The Hozen are one of the native races of Pandaria. Their main gathering place is Grookin Hill in the eastern Jade Forest, and they have established several camps around this mountain.
The Hozen once established their own kingdom with the help of the Jinyu. However, as time passed, the audacious Hozen began to act recklessly and frequently caused border frictions with the Jinyu kingdom.
Later, after the Thunder King rose to power and began conquering the various races of the Pandaria region, the Jinyu and the Hozen formed an alliance to jointly resist the Mogu army.
Unfortunately, the Thunder King's army was very powerful. Suffering repeated defeats, the Hozen had a change of heart and chose to defect, betraying the Jinyu in an attempt to join the Thunder King's side.
However, as far as the Thunder King was concerned, the Hozen, the Jinyu, and even the Pandaren were all inferior races and there was no need to recruit them.
The Mogu army advanced all the way, conquering all the cities of the Jinyu and Hozen, depriving them of their civilization and turning them into slaves of the Mogu.
From then on, the Jinyu and Hozen became irreconcilable. Even after the Pandaren successfully revolted and established the Pandaren Empire, the two sides remained in a hostile relationship.
However, a remarkable figure once emerged from the Hozen race, and that was the Jade Serpent's companion: the Monkey King.
This Monkey King followed the path of the Monk and possessed a divine weapon bestowed by the Azure Serpent. Upon thinking of this, Galen had already set his sights on this weapon, planning to find an opportunity to obtain it and give it to Old Chen.
Galen and his group followed the Hozen deeper into the forest, encountering more and more Hozen along the way.
However, with the Hozen squad leader leading the way, those Hozen quietly stayed on the hilltops or perched on the branches without making any other movements.
Deep in the forest, Galen saw the leader of this Hozen group.
This was a huge Hozen, at least four meters tall. He wore a linen top and his lower body was covered with large leaves. He held a huge beast bone as a weapon, which looked like the hind leg bone of a tiger.
The Hozen who had been beaten by Galen saw his boss, and his leg was no longer lame, his waist no longer hurt, and he quickly ran to the big Hozen, and then began to gesticulate and babble, seemingly complaining!
"Ugly hairless ones! Invading!"
"Challenge..."
As a result, after speaking, the complaining Hozen was kicked away by the leader.
"Uuk-Uuk!"
The big Hozen patted his chest: "Accept challenge! Awoo! I will beat you flat, beat you until you can't find your teeth, fool!"
Oh, Uuk-Uuk, an acquaintance!
"Oh oh! Someone is challenging Great Uuk-Uuk!"
The forest immediately became noisy, and the Hozen on the trees were in an uproar!
"The fool is going to be beaten flat!"
"Hit him hard! Beat him hard!"
Faced with Uuk-Uuk's provocation, Old Chen was about to step forward. He could beat ten of these big Hozen who didn't have any fighting skills!
But Galen stopped him.
"Great Lord?" Old Chen asked in confusion.
"I'll beat him!"
In his previous life, Galen leveled four or five accounts in Pandaria by completing all the quests. This Uuk-Uuk died in his hands again and again, and today he will beat him again in reality!
Galen slammed the Azure Dragon Crescent Blade in his hand heavily on the ground, standing it upright, and then went up empty-handed.
"Ugly hairless one, I'll beat you to death!"
Uuk-Uuk roared and swung the bone hammer at Galen.
Galen didn't even look at him and directly waved his right hand!
Bang!
The huge force hit the bone hammer, and the big Hozen couldn't hold it at once, and the bone hammer flew straight out!
Roar!
Uuk-Uuk was so angry that he clenched his fists with both hands and attacked Galen again. Galen still took his fists with one hand, and then pinched the index finger of his right claw!
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
Uuk-Uuk was lifted off the ground by Galen, and then easily thrown over his shoulder by Galen, and then slammed back and forth.
After a few times back and forth, Uuk-Uuk was already dizzy.
When his body left the ground again, his clever intelligence once again occupied the high ground, and he begged for mercy.
"You win, you win, hairless one, you are the Hozen nemesis, don't fight anymore!"
Bang!
Galen let go, and Uuk-Uuk flew out!
The Hozen climbing on the trees were also stunned at this moment!
"The hairless one beat Great Uuk-Uuk!"
"Ah ah! The fool is the Hozen's nemesis!"
"A thousand-cut Hozen killer!"
