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

Originally, the big monsters were monsters whose bodies had been tempered through thousands of trials and tribulations, so controlling the muscles was simple. Based on this, it was really a very simple matter to learn how to exert force systematically.

Hundreds of years later, Tsuchigumo's punch, which optimized the circulation of energy and the generation of force, became even more terrifying.

"come!"

Qingtian Fang didn't know this, and he roared and swung his fist to receive it. The "fear" swirled around his strong arms, embedded in his skin, and gave him even greater strength.

The two fists collided, the power crushed each other, and as expected, Qingtianfang was easily knocked through.

The monk flew backwards and fell into the Nura clan monsters. Smashing a few tables and chairs was a small matter. What was more painful was that one of his arms was twisted and deformed, and the pain made him sweat coldly.

Qingtianfang still forced himself to stand up.

The burly monk bowed to the Tsuchigumo spider, covered his arm with his hands, and retreated without saying a word.

After defeating Qingtianfang, Tsuchigumo's blood boiled, and his fighting spirit burned more and more. He looked around at the Nura Clan, his eyes lingered on several powerful auras, and shouted angrily: "Who's next!"

Seeing that the battlefield was about to turn into one where Tsuchigumo started to go crazy, Suzuka recalled bad memories. She hurriedly came to Li Nian and pulled his sleeve: "Is the fight about to begin? An all-out war between Tsuchigumo and the Nura Clan? What should we do?"

"Just wait and see."

The defeat of Qingtianfang did not dampen the fighting spirit of the Nura clan, but instead ignited the bloodiness of the monsters. At the prompting of Tsuchigumo, dozens of monsters were ready to come out.

——"Then let me do it."

But the first one to speak was Nura Rikuo.

Tsuchigumo was stunned, turned to look at the young chief of the Nura Clan on the main seat, frowned and said, "Boy, if your strength is only what it was back then, you'd better step down."

In Tsuchigumo's eyes, the young Nura was a defeated opponent. He had already tested the strength of this young monster and it was okay, but not enough.

"It's really not possible for me to do this alone, so please allow me to find a helper."

"I don't mind calling up your entire Nura group."

"That's not necessary. I only need to call one person...then, Bingli." Nura Rikuo only called the name of a monster.

"Yes! Lord Lu Sheng."

The girl whose name was called responded loudly and excitedly, jumping in front of Lu Sheng.

Li Nian's eyes lit up: "Here it comes, the big one is coming."

"What's so big?" Suzuka had never seen Nura Rikuo use that move, and was still confused. Li Nian was too lazy to explain, so he just raised his chin to signal her to watch.

Tsuchigumo tilted his head, and was stared at fiercely by the cute little girl. He just felt it was ridiculous. This kid chose such a helper? Did he think he could fight with him?

"Who are you looking down on, kid?"

"I dare not look down on Master Tsuchigumo, and I hope you don't look down on my Bingli..." Lu Sheng drew out his beloved sword, Yakirimaru, and murmured, "Ghostly entanglement - Red Plum under the Snow!"

Chapter 370: A reckless man, fearless

The "fear" of the Naughty Ghost radiated out and eroded the surrounding space.

The Snow Girl liberated her power more thoroughly. With a sudden gust of biting cold current, her icy figure dissipated and turned into a gust of wind and snow, blowing to Lu Sheng and merging into his "fear", changing the color of the dark space and dyeing it into clear snow-white, becoming a beautiful scenery in this faded space.

During this process, the wind and snow wrapped around Lu Sheng, swirling around him, blowing harder and faster - becoming stronger.

Li Nian had been saved by this move before. He had seen the snow and wind gushing out, whistling past, and freezing Ibaraki Douji into an ice sculpture in the blink of an eye. He had also seen Lu Sheng break free from the ghost and the snow and wind transformed into the girl Bingli again. But watching this move take shape with his own eyes like this was a different experience for Li Nian.

