After a century of worship, I became the ancestor of the tribe.

Chapter 113 Heavenly Fire, Kuafu Chasing the Sun! (Please Subscribe)
Inside the ancestral temple.

Shen Can listened to the fragments of words coming from the sacrificial vessel, and then released his divine sense into the vessel.

Half an hour passed, and the spirit master was still repeating his words, completely ignoring him.

Shen Can turned his attention to the stone mural he had just seen.

I was only thinking about collecting stone murals from all over the place before, I never thought I could paint these myself.

He looked at the fish image in the temple and, combined with the words spoken by the spirit, gained some insight.

Shen Can asked A Yu to find some stone pieces and then took out the witch nails to draw on them.

This time, the little dragonfish he drew was much clearer and more lifelike, with dragon whiskers, golden scales, and even blowing bubbles.

After finishing the mural, Shen Can drew beast blood shamanic symbols on it and placed it on the offering table in front of the sacrificial cauldron.

Then, he painted a mural of a small dragonfish eating grass.

The senior's few words were easy to interpret: taking a herb called 'Dragon Grass' seemed to help purify the bloodline of dragon-type wild beasts.

The Great Wilderness has a wide variety of medicinal herbs, but Shen Can didn't recognize the Dragon Grass, so he could only draw the appearance of one of them at random.

"No...not right...wrong, wrong..."

Not long after, the senior inside the sacrificial cauldron shook his head slightly.

Shen Can released his divine sense again, attempting to communicate with the sacrificial spirit.

"Senior, what does dragon grass look like?"

"Wrong, wrong."

Seeing that the sacrificial spirit was still speaking on its own, Shen Can continued to draw the picture of the little dragonfish eating grass while communicating with it using his divine sense.

"Wrong, it's not dragon grass."

Every painting placed on the altar is rejected by the spirits.

Shen Can painted until late into the night, and the murals on the offering table were piled up like a small mountain.

In the main hall of the ancestral temple, the lights flickered, and the only sound was the shaman's nails carving on the stone.

"Wrong, wrong, leafless... Nine-Bend Conch..."

At this moment, the divine thoughts of the sacrificial spirit rippled outwards.

Shen Can's divine sense captured a picture of medicinal herbs.

Its entire body is bluish-green, and it grows in a spiral pattern starting from the root, resembling a winding vine, without any leaves.

This spiral-growing herb is quite common in the wild mountains and fields.

However, this picture makes things easier. When the clansmen go out to collect herbs, they can bring back similar ones and try them one by one to find out what they are.

Although the Zhiyan tribe is now cultivating commonly used witchcraft medicines, they have not given up collecting various herbs from the mountains and forests.

Backed by the Juyue Mountains, it contains many medicinal herbs with long histories.

In the past, the tribe lacked the strength to gather herbs, but as the tribe's strength increased, the area where its members gathered herbs also expanded.

After the shamans have examined the age and potency of the medicinal herbs collected by the tribesmen, they will record the tribesmen's merits based on the rarity of the herbs.

The clan is currently improving its clan merit exchange system, which converts clan members' labor, battles, and other achievements into clan merits, which can be exchanged for cultivation resources and weapons in the clan treasury.

The clan is also gradually adjusting the allocation of basic cultivation resources to its members, striving to reach a relatively appropriate amount.

In this situation, even ordinary clansmen who made pottery or wove bamboo baskets would receive corresponding merits.

If any useful methods or skills are discovered for the clan, more merits will be awarded after evaluation.

Young martial arts practitioners who break through the limits of a certain energy level within a limited time will also receive rewards.

In this situation, a complete family within the clan can earn merit points, including the baby who feeds the arowana, the older teenagers, and the parents.

These merits can be exchanged for more cultivation resources for one's own children, and for better weapons, armor, bows, and crossbows for the men in the family.

Of course, to complete this merit exchange system, it is necessary to enrich the resources in the clan treasury. Currently, this system is still in its initial stage.

The next day, Shen Can assigned the task of finding the dragon grass to Huo Tang and distributed it within the clan.

Within a few days, some of the tribesmen who went into the mountains to collect herbs brought back some similar herbs.

Dragonfish Cave.

"Plu".

As soon as the arowana saw that it wasn't fruit, it flicked its tail and dived into the water.

They don't even give us meat, they just feed us grass.

"This is dragon grass, which can purify the blood in your body."

