Aspiring to the Immortal Path Chapter 55: Seeing saw
After three days of rest, Tang Jie entered Tiger Roaring Valley again.
This time he was much more familiar with the situation in the valley, and nothing like the previous incident where he was chased by the spotted snake happened again.
The day passed quickly. Looking at today's harvest, there was still little surplus after deducting the loan and rent. Tang Jie did not continue hunting, but walked towards the Tiger Roaring Peak again.
Standing in front of the stone monument, the tiger has appeared on the top of the mountain again.
It still looked at Tang Jie with cold eyes, and the word "王" on its forehead was wrinkled.
Tang Jie smiled.
Then he kept walking.
Step on the **** stone slab.
One step!
Step two!
Three steps!
Tang Jie stopped after walking ten steps.
The demon tiger did not attack, but still looked at him.
Tang Jie continued to move forward.
He took another step forward, then stopped.
Phew!
The wind is blowing!
The tiger pounces!
Tang Jie used the Purple Lightning Jumping Technique to fly past like lightning.
The tiger's roar roared again, but this time it only made Tang Jie's mind tremble slightly, but it failed to stop the operation of his technique.
The tiger's claws hit the red stone slab, causing dust and smoke to fill the sky.
The dust and smoke dissipated, and Tang Jie stood outside the boundary, with a trace of blood flowing from his arm.
It was the air blade launched when it pounced that was hidden in the storm and cut him.
Broken stone slabs will automatically heal.
The demon tiger took a few steps back, let out a warning whistle, and turned away.
Tang Jie stepped in again, and the demon tiger looked back at him, but ignored him.
"Brother..." Yiyi whispered as she lay on Tang Jie's shoulder.
She fell asleep the last time Tang Jie provoked the demon tiger and didn't see it.
But this time she could see clearly that the demon tiger was as powerful as lightning and was so powerful and ferocious that it was simply not something Tang Jie could resist now.
"Yiyi is not afraid." Tang Jie patted Yiyi lightly: "Do you still remember what my brother told you before coming here?"
"Yes!" Yiyi nodded seriously.
"Just do it."
"But I'm afraid..."
"Don't be afraid, Yiyi, it's not interested in you!" Tang Jie said lightly.
Yiyi tilted her head. She didn't understand why the demon tiger wasn't interested in her.
As a rare spirit that always maintains high spirituality, she is the best tonic in the eyes of all monsters.
Tang Jie already smiled and said: "Because it only has me in its eyes...it hates humans."
He looked at the demon tiger like that, making eye contact with it.
Yiyi slid off Tang Jie's body and ducked into the grass nearby. As expected, the demon tiger didn't even look at her.
They were in a stalemate.
After a long time, Yiyi reappeared next to Tang Jie, leaned into Tang Jie's ear and said, "It's done."
Tang Jie took out a piece of wolf meat and put it on the ground, then shouted to the tiger: "I hope you can be more polite when I see you next time. I have no intention of killing you, I just want to talk to you... ...I know you can understand what I say, you are different from them, you are wise!"
"Roar!" The demon tiger responded with an angry roar.
Tang Jie shook his head and then exited the boundary monument.
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From this day on, Tang Jie officially started his Huxiao Valley money-making plan.
Facts have proved that even with Tang Jie's current strength, it is extremely difficult to maintain a long-term income in the Tiger Roaring Valley.
First of all, there are all kinds of unpredictable risks. Not every danger can be saved by Tang Jie. Yiyi's existence allows him to find things faster that others can't find, but it also makes it easier for monsters to notice him.
The third time he entered the valley, Tang Jie was unlucky enough to encounter a dire lizard and was chased by it for a whole day. Although this guy couldn't catch up with Tang Jie because of his slow movements, he had excellent patience and never let go of Tang Jie. He also had a keen sense of smell and could catch him no matter where he ran.
The result was that Tang Jie failed to kill even a single monster, and often had to run away halfway through the fight because of the intervention of the fear lizard.
This day became Tang Jie's Waterloo. He directly lost more than a hundred money, and he only made up for it by picking up some herbs.
In desperation, he could only find Shu Mingyang and others to borrow money to enter the valley four times.
