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

But... is it because the knife is too fast? For some reason, my hand only felt the stab for a split second - no!

The next moment, in front of Li Nian's eyes, the old man whose chest was pierced by his ice knife disappeared like smoke, leaving only a piece of bloody cloth floating on the ground.

At the same time, a faint breath suddenly appeared twenty meters away.

Li Nian looked up and saw the old man's figure there, covering his shoulder, blood flowing out from between his fingers.

Chapter 82: Victory or Defeat

The knife was actually avoided - it seems that it cannot be said that way, the old man only had time to avoid it slightly, but was still stabbed in the shoulder.

In addition to injuring the old man, it seems that he has also made some contributions. Although it is weak at the moment, the aura of this guy that was originally impossible to capture has finally leaked out a little bit - enough for Li Nian to catch him in his perception.

"That move belongs to Kidomaru..."

Rather than being injured, the old man seemed more surprised by what Li Nian's stab showed. He stared at Li Nian in a daze.

But Li Nian did not stay stunned. When his attack missed, he remained calm. He flashed and caught up with the pursuer with his sword in hand, chopping him down on the head.

Li Nian's body strengthening technique has been updated. Among the many methods, he chose a more explosive and overbearing strengthening method that focuses on explosions. It consumes his own spiritual power more intensely and puts several times more strain on the body. Correspondingly, his physical fitness has also been comprehensively improved under the blessing.

If not, he would not be able to obtain the basic strength required to reproduce Kidomaru's killing move.

The ice knife in Li Nian's hand is more solid than before and has been strengthened. Even though it is not as good as a real spiritual sword, it will not be broken into pieces in a single fight and can barely be used.

This was Li Nian's second actual combat, but he had quickly integrated what he had learned and directly incorporated it into the growth of his strength. He had grown a lot, and even if he faced Kidomaru again, Li Nian probably would not lose head-on. At this moment, his sword chopped down with far more force and power than before.

The old man unsheathed his dagger and held it horizontally. The slender blade looked fragile, but it was able to steadily block Li Nian's powerful attack. It seemed that his thin body contained tremendous strength that was not inferior to that of Kidomaru.

But the old man did not do so without paying a price. The ground beneath his feet collapsed, and the action of blocking caused his wound to spurt out blood. He could not help but let out a muffled groan.

Looking up, the old man met Li Nian's cold eyes, his expression changed, and he wanted to stop.

Li Nian did not give him any leeway. He continued to exert force with the knife in his right hand to suppress the old man. He swung out with his left hand, already holding the second ice knife, aiming to cut the old man in half.

The old man reacted quickly and immediately moved the ice blade above his head to the side, drawing the force of Li Nian's blade towards himself. He used the force to jump away and narrowly avoided the attack. He then quickly put some distance between himself and seized the opportunity to shout.

"Wait a minute kid!"

But Li Nian acted as if he was deaf and ignored him, and followed with two swords in hand. Seeing this, the old man sighed silently and thought that he had gone too far.

The two swords cut through the air, swinging from left and right at the same time.

Li Nian is proficient in martial arts and can wield two swords in both hands, one with a reverse grip and the other with an upright grip. Completely different offensives are immediately launched, with an attack frequency one level higher than that of a single sword. The blows complement each other and are synchronized as one. The blows are airtight, yet extremely accurate and ruthless as in the Bing Xin realm, and the body is fully strengthened, with every blow and every cut carrying the momentum of a sure kill.

If he fought with Kidomaru again, Li Nian would never lose in a high-intensity hand-to-hand combat. He would surely be able to break through Kidomaru's defense with such a fierce and precise attack and seize the opportunity to stab the blade into his heart.

But even with such intensive and fierce attacks, they were still unable to quickly kill the injured old man.

The old man held a dagger in his hand, either blocking or dodging, and did not fight back at all. He only focused on avoiding Li Nian's sharp edge and managed to survive in the storm. He was like a small boat in the wind and waves, swaying and fragile, as if it could capsize at any time - but that moment never came.

Li Nian could clearly feel that the enemy seemed to be wandering in the gap of his blade, making it unpredictable.

His blade could not reach the opponent, and every strike and slash was powerful, but fell into the air.

If Li Nian's emotions were still unrestrained and he felt that his attack was like a fist hitting cotton, he would definitely find it difficult to suppress his depressed mood and would curse, "Slippery!"

Even the old man's dodging became more and more relaxed from the initial hasty and reluctant, as if he gradually figured out Li Nian's attack pattern. Moreover, his breath became weaker and weaker, and was about to disappear into nothingness - at that time, Li Nian's perception would no longer be able to lock on to him.