The water splashed, and the little dragonfish popped its head out, its watery eyes staring at Shen Can.

"Try it, what if it is?"

Shen Can grabbed the spiral-shaped grass and stuffed it into the little dragonfish's mouth. Actually, he also felt that none of the plants in front of him were the right ones.

After stuffing it into the fish's mouth, Shen Can pressed his hands down on the little dragonfish's mouth.

For a long time, there was no movement.

The aura emanating from the little dragonfish is now becoming increasingly difficult to contain, occasionally releasing a vast surge of water power—a sign that it is about to break through to a higher level.

But it's still a little short, so now it lives like an old fish, receiving food from its own kind every day.

I came here and irrigated two acres of land, and that's how I got a long-term meal ticket.

It knew it was about to break through, so it started eating meat, which it hadn't eaten much before, and Huojun would occasionally bring it some witchcraft medicine.

When he got tired of staying in the cave, he would go out and trick the children out of their fruit.

After a long while, the little dragonfish opened its mouth, deliberately showing it to Shen Can, its meaning clear: see, it ate it all.

"This is a unique recipe I obtained; this time, I must have just not found the right herbs."

Shen Can patted the little dragonfish's head and turned to walk outside.

The little dragonfish blew a bubble at Shen Can's retreating figure.

“I… am an arowana, no… am a grass carp.”

……

Shen Can naturally heard the little dragonfish's mutterings, but he ignored it. It was almost at the third level and it still couldn't speak properly.

It turns out that arowanas not only eat grass, but also trees and mushrooms.

As time went by, tribesmen who went out to collect herbs brought back grasses similar to dragon grass, and some even carried back spiral-shaped trees.

Two months later, a member of the tribe brought back a spiral mushroom that looked crystal clear and had the same texture as a wild mushroom.

"eat."

After the arowana finished eating, its eyes glistened with moisture, and golden light shimmered on its scales, but this only lasted for a breath before disappearing.

Three plants were harvested in total. The little dragonfish ate two of them, and Shen Can grabbed the third one first.

"eat!"

Shen Can pressed down on the little dragonfish's mouth and pushed it back into the pool.

"This plant cannot be eaten for the time being. I need to have the Witch Temple inspect it, and I also need to have the clansmen collect a sample of the witch medicine for reference, so that we can continuously collect it for you."

Shen Can used his divine sense to sense the dragon grass. If the communication was not smooth, it wouldn't work. This thing looked crystal clear, but its internal structure was like that of a wild mushroom, with tiny, extremely fine blood lines, and it exuded a mysterious aura.

Such minute and mysterious substances require long-term, large-scale consumption to induce a transformation in a small arowana.

After leaving the cave, Shen Can handed the matter over to Huo Jun, asking the clansmen who had collected the dragon grass to go back again.

They were instructed to find out the environmental conditions of the place where the dragon grass grew, and to dig up the soil, rocks and vegetation in the nearby area to see if they could be cultivated and planted within the tribe.

……

The Blazing Flame Tribe was originally located near the Great Swamp, but the swamp's waters receded more and more each day.

The tribesmen went to the area where the water had receded and dug, filling the fields with silt. Along the way, they also dug an artificial river to connect the tribes.

The water storage tanks in the underground channels were also being expanded and increased, with water drawn from the swamp being poured into the tanks.

Because of the receding waters, a lot of fish, shrimp, crabs, and loaches were caught, and for a period of time, every family in the tribe was eating fish.

In particular, aquatic creatures such as loach, blood eel, and leech are excellent resources for martial arts practitioners.

Now most people in the clan have started practicing the Ape Form Stance, a tempering method that also absorbs fire energy. Due to the changes in the world, the cultivation effect has been greatly improved.

On the open ground near the ancestral temple.

Shen Can was also cultivating. Many clansmen had already seen him practicing martial arts, and no one came to ask the shaman why he was practicing boxing. In everyone's eyes, it was a perfectly normal thing for the temple shrine to practice boxing.

Otherwise, how could I have taught everyone how to practice the True Beast Stance Technique before?

Despite practicing martial arts at the temple for so long, he hasn't gotten any stronger.

Shen Can suddenly threw a punch, his blood energy gathering in his fist and roaring, a muffled roar resounding, his bones and muscles cracking continuously.