It was the first time that Suzuka saw Rikuo perform his best move, and she was mesmerized. With her perspective, she naturally got a glimpse of the essence of spiritual change from this process, and muttered, "Hmm... should we say it's possession? No, to be more precise, should we say it's a fusion between spirits? Not quite... can we still feel two auras, not one absorbing and being absorbed, but a harmonious coexistence? This can form a new whole, quite interesting."

Tian Ruo was also watching very seriously. It was no secret that the chief of the Nura group had such a unique skill. It was rather news that had been well-known in the industry for many years.

This is a special move that has been known since the second generation of Nura Group became active.

"Nurarihyon's demon entanglement... reappeared in his son's hands. It turned out to be this scene."

Tian Ruo recalled some things...

To put it simply, the ghost entanglement technique is nothing more than a monster handing over everything to another monster to control. It is not a difficult task from a technical perspective for spiritual beings.

But in order to merge into one, both parties must fully trust each other, and the mutual blend of "fear" requires one party to have the determination to entrust his life, and the other party to have the magnanimity to tolerate others.

Until now, this move is only the special skill of Nura Clan's leader, Nura.

No matter what others think, Lu Sheng, who launched the ghost entanglement and shouldered the "fear" of the Snow Girl, had a solemn expression and was not in a hurry to attack. The wind and snow swirled around him, and then gradually gathered towards the spirit sword in his hand. After a while, all the strength had gathered on the sword, and the flowing wind and snow almost condensed into a solid.

This is a simple concentration and gathering, and Nura Rikuo's plan is obvious.

Tsuchigumo's eyes lit up and he finally became interested. He knew that Nura Rikuo was going to decide the outcome with one blow.

As always, the reckless man still wanted to experience the power of that full-strength sword head-on.

So the Earth Spider shouted angrily.

"Come on! I won't dodge!"

Although he said he wouldn't dodge, Tsuchigumo didn't intend to be stupid enough to take the attack head-on, so he just got into a boxing stance on the spot.

Tian Ruo frowned as he watched. He had felt that the moves used by Tsuchigumo when he took Qingtianfang's punch were a bit strange. Now that he saw Tsuchigumo's stance, he confirmed that the big monster was actually using human martial arts.

Jianshan had quietly returned to his fellow exorcist. When he saw Tsuchigumo's fist stance, he exclaimed, "Is that... Li Nian's martial arts stance?"

Yes, Tsuchigumo was using the boxing stance he learned from Li Nian.

After hearing what Jianshan said, Tian Ruo turned to look at Li Nian. Seeing Li Nian nod and agree with Jianshan's statement, he knew that this person's martial arts were learned by Tsuchigumo in the previous battle. His brows frowned even deeper: "Master Li, did you make the big monster stronger?"

"Seems to be."

“…This shouldn’t have happened.”

Li Nian shrugged indifferently. That's how fighting is. It's impossible for only you to become stronger while the opponent remains the same.

He knew that Tian Ruo was warning him, so he just said it.

"Since Tsuchigumo has awakened, I will restrain him. If I cannot convince him, I will kill him."

"...I don't know what kind of restraints would be effective against a big monster like Tsuchigumo."

"Let's see after we talk."

"..."

On the other side, Lu Sheng nodded, knowing that Tsuchigumo's temperament would give such an answer. At this time, he had completed the accumulation and concentration of Bingli's snow girl power. He whispered, "I'm going to go for it." Then he floated in front of Tsuchigumo along with the voice.

Nurarihyon swung his sword towards the earth spider, but the sword was not swung directly. It just slashed at the earth spider from a distance. However, the wind and snow that swept on the spiritual sword left the blade with this blow and pounced forward.

At this time, Li Nian suddenly said: "But maybe the Earth Spider will die now."

"What?" Tian Ruo was stunned.

"Martial arts reflect the pursuit of human beings to control limited power to the extreme - the unity of mind, body, skills and energy is not that simple. It is not that easy to learn a few tricks and then use them to fight against others. For a big monster like Tsuchigumo, it is just a way to tie up one's own hands and feet and seek death."

As Li Nian was speaking, the earth spider over there roared and punched the sweeping ice and snow.

