10 The Saber Tooth Crimson Tiger
"Thump" "Thump" "Thump"
Ling Tian's body stiffened when he heard the sound of those heavy footsteps and he slowly turned around.
Under his horrified gaze, a giant silhouette slowly emerged from the woods. It was a giant tiger with a body full of steel-like muscles covered in crimson red fur.
"Drip" "Drip" "Drip"
Its mouth that was more than two times wider than an adult's head was holding a deer-like creature from which fresh blood was constantly dripping in a continuous stream.
Its eyes filled with unrestrained arrogance scanned the area around it as it walked towards the scarlett sun fruits in an extremely domineering manner.
"Isn't it that same tiger that tried to kill me yesterday?" When Ling Tian looked at the tiger, he couldn't help but feel as if he was very familiar with it so he used the system to get some information about it.
"Race:- Saber Tooth Crimson Tiger"
"Type:- Fierce Beast"
"Gender:- Male"
"Cultivation:- Body tempering realm, 9th layer"
"Innate ability:- Flaming Sphere"
"Description:- An elite among the body tempering realm fierce beasts with the ability to control flames. It also has a very strong defence, its sharp claws and teeth can threaten even the early stage origin gathering realm cultivators."
This tiger was actually at the ninth layer of the body tempering realm! Just thinking how he was nearly eaten alive by it Ling Tian still had some lingering fear in his heart. Even Ling Tian's predecessor at his peak wouldn't be able to defeat it!
Even though the tiger couldn't notice Ling Tian's existence, just standing near it alone caused him to feel pressured.
By the time Ling Tian came back to his senses the tiger was already sitting on a giant rock near the mountain cliff where it could enjoy the warmth of the gentle sunlight and devour its prey at the same time.
Ling Tian retracted his gaze from the tiger and once again looked towards the mountain cliff.
The cliff wall was very steep all the way up to the peak, there were many small stones scattered all over it with almost no spot to firmly grab hold of. Picking the sixty-meter high fruits was no easy task, especially for the current Ling Tian.
And even if Ling Tian could somehow climb the hill, it would surely create some disturbance which would attract the Saber Tooth Crimson Tiger's attention.
So if Ling Tian wanted to get those fruits he had to find a way to deal with this Saber Tooth Crimson Tiger first!
The Tiger would surely fall asleep after it's done eating, if I sneak attack it's not impossible to kill it! : Ling Tian contemplated in his heart.
Thinking of this Ling Tian retracted the Dark Steel Sword from the system space.
But just as Ling Tian was waiting for the tiger to fall asleep the tiger suddenly looked in his direction, to be precise it was looking at Ling Tian's sword.
"Bad!" Suddenly Ling Tian had a bad premonition in his heart and he immediately started retreating.
The Saber Tooth Crimson tiger suddenly stood up and facing Ling Tian's direction, it opened its bloody mouth.
The tiger's mouth was suddenly filled with violent crimson flames causing the temperature in its surroundings to rise sharply and immediately after that the crimson flames condensed into a blood-red flaming sphere!
Roooaaaar!!
Suddenly the Saber Tooth Crimson Tiger uttered a furious roar that shook its surroundings and the giant red ball of flame was propelled towards Ling Tian with a blinding speed!
Although Ling Tian had already started retreating the Flaming sphere was too fast, in the blink of an eye, it was just a few meters away from Ling Tian.
Just as Ling Tian was about to be hit by the flaming sphere he slammed his feet onto the ground and his body was immediately ejected into the air like an arrow leaving its bowstring and he narrowly avoided the flaming sphere.
Boom!!
The flaming sphere missed Ling Tian and hit the ground resulting in an earth-shattering explosion creating a violent shockwave that sent Ling Tian flying upside down and clouds of dust and smoke filled the atmosphere!
But before Ling Tian even had the opportunity to relax the giant silhouette of the Saber Tooth Crimson Tiger once again emerged from the clouds of smoke and its giant claw capable of shattering ancient trees swept towards Ling Tian with the intention of shredding him into pieces!
"Flowing Wind swordsmanship!" Ling Tian hurriedly regained his balance and using his newly learned martial skill he slashed his dark steel sword towards the tiger's claw, in the blink of an eye six destructive blades of wind rushed forward whistling through the air, producing violent gales of wind!
The tiger was caught off-guard and it was too late to dodge, in the end, it had no choice but to stop attacking Ling Tian and use its claws to block the wind blades.
Boom!!!
The tiger's claws successfully shattered three wind blades but the remaining blades still fell onto the its body causing it to be sent flying backward leaving behind deep bloody wounds.
"Cough!" "Cough"
After repelling the tiger Ling Tian safely landed on the ground, suddenly he felt his whole body aching and he spat out a few mouthfuls of blood, although he successfully avoided the flaming sphere but the shockwave still caused him some internal injuries.
But he knew that it wasn't the time to relax, without wasting any time he immediately put the dark steel sword back into the system's space and hurriedly retreated as soon as possible!
After landing on the ground, when the Saber-Tooth Crimson Tiger looked around, it discovered that its target has already disappeared. It sniffed the blood that Ling Tian just spat out and tried to look for him a few more times before returning back to its seat on the giant rock.
"Huff" "Huff" "Huff"
In the distance Ling Tian rapidly gasped for breath as he watched the tiger retreating. This time he unknowingly made a huge mistake!
He never thought that the effect of Aura Concealing Pill wouldn't work on his sword.
All this time he thought that since the Aura Concealing Pill could hide his clothes then it should be able to hide his sword as well.
But it turned out he was wrong!
The Aura Concealing Pill works only on things very close to his body like his clothes, so although his sword's handle was concealed but the blade was still perfectly visible.
That's how the tiger was able to locate him.
Although it was just a small thing but these insignificant little details could easily change the tides of a battle, this showed that Ling Tian's battle experience was too little, an experienced fighter would never make a mistake like that.
Fortunately it was just a body tempering realm fierce beast, if it was an origin gathering realm fierce beast then....
Just a mere thought of this made his heart shudder, he was truly lucky this time.
Long Tian sat cross-legged leaning against a tree not too far away from the tiger and ran his cultivation technique to recover from his injuries.
In the blink of an eye, two hours have passed.
Suddenly Ling Tian's body shook and he opened his eyes.
"Ding! Congratulations to the host for breaking through to the 5th layer of Body Tempering Realm, you gained 10 heaven-defying points."
Ling Tian clenched his fists as he felt the overwhelming strength coursing through his body and he looked towards the tiger that had already fallen asleep with his eyes full of battle intent.
It's time for the second round!
