I defeated the saint with a parry.

The man-faced tiger cursed and made a show of force, then raised his hand and shot the broken gun at Xu Ling like a cannonball.

Xu Ling dodged the attack, the broken spear smashing a large crater in the ground. Xu Ling himself was unharmed, but the flying debris hurtled towards the hut. The old monk Xumi, pushed to the front by the crowd, looked down in horror; several bloody holes had appeared in his chest.

The surrounding eaves and walls were inlaid with gravel, and the wooden doors and windows had been punched through.

It was the old monk's bad luck that he was at the very front and became a human shield.

"Amitabha."

No one expected this sudden turn of events. Once they realized what was happening, the group quickly hid in the small house and dismantled many wooden planks to block the vulnerable spots.

As for the little monk, he still had some conscience; he dragged the half-cooled Sumeru into the hut.

Xu Ling swallowed hard. He was closest to the broken gun and felt the damage most acutely. The human-faced tiger's thrown weapon was like a real cannonball; the difference in their skill levels was clearly visible. He absolutely could not take it head-on.

If he hadn't reacted quickly, he might have been turned into mincemeat.

"Are you scared?"

Seeing the horror on Xu Ling's face, the human-faced tiger deliberately said, "Your colleague was torn in two by my bare hands, and you will soon enjoy the same treatment."

"Don't you understand the principle that villains die from talking too much?"

The human-faced tiger understood Xu Ling's words, and the mocking effect was immediately maximized.

The people in the cabin stared in astonishment at Xu Ling's retreating figure. Zhao Yi couldn't help but whisper to Li west, "You have a keen eye. To find such a chivalrous person among the masses is truly remarkable."

Regardless of whether the wandering swordsman surnamed Xu is strong or not, at least his mouth is really sharp and venomous.

After the human-faced tiger roared, the red light in its eyes intensified. It plunged its paws into the ground, and no one knew what it did, but it actually lifted up the stone slabs and the ground itself from the entire courtyard.

Judging from their posture, they wanted to bury Xu Ling alive on the spot.

"The earth has turned upside down!"

Xu Ling leaped up, ready to jump out of the courtyard, but the ground beneath his feet came alive. The soil rippled and transformed into two beast claws, which grabbed his heels as he leaped, binding him tightly.

Even when Xu Ling used his knife to cut the clod of earth binding the feet, the cut-off parts would quickly be replaced by other clods of earth that surged up.

There's no way to dodge it; you have to take it head-on.

Xu Ling parried the horizontal sword and faced the attack head-on. As the huge rock came crashing down, the sound of metal clanging rang out.

He had become a machine that only knew how to deflect force and rebound, and had no other thoughts.

The entire courtyard was turned upside down (physically), except for the spot under Xu Ling's feet, which remained intact. Before the human-faced tiger could even imagine what the human race would look like smashed into mincemeat, he saw Xu Ling completely unharmed.

"This human cultivator is indeed extraordinary."

He was a tiger demon, and in all his years of life, he had never seen such a strange human.

The Earth Dragon Turns Over was the first powerful move he learned after entering the Concentration Realm; even the black bear spirit on the neighboring mountain dared not take it head-on.

But the person in front of me, with just an ordinary knife that wasn't even a magical weapon, took all the hits.

Is it a shortcut?

Impossible. He has already bound the person with Earth Bind, preventing them from flying, jumping, or running. The person in front of him has no choice but to take the hit head-on.

He didn't sense any spiritual artifact aura from Xu Ling, and it was impossible for this person to possess a higher-level spiritual treasure.

The human-faced tiger was confused. He was hesitating about how to kill the person opposite him when he noticed that the person opposite him had moved, taking a step back and rolling.

Upon regaining freedom, their first instinct was not to fight back, but to retreat?

It's normal that he doesn't understand.

"When it comes to fighting bosses, you must not be greedy."

This is such a simple principle that anyone who has done a beginner's tutorial can understand it.

Xu Ling is only in the Body Tempering stage. It's not like he's invincible just because he has a cheat system. If he doesn't do well, he could be crushed to death with a flick of his finger. It's normal for him to be cautious.

If you really wanted him to grab a sword and charge forward to chop, then he would truly be out of his mind.

Didn't you see that even the magical weapon spear given by the Demon Suppression Division was broken in half? Is he going to throw his knife at him to his death, or just get some minor scraping? It's completely unnecessary.

His strategy was to lie low and wait for the opponent to attack, then accumulate stamina through parrying and deflecting attacks to trigger an execution.

"You! Come here!"

Xu Ling used a tactic to lure the enemy.

The human-faced tiger's eyes immediately turned red, and he threw all his worries to the back of his mind. He leaped up, clasped his hands together, and smashed straight at Xu Ling.

As spiritual energy gathered, the tiger demon's paws were covered by the surrounding shards of earth, and more and more of it was gathering, the spiritual energy surging so powerfully that Xu Ling, who was a foot away, could feel it.

The tiger demon swung its paws, unleashing two spiritual energy blades made of broken stones, and then followed closely behind, attacking Xu Ling.

"Two attacks will be launched first, and there will be an unknown follow-up attack."

Xu Ling knew that the important thing was how to deal with the countermeasures.

He used his horizontal sword to block the spiritual energy blades, deflecting and deflecting them, sending the two blades flying and changing their trajectory to hit the courtyard wall. The wall, which was already in ruins, was now blasted into dust, saving the old abbot the trouble of repairing it.

"Not bad! You do have some skill!" The human-faced tiger sneered. He had already rushed in front of Xu Ling. After seeing Xu Ling's actions, his previous reservations disappeared.

Xu Ling either concealed his strength or relied on pure technique to deflect and parry the attack, thus managing to catch it.

However, manpower is limited, and it is impossible to see through the enemy's attack every time. Once a mistake is made, Xu Ling will surely die under his iron fist.

Foolish humans in the Body Tempering Realm, how could they possibly be a match for a demon in the Spirit Condensation Realm?

"Die!"

The human-faced tiger roared, charging up its left fist to deliver a powerful punch.

The force of the punch was fierce, and Xu Ling's cheeks stung from the wind. The pebbles were also blown towards him, with even greater power than when the punch pierced through the old monk's chest.

With the help of the system, he caught all the broken stones one by one. The clanging sound of hammering metal was like dense raindrops falling on the tin shed, echoing throughout the courtyard.

When the first punch failed, the human-faced tiger quickly turned and delivered another punch with incredible speed. If it weren't for the system's assistance, Xu Ling wouldn't have been able to keep up with it.

With both punches deflected and parried, the human-faced tiger roughly understood that a conventional frontal attack would be useless, so he immediately changed his strategy. He lay down on his stomach, landing on all four claws, doubling his speed. His punches turned into claw strikes, and in the blink of an eye, he could unleash six claws.

As it darts left and right, you have no way of knowing which side it will attack from, or at what speed and frequency.

No wonder the Zhong brothers, despite wielding their spears, didn't fare well and could only stall for a short while.

With that kind of movement technique combined with fast and slow swordsmanship, who could handle it without cheating?

Even the Tree Guardians aren't this hard to defeat.

"Dry!"

Even with the system's assistance, Xu Ling felt strained. Not only was his hand numb, but his stamina was also gradually declining, and he even felt a sense of exhaustion.

"Holy crap, what if I get executed before I can drag the boss to his execution moment?"

This is not a game.

If he were to be executed by the boss, wouldn't that be the same as him washing his neck clean and offering it up for the human-faced tiger to bite off?

Absolutely not!