Chapter 1076: Into the Tiger's Den! (Bonus Chapter)
Not until Jiang the Fierce Tiger entered the spirit realm did the sea of beasts kneeling outside dare to stand up!
Instantly, a buzz of discussion erupted!
"Oh my gosh, is this the pressure of the king of all beasts? His tiger roar is terrifying!"
"Did you see the 'king' character on his head? So dazzling! He's a born king!"
"As expected of a big shot tiger who escaped from the Void Sea, he even roared that Starlight-level tigress to her knees. This family status? Unbeatable, alright?"
"Hiss~ Even the boss lady's roar isn't as scary as his. They're not here to cause trouble, are they?"
The two Day Cloud Tigers guarding the gate, seeing Jiangnan had gone far, couldn't sit still anymore!
This was a huge deal!
They quickly dashed deeper into the spirit realm to report to the old tigress!
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Inside the spirit realm, it was daytime now—green mountains, clear waters, beautiful scenery!
However, the density of spiritual energy was far less than the current uninhabited area outside!
Zi Yuan and Jiangnan walked together toward the meeting prairie!
Along the way, they saw many Day Cloud Tigers!
Most were mother tigers with cubs, as well as young tiger cubs playing around!
So this must be the Day Cloud Tiger clan's den!
Only adult tigers were strong enough to hunt alone in the uninhabited area?
The two of them drew the vigilance of many tigers, as strangers rarely came here!
And they were a pair of tiger mates?
Zi Yuan was a bit scared being stared at, and whispered quietly!
(⌯◔﹏◔ิ) "Hey hey hey! What if we get exposed and they want to eat us? What do we do?"
Jiangnan grinned!
(๑¯ิٹ¯ิ) "No problem, I'll teach you a trick. Even if we're exposed, they still won't dare to eat you!"
Zi Yuan's eyes lit up: "I want to learn! I want to learn!"
Jiangnan cleared his throat: "When they try to eat you, just kneel down and call them 'Daddy'!"
"They won't eat you then. At a life-or-death moment, who cares about face?"
Zi Yuan was stunned: "That trick works on spirit beasts too?"
Jiangnan shrugged!
(͡°͜ʖ͡°)✧ "Of course, a tiger won't eat its own cub, right?"
Zi Yuan: !!!
That's totally 'a tiger won't eat its own cub'! Are you treating me like an idiot?
Kneel and call them daddy—to make them feel more guilty about eating you?
This is really going into the tiger's den, and you're not scared at all?
The two arrived at the meeting prairie, where hundreds of Diamond-level spirit beasts were gathered!
ʕ•̫͡•ʕ*̫͡*ʕ•͓͡•ʔ-̫͡-ʕ•̫͡•ʔ*̫͡*ʔ-̫͡-ʔ……
All were beast group leaders, including two or three Starlight-level ones!
At the moment, Fat Orange was chatting with other Day Cloud Tigers in front of a black rock wall.
She even played with the little tiger cubs!
The arrival of the two tigers naturally caught Fat Orange's attention, and her huge eyes stared straight over!
(๑Ф◠Ф) "Where are you from? Why have I never seen you before?"
Jiang the Fierce Tiger raised an eyebrow: "We escaped from the Void Sea. Heard there's an organization here, so I brought my wife to join!"
Fat Orange was taken aback. Household registration in the Void Sea? Able to escape from under Li Mingshan's nose?
Quite capable!
"Ahem, why join me? Three-Headed Dog and that damn Dragon's organizations seem like better choices, right?"
Jiang the Fierce Tiger grinned: "We came because we heard about you. Other beasts say the boss here is beautiful and kind-hearted, and powerful!"
"Her fame spreads in all directions, and she's considerate to subordinates—great reviews everywhere. So we came!"
Fat Orange couldn't help but get excited!
(⸝⸝•‧̫•⸝⸝) "Eh? Am I really that famous? They really said that?"
Jiang the Fierce Tiger: "Of course! They said you're gorgeous—the dream tiger of countless beasts!"
"After all, who doesn't want a pretty boss?"
Fat Orange scratched her head and smiled brightly!
୧(ૢ⁼̴ꇴ⁼̴) "Oh my, you flatter me! All flattery! Alright, I'll take you in!"
Jiangnan chuckled inwardly!
Successfully infiltrated! Zi Yuan next to him was dumbfounded!
How could this little mouth be so sweet? Indeed, the method of flattering the tiger's butt works anytime!
Seeing that the branch leaders had almost all arrived, Fat Orange extended her tiger paw and patted the black rock wall!
"Knock on the blackboard! Silence! I'm going to talk about this meeting's agenda!"
Suddenly, the meeting prairie fell silent!
Jiangnan turned his head, barely holding back his laughter, remembering how Fat Orange had traveled far and wide to go undercover at the forward outpost!
She stole the plan and then came back to teach these spirit beasts—just thinking about it made him want to laugh!
Knocking on the blackboard for real?
Fat Orange waved her paw, and cloud energy materialized, forming a three-dimensional sand table!
It fully displayed the situation and movements in the uninhabited area!
"Because of our previous sabotage, the humans changed their battle plan and adopted the water-wave diffusion method of planting vines!"
"Er Gou, you take a group of brothers to the north zone and continue destroying the young vine sprouts! Be careful not to bump into human troops and avoid unnecessary losses!"
A Diamond-peak Three-Headed Hellhound, now with only two heads left (the middle one had been bitten off by someone), responded!
ʕ·͡˔·ʕ·͡˔·Ɂ "Boss Lady! Roger that! Guarantee to complete the mission!"
