Why do you always want to be my Taoist partner?

"I've already said it's a priceless treasure! The materials alone are worth at least 12 million spirit stones, not to mention the hard work that Master has put into nurturing it for so many years..."

"There are 20 million spirit stones in here."

Jiang Li took out a storage ring containing spirit stone tickets and placed it in front of Ji Tongtong. "You can give it to your master as my compensation material. As for nourishing it...if it really doesn't work, I can nourish it for your master."

"Can you play the piano?"

"Know a little bit."

Jiang Li looked at Ji Tongtong's suspicious expression and smiled helplessly, "I only know a little bit."

"Then you are also qualified to nourish the spiritual harp?"

Jiang Li didn't feel embarrassed, he just smiled and said, "Let's do this for now. If your master is not satisfied with this method, you can tell me again."

Ji Tongtong had no choice but to nod. She had followed her master in practicing for more than ten years. Her master was not a particularly generous person. But the man in front of her had clearly burned her master's precious Nine Nether Harp, and her master just let him go like that. Ji Tongtong couldn't understand the reason.

"Then I'll go back first." Jiang Li said to the girl in front of him, and then turned around naturally.

Ji Tongtong took the ring containing 20 million spirit stones and walked back to the courtyard. Her master had been practicing in the southern polar region for many years and rarely cared about worldly affairs. She was actually in charge of all the expenses over the years. In fact, both of them didn't have many spirit stones in their pockets. What's more, every time her master went out of the polar region and went to the independent cultivator city in the southern region with her, he would buy a lot of flashy things. She was actually a little dazed by the sudden 20 million spirit stones.

How come this guy is so rich? This is 20 million spirit stones.

"Master... that person named Jiang Li brought 20 million spirit stones, saying that he wanted to compensate Master for his Nine Nether Harp."

"Give it back to him." Lingyin said calmly.

“Master, can you…”

Lingyin glanced at Ji Tongtong calmly, and Ji Tongtong didn't dare to speak, so she could only nod obediently. Just as she turned away, Lingyin spoke up behind her, "He just said that he also knows a little bit about piano art?"

It turned out that Master heard everything.

"Yes."

"You, go and compete with him. Don't mention that it was my instruction."

"Disciple understands." Ji Tongtong nodded obediently.

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"You're not up to something bad again, are you?" The voice of Dark Moon Immortal Lord sounded in Jiang Li's ears again.

"How could that be?" Jiang Li answered helplessly, "I don't blame her. After all, she just aroused my obsession. I have no reason to blame her. I lost control of my emotions and burned her piano, so naturally I have to compensate her."

"This doesn't seem like you." The Dark Moon Immortal's voice was surprised.

"If it were in the past, I would definitely find a way to press her on the piano and make her willingly be spanked by me." Jiang Li shrugged, "But it's different now."

"Oh?"

"Boring." Jiang Li had already walked to Wen Liqing's cave. Just as he was about to push the door, he saw someone running towards him hurriedly from behind. He turned around and saw Ji Tongtong in a purple dress.

"Why are you here?" Jiang Li turned around.

"Master asked me to return this spirit stone to you."

"What else did she say?"

"I didn't say anything, I just wanted to return it to you." Ji Tongtong reluctantly handed the storage ring to Jiang Li. Jiang Li did not refuse and took the storage ring back. Ji Tongtong looked at it eagerly.

"Anything else?" Jiang Li glanced at her.

"You just said you know a little about piano?"

“Only a little.”

"Then do you dare to compete with me?"

"Why should I compete with you?"

"You can't even tell whether my master's Ji Jue Yao is good or bad, yet you slander my master's piano skills. As my master's direct disciple, I naturally have to compete with you."

Jiang Li suddenly laughed and shook his head, "I don't want to compete."

“为何不比？”

"You are Lingyin's direct disciple. It is natural for you to win against me. It will not be good for me to lose to me. Why should I compete with you?"

"Are you afraid?"

"Yeah, I'm so scared." Jiang Li nodded.

Ji Tongtong was speechless for a moment.

How could this person have no shame at all?

She looked at Jiang Li for a few seconds and raised her chin, "Then let's bet on something."

Jiang Li seemed to be interested all of a sudden, "What are you betting on?"

"One hundred thousand spirit stones." Ji Tongtong gritted her teeth slightly.

In fact, she didn't have many spirit stones in her pocket, but Jiang Li was amused by her, "You must have seldom made bets with others before, right?"

Ji Tongtong nodded subconsciously and looked at Jiang Li in confusion.

"As Lingyin's direct disciple, you must have extraordinary talent in music. The probability of you winning me is 90%, but the chips of our bet are fair. This is of course unfair to me. Although 100,000 spirit stones are nothing to me, this kind of bet is not a bet at all. There is no fun at all."

"Then what do you want?"

"It's only fun to bet on half of your wealth." Jiang Li looked into the girl's eyes and said with a smile, "I'm betting 20 million spirit stones. If you win, then the 20 million spirit stones are all yours. If you lose... then agree to my two conditions."

