Chapter Forty-Eight: Umiak

"Of course there is!" the blacksmith peeled two boiled peanuts and threw the peanut kernels into his mouth, before continuing: "Most of the barbarians who went on a pilgrimage to the holy land in the Far North were Wuqu Xingjun, in fact, in order to obtain the Golden Family's use of the 'Star Attached' technique on the Star Hammer or Star Soldiers. Otherwise, how do you think the ornaments on so many barbarian star hammers and star soldiers came from? However, apart from the Golden Family, the Barbarians really don't have any other Wenqu Star Monarchs. That's because there is a set of Wenqu Xingjun's exercises in the Holy Land, and people outside the Golden Family can't climb to the extreme north, so naturally they can't cultivate to become Wenqu Xingjun. ”

"The Golden Family is the genius family among the barbarians. Do you know? When I first entered the camp, I saw it with my own eyes: the same three-grade Star Venerable, two rutiles of the same quality and size, the members of the Golden Family only need one day to forge into Titan Gold, while the Star Venerable in our camp takes ten days or even more than half a month! Alas, this is the gap! This kind of talent is also something that other people cannot find. ”

The blacksmith sighed, and couldn't help but drink a few more sips of the burning knife, his eyes were obviously a little drunk, and he said with a big tongue: "Now you can't experience that realm...... After death, the soul will go out of the body and drift into star power to return to the sea of stars, which is nine-colored...... Only after advancing to the Star Venerable can you distinguish this nine-colored star power ......"

"The Golden Family, isn't it forbidden to land on the Starfall Continent?" said the Star Envoy.

"I didn't say that the people of the Golden Family have landed on the Starfall Continent...... The one I just mentioned was on a floating iceberg in the Ice Ocean, and he was dedicated to demonstrating to our new Star Venerables how to forge rutile...... He looks like he's in his early twenties, and he's about the same age as my son, but he's already promoted to Star Venerable!" the blacksmith exclaimed, shaking his head.

"Brother Demba, drink less bars, tomorrow you will take us to the Glacier Strait to transport tribute!" The beast bone token smiled bitterly, and couldn't help but remind: "It doesn't matter if we two boys go to the Glacier Strait or not, but if we delay the affairs of the Golden Family, we will get into big trouble." ”

"Tribute? hehe! It's all some four or five-year-old boys and girls who can drift to the far north on the other side unharmed, and there is not one out of ten, right?" The blacksmith seems to have drunk too much, and if this kind of criticism of the Golden Family is heard by others, it is estimated that the direct expulsion from the territory of the barbarians will be regarded as a light punishment. In the minds of the barbarians, the Golden Family is a god-like existence. That is to say, Xingzun is well-informed and has extraordinary strength, and his awe of the Golden Family may have weakened because of this.

The Beast Bone Token turned his head to look at the Star Messenger, who had fallen asleep on the edge of the pool at some point, drooling and snoring from his mouth. This kind of posture can be regarded as some kind of statement, at least for the time being. One Star Venerable, after all, is not something that two Star Envoys can offend casually.

The beast bone token walked to the edge of the pool, raised a delicate small sluice, and released half of the hot water in the pool where the three of them were located, so that it was still warm as spring, but there would be no tragedy of waking up from the water and sleep.

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"Brother Dengba, is this a bloodstain? Covering such a large area of snow, could it be a demon beast?" the star envoy asked worriedly, pointing to the vision in the snow in the preface.

"Brother, you have to uncover the antlers in front of your eyes, and then see what color it is. The Beast Bone Token unveiled the flat antlers in front of him and gestured. The antlers had a curvature that attached to the eyes and cheeks, and a very thin slit was cut in the middle, which made it easy for light to enter.

The Star Envoy did so, lifted his blindfold and looked at it twice, exclaiming, "It turned out to be blue-green! ”

"It's actually a very small creature, and I heard my predecessors call it 'Ice Algae'. When there is sunlight, they turn green, some red, and when dark, they turn blue-green. Demba had already lifted his antler blindfold, looked back at the tent-like sleigh that was dragging behind the snowstorm bear, and said, "Let's rest and see how the little ones are doing." In short, we can't have problems with our hands. ”

So, the three snowstorm bears stopped. The three of them inspected the tents on the big sleigh and found that the four or five-year-old children were sleeping soundly wrapped in thick blankets, probably thinking that the present was really a moonlit night, and the sleigh that was swaying back and forth was a cradle.

The three snowstorm bears joined each other to form a windshield wall, and the sleigh stopped on the inside of the "wall", so the three of them dug a large pit in the snow, hid in it, lit a brazier, and kept warm and fed.

