Pirate Kingship.

Chapter 406: Totem Gods All Over the Earth: Book of the Beast Families (Volume )
The volcanic islands were only a few hundred kilometers away from the coastline of the southern continent. Xiao Wo only used two whirlpools to teleport and brought the Golden Deer to the coast near the continent.

Hua Hua Hua.
The heavy rain in the sky was still falling, and there was only a white curtain of rain where the sky and the sea met, and waves were surging under the boat one after another.

The hydrological environment of the offshore seabed is also extremely complex. If a ship is not careful, it is possible to hit a reef, a shoal, or a sandbar that is temporarily submerged due to high tide.
The invisible shipping killers are everywhere.

This is also the purpose of the nautical charts drawn by generations of navigators. The safety of a sailboat can only be guaranteed when it sails on a fixed route.

When they arrived in unfamiliar waters as the vanguard, they had to rely on themselves for everything.

[Navigator] Delia's expression tensed, and the flame in the whale oil lantern in her hand shone brightly, spreading out invisible ripples, transmitting all the nearby hydrological information to Bruch's heart who was at the helm.

In his other hand, he was holding the crystal skull number 10 [Goddess of the South] that Byron had just found in the fissure trench. He was not afraid of any complicated underwater environment.

Skull No. 4 [Rain God] made the rainstorm automatically avoid the warship, and the deck of the Golden Deer was always dry.

"Hey? Captain, look, there is an indigenous tribe here?"

The warship sailed southward along the coastline of the mainland. When passing a small moon-shaped bay, they unexpectedly discovered a village with about a hundred households on the coast.

Although the scale of this village does not look small, it is obvious that the people moved here just recently.

The houses were still very simple, just crude huts built with branches and palm leaves. There was not even a slightly luxurious stone building to be seen.

There were a few thin-looking male natives on the shore, repairing their houses during the sudden storm.

Their skin color is obviously darker than that of the Taino people of Azik and Taya, and the Quechua people who founded the Empire of the Sun, with a hint of blue-black.

There is a very tall totem pole in the center of the village with a long history.

It looks like it is of the same lineage as the Bantaan Islands. At the very top, which belongs to the guardian spirit, sits a ferocious hammerhead shark with a red mouth.

In the spiritual vision, a huge deep blue field was formed, protecting the tribe from the invasion of other evil spirits and monsters.

“It turns out that the Southern Continent is just like the Bantaan Islands. In addition to the two great empires of Azik and Taya, there are also many small tribes.

Overall, even these small tribes are much stronger than our counterparts in the Bantaan Islands.

The strength of the guardian spirit should be between the third and fourth levels.

only."

Violet sniffed the air instinctively in her Night Devil form before continuing:

"These people share the same bloodline as us Taino people, but it seems that there is something else mixed in their bodies. They are no longer pure humans."

Byron next to him came to the same conclusion. He turned his head to look at Prince Atahualpa, who had "got a great bargain" in the transaction and was in a very good mood while sighing.

I was very fortunate that as soon as I arrived at this new map of the southern continent, a fourth-level mythical creature immediately served as a guide by my side.

They are much better than the other colonists who are running around like headless flies.

The latter couldn't help but frown deeply when he saw the indigenous tribe in front of him, which had just moved to the vicinity of the Sun Empire from somewhere unknown.

He thought about the next response strategy from the perspective of Governor Qincha Suyu, and did not forget to answer their questions.

Instead of answering directly, he asked a question:
"Your Majesty, Lord of Heaven, have you ever heard of the forbidden knowledge, The Book of the Families of Beasts?"

When Byron heard this familiar name, his heart suddenly moved, and he suddenly thought of something, but he answered without hiding anything:

"Of course I know this forbidden knowledge.

Because more than a thousand years ago, it was the founder of the Taya Empire, the [God] Itsumna, who first received the "divine revelation", learned this knowledge from the [Mother of Monsters Echidna], and spread it to all Taino people.

The entire Bantaan Islands' supernatural system, 'Beast Spirit Warriors', is based on this knowledge.

Moreover, the most complete "Book of Beast Families" (Volume 1) is right here with me."

As he spoke, he nodded his head, which was also Crystal Skull No. 1 [Lord of Heaven], as well as the countless souls of the dead ancestors sleeping in the Huashan Heaven.

