Chapter 179: Going deep into the grassland, Beidi tribe
On the endless grassland, two figures in blue armor turned into a blue light and shadow, galloping towards the north.
"Xiao Yi, it's been more than three hours, and I haven't met a Beidi person, let alone a demon wolf. Do you think we are looking for something wrong?" Qin Wei looked around at the unchanging grassland scenery, helpless.
asked.
Qin Yi glanced at the north and said: "Although the grassland is very big, it is not easy to hide. Coupled with our active hunting, it is normal for Beidi and the monsters to stay away from here."
Qin Wei said helplessly: "At that time, I thought it could be like the Beast Control City, where you can see monsters just by walking around. I didn't expect... It will be too difficult for us to earn contribution points after this."
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Qin Yi glanced at the north and said: "We are still too close to the Great Wall. If we are further away, we should be able to find Beidi people and monsters."
Qin Wei complained: "It must be because the other people in the scout camp were too ruthless. They swept all the hundreds of miles north of the Great Wall and not a single Beidi man or monster was left for us."
Qin Yi smiled and shook his head and said: "Didn't I do a good thing? I saw enemies ahead, either monsters or Beidi people, let's go!"
When Qin Wei heard this, he immediately exclaimed: "What, we finally found the enemy. It's not easy. Where is Xiao Yi? I must be the first to take action in a while. It took me three hours to find the enemy.
It really suffocates me to death.”
Qin Yi glanced at the small map, pointed in a direction and said: "In that direction, but at the end of the sight, there should be a long distance."
How far is the end of the line of sight? Qin Yi knew this time, it was about ten miles.
Qin Wei saw a Beidi man riding on a horse. After seeing them, he turned around and ran away. Qin Wei shouted: "Where to escape?"
The figure flashed, jumped behind this person, and was about to give him a sword.
Beidi disappeared on the horse's back in an instant, and a cold arrow shot out from the horse's belly. Qin Wei knocked the arrow down with a sword.
Qin Wei shouted angrily: "I didn't want to waste my true energy at first, but it seems I can't do it without my ultimate move!"
Qin Wei's sword flashed, his figure flashed, and he slashed with one sword. The man and his horse were instantly split into two halves.
Qin Yi stepped forward, took a look and said: "The other party only has perfect combat power the day after tomorrow, what about it?"
Qin Wei stepped forward and cut off the opponent's right ear. He looked at the strange lines on the ear and said, "Can you blame me? It's not like you haven't seen how agile this guy is on horseback and his archery skills."
How cunning, I almost got hit by an arrow if I wasn't careful."
Qin Yi stepped forward and looked at Beidi and his horse. He shook his head thoughtfully and said, "This riding skill is so good that it's not normal!"
Qin Wei said nonchalantly: "What's abnormal about this? Aren't all Beidi people good at riding and shooting?"
Qin Yi recalled the actions of the Beidi knight just now and said: "The cooperation between this Beidi knight and the horse he sat on is so superb. It has surpassed ordinary riding skills and should be an inheritance similar to martial arts."
Qin Wei put the severed right ear into the empty bag and said: "I am normal, otherwise the Beidi people would not be famous for their riding and shooting."
Qin Yi nodded thoughtfully and said: "I'm wondering whether Beidi's riding and shooting skills are the same as Nanman's Gu skills and Xifan's totem transformation skills, and are as powerful as our martial arts.
And strange power?"
"If there is, then we need to be more careful. After all, the distance we go deep into the grassland is too far."
"There may be tribes from Beidi here."
Qin Wei didn't hear the danger Qin Yi said at all. Instead, his eyes lit up and he said: "Tribe? Where is it? Great! If there is a tribe, how much military merit it must have!"
Qin Yi helplessly looked at Qin Wei who didn't hear the point of his words, and said: "That's a tribe. How many people are there in a tribe? If there were powerful Beidi people like Gu Masters and Temple Guards, there would be many more
, how did we survive the fight? Think about defeat before thinking about victory, Wei Ge."
