Why do you always want to be my Taoist partner?

"The way I practice is to control my desires. Yesterday you asked me if I was lonely during these thousand years. I was lonely and crazy, but it was probably because my desires became stronger after I practiced to the level of a Divine Lord. So... I endured for a thousand years, and after I reached the level of a Divine Lord, I felt much better than before."

"Is it important to cultivate to the level of Divine Lord?"

"With my cultivation level not reaching that of a Divine Lord, how could I have guessed the secrets of the heavens and predicted that you would come here? You fool." Ren Shutong replied with a chuckle. Jiang Li was stunned for several seconds and said softly, "Thank you for your hard work."

"That's all you can say. Humph... If you hadn't bullied me a few days ago, I wouldn't be feeling so bad right now."

Jiang Li listened to her slightly resentful tone, but it seemed that the only words that could come to his lips were "I'm sorry". But what was the point of saying this over and over again? Just as he was about to say something, Ren Shutong suddenly reached out and gently pushed him, "Close your eyes."

"what happened?"

"Somewhat..." Ren Shutong was right in Jiang Li's sight. Her fingertips gently lifted the hem of her skirt under the water. She lowered her head slightly, "I feel uncomfortable again..."

It was late autumn, but Jiang Li was feeling the continuous spring rain. He closed his eyes, but in his ears he could hear the painful howls of spring cats in estrus. Maybe he should do something, maybe he shouldn't.

After a while, he heard Ren Shutong say, "Open your eyes."

Jiang Li opened his eyes. Ren Shutong's body was completely buried in the water, with only her slightly red cheeks exposed. It was drizzling again. Ren Shutong suddenly said, "It's so comfortable to soak in the water... Do you want to soak in the water for a while?"

After a few seconds, she changed her words again, "Forget it...you'd better not come down."

Jiang Li sat by the pond and gazed into her eyes tenderly, "So should I come down?"

"It's up to you." Ren Shutong lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking.

After a long while, she seemed to hear Jiang Li sighing very softly. She also heard the sound of Jiang Li slowly walking into the water. She raised her head and unconsciously moved closer to him. When she came in front of him, she leaned her cheek close to him and looked at him with complicated eyes, as if she had some resentment and was filled with some shyness. "You knew very well... if you wanted to bully me at this time, I would not be able to refuse... but you still came down."

"I always feel like you seem to be in pain." Jiang Li said softly. Ren Shutong had slowly stretched out her hands to hug his neck. Her breath sprayed on Jiang Li's cheek. She moved closer to Jiang Li, slowly raised one leg to hook it around his waist, and whispered, "This Spring Water Jade Pot... is all yours."

"Have you lied to me about something, Ren Shutong?" Jiang Li gently put his arms around her slender waist and asked her softly.

Ren Shutong was startled, staring at him intently, her voice sounding a little annoyed, "Why do you suspect me of lying to you? What can I lie to you about? Don't you believe me?"

"Not really, I just always have a dreamy feeling... I hate it most when someone lies to me." Jiang Li lowered his head and leaned close to her cheek, "I believe you won't lie to me, right?"

Before Ren Shutong could say anything, Jiang Li had already moved closer and gently touched her lips. "That's right. You're so good to me, how could you lie to me?"

There was a moment when Ren Shutong wanted to tell him all the words hidden in her heart, but she no longer had the chance to say it. Her snow-white legs that were hooked around his waist were now lifted up and placed on his shoulders. She pressed all her weight on him, slightly standing on tiptoes, with her waist held tightly by him.

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Ren Shutong felt like he was dreaming.

At this moment, she was awake, and so was Jiang Li. She did not use force to make him lose his mind like last time. Now he was willing to go into the water and save her willingly... just like thousands of years ago.

"Thank you... for coming to save me." Ren Shutong's voice trembled, and her eyes seemed a little red for some reason.

"Why are you crying?" Jiang Li looked at her cheek.

"It's all because of you... all at once... " Ren Shutong's curled toes began to spasm.

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After the rain stopped, Ren Shutong changed into a white sleeveless cheongsam and tidied up her hair that fell behind her. Jiang Li braided her hair for her. At this moment, Ren Shutong, who was sitting gently in front of him, seemed completely different from the charming little goblin before. Her whole body exuded a lazy and calm vibe, like a cat basking in the sun after being fed.

