The simulation deduction had ended!
Jiang Yi, who had been walking, suddenly shuddered as a vast, majestic aura spread out!
His cultivation Realm began to surge rapidly.
The Qi and Blood throughout his body was boundless and surging, like rolling waves sweeping through his limbs and entire body.
A Qi and Blood phenomenon condensed above his head!
Thick as liquid, it gushed forth like a spring!
This was known as Surging Spring!
Ordinary Blood Qi Realm Ninth Layer martial artists would only display such a phenomenon when mobilizing the Qi and Blood within their bodies.
Yet Jiang Yi had merely reached the Blood Qi Realm Sixth Layer, and he had already attained such a level!
"Blood Qi Realm Sixth Layer Late Stage!"
Jiang Yi clenched his fist!
He could feel that the Qi and Blood within him was as vast and mighty as a flood.
His physical strength had soared by tens of thousands of jin!
Every part of his body, from his limbs to his bones, was filled with an indescribable, immense power!
The illusion had returned!
It felt as though, if he wished it, he could blow apart everything with a mere raised hand!
"Even ordinary martial artists at the Ninth level of Qi and Blood might not be my match!"
Jiang Yi murmured softly!
As he traveled through the night, his footsteps gradually slowed.
He was thinking!
Should he turn back and strike a return blow!
As long as an Opening Treasury Realm martial artist did not personally make a move, escaping unscathed should not be a problem.
As he walked, he suddenly stopped!
He turned toward the shadowy forest beside the road, his gaze narrowing slightly!
"ROAR!!!"
In an instant!
The forest rustled!
Accompanied by a terrifying, fishy wind rushing at him head-on, an enormous black shadow leaped out of the woods.
The beast's roar shook the soul!
With its fanged, blood-red maw gaping wide and its stench assaulting his nose, it savagely lunged to swallow Jiang Yi whole!
Jiang Yi retreated several steps, then stomped his right foot fiercely and soared high into the air.
He swung his Great Halberd and brought it crashing down.
The center of the vicious beast's skull instantly became bones shattered, flesh split, caving into a long, deep crater.
Under that overwhelming strength!
Its massive head struck the ground first!
Mud and rocks cracked and sprayed in all directions as it let out a pained howl!
Only then!
Did Jiang Yi, having steadied himself, clearly see the face of that enormous beast shadow!
It was a Black Tiger!
Its entire body was covered in light-black fur, patterned with strips of jet-black stripes.
Its forehead had been smashed into a depression!
Faintly visible within it were three horizontal strokes and one vertical stroke, forming a huge ink-black character for "king," its majesty revealing a vicious Baleful Intent!
Most extraordinary of all!
More than two feet of white wings grew from either side of its back.
"Qiongqi?!!"
Jiang Yi stared at the Black Tiger before him!
The ferocious might emanating from it was already beyond anything an ordinary beast could compare to!
This was likely a—
Vicious beast!
And an exotic breed, with the bloodline of an ancient ferocious beast flowing through it.
The Black Tiger shook its head!
Its brown-golden beast eyes, each as large as an adult's palm, turned streaked with crimson beneath the intense pain!
They radiated dense brutality and savagery!
"Awooar!"
Its tiger's roar was like thunder, echoing through the forest!
The Black Tiger seemed to have had its ancient ferocity provoked!
It stared fixedly at Jiang Yi!
The light-black fur all over its enormous beast body stood on end. As it swayed—
Strands of black Qi rippled outward!
Its aura was vicious, violent, dark, and unfathomable!
It raised a huge furry paw as thick as a pillar, black Qi coiling around it, and slammed it down!
Its beast body arched as well, poised to pounce and kill!
Jiang Yi neither dodged nor evaded. He unleashed all his strength, forming the fist seal of Cauldron Origin Mountain Splitting with his left hand!
Vast and tyrannically fierce!
He met that enormous paw head-on!
"Boom!"
With a muffled impact!
The Black Tiger staggered from the blow, its beast body stumbling backward!
Whatever pouncing momentum it had possessed was completely shattered!
