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

Chapter 224 Travel
Under the cover of night, Shen Can and Huo Tang returned to their clan's territory once again aboard a flying boat.

After returning to the clan's territory, Huo Tang went straight back to the clan tower to determine the number of clansmen with similar backgrounds to Huo Zhang.

Shen Can returned to his residence outside the ancestral temple with the tribe's data, intending to take a closer look at the data record.

The oil lamp flickered, illuminating the bedroom until dawn.

Shen Can got up to go to the ancestral temple to sweep and clean, and saw that his master, Huo Xian, was already up.

He hunched over and tightened his animal skin coat.

With the increase in clan strength and the availability of meat and witchcraft medicine for daily life, Huo Xian's body has become much healthier.

Whenever Shen Can is away, Huo Xian, as long as he feels well, will clean and sweep by himself.

As for the other shamans who served in the ancestral temple, they could only sweep the ground and sprinkle water outside.

"Master."

“I saw you and the clan chief leave yesterday, so I thought you wouldn’t be coming back today.”

Huo Xian chuckled as he spoke; he was fast asleep and hadn't noticed Shen Can's return.

Shen Can stretched and walked over to Huo Xian's side, and together they entered the ancestral temple.

"Life is better now. Our ancestors never had the chance to use such soft fur to wipe themselves."

The offering table is lit by fire, and the sacrificial vessels are being rubbed together.

After the two finished cleaning, Huo Xian went out to prepare a meal.

Ah Yu had been serving him, but Huo Xian didn't like being waited on and preferred to cook for himself.

"Will you eat with me today?"

Shen Can nodded.

Upon hearing the sound, Huo Xian called to A Yu to get busy. Soon, flames were lit on the small stove, and a copper pot was placed on the fire.

Before long, the steaming hot meat and rice was served, and Ah Yu quickly set the bowls and chopsticks down.

"Come on, let's eat together."

Huo Xian held his smooth stone bowl, which was filled with millet rice. He didn't like using the bronze utensils that the tribe had given him.

"This rice is good. It was specially brought to me by the shaman from Pushan settlement who came to the ancestral temple for spiritual practice last time."

They said it was a newly improved seed from their settlement and the Ministry of Agriculture, and it tasted sweet.

It has long been a custom for the village shamans to take turns going to the ancestral temple for cultivation. Even if Shen Can is not there, Lao Huoxian will still come forward.

The previous generation of the old temple was respected by everyone.

Shen Can found the food quite delicious. He hadn't really paid much attention to the agricultural reforms; in recent years, he had focused primarily on martial arts, neglecting witchcraft for a long time.

"How about it, not bad."

Huo Xian watched Shen Can finish eating and asked with a smile.

“This kind of sweet corn, which becomes sticky after cooking, is sure to be a favorite among children. I think these young wizards should be rewarded.”

"And this meat, every day someone brings me the best meat. Before, a member of my tribe even gave me a domesticated antelope."

It was just a lamb when it was climbing a mountain and it got hit on the head by a rock. It looks like it won't survive.

After the tribe finished killing the animals, they brought me the meat. I tasted it and the meat was quite good. It's a pity you weren't in the tribe at the time.

During the meal, Shen Can listened to Huo Xian talk the whole time.

After the meal, Ayu cleared away the dishes and chopsticks, and Huoxian brought Shen Can a glass of water.

He received the same treatment as before in the mountains, with his master taking care of him.

"You look so worried. Has something happened in your clan?"

Huo Xian placed the water in front of Shen Can and asked.

Huo Xian wasn't completely ignorant. Although he stayed in the ancestral temple and didn't go out, he would communicate with the village shamans and priests whenever they came for short training sessions.

He actually knew quite a bit about what was happening in the settlement.

"Nothing else. It's just that our tribe has more martial artists now, so I was thinking of arranging for a group of people to go out and travel around, so they can broaden their horizons."

After all, we're about to be promoted to a higher level, so we can't really be called a bunch of horse breeders like the other tribes in Yongyi.”

Shen Can didn't hide anything from Huo Xian; this was an idea he had after returning last night.

With the number of martial artists in the clan now greatly increased, many Heavenly Vein martial artists can only remain idle within the clan in the absence of external enemies.

Rather than doing nothing, it's better to go out and see what's going on in Yongyi, and broaden your horizons.

This firsthand observation and experience far surpasses any description in the clan's compiled chronicles of the blazing fire.

“It’s time to go out and see the world. We originated from the mountains and forests and are a truly humble tribe. Others have been passed down for thousands of years. We should learn from them.”

Huo Xian agreed with Shen Can's idea.

