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

But now he has lost that opportunity.

Because before he launched the spell, the old man's long sword had already pierced his heart.

"Be proud, this is the killer move I intended to save for Naughty Ghost to see."

This was the last sound Li Nian heard. Then he felt the long knife inserted into his chest twisted. A sharp pain came over him and his heart was shattered.

Chapter 57: Final Light

A shattered heart is an instant fatal injury for any human being, and it seems that Li Nian's modified body is no exception.

The world before his eyes quickly became gray and hazy. He felt the strength in his body rapidly dissipating at a terrifying speed, and his consciousness was gradually swallowed up by the deep darkness.

This feeling seemed familiar to him...

But he didn't have time to think about anything before he was completely swallowed by the darkness.

Death left him no room to think about life.

But at this moment, suddenly a force exploded in his body.

Just like opening the shackles, something broke through the cage of the waves and rushed madly from all over his limbs to his broken heart, wrapping it up and protecting it.

Li Nian suddenly regained consciousness like a candle that was lit again. He had unknowingly left Bing Xin and immediately felt the current state of his body as his original self.

The first thing he suffered was the intense pain that came from every corner of his body, especially the left side of his chest where his heart was broken. The pain, big or small, gathered together and rushed to his brain in one breath, making it unbearable for him and almost crazy.

At this moment, Li Nian managed to maintain a trace of clarity and began to think, with two ideas coming to his mind in an instant.

The first thought was a bit strange, a kind of nostalgia.

——Nothing can make people more clearly aware of the fact that they are still alive than experiencing pain.

The second thought is...

——In that case, I have to fight to the end.

……

……

The old man, his heart broken, was sure that he had killed Li Nian, and was about to slowly draw out the knife.

But at this moment, the corpse suddenly grabbed his hand that was about to draw the knife.

"Varied……!"

This unexpected scene made Kidomaru stop thinking.

The next moment, Li Nian leaned forward, his chest facing the blade, and crashed into the old man's arms.

"Pfft."

Kidomaru felt a sharp pain in his chest. The Lion King's blade penetrated his chest and stabbed out from his back, also hitting his heart.

"Surprise!"

Under Kidomaru's incredulous gaze, the man who had been expressionless all this time now revealed a weak and crazy smile, twisted the handle of the knife that was stabbing the old man's chest hard, and crushed the monster's heart.

This is what they call a tooth for a tooth.

Then Li Nian drew out his sword quickly and skillfully, and also pulled himself out from the blade that pierced his chest.

Two exaggerated columns of blood shot up into the sky. Without the blade to block them, nothing could suppress the injury to the heart.

Kidomaru fell to the ground, and until his death he could not figure out how Li Nian, whose heart was shattered, had still had the strength to stab him back. He himself did not have the strength to fight back, and his life slipped away in this way. The light in his eyes dimmed, and he died with his eyes open.

Li Nian did not think about why he was not dead. Now he stabbed his opponent to death with a backhand knife. Looking at the column of blood rising from his chest, he felt extremely refreshed. As he relaxed, the inexplicable power that supported him was like the tide that was washed away completely. Then his eyes went dark, and his powerless body fell to the ground with a thud, as if it was just a last burst of energy. After falling down, he was motionless as if dead.

Two bodies lay quietly on the ground, and a deep silence returned to the air.

Five minutes passed like this.

A ball of black mist suddenly broke through the air and quickly landed beside the two corpses. Immediately, a figure rushed out from it. It was Jianshan.

While she was in the air, she saw through the black fog that Li Nian and the old man were lying in a pool of blood. She had a bad association with the situation and as soon as she landed, she rushed over immediately. At first glance, she saw a big hole in the old man's chest and his heart was smashed to pieces. She was stunned for a moment.

The old man died...

The strong man who had beaten his own side to a pulp just before was dead just like that? Was it Li Nian who killed him?

Many doubts arose in Jianshan's mind, but she put these thoughts aside first. Seeing Li Nian lying on the ground with a large pool of blood under him, she hurriedly ran to his side, squatted down to check on his condition. When she saw this, she was stunned.

