Chapter 340 Fated Enemy (7300 words, monthly votes requested)

Future City.

Science and Technology Research Institute Base.

Facing Mu Qing's extremely strong physical defense, Jiang Nanqiu's face was solemn.

As he shouted, the golden gem on his chest lit up.

Suddenly, the thin energy in his body was instantly filled.

The seven originally blurry clones also recovered their energy at the same time, and continued to work together with the main body to inject energy into the blood-colored illusory furnace, trying to refine Mu Qing alive.

But Mu Qing's performance was really beyond Jiang Nanqiu's expectations.

As the blurry beast above Mu Qing's head gradually became clear, Jiang Nanqiu felt an unprecedented sense of oppression.

The pressure of looking down on the world came to him, and he had an illusion in a trance.

He saw a mountain range made of countless corpses, stretching for more than a few miles, and blood flowed down the mountain of corpses, forming a bloody ocean around the mountain of corpses.

In the wreckage that made up the mountain of corpses, he saw a towering giant as huge as a mountain, a majestic beast shaped like a dragon, and a demon burning with the flames of hell... Even though these creatures were dead, their bodies still exuded terrifying energy fluctuations. One could imagine the terrible power they possessed when they were alive.

But even so, they were only one of the countless corpses that made up the mountain of corpses.

On the top of the mountain of corpses stood a throne made of corpses. A vague figure sat on the throne, and only the pair of eyes emitting scarlet light could be seen. .

It looked down at the world calmly.

At this moment, the figure on the throne slowly turned his head and looked at him, as if his sight had crossed the barrier between illusion and reality, and the barrier of time and space.

Boom!

The moment their eyes met, Jiang Nanqiu felt his head buzzing.

Countless twisted and weird symbols were instilled in his mind. Just by looking at each other, he felt that his spiritual power began to rise continuously, and the growth rate was getting faster and faster, gradually approaching the edge of collapse.

If he continued to look at each other, he felt that his sea of ​​consciousness would be completely blown up by the mysterious knowledge that was constantly instilled.

At this time, he forced himself to be alert and bit his tongue to try to get out of the illusory spiritual scene.

At this time, Jiang Nanqiu was filled with fear.

Just by looking at the creature in the illusion, his spiritual power had actually increased significantly, which was simply horrifying.

At this time, he thought of what a former enemy had said:

"You ask me what the strong man standing at the top is like? Sorry, I have never seen a real strong man, but I know that their strength exceeds our cognition. Maybe just feeling their existence will affect you... They are like the sun that shines and heats, constantly radiating energy around. If you don't deliberately suppress it, it will even cause the surrounding space to distort and collapse..."

Jiang Nanqiu used to disagree with these words.

But at this time, he experienced it personally.

Just by looking at each other, many mysterious symbols appeared in its mind, and its spiritual power was also greatly improved under the influence of this power.

But this kind of growth is full of risks.

These strange symbols seemed to be imprinted in his mind. Whenever he tried to understand the meaning behind these symbols, his head would ache and his emotions would fluctuate. It seemed that he would be at risk of losing control at any time.

It was like an ant trying to understand the amount of knowledge in a library, which was completely beyond his ability.

His mental state kept fluctuating, and Jiang Nanqiu still couldn't get rid of the illusory mental scene.

Before the body collapsed, the spirit had already withered first.

But Jiang Nanqiu didn't choose to compromise. He chose to grit his teeth and persist. At the same time, the five gems on his chest lit up at the same time.

While constantly resisting the erosion of spiritual power, the past emerged in his mind like a slide.

The memory returned to the starting point.

...

That year, the North had heavy snow for several consecutive months. The whole world was covered in silver, and the roads outside the Winter City were completely covered with snow.

He graduated with the first place in the comprehensive score of Victory Academy and officially joined the "Five-Star Battle Group", one of the top ten battle groups, and became a member of the third group.

Facts have proved that the front line is far more cruel than he imagined.

The front-line internship experience during the academy was followed and protected by a professional team, which was a huge gap from real combat.

That period was also his rapid growth period.

Many theoretical knowledge learned in the academy were transformed into practical skills in the front-line combat.

At that time, the Five-Star War Group was challenging a field with a disaster level of "Level 4", and the battle was very tragic.

This field is called the "Purgatory Field".

The strongest race in it is called the Purgatory Clan. They have a human-like form, are all black, generally master extremely terrifying physical training combat skills, and are extremely keen on fighting.

Before entering the human world, the Purgatory Clan was divided into eight tribes.

Every year, there will be bloody battles between tribes, but unlike other races, the internal fighting of the Purgatory Clan is not for resources or interests, but only to select the strongest warriors.