His divine sense wandered around, absorbing strands of fire energy, which were quickly incorporated into his body as he practiced the Ape Stance Technique.

"Pick the peaches!"

With a single punch, the fist instantly transforms into a five-finger gripping technique, a weapon-seizing move that comes with the Ape Stance Skill, and can also be used for rock climbing and surprise attacks.

As it turns out, the Five-Stage Technique still has an auxiliary effect on cultivation even at the Heavenly Vein Realm. That's why he used this technique instead of the Kui Thunder Technique.

The main problem is that water resources have become extremely scarce, while fire resources in the vicinity have become more abundant.

Shen Can plans to further develop this move into a matching martial arts technique, and then further develop the Five Stances Technique into the Heavenly Meridian Technique.

As a large amount of fire energy entered his body, Shen Can felt his blood and qi surging within his meridians.

Previously, the blood energy transformed from water source power was used to open the Heavenly Meridians. Now, fire source power is entering the body, and the two source powers are colliding.

However, it's not a big problem. In the Heavenly Vein, in addition to the two source forces of water and fire, there are also three additional source forces of metal, wood, and earth.

Although these three sources of energy do not account for as much as water and fire, with the harmonization of these three sources of energy, the blood and energy within the Heavenly Vein did not collide with water and fire.

On the contrary, the explosive aura of the fire source force further accelerated Shen Can's cultivation speed.

After finishing his stance training, Shen Can walked towards the cave and jumped directly into the bottom of the Little Dragon Fish Boiling Water Pool.

There is a stone chamber separated by water bubbles in the pool, and the main vein of the clan's primordial energy passes through the bottom of the stone chamber.

The primordial veins that once sank deep into the clan's territory, as thin as a spider's thread, have now shimmered with five colors. The main vein has grown to about a foot in size, while the branches spread throughout the entire clan's territory like the roots of a large tree.

There is a clump of grass in the stone chamber, where streams of rich Five Elements energy converge.

This cultivation chamber was built less than two months ago, and based on the current capacity of the Yuan Meridian to absorb source energy, only one such chamber can be built.

In the future, as the clan's Yuanmai level improves, they might be able to open up more cultivation rooms on the clan mountain.

Absorbing source energy here is equivalent to ten days in one day, but you need to let your primordial meridians rest for two or three days after every two days of cultivation.

Currently, Shen Can is still cultivating according to the operating method of the Kui Lei Gong. With all five elements present, it is still usable, enough for him to cultivate while simultaneously deriving new techniques.

The five elements' source power converged into a thin mist, which poured into Shen Can's body. Then, the blood energy in his Heavenly Meridian surged and rushed towards the fifth Heavenly Meridian.

With a loud bang, the blood energy surged and smashed open the fifth Heavenly Vein. The newly integrated source energy, which had not yet been fully transformed into blood energy, rapidly transformed between the old and new Heavenly Veins.

After breaking through, Shen Can did not rush to leave. He stabilized his realm before leaving the cultivation chamber.

Upon returning, they immediately saw two wild deer with jade-like antlers, their limbs broken and placed outside the ancestral temple.

"Miaotiao, this is a newly caught beast. We rarely see this kind of wild beast around here. Look at the patterns on its antlers, it must be a different species."

Shen Can looked at the two wild deer and confirmed that they were indeed a different species.

Wild beasts and exotic species are rare. Over the years, the tribe has only encountered them a few times. However, they did manage to capture an exotic species, the Heluo Fish, during the flood.

Now that the water level in the Great Swamp has receded so much, we haven't encountered any more exotic fish. Oh, right, the little dragonfish is one; it's a spiritual auspicious beast.

With a rare wild beast as a sacrifice, Shen Can arranged for his people to clean the beast, and he also washed himself before starting to cut the rare wild deer.

……

Night falls on the Zaoshan settlement, the southwesternmost part of the Zhiyan tribe.

Torches illuminated the mountains and fields, and the tribal soldiers traversed the nearby hills. A group of seven or eight people carried a wild beast covered in black fur into the settlement.

"We caught it! I haven't seen such a big wild bear in decades. Its eyes are green, and its ferocity is terrifying."

"It will take the leaders to come; we really can't take down this wild bear on our own."

The people in the settlement gathered around, all eyeing the wild beast that had attacked their village.

After examining the wild bear, Kang Lu asked, "Have there been many wild beasts appearing in the vicinity recently?"

