You always wonder what you're doing as my Taoist partner

"That's not necessarily true. You have to try to know."

Zhu Qiutang stared blankly into his eyes, she didn't understand why Jiang Li came over, the pain in her eyes became more and more profound, she no longer laughed as crazy as before, because crying facial features almost twisted up.

"Get out! You don't owe me anything, and I don't need you to be pitiful! Stay far away from me, and being around me will only bring countless bad luck and pain. Go away... you Let's go...don't come any further."

Jiang Li finally walked in front of her, "I am a person who is very afraid of death, since I decided to come here, of course I was prepared."

If there is no concern, he has never been afraid of death. He would have been eaten in this life, but he has never been really afraid. He thinks it is good to die. He lived in pain all day long, but he didn't have the courage to take the initiative to die.

Later he met Jiang Jinbie, met Yueji, now met Bai Sheng, met Jiang Chuyue, he didn't have the courage to die, because there were too many entanglements, if he died, they would be very sad, At this time, death has become selfish, and he is no longer living only for himself.

The ninety-nine thunder calamity above the head has been brewed, and the majesty of heaven has enveloped the entire sea of ​​flowers at this moment. In front of Zhu Qiutang, pear blossoms are raining on his cheeks. Jiang Li silently clenches the spirit sword in his hand, and recites silently in his heart.

"Advanced experience scroll * 20, use."

The aura vortex around him opened, the rules were disrupted in an instant, and his cultivation base also began to skyrocket. From the late stage of Yuanying, he directly crossed the catastrophe, crossed the gods, and came to the realm of refining the void.

But Lei Jie is not something that he can stop at will because he has cultivated the emptiness again. It has always been said that the way of heaven is benevolent. Lei Jie is for cultivators, and the death rate is definitely not high. Blocked.

Blocking robbery for others will cause karma, and this karma will be reflected in the follow-up practice. After blocking robbery for others, you will be spurned by heaven, and the speed of practice will be slowed down to one-tenth in the future. During the Great Tribulation Period, every thunder calamity will kill you.

Jiang Li didn't care about these things, he looked up at the thunder disaster in front of him, with his current cultivation, Zhu Qiutang, who could easily be suppressed, couldn't move, Zhu Qiutang was imprisoned in place by him, and he jumped After a while, the thunderbolts finally rolled down.

Jiang Li clenched the sword in his hand, the sword was concentrated, and he faced Thunder.

The sword light collided with the thunder, and the thunder was not completely dispelled by the sword, but poured into his body, but unexpectedly, he didn't feel any pain, but suddenly felt a hollowness in his heart.

He couldn't tell how to describe this emptiness, but it was a thousand times more terrifying than the pain, as if everything had become illusory in an instant, and he suddenly felt so lonely.

He was so lonely that his bones ached, he swung his sword at the falling thunderbolts, as if he could hear the roar of the bamboo begonia in the sea of ​​flowers, but he suddenly realized that he could not feel any emotion, as if he had already Numb, leaving only a hollow, only know how to swing the sword.

Why did Lei Jie become like this?

Every time those thunderbolts fell on him, his heart seemed to be broken a little bit. There were 81 thunderbolts in total, and nine thunderbolts fell at one time. Jiang Li was suspended in this thunder prison, clearly so thin body, but he really blocked all the lightning tribulations one after another, not a single arc fell on Zhu Qiutang's body.

He swung his sword numbly again and again, and suddenly his mind started to think wildly again. He began to recall the reason why he swung the sword, and he began to think about everything he had done in these years. He thought of Ling Wei, Jiang Jinbie, Yueji , Bai Sheng, Mu Bingning, Jiang Chuyue, Mu Xuezhi, Oleander Zhi, Zhu Qiutang, the faces of these women flashed before his eyes one by one, he didn't know why he wanted to.

His heart became more and more hollow, and this hollowness made him extremely tired, so he only remembered to swing his sword.

Zhu Qiutang in the sea of ​​flowers is now in tears.

"It's almost over."

When the thunder fell, Jiang Li lowered his head and looked at Zhu Qiutang who was imprisoned by him in the sea of ​​flowers. He tried hard to squeeze out a smile to comfort the other party, but he always felt that his smile must be forced now.

why?I obviously didn't feel any pain, so why do I feel sad?

Jiang Li couldn't figure it out, and he couldn't make himself think about it. He was constantly consuming his soul and using his sword power to block the power of the thunder. If he couldn't stop it, it would fall into his body. A full eighty days have passed, and he is still alive and well.

Zhu Qiutang looked up at Jiang Li's back in the sky, her lips were moving, but she couldn't make a sound, maybe she didn't know what to say, or maybe everything she said seemed pale.

There was one last tiny thunderbolt left on the sky. Jiang Li watched the thunderbolt fall and land on his body, but the thunderbolt was more than that. The thunderbolt directly passed through his body and landed on his body. On Zhu Qiutang in the sea of ​​flowers.

