If I don't have money to go to college, I can only go to slay the dragon.

"Mother, Mu Meng and the others have captured another outsider, a woman, and she has been locked up in the dungeon."

The straw curtain of the thatched house was opened, and a Dhivehi girl wearing a raincoat came in and spoke quickly.

This young Dhivehi girl is dressed wildly and delicately, with her hair braided into many braids behind her back, a bright feather on her forehead, her delicate and beautiful face painted with dark facets, and her eyes Animalistic eye makeup was outlined around her eyes, and there were vine-like patterns on her cheeks that extended to the animal skin skirt below her neck. A ring of animal fangs of unknown species hung on her chest and swayed with her movements. It is full of beauty that combines wildness and agility.

The thatched house is filled with the smell of incense. The handmade wood incense burner in the corner is lit with the musk of an unknown beast. Only a few green smoke rises up. The whole house is filled with light blue mist. There are strange things on display on the shelves. Objects are looming, and the whole environment is filled with a weird and mysterious atmosphere.

In the deepest part of the thatched house, in front of a wooden shrine, an old mistress knelt down on a hay futon and worshiped devoutly. Various bone carving ornaments were hung on her body, and a circle on her forehead was filled with birds of unknown species. It looks like feathers, and the wrinkled cheeks are covered with black facets like the girl who walked in behind him.

After the rash girl entered the thatched hut, the old mistress's kneeling hand lifted slightly from the ground and asked hoarsely, "How is the fire in the south?"

"The fire has been cut off by the mountains, so it cannot threaten the tribe for the time being, but the forest in the south has been completely destroyed." The Dhivehi girl choked up, then suppressed her sadness and gritted her teeth, "It's all the work of these outsiders. Matter, I will ask Brother Mu Meng to give those people in the dungeon to—"

"Lauda, ​​how many times have I told you, don't be so rash." The old mistress's voice raised slightly, and the girl named Lauda fell silent in an instant and whispered, "I'm sorry, mistress. "He lowered his head and stood aside.

The old mistress, who was kneeling on the hay futon, raised her right hand. Lauda immediately reached out and held her hand gently to help the other person stand up. At the same time, she looked at the statue of the god behind the smoke-filled shrine. The god who is regarded as the "Carrying the Sky" by the tribe strangely only has one back figure. Even the statue in the shrine has only one back figure. She is dressed in white and has long flowing hair. She looks like a beautiful woman.

It is said that the reason why the statues of gods in the shrine look like this is because there once appeared a brave warrior in the tribe, who was not afraid of the curse of bones on the highest mountain and climbed all the way to the top to meet the gods on this island.

Everyone in the tribe thought that the warrior died on the sacred mountain like the previous climbers, and became one of the white bones on the top of the mountain. But what they didn't expect was that after a while, they actually found themselves at the mouth of the canyon. The soldier who was still alive was found.

Even if the person who found the dying warrior immediately gave him life-saving medicine, this could only temporarily give the warrior a sigh of relief and sent him to the tribe. At the last moment of his life, he told his story The last scene I saw when I climbed to the top of Mount Kailash.

On the top of the mountain, he saw a throne of white bones. There was a figure in white on the throne, looking lonely at the endless sea. Countless bones that could not be named were piled up into a mountain at its feet.

It's a pity that he didn't have the chance to see the front of the figure, because his brain was forced to collapse by the hallucinations caused by the undead in the bones, and he fell off the cliff and fell into the seawater of the canyon, unconscious.

From then on, any description of "carrying the sky" among the tribes was a figure dressed in white, standing on the skeleton. No matter whether it was windy or rainy, the god was at the highest point of the island, closest to the sky. , overlooking everything, the storm and life and death on the island are all controlled by it.