Qin Wei smiled and waved his hand and said, "Isn't it because of you? How can we fail if we try both ways?"
Qin Yi reminded Qin Wei: "Don't forget, we are not in the Central Plains now, let alone under the protection of the young master. If we lose, the loser may be our own lives."
Qin Wei suddenly realized the seriousness of the matter: "I almost forgot that before my uncle left, he reminded us that the secret guards would no longer protect us, so we should be careful. Xiaoyi, what should we do now?"
Qin Yi thought for a while, looked to the northeast, and said, "Let's go to the vicinity of that tribe to scout first, take a look at the situation, and then make a decision."
Qin Wei immediately nodded honestly: "Okay, everything is up to you."
After walking two miles to the northeast, Qin Yi stopped, leaned down, pointed at the tribe surrounded by ten tents three miles away, and said: "That should be their tribe there. I'll go do some reconnaissance first. You stay here first."
here."
"Can you do it? Don't be discovered and surrounded. Otherwise, we'd better do some reconnaissance on the outside and make a decision based on the situation." Qin Wei said worriedly.
A rune on Qin Yi's body disappeared in a flash, and then the whole person disappeared in front of Qin Wei's eyes and said: "Don't worry, I have a sense of discretion, Brother Wei, you hide it first, I will go to scout the situation first, and then we will make a decision."
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Only then did Qin Wei remember that Qin Yi was also good at the art of runes, but alas, he was far behind in this aspect.
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In the center of more than a dozen tents, there is an altar. Three flags with the patterns of sheep, horses and wolves are placed around the altar. A newborn baby is placed in the center of the altar.
An old man wearing a horse bone mask with feathers on his head, wolf fangs around his neck, and a sheepskin cloak, danced around the altar and sang incomprehensible songs.
Around the altar, Beidi people dressed in animal skins were either leading sheep or horses, surrounding the altar, humming unknown songs softly, and worshiping on their knees devoutly.
Suddenly, the flag with the pattern of sheep stood up automatically without wind, and a sigh came from the crowd: "Oh, it's another shepherd."
After the sacrificial activity ended, the old man who presided over the sacrificial ceremony held the baby on the altar and gave it to the parents of the baby in the crowd, saying: "Protect this child, it will help us shepherd sheep and make us richer."
A man with a sheep next to him in the crowd took the baby. The disappointed expression on his face could not be concealed, but he still held the baby devoutly, knelt down to the old man and returned the greeting: "Yes, Master Shaman."
Qin Yi was hiding from the side, watching the baby on the altar turn into a red light spot after completing the sacrifice, and couldn't help but be silent for a moment.
"It seems that since they were born and held sacrifices, the Beidi people are no longer a pure human race."
"And this sacrifice should be the secret technique of Beidi that gives them powerful riding and shooting abilities."
Qin Yi took a glance and saw that the small map was full of tribes with red dots. He counted more than a hundred tribes.
"There are really a lot of people, but I don't know, how many of them are in the acquired realm? How many are in the innate realm? Are there any enemies in the golden elixir realm?"
At the end, Qin Yi laughed at himself, shook his head and said: "It is impossible for such a small tribe to have enemies in the Golden Core realm. Moreover, if there were enemies in the Golden Core realm, I would have been discovered long ago, and it is impossible."
I’ve been watching at close range for so long and no one has discovered it yet.”
Qin Yi was about to go back and plan for the future, and slowly think of ways to detect the opponent's strength before making a decision. Suddenly, the old man known as the shaman glanced around and asked: "Where's A Rong?"
?Why didn’t he attend the sacrifice?”
A young man with a yellow pony beside him said: "Go back to the shaman, A Rong is worried that someone will disturb your sacrifice, so he went out to be on guard."
The shaman suddenly frowned and said: "When I think of A Rong, I feel panicked. This is not a good sign. A Rong may be in danger. You guys, go find him quickly. The rest of you, pack your things and prepare them at any time."
Preparing to move again.”
Although many people present were a little reluctant when they heard about the relocation, no one doubted the shaman's words. They all knelt down and worshiped devoutly: "Yes, Lord Shaman."
