Ordinary

Everything before my eyes began to distort. The Red Fox was stabbed to death by the shadow, the White Monkey showed a joyful expression, and the screaming Tiger Ghost all disappeared before my eyes in the distortion.

During this process, Lu Li saw the more than five hundred Tiger Ghost. Their numb expressions, along with the fruits on the vines in the cave, suddenly emitted a strong light, all of them shattered and turned into nothingness, with several modules falling to the ground.

Lu Li's vision cleared, and he saw Zhou Chu standing on the carcass of a huge white tiger in the forest ahead, breathing slightly. He had some scratches on his body, but they didn't seem to be a problem. On the other hand, the others who were providing support were in worse condition. One or two of them had broken limbs, and another had a deep wound on his chest and was already dead.

Lu Li glanced at the ground and found two crystal-clear crystals. These were the modules that had exploded from the hundreds of Tiger Ghost and the connected fruits when he exited the Dream of Delusion. A small tentacle of his shadow reached out, grabbed the module, and put it in Lu Li's pocket. Without looking at what it was, Lu Li walked towards Zhou Chu.

"How is the situation?" Lu Li asked vaguely. According to the last scene he saw before entering the Dream of Delusion, he came here with Zhou Chu in reality. At that time, his presence was minimized, and he didn't know what happened during that time.

"Fortunately Yingzhi, you were a great help; otherwise, it would have taken me a long time to kill this giant worm," Zhou Chu exclaimed.

Lu Li narrowed his eyes, and after talking with Zhou Chu, he roughly understood what had happened to him in the Dream of Delusion.

The group walked up the mountain, heading deeper into the mountains. Although they encountered some minor troubles along the way, such as poisonous snakes and insects, they had a few experienced hunters with them, so despite the difficulties, they did not suffer any losses.

They soon discovered the tiger's tracks, and Zhou Chu quickly engaged the white tiger in combat. In terms of physical strength and power, the tiger was no match for Zhou Chu. Neither the tiger's ferocity nor its menacing aura had any effect on Zhou Chu.

However, this tiger was impossible to kill, or rather, very difficult to kill. According to Zhou Chu's judgment, something was sustaining the tiger's life. Although Zhou Chu's power, which went straight to the essence, could kill those things little by little, it would take time to wear them down.

In addition, the tiger was extremely fast. Although Zhou Chu's physical strength surpassed that of the tiger, he could only suppress it through martial arts, but it was not a complete annihilation. Therefore, the tiger often escaped at its speed. At this time, the guards and hunters who were providing support from a distance could only bite the bullet and step forward to intercept it, buying Zhou Chu some time.

This resulted in heavy losses among the guards, with one even dying. The reason Zhou Chu said that Lu Li had been a great help was because Lu Li had used some kind of secret method to sever the connection between those things and the tiger, which allowed Zhou Chu to kill the tiger directly.

In other words, Zhou Chu was fighting a tiger with multiple lives, and then Lu Li went backstage to break the tiger's cheat code. The tiger, with only one life left, was killed by Zhou Chu. Lu Li's actions backstage, as seen from the outside, appeared to be the use of some kind of secret technique.

Regarding that Dream of Delusion, Lu Li roughly understood what was going on. The South Mountain Tiger was actually a wild tiger that had not yet developed intelligence, but for some reason, the Dream of Delusion was concentrated on this tiger, and some rumors about tigers also materialized in the Dream of Delusion.

For example, those who act as accomplices to tigers will appear as Tiger Ghost in the Dream of Delusion afterward. And the proverbs "the fox borrows the tiger's power" and "when the tiger is away, the monkey becomes king" are actually Red Fox and White Monkey.

The Five Squirrels initially told Lu Li leave because Lu Li presence posed a threat to the Dream of Delusion, so they instinctively wanted to expel Lu Li. However, after Lu Li killed the Five Squirrels, the Red Fox immediately arrived. This Red Fox knew the true nature of the Dream of Delusion, and after roughly assessing Lu Li's strength, the Red Fox wasn't confident in killing Lu Li, so she thought of recruiting him.

The Red Fox first pretended to question him, acting as if it were being reasonable. But after Lu Li gave a reason, it immediately took the opportunity to treat Lu Li as a VIP and led him to the Tiger King Cave.

The Red Fox attempted to use the tiger king's power to intimidate Lu Li, subdue Lu Li, and recruit him to the tiger king's ranks. This would not only eliminate the threat posed by Lu Li but also counterbalance the increasingly suspicious White Monkey, thus consolidating his rule.

However, Red Fox didn't expect that Lu Li could deduce the truth of some things from some minor details in the village. So, Lu Li, who was interested, didn't care about the evidence and directly pointed out Red Fox's disguise, which left Red Fox completely dumbfounded. Otherwise, if Red Fox had sent all her Tiger Ghost and White Monkey to deal with Lu Li at the beginning, Lu Li might not have been able to win.

Although one guard died and the other guards and hunters were also injured, some even losing limbs, the Zhou Clan had paid them a ransom from the beginning and would provide ample compensation upon their return. Zhou Chu successfully killed the South Mountain Tiger.

After resting for a while, Zhou Chu shouted, picked up the carcass of the South Mountain Tiger, and carried it on his shoulder. The hunters and guards around him also helped each other and walked down the mountain. But when Zhou Chu appeared in the mountain village carrying the huge tiger carcass, the whole village was in an uproar.

Every so often, this tiger would come down from the mountain to hunt for food. Over the years, it had taken countless lives. Now that it had suddenly been killed, how could they not be happy? At first, when Zhou Chu and his group went into the mountains to kill the tiger, they didn't really believe it. It wasn't that no one had tried before, but none of them had come back. They never expected that this time they would actually succeed.

Looking at the tiger's carcass, which resembled a small mountain, the villagers dared not approach. Their gazes, initially filled with fear, gradually shifted to a mixture of respect and awe as they looked at Zhou Chu standing beside Zhou Chu carcass.

The village chief warmly welcomed Zhou Chu, Lu Li, and their group. He even slaughtered his family's old hen to feast the guests, and the villagers all came to help. Zhou Chu happily sat in the main seat, drinking the village chief's treasured wine. Meanwhile, in the distance in front of the village, the large white tiger, though dead and only its corpse remained, still exuded its tigerish might, and a group of children stood in the distance pointing and gesturing.

After Lu Li finished eating, he watched Zhou Chu happily drinking and listening to the villagers' congratulations. Lu Li shook his head. Zhou Chu was happy now, so the next dragon-slaying event would probably be soon.

As darkness fell, Lu Li arrived at the edge of South Mountain. He carefully sensed the surroundings and discovered that although the Dream of Delusion of South Mountain had shrunk considerably after the death of the South Mountain Tiger, it had not completely disappeared and was continuing to evolve, transforming into another entity.

Lu Li pulled out the module that had exploded from the dream, and his figure vanished in a flash...