Starting from the Tiger Demon Yaksha, the demon immortality

Chapter 87 86 Killing the Tiger

The Records of Customs and Local Customs of the Qing Dynasty records:
"On the night of the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, the Kitchen God is worshipped. It is said that the Kitchen God will ascend to heaven the next day to report on the year's affairs, so he is worshipped the day before."

The 24th day of the 12th lunar month is also known as the Kitchen God Festival. It is said that the Kitchen God will ascend to heaven the next day to report on the past year's events, so on this day people offer fruits to the Kitchen God, sweep the house, and eat kitchen candy.

"Kitchen God, I'll give you some of my candy too. Please don't say anything bad about me and my brother when you go to heaven."

Mu Cha stood in front of the statue and applied melted malt sugar on the Kitchen God's mouth, forming a thin layer.

In the past, he would have been reluctant to do so. But for Mu Cha now, candy is no longer a rare thing.

This change made Li Cunxiao feel relieved.

"Mu Cha, after we eat the dumplings, I'll take you to the master first. Big Brother will come over later."

On New Year's Eve, every family stays up all night to celebrate the coming of the New Year, so Zhang Lishi decided that the escort agency would hold a banquet on the eve of the Chinese New Year.

In addition to the escort masters and escort leaders, Shi Tie and Feng Sheng who are stationed at the manor, as well as Zhang Lishi's disciples such as Shen He, Xiao Mei, and Jiang Qi will all be present.

"Okay. Big brother, you've been going hunting in the mountains every day lately, but you always come back empty-handed."

Mu Cha's face was full of curiosity, but Li Cunxiao just smiled when he heard it.

"Big brother won't come back empty-handed today."

Ever since he broke through the third level of training, he went into the mountains to hunt, hoping to present a gift to Zhang Lishi during the New Year.

After searching for many days, they finally found a white tiger that suited their needs.

The big beast was a second-level demon. Not only was it extremely powerful, it was also vigilant and cunning.

Li Cunxiao spent many days trying to lure the snake out of its hole, and the bait made of demon meat was almost used up.

Today is the time to harvest.

After delivering the wooden fork to the escort agency, Li Cunxiao rode on his red horse at lightning speed and arrived at the sixth peak deep in Pingqiu Mountain in a blink of an eye.

After Monk Kong's death, the frequency and density of the Chai Gang's patrols indeed increased a lot.

But according to Song Qingshan, these are "used to guard against thieves, not to guard against friends like the Feihu Escort Agency."

"As long as Brother Li wants to come, the Chai Gang will always be open to welcome you."

Looking at the other party's expression, Li Cunxiao knew that the Chai Gang was completely confused about the murderer, otherwise they would not have opened the door to him, the real murderer.

Even so, he only tried it that time. After that, he went into the mountains quietly and tried to hide his whereabouts as much as possible, which was also to facilitate hunting.

After hiding Chili in the hidden cave he had found earlier, Li Cunxiao only carried a short bow and a bag of polished stone balls, and quickly walked towards the snow-covered mountains.

His steps were light, like a flying wild goose, and his legs seemed to be stepping on an invisible staircase in the low air. He flew three meters away with one step, leaving no footprints in the fluffy snow like sand.

The golden compound eyes turned gently, taking in all the information in the east, south, west, north, front and back.

Occasionally, the sound of wind caused by running startled the cuckoo in the tree. Li Cunxiao turned his eyes and could clearly see the soft down on its outstretched arms, as well as the movement of stretching its membranous wings and flapping its wings after slowing down four or five times.

He became playful and his five thick fingers sprouted blue-black, blade-like nails, which he scratched lightly.

Call ~
A gust of wind blew, bringing up fluff all over the sky. The night heron, which had just spread its wings, suddenly felt cold all over. It looked down and found that it had become bald. The thin and wrinkled skin was blown by the cold wind, and it was so scared that it quickly shrank back into the cave.

"arrive."

Li Cunxiao took a deep breath and looked at the cave covered with snow. The white tiger that had reached the second level of strength was inside.

He scurried up the tree trunk and could see a frozen lake behind the snowy forest.

After confirming the route again and again, Li Cunxiao landed lightly from a tree more than ten meters high, took out a red special bullet from his waist, and could smell a spicy smell when he got close.

Put it in the leather bag of the short bowstring, squint, aim, and let go.

bang~
The bullet flew into the cave and exploded. A faint red smoke could be seen from ten meters away. A moment later, an angry roar came from deep in the cave.

A tiger with white fur and black stripes jumped out.

Boom!
The stone ball as big as an egg hit the white tiger's head, and the huge force made a dull sound.

Seeing that the vicious gaze had shifted to him, Li Cunxiao turned around and ran.

Roar! ! ! ! !
One man and one beast, you flee and I chase, getting closer and closer to the preset battlefield.

Li Cunxiao originally had the Cloud-Stepping Shoes, and his speed was unique in the muscle realm.

Now he has practiced the dragonfly skimming the water technique, and with the help of the dragon-armored red dragonfly, he is as fast as a shadow.

No matter how hard the white tiger tried to catch up, the two always kept a safe distance.