Qin Yi glanced at the old man respectfully called Shaman in surprise.
Unexpectedly, the other party's perception was so sharp.
A Rong should be the Beidi young man they killed just now who was very good at riding and shooting.
The shaman can actually sense the opponent's death and predict the approaching danger.
Beidi can become their formidable enemy in the Central Plains, and they are indeed no ordinary people.
The five young men immediately took their bows and mounted their horses and drove towards the south.
Qin Yi glanced at the shaman, and then rushed to Qin Wei's position as quickly as possible.
Before the five knights came, he returned to Qin Wei and reminded: "There are five knights. I don't know their strength. Let's deal with them first. If we can fight, we will fight. If we can't, we will flee.
Safety comes first.”
Qin Wei held the hilt of the sword tightly with his right hand, looked at the five knights galloping towards him on horseback not far away, and said with a smile: "Understood, Xiao Yi, I will take action first this time, and you will sweep the formation."
Qin Yi looked at Qin Wei, shook his head and said, "Don't underestimate the Beidi people. Since they can become our formidable enemies, they naturally have their terrifying qualities."
"Understood!" Qin Wei looked at the horse flying towards him, suddenly jumped up, and instantly slashed at the knight in front with his half-foot-long sword.
The knight seemed to have been prepared. A yellow halo flashed on his body, and a yellow horse shadow one foot long enveloped him. The scimitar in his hand then slashed towards Qin Wei's sword: "You are the one waiting! Kill!
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Qin Wei's body was sent flying out with a direct blow. It flew more than ten feet away before it rolled over and stopped. A trace of blood overflowed from the corner of Qin Wei's mouth and he looked at the knight nervously.
Then when he saw the knight chasing him, Qin Yi took action instantly. The sword gang on the bronze sword was not very long, just a thin layer of sword gang, but it instantly broke through the halo of the opponent's horse shadow and killed the opponent.
horse, and then cut off the opponent's head with a sword.
The whole movement was clean and neat, and it was completed in just an instant.
After the remaining four knights saw the death of the leading knight, someone immediately blew a bone whistle, and then a cyan halo suddenly appeared on the knight in front of the four, and then was enveloped by a cyan horse shadow, and then
Rush towards Qin Yi.
Qin Yi raised his eyebrows and said, "Is this the art of military formation?"
These four people obviously only have the strength of the acquired realm, but when the power of the four is concentrated on one person, that person instantly possesses the strength of the innate realm.
Qin Yi's figure flashed, and the long sword came out again, instantly killing the knight at the front, and then without giving the three knights behind him time to react, he flashed his figure and killed them all.
After Qin Yi killed all the knights, Qin Wei flew over, looked at the corpses on the ground, and said helplessly to Qin Yi: "You killed them too fast, leaving no one alive."
Qin Yi frowned and said, "They seem to possess the art of military formation. The more people there are, the more powerful they are."
Qin Yi was stunned for a moment and asked: "The secret of military formation has been leaked?"
Qin Yi thought for a while and said: "I feel that their military formation technique is more natural, has fewer artificial traces, and is more powerful. I suspect that our military formation technique may be learned from Beidi's secret technique.
of."
Qin Wei blinked his eyes and said in disbelief: "It can't be possible."
Qin Yi said, "You have forgotten that the martial arts that Master taught us were based on monsters and beasts."
"Think about it again, the information Zhou Boyuan brought before, he captured a Gu Master alive, studied it for three years, and then made a breakthrough in the magic way..."
"I suspect that the magic way may have been formed by borrowing the transformation technique of the Western Tibetans or the witchcraft of the Southern Barbarians on the basis of the martial arts."
"Beidi's military formation technique should be some kind of secret technique based on monster beasts. It is transplanted to the martial arts we created based on monster beasts. Theoretically speaking, it is completely feasible."
Qin Wei couldn't figure out what this theory was about. However, Qin Wei looked at the folded tents in the distance and the Beidi people who had begun to migrate, and said to Qin Yi: "We are not in a hurry to study these things for the time being. We still want to think about it."
