Aspiring to the Immortal Path Chapter 109: Negotiating with a Tiger for Its Hide (1)

Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr

The fiend tiger had been rendered immobile by the giant hand, but its eyes stared at Tang Jie with naked hostility.

Tang Jie looked at it as he organized his thoughts, after which he slowly said, "Don't look at me like that. I don't have any intention of killing you. I just want something from you, though I don't know if it's actually an object—more likely some secret art. So long as you're willing to hand it over, I will let you go."

Raaa! The fiend tiger lowly growled as it coldly stared at Tang Jie.

Tang Jie chuckled. "I know that you wouldn't believe me, but think it over. All in all, I paid four to five thousand coins for this trip. With such high costs, I wouldn't make it back even if I sold you off. Do you really think I would have gone so far just to make a loss?"

Tang Jie paused a moment before going on. "What I want isn't you, and it's never been you. That's why I think we can still talk… Don't play dumb. I know you can understand me. I didn't spend several thousand spirit coins and a month just to fool a tiger fiend! And this isn't some secret, so there's no point in continuing to pretend."

The tiger's eyes finally changed, and it now looked warily at Tang Jie.

Finally, the fiend tiger moved.

It extended a claw and wrote several words on the ground:

"What do you know?"

Upon seeing these words, Tang Jie smiled. "A lot, but I only suspected at first. But after interacting with you for a month, I've confirmed my suspicions."

No matter how the fiend tiger tried to hide it, after a month of interaction, the intelligence it had shown with its repeated pursuits and attacks would have made even an ordinary person realize there was something unusual about this fiend tiger, let alone Tang Jie, who was mentally prepared for it.

"It wasn't the Basking Moon Sect who told you?"

Tang Jie replied, "Even in the Basking Moon Sect, only the higher echelons would know about this, yes? Why would they tell a puny student like me? But the Basking Moon Sect doesn't need to tell me for me to und

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