Don't Even Think of Shaking My Dao Heart!

Faced with Jiang Lin's provocation, people from the Six Major Sects kept vomiting blood and collapsing, yet not a single one accepted the challenge.

You've got to be kidding. If they fought again, it would be ninety Mid-Grade Spirit Stones. If they kept fighting after that, it would be one High-Grade Spirit Stone.

One Mid-Grade Spirit Stone was worth one hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones, while one High-Grade Spirit Stone was worth one hundred Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.

Even if they had money, they couldn't just give it away like this...

On the Sun Moon Sect's side, since they basically had no chance of winning money anymore, they all joined in mocking the opposing side for Jiang Lin. After this gamble, Jiang Lin would definitely be rolling in wealth. Maybe he could even get a share of the profits.

For a time, the scene grew completely chaotic, like Jinxi Northwest.

If the elders from both sides hadn't still been present, they probably would have started fighting. As things stood, all they could do was stage a confrontation of "What are you looking at?" "I'm looking at you, what about it?" "Try looking at me again." "Try me, then."...

What made Jiang Lin happy, however, was that the completion percentage in the mission progress bar kept rising... In the end, under the two sides' curses, combined with Jiang Lin's earlier extreme mockery, he actually managed to complete the mission by force.

But completed was completed. They couldn't just keep glaring at each other forever. It was frustrating not being able to earn any Spirit Stones.

Just as the two sides were spitting words at each other, Jiang Lin suddenly had an idea and used a Heart-Lake Transmission to contact Ye Liangchen, who was tightly gripping his sword on the opposite side while hesitating.

A Heart-Lake Transmission was a rather mysterious thing. Unless one was a Jade Purity Realm bigshot, and a cultivator of the Yin Yang School who specialized in studying the human heart at that, one could only sense that the other party was communicating. There was no way to know what they were saying.

As for why?

Don't ask.

If you ask again, it's a setting.

[Brother Ye, I've got a business deal for you. You interested?]

[Jiang Lin?!]

Ye Liangchen's heart jolted. His gaze turned toward Jiang Lin, while Jiang Lin continued gazing up at the clouds at a forty-five-degree angle.

Noticing that Ye Liangchen from his sect was having a Heart-Lake conversation with Jiang Lin, Elder Cao Nima of the Unadorned Willow Sect couldn't help frowning and wanted to stop them.

After all, although the Sun Moon Sect did not indiscriminately slaughter innocents, it was famous among the Demon Sects of Wutong Province for prioritizing attacks on the mind. Jiang Lin clearly looked like someone highly skilled in such techniques. If Liang Chen fell prey to an Inner Demon, things would be terrible.

But just as Elder Cao Nima was about to pat Ye Liangchen on the shoulder, Xuejia Sect Elder caught his hand.

"Brother Yang?"

"Brother Nima, this is a fine trial for Liang Chen. If things take a turn for the worse, it won't be too late to interrupt them then."

Elder Cao Nima thought it over, nodded, and withdrew his hand.

[Flower-Picking Thief Jiang! You're transmitting to me through the Heart-Lake! Don't even think of shaking my Dao heart!]

[Not so, not so. Brother Liang Chen, just as I said, do you want to do a deal with me? Mutual benefit, a win-win situation.]

[Do business with someone from the Demon Sect? Hah! Even if I, Ye Liangchen, fell from here, even if I, Ye Liangchen, starved to death, I would never ally myself with you!]

[That's truly a pity.]

In the Heart-Lake, Jiang Lin sighed.

[I originally wanted to make Brother Liang Chen the center of attention among all the large and small sects in Wutong Province, make you the object of countless young maidens' affections, have fairies send you flowers whenever you went out, make poetry-loving female cultivators blush with any poem you casually composed, and have your junior sisters admire you even more than before. But Brother Liang Chen is so determined, so be it... Sorry for bothering you.]

[Wait!]

Just as Jiang Lin was about to cut off the ripples in the Heart-Lake, Ye Liangchen called out to stop him.

[I'm all ears!]

In the sky above the Sun Moon Sect's Sect Protecting Formation, the verbal battle continued. Clearly, however, the Sun Moon Sect cultivators of the Demon Sect had stronger foundations. After all, there was a cultural difference...

Just as the sun rose another degree higher,

a laugh suddenly rang out from among the Six Major Sects.

"Ke ke ke ke ke..."

The Goblin-like laughter made everyone fall silent. Then they all turned toward Ye Liangchen as if looking at a husky.

Ye Liangchen shook his sleeves and strode forward.

"Flower-Picking Thief Jiang! I'll fight you!"

