After leaving the escort procession, Hadu and his party walked about half a way up and down to the "city" of "Mu-Tua-Yin": a large settlement surrounded by a two-person high wall. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Most of the tribes of the steppes knew that they believed in the god of shadows and that the Holy Spirit was a ferocious beast and a tiger, but they didn't know what they were sacrificial animals. A closer look at the wall reveals that it was made of hay, clay and some kind of very viscous animal dung, and instead of collapsing, it became unusually strong and sturdy under the sun and rain.

Hadu and the others hurried towards the city, and the guards on the top of the city spotted them, and immediately opened the gates, the thickened wooden fences, to welcome their return. Needless to say, they decided that Hadu and his party were cavalry returning from the front, and after opening the door, they also pointed them in the direction so that they could quickly reach the current position of the old patriarch and the high priest.

The city has a wide, standard road where 12 horses can walk side by side, and the roads are lined with houses made of a mixture of clay and plant ash, of which simple wooden frames are used to frame the houses. The advantage of this kind of dwelling is that it can be built quickly, which can be regarded as an architectural innovation of this era, but its disadvantages are the same as ordinary wooden villages: they are very flammable, and it is more difficult to extinguish fires than wooden villages when burned.

The main road in the city runs through the entire city until it reaches a towering building enclosed by a wooden fence. Hado saw that the building was surrounded by totem poles tied to the dried corpses of strange animals with sharp claws, mouse-like heads, wings that were not quite like birds, and covered in gray-black fur. Presumably, this is the sacrifice of the "Mu-Tua-Yin" tribe, and as for what it is called, Hadu thinks that it will be easy for him to know after he has plundered the old patriarch and the high priest.

However, as soon as they dismounted, a priest of high authority came to them and told them that the old patriarch and the high priest had gone to the "Sacred Cave", and asked them to continue along the totem pole at the back gate of the city for a while, and they could see it near the mountains. The horses they were traveling with were driven to a nearby stable, and after running for so long, the horses were tired enough.

Hadu didn't ask too much, but did so, and he had a faint feeling in his heart that he might be about to uncover the biggest secret of the prairie. The Assassins of the "Mu-Tua-Yin" have always been feared in the grasslands, and no other tribe has ever learned about their training methods, training venues, etc., - none of the scouts who came to inquire about it made it back alive. Speaking of which, the tribe is located in a remote area, some distance from the core of the grassland, but it cannot be said that they are in a safe corner. Most of the grassland tribes have land along the river, and they can find people along the river, which also makes this tribe in the downstream area have a natural sense of crisis.

Unlike other tribes built in mountains, basins, and canyons, the "Mu-Tua-Yin" chose a fertile plain to build their cities, a terrain that made them less likely to use the natural environment for defense, but the advantages were obvious: the flat ground made it much easier to livestock, plant, and build houses, and it also had a good bonus to the crowd gathering when the army was marching out.

However, in this case, the training location of the Assassins must not be placed in the city, after all, there is not enough space and suitable environment for training. Hado and the others galloped down, and the trees on the road began to grow more and more luxuriant, and gradually the road on the ground began to become muddy and narrow, and finally it was completely covered with weeds, and there was no sign of the road. And then it was time to reach the mountains that the priest had spoken of—well, Hado's keen eyesight had been able to detect some people hiding in the forest, watching them closely.

When he reached this place, Hadu beckoned the people to dismount, and then the priests who answered him came out. Since Hado's whole body was covered in armor and discs, the other party did not notice the ritual pattern on his body. Seeing that Hadu and his party were panting like oxen, the priest who came to answer nodded secretly, believing that these people were the return team from the front line. The priest led them around to a wooden hut disguised as a tree, and told the others to rest in the hut, while Hado went to the "Sacred Cave" to report the news.

On the way to find a sacrificial cave, Hadu felt several waves of surveillance, it seemed that "Mu-Tua-Yin" was one of the few tribes with a sense of secrecy, and he thought that maybe even if he revealed the ritual pattern, the other party would not let go of the surveillance and let him enter smoothly.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, the dense foliage made it impossible for Hadu to judge the position of the sun. They finally arrived at a low hole, and looking at the totem poles around it, this must be the "Divine Cave". The priest waved his hand at the entrance of the cave and motioned for Hado to go in and stay outside the cave himself. Hadu leaned down and slowly approached the hole*** and then heard a sharp sound of "swishing". Continue to walk inside, the cave ** is very dark, and occasionally there are stone walls shining in the cave with light beams, which makes the surrounding environment appear more gloomy.

A human voice came from the cave, telling Hadu not to be afraid, and walked straight into the cave. The voice exuded a firm penetrating power, which actually made Hadu pluck up courage in his heart. Walking to the center of the cave, Hadu noticed that the roof of the cave was full of creatures tied to totem poles, and a small cabin with a pit on top had been built underneath. The smell in the cave is relatively unpleasant, and there is not enough air for Hadu to breathe, but it has to be said that this is a good place to exercise the limits of the human body. In the cabin, Hadu finally met the old patriarch and high priest of the "Mu-Tua-Yin" tribe: they all had intricate ritual patterns, but the high priest was more complicated, and it may have been that this generation had more ritual regulations.

