There is nothing wrong with the training method of the Justice Messenger

But the demon in the woman's body had taken advantage of her mental instability and successfully usurped control of her body. Although she could not move, she was able to speak in a shrill voice.

"Damn exorcist! What do you want to do? Let me go! Otherwise I will kill you!"

But these words sounded harsh on the outside but weak on the inside, and he looked foolish as if he had not judged the situation clearly. No wonder the bodies were not buried carefully and the consequences were not cleaned up properly.

Li Nian was too lazy to argue with it and spoke directly to Tsuchimikado.

"We defeated it."

"Yes!"

"Can we eliminate the disease without harming the original host?"

"It can be done!"

Natsume Tsuchimikado pulled the longbow, muttering something to herself as spiritual power gathered at her fingertips, quickly forming a white arrow with flowing light. This was a demon-breaking arrow that had the power to remove filth and purify evil, and it only targeted malicious spirits. It was indeed a technique that met Li Nian's requirements. Tsuchimikado's arrow was pointing directly at the woman in front of her. At such a close distance, and with the target being fixed, there was no possibility of missing the target, and there would be no attenuation of power. This arrow would definitely smash the evil spirit possessed by the woman to pieces.

Feeling that powerful and holy power, the demon in the woman's body finally seemed to be scared. It realized that it was at the mercy of others, and the threatening tone it had forced on it suddenly slowed down. It became pitiful and weak, and began to beg for mercy desperately.

"No! No! I was wrong! I was really wrong! Don't kill me! I beg you sirs to be magnanimous and spare my life. I don't want to die!"

Tsuchimikado Natsume paused, the powerful demon-destroying arrow had already taken shape at her fingertips, she should have released the bowstring and shot it immediately, but she held it on the bowstring and delayed the release. She knew very well that if she shot the arrow, the monster living in the woman's body would end up like snow in the sun, melting away completely, that is the demise of a soul, so she looked hesitant and struggling.

Although Li Nian didn't look back at her expression, he noticed that she had not yet launched an attack, so he understood what she was thinking. He frowned slightly, but did not speak for a while.

Seeing the girl's hesitation and deliberation, the demon possessed the woman immediately increased her begging for mercy, and her voice even became tearful.

"Please! How about this! Just let me go! I promise to leave this woman's body right now and never invade a human body again!"

"...No, I can't let you go. I have to arrest you." Tsuchimikado Natsume was not stupid enough to do this. She immediately became alert and refused. However, her magic-breaking arrow was still on the bowstring, but she had no killing intention.

“No!” The demon cried out loudly again, begging desperately: “If I am caught, I will definitely be killed by you exorcists! I heard that you exorcists will never give us monsters a chance to live! All the captured monsters are killed!”

Upon hearing this, Tsuchimikado's eyes began to waver again. She couldn't help but look at Li Nian and asked in a low voice: "Mr. Li...is this true..."

Li Nian's mind raced, and he had already come up with an idea. A sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth. He turned his head and looked at Tsuchimikado Natsume with a thoughtful and distressed expression. After hesitating for a while, he answered.

"It seems like what he said is true... I've never heard of any monster I caught coming out alive."

The girl suddenly panicked.

"Then, then... what should we do? Should we really capture it... but that would be like sending it to its death..."

"It's a bit difficult..." Li Nian pondered for a while, turned to the woman possessed by the demon, and asked doubtfully: "You said that after we let you go, you promised not to hurt anyone, is this true?"

The demon was overjoyed and responded quickly: "Of course it is true! If you don't believe me, I can still swear! I swear that after you let me go, I will never hurt humans again! If you break this oath, let my soul dissipate and I will never be reborn!"

"...There's nothing I can do." Li Nian hesitated for a while, and finally nodded: "I understand, we can let you go, but you must remember your oath and never commit the same mistake again!"

"sure!"

"Then, Tsuchimikado, let him go."

"……Is it really possible?"

"OK."

Tsuchimikado was also conflicted for a while, but finally made a decision because she got Li Nian's approval. She immediately released the real form of the Demon-Repelling Arrow, and the spiritual power dissipated like a spot of light. She put down the bow and continued to remove the seal on the woman, but before that, she did not forget to give more instructions.

"Mr. Li and I spared your life today because you have a repentant heart. If you do it again in the future, I swear to track you down to the ends of the earth and kill you with my demon-repelling arrows!"

"I will never dare to do it again!"

"it is good!"

Tsuchimikado Natsume waved his hand and unsealed the seal. The light of the talisman dimmed and turned into ordinary white paper, falling from the woman's forehead.

Thus, the demon gained freedom.

The next moment, she suddenly jumped up from the bed. Her ten fingers grew long, sharp black nails. She pounced on Li Nian, who was closest to her and holding the child, and stabbed his neck, screaming with an extremely ferocious expression.

"Die, idiot!"

