless, starfall, dragon roar... He had a lot of fun playing with them.

offstage.

Because he could only rely on the light curtain to watch everything on the way to heaven, Jiang Li looked very strange in Mu Xuezhi's eyes. He had to stop after every step, and then wait ten breaths before taking another step. No one knew what he was doing.

But he walked at the same speed on each level, taking ten breaths of time, and never wasted a second. Mu Xuezhi couldn't understand the way he was doing it, and the Sword Sect disciples below the stage also looked at Jiang Li climbing the stairs in confusion, not understanding what on earth he was doing here.

What on earth is this guy doing?

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The road to heaven, step 212.

Jiang Miao turned around and glanced at Yun Qiu Sheng behind him.

Yun Qiu Sheng was already five levels slower than him at this moment. Although they had not yet reached their limit, the gap had already become apparent. Jiang Miao naturally disdained to mock him out loud and walked his own way silently, but he couldn't help feeling a little uneasy in his heart.

She originally thought that her limit was around 550 steps, but 550 steps might not be enough to impress the Aotian Sword Emperor who was sleeping in the sea of ​​clouds. She also prepared the Soul-Burning Flower on this trip. If she could reach 600 steps, perhaps the Aotian Sword Emperor would take a closer look at her. Even if he was unwilling to accept her as a disciple, he might be willing to do her a favor and ask the Black Phoenix Empress of the Northern Territory to lend her the Black Phoenix Divine Fire to refine a life-extending elixir for her.

She is already twenty-three years old this year, and only two years away from turning twenty-five. However, her current cultivation level is only the tenth level of the Refining Void Realm, which is still extremely far away from the fifth level of the Mahayana Realm. Although this level of cultivation is almost impossible to reach among her peers, if she cannot reach the fifth level of the Mahayana Realm in her last two years, then she will be dead.

But at this moment, at the 212th step, she felt that her strength had been consumed by 30%. One must know that the road to heaven becomes more and more difficult as one goes further. At this rate, perhaps her limit... is only 500 floors.

Jiang Miao shook her head, trying to get rid of all her distracting thoughts, and continued to climb the stairs silently. The higher she went, the more dangerous the sword energy became. She had to concentrate to deal with them. On the way to heaven, the cultivators on the previous step could sense where the people behind them had gone. Jiang Miao could sense that there was a third person who had stepped onto the steps and had now reached the 150th floor.

Who is it? Is it that... filthy man from Zhongzhou?

Although Jiang Miao saw that the man had a handsome face and a gentle smile when she turned around, she heard his words "that girl has beautiful legs" very clearly.

So she subconsciously felt a little bit of resentment towards the man. Damn it, why should she think about these messy things at this time?

Jiang Miao shook her head again. She had already reached the 240th step, and Yun Qiu Sheng behind her had been left behind by more than ten steps. There was no hope for him to catch up with her. There were rumors in the Sword Sect recently that it seemed that Aotian Sword Emperor really intended to accept a disciple in the next two years. She was the one with the highest cultivation among the younger generation in the entire Eastern Region, and the strongest swordsman. Perhaps... even if she could not reach the 600th step today, Aotian Sword Emperor might take her in as a disciple out of pity.

Strange, why did she become distracted again? It was rumored that the road to heaven would disturb the soul, could it be true? Jiang Miao planned to stop and rest for a while. She took a Qi-restoring pill to replenish the consumed spiritual energy. She looked back and saw that Yun Qiu Sheng was already 30 steps behind her. She silently encouraged herself, maybe this time there was really hope... to be noticed by the Aotian Sword Emperor?

If Aotian Sword Emperor really wants to accept a disciple, there is definitely no one more suitable than her in the entire Eastern Region.

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"Strange." Jiang Li walked to the 200th floor and stopped.

Because he found that all kinds of strange thoughts began to pop up in his head. Sometimes he thought of Mu Xuezhi, sometimes he thought of Su Xixi's photo stone, and sometimes he began to think of Youlan's eyes filled with hatred. He stopped and felt carefully for a while, and then he understood.

There seems to be a formation on the way to heaven that is specifically designed to disturb the mind.

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Jiang Miao found that she could not suppress the strange and random thoughts in her head. When she came to her senses and wanted to see how many floors she had reached, she was suddenly startled.

She clearly remembered that she had walked to the 272nd floor before, but the stairs under her feet at this moment were the 260th floor, and the sword force she had sensed before was so familiar, as if the path she had just walked was just an illusion.

No, she clearly remembered that she had walked through it carefully just now. Jiang Miao took another step up. Sure enough, she had experienced the sword force of the 261st floor before. She had just walked back.

Damn, why is there a mind-disturbing maze formation on these stairs?

Many things on the way to heaven were unknown to Jiang Miao. She tried hard to concentrate and climbed the stairs again to stop herself from having random thoughts. Finally, she reached the 300th floor, but she was strangely distracted again while walking. When she came to her senses, she was back to the 290th step, as if she had just had a chaotic dream, which turned into a nightmare when she woke up.

As she walked, she suddenly heard a man's voice coming from the bottom of the stairs.

"Yue Ji, Jiang Jinbie, Bai Sheng, Mu Bingning, Jiang Chuyue, Su Yaoyao, Zhu Taozhi, Zhu Qiutang, Zhu Junhuang."

"Yueji, Jiang Jin, don't..."

What is this man reading?

Jiang Miao couldn't help but look back, and the man kept reciting these names seriously. Jiang Miao stared at him strangely, and Jiang Li seemed to finally notice her at this time and looked at her.

Jiang Miao hesitated for a while, but couldn't help asking, "What are you reading?"

“I’m reading the name.”

"Why are you reading the name?"

"It's easier to get distracted if you read out names. Hey, where was I just reading? You interrupted my train of thought...Yueji, Jiang Jinbie, Bai Sheng..."

Jiang Miao wanted to ask him if this would really work, but she was too embarrassed to disturb him, so she tried to recite other people's names in her head. However, she had either been focusing on cultivation or killing evil cultivators since she was a child, so she didn't have many friends. She tried to recite a few names but got stuck. At this time, Jiang Li was already reciting names and walked to her side.

"Why don't you leave?" Jiang Li asked curiously.

"I... don't have a name to pronounce."

"Then you can just read along with me."

Jiang Li began to mutter again, "Yue Ji, Jiang Jinbie, Bai Sheng, Jiang Chuyue..."

Jiang Miao always felt that the atmosphere was so strange. It seemed that he was reading out all the women's names, right? Would it be useful for her to recite along? But at this moment, Jiang Miao seemed to have no choice but to try her best. She followed Jiang Li and recited the women's names seriously. While reciting, she walked up the stairs with Jiang Li. She remembered every name seriously. As she recited them one by one, her mind suddenly became much clearer, and she could seriously strike the sword.

It’s really useful!

The two of them climbed the stairs at about the same speed. Jiang Miao felt like she was reading a book and Jiang Li was the teacher. The two of them recited these names together and walked up dozens of floors. But Jiang Miao couldn't help but start to have wild thoughts again.