Hadu didn't wait any longer, but immediately activated the plundering ability, and at this moment, he was suddenly pulled into the consciousness space.

"The amount of good and evil you have accumulated has reached the level required for settlement, and it is being settled for you;"

"The accumulation of good and evil points after your third settlement is as follows:

You have plundered the loyalty of the original 'Mo-Ruq-Fa', 'Bi-Man-Sje', 'Cin-Din-Ta', and 'Mu-Tua-Yin' tribesmen to the original tribe, gaining +1200, +1100, +1400, and +10000 for goodwill, +8000, +3300, +4200, and +100 for malice, respectively;

You have plundered the superstitions and foolishness of the original 'Ka-Sin-Ki' tribesmen for primordial worship, +200 for goodwill and +200 for malice;

You have plundered the knowledge of brass smelting technology at the original craft level, with +800 Kindness and +400 Malevolence;"

This time, in the consciousness space, Hadu waited for a long time, but his state of mind was much more stable than before, and he did not show impatience because of this waiting time. In short, after waiting long enough, the results were again shown in the space of consciousness.

"The difficulty level you get after this settlement is 11 and the skill level is 10;

The impact of billing on you is already being felt. ”

This time, the difficulty and skill levels have increased, and the specific usefulness and how it occurs is still unknown, so Hadu did not bother with it, but began to look at the specific changes in the value of good and evil.

"You have plundered the loyalty of the former 'Mu-Tua-Yin' tribesmen to their old patriarch and high priest, +9920;

You have plundered the allegiance of all the populations of the original 'Mo-Ruq-Fa', 'Bi-Man-Sje', 'Cin-Din-Ta' tribes to their original tribe, totaling +3700;

The brass smelting technology you plundered greatly increases the combat power of 'Shin'ne-Nu', +800;

You have plundered your people's superstition about the god of hunting, 'A-Bu', and now they will hunt hard for their own survival, +200;

You have plundered the devotion of the old patriarch and high priest of the former 'Mo-Ruq-Fa' tribe to the god of shadows 'Sjo-Far're', freeing his exclusive Assassin unit from the faith, +80. ”

Seeing the accumulation of goodwill points, Hadu sighed helplessly: if that pro-soldier hadn't gone berserk and killed so many ritual personnel, the increase in goodwill value should have risen a little more.

However, at this time, he also noticed something unusual: as the people of the grassland were freed from the superstition of "false gods", the goodwill value they contributed to Hadu also plummeted, and the killing consciousness of plundering 2 pursuers at the beginning could accumulate 10 goodwill points per person, but now it can only accumulate 1 goodwill value per person. At the same time, the accumulation of goodwill value has increasingly developed from a single person to the size of an entire race.

At the same time, Hadu also discovered something that made him extremely puzzled: the deputy leader of the tower told him that there were 2,100 people in the clan, and that time Hadu was also in a hurry to deal with his future direction, and did not carefully visit and investigate near the tower - when he actually accumulated, he only accumulated 1,200 goodwill points, which means that 900 people were not counted. Moreover, at that time, the deputy leaders and leaders were also a little afraid of the imminent attack of "Mu-Tua-Yin", and a tribe with the same number should not have such a mood, is it that at that time, these 900 people have already disappeared? ？

After thinking about it repeatedly, he didn't figure out where these 900 people would go back, so Hadu could only press this doubt first and continue to look at the change in the malicious value.

"Your plundering of the entire population of the former 'Mo-Ruq-Fa', 'Bi-Man-Sje', 'Cin-Din-Ta' tribes caused the other tribes of the steppe to unite against your control and development, +15500;

The brass smelting techniques you plundered allowed 'Shin'ne-Nu' to gain greatly from the battles of other tribes, making them fear your tribe, +400;

Your plundering of your tribe's faith has made the other tribes of the steppe consider you an ungrateful hard-hearted, +200;

Your plundering of the former 'Mu-Tua-Yin' tribe has left them even more confused, unable to choose between the darkness and the pursuit of light, +100. ”

Seeing that the other tribes were about to resist Hado's "liberation of faith", he was not as nervous as the last time. Judging from the last time he went back to the clan to settle affairs, the impact of this malicious value was at most 14 promotions and at least 8 promotions before it was transmitted to other tribes, so he had enough time to lead the army of "Shin'ne-Nu" to wipe out these ignorant tribes. Moreover, the news must have spread after he returned from the city of "Mu-Tua-Yin", so that no less than 20 ascensions would have been deployed for him in various ways.

The words in front of him also reminded him that he should expand the brass smelting technology he learned as soon as possible, so that he could outperform other tribes in terms of weapons and equipment, and be able to have more powerful combat power than other tribes in battle.

