My Endless Life.

Chapter 220 Talisman
"How can this be…"

Looking at Li Qi, whose aura was growing stronger and whose cultivation strength had reached the innate level, Qian Yude could not help but mutter to himself.

Qian Yude is not a warrior, but even though he is not a warrior, he understands that there are rules for the improvement of a warrior's strength.

The ninth level refines the skin, flesh and tendons, the eighth level refines the bones, the seventh level refines the internal organs, the sixth level refines the qi… step by step, one advances upwards level by level.

Although there are rumors of breakthroughs on the battlefield, generally speaking, a breakthrough on the battlefield is only a breakthrough of one level.

But I have never heard of anyone being able to skip three levels in an instant!
Qian Yude was able to do this because he was not a warrior to begin with, and his way of advancement was not to rely on himself, but on external things.

But how did Li Qi achieve such a sudden surge in strength?

Is it some secret method with side effects?
Qian Yude looked at Li Qi and saw that he was in good condition, but he felt that it was not quite right.

"Master, you..."

Zhong Bo was as shocked as Qian Yude. He stared at Li Qi, who had suddenly become a congenital warrior, and was stunned for a long time.

Li Qijian and Zhong Bo explained:
"I could have broken through to the Xiantian realm a long time ago, but I was just suppressing my cultivation. Now, I don't need to suppress it anymore."

"I see…"

Although Li Qi's words still sounded problematic, such as why he was about to break through to the innate level, but his external cultivation level was still at the ninth level.

But these are not important now. What is important is the huge pig demon county magistrate who is as big as a hill.

"Do you think that you can be my opponent after you break through the Xiantian realm? Stupid!!"

Qian Yude snorted coldly when he saw Li Qi's gaze turned to him.

Even if he breaks through to the innate realm, what difference does it make? The gap in strength cannot be made up by improving his cultivation.

In Qian Yude's current state, he feels that even a master can be defeated, let alone a kid who has just broken through to the innate realm!

"Normally, even if I break through to the innate realm, I think it would be difficult to defeat you, but unfortunately..."

Li Qi did not continue speaking. He silently took out another stack of talisman paper from his arms.

In the world of martial arts, one’s strength increases step by step. In the acquired realm, there is the concept of fighting against opponents of higher levels, but it is rarely seen in the innate realm.

There is no such thing as a Grandmaster level, each level is vastly different.

Although Li Qi has become an innate realm, he has just reached this stage after all, and has not yet mastered the means that an innate realm should master, such as releasing innate sword energy to attack.

Under normal circumstances, he would not be Qian Yude's opponent.

But the problem is that Li Qi is not a 'normal person'.

Over the years, when he was bored, he would turn all the magic he could cast into talisman paper and store it.

Some of the magic talismans were difficult to use with Li Qi's current level of cultivation, or after being used, their power was not great due to his own strength, so they were sealed up by Li Qi.

Now that Li Qi has been promoted to the innate level, he can take out some of those magic talismans and use them.

After taking out the talisman paper, Li Qi stopped communicating with Qian Yude, and Qian Yude also stopped mocking him. He looked at Li Qi with murderous intent, and the two men started fighting in an instant.

Li Qi's body was much smaller than Qian Yude's. With the talismans stuck on his legs to speed him up and the skills to increase his leg strength, Li Qi's speed was far greater than that of the clumsy wild boar, and he jumped nimbly on Qian Yude's body.

While jumping, Li Qi also stuck the talisman in his hand on various parts of Qian Yude's body.

Legs, waist, abdomen, back...

Pieces of yellow talisman paper, which seemed to be Taoist talismans used to ward off evil spirits, were stuck all over Qian Yude's body.

"what!"

When Qian Yude saw the talisman paper on his body, his heart skipped a beat.

Although he didn't recognize these things, they looked vaguely familiar to him.

In some Taoist temples, the talismans used to pray for blessings and peace look like this.

Although Qian Yude has not yet met a Taoist priest who uses talismans to exorcise evil spirits, he does not know whether talismans are really useful.

But Li Qi's behavior at this moment still made him frightened.

This talisman paper... could it be that it is really useful?

Li Qi's behavior made Qian Yude a little uneasy. He didn't think that what Li Qi did was just a trick, and he also saw that Li Qi had talisman paper on his leg.

The talisman paper did indeed enhance the opponent's speed and reaction ability.

Thinking of this, Qian Yude couldn't bear it any longer. He shook his body, trying to get rid of all the talismans on his body.

However, those talismans seemed to be growing on his body, sticking to him tightly, and no matter how he shook them off, he could not get rid of them at all!
On the other side, seeing that Qian Yude noticed that there was something wrong with the talisman, Li Qi no longer followed the arrangements step by step. He pinched the sword gesture with his right hand, urged the innate energy in his body, and detonated the talisman paper left on Qian Yude's body.

Click click click——

The first thing to be detonated was the talisman on Qian Yude’s right foot.

Seven or eight yellow talismans exploded at the same time, and the icy aura wrapped around Qian Yude's right foot. In the blink of an eye, the right foot was turned into an ice sculpture emitting cold air!

"What's this!!!?"

Qian Yude was shocked when he felt the coldness of his right foot penetrate into his bones.