"The camp is actually only twenty miles up and down the Glacier Strait, and we are halfway through it now. Demon beasts have a strong sense of territory. Therefore, even if there were originally demon beasts nearby, sensing the dozens of Star Venerables in the camp, they couldn't beat them, and in the end they had to move by themselves. So there's no need to worry about monsters at all. Demba roasted beef jerky and said, "And this antler eye patch, in fact, is mainly used in the eternal day period in the far north, when the light will be particularly dazzling. There are some unbelieving star messengers, even outside the camp, who don't wear this antler blindfold because of the trouble. I was a little uncomfortable at first, but after three or two days I was fine. After repeating it a few times, he became blind. ”

Sizzle!

Although Demba said it lightly, the Star Envoy and the Beast Bone Token couldn't help but gasp, looked up at the bright moon hanging in the sky, and then couldn't help but put the antler blindfold back.

"The Far North, just on the other side of the Glacier Strait, looks like another snowy continent, and there is no end in sight. Demba roasted the beef jerky, gave it to the two little brothers, and said while gnawing on it: "However, in the strait between the Far North and the Starfall Continent, there are icebergs floating all year round, and it is said that there are tens of thousands of them every year! And the particularly huge icebergs, which can even reach 10 miles in length and width, or as high as 1,000 feet, are the biggest crises that our 'tribute' needs to face. Although the snowstorm bear can swim hundreds of miles in the icy water in half a day, it does not include a 'umyak' with seven or eight children on board, which walks between these floating icebergs. ”

The envoy asked curiously, "Is that kind of 'Umiyak' really just a few sealskins or walrus skins covered with our sleigh?"

Demba laughed and said, "Of course it is." A giant beast of Snowstorm Bear's size can paddle on two 'Umiyaks' on its own much faster than it can swim on its own. However, successive khans thought that would show contempt for the Golden Family, so they had to send tribute and schoolchildren by Snowstorm Bear. ”

The three of them chatted a few more words, and then set off for the Glacier Strait again. There is a small pier where each sled towed by the Snowstorm Bear will be transformed into an umyak boat through the unique methods and simple processes of the barbarians, a kind of light but capable of carrying nearly two thousand pounds of gondola. Moreover, this kind of Umilak ship is extremely light because it uses less wood and more animal skins. Of course, in addition to the twenty or so children of four or five years old, about ten pieces of Titan Gold "forged" from rutile will be placed on each Umiyak ship. As for the number of people who can finally reach the far north on the opposite side, they can only be left to fate. The Snowstorm Bear is a good swimmer, but it is not a Kraken, and it will take a lot of energy to circumnavigate the icebergs, and if it sees that it may not be able to complete the return journey, it will push the Umiyak ship to the far north and return on its own.

This is actually subject to the ancestral training of the barbarians, outsiders are not allowed to ascend to the far north, that is the resting place of the barbarian ancestors, except for the golden family of the mausoleum guards, trespassers die!

The rest of the journey was a bit lackluster, and by the time Demba and the group of three arrived at the really simple little pier, there was even a heavy fog on the sea. This also casts a shadow over the next "voyage". Because the iceberg is different from the Kraken after all, the iceberg floats quietly on the sea, unless it occasionally encounters a small piece of ice floe to make a sound, it is still very lucky to avoid the iceberg in the fog.

After Demba awakens the children, the Star Messenger and the Beast Bone Token upgrade the sleigh. Sure enough, as Demba had said before, after the completion of the three Umiyak boats, the three snowstorm bears took turns to step on them as an easy way to test their sturdiness.

After a few words of etiquette that those who met the Golden Family should pay attention to, those four or five-year-old children and those Titan Gold completed the boarding of the ship with the help of the three Wuqu Star Monarchs, and the three stars watched the snowstorm bear bite the leash and ferry to the vast northern.

"It's really not easy for such a young child to travel thousands of miles away from home to study in the Holy Land!" the Star Envoy sighed.

The beast bone token took over and said: "These children are actually from the northern countries, and there are very few nobles among the barbarians who can read and write, not to mention their barbarians and even those lowly slaves. However, when they grow up and are promoted to Star Monarch, they will naturally forget their origins. The pursuit of the ultimate in strength is the ultimate goal of all Star Monarchs. ”

Demba smiled and said, "Yes, if you have a chance to 'grow up'...... The reason why we want to start with four or five-year-old children is to discover students who are suitable for the first awakening of Wenqu Xingjun as soon as possible. As for the other students, after completing the initial awakening of Wuqu Xingjun, they will set off from the extreme north to start the real trial and return to the Starfall Continent. Those teenagers who returned to the snow field were the strong foundation of the snow barbarians. And those Wenqu Xingjun who stayed in the Far North were the cornerstone of the Golden Family's rule over the barbarians. ”

"Therefore, the cultivation of the Snow Barbarian is to always challenge the limit, this is a concept instilled in me since childhood, and it has been deeply engraved in my bones. The Star Envoy exclaimed.

An iceberg that could barely be seen from the top of the ice drifted silently over the ice ocean, revealing half a huge figure from the fog, and then disappearing into the fog, and did not know what to do.

"Hurry up, they should be almost halfway through the strait. Demba listened intently for a while, and suddenly said something inexplicable.