Why do you always want to be my Taoist partner?

When Jiang Miao turned her head to look at him, Jiang Li's face was almost buried in her neck.

"Miss Jiang... you have a really good alcohol tolerance... I can't take it anymore..." When he spoke, his voice still had a hint of alcohol, and the hot air he exhaled fell on Jiang Miao's neck, making her whole body tremble. Jiang Miao seemed to have finally lost her patience. She stretched out her hand and pushed the drunkard beside her away. Jiang Li's body suddenly softened and fell down beside her.

Jiang Li did not say anything else, nor did he complain. He just looked up at the stars and said in an unclear voice, "The stars are so beautiful, hehe."

Jiang Miao glanced at him and always felt that this guy looked particularly pitiful. She looked at the empty wine jugs placed beside her, hesitated for a moment, and reached out to help Jiang Li up again. But as soon as she helped him up, Jiang Li fell on her, with his upper body almost leaning directly on her legs. Jiang Miao wanted to punch this guy hard on the head, but after hesitating for a long time, she finally didn't do it.

"If you can't drink it, don't drink it!" Jiang Miao said angrily.

"I'm not drunk!" Jiang Li said vaguely, and moved his body to make himself more comfortable. His entire back lay directly on her thighs, and he raised his head, "Miss Jiang, haven't you heard that a man is three-quarters drunk, and he will act until you cry... I'm not drunk..."

Jiang Miao took a deep breath, "Do you know what you are doing?"

"I'm taking the opportunity... to take advantage of you..." Jiang Li said intermittently.

"You actually knew that?!"

"Hehehe... I'm smart, right... Hehe..."

Jiang Miao swore that she had never wanted to kill someone so much in her life.

She couldn't do anything to Jiang Li, but she didn't know what to do. Her head was actually dizzy now, after all, she had drunk several bottles of wine. In the end, she didn't push Jiang Li away again, just hoping that this guy would fall asleep quickly and stop tormenting her. But after more than ten seconds, Jiang Li started to nag again, "Miss Jiang, if I take your original position at that time, will you be angry?"

Jiang Miao glanced at him calmly, "If you can do it, then you are awesome. Why should I be angry?"

"As expected of you, when I first met Miss Jiang, I felt that you were a person of temperament."

"How do you know that?"

"They have nice legs."

Is there any connection between these two things?

Jiang Miao really wanted to slap Jiang Li hard on the forehead. She raised her hand, but finally put it down. However, Jiang Li soon laughed again, "But not as pretty as my sister Yueji."

Yueji? Jiang Miao remembered this name.

"She is...who is she to you?"

"My future Taoist partner, she is so pretty."

"You have more than one Taoist companion, right?"

"The names read out first are all, the names read out later don't count..."

"But didn't you kiss them afterwards?"

"It doesn't count even if you kissed me."

"You are such a scumbag." Jiang Miao couldn't help but curse.

"How can I be called a scumbag for something we both agreed to? Why are you all calling me a scumbag...you are going too far...you are bullying me..."

Jiang Miao didn't want to bother with this drunkard anymore, but Jiang Li was still nagging, "If I really snatch Miss Jiang's opportunity by then, don't worry, Miss Jiang, I can let Zhu Junhuang refine the elixir for you."

"Who is Zhu Junhuang?"

"Northern Territory Queen, don't you know?"

"I only know the Queen of the Northern Territory, but I don't know her name..." Jiang Miao responded somewhat awkwardly, but after a second, she was stunned again. Was Zhu Junhuang also among the names he mentioned just now?

"Do you know the Queen of the Northern Territory?" Jiang Miao asked.

"She is also my future Taoist partner."

"never mind."

Jiang Miao understood now that this guy was completely drunk and crazy. Could he have been drunk when he climbed the stairs during the day? Jiang Miao couldn't tell whether what he said was true or false, so he reached out and covered his eyes, "Go to bed early, don't talk, it's too noisy."

"No, no, no, no, no, I'm going to say it, I'm serious, Miss Jiang, oh no, what you want is the Black Phoenix Fire, I have it too, I'll help you refine it when the time comes."

"Okay, okay, you do have it. Thank you in advance." Jiang Miao answered perfunctorily.

Do you think the Black Phoenix Divine Fire is the cabbage that can be found everywhere?

Jiang Li spoke again, "Miss Jiang, move your legs. They are too high. It's uncomfortable to lie down."

Jiang Miao gritted his teeth and said, "You're still acting cute after getting the advantage, right?"

"We are all passionate people. Don't be so stingy. I will let you lie down next time."

"There won't be a next time!" Jiang Miao lowered his legs a little. This time Jiang Li smiled and looked satisfied with his eyes closed, but he opened his eyes again after a while.

"Miss Jiang, I can't sleep. Can you tell me a story?"

Jiang Miao didn’t know whether Jiang Li was crazy or not, but she was going crazy anyway.

Chapter 261: Chapter Fireworks

"will not."

"But I can't sleep."

"Then neither can I."

