Chapter 399: Chapter 172: Mid-stage Divine Treasure, Half-Innate Cub!

For the Bo Division, the number of Commander-Level warriors at the Celestial Vein Ninth Layer is the backbone for stabilizing the Bo Division territory.

The Bo Division’s external patrols, established Ruins Market, key mineral veins, and riverbank ferry guards all require warriors of this level to oversee.

Although the Blazing Flame Tribe currently has no Upper-Class Vassal Tribes and the Ruins Market and ferry are still under construction, this doesn’t mean there won’t be any in the future.

Now that the mainstay warriors have been promoted, the external construction and development can be accelerated.

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Within the Giant Mountain Range.

At the standoff between the Chi Tiger and Jade Flame Suanni, the two mighty Wild Beasts have been confronting each other for several years, with neither able to defeat the other.

The Chi Tiger’s persistent presence at the Giant Mountain has aroused the suspicion of the Jade Flame Suanni.

Starting over a year ago, whenever the Jade Flame Suanni battled the Chi Tiger, it attempted to approach the Giant Mountain, but the Chi Tiger thwarted it each time.

Deep beneath the Giant Mountain, there is a natural cave.

Within the cave, the water vapor trickles, crystalline and transparent, with milky white stalactites converging at the cave’s ceiling, dripping down to form a stream below, merging into a stone pool about a yard wide.

In the stone pool, a Spiritual Lotus grows with several lotus leaves.

On the largest lotus leaf, rests a Chi Tiger cub about a foot long.

The little creature seems asleep, occasionally emitting bubbles from its nostrils, its entire body glowing with Spiritual Light.

Strangely, beneath its belly there is not normal flesh but a transparent Spiritual Light, radiating an innate rhythm.

The fusion of flesh and Innate Spirit Body makes the small creature’s tiger head, though small, extremely majestic, with a three-inch Jade Horn, a long dragon body covered in fine dragon scales.

The slumbering little creature sometimes twitches, with lines like a spider web in the belly’s light flowing into its organs, eroding its insides.

The entire cave has naturally developed a Spirit Ban, isolating the Water Source Power from leaking and concealing the Little Chi Tiger’s aura.

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Outside the mountain, the Jade Flame Suanni repeatedly rushes towards the Giant Mountain, revealing to the Chi Tiger that its maternal instinct to protect its offspring has been noticed by the Suanni.

Perhaps due to the taboo between acquired and innate species, though its progeny was born with a powerful bloodline and the talents of both species, it is seemingly cursed.

Roar!

The Jade Flame Suanni’s eyes, in which jade flames flicker, flash with ferocity.

It had long recognized the Chi Tiger as a mother beast, and what can make a mother beast so persistent is likely its offspring.

Thus, the rationale of snatching the Luwu Treasure Blood, not for its own refinement but to consolidate its offspring’s bloodline, makes sense.

Considering this, the Li Tiger’s previous acts of wanting to refine the Luwu Treasure Blood were all deceits. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

A youngling with a Dragon Bloodline is far more tempting than dozens of ordinary Tier Three Wild Beasts.

Boom!

The Jade Flame Suanni strikes again, clumps of jade fire coalescing into a fire cloud, rushing against the Chi Tiger.

The Chi Tiger’s body also bursts with dragon-scale-like water waves that collide with the jade fire.

In the clash of water and fire, both Wild Beasts collide, claws and tails constantly crashing together.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

The two Wild Beasts are fighting desperately, each collision causing large energy ripples to splash.

Later, the two tangled together, falling from mid-air, smashing a pit over a hundred yards wide, stones flying within.

The Jade Flame Suanni leaps from the pit, fiercely charging towards the Giant Mountain, its body manifesting a jade Suanni Dharma Form, attempting to use the Dharma Form to brute-force the Giant Mountain.

Seeing this, the Chi Tiger was startled and quickly swung its dragon body.

Its dragon body at this moment bloomed with black light, aiming to latch onto the Jade Flame Suanni’s rear.

The dragon tail hooked onto the Suanni’s hind leg, forcibly dragging it back.

As soon as the Suanni was dragged backwards, it suddenly turned around, raising a sharp claw.

The claw manipulated the jade fire, and its blood energy suddenly surged, promptly grabbing at the Chi Tiger.

Crash!

The Chi Tiger was directly seized by the claw, scales and blood splashing, chunks of flesh were brutally torn away, the hurtled Chi Tiger swung its dragon tail to blast the Jade Flame Suanni back.

Yet the Suanni blasted away again charged towards the Giant Mountain.

The gravely harmed Chi Tiger roared anxiously, ignoring its wounds and chased after, in a flurry being targeted again, struck by a jade Suanni’s mark, it was blasted away.

"Roar!"

The Chi Tiger crashed into the rock wall, ribs fractured, blood flowing, but its body burned with blood energy, it continued charging towards the Jade Flame Suanni.

However, the Jade Flame Suanni ceased to engage directly, stepping on jade fires to evade, letting the Chi Tiger’s beast blood flow, consuming its vitality.

Every time it evaded, the Jade Flame Suanni attempted to approach the mountain from another direction, the Chi Tiger passively dragging its injured body to drive it away, issuing deep beast growls from its throat.

Each time the Chi Tiger moved, the Jade Flame Suanni retreated.

Consequently, due to the disturbance of blood energy, the Chi Tiger’s injuries exacerbated slightly.

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This scene was fully observed by Shen Can hidden in the distance.

As expected, battles between beasts of high Spiritual Wisdom aren’t just about recklessness, they possess guerilla tactics, the Jade Flame Suanni intends to exhaust the Chi Tiger to death.

The Chi Tiger guarding the mountain forever clearly hints where its progeny is hidden.

At this rate, the final outcome is that the Suanni not only devours the Chi Tiger but also its progeny.