"In the future, if my strength allows, I want to get a dragon to eat too! I wonder what it tastes like? Does it melt in your mouth or is it really chewy..."
Jiang Che was filled with anticipation.
Dragon Liver and Phoenix Marrow!
This was a treasure that only existed in legend.
In mythical tales, Dragon Liver and Phoenix Marrow were delicacies only the immortals and gods were qualified to enjoy!
If dragons and phoenixes really existed in this world, he would certainly want to taste them, to enjoy the treatment of immortals and gods.
However, as for now, Jiang Che was merely daydreaming. With his current strength, reaching a level where he could hunt dragons and phoenixes seemed to be a matter of many years later.
While Jiang Che was lost in his dreams, Fang Yuan was staring intently at the children outside the glass, eyes filled with greed, licking his lips uncontrollably.
"These kids, so tender and fragrant, they would be extremely delicious blood food!"
But thinking about the thick barrier between them, the fiery flame in Fang Yuan's eyes was instantly extinguished, leaving him in deep frustration.
Being watched like a monkey every day was extremely humiliating for Fang Yuan.
"It's all because of this damned barrier!"
"When my strength grows, I will break this barrier and fiercely devour these blood foods, to my heart's content!"
Fang Yuan glared at the tempered glass, cursing furiously in his heart.
The blood foods before him were like alluring beauties dressed in nothing, constantly enticing him. Yet, he could only look but not touch, how could he not be enraged!
Jiang Che snapped back, feeling speechless. Wasn't there anything in this fool's mind besides blood food?
This guy should be grateful he's just a cub, and that he's blocked by the tempered glass, unable to harm anyone.
Before the Spiritual Energy Revival, if he dared to bite or eat a human, he'd probably meet his end.
It didn't matter if the fool died, but he occupied one of Jiang Che's slots!
Afterward, Jiang Che no longer paid attention to this lunatic, closed his eyes, and comfortably lay back down.
Time flew by, and Jiang Che had been reborn for more than a month now.
With ample food supplies and the stimulation of the Body Refining Technique, they had each grown to the size of a regular soil dog, with shoulder heights even reaching or surpassing the zookeeper's knees.
Thud, thud, thud!
This day, beneath a camphor tree as thick as a thigh, Nangong Luo continually rammed the trunk, creating great force that caused the tree to shake slightly, pale yellow leaves fluttering down.
Suddenly, Nangong Luo's momentum halted, his body trembled, and he let out a soft roar. Following that, a series of light cracking sounds came from within.
Instantly, Nangong Luo's tiger body shuddered, his skeleton stretched, the muscle contours became more prominent, his fur shiny, with a golden glow even brighter, appearing as if a Divine Tiger stood under the big tree, radiant with golden light!
Evidently, after a month of intense body refining, Nangong Luo's strength had greatly improved.
[Ding! Nangong Luo's strength has improved, congratulations to the host for receiving a tenfold feedback.]
The system notification echoed.
A gentle wave of warmth surged into his body, continually nourishing and refining his tiger form, until the warmth was entirely consumed.
Jiang Che clearly felt his own attributes had enhanced somewhat.
He opened the attributes panel to check.
Host: Jiang Che
Race: Northeast Tiger
Level: Level 4
Bound Targets: Nangong Luo, Fang Yuan
Jiang Che was lying down comfortably, feeling great as he had leveled up and his strength had increased.
Feeling the surging energy coursing through his veins, Jiang Che bent his tiger paw slightly to sense the power, contemplating inwardly.
Previously, he could slap and break tree trunks as thick as an arm, and now his strength had increased again.
If anyone were to be struck by his paw, they would likely suffer severe injuries if not death.
In just one month's time, the speed of this progress was incredibly fast!
It's just that the system had its limits. Otherwise, Jiang Che really wished to bind thousands upon thousands of targets at once, let them all refine their bodies, then his strength would absolutely skyrocket as if on a rocket!
But alas, the system wasn't that powerful...
Sigh, little brothers and sisters, for now big brother can only rely on you, work hard.
Whether big brother can eat Dragon Meat, it all depends on your performance!
After receiving the feedback, Jiang Che turned over and went back to sleep.
The next day
Creak!
The iron gate inside the Tiger Garden was pushed open, an older woman in a zoo uniform walked in, holding cleaning tools, beginning to tidy up.
Upon hearing the sound, Fang Yuan immediately awoke from his body refining, got up, stared at the woman entering the Tiger Garden, bloodthirst flashing in his eyes, with drops of tiger drool dripping from his mouth!
"If I could devour this living blood food, my demon skills might advance even further! Then, escaping from here would be more assured!"
Ever since he was reborn, he had been trapped in this damned Tiger Garden, every day eating only inferior meat chunks, causing little advancement in his Heaven-Swallowing Demon Scripture.
Fang Yuan had long been anxious, and now, at last, the opportunity had arrived.
Circling around half a circle, Fang Yuan moved quietly behind the woman, making no sound.
Nangong Luo, that training maniac, was currently immersed in body refining, his golden tiger body constantly ramming against the trunk, not noticing anything unusual at all.
As for why the zookeeper didn't stop Nangong Luo from hitting the tree, it was naturally because repeated attempts to correct it had led the zookeeper to give up.
Nangong Luo didn't see, but Jiang Che, who heard Fang Yuan's inner voice, couldn't just sit still.
Before the Spiritual Energy Revival, there couldn't be any casualties in the Tiger Garden; otherwise, Fang Yuan could die, and Jiang Che and Nangong Luo would also be implicated or even separated.
Moreover, if Fang Yuan died, Jiang Che would be short one slot, something he absolutely could not allow!
There were only five slots total, and having just bound two targets, losing one would make Jiang Che feel like bleeding.
Actually, the Tiger Garden at the zoo had a human-tiger separation system, where zookeepers would lock up the tigers when cleaning to prevent them from harming people.
However, this only applied to adult tigers. The three of them weren't that big yet, considered cubs, and the human-tiger separation system hadn't been implemented.
Not separating humans and tigers posed no problem for other cubs, given their lack of intelligence and no instinct to hunt.
But for Fang Yuan, with human-like intelligence and thoughts of prey filling his mind, it was a significant issue.
Previously, their small size meant Fang Yuan couldn't harm a zookeeper even if he wanted to, so the zookeepers weren't in danger.
But now, after a month's growth, their bodies had gotten much larger, the sharp teeth easily tore through flesh, and Fang Yuan could definitely kill a zookeeper if caught off guard.
"This fool number two! Do you know you're doing something stupid? How is this different from committing suicide!"
"This idiot doesn't know the difference between eating once and eating always!"
Then, Jiang Che suddenly got up and charged towards fool number two.