Yu Zhuo, Gu Chongjin, and the others had given up trying to persuade Mo Xingjue; in their view, Mo Xingjue was beyond saving.
Li Ze was completely unaware of the commotion outside. While the others were locked in a stalemate, energy fluctuations emanated from his body.
"He's already at the mid-Nascent Soul stage?" Yu Zhuo murmured, looking utterly bewildered. "I remember back in the Crimson Pill Sect's secret realm, he was still at the Qi Refining stage."
"What!"
This time, the shock came from the others, but they were mostly incredulous.
"Fellow Daoist Yu, are you joking? It's only been a few months since we left the Crimson Pill Sect's secret realm. I've never heard of anyone being able to advance two major realms in just a few months."
"Perhaps he used some kind of secret method to conceal his cultivation level at the time."
“But he was indeed at the Qi Refining stage at the time, and he almost died at my hands,” Yu Zhuo said. In that near-death situation, if he were at the Nascent Soul stage, he would definitely have revealed it. So rather than hiding his cultivation level, he believed that the other party was only at the Qi Refining stage at the time.
In just a few months, a Qi Refining cultivator had become a mid-Nascent Soul cultivator with a stable cultivation level. Even from a distance of more than ten meters, he could sense the powerful energy fluctuations emanating from the other party.
This Li Ze is just as terrifying as Mo Xingjue!
The moment Li Ze opened his eyes, the several Nascent Soul cultivators present turned to look at him. Except for Mo Xingjue, the others all looked wary.
Li Ze glanced at them indifferently, then fixed his gaze on Mo Xingjue. "Let's go?"
Mo Xingjue laughed, "Let's go. But my injuries haven't fully healed yet, so this time you'll probably have to take care of me."
Li Ze frowned. "Then let's stay at the inn for a few days."
"No need. The inn is smoky and polluted, not as clean and conducive to healing as the spiritual energy in the mountains and forests," Mo Xingjue said, his gaze seemingly unintentionally sweeping over Yu Zhuo and the others, a silent warning.
Yu Zhuo laughed in exasperation, "What can you do to us, one of you in the late Nascent Soul stage, one in the mid Nascent Soul stage, and a few of us in the early Nascent Soul stage? Or are you planning to kill us to silence us?"
The moment the words "murder to silence" were uttered, the atmosphere at the scene suddenly became tense. The two groups, which were already clearly divided, now drew their swords against each other.
Ignoring the cultivators who harbored deep hostility towards him, Li Ze looked up at Mo Xingjue, unconsciously softening his breathing.
Will Mo Xingjue choose these people, or him?
Li Ze had never been so uneasy.
Mo Xingjue walked over and grabbed Li Ze's hand almost without hesitation.
The moment the dry, warm hand grasped his, Li Ze's heart settled back into his stomach, and a sweet feeling spread through his heart—
Mo Xingjue held Li Ze's hand, leaning most of his body against Li Ze, and then turned to Yu Zhuo and the others, saying, "We're leaving now, take care."
Upon hearing this, Yu Zhuo and Gu Chongjin secretly breathed a sigh of relief. They did not answer Mo Xingjue's question and turned their heads to the side as a silent protest against Mo Xingjue's choice.
Li Ze took Mo Xingjue and flew away on their swords. The two did not go far, and stopped after flying for about half an hour.
"Are you sure you want to heal your wounds in a place like this, where you'll be exposed to the elements?" Li Ze asked.
"I'm not that kind of delicate person." Mo Xingjue's expression was nonchalant, but he took out a high-grade magic artifact, casually tossed it aside, and a room appeared in front of the two of them.
Li Ze was stunned; this was the first time he had ever seen such a magical artifact!
"Although I can endure hardship, I can't bear to see you suffer. This is something I specially had a weapon refiner make for me." He had been challenged by that weapon refiner for a long time in order to make this room.
Li Ze looked suspicious; his intuition told him that Mo Xingjue's purpose was not so simple.
After all, it's common for cultivators to practice under the open sky and on the ground, so it's hardly considered hardship.
Later, when someone took him around anytime and anywhere, making insatiable demands, Li Ze almost chopped the house down several times! But Mo Xingjue managed to fool him with a combination of deception and coaxing.
Afterwards, Li Ze couldn't tell whether he was too easily fooled or whether he himself was also addicted to the pleasure of physical contact and intercourse with Mo Xingjue, unable to extricate himself.
“You’re so obsessed with desires, you don’t look like a cultivator,” Li Ze said sternly.
Mo Xingjue smiled brightly at Li Ze, "I am a cultivator, not a Taoist."
That's a foul!
She used her beauty to seduce him!
Li Ze and Mo Xingjue stayed in the deep forest for two months. When they came out of the forest, they had both reached the peak of the Nascent Soul stage.
Mo Xingjue and Li Ze originally planned to go to the city to do some shopping, and then find a secluded place to break through to the Nascent Soul stage together. However, as soon as they arrived in the city, they were stopped by someone.
"He Yu, you're here too!" Lin Jingyuan said with delight.
"Senior Brother Mo is here too." Gu Junyu greeted Mo Xingjue.
The others looked at Li Ze and Mo Xingjue with complicated expressions.
Mo Xingjue nodded slightly to Gu Junyu and the others, and asked, "Why are there so many cultivators in the city?"
"Don't you know, Senior Brother Mo?" Gu Junyu asked, looking surprised.
Mo Xingjue became interested. "What do you know? Li Ze and I just came out of the mountains and haven't seen anyone else."
"Li Ze?" Lin Jingyuan looked at Li Ze and Mo Xingjue in surprise, and said in horror, "I felt that there was something wrong with your aura just now, He Yu. I am a mid-Foundation Establishment cultivator and I can't tell your cultivation level. Are you the incomparably beautiful Nascent Soul stage demon who is always seen with Senior Brother Mo?"
Lin Jingyuan's attitude was nonchalant; even when the word "demon" was mentioned, no hostility appeared in his eyes. Gu Junyu and Liang Chen beside him were the same, their gazes towards Li Ze remaining friendly and warm.
Mo Xingjue raised an eyebrow, somewhat surprised, but at the same time relieved. Fortunately, not everyone was hostile towards Aze.
With an apologetic expression, Li Ze said, "I'm sorry for lying to you before. My real name is Li Ze, and I'm a demon."
"Although I had suspected it for a while, I was still surprised to hear you confirm it with my own ears!" Lin Jingyuan said with a look of realization.
"Actually, I'm very curious. As a demon, shouldn't you be hostile towards us cultivators? Why have you saved our lives time and time again?" Gu Junyu asked.
"I'm also curious. You're clearly a demon, so why don't I feel any deep-seated aversion to you? Li Ze, you're more like a cultivator than a demon," Liang Chen said earnestly.
Li Ze thought about it seriously, "Perhaps it's because I wasn't born from the Demon Pool."
Lin Jingyuan and his two companions were completely bewildered.
Li Ze laughed, "Just assume that I can control my demonic nature very well. You can't sense my demonic nature, so you won't be hostile towards me."
Lin Jingyuan and the other two seemed to understand but not quite.
"You haven't said what you're here for yet," Mo Xingjue changed the subject.
Lin Jingyuan and his companions were indeed distracted and immediately explained the reason.
"Didn't you hear that Demon King Ji Lin accidentally cleaved open the gate to the battlefield between gods and demons?"
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