Chapter 48: The Human Heart is Hard to Fathom

“Young Hero Li, hold on tight,” the tiger spirit looked deeply into Li Si’s eyes and said seriously.

“Don’t worry about that, I have some strength,” Li Si said with a smile, tying the rope around a large tree behind him, then grabbing the rope and looking at the tiger spirit.

The tiger spirit’s eyes narrowed slightly. It had originally thought that if this person held the rope, it could directly pull him down later. But it hadn’t expected this person to tie the rope to a tree before pulling itself.

“Then I’m going down,” the tiger spirit said coldly, and slowly descended from the cliff. It planned to find an opportunity to pull this bastard down.

What difference did a tree make? It could still pull him down when the time came.

From Li Si’s angle, he saw through the Eight Trigrams mirror that this tiger spirit was holding the rope in its mouth, then using its claws to climb down the rock face.

The tiger spirit certainly didn’t dare to put its full weight on this rope, because if it did, Li Si would notice something was wrong.

So it had no choice but to climb down in a more laborious way.

After the tiger spirit went down, it brought up several dozen jin of gold and prepared to come up. At this time, Li Si walked to the edge of the cliff to look down, and scolded, “Are you an idiot? How can I pull up so much?”

Hearing Li Si scold it from below, the tiger spirit felt its breath catch, with fire burning in its heart. It cursed inwardly, “Even if you don’t pull me up, I can bring this gold up myself.”

But it couldn’t reveal its true identity. If it exposed itself now, all the previous plans would be ruined.

So it smiled and said, “Young Hero Li is right, I’ll put some down right away.”

Saying this, it put down some gold, bringing about twenty jin and letting Li Si pull it up.

Although it was said that Li Si was pulling it up, it was mostly climbing up with its own claws.

Just once made it feel uncomfortable, after all, it had drunk that poisoned soup yesterday and hadn’t recovered yet, and now it had to do such physically demanding work.

“Hurry up, don’t you want your brothers to live?” Li Si saw it motionless and started scolding again.

The tiger spirit was really getting angry, its breathing becoming rapid, but it immediately calmed down and hurriedly smiled, “I’m going down now.”

Saying this, it continued to go down to pick up gold.

Having constantly merged with the corpse puppet’s memories, it was very clever and knew that it couldn’t kill Li Si by force.

After all, it had clearly seen Li Si kill the original owner.

This person must have something that could restrain evil creatures.

So it might as well gain this person’s trust, then push him off the cliff when he let his guard down, killing him with the fall.

After all, seeing that this person had already exposed his greedy nature, it would be easy to push him off the cliff by exploiting this point later.

So it relied on this belief, climbing up again and again. Every time it was about to use more force to pull Li Si down, Li Si would scold it, asking if it had taken too much gold again.

This made it impossible to find an opportunity to pull Li Si down. By the fourteenth climb, its body was starting to give out. It could no longer use brute force to pull down that tree.

But Li Si still scolded, “Hurry up, there’s still some gold down there, quickly bring it up for me, or I won’t save your brothers.”

The tiger spirit looked at him deeply, and continued down. It had deliberately left that gold at the edge of the cliff earlier as a trap.

When Li Si reached for it later, it would take the opportunity to push him down.

So after getting the gold, it gritted its teeth and climbed up. It knew this was the last time. As long as it succeeded this time, it could push this bastard into the cliff, so it was especially diligent.

However, when it climbed to the edge of the cliff, what greeted it was a flash of sword light.

Ding~

When Li Si’s Black Sword struck the tiger spirit’s neck, it made a sound of metal clashing.

The tiger was unharmed.

“Roar!” The tiger spirit was both shocked and angry, letting out a roar, no longer hiding its massive tiger form.

Just as the tiger spirit was about to charge up, a deathly green tongue descended from the sky, directly wrapping around the tiger’s head.

Then came a piercing “crunch” sound of metal cutting, as the deathly green tongue was violently pulled back, instantly leaving a deep bloody gash on the tiger spirit’s neck.

But before Xiao Duan could pull back its tongue, the tiger spirit, disregarding whether the tongue was sharp or not, suddenly turned its head and bit the deathly green tongue.

Another piercing “crunch” was heard, and Xiao Duan’s tongue was directly bitten off by the tiger spirit, while at the same time, Xiao Duan’s tongue took a small piece of the tiger spirit’s tongue with it.

“Roar!!!” The water-vat-sized tiger head roared fiercely, its four limbs exerting force as its tiger body charged up.

However, this was its last burst of strength. Its previous energy had been mostly used up, and this final exertion could at most bring it to the edge of the cliff, unable to easily jump dozens of meters as usual.

As the tiger charged up, Li Si directly rushed to meet the momentum of this enormous beast.

“Roar~” The tiger spirit’s eyes revealed a terrified expression. In mid-air, it only saw its paws pressing down on Li Si, and at this point, it had no way to change its charging momentum.

The tiger spirit knew Li Si had something to ward off evil, and it became panicked, flailing about wildly in the air. However, this couldn’t change anything, only causing its two massive paws to press down on Li Si with even more force.

After these two paws struck Li Si’s body, they immediately disintegrated into fragments, their flesh and blood scattering. The body was directly blasted towards the cliff bottom by an unknowable force.

“Roar!” The tiger spirit howled, its massive body falling down the cliff, landing on that platform.

“Young Hero Li, save us!!!” At this moment, cries for help came from the side. Li Si looked over and saw a white-eyed child casually kneading two adults in its hands.

This white-eyed child was Xiao Yu. Li Si had earlier feared these two corpse puppets might cause trouble, so he had Xiao Yu restrain them.

Now it seemed Xiao Yu had done a good job.

“Kill them,” Li Si said casually.

These people had been harboring ill intentions towards him all along. It was good to kill them now, saving the trouble of them harming others after becoming ghosts.

Hearing Li Si say this, Xiao Yu looked somewhat disappointedly at the two corpse puppets in his hands, which he had mangled beyond recognition, as if about to lose his toys.

He opened his mouth, grabbing Tu Feng’s head and about to stuff it inside himself.

Seeing this situation, Li Si was stunned for a moment, then laughed and scolded, “I told you to kill them, not eat them.”

The two terrified screaming corpse puppets, hearing Li Si say this, immediately forgot about their past grudges, looking at Li Si with grateful expressions.

Xiao Yu was somewhat dissatisfied, but he couldn’t disobey Li Si’s orders, so he began tearing apart the two corpse puppets, occasionally biting them with his mouth. Before long, these two corpse puppets had become a pile of scattered limbs that disappeared.

At this time, Li Si also received information.

Killed low-level ghost creature—Corpse Puppet, gained 1 soul point.

Killed low-level ghost creature—Corpse Puppet, gained 1 soul point.