"Which two?"

"First, when you go back, I'll tell your master that my piano skills are not worth mentioning."

"What about the second one?"

"Take off and give me the one piece of undergarment you are wearing."

Jiang Li's tone was calm and gentle, and there was no trace of lust or evil in his eyes, but what he said... was not a good thing.

Ji Tongtong's cheeks flushed red and she clenched her fists slightly, "Shameless!"

"It seems that you don't think you can beat me?" Jiang Li turned around after saying this, as if he was ready to leave, as if he had brought it up in the beginning just to tease Ji Tong and discourage her from doing so, instead of really wanting to gamble with Ji Tongtong.

He had just taken three steps when Ji Tongtong's gnashing voice sounded behind him, "I'll bet with you."

Jiang Li turned around at the right moment, as if he had calculated it all. With an elegant smile on his face, he said, "Are you sure? I'll give you another chance to regret it."

Ji Tongtong sneered, "I've already thought about what to buy with your 20 million spirit stones."

Chapter 345: Chapter Jiang Xiaoli is a rare genius in a century!

"Haha, is this what you mean by boring?" The mocking voice of Dark Moon had already sounded in Jiang Li's ears.

Jiang Li pretended not to hear.

"How do you want to compete?" Jiang Li asked with a smile.

“Everyone has different perceptions of the quality of piano music, but there are more spirits in this world than just humans. All spirits can understand the beauty of music. This Sword Sect has tens of thousands of spirit butterflies. Let's compete to see who can attract more spirit butterflies. How about it?” Ji Tongtong had obviously thought of the topic of the competition a long time ago. Jiang Li showed a distressed expression on his face, but after hesitating for a few seconds, he nodded slightly in agreement.

Ji Tongtong took out an ancient zither from her storage ring. It looked like the zither was quite old. In fact, Jiang Li knew a little about zither. The cost of her zither should be over 6 or 7 million spirit stones. After all, it was made of Lingquan wood, and the strings were made of silk threads twisted from a particularly precious spiritual plant. As Lingyin's direct disciple, how could Ji Tongtong's talent be bad?

Ji Tongtong is the disciple that Lingyin has been searching for for a hundred years. She is eighteen years old this year and has reached the ninth level of integration through music cultivation. This talent alone is actually too terrifying. After all, who can participate in the Five Realms Competition and be mediocre?

She was playing a slightly sad tune, which should be one of her own creation. As the sound of her piano spread out, Jiang Li saw butterflies flying towards her and lingering around her. At first there was only one, then two, three, and then a dense group of colorful butterflies. They all came to her side, hovering above her, and dancing to the music. Gradually, Jiang Li couldn't count them anymore. The butterflies gathered into a whirlpool, and Ji Tongtong was among the group of butterflies. Her expression was serene, and she was obviously immersed in the world of music she had created.

Jiang Li also stood there quietly, listening to her finish playing all the songs. Even after the music faded away, the butterflies were reluctant to leave. The cultivator's spiritual sense swept over them, and Jiang Li spit out a number, "3,237."

This is indeed a particularly spectacular sight. The corners of Ji Tongtong's lips are slightly raised, and her cheeks are bright and natural. Qinben is everything to her, the foundation of her practice, and the source of her pride.

When Jiang Li wanted to take out a musical instrument from the storage ring, he fumbled for a long time, froze for a moment, and then it broke.

He forgot to bring his piano.

Last time when he was teaching Jin Bie to play the piano in Jin Bie's room, Jin Bie sat on his lap. As she was playing, Jin Bie suddenly muttered softly, saying that under her skirt... there was nothing. Then, Jiang Jin Bie's piano started to play in a mess, and Jiang Li forgot to take the piano back.

"How about you lend me your piano?" Jiang Li asked awkwardly.

“No.” Ji Tongtong shook her head hurriedly. “It’s not that I want to take advantage of you, but my zither is not available for loan. I can give you some time to find a zither in the Sword Sect…”

Jiang Li scratched his head. It was possible to find a harmonica, but it felt a bit troublesome. He looked in his storage ring again, and after rummaging for a long time, he found a harmonica that he had made for Jiang Jin as a toy when he was a child.

"Can I play the harmonica?"

"What's this?"

"Just treat it as a musical instrument that can also produce music." Jiang Li asked seriously, "Is that okay?"

"...Okay." Ji Tongtong hesitated for a moment and nodded.

So Jiang Li put the harmonica to his lips, and he played a particularly simple tune. It could even be said that it was a particularly simple and cheerful tune that all beginners in this world must learn. Just by hearing the prelude, Ji Tongtong knew that he was bound to lose. She had learned this tune in just half an incense stick of time back then. What was the meaning of Jiang Li playing this tune now?

Jiang Li was holding the harmonica in his hand, and his expression was very serious.

Ji Tongtong's eyes were originally full of contempt, but gradually, her body suddenly became a little stiff.

