27: Chapter 27 The King's Excellent Successor, Tiger Dad

In Tiger King Valley, the muscular Wild Boar King pulled a uniquely shaped yet exquisite plow to till the land.

Tiger Dad was practicing punches in the open area, the sound of breaking air popping loudly, while Mo Yun lay on a tree, tucking in its paws, eyes narrowed, enjoying the sunshine.

In the distance, Lu Hu lay on a reclining chair, rocking back and forth.

Under a simple grass shed a few dozen meters from Lu Hu, Lu Qing was setting up a fire to roast wild chickens.

Under the high heat, the chickens sizzled with oil, and the aroma filled the air.

There were ten fire pits in total, each with a wild chicken hanging over it.

Lu Qing's expression was calm as he easily controlled the heat of all ten fires.

Keeping Lu Qing was a very good decision; having lived for over a hundred years, Lu Qing was a wily old fox with rich experience and many skills.

After arriving at Tiger King Valley, he first helped the Wild Boar King build a brand-new set of plowing equipment, crafted various farm tools, and managed the herb garden.

While managing the herbs, Lu Qing accompanied Tiger Dad in practicing punches, taught Tiger Dad martial arts moves, helped Mo Yun refine various pills, and also made reclining chairs and built houses, using various methods to please Lu Hu.

In less than ten days, Lu Qing had already firmly established his footing in Tiger King Valley.

The roasted chickens gradually turned golden brown; he turned them, sprinkled spices—done!

Lu Qing placed a roasted chicken on a wooden tray and carefully presented it to Lu Hu.

"Great King, please dine!"

Lu Hu sat up from the reclining chair, took a whiff of the roasted chicken's aroma, and couldn't help but nod—not bad, not bad.

Eating cooked food like this had a unique flavor.

When he first obtained Five Elements Magic, he had thought about using fire to cook food, but his paws were covered in tiger fur, which was easily singed by the flames.

However, his fire control skills were already decent now, but with Lu Qing to serve him and his own cooking skills being mediocre, this spell was no longer needed.

Lu Hu ate the chicken slowly, while his tiger tail flicked, causing water droplets to scatter in the air and gather into a line of text:

'Remember to extinguish light, playing with light disturbs the mountain, sit in a boat at the bottom of the prison.'

Lu Qing's eye twitched; he had already discovered that the Great King's interpretation of the kun script seemed to have gone astray—half of the kun characters were problematic.

He had clearly explained every single character, so where exactly did the problem arise?

The Great King's kun characters were wrong, but he didn't dare to say so, so he could only go along with it.

'Remember to extinguish fire, playing with fire burns the mountain, sit in prison until the bottom wears through.'

Lu Qing quickly smoothed out the sentence and nodded, "Great King, rest assured, I will go extinguish the fire now."

Fortunately, the Great King only misinterpreted the characters, not the language, otherwise he wouldn't have known what to do.

Lu Qing felt fortunate in his heart, returned to extinguish the fire, and then took a hoe to clear the weeds growing in the herb garden.

"Roar!"

Having finished the cleaning, Tiger Dad, who was practicing punches, ran over, wanting to spar with Lu Qing.

The martial arts moves of the pugilists were very practical; sparring with Lu Qing over the past few days had allowed him to master many practical techniques, his physique improved every day, and now that his combat skills had improved, Tiger Dad's combat power was skyrocketing.

Tiger Dad was obsessed with this feeling.

Lu Qing smiled, not annoyed, and patiently sparred with Tiger Dad.

The Great King was a tiger, and this Tiger Brother was also a tiger; it was very likely that he was an outstanding genius among the Great King's descendants, and in the language of the pugilists, he might even be the Great King's successor.

Building a good relationship with the Great King's descendant would be more conducive to his foothold here.

What's more, over these past few days of sparring with this Tiger Brother, the Tiger Brother's strength had been growing stronger by the day, with visible progress.

When they first met, the Tiger Brother was at most at the level of a second-rate martial artist, but now, after only ten days, the Tiger Brother's strength had entered the first-rate.

This speed of progress was shocking, making him, a Grandmaster, feel outmatched.

With so many tigers in the mountains, only the Tiger Brother could be kept by the Great King's side, which was enough to show the Tiger Brother's potential.

It stood to reason that the Tiger Brother was likely the Great King's successor.

He believed that in the future, the Tiger Brother's strength would catch up to his own; sparring with the Tiger Brother now to deepen their friendship was equivalent to gaining at least one battle-hardened Grandmaster friend in the future.

No matter how you calculate it, it was worth it!

"Aow roar~"

Lu Hu finished eating the roasted chicken and lay on the reclining chair to continue sunbathing, occasionally glancing at Lu Dan and Tiger Dad who were sparring.

He was also secretly learning combat techniques.

Although he was a tiger, he really didn't have much experience in fighting; the most intense battle he had ever fought was probably when he was still drinking milk, single-handedly confronting Tiger Brother and Tiger Sister.

That battle had been earth-shattering and dark; he, who hadn't even opened his eyes, had forced himself to open them two days early.

Since then, he hadn't experienced such a blood-pumping battle.

Lacking combat experience, he had to learn more!

But speaking of which, Tiger Sister hadn't eaten any tiger fruit; he wondered how she was doing now?

She shouldn't be dead; all tigers were driven away by Mother Tiger only when they were adults, and if she encountered something she couldn't beat, she could just run away.

