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

After Li Nian said this, Dalian Temple thought that Li Nian was going to reveal their secret deal and became nervous.

But Li Nian smiled and gave another explanation: "As expected of a child prodigy, her views on magic are quite unique. She has knowledge that I don't have, and I want to obtain it. So as the price for asking the magician for knowledge, of course I have to give a corresponding reward. I agreed to help her for a while."

Dalian Temple breathed a sigh of relief, and felt that Li Nian's half-true, half-false excuse was even more convincing. He followed Li Nian's lead and said, "Yes, yes, I shared my precious knowledge with this guy. What's wrong with letting him serve as my servant for a while?"

Tian Ruo understood and felt that this made sense. Knowledge was precious, and in exchange for knowledge, it was only right for Li Nian to agree to help Dalian Temple.

"That's right. Although this dwarf is not very good at fighting, he is a weakling with high expectations but poor skills. He couldn't help you, Lord Li, in dealing with the monsters..."

Being described as a weakling with high expectations but poor skills, Dalian Temple was furious. However, what Tian Ruo said was the truth. Compared with these fighting maniacs, she, a national first-class demon exorcist, was indeed not very good at fighting. She did not help much when Li Nian was fighting and could not refute anything.

Tian Ruo continued, "She is very good at studying spells and has some good insights. She is barely worthy of the title of a national first-class demon exorcist. If her knowledge can help Master Li in his practice, it will be useful."

"It's rare that I can make Lord Tianruo feel that I am of some use." Dalian Temple said angrily: "Don't force yourself to admit the value of my research. Everyone knows that you, Tianruo, have looked down on me for a long time."

"I don't look down on you, I just can't stand you. You'd better know your own worth and stop putting on airs and looking down on others all day long, you arrogant brat." Tian Ruo sneered, and was quite dissatisfied with Dalian Temple's behavior of calling Li Nian a servant. He felt that this was an act of not knowing one's own worth: "How dare you call the capable man who defeated the earth spider a servant? It seems that during this period without my warning, your arrogance has not only not been restrained, but has become worse, right?"

Speaking of the word "beating", Dalian Temple Suzuka was a little scared. She had really been beaten by Tenruo before, so she still defended herself: "I, I paid attention to the etiquette, okay? This guy agreed to help me! I asked him to be my servant, and he volunteered!"

"Well, it's true that I volunteered. Lord Tenjoka, please don't make things difficult for Suzuka."

Tian Ruo shook his head and stared at Dalian Temple coldly.

"Lord Li is open-minded and seems to like this brat very much. He may not mind this kind of offense, but in my opinion, this is a kind of indulgence. The biggest problem of this brat is that she is too arrogant. I finally gave her a warning and made her restrain herself a little. Lord Li should not let my efforts go to waste. Otherwise, she will get used to it and disrespect other important people..."

"...Oh, so this is what Lord Tianruo thinks." The more Li Nian listened, the more he felt that Tianruo Qingxian seemed to have the same feeling as an old father who was disappointed in Dalian Temple Suzuka. It was obvious that his ridicule of Suzuka was a reminder.

"Who needs your beating?" Suzuka muttered, "Can't you just leave me alone?"

"That won't do. If I don't take care of you, who will? Do you expect those idiots who only know how to flatter you and praise you as a genius to discipline you? And then they trained a demon exorcist who is proud of his talent and arrogant?"

"Tsk, mind your own business." Suzuka not only disagreed, but also felt particularly unhappy: "Do you think I'm a fool? I won't be like that."

Li Nian felt quite curious when looking at Suzuka like this, because this girl behaved like a rebellious girl.

Generally speaking this is of course not a good thing, but Suzuka's usual words and deeds still have the feeling of an adult. She is the type who has her own ideas and corresponding abilities. She is quite mature, even a little too mature. It is rare to see such a childish mentality.

Li Nian felt that the fact that Suzuka's character had not gone astray might be due to the influence of Tian Ruoqingxian.

For a moment, I had a new impression of the head of the Curse Search Department. He was willing to do such a troublesome thing in his busy schedule. It can be seen that Tianruo really cares about Suzuka.