Jiang Li was no longer suspended in the air, he watched the gray mist emanating from his body, and Zhu Qiutang was the same as him, surrounded by the gray mist.

This is a catastrophe.

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There was darkness in front of Jiang Li, and when there was light, what he saw was a broken eggshell.

He also saw a woman's face, that woman was seventy percent similar to oleander branch and bamboo begonia, but compared to the two of them, she looked more dignified and elegant, that woman was wearing a long black dress and a phoenix crown, look at him.

But he is now a baby, and there is a little girl lying beside him.

He heard the woman in the black dress mutter, "How could..."

Jiang Li suddenly heard Zhu Qiutang's voice, her voice was a little low, "This is my past."

The two are looking at the same scene now, Jiang Li tried to respond to Zhu Qiutang's voice, "You are the same as me, can you only watch these?"

"Ah."

The two didn't communicate any more. For some reason, Jiang Li always felt that his heart was still hollow, as if he had no strength to speak, so he calmed down and looked at everything in front of him. He was watching from Zhu Qiutang's perspective. her past.

Both she and Zhutaozhi are the daughters of the Northern Territory Empress. The two girls grew up together. When they were young, they had a good relationship and often played together. Zhu Qiutang has always doted on Zhutaozhi because she is an older sister. So whenever there is something delicious and fun, she will subconsciously give way to her sister first.

It wasn't until they were six years old that the two of them officially started to practice. Both zhutaozhi and she were of the blood of the Black Phoenix. The first time zhutaozhi practiced, she established the foundation of the heavenly way overnight, while her meridian aura flowed backwards. That time she was dead.

Jiang Li felt the pain. It was clear that he was only looking at everything from Zhu Qiutang's perspective, but he also definitely felt Zhu Qiutang's pain. He didn't resent this kind of pain, but the pain would make the hollowness in his heart feel better. .

Then he saw all kinds of misfortune of Zhu Qiutang, the backflow of the meridians and aura during her practice, but it was no longer a big deal, as she grew up, sometimes she practiced swords with others, but the other party accidentally pierced her heart, When I went out to explore the secret realm, my whole leg was almost chewed up by the sleeping fierce beast. The Queen of the Northern Territory came in time and used the spiritual fruit in the treasure house to restore her body.

But these are not real pain.

The real pain is that everyone around her is far away from her. She wants to communicate with people, and wants to have people to talk to her, but those people avoid her. When she was a child, she once had a maid , but when she was 11 years old, the maid encountered a rare aura riot in the northern region, which happened to be in the center of the aura vortex, and died.

It turns out that her bad luck will also bring those around her.

At the occasional festivals held in the Northern Territory, she watched her sister Zhu Taozhi gather around many playmates, they were laughing and laughing, while she stood in the corner and could only look into the distance silently. She saw her sister running over, He wanted to hold her hand and go into the crowd, but as soon as she got there, her sister's little friends left her side in fear one by one.

So she was jealous of her own sister, it was clear that both of them came out of the same egg, why was she the only one who was unlucky?

She no longer played with oleander branch, she started to treat oleander branch coldly, she began to practice sword sword hard all day long, and at the same time began to gradually master everything in the Northern Territory, perhaps the only warmth in these pains was her mother who never Neither of them disliked her, and loved both of them equally.

Gradually, because she has gained more power and voice in the Northern Territory, many people are not even afraid of bad luck, and want to please her by her side. She has never been paid so much attention, and has never Having been treated so tenderly, she also worked hard to maintain every relationship, even though... she knew well that those were all fake.

Zhu Qiutang can laugh at her for being exquisite, because Zhu Taozhi has never lacked these hypocritical flattery and warmth, but to Zhu Qiutang, these are things she has envied for a long time, but never obtained.

But Zhu Qiutang knew that the only person in the world who really treated her well was her mother.

Until she was 16 years old, her mother called her into the room alone and said something seriously.

From that day on, her world completely collapsed.

Chapter 158 Chapter 150 Seven Promises

"The Black Phoenix family has been in the same line for years, so the birth of you and Taozhi is a mistake of heaven, an accident that I did not expect."

Zhu Qiutang lowered her head, not daring to look at her mother who was sitting on the chair, she just asked softly, "So... I'm that extra, am I?"

The woman on the throne looked solemn, "It is the mission of the Black Phoenix clan to pass on the bloodline, but you both have only one drop of Black Phoenix blood on your body, and the bloodline will never be passed on. Those misfortunes are also the established result of the way of heaven, if there is a flaw in the way of heaven, if you die, your drop of blood will return to Taozhi's body."

"All...does the empress want me to die?"

The girl standing in the hall had a very clear voice, maybe a little aggrieved, but she didn't resist, she just asked the queen mother seriously, if the queen mother wants her to die, then she should die.

But unexpectedly, the woman on the throne came up to her, stretched out her hand and gently stroked her head.

"You are all my daughters, and you all have the right to live."

"Your misfortune will become stronger and stronger with your cultivation base and age, and even I can no longer protect you, but once you solve the flaws in the way of heaven, your misfortune will disappear. After reaching the tenth stage of refining the void, I will arrange for you to have a sword discussion."