The Purgatory Clan highly respects the strong.

This family style makes the Purgatory Clan warriors naturally aggressive.

During the fight against the Purgatory Field, the Five-Star War Group suffered heavy losses in the face of the fierce attack of the Purgatory Clan warriors, and even had a tendency to fall from the top ten war groups. During

this period, he followed the Five-Star Third War Group into the Purgatory Field several times and almost died in it.

But his talent was also revealed

during that period. During the fight against the Domain Clan, he was hailed as one of the top ten rookies in the Winter Zone for his outstanding performance.

During that period, his performance also attracted the attention of the Purgatory Clan.

In particular, the new generation of Purgatory Clan members regarded him as a glorious prey and wanted to kill him with their own hands.

The turning point of fate was during an investigation of the Purgatory Domain Field.

At that time, the Sixth Squad of the Five-Star Third Regiment where he was was besieged by the Purgatory Clan. They suffered heavy losses in the battle, and all the remaining warriors were captured alive, including him.

But the fierce and aggressive Purgatory Clan did not kill them.

At that time, the Purgatory Clan members dispersed, and a little boy with a black body and a black gem inlaid on his chest appeared in front of him and threatened to fight him.

This was his first encounter with "Lianhun".

He later learned that Lianhun was the most recognized and strongest child among the youngest generation of the Purgatory Clan, and he also realized later that he was regarded as a glorious prey by the new generation of the Purgatory Clan members. In

that battle, Lianhun gave him an offer that he could not refuse.

As long as he defeated it, all the captured team members could survive.

In order to prove the credibility of this sentence, Lianhun stretched out his hand and pressed it on his forehead, swearing to all the previous Lian fighters to prove that what he said was absolutely true.

Faced with Lianhun's request, he chose to agree without hesitation.

But the difficulty of this battle was beyond his imagination. Facing Lianhun, who was just a child, he broke both arms in the battle, and finally fought to his death in exchange for Lianhun and both fell down, ending in a draw.

When he woke up, he found himself in the hospital of the Winter Supply Area.

Through the explanation of the medical staff, he learned that all his comrades had been killed. When the support team arrived, only he was still alive after being unconscious.

At that moment, he was full of resentment towards Lianhun.

As for why Lianhun did not kill him, he had already guessed the answer.

It was like a provocation. Not killing him was to give him a chance for revenge.

Jiang Nanqiu accepted this challenge.

After recovering from his illness, he returned to the Five-Star Wars and joined the action against the expansion of the Purgatory Field.

In the following years, he fought with Lianhun several times in the Purgatory Field.

But Lianhun's growth rate was obviously faster than his, and the gap in strength was widening at a speed visible to the naked eye.

This also aroused his competitive spirit.

From childhood to adulthood, he was synonymous with the best.

Even in the Victory Academy, where talents arose in large numbers, he was recognized as the best freshman.

Now he was carrying the blood revenge of his dead comrades.

In order to defeat Lianhun, he trained desperately, tempered his body in the severe cold, and often asked the veterans of the war group for combat skills to make up for his shortcomings.

With his efforts, the gap between his strength and Lianhun's was temporarily narrowed.

In the continuous fight, he also understood why Lianhun let him go.

Lianhun said that it needed a whetstone, a whetstone that could inspire it to become stronger.

Obviously, he was the whetstone that Lianhun deliberately cultivated.

Lianhun was more eager than him to become stronger, only in this way could it inspire it to become stronger.

The dispersal of the Purgatory Field progressed slowly, and he and Lianhun fought for three years.

Even though he tried his best to catch up, the gap between his strength and Lianhun's was still widening.

He clearly remembered what Lianhun said to him:

"Jiangnan Qiu, your talent is the strongest among the human warriors I have ever seen, but the lack of human cultivation system limits your growth. It's a pity that you are not a member of my Purgatory Clan, otherwise you can use my Purgatory Clan's growth system to grow quickly. What a pity..."

This sentence not only expressed his affirmation of him, but also pointed out the imperfection of the human cultivation system.

Compared with the domain tribes with a long history, who constantly learn from mistakes and find their way to growth, humans started too late and developed too little time.

But he did not give up chasing after the soul refiner.

During that time, Jiang Nanqiu recalled what he had learned throughout his life, and combined with his own weaknesses in the battle with the soul refiner, he developed a set of combat skills specifically for the soul refiner.

This set of body training combat skills is called "Purgatory Kill", which is still included in the database of exercises.

At that time, the expansion of the Purgatory Domain was very crazy, and all major supply areas transferred combat forces to the Winter Supply Area.

