Upon hearing this, Sui Xiong was stunned for a moment, and then remembered Qiao Xiu's relevant information.
He is about a hundred years old now. He was born as a barbarian in the North. He was originally the chief of the "Ice Bear" tribe. He believed in the goddess of snow fields and blizzards in the North, who is also the famous evil god commonly known as the "Queen of the North". This goddess is powerful. Although she is only of moderate power, she has clashed with powerful powers more than once without losing. It is generally believed that she has power comparable to powerful powers. Although he usually brings more disasters than blessings, with his powerful strength and vicious deterrence, his faith in the North is very solid, even surpassing the "Elder Bear Shepherd", the patron saint of the barbarians.
Most people in the Ice Bear tribe believe in the "Elder Bear Shepherd", who is the patron saint of barbarians. However, Qiao Xiu was different. As a strong man, he couldn't agree that he was still fighting against the evil gods of the "Arctic Alliance" headed by the "Queen of the North" even though he had the support of the good gods and barbarians. The old man was at a disadvantage, so he chose to follow the strong and became a believer in the "Queen of the North".
In fact, he is not just a believer, but a priest - he is a soul shaman.
Shamans are a type of clergy unique to areas with relatively backward civilization. They do not directly contact God through prayer to obtain divine power and spells like priests. Instead, they first contact "spirits" and then contact gods through "spirits." . Spirits are usually upgraded from the ancestors of the tribe, or transformed from a powerful creature living near the tribe. They only have souls left, but they are very powerful, probably possessing the power of an angel.
In the shaman's belief system, the spirit is the real medium of divine power, and the importance of the priest himself is not high. As long as a tribe has high-level spirits, even if the shaman himself is not high-level, he can still cast powerful spells.
There are also some shamans who believe not in gods but in ancestral spirits, so you can ignore this step. Although they are more primitive and barbaric, they look more like priests.
Qiao Xiu's spirit is a powerful monster, an ice bear. When he first believed in the Queen of the North, he went out hunting alone. With extraordinary bravery and luck, he hunted and killed this ferocious monster, and in doing so, he pleased the goddess and became her priest. And the ice bear's soul was transformed by the goddess into his own spirit.
If things continue like this, maybe Qiao Xiu will become a famous great chief in the North, or a famous great shaman. Maybe in a few decades or hundreds of years, he may lead the barbarian army south to fight against the orc empire. The battle became a record in the history of the "North Wind Ice Disaster".
However, maybe it was a trick of fate, or maybe it was just a game that the goddess didn't care about. The Ice Bear tribe was destroyed by severe cold and snowstorms in one winter. Qiao Xiu prayed very hard and even offered his only child as a sacrifice, but he was still unable to make the goddess show any mercy.
In the end, Qiao Xiu, who had lost everything, became angry in despair. He madly hated and cursed the goddess he believed in, and then left the snowfield and headed south.
He wandered for several years. Although the hatred in his heart never subsided, the anger in his chest gradually subsided. Then he was thinking about what to do.
The dead are gone, and the dead cannot be resurrected. His goal of revenge is also difficult to achieve. Is he going to spend his whole life in hopeless hatred and curse
In a daze, he came to the ancient forest in the south, met the legendary temple that existed at the beginning of the creation of the world, and met the old sage who was said to be older than all the gods.
Although the sage was only a fist-sized frog, he gave him good advice, so he decided to change his goals and rebuild the ice bear tribe.
And his plan is to give birth to enough children, and then the children will have grandchildren... In this way, as long as he works hard, maybe four or five generations later, the Ice Bear tribe can be rebuilt.
Many people were very surprised by this. They didn't understand why Qiao Xiu was so obsessed with rebuilding the tribe solely through his own descendants. Sui Xiong once asked Qiao Xiu about this issue, and Qiao Xiu's answer was "Only my descendants can inherit my anger."
Can only his descendants inherit his anger? Sui Xiong doesn't think so.
However, he didn't mean to refute, he just watched Qiao Xiu curiously to see what this big barbarian could do.
In order to obtain enough offspring, Qiao Xiu was very indulgent in his private life. When he was operating in Double-Headed Crane City, at least one-third of the female mercenaries and almost all the prostitutes in the city had fixed or unfixed relationships with him. Later, he joined the Church of the Mask of the Void and became the leader of the mobile unit. He used almost all his income to increase the number of women around him as much as possible, or... increase the number of descendants.
As far as Sui Xiong knew, when he became a legendary powerhouse, he had more than fifty descendants.
After becoming a legendary powerhouse, Qiao Xiu calmed down a little. This is because he has absolute certainty that he can live until his descendants reproduce and multiply, and their numbers are large enough to form a tribe.
Otherwise, if he still maintains his original style, relying on his status as a legendary strongman, maybe in just two or three years, he will be able to have a family that is enough to form a tribe - as a legendary strongman, as long as he is not "picky about food", 23 Hundreds of women are really not a big problem...
Sure enough, now he has achieved his original goal.
Thinking of this, Sui Xiong subconsciously relied on his faith to connect to see Qiao Xiu's situation.
He saw a new tribe in the eastern part of the northern ice field, adjacent to a snow-covered canyon.
This tribe is slightly different from the ordinary northern barbarian tribes. It is located a little too far north, and there are no pastures nearby. Instead, there is a huge teleportation array in the square in the center of the tribe.
Sui Xiong recognized the origin of this teleportation array at a glance - the combination of several sets of magic runes was exactly the style of Master Satan, the chief mage of Masked Void Church. It seemed that even if he did not make this teleportation array himself, he was one of his disciples. maded. The most likely possibility is that it is probably the most outstanding one among his disciples, Niss Payne.
With the help of the teleportation array, this newly built "Ice Bear" tribe can sell their harvest from hunting or mining at a suitable price, and then buy enough food. Perhaps in the future they can also act as second-hand dealers, purchasing the products of other barbarians and selling them food and daily necessities.
Overall, the foundation of this tribe is quite solid.
"Qiao Xiu has finally realized his ideal!" Looking at Qiao who was leading his grandchildren, great-grandchildren and even great-great-grandchildren to hold daily worship services in the central square of the tribe, praying to the huge jellyfish statue carved out of ice. Xiu, Sui Xiong smiled slightly and nodded lightly.