Tsuchimikado Natsume was horrified and was about to rush forward to push Li Nian away, but when he looked over, he saw that Li Nian had a long sword as tall as a person in his hand, and he stopped subconsciously.

The woman was still attacking in the air, but Li Nian had already raised his sword and swung it down with a speed that was not as fast as a long and narrow blade should be. He chopped from the top of her head to the feet in a straight line, neatly and accurately.

Accompanied by a short scream, two black gases gushed out from behind the woman and then dissipated. At this point, the impure breath on the woman had disappeared and no longer existed.

The woman threw herself on Li Nian, but he caught her with his shoulders and slowly put her back on the bed.

Tsuchimikado stared at the scene blankly and swallowed the word "danger" back into his throat.

Li Nian slashed at the woman with his sword, but only cut her spirit in half without hurting her body at all. He used a long sword from the armory called Xindu. This sword was originally worn by an exorcist named Shishi Lei Shengsi Lang in a certain world. It had the special function of slaying demons and evil spirits. When Li Nian was browsing the armory, he saw this convenient feature and immediately remembered this sword. He made an attempt to construct it. Now it happened to be suitable, so he called it out directly and chopped the demon possessed by the woman.

The spiritual disaster has been cured and completed.

Li Nian dispersed the entity of Xindu and said coldly to the air: "You have fulfilled your oath."

Then, he turned to Tsuchimikado Natsume and spoke slowly with a smile.

"Do you understand now?"

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Chapter 174: Necessary follow-up work

Facing Li Nian's gaze, Tsuchimikado Natsume lowered his head in shame.

Only now did she realize that Li Nian had said those words deliberately to follow up on her wrong decision and to set an example for her. The consequences of believing in the one-sided words of monsters and demons were already very obvious. She hesitated when she shouldn't have hesitated, and was kind when she shouldn't have been kind, and as a result, she put both of them in a dangerous situation.

"Do you know how dangerous society is?" Li Nian said meaningfully.

Tsuchimikado nodded without saying a word.

"Whether or not to shoot the Demon-Breaking Arrow is another matter. Your most naive point is not that you hesitated about whether to kill the enemy, but that you believed the enemy's words."

"I won't do it again!"

The consequence of trusting the enemy is to be betrayed without hesitation, which makes Tsuchimikado very regretful. She learns from her mistakes and secretly resolves to never make the same mistake again. She nodded vigorously and asked again in confusion.

"But why do you say, Mr. Li, whether or not to shoot the Demon-Breaking Arrow is another matter?"

"Because your hesitation is correct. To defeat the enemy directly is to kill them. This is always something that deserves careful consideration... But this careful consideration should not be done during the mission, but before the mission is carried out."

Tsuchimikado listened attentively.

Li Nian also felt that it was necessary to help this child sort out her ideological misunderstandings, because it was obvious that this girl was not aware enough, and this would become a fatal flaw for her. Therefore, he wanted to seriously talk about his own views. At this time, he continued, "As far as the handling of the third type of spiritual disaster is concerned, capturing is one attitude, and exterminating is another attitude. Before you handle the third type of spiritual disaster, you need to think about the most basic thing, which is to correct this attitude, whether to exterminate or capture, and then do it."

"Then Mr. Li, you choose to catch..."

Tsuchimikado lowered his voice again halfway through his words. Li Nian had said before that he had captured a few monsters when he dealt with the third type of spiritual disaster... but judging from the decisive manner in which he drew his sword and chopped people, that did not seem to be the case.

"I have never left anyone alive, and I sincerely suggest that you do the same."

...It turns out that what I said before was all lies.

"……Why?"

"Because they deserve to die." Li Nian's answer was very decisive and resounding: "Debts should be paid, and murder should be punished with death. It's a simple logic, isn't it?"

He stated his views in a murderous manner.

The girl showed a conflicted expression, a little bit unable to accept it, but didn't know how to refute: "But...but..."

Li Nian turned his head and looked at the woman who was unconscious on the bed with a painful expression on her face, and the little girl who was lying next to her mother and sleeping peacefully. A gloomy light flashed in his eyes.

"I can see that you are a gentle child, but you must understand that being gentle to evil people is being cruel to good people."

"..."

Tsuchimikado seemed to be lost in thought.

Li Nian stopped preaching and just muttered to himself.

"Well, the situation this time is a little more complicated than before, so I need to personally handle the aftermath."

Over there, Tsuchimikado was still thinking about what Li Nian said with his head down, when he suddenly felt a fluctuation of spiritual power. He looked up suddenly and saw Li Nian putting his hand on the woman's head. He closed his eyes and chanted silently, and then a soft light appeared on his hand - he was performing some kind of spell on the woman.

Tsuchimikado exclaimed.

“What are you doing!”

"Adjusting my memory." Li Nian said with his eyes closed.

"Using the technique of mental interference on ordinary people without authorization is a violation of..."

Just as Tsuchimikado was about to stop him, the light on Li Nian's hand dimmed, and the spiritual power fluctuations disappeared. He opened his eyes and found that he had finished his job.