——Because Li Nian had no wounds on her body.

Yes, there were no wounds at all, except for the tattered clothes, with a big hole in the clothes on the back, but the skin underneath was healthy and intact, without even a scratch...

This situation was in stark contrast to what she had expected, causing Jianshan's brain to short-circuit a bit - she remembered that Li Nian had crashed into the ground before, and there were scratches all over his back, but this was not the case. She felt something was very wrong, and after calming herself down, she decided to confirm whether he was dead or alive first. She immediately reached out to feel his breath again, and felt a faint air flow across her fingertips, which instantly cheered her up.

Still alive! Just seems to be unconscious!

She turned Li Nian over, thinking that he had fallen into a coma due to excessive blood loss from the wound on his chest and needed treatment. But when she looked at him, she was shocked to find that such a serious wound had healed to its original state without her noticing.

In other words, all the injuries on his body have completely recovered...

How is this going……

"We seem to be late. What is the situation now?"

Isayama's mind was in a mess when a lazy voice sounded. The black fog dissipated with the wind, and a man slowly walked out.

He was tall and handsome, wearing wooden clogs, a loose black kimono, a blue haori, and a wooden sword at his waist. He had a pair of strange blood-red pupils, and his long white hair with black on the bottom was strangely sticking up high.

As soon as Isayama left the battlefield, he called this person's cell phone and informed him of the situation here. He was the reinforcement Isayama invited.

As soon as he heard the news, the man rushed over without hesitation, but it was still a long way to go. When he and Isayama arrived at the scene, the fierce battle seemed to have ended.

He walked over to Isayama and looked at the situation curiously.

"Both of them seem to be dead?"

"Li Nian...my friend is still alive."

Isayama stood up.

"Oh! You mean we won? What? Can't we handle this ourselves? It doesn't seem like there's any need for me to get involved. It's not as exaggerated as you say."

The man complained, and when he saw the old man's body and the wound on his chest, he naturally understood what was going on.

"I don't know what happened..."

Even though she was complained about this, Isayama herself was confused. She was a person who had directly experienced the old man's attack and knew that the old man was much stronger than herself and others. She also did not think that Li Nian was stronger than the old man. She thought that he stayed behind to cover their retreat, which meant he was trying to cut off his own arm. So when she hurriedly talked to the man next to her, she immediately stated that the situation was urgent, saying that her friend's life was in danger and asked him to come immediately.

But when they arrived at the scene, they found that they seemed to be too late. The battle was over and the result was obvious. Li Nian was not dead, but the old man was dead. The winner and loser were obvious.

In other words, after Li Nian took the magic sword, he actually succeeded in counterattacking...but for some reason he fell into a coma, with no injuries on his body, but a huge amount of blood on the ground.

What happened...

While Jianshan was puzzled, the man turned his head to look at the corpses of the rat demons over there, recognized the face of one of the rat demons in white, and narrowed his eyes slightly.

"He is indeed a member of my old Rat Group... Then, you should also tell us what the whole story is, Isayama Exorcist."

Chapter 58: Fighting Never Ends, Life Never Ends

"I only intervened in the middle. If you want to ask about the cause and effect, I can't really explain it clearly..."

Isayama hesitated for a moment. Before the battle, she had been watching quietly and had not heard the conversation between Li Nian and the monsters. In fact, she did not quite understand what was going on, but she still started to talk about the information she knew.

The man listened quietly, occasionally glancing coldly at the corpse on the ground. After listening, he nodded.

"I understand. It was the guy from the old Rat Group who broke the rules first and attacked your friend without permission, right?"

"Yes."

"Then they deserve to be killed. They violated the ban on attacking humans. The Old Rat Group can be removed from my group." He concluded in a nonchalant tone, as if he no longer cared about the lives of the rat demons. The man just stared at the old man's corpse and narrowed his eyes slightly: "This person is the key. If he really has the strength you said, he shouldn't be an unknown person, but he is a stranger I have never seen... It is probably because of his existence that these rats have the courage to attack you, an exorcist."

Isayama felt the same way and nodded in agreement: "It seems that the rat demons' words and actions seem to follow the lead of this old man."

