But he also felt that this might be a test he had to go through.

When it comes to the most primitive and fundamental application of violence, it is used to kill each other. When learning those skills that seem to cause huge damage, you have already vaguely realized that you will face such a situation in the future.

"……call."

Li Nian let out a breath and didn't think of saying anything else. He waved his hand and the water vapor in the air condensed and crystallized in his hand, stretching into a crystal clear sharp ice knife, which he held in his hand. At the same time, the spiritual power in his body rushed wildly, spreading to every corner of his body, and he entered a strengthened state in an instant.

Seeing him like this, the cowherd in white laughed even harder, as if he had heard a joke.

"Did you hear what he said? He was going to kill us? He looked like he thought he could win."

He smiled and laughed, and suddenly stopped smiling.

"Don't worry, we will make your death very painful."

After saying this, his face twisted and deformed into a rat's head, with his ten nails extending and flashing sharp black edges. The group of people behind him also made the same changes, and one by one they dropped their human disguises and returned to their true appearance as monsters.

As expected, these guys who called themselves the Old Rat Group were all incarnations of rat demons.

Seeing that he didn't take it seriously at all and was immersed in the sense of superiority brought by the overwhelming numerical advantage, Li Nian smiled instead, knowing that this was the best opportunity for him to kill all these arrogant idiots.

Thinking of this, he took a step forward, determined to seize this opportunity and attack.

At this moment, Li Nian suddenly felt something and stopped moving. He looked past the crowd in front of him and behind them.

The old man also noticed it, was slightly stunned, and turned his head away.

"That's it!"

Accompanied by a stern cry, a shadow appeared out of nowhere, passed over their heads, and landed in front of Li Nian.

Li Nian tilted his head and his eyes widened in surprise.

The person who came was none other than Jianshan Huangquan.

However, Li Nian was surprised because she saw the huge beast she was riding.

At first glance, it looks like a lion, but it is two times larger in size, with blood-red hair, six pairs of eyes, and five tails swinging freely behind it. They are actually living snakes, and they are hissing as if they are alive. This lion-like beast is opening its bloody mouth, baring its teeth at the group of white-clothed cowherds opposite, growling softly, and looks terrifying.

It turned out to be a monster.

"This mount is pretty cool." Li Nian praised in his heart.

Jianshan rode the monster over the crowd, landed here, flipped over, and stood next to Li Nian with a serious expression.

Li Nian noticed that she was holding a long sword with a sheath in her hand, which seemed to be the contents of the sword bag she was holding before. He was in a state of spiritual vision at this time, and he "saw" the spiritual light crawling around the sword, which was obviously not an ordinary thing. He looked at it for a few more times and then retracted his gaze and asked.

"How did you come?"

"I'm worried that you might mess up."

"..."

That's right, Jianshan was worried that Li Nian would do something wrong. At first, she didn't realize that those who were following Li Nian were monsters. She thought they were just ordinary thugs that Li Nian had offended. Thinking that Li Nian had awakened the ability to see ghosts and had some skills, she was afraid that he would cause some big trouble, so she followed him all the way to see the situation. It was not until these guys revealed their true identities that she realized that he had offended a group of monsters. Seeing that the situation was not good, she jumped out immediately.

"How did you offend the monster?" Isayama asked in a low voice.

"They came to me." Li Nian paused and sneered, "They also said they wanted to eat me for tonic."

Jianshan originally thought that this dispute was at most just an ordinary fight, but after hearing what Li Nian said, she realized that the matter was more serious than she had imagined, and the look in her eyes suddenly became extremely cold.

she asked coldly.

"Monsters, do you want to kill people?"

"Another one?"

Isayama's sudden appearance caught the cowherd in white off guard, and he realized that this was another exorcist, plus there was also a frightening-looking beast... He felt that the balance of combat power had changed a little, and turned his head to glance at the old man.

"Are you scared?" the old man asked calmly.

The rat demon frowned and snorted coldly: "How is it possible."

Then he waved his hand: "Go."

As soon as he finished speaking, the rat demon in white took the lead and rushed up at an extremely fast speed. His figure flashed, and in an instant he jumped onto Jianshan and swung his claws down on his head.

Jianshan was shocked and angry, he didn't expect that even when he, the exorcist, arrived, these monsters would still dare to attack. He hastily raised his scabbard to meet the attack, but with a clang, he retreated two steps and shouted angrily.

