Why do you always want to be my Taoist partner?

Jiang Li turned sideways, Dabai came to Jiang Li's bed and lay down, Bai Sheng also turned around and gently closed the door for Jiang Li.

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The secret method of opening acupoints for others does not actually consume much spiritual energy, but it does consume the soul, and an especially huge amount of spiritual power, so he needs to sleep more to replenish his energy.

He slept until the evening, and when he woke up, the sun outside the window had completely dimmed.

He sat up slowly and yawned.

It seems a bit late... Never mind, let them wait a little longer.

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On the Hidden Sword Peak.

Lin Yu had been waiting at the agreed location for half an hour.

He had issued a challenge this morning, and Jiang Li agreed and sent it back, but he never expected that such a long time had passed since the agreed time and he still hadn't come.

The purpose of issuing the challenge was naturally to prove to the Hidden Sword Sect that they had not lost to the Yangjian Sect for a long time. Yesterday's battle brought shame to the Hidden Sword Sect. He left such arrogant words before leaving, so naturally he had to get back at them today.

But the disciples of the Hidden Sword Sect had waited for so long but still hadn't seen Jiang Li, so they couldn't help but start talking.

"Is Jiang Li coming or not? Didn't he accept the challenge?"

"Who knows? He might be full of arrogance when he answers the call, but he will be scared when he thinks about it carefully. He might be huddled in his quilt and shivering."

"Isn't that the way they all do in the sword-raising sects? You'll get used to it."

Everyone was talking about it, but some people would occasionally look at the girl in white standing under the tree. Most of them didn't dare to look at her directly, but instead secretly glanced at her out of the corner of their eyes.

The person standing there was Bai Sheng from Jijian Mountain. She had arrived half an hour ago, apparently to observe today's debate. She stood there quietly without saying a word, but attracted the attention of many disciples of the Hidden Sword Sect.

Of course it’s because Bai Sheng is very beautiful.

A disciple in the audience couldn't help but ask Lin Yu, "Brother Lin, should we still wait? It looks like that guy won't come."

Lin Yu was also a little confused. The half-hour wait made him a little irritable. He was here to stand up for his fellow disciples, but Jiang Li was such a coward that he couldn't do anything about it. He could only sneer and said, "Since that guy wants to be a coward, let's practice on our own."

But at this moment, a soft female voice sounded, "Senior Brother Jiang Li will come."

Lin Yu looked towards the female voice. It was Bai Sheng standing under the tree. Her eyes were clear and serious. Lin Yu frowned slightly, "How did you know he would come?"

"To defeat you, Senior Brother Jiang Li only needs one sword, and he told me this morning that he would come, but now he hasn't come... maybe he was delayed by something." Bai Sheng bit his lip lightly.

But her words made Lin Yu's face on the stage suddenly become a little ugly.

Many times, the truth is always so harsh. Lin Yu looked at Bai Sheng in the audience, "This junior sister... where does she get the confidence to say that Jiang Li can beat me with just one sword?"

Bai Sheng bit her lip lightly, but didn't know how to answer.

She was never good at speaking, but in her cognition, she had never seen Jiang Li's limit. Every time she argued with her, she was completely exhausted, but Jiang Li seemed to have just exercised a little, so she thought her inference was correct, but at this moment she didn't know how to defend Brother Jiang Li. She answered with a little stubbornness, "Anyway... it only takes one sword."

"Junior sister, what you said is too humiliating." Lin Yu's expression had become very disdainful.

Bai Sheng could sense that all eyes on the field were looking at her at this moment. She was not used to such gazes. She would subconsciously feel timid and stiff, but at this moment, the stubbornness in her heart made her raise her head and try to look at Lin Yu, "I am not lying."

"This junior sister... is she... related to Jiang Li?" Lin Yu asked in a playful tone.

"Good friend." Bai Sheng answered, but her voice somehow revealed a sense of guilt. After hearing her answer, many of the Hidden Sword Sect disciples present had strange expressions.

Many people were looking at her with amusement, and Bai Sheng hated such looks.

She took a deep breath and said, "I couldn't even survive a single move from Senior Brother Jiang Li. If you don't believe me, you can fight me with swords."

Lin Yu looked at Bai Sheng with a little surprise, but after hesitating for a moment, he nodded heavily and agreed.