He shook his right foot to try to break the ice on it, but then the talisman paper on his left leg exploded instantly!

The same coldness, the same frost, covered Qian Yude's entire lower body.

The restraints condensed by ice seemed to be much stronger than silk threads, and Qian Yude was unable to break free for a moment!
The talisman was still detonating. In addition to ice, there were other things corroding Qian Yude's body. Frost, fire... even corrosion!

The continuous attacks made Qian Yude feel pain all over his body, but he was helpless and could only look up to the sky and rage:
"What on earth is this! A Taoist talisman? Why are Taoist talismans useful? Who are you?!"

"You even have a golden elixir that can turn you into a monster, so why should you be surprised that I can use talismans?"

Li Qi stood above Qian Yude's head, with the silk thread in his hand already wrapped around his neck.

A higher level of cutting technique was attached to the silk thread in his hand. Looking at Qian Yude under his feet, Li Qi no longer hesitated. He suddenly tightened the silk threads in his hands and strangled Qian Yude's neck!
“Damn it——!!”

Qian Yude's neck muscles suddenly swelled, and the hard muscles and skin actually held up Li Qi's pulling thread!
"How can I die here! How can I die here!!!"

Qian Yude screamed frantically, swinging his frozen hands and hitting his head, trying to force back Li Qi who was above him.

But how could Li Qi let him have his way?

The mechanical spiders that had been thrown away earlier ran back again. They divided into two groups and spit out silk threads, wrapping around Qian Yude's arms from both sides.

They don't need to hold on for long, just controlling Qian Yude for a while to give Li Qi enough time to cut off his head.

"Damn!!!"

In the end, Qian Yude was unable to break free from Li Qi's restraints.

The silk thread entered his neck little by little, finally reached his cervical vertebrae, and cut precisely at the connection of the cervical vertebrae.

Then there was a "plop" sound, and the huge pig head fell off Qian Yude's body, rolled down, and landed on the ground in front of him.

boom! !

Without his head, Qian Yude’s body fell to the ground with a loud bang.

The head that still had Qian Yude's consciousness looked at Li Qi who had jumped off him and made an unwilling sound:
“Why…why is it like this…where did your talisman come from! If there is no talisman…without that talisman——!!”

"Even without the talisman, you won't survive."

Li Qi said softly.

Zhong Bo cooperated and walked to his side, handing him the collected mechanical spiders.

Even if Li Qi didn't have the talisman, Qian Yude would have no chance of survival.

Because Zhongbo is here.

The innate realm is full of obstacles at every step, and Zhongbo is a strong man who is close to being a master. If he takes action, Qian Yude will not survive at all.

So no matter what, as long as Li Qi is here, Qian Yude is dead today.

Unless someone comes to rescue him.

But now it seems that in this city, apart from Qian Yude and He Ru, there should be no other so-called "holy religion" people.

"I won't accept this! I won't accept this!! If you hadn't come to meddle in my business, I wouldn't have ended up like this!!"

Qian Yude’s pig head was roaring.

Incredibly, even with only a head left, he still retained a relatively strong vitality.

This kind of "immortality" made Li Qi look at Qian Yude several more times. While the other party was not completely dead yet, Li Qi asked:
"What is the Holy Religion? What is the Golden Elixir? And what is He Ru's identity? You should know the answers to these questions."

"..."

When Li Qi asked these questions, Qian Yude fell silent.

Li Qi looked at him in surprise as he was about to die, and asked:
"Don't you want to talk?"

"Oh...it doesn't matter..."

Not sure if he had come to terms with it or had other ideas, Qian Yude laughed at himself and said to Li Qi:

"In the study... In the box on the left bookshelf, there is my diary... If you want to know, go and read it yourself..."

When Qian Yude said this, the light of life in his eyes gradually faded. He laughed and said, "...I hope you won't regret going against that force when the time comes..."

After he said this, he fell silent.

The light in his eyes faded, and all breath of life was gone. The man named Qian Yude had indeed returned to the underworld, with no possibility of resurrection.

Not long after the mastermind died, the other detectives from the Six Gates dared to move over here.

Jiang Ming directed the people from the Six Gates to finish the job. After a while, he walked over to Li Qi, who was investigating the body of the Wild Boar County Magistrate. He asked with a complicated expression:

"…Should I call you Lord Patrol Envoy, or Young Hero Li Qi?"

"You can call me whatever you want. Anyway, I got what I wanted."

As Li Qi answered, he used a special device to extract blood and some flesh tissue from Qian Yude's huge body.

Qian Yude's monster body is of great research value. In addition to him, He Ru also has the flesh and blood of Feng the Butcher, and Li Qi also preserved a part of it.

He wanted to see if he could reverse-analyze the composition of the golden elixir from this part of flesh and blood that had become a demon.

Seeing Li Qi busy there, Jiang Ming couldn't help but sigh.

He looked down at Qian Yude's huge body, then at the busy Six Gates members in the distance, and after thinking for a while, he whispered:
"I understand, Lord Li Zhen, the patrol envoy."

He called Li Qi Li Zhen. It seemed that he intended to conceal the fact that Li Qi had ever existed here and completely remove Li Qi, a man from the underworld who did not belong to the court, from this matter.

(End of this chapter)