Chen Ming, Qian Daoliu, and Golden Crocodile were hiding their presence and refrained from taking action. They were rely tailing soul-hunting teams unaffiliated with the Spirit Hall, waiting for the Dark Devilgod Tiger to attack and snatch prey, so they could seize the opportunity to capture it. The teams they followed were ones led by Soul Emperors, targeting primarily thousand-year soul beasts or weaker ten-thousand-year soul beasts. After all, even when these teams sought soul rings, their targets typically maxed out at twenty-thousand-year soul beasts. There was no need for them to confront stronger ones.
After two or three days of lurking and following seven or eight different teams, the keen senses of Chen Ming and Qian Daoliu finally detected the evil aura of the Dark Devilgod Tiger.
At the mont, a seven-mber soul-hunting team led by a Soul Emperor was about to take down a top-quality twenty-thousand-year Earth Violent Bear. Suddenly, the Dark Devilgod Tiger leaped out of the shadows like a ghost. Before the hunting team could react, the tiger snapped the bear's throat in one bite and ran off with its corpse.
The Earth Violent Bear stood four ters tall and weighed over two tons. However, it seed insignificant compared to the Dark Devilgod Tiger's massive eight-ter-long body. Carrying the Earth Violent Bear in its jaws was like a big cat carrying a Siberian hamster, and its agility was hardly diminished.
The Dark Devilgod Tiger had six (or arguably seven) attributes: Evil (transford from dark power), Space, Ti, Lightning, Strength, and Wind. Both Lightning and Wind enhanced its speed, while Space and Ti indirectly boosted it further. A slight flap of its wings unleashed a speed surpassing most Titled Douluo, making it nearly unmatched by anyone under the rank of Super Douluo.
From its soul power and explosive speed, Chen Ming's group instantly identified the Dark Devilgod Tiger's age: over 80,000 years, nearing 90,000. With its high quality and powerful attributes, its strength rivaled that of a ferocious beast that had just undergone its second heavenly tribulation.
Such strength was more than enough to overwhelm most Titled Douluo. To compete with it, one would need to be a Super Douluo with top-tier or even divine-level martial spirits, such as the renowned Thousand-ton Demon-Suppressing Douluo. If it decided to flee, even Golden Crocodile Douluo at level 98 wouldn't be able to stop it.
Exchanging glances, Chen Ming and the others quickly pursued it.
The Dark Devilgod Tiger was incredibly fast. Even without going all out, its speed was at the Super Douluo level. However, it was no match for Chen Ming's group, all elites capable of keeping up while concealing their presence and aura.
The tiger ran for a long ti, moving from the outskirts of the forest to the mixed zone, then into the core, and finally back into the mixed zone before disappearing into a relatively inconspicuous mountain range. In front of a rocky cave, it used its spatial teleportation skill to enter the mountain.
Chen Ming and Qian Daoliu exchanged glances. Qian Daoliu retrieved a rarely-used Soul Capture Token from his body, ready to activate it at a mont's notice. The Angelic Divine Sword's divine consciousness was also prepared to intercept the tiger.
After making their preparations, Qian Daoliu signaled Golden Crocodile Douluo with a glance. Golden Crocodile Douluo imdiately understood, summoning his martial spirit, the Golden Crocodile Dragon. He charged forward and shattered the rock layer with one punch, revealing the hidden cave.
Inside the cave, several gemstones of various colors were embedded into the ceiling, emitting a faint glow. The walls had dozens of small, finger-sized ventilation holes. One corner of the cave featured a water source with clear signs of excavation, while another corner had a sandpit.
In the exposed cave, the Dark Devilgod Tiger wasn't eating but rather lying on top of a roughly 30,000-year-old female white tiger, moving its body.
The enormous Dark Devilgod Tiger, over eight ters long, dwarfed the four-ter-long female white tiger beneath it. Although the female tiger had reached the age for mating, the stark size difference made the scene resemble a perverse old man preying on a young girl.
In a corner of the cave, a pile of soul beast pelts lay stacked. Several tiger cubs with scorpion tails were gnawing on pieces of the Earth Violent Bear's butchered and deboned flesh. These cubs were undoubtedly hybrids of the Dark Devilgod Tiger, with bloodlines from both the white tiger and the tiger's evil power—top-tier soul beasts known as Scorpion Tigers.
As Golden Crocodile Douluo smashed through the rock layer, the Dark Devilgod Tiger's previously content expression turned into one of human-like terror. Ignoring its mating, it imdiately picked up its mate in its jaws and tossed her into a corner. Forcibly withdrawing its barbed mber, it faced Golden Crocodile Douluo in an aggressive stance.
The 30,000-year-old white tiger, though pained and visibly displeased by the sudden rough treatnt, quickly ran to the corner upon seeing the intruders. It used its body to shield the litter of scorpion-tailed cubs, glaring at Golden Crocodile Douluo with a fierce and protective gaze.
"Humans, why have you co for ?" the Dark Devilgod Tiger demanded. "I've only been taking so of your prey lately and haven't hard any humans!"
Typically, soul beasts could only speak at 100,000 years, but the Dark Devilgod Tiger's exceptional quality and intelligence allowed it to develop this ability at 80,000 years.
Looking at Golden Crocodile Douluo's nine soul rings—yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black, and red—and feeling his suffocatingly powerful soul power, the Dark Devilgod Tiger inwardly cursed. It had no idea how it had provoked a human of such caliber, one at the rank of Ultimate Douluo.
The Dark Devilgod Tiger was evil, ruthless, and cunning, yet it was far from foolish, having survived countless soul beast hunts.
Recently, it had witnessed the conflict between humans and soul beasts. It had seen scenes akin to divine descent and sensed auras so overwhelming they could easily crush it.
Originally, it planned to lay low, but after the battle ended, countless corpses were left behind. Humans often leave dead soul beasts for various reasons, but soul beasts don't; to them, these corpses were food.
The abundance of thousand-year and ten-thousand-year soul beast corpses was too tempting for the Dark Devilgod Tiger to resist. It secretly feasted on the remains, significantly boosting its cultivation. Initially, it was only about 40,000 years old, but scavenging allowed it to quickly reach nearly 60,000 years.
Even as smaller skirmishes between humans and soul beasts continued, the tiger grew bolder, targeting battlegrounds for more leftovers. It deliberately avoided harming humans, fearing retaliation from powerful figures, especially those affiliated with the Spirit Hall, who radiated divine auras. Whenever it encountered humans with distinctive robes and symbols, it fled as far as possible to avoid drawing the attention of Super Douluo or Angelic God successors.
Thanks to its caution and unique abilities, the Dark Devilgod Tiger managed to steal a vast amount of prey, feasting daily and growing rapidly to over 80,000 years. This success gave it imnse confidence and fueled its ambition and greed.
It had believed it could continue scavenging its way to becoming a 100,000-year soul beast and, eventually, transform into an Evil God through its corrupted power.
But, unexpectedly, a routine hunt had led to this disaster. Returning ho to its mate and cubs, it was suddenly confronted by an Ultimate Douluo.
Even worse, its wife and cubs were all present—its entire family was on the verge of being wiped out.
Though it considered fleeing, the sight of its mate and cubs in the corner gave it the courage to stand its ground. Facing Golden Crocodile Douluo, the Dark Devilgod Tiger assud a defensive stance, hoping to buy its family so ti to escape, even though it knew survival through negotiation was unlikely.
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