Confucian and Taoist scholar

Chapter 27: Entering the Tiger's Den
Lu Zheng killed the tiger with one sword. He was in high spirits and had some strength left, so he struck again with the sword.

This time, the tiger demon dodged with a flick of his body.

However, its movement affected the wound, which aggravated the injury instead, and the blood continued to flow all over the floor.

The tiger demon grimaced in pain, his heart filled with fear. He never expected that he would be injured so seriously by Lu Zheng.

Lu Zheng said slowly, "I'm sorry, my hands and feet skills are not good enough, so I can only use the methods that a scholar should use."

The strength of this tiger demon exceeded Lu Zheng's expectations and was not a suitable sparring partner.

So Lu Zheng changed his fighting style. The Wenbao he had just used was also written by him before, and its power was stronger than he expected.

It is worthy of being the work of the Immortal Poet. If I were stronger and could write a complete poem, I might really be able to kill a whale with one sword... Lu Zheng pondered in his heart.

Upon hearing this, the tiger demon secretly cursed the human scholar for being so cunning.

If it had known this, it should have used all its strength and slapped Lu Zheng to death.

Lu Zheng slowly approached the tiger demon, holding a sword in one hand and a roll of white paper in the other.

Come again! The tiger demon glared, no longer wanting to fight.

Lu Zheng maintained a calm demeanor from beginning to end, but this look of "I have the advantage" made the tiger demon feel uneasy.

When it used to play with certain prey, the situation was similar to what it is now, but now it has become the prey.

As long as the green mountains remain, there will be no shortage of food.

The tiger demon thought clearly, and without hesitation, he turned around and ran away, enduring the pain.

Seeing the tiger demon going away, Lu Zheng looked at the blank rice paper in his hand and rolled it up again.

This tiger is indeed not very smart... Lu Zheng shook his head secretly.

His action just now was just to scare the tiger demon and test whether it would fight him to the death.

It seems that all demons and monsters value their lives.

Lu Zheng held a long sword and quickly chased in the direction the tiger demon fled.

The tiger demon fled through the mountains and fields, with bright red blood flowing all the way.

It had been trying to stop the bleeding from its wound, and it consumed a lot of its demonic power before it cleared away the remaining Haoran sword energy from the wound, thus stopping the bleeding.

However, after this ordeal, nearly half of the blood in its body was lost, and a lot of its own demonic power was consumed. The whole tiger began to feel dizzy and unable to muster up energy.

"Damn scholar, I will remember you..."

The tiger demon cursed all the way and soon climbed up a mountain, then came to a cliff and jumped down.

Its agile limbs made several leaps on the cliff and landed on a raised stone platform.

Inside the stone platform is an extremely spacious cave.

The tiger demon returned to his lair and walked inside.

It drowsily came to a pool of water deep in the cave, and then lay there drinking water.

There was a crack just above the cave, and a beam of sunlight shone on the edge of the pool, making the area not dark.

On the stone wall beside the pond, there is a small tree about two feet tall.

The tree bears two green and red fruits the size of eggs, which carry an aura of spiritual charm.

The tiger demon drank water and stared at the two fruits with greed.

It had eaten a ripe spiritual fruit before, which made its brain become intelligent, it learned human language, and its body became much stronger.

Now that these two spiritual fruits are not yet ripe, it is already eager to become stronger.

No, wait a few more days... The tiger demon shook his head and suppressed the desire in his heart.

In a daze, the tiger demon shook his ears and turned his head to look.

Lu Zheng, holding a long sword, was standing not far away, staring at it with interest. "How did you find this place?" the tiger demon couldn't help but ask.

Lu Zheng thought that with so many auras left along the way, it would be difficult not to find this place, and the ghost had also told him the location of the tiger demon's lair before.

It took him quite some time to find the way here, even down the cliff.

When Lu Zheng saw the small tree by the pond just now, he began to understand why the tiger demon didn't change its hiding place.

"It seems that you have lost too much blood and your brain is not working well." Lu Zheng said slowly.

The tiger demon was angry, but felt that something was wrong with its condition and it couldn't muster any energy. However, it still faced Lu Zheng with a ferocious look.

Lu Zheng stood there and said, "By the way, didn't anyone tell you something?"

"What?" The tiger demon spoke vaguely.

Lu Zheng said slowly, "You've lost too much blood. Drinking water will only make you die faster."

The tiger demon shuddered when he heard this, but said, "Are you kidding me?"

Lu Zheng chuckled and said, "What good would it do to lie to you about this kind of thing? Don't you feel that something is wrong with your body? If it's just that you've exhausted your strength, it probably won't be like this, right?"

He just saw that the tiger demon had drunk his fill. Even if the opponent had a strong physique, it could not withstand such torture. Its current strength was probably only one tenth of what it was.

The tiger demon shook his dizzy head and indeed felt that he was getting weaker and weaker.

This is not a weakness in strength, but its vitality is slowly fading away.

However, the tiger demon is not an ordinary beast after all. If it is allowed to recover, its life will not be in danger.

"I am a kind-hearted scholar. I can't bear to see anyone suffer. You look really pitiful..." Lu Zheng said slowly.

Upon hearing this, the tiger demon thought that Lu Zheng wanted to reconcile with it.

Lu Zheng paused, then continued, "I can't bear to see you in such pain, so how about I give you a quick death?"

After saying that, Lu Zheng strode forward, ready to attack the tiger demon.

The tiger demon was shocked and angry. It roared at Lu Zheng, but its momentum was far weaker than before.

Then, the tiger demon made up his mind, turned around and waved his claws towards the small tree on the stone wall.

Lu Zheng had anticipated this, and a piece of paper flew out, hitting the tiger's claws with its righteous energy.

However, the gust of wind generated by the tiger claws still knocked down the two green and red spiritual fruits, but they were not caught by the tiger monster, but fell into the pool.

Lu Zheng would not give the tiger demon a chance to eat the two spiritual fruits in a desperate attempt.

While the tiger demon's attention was on the spiritual fruit, he quickly approached the tiger demon, swung the sword in his hand skillfully, and cut the tiger demon's previous wound with one sword.

Suddenly, the wound burst open and expanded again, and blood gushed out like a fountain.

The tiger demon felt pain and staggered, trying to avoid Lu Zheng's attack.

Lu Zheng held the long sword in his hand, stepped forward suddenly and stabbed the sword. The long sword penetrated the wound and pierced the tiger demon's internal organs.

Then, Lu Zheng jumped up, stepped on the hilt of the sword, and nailed the sword into the tiger monster's body.

Then he took another step forward, and his fist, filled with righteous energy, smashed hard into the tiger demon's eye socket.

The tiger demon was already very weak, and after being attacked continuously, he lost his breath and fell into a coma.

The two spiritual fruits were so close that they almost fell into the tiger's mouth.

Lu Zheng reached out and picked up the spiritual fruit, then stepped back a little to prevent the tiger demon from making a dying counterattack.

After a while, the tiger demon died of suffocation.

[Scholars wear swords, and their literary energy slays demons. You killed a second-level tiger demon, and your literary energy is +20!]

(End of this chapter)