When the joint dispersal operation against the Purgatory Domain was launched, Jiang Nanqiu also faced the soul refiner again at that time.

No one came to disturb them in this battle.

In the battle, the soul refiner, who no longer had expectations for him, rekindled his fighting spirit in that battle.

But he still lost this battle.

Facing the soul refiner who became stronger and stronger in battle and could grow rapidly in battle, he felt powerless more than once.

The gap in blood talent really exists.

After the battle, he fell into a coma, but humans won a great victory in the joint operation.

He thought that Lianhun had also died in the battle, and the years of fighting had finally come to an end.

But the regret in his heart never faded.

But only two years later, he met Lianhun again.

At that time, he left the Five Stars War Group and established the Beiming War Group with his own hands.

The encounter was in a domain field. He led the members of the Beiming War Group to investigate the situation of the domain field.

Unexpectedly, he happened to meet Lianhun who entered the domain field to plunder resources.

At that time, Lianhun lost the domain field of his clan and had become a wandering transcendent creature.

He still clearly remembered that Lianhun smiled and said to him, "How are you?"

He and Lianhun were like opponents entangled by fate, and they fought again without any surprise.

In the fight with Lianhun, he fought to his heart's content.

The regret in his heart also disappeared in the battle. He practiced countless times in his mind and used the combat skills specifically for Lianhun.

But he still lost that battle.

But Lianhun didn't kill him. Instead, he smiled and told him:

"Jiangnanqiu, you didn't let me down. Keep getting stronger and we'll meet again!"

Since then, Lianhun has been following him like a shadow, always meeting him unexpectedly.

But Lianhun was not friendly to him. Once his strength growth rate couldn't keep up, Lianhun's attitude would change drastically.

There was even one time when Lianhun angrily scolded him for not being worthy of being its whetstone and planned to put an end to him.

Years passed by, and he couldn't even remember how many times he had fought with Lianhun.

Lianhun and his tribe wandered in the no-man's land outside the Winter Supply Zone, looting resources everywhere, but whenever they met him, there would be a battle.

Several capture operations against Lianhun were launched.

But Lianhun dodged them all.

And his lifelong wish was to officially defeat Lianhun.

But for a while, Lianhun disappeared for five years

and he suspected that Lianhun was dead.

But he did not relax his training, looking forward to the day when Lianhun returned and then defeated it with strength.

The Beiming War Group also developed better and better under his leadership.

Various honors came one after another, but for him, defeating Lianhun was his obsession. After

more than five years of preparation, when Lianhun appeared in front of him again, there was a golden gem on his chest.

He could clearly sense that Lianhun's strength had greatly improved.

But when fighting with him, Lianhun only used physical training combat skills and did not display any abilities other than combat skills.

He was defeated again in this battle.

But Lianhun was very satisfied with him, saying that he had broken through the limits of the human growth system, and perhaps one day in the future he would be completely enlightened and open up a path of his own.

He took this to heart.

Since the existing cultivation system limits his growth, he should open up a path of his own growth system.

He began to study a large number of physical cultivation books and absorb knowledge from them.

During this period, Lianhun disappeared again for several years.

When Lianhun returned again, his body was covered with terrible scars, and there was a red gem on his chest.

The expected battle came as expected.

In the battle, he showed all he had learned in these years.

But in this battle, he clearly felt the fatigue of Lianhun, and he could no longer be as full of fighting spirit as before.

After the battle, he fell to the ground with a bruised face.

Lianhun sat beside him and corrected his mistakes in the battle as usual, as well as the direction of subsequent improvement.

In the next few years, Lianhun would still appear from time to time.

His strength improved rapidly under the spur of Lianhun, and the Beiming War Group was successfully promoted to an A-level war group, heading towards an S-level war group.

But every time they fought, he found that Lianhun's condition seemed to be getting worse and worse.

Although its strength has obviously improved significantly, its passion for fighting seems to have died down, and its eyes no longer have the high fighting spirit it once had.

In a blink of an eye, Lianhun disappeared for several years.

When he appeared again, the gems on Lianhun's body had become four.

In terms of pure physical strength, he was far inferior to Lianhun. Facing Lianhun, he could not even fight back, and was suppressed one-sidedly in the battle.

After the battle, Lianhun did not kill him, but told him

that his grindstone had lost its value and would never come again.

With that, Lianhun disappeared from his life.

For more than ten years, Lianhun did not appear.

But he did not give up the training of his combat skills, and always longed to fight Lianhun again one day, which would be his lifelong wish.

But Lianhun never appeared again.