"A lot! I've caught several wild beasts this month that I rarely see before. There haven't been any like this in the first half of the year."

“Yes, I haven’t seen a wild tiger since we migrated to Zaoshan. I think I saw one from a distance a few days ago, and I told the village chief about it when I got back.”

As the group spoke, Kang Lu looked toward the leading settlement, Changyun Mountain.

"Many, the tribespeople have reported it. Starting a month or two ago, there have been many more wild beasts in the nearby mountains and forests, as if they were crossing the border."

Yunshan responded, "I reported this matter to the clan council half a month ago. What's wrong? Is it the same in other settlements?"

“Yes, the various settlements are often attacked by wild beasts, some of which, like this wild bear, are almost at the third level in strength.”

……

After resting for a night at Zaoshan, Kanglu led his tribesmen back to the main camp the next day and reported the news.

Clan Hall.

At Huotang, there's already a stack of reports about the various settlements being attacked by wild beasts.

To this end, two thousand tribal soldiers were specially selected and, together with warriors temporarily recruited from various settlements, formed hunting teams to both protect the settlements and hunt.

Suddenly, the number of wild beasts increased, and the ancestors' lives improved dramatically.

As the waters of the great marsh receded day by day, the traces of aquatic beasts became hard to find, while wild beasts from the land and forests took their place, completely surpassing the wild beasts in both quality and quantity.

Besides the tribe members hunting, sometimes the people would also bring wild beasts with strange appearances to the ancestral temple after hunting them.

On his busiest day, Shen Can stabbed nine wild beasts.

As for rank, first rank is the most common, but the rank of wild beasts is not important. What is important is the actions of the people in each settlement, such as offering sacrifices to the ancestral temple and generating vows. These are important for stabilizing the sacrificial spirit.

……

The scorching heat extends ten thousand miles to the west.

In the vast valley below the Juyue Mountains, snowmelt flows down from the Juyue Mountains and gathers into a great river, flowing through a vast territory surrounded by mountains, rivers, and giant lakes.

Rivers flow like veins across the entire wasteland, and tribes are scattered throughout the wasteland.

This is the Lingyu River Valley where the Lingyu tribe is located.

A fertile land surrounded by towering mountains, with snowmelt flowing year-round.

On this day, to the west of Lingyubo tribe and its subordinate tribes, raging fires erupted, with streaks of flame turning into sparks that fell and ignited the mountains.

The flames blotted out the sky and had no end.

The raging flames rapidly melted the snow-capped peaks deep within the Juyue Mountains, and the great river that had been irrigating the valleys suddenly turned into a torrent gushing out of the mountains.

Water and fire collided in the vast river valley at this moment.

On the undulating, wild land to the west of the valley, flames devoured everything, and the slow-moving wild beasts were consumed by the raging fire.

Clusters of flames danced and leaped through the air, as if something in the sky was gathering fire.

The mountains north of the Lingyu River Valley are crowded with countless houses and people.

A middle-aged martial artist, dressed in a silk robe with a dragon pattern, gazed into the distance.

He was surrounded by a group of imposing warriors or wizards, all gazing at the blazing sky.

Amidst the raging flames, a colossal dark golden phantom danced in the fire.

"It's the Golden Crow!"

At this moment, Lord Lingyu spoke.

Soon, amidst the flames that seemed to connect heaven and earth, everyone saw a large, golden, three-legged bird flapping its wings, its body surrounded by clusters of fire.

These sparks falling from the sky will turn into raging flames on a mountain range.

"Chirp!"

Sometimes, the Golden Crow would open its mouth and suck in the raging fire covering the mountain, then spit it out towards the smoke-filled area behind it.

The earth trembled even more violently at that moment.

From the thick smoke that blotted out the sun, a foot as large as a mountain stepped out, shattering the hills with a thunderous crash and smashing the falling flames head-on.

The bursts of flame turned into countless sparks that scattered across the sky, making the fire on the ground even more intense.

The first giant revealed its full form, exuding an extremely intense and primal aura. It held a stone spear as large as a mountain and thrust it towards the golden crow high in the sky.

They attacked each other, each only having eyes for the other.

Wherever it passed, mountains collapsed and the earth cracked, and heavenly fire raged. Humans, alien races, and wild beasts who could not escape were swallowed by fire and crushed by giants.

(End of this chapter)