Slaying the Great Tiger, Like a Demon God

Slaying the Great Tiger, Like a Demon God

"Boss... what is going on here?"

Among the martial wanderers, the one-eyed man watched the black-masked figure walk toward the silver-white tiger, swallowed hard, and muttered.

"Does this expert... know the boss?" The tall man was still shaken, looking toward the burly man in the short shirt.

The burly man gave a bitter smile. "If I knew a martial grandmaster like that, our Zhengqing Gang would not have been kept beneath the Blackwater Gang all this time."

As soon as those words fell, the martial wanderers were all baffled.

If the masked man was not the boss's friend, had he also come for the Wang elder's bounty to crusade against the vicious tiger?

"But... since when did Weishui County Seat produce such an expert?" The burly man in the short shirt stared at Yu Chen and murmured to himself.

As one of the foremost gang leaders on the old streets south of Weishui, and an Innate Realm grandmaster himself, he knew every master above the Innate Realm in all of Weishui like the back of his hand.

Yet though the black-masked man's face could not be seen, neither his build nor his style matched any expert the man knew.

Who could he be?

The burly man's head was full of question marks.

On the other side, Yu Chen had already squared off against the silver-white tiger.

As it watched Yu Chen, a flicker of confusion appeared in the tiger's eyes.

Just like the burly man in the short shirt, under the effects of the Infernal Ghost Mask, it could not sense even the slightest trace of Yu Chen's aura.

Yet the instincts of a beast told it that this two-legged sheep was utterly different from all the others—exceptionally... dangerous!

But a beast was, after all, still a beast.

The bloody scent of the burly man in the short shirt stung the tiger's nostrils, making its desire to devour a man grow ever stronger!

At last, it could bear it no longer!

With a tiger's roar, it pounced upon Yu Chen!

The mountain forest trembled, and the snow shook loose in flurries. Its enormous silver-white body seemed to meld into the snow itself!

In a single breath, it dashed before Yu Chen, raised its massive tiger paw, cold light glittering from it, and brought it crashing down upon his head!

The fierce wind tore through the air, as though it would shred everything standing in its way to pieces!

"Careful! This beast's strength is—"

Seeing this, the burly man in the short shirt could not help crying out!

—Just moments ago, that very slap had sent both him and his axe flying, robbing him of all fighting strength and leaving him at its mercy!

But in the next moment, the burly man froze.

For beneath that claw, the black-masked figure moved.

At a speed his naked eye could scarcely follow, he sidestepped and evaded the vicious tiger's pounce!

Then, with both hands clamping down, he seized the tiger by the neck like a pair of enormous iron-forged pincers!

Whoosh!

The wind howled!

The martial wanderers watched as the mountain-sized tiger was grabbed by the scruff of its neck and hurled away by the black-masked figure!

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The hulking tiger smashed through three great trees in succession before it finally bled off that terrifying force and crashed into the snow.

Snow flew everywhere!

Amid the whirling flakes, the black-masked figure slowly turned around and looked at the burly man in the short shirt, as though waiting to hear what else he had to say.

The burly man in the short shirt: "..."

What kind of fucking monster was this?

Whether it was his reaction and speed in evading the tiger's pounce, or the brutal strength with which he had flung it away, both made the Innate Realm grandmaster's scalp go numb!

"Please, continue... continue..." The burly man gave an awkward laugh, having no idea what to say.

The tiger, meanwhile, was thick-skinned and tough-fleshed. After several exchanges, it seemed not to have suffered much injury.

It shook its muddled head, rose to its feet, and fixed Yu Chen with a vicious glare, a dangerous growl rumbling from its throat!

It was enraged.

After being thwarted again and again, its craving for the bloody scent of the burly man in the short shirt had been completely drowned beneath boundless fury.

And the source of that fury was the black-masked figure before it!

"ROAR!!!"

The terrifying roar shook the entire mountain forest. Its thick tiger paws raced across the snow, the muscles beneath its pelt tightening and bursting with dreadful force. They propelled its massive body forward at a terrifying speed utterly unbefitting its size as it charged!

