In front of a cave halfway up the mountain, Shi Mu sat on a big cyan stone and slowly closed the book in his hand, he had read all the contents inside.

This classic contains a rough record of the situation of the Xihe Continent and the demon clan, including a lot of information about the habits of demon beasts.

According to the classics, the Xihe Continent is vast, much larger than the Dongzhou Continent, and rich in resources, but compared to the Dongzhou Continent, it is much more sparsely populated.

The Dongzhou Continent is respected by the human race, but here it is dominated by the demon race, followed by the barbarians, and the ordinary human race is very rare.

There are countless large and small forces of the demon clan, distributed in all corners of the continent.

If you trace the roots, you can roughly attribute them to seventy-two branches, most of which are beast monsters, in addition to some plant monsters, and the previous Luo Suo tribe is one of them.

Generally speaking, if the strength of the demon beast reaches the level equivalent to that of the human race, it can be partially transformed into a human form, called a general, and when it reaches the level of the ground level, it can be mostly transformed into a human form and called handsome, as for the demon clan with the strength of the heavenly position, it can really turn into a human form and be called a demon king.

It's just that in the Xihe Continent throughout the ages, there don't seem to be many records of the demon clan who have truly cultivated into the demon king.

After he put this book into the dust ring, he waved his hand and took out a jade slip, which was a map of the nearby area given by Lutang.

The divine sense probed into it, and a huge map appeared in his mind, on which there were many towns and tribes belonging to the barbarian forces, and there were also some annotations indicating whether they belonged to the barbarian or the ferocious.

Combined with the attitude of the Giant Wood Patriarch when he first saw him, it seems that the relationship between the Pingban and the ferocious barbarian in the Xihe Continent is not very good, and if he goes to the Pingban city as a ferocious person, I am afraid that he may not be treated kindly.

His gaze fell on the northernmost part of the map, where there was a large ferocious tribe, which, judging by the annotations, was none other than the Ferocious Serpent Tribe.

And the area where he is at the moment belongs to the sphere of influence of the barbarians.

Since he was not welcome in the barbarians, Shi Mu planned to go to the area under the jurisdiction of the barbarians.

Cai'er flew up from under the mountain peak, holding a purple fruit in her mouth, landed on Shi Mu's shoulder, swallowed the fruit in a few bites, squinted her eyes comfortably, and asked:

"Stone, you've been grinding and chirping for a long time, have you decided where you're going next?"

"Talky!! Shi Mu flicked Cai'er's skull with his fingers, put away the map jade slip, and looked towards the north.

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A vast expanse of open water, full of lush grass, and the occasional bird flying through the grass, a faint mist rising over the water, making it look hazy and beautiful.

Shi Mu was standing on a raised ground at the moment, looking around, Cai'er was squatting on his shoulder, looking listless.

It is a huge swamp, very large, called the Snake Cave Swamp.

At this time, nearly a month had passed since he left the Giant Wood Clan that day, and Shi Mu was not in a hurry, spending half of his time on cultivation along the way, in order to improve his strength as much as possible.

After all, this Xihe Continent is full of dangers, far from being comparable to the Dongzhou Continent, and if you are a little stronger, you will be able to have more protection.

According to the map provided by Lutang, the Snake Cave Swamp is already the sphere of influence of the Snake Ministry, and after here, it is a large city under the jurisdiction of the Snake Ministry, Rikang City.

Snake Cave Swamp, as the name suggests, there are many snakes and monsters in this swamp, and there are all kinds of highly poisonous things, which is a famous local dangerous place.

However, on the other hand, it is also rich in all kinds of natural treasures, and it is a paradise for speculators.

Three days ago, Shi Mu came to the swamp, thought twice, did not take a detour, but chose to cross the swamp.

"Stone, why don't you just fly over this swamp, why do you have to walk over with your feet, it's dirty, smelly, and dangerous. Cai'er complained.

"I need to integrate into the Xihe Continent as soon as possible, and learn as much as possible about the situation here, and experiencing it first-hand is naturally the fastest. And the treasure hunt itself is a pleasure. Shi Mu said.

If you want to go to Ling Tian Peak, you don't know how many such dangerous places you have passed, and it is impossible to make a detour or fly every time.

And in such a dangerous place, it may not be safe to fly through the sky, especially in a flat place such as a swamp, flying in mid-air will undoubtedly expose oneself and be easily ambushed.

Shi Mu looked around vigilantly, walked down the high ground, and walked forward.

Walking in such a dangerous place, there was no carelessness, the swamp creatures were very good at camouflage, and in the past three days, he had already suffered a lot.

He passed by a black grass, and with a "boom", the grass exploded, and a bloody mouth pounced, biting Shi Mu's feet, it was a pitch-black python, half of its body lurking in the ground.

Shi Mu seemed to have noticed it, and at the foot of his feet, his body quickly retreated, avoiding the giant python's mouth.

The black python bit the air, its body writhed, and it came out of the ground, its body was four or five zhang long, the thickness of the grinding plate, and a pair of dark green snake eyes emitted a cold light.

Shi Mu raised his eyebrows, this is a black earth python demon beast at the peak of the day after tomorrow, and he has encountered it several times in the past few days.

