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Chapter 302: The same idea, the final quick attack

Li Nian was not completely unresponsive. When the earth spider's [fear] began to erode outwards and blocked his ability to move in space, Li Nian had already understood the enemy's intention.

So Li Nian acted decisively and actively activated the energy ball, which was like knocking down the firing pin and detonating the gunpowder. At the same time, he tried his best to deploy the techniques used to bind and suppress, in order to use the form of a light cannon to transform the huge amount of energy into a directional beam.

Li Nian's reaction was quite quick. If he could really complete the laser cannon shooting at such a close distance, he would definitely be able to deal a heavy blow to the Earth Spider.

But Tsuchigumo's fist was so fast that although Li Nian successfully triggered it, as if he had actively pressed the firing pin, so that the initial direction of the energy explosion was roughly determined, the ritual rings used to restrain the flow of energy and act as a gun barrel had not had time to unfold a few times before Tsuchigumo's fist had already hit him, and the ritual was still interrupted midway.

Just like a gun barrel storing energy that was blasted apart midway, the stimulated energy ball exploded on the spot, instantly emitting bright light. The huge amount of energy contained in it spread out in one breath, expanding rapidly, engulfing the two people inside, and continuing to spread outward rapidly in a circle.

The strong light was so bright that the people watching from a distance had to close their eyes!

The expanding ball of light melted everything it came into contact with, accompanied by a continuous roar that resounded all around, and an earth-shaking movement. The huge force pushed everything it came into contact with to form a terrifying impact that spread out in all directions, sweeping out like a rising water wave, smashing the surrounding buildings with a devastating force, knocking down cars on the street, overturning layers of concrete, pulling up street lights, and knocking down billboards. The debris that was shot out was like bullets shooting in all directions, causing even greater damage.

There was no place in the entire barrier that was immune. Several people who were far away at the edge of the barrier were affected. There were a lot of rubble and debris shot at them. They spent a lot of effort to dodge or knock away the debris that was shot everywhere.

"I just said it was too messy, you idiot!"

Dalian Temple cursed while holding up the barrier built with spiritual power.

Isayama wielded his scabbard to smash the flying boulders, while observing the stability of the edge of the barrier with trepidation, fearing that the barrier would be unstable and some rubble would leak out to the outside world, which would inevitably lead to a massacre-like disaster.

Fortunately, the barrier is very stable and does not allow any fluctuations to be transmitted to the outside world. The seal completely isolates this space.

Only Nura Rikuo stood motionless on a tall building in the distance. While Kurodabo beside him waved his staff to deal with the flying stones, Nura Rikuo did not react at all to the debris that were shooting everywhere like bullets - of course some things hit him, but they all passed through as if they had hit the mist, and only caused ripples on Nura Rikuo's body like water waves. After the ripples subsided, Nura Rikuo's kimono was not even scratched at all.

When the dazzling light subsided, Nura Rikuo immediately went to observe the situation there again.

The air was once again filled with active spiritual energy, but the entire landscape had changed beyond all recognition, with collapsed high-rise buildings and smoke and dust everywhere, and this was still the edge of the area.

A huge deep pit was dug out directly in the center of the explosion.

This guy Li Nian condensed too much energy, and when he exploded in one breath, it really created such a huge formation.

As direct victims of the center, Li Nian and Earth Spider were both knocked to the edge of the pit and embedded deeply into the mud, both suffering serious injuries.

After Tsuchigumo took the initiative to punch the energy ball to explode, he immediately hugged his head and shrank his body, and even used all his strength to activate his [Fear] to offset the energy pouring on his body. This was a very correct response, allowing him to suffer as little damage as possible. However, after all, he suffered such a horrible explosion directly in the center. Even a big monster with a tough physique could not withstand it completely. He was now covered in blood and charred all over. The horrible heat from the center of the explosion burned almost all of his skin. The energy that shot everywhere penetrated the steel skin he was proud of, leaving dense scratches on his body. Not to mention that the larger light beams directly penetrated his flesh, making transparent blood holes of varying sizes all over his body, making his entire human figure bumpy and looking terrifying.

Li Nian on the other side was not much better off. Although he was the one who detonated the energy ball in time, causing the energy to initially burst out towards the Tsuchigumo spider, as the creator of the ritual, he also had the primary control over spiritual power and tried hard to control the energy to flow around his body when the light streams were scattered. However, even Li Nian was caught off guard and could not completely control it, and still directly bore a considerable portion of it. As a result, he also suffered severe burns and many direct hits from the energy light streams, with injuries similar to those of the Tsuchigumo spider - even looking a little heavier.

