You Smell So Good

Two burly tiger demons stepped out of the forest.

They were enormous, several times the size of ordinary tigers. Dark-gold fur covered their knotted muscles, and they radiated a suffocating pressure.

The one on the left was larger, its shoulders nearly as high as two men. Its eyes were like bronze bells, glimmering with a faint golden light.

Its aura was the more terrifying of the two, already approaching the peak of the Aperture-Opening Realm.

The one on the right was slightly weaker. It stayed half a step behind the other, its gaze cold and its whole bearing sly.

"Human, you smell so good!"

The taller tiger demon spoke in a voice as deep as thunder, its eyes brimming with greed.

The younger tiger demon on the right narrowed its eyes and looked Yang Xiao up and down, then glanced cautiously around them.

"A human, standing alone in a place like this."

"Do you want to die, or..."

It paused, a savage grin spreading across its face.

"Did you come here to feed us?"

A mountain could not hold two tigers, especially ones whose territorial instincts had grown so strong at this level. Since these two got along, a more powerful Mountain Lord was clearly keeping them in check.

For now, though, Yang Xiao had no time to think about how formidable that Mountain Lord might be.

"One at the peak of the Aperture-Opening Realm... and one in the middle stage."

Yang Xiao's gaze passed over the two tiger demons, sizing them up as if choosing vegetables.

"I haven't killed a tiger demon before, either. Refining you might fill a few gaps in my body's apertures."

"Hrr..."

The two tiger demons paced slowly around Yang Xiao, hemming him in, but neither pounced.

They stood there with narrowed eyes and twitching