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However, in that moment of hesitation, several lightning chains had already entangled itself, wrapping around its limbs and body.

At the same time, a figure stepped out from the void in the sky above. It was Zhang Taihe. The moment he appeared, he locked his gaze on the tiger-dragon below that was entangled with chains.

Tiger Jiao also spotted the figure in the air immediately. Although Zhang Taihe did not make any move at this moment, the gradually increasing aura that was held back made Tiger Jiao instinctively feel a kind of heart-palpitating pressure.

Then its form suddenly swayed for a moment, and then its huge body, like a burst bubble, suddenly contracted and disappeared, as if its huge body had suddenly entered a point in the void.

Chapter 354 Capturing the Dragon (Part 4)

However, in just a few breaths, the tiger-dragon reappeared. On its right forelimb and right hindlimb, two chains formed of lightning were taut and sparks were flashing. It seemed that these two chains had dragged it back from its escape route through the void.

Immediately afterwards, several more chains wrapped around it, and in this way, more and more chains began to entangle it here. In particular, these chains were not only exceptionally tough and difficult to break free from, but they also constantly burst with intense electric fire, which was obviously causing the tiger dragon to suffer intense pain, making it roar and struggle in an attempt to break free from these chains.

The failed escape made the tiger dragon feel extremely threatened. The fins on its back and the patterns on its body became unusually bright, the surrounding mist began to churn, and then its body began to swell. In a short time, its size increased by more than three or four times, becoming a behemoth about fifty meters long.

It roared, its voice filled with unusual rage, sweeping across the surroundings like thunder. At this moment, in this already silent jungle, there was not a sound, not even the slightest sound. It was as if even the wind had stopped blowing, and all the creatures seemed to be trembling in fear of the apex predator's anger.

Even Zhang Jing, who was at a distance, felt a tremor in his heart from the roar. It was a fear stemming from biological instinct, a fear of a terrifying predator, that almost made him want to stand up and run away. This was many times stronger than the strange force field Zhang Jing had felt when he first encountered this beast.

Fortunately, the power of the Divine Firmament Thunder Sword originating from his body spontaneously protected his mind, and the timely surge of coolness from the purple jade pendant hanging on his chest prevented him from being affected by this power.

A frosty white aura rose from the tiger-dragon's body and quickly spread along the chains, seemingly attempting to erode the chains formed by condensed lightning.

However, this had little effect on the lightning chains. These chains, which seemed slender compared to the tiger-dragon at this moment, were unusually strong and tough. Even if the tiger-dragon managed to break one or two chains with its powerful strength, more chains would immediately wrap around it and bind it firmly.

Under Zhang Taihe's guidance, the tiger-dragon was like a beast trapped in a swamp; the more it struggled, the tighter it was bound.

Normally, Zhang Jing's task would have been completed by now. Zhang Taihe brought him here mainly to broaden his horizons, and did not assign him any overly complicated or dangerous work.

However, deep down, Zhang Jing, burdened by the mission of the wishing book, remained highly vigilant and wary. He felt that everything was going too smoothly. Although a tiger-dragon was indeed a worthy opponent, even exceeding the test's standards, the fact that everything had been arranged by his teacher, Zhang Taihe, made the process seem far too easy if it was truly a test.

After all, Zhang Taihe wasn't someone I brought in to help this time.

Feeling that this kind of test didn't quite fit the nature of the wishing book, Zhang Jing kept his vigilance at its highest level and then began to head towards the tiger-dragon's lair.

Yes, he was going to explore the lair of the tiger-dragon, which was generally a very dangerous thing. However, the current situation was that the tiger-dragon was already entangled by the teacher and could not break free. Therefore, everything else should be something he could handle.

Generally, the lairs of tiger-dragons, especially those that have existed for a considerable time, usually contain some changgui (伥鬼). These changgui share similarities with, but also differ from, those in the legends of Zhang Jing's previous life. In Zhang Jing's previous life, there was a saying about serving as changgui for tigers; legend says that changgui were transformed from those who died in the jaws of tigers. However, in this world, the origin of changgui is not limited to a single type of demon, such as the changgui transformed from earthbound spirits that he had previously foreseen. Furthermore, the types are not limited to humans; some relatively higher beings can also be transformed into changgui. Generally, those capable of transforming into changgui are powerful beings, and these changgui are obedient to them, often regarded as servants.