After all, the monster's physique is stronger, that is the characteristic of the monster, and it is also the specialty of the Tsuchigumo. Even Li Nian can hardly compare. As the one who bears greater impact, the Tsuchigumo's injuries are relatively lighter.

The injuries these two people suffered were fatal enough at first glance. They were severe and numerous. Anyone else would have been dead long ago - but Nura Rikuo knew that as a great spiritual monster, the Tsuchigumo would never die because of such injuries.

Sure enough, the earth spider began to groan, and slowly pulled its body out of the mud. It seemed that its head was still a little dizzy and it was shaking - in short, it had begun to regain its ability to move.

In this case, it can be said that Li Nian was defeated in this fight. Not only was the killer move he prepared used against him, but he also suffered greater damage in the impact of the explosion.

This was all because of Tsuchigumo's decision not to retreat but to advance, and to proactively punch out to detonate the energy ball.

This seemingly simple attack fully demonstrated the ruthlessness and determination of the great monster, and almost reversed the previous disadvantage in one go...it could even be said to have established the victory.

After all, the reason why Tsuchigumo could stand up despite such a serious injury was because he was a great monster with a terrifying physique. But Li Nian, as a human, was injured more seriously than him, and Nura Rikuo didn't know what was going on now.

So Nura Rikuo put his hand on the hilt of the long sword in his arms and called out Kurodabo in a low voice.

The reason why he didn't bring everyone from the Nura group was because Nura Rikuo was really not planning to seek revenge on Tsuchigumo. If he lost, he lost. He had to admit defeat. However, Nura Rikuo was still prepared for the battle. He took into account the situation in which Li Nian was defeated. He knew very well that he could not shake the big monster with his own strength alone, so he brought people to Kurodabo specifically for this reason.

It's not because he can defeat Tsuchigumo with the help of Kurodabo, but because he has the secret technique learned from his late father, which allows him to transform a partner who is willing to trust him wholeheartedly into a karma that entangles himself and amplifies his own strength. In this way, he is confident that he can fight Tsuchigumo.

And now, Nura is ready to use that power to intervene.

Li Nian was not dead, the barrier covering this piece of land was still maintained, which was solid evidence. However, the earth spider had regained its ability to move, but he was still motionless, and it did not look like he could continue fighting.

Kuroda Fang responded in a low voice, and just closed his eyes, relaxed his body, and prepared to lend all his strength to the young master.

If Li Nian can no longer cope with the situation, Nura Rikuo will provide support.

Logically speaking, Li Nian's injuries were fatal to humans, so Nura Rikuo's judgment at this time was that Li Nian could not get up again. However, Rikuo still had unfounded doubts in his heart at this time, and he felt for no reason that Li Nian would not completely fall down because of such injuries.

The earth spider over there had regained consciousness, grimacing in pain and rubbing his neck. He looked at his opponent who was still lying in the earth and rocks with his eyes closed, seemingly unconscious. He squinted his eyes and tilted his head, as if trying to judge whether Li Nian still had the ability to fight.

As if he had discovered something, he suddenly grinned, crossed a distance of several hundred meters in one step, and punched Li Nian's head, which was still embedded in the soil and rocks.

You actually finished off an opponent who had no ability to resist? I thought you were a principled hero, but did I misjudge you, Tsuchigumo?!

Nura Rikuo's pupils shrank slightly. It was too late to provide support at this distance. He immediately regretted his fatal hesitation. He could only watch as Tsuchigumo's fist smashed into Li Nian's head, who had his eyes closed.

But Tsuchigumo's punch missed.

Because Li Nian disappeared on the spot...

Nura Rikuo was startled, then heaved a sigh of relief.

Yes, Li Nian had been awake the whole time, lying in the pit without making any sound or movement, pretending to be dead. He just wanted to take a break and reflect on how to deal with the earth spiders, and also wait for his strength to recover and repair his broken body.

However, before he could rest for a few seconds, Tsuchigumo saw through him and immediately launched a strong attack, as if he had no intention of giving him time to recover. In that case, he simply gave up pretending.

When Li Nian appeared again, he moved to the air behind the earth spider, with a sword and sheath in his hand that contained [Bing Tan Tian].

