Chapter 66: The Circle
Three days later!
Tianxing, who had been poured wine by the entire tribe for three days, could finally take a break.
Originally, it was just a guest at Battle's house, so that the whole tribe would not be treated as a guest.
On the first night, when the men of the tribe competed in Sambo in the evening, it was similar to a wrestling competition.
Tianxing, who was watching the performance on the side, had itchy hands for a while, and went up to try it out.
With strong body strength and weight, ordinary strong men can't fall no matter what, plus they also dabbled in wrestling in their previous lives, and their skills are also good.
After a few of the easiest don't fall and habitual falls, several strong men on the field took turns to fall, and the whole tribe knew its bravery.
The people of the steppe are straightforward and simple, and they are brave and invincible people who are very respected, and they will worship them as heroes.
So almost the entire tribe had nearly thirty felt bags, two or three hundred people, and almost all those over five years old who could drink came to pay homage to the brave heroes.
Even the middle-aged shaman leader, after seeing the strength of Tianxing, also came to drink together, and after drinking high, he also named him to take him to see and tame the beast.
A group of more than a dozen people, all on horseback, rode out of the Howling Niu tribe and headed to the northwest of the grassland.
Walking in the last is Tianxing, and the second-to-last is Battle, not because of Battle's poor riding skills, but in order to accompany the penultimate day.
And in the end, it can't be said that the riding skills are poor, mainly because the horse can't walk, because it is riding a horse.
The speed of the horse is not comparable to that of the sweaty BMW, and there is a world of difference. But the horse has its advantages, and can run freely with a thousand pounds.
Therefore, for the sake of Tianxing, a guest weighing 500 catties and a sword weighing nearly 800 catties, the herdsmen specially found a horse to pull goods for him to use as a mount.
"Brother Battle, I'm so sorry to let you follow me to the end. ”
Tianxing, who walked at the end, smiled bitterly, and originally wanted to follow directly on foot, with his current strong body, although he could not run as fast as a galloping horse, he didn't have to be much slower than a horse.
However, Battle disagreed, saying how could he let the guests walk and ride their own horses, so he had no choice but to ride a horse.
I also thought in my heart that if I had a chance, I must find a mount with strong weight-bearing capacity and not slow speed. If it's a Warcraft, that's great.
"Brother, what do you say, how can you let you go to the end alone. This time we are looking for a place to howl the cow, thousands of miles away, we are not in a hurry, we can walk slowly. ”
A day later!
Everyone is thousands of miles away, and it is still an endless grassland, but everyone is not in a hurry.
With a shaman leader leading the way, everyone just needs to follow.
Through the contact in the past few days, Tianxing also has a preliminary understanding of shamans.
The people of the steppe generally believe in shamanism, which is a folk belief developed on the basis of primitive beliefs.
However, there is no unified shamanic organization in the steppe, and each tribe has its own hereditary shaman.
Shamans have all kinds of magical abilities, such as controlling the weather, prophecy, interpreting dreams, astrology, domestication, healing and saving people, educating people, and so on.
It has a significant impact on various areas such as the production, life and social customs of the tribe.
While everyone was hurrying away, the shaman leader, who was at the front wearing an eagle feather, raised his right hand and signaled everyone to stop.
"The small lake not far ahead is where the howling cows live, and I'll set a trap here first, and then you will take two of them and try to lure one of them over. The shaman leader began to set the task.
The shaman dismounted, took down a number of small yellow flags about a foot high from his horse, and then took out the small flags and began to walk in a circle to the side.
Every 10 meters or so, a small flag is inserted into the soil, and words are constantly being recited in the mouth.
Not far away, Tianxing couldn't understand what the shaman leader was chanting at all, like a mantra or a chant.
Every time the flag is inserted into the ground, a trace of energy can be felt from the shaman's hand into the flag.
The fluctuations were not as slight as the ones that Tianxing had been exposed to in the past when he was in contact with Ryan mages and magic tests.
As Tianxing focused his attention, the shaman seemed to sense something, and looked up at this side.
Feeling the shaman's somewhat surprised and puzzled gaze, he was embarrassed to keep staring, after all, this is someone else's unique skill, and peeping is generally not allowed.
About ten minutes later, all the small flags were inserted into the ground. Eighteen small flags form a circle with a diameter of tens of meters.
After the small flags formed a circle, the shaman now recited a unique spell in the middle of the circle, and after a few seconds, all the small flags that had leaked out of the ground burrowed into the ground.
Seeing that all the small flags had gone underground, the shaman leader listened to the spell and wiped the sweat from his face, his breath was slightly short.
"Battle picked up a stone and put it where I'm standing, so you can know where the isolation circle is. ”
After the shaman leader had finished his breathing, he said to Battle and the others not far away.
"Yes, Shaman Chief. Battle found a normal stone from his feet.
"Alright, this side is ready, Battle, Kuta, and Un, you three, go and quietly bring a howling cow over.
Be careful to be quiet, don't make too loud noises, otherwise I won't be able to deal with more than two howling cows, and there will be danger. The shaman leader said emphatically again.
"Okay, Shaman Chief, don't worry, all three of us have been here last time, and we will definitely finish it. The three of them patted their chests and reassured.
"Well, let's go! Let's take refuge in the grass next to us, and Battle will do what I tell you when they lure the howling ox over. ”
The rest then scattered in all directions, hiding in the grass not far away.
The shaman leader motioned for Tianxing to follow him, and the shaman leader was still very caring, personally bringing visitors from afar.
The two of them stopped more than a hundred meters away from the magic circle, which was the upwind outlet, and the grass was lush, more than half a person tall, which was very suitable for hiding and ambushing.
The two of them lay on the ground, quietly staring in the direction of the formation ahead.
Tianxing noticed from the sidelines that today's shaman leader was dressed differently than the other day!
His face was painted with colorful lines, and he wore a leather robe, which was also painted with various patterns of beasts and monsters.
He wore a necklace made of animal teeth on his chest, a small drum made of animal skins in his left hand, and a staff made of animal leg bones in his right hand.
Now the shaman leader gives Tianxing the feeling that it is like the god stick of the great god in some primitive beliefs in the depths of the southern mountains in the previous life.
However, Tianxing knew that the shaman leader was not some kind of magic stick that cheated people out of money, but a real spellcaster with mysterious and powerful abilities.
Although the energy field emitted is not as powerful as that of the Ryan mage, at least it has the strength of a top-level mage.
The two of them looked at the front with calm faces in anticipation, ready to close the net and tame the beast at any time.