In the lair of a tiger-dragon, there are often cougars. They are usually treated as servants kept by the tiger-dragon, helping to clean the lair, assisting in the lair's defense, and so on.

There is an inexplicable connection between the Tiger Dragon and its accomplices. Therefore, in extreme situations, such as when it is critically injured and about to die, or when it is attacked by an enemy and needs to abandon its nest, the Tiger Dragon will usually destroy the nest directly or by manipulating its accomplices.

This behavior is somewhat similar to that of many animals in the animal kingdom. When their nests are invaded or they encounter danger, many animals will abandon their nests and kill their young, leaving nothing for the intruders.

Zhang Jing's current objective was to prevent any potential sabotage. He didn't yet know what was in the tiger-dragon's lair, whether any vengeful spirits existed there, or whether the spirits would begin destroying the lair for some reason. However, based on the information he had, the dragon's lair likely contained a considerable amount of byproducts, such as the dragon's saliva grass in front of the cave, which was a rare material. There were many other similar items, at least according to the descriptions in the Dharma Treasury.

Therefore, Zhang Jing had to go and check, just in case.

The tiger-dragon above was still roaring and howling, struggling with all its might, but Zhang Jing's mind had already shifted away from it. While carefully observing the surrounding environment, he headed towards the tiger-dragon's lair.

However, after walking only about a hundred meters forward, Zhang Jing suddenly felt a pang of fear for no apparent reason. He subconsciously stopped, lowered his body, and looked around.

From the light mist not far away, a low, labored breathing sound suddenly came. Zhang Jing's heart tightened, and he suddenly had a bad feeling.

However, before he could make a move, a colossal figure emerged from the mist ahead, like a silent ghost. Its massive head, resembling a tiger's, with a forehead adorned with a king-shaped pattern, stood over three meters tall at the shoulders. Where it stepped, it left behind fine icicles. Before seeing it, you could never imagine how such a gigantic creature could move so silently, like a ghost…

Damn it! There are actually two tiger-dragons... In that instant, cold sweat broke out on Zhang Jing's back. Although the tiger-dragon in front of him looked a bit smaller than the one that was entangled, it was still clear at a glance that it was already an adult tiger-dragon.

Chapter 355 Capturing the Dragon (Part 5)

Zhang Jing suddenly understood the key point: it turned out that there was not just one tiger-dragon in this small world, but a family of tiger-dragons. This explained why two tiger-dragons, which are highly territorial beasts, could coexist in such a small area.

The moment he understood, Zhang Jing transformed into a bolt of lightning and retreated rapidly. At the same time, the tiger-dragon opposite him transformed into a hurricane and roared as it pounced on the spot where Zhang Jing had just been.

Because Zhang Jing narrowly avoided the attack by using the Thunder Step to retreat, he then used a technique from the "Heavenly Escape Scroll" to escape into the interlayer of space.

However, at the same moment, the tiger dragon also disappeared. The next moment, a gap was torn open in the space not far away, and Zhang Jing was seen flying out of it in a sorry state. After landing, he rolled several times on the ground to dissipate the impact and then leaped onto the treetop next to him.

This was because the tiger-dragon had pounced on him directly from the spatial interlayer. This was the first time he'd been interrupted while in a teleportation state, and even attacked while inside a spatial interlayer. However, there was no time to think further. Zhang Jingcang's Thunder Sword swung, slashing towards an empty spot to the side…

Just as his longsword, crackling with lightning, struck, a massive tiger's head appeared in the void, its sharp front claws clashing with the Azure Thunder Sword.

A muffled sound echoed in the air, and Zhang Jing was forced back again. The immense force from the sword blade made his tiger's mouth sting, a rare experience for him. Clearly, the tiger dragon's power far surpassed his own.

The tiger-dragon before him, in terms of sheer strength, was undoubtedly a third-tier powerhouse. Faced with such an opponent, Zhang Jing had no choice but to stall for time...

However, after another failed attack, the tiger-dragon became increasingly agitated. It emerged from the void, its whiskers bristling, and its entire body suddenly swelled up. In the blink of an eye, its size more than doubled, and a deafening roar followed as it attacked Zhang Jing.