"...rules" Tsuchimikado Natsume said the rest in a daze, not knowing why this person could modify memories so quickly.

"Is it against the rules? I don't know. Anyway, I've used it enough times, and no one has come to hold me accountable for anything... Well, don't worry, I didn't do anything big this time. I just slightly adjusted some minor details and gave a few hints. Overall, it just made her understand the spiritual disaster a little bit differently."

Yes, what Li Nian did was just to slightly modify a small part of the woman's memory, and also imposed several triggering mental hints, which would be activated and take effect when her thinking deviated to a certain direction, generating thoughts such as "Am I thinking too much?" and "It's wrong to think like this", making her thinking avoid important places. Overall, it was a very subtle modification, which relatively reduced the sense of disobedience to a minimum, ensuring that it would not harm the fundamental spirit of the woman, and could also cover up the facts that Li Nian wanted to hide in her memory.

"Why would you do such a thing..." Tsuchimikado was still confused as he hadn't figured out the reason.

"Because some things are better left hidden in the dark for everyone's benefit." Li Nian said softly, and suddenly as if remembering something, he turned around and said to Tsuchimikado, "By the way, you too, come and help with the confession."

"Eh? Contradictory testimony."

"This spiritual disaster was caused by an evil spirit that possessed this woman..."

Without waiting for Tsuchimikado Natsume to answer, Li Nian started talking directly. At first glance, there was nothing wrong with it, so Tsuchimikado Natsume showed a confused expression.

"Is it true?"

"The next part is the key." Li Nian continued, "--Then, one day a few days ago, the evil spirit seized the opportunity to escape from her body, transformed into a demon with a physical body and murdered her husband."

Tsuchimikado Natsume realized something was wrong and frowned to correct Li Nian, "This time the demon probably doesn't have the power to materialize..."

"I know that too, which is why I want to collude with you in giving your testimony and change the whole story a little bit."

"is it necessary?"

"Is it necessary... did you hear what the woman said when she screamed just now?"

"She said..." Tsuchimikado recalled the words the woman screamed before she lost consciousness, and his face suddenly changed drastically: "Could it be that!?"

"Yes. She killed her husband in her possessed state and then ate him."

Tsuchimikado Natsume only figured this out now, and couldn't help but imagine what the scene was like. The girl's face turned extremely pale.

The woman may have subconsciously regarded the fact as a false nightmare, which allowed her to barely maintain her sanity, and thus developed a resistance in her heart, suppressing the evil spirit that possessed her. However, the sudden visit of Li Nian and others, who claimed to be exorcists, finally made her realize that she had really experienced a spiritual disaster and that the nightmare was actually reality... At that point in time, her spirit had already collapsed once.

"She can no longer be made to think of this matter, so let this fact be buried forever."

Chapter 175: Uegushi's Ambition

Later, the police arrived and asked about the details of the situation. Li Nian answered with a calm expression and gave the explanation he had prepared before, putting all the blame on the demon.

From the very beginning, Tsuchimikado Natsume, who was standing behind Li Nian, looked uneasy. When he heard Li Nian nonchalantly distance himself from the incident and said that he had lied without even mentioning the woman possessed by the demon, Tsuchimikado Natsume even showed a look of struggle.

This change in expression was naturally noticed by the police officer who was listening to Li Nian's report but had been watching the girl out of the corner of his eye. He immediately frowned, became suspicious, and asked her a question right away.

"Ms. Tsuchimikado, is there anything you want to add?"

Unlike before, the evil spirit that possessed the woman had been completely exorcised by Li Nian, and not even a trace of it was left, let alone a corpse. Only the unconscious mother and daughter were lying on the bed. Ordinary people did not have the inspiration to discern the change in the aura, and the entire scene they saw looked more like the scene of two exorcists breaking into a private house than the scene after the spiritual disaster was eliminated. There was indeed no evidence to prove what Li Nian said.

At this time, as another exorcist traveling with Li Nian, Tsuchimikado Natsume's words will carry a lot of weight.

When the police officer asked this question, Tsuchimikado Natsume seemed to be suddenly awakened. Looking at the police officer's puzzled gaze, he immediately remembered what Li Nian had said before.

——Let this fact be buried forever.

That is indeed the best way for the victim.

Thinking of this, Tsuchimikado became firm in his thoughts, regained his normal expression, and shook his head silently.

"I don't have anything to add. It's basically as Mr. Li said. The demon that committed the murder has been defeated."

"..."

After all, the police officer was an old hand. In fact, he had already noticed from the sudden change in Tsuchimikado Natsume's expression that she was hiding something. He narrowed his eyes slightly after hearing this.

He glanced at Li Nian again, who remained expressionless. This young man, who was still in school uniform, remained expressionless. He seemed indifferent and calm, with no intention of changing his words at all.

In the end, the police officer didn't ask any more questions and just nodded silently.