At this moment, Galen seemed to see his prestige among the forest Hozen change from hatred to indifference...
The Hozen looked at Galen in fear, and Uuk-Uuk got up and wanted to run away.
"Did I let you go? Come here!"
Galen summoned Uuk-Uuk to him like summoning a pet: "Go tell your chieftain in the back mountain that I will visit your city soon!"
"Get out!"
Hearing this, Uuk-Uuk jumped up as if he had been granted amnesty, endured the severe pain in his body, and jumped into the forest, running away screaming all the way.
The surrounding Hozen also scattered after the leader fled.
Galen looked at the messy forest and turned his gaze to the forest on his left. There was a rustling sound coming from there, and a Pandaren wearing a scholar's robe came out of the bushes.
His scholar's robe was like a book draped over his body, covered with various elegant symbols.
"Hello, strangers, my name is Chou Zhuo, a wanderer!"
The main character appeared.
Galen carefully looked at this Pandaren. He looked younger than Old Chen, but that was normal. In his previous life, when Pandaria appeared in the world, it was year thirty-two of the Dark Portal, and now Galen entered Pandaria ten years earlier, and Chou Zhuo was still young.
"You have left a deep impression on those Hozen. I dare say they have begun to fear you, foreigner. I have many questions I want to ask you, but this is not the place to chat. Please follow me. I live in the Grotto of Ten Thousand Whispers on this mountain!"
Galen signaled Chou Zhuo to lead the way, and then led Aurilia and her group to follow Chou Zhuo's footsteps.
The Grotto of Ten Thousand Whispers, a huge cave, is Chou Zhuo's private research institute.
After Galen followed the Pandaren into the cave, he saw that the stone walls of the cave were covered with huge white cloth scrolls like ordinary curtains, covered with Pandaren characters.
"The Hozen have many characteristics, but they are not cowardly—at least, not always cowardly. If you don't want to fight them, you must...subdue them! Now, thanks to you, the Hozen have begun to fear your people. Wait for me for a moment!"
After being busy for a while, Chou Zhuo poured a cup of tea for each of Galen's eight people, and the group began a tea party.
"Welcome to the Grotto of Ten Thousand Whispers, visitors from another race! Pandaria has not had strangers visit for more than 10,000 years. You should be here for peace, right?"
Chou Zhuo began to observe Galen and his group when the commotion occurred in the Hozen Forest.
A Jinyu, two Pandaren, one large and one small, and three foreign adults and two foreign children.
The five alien-like people resembled the legendary Night Elves, but were very different from the Night Elves who helped the Pandaren guard the Serpent's Spine against the Mantid.
They were slimmer and more petite, with fairer skin, and their ears, while still pointed, were more delicate and small.
And Galen, from a race that Zhou Zhuo had never seen before, and he quickly realized that this alien man was the leader of the group.
This discovery excited Zhou Zhuo!
Since the legendary Liu Lang, he had never heard of anyone being able to cross the mists surrounding Pandaria!
He had been a Lorewalker for more than ten years, and he had memorized the knowledge of the Lorewalker organization. Later, he began to travel the entire continent on foot. He had been to the sacred Kun-Lai Summit, hiking up the mountain to see the spirit Xuen, and had also been to Krasarang Wilds, immersing himself in the study of the lost Mogu history at Zhu 鹤 Temple.
He even climbed the Serpent's Spine from the northern Kun-Lai Summit all the way to the southern Krasarang Wilds, measuring the length of the Great Wall.
After Pandaria was explored by him, he had different thoughts. He wanted to know what the outside world was like now.
In recent years, he returned to his hometown, the Jade Forest, and regretted that he had not lived in the same era as Liu Lang, so that he could have followed Liu Lang on the Shen-zin Su to explore the unknown world outside!
And the appearance of Galen made Zhou Zhuo's heart beat violently again. He realized that in his era, someone who could cross the mists had appeared again!
This time, he must seize the opportunity to get out of the mist, explore more of the world, and dig up more secrets.
"My name is Galen Tollbane, from a world outside of Pandaria. These are my family. Old Chen and Lili are from the Wandering Isle, descendants of the Pandaren who went to sea with Liu Lang. This is Mr. Wanyu, a fisherman from Shangri-La Village, and our guide."