At the moment of collision, solid black light exploded from Earth Spider's fist, which was clear evidence that he had indeed swung his strength into a stream and fired it out.

But this force was too weak. It only penetrated slightly into the wind and snow before dissipating and failing to penetrate.

Then the wind and snow came and swallowed the man.

Lu Sheng landed behind Tsuchigumo, beads of sweat running down his forehead. He let out a long breath. This knife had almost exhausted all his strength. Lu Sheng turned around and saw that Tsuchigumo had been frozen into an ice sculpture while maintaining his angry King Kong look.

Seeing this, Li Nian shook his head and sighed, saying, "In fact, I have always felt that it is a miracle that Tsuchigumo, with his arrogant and reckless character, has survived until now."

Tian Ruo was also shocked: "...I guess this is why he was sealed for hundreds of years?"

He likes to fight, and he always likes to test the opponent's strength before meeting him. He will get serious only after he has been hit by the opponent. How serious he is depends on the opponent's strength. He will not easily go all out. This kind of fighting method will inevitably lead to disadvantages, and it is too easy to die.

However, it was precisely because he had never died that the great monster Tsuchigumo was created by this arrogance.

Seeing that Lu Sheng's attack was successful, the monsters of the Nura group suddenly burst into cheers.

"He won't die, right?" Lu Sheng's attack was indeed very powerful, but Isayama didn't believe that Tsuchigumo could be knocked down like that.

Li Nian observed the ice sculpture for a moment before nodding in agreement with Isayama's guess: "Well, this person is as strong as ever."

The next moment, there was a click, and cracks appeared everywhere on the ice layer on the earth spider's skin. Then a terrifying force erupted with him as the center, and the aura surged, overturning the tables and chairs around him.

It was the earth spider that mustered the power from within and forcibly broke through the ice.

Everyone was shocked and thought that the Earth Spider had just exploded with power and entered a new stage, but soon the explosive aura subsided.

The full-strength attack that Lu Sheng used with Gui Chan was not simple. When it hit the target completely, the natural coldness penetrated to the bottom. The earth spider's forced breakthrough of the ice was not without cost. The scattered ice chips were accompanied by red flesh and blood. It was obvious that the coldness had penetrated into every corner of the earth spider's body before being forced out.

Obviously, the body of Tsuchigumo that had just recovered was seriously injured again, but the weak and exhausted man just shook his body, shook off more ice chips and blood, turned around and gave Lu Sheng a thumbs up, showing a bloody and creepy smile, and praised: "The kid is very good, I lost."

Then, dripping with blood, Earth Spider turned around and sat back down in the seat next to Li Nian, continuing to eat and drink heartily.

After hearing Tsuchigumo admit defeat and seeing that he really had no intention of attacking again, Lu Sheng relaxed his tense body and untangled himself from the state of being entangled by the ghost. The wind and snow that had been entangled around him gathered around him again and turned into the icy and lovely girl Bingli. Lu Sheng smiled and said, "Thank you."

"What do you think, Tsuchigumo? My grandson has a promising future, right?" Nurarihyon's appearance was as abrupt as ever. The short old man sat down next to Tsuchigumo with a smile, probably secretly watching the development of the whole situation from some corner.

"You old sly fellow... you have a good grandson."

He and the old Nurarihyon were old acquaintances going back hundreds of years. Tsuchigumo had no extra expression and just toasted to the former hero.

"Hahaha, it's rare that you're so tactful. Let's drink." The grandson showed his prowess, which made Nurarihyon in a good mood. He picked up the wine cup and clinked glasses with Tsuchigumo.

"Taking advantage of someone's misfortune is an unjust victory." The host was not very happy to see Lu Sheng when he returned.

Tsuchigumo clicked his tongue and said unhappily, "Winning is winning, kid, it's me who won, be proud."

Lu Sheng shrugged, turned around and shouted to the monsters of the Nura group below: "Disperse, disperse, now we're even! Stop making noises!"