As for Jiang Yi!
After that strike, his Qi and Blood boiled. Great Halberd in his right hand, he stepped forward!
Using the halberd blade as a saber!
He unleashed a "Furious Saber" slash!
Straight at the tiger's forehead!
The Black Tiger seemed to sense the danger and raised its right paw wreathed in black Qi, pressing it down in a swipe!
"Pfft!!!"
A spray of scarlet beast blood burst forth, followed by a blood-drenched black paw sliced diagonally clean off.
That halberd strike had nearly severed one of its limbs!
The Black Tiger raised its head and let out a pained howl!
Its enormous body, more than a zhang long, could barely remain steady now, swaying as though it might collapse at any moment!
A trace of human-like clarity appeared in its beast eyes, revealing pain and terror!
It seemed to know that it was no match for the little human before it!
After glaring viciously at Jiang Yi!
It seemed to be saying, Just you wait!
Curling up its right limb, it let out an unwilling roar!
Its tiger tail curled up, and its remaining three limbs exerted force as it turned to flee back into the forest.
How could Jiang Yi let it go so easily!
He leaped into the air, his figure like a soaring swan!
With that leap, he landed directly on the Black Tiger's back. Crossing one or two steps, he was already standing atop its head.
He gripped the Great Halberd with both hands!
The halberd point faced downward, its sharpness fully revealed, Baleful Intent surging, like a bloodthirsty asura!
The Black Tiger felt its body sink and immediately sensed trouble!
It hurriedly shook its enormous head violently, raising and lowering it, springing up and down.
Trying to throw Jiang Yi off!
At the same time, strands of black Qi emerged from the black "king" marking!
They radiated ancient ferocious might!
They blocked the Great Halberd's edge and directly assailed Jiang Yi's mind, seeking to make him tremble in fear and retreat!
But Jiang Yi's mind was like an immovable boulder!
He remained unmoved!
The Qi and Blood within him erupted even more fiercely, generating Cauldron Origin Qi and Blood. Its heavy, tyrannical essence crushed the ancient ferocious might!
The strength of a hundred thousand jin surged through his body!
All of it poured into the Great Halberd. A hum rang out like great bells and grand chimes, sonorous as thunder!
The asura halberd edge forcefully tore through the black Qi!
From the very center of that "king" marking, it pierced through the Black Tiger's skull in one stroke!
The halberd shaft sank in a full eight-tenths of its length!
The Black Tiger's brain instantly exploded into a pulpy mess...
Its enormous body crashed to the ground!
The entire forest shook!
[You killed one exotic Black Tiger comparable to the Blood Qi Realm Seventh Layer and plundered 77 years of its lifespan.]
An exotic vicious beast comparable to the late stage of the Blood Qi Realm had died just like that at Jiang Yi's hands.
It had not even lasted ten exchanges!
By rights!
Such exotic breeds generally existed only within ancient forests and deep mountains.
Who would have thought that one would be found near Rock Mountain City, a human city!
It was truly difficult to understand!
Could it have been raised by someone?
Then perhaps it had accidentally escaped and happened to run into him!
And those capable of raising vicious beasts!
Could only be those few major factions!
Could it be from the Hundred Beasts Sect?
The road he was taking happened to pass through the Hundred Beasts Sect's territory!
Thinking about it, that really did seem to be the case!
Then this was going to be interesting!
He had gained yet another hostile force!
Right!
The Tiger Demon Body Tempering Art he cultivated seemed to have originated from that very faction!
It seemed their "connection" ran quite deep!
If the Hundred Beasts Sect learned of this, what would happen?
Jiang Yi had a feeling that—
Old grudges and new debts would be settled together!
"My strength... is still a little lacking!"
Jiang Yi dragged the Black Tiger along!
Not far away, there happened to be an abandoned, dilapidated temple that could barely serve as a place to rest.
A bonfire was lit!
After skinning it, pulling out its tendons, and cutting off its meat, Jiang Yi began roasting the flesh...
"Let's fill my belly first!"
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