The next day, Xia Qi launched a three-day field trip in Beastmaster City.

It's just that the field trip is just incidental, and the main purpose of his trip is to go to the land of the Minotaur clan.

Because, some time ago, the Minotaur sent information that the special building he ordered before, the Minotaur Totem Altar, had been built.

This time, he came mainly to confirm this special building.

The buildings of the orc race are actually very difficult to build, and at the same time, they are more labor-saving and material-saving, after all, the ability of the orcs must be taken into account.

However, since the design has fallen into Xia Qi's hands, he must let the craftsmen of the human and dwarf races improve it and make an enhanced version.

Because of this, it took a lot of extra time.

At the same time, although the orc administrative districts are mainly urban today, for the orcs, the "clan land" is also indispensable.

Because, many special buildings can only be placed in their respective clan land.

At the same time, it should be noted here.

Therefore, after some trade-offs, Xia Qi turned those clan lands into a district under each city.

And the clan land of the Minotaur clan is an area under the jurisdiction of the Beast King City, which is also an important reason for Xia Qi to inspect the Beast King City.

The distance between the two is not far, after leaving the main city of Beastmaster City, it is about forty minutes by car.

Niu Ben, the patriarch of the Minotaur who received the news, was waiting early.

When I saw the car stop, I immediately greeted it.

Compared with the bustling city, the land of the Minotaur clan gives people a much more scene, and the pace is very slow, just like the countryside.

However, Xia Qi did not forget the purpose of this trip because of this.

After eating, he directly signaled Niu Ben to take them to see the special building that had just been built, the Minotaur Totem Altar!

Contrary to the rough appearance of the original design, after being improved by Terran and Dwarven craftsmen, the entire altar was built entirely of marble.

Its image has directly improved more than one notch.

It's all about the gap between crafts and art.

The whole altar is circular, with a circle in the outermost circle, and a semicircular groove in each of the eight directions, and with these eight grooves, a large number of totemic symbols that others cannot understand begin to extend on the marble floor of the altar.

However, Xia Qi saw some extended trends from it.

The totemic symbols, not without regularity, but with traces, all converged at the center of this altar.

In the center, however, there is no totemic symbol, a blank circle.

Faced with this situation, Xia Qi quickly figured it out after thinking about it for a while.

This Minotaur Totem Altar was naturally built, because the system has given a clear hint, and it has also triggered a special building project.

After unlocking and upgrading that special building, an extension called the Minotaur Rite soon appeared.

At that time, Xia Qi didn't think much about it, and spent ten orc points and one civilization point to unlock the item "Minotaur Sacrifice".

He was then given instructions on how to perform the Minotaur Rite.

In addition to the entire ritual process, in order to hold a ritual, it is necessary to prepare a full twenty-seven kinds of materials, which are then mixed into a special liquid that is needed during the ritual.

Two of these materials are rarer, six are unique to the orc civilization, and the rest are more common.

This list of ritual procedures and materials had been sent to Niu Ben remotely by fax machine long before Xia Qi.

And those two rare materials, after so many years in Great Xia, there must be inventory, and it is easy to prepare, and even after this time, they have already been deployed.

Next, it's time for the official ceremony.

At this time, even Niu Ben, a rough man, began to get nervous in his heart.

In order to ensure the success of the ceremony, Xia Qi gave them another five days to prepare.

During this period, many Minotaurs who received the news also rushed back from other places in order to participate in this important sacrifice.

For a while, the Minotaur Clan, which was originally very quiet, also became a little lively and crowded.

Five days passed quickly, and on the day of the festival, a large number of minotaurs gathered in the open space around the altar.

On the opposite side of the Minotaur Totem Altar, a high platform for viewing the ceremony has also been built, and Xia Qi sat on the high platform to watch the ceremony.

Considering the large number of minotaurs who participated in the festival, this first festival began at 7 o'clock in the morning.

Although they had rehearsed the whole process no less than 100 times before, at this time, the bullheads still couldn't help but get nervous.

And to Xia Qi's surprise, the first person to accept the sacrifice turned out to be Niu Ben, who was the patriarch.

You know, according to the system, this minotaur sacrifice is a ritual to activate the ancestral totem with the help of the totem altar, so as to awaken the power of the minotaur bloodline.

Not every Minotaur will succeed, though.

The bronze totem altar only provides him with a 10% success rate bonus.

In this sacrifice, the first one needs courage.