So I came up with this sentence out of inspiration: "It can be seen that the two of you have a really good relationship."

This naturally attracted the cold stare of Dalian Temple: "Your servant, your eyes are useless and can be dug out."

Tian Ruo did not refute anything, but just avoided Li Nian's sidelong glance, but continued to preach to Suzuka: "Hey, you dare to yell after saying so much, you little brat?"

"It's my servant's business what I want to call him. What's wrong with the head of the Curse Search Department? Who cares about other people's personal relationships? I called him that." Dalian Sidu was a little too proud of himself: "Hey, servant, you massaged my shoulders and back before and it was very effective. It was very comfortable. Now continue."

"Hey, rub your shoulders and back?" Jianshan stared at Li Nian, wondering if he would actually do such a servile thing for Dalian Temple.

Even Tian Ruo looked at him askance. She didn't expect that Li Nian was not only called a servant, but actually acted like a servant...

Li Nian didn't think this was a shameful act, but Dalian Temple was so stupid that he obviously forgot that he was trying to dispel Tian Ruo Qingxian's doubts, and he kept bringing it up. Li Nian helplessly reminded him, "Suzuka, be quiet. You really forgot that you were in front of Master Tian Ruo, right?"

This meaningful reminder seemed to have made her remember the current situation. Dalian Si shut up and stopped talking.

The implication is that we can do it without being in front of Master Tian Ruo? Are you really willing to rub shoulders and back and provide full service? Jianshan stared at Li Nian in a daze, wondering how valuable the [knowledge] given by Dalian Temple was to make this guy bow down.

Of course, Isayama didn't know that what made Li Nian bow down was not knowledge, but money...

Li Nian will not be easily shaken in front of Xiao Qian. He also wants to maintain a high-end and beautiful image, but what others give him is too much.

Tian Ruo asked the same question on behalf of Isayama, "What kind of knowledge is so valuable that it is worth Master Li to go to such lengths?"

“The knowledge I don’t know is valuable.”

"...That's true." Unlike Isayama, Tian Ruo was a little bit speculative. He glanced at Suzuka and thought of the taboo direction that this kid had been researching...

Li Nian wanted to change the subject and prevent Tian Ruo from delving into the issue. He smiled and asked deliberately, "If Lord Tian Ruo has any knowledge to share with me, I would be happy to give you a corresponding reward."

"Lord Li is really eager to learn, but I don't think there is anything I know that is worth your attention."

"How could that be? Lord Tianruo is also one of the Twelve Divine Generals, right? I am quite curious about what methods you have."

Li Nian was really curious. Since Tian Ruo was so famous, his strength must be correspondingly strong, but he had never seen it before.

"All I know are ways to kill people." Tian Ruo said calmly, "Lord Li should be better at this than me."

The air in the car suddenly became heavy.

The duty of the Curse Investigation Department is to investigate the third type of spiritual disasters, and they mainly deal with criminal Onmyojis and monsters. The director of the Curse Investigation Department, Amawaka Kiyonari, is good at killing people, and his hands are stained with blood. People in the industry know this.

Li Nian raised his eyebrows, but became more curious: "I am excited when you talk about this. Don't talk about whether you are good at it or not. The methods must be different. How about exchanging ideas? Sharing what we have and improving together, isn't that good?"

"Damn it, the fighting maniacs and the killing maniacs now have something in common to talk about when they get together." Suzuka shuddered all over.

Li Nian was really interested in communicating, but Tian Ruo refused: "Since it is a means of killing, it is not a skill worth communicating. Lord Li, please don't make such a joke."

Tian Ruo Qingxian actually said that? This surprised Li Nian a little. He had thought that the head of the Curse Search Department, who was busy scheming and killing people all day long and was obviously good at this, would readily agree. But after hearing this answer, it seemed that Tian Ruo Qingxian didn't want to communicate this skill because of his resistance to killing people?

It may sound a bit strange to say this, and it is generally not normal to like killing people, but if someone of Tian Ruo Qingxian's status resists killing... who would believe it if I said so.