Then its bloody maw opened wide, sharp and perilous teeth gleaming with cold light as it tore toward Yu Chen!

To the many martial wanderers, the tiger's form was now completely impossible to follow. They saw only a white blur cross several zhang in an instant, claws and fangs bared!

But in Yu Chen's eyes, it was entirely different.

The Innate body granted to him by the Scripture of Deliverance's Bone-Forging Body-Tempering heightened his five senses, allowing him to see every movement of the silver-white tiger with incomparable clarity!

That phantom-like figure in others' eyes appeared to Yu Chen as though it had been slowed countless times over.

He could calmly make any response he wished—just as he had evaded the tiger's pounce, just as he had seized its neck and flung it away.

And now was no different—the tiger's attack, brimming with speed and power, was pitifully slow in Yu Chen's eyes.

Yu Chen stepped forward. The Internal Force coursing through every limb and bone followed the intricate path of Subduing the Dragon and Taming the Tiger that he had learned in the dream, finally gathering in his hands!

His heart began to pound fiercely and powerfully, like a ferocious tiger roaring, like an evil dragon shrieking!

To the many martial wanderers behind him, it seemed that within Yu Chen's lean frame hid a burning, boiling steel furnace, erupting with inexhaustible strength!

The next moment, the tiger struck!

Its enormous bloody maw and its coldly gleaming tiger claws attacked together!

At the same time, Yu Chen raised his hand and threw a punch!

That violent, fierce Internal Force burst from his body, transforming into an invisible gale of fist force that enveloped Yu Chen's fists as he thrust them forward!

Rumble!!!

For an instant, it was as if dragons roared and tigers howled!

His fists collided with the charging tiger's claws and fangs!

At that moment, before the horrified eyes of the martial wanderers, the savage tiger's teeth and forepaws snapped apart at the sound!

Tiger blood, steaming like boiling water, sprayed out and splashed across the snow, splashed across Yu Chen's mask.

The tiger was sent flying backward and crashed to the ground.

"Awooo!!"

An incomparably miserable howl burst from its shattered face.

Yu Chen stepped forward once more.

The silver-white tiger lay limp in the snow, its bleeding tiger eyes reflecting the black figure.

A terror it had never known rose in the eyes of this silver-white tiger that had once run rampant through the mountain forest.

Under that terrified gaze, Yu Chen raised his hand high. Internal Force surged as he brought his palm down!

Bang!

A dull boom echoed through the mountain forest!

The bones beneath the silver-white tiger's tough hide shattered at the blow!

The fierce and terrifying Internal Force pierced through its bones, blasting its organs and brain into a pulpy mess!

The tiger's eyes burst apart, red and white matter spraying out. It made no further sound.

Thus, White Ghost, which had run rampant through the mountain forest and harmed countless people, was finally put to death!

Yu Chen's heart pounded violently!

This was his first battle of life and death, the first time he had used the moves of Subduing the Dragon and Taming the Tiger to send a living creature to its grave.

Like every butcher the first time the tip of the knife pierced flesh.

A stir of excitement and tension inevitably rose in his heart.

He rested for a while.

Yu Chen simply sat down atop the tiger's enormous head and let out a long breath of foul air.

A breath as scorching as steam spilled out from beneath the Infernal Mask, searing the icy wind and snow.

The burly man in the short shirt and the many martial wanderers took in this sight.

—Amid the swirling snowstorm, the dreadful lord of the mountain forest had breathed its last. Its tiger eyes, now nothing but bloody holes, still revealed indescribable terror and shock.

And upon the massive head of the king of the mountain forest sat a lean figure clad in a black robe and ghost mask, drenched from head to toe in vivid tiger blood. Beneath the strange mask that seemed to weep and laugh at once, pale mist drifted thickly, making him look like a demon god.

Then he turned his head and glanced at them.

And so, they would never forget it for the rest of their lives.

(End of Chapter)