That said, Lu Chi's face turned fierce before Li Tianran even moved. He instantly raised the shotgun in his hand, aimed it at Li Tianran’s head, and fired.

Lu Chi was an extremely fierce guy. The words he said to Li Tianran just now were only to distract him.

No one expected that Lu Chi would dare to strike first in this situation. The distance between him and Li Tianran was only three meters, and firing at such close range meant the result was almost predictable.

However, the next second, Li Tianran's figure appeared in front of Lu Chi as if he had teleported.

He raised his right arm and pressed his palm directly onto the dark muzzle before the shotgun's flames spewed out.

Bang!

A cracking sound rang out, and the shotgun exploded directly. Black smoke instantly spewed out from behind the barrel!

Lu Chi’s entire body was pushed backward by the huge recoil, and he stumbled back four or five steps before falling to the ground.

Li Tianran looked at the dark circular mark on his palm and walked towards Lu Chi expressionlessly.

Civilian shotguns simply couldn't compare with military-grade firearms in terms of quality. The powerful air pressure generated by the gunpowder burning to fire the bullet could not be released from the muzzle, so it could only find other gaps to escape.

This was commonly known as a barrel burst.

Using a palm to block the muzzle and cause the shotgun to explode seemed incredible.

In fact, this was a method that only existed in theory, because the strength of the human body was simply not enough to completely block the muzzle, nor could it withstand the pressure of the bullet. Before the air pressure inside the barrel caused it to explode, the palm blocking the barrel would explode first!

But this theory became a reality with the powerful physique of the Evolvers.

Bam!

Lu Chi's body was kicked away, scraping along the ground for seven or eight meters before crashing directly into a pile of rubble.

The immense pain caused him to curl up.

Bam!

Lu Chi took two more punches to the chest, his ribs broke, and he kept vomiting blood.

Li Tianran's fists landed as if they cost nothing, and Lu Chi's vitality continued to decline...

No one knew how long the torment lasted, but Lu Chi's mental state was close to blurring, but his eyes were still fierce.

"Do you know why you ended up like this?" Li Tianran finally stopped. He squatted in front of Lu Chi and said calmly, "Rushing into action before you know the enemy's exact strength makes it easy to get hurt... If I were you, I wouldn't have attacked just now, I would have run."

"..." Lu Chi spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva and said with a miserable smile, "Do you think I could have escaped?"

"The purpose of escaping is not to escape, but to observe the enemy's strength in the process of escaping! You should be very clear that I am much stronger than you. Generally, people with very strong strength, eighty percent of them, will have a cat-and-mouse mentality towards the weak, and will not kill you immediately!"

"Using this mentality of the strong, the weak only need to endure some humiliation in the process of escape to observe the enemy's strength and find new opportunities." Li Tianran said calmly, "Although in the process of escape, the weak will also be injured by the strong, at least they won't be injured so badly."

"And when the weak attack the strong, if they don't have the ability to kill with one blow, then don't attack! Once you attack and injure the strong, the strong will feel that their dignity has been provoked, they will lose the cat-and-mouse mentality, they will hit very hard, and may even directly kill the weak."

"Through our conversation just now, if you are smart, you should have inferred that I am not the kind of extremely cold person. I have a very strong interest in you! So I will definitely not kill you directly, I am very much in line with the strong's cat-and-mouse mentality towards the weak..."

"If you had done what I said just now, you wouldn't have suffered such serious injuries now, and you wouldn't have put yourself in a dead end!"

Li Tianran paused here, tapped his head and said, "Fighting requires more than just courage, it requires brains..."

Listening to Li Tianran's words, the anger and hatred in Lu Chi's eyes gradually turned into another kind of complex emotion.

His brain cleared up, he was silent for a long time, and then slowly said, "You're right..."

Li Tianran did not answer Lu Chi's question, stood up, threw him an Ancient medicine grade fruit, and said, "Eat it."

Combat experience, loyalty, faith, and other things can all be cultivated after birth.

But only qualities like "courage" and "ferocity" cannot be shaped by anything. Li Tianran lacked a fearless madman like Lu Chi under his command. As for Ding Lu, his personality determined that he was more suitable to be a solid support, not a sharp sword to expand territory.

He must have Lu Chi!

Lu Chi looked at the fruit in his arms, was silent for a moment, and held it in his bloody hands and sent it into his mouth.

As the fruit juice burst in his mouth, he felt the pain all over his body gradually disappear, and the wounds on his hands and body began to slowly heal!

Whoosh!

Lu Chi stood up, his eyes showing an incomparably shocked divine light. He looked at his palm, and then looked at Li Tianran in disbelief.

"Stand up, continue," Li Tianran said calmly.

...

In the next thirty minutes, Li Tianran used various means to torture Lu Chi until he was covered in bruises, and also pointed out many shortcomings in Lu Chi's personality and fighting style.

Lu Chi was in pain and happy, and for the first time in his life, he felt that being beaten was such a great thing!

Every time Li Tianran pointed out one of Lu Chi's shortcomings, he would inflict serious trauma on his body, so that he could deeply remember the series of terrible consequences that his shortcomings might cause.

Li Tianran's methods became more and more ferocious, torturing Lu Chi like a ghost, and his shrill screams resounded through the sky. Da Feng Novel

Even Lao Hei and Lao Wei, who were watching from the sidelines, couldn't bear to look directly.

But as this one-sided crushing beating and torture went on, the arrogance, ferocity, anger, and hatred in Lu Chi's eyes lessened, and excitement and thirst for knowledge welled up instead.

Of course, this was not because Li Tianran had beaten him into submission, but because Lu Chi was convinced by Li Tianran's unique strategic vision!

If Lu Chi had only been courageous and not cunning enough before, then Lu Chi had now learned a lot of "dirty" tricks.

Even the "hit-and-run killing of the councilor" incident, which he was so proud of, was cited by Li Tianran as three other ways to kill the councilor without involving himself at all...

Lu Chi was no longer arrogant.

He finally determined that Li Tianran not only crushed him in strength, but also surpassed him in strategy and combat style.

He seemed... to have nothing to be proud of in front of Li Tianran!

Finally, Lu Chi had several more ribs broken again. He knelt beside the ruined wall, gasping for breath. A fruit was thrown over, Lu Chi swallowed it, and looked up at Li Tianran.

The expected storm of attacks did not come again.

Li Tianran stopped.

Lu Chi stood up, looked at Li Tianran, and hesitated.

He actually had a very impulsive feeling now, thinking of a line from a certain comedy movie.

He really wanted to say to Li Tianran now...

Dad, hit me!