The bearded man didn't answer anything. Instead, Niko jumped off the horse and hugged her father cheerfully. During this period, she had learned the skills that girls of this age could do and act coquettishly.

Li Bida also hugged Niko tightly and turned around for a while. Then he looked at Helenputina and El Capa, and said to his daughter, "I'll give you the owl, okay?" The owl there seemed to find that the owner had some intention of "not loving her" with her, so he hurriedly put his nose on the owner's shoulder, sniffing and rubbing intimately, but Li Bida ignored it and asked Niko again.

The daughter shook her head and said that the horse was a little old.

"You are old, gentle, and never have a strong spirit. In this way, you have nothing to worry about on the way." Li Bida said with a smile, stroking her daughter's brown hair, and Niko also smiled. It seemed that her father had thought about all aspects of her trip to Rome, so he nodded and agreed, willing to become a partner with the owl.

So Li Bida hugged Niko's waist, placed her on the back of the owl, and then patted the horse's hips. This was a normal signal. The owl immediately carried Niko's Nyko and ran towards the other side of the mountain. Niko shouted loudly and scolded his mount, but the other party was not moved at all. At this time, Li Bida and Helenputina looked at each other on the hillside, "I am determined to fulfill my promise with you and not take Niko to Rome, not because I dislike the burden, but because I have the same worries as you."

"You must take care of yourself," Helenputina said, and then she settled and said to Li Bida, "We will settle in the plains of Armenia soon, and I will not refuse you thousands of miles away like before." Over there, the angry Niko rode the owl and was whipping the owl hard, and tears were also rolling in her eyes. She could not accept the fact that she was suddenly abandoned by her father. She didn't understand why her father did this.

After a long march, the Libida army, who left the rough and wild land of Xiaoya behind, finally gathered and hired ships and arrived in Byzantium, an autonomous city loyal to the Roman Republic. After a happy market, they followed Pera and Aege and went straight to Delphi, the "World Navel" beside the Bay of Corinth.

Because of the large number of soldiers and horses, they could only stay in the wilderness outside the Delphi Temple. Li Bida didn't need to say much, but just presented a large amount of incense and myrrh to this oracle city. This was bought from Persian and Indian merchants in the city of Chinodosha. It was the favorite thing of the Greek priests. As a result, the manager not only allowed Li Bida to hold Crasso's funeral here, but also allowed all soldiers to come to watch the ceremony.

Because the largest and most famous Apollo temple in this city is located on the cliff of Mount Panase, 800 romas from the highland. When all the people gathered at the foot of the mountain, at dawn, Libidaus, the "friend of God" all over his body was bathed in the spring. He put on a coarse cloth clothes, and personally led the sacrifice according to the priest's request. A bull, dragging Edlomax behind him, slowly facing the morning star from the ramp, walked to the altar of the temple. This altar that imitated the Egyptian Sphinx was ignited all year round. The location could be made for all soldiers to see clearly. Many of the slightly educated officers and soldiers shed tears excitedly. For those who believe in Greek polytheism, Delphi is undoubtedly the holy place in their hearts.

First, several priests and centurions cried with Li Bida, holding Crasso's head and prayed at the altar. Of course, Li Bida understood that this head was actually the real Pascianus, and he had already struggled tortuously. He found out in the knight world of Rome that this man had been secretly kept because of his similar appearance to Crasso and was a sheltered man who had gained many benefits from him. He only served death at the critical moment.

Then, under the guidance of the young priest who was playing the flute and holding an olive branch, Li Bida followed step by step, held his head through the main hall and corridor of the temple, and placed it in the pre-digged tomb. Next to the cemetery, a group of the most famous carving workers were carefully carving the statue of the consul Crassus as a long memory.

Then Li Bida washed his hands, changed into a white robe, and stood in the pond under the temporary sacrificial platform. The centurion drove the sacrificial cow up. Then a whine sounded, and the ox fell down, and all the blood poured down along the wooden frame of the sacrificial platform and poured on Li Bida. At this time, the soldiers at the foot of the mountain saw this scene and all excitedly raised the flags and team signs to greet them. Then Edlomax, whose legs were tied up by trees bent and overwhelmed with ropes, after a command, the priest cut off the rope with a sharp axe, and the trees soared up, tearing them in half in the air, shaking them in half, respectively, with the branches on both sides. Compared to the soldiers prefer to watch this bloodthirsty and exciting scene, they cheered loudly and waved and applauded at the top of the mountain.

After the live sacrifice, Li Bida, covered in blood, walked up the higher stairs and in a basement dug between the cliffs, he hugged and walked in. There was an obese woman sitting inside. Li Bida had known from the priests of the temple that this woman was selected by a mysterious way from the countryside around Delphi. She was illiterate and looked extremely ugly and fat. She hung on the rock with a rope and a couch, behind her butt

Sitting in the crack, a very unpleasant steam emerged from it, probably the smell of sulfur. Li Bida did not dare to pinch his nose, because the most important and most notorious oracle was spoken from the woman's mouth. She was crazy and loudly carved various inexplicable lines on the board with a knife, and then threw the board to the male priest. They invited Li Bida out and came to the temple to interpret the witch's ghost paintings in the form of rhyme.

Finally, in the morning sun, Li Bida changed into a clean robe, walked out of the temple, stood on the rocks of Panasse, facing the entire army standing in the morning breeze, he was solemn, wearing a sunny halo, like a god. At this time, the people standing in the holy forest hurriedly flew out a hungry dove. The dove hovered over the temple for two times, and then fell clearly on Li Bida's shoulder. The other party smiled and took off the paper scroll in his mouth, and then shook the hidden bag in his robe, and the delicious peas and broad beans appeared, and the dove surrounded him affectionately. From the perspective of the soldiers, it was like a messenger of Mercury and Apollo. Then Li Bida unfolded the paper scroll and read Apollo's oracle to everyone at the foot of the mountain:

"The luck quota for this era has ended, and new wars will rise with new heroes."
Chapter completed!