“In the past, we faced dangers from the outside world, and our clan was not strong.”

Now that our tribe is powerful, our people don't need to fear danger when they go out, because they have a strong tribe behind them to support them on their travels.

At this point, Huo Xian looked at Shen Can.

“Ah Can, my old bones are still doing alright. You can go out and travel around Yongyi.”

When I was the head of the ancestral temple, a corner of the ancestral temple was my place, and there were no more than two thousand people in my clan.

Now you are the head of the temple, with four million people in your clan; things are different now.

"The north and south valleys of Juyue, the tribal lands, and the four million people of the two regions, as well as the two million people of the vassal tribes, all need your guidance in their lives."

"This is also one of the responsibilities of our temple."

……

Two days later, Huotang began to allocate manpower, replacing some of the clan soldiers and appointing Huozhang as the commander of the Heavy Blade Guard.

Furthermore, under the pretext that "the clan is about to be promoted to a high-ranking clan and its members have limited vision," some members of the Tianmai clan were arranged to travel south.

The tribesmen, including Huoqi, were very eager for this mission, and soon began to leave the tribe one after another.

When the tribesmen left the tribe, Shen Can also left the tribe.

Just as Huo Xian said, he really needed to go out and see the true situation in various parts of Yongyi.

However, unlike his tribesmen who went directly south, Shen Can first toured around his own tribe.

When he ate with Huo Xian, the millet they ate was improved by the Ministry of Agriculture's shaman, but he really didn't know that.

This also shows that, since the establishment of the Ministry of Agriculture, he, as the head of the temple, did not give it proper attention.

……

When Shen Can went out, he brought a small notebook with him, not to hold a grudge, but to record what he saw.

Amidst the rolling mountains and forests, a strong young man and two small children were carried on a mountain-splitting Kui, hurrying through the forest.

"We're almost at Jiangyuan Market. We'll give each of you a deer antler hat then."

The middle-aged man, beaming with joy, put his arm around two children and pointed to a small market town built along the water's edge.

This was a small market spontaneously set up by people from different settlements within the Blazing Flame Clan's territory for bartering. Shen Can was seeing it for the first time; he hadn't paid attention to such things before.

With a stable life, in addition to farming, the tribespeople could occasionally obtain some ores and witchcraft medicines while hunting and gathering.

After handing it over to the tribe and using it for personal purposes, there will be some left over.

Especially since the trials had led to a surge in demand for witchcraft medicines and weapons from various households, naturally resulting in trade.

Shen Can circled around Jiangyuan Market and found that there were quite a few people there, about four or five hundred, all of whom were people from nearby settlements.

In the past, his focus was on martial arts training, but now that he had calmed down and come out for a walk, Shen Can's gaze fell on his clansmen.

He discovered that most of his tribesmen wore animal skin clothing, while a small number wore hemp clothing.

When they went out, they all carried bows and arrows, swords, and some even carried spears.

In terms of weapons, the tribe is not lacking at all.

The items in the market were all ordinary and used by the tribe members in their daily lives, such as animal meat, wild fruits, animal hides, hemp cloth, pottery jars, woven baskets, and so on.

After observing for a while, Shen Can did not linger but continued on his way.

Along the way, we traversed mountains and valleys, and saw neat fields in the flat valleys. Outside the fields, on some scattered flat areas, we could see people of our tribe using curved plows to clear land and picks to break stones.

Along the way, Shen Can also encountered a little dragonfish and a blue phoenix sparrow bringing rain.

The two little ones are quick and agile, and very popular.

Shen Can recorded everything he saw.

In the territory of the Blazing Flame Clan, the Ministry of Agriculture selected a dozen or so settlements with relatively abundant source energy to conduct experiments on grain improvement.

The Ministry of War selected several tribes near the mines to develop settlements based on the mines.

In each settlement, some families owned looms, but the output was not high.

Linen was also one of the resources needed by the tribe, which was used to barter with various tribes in Yongyi when they went south.

……

After touring his own family's department, Shen Can discovered many problems.

The tribe has cultivated a lot of farmland and even used farming tools such as plows, iron hoes, and iron rakes. The types of grains that can be planted are very diverse and there is no reasonable planning.

For example, in some places suitable for growing millet, wheat and sorghum are grown instead. The people's mindset is still focused on planting and harvesting grains, and they don't care what they are growing.

Related experiments with Lingmi (a type of rice) are even more scattered.

In terms of clothing, animal skin clothing is indeed sturdy and durable, but the process of obtaining raw materials may be dangerous, not to mention that the production process is not easy, requiring repeated kneading of the hides, which consumes a lot of time.