How do you want to deal with this fleeing Beidi tribe?"
Qin Yi helplessly said to Qin Wei: "I am currently analyzing Beidi's secret skills and trying to figure out how to deal with them."
Qin Yi looked at the Beidi tribe migrating north, frowned and said: "If the Beidi people are really good at the secrets of military formation, then think about how powerful this tribe of one hundred people must be!
How can we defeat each other if we attack head-on?"
Qin Wei suddenly thought of the Qin Family Army's hundred-man battle formation, and immediately shook his head and said: "If it is the same strength as the Qin Family Army's hundred-man battle formation, then it will be difficult for the two of us to defeat it."
Qin Yi suddenly thought of something and changed his words: "Although I have such a guess, I still need to verify it."
Qin Wei was stunned for a moment and asked: "You said that your previous guess was false? They don't know the art of military formation?"
Qin Yi shook his head and said: "No, it should be true, but there should be drawbacks."
Qin Wei asked curiously: "What are the disadvantages?"
Qin Yi recounted the sacrifice he had just seen during his reconnaissance.
Qin Wei listened with great interest. After listening, he looked at Qin Yi's questioning eyes, blinked, and asked in confusion: "I have learned a lot after listening to your retelling, but what do you mean by that look in your eyes?"
?Could it be that there is any profound meaning in this experience?"
Qin Yi shook his head helplessly. He really shouldn't have any illusions about Qin Wei, so he directly expressed his analysis: "I suspect that the Beidi tribe divided people into three types of people through sacrifices when the babies were born.
, one is a shepherd, as the name suggests, a person who herds sheep, one is a knight, which is the six people we just killed, and the other is probably related to wolves."
"I haven't seen such a person in this tribe, but from the three flags and totems on the altar, we can draw such a conclusion."
"According to my observation, the number of shepherds should be the largest, the number of knights should be smaller, and the number related to wolves should be the smallest. In this small tribe of one hundred people, there are not even such people.
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Qin Wei suddenly realized at this moment: "You are saying that their military formation skills are limited. Only the same kind of people can use the military formation skills."
Qin Yi nodded and said: "This is exactly my guess. If this is the case, then it is not impossible for this small tribe of more than a hundred people, maybe the two of us, to swallow it."
Qin Wei said excitedly: "Your guess is very likely to be true. Think about it, our military formation skills are also very strict. We need to practice the same technique and need to train for a long time. It doesn't make sense.
There is no limit to Beidi's military formation skills."
Having said this, Qin Wei couldn't help but urge: "Let's go, let's catch up quickly. If we don't catch up, they will run away."
Qin Yi hesitated and said: "However, there is an old man in their tribe called a shaman. He can sense when people in the tribe are dying outside, and he can also sense danger in advance. Especially, he is also the one who presides over sacrifices. I'm worried.
What other methods does this shaman have? If so... we might be stuck here."
After all, this was the first time he faced off against the Beidi people. Everything was full of unknowns, and Qin Yi was always unsure.
Qin Wei asked helplessly: "Now, what should we do? Fight or not fight?"
Qin Yi looked at the sky and said, "In another hour, it will be dark!"
Qin Wei asked in confusion: "So?"
"Let's bet on whether they can find other Beidi tribes within an hour's journey."
Qin Yi looked at the direction in which the Beidi tribe moved just now, and then said: "If we find it, of course we will stop talking about it and we will stay away immediately."
"But if we don't find it, then it will be our home court!"
Qin Wei immediately understood.
What they are afraid of is that they unite, and what they are afraid of is the terrifying fighting power after using the art of military formation to gather the crowd. If they are attacked secretly and are not allowed to use the art of military formation, they will naturally not be afraid of them.
A cold light flashed in Qin Yi's eyes and he said: "When the time comes, I will sneak in first, kill the shaman, and then massacre their tribe."
After hearing this, Qin Wei smiled and nodded and said, "Okay, that's it."