The nun who was called the mistress looked at the wooden carvings of the gods in the shrine and said slowly, "This is a test given to us by the great 'Tuotian'. The flame is a kind of cleansing, punishing our cowardice in the past countless years. Cleanse the sins in our souls. We, the chosen people of God, did not truly evolve in the battle as 'Tuotian' expected. It must be that we cannot respond to 'Tuotian''s expectations, so we suffered this. A disaster."

"But we have worked very hard. Brother Mu Meng and the others are hunting those disasters every day. To be able to successfully kill those disasters is already amazing in my opinion." Lauda argued in a low voice for her people.

"No, it's far from enough. 'Tuotian' once single-handedly defeated powerful things on the entire island and stood alone at the top of the white bones. This means that what 'Tuotian' really wants is absolute It wants a truly strong person to challenge it and even defeat it. This is the reason for the existence of the world we live in. "

The mistress clasped her hands together on the bone bracelet, and the dry pupils in her sunken eye sockets dimmed.

"Mu Meng is indeed the most outstanding child in recent years. You don't have to say good things to him. I will give you his right to reproduce. As the witch bloodline of the tribe and my quasi-heir, I believe that the two of you will definitely be able to have a child." More outstanding offspring to meet the expectations of ‘Tuotian’.”

"What should we do with those outsiders? We usually haven't seen a few for several years. I don't know what happened recently, but they are coming in droves. Could it be that something happened in the outside world?" Lauda said worriedly.

The mistress glanced at Lao Da a few more times and said slowly, "You don't need to worry about external affairs, and it's not ours to worry about. The lives of God's chosen people are dedicated to the 'Carrying Heaven'. This is our responsibility." Our souls are controlled by Tuo Tian. Only when we offer sacrifices that truly satisfy the gods will our race be liberated."

Lauda nodded slightly to show that she understood. This is a belief that even children in the tribe of God's Chosen People know.

The so-called satisfactory sacrifices are those that can be given to their gods, ‘carrying the sky’, a real battle, that is, killing their own gods with their own hands, and transforming the gods into one of the skeletons scattered all over the mountains and plains.

It sounds contradictory, but after countless years of interpretation, the witches of God's Chosen People have already determined that "Tuo Tian" is lonely and helpless. The mountains of corpses at the feet are evidence. This island was once full of He had the same gods as 'Tuotian', but one day, in order to enjoy real battles and honors, 'Tuotian' personally killed these gods, but he was not satisfied, so he stood on the top of the mountain and regarded this island as a battle. The technical field wants to wait for a truly qualified warrior to climb the mountain to challenge it and then kill it.

The people chosen by God devoutly believe in their gods, believing that their strength, agility, and physique are all given by the gods. They constantly hone their fighting skills on the nightmare island through the training ground given by the gods. Skills and the power they call "divine power" until one day they can transform into true warriors.

Among tribes, intermarriage is already a normal phenomenon. As the people of God, as long as you are lucky enough to have the blood of God, even if you marry close relatives, it will rarely produce deformed children. Instead, it will purify the blood of God. The potential of the descendants becomes stronger and stronger.

Usually each generation of tribes will select the strongest warriors among the tribesmen who have inherited the blood of the gods, and then breed with the witch heirs in the tribe. If the descendants have pure blood, then the witch heirs can become official For witches, everyone has to lower their head and call "Mother" regardless of their age and status when meeting them, while warriors continue to reproduce with the next witch's heir as long as they can maintain reproduction.

Among the tribes, they call dinosaurs disasters, because encountering these disasters on the island means bloodshed and death. For generations, the chosen people of God have taken uprooting and hunting disasters as their experience and mission.

Mu Meng is the strongest warrior of the tribe's generation. He has an astonishing record of hunting carnivorous disasters alone more than five times. He even has a high-profile record of successfully covering the retreat of an injured hunting team from an overlord-level disaster. He is known as the closest The title of warrior refers to the strongest warrior in history who is qualified to visit the sacred mountain.