Tian Ruoqingxian looked at Li Nian with a cold gaze and frowned, "Could it be that after seeing the truth, Master Li has started to like killing people?"

"No, no one likes that kind of thing, I just feel it's more necessary."

"...That's true. Thinking about it this way, maybe you, Lord Li, are quite suitable for our Curse Search Department. Would you like to try your hand in our department?"

Jianshan was shocked. Was he trying to persuade Li Nian to join the Yin Yang Bureau? Or the Curse Search Department? However, after Tian Ruo Qingxian said this, Jianshan did think that people like Li Nian and the Curse Search Department would be a good match...

"Forget it." Li Nian shook his head: "I still think it's better to be a free and independent exorcist."

"Really..." If Tian Ruo had known that this would be the answer, he would have just asked casually.

At this point, the incident at Dalian Temple was completely ignored. It can be seen that it has not been exposed to Tian Ruo Qingxian for the time being.

It will definitely be exposed in the end, but it is enough that it has not been exposed for now.

Then there was a brief silence.

Neither Dalianji nor Jianshan wanted to take the initiative to talk to Tianruo.

Tian Ruo had asked the questions that Li Nian wanted to ask, and there was nothing more he needed to know for the time being.

Li Nian had his own questions. After thinking about it, he took the initiative to break the silence and asked about something he had always been concerned about.

"Speaking of which, Lady Tenruo once told me that she wanted to gather people to defeat the feathered fox, and that she needed my help. Of course, I was happy to help, but I waited for a long time and got no news. I only got the Tsuchigumo that seemed to be tricked by her to come and cause trouble for me. Does Lady Tenruo have anything to say about this?"

When he first met Tian Ruo Qingxian, they talked about Yuyuko. At that time, he kept saying that he would quickly organize a punitive force to nip the crisis in the bud, and he also said that he needed the power of Li Nian. But now it seems that Tian Ruo Qingxian did not succeed in pushing the situation into what he described. Li Nian did not wait for the summons, but waited for Fujiki, Yato, Tsuchigumo and others who came to Chiba. It is not difficult to know from this that the fox seems to be living a more and more comfortable life, and the organization is obviously growing.

"…I'm sorry that we were unable to gather the strength to defeat her while she was dormant. The proposal was delayed because of too much resistance. Also, more forces than expected gathered around her. Now, Yuyuko has become a powerful figure and cannot be defeated easily."

This time, Tian Ruo did not hide anything and directly explained the current situation, adding: "The situation has become very complicated."

It is true that he has been pushing for the crusade against Yuyuko, but he has never succeeded. As time goes by, Yuyuko's strength and influence have declined, and the proposal has encountered more and more resistance, and now it has been completely shelved.

Li Nian snorted with amusement: "It seems so. The problem has become so big that it cannot be solved after being delayed, right? If we fail to kill the culprit quickly, the situation will become complicated."

"Yes, that's why I said we should have defeated Yuyuko earlier... but unfortunately we failed to do so." Speaking of this, Tian Ruo was also very upset. He looked out the window with a frown and muttered, "Maybe I should have acted arbitrarily from the beginning and called on Lord Li and those guys from the Nura Group to kill them directly."

"So the situation has deteriorated to the point where it is out of control? I remember that guy was under some banner. Has he occupied some place and is now bullying others?"

"Let alone occupying individual places, the monsters across the country are almost united."

Chapter 362 Reasons for Running

As exorcists in the Onmyoji Bureau, Suzuka and Isayama have channels to understand the situation, but of course they are not as powerful as Amanaka Kiyokatsu, the director of the Curse Search Department. The area of ​​intelligence on monsters is the business that the Curse Search Department has always been responsible for. What director Amanaka Kiyokatsu knows must be detailed and timely first-hand information. Now that they heard this person say that the specific situation has become like this, they were all shocked.

They probably knew that Yuyuko had become a problem and its power was growing, but they didn't know it was so powerful. After hearing what Tian Ruo Qingxian said, they realized that it had actually united monster organizations from all over the country. This was really too big a deal. For a moment, they all pricked up their ears and listened attentively, knowing that this was important information.

