Frozen stiff? If ice flows through your veins, it won't. ---------------------- Ancient Mammoth tribe proverb.

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  It turned out to be the extinct Bimon Mammoth tribe that had been lost for many years.

  Not just Helen, Liu was also shocked and his mouth was agape.

  Mammoths also belong to the Oliphen giant elephant tribe, but in the Mongolian old habit of calling, everyone likes to call them hairy elephants, because they have thick and long hair on their bodies.

  However, compared with ordinary giant elephants, mammoths have a more robust and powerful physique.

  This is a powerful warrior race that even the one-eyed giants would be envious of.

  In the ancient dialect of the Beamon people, for example, when praising a warrior's great strength, they would often say "Look, this guy's strength is just like that of a Mammoth!"

  The Mammoth tribe has always been a relatively sparse population, and after the Battle of Hygar, Bimon exterminated too many tribes, so there is no official leisure to find their traces.

  The latest record of the Mammoth tribe in the "Rites of Sacrifice" was also eight hundred years ago, when a outstanding human king, Augustus, emerged in the southern part of the Aegean continent. He is said to have conquered all regions around the Caspian Sea, with great military achievements.

  Under the command of King Octavius, famous for his military prowess throughout the continent, there were four mammoth warriors serving as an honor guard.

  Since then, there has been no more mention of this strongest king in the myths and legends of the continent.

  The temple originally thought that this branch of the Orphen tribe had also defected to the human side like the vampire people of the Warrenpelt tribe, and the temple expressed concern about the future of these traitors.

  The Vrykul's bat-like humanoids had defected to the humans before the Battle of Hyjal, and as a reward for their defection, they were granted noble titles by the humans, with almost every one of them holding a title of nobility.

  But after the Hygel War, the Vrykolakas were immediately hunted down and almost exterminated, with only a few hidden bloodlines remaining in secret among humans.

  As for this despicable nature of humans, the Temple firmly believes that if the Mammoth tribe really surrendered to humans and betrayed the God of War, they would be annihilated by these cunning humans just like the Walpurgites.

  What surprised the two knowledgeable sacrificial adults was not that they suddenly saw a race that had been officially declared to have betrayed, but what made them both unbelievable was how these mammoth warriors survived in this harsh and cold land of Taymurlaya?

  All the Olphen giant elephant tribe, although also omnivores, their food must absolutely not lack tropical fruit - bananas. Bananas are as important to them as water; in addition, they have to eat some red soil every year. Among all the tribes of the Mong, their eating habits are the most bizarre; just like the traitorous Hualenpoer tribe's bat people who love to drink fresh blood, this strange eating habit greatly restricts the population growth of their tribe.

  Do they no longer need to eat bananas? Helen furrowed her brow.

  The giant elephant family quit eating bananas, I'll quit smoking! Liu Zhen estimated that they might have found some alternative products.

  "Why scare the kids who are just playing?" Looking at the two little ones standing there in a daze, the mighty warrior Korina roared and swung her bone-made long knife, with furious emotions boiling under her long eyebrows and big eyes.

  Liu Zhen was shocked, this bone knife is made from a curved mammoth tusk, Liu Zhen had no doubt about the sharpness of this knife. This mammoth warrior's robust body, even if he were empty-handed, could probably easily tear a wild yak in two.

  "Sorry, really sorry." Helen grabbed her husband who was about to speak and stood in front of the brave warrior, opening her thick leather coat to reveal a white sacrificial robe and a shining Medusa badge inside.

  "Corina, you're a warrior! I didn't think even the mammoth tribe's children were so strong, we've been rude." Helen sincerely pulled out a pink big apple from her bag and waved at the "little kid" Vincent of the Mammoth Tribe.

  The mammoth kid ran over "hopping and jumping", snatched the big apple, took a big bite, and left a long trail of shiny snot on the apple.

  Liu Zhen was shocked and broke out in a cold sweat, he thought the kid's spoiled appearance was terrifying, his head was even bigger than Liu Zhen's, and yet he walked with a run-and-jump gait.

