Namur's eyes lit up. As soon as he took the spiritual fruit into his mouth, pure spiritual energy and vitality spread out.
"This fruit is probably more precious than the fruit of the sea heartwood!"
"Such pure water-attributed spiritual energy! My cultivation has actually improved!"
"Thank you for the treasure, if you can escape, please come visit our Dragon Palace!"
Before long, the relationship between the other 19 mermaids and Jiang Li had reached the level of worship.
The royal merman Namur's attitude towards Jiang Li also became much better.
However, due to his strength, it would take too long for the spiritual root seed to successfully parasitize him, and it would be easy to be discovered by him, so Jiang Li suppressed it temporarily.
However, when the opponent begins to be unable to resist and is gradually eroded by the flesh and blood of the armored ogre, the spirit root seed will immediately activate and compete with it for control.
Jiang Li has never tried to find out whether the corrosive effect of the armored monster's flesh and blood is stronger, or whether the parasitic effect of the spiritual root seed is better.
But the display of the derivatives of the spiritual roots of heaven and earth must be bigger, and he is quite confident about this.
Letting the mind-sucking monster control the body and watch here, Jiang Li came out of the burial coffin, turned into a tree root, drilled into the ground, and quietly continued to sneak towards the depths of the island.
Jiang Li now has two primary goals.
One is to find those withered flowers that are said to be able to remove the erosion of the armor-faced monster's flesh and blood.
Although Jiang Li is confident that the spiritual root seed should be able to suppress the racial effect of the armored monster, these mermaids will be an important force for Chongshan League to deal with the sea beast tide in the future.
If they all had the image of armor-faced ogre, it would obviously not be convenient for them to appear in the human camp.
The second is to kill Namur's father.
According to Namur, he must find Namur's father, a mermaid with a crown on his head.
Only by dealing with him first, can they rely on the sea beasts to escape from this island. Otherwise, even if they escape from here, the endless sea beasts will still be a trouble they cannot get rid of.
But he didn't know the exact location of the two, so Jiang Li could only search for them quietly on the island full of enemies.
After drilling forward for a distance underground, Jiang Li turned into the root of the Nine Netherwood and drilled into a tall tree from under the ground.
Walk upstream along the tree trunk, and then quietly emerge from the branch above.
Looking around, he saw an armored ogre holding a spear, leaning against a tree trunk and taking a nap just below him.
Jiang Li's eyes lit up. This ogre wasn't too big, nor did it have any exaggerated alien organs. It looked relatively suitable.
A hand like a branch emerged from the trunk, covered the ogre's mouth, and dragged him into the trunk without making any sound.
A moment later, a crack appeared in the middle of the tree trunk, and Jiang Li, who was covered with a layer of ogre skin, walked out.
This time he did not use the spirit sucker or the spirit root seed.
Instead, he used a spell that he had acquired before, the Easy-Practice Technique.
That year, when he visited the Qitu Ghost Market at night, in addition to forming an indissoluble bond with the female ghost Qin Shuman, he also took care of a casual foundation-building cultivator.
And he got a book on shapeshifting and a book of ghost talismans from that person.
The series of black talismans in the ghost talisman book are very compatible with Jiang Li's nine ghost spirits, and their power is stronger than ordinary talisman paper. He is still using it today.
It’s just that the shape-changing technique of the skinning bag is a bit disgusting. Jiang Li, who used to conquer the world with a pair of iron fists, didn’t have any special need for it, so he never took it seriously.
Even though he sneaked into Black Rock City under an alias, he only used his spiritual energy to change his appearance and body shape, and did not actually peel off human skin to disguise himself.
But obviously if you want to hide, you even have to change your race, which is not something that can be done by just pinching your face.
He used the Nine Ghosts' Qi to quickly deal with the skin bag, drilled into it and began to inflate his body.
The armor-faced ogre is generally taller than humans, but Jiang Li is a physical cultivator, so changing his body shape is just a basic operation for him.
Swell the body to about nine feet, filling the entire skin bag.
Jiang Li walked out of the tree trunk and moved around a bit. There was no obvious displacement or wrinkles on his skin. He really looked like he had turned into a armor-faced ogre.
This shape-changing technique is quite clever.
