Ferocious Tigers

"Little brother, to be honest, if you'd come a day earlier, I might have asked you to wait. But today is just perfect."

"It has been ten days since the last blood draw. During those ten days, we fed them all kinds of fresh food every day, along with medicines to replenish their blood and strengthen their bodies. They have basically recovered their health now, and the blood in their bodies has only just been replenished, so it is at its freshest state..."

The fellow speaking so animatedly was the manager of the pharmacy, a well-dressed man who looked to be around forty.

At present.

After confirming that Ling Wuyuan truly wanted to buy fresh Tiger Blood and genuinely had the money for it, he immediately led Ling Wuyuan into the pharmacy's rear courtyard.

Along the way.

Ling Wuyuan saw many shop employees carrying weapons, but most of them did not qualify as martial artists. At best, they were ordinary people who had undergone a little training.

The manager's words also piqued his interest somewhat.

"Do you keep many fierce beasts here?"

At that.

A distinctly proud look appeared on the pharmacy manager's face. "Quite a few, indeed."

"We have two adult tigers, ten adult wolves, dozens of venomous snakes, and as for venomous spiders, centipedes, scorpions, toads... there are over a thousand in total. Every month, feeding these beasts alone costs us a substantial sum."

"However, it is precisely because our shop is willing to spend money and has the most complete and freshest stock that our profits are the highest among the pharmacies nearby..."

His words.

Were full of the sense that his honor and disgrace were bound together with those of the shop.

Presumably.

He had invested no small amount of effort into it.

As they spoke.

The two smoothly arrived at a separately enclosed courtyard.

As he pushed open the door.

The manager's proud expression remained, yet his face also carried a trace of vexation.

"Little brother, honestly, these beasts are truly restless all day long. Most of the time, we have to muzzle them. Otherwise, the moment they open their throats and roar, people for several kilometers around will hear that annoying tiger roar like ghosts wailing and wolves howling. It is far too easy to offend the neighbors..."

When he pushed open the gate, the first things that entered Ling Wuyuan's sight were two especially enormous iron cages—large metal cages formed from numerous solid metal bars at least seven or eight centimeters thick.

The dangerous large creatures imprisoned within were tigers, living beings Ling Wuyuan had only heard of and seen in videos in his previous life, never in person.

Though he did not know how large tigers from his previous life could actually grow, Ling Wuyuan felt that the tigers before him were certainly large enough.

Even on all fours, they stood a head taller than him, at least 1.7 or even 1.8 meters tall. Their bodies were probably around 5.5 meters long; with their tails included, their full length was likely over six meters, perhaps close to seven.

Honestly.

At first sight, Ling Wuyuan was somewhat surprised as well.

The actual size of these two fierce tigers completely surpassed the ordinary sedans of his previous life.

Even the circumference of a single foreleg was far thicker than his waist, and they weighed at least a thousand kilograms.

An ordinary adult could probably be chewed up and eaten by them in two or three bites.

In the environment of his previous life, a creature of this size could likely overturn a smaller bus with a single charge, or even smash a hole straight through one, allowing it to treat the passengers inside as little desserts.

Moreover.

Those undisguised gazes, clearly seeking someone to devour, directly displayed their ferocity.

Though their gaping maws were tightly locked shut by metal restraints, through the gaps in the shackles, one could still see rows of sharp fangs and thick saliva slowly dripping out.

They made people unable to help but feel awed and drawn in.

Even Ling Wuyuan instinctively felt a moment of alarm when he met their eyes. It was a living creature's fundamental instinct when facing danger.

Yet very quickly, that feeling rapidly faded, replaced by excitement.

When he thought that he might need to personally kill such enormous creatures in the future, then strip their sinews and skins to make medicine, he inexplicably felt a sense of accomplishment.

For a time.

His gaze toward the two fierce tigers also revealed undisguised cruelty.

The two fierce tigers immediately felt challenged.

Their already savage gazes instantly became even more dangerous!

As he watched Ling Wuyuan and the two fierce tigers stare each other down without yielding, the manager silently pondered to himself:

This little ghost is really calm...

Has he seen something like this before...

Those who came here to draw tiger blood could hardly be counted on one hand.

Yet when those people faced the enormous creatures inside the cages, they would often instinctively feel some fear.

That was a reaction caused by biological instinct.

When facing huge man-eating beasts that weighed at least a thousand kilograms with ease, stood taller than most people even on all fours, and were taller than ordinary houses when standing on two legs, even mature adults could not help but feel apprehensive.

But this does not seem like mere calmness anymore...

He looks completely ready to slaughter those two tigers...

After discreetly glancing at Ling Wuyuan's eyes, many thoughts immediately rose in the manager's mind.

He instinctively felt that the little ghost beside him was somewhat different from ordinary people.

Yet he continued introducing the tigers to Ling Wuyuan. "These two beasts were both captured around a year ago. They are fierce by nature and enormous in size. When they were captured, the local hunters had to put in a great deal of effort before they finally succeeded..."

"Oh?"

"Hunters?"

Ling Wuyuan withdrew his gaze and asked curiously, "To capture such enormous fierce beasts, did those hunters cultivate martial arts?"

The manager first nodded, then shook his head slightly as he explained, "Some professional hunters do cultivate martial arts, but most only train very superficially."

"At most, it counts as strengthening their bodies."

"After all, they might not even recognize all the characters in a Cultivation Method. You cannot expect them to be very strong..."

"The reason they were able to capture these two beasts was mainly through traps and poison."

"Though these two beasts are extremely formidable in direct combat—one casual swipe of their claws carries several thousand, even ten thousand jin of force, and a casual leap spans more than ten meters, so they might not necessarily fall behind even against cultivators of the Bone Forging Realm—they are, in the end, merely mindless beasts. As long as the plan is sound, even ordinary people can take them down."