The dwellings in various settlements are mostly built against mountains and near water, which is fine, but it also overlooks the dangers of landslides and floods.

The tribespeople mostly travel on foot, rarely riding beasts.

In addition, the small wild animals kept in captivity, fish farming in fish ponds, and so on are all scattered.

Communication between different settlements was also inconvenient.

Previously, Shen Can's attention had not been focused on these simple matters.

But now it seems that change is not difficult. With proper guidance, the tribesmen can actually do better in these areas.

For example, when it comes to travel, small flying boats can be widely used. A small flying boat, about ten feet in size, with a small magic array as its power core, is no longer a problem for the wizards in the clan.

Large-scale aquaculture, fishing and hunting, large-scale planting bases, large-scale weaving and mulberry planting.

In this way, the resources produced will be far more than they are in their current scattered state.

These items can be exchanged for resources to support the lives and spiritual practice of the tribespeople.

To become a center for passing on the torch, one's own tribe must first surpass other tribes in terms of civilization.

It shouldn't just be about martial arts, but also about the lives of ordinary people.

After silently writing down his thoughts in his notebook, Shen Can walked into the valley.

……

The sun has just risen.

A chirping sound rang out in a large hall.

Inside the hall, there were ten looms, and ten weavers had already begun weaving.

On the loom lay an unfinished bolt of blue cloth, from which a glint of light occasionally flashed.

The Weaver Girl walks around the loom, and if she sees any weaver making a mistake, she will go over and give them some pointers.

After inspecting the weavers' work, the weaver sat down in front of the largest loom at the very back.

The loom was also weaving a piece of blue cloth with a tree-like pattern on it, which was denser than that of the other weavers.

The weaver would stop and think for a while, then unravel some of the warp and weft threads and start weaving again.

She has been trying for two years, and this is the eleventh piece of 'Qingyun Yarn' she has woven in those two years.

This piece of cloth is made of kudzu vine silk and wormwood bark silk, which is classified as first-grade according to quality, and is supplemented with second-grade silkworm silk as the skeleton.

Of the ten bolts of Qingyun gauze in front, the one with the best defensive capabilities was able to withstand a Mountain Opening Realm martial artist with the power of fifty-three Desolations drawing a bow and shooting an arrow head-on.

However, the Weaver Girl was still somewhat dissatisfied. She felt that the texture of the Azure Cloud Gauze needed improvement and its defensive capabilities could be further enhanced.

Elder Huo Zhong of the Ministry of War was already very satisfied that the ship could withstand a direct attack from the Kai Shan Jing, and ordered the weavers to weave a batch first.

In this way, the Weaver Girl taught the weavers how to weave Qingyun yarn while also making further improvements to it herself.

The weavers in the main hall were also selected from within the clan. Weaving cloth is simple, but not everyone can weave Qingyun gauze.

The Weaver Girl planned to wait until she had woven a more protective Azure Cloud Gauze before requesting that her clan select a group of skillful weavers from within the clan.

Outside the Weaver Girl Palace, Shen Can had already used his divine sense to clearly see the situation inside.

In particular, the toughness of the blue cloth on the loom is dozens of times greater than that of ordinary cloth.

The dozen or so people inside the hall were all young, not wizards, and not particularly skilled in martial arts, yet the cloth they wove possessed powerful defensive capabilities.

Especially the Weaver Girl, the blue cloth on her loom has a finer texture, resembling a dense, lush old tree, with taut warp and weft lines as strong as iron.

If it could be woven, the defensive capabilities would undoubtedly be even stronger.

In Shen Can's eyes, the material used for weaving cloth was nothing special; it was as ordinary as it could be, and could be replaced with something better at any time.

If one can practice with such ordinary materials and weave fabrics with stronger defensive capabilities, then wouldn't it be possible to weave fabrics made of second- or third-tier Heavenly Silkworm Silk and Spirit Vine Silk to create fourth-tier defensive battle robes?

The protection of these weavers needs to be strengthened.

It's nothing now, but once a Tier 4 defensive battle robe actually appears, then people will really start to covet it.

Shen Can never expected that going out for a stroll would lead to such a big discovery.

The output of ordinary clansmen could affect the outcome of battles between fourth-tier martial artists; he had never thought of this before.

Afterwards, Shen Can traveled through the valley and saw more ordinary tribesmen who were cultivating herbs and making witchcraft pills alongside the shaman.

At this basic level, they are no less capable than wizards.

This shows that ordinary people have great potential, but it has not been tapped.

(End of this chapter)