Jiang Li was peeling an orange for her. He patiently kicked out the white veins on the orange. After peeling it, he separated a petal and put it to Ren Shutong's lips. Ren Shutong gently bit off a petal, and her cheeks inexplicably flushed.

She always felt that she was still immersed in this dream. The colorful clouds were fragile and the glass was brittle. She was always worried that she would wake up suddenly in the next moment. Everything in front of her was so unreal. Jiang Li stood up with a tape measure in his hand. He came behind Ren Shutong and gently measured the tape measure against her chest. "This cheongsam doesn't suit you. I'll make you a better-looking one." Jiang Li leaned close to her ear, making her ear a little itchy.

She couldn't help but look up and put her lips close to his. They looked at each other for a second or two. Ren Shutong's fingertips gently grasped the edge of the cheongsam, and she felt a little uneasy again. Fortunately, Jiang Li quickly kissed her slightly trembling lips.

Ren Shutong always felt like she was about to melt.

Chapter 406: Chapter I want to leave for a while

Jiang Li always had a strange feeling.

Ren Shutong in front of him was like a fish in a pond on a rainy day, trying desperately to stand up and open her mouth to absorb a little bit of oxygen. The temperature touched by his fingertips was slightly warm, and her lips were as clean as petals. He seemed to taste a slightly sweet taste.

It tasted just like what Ren Shutong added to the tea that day.

But Jiang Li said nothing. He just sighed helplessly in his heart. After a while, he let go of Ren Shutong's hand and said, "Okay, stand up obediently. I will measure your size."

Ren Shutong stood up from the chair. Jiang Li carefully took a tape measure to measure every part of her body. Ren Shutong seemed to have nowhere to put her hands, so she pinched the edge of the slit of the cheongsam. She looked like a little girl at a loss, but her smile was sweet, and her eyes were as bright as the stars in the sky. After the measurements were completed, Jiang Li patted her shoulder gently, "Okay."

Ren Shutong sat down again. It started to drizzle. She suddenly remembered that she should go to cook dinner, so she stood up hurriedly. Jiang Li followed her into the kitchen and helped her. The two of them had dinner together and walked in the drizzle in the palace. It was almost time, so Jiang Li returned to his room, but he had not gone to bed yet. After a while, there was a knock on his door.

"Enter."

So Ren Shutong pushed open the door and walked in.

She changed into a black gauze-like dress. The hazy gauze made her snow-white skin faintly visible under the dim light. No one could avoid her beautiful rosy eyes, but at this moment she inevitably looked a little uneasy.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Li slowly sat up from the bed.

"I tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep." Ren Shutong answered in a low voice, with a hint of grievance in her eyes. Jiang Li waved at her, and Ren Shutong came to his side. Jiang Li moved, and with permission, Ren Shutong quickly turned over and came to his bed, lying on her side, staring at him without blinking.

"Go to sleep." Jiang Li reached out and pinched her face.

"You go to sleep first, I want to watch you sleep." Ren Shutong's eyes seemed to be sparkling.

Jiang Li smiled helplessly, leaned in close and tapped her pink lips again, "Okay, okay, let's sleep together."

He took Ren Shutong into his arms. Her originally soft body suddenly became a little stiff, as if electric currents were crawling all over her skin at that moment. Ren Shutong stared at his eyes blankly, and her heart suddenly felt like a soy sauce bottle was overturned. She didn't know what it felt like.

For thousands of years, everything she had done was for this moment. She seemed to be still immersed in this dream. Ren Shutong slowly stretched out her hand, touched her chest, and listened to her own frantic heartbeat.

"Go to sleep quickly." Jiang Li patted her shoulder gently.

Ren Shutong finally closed her eyes willingly, moved her body, leaned against him, and found a more suitable position to lie down.

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Although Jiang Li closed his eyes, he did not fall asleep. Instead, he was reviewing the reward prompts given by the system in his head.

Because after the dual cultivation with Ren Shutong, he had obtained the natural charm through the chaotic body, so the system reward was changed to one hundred ultimate experience scrolls. These experience scrolls looked much more luxurious than the previous advanced experience scrolls, but they could not be used in the divine body realm and the divine soul realm.

Ren Shutong was an SSR-level target. After that hug, Jiang Li received a reward notification from the system in his head.