Originally, he was planning to have a sword fight with Jiang Li today. Since the person he had replaced was a beautiful junior sister, there was nothing wrong with that. So Bai Sheng walked onto the sword fight stage holding his sword.

When fighting with swords, wooden swords are naturally not used. Injuries are at one's own risk, but life cannot be taken. This is the unspoken rule of fighting among sword practitioners.

Bai Sheng's cultivation is in the late stage of foundation building, but her late stage of foundation building is the late stage of foundation building that paves the way for the formation of the Heavenly Dao Pill, while Lin Yu's cultivation is the perfect late stage of the Formation Pill. Although it is one major realm higher than hers, Lin Yu is only at the earth-level foundation building level. Bai Sheng is not completely without any chance of winning.

After all, her swordsmanship is very powerful. There is a reason why she can be ranked fifth in Jijian Mountain. What's more, she has comprehended the sword meaning at this moment, and has been personally taught by Jiang Li in the past two days.

Lin Yu was very confident. It was a good thing to be able to show off his swordsmanship in front of his pretty junior sister.

But when the sword fight began, his expression was no longer as calm as before.

His self-confidence came from the fact that he had already touched the threshold of sword intent. It would not take much time for him to comprehend sword intent. But at this moment, every sword that Bai Sheng struck out already contained the essence of sword intent. If it were not for her insufficient cultivation, which made her lack speed and strength, his first sword would probably have pierced a hole because of underestimating the enemy.

After Bai Sheng's first light-chasing sword came out, Lin Yu no longer dared to be careless. He clenched the spirit sword in his hand and began to fight back, but he could not find any flaws in Bai Sheng's sword moves. In a short period of time, he was forced to defend and was almost stabbed by one move. Lin Yu thought to himself that it was not good, so he kept his composure and quickly thought of a way to deal with it.

The spiritual energy of the foundation-building period is naturally incomparable to that of the core-forming period. As long as he delays for another stick of incense and exhausts Bai Sheng's spiritual energy, his chances of winning will be 100%. So he abandoned his original desire to attack and began to defend.

In a sword fight, the defending party has a slight advantage, not to mention that his cultivation is one major realm higher than the opponent. After an incense stick of time, Bai Sheng's sword was no longer as swift as before. Lin Yu secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and was ready to turn defense into offense. Within the next ten moves, he would hide a sword that would win.

But just as he was thinking this, Bai Sheng suddenly jumped up, and the sword in her hand stabbed towards his left shoulder like a stream of light. The speed of this sword was as fast as she could reach. Lin Yu was unable to dodge, and even though his spiritual energy had blocked most of the power for him, he was still stabbed with a bloody hole.

Bai Sheng retracted the sword and was in a trance for a moment. Lin Yu's muffled groan was heard, and Bai Sheng came back to his senses at this time.

It turns out she is so amazing.

Chapter 33: Chapter Good Night

This move was taught to Bai Sheng by Jiang Li.

To be precise, it is not a sword move, but rather a way of showing weakness to the enemy first, and then when the opponent thinks that he is finally exhausted, all the spiritual energy is accumulated in this sword. Jiang Li did this at the beginning, making Bai Sheng think that his spiritual energy was exhausted, but in the end he hit Bai Sheng hard on the butt with a wooden sword.

Bai Sheng was filled with resentment when he thought about it. Senior Brother Jiang Li did it on purpose!

At this moment, the audience was silent. Lin Yu looked down at the wound on his right shoulder, swallowed a blood-clotting pill, and looked at Bai Sheng in front of him. Bai Sheng's eyes did not avoid him, "Do you want to compete again?"

The next question was not whether to show off in front of his junior sister, but a battle of honor between the two mountain gates of Jijian Mountain and Yinjian Peak. Lin Yu naturally could not admit defeat. He gritted his teeth slightly and tried to calm his expression. "I didn't expect that this junior sister's swordsmanship was so superb. It was my negligence, but next... Junior sister, be careful."

As soon as he finished speaking, an inappropriate remark was uttered.

"A little late."

Jiang Li, dressed in white, arrived late.

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Because it was raining, Jiang Li held an umbrella specially. But when he got here, he found that the people discussing swords on the stage were Lin Yu and Bai Sheng. Eh? Why was Bai Sheng here?

Because of his voice, Lin Yu and Bai Sheng on the stage also turned their heads. The moment Bai Sheng saw Jiang Li, his eyes brightened.