He could confirm his position with the naked eye and launch a killing move, but he only had this one chance. If the opponent restrained his breath again, he would no longer be able to keenly capture his every move through his mind. Whether the opponent was fighting or escaping, he would become passive. Thinking of this, Li Nian had already calculated the gains and losses. He suddenly changed his offensive, paused, and brought the two ice knives together, allowing them to merge into each other and begin to change shape.

He gave the old man a chance to catch his breath, but he immediately seized the opportunity and tried to escape, jumping backwards and disappearing into the bushes in the park, his breath quickly fading away.

"I don't want to play with you anymore!"

The old man wanted to run.

At this time, the two ice knives in Li Nian's hands merged and deformed, and had stretched into a straight spear. He held it high up, and at the same time, his eyes followed the movement in the bushes. At the moment when the breath was about to disappear completely, he locked it again, and immediately threw it out with all his strength. There was a loud bang, and light cut through the space.

The old man suddenly stopped moving. The light pierced his path. If he took another step forward, he would be pierced.

But before he could breathe a sigh of relief, the ice spear exploded, and a small-scale extreme cold blizzard swept in, engulfing the old man.

The old man rushed out from the snowstorm, shivering all over, his nose, eyebrows and clothes covered with ice and snow, and his throat was dry.

"You, you, you, you little bastard, are you done yet?"

Then the old man saw that Li Nian was standing far away from him at this time. He had moved before, as if he had distanced himself again and did not seem to have any intention of attacking him again.

give up?

The old man just thought so when he suddenly remembered that the place was where Li Nian had stepped on the ground, radiated spiritual power, and performed the "Spell to Dispel Idlers".

At this time, the "Disperse Idle People" spell was still in effect, and the spiritual power emanating from Li Nian's feet had not been retracted...

The old man suddenly understood what Li Nian was going to do. His face changed suddenly and he ran away.

Li Nian looked at him coldly. No matter how the old man tried to restrain his breath, the ice and snow on his body made him a beacon in Li Nian's perception.

Li Nian raised his hand and slapped the ground, immediately taking over every bit of spiritual power from the center of the "Disperse Idle People" spell that was originally running autonomously, disrupting its structure, and began to reconstruct it.

"Disperse the idlers" - change the formation - "Control of space".

"Bang", the old man suddenly hit a wall of air.

He stepped back, and another wall of air blocked his way.

He reached out his hand to touch, and found that there were solid invisible walls on all sides.

He had been locked in an invisible cell.

Li Nian raised his palm and pointed it at the old man in the cell. Layered magic arrays unfolded with his palm as the center. All the energy from his body and surroundings seemed to be plundered, and poured into his palm frantically, forming a small ball. The small ball swallowed up and spit out energy, sometimes swelling due to swallowing too much energy, and sometimes shrinking due to the strong restraint of the magic array, over and over again. The size remained unchanged, but the light inside became thicker and thicker, until it flickered like the sun.

What Li Nian is going to use next is a very simple and crude technique.

Its name is: directional light cannon.

In a nutshell, the greater the input, the greater the output.

And now, all the spiritual power in Li Nian's body has been input, and the spiritual power around him has been plundered. This attack can be said to be the strongest output that Li Nian can achieve in theory now. He himself doesn't know how much damage it will cause.

As if he had anticipated his fate, the old man stopped making a fuss. He turned around, looked at Li Nian, frowned, and finally seemed to be really angry and spoke coldly.

"Don't push yourself too far, kid."

As he spoke, he faced Li Nian, with the dagger completely unsheathed and held in his hand.

The next moment, a torrent of light engulfed the old man.

The strongest blow was unavoidable and hit the old man completely.

Dead?

Li Nian made such a judgment.

At this moment, without any warning, dark flames rose up!

The overwhelming burning blocked the overwhelming stream of light.

A dagger was swung down, and the black flames poured down like a sharp knife, splitting the light stream in the middle, rushing straight forward, going upstream, and stabbing towards Li Nian's forehead.

The light dissipated, and the sword made of burning black flames also stopped in front of Li Nian.

Was it an illusion? In a trance, Li Nian saw a tall figure standing behind the black flames...

"you lose."

The black flame dissipated.

What appeared was the short old man, pointing his knife at Li Nian.

Chapter 83 Dialogue

The old man faced the attack head-on and broke through Li Nian's full-strength attack, but it was not without a price.

His clothes were burnt into tatters, revealing his shriveled skin underneath, which was a burnt black color. He looked disheveled and covered in dirt.

But he did win, and this blow could have cut Li Nian in half.

But he didn't do that.

Li Nian came out of Bing Xin's state, the warmth in her pupils returned, and her eyes glowed again.

All of a sudden, he felt debilitating aches and pains and burning pains in every corner of his body - they were the aftereffects of wasting all his spiritual power and using overbearing strengthening methods to stimulate his body's muscles. In the "Ice Heart" realm, he could easily suppress them and pretend not to feel anything, but now that he had "Ice Heart", this aching pain was really... making him feel sober.