  "Thanks, sister!" The mammoth kid gave Helen a silly grin, his thick and hoarse voice making Liu's arm hair stand on end again.

  "How embarrassing..." The momentum of the brave warriors who had just drawn their swords also weakened, after all, it's hard to argue with someone who is feeding you.

  "Slow down, sister still has some." Helen stood on tiptoes trying to pat the little kid's head, but couldn't reach after half a day.

  Liu Zhenhong hastily put on his own white sacrificial robe, after all, he was also a noble, and couldn't always show off his bare arms in front of commoners.

  "What brings the two of you to Taimur Raya?" Korina, a mammoth tribe warrior, seemed unimpressed by the two white ceremonial robes.

  "We two are the sacrifices of the holy altar." Liu said with a shock.

  "Altar sacrifice?" Corina stared at them with wide eyes, looking down at both of them.

  "Isn't the high priest of the kingdom supposed to be someone who has passed the trial of Temur Rajya? Haven't you guys ever seen people wearing clothes like ours?" Helen asked curiously.

  "Been there." Korina twitched her nose, which was thick with hair, and smiled: "But they never climbed this high. The Taimuraya stretches for thousands of miles, and we mammoths are not used to dealing with strangers, so we never greeted them. Decades ago, our tribe did have a passing visitor, a lion named Bimon from the Rhine tribe, who stayed in our settlement for a few days. That lion later crossed over this inaccessible Taimuraya, he was a good warrior."

  "Campus!" Helen's lungs were suddenly filled with cold air, and she exchanged a glance with Liu.

  "Is it our current king, His Majesty Gureiku Saru?" Liu Zhen asked in a low voice.

  "It must be, he was young when he crossed the Taimur Range." Helen nodded.

  "That lion invited our tribe to go back with him to the city in the Danu wasteland." Korina patted her son's head and wiped his nose for him: "But we refused."

  These words struck Liu's heart.

  It's not just the king back then, I want it too! Look at you guys, with this kind of physique, if you don't become a thug, it's simply a waste! Liu Zhenpeng shouted in his heart.

  "You live here, why don't you go to the official registration of the kingdom? Now the official records still think that you and the Hualunbaoer tribe have defected to the human side!" Helen asked curiously: "Besides, I also have a question. The harsh climate of Taimuraya is really not suitable for the reproduction of your race. Why did you refuse the kindness of that lion? Do you know what that lion is now?"

  "We mammoths like to live in the cold, it's no big deal. As for why we don't go with that high-ranking lion to live a life of ease and comfort, it's because we can't bear to be ruled by a Bimon who can't even beat us in battle strength." Korina's maniacal laughter seemed to make the ice pillars on the glacier tremble.

  "This lion has wrestled with our tribesmen before, and was thrown to the ground four times in a row by our brave warriors." Another mammoth warrior chimed in.

  "Wrestling and martial arts are two different things." Liu Zhen was exasperated, this king was really something, wrestling with these strongmen, wasn't he asking for trouble?

  It was that guy who you guys knocked down four times, after returning to the Kingdom of Bimon, he competed for the throne with force. Helen also sighed and was completely speechless.

  "It's probably this embarrassing encounter that Your Majesty, who seized the throne with military might, has never mentioned again, allowing the Mammoth tribe to continue living a quiet and obscure life in the snowy mountains." Liu Zhen said with a sly smile.

  Helen also smiled, her Richard was always able to see through people's inferior thoughts at a glance.

  "We, the Mammoth tribe, still know of the great name of the one who was worshipped, although for many years now our people have not left Taemu Raya. However, we are also followers of the war god Bimon, and since we had never seen the attire of those who were worshipped, we were truly too rude just now." Korina said with a thick and slightly embarrassed smile.

  "You have disappeared from the records for too many years, I really want to know how you lived on Mount Taemu Ryong?" The little fox asked curiously, and Liu Zhen also wanted to know this question.