With that, Ye Liangchen took the High-Grade Spirit Stone he had treasured for so long out of his Storage Bag and handed it directly to Jiang Lin.

After accepting the High-Grade Spirit Stone, Jiang Lin felt somewhat excited inside, but his expression remained unchanged as he put it into his Storage Bag.

"Could you be Ye Liangchen, known throughout western Wutong Province as the one who makes the Ghost Fire Ring and scatters your opponent's ashes...?"

"That's right! You actually still remember me! Today, I'll avenge the ambush you launched against me in the Bewildering Secret Realm!"

"Hahaha! If you have the guts, come at me!"

"Here I come!"

"Liang Chen! Wait!"

"Senior Brother Ye!"

Before anyone else could stop him, Ye Liangchen shot forward.

Unlike Confucian cultivators, Daoist cultivators, Buddhist cultivators, and the other cultivators of the Hundred Schools, the Unadorned Willow Sect mainly consisted of self-created-style Qi Refiners. The Direct Disciples of the Unadorned Willow Sect primarily cultivated the Ghost Fire Ring and the Alpaca Army Formation.

In less than a breath, Ye Liangchen's fists were wrapped in flames, and he charged at Jiang Lin while riding two divine-beast alpacas formed from spiritual energy.

Jiang Lin did not retreat either. Holding First Snow, he advanced to meet his foe!

"I'm hitting, I'm hitting, I'm hitting..."

"Orah, orah, orah..."

High in the sky, ice and fire intertwined. Wave after wave of heat and Chilling Qi collided, while fierce fists and gleaming Flying Swords clashed head-on again and again. Neither side retreated. Both endured the other's attacks through sheer force.

The flesh-on-flesh assault made the men silently close their eyes and the women quietly shed tears.

At last, the two sides pulled apart. Ye Liangchen smashed his flaming fists together, sending two fire dragons roaring forth, while Jiang Lin assumed a sword stance. Like Yi Shuihan, layer after layer of ice crystals covered his Sword Body.

Everyone fell into a daze, because behind Jiang Lin appeared a gigantic woman dressed in white robes and a white skirt, her eyes silver-white.

The woman smiled faintly... then kicked Jiang Lin hard in the back...

But it happened in the blink of an eye. Everyone thought they had hallucinated, and Jiang Lin himself noticed nothing. Yet just as Jiang Lin was preparing to fart and use it as propulsion, he suddenly felt his body lurch forward.

"Jiang Lin!"

"Ye Liangchen!"

The flaming fist and frost-covered sword slammed into each other.

"Boom!"

Another tremendous explosion rang out, and the two pulled apart.

Jiang Lin's Natal Flying Sword had already flown back into his acupoint, while the flames around Ye Liangchen's body had also gone out.

At the same time, the two men, kneeling on one knee in midair, wiped the blood from the corners of their mouths and rose to their feet.

"Jiang Lin, although you and I fought to a draw this time, we'll fight again in the future!"

"Ye Liangchen! I never expected your Ghost Fire Ring to have reached such a divine level. I, Jiang Lin, am willing to call you the strongest in ghost fire!"

"Although we drew, no matter what, you're injured. For this Sect Grand Tournament, I'll count this as your complete victory."

"If Brother Ye had struck first, it would have been hard to say how things turned out."

"Senior Brother Ye!"

"Senior Brother Ye!"

"Senior Brother Ye!"

"Wait, weren't they evenly matched? Why are you cheering?"

"A draw? If you can do better, you go up there!"

"A draw is already pretty good. Hurry up and shout together."

"Senior Brother Ye!"

"Senior Brother Ye!"

Although it had ended in a draw, the Six Major Sects cheered happily, and the scene became jubilant.

The two cupped their hands to each other and exchanged smiles. Ye Liangchen turned and walked back.

Just as Jiang Lin also turned around, three Flying Swords suddenly shot out from the cheering crowd at incredible speed.

"Jiang Lin!"

The Sun Moon Sect Elder, who was still astonished by the woman's figure behind Jiang Lin, snapped back to his senses and tried to intervene. But the tiny Flying Swords, as slender as needles, were too fast. It was already too late.

Jiang Lin had also sensed the danger, but he had spent far too much Spiritual Power on flashy techniques during the recent "life-and-death duel." To make it realistic, he had genuinely sustained a serious injury as well. Combined with the self-injury blood-spurting palm strike he had used earlier, Jiang Lin could no longer dodge.

"Jiang Lin!"

The three Flying Swords, each the size of an embroidery needle, flashed past. The sword qi they carried sliced through Jiang Lin's neck...

Jiang Lin... his head fell to the ground...

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