After all, if you fail, it is not only a matter of losing face, but also a great blow to a person's self-confidence.

But according to Niu Ben's idea, if he is the first to go up, if he succeeds, it will naturally boost morale and make a good start for this important sacrifice.

And if it fails, then the young people in the clan behind will have nothing to be discouraged after the failure, after all, even he, the patriarch, has failed.

Xia Qi, who realized Niu Ben's intentions, also had to sigh with emotion, although Niu Ben was a fool, he was also thick and fine.

During this time, Niu Ben below had already taken off his shirt, slowly walked to the ring in the center of the altar, and then knelt on one knee, his eyes slightly closed and made a baptism posture.

At this moment, the Minotaur Ritual begins!

The minotaurs, who stood in the eight directions of the altar, held a wooden bowl with a large head in their hands, and while chanting ancient sacrificial songs in a high voice, they slowly poured the red slurry from the wooden bowl into the eight semicircular grooves around the altar.

The red slurry flowed slowly along the totemic runes carved into the altar.

Xia Qi, who saw this scene in his eyes, was also full of curiosity in his heart, the speed of the flow of this slurry was much slower than he expected, and he didn't know what would happen next.

Just when Xia Qi was thinking this, the totem runes that gradually filled up because of the inflow of red slurry seemed to resonate with the sacrificial songs sung by the eight minotaurs, and the totem altar actually began to emit bursts of red light!

This slurry is quite rare, so when they rehearsed before, they used to replace it with water, and now this situation is obviously impossible to happen during rehearsals.

The burst of red light, although it made the eight minotaurs nervous, they did not stop moving.

At the same time, the sound of singing sacrificial ballads became even higher!

Before you knew it, the red slurry had completely poured into every line of the altar, and then quickly converged towards the central ring.

At this moment, the mutation regenerates.

The moment the red slurry flowed into the central ring, it did not completely disperse as everyone expected, but still took on the shape of a rune totem, as if it had come to life, and climbed up along Niu Ben's burly body.

During this whole process, Niu Ben, who had been baptized, also clearly felt a burning stinging sensation, and the red slurry seemed to be boiling

Little by little, it penetrated his skin and melted into his flesh.

At this time, Niu Ben could clearly hear the sound of blood flowing in his body, which was like a torrent in a mountain stream, flowing wildly in his veins.

Immediately afterwards, the increasing pain made Niu Ben's forehead already break out in a bean-sized cold sweat, and the green tendons one after another also burst out, and finally he couldn't suppress it anymore, and roared out completely!

"Moo! Moo! Moo—"

The roar of the wild beast shook the air, and even the eight minotaurs standing in a circle around the altar were frightened to take a step back.

Fortunately, their work had been completed after those totemic runes formed by the convergence of red slurry had completely climbed onto Niu Ben's body.

Next, it depends on whether Niu Ben can withstand this baptism.

The red totem runes were like living creatures, roaming Niu Ben's burly body, and the muscles bulged out exaggeratedly like granite.

At the same time, under the skin, the green tendons are jumping wildly, as if they may burst directly in the next second.

It is completely unimaginable that Niu Ben is suffering at this time.

At this moment, Xia Qi also stood up directly from the stands, holding the telescope in one hand and the railing of the stands with the other.

I have to admit that even he couldn't help but get nervous at this time.

If he could do it again, he would definitely stop Niu Ben.

Among the orc patriarchs, Niu Ben was one of the most important ones for Xia Qi.

Although the system didn't say that the failure of the ceremony would cost his life, no one could guarantee that there would be no accidents, which made Xia Qi feel a wave of regret uncontrollably.

And just as he was thinking this, Niu Ben, who was standing in the center of the altar, began to overflow with patches of blood on the surface of his skin, and in a few breaths, he directly turned into a bloody man.

This scene made many minotaurs who watched the sacrifice can't help but hold their breath.

In the center of the altar, Niu Ben was still gritting his teeth and insisting.

In the next second, with a crisp sound of bones, Niu Ben didn't know what was happening to him, he only felt that his review was about to tear apart.

His roar began to become hoarse, and Niu Ben at this time could no longer feel the movement around him at all.

Because, his brain has become blank and he has lost the ability to think.

And at this time, when Niu Ben couldn't perceive the movement of the outside world, the surrounding minotaurs, looking at the changes that had taken place in their family patriarchs, all gasped.

Because, Niu Ben's size is getting bigger little by little!