Li Nian was also stunned. He understood the seriousness of the matter with just this one sentence, but he laughed and said, "Oh, the monsters have united. This is not a surprising development."

It is rather strange that they have not united yet.

It is the nature of living things to gather together for warmth. Humans will gather together, and so will monsters.

The organizational form of the monster underworld is a manifestation of this.

Judging from the nature of these guys, the progress of their integration should be more efficient and smooth than that of human organizations, a simple and rough process of big fish eating small fish and small fish eating shrimps.

There is also increasing pressure from the Onmyoji Bureau... Logically speaking, after such a long time, they should have formed an alliance under the leadership of a great monster, for example, Nura clan's ...

Nura has the title of Lord of the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, which is enough to prove what kind of existence he is among the monsters. He is undoubtedly the most suitable candidate to lead the monsters and is capable of sitting on the throne of the Lord of demons and monsters.

Although Li Nian didn't know why the Nura Group, led by such a Nura demon, was willing to maintain the organization to a small scale... Well, it's not that he really couldn't figure it out. Li Nian had already met Nura Nura, the real Nura demon, and knew what kind of ideas and personality the founder of the Nura Group had. He could understand that Nura Nura did not have the ambition to unify all the monsters in the country.

The man who was able to found the Nura Group must have been a powerful leader in the past, but now... he has obviously become an old man who doesn't really like fighting and killing.

Nura Nagisa's son, the second generation leader of the Nura group, seems to have died. Li Nian doesn't know what kind of person he was. Li Nian has had a lot of contact with Nura Rikuo, the third generation leader of the Nura group and the current general manager of the Nura group, recently. Rikuo doesn't seem to have the same casual personality as his grandfather. During their time together, Li Nian can feel that Rikuo is a guy with a big heart and great ambition.

Such a Nura Rikuo may have the ambition to unify the monsters and become the lord of all evil spirits.

But for him, who is still so young, it should be only recently that he became the head of the Nura Group. Long ago, the Nura Group must have been led by Nura Nagisa. If such a person with the strength and power to unify monsters did not do this, then it is not surprising that the monsters have not been able to unite... Even so, the existence of the Nura Group should have played a leading role. The largest and strongest monster organization in the country has shown a willingness to live in peace with humans, which is why the monsters have generally behaved in a restrained style so far.

Of course, it's just restrained. Judging from the temperament of the monsters that Li Nian has seen, there are many arrogant guys who treat humans as weaklings, or even food. In short, they look down on humans, disdain to treat them equally, and are unwilling to live in peace with them. This is why the third type of spiritual disasters occur frequently, and there are often monsters that cross the boundary and need to be killed by him. Represented by this, there must be many monsters who want to stand above humans, are unwilling to be strictly restrained by the Yin-Yang Bureau, and kill at will.

It's just that the more these guys jump, the more likely they are to be found and killed by the Onmyoji Bureau, and they usually cannot make it big. Even rarer is there a leader who has the strength, courage, and power to unify the monsters - there is no more suitable lord of ghosts and monsters than Nura. If such a big monster does not appear, the monsters cannot unite, and naturally cannot compete with the Onmyoji Bureau, and the monsters' arrogance has been suppressed.

Until the great monster Yuyuko that had wreaked havoc four hundred years ago broke the seal and reappeared in the world, raising its flag to recruit soldiers...

This is what it means when a long drought is finally met with rain. It is not surprising that the monsters would quickly gather under her command.

"What happens next?" Li Nian asked curiously, "After the alliance, they are going to rebel against the Yin Yang Hall, right?"

As soon as these words came out, Isayama and Dalian Temple Suzuka instantly became nervous. They also thought of this kind of follow-up development, but they didn't dare to take it seriously, because such a development would turn into a too bad situation...

So the two people who originally either didn't want to look or didn't dare to look couldn't help but look at Tian Ruo Qingxian's reaction.

Dalian Temple, who was sitting in the passenger seat, was looking in the rearview mirror. Isayama didn't care about being shy and looked directly at the boss she didn't want to have anything to do with, with a nervous expression.

