For Chen Taizhong, Heimang Forest is indeed a place he has never touched before.
It's dark and humid here, and there are trees everywhere as far as the eye can see. Sometimes when you step down, it might be a mud pit, and half of your body falls into it.
Just falling into a mud pit is nothing. The key point is that there may be some messy things hidden in or around the mud pit, such as poisonous insects such as centipedes, scorpions, or snakes.
Chen Taizhong once saw with his own eyes a colorful snake that spit out white light from its mouth and stunned an animal similar to a small kangaroo. While it was feasting, several tentacle-like things stretched out from the side, entangled the snake and dragged it in.
underground.
"Is this... a spirit-eating tree?" he asked uncertainly.
The spirit-eating tree is a plant, but its roots travel underground and can hunt humans and animals—even spirits and spirits, so it is called the spirit-eating tree.
This kind of tree used to be all over the Fenghuang Realm. Later, the rise of the human race killed this tree to almost extinction. However, there is still room for them to survive outside the human race's sphere of influence.
"This tree can only exist in this area. Going forward, they will become extinct," Jiang Ziqin replied with a smile, "We humans don't want to see it, and neither do spiritual beasts want to see it."
Compared with wild beasts, spiritual beasts have somewhat improved their IQ. Although they still rely on instinct for most of their actions, they already have some consciousness.
In short, this dark forest, which is somewhat similar to a subtropical rainforest, makes Chen Taizhong very uncomfortable. Not only is it in danger, his spiritual energy cannot be exchanged with the outside world independently, and flying spiritual weapons cannot be used.
This is a restricted area, and you cannot fly around. Not to mention the immortals, even if the immortals come, you must abide by this rule.
Only the sword cultivator can fly. It is not subject to this restriction, but it cannot replenish spiritual energy. How can you fly? How far can you fly?
Not to mention, flying in the woods... there are constant dangers, as there are many flying spiritual beasts.
Among plants, in addition to the spirit-eating tree, many trees can use their branches and leaves to entangle people.
If you walk on the ground, you have to be careful about your feet, but for humans, walking on the ground is the safest.
Chen Taizhong stumbled along the way. He even felt a bit like when he first came to Fenghuang Realm... Isn't this the same kind of embarrassment I felt when I was alone and helpless on a mission?
However, after all, this time is no different than that time. He is no longer alone. He has a team around him. It is not the first time for the other four immortals to come to the Black Forest. They skillfully cut down the vines while moving forward.
Walking.
Chen Taizhong saw them flying in the air from time to time and stepping on trees, so he imitated them. Unexpectedly, he stepped on the wrong tree and a black cloud of winged locusts flew out.
"Go." Jiang Jingjin, who was following him, scolded lightly and threw out a cloud of white mist. The leech immediately turned around and flew away. The slower it flew, its body turned into juice in the air and fell down in drops.
On the ground,
Is this a bit too fantasy? Chen Taizhong was stunned.
"Master Chen, you can just follow us, why step on the King Locust Tree?" Jiang Jingjin caught up with him with a painful expression on his face. "I know you don't care about this trivial matter, but spiritual energy is... very precious in the Black Mang Forest.
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"Yeah, yeah, I know I made a mistake, and I won't do it again next time." Chen Taizhong felt his face feel hot. "Well, how much spirit is this little powder you sprinkled on worth? I'll compensate you."
"Things like a few spiritual things are worthless," Jiang Jingjin shook his head and replied sternly, "But I don't bring much of this kind of medicinal powder, so we can't waste it, right?"
"Yeah, yeah, I already said I knew it," Chen Taizhong nodded, feeling irritated in his heart - please stop talking, okay?
The five immortals walked for four or five hours, and everyone's spiritual energy was consumed a lot, so they chose a place with relatively sparse vegetation to rest. Jiang Ziqin said, "We will camp here tonight. What do you think, Mr. Chen?"
"I'm a layman and don't understand anything," Chen Taizhong finally put down his posture and spoke matter-of-factly, "It's whatever you say. It doesn't matter if you arrange for me to be on night watch... I don't understand."
At this moment, he really felt that it was right to bring the Jiang family to Heimang Forest. If he had taken the map and explored alone, he really didn't know how embarrassed he would have been.
"You're on night watch, but it's such a waste. This is the periphery, there's nothing serious about it," several members of the Jiang family laughed, and the defensive atmosphere between the two parties relaxed somewhat.
The rain was still falling, so Chen Taizhong stopped setting up a tent. Everyone lit a fire, took out the dry food they brought with them, and ate and drank whatever they wanted. The barbecue wildebeest meat brought by Chen Taizhong also received unanimous praise.
Of course, no one drank. It was too dangerous to drink in this place. After a long time, Chen Taizhong found out that actually going into the Black Forest to hunt spiritual beasts was something that only happened to the big families in Giant Pine City once every three or four months.
When entering the Black Forest, you need to prepare a lot of things, and the family must ensure that there will be no external interference during this period of time, so that you can enter with confidence. After all, those who come in are all high-end combat forces from each family.
Even so, one of the Jiang family's two mid-level immortals was already half-disabled, but the remaining one did not participate in this hunt. The family is the foundation.
Therefore, for the families in Giant Pine City, entering the Black Wild Forest is an important mission. Drinking and other such things should not be mentioned.