Lauda is the successor of this generation of witches. She has long black hair and sea-like blue eyes, just like the first generation of witches. At the same time, she also possesses a very pure bloodline of God, as well as the power of God that every generation of witches must possess - the power of charm, which can tamper with people's memories, put people into deep sleep, and can even appease large dinosaurs and put them to sleep. came down to be captured.

As long as this unknown power appears among female tribe members, they will be considered qualified to become witches. Lauda is the successor of this generation of witches. She is responsible for becoming the spiritual leader of the tribe and comforting them. Tribesmen, inherit the spirit and mission of God.

Lauda's witch power is the strongest in history. Even Mu Meng, the strongest warrior in the tribe, may not be able to defeat her if he meets her on the battlefield. The power of charm is already so powerful that as long as he hears Her voice and the sight of her eyes will be controlled and become the flesh of a knife.

Lauda's most powerful achievement was when a Tarbosaurus was out of control, she stood in front of the old and weak of the tribe with one person's power, and used the power of the witch to make the Tarbosaurus calm down, and even fell asleep until The warriors from the clan arrived, and it was that accident that raised Lauda's reputation to the highest level within the clan.

Not only that, the witch is also in charge of another most important skill - the production of divine weapons. Through the skills passed down by the mistresses of the past generations, she can make weapons and props with strange powers, using various weapons that can be found everywhere on the island. Materials, through special rituals, give an originally mediocre weapon the powerful power to kill disasters.

Every weapon of the warriors was handmade by the mistress. After confirming the identity of the witch's successor, Lauda also began to learn how to make these weapons and props with divine power. The mistress even admitted it herself.

The combination of Lauda and Mu Meng is the most promising combination among this generation of tribes. Everyone believes that they can give birth to quite outstanding offspring, and maybe a real "warrior" can be born among them.

If there are no accidents, the "ceremony" between Lauda and Mu Meng will probably take place after the recent Tidal Moon. The two newcomers are looking forward to this day, but unfortunately, a fire will indefinitely destroy this day. The ceremony has been postponed. The top priority is to solve the forest fire that does not know when to stop and dig out the isolation zone as soon as possible to prevent the fire from burning up the mountain or igniting the other half of the forest.

Lauda is still the successor of the witch and cannot leave the protection of the tribe privately. She can only watch the tragic fire from a distance on the mountains and listen to the wails and screams of the dinosaurs and other creatures in the flames. The tears won’t stop.

Although the dinosaurs in the forest have devoured many tribesmen, over the years, it has become a habit for God's chosen people to battle wits and courage with these dinosaurs. It can be said that they have become part of the ecology. Tribes hunt dinosaurs, and dinosaurs hunt tribes. , have become a natural part of each other, so there is no hatred for each other.

On the contrary, someone has burned down most of the forest, making the entire tribe furious. This means that the entire natural ecological chain has been directly wiped out by this fire. Water resources, forest resources, precious monuments, and all kinds of things they rely on The environment in which they lived was destroyed.

The only ones who could do such a thing were those outsiders who were washed up on the island. In fact, at first, there were voices among the tribes that were willing to accept these outsiders, but later, they gradually discovered that these outsiders were being rescued. After that, everyone will go crazy because of all kinds of weird things.

For example, those golden stones and crystal clear solid stones are everywhere. After some outsiders killed the tribesmen for these things, they have completely given up on these outsiders and are simply uncivilized. , the rude barbarian's ultimate fate is to be imprisoned in the dungeon, and when the time comes, he will throw a blood sacrifice to please the 'Torkey Sky'.

In addition, for some reason recently, groups of outsiders have appeared on the island, and this fire suddenly broke out. It is difficult not to associate this fire with those outsiders. Now everyone trying to get close to the mountains Outsiders will be arrested immediately. If they are not thrown into blood sacrifice, I am afraid that the warriors of the tribe will execute them as soon as they are caught.