Zhu Qiutang suddenly raised her head, and the eyes of the woman in the black dress were cold and majestic.

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Jiang Li looked at everything in front of him.

All he sees is Zhu Qiutang's past, the time is so long, but it seems to be only a moment.

"Now do you understand why I am so indifferent to Taozhi?" Zhu Qiutang's voice was cold, "Sooner or later, I will choose to kill her and take back everything that belongs to me."

Jiang Li listened to Zhu Qiutang's voice. He wanted to respond, but after much deliberation, he didn't know what to say. In front of him was the picture of Zhu Qiutang working hard to practice his sword day and night. Mixed with those hypocritical flattering smiling faces.

She really worked hard, tried her best to deal with all her peers in the Northern Territory, and worked hard to practice everything as the heir to the throne of the Northern Territory in a true sense. She handled many things in every possible way, without leaking.

But Jiang Li experienced her cry with her eyes, but at the moment he only felt extremely tired.

She relies on her own efforts to change everyone's opinion of her, this is the source of her pride, Jiang Li suddenly understood, he said softly, "Tired?"

"You have worked hard all these years." Jiang Li said softly, but unfortunately his consolation didn't seem to have any effect.

"Zhu Taozhi doesn't know about it yet, you can choose to tell her."

"Why doesn't she know?" Jiang Li was startled.

"Her luck is particularly good, but my practice is extremely difficult. It may not be a problem for me to practice to the tenth stage of refining the void, not to mention that I am far behind her in other aspects. You can understand that the mother is partial. Me, she wants me to win."

"What if there is a way to solve the problem of your luck and blood inheritance in the future?"

"My mother has searched for countless ways, but it still doesn't work. Do you think your cultivation base and experience are higher than hers? This is a deadlock, and there is no possibility of untie it. Me and her In between, there must only be one alive, so... she will die in my hands sooner or later!"

Zhu Qiutang's voice was very firm, firm and convincing, but everything she said had a fatal loophole from beginning to end.

Jiang Li looked at the picture in Zhu Qiutang's memory in front of him, and looked at the rabbit doll she was holding in her hand, fascinated for a long time.

His voice was calm, "If that's the case, why did this become your inner demon robbery?"

Zhu Qiutang fell into a long silence.

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Jiang Li once had a serious understanding of the Heart Demon Tribulation, and deeply questioned the existence of the Heart Demon Tribulation.

Heart Demon Tribulation can generally be understood as a monk's obsession, or a demonic obstacle. Only when you make the right choice in Heart Demon Tribulation, can you escape from Heart Demon Tribulation, break through Crossing Tribulation, and enter the realm of cultivation. God period.

However, the so-called correctness is determined by the majority. Whether it is moral standards or ethical principles, these are all determined by people, but the way of heaven is not human, so what is the significance of introducing this center of gravity and evil calamity?

Just like Zhu Qiutang's inner demon tribulation, what choice will the inner demon tribulation make her make?Should I kill the oleander branch, or let it go?This in itself is an unsolvable problem, no matter how you solve it, it is wrong.

So what exactly is restored by the Heart Demon Tribulation?Is it the desire buried deep in your heart?is good?Evil?What to do is the right choice?

Jiang Li didn't understand, but he knew that he didn't dare to face his inner demon tribulation. If the day came, he was afraid that he would be driven crazy. All these years he had been trying to deceive himself to forget In the past, even though he knew it well, he was only deluding himself.

Jiang Li had already read most of Zhu Qiutang's memories, but the last scene suddenly stopped. Then, his perspective changed. He no longer looked at everything with Zhu Qiutang's eyes, but with his own. Eyes, looking at the picture in front of you.

Standing in front of them were Zhu Qiutang and Zhutaozhi, Jiang Li suddenly realized that he had learned how to tell the difference between the two, Zhu Qiutang's eyes were always darker, while Zhutaozhi's eyes were always bright.

Jiang Li tried to call Zhu Qiutang a few times, but there was no response. She must have entered her own inner demon tribulation, and truly started crossing the tribulation.

He looked at the two women in front of him, each holding a spirit sword, fighting together, the ground was stained red with blood, black fireworks were burning in front of him, he could only be a bystander and could do nothing, this fight lasted for a long time , until Zhu Qiutang's chest was pierced by Zhu Qiutang's sword.

In the end, she didn't have the courage to kill Zhu Taozhi, nor did she completely let go of her jealousy and resentment.

Her crossing tribulation failed.

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The illusion in front of him suddenly collapsed, only Zhu Qiutang was left in front of her, she curled up in the darkness, Jiang Li realized that he could move, he came to Zhu Qiutang's side, and gently grabbed her hands.

There was not much pain in Zhu Qiutang's eyes, on the contrary, there was a sense of relief. She saw Jiang Li, but she didn't say anything, she just closed her eyes.

"Do you think this is the end?" Jiang Li looked directly into her eyes.