Chapter 50: There Is Another One

After placing the corpse properly, Li Si began preparing the follow-up matters.

He definitely had to stay here for one night today. After all, this tiger demon was about to die. Take advantage of its illness to take its life.

There was not the slightest sympathy in Li Si’s heart.

He put Xiaoyu away. With Xiaoyu’s soul strength, he could not remain in the sunlight for too long, even under a tree.

Afterward, Li Si had Xiaoduan go to the riverbank to fetch water. He was preparing to cook. He had been busy from morning until now today, and he truly was quite exhausted.

So he began searching nearby for firewood again. At this time, the tiger demon’s roars still came from below from time to time, making Li Si feel as if his ears were about to break.

Could this tiger demon be trying to use this roaring method to deafen his ears as revenge? Li Si felt somewhat amused in his heart, but then he immediately sensed that something was wrong.

He was well aware of how clever this tiger demon was. From gathering information on him, to making the herb gatherers kill him, to blending into the herb gatherers and using gold to tempt him, this tiger demon had shown itself to be extremely cunning.

Then how could she do something useless?

Li Si’s heart trembled. A bone-piercing chill climbed from his tailbone up to the back of his head.

At this moment, he also saw a patch of mottled fur in the forest below the cliff.

Li Si retreated a few steps slightly and picked up the Black Sword. The blade slowly came out of its sheath.

At the same time, Xiaoduan, who had been fetching water, also returned quickly and rushed toward this side.

Beneath the mottled tree shadows, a mottled figure crouched low under the trees and moved forward. A pair of emotionless yellow eyes stared fixedly at Li Si.

And when Li Si drew the longsword, that mottled figure stopped moving.

At this moment, even the ear-piercing cicada cries fell silent, and the air seemed to freeze.

It was also at this moment that a deathly green shadow, Xiaoduan’s Long Tongue, coiled toward this tiger’s neck.

Hiss. A sound like water being sprinkled onto red-hot iron rang out. When Xiaoduan’s remaining half tongue touched that mottled figure, it turned into a wisp of green smoke and scattered.

“Ah!” Xiaoduan let out a miserable scream, then immediately turned into a streak of light and rushed into the Dead Jade on Li Si’s chest.

At this moment, that mottled figure was also startled and immediately stood up, fleeing toward the rear.

With this, its own identity was exposed. This was a tiger around 3 m (~9.8 ft) long.

From Xiaoduan’s attack just now, Li Si knew that this was a tiger that had not yet become a demon.

He immediately felt a bitter taste in his mouth. This tiger demon actually still had a backup plan.

The tiger demon beneath the cliff seemed to have sensed something too. It stopped roaring, and instead, a pleasant woman’s laughter sounded.

“Just wait for death, you little beast.” The laughter vanished, and a woman’s venomous voice came from beneath the cliff, as if she wanted to eat him alive.

“Hehe, even if this tiger eats me, do you think you’ll be able to live?” Hearing the tiger demon’s voice, Li Si sneered.

Roar! When the tiger demon heard Li Si say this, roars once again came from below, the sound filled with violence and resentment.

Li Si shook his head and ignored the tiger demon, continuing to stare at the tiger in the forest.

After this tiger had run for a while earlier, it had returned again. In the forest, it stared closely at Li Si and met his gaze.

Breathing out softly, Li Si forced himself to calm down. He definitely could not beat this tiger himself. Right now, he could only rely on the Black Sword to have a slight chance of killing this tiger.

But he had no confidence. He had never learned how to use a sword to kill a tiger. The Black Tortoise Record did indeed have killing moves using the sword, but the sword in The Black Tortoise Record was used to deal with people.

Not to deal with tigers. The difference was still rather large.

Of course, some moves in The Black Tortoise Record might not necessarily be ineffective against a tiger. Li Si gathered his focus and stared fixedly at the tiger, not daring to relax for even a moment.

Now, he could only rely on himself to deal with this tiger. Xiaoyu and Xiaoduan had no way to deal with it. After all, this tiger was only an ordinary tiger, not a demon creature, and its yang energy was extremely vigorous. Ordinary demons, monsters, and ghosts could not approach it.

Just like this, one man and one tiger continued staring at each other, and the air froze all at once.

Even the tiger demon beneath the cliff stopped roaring.

Two hours passed.

At this moment, Li Si felt that even his legs had gone somewhat weak. He realized at this time that competing in endurance with a tiger was simply courting death.

So he moved his body slightly and shouted with a smile, “Hey, tiger demon, this tiger can’t be your son too, can it? One dead wasn’t enough, so another has to die too?”

Beneath the cliff, there was silence.

So Li Si continued smiling and said, “This son of yours really isn’t filial. If this drags on, the one who dies first will definitely be you!”

Immediately, an enraged roar came from beneath the cliff.

Hearing this sound, the tiger facing off against Li Si showed hesitation in its eyes. Then it let out a low roar, lowered its body, and slowly groped toward Li Si.

Li Si bit the tip of his tongue hard, forcing himself to focus with twelve points of concentration. He held the Black Sword in his left hand, made a feint in the air, and flourished the sword, making the tiger shift its attention to the sword in his left hand.

The tiger let out a low roar, its face turning savage as it revealed its long, sharp fangs.

Roar! The tiger demon beneath the cliff let out another impatient roar.

Immediately, this tiger no longer hesitated. With a low roar, it suddenly pounced toward Li Si.

Li Si’s eyes narrowed slightly. As the tiger approached, his left and right hands quickly switched behind his back. His right hand held the sword, and just as the tiger arrived, he unexpectedly swung the sword toward the tiger’s head.

Earlier, the tiger had seen Li Si holding the sword in his left hand, so it had specifically bitten toward Li Si’s right side. How could it have expected that he would quickly switch the sword between his left and right hands? This sword immediately chopped toward its eye.

Seeing this unexpected sword strike, it immediately shook its head and narrowly dodged, but the longsword still carved a long mark across its body.

The tiger was immediately enraged and slapped Li Si’s body with one paw. He was immediately knocked far away, almost sent flying off the cliff.

“Cough, cough.” Li Si began coughing, and directly coughed out a mouthful of blood.

But the tiger on the other side was not feeling well either. It continuously let out pained roars. Li Si’s sword had directly opened a long wound across its abdomen. With the sharpness of the Black Sword, this strike could be considered to have sliced the tiger until its liver and intestines were severed. Blood and intestines had already slipped out from its abdomen.

Coughing blood, Li Si slowly stood up, still holding the longsword in his hand. The Black Sword had not fallen. He had been gripping it tightly with all his strength the entire time.

Because he knew that this Black Sword was his life. If the Black Sword fell, his life would be gone.

The tiger roared in pain. Its pale yellow eyes stared fixedly at Li Si. It clenched its teeth and was about to pace toward him.

Roar! A roar came from beneath the cliff. It was the demon tiger’s cry.

Hearing this cry, the tiger paused slightly, hesitation appearing in its eyes.

Roar! The tiger demon’s voice came again from beneath the cliff, only this time, the roar was even more urgent.

The tiger let out an unwilling roar and looked deeply at Li Si. Then it walked to the edge of the cliff and jumped down from the cliff wall.