When the lake was already in sight, Li Cunxiao took a step forward, and suddenly shook up the three-meter-high snow. His entire body swelled to two meters in the air, and a colorful tiger stripe appeared on his forehead. The whole person fell into the lake like a bomb.

Click!

The one-foot-deep ice layer was blasted by his great force, leaving a circular crack with a radius of ten feet, but it did not break immediately, showing extremely superb control of strength.

Seeing that the white tiger behind him had already soared into the air and was charging towards him, Li Cunxiao was not in a hurry. He stepped on two other points on the lake in a flash at a faster speed than before.

The cracks on the ice spread and overlapped with three origins as the center, and finally exploded under the impact of the white tiger!

"Roar!!"

The white tiger fell into the freezing cold lake, but it was not panicked. Instead, it became even more violent, flapping its four claws and swimming towards the hateful human.

"The tiger is indeed a pure Yang creature. Even such icy cold lake water has no effect on it."

"If it is used to make tiger bone wine and chalcedony paste, the effect will surely be excellent."

Li Cunxiao placed one foot on a broken fist-sized block of ice and quietly watched the white tiger that was stirring up three-foot-high waves.

Tigers can swim and are not afraid of the cold, so he never thought of killing them in this way.

When a demon enters the second stage, it is like a warrior breaking through muscles. Its own abilities will undergo drastic changes, and it may even develop all kinds of incredible abilities, such as driving wind and clouds, controlling water and fire, etc.

But this ability was not powerful at the beginning and was just an auxiliary.

According to Zhang Lishi, only fourth-level demons can truly perform "magic"-like actions.

Even so, a second-level demon cannot be dealt with by an ordinary muscular warrior alone. It often takes the cooperation of three or five skilled fighters to defeat it without any injury.

Li Cunxiao wanted to test his ability, so whenever the white tiger was about to swim to his side, he would jump lightly, fly three feet away, and play hide-and-seek on the floating ice on the lake.

After a few minutes, the white tiger saw that it still couldn't catch anyone, and the bloodthirstiness in its eyes became stronger. Finally, it roared, and its ribs suddenly tore apart, and a pair of fleshy wings as big as a cattail fan grew out.

Compared with the three or four meter long body of the tiger, these wings are too small and it cannot fly at all.

But for a moment, the wind on the lake seemed to change direction, lifting the white tiger's body three inches above the water, as if its four claws were running on the water.

The whirlpool created by the tiger's claws disturbed the floating ice on the lake, but Li Cunxiao was not panicked at all.

His black leather boots gleamed silver, a faint cloud pattern visible. A red dragon scale pattern appeared at his knees, his already muscular muscles instantly becoming smoother. With a soft pop, his toes dipped an inch into the water and instantly soared, as light and graceful as a dragonfly skimming the water.

The speed is even faster than on land!
Tread on water! Ride the wind!
Under the two powerful powers, the White Tiger couldn't even touch the edge of Li Cunxiao's clothes, but the latter was able to unleash his full power. His five dark blue fingers, like blades, even had a hint of red, as if his nails had turned into dragon scales, piercing fiercely into the white fur.

With a "swish", the hot blood penetrated almost a foot into the flesh and fell into the lake, even retaining the shape of blood beads, like a solidified entity falling.

The white tiger became even more furious, twisting its body wildly in the lake, and desperately attacked the human who was dancing like a dragonfly with its claws and sharp teeth, but most of its attacks fell into the air.

Occasionally it would rub against the skin, causing sparks and leaving a few bloody marks, but it could not really cause any substantial damage.

After a quarter of an hour, the white tiger had more and more wounds on its body, and the boiling hot blood even dyed half of the lake red.

Li Cunxiao seized the opportunity and when the opponent's movements slowed down, he pierced the opponent's eye socket with his arm and threw his nearly thousand-pound body to the shore.

"Boom"

After the giant beast landed with a dull sound, Li Cunxiao landed lightly. Although his breathing was a little rapid, he did not stay for too long. He picked up the white tiger's body and disappeared to the lakeside in an instant.

It was not until he rode Chili to the recently opened cave that he breathed a sigh of relief and his face was filled with joy.

After three successful training sessions, he single-handedly killed a second-level demon!

Strong armor, treading on water, riding the wind. Although the dragonfly skimming the water technique is a physical skill, the addition of the dragon armor red dragonfly to his combat power is not weak at all.

Riding the wind increased his speed dramatically, and treading on water allowed him to fight amphibiously. In addition to strengthening his defense, the strong armor also indirectly enhanced the attack power of his tiger claws, and could even easily break the fur of a second-level demon.

"Although the advantage of terrain played a role in defeating this white tiger, with my current strength, I'm afraid even a warrior at the level of perfect muscles wouldn't be afraid of me, and a warrior at the level of internal organs could escape with his life."

And when we checked the charging of the vajra, the results were even more encouraging.

The evil spirit increased by a full one third, which was 50% more than that of warriors of the same level.

"The preparations were too complicated, and the heavy snow blocked the mountains, making tracking more difficult."

