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

Chapter 121 Fertile Land, Rain Master Dragon Fish

Mountains rise in clusters, their peaks tinged with white at the northern horizon.

Shen Can climbed to the top of a mountain over a thousand feet high, overlooking the valley. As far as the eye could see, there were wastelands, jungles, and rivers and lakes.

Not far away, a winding river flows out from the mountains and deep into the wilderness.

A herd of giant deer galloped past, and nearby a small group of Lieshan Kui passed by, lingering by the river to drink.

After more than a month of migration, the human race belonging to the Blazing Flame Tribe finally entered this valley.

The soil here is generally black, but when you turn it over, you can see small soil particles in various colors such as red and gold.

After gazing at the mountains for a while, Shen Can headed down the mountain.

A mountain over three thousand feet tall is hardly noticeable in the Juyue Mountains; distant mountains rise straight into the clouds, covered in snow.

This place was unaffected by the Golden Crow and Kuafu, and the snowmelt from the mountains is abundant. If it weren't hidden deep in the mountains, it would have been occupied by some tribe long ago.

Shen Can didn't need to worry about the arrangements for the clan members; Huo Qi was handling everything.

The valley is irregularly shaped, with valleys connecting to it on all sides. It is 600 li wide at its widest point from north to south and more than 1,000 li wide from east to west.

The Blazing Flame Tribe doesn't level all of the valley's environment; the flat areas along the water's edge are sufficient for clearing land and farming.

The forests and rolling hills in the valley will be preserved as habitats for wild animals.

The entrances and exits of the valley and the surrounding mountains need to be guarded by troops to prevent any powerful wild beasts from rushing in and catching the people in the valley off guard.

Hundreds of thousands of people entered the valley, and their first step was naturally to find a place to establish their clan.

Needless to say, the territory of the Blazing Flame Tribe needs to be in the most central location so that it can radiate throughout the entire valley.

The various vassal tribes surrounded them like stars around the moon.

A new round of construction and land reclamation soon began, with fields being cultivated and houses built along the riverbank.

The ancestral temple, as the first building, was erected in the middle of the valley, and a city was built around the ancestral temple.

During the great reclamation, Shen Can finally received the battle report from the outside, along with a wrecked flying boat.

Huo Jia led a dozen or so tribesmen, all of them travel-worn, their armor covered in scratches and their fur loosened.

But everyone's eyes were burning with energy.

"Temple!"

A dozen or so people carried the flying boat and placed it in front of Shen Can, chuckling as they did so.

Shen Can didn't look at the flying boat first, but instead looked at the dozen or so clansmen.

"You're not hurt."

"The arrow holes have been repaired long ago."

"Tell me, how did you manage to move the flying boat out of the hands of the Xiaoyang tribe soldiers?"

Shen Can invited the group to sit together, then called out to a few children in the distance, "Go and call them, tell them we have a story to tell."

Upon hearing this, the children immediately ran off into the distance, shouting, "Listen to the story! Come and listen to the story!"

“Go to the temple of the shaman and have someone come and record this matter in the clan register.”

……

"Temple, this isn't right."

Upon hearing this, Huo Jia rubbed his hands together somewhat embarrassedly, as did the other dozen or so clansmen.

But he couldn't help but straighten his chest and subconsciously began to tidy up his tattered armor.

A group of children rushed over from all directions, along with some women holding children, and they quickly gathered outside the ancestral temple.

They surrounded it in layers, and some children even crowded around the flying boat, wanting to climb up and take a look.

"So this is a flying boat. Once the temple is repaired, does that mean we'll have flying boats too?"

"Needless to say."

"Jiawazi, did you shoot down this boat?"

"Father, you shot down the flying boat?"

……

Among the dozen or so people in the Fire Armor group, some of their family members also came over.

Seeing that the crowd had gathered, Shen Can said loudly, "Quiet down, everyone. Come on, let our boat-carrying warriors tell us how we obtained this flying boat."

Who wants to go first?

In front of so many clansmen, more than a dozen clansmen suddenly became shy and awkward.

Fire Armor pushed the others forward to speak, but was instead pushed out by the other dozen or so brothers.