This time he was lucky and made some money back.
Unfortunately, the fifth time he entered the valley, he was chased by monsters again. This time, it was a group of fierce wind wolves that pursued him, forcing Tang Jie to teleport away. Finally, Tang Jie had already made some gains before that and barely kept his capital.
In addition, there was an unexpected problem that greatly reduced Tang Jie's income.
That is the problem with the number of monsters and spiritual plants in the valley.
The speed of reproduction can never be compared to the speed of killing!
No matter what protection measures Tiger Roar Valley takes, the fact is that the output of Tiger Roar Valley itself is far from enough for students to use in trials.
For this reason, every once in a while, Xiyue Academy will send people outside to capture a group of monsters, collect some spiritual plants, and put them back into the valley.
This is also a long-term mission for Xiyue Sect disciples.
However, supplementation cannot be done every day, usually once every three months.
If students enter frequently during this period and hunt more monsters, the number of monsters in the valley will decrease.
Due to strength, the ones that are reduced are generally lower-strength monsters and spiritual plants that are easier to find and pick, and the rest are often extremely difficult to deal with.
Therefore, Huxiao Valley also has periods of high production and low production.
When encountering a period of low production, even Tang Jie can only work hard to preserve capital.
It’s no wonder that there is a direct relationship between risk and profit.
The safety guarantee of Tiger Roaring Valley reduces the risk, the entry threshold increases the cost of entry, and the nature of the investment lowers the expected returns - you never need to expect the Xiyue Sect to release a peerless fairy grass in Tiger Roaring Valley.
Nothing over a hundred yuan!
But Tang Jie still insisted on entering here every day.
The days of adventure in the valley went on like this day after day.
One month passed quickly.
In this month, excluding the rent to be paid, although Tang Jie made a profit, the surplus was far less than expected. In one month, he earned only 300 yuan.
Three hundred dollars is a lot of money, but the problem is that this three hundred dollars was earned by him when he stopped practicing during the day.
Take Pei Yuan Dan as an example. A bottle of Pei Yuan Dan costing 1,200 yuan can only bring about forty to sixty days of progress improvement for students. Stop practicing for thirty days and exchange for three hundred souls. Money, when you think about it, is actually just busy work in vain.
For this reason, many people laughed at Tang Jie for his gambling addiction and his self-righteousness for wasting time in Tiger Roaring Valley.
If you have the energy to fight several times in the sparring field and strive to be ranked on the list, the price/performance ratio is higher than going to Tiger Roaring Valley.
Even Cai Junyang and others who had published the book had tried to persuade him several times.
Tang Jie still insisted on his actions.
And every time after hunting, as long as he was not driven out, he would go to Tiger Roaring Peak.
At the beginning, the demon tiger was wary of him.
Every time Tang Jie comes, it will appear immediately and try to kill Tang Jie.
But the fact is that it is getting farther and farther away from killing Tang Jie.
As the contact time grew longer, Tang Jie got to know this demon tiger better and better, and knew what abilities it had.
As a top-grade psychic beast, this tiger has four innate spells.
One is to pursue him with the Wind Zong Technique, which is similar to the Purple Lightning Jump Technique. It can run very fast in a short distance and is not conducive to a long battle.
The second type is the ground thorn spell, which can control the land to produce ground thorns to attack the target. Although the power is average, it is a large-area damage spell and is the least threat to Tang Jie.
The third type is the tiger's roar, which has the power to frighten the soul and even destroy the spell.
The fourth type is that it can send out an air blade to attack the opponent from a distance. The power of this air blade is so strong that even if Tang Jie activates the phaseless golden body and resists with the condensed water shield, he will still suffer considerable damage.
What is really powerful about it is its terrifying own strength. Its claws can easily tear apart any object in front of it. Its teeth are sharper and harder than top-grade magic weapons. Its tail is like a whip, which can break gold and jade.
Its magic may only be equivalent to the Lingquan level, but its body is definitely comparable to the physical cultivation of the transcendental level.
And Tang Jie suspected that it might have a fifth technique.