  "We didn't want to stay on the snowy mountain either, we moved here after the Thousand Year War, no choice, the Donau wasteland is not a tropical climate and does not produce bananas that our people love to eat. The snow banana produced in the Taimuraya Snow Mountain can fully meet the needs of our tribe." Korina hugged her son's head and nodded at the two priests: "To show our apology, today I will use our best snow banana to entertain the two passing priests. To be able to meet the legendary priest on the endless snowy mountain, apart from fate, it is really an honor for the Mammoth tribe."

  "Haha, the bodies of the sacrificial offerings are generally very weak and can't climb such a high snowy mountain. It's indeed a coincidence." Helen also smiled. If she didn't have that night pearl that could dispel cold air in her bosom, she really couldn't withstand the howling icy wind and thin air of Taemu Raya.

  Haha... Liu Zhenhong also smiled.

  Will I still be called Richard the Unlucky if I don't lure you strong men down the mountain and make you my subjects?

  After some small talk, Liu and Helen were led by the Mammoth Warriors to a super-large cave at the corner of the mountain. It was clear that this was the home of the Mammoth Warriors. There were huge animal enclosures here, where twelve massive beasts, relatives of the mammoths, were being kept. More than ten robust women, similar in stature to the men, were busy feeding the mammoths. Upon hearing the loud shouts of the men, they hurriedly greeted the two esteemed guests with a mix of politeness and shyness.

  Helen also politely took out a few uneaten apples from her bag and distributed them to the sturdy "little kids" who were sucking their fingers and hiding behind their mother's back.

  The elderly Mammoths, having heard that two holy altar sacrifices had arrived, excitedly emerged from their respective mountain caves and, without saying a word, grabbed Liu Zhensheng and Helen's hands, preparing to perform the five-body prostration ritual of the Mongolian ceremony. Liu Zhensheng quickly held them back.

  "It's not like that anymore in this day and age, you don't even need to be so formal when meeting a king." Liu Zhen said with a smile: "Everyone doesn't have to be too polite!"

  The majestic demeanor of the noble ancestors moved these old mammoths, Liu and Helen couldn't decline, sat on the main seat facing north, a large group of people surrounded a gurgling hot spring emitting steam.

  A large stone pot, a large stone pot with icy wild yak meat, fat and marble-like snow pig legs, some lush and tender moss, under the honest and simple operation of the mammoth woman, was continuously brought up.

  Corina Warriors also came back from outside, with a large string of snow bananas with white and black spots on their shoulders.

  The hot spring in the cave was teeming with mist, and the enthusiasm of the Mammoth tribe was even more intense than the mist of the hot spring. The howling cold wind suddenly went far away from Liu and Helen.

  The Mammoth tribe and the Olphen tribe's giant elephant warriors are extremely afraid of fire.

  However, the merciful war god did not abandon them. The hot springs on Mount Taemu Raya were like a natural cauldron, giving the Mammoth tribe the right to eat hot food as well.

  Liu Zhen was shocked to think that he and Helen had once traveled together, soaking in every hot spring they came across, and sweat poured down their faces.

  Helen apparently thought of this too, her face slightly red. This made her look even more beautiful.

  "Come on, come on!" Old Pogis, the father of Corina Warriors, enthusiastically greeted. He is an elder of the Mammoth tribe and also the Mammoth Warrior who knocked down the current king twenty or thirty years ago; although he is a bit old now, his spirit is still very sharp and talkative.

  This old fellow's physique can only be shown in the Mammoth tribe as he ages.

  "The flavor is not bad at all!" Liu Zhenhong sliced off a piece of snow pork with the ivory knife stuck in the raw meat, cooked it briefly and took a bite, nodding his head in approval before putting it into Helen's stone pot. The hot spring water itself had some salt content, paired with fresh gamey flavor, it really felt like having a hot pot.

  Helen also ate with a smile on her face, her eyes narrowing into a line.

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