In this short period of time, even the powerful vitality bestowed by God could not completely repair Li Nian's body, but he had controlled it to focus on repairing the connections of several muscles, which was enough to support the next attack he had already thought of and was about to use.

Li Nian had already lowered his body and made a move to draw his sword. He stepped on the temporary footing created by the technique and swung his sword out at high speed.

This attack was aimed directly at the neck of the earth spider, aiming to cut off the enemy's head.

Without even turning his head, Tsuchigumo actually dodged the slash by simply crouching down. The blade scraped across his scalp, cutting off a few strands of his red hair.

Still the same unreasonable reaction and physical speed,

Whether it was fists, kicks, swords or knives, Li Nian's attacks would hardly be faster than Tsuchigumo's reaction. It was unrealistic to hope to inflict huge damage on him with just one punch, one kick, or one slash or one stab.

...But it seems to be a little slower than before.

Li Nian was thinking this, when he saw Earth Spider turn around and do the same thing, releasing the black flame transformed by [Fear] to invade the space around him like a raging wave. He swung his fist and took the initiative to fight with him, using the force to fly backwards and get out of the [Fear]'s embrace. At the same time, he also estimated Earth Spider's current strength through the fight.

The force felt during the fight had indeed weakened, indicating that the attacks accumulated so far had taken effect and weakened the Tsuchigumo.

The essence of monsters is spiritual beings combined with spiritual energy. In a sense, their bodies are like the knife in Li Nian's hand. Their initial birth was probably directly created like a fantasy materialized, but what made them was the energy of nature and human faith.

Even if its essence is composed of spiritual energy, it still has a complete structure. Since it has formed a physical body, it has the nature of a living being. The overall activity is supported by the joint efforts of various organs, and all power relies on the flow of flesh and blood.

The Earth Spider may not be afraid of pain or care about injury, but when his body is damaged, it is almost inevitable that his every move will be hindered and he will no longer be able to move freely.

Moreover, the outward "fear" had obviously decreased in momentum and concentration - showing that the power of the great monster had obviously been partially consumed in the previous explosion.

Combining this information, Li Nian already had a rough idea of ​​how to kill this guy.

At the same time, Tsuchigumo was also thinking about how to kill Li Nian.

He thought that Li Nian would not be able to survive that kind of explosion. In fact, this guy was indeed seriously injured. An ordinary human should have died long ago. This was also the reason why Tsuchigumo did not launch an attack as soon as he recovered from the explosion. He judged that this guy was so seriously injured that he should lie down.

It was not until he discovered that the surrounding spiritual energy was gathering towards Li Nian and being absorbed and refined by him in an orderly manner that he immediately realized that this exorcist still maintained a clear consciousness and the ability to fight.

As expected, the next attack was dodged by the ability of space movement. The boy took out a knife from somewhere and slashed a fierce blow from behind -

Wondering how such a tattered body could swing such a blow, Tsuchigumo looked closely and discovered that the boy's damaged body seemed to be repaired by some force at a speed visible to the naked eye. The broken flesh was growing rapidly, and the broken bones were regenerating quickly.

Tsuchigumo disagreed.

Although it is rare to see it appear on humans, Tsuchigumo has seen many monsters with strong recovery abilities. The vitality of monsters has always been unquestionable, and Tsuchigumo himself is a leader among them. At this time, his body is naturally repairing itself at a fast speed, so he doesn't find it strange that it appears on Li Nian - he has long ceased to regard Li Nian as a normal human being, so how can this little monster be considered a human being?

He thought the exorcist was using some magic to repair himself.

However, we cannot just turn a blind eye to it. If we keep fighting like this, he will recover in minutes after inflicting some damage, which will be endless. Tsuchigumo made up his mind to take advantage of the fact that this kid's body has not fully recovered and is inconvenient to move, and attack him violently like a storm to consume his magic power and not give him too much time to think.

At this time, Li Nian came to the conclusion that he should use all his magical power to the fullest to deplete the power of the earth spider through bombardment and further weaken it, while looking for an opportunity to kill him during this period.

When their ideas coincided, both sides started a fast break without intending to give the opponent any breathing space.

In this final stage, the winner must be determined!

Chapter 303: When the Mage Finds Out the Warrior's Secret

Before today, Tsuchigumo and Li Nian had little understanding of each other.

Although they had met twice, the first time was just a drink and a chat in a roadside wine shop. The second time was in the park, when Li Nian hit the vajra summoned by Dalian Temple with a palm strike and successfully pierced the chest of the earth spider, but that could not be considered a fight.