Lauda helped her mistress out of the thatched house. What she saw was the endless sea and the afterglow of the setting sun. However, the sky was now covered with a faint black smoke. The fire on the other side of the mountain range had affected the sky of the tribe. Everyone The tribesmen looked at the black smoke with worries in their eyes.

The entire tribe of God's Chosen Tribe is located on the slope of a seaside mountain in the mountains. There is a natural flat land halfway up the mountainside. There are countless thatched huts, tents, and dense caves close to the mountain face. This is the entire tribe. The shelter is vast, with numerous buildings and a population of several hundred.

Here they are not disturbed by dinosaurs, and are a short distance from the beach and forest. For hundreds of years, this tribe has hidden here to settle down and rest. Some edible plants and medicines are planted in the enclosure, and some are also kept in captivity. Tamed animals as well as small dinosaurs were slaughtered to tan their hides and separate the fat from their meat.

Higher up in the mountains, close to the top of the mountain, similar arenas, training venues and various sentries were also built. In order to prevent accidents, the fire information was discovered by the sentry immediately and passed on to the tribes. Unfortunately, by the time the tribesmen arrived at the scene of the fire, it was too late to stop the forest fire.

The mistress was walking among the tribes with Lauda. After seeing them, the tribesmen in all the tribes put their hands and palms in front of their shoulders and bowed slightly in salute. This was a sign of respect for the high-ranking witches in the tribe. The children also looked at them with eyes full of awe but admiration.

"Brother Mumeng has taken most of the warriors and men in the tribe to guard the surrounding mountains. The remaining warriors are guarding the imprisoned outsiders in the dungeon." Lauda lowered her head and said to the mistress beside her, " We still don’t know how many outsiders there are. We just captured another female outsider and threw it into the dungeon. We still don’t know how many bugs are hidden outside that we haven’t discovered yet.”

"No matter how many we capture, we will keep them in the dungeon under good supervision. We will sacrifice them the day before the Tide Moon. This must be the test given to us by the 'Carrying Heaven'. There are also many outsiders who can rival warriors. If a person is brave enough, he will be able to get the attention of Tuotian," the mistress said in a slightly hoarse voice, "Let the soldiers guarding the dungeon be on guard. Mu Meng has taken people out now. The clan guards are empty and cannot be let go. Those outsiders took advantage of the situation. Outsiders are cunning and insidious by nature, and they do whatever they can. I shouldn’t need to remind you of this.”

"You know, Mistress, those outsiders Mu Meng made them wear 'iron rings'. No matter how powerful they are, they can't escape from the pit. Even if they escape, the remaining warriors in the clan can subdue them. They. Those 'iron rings' were made by your own hands, Mistress. Once they put them on, they can't even think of taking them off by themselves." Lauda said with confidence.

The mistress also nodded slightly. Those iron rings were based on the skills learned from the ruins on the island. They were enough to suppress the blood of God in the bound creatures to a low point. As long as they wore the iron rings, no matter how powerful the warrior was, They are all the same as ordinary people. It is a pity that these iron rings cannot be applied to those overlord-level disasters. Even if the iron rings bind the blood of gods of those disasters, their powerful bodies are still enough to kill their warriors.

"After the fire is contained and the sacrifice is completed before the Tide Moon, your affairs with Mu Meng will remain as usual and there is no need to postpone them," the mistress said.

Lauda paused for a moment, as if she was a little surprised, but before she could say anything, the mistress gave her a piece of news that was like a lightning strike, "Mu Meng decided to conduct a warrior trial after the Tide Moon. He was right. An overlord-level disaster in the north decided to challenge it to complete its own warrior trial."

"What?" Laoda suddenly stopped where she was, but the mistress left her support and walked forward alone, saying slowly as she walked, "Mumeng is the closest warrior to a warrior in the tribe in the past hundred years. His talent is undoubtedly the best I have ever seen. He even faced the overlord-level disaster alone and escaped unscathed when he covered the retreat of the hunting team last time. I suspect that it was at that time that he realized the deeper use of "blood damage". Only rare warriors can get access to technology, and it is also a stepping stone to become a warrior."

