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Travel together?!

Jiang Sheng gave Tushan Lian a slight appraisal. "In my view, Fellow Daoist, your escape technique is not slow at all."

"Speak plainly. Do you wish to travel with me to avoid someone, or to flee from something?"

With Jiang Sheng so bluntly striking at the heart of the matter, Tushan Lian appeared somewhat helpless. "True Lord clearly knows already, yet you insist on making me say it aloud. Could you not show a little tenderness toward a beautiful woman just once?"

Jiang Sheng smiled but said nothing. Tenderness toward a beautiful woman depended on the woman.

Though this fox from Tushan Sacred Land was enchanting in appearance and seemed delicate, no matter how faint the scent upon her was, it could not escape Jiang Sheng's nose.

Let alone that Tushan Lian was of the Demon Race—even if she were not, even if she had been born human and belonged neither to the Eastern Heaven Daoist Sect nor an ally of the Shanhe Daoist Sect, why should Jiang Sheng show her such tenderness?

Since Jiang Sheng had embarked upon cultivation, it was not merely one or two fairy maidens and chivalrous heroines who had died beneath his sword. If Tushan Lian wished to entangle him in her karma without explaining herself, Jiang Sheng would not mind adding another fox to the souls slain by his blade.

Seeing that Jiang Sheng would not state his position, Tushan Lian could only say, "Please allow me to explain, True Lord. Tushan Sacred Land is renowned throughout All Heavens and Myriad Worlds as a neutral place. We have never refused visiting immortals, gods, demons, or Buddhas from the heavens, and thus Tushan Sacred Land does not form alliances with any power."

"No alliances, absolute neutrality—this has always been the principle upheld by