Back then, that casual cultivator was able to disguise himself as a little girl of two or three feet tall without revealing any flaws. Now that Jiang Li has reached the Golden Core stage of cultivation, he is naturally able to do much better than him.
There is an embarrassing flaw here though.
Jiang Li scratched the nail surface on his face. The two eyes growing vertically in the middle were really not very useful.
No matter how he changed his shape, Jiang Li couldn't move his eyes to the middle.
He could only use the special tissue of the spiritual plant Flesh Rose Tree to temporarily connect the other person's original two eyeballs to his own nose and forehead.
The fleshy tree is an excellent auxiliary material for severed limbs and transplanted monster organs.
Using it for temporary grafting, Jiang Li can also use the two eyeballs normally.
Just two eyes arranged vertically gave him a somewhat strange visual experience.
It was as if he was looking at things with his head tilted all the time, which made him feel a little uncomfortable.
After adapting himself, he grabbed the spear he had used before and started walking around the island pretending to be on patrol.
Although they are reluctant to admit it, the social structure of the armor-faced ogre is indeed somewhat similar to that of humans.
They have a clear hierarchy of status.
Most of the low-level armor-faced ogres are just wrapped in simple linen, or simply wear nothing at all.
They do menial, strenuous work.
The high-level ogres were dressed neatly and brightly, and wore a large number of special accessories.
The noble ones among them will even paint bright colors and symbols on their nails to show their differences.
Of course, from Jiang Li's point of view, those with runes and colors engraved on the armor are usually more powerful.
I don't know whether it is because of his great strength that he has a noble status, or because of his noble status that he has great strength.
Jiang Li had no other clues for the time being, so he followed the guidance of Jiuyou's clone and headed towards the location of his spiritual root puppet.
Just as he was about to reach the core circle of the island, Jiang Li discovered that one of the places was surrounded by a large number of masked ogres.
There were some strong guards maintaining order, but the noise continued.
"My Lord, please! This is the fifth time I haven't been given a share of Kumi!"
"Please, if I can't eat any more ghouls, I'll turn into a wild species!"
"Get out! Don't push me! If you come any closer I'll break your arms!"
More than two thousand armored ogres were crowded together and fighting for something.
The strong ones took up the best positions, while the weak ones were pushed to the outside, but they were unwilling to accept this and wanted to squeeze in.
A group of ogres, also armed with spears, were surrounding them and pushing them, trying to get them to line up.
"You! Come quickly and help maintain order!"
When they saw the spear in Jiang Li's hand, they naturally thought that Jiang Li was the patrolling guard and temporarily recruited him.
With the second mind flayer that had eaten the armor-faced ogre's head acting as a translator, he could now communicate with these monsters without any obstacles.
Jiang Li did not refuse. He stepped forward with his spear and hit the chaotic armored ogre monsters directly.
These monsters were beaten until their heads were bleeding, their bones were broken and their tendons were broken. Some of those who tried to resist were even beaten away by a spear and could not get up for a long time.
Jiang Li would not show mercy to them and beat more than a dozen of them to death. He also transferred hidden energy into the bodies of many ogres, which would take a day and a night to take effect, breaking their internal organs.
Under the influence of violence, the ogres soon lined up again, one after another in an orderly manner, to receive what they called "喰".
Jiang Li shook the blood-stained spear and followed the team forward, but finally at the end of the team, he saw the so-called "喰".
Those were the familiar boxes he had seen before.
Jiang Li's palms clenched involuntarily, and he almost broke the solid metal spear, leaving a clear handprint on it.
There is a counter at the front of the line.
Behind the counter were several armor-faced shemales who were obviously of higher status and dressed in gorgeous attire.
They took out human heads from the box, then skillfully opened the skulls and used a special spoon to scrape out pieces of brain and handed them to the ogres in front of them.
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And what was contained in the boxes were the heads of children that were transported from behind the safe front lines!
Jiang Li knew that the world of immortal cultivation was cruel and dangerous, but there were actually people who would sell their own kind to other creatures as food just for spirit stones.
This kind of behavior is really outrageous!
The human head was opened like a coconut, and the contents were scooped out spoonful by spoonful.
This scene had a great impact on Jiang Li. He wanted to attack right now and start a fight on this island.
But from a fortress not far away, there were several faint auras coming from it, which made him clearly feel a strong threat.