And this time, Hadu led the fast cavalry to infiltrate the enemy's core area, which also made him more vigilant: in this era, due to the lack of language and writing, information can only be exchanged and transferred through word of mouth. However, the defect of this method of transmission is that there are many ways to leak information, but there are few ways to keep it confidential, and when the transfer of information occurs, the integrity and accuracy of the information itself will be tested. If it weren't for the fact that the languages of the grassland were all created on the basis of the sounds of nature, there would really be no way to quickly learn and spread widely.

There is a system of sigils in the grassland, but the trouble is that this kind of sigils are only used when the ritual regulations need it. As with most primitive cults, the runes of the steppe evolved from totemic patterns, i.e., most of them were in the form of pictures, such as the hunting god "A-Bu", which corresponds to "a stone blade into the chest and abdomen of a wild beast" (the beast is usually a horned sheep or spotted deer), the rice god "Sju-Sun'ne" has the symbol "ripe rice rippling in the wind", and the logging god "Pi-Lua'an" corresponds to "the trunk of a tree broken from the middle". The complexity of these runes (or Shenyin runes) is very high, it takes a long time to draw a whole set of runes, and the painter's ability to memorize the complexity of the picture, composition skills, faith and piety, clan status, The ritual regulations have very high requirements for the frequency of the demand for runes, and the result is that there are very few people in each tribe who can meet these requirements, and even each generation can only pass on one or two people, and it must be learned by ritual personnel who have three divine runes, which makes some smaller tribes eventually lose their divine phonetic characters after many generations of development - no successors meet these extremely strict requirements.

Not only that, but due to the prevalence (or necessity) of the law of the jungle in this era, the clansmen who did not have the god note in either the parent or the mother branch would not be able to survive in the end - their predecessors were unable to make a long and powerful contribution to the tribe to obtain the god note because of their physical fitness, talent, learning ability, etc., and eventually they either died in the fight against the beasts, or they were slaughtered because they could not protect themselves in the war. As a result, most of the surviving clansmen have divine runes (in some large tribes such as "Mo-Ruq-Fa", there will also be powerful hunters like Pe-Gon-Sji who do not have runes, but the effort required for their promotion is definitely several times that of ordinary people), because their inheritance has its own interpretation of the runes inherited. Of course, this power to interpret the symbols would conflict with the ritual regulations of the clan - the right to interpret the tribal totems must be concentrated in the hands of the tribe higher-ups. This situation has created a troublesome situation in the tribe: in order to cultivate the inheritors of the Divine Notes, the Clan needs to spend a lot of effort and resources to raise one after another Divine Notes holders who are actually in conflict with the upper echelons of the tribe, and the only way for these people to ensure their loyalty to the Upper Ranks is to prevent them from obtaining three Divine Notes. As a result, each generation of descendants who can inherit the divine note can only be selected from the descendants of the high-level tribe, and this results in the high-level tribal leaders controlling the power core of the tribe for generations.

In a word, it is said that ordinary clansmen will never have the opportunity to touch the status of the high-level tribe, and it is because of the importance, efficiency and belief value of this divine rune that it is impossible for the high-level people to let ordinary clansmen come into contact.

On the surface, the Shenyin Rune is a "everyone's own" part of the name, but it does not mean that everyone who owns the Shenyin Rune will be able to draw their corresponding rune pictures. If you want to know what your inheritance means, you must follow the tribe leaders and dedicate your loyalty to the tribe leaders. Of course, this kind of loyalty is crude and ugly—once a tribe is captured by another tribe and those tribes can interpret the divine note, they will immediately submit to the other party.

As the first primitive script produced in the grassland, the Shenyin rune script is actually of great significance, but if all people are to have the right and opportunity to have access to the written language, then the simplification of the existing runes is a necessary work - especially now that the people of the "Shin'ne-Nu" no longer need to explain everything around them by believing in the gods, and it must be urgent to develop a script that is suitable for everyone as soon as possible.

With the advent of writing for everyone, with it comes literal thinking—a powerful system of thinking that is higher than this era. People can no longer use those complex and changeable primitive languages that are difficult to remember, but can use a few concise words to describe the object completely, which is a qualitative efficiency improvement.

And before the simplification of the Shenyin runes began, collecting all the rune inheritances in his grassland would be something that Hadu needed to do now. He did the math a little, there are probably less than 10 large tribes to conquer, and those scattered small and medium-sized tribes may not have a complete rune inheritance, so there is no need to pursue the unity of all the tribes on the grassland too much.

Unification.. Unification.. ！？

Hadu never imagined that he would have achieved such an achievement: to one day dominate the steppe. This is the goal and ambition that many tribesmen have dreamed of but have weak energy, and the feat that has not been accomplished by many major wars in this lush grassland is actually about to be completed in the hands of his Hadu—and with Hado's character, it is still the kind of unity that reduces killing and does not need to grieve.

Hadu couldn't help but look forward to the magnificent scene when the whole grassland was unified.