Why do you always want to be my Taoist partner?

"That's an animal, not a person."

"Ridiculous!" Qin Shu sneered, "You upright monks, do you really treat these ordinary people as human beings? If you do, why would you be so negligent and rush here only at this moment? You don't care about the life and death of these children at all. If they die, they die. It never hurts you. You are just here to go through the motions to prevent such things from happening again here in the future. These are all conventional things. Do you dare to say that you don't know?"

"If you treat them as human beings, the drought, famine, and plague below the mountain can save thousands of people with just a small price. But why have I never seen you, the famous and upright people, take action?"

"Cultivation is all about using any means necessary, and when have you, the famous and upright sects, ever been willing to use your strength to actually attack us? The so-called Demon-Slaying Conference seven years ago was only because you were frightened when you saw the leader of the Blood Soul Sect break through to the Mahayana stage."

"Do you know how many of you so-called famous and upright sects have chosen to fight to the death with us when encountering our Blood Soul Sect over the years? And how many of you have chosen to make deals with our Blood Soul Sect?!"

Qin Shu's voice was particularly unscrupulous. He stared at Jiang Li in front of him like a cat looking at a mouse, with a particularly playful smile on the corner of his lips as he waited for his answer.

Jiang Li was a little dazed at this moment.

He remembered such an incident.

It was a story he had heard from a senior sister. The story was about a sect assessment mission that the senior sister had participated in. There were a total of six people in the group, and they were also exploring for the traces of evil cultivators. They had already obtained clues and knew very well that the formations of those evil cultivators were about to be completed. If they waited for the support of the sect, they would not be able to save those ordinary people in time. There was a sword cultivator who wanted everyone to go to rescue them, but in the end no one agreed. In the end, the sword cultivator went alone, and the remaining five people failed to stop him.

The five people returned to the sect and reported the clues. When the sect arrived at the gathering place of the evil cultivators, only a pile of dry bones were left on the ground. The sword cultivator was naturally dead, and there were even several bloody holes on his corpse, making him look no longer human.

When Jiang Li heard this story, the senior sister said hesitantly that the five of them all thought that the swordsman was a little stupid. If he had listened to them and followed them back to the sect, how could he have ended up like this?

But that swordsman was the strongest among the six of them, so the five of them were unable to stop him from dying.

In the end, people die like fallen leaves, leaving nothing behind except a sigh.

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

Jiang Li came back to his senses from his trance. Qin Shu, who was standing opposite him, was looking at him provocatively. Jiang Li slowly raised his head and said, "You are talking about them, not me."

"If they don't care, I do."

There was a hint of cruelty in Qin Shu's eyes.

Jiang Li said slowly, "The so-called upright cultivators you mentioned are those who seek peace of mind after attaining the truth, while the methods used by you evil cultivators will lead to unstable cultivation and violent temperaments, so there are not so many evil cultivators in this world, so you can only behave yourself."

"Thinking too much about your cultivation will only lead to low actual strength. Even if you are now a Yuanying stage Great Perfection, you may not be able to survive more than ten moves against me who is in the early stage of foundation building."

After Jiang Li said this, Qin Shu's expression became particularly strange, and Jiang Li asked calmly at this moment, "Do you dare to fight with me?"

After these words were spoken, not only Qin Shu, but also the four bodyguards behind him seemed to have heard a huge joke. Qin Shu could not help laughing, but Jiang Li took a step forward.

"Challenge me with a sword fight. If I lose, I will die. If I win... you will let these children go."

The corners of Qin Shu's mouth became more and more playful. He looked at Jiang Li's face in front of him and took out his spiritual sword from the storage ring without haste. It was a soft sword that was completely blood red. After he clenched it, it emitted a faint red light.

"I'd really like to know where you get such confidence from." Qin Shu sneered, and the next moment, Jiang Li took out the magic sword that Yue Ji gave him from the storage ring, and he held the rusty sword tightly in his hand.

Bai Sheng stood behind Jiang Li, staring at his back. Jiang Li's expression was very calm, so calm that it seemed a little unfamiliar to her. She had practiced sword skills with Jiang Li many times before, but she had never sensed such aura from Jiang Li.

But at this moment his opponent is in the late Nascent Soul stage.

The difference in their cultivation levels was so great that Bai Sheng could only stare at him blankly. However, she had an inexplicable intuition in her heart that Senior Brother Jiang Li would not lose.

Jiang Li stood quietly in place, slowly raising the spirit sword in his hand. His eyes became cold, and a breeze blew by. The atmosphere in the dense forest suddenly became a little solemn.