After listening, Zhou Zhuo showed an expression of "as expected". "Galen, let's get to know each other better. I am called a Lorewalker, and can be said to be a historian among us Pandaren."
"Knowledge is my armor, and the quill is my sword. Even the history of Pandaria is shrouded in mist for us. The mission of the Lorewalkers is to bring history back to light and dispel the mist bit by bit. This requires us to tirelessly explore the clues left by the ancients and use wisdom to reveal the truth."
Galen listened carefully to Zhou Zhuo and agreed with his words: "Mr. Zhou Zhuo, I agree with your words very much. In fact, I have several friends who have similar ideas to you. In our outside world, they are called explorers."
"Oh! What a wonderful world!"
"Actually, we came all the way from Shangri-La to find you, Mr. Zhou Zhuo."
Zhou Zhuo was stunned, obviously not expecting that Galen and the others had come to find him.
"We are new to Pandaria, and we are unfamiliar with this continent, including Chen. They have been away from Pandaria for too long, and he doesn't even know where their ancestral home, the Stormstout Brewery, is!"
Galen picked up his teacup, took a shallow sip, and the faint tea fragrance instantly filled his mouth: "Good tea!"
"Mr. Zhou Zhuo, in exchange, when we finish our trip to Pandaria, we can take you to our country and take you to travel the outside world!"
This hit Zhou Zhuo's heart, and what Galen said was undoubtedly a great temptation.
"No problem, my new friends, where is our first stop?"
"Temple of the Jade Serpent!"
...............
On a mysterious peak in the northern Kun-Lai Mountains, there is a vast complex of buildings. In addition to those buildings, the most conspicuous is a wide martial arts field, where thousands of Pandaren are practicing martial arts.
And here is Pandaria's largest military organization: the Shado-Pan!
The Shado-Pan has a deep foundation. For thousands of years, they have been protecting the Pandaren of Pandaria from the threat of the Mantid in the west and the Sha underground.
At this time, a Pandaren wearing exquisite black and red leather armor, a bamboo hat, and a red mask on his face was standing in the 閣樓 looking at the disciples practicing martial arts outside the window.
But his thoughts were not here.
This stemmed from the fact that he had received information about outsiders not long ago.
"Master, you're looking for me?"
A equally burly Pandaren walked over.
"That's right, Master Xue Liu, some emergencies have occurred in the Jade Forest. A warship has crossed the mists and entered Pandaria from the outside world."
When Master Xue Liu heard the news, he looked a little surprised. Since Liu Lang, he had never heard of anyone being able to cross the mists of Pandaria.
"Does the master want to take a trip in person?"
Master Xue Liu is one of the few Pandaren martial arts masters who has devoted his life to reaching the realm of perfection, and his status in the Shado-Pan Monastery is extremely high, second only to Headmaster Zhu Talan.
Zhu Talan closed his eyes and recalled the information just now, which was delivered by Elder Yin Bocheng of Shangri-La Village through the Cloud Serpent Rider Corps at eight hundred miles per hour.
Although the Pandaren are peaceful and simple, they are not stupid. Yin Bocheng, as the elder of the Anglers, a Pandaren folk organization, also knows about the Sha Demon in Pandaria.
The Pandaren from the Wandering Isle may be able to control their emotions well, but he doesn't know the Galen family well. Letting them walk on this land is too dangerous.
Therefore, the old Pandaren superficially let Wanyu act as a guide, but in fact, he wanted to confirm that Galen's route was under his control, and then sent this information to the nearby Tianchan Temple.
Tianchan Temple is the largest military organization of the Pandaren in the Jade Forest. After learning about the urgency of this information, it directly mobilized the Cloud Serpent to the Shado-Pan's station.
"That's right, I'm worried that the emotions of the outsiders will trigger the Sha Demon underground. In order to reduce unnecessary trouble, I'm going to make a trip to the Jade Forest."
Zhu Talan stretched out his hands and straightened his bamboo hat, "Master Xue Liu, before I come back, everything in the Shado-Pan Monastery will be under your control."
"Don't worry, Master, leave everything to me!"
Master Xue Liu has seniority, high strength, prestige, and many apprentices, but Zhu Talan is equally not to be underestimated. He defeated many outstanding candidates at a young age and became the youngest headmaster of the Shado-Pan in thousands of years.
Not long ago, he broke through to the middle stage of legend, and Master Xue Liu took more than ten years to reach his stage.