Jiang Li asked her, "Why are you here?"

"Senior Brother Jiang Li hasn't come yet. They said that Senior Brother Jiang Li was afraid...so I fought on behalf of Senior Brother Jiang Li." Bai Sheng's voice softened a lot, like a little girl who was afraid of being scolded.

"Ah, I just overslept. Come down quickly, I'll do it." Jiang Li winked at her.

Bai Sheng was very obedient. She put away the spirit sword in her hand, and then jumped off the sword-discussing platform, as if she had ignored Lin Yu on the platform. Lin Yu's face became a little embarrassed, and he shouted behind Bai Sheng, "Our sword-discussing is not over yet..."

But Bai Sheng had already walked to Jiang Li's side. She whispered, "They humiliated Senior Brother Jiang Li before... I said, Senior Brother Jiang Li can win with just one sword..."

Jiang Li looked at Bai Sheng with a helpless look, and subconsciously reached out and touched her head, "Then go sit over there and be quiet."

Bai Sheng obediently went under the tree, while Jiang Li stood up and jumped onto the sword-discussing platform. He looked at Lin Yu in front of him and hesitated for a moment, "Do you want to take a Qi-recovering pill first? I can wait for you."

He is always polite.

But when these words fell into Lin Yu's ears, they were naturally extremely harsh. He clenched the sword in his hand and gritted his teeth, "No need!"

"Then let's get started. Bai Sheng just blew the bull away for me... so here it is. If you can take my sword, you win."

Jiang Li said with a smile, then took out the sword and held it tightly in his hand.

No one in the audience had spoken yet, and Lin Yu hadn't opened his mouth yet. The next moment, everyone suddenly felt a chill for no reason.

There was a light drizzle falling from the sky, and Jiang Li's sword blade was stained with a few water droplets. Lin Yu was just about to mobilize his spiritual energy to draw his sword, but at this moment, Jiang Li's momentum changed drastically in an instant.

This change was very mysterious. Not only Lin Yu, but all the disciples of the Hidden Sword Sect in the audience felt this aura from Jiang Li at this moment. It was as if a bloodthirsty tiger was staring at you at this moment, and if you move even a little, he would pounce on you and tear off your flesh and blood in the next moment.

He stood in the rain, moving forward step by step, very slowly, but at this moment Lin Yu could not move. This inexplicable power suppressed his spiritual energy, as if the person standing in front of him was a great cultivator who was undergoing tribulation and was suppressing him with all his strength, but his cultivation level was only at the foundation building stage.

Jiang Li had already walked in front of him, and even his movement of raising the sword was extremely slow. He just raised the sword and placed it on his neck, but Lin Yu seemed to be imprisoned and still had no ability to move at all.

Jiang Li's hand moved slightly, and the tip of the sword had already slightly cut Lin Yu's neck.

Even so, Lin Yu still couldn't move at all. Although he was trying hard to give orders to his hands and feet, his hands and feet seemed to be petrified and would not obey him.

The blood drop had already fallen on Jiang Li's sword blade. Jiang Li looked at his face calmly, at his slightly open, trembling lips, and asked calmly, "What are you afraid of?"

"If you don't dare to move, you will die."

This sentence sounded like an order, or perhaps a judgment, as if Jiang Li would move the sword forward half an inch and chop off his head.

Under Jiang Li's indifferent eyes, Lin Yu finally let out a hoarse, painful roar. He successfully raised the sword and slashed at Jiang Li with all his strength, but Jiang Li just slightly turned sideways to avoid his sword, and then the next sword stabbed into his chest. After this sword was stabbed out, Jiang Li's figure disappeared, and he returned to the edge of the ring, silently looking at Lin Yu in front of him.

Of course Jiang Li didn't use any heavy hands, he just wanted Lin Yu to see the gap between them.

Lin Yu lowered his head and looked at the small sword mark on his chest. He stared blankly at Jiang Li in the rain. Jiang Li was still standing there, and the boundless power was still pressing on him, but he was able to move. He felt that it was the sword intent that he had always sought but could not obtain, which finally crossed the threshold between life and death, and barely broke the inexplicable suppression of Jiang Li's momentum, allowing him to swing the sword just now.

Jiang Li had already put away his sword. He looked at Lin Yu who was standing in front of him and knelt down.

"Don't be like this." Jiang Li came to his side and stretched out his hand towards him, "Have you realized it?"