This made the man frown. Among his group of subordinates, only an outsider followed their lead. This phenomenon could explain several problems.

"You know more about monsters, so could you ask the Nura crew to investigate the identity of this old man?" Isayama continued.

"I would do the same without you telling me...So how are you going to deal with this at the Yin Yang Office?"

"I don't know. I still need to cooperate with the police in the investigation and consult my superiors before I can make a conclusion. But you also know about the recent spiritual disaster in Kyoto..."

"...I know. My grandfather told me that a guy who has a close relationship with our Nura Clan was released."

When Isayama heard this information for the first time, he was stunned for a moment, then he thought about it and snorted again.

"...What kind of monsters do you and your Nura Clan have no connection with?"

"...I also think that maybe grandpa is too lazy to explain, so he keeps silent?" The man seemed to be thinking about something.

"Anyway, this incident happened at this point in time, I'm afraid the department will be a little sensitive... and it also involves members of your Nura Group, so it's inevitable that the higher-ups will have some thoughts and perhaps put some pressure on you."

"I'm sitting at home, and the pot comes from the sky." The man complained like this, but shrugged nonchalantly: "But you and your friend are fine, right? Instead, the idiot who committed the crime is dead, and the matter is actually over. What else can they say?"

As they talked, Isayama took out his phone and took pictures of the scene, focusing on the body of the old man lying on the ground. After hearing this, he glanced at him.

"I mean you're kind of involved."

"I know, I know. The demon exorcists must be suspicious of us all the time, right? I'm used to it. Anyway, our Nura Group is a monster group, a den of evil, and the source of all evil."

The man chuckled and didn't take it seriously.

"I don't think so, but I hope you can help investigate it and clear my suspicion." Isayama shrugged: "Otherwise, it will be difficult for me, the person in charge of surveillance, to write an investigation report."

"It seems that the matter is not simple. I will definitely investigate it thoroughly - but of course not for you exorcists." The man smiled and said, "Anyway, it seems that your friend is still alive, so I have nothing to do with him. The next step is for you exorcists to deal with the aftermath. I will leave first - send me a copy of your photo later, and I will show it to grandpa. He is knowledgeable and will probably recognize who this old man is."

He turned around and was about to leave.

Isayama bowed to him.

"Please make this trip."

The man waved his hand without even turning his head. His body became distorted and faded like a mirage, and disappeared as if blending into the air.

Jianshan turned around, glanced at Li Nian who was unconscious on the ground, took a deep breath, pressed the phone, and put it to his ear.

"Hello, is this the hospital?"

……

……

I don’t know how long I was unconscious.

A ray of light shone through the darkness, and consciousness gradually returned.

Li Nian suddenly opened his eyes and jumped up.

The violent movement tore off something that had been stuck in his arm, and there was a sharp pain.

Li Nian glanced sideways and saw a bracket with an IV bottle hanging on it placed next to his bed. The connected syringe had just been pulled off and was swinging slowly.

He was stunned for a moment and looked around.

"Is this...the ward?"

He is now lying on the hospital bed, his clothes have been changed, and it seems that he has just received an IV drip.

——How did I end up lying here... I remember before...

He was about to start thinking when he suddenly felt a strong sense of weakness all over his body. His eyes became dazed and his consciousness became blurred again. He almost fainted again.

Li Nian immediately shook his head violently, forcing himself to stay awake, holding his forehead and groaning.

He felt very weak, hungry and thirsty.

Noticing a kettle on the table from the corner of his eye, Li Nian immediately reached out, picked it up and gulped down the water. He drank it with great pleasure and felt that his weakness was slightly relieved, and his head worked a little faster.

He finally remembered what happened before he fell asleep. He was silent for a while before he muttered something.

"I... am I still alive?"

Li Nian remembered that he was fighting with the old man, his heart was pierced by a blade, and then it was shattered by a twist... Thinking of this, he put his hand on his chest, but he felt a strong beating from below. His heart was still fine, as if this memory was just an illusion.

"No, that's not it..." Li Nian shook his head and denied himself.