Chapter 156 The Tiger King <TOC> Chapter 158 The Seven Fungi Manipulation Technique
Translator: SumTLMan
Agustia rolled on the ground, letting out an angry roar, as the blow left it feeling dizzy and seeing stars.
Its instincts heightened, it crouched low, its body tense like a drawn bow, circling around Li Mu while emitting a deep rumble from its robust chest, reminiscent of an idling engine.
Agustia intended to intimidate and pressure Li Mu into making a mistake through this display.
More than ten seconds had passed, and the bar was unusually quiet. When ordinary awakened individuals took the stage, Agustia could easily defeat them with just a swipe or a pounce. If it were in a playful mood, it would even wrestle with its prey before crushing the prey’s head with a bite at the last moment.
Psychic beings held a significant advantage over humans after cultivating their energy techniques. They inherently possessed overwhelming advantages in physical strength and endurance, which only increased after cultivating their energy techniques.
In the next moment, Agustia’s limbs extended its sharp claws, leaving deep scratches on the stage as if scooping tofu, before launching its massive, heavy body towards Li Mu like a cannonball.
While still in mid-air, it spread its forelimbs, its short, dagger-like hooked claws shooting out, aiming for Li Mu.
Such sharp claws could easily tear away half of a person’s flesh with just a graze.
Li Mu merely adopted a horse stance, gripping the ends of his eyebrow-level staff, and using only the most basic of spear techniques to deflect the tiger’s double claws.
After deflecting the claws, he quickly shifted his hips and used the power of his waist and abdomen to thrust the staff, now fused with his body, against the tiger’s forelimb.
The pure steel staff emitted a chilling hum, and under Li Mu’s force, it became as flexible as a wooden pole, its tip trembling wildly.
“Bang!”
Agustia was sent flying once again, its fur, more flexible than steel wire, scattered in disarray, a patch of it missing from its chest.
Its heavy body rolled several times in mid-air before crashing heavily onto the stage.
This fall was much heavier than before, causing the entire bar to tremble slightly.
Li Mu retracted his staff and glanced at its tip, only to find it deformed.
Although he hadn’t used any psychic energy, even without a spearhead, this thrust would have easily pierced through an ordinary awakened individual. However, against this tiger, it could only remove some fur.
“Roar!”
Agustia cried out in pain, the agony stimulating it and causing it to become even more irritable and furious.
A faint white glow emerged from its fur as its internal energy began to operate at full force.
Due to its rudimentary understanding of this energy manipulation, Agustia could only manifest its power externally when extremely enraged.
Its muscles swelled rapidly all over its body.
Li Mu grasped one end of the iron rod, exerting his strength and forming a spearhead at the top.
He prepared to end the battle.
In the next moment, Agustia lunged again. This time, it cleverly crouched low, not giving Li Mu the opportunity to send it flying.
Li Mu held the rod, channeled his energy, and the ordinary steel forged body of the rod was imbued with a dark light.
The next moment, the makeshift spearhead pierced through Agustia’s shoulder blade and penetrated it.
Agustia screamed in pain, enduring the agony as it swiped its claw towards Li Mu.
Using the rod for leverage, Li Mu skillfully flipped over, landing on Agustia’s back.
Agustia’s body was nearly four meters long, relatively small among swamp tigers, but its spine was still quite broad.
It roared in an attempt to shake Li Mu off, but he remained firmly in place, as if glued to its back.
He gripped the iron rod, pulled it out, and aimed it at the back of Agustia’s neck.
Although there were developed muscles in this area, there was no skull protection; a single stab would sever the artery.
“Did I win?” Li Mu asked the bartender.
A domesticated psychic creature was incredibly valuable, worth more than its weight in gold. So Li Mu didn’t choose to kill Agustia, which would have thoroughly offended the tavern owner.
“Yes! Yes! Please stop, esteemed guest!” The bartender was sweating profusely, for in the owner’s eyes, he was worth less than a single hair of Agustia.
Agustia was allowed to be challenged in the tavern to gain more combat experience and master the manipulation of energy more quickly.
If anything were to go wrong, he wouldn’t be able to shoulder the responsibility.
He hastily snatched the small hammer from the handmaid’s grasp and struck the bronze bell. This was the command set by the master for Agustia; as long as the bronze bell rang again, Agustia would cease its attack.
Li Mu felt Agustia beneath him stop struggling, so he somersaulted off its back.
Unexpectedly, at that moment, a fierce glint flashed in Agustia’s eyes, and it opened its mouth to bite Li Mu.
“Beast, you’re courting death!”
Li Mu let out a low growl, raising his leg high as if it were an axe and striking down.
“Boom!”
This kick landed on Agustia’s forehead, sending it crashing onto the stage.
The specially reinforced stage collapsed, leaving a spiderweb-like pattern of cracks. The entire bar shook violently.
Agustia was kicked so hard that it spewed blood; if not for its hard skull, its head would have been shattered, and even so, the skull was undoubtedly cracked.
The Swamp Tiger was known for its tough skeleton, but for Li Mu, who had practiced the Dragon’s Roar Bone Sublimation Method, it was still too fragile.
“Apologies, I didn’t hold back enough. Take it back and nurse it for a couple of days; it should recover.”
Li Mu glanced at Agustia’s miserable state and returned to the bar.
The patrons along the way moved aside for him. Firstly, because of his terrifying power, which was not something they could contend with, and secondly, because he had beaten the bar owner’s beloved pet into such a state, it was likely that trouble would soon follow.
“Bring me another glass of sugarcane wine and then hand over the energy technique.”
Li Mu stared at the bartender.
The bartender’s clothes were instantly soaked with sweat, and with trembling hands, he poured Li Mu a glass of sugarcane wine.
“The…the energy technique can only be given to you when the boss arrives.”
“Are you playing me?”
Li Mu had already activated the Divine Eye Energy Technique, observing the subtle changes in the bartender’s facial expressions. When it was agreed that he would be handed the energy Technique after defeating Agustia, he had stealthily glanced under the bar.
Obviously, the energy Technique was hidden there.
He grabbed the bartender’s collar, hoisting him up like a chicken, then shattered the bar counter with one knee, revealing the safe below.
“What is the password? Speak, or I’ll crush your skull right now.”
The bartender hesitated for a moment, only to be grabbed by Li Mu and slammed against the safe, his head splitting open and blood flowing. He was a capable awakened individual, but he didn’t have the slightest strength to resist.
“I concede! I concede!”
He wailed in supplication, entered the password, and opened the safe.
Inside the safe were a variety of coins and three books. Li Mu swept everything into his possession, wrapped it up in a tablecloth, and hastily tossed the bartender aside before hurriedly departing.
Chapter 156 The Tiger King <TOC> Chapter 158 The Seven Fungi Manipulation Technique