It was as if the dense forest welcomed the bitter winter in an instant.

The hand that held the sword was very steady, without the slightest tremor or deviation, and the posture when he drew the sword was also particularly standard. However, the sword move he used was not that of Hidden Sword Peak, but a move that he created himself.

When the sword intent was cultivated to the extreme, that move no longer had any meaning. Any sword he swung would already leverage the power of heaven and earth. He hadn't drawn his sword yet, but Qin Shu on the opposite side suddenly felt a chill on his neck, as if the sword was already across his neck.

In a flash, Jiang Li's figure disappeared from the spot, and Qin Shu opposite him also raised his sword to slash. The scarlet light touched the afterimage, but did not collide. Jiang Li turned sideways to avoid the sword. The next moment, his sword blade was already across Qin Shu's neck, and the sword tip had already cut his skin, stained with bright red blood.

Even the four bodyguards behind Qin Shu did not react. Jiang Li's hands did not tremble at all, and his eyes were still calm. Qin Shu raised his head slightly, but there was no fear. His eyes were filled with a little shock, which turned into brutality after the shock.

"This sword is really powerful, what's its name?"

"Settling the storm."

"You can't kill me. If you kill me, all those children will die."

"I won, I let them go."

Jiang Li's sword was now across Qin Shu's neck. The four people behind him wanted to step forward, but Jiang Li looked at them coldly, "If you take another step forward, I will kill him."

Qin Shu raised his hand, signaling them not to act rashly.

"I was careless in this sword fight. So, there are thirty-six children here in total. If you beat me in this sword fight, I will let six of them go. How about we fight again with swords?"

"Now, let them all go, otherwise, I will kill you." Jiang Li said word by word.

But Qin Shu, who was under his sword at the moment, was not afraid at all. "You are not qualified to negotiate with me, and you dare not kill me. If you kill me, all those children will die, and you will die too. There is no point in killing me... Only if you listen to me, you are qualified to continue the sword bet with me."

Jiang Li's sword was naturally not faster than those protectors standing next to the children, so he had no right to negotiate from the beginning. Jiang Li was silent for a moment, "Let those six children go first."

Qin Shu gave a look, and one of the four bodyguards removed the vines from the wrists of the six children. The children slowly woke up. Although their bodies were very weak, they were still alive. Jiang Li slightly hooked the tip of his other finger, and six drawn talismans were attached to the heads of the six children. The six children lost consciousness, and their bodies were controlled by the talismans as they walked down the mountain.

Jiang Li also slowly moved the sword away from Qin Shu's neck and returned to the starting point. Qin Shu twisted his neck, and the wound on his neck healed quickly. He smiled at Jiang Li and said, "Interesting."

The four guards behind him were ready to move, but Qin Shu did not let them move forward. He licked his dry lips with his tongue and looked at Jiang Li, "Come on, let's continue the sword fight."

"The rules are simple. If you beat me again, I will let six more children go."

"But if you kill me, all those children will die, and my protectors will kill you all."

Jiang Li raised the spirit sword in his hand, his eyes still calm, and said coldly.

"it is good."

Chapter 46: Chapter Dark Moon Immortal

Bai Sheng felt a little uneasy in his heart, but he didn't know where this uneasiness came from.

Her cultivation was only at the late stage of foundation building. This was not a battle she was qualified to participate in. She could only clutch her dress tightly, concentrate her mind and look ahead. When Jiang Li proposed this competition rule, he actually already understood it in his heart.

He gathered his spirits a little and grasped the sword again, and the strange, quiet atmosphere from before appeared again, as if a domain had formed around him, and he was at the very center of the domain. He drew his sword again at Qin Shu in front of him, but Qin Shu did not dodge or evade this time, and also drew his sword at Jiang Li.

If Jiang Li's sword hit him, it would pierce his chest directly and he would die on the spot. But even so, Qin Shu still had no desire to dodge. He also slashed at Jiang Li's neck with this sword, a sword full of power from the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul.

What he was betting on was that Jiang Li didn't dare to kill him!

In fact, he made the right bet. Jiang Li's sword eventually deviated from its direction. With his level of cultivation, he only had one chance to strike with this sword, and he seized the moment when the opponent dodged. But it was too late to change his moves temporarily. Jiang Li was hit by the sword in Qin Shu's hand. This was because he dodged temporarily, otherwise the sword would have chopped off his head.

But even so, there was a bloodstain on his arm that was deep enough to see the bone. It was not the hand that held the sword, but it had completely drooped down at this moment, as if it was just hanging on his shoulder, and would fall off if pulled harder.