Fortunately, at the same time, there was a force originating from the heart flowing through his limbs, bringing coolness and cooling down, while also relieving pain and repairing those body cells that were overloaded under the surging spiritual power - it was Li Nian's "soul talent" at work, which could even repair a broken heart. That vitality flowed out from his heart from the moment he started fighting, nourishing every corner of his body, soothing his pain all the time and offsetting the load. It was precisely because of this that Li Nian chose the violent strengthening method without hesitation and applied it in actual combat, and the situation was exactly as he had judged.

So it was okay to continue fighting... But Li Nian looked at the blade that was pointed in front of him and realized that he had been spared by the other party. Knowing that there was no point in fighting any further, he sighed and raised his hands in surrender.

The old man noticed the return of warmth and spirit in his eyes and snorted coldly.

"Finally calmed down? Hmm... that doesn't seem right. Should I say finally came back to life? Never mind. It doesn't matter what. At least we can have a conversation now?"

"...So what exactly are you here for?" Li Nian asked coldly, a little annoyed.

He thought that this person was a companion of the Yuyuko faction, and that he had come to avenge Kidomaru and take his life, so he went directly into Bingxin and identified the old man as his mortal enemy.

But now that he could kill himself, the old man didn't do it.

If you think about it carefully, apart from the knife that hit him in front of his eyes, the old man had not launched a decent counterattack from beginning to end in the previous few rounds of confrontation.

The last knife was so powerful and frightening, but it was forcibly retracted when it came right in front of him. Li Nian understood that the old man did not seem to have any intention of killing him.

Seeing Li Nian surrender, the old man simply sheathed his sword and held it on his shoulder. He seemed not to care about the injuries he received from Li Nian and even smiled brightly.

"It's nothing, actually. I just heard from my grandson that Kidomaru was killed by a young man, so I came to take a look out of curiosity."

Let’s not talk about who that grandson is and how the news was leaked... Li Nian no longer had any hope of keeping Huang Quan’s promise of keeping the secret.

"Curious?" Li Nian raised his eyebrows slightly: "Aren't you here to seek revenge on me?"

The old man spread his hands, shook his head and said, "No, no."

Why didn’t you say this earlier?

Li Nian was annoyed and said coldly, suppressing her anger.

"Why didn't you make it clear earlier? Why are you being so vague?"

"Don't be angry, don't be angry. I'm sorry." The old man laughed. "I have to admit that I wanted to see what tricks the guy who killed Kidomaru had. I didn't explain it clearly on purpose, trying to trick you into doing it. This is my fault. So look at the injuries on your body. I've paid the price, haven't I? Calm down."

"…Don't expect me to apologize or compensate you."

The kimono looked very expensive. Li Nian didn't want to accompany her at all, so she immediately and decisively distanced herself from the responsibility.

The old man was speechless for a moment, then he burst into laughter: "Hahahaha... What an interesting boy. Not only his personality, but his methods are also very good. Especially the last attack was quite brilliant. I was also fooled. It has been a long time since anyone has been able to force me to this point."

Li Nian wanted to complain, "You're right, I'm still giving you the head-on win?" But she held back and replied calmly, "Thank you."

"I was originally wondering how Kidomaru could be defeated by a young boy, but now it seems that it is not unfair for him to die at your hands. Haha, young people in the human race are really amazing these days..."

The old man looked Li Nian up and down. Although he was smiling, there was a hint of deep emotion in his pupils, and his tone became gradually deeper.

Li Nian felt a chill, narrowed his eyes slightly, put down his hands, raised his guard again, and quietly prepared for battle.

"…You are indeed a monster."

The old man's breath was always elusive, and Li Nian could not determine his identity from it, but the black flame that rose up at that time was a phenomenon of energy release with a certain nature. Li Nian had also seen the same phenomenon on Kidomaru. It can be confirmed that the guy in front of him and Kidomaru are undoubtedly a kind of ghosts and monsters, and they are much stronger than Kidomaru.

Did he not notice or pay no attention to Li Nian's renewed desire to fight? The old man just looked at him curiously.

"I am not only a monster, I am also a well-known big monster. But you don't seem to know that. You think Kidomaru is my subordinate. It can be seen that you really don't understand the situation in this world. You really don't know who I am?"

"I don't know. I haven't been an exorcist for two days."

"..."

The old man obviously didn't believe it, and Li Nian was too lazy to explain.

"So, you came to me out of curiosity and forced a fight with me. It's about time you gave your name."

"...Well, I'll introduce myself here after a long time."

The old man looked serious, put down the knife and put it back on his waist.

"My name is Nura: Nura."

"...Nura?"