The only drawback was perhaps that the Thunder Winged Shadow Tiger had a relatively short lifespan, only half that of a Winged Shadow Tiger of the same rank.
A Qi Refinement Thunder Winged Shadow Tiger had a lifespan of roughly a hundred years.
At Foundation Establishment, three hundred years.
At the Golden Core realm, seven or eight hundred years.
Although that seemed somewhat less, it still lived far longer than cultivators of the same rank. Moreover, the Thunder Winged Shadow Tiger Bloodline was exceptionally powerful, enough to completely overlook this flaw.
It was precisely for this reason that the clan had raised many Thunder Winged Shadow Tigers over the past several centuries.
This also provided the genius Beast Tamer Ling Li Hu with abundant experimental material.
In the end, several decades ago, he had actually perfected the breeding defect within this mutated spirit tiger bloodline.
From then on, this mutated spirit tiger race had taken root in the world and could reproduce naturally. The probability was not low either; among their offspring, there was at least a thirty percent chance that one would be a Thunder Winged Shadow Tiger.
The remaining seventy percent would be Winged Shadow Tigers...
The Thunder Winged Shadow Tiger in Ling Chengmie's possession had come about in precisely this manner.
Moreover, its aptitude ranked second among all the Thunder Winged Shadow Tigers held by the Ling Clan. It had every chance of reaching the Nascent Soul realm in the future, and the might of its lightning arts was boundless.
With Ling Chengmie's aid, its cultivation had already reached the Golden Core Late Stage. It was even not far from Golden Core Completion...
As for the most talented Thunder Winged Shadow Tiger of this race, it was the lifebound spirit tiger of the clan's genius Beast Tamer,