The armor-faced ogre has been able to suppress the entire Eastern Region of Cangyun Province's immortal cultivation world for thousands of years. Its strength is definitely extraordinary.
The power that exists on this island may even be more powerful and dangerous than the Wantu Sect.
It would be a very unwise choice to take action now. Even if he could kill a wave of enemies and escape successfully, the enemy would be alerted, and it would become much more difficult to break through the island later.
Reason told Jiang Li that he needed to wait for a more appropriate time.
These ogres waiting in line used a kind of leaves to catch the tofu-like brain matter, and then immediately put it into their mouths impatiently, making extremely enjoyable sounds.
That special little spoon is a little bigger than the milk powder spoon in the previous life.
The brain matter in one head can probably be shared by twenty armor-faced ogres.
There are probably ten heads in this box, which can be distributed among two hundred ogres.
Behind the counter, there were a total of ten boxes, which contained the heads of one hundred human children.
Jiang Li didn't watch them eating, but just silently observed the surrounding environment and the changes of the ogres after they ate the human brains.
After a careful observation, he found that the ogres in the queue all had some physical deformities to varying degrees.
The body structure of the masked ogre is different from that of humans. They come in all kinds of forms, and deformities in the conventional sense do not apply to them.
But growing some limbs that are obviously the wrong size and have no function is obviously not normal.
However, after eating the brain, those extra limbs will soon fall off their bodies, and the excited emotions of these masked ogre-ogres will return to normal.
Could it be that the armor-faced ogre's preference for eating human brains is not simply a food preference, but something that is essential for maintaining normal survival?
Jiang Li was secretly guessing in his heart.
The ogres in noble robes moved quickly, and together they quickly divided up all the human heads in the box.
Jiang Li now finally understood that those were transsexuals, and why they were fighting so hard.
Because there are never enough points.
There were still three or four hundred ogres left, and they could only kneel on the ground and cry in pain, and each of them received a chain to lock their hands.
They can only survive the painful degradation period in this way and look forward to the next batch of distribution.
"Wait a moment."
Jiang Li kept the information in mind and was about to leave when he was stopped by a man in a long robe and armor.
"You did a great job just now. I have something else to give you. Come with us."
Even though he was praised by the noodle eater for his good work, Jiang Li did not feel happy at all.
All he wanted now was to find a hidden corner and kill a bunch of these guys first.
"Come with us, holding the two jars."
The man in the long robe left after saying this. Jiang Li looked at the two jars placed on the ground.
He had also seen this thing.
What was contained inside was the spiritual root seedling that was tricked out.
Also from the Eastern Region of Cangyun Continent.
"Sir, what's in that jar?"
Jiang Li asked pretending to be ignorant.
"That is something only nobles can enjoy. You don't need to know about it."
Jiang Li suddenly realized that things with better quality and more vitality should naturally provide a higher status and position.
How could it be said that as long as I followed them, I would be able to meet the high-level members of the A-faced ogre?
After thinking for a moment, he tried his best to gather his golden elixir energy, picked up the two jars and followed.
Sure enough, they were heading towards the fortress in the middle of the island.
There were two teams of troll guards at the entrance of the fortress, and their rank was obviously much higher than the ordinary guards outside.
Judging from its aura, it was probably even stronger than the armored ogre that Jiang Li had encountered on the battlefield before.
But there were several people in long robes and armor leading the way. They did not stop him. They just looked at the jar in Jiang Li's hands with a greedy look on their faces.
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Asura world, Dora bloody battle arena.
"Little Yaksha, you have done a great deed this time. Do your best, and Lord Vimalakirti will not treat you unfairly."
These days, the Fallen Blood Yaksha has been in high spirits in the Dora Blood Fighting Arena.
Truly opening up a space rift is the highest task of the underground blood pool.
After completing this task, the reward obtained not only made up for the loss of the core blood pill given away by the Yaksha clone.
It also allowed him to go a step further and directly condense a blood baby in his body, which greatly improved his strength.
The most important thing is that with the trust of the Evil Eye High Priest, he can now enter and exit the Dora Blood Fighting Arena at will, and can mobilize several Asuras at the level of demon generals and a large amount of resources without the consent of his superiors.
That "large amount" was even enough for him to secretly build another small blood pool.
(End of this chapter)