1715 Strength of a Tiger (1/2)

”There's no need to rush. There's no movement nearby!” Ao Liancheng kept the spacecraft, scanning the environment cautiously.

”By the time we sense any unusual activity, it might be our funeral!” Su Xiaoman said. ”The Giant Barbaric Tiger is the king of the mountains. When the spacecraft landed, it already knows that someone has invaded its territory. Right now, it might even be making its way here to kill us!”

”That's right up my alley! We'll just wait for it here!” Chen Xiaobei toggled his storage bracelet, getting ready to take out his trump card to fight the Giant Barbaric Tiger.

”Are you joking?” Su Xiaoman hissed. ”The Giant Barbaric Tiger may not be at Primordial Spirit cultivation, but it has the strength of an Earth-God! Unless you have a Two-Star Earth-God instrument, there's no way you could defeat it!”

”I don't understand what you're saying…” Chen Xiaobei looked genuinely puzzled. ”If it's not at Primordial Spirit cultivation, then how could it have Earth-God strength?”

”You don't know this?” Su Xiaoman looked taken aback.

”Zhufeng is from a low-ranking starfield. He doesn't know the 'Giant Tiger's Strength' saying,” Liancheng explained.

”Low-ranking starfield? How is that possible?” Su Xiaoman paused for a moment to process the information. ”Childe Chen is really powerful – I thought he's from the land of Green Dragon!”

Apocalypse Starfield was made up of four continents: Green Dragon, White Tiger, Vermillion Bird, and Black Turtle.

Green Dragon, being closest to the Earth-God realm, was superior to all the other continents.

Chen Xiaobei reviving all living things on the barren land with a wave of his hand was an Earth-God's move.

In fact, not only Su Xiaoman thought that Chen Xiaobei was from Green Dragon but so did the other 100 Divine Tiger disciples.

Ao Liancheng shrugged in response. ”To be honest, I don't believe that Zhufeng is from a low-ranking starfield either. But that's not important! Zhufeng is a good friend! A good brother! A hero's origin doesn't matter!”

”Mm… Childe Chen is a good person indeed!” Su Xiaoman smiled. ”Alright, I'll explain to you. The Giant Barbaric Tiger is a very special kind of Spirit Beast! Legend has it that they were born with divine strength because they are the descendants of the Heavenly Realm's Divine Beasts! A newborn cub has 100,000 combat power! The most interesting thing would be the Giant Barbaric Tiger's combat power, which is not connected to its cultivation but with its age! To put it simply, regardless of how high or low their cultivations are, once the tiger reaches adulthood, it would possess a One-Star Earth-God combat power!”

Chen Xiaobei exclaimed in surprise, ”Wow! This talent is amazing! Does its combat power continue to increase as it ages? If the tiger lives up to a hundred or a thousand years, can it actually dominate the heavens?!”

”Talents are endowed by the heavens. How could it be used to dominate them instead?” Su Xiaoman replied. ”Although the heavens may have granted them a remarkable talent, they also deprived them of the opportunity to become limitless! Once they had reached adulthood, their combat power would stop increasing! They would be forever stuck at Earth-God level!”

”What…” Chen Xiaobei raised an eyebrow. ”Their combat power won't increase for eternity? That's problematic…”

Su Xiaoman nodded. ”Because their combat power remains constant, it had turned into a unit of measurement!”

”Unit of measurement? What do you mean?” Chen Xiaobei asked.

Su Xiaoman explained, ”Take an Earth-God who had just broken through to Primordial Spirit cultivation for example. Their combat power is not measured by how many tens or hundreds of thousands. We would say that he or she is 'one tiger-strong'! A Two-Star Earth-God is 'two-tigers strong', and so on. A nine-starred apex Earth-God is 'nine-tigers strong'!”

”There really is such a thing?” Chen Xiaobei's smiled. ”Back home, we have a saying '*the strength of nine bulls and two tigers'!”

”The strength of nine bulls and two tigers?” Su Xiaoman repeated quizzically. ”In the Earth-God realm, it's the opposite – two-tigers-and-nine-bulls strong represents a two-starred apex Earth-God!”

”Bulls' strength is also a measuring unit?” Chen Xiaobei was very fascinated.