All beast spirit warriors who believe in the [Lord of Heaven] can receive his blessing and inherit a portion of the power of the ancestral spirits on the Flower Mountain who have transformed into various vegetation and fallen into deep sleep.

Atahualpa had not expected such an unexpected origin, and after a moment of surprise he continued:

“Now it’s much easier to explain.

We, the so-called natives by the white barbarians, should have originated from the same ethnic group long ago.

The original Beast Paradise, Broken Islands and Bantaan Islands should all be connected together to form a complete continent (Chapter 354).

The difference is that after this continent collapsed, we, separated by geography, each gained different knowledge.

Your Bantaan Islands are in the first volume, and our Zoo is in the second volume.

The second volume contains a description of the first volume. The difference between the two is that the first volume belongs to humans, while the second volume belongs to aliens - all kinds of strange and bizarre natural spirits!
This knowledge allows them to perfectly possess the flesh and blood of an animal through the ritual of "descending the spirit", and embark on an extraordinary path different from that of humans.

Such animals are usually close to their true selves.

Humans evolved step by step from humans to mythical creatures; They evolved from beasts to intermediate humans and then to mythical creatures, and finally ascended to gods, and after reaching the fifth level, they were no different from humans.

The essence is still the harmony of animality, humanity and divinity.

My ancestor, the great [Sun God] Inti was one of the first beings to obtain the lower volume, but He was a human-shaped nature spirit from the beginning.

From this perspective, the [Sun God] should have existed in the same period as the [Sky God] Itsumna you mentioned, and each of them established their own great empires.

Later on, we, the descendants of gods, came into being, along with the forbidden book "The Holy Book of the Sun" that is most suitable for us.

In addition to us, there are natural spirits everywhere in this 'paradise of beasts' where all things have spirits.

While they used the Book of Beast Families to anchor the tribe and stabilize their own divinity, they were also subtly transforming the blood of the tribe members in various ways, and naturally gave birth to these different from us."

He hadn't waited for him to think of a suitable adjective.

clang!clang!clang!
The alarm bell on the main mast rang, and Guts, the Phantom Blade stationed there, warned the entire ship:
"Captain, there is something blocking the way underwater, and it's rushing towards us very fast!"

Just after the alarm bell rang three times, they saw hundreds of white water lines rising rapidly from the depths of the crescent-shaped bay, splitting the waves like sharp arrows and flying towards the Golden Deer.

It was like a group of hungry sharks smelling blood. No, it was a group of half-human, half-shark hammerhead sharks, exactly like the totem of this tribe!
And it was clear that their attitude was very unfriendly. The largest leader shouted menacingly right at the start:
"Outsiders, you have entered the divine domain of the Hammerhead God Kopacati. Leave half of the living people on the ship as sacrifices, and the rest of you get out of here immediately."

The swarm of hammerhead sharks soon formed a half-moon shape, blocking the Golden Deer's path.

Byron ignored them and looked behind them. He found that on the shallows two or three meters underwater on the inner side of the bay, there was a deformed half-human, half-beast monster about seven or eight meters long.

The overall appearance is that of a hammerhead shark, but on top of the hammer-like heads extending to both sides, there is a blue-black human face.

One part like human, nine parts like beast, which makes it a monster, which is also the appearance of most totem gods on the southern continent.

Compared to those bloodthirsty monsters, the only difference is probably that they still have rationality.

Apparently this was the so-called Hammerhead God Kopacati.

"But, you know what, you really have to say, there is a wrong name but not a wrong nickname, this guy's head really looks like a hammer.

As for the divine realm?"

Byron used his [Weather Intuition] to sense that the other party was at the node where the earth vein source flowed under his body. The other party relied on this to develop a considerable scale of territory.

His aura had reached the fourth level in the divine realm, but the spiritual light on his body flickered and fluctuated, as if he was injured.

Prince Atahualpa, who was standing next to him, did not take these hammerhead sharks seriously. He just explained to Byron and his party:

"In the Paradise of Beasts, all creatures have spirits. Among them, the mountain spirit, river spirit, or land spirit that occupies a certain area is the most powerful. It is called Apu.

All the important mountains, rivers, forests, and even some particularly large rocks and caves on the continent have their own Apu.