"Jiawazi, tell me quickly, tell me quickly, I'm so anxious."

"It's just...it's just..."

Fire Armor rubbed his face. "The flying boat was captured by the Xiaoyang tribe. My brothers and I sneaked into the Xiaoyang camp under cover of night and stole it."

"Really? Are the Xiaoyang Clan blind?!"

“Let me tell you, it’s all thanks to the temple’s excellent teachings. We’ve managed to blend into the mountains and forests, and even if Xiao Yang wanted to catch us, he couldn’t.”

Once Huo Jia started talking, the other dozen or so people also stopped being shy and began to speak one by one.

“Our giant crossbow is on the mountain. We’ll fire one arrow and run, with Xiaoyang chasing after us.”

“Once the Xiaoyang Clan splits up to pursue us, our arrows will appear anywhere in the mountains and fields.”

"it is good!"

……

Cheers erupted from the crowd, and the children rushed to hug the returning martial artist, each one shouting that when they grew up they would fight Xiao Yang and steal the flying boat.

"What you call stealing is robbery. Fighting against alien races and seizing flying boats."

While everyone was listening to the story of the battle between Shanwai and Xiaoyang, Shen Can's gaze fell on the flying boat.

The flying boat was twelve feet and six feet long. Overall, it was not badly damaged; the main damaged parts were the wooden buildings on the flying boat.

In Shen Can's eyes, these buildings used for living were the least important.

Under divine perception, the hole in the ship was not difficult to repair; the main task was to mend the shamanic inscriptions on it.

The basic witchcraft array is intact, which means it can be copied and replicated, just like the previous bronze talisman witchcraft array.

What a good thing.

Once you learn it, one ship can become two.

It doesn't matter if the materials are a little inferior; we can upgrade them gradually.

The dozen or so members of the Huojia clan made significant contributions.

As time went by, more and more tribesmen gathered. The tribe soldiers who had come into the mountains to escort their tribesmen were all a little envious when they heard how lively the fighting was outside.

As night fell, bonfires were lit, and everyone gathered around them to continue listening to the stories of the battles between the mountains and Xiaoyang.

Ancestral temple.

The newly built ancestral temple is nine zhang deep and twelve zhang wide. Since it has just been built, the altar and sacrificial vessel platform have not yet been completed, and the shrines and sacrificial vessels have been temporarily placed there.

Below the altar.

Shen Can looked at the battle report sent by Huo Tang.

Fire Armor returned first with the flying boat, and the battle report was sent out later. Then, they caught up with Fire Armor and his group and came to the valley together.

From this battle report, Huotang recounted in detail how his people had...

He said he had prepared animal oil and firewood, intending to set Xiaoyang on fire, but the guys in his tribe were unruly and drove Xiaoyang away first.

Nothing else, Shen Can saw Huo Tang's smugness throughout the entire piece.

How could he not be smug? He was smug too.

Fire Chariot, Fire Armor, Fire Rabbit, Stone Thunder... and other tribesmen emerged in droves. After a battle, they accumulated experience and will be able to be sent out to govern a region in the future, which will put people at ease.

The era when no one could serve the scorching sun is gone forever.

Xiao Yang is actually quite kind; he helped Zhi Yan bring out so many clansmen.

In addition, Huotang also described in detail how Shi Jun and his group of Blood Curse Guards used a witchcraft-like method to kill the leader of the Xiaoyang tribe's soldiers when they fought against them.

According to the confession of the Xiaoyang Clan soldiers during interrogation, the commander who was killed by the Blood Curse Guards was at the seventh level of the Heavenly Vein Realm.

As Shen Can was looking at the battle report, a burly figure walked over from outside the ancestral temple and sat down motionless at the temple entrance.

Shen Can looked up and saw a volcano.

For no other reason than that, during this tribal migration, Volcano led his tribe's soldiers to guard the route and did not participate in the major battles outside.

They were just envious.

However, this time during the northward migration, the fire was left outside, so the volcano had to go into the mountains.

……

Outside the mountains.

The three tribes of Xiaoyang led their remaining troops in retreat. Of the original 20,000 Xiaoyang soldiers, less than 5,000 eventually retreated to the vicinity of the former Tongbei market.