If there was a chance, he still had to look for Tiger Sister.

...

The sun rose and set; soon, another ten days passed.

Lu Hu rarely got up early again; his "100-year" spirit ginseng was ready today!

After digging it out, the massive spirit energy made every pore on Lu Hu's body expand.

"This should be a stable breakthrough to the third stage!"

Lu Hu opened his mouth and swallowed it in one gulp, activating both his Qi cultivation and Body Tempering Art.

Half a day later, Lu Hu easily entered the third stage.

"Comfortable!"

Lu Hu stretched his tiger body and then opened the system panel.

[Cultivation Method: Spirit Tiger Body Tempering Method; Realm: Beginner; Pure Yang Body: 75%; Yuan Spirit Body: 25%; Spirit Body: 24%; Earth Spirit Body: 6%; Soul Spirit Body: 3.5%; Fire Spirit Body: 2.5%; Poison Spirit Body: 1.5%; Metal Spirit Body: 1%; Wind Spirit Body: 0.9%; Water Spirit Body: 0.5%; Wood Spirit Body: 0.39%; Creation Body: 0.01%...]

The Body Tempering Art, this cultivation method, could obtain the corresponding physique by using any energy to cultivate, and his aptitude was improving every day.

This Spirit Body, by breathing in spirit energy every day, was already about to surpass the Yuan Spirit Body he had accumulated from gnawing for nearly three years. And this Wind Spirit Body—the wind follows the tiger—as his cultivation evolved, had his wind attribute talent also gradually been stimulated?

"A heaven-defying cultivation method."

Lu Hu closed the system; a cultivation method that could improve one's aptitude while cultivating, even if he didn't understand the situation in the cultivation world, he knew it was absolutely heaven-defying.

Whose cultivation method could improve aptitude using ordinary energy?

It was like some kind of genius with an innate physique, who advanced by leaps and bounds in the early stages thanks to their physique, but when they reached the later stages, the potential of their physique reached its limit, and the genius returned to mediocrity.

But this cultivation method? The later it went, the more awesome it became. Others needed to refine peerless treasures or the blood essence of immortals and gods to improve their cultivation aptitude.

This cultivation method only required using ordinary energy to cultivate to obtain special physiques; it was terrifyingly strong.

"These spirit herbs are also almost ready."

Lu Hu looked at the other spirit ginseng, divine mushrooms...

Some of the spirit herbs had been planted around the same time as the "100-year" spirit ginseng.

But these spirit herbs hadn't been treated with Spirit Fertilizer every day like the "100-year" spirit ginseng, so they were far from becoming "100-year" spirit ginseng.

Breaking through to the third stage, the area of spirit energy he could inhale was much wider, just like the spirit energy emitted by the spirit herbs in the sinkhole.

Before, it took half an hour to cultivate, but now he could swallow it all in one gulp.

When cultivating, the spirit energy within a radius of dozens of miles would gather toward him, but the effect was not great; the spirit energy in the world was too scarce, and even when gathered together, it didn't equal the roots of a single "100-year" spirit ginseng.

Future progress in cultivation required "100-year" spirit herbs to provide spirit energy.

"One 100-year spirit ginseng costs 100 Spirit Coins to cultivate."

Lu Hu lowered his head to calculate; he still had a balance of 500 Spirit Coins; at most, he could cultivate six "100-year" spirit herbs in a short period!

But six "100-year" spirit herbs were not enough.

It seemed that this tenth system task had to be completed as soon as possible!

Lu Hu secretly thought: one, three, five, ten.

He guessed that he would receive a gift bag reward after completing the tenth system task.

After observing for these days, Lu Dan should have no ulterior motives, so he could safely go out to look for herbs.

Lu Hu had originally planned to take Lu Dan with him; having a human old antique made things convenient.

But because of the Green Lotus, Lu Hu still dismissed this idea.

Since Lu Dan arrived, the Green Lotus's growth speed had accelerated significantly.

The Green Lotus was a picky eater; even when he fertilized it with Spirit Fertilizer, it wouldn't grow.

He had asked Lu Dan, and the Green Lotus needed the Essence of All Things to grow.

The Essence of All Things was the essence obtained after the juice of plants was repeatedly refined eighty-one times.

The Ginseng, chicken blood vine, stonecrop, he shou wu, etc., planted in the herb garden, once mature, had their essence extracted and fused together to become the nutrients for the Green Lotus's growth.

Not just these Ginsengs, but the essence of the wild grasses and shrubs in the mountains were all nutrients for the Green Lotus.

Lu Hu thought about it for several days and finally came to a conclusion.

The Green Lotus was primarily about creation and vitality, containing vast life essence.

To grow, it needed a much larger amount of vitality as nutrients.

The Essence of All Things, to put it plainly, was the essence of life; the Green Lotus needed to absorb life to grow.

Fortunately, the life of plants was enough, otherwise...

It would be a scene of bloodshed.

After these days of growth, the lotus leaves of the Green Lotus had already unfolded. Lu Dan said that to bloom, one had to wait for forty-nine days.

During this period, it needed the Essence of All Things as nutrients every day. Once interrupted or if the nutrients were insufficient, the flower would wither and have to start over!

If he took Lu Dan away, could General Hei take good care of the Green Lotus?

It was better to leave Lu Dan here and set off alone.