"Then can you sing? Sing a song for me." Jiang Li opened his eyes and stared at Jiang Miao's chin innocently. Jiang Miao lowered his head to look at him and took a deep breath, "I can't sing either."

"Just sing a few words, and then I'll go to sleep."

Jiang Miao swore that this was definitely her last compromise. She was silent for a while and sang a short ballad to Jiang Li. It sounded like a nursery rhyme. Jiang Li listened quietly. When she finished singing, he asked softly, "What song is this?"

"My mother taught me to sing when I was a child."

"You have a good memory."

"When I was six years old, my mother taught me to sing this song. I sang it for a long time. When I finally thought of telling my mother that I had learned it, the evil cultivators massacred the city that day. My mother and father all died at their hands. My mother hid me in the cellar. When those evil cultivators left our house, no matter how many times I sang this song, my mother would never wake up again."

Jiang Miao was silent for a while. "That night, there was a troupe from outside the city that was going to perform fireworks. Mother said she would take me to watch it, but there were few living people in the city except me that night, so I still remember it to this day."

"How many evil cultivators has Miss Jiang killed?"

"One thousand? Two thousand? I can't remember." Jiang Miao answered calmly.

"It's nice to meet you." Jiang Li said suddenly.

"why?"

"It's okay. It's just that after I met you, I thought about some things and felt much better." Jiang Li shook his head and didn't talk to Jiang Miao about it. The stars and the moon were particularly bright tonight. Jiang Li suddenly got up from Jiang Miao's legs and said, "I don't want to sleep anymore."

"Then what are you going to do?"

"Please watch the fireworks."

Jiang Li took out a bunch of strange things from his system backpack, placed them on the steps, and then lit them with a small flame that rose from his fingertips. The flame was particularly small, and Jiang Miao didn't look at it carefully. But if she had looked carefully, she would have found that the firework Jiang Li used just now was the Black Phoenix Divine Fire.

Jiang Li came and sat beside her again. This time he naturally put his arms around Jiang Miao's waist. Jiang Miao subconsciously straightened her waist. Just as she was about to break free from his arms, the fireworks had already taken off. She raised her head, and the bright fireworks flickered in the night sky, gradually blurring her eyes.

She didn't say anything else, looking at the brilliant fireworks blooming in the night sky, and Jiang Li said softly, "I'll lend you my shoulder to lean on."

Jiang Miao hesitated for a moment and leaned her head on his shoulder. The fireworks made her eyes extremely bright, and her eyelashes cast a shadow. Jiang Li lowered his head to glance at her profile and suddenly said, "Miss Jiang is such a gentle person."

"Ok?"

"You were never angry when I treated you like this before."

Jiang Miao was actually so angry that she wanted to explode, but when she heard Jiang Li saying this with self-blame, she suddenly found that all her resentment disappeared. However, no one had ever said that she was a gentle person. In the eyes of many people in the Sword Sect, she was more like a killer.

But if she looked up now and saw the cunning in Jiang Li's eyes, she would guess that she had been fooled.

People are always keen to label themselves with good labels, subconsciously hoping to leave a good impression in the eyes of others. So when someone puts a good label on you, even if you are not that person, you will subconsciously play that image in order to maintain this good impression.

Just like when you want to borrow money, you keep hinting in advance, thinking that the other party is a straightforward and generous person. When you know that you may make the other party angry, you praise her as a person with a good temper and an open mind. In order to make the other party less guarded, you praise her as a good girl with an inexplicably charming temperament. This kind of despicable routine is so easy to use that it has been engraved into Jiang Li's bones, and he said it habitually.

In fact, Jiang Li didn't want to hook up with Jiang Miao.

He was just thinking that the other party happened to come to ask to be the disciple of Aotian Sword Emperor, and this position would definitely be snatched away by him in the end, but the other party's Wujian Juemai could not wait, so he might as well help her when the time comes.

"I don't get angry with drunk people." Jiang Miao muttered.

"So Miss Jiang is beautiful and kind-hearted. Are the fireworks beautiful?" Jiang Li asked softly.

"It looks good." Jiang Miao replied softly.

"That's good." Jiang Li didn't say anything else. He became quiet at this moment. The two of them watched the fireworks together. The world seemed to become quiet again, with only the crackling sound of the fireworks.

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offstage.

Almost all the Sword Sect disciples below the stage had already rested or gone to practice swordplay, planning to wait until tomorrow when the two continued to climb the stairs before coming back to watch. Mu Xuezhi was still standing there, with Dabai lying on her shoulder and licking his paw. Mu Xuezhi's expression was calm, but no one knew what she was thinking in her heart.

She had lived for so long that lip reading was a piece of cake. How come this bastard could pick up women everywhere?!

Youlan beside her was not asleep either. She just looked up at the fireworks in the sky, wondering what she was thinking about.

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Jiang Li's fireworks lasted for two incense sticks, and finally finished. He looked down and saw that Jiang Miao's head had become dizzy and she could hardly open her eyes. Jiang Li naturally supported Jiang Miao's shoulders and placed her body on his legs, adjusting her sleeping position. He then took out a blanket, covered her with it, and said softly, "Go to sleep."

