No words were spoken that night.
Early the next morning, Zhao Sheng told the others to rest in the cave and wait for orders.
Then, he, Zhao Jinjian and Zhao Xuanjing quietly moved towards Rotten Peach Mountain.
Wars are fought with intelligence.
Before attacking Lantao Mountain, the Zhao family must find out the situation in the mountain clearly.
Half a minute later, they arrived at Rotten Peach Mountain.
Looking at the colorful pink peach blossom miasma in front of them, the three of them wisely stopped.
Zhao Sheng took out a storage bag and handed it to Zhao Xuanjing.
The storage bag contains various talismans such as the invisibility talisman, the spirit-collecting talisman, the phantom escape talisman, the Thousand-Thread Sword Rain talisman, etc.
Zhao Sheng asked with concern: "Xuan Jing, are you okay?"
Zhao Xuanjing slapped the spirit insect bag on his waist, and a golden-ringed spirit earthworm, seven feet long and like a giant python, instantly fell to the ground near the three people.
As soon as the golden ring spirit earthworm was born, it circled around Zhao Xuanjing affectionately.
Zhao Xuanjing patted Lingqiu's head and smiled at Zhao Sheng, "Seventh Uncle, I'm safe with Xiaojin here!"
Zhao Sheng nodded, knowing that he was not bragging.
Before, Zhao Xuanjing insisted on bringing Xiao Jin back, and indeed, it brought a big surprise to the Zhao family.
Zhao Xuanjing cooperated seamlessly with the golden ring spirit earthworm, and unexpectedly developed the "earth escape ability", which allowed him to move freely in the soil.
There is no need to say much about the great usefulness of the earth escape ability.
Looking at the entire Zhao family, including the three foundation-building cultivators, Zhao Xuanjing is the best choice to explore Rotten Peach Mountain.
"Fourth Grandfather, Seventh Uncle, I'm leaving!"
After saying hello, Zhao Xuanjing hugged the cervical vertebrae of the golden ring spirit earthworm, and a faint yellow light appeared on the surface of both the man and the earthworm.
At this moment, the ground nearby suddenly became soft like water, and Zhao Xuanjing and Xiao Qi sank into the ground in an instant.
The ground quickly returned to normal, and the place where the humans and insects had been was now empty.
After Zhao Sheng and Zhao Jinjian whispered a few words, Zhao Jinjian stayed where he was to guard.
Zhao Sheng took a pill to break the miasma, hid his body and gathered his energy, then secretly flew high into the sky to survey the entire Rotten Peach Mountain.
Rotten Peach Mountain is only two or three hundred feet high, with a gentle slope. It has three peaks and two valleys, covering an area of nearly a hundred miles.
As the name suggests, Rotten Peach Mountain is covered with peach trees.
Because no one had picked them for a long time, the ground was covered with rotten peaches.
For thousands of years, the fallen peach tree leaves and branches year after year have accumulated a thick layer of humus on the ground.
After fermentation, this layer of humus mixed with rotten peaches gradually produced clusters of peach blossom miasma that were highly toxic yet enchanting.
Over time, Rotten Peach Mountain was gradually shrouded in a thick miasma of peach blossoms, so that there were few insects and animals on the mountain, except for a group of alien white apes who loved to eat peaches and were not afraid of the miasma.
An hour later, Zhao Sheng stood a hundred feet high in the air, looking down at the peach forest. He could clearly see many white apes with extremely long arms playing and chasing each other in the peach forest.
These white apes are strong and sturdy, most of them are around five feet tall, but a few can reach seven or eight feet tall.
They are agile and move like the wind.
What surprised Zhao Sheng even more was that these alien white apes actually had a unique skill in throwing, which could hit whatever they pointed at with incredible accuracy.
They throw gravel, peach pits, and even poop.
Judging from the repeated sounds of breaking wind and easily snapping branches, Zhao Sheng was very sure that the alien white ape was extremely powerful, and the strength of its weakest arms exceeded a thousand pounds.
After walking around the three mountains, Zhao Sheng was secretly surprised. He had just counted them carefully several times and found that there were more than a hundred alien white apes, and at least ten of them were over seven feet tall.