With a flick of his fingers, a golden sword light flew out and slashed towards the black python.

This black python is not very intelligent, and when it saw the flying sword flying, it actually let out a roar, opened its bloody mouth, and bit towards the golden sword light.

Shi Mu waved his fingers, and the flight trajectory of the golden flying sword was extremely swift and crossed an arc.

The huge snake head of the black python flew up, blood splattered out, and its body was cut into two parts, and it struggled frantically on the ground for a moment, not moving.

Shi Mu waved his hand to recall the flying sword, walked to the corpse of the giant python, turned over and took out a beast soul bag, and shot out a red light.

A cloud of black light flew out of the giant python's corpse and flew into the beast soul bag.

Another reason why Shi Mu didn't choose to take a detour or fly over the swamp was to collect beast souls.

His fierce python totem is already approaching the juncture of advancement, as long as he breaks through this pass, the power of the totem secret technique will increase again, before in the Dongzhou Continent, due to various reasons, he failed to collect the beast soul, and now that he has the opportunity, he is naturally unwilling to let go.

After Shi Mu did this, he did not leave immediately, but walked towards the place where the giant python had just lurked.

According to the "Demon Clan Directory", where the black earthworm python lives, there is a high chance that you can find a spirit grass called Wind Spirit Yin, which has the effect of detoxifying most snake venom and is quite precious.

But at this moment, Shi Mu raised his eyebrows, and a trace of vigilance flashed in his eyes.

There was a tumbling fog in front of them, and there was a sound of footsteps coming from it, and five or six figures were faintly approaching.

These people didn't seem to expect to meet Shi Mu, and their faces were stunned for a moment.

Shi Mu's gaze swept over several people, whose clothes were embellished with dark red python patterns, which were the symbols of the Fierce Snake Department.

Among several people, the leader of the sword-carrying Han Han has the highest cultivation, and he has reached the late congenital stage, and there are two people in the early innate stage, and the rest are all acquired cultivation.

The big man with the sword on his back swept his eyes over Shi Mu, stared at the Miaochen ring in Shi Mu's hand and the beast soul bag on his waist, and then looked at the corpse of the black earth python, a wisp of different color flashed in his eyes, and shouted:

"Boy, who are you? Openly collecting beast souls in the Snake Cave Swamp!"

Shi Mu glanced at a few people, then looked away, ignored a few people, and continued to rummage on the ground nearby.

The big man with the sword on his back was furious, but Shi Mu's attitude also made him a little uncertain, and he glanced at a lean man next to him.

"Boy, Boss Teng is asking you, are you deaf or dumb, do you want to die?" The thin man pulled out a scimitar with a sigh, pointed at Shi Mu, and shouted.

Several other people also came over, faintly surrounding Shi Mu in the middle.

At this time, Shi Mu's eyes lit up, and he stepped forward quickly, and in a bush, he picked a bunch of pale cyan grass, and after unhurriedly collecting the dust ring, he looked up at a few people and asked:

"Who are you, and do you have it under your control that I collect beast souls here?"

"Boy, we are the patrol team of the Snake Cave tribe stationed in the Snake Cave Tribe, specializing in collecting poachers like you, and now we have captured the stolen goods, and we will be captured without restraint!" The big man with the sword on his back shouted loudly when he saw that Shi Mu seemed to be an outsider.

"Oh, patrol team, foreign races are not allowed to invade this place, right?" Shi Mu glanced at the beast soul bags on several people, sneered in his heart, and asked.

"It's good that you know. "The big man with the sword on his back said.

"I'm also a member of the Serpent Tribe, but he's not a poacher. Shi Mu said, revealing the fiery snake totem on his chest.

Although he didn't pay attention to these people, he had just come to the territory of the Flame Snake Department, and he decided to keep a low profile.

The big man with the sword on his back and the others were also stunned, and then chuckled.

Shi Mu must be scared like this.

"Oh, it's a man of the same kind. But don't you know that you have to pay spirit stones to obtain hunting qualifications when you come here? For the sake of you not knowing the rules when you first came here, hand over all the beast souls you poached, as well as your storage ring, and we will let you go, and we will not pursue it. The big man with the sword on his back laughed and said.

Shi Mu sighed, and his face gradually turned cold.

The other party obviously saw that he was not very old and alone, and he was moved to plunder.

"What's the matter, boy, you still want to show your teeth!" shouted the big man with his sword on his back, and several others drew their weapons as well.

Shi Mu turned his hand and took out a talisman and slapped it on his body, a layer of blue light wrapped his body, and then his body shook, and the next moment he appeared in front of the big man with the sword on his back, and the black shadow in his hand flashed, and an extra black knife appeared, and he slashed it down.

The big man with the sword on his back was shocked, he didn't expect Shi Mu's body method to be like a ghost, but he was also a cultivator in the late stage of congenital, and he was not slow to react, roared, and pulled out the big sword on his back.

The sword light lit up with cyan light, and it headed towards the black sword.

A loud clash of gold and iron!

The face of the big man with the sword on his back changed wildly, and a terrifying force came from the black knife, as if he had been hit hard by a small mountain, and his feet sank deep into the swampy ground, reaching into his knees. (To be continued.) )