And now that the two of them are really facing each other and attacking each other, they are beginning to understand each other in the battle.

In the previous fights, both sides won and lost, and both suffered severe injuries, but in fact, neither of them could be said to have fought without reservation.

Although it cannot be said that the two sides really held back in the previous clashes, after all, every move and style of these two guys was aimed at killing each other, and they did not restrain their strength, let alone their killing intent. But firstly, Tsuchigumo was indeed a little arrogant and looked down on Li Nian, wanting to see how much surprise he could bring to him, and how serious he would be before he got hurt. Secondly, it was rare for Li Nian to meet such a durable sandbag and a capable opponent, and he wanted to seize this rare opportunity to practice martial arts, sharpen his fists, and experiment with techniques. He also wanted to test Tsuchigumo's actual combat power first and find out the details of the enemy.

So the big monster was testing Li Nian's strength himself, while Li Nian prioritized experimenting with the skills he had recently learned. In short, neither was in a hurry to take the other's life, so it certainly couldn't be said that he was doing his best.

But even so, it cannot be said that the previous battle was meaningless - because after this fight, both sides have roughly obtained the answers they wanted from each other.

Tsuchigumo was already convinced that this human was very strong, extremely strong.

A cunning mind, quick reaction, decisive judgment, a strong body, profound magic power, rich knowledge, and diverse means - a human with these qualities turned into a fighting machine has brought him tremendous pressure, and he has to deal with every attack seriously. There is no doubt that Li Nian is an enemy that can pose a fatal threat to him, the Earth Spider.

In a long life, this kind of enemy is the most rare, and being able to kill one's opponent is what Tsuchigumo has always longed for.

At this moment, he felt pain in all the visible and hidden wounds on his body, including the long scar on his chest - that was not caused by Li Nian, but was caused by Yuyuko long ago. The wound had healed long ago, so the pain was not real. It came to his mind along with the real injury because Tsuchigumo recalled the memory of that time.

Pain always leaves a lasting impression on people. Tsuchigumo doesn't mind it at all, and instead becomes more excited by the pain.

Because it makes him feel alive.

Is there anything that can more clearly remind a life that it is still alive than intense pain?

This is the only fun in his long life, and he is looking forward to what kind of surprises Li Nian will bring him next.

As he wished, Li Nian took advantage of this actual combat opportunity to hone his [Tiger Climbing the Mountain] to a higher level, which meant that he successfully integrated martial arts into actual combat with powerful opponents and turned it into a practical means for himself. He also used a simple light cannon technique to roughly understand his current control over spiritual power and calculated how fast and how powerful a technique he could construct now.

——While understanding himself, he also understood his enemy. Li Nian now has almost completely figured out the details of Tsuchigumo.

Obviously, Tsuchigumo is a representative of the physical school among the monsters. There is nothing fancy about it. All the strength is concentrated inward into his tyrannical body, which is reflected in his punches and kicks. As the saying goes, one force can break all laws. The big monster is a terrifying existence that can destroy any opponent with just fists and the fighting instinct accumulated from countless battles over a long period of time. It can be said to be a direct embodiment of the word "strength".

Everyone knows this and everyone can see it, but the important thing is that if you don't try it yourself, you won't know how strong the power is. Only by taking Tsuchigumo's punch will you know if you can withstand it. There are only two options: you can't withstand it and you can. If you can withstand it, it's fine, but if you can't, you will die.

Li Nian was a person who had personally experienced that power. Not only did he withstand it, he also found out the limit of that power and was even able to crush it!

This shows that the Earth Spider's strength is not enough to break Li Nian's magic! Whether it is boxing, swordsmanship, or magic, Li Nian can break the Earth Spider's steel skin, causing damage to him, forcing him to avoid it!

That is all the big monster has, and it is also the limit of the big monster. There is no stronger defense, stronger power, and more means.

Li Nian forced out all of Earth Spider's [strength] - but Earth Spider had not yet forced out all of Li Nian's [method]. This was the advantage that Li Nian had in this fight!

This is also the point that Li Nian intends to focus on in the next attack. He is confident that he can defeat the earth spider with his endless means!

But at this time, the earth spider had already attacked.

Because although the two of them decided almost at the same time to make every effort to defeat the opponent and exploit the enemy's weaknesses with a quick attack, compared to Li Nian, Tsuchigumo didn't think much about the plan.