It didn't take a few minutes for him to finish eating and drinking. Chen Taizhong said he wanted to meditate to restore his spiritual energy. Jiang Ziqin spoke up, "Master Chen, this two-headed green lizard... really exists in the Black Mang Forest. Do you want to kill it?"
"This thing seems to be valuable only for its skin and teeth, right?" Chen Taizhong asked with a frown.
The Fenghuang Realm information he bought also introduced the two-headed green lizard, but not much. He just knew that this thing was a fourth-level spiritual beast, and its skin could be used as armor, and its teeth could be used as offensive weapons.
"The claws and lizard tail are also very valuable," Jiang Ziqin replied with a smile. Master Chen's answer was a standard understanding in the Fenghuang world. He was not surprised - he had always believed that Master Chen was not from Jizhou, and might not even be from East China.
Reckless.
Otherwise, how could they be related to the Wufeng Sect in Western Xinjiang?
However, Giant Pine City is adjacent to the Black Forest, and each family knows a lot about the two-headed green lizard, and the information they have is far better than what ordinary people know - this is an information blockade.
He explained carefully, "Actually, the saliva of the two-headed green lizard is extremely poisonous and can be sold for a good price...I don't know about the blood essence."
"You, the Jiang family, can't kill the two-headed green lizard when you come here, right?" Chen Taizhong asked directly. This thing is a social animal. At least one male and one female lead a group of younger ones. If the male and female have brothers and sisters, then
It's even harder to say.
Jiang Ziqin did not hide anything, and simply nodded, "I have always wanted to kill the two-headed green lizard. The meat is very difficult to eat, but my Jiang family mainly specializes in water-based exercises. The best supplement is the one-horned spirit python.
Then there’s the two-headed green lizard.”
"The one-horned spirit python is level five, right?" Chen Taizhong rolled his eyes. The level five he mentioned was naturally the level five spiritual beast.
If he wanted to seek a breakthrough, he would naturally need to find a spiritual beast of sufficient weight to kill.
"The one-horned spirit python... this thing is something that is rare to find," Jiang Ziqin could only smile bitterly. He must have thought that Master Chen had heard that there were fifth-level spiritual beasts, so he didn't take the fourth-level spiritual beasts seriously.
Inside.
But one-horned spiritual pythons are really hard to find. Ordinary spiritual pythons are easy to find, but those with horns are difficult to find. These are spiritual beasts that have the chance to turn into a dragon or become a dragon.
But having said that, for ordinary spirits, the one-horned spirit python may not be more difficult to find than the two-headed green lizard.
One-horned pythons can be found anywhere, and the ones found may even be double-horned pythons.
But the two-headed green lizard can only be found in certain specific areas. Once you find it, there may be a lot of it, but if you can't find it, you just can't find it.
"Then let's rest," Chen Taizhong didn't have much idea, so he took out the intermediate spiritual array and planned to adjust his breathing with luck.
But Jiang Ziqin was dumbfounded, "Your...intermediate spirit gathering plus defense spirit array?"
"I'm not a high-level defensive formation," Chen Taizhong glared at him, "I can't compare to your formation, so why are you grinning?"
"I said, my spirit gathering array and defense array should be used separately, okay?" Jiang Ziqin could only smile bitterly in return.
As mentioned before, the portable spirit gathering array is inherently more valuable than the portable defense array. This has little to do with the difficulty of the formation, and is mainly caused by the needs of the users - anyone who can practice with the portable spirit gathering array in the wild can
There is no shortage of money.
The Jiang family also brought a portable spirit gathering array when they came out this time. Otherwise, in the dark forest, they could only restore their spiritual energy through Qi Qi Pills, which was a very bad choice.
However, what they carry is only a high-level spirit-gathering array - basically there is no need to expect to practice, as long as they can guarantee the return of energy.
Although the defense is a high-level spiritual formation, these two formations combined are not as valuable as Chen's two-in-one mid-level spiritual formation, and it is not very convenient to use.
Jiang Ziqin's answer to someone made him speechless and choked.
There was nothing to say all night, and the Jiang family's spirits took turns to be on duty. Those who were not on duty would meditate in their own spirit gathering array to restore their spiritual energy.
As for the high-level defensive array, I haven't seen it at all - there is someone on duty, so why take it out?
The next day everyone got up and walked thirty miles in the rain until they reached a point.
This node doesn't look like a node. There are more than a dozen trees, and the surrounding area is slightly more spacious, but you can't tell any difference.
Jiang Ziqin came over to discuss with Chen Taizhong, "There are several excellent places to hunt spiritual beasts around, mainly second- and third-level spiritual beasts. I am not the only one in the Jiang family who knows about these hunting places. Mr. Chen, what do you think?"
"Who else knows this place?" Chen Taizhong asked.
"Just a few families and the city lord's mansion, and of course the Qinglian Sword Sect," Jiang Ziqin replied with a smile, "They are all acquaintances, so there won't be any big problems."
"It turns out it's a public map," Chen Taizhong nodded slightly. After thinking about it, he said, "Let's find some place that others don't know about. The level of the spirit beast is slightly higher, so it doesn't matter."
Jiang Ziqin was slightly disappointed, but he didn't show it. Instead, he smiled and nodded, "Then just listen to Senior Chen."
In fact, he was eager to meet some acquaintances so that they could see that the Jiang family had successfully gotten close to a master.
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