Lin Yu looked up at him blankly, the confusion in his eyes gradually cleared up, but he did not take the hand that Jiang Li extended. Instead, he fell towards Jiang Li with his forehead facing the ground.

This scene is very strange.

It was so strange that all the disciples in the audience were silent. Many people could not understand what had happened. Only a very few people who had touched the threshold of sword intent understood that under Jiang Li's sword, Lin Yu turned a disaster into a blessing, broke through the shackles, and comprehended the mysterious sword intent.

It was Jiang Li who withdrew most of his might at that moment, allowing his sword intent, which had been suppressed to the extreme, to finally have space to be released. He thus broke through the shackles of his heart and was able to successfully comprehend it.

If he had not retracted his power at that moment, perhaps Lin Yu would not only not have understood the meaning of the sword, but his sword heart would have been shattered and he would never have been able to wield the sword again.

When Lin Yu's head was about to touch the ground, Jiang Li grabbed his head and lifted him up.

"If this little progress alone makes you grateful to me, then this is the only way you can go."

Lin Yu looked at Jiang Li absentmindedly, and Jiang Li also let go of his hand and turned around, "Thank you, wait until Senior Brother Qian comes back and tell him that I will come to discuss swordsmanship with him."

Jiang Li came under Bai Sheng's umbrella, looked at Bai Sheng who was also in a daze at the moment, and then acted funny towards Bai Sheng.

"How is it? Is Senior Brother Jiang Li very powerful?"

He snatched the umbrella from Bai Sheng's hand and said, "Let's go."

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Jiang Li was sending Bai Sheng back to her cave. Bai Sheng couldn't help asking, "What was that inexplicable power that Senior Brother Jiang Li showed just now?"

"Ah... it's a higher level of sword intent." Jiang Li answered casually, "When a person's subconscious mind is extremely frightened, it is actually unable to move. Just now he wanted to draw his sword, but his sword intent was suppressed by me, so he didn't dare to draw his sword."

"Then why should he thank Senior Brother Jiang Li?"

"When the sword tip touched his neck, and his desire to survive was suppressed to the extreme, I retracted half of the sword intent that was originally suppressing him, giving him the opportunity to draw his sword, and then his sword intent just happened to come into being."

Jiang Li explained to Bai Sheng, "This method is an extreme way to make people comprehend the sword intent, because the conditions required are relatively extreme. He needs to be stuck at the threshold of comprehending the sword intent, and he needs to have a strong enough belief. Otherwise, if he gave up the resistance just now, his sword cultivation path in this life would be ruined. So I will not use this method on Junior Sister Bai Sheng."

"Eh?"

"Junior Sister Bai Sheng is of course to be pampered. I will not teach you this method that might put Junior Sister Bai Sheng in any danger."

Bai Sheng's fingers suddenly grabbed the hem of her skirt again and she was speechless.

But Jiang Li still looked as if nothing had happened. He had said these words countless times. Every time he said them, he always felt a sense of familiarity and had long been numb to them.

The distance from Yinjian Peak to Jijian Mountain is not very short, but Bai Sheng has never felt that this journey has become so short.

"How powerful is Senior Brother Jiang Li?"

"There aren't many people in Xuantian Dao Ji Sect who can really take my sword." Jiang Li's expression was very calm, and he couldn't even find a trace of pride, but rather a bit of loneliness.

It's like being invincible, and as lonely as a master.

No matter who said this in Xuantian Dao Ji Zong, Bai Sheng would always have some doubts. But when these words came from Jiang Li's mouth, Bai Sheng instantly had the answer in his heart.

"That's amazing," she whispered.

"That's why sword training becomes boring, and that's why I feel lonely."

Jiang Li spoke softly. He had already sent Bai Sheng to the entrance of her cave. Jiang Li's footsteps also stopped here. With the faint light of the fluorite at the entrance of the yard, she caught a glimpse of a little loneliness in Jiang Li's eyes.

"Is that why I'm lonely?"

"Loneliness is a very scary thing." Jiang Li looked up at the dark night sky and put away his umbrella. He said, "So, I have to walk home at night later. Such a long road is also very lonely. Junior Sister Bai Sheng, can you give me a hug?"

Bai Sheng subconsciously took a step back. Jiang Li's expression changed slightly, and he seemed to show some disappointment as if it was expected.