At that moment, in a valley, a tiger had cornered an old man. The old man carried a medicine chest. He was clearly a physician.
He trembled. Today was supposed to be his day of rest. He never expected to be coerced up a mountain by a tiger.
Right now, the elderly physician took in the scene before him and understood everything.
The tiger wanted him to treat its illness.
A physician’s heart is a parent’s heart... he thought, recalling the maxim left by the founder of medicine. He immediately walked forward and gravely took the Black Tiger’s pulse. Then, he examined the injuries.
"How is it?" a tigress hurriedly asked.
The physician jumped, but he took several deep breaths to calm himself. "It’s difficult to say."
"You must say," the tigress commanded.
The other large tigers began to look menacing, startling the old man.
He immediately replied, "This one’s injuries are severe. After my treatment, if he refrains from fighting and recuperates peacefully, he can live for a hundred years! However, if he engages in fierce combat, the wounds will reopen, and he will certainly die."
BOOM!
The large tigers glanced at each other, all of them shaking their heads. The Black Tiger is one of the rare anomalies among the Tiger Clan in this region. If he can never fight again, what value would his life have?
The tigress, however, grew enraged and roared at the old physician, "You must be a quack, spouting absolute nonsense!"
The elderly physician’s brow furrowed sternly. Every word I said was the truth! You tiger, you can’t just spout lies and tarnish my reputation! He was about to defend his honor, but before he could speak, the tigress swiped a vicious claw at him in a ferocious and ruthless attack.
Lacking the power granted by a Cultivation Fruit, the old physician was defenseless and instantly struck dead on the spot by the tigress.
One of the other tigers thought for a moment before speaking. "Perhaps there is one person who can save the Black Tiger."
"Who?" the tigress immediately demanded.
She was the sole female in this region’s Tiger Clan. Her prestigious position was self-evident; all the male tigers listened to her.
Once, this tigress had not been so precious, as there were several other females in the clan. But one day, all the other tigresses died. Thus, she became an exceptional rarity, valuable simply for being scarce.
Although a man from the Human Clan had captured her in her youth, and that man, overcome with beastly lust, had... forced himself upon her. In the end, she gave birth to the Black Tiger. But the other male tigers didn’t mind.
"Find whoever wounded the Black Tiger," one of the male tigers said. "If they were strong enough to injure him, perhaps they also have a way to heal him."
"Right, right, right, that makes sense," the tigress nodded in agreement.
She had borne many cubs for this group of male tigers, but the Black Tiger was her most special child. He was the one born after she was... forcefully taken by that Human Clan man in her youth!
The tigress loved the Black Tiger dearly.
"I’ll go right now," the tigress said after a moment’s thought.
"That could be a problem."
"Yes, the one who injured the Black Tiger... why would they be willing to save him?" the other tigers chimed in, shaking their heads. They felt there wasn’t a glimmer of hope, and looking at the Black Tiger, they thought he was surely doomed this time.
Some of the male tigers hesitated. Will that really work? Would threatening him make him save the Black Tiger? Wouldn’t that just create a bitter enemy?
The tigress glanced at them, knowing what they were thinking, and a wave of disdain washed over her. The Tiger Clan, who have we ever feared? Taking hostages to threaten someone is a common tactic among the Human Clan. If humans dare to do it, why wouldn’t a tiger dare?
Now that I have the Eyes of Golden Flame, should I try to get the Heavenly Eye as well? The so-called Heavenly Eye was originally an artifact of the goddess Yaoji in the Mythical World, later becoming the Supreme Treasure of Erlang Shen. He recalled how Erlang Shen had gradually learned to wield it under the instruction of True Man Yuding.
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