According to his initial observation, the combat power of white apes over seven feet tall was not inferior to that of mid-stage Qi Refining cultivators, and some white apes over nine feet tall were even able to fight against the average late-stage Qi Refining cultivators.
In addition, he did not find any trace of the second-level white ape. He only saw a stone cave under a cliff in the middle of the valley, and there were white bones everywhere near the cave.
If he guessed correctly, this cave should be the residence of two second-level white apes.
Zhao Sheng did not rush into the cave to investigate, but returned to Zhao Jinjian.
About half an hour later, the ground in front of the two of them suddenly glowed with a layer of yellow light, and in the blink of an eye, Zhao Xuanjing was seen rising from the ground holding the golden ring spirit earthworm.
"Seventh Uncle, I—"
"Let's talk about it when we get back!" Zhao Sheng suddenly interrupted.
Later, the three returned to the temporary camp cave.
In the stone chamber, after the three of them sat down, Zhao Xuanjing couldn't wait to tell them in detail the intelligence he had gathered.
Zhao Sheng was right. The two second-level white apes were indeed hiding in the cave and did not come out.
To his great surprise, the female ape was pregnant.
This is great news.
After a monster becomes pregnant, its strength will usually be greatly reduced.
Originally, Zhao Sheng was worried about how to capture the two second-level white apes, but now he couldn't miss this godsend opportunity.
He made a prompt decision and decided to wait until the male ape was alone. Then Xuan Jing would unite all the tribesmen who practiced earth-based exercises to cast a spell to collapse the passage and temporarily seal the cave.
He, Zhao Jinjian and Zhao Keru attacked the second-level male ape together, striving to win the battle.
However, plans did not change quickly enough, and Zhao Sheng's plan was abandoned before it was even launched.
Because that afternoon, Rotten Peach Mountain welcomed a group of uninvited guests.
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As the sun sets, Zhao Sheng stands on the branch of an ancient tree, gazing at Rotten Peach Mountain in the distance.
At this time, a cloud boat with a scarlet dragon carved on it was circling back and forth over the Rotten Peach Mountain. It looked very arrogant and was clearly eyeing the Rotten Peach Mountain.
After observing for a moment, Zhao Xuanjing next to him asked in surprise: "Seventh Uncle, are the people in this family stupid?"
Zhao Sheng smiled and said, "Perhaps they're not stupid, but rather just too arrogant. Judging from the style of their cloud boat, they're probably not from Southern Xinjiang, but rather from the Ten Dynasties cultivation world. The demonic beasts of the Ten Dynasties are nearly extinct, and the cultivators there have probably long forgotten the terror of the wild beasts."
Zhao Xuanjing scratched his chin and asked, "So, should we still fight?"
Zhao Sheng laughed and said, "It's not good to have other families rushing to be cannon fodder. We are not in a hurry, let's just watch the show first."
"Oh, then I'll go back and inform everyone."
"Go!"
Zhao Xuanjing left, but Zhao Sheng continued to observe the movements of Rotten Peach Mountain silently.
The later family was not so stupid as to know how to investigate the surrounding situation in advance.
At this time, the benefits of Zhao Sheng's previous cautious behavior became apparent.
The Zhao family's camp was in a cave. As they deliberately concealed their tracks, the family members could not find them at all. There were other forces hiding in the valley twenty miles away.
A day later, the war between the foreign forces and the white apes of Rotten Peach Mountain began with a rain of fire falling from the sky.
On a hilltop ten miles southwest of Lantao Mountain, three foundation-building cultivators, Zhao Sheng, Zhao Keru, and Zhao Jinjian, stood side by side.
The three of them looked at the flames and smoke rising from Rotten Peach Mountain with serious expressions, and watched the cultivators in red robes jump off the cloud boat like dumplings, and bravely and fearlessly charge into the group of white apes.
But imagination is so far from reality.
This group of white apes is too fast and too agile.
Sometimes, after a spell is cast, the other person will jump far away.
Flying swords and flying knives slashed like rain, but they always hit the air one after another.
Some spells like fireballs and golden swords are often shattered by stones.
This group of immortal cultivators were only arrogant for a short while before they were scratched, bitten, knocked away, and even had their bones and tendons broken by this group of alien white apes, forcing them to retreat again and again.