"I've been hunting for over a month, and I've only encountered this one second-level demon. I've used up all the first-level demon meat I've accumulated as bait."

"Next time, I'll try my luck again in the spring."

"Anyway, the Vajra I just used up is now almost half full again."

Li Cunxiao felt relieved. He grabbed the white tiger, which was nearly four meters long and weighed nearly a thousand kilograms, with one hand and washed away the blood with the white snow.

Although there are a few wounds on it, if you are careful you can peel off a beautiful tiger skin.

"I hope Master likes this gift."

As night fell and the lights came on, the escort agency became bustling with activity.

In the training ground, the escorts happily took the red envelopes given by Zhang Lishi, held the wine, grabbed chicken legs and goose legs, and drank happily.

On the high platform, Shi Tie and the eldest lady of the Zhang family sat together and toasted their master and father-in-law.

".Disciple gives me gifts every year, all of which are the manor's grain and local products. Master, please don't despise them."

Zhang Lishi laughed heartily. "You are wrong about this."

"Of course, the gifts given by your other junior brothers are all valuable. But for me, your defense of the Escort Agency in the manor is the greatest reward for me."

Of course, that's what they said, but in reality, the relationship between the master and the disciple is so deep that they no longer need to rely on giving gifts to prove anything.

As for the gifts from others, as Zhang Lishi said, they were all valuable items.

But they also couldn't escape old medicines, jade, weapons and the like. To the big families in the inner city, they were not particularly precious, and to Zhang Lishi they were even less worth mentioning.

This also made the latter look at Shen He, Jiang Qi, Xiao Mei and others more amused.

On the other hand, Ye Chengxiao has been working seriously and practicing diligently recently, gradually getting rid of his frivolous nature, which made Zhang Lishi encourage him.

I heard that his parents had messed up their family assignments and were now in a precarious situation. Perhaps because of this, Ye Chengxiao became closer to the escort agency and almost stopped considering himself a member of the Ye family.

"But then again, why hasn't Junior Brother Li arrived yet?"

Shi Tie asked casually. Zhang Yuelu got the news from Mu Cha and replied:
"He said he was going to prepare some gifts. He just sent someone to let us know that they will be here soon."

When she said this, she looked at Shen He and Xiao Mei intentionally or unintentionally, but found that they were completely indifferent, with an attitude of indifference.

Instead of what she imagined, he couldn't wait to jump out to flatter Li Cunxiao, or to flatter the powerful and bully the weak in order to curry favor with Zhang Lishi.

"Did Junior Brother Li really hurt you by beating you up? Or have you become disloyal to the escort agency?"

Thinking of a rumor he had heard by chance, Zhang Yuelu seemed to be lost in thought. At this time, Feng Sheng, who rarely appeared in the escort agency, snorted.

"This Junior Brother Li is so arrogant. There are so many of us, and we're just waiting for him?"

"If he can't come up with a decent gift later, I'll take it."

"Feng Sheng, please speak less."

Shi Tie showed a helpless expression. Because both of them came from poor backgrounds, he, as the eldest brother, had taken great care of them in their early years, which made Feng Sheng very grateful and he always followed his lead.

But Feng Sheng had a violent temper and was a very rough person.

After he came back, he saw that Li Cunxiao was at the peak of his power in the escort agency and that the young escorts were always responsive to his calls. He immediately felt sorry for Shi Tie.

He believed that Li Sanlang was coming to seize the throne and compete for favor, and had ideas about the position of the eldest brother.

"My eldest brother and I stay at the manor year-round, while you're out in the city enjoying the world of pleasure. You've only been on a few escort missions, and you're already so high-minded?"

"I'm going to kill your prestige!"

Feng Sheng had made up his mind when he heard the call of Li Cunxiao's name from a distance.

He stood up immediately, seemingly rushing to greet him, but in fact he wanted to block the person off the stage and make him look foolish.

But at this moment, there was a commotion in the training ground. Everyone looked intently and were shocked to see a white tiger about ten feet long with wings growing from its ribs. It flew by like a gust of wind and appeared under the platform in an instant. Some bodyguards were so frightened that they even drew their swords.

Until Li Cunxiao's leopard head with round eyes and the tangled muscles holding up the ferocious tiger head with one hand appeared under the huge tiger skin, the surroundings suddenly became noisy.

Feng Sheng was stunned.

He was also a disciple of the Tiger Demon Fist, so he naturally recognized the wounds on the fur as coming from the same martial art;
He was stationed at the manor year-round, often clearing out demons. From its size and wings, he could tell that the white tiger was already a second-tier one.

He regarded Li Cunxiao as Shi Tie's potential rival, so he naturally recognized that the man in front of him was the target he had just intended to target.

Feng Sheng recognized everything, but for a moment, when he saw the tall young man holding the fur of the second-level white tiger demon and stepping onto the platform, he seemed to recognize nothing.

It was not until Li Cunxiao walked over and threw the tiger head onto the wooden board that he returned to his seat without saying a word and turned his head slightly.

One cup after another.

　After reading the comments from book friends, I found that the story about the tiger corpse was indeed too hasty and has been revised.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)