Fat Orange: "Four-Horned Snake! You take your subordinates to the central area to destroy the vine sprouts, follow the route I gave you, and you can avoid large beast groups!"
Saying this, she pulled out a tree, stripped it bare, and used it as a chalk to draw the action route on the "blackboard"!
She kept assigning tasks to her subordinates!
Jiangnan clicked his tongue in surprise. Good heavens! If they followed Fat Orange's plan this time, Brother Jian's farming plan would be for nothing again. So it was all Fat Orange commanding her subordinates?
She even gave names to the beast group leaders?
Er Gou and Four-Horned Snake—how cute!
Just then, a Mountain Mink spirit beast raised a question!
(･ิϖ･ิ) "Boss, do we really need to do this?"
"Gnawing on vines is a thankless task. Our losses in these operations have been too heavy!"
"Besides, even if it's the humans' plan, the heavens will fall, and the Hell Hound and Flame Sky Flying Dragon's beast groups will take the brunt. It's not our worry, right?"
Fat Orange squinted: "What do you know? Once the green vines spread all over the uninhabited area, the small beast groups will be the first to be cleansed! Those are our food source!"
"Then with no food, do we go hunt the large beast groups? Looking for death?"
"Food is gone, and our living space is taken by the vines—how do we survive?"
The Mountain Mink argued: "Then... then we merge into a large beast group? We could compete with them!"
Fat Orange glared: "Are you afraid you won't die fast enough? Large beast groups attract high human attention and will be wiped out sooner or later!"
"Decentralized management—not posing a threat to humans—is our best way to survive!"
"Don't try to challenge humans. They are very strong, with a bunch of Dao Heaven-level experts, and they can even create Dao Heaven beasts! One thought from them can deal a devastating blow to us!"
"You have no idea how terrifying humans are!"
Jiangnan nodded repeatedly. As the boss, Fat Orange had foresight and knew about sustainable development!
Otherwise, she wouldn't have gone undercover!
So the reason she led the vine-gnawing was that the green vines threatened their survival?
The other spirit beasts also chimed in!
"Just listen to the boss. After all these years, when has the boss ever harmed us?"
"Exactly! If the boss hadn't gone undercover in the human world, how could we have lasted until now?"
"Humans are terrifying! Even as strong as the boss lady, her tail went bald from a fierce battle with a human expert last time!"
"Isn't that right? To make the boss lady's tail go bald, how strong must that human expert be?"
Jiangnan's mouth twitched!
(•́﹏•̀٥) I... I didn't mean to, okay!
Fat Orange blushed. Of course, I won't tell you that some bastard rubbed it bald. I have face to save!
Thinking of this made Fat Orange even angrier!
The Mountain Mink said urgently: "But it's useless for us to do it alone! The uninhabited area is too big, and we can't take care of it all!"
"Hell Hound and Flame Dragon won't help!"
The other beasts also chimed in!
"Yeah! Last time, when the boss talked to Flame Dragon about this, they even fought and drove our boss back! So rude!"
"Flame Dragon and them are too despicable. They don't dare to provoke Hell Hound and the others, so they keep coming to hunt in our territory recently. Many of our brothers have been killed!"
A bunch of leader beasts started complaining!
Fat Orange looked troubled, then knocked on the blackboard!
"I'll continue to negotiate with them, but our own matters still need to be done!"
"A bunch of foolish beasts, you'll all die sooner or later! Continue assigning tasks!"
Jiangnan looked thoughtful. So the injuries on Fat Orange were from Flame Dragon?
It seems the relationships between these beast groups aren't harmonious. Jiangnan's big eyes started spinning again!
But just then, Jiang the Fierce Tiger's expression froze!
An uncontrollable instinct surged up!
Damn it! He forgot about this. He had eaten dog biscuits and monkey biscuits!
The dog ones were okay—he could control them for now—but the monkey ones were different!
He really wanted to grab a peach now, but they were in a meeting. It wasn't convenient!
Having endured for a long time, Jiangnan couldn't hold it anymore!
"Zi Zha Hu, block for me for a second!"
Zi Yuan was startled and lay down on the grass!
(⌯ŏ﹏ŏ) "What are you going to do?"
Jiangnan stealthily extended his tiger paw under Zi Yuan's belly!
Jiang the Fierce Tiger hardened his heart, his gaze landing on a Diamond-level Day Cloud Tiger!
They say a tiger's butt cannot be touched!
But it doesn't say a tiger's peaches can't be grabbed!
Today, I, Jiang the Fierce Tiger, will test the law!
In ancient times, there was the Black Tiger Grabs the Heart!
Today, there's the Fierce Tiger Grabs the Peach!
Opening a space wormhole, Jiangnan's tiger paw shot out and grabbed hard!
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The Day Cloud Tiger suddenly widened its eyes, bloodshot!
Letting out a sky-shaking roar, it sprang up from the ground, tail tucked, tears in its eyes!
ʕ›⊚ﾛ⊚‹ʔ Ahhh—
This roar startled all the beasts, and Fat Orange glared over!
(ꐦ⌯°᷄д°᷅) "What are you screaming for? Don't you see I'm holding a meeting?"
The Day Cloud Tiger shrank its neck, about to complain, but the words stuck in its throat!
How... how could it tell the boss lady?
If she opened its mouth and the boss thought it was flirting with her and bit it to death, what then?
A tigress is not to be trifled with!
"N-nothing, boss! Please continue!"
Fat Orange glared at it and then continued!
The Day Cloud Tiger, however, gritted its teeth and swept a vicious glare around!
Who the hell grabbed me? Let me catch you!