Looking at the gradually extinguishing fire, the sad atmosphere lingered in the tribe for a long time. Sandori stood in front of the fire blankly, watching the teacher's body turn to ashes in the flames, but she could not feel the teacher's soul at all.
There were signs of merging with the giant spirit, as if all that was burned was an empty body.
The death of the totem guardian shocked the spotted beast tribe. The death of such an elder who led the tribe to resist the invaders and protect their survival shook the hearts of every spotted beast tribe. Even the saber-toothed leopard companions lowered their heads and let out a sigh.
Qian Wailing, the big tree in the pond in the distance, its crown branches and leaves are no longer green, it seems that it has declined overnight.
Jia Kadan stepped forward and whispered: "Sandori, from now on you are the guardian of the clan. The elders recognize you, what should we do next?"
"I..." Sandoli's eyes were swollen and her lips were dry and wrinkled. When she saw the teacher's body, she went crazy and cast healing spells, constantly channeling her spirit, trying to revive her teacher.
Sandoli remembered that her teacher once said that some legendary totem guardians, even if their bodies die, can place their souls on other things, and can even use certain rituals to reincarnate. Some distant tribes rely on this method
Means to allow the same totem guardian to continue to exist.
But no matter how much Sandoli called for the teacher's soul, she couldn't feel it at all. The body decayed at a speed visible to the naked eye, so she had no choice but to be cremated according to the rules. Otherwise, letting the totem guardian's body rot would be a violation of tradition.
Blasphemy.
Shandoli, who was exhausted both mentally and physically, could not imagine why her teacher was killed? How did those strangers enter the totem altar? Countless confusions came to her mind, and the looks of support and expectation cast by her tribe made it even more difficult for her.
bear.
"The intruders must be the cause of the intruders." Sandori could only think of this, and she said to Jia Kadan: "They killed the teacher!"
Jia Kadan was stunned and asked: "Impossible, we have the blessing of the giant spirit here, and the intruder will be discovered immediately once he gets close. Not to mention our guards patrolling the outside, unless..."
"Unless he disguises himself as one of our tribesmen!" Sandoli's thoughts immediately became clear. She instantly thought of the guys who brought the injured tribesmen with them. They were also the last people to see the teacher!
When I informed Jia Kadan about this, he lowered his voice and said, "I'll go check it out right away, but I guess something might have happened to them."
Sandori said with a serious face: "I know... you should investigate this matter secretly and don't let others know."
Jia Kadan said: "Now we are just claiming to the tribe that the guardian died because of the failure of the ritual, and that the attack on the invader's settlement..."
"Continue!" Sandori said with red eyes and tears: "I must avenge the teacher! Even if there are no floods and storms, the intruders must pay the price!"
Jia Kadan had already held back his anger and nodded heavily: "I will definitely do my best to help you! Sandori, I..."
Sandori raised her hand to stop the other person's words, without any joy, her eyes avoided and said: "Jia Kadan, I know your thoughts. In the past, I always regarded you as my brother, and in the future, I will protect you as a guardian.
Tribe, you...if this attack goes well and you can defeat the invaders, I will talk to you about the future."
Jia Kadan looked at the woman in front of him. Even though her face looked bad because of exhaustion, she still gave her a different kind of beauty. He wanted to hold her in his arms and take pity on her.
But in the end, Jia Kadan still suppressed his inner excitement, lowered his head, and showed respect to the new totem guardian.
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"Are the natives really going to attack?" Wolf asked, licking his nostrils.
In the stone hut, Xuan Weizi laid out a map on the table. It was a rough map he drew by using bird scouts to observe the terrain around Chaidui Town. It described the general terrain, rivers, forests and mountain trails.
.
At this time, there were a few nails inserted on the map. They were temporary camps where the natives were stationed in the forest. Compared to the civilians in Chaidui Town, the natives of the Spotted Beast Tribe were more accustomed to living in the forest. Even if they were not spirit messengers or spirit guards,
They seem to be able to rely on the giant spirits to protect themselves from snakes, insects, rats, and ants. The spirit guardians even have a constant effect of enduring the environment. In the forest in late autumn, they will not feel cold or sick while sleeping on the ground.
It has to be said that they all look the same as humans. There is indeed a big difference between the colonists and the natives. The protection provided by the totem guardians and the natural spirits is not simply the casting of spells.
"The death of the totem guardian actually stimulated them." Xuan Weizi said: "But without the cover of floods and storms, it is just an irrational behavior for them to attack like this."