Jiang Miao looked at him dazedly, "What about you?"

"I was just daydreaming for a while. It's okay. Have a good sleep. I'll call you when we get to the top of the stairs tomorrow."

Jiang Miao's eyelids were twitching. She responded softly and then closed her eyes. Jiang Li looked up alone, quietly looking at the bright night sky after the fireworks disappeared.

He has always loved looking at the stars.

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

"Get up, bed."

It seemed like someone was calling softly in her ear. Jiang Miao opened her eyes in a daze and saw Jiang Li's face approaching. She was startled and subconsciously reached out to push Jiang Li's face away, then sat up suddenly.

Only then did she realize that she was sleeping on Jiang Li. She stood up, and the blanket was grabbed by Jiang Li and taken away. Jiang Li also stood up and stretched, "Okay, it's time to climb the stairs."

Jiang Miao began to recall everything that happened last night. She remembered many things particularly clearly. At this moment, looking at Jiang Li's face and those slightly smiling eyes, she felt that he was a completely different person from the drunkard last night.

How many faces does this guy have?

When Jiang Li turned his gaze towards her, Jiang Miao subconsciously avoided it. She didn't know why she was avoiding it. Perhaps it was just because she felt a little panic in her heart. She stopped talking and began to climb the stairs seriously. Unfortunately, she was not climbing the stairs very fast, and Jiang Li seemed to be waiting for her. She climbed a floor and Jiang Li climbed a floor. After walking for thirty or forty floors, Jiang Miao hesitated for a moment and said, "You don't have to wait for me."

"I'm fine." Jiang Li smiled indifferently.

Jiang Miao stopped talking and continued to climb the stairs seriously. However, when she reached the 450th floor, the sword momentum evolved from the sword moves on the stairs was already a little difficult for her to resist. She looked at Jiang Li on the side, but Jiang Li seemed to feel nothing at all. She couldn't help but be dazed. Maybe... some of the things he said yesterday were true. He could really reach a higher level and then ask Aotian Sword Emperor to accept his friend as his disciple?

"The sword force at this level is actually very simple. Your sword moves can break it." Jiang Li said suddenly, and then pinched out a sword of energy with his fingertips and floated it in the air. Jiang Miao didn't understand what he meant at first, until she saw the trajectory of his sword of energy. That was her sword move, and also her sword force.

"you……"

"Is this considered cheating? Don't tell anyone." Jiang Li moved closer to her and whispered, "The angle of the light curtain is behind us, so they can't see it. Learn quickly."

The atmosphere suddenly became tense. Jiang Miao looked at the trajectory of the spirit sword and swung the sword in the same way, successfully breaking through the sword power of this level and then reaching the next level. However, just as he stepped on the steps of the next level, Jiang Li pinched out a small sword of energy, and the trajectory of the spirit sword changed again. Jiang Miao swung the sword again in the same way and successfully broke into the next level.

With each subsequent step, Jiang Miao became more shocked, because as soon as they stepped onto the stairs, Jiang Li had cracked the sword trajectory on that floor, and then taught her in a particularly simple way. In just half a day, Jiang Li had accompanied Jiang Miao to the 510th floor.

"How on earth did you... do that?"

"I've been there before," Jiang Li answered innocently, "I've deconstructed all these sword moves. I remember clearly what the sword moves up to the 600th floor are."

"You fell from the six hundredth floor?"

"Yes."

Jiang Miao now understood that Jiang Li's previous statement that he would climb higher than her was not a lie. She had thought that he was just talking nonsense when drunk, but it turned out to be true and false. It was all his fault for bragging too much before. Please, he even said that the Queen of the Northern Territory was his Taoist partner. If this word got to the ears of the Queen of the Northern Territory, wouldn't she burn him to charcoal with fire?

"According to this progress, it looks like we can reach the 600th floor tonight."

Jiang Miao responded softly, and she suddenly realized that she seemed to owe Jiang Li a big favor.

"Thank you...you." This thank you seemed a little pale at the moment.

"It's just a piece of cake." Jiang Li replied casually, "Just focus on climbing the stairs."

When Jiang Miao looked at Jiang Li's profile again, for some reason, she suddenly felt that Jiang Li seemed to be very distant from her again. His expression was not cold, but she inexplicably felt a sense of calmness and arrogance from Jiang Li.

Perhaps it wasn't arrogance, but just contempt for the steps of the road to heaven. However, because she couldn't do it, while it was easy for Jiang Li, she felt it was arrogance. She suddenly felt as if she had become a little... humble in front of Jiang Li.

Jiang Miao bit her lip lightly and said no more, trying hard to learn every sword move trajectory that Jiang Li taught her and climbed the stairs. However, there were no stars or moon tonight and the sky was gloomy. When the first drop of rain fell, the two had already reached the 600th floor.

It took two days in total.

A level that Jiang Miao couldn't even imagine.