His goal was clear, and after a night's sleep, he regained his energy. After flying for several more days, he arrived at an area that mortals once passed through on their journey to seek immortality.

He even recognized the place where the Ascension Pavilion convoy was stationed when it was attacked by the scaly monsters! Continuing forward, he soon found a river. After flying for a long time, a place similar to the redwood swamp in his previous life appeared in front of him.

It was night time, and the bright moonlight poured down, penetrating the layers of green leaves in the woods. In the end, only a very small amount of light hit the surface of the swamp water, forming a few spots of light.

The flying sword retracted its flames and gradually lowered its altitude. Jiang Li controlled his sword cultivator clone and quickly and silently disappeared under the tree canopy, riding the flying sword and moving flexibly between the trees.

In this swampy terrain, the air quality is not very good, and there is an unpleasant smell of corruption everywhere.

But as Jiang Li moved forward, a faint fishy odor entered his nostrils. The indescribable smell gave him a familiar feeling.

The original body, which was thousands of miles away, touched the scar on his shoulder that had long disappeared, and recalled a creature that looked like a human girl regardless of whether it was male or female.

Scale monster!

Jiang Li had two main purposes for releasing the sword cultivator clone this time.

One is to try to return to the Five Elements Peak of Shu Mountain and secretly learn the secret techniques of the number one sect in Dazhong Mountain.

The second is to continue to try to investigate the matter of the spiritual root seeds, and try to expose this conspiracy in the identity of the Shushan disciple.

After all, the previous defection of Elder Duan Shuang has shown that the spiritual root seeds can control high-level cultivators, so behind this incident, there may be an extremely terrifying puppet network hidden.

If his true identity were exposed, he might be rewarded by the sect and become famous, but at the same time, he might also face the threat of parasitic monks hiding behind the scenes.

The enemy is likely to be stronger than himself and hiding in the dark, so a sneak attack could end his journey of traveling through time and space.

So after thinking about it, Jiang Li temporarily gave up the plan of risking his life to witness it directly, as it would simply be a loss.

The destination of the sword cultivator's clone this time is the scale monster tribe where the white-haired scale monster lived.

Through the connection between Yan Hong and Shengxian Hall, he finally successfully got the location of the scaly monster tribe.

The performance of the scaly monster after spitting out the spiritual root seed was different from that of all the cultivators Jiang Li had seen later.

Although its hair turned white, it did not fall into a coma or die, and could even stay alive for a long time! When a group of scaly monsters attacked the camp, in addition to rescuing their own kind, Jiang Li believed that they were more likely to retrieve the spiritual root seeds, which meant that this scaly monster tribe might know some secrets of the spiritual root seeds.

At this moment, Jiang Li suddenly sank his back foot and lifted his front foot, causing the tip of the flying sword under his feet to rise up, like a technical move like braking on a skateboard, and suddenly braked to a stop.

Because in front of him appeared several homemade spears stuck upside down on the ground. These spears were made of sharpened wooden sticks and were very crude, but on the spears were like gourds, with seven or eight human heads pierced on each one! Even the heads on the top were still relatively fresh, and the remaining flesh and blood had not yet rotted away.

He stood on the flying sword and hovered in front of the wooden spears, frowning tightly! "These beasts are so brave... They are really fat!"

Treating human heads as decorations and inserting them near the territory to demonstrate the strength and honor of one's own tribe, this behavior instantly aroused Jiang Li's anger.

They are really not of my kind! When Jiang Li was still a mortal, he even felt a little sympathy when he saw those captured scale monsters.

Now it seems that I was really too naive and immature.

Before, I just thought their girls were pleasing to the eye, and it would be a pity to kill them directly.

But later on I thought, the scaly monster's disguise as a beautiful human girl was clearly designed to trap humans.

These creatures that look like young girls, their staple food is humans.

If it weren't for the existence of a large number of human monks, who often slay demons and monsters and limit the activities of these other dangerous races.

I'm afraid that human beings now have to live in dire straits all the time.

Stepping on the flying sword, Jiang Li continued to move forward.

Soon, through the bushes, a tribe of scaly monsters built on the roots of the trees appeared in front of Jiang Li.

Through the effect of the Heart Sutra of Guanyin, Jiang Li counted the population of the tribe without even opening his eyes.

But, how could there be so few? There were more than this number of scale monsters that attacked the convoy at that time. Could it be that because of the heavy losses in the battle a few months ago, this scale monster tribe has declined like this? Jiang Li did not act rashly, but stayed on a tree, quietly observing everything in the tribe ahead.

"These scaly monsters... seem to be... all old, weak, women and children?"

Jiang Li later borrowed some information about scale monsters from the Sutra Valley. He had some experience in identifying them, so he was able to tell them apart without much effort!

The scale monsters active in this tribe are either too old to survive alone, or are just small scale monsters equivalent to five or six-year-old human children. This is an abnormal tribal structure.

So, where did all those mature scale monsters go? Jiang Li suppressed his murderous intent and continued to observe. After all, he came here to gather intelligence, not just to kill.

I just sat there and waited quietly for a long time.

The sound of disturbed water came from not far away.

Suddenly, the water surface broke open, and several scaly monsters emerged from under the water one after another.

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They made hoarse hissing sounds, as if they were communicating in the language of scale monsters, and then they dragged several horse carcasses from the water and threw them onto the shore.

However, those strong scale monsters did not go ashore. Instead, they dived back into the water, leaving behind a trail of bubbles and disappeared.

Jiang Li became alert and put his ear close to the trunk of the big tree where he was hiding. Through the transmission of vibrations between the trunk and the water surface, he could more clearly capture the world below the water surface where the Scale Demon Tribe was located.

"It turns out that the tribe above is just a cover. The real scale monster tribe is underwater!"

Because of their predatory relationship with humans, the scaly monsters sometimes go too far and can easily attract attacks and suppression from human monks in the immortal world.

When facing humans, they have superior attributes and with the special talent of the Scale Demon Song, they can easily massacre a village without much effort.

But when they face human monks, they become more fragile and weak than babies. So they came up with the idea of ​​two tribes, one bright and one dark.

After the monks easily found and killed the elderly, the weak, women and children in the water tribe, they would leave contentedly. However, the real tribe under the water would be preserved, and would continue to cruelly hunt and kill humans in nearby villages after the monks left.

It seems that their heads, which are extremely similar to those of humans, are not in vain. They are indeed an intelligent race that knows how to think.

However, so far, it seems that no monk has studied the language of scale monsters. It seems that the method of obtaining information through torture is not easy to implement.

Using his hearing to detect the movements of the scaly monsters underwater, Jiang Li followed their movements and soon found a cave opening into a secret place underwater.

Jiang Li was not in a hurry to act, but relied on his ears to observe the movement under the water. He just sat there quietly, blending into the tree trunk in the dark night. Even if a scale monster swam directly below him, it could not find him.

Night is the time when scale monsters are active. Dozens of waves of scale monsters appear one after another, some going out hunting, some returning after hunting.

A detailed three-dimensional map gradually formed in Jiang Li's mind, and he wrote down all the underwater caves where these scaly monsters entered and exited.

Scale monsters are humanoid amphibians. Although they can go ashore, their skin needs to stay moist at all times, so they usually move around at night when it is cold and humid. They are typical nocturnal animals.

Finally, the night gradually faded away and the activities of the scale monsters began to slow down. Until the sun rose, about three hundred adult scale monsters returned to the nest.

Only then did Jiang Li stand up from the tree trunk and draw out his flying sword Zhuohong.

"It's better for a family to die together in harmony."

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