Sir Salemi looked at the map and said cautiously: "Depending on the situation, the natives can send at least two to three hundred people to attack us. As for our side... I recently re-counted the manpower and found that there are less than forty hunters who can draw bows and shoot arrows.
, the rest of the farmers who can participate in the battle, including the lumberjacks, can barely make up more than a hundred people."
Xuan Weizi glanced at the mayor Wolf and said with a smile: "These loggers, if you ask them to fight together with others to fight for the forest farm, it's okay, but if they are attacked by the natives in groups, it still won't work. The old mayor is here
We also trained dozens of guards back then, but unfortunately they are all old now, and their armors and weapons are all from the past era, and they could be sent to military museums as antique exhibitions in the empire."
Due to the rapid advancement of mages and arcana in recent years, military technology has advanced rapidly, led by the Great Londinium Empire. As Xuan Weizi saw when he traveled elsewhere in the New World a few years ago, now the imperial army is not in fashion to wear those smooth and shiny uniforms.
Instead of wearing plate armor all over his body, he used various magically processed materials to make armor.
Not to mention weapons, there are various scrolls, wands, alchemy potions and magic items, with rich types and various effects. There are also golems, constructs, and elemental summons to assist in combat.
In addition, various enchanted weapons and summoned weapons are distributed to elite sergeants with various buffs. Even when faced with the cavalry charge of the old era, they can still charge as if they are in an uninhabited field. If it is a warrior who has undergone specific training
A mage has the strengths of firepower output, maneuverability, and information exchange.
It's no wonder that so many indigenous tribes were wiped out. They really couldn't be defeated.
However, even the Great Londinium Empire cannot support an army of this size. The production of various alchemical products and magic props consumes a large amount of special materials, and the production process also requires the participation of mages, which requires an extremely large amount of resources.
Human and material support.
This resulted in the empire being able to only station such arcane troops in some important areas, leaving other areas highly laissez-faire and even entrusting them to the Chamber of Commerce Alliance to establish autonomous territories.
In a border town like Chaidui Town, and in the relatively backward Jinguanmu Autonomous Territory, it is of course impossible to have a fully armed arcane army.
Armed guards like Sir Salemi are masters.
The three communicated for a while, but they still had to rely on the newly built walls and a series of fortifications to hold on. After several rounds of attacks, the natives' supplies and strength were consumed, and when the weather turned cold, they would naturally retreat.
However, the weather seemed not to give them this face.
Almost as soon as the three of them returned to Chai Dui Town, the weather that was supposed to gradually become colder turned out to be humid and muggy, and some civilians who had prepared animal skin coats changed back to their simple "rag bags".
"Something's wrong."
Xuan Weizi climbed to the roof, holding Hengyizi in the glass cover with one hand, and said to himself: "It's a pity that I don't have the entire topography and landform map of the New World, so I can't deduce climate change on a larger scale, but since this world has various
If there is a magical effect, then the power to contain the cold current should also exist, right? But could this be done by the spirit messenger named Sandori?"
Xuan Weizi guessed that Sanduoli had succeeded the totem guardian of the Banzoo tribe, but the current change in temperature made him feel a little strange. As a cultivator, he knew how majestic the natural power of heaven and earth was, even if
In this world where magical powers are considered ordinary, it is almost impossible to fight against nature.
Even if Tu Randi tried to trigger a flood through rituals before, it was only to induce local natural climate changes, and judging from the memory information obtained by Xuan Weizi, this ritual spell was also very difficult and required a high degree of concentration on the spirit.
Control.
This may also explain why when faced with the assassination, Tu Randi could hardly make an effective counterattack. He probably couldn't be distracted at the time.
"Then why don't I start a rain and snowstorm?"
, the combat effectiveness will only be greatly reduced after being frozen, unless he has the ability to just let the natives soak in the rain and freeze.
"As for you, Hengyizi, can you do it?" Xuanweizi asked jokingly.
I saw the small thing in the glass cover spinning in place, just like the glass snowball Xuan Weizi had seen in his previous life. An ice storm was launched in a small space. If it were not blocked by the astral body, it would probably cause the surrounding area to freeze.
The wind roared and frost and snow flew across.
Xuan Weizi blinked silently and turned the glass cover back and forth. Heng Yizi did not feel dizzy and rolled along with Xuan Weizi's movements.
It's just that Xuan Weizi has no intention of playing around. What he is thinking about at the moment is how to activate the external force of nature. After all, for a person like him who practices Taoism and seeks immortality, the most classic magical power is Xingyunbu.
Rain attracts wind and thunder.
