The depths of the Barren Wilderness.
On a mountain peak, more than ten thousand warriors were stationed.
Most of these warriors of the Barren Wilderness wore beast hides, and their faces and exposed skin were covered in tattoos.
The ornaments hanging from their necks were the bones of all kinds of strange beasts! This meant that every one of the more than ten thousand Northern Barbarian warriors stationed here had hunted and killed more than one strange beast.
Strange beasts, not wild beasts!
In the Northern Barbarians' lands, a qualified warrior had to hunt and kill at least one wild beast alone in the Barren Wilderness after coming of age.
A qualified martial artist, meanwhile, had to have hunted and killed a strange beast of at least the First Rank alone.
In the Central Plains, some lower-three-rank strange beasts might be gentle and lacking in aggression.
But in the Northern Barbarians' lands, any strange beast was absolutely more terrifying than the fiercest tiger! A qualified martial artist was called a Tuo Du Warrior in the Northern Barbarians' lands.
The more than ten thousand people stationed here were all Tuo Du Warriors!
They were the Northern Barbarian King's personal guards!
Whenever Northern Barbarian King Boerhu conquered a tribe, he selected a strong warrior from that tribe and had him bring a group of elite Tuo Du Warriors to follow him.
After he had gained the allegiance of eleven tribes, the personal guard following him had already grown to more than ten thousand, with countless experts among its ranks! The Northern Barbarian King's personal guard had now become the strongest force in the entire Northern Barbarians' lands! A huge tent had been erected at the highest point of the mountain.
A wheat-skinned, short-haired woman walked toward the tent.
Two curved blades were