In that instant, Zhang Jing seemed to see countless scenes of death, mountains of corpses and seas of blood. A fear stemming from biological instinct almost overwhelmed his heart. In that instant, the jade pendant on his chest felt cold again. At the same time, the power from the Divine Firmament Thunder Sword began to take effect, allowing him to break free from this state after a slight hesitation.

However, these slight hesitations have already caused serious consequences, especially when facing a powerful and explosive beast like the Tiger-Dragon.

Just as Zhang Jingzi regained his senses, he found that the tiger-dragon had pounced on him again, its huge claws striking him with the force of Mount Tai crashing down.

In that instant, Zhang Jing's body reacted instinctively. He stepped back to the side to disperse the force of the attack as much as possible. At the same time, he swung his sword to block. An overwhelming force came from the sword, but Zhang Jing did not try to withstand it. Instead, he curled up into a ball and rolled to the side, trying to deflect the force of the attack.

However, even so, after rolling more than ten meters and standing up again, Zhang Jing still felt a tightness in his chest and a salty, fishy taste in his throat.

However, before Zhang Jing could even catch his breath, he leaped to the side again. At the same time, a breath grazed past Zhang Jing's body, turning the large area of ​​ground he had just stood on into a sheet of ice crystals.

He flipped over and leaped up, tapping the ground against a nearby tree before shooting towards another large tree in the distance...

"Forbidden!" Zhang Jing formed a hand seal and uttered a soft shout.

However, the Qi-restricting technique did not have much effect on the tiger-dragon. Clearly, this tiger-dragon had a very high resistance to this type of control spell. This makes one sigh that dragon-like creatures are indeed uniquely endowed in some aspects.

Immediately following was a teeth-grinding tearing sound. Where Zhang Jing had just used his strength, a tree as thick as an adult's waist was snapped in half. The tiger-dragon, without stopping, turned around and swung its tail over again...

Just then, a sword light flew from the side of the tiger-dragon, leaving a bloody gash on the scales of its neck. It was Zhang Jing controlling his longsword to slash at it.

This sword strike didn't inflict much damage on the tiger-dragon, but it effectively interrupted its attack, causing it to become wary of attacks from its surroundings.

At the same time, Zhang Jing used the spinning longsword to throw it out again. The longsword, cutting through the air, circled around the tiger-dragon with an eerie arc, looking for an opportunity to strike.

Meanwhile, Zhang Jing seized the opportunity to sip the spiritual liquid from the Demon Refining Pot. His body flickered, dodging a pounce from the tiger-dragon. He then attempted to slash a gash in its body with his sword, but the tiger-dragon reacted just as quickly, turning its head to bite, thus thwarting Zhang Jing's attack...

Zhang Jing and the tiger-dragon remained locked in a standoff. Overall, Zhang Jing was at a disadvantage, but for the time being, the tiger-dragon couldn't quickly eliminate its thorny prey. The more this happened, the more enraged it became…

The tiger-dragon, bound by chains not far away, roared again. This time, the roar sounded less angry and more fearful and terrified...

The tiger-dragon that was attacking Zhang Jing stopped attacking immediately upon hearing the sound. It turned its head to look at the trapped tiger-dragon, appearing somewhat anxious, as if it wanted to go forward but dared not.

The next moment, something unexpected happened!

A chain formed from lightning, like a giant python, stealthily moved along the ground through the grass, then suddenly leaped up and wrapped around the hind legs of the hesitant tiger-dragon.

A roar filled with anger and a hint of fear rang out. The tiger-dragon, whose hind legs were caught, no longer cared about attacking Zhang Jing again. Instead, it turned its head and tried to break free from the lightning chains that were like maggots clinging to its bones.

Only then did Zhang Jing have a chance to adjust his breathing. He didn't care about anything else and hurriedly took out the Demon Refining Pot from the pocket on his chest, brought it to his lips and took a sip. Feeling a warm current flow down his stomach, he turned his head to look in the direction from which the lightning chains had flown.

But before they knew it, Zhang Taihe was already standing in the air not far away, with chains like a net of lightning coiling around the tiger-dragon from all directions, binding it in the middle.

