Chapter 233: The Trail of the Prairie

Xiao Ziyang was urging the tracking circle left in the black jade shuttle that day, looking for the Great Snow Mountain monk he met in the battle with the Great Snow Mountain Sect that day for the spirit stone mine.

Judging from the length of the purple line in the magic mirror, the man was about 4,000 miles away from his current position.

Xiao Ziyang's tracking circle arranged in the black jade shuttle is from "Purple Jade Smoke". There are two sets of tracking spells that match it, one is used for long-distance tracking, and the range is extremely wide, even if it is thousands of miles away, it can also be sensed, and it can only point out the general direction, and the deviation is large.

The other set is used for close tracking, which can only sense a range of 500 miles, but it is extremely accurate.

Finding the right direction, Xiao Ziyang collected the spell, drove the spirit boat to hide the wind, and galloped towards the north.

After more than 2,000 miles, he left the Tai'an Mountains and entered the endless prairie.

At the western end of the Tai'an Mountains, the northern part of Jinzhou and Dingzhou, which border the grasslands of the Western Liang Kingdom, is actually not really grasslands.

Due to the steep elevation along the northeastern coast of the Kuhai Sea, the wet monsoon winds on the Kuhai Sea cannot reach the shore. Outside the northern border of Jinzhou and Dingzhou, most of the area is desert Gobi, and only along the line at the western end of the mountain is a corridor connected by oases.

This desert Gobi has also become one of the natural barriers of Xiliang Kingdom, making it impossible for the grassland people to use troops on the northwest side of Xiliang on a large scale.

Although Xiao Ziyang had been outside the northern border of Dingzhou when he went to the Scarlet Wasteland, he had actually never seen the real prairie.

Leaving the Tai'an Mountains, what appeared in front of Xiao Ziyang was an endless sea of green. High in the sky, Xiao Ziyang could see that at the foot of Tai'an Mountain, like scattered pearls, there were grassland tribes distributed.

Slightly further away from the grasslands of the Tai'an Mountains, the tribes are becoming more and more sparse. At the foot of Tai'an Mountain, there are lush pastures nourished by mountain streams, and the wild animals in the mountains can also provide a certain source of food for the herdsmen, so they are particularly prosperous.

As Xiao Ziyang continued to go deeper into the grassland, the mountain streams flowing out of Tai'an Mountain converged into several large rivers and rushed towards the depths of the grassland. On both sides of the river, these large and small herdsmen tribes are densely packed.

Xiao Ziyang fled more than a thousand miles to the north, and a huge lake appeared in his field of vision. Rivers that originate from Mount Tai'an pour into the lake.

The grasslands along the shore of the Great Lake are abundant, and the beautiful scene of wind blowing grass and seeing cattle and sheep is displayed in front of Xiao Ziyang's eyes like a picture scroll.

This large lake is known as "Anghur" among the steppe population, which means sea of mare's milk.

In the past two years, Xiao Ziyang has collected a lot of books about the customs and customs of the grassland, and has an understanding of the grass in the north of Tai'an Mountain. He even found time to learn the language of the steppe peoples.

Xiao Ziyang found a sparsely populated and relatively barren place, and fell into the light.

He laid out a simple formation around him, and once again activated the tracking circle. This time, he used a close-range tracking technique.

In the magic mirror between the two palms, a purple line pointed to the northeast, and from the length of the purple line, Xiao Ziyang calculated that the person was still more than three hundred miles away from him.

Referring to the map, he deduced that the man's location was the largest tribe in the southern part of Lake Angyur.

Xiao Ziyang took the spell and took out a set of grassland people's costumes from the storage bag.

After changing his clothes, he took out another porcelain bottle, poured the tan liquid in the bottle into the palm of his hand, and applied it to his face.

Moments later, he was transformed into a bronze-skinned prairie man.

After dressing up, Xiao Ziyang collected the magic circle, took out a sheepskin package that had been prepared for a long time from the storage bag, carried it on his shoulder, and walked towards the northeast.

Xiao Ziyang performed a light body technique that he had not performed for a long time, and he seemed to be walking slowly, but in fact he was faster than a galloping horse.

Half an hour later, two white sheepskin tents appeared three or four miles in front of Xiao Ziyang.

Xiao Ziyang took the light effort and walked towards the tent at a normal speed.

In the steppe, horses are the legs of people. Further on, the population gradually densed, and it was shocking to continue to perform light work. He plans to buy a horse to get around.

When the herdsman was still a mile away, two grassland hounds with pure white fur like calves burst out of the tent, barking and running towards Xiao Ziyang.

The two hounds rushed to Xiao Ziyang and stopped. They don't pounce, and they don't grin when they see a living person, just barking like the earth dogs of the Xiliang Kingdom.

Xiao Ziyang knew that the prairie hounds were extremely human, and their barking was just a warning. At this time, as long as the guest stays where he is and waits for the arrival of the host, he will never be attacked.

If the guest ignored the warning and continued to move on, he would surely appreciate the power of this extremely ferocious hound, which could deal with several wild wolves at once.

Xiao Ziyang stopped and waited for the arrival of his master. Seeing that Xiao Ziyang was very interested, the two hounds also stopped barking, squatted in front, and stared at Xiao Ziyang quietly.

Out of the sheepskin tent came a steppe woman dressed as a woman, followed by a child of about ten years old.

It seems that the man of the family is not at home.

The woman commanded the child, who turned and took out a bareback horse from behind the tent, jumped over, grabbed the horse's mane, and turned it onto the horse.

The half-grown child, riding a high-headed horse without saddles and stirrups, galloped towards Xiao Ziyang like a lightning speed, allowing him to see the exquisite riding skills of the nomads.

When the horse galloped between the two hounds, the child snorted softly, and the healthy horse suddenly stopped and stopped, and the child took advantage of the momentum to jump off the horse, and when it landed, there was a muffled sound, like an iron lump hitting the mud.

The height of the child is only as high as Xiao Ziyang's chest and abdomen, and the body wrapped in leather clothes gives Xiao Ziyang a very strong feeling, and it is by no means as big as a child like Xiliangguo, who is either thin or fat.

The two hounds, after the child had landed, pounced on him, wagged their tails, and threw joy at the child. The child pushed away the hounds and walked towards Xiao Ziyang.

Xiao Ziyang found that although the child had dark skin, he was very handsome between his eyebrows. The child stood still outside Xiao Ziyang's father-in-law, with his right hand on his left chest, and bowed to Xiao Ziyang.

"Distant guest, Agudam, greets you, why did you come to our remote sheepskin tent, and did you bring news from afar?" the child asked.

Xiao Ziyang bent down and saluted, and said: "The old horse that has accompanied me for many years died of illness in the cold wind last night, I walked for half a night and a morning, and now I am tired and thirsty. If you can rest in your tent for a moment and ask for a bowl of goat's milk, Halbara will be grateful. ”

Hearing this, Agudammu showed a slightly disappointed expression on his face, he thought for a moment, and said to Xiao Ziyang: "The hospitable Oriya people will not refuse guests from afar, but I will go and ask my mother's permission. ”

With that, he got on his horse and galloped away towards the woman who was looking out of the tent.