In the past ten years, the Beiming War Group has been promoted to the ranks of S-level war groups, and his name has also been recorded in history textbooks.

He has reached the age of retirement, but he has not left the front line.

He is still waiting.

Looking forward to fighting his old enemy again.

When he was eighty years old, he received a lifetime honor certificate issued by the United Research Institute. It was also on that day that he received a letter.

The letter appeared quietly in his room, and no one in the heavily guarded regiment base discovered it.

When he opened the letter, there was no text on it, only a symbol burning like a flame, and a map.

There was also a red dot on the map.

The moment he picked up the letter, his eyes ignited with a surging fighting spirit.

He knew that Lianhun was back.

He had been waiting for this day for more than ten years, and now he finally got his wish.

He wrote a suicide note on this day, put it in a drawer, and then left the Winter Supply Area alone in the wind and snow, and came to the Snow Cliff marked on the map.

He met Lianhun again there.

Lianhun was still young at this time, and his body was emitting surging life fluctuations.

As their eyes met, Lianhun smiled and said,

"Jiangnanqiu, you are old. It turns out that life span is the biggest obstacle to your human growth... Can you still fight?"

In response to Lianhun's question, he said without hesitation,

"Yes!"

Seeing that his destined opponent appeared again, Jiangnanqiu was ready to die in this battle. He wanted to try his best again.

The cold current was mixed with wind and snow, and the two figures fought again.

The old body burst out with power beyond the limit in the battle, and the high morale stunned Lianhun.

He thought he would definitely lose this battle.

After all, Lianhun's growth rate was so fast that he could not keep up.

Even if Lianhun restrained his fighting power and only used physical skills to fight him, he would still find it difficult to resist.

But what he didn't expect was that Lianhun's body aged rapidly in this battle, his black hair gradually turned white, a frown appeared on his face, and even the vitality in his eyes was fading rapidly.

At the end of this battle, he stopped.

Facing Lianhun, who was panting and no longer able to fight, he asked what the reason was.

Lianhun did not answer this question, but asked him with a smile:

"Jiang Nanqiu, have you ever thought about truly breaking through the racial restrictions and gaining the qualifications to become a truly powerful person!"

He was very surprised to hear these words at that time, and asked Lianhun what a real strong man was.

Lianhun gave him an answer that sounded very mysterious.

It was a kind of life that transcended the rules of nature and was above all things. It could cover the sky with a snap of a finger, break the universe with a thought, and whatever it thought was true.

At that time, he did not understand what Lianhun meant by saying this.

But Lianhun's next move stunned him.

He saw Lianhun reach out and pull out a bloody gem from his chest, and then the second one...

While his vitality was rapidly declining, Lianhun smiled and told him:

"Jiangnan Qiu, I am very satisfied with the high morale you showed just now. I lost this battle, and I lost on the spiritual level... The vitality in my body is almost exhausted, and my people have all died in the battle. This inheritance will be left to you."

Facing Lianhun's dying wishes, he was full of confusion.

When he asked what happened, Lianhun smiled and replied:

"I bet the future with others, but unfortunately I lost everything in the end, but they can't expect to get any benefit from me... This miracle item is left to you, and you continue to move forward with your high and inextinguishable fighting spirit."

When Lianhun pulled off the fifth gem on his chest, he told him in a trance:

"By the way... The biggest enemy of you humans at this stage is not an external threat, but a threat from within. The force that brought me to this end is rooted in you humans... You can choose to retire, and you must not expose this power unless it is absolutely necessary... This thing is a pass to become the strongest, but it will also bring you endless disasters."

In response to his questioning, Lianhun shook his head and said nothing.

Before his vitality was exhausted, Lianhun stuffed five bloody gems into his hands one by one:

"Jiangnan Qiu, you won the last battle with me... Promise me that you will not lose again from now on. Keep my fighting spirit and you are only worthy of losing to me!"

Lianhun almost shouted the last sentence.

The wind and snow slapped on Lianhun's face, and at that time he suddenly saw the young child.

"Jiangnan Qiu, from today on, you are my Lianhun's whetstone!"

"Jiangnan Qiu, stand up, ignite your fighting spirit and continue to fight with me!"

"Jiangnan Qiu, you are a waste, why did I choose you to be my whetstone back then? If you can't satisfy me next time, you can die!"

"Hahaha, Jiangnan Qiu, keep up this improvement and keep up with my pace!"

...

Time flies, and decades pass in the blink of an eye.

Looking back on the past, it was like a dream .

Later, he inherited the inheritance of Lianhun and inlaid five gems on his body.

I also remember that Lianhun said that this power must not be exposed unless it is absolutely necessary, otherwise it will bring disaster, and he can't keep this inheritance with his strength.