"Do you want to be completely eliminated by the Onmyoji Bureau?!"

Another claw swung over.

There was a flash of clear sword light, and Jianshan finally drew his sword and swung it out to meet the claw. However, this attack contained the skill of Iai, and the strength was combined with great force, which knocked the rat demon back.

Jianshan had a chance to glance to the right and found that her spirit beast Ran Honglian was already fighting with several rat demons.

Only five! The remaining five are...

"Li Nian?!"

Jianshan turned around suddenly and looked in the direction of Li Nian, but when he saw it, he was stunned.

There were already four... corpses lying at Li Nian's feet...

Either the neck was slit, or it was cut in half, or the heart was stabbed... Amid the blood all over the ground, Li Nian was holding a rat demon by the neck and lifting him up. When Huang Quan went to see, he was picking up the blood-stained ice knife and pretending to stab it into the rat demon's stomach.

"Wait……"

"Pfft."

After stabbing the rat demon, Li Nian threw it to the ground, as it had lost the strength to struggle. Only then did he turn around to look at Jianshan.

Meeting his gaze, Isayama couldn't help but shudder.

His eyes were cold and ruthless, and there seemed to be ice crystals in the depths of his black pupils, without a trace of warmth in them.

In Jianshan's mind, the impression of Li Nian suddenly collapsed completely.

Chapter 54: The boss comes after the small fry

At this time, the old man who had been standing outside and watching coldly couldn't help but narrow his eyes and couldn't help but praise.

"interesting."

He was the only one who noticed what the boy did in that brief moment.

When the five little demons rushed forward and pounced on this man, Li Nian simply lowered his long sword slowly and waited silently for a moment, until the five rat demons waved their claws and were about to pounce on him, then he suddenly moved.

He took a step forward and dodged the attack while suddenly inserting himself into the gap between the five people, with the knife following him. After a few twists and turns, he simply swung the ice knife four times and killed four people cleanly. Finally, he stretched out his hand and grabbed the neck of the fifth person as if he had offered it to him, and naturally stabbed him with the last knife.

The whole process was smooth and flowing, without any redundancy. He only followed the principles of speed, accuracy and ruthlessness. With the blade moving quickly, he killed the rat demon with just five strokes.

This man's strength was slightly stronger than the old man had imagined, which was very good. He immediately understood that with the strength of these mice alone, it was impossible to hold this man back, not to mention there was another exorcist.

Jianshan didn't see it all like the old man, but he saw the blood all over the ground, saw Li Nian standing in a pool of blood, stabbing someone without hesitation, and saw his cold and ruthless eyes.

She felt that this was not the junior student she knew, and was shocked for a moment, wondering how he had killed the five rat monsters and why he could act so ruthlessly without hesitation.

It would have been a foolish thing to be dazed at this juncture, but at this moment her enemy, the rat demon, also saw the situation on Li Nian's side and was standing there in a daze like her.

"How can it be……"

Five people were killed in an instant?

He felt unbelievable and his body was chilled.

Over there, Li Nian and Huang Quan looked at each other but said nothing. They turned their gaze and glanced at the besieged monster, and saw that it kicked one person away with its hind legs and bit another person in its mouth. This monster was obviously very powerful, and it was about to knock down these little monsters slower than him. Li Nian judged that he did not need to help, and turned his gaze again, his cold eyes fell on the white-clothed rat monster opposite Jianshan.

Facing the cold gaze, the rat that was clamoring to dig out his heart and eat his flesh and blood showed a horrified expression.

After seeing his group of younger brothers being routed, this guy finally realized that the strength of these exorcists seemed to be far superior to his own.

"Wait." He subconsciously took a step back and said timidly: "I admit..."

Li Nian's figure suddenly disappeared.

Jianshan was startled, and when he came to his senses, he realized what kind of magic he had used. He turned back in a hurry, and when he saw Li Nian appear again, he had already arrived in front of the rat demon.

He learned a lot of useful spells from the skill tree, one of which was the basic application of space - flash.

Li Nianren arrived in front of the rat demon and stabbed it without saying a word, hitting it in the face, as fast as lightning.

The rat demon hurriedly raised his claws, and with a clanging sound, he barely blocked it.

But before he could breathe a sigh of relief, Li Nian raised his hand and slapped the tail of the knife again. He concentrated his strength on his hand and used all his strength in that one slap. The powerful force added suddenly gave the ice blade an extremely strong push.