This demon tiger is obviously gifted with the two elements of wind and earth. The tiger's roar belongs to bloodline power and can be ignored. The wind element is good at speed, so its wind control is extremely fast, ranking first among all techniques. The earth element is good at control, so the technique it has never used is probably some kind of rock armor-like technique, but Tang Jie has never been able to force it. It is used, so there is no opportunity to see it.
The deeper the understanding, the harder it will be for the demon tiger to kill Tang Jie.
From the heavy injury to Tang Jie the first time, to the slight injury the second time, to later, it couldn't even hurt Tang Jie.
The tiger realized that he couldn't kill the opponent, so he ignored Tang Jie.
Tang Jie's entry range expanded at this time.
The demon tiger pursued again.
Still no success, give up again.
Tang Jie's activity area continued to expand in a cycle of pursuing, giving up, pursuing again, and giving up again.
From ten steps to eighteen steps.
Every time Tang Jie left, he would put some food there.
But the demon tiger has never eaten it.
As time passed, the demon tiger simply ignored Tang Jie and stopped trying to catch him even if Tang Jie took twenty or thirty steps. It seemed as if he had acquiesced in Tang Jie's right to exist here.
It is a pity that no matter what Tang Jie shouted, the demon tiger just ignored Tang Jie, as if he could not understand what he said at all.
So Tang Jie did not continue to move forward, but took twenty steps as a safe limit and never left this circle.
One man and one tiger were in a stalemate like this. Tang Jie still entered and exited Tiger Roaring Peak every day, just like entering his own courtyard. Both sides seemed to have gradually adapted to the other's presence...
Today Tang Jie came to Tiger Roaring Peak again. The demon tiger was still lying lazily on the big rock on the top of the peak, not even looking at Tang Jie.
Asking Yiyi to continue doing her thing, Tang Jie stood in his activity area and walked around casually.
He was walking leisurely when he suddenly saw a small red flower behind a stone not far away, with a bright red fruit on it, which looked as big as a pomegranate.
"Red Berry?" Tang Jie whispered.
The fruit in front of me is clearly a red berry, a fire spiritual fruit, and it has entered a fully mature stage.
Red berries are not too rare among spiritual fruits. They are of fire nature and have certain value whether used for cultivation or medicine.
However, red berries have a long maturity period and often take several years to truly mature. Cultivators usually have no interest in waiting for such a long time. After all, no one can monopolize the land here. They are often picked when they first form. Therefore, red berries are common in Huroar Valley, but those that are so mature are extremely rare.
The red berry in front of Tang Jie is fully mature and its value is much higher than ordinary red berries. If it can be picked, it can be sold for at least 150 yuan.
Tang Jie immediately understood that this was also a place where the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was beautiful, and Xiyue Academy had probably also sprinkled spiritual seeds on the peak. However, due to the guardianship of the demon tiger, not all students can go up to Tiger Roaring Peak. Therefore, many good things here have not been picked. The red berries are obviously preserved to this day because of the demon tiger.
The fruit was not far away from him, just three steps outside his self-demarcated safe zone.
At this moment, the demon tiger did not move, and the red berry was close in front of him. Tang Jie's eyes flashed and he rushed towards the red berry.
The moment he rushed out of the area.
The tiger is roaring!
The demonic tiger stood up suddenly and pounced downwards with the force of thunder!
However, just as it pounced, Tang Jie suddenly stopped.
He stopped his forward motion abruptly, turned around and ran towards the boundary monument.
Boom!
Tiger claws hit the air.
At the same time, Tang Jie quickly ran to the boundary monument. Yiyi's figure quickly appeared, grabbing Tang Jie tightly and looking at the demon tiger nervously.
"Roar!" The demon tiger, which hit the air, looked very angry and roared again at Tang Jie.
Tang Jie just smiled.
At this time, he was already standing on the boundary line and said calmly: "Don't wonder why I was defensive. I said I knew you were pretending to be stupid."
The demon tiger kicked Tang Jie hard.
"I just want to talk to you... It's a pity that your hatred of human beings is too deep~IndoMTL.com~ It seems that if I don't defeat you, you won't talk to me. Well, I will defeat you Yours. I hope you can calm down by then." As he said that, Tang Jie turned and left.
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