The remaining soldiers dared not linger for a moment, heading south until they crossed the old Zhushui River channel, at which point they began to gather their scattered troops.

"Hahaha!"

The loach, the bear, and the sturgeon were all in a sorry state, but when they huddled together again, they looked at each other and burst into laughter. They'd made it out alive!
"I saw Qiu Feihuai, the commander of ten thousand men, being dragged out by his tribal soldiers."

After laughing, Muqiu looked at Qiuxiong.

"The two commanders, Mu Chang and Qiu Feihuai, were killed by the humans. Some of the remaining soldiers from the tribe's territory are still alive. We need to find Commander Qiu Feihuai as soon as possible. We need to give an explanation to the tribe."

Subsequently, they dispatched their tribesmen to search for the Flying Locust Tree.

Just one day later, they stopped the Xiaoyang tribe soldiers who were heading south with the heavily wounded Qiu Feihuai.

"Is the commander alright?"

On the back of a crocodile dragon, Qiu Feihuai had a large hole pierced through its belly, and its body was covered in bloodstains, mostly caused by armor-piercing arrows.

"Let's go back to our tribe first. I don't think the humans will come out of the mountains."

The group rushed to the Muqiu tribe and found a shaman with mediocre skills to treat Qiu Feihuai's injuries.

After waiting for two days, Qiu Feihuai finally managed to stand up with difficulty.

Upon hearing the report from his subordinates, he learned that of the three commanders, only one had survived, and of the tens of thousands of tribal soldiers he had brought, less than two thousand remained, nearly falling to their deaths.

In Ji, casualties of equal numbers of Xiaoyang often result in a far more devastating cost to the human race.

With the mission unfinished and only the commander of ten thousand men remaining, Qiu Feihuai considered the consequences of returning.

They might go visit their ancestral graves.

When Muqiu and the other two learned that Qiu Feihuai had woken up, they immediately came to his door.

After entering, Muqiu and Muxun glanced at Qiuxiong.

Qiu Xiong took a step forward and said, "Commander, this time we didn't figure out the relationship between the mountain tribe and the Lingyu tribe. The two commanders, Mu Chang and Mu Chang, were tricked and killed by the humans."

Qiu Feihuai remained silent, stunned.

After a long while, he looked at the three people present.

"Is this how you conduct your affairs within the tribe in the North?"

"It's all for the sake of the community."

Muqiu's eyelids drooped slightly.

The clan's powerful members were supposed to come to the north to meet us, but now that they've arrived, they're not letting us go back. We have nowhere to seek justice.

Fortunately, the sun passed through, and the miasma and swamps were dried up and turned into wasteland.

The same goes for the sturgeon and the bear. Although their respective groups were not in the core of their territories before, it was still better than being exiled to the north.

If the Northern Humans were weak, it would be understandable, but the Northern Humans are even worse than those brutes from Ji.

What else do you want us to do?
Tens of thousands of tribal soldiers died in the last battle.

Thousands more died this time.

If the three brothers hadn't annexed the scattered tribes so quickly, the tribes would have been torn apart both times.

Qiu Feihuai touched the hole in its belly, the pain shooting straight to its head. It thought of the mournful cries of its kin that echoed in its ears.

It had only heard this sound from the humans it had previously slaughtered.

Those masked figures looked as if they had emerged from blood.

Looking down at his wound, Qiu Feihuai muttered a curse, "With the Lingyu tribe involved, it's normal to lose."

……

The land of the Blazing Flame Clan.

After the remnants of Xiaoyang's army retreated, Huotang ordered the clan soldiers who were outside to also return and made new arrangements.

The tribe's troops also suffered considerable losses this time, mainly because the troops of the various vassal tribes were somewhat inferior, and they were repeatedly surrounded and annihilated by Xiaoyang during surprise attacks.

After the reorganization, most people will go into the mountains with the fire.

The warriors of the Blazing Flame Clan with Heavenly Vein-level combat power each selected elite clan soldiers to form small teams, continuing their activities outside the mountains, cultivating while fighting against Xiao Yang.

This time, the tribespeople who remained outside were no longer restricted to their activity areas and could gather the remaining people from outside the mountains.