With a crisp sound, the rat demon's hard claws were shattered! The blade suddenly drilled out from the middle!

With a "whoosh" sound, the mouse's head was pierced by the blade.

Isayama stared at the scene with wide eyes, and a small "no" came out after a long delay.

And now...

The rat demon with a pierced head died instantly. Li Nian let go of the ice knife, and the dead body collapsed to the ground powerlessly with its eyes open.

Li Nian took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and opened them again, then came out of his cold state.

The moment he started fighting, he entered Bing Xin, discarded all distracting thoughts, and only had the thought of counterattacking in his mind. All his thoughts and actions revolved around this goal. He attacked without any hesitation, and just used what he had learned and knew, turning himself into a fighting machine. Now, after killing all the people in the Old Rat Group in one breath, Li Nian suddenly came back to his senses.

He looked at the people who were lying on the ground wailing with their hands and feet cut off and their stomachs stabbed. He then looked down at the corpses he had created at his feet.

I seem to have done something really excessive... he thought.

But for some reason, even though he knew it was a serious matter, Li Nian didn't seem to have any feelings about it, as if it was a trivial matter like eating and drinking water.

Those who kill will be killed. Since these guys are targeting his life, they should be prepared to be hacked to death by him. He holds this thought in his mind, which is why he is so cruel and ruthless. This has nothing to do with his mental state of not showing joy, anger, sorrow or happiness. All his actions are to implement his own will.

Li Nian felt that she was a little strange and not normal.

Hey, he suddenly smiled freely and easily. Since he came into this world, nothing can be said to be normal.

But if I did this in front of Isayama...

"You must have deceived me."

Li Nian looked at Jianshan. She had already stretched out her hand to call the ferocious beast that had knocked the little monsters to the ground to her side. The look in her eyes when she looked at Li Nian returned to the cold and distant look she gave to a stranger.

The strength and ruthlessness displayed by Li Nian overturned her impression of Li Nian, and made her believe in Li Nian's past statements become suspicious again.

she asked again.

"Who are you?"

She really began to doubt her identity, which made Li Nian smile bitterly.

“…Can I explain it later?” He turned his back to Isayama and turned to the last enemy left on the field. His expression became serious again: “After all, it’s not over yet.”

Different from the rat demon in terms of level, this guy in front of him is probably very dangerous.

The rat demon's respectful but not offensive attitude, and the information revealed in their conversation - more importantly, intuition told Li Nian this.

He was convinced of it.

"Isayama, I know you have a lot of doubts in your mind right now." Li Nian continued, "But you must concentrate now, because after you kill all the small fry, you will have to face the boss."

The old man did not make a move from beginning to end. He just watched the rat demons being chopped to death by Li Nian and his companions. He only scolded them with disdain, "waste". Now that Li Nian turned to face him, he smiled slightly and asked, "Are you done?"

Jianshan also understood that there was still an enemy that had not been dealt with. He knew that things had their priorities and that he needed to deal with the old man first. However, he did not quite understand Li Nian's concerns about him. He felt that now that all the rat demons had been killed, the remaining old man was no longer a threat, so he shouted, "You no longer have a chance. Hurry up and surrender and cooperate with the operation. In this way, the Yin-Yang Bureau will consider the matter and give you a lighter sentence!"

The old man was stunned at first, then shook his head with amusement.

"Humph, the monsters and exorcists of this era all seem to be naive little brats."

Clearly he was refusing to cooperate.

Li Nian said nothing, a new ice blade took shape in his hand, the temperature in his eyes disappeared, and his icy heart was opened again.

Isayama saw that he was ready for battle, and thought that he would kill someone if he attacked, so he said coldly: "Don't attack!"

After saying that, she patted the spirit beast beside her and shouted, "Luan Honglian, let's go!"

At her command, the spirit beast roared and pounced on the old man's upper body. She also picked up her knife and followed suit, sweeping the old man's lower body with the back of the knife.

The old man grinned and smiled cruelly.

Suddenly, black energy crawled on his body, and his neat suit was replaced by a black kimono in the blink of an eye, with a long sword with a sheath appearing at his waist.

He reached out and touched the hilt of the knife.

Li Nian suddenly moved, flashing to the left front of Jianshan and holding the sword across his chest.

"you……"

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