He did it as soon as he thought of it. Tsuchigumo just turned on the [Fear], and black flames surged around his body. With his step forward, before Li Nian could flash and attack, it was like a black cloud pressing down on the city, swallowing him up. The big monster in the cloud punched him with an extremely fast punch.

When Li Nian blocked with his sword, trying to use the force to fly backwards and escape, to get out of the black flame and regroup, he was caught up by the earth spider at a faster speed and continued to punch without keeping any distance.

Li Nian immediately understood that the big monster had the same idea as him. Maintaining the outward release of [Fear] was to block Li Nian's flash skill, and continued the previous close combat without keeping distance. But this time it was obvious that Tsuchigumo was not going to give Li Nian a chance to escape, and wanted to exploit Li Nian's flaws with non-stop quick attacks.

Indeed, this is the best choice for Tsuchigumo to fully demonstrate his strength advantage. The power of the big monster is truly terrifying, and its speed is astonishingly fast. If such a Tsuchigumo insists on getting close to someone, it will be difficult for anyone to deal with it.

Li Nian tried to draw his sword and chop, but just as he tried to draw his sword, the earth spider suddenly accelerated and pressed in front of him.

It was obvious that Tsuchigumo knew very well how to deal with enemies using knives. At this distance, there was no time to draw the sword.

Fortunately, Li Nian made a prompt decision and dropped the magic sword. He swung his arm to push away the earth spider's fist, then leaned forward to hit the earth spider, forcing it to take a step back. He then pulled back a step to gain precious distance and a short period of time, then adjusted his posture and got into a boxing stance.

If he insisted on drawing his sword, he would inevitably reveal a flaw in this attempt, because the Earth Spider would not give him the opportunity to draw his sword. Instead, a pair of bare fists would be better at dealing with the Earth Spider's attack.

But Li Nian knew very well that continuing to fight the big monster in close combat was definitely not the right choice. This was the conclusion he had come to long ago.

Although he could probably maneuver around it with martial arts, deflecting, blocking or dodging, and occasionally counterattacking with Wu Er Da's iron fist, the same principle still held true. Even if the big monster's power weakened and its speed slowed down, it was still not something that Li Nian could easily overwhelm.

Tsuchigumo's heavy punch would make his arm numb, and the impact that could not be removed would turn into small injuries that accumulated. On the other hand, Li Nian's counterattack with a not-so-heavy blow would still not hurt Tsuchigumo, and a powerful blow that could cause damage would still be quickly detected and dodged in time, making it difficult for him to hit.

What's more, Li Nian's body is still in a seriously injured state. Although his [vitality] has been diligently repairing his damaged muscles and bones, the earth spider attacked him immediately. Li Nian is far from fully recovered. The damaged body of the big monster can hardly exert its full strength. The same is true for Li Nian as a human. The injury has even greater impact, making it difficult for him to control his muscles in a subtle way.

The previous knife strike was just a spur-of-the-moment decision to prioritize repairing the body parts that needed to be used. Now, asking Li Nian to display his martial arts to perfection in this state in front of such a physically strong opponent is simply a pipe dream. He will inevitably make mistakes soon and suffer further fatal attacks.

But Li Nian certainly didn't intend to continue doing such a stupid thing, nor did he intend to let the Earth Spider stick to him and fight him closely. He was just trying to keep the distance. Others couldn't escape from the Earth Spider's pursuit, but he, Li Nian, certainly had plenty of ways to do it.

With one move, he drew a circle with his bird's tail to push away the fist, followed by the wild horse's mane splitting to knock away the earth spider's body, and then he stepped forward to kick his belly and kicked him further away, and then he stepped forward and slammed his foot on the ground as if he was going to receive the steel fist of the tiger climbing the mountain -

When the Earth Spider retreated as expected, it happened exactly what Li Nian wanted. He had not thought that it would be so easy to hit the steel fist of Menghu climbing the mountain. His punch was just a miss. As the Earth Spider retreated, Li Nian had already popped out a finger and began to condense energy at his fingertips.

Tsuchigumo immediately became alert, and certainly didn't want to give Li Nian another chance to condense a spell with such great killing power as before. He immediately stopped his retreat and was about to press forward and punch again, trying to interrupt Li Nian's spell.

But this time Li Nian did not try to accumulate power for a long time. The complete light cannon technique was fully formed at a speed far beyond Tsuchigumo's expectations. At this time, a stream of light had already been shot out and hit his face, causing his nose to hurt and his body to pause.