"But the warriors will test Mumeng." Laoda said something inappropriate.

"That is the fate of every warrior, and also their wish. Every warrior is fighting to become a legendary warrior, to fight against those huge disasters. 'Tuotian' is watching us all the time, and we also have the blood of 'Tuotian' in our bodies. Becoming the warrior that the gods expect is the ambition of every warrior." The mistress said lightly, "Mumeng has decided to go. The warrior's trial will begin after the tidal moon. If he successfully passes the trial and becomes that warrior..."

No need for the mistress to say, Laoda also knows what will happen next.

Becoming a warrior means having the qualifications to meet the gods on the highest peak of the sacred mountain. Challenging the gods is the fate of every warrior.

But Laoda can understand it, but there is still confusion in her heart.

No one knows how powerful the god called 'Tuotian' is. He has killed countless gods of the same clan and is above the entire island. Can a warrior really challenge the gods? The god that their tribe has always believed in and revered.

After all, why did the tribe always believe in the destiny of challenging the god on the highest peak? Isn't that their own god? Shouldn't they admire and worship him? Why must they pay the price of blood and become warriors to kill their own gods with their own hands?

No matter how confused Laoda was, she could only hide it and turned her head to look blankly into the distance. The highest peak of the mountain was also called the peak of the sacred mountain by the tribesmen from generation to generation. The peak that towered into the clouds and was as pale as snow was the location of "Tuotian". Just like the name of the god, it carried the sky of this island, carried this world, and gave them, the gods, a place to live.

Can anyone really challenge the gods?

Laoda moved her eyes away, but the next moment, her peripheral vision seemed to catch something. Suddenly, she turned her head again to look at the peak of the sacred mountain and wiped her eyes, thinking that she had seen it wrong.

She saw a circular wave on the top of the highest mountain, spreading in all directions in the air. All the clouds were shaken away by the wave, revealing the blue sky, and the pale color on the mountain collapsed downward like an avalanche, revealing the original color of the mountain.

She tilted her head slightly, not understanding what strange natural phenomenon this was until she was shocked to find that the circular wave expanded for the second time. This time, the peak of the sacred mountain, the sharpest peak, suddenly broke! It was like an explosion from the inside, and the top of the mountain exploded directly, disintegrating and falling in all directions!

Finally, after dozens of seconds, the thunderous explosion was heard from afar in the tribe, accompanied by an unimaginable strong wind, long and terrifying!

Then, as the mountain broke, a white track flew out from the top of the sacred mountain, drawing a straight diagonal line, flying quickly towards them, and directly hit the top of the mountain where their tribe lived. Amid the explosion and violent earthquakes, the track broke through the rock and soil on the top of the mountain, and fell straight to the beach beside the mountain like a meteorite!

"Madam!" Lao Da looked at the matron beside her in horror, but found that the matron had already looked at the top of the mountain and was stunned. The lips that had always been slightly open and made hoarse sounds were now wide open, revealing the teeth that were about to fall out and the dry tongue that had nowhere to go.

"The mountain collapsed!"

"Beach! Something fell from the sacred mountain and hit the beach!"

"Rolling stones! There are rolling stones falling from the mountain!"

The tribe, which had always been peaceful, was instantly in chaos. No one knew what happened, but fear had begun to spread.

There were forest fires, a large number of outsiders, and now the sacred mountain has changed. Who knows if the end of the world will come in the next moment?

Lao Da looked at the sacred mountain with a hole in the clouds on the top of the mountain. Seeing that the white track that had not yet dissipated seemed to realize something, a terrifying guess came to her mind.

While the mistress was still staring at the sacred mountain in a daze, she turned around and ran down the mountain while no one was noticing, and ran towards the beach where the track fell!