After reaching a certain level, many totem gods will seize Apu's position, occupy the earth vein nodes, and build their own divine domain.

At this time, most of them have already held the second blood sublimation ceremony, transformed into half-human, half-beast, and possessed the strength of at least a third-level transcendent, and can leap up one more level in the divine realm.

These are definitely hard bones that can break other people's teeth. Even if you are one level higher than them, it is extremely difficult to attack their nest.

The Sun Empire expanded little by little among the mountains, and in more than a thousand years it only conquered its current territory.

Moreover, when it reaches the stage of being half human and half beast, the totem god can also break the reproductive isolation between species and reproduce offspring with the female and male shamans who serve him.

Only those descendants of the tribe who possess "divine blood" can become extraordinary people, serving as the backbone to support their ancestors and gods, while continuously expanding the tribe.

There are tens of thousands of such gods throughout the Beast Paradise.

The original Taino tribe naturally gradually differentiated into different ethnic groups over a long period of time.

If the great [Sun God] Inti was not a humanoid spirit, our Sun Empire would have become a kingdom of beasts by now."

"This"

Although Byron did not fully understand, he was deeply shocked.

"The natural spirits, originally animals, took on the flesh of their own kind, and then multiplied with humans, who represent 'variables', to form a huge race of gods?

Half beast? Half demon? Half human? Half orc?

Even in my previous life I had only heard of dolphins actually doing this sort of thing.

However, if you are talking about foxes, pythons, caterpillars, or even female ghosts, I have heard of them, so it is not so hard to accept. "

He accepted it, but even as a fan of tentacle girls, whale girls, night demon girls and dragon girls, Byron felt that Totem God's way of playing was a bit too avant-garde.

After Atahualpa's explanation, they also understood the current supernatural system of the southern continent.

The main body is no longer human beings, but natural spirits, mainly various wild beasts.

In fact, we have already gotten a glimpse of this from the followers such as Dagon, the Nightmare of the Abyss, and Pohnpei, the Father of Sharks.

The essence of both is the same.

Bypassing the limitation of having no legal network to provide an anchor, they built their own faith network from scratch, using people as believers and as anchors.

Then continue to strengthen the bloodline descendants, let them spread out like stallions, constantly expand their territory and tribes, and disperse their own bestiality and chaos, so that the descendants of gods can become their most powerful anchor in the material world!
Just like pouring cold water into boiling water, it greatly reduces the degree of chaos in the entire system.

In my previous life, there was a concept called "entropy reduction".

As for the state of the [Hammer-Headed God] Kopakati in front of him, it is almost the same as that of the "Master's Wife" [Zhi God] who had just revived.

The natural spirit takes on this half-human, half-beast appearance according to the proportion of the animal and divine natures within its body.

The different proportions of divinity and animality will also lead to different proportions of human and animal forms in appearance. Usually the animal part is much larger than the divine part.

As long as the human head and face are preserved, one can control the animal nature in the body and maintain one's own sanity.

Even the fallen state is completely reversible.

The long-term and stable method is to cultivate believers, while the short-term and immediate method is simpler, which is to eat people!
“The promise to leave half of the people on the ship as sacrifices and let the others leave was just to cause the people on the ship to fight among themselves.

There is only one way to let the crew choose who will be eaten and who will not be eaten, and that is to fight.

After the blood flowed like a river, they would sit back and reap the benefits.

But for a totem god with only two faces and still anchored in reason, not using his best minions but using his brain to solve the problem only shows that his military force is no longer enough to solve the problem.

But it doesn’t matter whether it is intact or not.”

Byron turned to look at Prince Atahualpa and asked with a smile:

"Your Highness, since you have already ordered our arms, would you like to know the supporting tactics of artillery, the king of war, in colonial development?"

"Sure, please start your presentation."

As the native prince looked on with interest, Byron exhaled and shouted to the Hammerhead God underwater:
"Please give me some face!"

Just when the totem god was puzzled, Byron stepped on the ground with his right foot, creating a circle of gas explosion rings, and threw out an [Earth Vein Sealing Plug] with his backhand.

However, he took advantage of the fact that after someone gave him face, he had to give the other party a gift, and turned "I'll give a gift back" into "Dongfeng Express"!
(End of this chapter)