The task Huotang gave them was simply to live and cultivate.

Under these two premises, we should appropriately gather some of the remaining people, collect information about Xiaoyang, and then develop however we wish.

These squads are all about flexibility and mobility, so each squad has about twenty or thirty people, with the lowest being more than twenty warriors at the Mountain Opening Realm with the power of Desolation.

After making the arrangements, Huotang burned the territory of the Blazing Flame Clan with raging fire and entered the mountains with a large amount of spoils.

……

half year later.

In the city of the Blazing Flame Clan, near the ancestral temple, a large lake is shrouded in mist.

The little dragonfish shone with golden light, stirring the entire surface of the lake and creating a misty, rain-like scene.

Golden scales burst open, releasing a blood mist that stained a large area of ​​nearby water vapor red.

Shen Can stood by the lake watching the little dragonfish break through its limits.

The breakthrough was quite significant.

The blood seeping from the arowana's body soaked into the runes on its scales. These runes were carved by the dragon claws in the ruins, and now they lit up one by one.

"what!"

The little arowana let out a scream just like a human. Suddenly, its belly swelled up, and two golden lights shone, as if two legs were about to grow out.

Not only that, its body also began to become slender.

The entire breakthrough took almost a day, and the little dragonfish cried out all day long.

Along the way, Shen Can took out two portions of nectar and fed them to the little dragonfish.

Finally, a powerful aura emanated from the little dragonfish, and water vapor from all directions seemed to be summoned, gathering beneath it.

At this moment, the little dragonfish was carried by the water vapor towards the outside of the clan city.

Outside the city, the clansmen had already cultivated the fields and planted millet and rice.

"Look, the fish can fly!"

The first thing they found was a group of children playing in the fields.

The little dragonfish seemed to ride the clouds and mist, arriving above a millet field, where large amounts of water vapor gathered and fell as raindrops.

The villagers working in the fields all looked up at the little dragonfish.

Although it has grown two legs and grown a lot compared to before, its appearance is still recognizable.

The little dragonfish rode the water vapor from east to west, continuously bringing rain to the fields, causing countless children to shout and chase after it.

Soon, they had irrigated more than half of a millet field in the south of the city.

Seeing that the water vapor around it had decreased, the little dragonfish used the water vapor to fly back to the city.

"hungry."

Arriving in front of Shen Can, the little dragonfish supported itself on its four newly grown legs, stood upright in the mist, tilted its head, and opened and closed its mouth.

"Work will be provided with meals."

"Alright, I'll give you a bushel of grain for every acre of land harvested."

The little arowana shook its head, "I want to eat meat!"

Shen Can turned and walked towards the ancestral temple, with the little dragon fish following behind, manipulating water vapor.

"Is it okay to eat only once a day?"

"How about we eat it once every two or three days, no, that's fine too."

"I now prefer foods with a good balance of lean and fatty meat."

……

Huotang came from afar; he already knew about Xiaolongyu irrigating the fields outside the city.

"Tell me what you want to eat, and I'll arrange for a few people to grill meat just for you."

The little arowana flicked its tail and charged towards the fire pit.

"As long as I'm full, I promise to water the plants properly."

As Shen Can entered the ancestral temple, he took a step back and turned around, saying, "That's called rainfall."

"Oh yes, with the rainfall, all the tribe's fields are mine."

Huotang patted the little dragonfish's forehead, surprised by how much the dragonfish had changed after its advancement.

"I need to talk to Ah-Can about something. I'll have someone cook you some meat in a bit."

"Then don't forget."

The little dragonfish glanced at the ancestral temple, gave Huotang a few words of advice, and then flicked its tail back into the lake.

"Chieftain, what is it?"

Huo Tang also knew that Shen Can had been busy deriving cultivation techniques and organizing the martial arts foundation methods of the Blazing Flame Clan recently, and had not left the ancestral temple for several months.

He handed the branch he had brought to Shen Can and said, "Ashan discovered a secluded forest during his northward exploration."

There was a very mysterious tree in the forest; these were the branches they had brought back.

Shen Can gripped the branch and poured his witch power and blood energy into it, and a dazzling light burst forth from the patterns on the branch.

(End of this chapter)