Jiang Li looked at the other person silently, but Qin Shu was smiling happily at this moment, "Stop."

"You win this time, Ah Si, release six more." Qin Shu looked at the protector behind him. The protector was hesitant, as if he wanted to say something, but Qin Shu gave him a look, and the protector let go of six more children. Jiang Li used his spiritual energy to pinch a talisman and stuck it on the heads of the six children. The six children were manipulated to walk gradually down the mountain.

"You are not an ordinary early stage foundation building cultivator. If you were an ordinary early stage foundation building cultivator, you would be cut in half by this sword of mine." Qin Shu said with a smile, "Do you still want to compete?"

"I can still hold a sword, so why not compete?"

Jiang Li lowered his head to look at his left hand which he could no longer lift, but answered without any hesitation.

"You are one of the few upright cultivators I have ever met who is truly worthy of my recognition." Qin Shu's tone was less mocking. "Although I am considered an evil cultivator, I... really admire you idiots."

"As long as you beat me twice more, you can save all the children here, but you will lose your life. I will give you one last chance to choose. Stay here for one day and you will get thirty spirit stones. You and your sister can both survive."

But in response to his words, Jiang Li's originally calm face showed a little more smile.

"You are wavering." Jiang Li looked into his eyes. "You also know clearly that what you did is intolerable to the Way of Heaven, so you want to see me back down and want me to go along with you. This way you can have a reason to convince yourself and deceive yourself into continuing to kill innocent people and be a beast worse than pigs and dogs."

Jiang Li's calm words made Qin Shu, who originally had a bit of sarcasm on his face, freeze for a moment. The next moment, he heard him snort coldly, "There is no point in talking any more. I want to know how long you can keep pretending to be righteous!"

He grinned and added another rule, "If you only hurt me and don't use a move that can take my life, then I won't count you as the winner."

There was a hint of sarcasm on Jiang Li's face. He held the sword in his hand again in the same posture as before. This time, his sword blade still had no way to hesitate, but Qin Shu in front of him still did not dodge or evade. Jiang Li drew his sword silently, and finally the sword blade stopped just a millimeter in front of his chest.

Qin Shu's sword stabbed his chest from left to right without hesitation, leaving a huge bloody mark.

Jiang Li still won this sword fight.

"Ah Si, let six more go."

Qin Shu spoke again to the protector behind him, and the six children were let go again. This time, Jiang Li even had difficulty using his spiritual energy to draw the talisman paper. Fortunately, he finally drew it, and the six children slowly went down the mountain. At this moment, he could no longer straighten his back, and his face was as pale as paper.

In fact, there are no so-called rules at all. Jiang Li is just exchanging the lives of six children for the price of resisting Qin Shu's sword.

He really only had the initial stage of foundation building, but his body and soul were much stronger than those at the ordinary foundation building stage. However, foundation building was still foundation building. At this moment, he was completely unable to lift his left hand, and blood was gushing out from his chest. He felt his throat was a little itchy, and he couldn't help coughing, coughing up a large pool of blood.

Jiang Li's body swayed for a moment, and he raised the sword again.

"Come."

Qin Shu, who was sitting opposite him, did not hesitate at all, and the smile on his lips became more and more ferocious. "I want to know what secrets are hidden in this body of yours... Don't worry, after I search your soul, I will know everything."

No matter how you look at it now, a soul that can mobilize such sword power at the initial stage of foundation building is much more valuable than those thirty-six children. At this moment, Qin Shu's eyes were full of greed when he looked at Jiang Li.

Jiang Li's vision was a little blurry, but the hand holding the sword still did not tremble at all. This was the first lesson the elders of Hidden Sword Peak taught him when he was a disciple. No matter when, the hand holding the sword must not waver in the slightest.

Qin Shu's body had already turned into a residual shadow in Jiang Li's sight. The blood-red sword light magnified in front of his eyes. Jiang Li used all his strength to slash out with the sword. The sword blades touched, and he suffered a thousand pounds of force. His body retreated irreversibly, and was cut back by the power of the sword and fell on a tree. The tree broke, and Jiang Li spat out a large mouthful of blood again.

Qin Shu stood where he was and sheathed the magic sword in his hand.

The magic sword in Jiang Li's hand had broken into two pieces. A defensive formation was engraved on the sword. When it was subjected to unbearable force, the formation would automatically activate. It was precisely because of this formation that Jiang Li's internal organs were still intact at the moment, allowing him to stumble to his feet and look at Qin Shu in front of him.