So he chose to resign from the position of the head of the Beiming Group on the grounds of the recurrence of his old illness, no longer participated in the front-line battle, and returned to Shengli City.

Thinking of Lianhun's words, the biggest hidden danger of mankind at this stage is internal, not external.

He suspected that there were domain forces lurking in human society, and he began to wander around major cities in the name of speeches, searching for clues.

During this period, he found that the consciousness of Lianhun was still in the five gems.

This consciousness was like a flame imprinted in his body, always spurring him to maintain his high morale.

...

In a trance, Jiangnanqiu came back to his senses.

He looked up.

The black and ferocious figure hovering above also opened his eyes at this time.

As they looked at each other, he thought of Lianhun's last words before his death:

"Jiangnanqiu, you won the last battle with me... Promise me that you will not lose again from now on. Go forward with my fighting spirit, you are only worthy of losing to me!"

The surging fighting spirit burned, piercing the illusory spiritual scene.

His body was covered with pitch black again, and the surging vitality was surging in his body.

At this moment, Mu Qing also broke free from the bloody illusory furnace and punched him fiercely.

Jiangnanqiu also punched at this time.

Boom!

The terrifying pressure swept around them, and Jiangnanqiu's body exploded instantly, but then gathered in an instant, and punched Mu Qing again.

In the confrontation of punch after punch, Jiang Nanqiu's momentum rose steadily.

The war between Star City and Future City was still going on. Every minute and every second, human warriors died because of the behind-the-scenes manipulation of these lurking creatures in the field. He was eager to make a quick decision.

This was also one of the reasons why he didn't want to waste time listening to Feng Qi's explanation.

He had long known that there were lurking forces in the field in human society.

As the fighting spirit continued to rise, the five gems on Jiang Nanqiu's body flashed at the same time.

Boom!

After another fist fight, Jiang Nanqiu's shattered flesh and blood instantly gathered towards the center and recovered in the blink of an eye.

I will not die if my fighting spirit is not extinguished!

Punch after punch, even if every punch was a defeat, Jiang Nanqiu was able to continue to punch with all his strength, and his momentum never declined.

The pitch-black monster hovering above his head also became more and more ferocious as Jiang Nanqiu's fighting spirit rose.

At this time, Feng Qi, who was watching the battle outside the field, was stunned.

He never thought that Jiang Nanqiu would have such a terrifying fighting power.

"He's dying." At this moment, the shadow hovering beside him suddenly spoke.

"Why?"

"Although he has a miracle item, his life span has not been extended. At the moment when his life span is exhausted, even if he reassembles billions of times, his life span will end and there is no way to save him."

Feng Qi understood the shadow's explanation.

Although the five gems gave Jiang Nanqiu an extremely strong fighting power, this miracle item could not bring Jiang Nanqiu any improvement in strength.

No matter how strong he is, he will die at the end of his life span.

After all, miracle items are different from cultivation techniques, and the improvement they bring is not all-round.

"Lifespan has always been a weak point that limits human growth. This race does not have a long bloodline growth accumulation. Even if it has great creativity, the time it has been exposed to cultivation is still too short." The black shadow shook his head at this time.

Feng Qi did not answer after hearing this, and his eyes returned to Jiang Nanqiu.

Just as the black shadow said, Jiang Nanqiu's body seemed to be rapidly declining under the appearance of high morale.

The wrinkles on his face were increasing, and his white hair was slowly falling off... All this proved that Jiang Nanqiu's body was already old.

Boom!

After another fist fight, Jiang Nanqiu's body exploded again.

When the body reunited, Jiang Nanqiu once again posed for a punch, but this punch did not come out for a long time.

"Sorry... I still lost."

While muttering, Jiang Nanqiu's eyes were gradually covered with gray.

The dark and ferocious figure hovering above his head gradually overlapped with his body.

A breeze blew, and his white hair fell off with the wind.

The vitality in his body was completely exhausted at this time, and the five gems on his chest went out.

Losing the sense of killing intent, Mu Qing's fists suddenly stopped, and the scarlet light in her eyes gradually faded at this time.

Looking at Jiang Nanqiu who was standing in front of her and posing a fist-raising gesture, Mu Qing had a complicated expression.

She could feel that Jiang Nanqiu's will to fight came from his love for mankind.

But the advancement of this battle line cannot be hindered in any way.

"Maybe we will be comrades in the next battle line!"

Waving and closing Jiang Nanqiu's open eyes, she took a deep breath and turned to look at the domain warriors who were shouting and rushing from all directions.

The jade-colored light enveloped her body again.

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