She pricked up her ears hastily, not wanting to miss another note.

It was clearly the simplest song, and no matter how you changed it, you couldn't create more details. But why... she inexplicably became happy along with the cheerful tune?

The butterflies hovering above her head now flew towards Jiang Li. Jiang Li was still happily playing the little tune, and butterflies were flying all over the mountains.

Ji Tongtong looked at the ground. Branches stretched out from the soil, tender green buds began to grow, and small white flowers bloomed. This kind of scene... She had only seen it on her master, but now she saw it again.

But she couldn't think of anything else in her mind. She couldn't explain the feeling in her heart, but when she heard the melody of Jiang Li playing the harmonica and felt the throbbing in her heart, she clearly realized one thing...

The outcome has actually already been determined.

But what she was thinking about at the moment was not winning or losing. She just wanted to listen to Jiang Li's song carefully first, not wanting to miss a single note. However, Jiang Li's song stopped abruptly halfway through.

"Actually... music is something that requires talent." Jiang Li sighed softly. "If it's just a technique, anyone can master it as long as they work hard enough. So in the end, the only difference is talent. If you are not a cultivator, then the most important thing is emotion. Only emotions can infect people. Since you are a cultivator who practices music, then it is the resonance between emotions and the world."

"As for technique, anyone can figure it out after a few tries. As for emotions, you need to experience a lot to be sensitive. But you are not as good as me in resonating with the world." Jiang Li sighed softly, "I really thought your master's playing was unpleasant before. Her piano sounded out her depression, her loneliness for thousands of years, and her madness about the emptiness of life. It was like a woman who was unhappy and wanted to share her pain and complaints with others. I never like to play sad songs. Pain is for oneself, not for others."

That’s all Jiang Li had to say.

"Would you like to lend me your violin now?"

Ji Tongtong seemed to have just woken up from a dream. She walked to Jiang Li holding the zither and respectfully handed it to him. However, Jiang Li did not sit down. He just used his spiritual energy to levitate the zither, stretched out his hand, and gently plucked the strings.

A familiar tone rang in Ji Tongtong's ears...it was the master's...Ji Jue Yao.

But the Silent Song played by Jiang Li seemed different from the one played by her master. What Ji Tongtong heard in her master's Silent Song was anger, but what she felt in Jiang Li's Silent Song was an inexplicable emptiness, as if the world stopped at this moment, but a strong wind blew across her chest, and the butterflies in the sky almost covered the sky, but not a single one landed on his shoulder.

When Ji Tongtong came to her senses, she was shocked to find that she was already in tears.

But the man in front of him, who had just finished playing Ji Jue Yao, was smiling. He put the zither back into Ji Tongtong's arms and said, "Sometimes shedding a few tears can make you feel better."

Ji Tongtong seemed to still be immersed in the big dream created by the piano music just now. In her dream, she saw her deceased parents, the flowers blooming in the wind and snow in the southern polar region, the small wooden house where she and her master lived, and the lonely time when she sat alone by the icy lake fishing.

She stared blankly at Jiang Li's face in front of her. Jiang Li looked her up and down carefully, then patted her shoulder and said, "Just take off one piece of clothing."

Ji Tongtong finally came back to her senses, the blush on her cheeks spreading to her neck. Before the bet, she had never thought that she would lose, but at this moment... there was actually no need to count butterflies anymore. She now clearly understood that the gap between her and Jiang Li was like the light of a firefly and the brilliance of the bright moon. Perhaps... only her master could be compared with her.

"You...really want me to take it off?"

"How could it be fake?" Jiang Li shrugged innocently, his voice was so calm, "My favorite thing in life is collecting beautiful women's underwear. Although you are not that beautiful, but... it's okay."

Ji Tongtong looked at him with great shame and anger, then pushed him away and ran into the yard behind him. She closed the gate of the yard tightly. Jiang Li shrugged innocently, leaned against the tree and waited quietly. When Ji Tongtong came out, she stuffed the small piece of cloth in her hand into Jiang Li's arms, then ran away crying.

Jiang Li stopped her and said, "Hey you, wait a minute..."

Until now Jiang Li still doesn't know what her name is.

Ji Tongtong turned her head to look at him, and Jiang Li said with a smile, "Don't forget, there is another bet that I lost, which is to tell your master that my piano skills are not worth mentioning."

"you……"

"I'm afraid she will fall in love with me." Jiang Li replied with a smile.

"Master will never fall in love with a bastard like you!"

"Okay, okay, as long as you accept the defeat." Jiang Li waved his hands at her. Ji Tongtong ran away crying. Jiang Li leaned against the tree and laughed happily. As for the small piece of cloth that was thrown into his arms... well, the white underwear, he burned it with fire the next second.

He didn't have any weird habits, he just wanted to leave a bad impression on her.

“It’s so lonely to be invincible.” Jiang Li sighed.

Wen Liqing walked out of the courtyard and looked at Jiang Li who was leaning against the tree. "What happened just now?"