Chapter 98: The Return
The savages were fighting a large crocodile in the swamp with their forks in hand. As they fought, the roar of a tiger and a leopard came from their weapons.
Ji Xiao opened his eyes and saw clearly, there was the soul of a tiger and a leopard in the fork of the savages.
About a quarter of an hour later, the big crocodile died in the round-up of the savages. The last thin savage took out a bag made of black hemp silk from the animal skin on his body, and chanted a spell on the crocodile's corpse, and saw the crocodile's body smoke rising, and finally all of it got into the mouth of the black hemp silk bag.
Ji Xiao could see that this was a means of ingesting souls, and that bag was obviously some kind of magic weapon against souls.
Casually disposing of the mandrills, Ji Xiao embellished this group of savages, climbed over several major mountains, and arrived at a tribe. The tribe is located in the mountains, and the roads are steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack.
There was even a tall wooden tower in the center of the tribe with an oil lamp lit on it, and this oil lamp was apparently an artifact for spying on outsiders.
Ji Xiao used a means to hide the search of the oil lamp and enter this tribe.
The language they speak is obscure, only there are words on the bell, and even Ji Xiao saw someone throwing the newborn baby into the big ding with a fire underneath, and the ding was boiling blood, and he could smell the smell of herbs.
Ji Yu could see that this was a domineering way of refining the body, but the mortality rate was not low, and he saw that some babies just couldn't withstand this kind of baptism, and finally died in the ding.
Except for some women who wept for them, the other savages did not seem to care, and only salvaged the baby and buried it hastily.
Most of the savages of this tribe are strong and powerful, and they can compare with the snake guards carefully cultivated by the Great Liang Dynasty, they are thin and have strange abilities. In the vast mountains and forests, there are certainly not a few tribes like this.
Obviously, the culture of the tribes here is completely different from that of the Great Liang Dynasty, they are more like the ancestors of ancient times, but they are very powerful, they have no sense of farming, and they mainly obtain food through hunting, and the mountains and forests are their hunting grounds.
Although he didn't understand their language, Ji Xiao could still judge the meaning of their words by the mental fluctuations they emitted.
The savages of the tribe all have a common faith, they believe in a god called the barbarians, the oil lamps on the wooden tower are the barbarian lanterns given to them, they all believe that after their death, they will return to the kingdom of the barbarian gods, so they will not fear death.
After all, in their deep-seated beliefs, death is nothing more than going from one place to another.
The endless mountain forest is called the mountain realm, and as for what is beyond the mountain realm, there is no mention of it by the savages.
Because the mountain realm is obviously big enough for them.
In the mountains, there were not only tribes, but also towns that developed writing and language.
The humans in the towns have words and paper, and the ones who own a few cities are the kingdom, which is extremely terrible in the eyes of the savages, and the people in the kingdom have no faith, and will take savages as slaves for them.
Because there are very few plains in the mountain realm, those real cities are built in the mountains, which is definitely a huge project, and Ji Xiao got the word qi refiner from the mouths of the savages.
The most powerful of the savage tribes are not the adult warriors, but the priests who are approved by the barbarians.
The most powerful people in those cities are the Qi Refiners, and the Qi Refiners are a group without faith, and there are even powerful beings who dare to fight with gods like the Barbarian Heaven.
In addition to the powerful Qi Refiners, the most feared thing for the savages is the demons.
The most people in the city or country are slaves, but the powerful demons see the wildlings as food.
The number of demons is more than that of Qi Refiners, and less than that of savages, such as the demons and monsters of the level of the mandrill, which are only the bottom of the demons.
The closest castle to this tribe is called Izumo Castle, thousands of miles away.
These thousands of miles are nothing to Ji Xiaozi, but for the savages, they are not stingy with the ghost gate.
The entire tribe was only visited by priests who had been approved by the barbarians.
The skinny savage who had ingested the crocodile's soul in a black silk bag was the priest's disciple, and when the priest grew old, a new priest would be chosen from among these disciples.
The power of the priest does not come from cultivation, but from the barbarian heavens.
The barbarian heavens gave the priests strength, and the priests gave these disciples strength. Finally a wise and courageous man was chosen from among them to be the next priest.
Just by looking at this, Ji Xiao knew how this savage tribe would rely on the barbarians.
Of course, it can also be seen that the power bestowed on them by the barbarian sky is very strong, otherwise this tribe would not have existed for too long in the treacherous mountains and forests, relying only on those warriors.
Although those warriors can cultivate, the method of refining their bodies is very primitive, and they are actually just breaking through their limits through cruel cultivation methods. This kind of cultivation will squeeze their life potential, and those powerful warriors will not even survive for a single jiazi.
Because when they get old, their physical functions decline dramatically. All kinds of hidden dangers left by young people will also completely explode.
Few warriors choose to die in their lives, but at some point in their twilight years, they choose to go into the mountains and forests to hunt the powerful prey nearby.
If you come back alive, it is the highest glory, and if you don't come back, you will die in battle.
Ji Xiao secretly stayed in this tribe for a few days, and only after he learned enough information did he quietly leave. Instead of continuing to explore Izumo Castle, he chose to leave this world.
After going out, Ji Xiao blocked the entrance.
With the seal he laid with his strength, even the barbarian heavens of that world are probably difficult to break.
Mu Qing asked, "Why don't you continue to explore?"
"This new world, I will naturally go again, but not now. ”
For Ji Xiao, that world was equivalent to an accidental stray, which brought him an extremely novel experience, but now in the world he is in, he still has a lot of unfinished business, and it is not yet the time for him to explore this new world.
What's more, Ji Xiao's final destination is the Demon Realm.
After a delay of a few days, Ji Xiao returned to Lanruo Temple.
Everything is fine in Lanruo Temple, and even the little lady Nie has condensed into a human form.
Mei Sanniang, as the god of water, is also on the right track, blessing the land on both sides of the river with good weather and rain, and also appearing several times to save people. The people called her Our Lady of the Virgin Mary, and built a temple for her along the coast. Recently, Mei Sanniang also found an old lotus lamp at the bottom of the river, which is a defensive magic weapon that can be used by urging the power of the water god.
Ji Yu tried the power of the lotus lamp and found that the protective shield it gave birth to could only be shaken by a Dancheng-level monk.
As Mei Sanniang gains more and more faith, the power of the lotus lantern she uses will definitely continue to grow.