It means that Lu Sheng himself took revenge on Tsuchigumo for being severely injured, and the grudge was thus settled.

Li Nian then retracted the sealing barrier, and everything around him returned to color. The broken things in the barrier were restored to their original state. Everyone sat back in their original seats and continued to eat and drink. Although the atmosphere was not as harmonious as before due to the presence of the earth spiders, it had calmed down a lot. No one jumped out to cause trouble. It could be said that the general's heroic figure in defeating the big monster excited the monsters and became a new and interesting topic of conversation.

In the eyes of the monsters, this is clear evidence of the commander-in-chief's strength and growth, and a symbol of the prosperity of the Nura clan.

Suzuka couldn't understand the militant faction's thinking: "Weren't you desperate at the beginning? Now, are you just going to call it a draw?"

Isayama knew the nature of these monsters, so he was not surprised at all: "Yes, that's even."

It was a pity for the monsters in the Nura clan that the Tsuchigumo didn't die, but since the big monster was still able to stand after taking the full-strength attack from the commander-in-chief, there was really nothing to say.

"Lord Li." Tian Ruo reminded Li Nian.

One of the purposes of these exorcists coming to the Nura clan this time is to deal with the Tsuchigumo. Now that the Tsuchigumo has finally settled down, it's time to put it on the agenda.

It was Li Nian who defeated the Earth Spider, and it was also Li Nian who failed to defeat the Earth Spider. So, now Li Nian can only clean up the mess himself.

Tian Ruo actually had no hope as to how Li Nian could control such an arrogant monster.

"Yes, Lord Tianruo." Li Nian responded twice without much interest. He understood Tianruo's reminder and greeted Tsuchigumo: "Tsuchigumo, can I ask you a question?"

The earth spider was chewing something in big mouthfuls, not saying anything, but just looking up.

"How could someone like you be a subordinate of Yuyuko?"

The earth spider swallowed the food and sneered: "What a stupid thing to say about being a subordinate of that fox, boy. I just lost to that fox and promised to help her do something."

So Tsuchigumo really failed in the battle with Yuyuko.

Although Li Nian was also the one who successfully defeated Tsuchigumo, it was precisely because they had actually fought each other that he understood how terrifying Tsuchigumo's strength was.

It was just a confirmation of the enemy's strength. Li Nian didn't feel much. Instead, he wanted to try out Yuyuko's specific methods himself more and more. At this time, he just continued to ask Tsuchigumo.

"Help her do something, like come to Qianye to cause trouble for me?"

"Correct."

Well, it fits the information given by Tenruo. It is true that Tsuchigumo was called by Yuyuko to Chiba to find me.

Asking Tsuchigumo is just a process of checking against the intelligence.

"Speaking of which, if you lose to Yuyuko, you agree to do something for her. If you lose to me, don't you have to do something for me too?"

"You say." Tsuchigumo answered simply, meaning that I agree, just tell me your request.

Actually, Li Nian just said this to follow the topic, just to find a reason to restrain Tsuchigumo. He originally planned to make some demands such as "no killing from today on", but when the words came to his lips, he suddenly felt that it was a bit too much of a loss to waste the opportunity to ask Tsuchigumo for help with such a simple request. Li Nian didn't think that Tsuchigumo was the kind of person who would attack weak humans.

Li Nian thought about it, and with the mentality of trying his best, he said, "Then how about being my shikigami?"

These words really shocked everyone present.

Onmyoji does have the means to subdue monsters and make them shikigami, which means to subdue their spirits - for monsters, this is even more inferior than being someone's subordinate. But what kind of monster is Tsuchigumo? Just now I said that Yuyuko's subordinates are disdainful of being a monster. Even Yuyuko doesn't obey him. Isn't what you said, Li Nian, purely provocative?

As expected, Tsuchigumo shook his head and refused: "Impossible."

"You are a dangerous guy, and you like to pick fights everywhere. When you fight, you don't care about your surroundings at all. This is unacceptable to the Yin-Yang Office." Li Nian said with a smile: "If this problem is not solved, you will die here."