"If I hadn't stopped with that sword, your chest would have been pierced by me, so... I still win." Jiang Li's voice had become particularly hoarse. In his sight, Bai Sheng was running towards him, but everything in front of him became a little blurry, so blurry that he couldn't tell them apart.

"I know, Ah Si, release the last six children as well."

Qin Shu said lazily, but Jiang Li no longer had the spiritual energy to pinch those talismans. Jiang Li glanced at Bai Sheng and said, "Bai Sheng... take those children down the mountain."

He couldn't see Bai Sheng's tearful cheeks. His lips moved slightly, and he said to Bai Sheng in an especially soft voice, "It's meaningless for you to stay here. Don't cause me any trouble."

Jiang Li stood up slowly. He could no longer see Bai Sheng's face. The sound of Bai Sheng's crying beside his ears was also a little vague. He no longer had much strength to repeat himself. He could only keep muttering, "Hurry up! Hurry up!"

He couldn't hear clearly what Bai Sheng said, but when he saw Bai Sheng and the children who had regained consciousness walking away, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, and then... fell down.

Qin Shu's footsteps rang in his ears. He had already walked to Jiang Li's side, looking down at him. At this moment, he had put away his teasing and brutality.

Because the victor does not have to be tyrannical, he just needs to show a little mercy at this moment.

"does it worth?"

"It's not worth it." Jiang Li tried hard to open his eyes, and the gloomy sky came into his sight.

"I have seen a few people as stupid as you." Qin Shu was silent for a while, "But when they are about to die, they will regret it and beg me for mercy. This is not because they failed to stick to their inner morality, but because they follow their instincts. It is human instinct to want to survive. Whether it is you or me, we are no different from animals after all. We always follow the rule of the jungle."

"In fact, you can't save those children. They can't run far. I just need to kill you and get those children back. And your busty junior sister has really cute cheeks. If I plant a love insect in her, she will serve me day and night. It would be a very happy thing."

"In fact, from the beginning, I didn't give you a chance to trade. Your sister is very cute. Maybe you can survive, but she must follow me. I have played with many fairies in your sect. They were all high and mighty at the beginning, but after being trained for a long time, they would become bitches who only know how to actively seek sex."

"But compared to those children and junior sisters, the secrets of you are more interesting to me at the moment. You have to hold on for a while longer, at least until I have completely searched your soul before you die."

Qin Shu's gaze was high above Jiang Li, and he seemed to feel the raindrops falling on his cheeks.

When did it rain?

He suddenly laughed.

"why are you laughing?"

"The first time you saw Bai Sheng, I knew you wouldn't let us leave like this." Jiang Li smiled happily, as if he was happy that his reasoning was correct.

Qin Shu's eyes suddenly became more alert. He thought Jiang Li had some other tricks. After all, no one should underestimate any cultivator at any time. This was the most important thing he had learned as an evil cultivator after living for so many years.

But Jiang Li in front of him was clearly dying, as if he would die in the next second, and his spiritual energy was completely exhausted. Qin Shu really couldn't think of any way for him to survive.

Perhaps because his consciousness was unclear, he had started talking nonsense?

"I have so many things to worry about, how could I die at the hands of a beast like you?"

Jiang Li closed his eyes, and the next second, when he opened them again, his eyes had regained clarity. Countless spiritual energy suddenly gathered in this mountain range at this moment, and his body was like a whirlpool, absorbing all the spiritual energy in an instant.

Qin Shu naturally wanted to draw his sword at the first moment, but unfortunately, the gathered spiritual energy easily bounced it away, and it crashed into a tree. The four bodyguards behind him gathered at this moment, with solemn expressions, not understanding what was going on.

"Advanced experience scrolls*10 have been used."

The vortex quickly disappeared in an instant, and he stood up at this moment. Except for the blood-stained white clothes that made him look a little embarrassed, his injuries had all recovered.

And his aura of cultivation also froze at...the first level of Spirit Transformation.

But what surprised Qin Shu and the four bodyguards behind him was not this incident. At this moment, their pupils were all widened, looking at Jiang Li's face with a slightly mocking expression, and their eyes were all fixed on the dark blue crescent-shaped mark that suddenly appeared between his eyebrows.

In the ten thousand years of history of Canglan Domain, this mark has only appeared on one person's face. She was once the world's number one cultivator and was prepared to sacrifice hundreds of millions of people in Canglan Domain to open the door to the other world.

But she clearly died a thousand years ago. In the time since her death, no one dared to imitate her and leave the mark of spiritual energy on their foreheads.

She was the Dark Moon Immortal who had made the entire Canglan Domain tremble.