Chapter 86: Tiger Soul Suppresses Cat Spirit

Ling Ruxue asked me to go into the cave first, and then she followed me. A belt connected our lives. She was afraid that I wouldn’t be able to climb out of the cave if the cat spirit possessed me, so she wanted to use her life to carry mine.

I was so moved that I almost wanted to cry. I really couldn’t think of anyone in the world, apart from my family and master, who would put my life above their own, but this girl did.

It was this belt that made me want to love her and be good to her for the rest of my life.

Her expression was still calm, but what kind of deep affection was hidden beneath that calm? Or, perhaps, there were other reasons that made her have to save my life, but I was willing to believe that it was a kind of deep affection.

In the cave, I was crawling down, afraid of making a mistake and causing Ling Ruxue to suffer.

Although she temporarily restrained the cat spirit with her own life essence, the feeling of intense itching was only slightly better. My whole body was still very cold and stiff, and I had to use all my strength to take each step.

The cave was very quiet, only the sound of our footsteps and breathing could be heard. The bloodline moth inside was as still as a corpse, clinging to the cave.

I hoped to crawl through the cave safely, but the fire above our heads indicated that our journey would not be too quiet, because the Miao people were catching up.

They were talking at the entrance to the cave. I believe that the blood-thread moths were still dangerous to them. No one was climbing down, and they were following us. They seemed to be waiting for something.

My heart was pounding like a drum, and I wanted to climb faster and faster.

But the cat spirit was too powerful. When we were halfway down, my body suddenly began to itch again, and the feeling of cold and stiffness became even stronger.

I clenched my teeth and tried hard to suppress the uncomfortable feeling, struggling to climb down, but every time my body touched the earthen wall, I couldn’t help but rub it.

As if sensing my movements, Ling Ruxue said, “Don’t scratch in any way. The flesh and blood will fall off where you have scratched, becoming an irreparable injury.”

As soon as Ling Ruoxue spoke, I looked down and noticed that my collar had been scratched a little bit, and blood had already been scratched out. The skin there was turned outward, revealing bright red flesh and blood, and I was completely unaware of it.

This discovery made my scalp numb. I just rubbed it, but if I had actually tried to scratch it, the consequences would have been…

Fortunately, I had just held back at the grave, otherwise my face, thinking of this, my cold sweat suddenly covered my forehead.

The blood was flowing silently up my chest, and it felt cool against my skin. I couldn’t feel any pain, and I could only feel this sensation. I was almost crawling down step by step, and I could feel my blood flowing onto the tiger claw that had been hanging there.

The tiger claw is most afraid of filth. I don’t know if it is considered filth to have been contaminated with the cat spirit’s blood. I thought of the master who had nurtured me for several years, and I thought of the strange reaction of the tiger claw in the deserted village.

I tried to think of these things to distract myself, otherwise the strange itch on my body would drive me crazy. But thinking of something else inevitably caused a trance to appear in my mind. It was at this time that I heard a commotion at the entrance to the cave, and then a familiar voice appeared there.

The man was speaking Miao, a language I didn’t understand, but I knew the voice because he was the one who had cast the spell on the cat spirit. His voice had been howling in the woods for so long that I couldn’t forget it.

This person must have some way to get me, I thought, but my body was stiff and I couldn’t move quickly.

Sure enough, the man began to howl and wail at the cave entrance again. It must be a kind of witchcraft spell. As he chanted the incantation, I felt something inside my body start to go crazy, rolling and writhing around inside me. This feeling was so painful that I suddenly fell against the cave wall and couldn’t move.

It was the cat spirit. The cat spirit in my body was doing something strange, but what could I do if I knew?

It was an itch, an incredibly itchy itch, an itch that came from the soul. Then came the pain, the pain of my internal organs being pulled. At that moment, I wanted to die, I really wanted to die.

At that moment, a voice came from above, speaking to me in broken Chinese: “If you surrender, I can relieve your pain.”

Yes, I wanted to give in. That feeling could really torture a man of iron to the point of collapse.

But at that moment, Gao Ning shouted from below, “You have to hold on. If you give in, you’re a dead man. Hui Gen’er and Ling Ruxue won’t have an easy time either!”

Yes, I couldn’t give in. I clenched my teeth, lay on the dirt wall and panted heavily. My mind was screaming, and I wanted to collapse. I just wanted to climb down faster. I only had one instinct left. In a daze, I just wanted to not give in, just go down, just go down.

That’s it, I started to move again, but I didn’t want to step on an empty space. I couldn’t control myself and slipped down, and my head hit the wall.

However, I didn’t fall. The belt around my waist held me back. The sudden shock of fear made me sober up a bit. I looked up and saw Ling Ruxue. She was leaning against the earth wall with one hand, and the other hand was tightly holding the belt. Her waist was pulled into a bow because of my sudden fall, but even so, she still insisted on holding me.

I never thought that one day a woman would say to me, “Don’t be afraid, I won’t let go.”

I can’t describe my feelings, but at that moment, tears suddenly blurred my eyes. With the support of the belt, I finally found a hole and stabilized my body. Through the belt, I could feel the woman’s body above me trembling slightly, showing how hard it was for her just now.

The spell above continued, and the cat spirit in my body seemed to be acting even more violently. At this time, my feelings were indescribable, ranging from pain to anger. I was almost at the peak of emotion, and I almost used all my strength to scream, “What are you screaming about up there? Shut up! If anything happens to my woman, I want everyone to die with me.”

After this sentence was shouted, a burst of anger with a strong sense of injustice also broke out. At this moment, my thoughts suddenly became confused, and I felt that there was something connected to my life in my heart, and I suddenly woke up.

It opened its eyes and let out a furious roar. My mind went 鈥榖oom鈥� and I heard a 鈥榬oar鈥�. It was my tiger spirit, the tiger spirit that the master said had already coexisted with my soul, that had awakened.

I don’t know if everyone present heard a tiger roar, but it was really quiet around me. Next, I heard Gao Ning’s excited voice: “I saw that there was a tiger spirit in your soul, and this stimulation really woke it up.”

How did Gao Ning see this? I always thought he was an ordinary person. This was the last thought in my head. Next, I was not very clear-headed. I was already in a trance-like state without opening my third eye.

I could see cats of all shapes and sizes scrambling to get out of my body, but before the first one could get far, it was smashed to pieces by a tiger claw that appeared out of nowhere.

How could a tiger allow a cat to provoke it?

I felt inexplicably excited. I saw a majestic tiger suddenly burst out of my body. The tiger was huge, even bigger than when I saw it in the deserted village. Is this the true nature of a hundred-year-old tiger demon?

Next, I saw the cat spirit fleeing in a panic, but where could it escape to? Under the tiger’s mighty, powerful momentum, none of them were able to escape, and they were all smashed. Where the tiger passed, it brought with it a hot yang energy and an unstoppable aura of evil. The gloomy blood moths fell one after another where the tiger spirit passed, raising a lot of dust.

I felt as if I knew nothing, but I also felt as if I knew a lot. I knew which blood-thread moths could not withstand the tiger soul’s deliberately unchecked murderous aura and died one after another.

I subconsciously covered my nose and mouth, as if it were the only instinct I had left. I never thought that the tiger spirit would be resurrected like this.