This kind of magical power has been passed down since ancient times, and there are many specific ways to display it. But in the final analysis, it is nothing more than "internal and external interaction, the harmony of yin and yang", and the ultimate achievement is the thunder method.
The so-called thunder method was originally a summary and development result of the talisman method. It was quickly integrated with the practice of alchemy. There was even a saying of "refining the elixir internally and cultivating the thunder method externally". In the end, they were both external and internal, and should not be easily
segmentation.
The thunder method is not a simple spell, but an external application that must be combined with internal training and body and mind adjustment. It has extremely profound and mysterious Taoist meanings. The thunder method that Xuan Weizi studied in his previous life needs to be practiced to the "long-term" level.
Only by cultivating the holy fetus and attaining the profound state of "the wonderful existence of the vacuum" can the power of thunder be unleashed.
In addition to the basic alchemy practice, there are a lot of advanced theories for performing thunder methods such as Bu Gang Step Fighting, Thunder Bureau Palm Technique, Bu Qi Ascension Talisman, Heart Seal Refining General, Neiyin Secret Mantra, etc.
This means that cultivators who use thunder methods must have a very deep and solid foundation in both practice and theory. At present, their own cultivation has not reached that level, and the details of internal and external communication and coordination in this world are also different from those on earth, so
Thunder methods also need to be adapted.
Of course, you can't change it at will. Because on earth, in the era of Xuan Weizi, in order to facilitate the execution of thunder methods, many of them have been reduced to tricks of summoning ghosts and rampant, deceiving people and minds, without deep internal training.
If you practice the state of mind accordingly, it cannot be called the real thunder method.
Besides, the practice of alchemy did not originally deliberately pursue the supernatural power that was revealed. On the contrary, in later generations, alchemy gradually declined and evolved into alchemy, alchemy, and even Qigong that deceived people. The true meaning of alchemy has long been lost.
It is getting dark, and you can vaguely see the arrangement of stars in the sky, and the dark red waning moon hanging high in the sky. The starry sky environment of this world is naturally different from that of the earth in the previous life. There is no star like the Big Dipper that sits high in the north and locates the central axis. This also causes the Xuan Wei to pass by.
Many of the Taoist practices based on Xing Dou Xuanji need to be revised according to the new environment.
Sitting on the roof for a long time, Xuan Weizi sensed a breath from the starry sky. It was not a specific message, nor was it similar to the divine thoughts sent by the astral psychic, but more like an "artistic conception". The soul seemed to be able to
I sensed it, but what I got was like a mist, making it difficult to see the whole picture.
"There is a mention in the chapter on the mystery of thunder method, 'the secret knowledge of the stars, the magical effect of communicating with the gods'. This kind of thunder method is connected with the stars and constellations at the top, and the mountains and rivers at the bottom. It transports the elixir internally and transforms the thunder machine externally. It is different.
Time and different spaces correspond to different stars." Xuan Weizi thought:
"It's just that this method is extremely complicated. The saying of 'secrets in the palm of your hand, true text on the sword' is actually a matter of sensing the changes in the stars from the outside and making deductions. You also have to find the location of the murderer, when and where the thunder will strike, and then the stars will respond to the opportunity.
, the urging talisman activates thunder and fire, and thunderbolts can fall from hundreds of miles away."
Xuan Weizi knocked on Hengyizi and said: "But this kind of thunder method, the inner movement of the elixir is okay, why do the other steps seem more like the magician's emphasis on logical calculations?"
According to Xuan Weizi’s previous understanding, the mages in this world obtain the vast and infinite energy through the connection between their souls and the starry sky, and use their intelligence to weave and shape it to form specific arcane magic. As for the starry sky, the mages have
A more meaningful name - Arcane Star Chart.
After pondering for a long time, Xuan Weizi decided to take a risk. He returned to the hut to meditate and re-entered the astral field of vision. Although there was also a scene of shining stars in front of him, it was completely different from the starry sky at night.
The rays of stars in the star world are denser, as if they are right in front of you. Xuan Weizi moves his soul and asks his question to the star world:
"What is the connection between the star realm and the real starry sky?"
Although the existence of ancient psychics can be sensed in the astral field of vision, this is the first time that Xuan Weizi takes the initiative to ask questions, and he does not know whether the other party is really willing to respond. Moreover, in order to guard against any weird methods of these psychics, Xuanwei
Zi had long been prepared to cut off the induction.
After waiting for a long time, the stars gleamed and twisted, seemingly forming a complex message, appearing directly in front of Xuan Weizi——
"The star realm is the destination of the soul, and the starry sky is the source of magic."