Clearly, Zhang Taihe had freed his hands, which most likely meant that the other tiger-dragon had been dealt with.

Thinking of this, Zhang Jing lightly leaped up a large tree to the side. Standing at the top of the tree, he could see that a large forest not far away had become a mess. Within a radius of several hundred meters, there were broken and fallen trees and various plants that had been flattened.

Chapter 356 Searching the Nest

Amidst this chaos, the tiger-dragon was firmly bound to the ground by the lightning net, like an insect caught in a net, still making its last struggle. However, this struggle could not free it from the lightning chains binding it. Moreover, as the power of lightning continued to burn and shock it, the tiger-dragon's resistance was becoming weaker and weaker, as if it was showing signs of being paralyzed by the electric shock.

Zhang Jing breathed a sigh of relief, the weight that had been on his mind finally lifted. He figured this was probably the end of the test. Who would have known that there were two tiger-dragons in this small world?

Suddenly, Zhang Jing had a thought. Since there were two tiger-dragons, did that mean that there might be tiger-dragon eggs?

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After clearing away the plants that were covering the entrance to the nest, Zhang Jing found the entrance to the nest, which was a natural cave on a hillside. There was even a stream that flowed out of the cave and into the lake.

As a type of dragon, the tiger dragon naturally prefers to live near water, which is probably why it chose this place.

Zhang Jing was deep inside the cave at the time, and he did not encounter any monsters like the Changgui. Obviously, the two tiger-dragons did not make these arrangements in the cave.

However, Zhang Jing's expression was not good at this moment. The reason was simple: what he was facing was a messy cave. The rest was fine, but what he regretted the most was the two broken eggs on the ground.

Each of the two eggs is the size of a watermelon, and the shells are covered with colorful patterns. Even so, it is easy to tell that they are two eggs at a glance.

As for what species the eggs belonged to, there was no need to ask. They were most likely eggs laid by a tiger-dragon. Normally, if the eggs were intact, hatching a baby tiger-dragon wouldn't be too difficult. However, of the two eggs he saw, one had its shell completely shattered and flattened, while the other had apparently been knocked away and hit the cave wall. Part of its shell was dented, the egg white inside was leaking out, and the yolk, which hadn't even formed yet, was broken. It seemed beyond saving.

Zhang Jing could roughly guess that the tiger-dragon he had just encountered was most likely inside a cave or near its nest when the incident occurred. Upon discovering a powerful enemy about to invade its nest, and hearing its mate's cries of danger, the tiger-dragon, driven by instinct, entered the cave and destroyed its own eggs before emerging to rescue its mate, only to bump into Zhang Jing...

Sighing, Zhang Jing felt somewhat regretful about the outcome. However, even a broken tiger-dragon egg couldn't be left lying around. It was still an extremely rare material, so Zhang Jing decided to keep it safe and take it back with him.

After thinking for a moment, he took out his storage bead, took out some containers from it, and then carefully put the broken tiger dragon eggs into the containers. After that, he took out a handheld vacuum cleaner-like machine to suck up the residual liquid on the ground. These were some equipment that Zhang Jing had been preparing to store in the storage bead for emergencies, and now they came in handy.

The cave smelled unpleasant, filled with the stench of a ferocious beast. Fortunately, tiger-dragons generally didn't bring their food back to their lairs, so there were no food scraps left. However, Zhang Jing did find some feces. He also discovered a type of purple, mushroom-like fungus called "Dragon Residue Mushroom," which grows specifically on the feces of dragon-like creatures. Zhang Jing found many of these in the cave. He put on disposable gloves and collected the Dragon Residue Mushrooms. Although they looked somewhat dirty, they were indeed a rare and difficult-to-obtain material.

Along the way inside the cave, there were many dragon's saliva grasses at the entrance, which Zhang Jing collected. In addition, there were some stones in the cave, some of which had changed in material properties due to being soaked in the icy breath of the tiger-dragon over the years, and these were also worth collecting...

In short, there are quite a few good things in the Tiger-Dragon Cave...

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Overall, although the operation was somewhat dangerous, with what was initially thought to be one tiger-dragon turning into two, the ending was still satisfactory. The main objective was achieved, and both tiger-dragons were eventually captured by Zhang Taihe. What follows is a long and arduous journey.