The day of the conference finally arrived. As bursts of trumpets sounded from the walls of Python City, all the gates of Python City slowly opened.
People from each village carried the food offered by their own village and walked towards the city in an orderly manner. Li Mu naturally followed the team.
Entering the city, there is a straight avenue. At the end of the avenue is a large square that can easily accommodate 100,000 people. In the center of the square is an altar. On the altar, there is a lifelike python sculpture wrapped around a stone pillar, which looks quite majestic.
In the square, each village, under the guidance of the soldiers in the city, walked to the area designated for them. Except for a seat at the front prepared for each village, the rest of the people could only stand, and even if they brought their own benches, they were not allowed to do so.
Shortly after the villagers entered, a middle-aged strong man slowly walked up to the altar. Although he was also wearing an animal fur coat, it was obvious that the workmanship of his coat was much more refined than that of the villagers. Moreover, as he walked, the fur on his coat swayed in the wind, which was very smooth, and was completely different from the tangled fur on the clothes of ordinary villagers. Seeing this middle-aged strong man, the crowd suddenly cheered, and the man also waved to everyone enthusiastically.
"This is Kata, the leader of our Python tribe. Before he became the leader, he was the bravest warrior of our tribe. He is even well-known in the entire Dragon tribe. He has made countless military achievements in foreign wars." Zawa explained to Li Mu.
Li Mu nodded. From the first glance, Li Mu could tell that Kata was indeed powerful. He was the strongest man he had seen since he woke up in Qimu Village. However, if he faced him, Li Mu was still confident that he could defeat him.
"My fellow tribesmen, it's time for the annual mountain closing ceremony again. This year, we have harvested..." After Dota's speech, he announced the official start of the conference. The first part was to hold a sacrificial ceremony to express gratitude for the protection of the Python God and to pray that the God would continue to protect the Python tribe and everything would go well in the coming year.
Next, it was time for each village to hand in tribute. As the priest read out the name of each village one by one, each village placed its tribute in front of the altar in an orderly manner. Of course, someone counted them one by one and recorded the number of tributes from each village on animal bones, because there were requirements for the number of tributes. If the requirements were not met, the reason must be stated and the payment must be made up in the spring of the following year. Otherwise, at the very least, part of the hunting grounds would be deprived, and at worst, they would be expelled from the tribe.
After the tribute was counted, the priests performed a series of rituals. Finally, the leader of the python tribe expressed gratitude to the python statue, chanted words of thanks for the python god's gift, and then signaled his men to carry the food away.
Watching all this, Li Mu found it a little funny. The food that was obviously offered by the villagers had to go through all this processing and finally thank the so-called python god. Not only that, these villagers also expressed their gratitude to the python statue with such sincerity that Li Mu was speechless.
After that, it was the challenge session between the tribesmen, which was also the highlight of the whole conference. After all, they were all hunters, and fighting and killing were more attractive to them.
After the challenge was announced to begin, everyone involuntarily looked in the direction of Duota and Qimu Village. After all, it was already known to everyone that Li Mu was going to challenge Duota, and no one would be uncomfortable stealing the limelight from Duota at this time.
The chief looked at Dota meaningfully. It was obvious that he had known about this for a long time. Yesterday's commotion was so big that it would be strange for the leader of the Python Tribe not to know about it.
Dota smiled and said to the leader: "A young man who doesn't know his place hurt my mount and challenged me. I will teach him a lesson today!"
The leader nodded slightly and said, "Be careful."
Upon hearing this, Dota agreed, "I understand." But he didn't care in his heart. He knew that even if he killed Li Mu's leader, no one would do anything to him. After all, the Python Tribe respected strength.
On the Qimu Village side, Li Mu did not hesitate. Under the gaze of everyone, he stepped onto the stage and shouted: "I am Li Mu, Duota, come up and fight!" Li Mu did not call out the name of Qimu Village. After all, some people in Qimu Village were already dissatisfied. Wouldn't it be uncomfortable to call out Qimu Village at this time? Let's see what happens after winning. If this leader is really so sensible, it won't be too late for him to call out Qimu Village.
Dota snorted coldly, leaped a few times and jumped onto the stage, standing opposite Li Mu. In contrast to Li Mu's calmness when he came on stage, Dota's appearance caused cheers in the audience.
"You little bastard, you're lucky to have lived for so many extra days and even have the honor to die in my hands in front of so many people." Dota walked up to Li Mu and whispered.
Li Mu was unmoved by this and said to the referee calmly: "Can we start?"
Seeing Li Mu so calm, the referee was also slightly stunned. Is this guy really confident or is he scared? Then the referee shouted: "Is this duel voluntary for both parties?"
Li Mu and the other person nodded at the same time.
"Fists and feet have no eyes, life and death do not count. If you accidentally lose your life, the other party will not be responsible. Do you understand?" the referee continued.
Li Mu and the other man still nodded.
"The dispute on the stage must not involve the audience off stage. No matter what the outcome is, all parties must not bear grudges or retaliate against each other! Do you have any objections?" the referee said to everyone on the field.
There was silence in the audience.
"Well, what I just said applies to all the duelists today, so I won't repeat it here. Now I declare that Li Mu challenges Dota. Let's begin!" After the referee said the last two words, he turned around and jumped off the ring, fearing that he might accidentally hurt him.
However, after the referee jumped off the ring, he found that neither of the two men had taken the initiative to fight.
Duota smiled at Li Mu and said, "As your senior, I'll let you strike first, so that people won't accuse me of bullying the weak!"
"Haha, let me say the same thing to you. You are old, and your physical strength is inevitably not as good as us young people. You should make the first move, otherwise you will not even have the chance to make a move!" Li Mu replied.
"You're so sharp-tongued, I'll help you!" Dota hated being told he was too old, and Li Mu actually provoked him in public, how could he tolerate that? With a ferocious look on his face, he waved his fist and punched Li Mu.
Seeing Dota's unreserved punch, Li Mu was unmoved. Everyone in the audience was shocked: "Is this kid scared silly? Is this grand duel over like this?"
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