But at this moment, Jiang Li felt inexplicably sad in his heart.

Natural Charm: Before reaching the God Lord realm, one will be unable to suppress one's attraction to the opposite sex and the same sex. Only after reaching the God Lord realm can one control it freely. The body fluids of this physique have a certain degree of aphrodisiac effect. The specific effect depends on the user himself.

The moment he acquired the physique, Jiang Li became immune to the natural charm. But at this moment, Jiang Li suddenly realized that Ren Shutong seemed to have added some special things to the previous meals and tea, so he was inexplicably swept away by desire every day. And Ren Shutong was not unable to suppress her body's instinctive desires, she was deliberately... releasing her natural charm. She bewitched his senses at the same time in terms of both physique and soul.

These things actually stopped being important a long time ago.

Jiang Li had long ago secretly seen on the photo stone behind the mirror in the room that this woman would come to do some weird things to him every night, but he had never mentioned this to Ren Shutong. In fact, he had never thought of playing a long game to catch a big fish. If Ren Shutong did all this out of love, then what reason did he have to blame her?

But she deceived herself after all.

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The next morning.

When Ren Shutong woke up, Jiang Li was no longer around. She slowly sat up from the bed and rubbed her eyes. She hadn't had such a good sleep for a long time. When she came to the courtyard, she found Jiang Li cutting silk at the table, probably planning to make some new clothes for her. Ren Shutong walked towards the kitchen and began to prepare breakfast this morning.

I ate noodles this morning, but... Ren Shutong looked at the cooked noodles in front of her and hesitated for a moment, not knowing whether she should add something special to the noodles. Every day in the past, she would serve specially prepared dishes to Jiang Li, but is it necessary to do so now?

Was it lust or love that made him fall in love with her? Ren Shutong suddenly felt a little confused. She was going to serve the noodles, but after hesitating for a moment, she still opened her lips slightly, still feeling uneasy in her heart.

The two bowls of noodles were brought to the table. Jiang Li picked up the chopsticks and ate slowly, not noticing anything unusual. Ren Shutong breathed a sigh of relief, but the uneasiness in her heart inexplicably spread. She suddenly recalled Jiang Li's serious question yesterday. If he found out one day... In fact, she had been lying to him all these days, how would he treat her then?

Ren Shutong couldn't imagine such an outcome. She watched Jiang Li finish the bowl of noodles, picked up a handkerchief to wipe his lips, and heard him say, "It will be ready this afternoon."

"Yeah." Ren Shutong's eyes were full of anticipation.

Jiang Li prepared the dress for her in the afternoon. It was also a moon-white cheongsam, but it was much more beautiful than the one Ren Shutong had worn before. The details in every place were particularly exquisite. Ren Shutong put on the cheongsam and stood in front of Jiang Li, with her head slightly lowered and her cheeks flushed.

"Does it look good?" she asked cautiously.

"Anyone who comes here will be in a trance for a moment."

"As long as you think it looks good...it's fine." Ren Shutong slowly raised her head and smiled at him.

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evening.

Jiang Li wanted to walk around the palace, so Ren Shutong did not follow him. However, Jiang Li always felt as if a pair of eyes were watching him. But it didn't matter. Today was a month since he came to Ren Shutong's place. He sat down by the pond and suddenly heard a faint call in his ears. The next moment, the space in front of him distorted and a big white cat fell into his arms.

"Sister Baizi is finally here."

Jiang Li held Dabai in his arms and rubbed Dabai's face. Dabai rolled his eyes at him in annoyance, "Why are you here? It took me a lot of effort to sneak in."

"I was brought here by Ren Shutong." Jiang Li answered softly.

"I know this is Ren Shutong's palace, but the question is...how did she find you?"

"Her cultivation has reached the Divine Lord level. She came to you right after you left." Jiang Li explained slowly to Dabai. Dabai said "oh" and sensed his current cultivation level, the fourth level of the Divine Body. Then Dabai glanced at him and said, "I guess you must have been indulging yourself in debauchery again these days, right?"

"It was slandered, but only in the past two days."

"They are all the same." Dabai hit him on the face with his tail, "What did Ren Shutong tell you?"

"She said that she, Ling Wei and I were all old friends in the past."