They saw Tian Ruo Qingxian nodded to the question raised by Li Nian! He admitted it!

"It seems so."

Dalian Temple and Jianshan both took a deep breath.

"If you leave it alone, there will be endless troubles. Isn't this saying coming true now? Not killing when you should, letting the trouble grow, it turns into the worst situation in the blink of an eye." Li Nian thought it was stupid for the Onmyoji Bureau's top brass not to deal with Yuyuko earlier, so he sneered and put forward an even more frightening hypothesis: "Then what? After that, a full-scale war between monsters and exorcists is going to come, right?"

"Yeah." Tian Ruo replied: "That's the worst case scenario, and it's not unlikely."

Dalianji and Jianshan tensed up, slowing their breathing as they listened, knowing what a dangerous development that would be.

War will result in the deaths of many people. The impact of an all-out war between monsters and exorcists would be so great that it is hard to imagine.

In the past, this possibility was just a casual thought or imagination, and no one would take it seriously. Everyone would always hope for the best and think: "No way, it's impossible? Although there have been countless small fights so far, it will definitely not become such a serious situation in the end, right?"

But the person who is talking about the high possibility of the situation turning into this is the Minister of the Curse Search Department. He is not the kind of person who likes to joke around. It seems like he is talking about this situation seriously. If Tian Ruo Qingxian says it is possible, then it is really possible, and it is not small.

Is the all-out war with monsters really about to begin... Both exorcists couldn't help but start to become worried.

Li Nian immediately understood the hidden meaning of Tian Ruoqingxian's words: "The possibility is just not small? In other words, there are other possibilities?"

"Master Li came from the mainland and became a member of the Onmyoji Bureau only recently. He may not understand the situation here. In fact, taking the Nura Group as an example, the monsters in various places are basically integrated by the local monster forces. After years of development, they have become stable, taking root in the city and integrating with human society. For the monsters' parents, they are indeed dissatisfied with the suppression and control of the Onmyoji Bureau. On the other hand, they don't want to see a full-scale war with us exorcists... and humans."

"Oh, so there are still a lot of smart people among them who are clear-headed, right? That's a pity." Li Nian clicked his tongue and said, "It's hard to start a fight with smart people blocking the way."

"What are you feeling sorry about? Aren't you happy when a fight breaks out? You just want the world to be in chaos, right?" Jianshan was a little angry. He didn't know why Li Nian was still in the mood to talk and laugh about such things.

"Don't worry, the world won't be in chaos."

"How can there be no chaos? That's an all-out war between monsters and us exorcists!"

"Yes, a full-scale war. The problem is that the two sides have a huge disparity in strength. If they really fight, it will only be a one-sided situation. It's just a group of monsters gathered together, a mob, and they will be destroyed in minutes."

"One-sided...the monsters are not that weak. Haven't you fought against big monsters like Tsuchigumo before? How dare you say that? " Isayama didn't know where Li Nian's confidence came from.

"Yeah, so what? How many monsters like the Tsuchigumo can there be? If they were all like that, we humans would be afraid of them. It's a pity that there aren't that many, right? Great monsters are rare creatures."

"...There aren't many. The problem is that there aren't many of us exorcists who can defeat the Tsuchigumo like you did."

"Really? Isn't there a Lord Tian Ruo here?"

"Lord Li, you're joking. I can't be as relaxed as you. I'm not sure of winning." Tian Ruo answered calmly.

"How can I be relieved? Oh, was it Isayama-senpai who made a mess in the report and caused Lord Tenruo to misunderstand?"

"What did I write? Don't talk nonsense in front of Lord Tenruo." Isayama laughed.

"Anyway, I'm not sure of winning. It seems that Lord Tianruo also feels that he can fight against Tsuchigumo and is confident that he can kill him." Li Nian looked at Tianruo Qingxian with a smile.

"..." Tian Ruo Qingxian did not answer.

It was Dairenji Suzuka who answered for him: "Who do you think the head of the Curse Search Department is?"

"Then of course I think that Master Tian Ruo is a first-class strong man."