"That's true. She has had a crush on you for a long, long time." Dabai muttered, "What a hypocritical woman."

"Hmm?" Jiang Li looked into Dabai's eyes.

"When I was in the upper realm in the past, I occasionally came to see her, wanting her to help find some spiritual objects that could alleviate the Nine Nether Fire. She either said she wanted to practice in seclusion or agreed perfunctorily. In fact, she never helped at all. It was a waste of the master's kindness to her in the past. She just wanted to watch the master being burned to collapse by the Nine Nether Fire in the sealed land one day..." There was a playful sneer on Dabai's mouth. It was the first time that Jiang Li saw such an expression on a cat's face.

"How's the situation with Ling Wei?"

"It's not bad. Two women have given the master many things that can alleviate the Nine Nether Fire in the past thousand years."

"Two women?"

"...They are all somewhat related to you, Su Yeli and Feng Xiyu. However, they are also familiar with Ling Wei. They have some hatred towards you... but it's not big. They seem to have hatred on the surface, but I don't know what the real hatred is. After all, it was the mess you left behind back then."

"..." Jiang Li was silent for a moment, "Ren Shutong said that these two women want me dead."

"I'm lying to you. She probably wants to keep you here with her forever. This selfish and hypocritical woman is like that." Dabai answered casually, then glanced at him sideways, "You don't plan to continue practicing with her, do you?"

"I'll go talk to her, and she'll probably let me go."

"That's not necessarily true." Dabai looked at him meaningfully.

Jiang Li reached out and rubbed Dabai's head, "Don't worry, I believe...she is not such a paranoid and selfish woman."

Dabai looked at him in surprise, but the next second, looking at Jiang Li's gentle and serious expression, he suddenly understood.

I guess this wasn't meant for her.

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Jiang Li came to Ren Shutong holding Dabai.

At this moment, Ren Shutong was sitting by the pond, watching the goldfish swimming in the pond. Her white and tender calves were soaked in the water, swaying slightly and causing ripples. When she heard footsteps, she turned around and saw Dabai in Jiang Li's arms, with a bit of surprise in her eyes.

Jiang Li looked into her eyes with a gentle expression, "I want to leave for a while."

Chapter 407: Chapter I will hold an umbrella for you

Ren Shutong's expression suddenly became tearful.

"Where are you going?" Ren Shutong bit her lip lightly and stared at his face.

"I want to see the outside world." Jiang Li replied, walked to the steps beside the pond and sat down beside her.

"Wouldn't it be good to stay with me and practice? The world outside... is very dangerous." Ren Shutong turned her head, and Jiang Li was in a trance for a moment. The Ren Shutong in front of him seemed to become charming and pitiful at this moment.

"Some things have to be faced. If I just stay by your side, my cultivation will be slow. I am a sword cultivator, and I need some experience to be truly considered as cultivation. So I want to leave for a while." Jiang Li's voice was gentle. "About half a year? No matter what happens in half a year, I will come back to see you."

Jiang Li had just learned from Dabai that Ren Shutong could not leave this palace for a long time. This palace was more like a small world. She had angered the Heavenly Dao in the past. Once she appeared in the outside world for too long, the Heavenly Dao would accumulate strength to bring down thunder tribulation, divine punishment, or even the Nine Nether Fire on her.

Therefore, she could not leave the palace for more than seven days each time. After seven days, she would be locked by the Heavenly Dao. After every seven days, she had to stay in the palace for two full months when she returned, using the power of this small world to wash away the mark of the Heavenly Dao left on her. Her identity was very subtle. A thousand years ago, she had slaughtered tens of millions of innocent people in one fell swoop.

"You are not allowed to leave." Ren Shutong suddenly reached out and grabbed his collar. She pressed her body against him and hugged him tightly, her voice filled with tears. "It took me so much effort to find you, and it took me so much effort to keep you by my side... You are not allowed to leave me."

Jiang Li's voice was very light, "I can't always live under your protection, separation is inevitable, in fact, I am also a little reluctant."

"Why are you leaving if you don't want to?" Ren Shutong's voice was filled with tears. "You just took my body a few days ago, and now you are leaving...leaving me alone here..."

"We are parting now so that we can meet longer in the future. I can't stay with you alone for the rest of my life, right?" Jiang Li stroked her hair gently, "It's not like I'll never come back after this departure."