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

Chapter 225 The Mystery of the Witchcraft Array

Under the sunlight, the spiritual trees in the spiritual plant forest swayed, and specks of light fell like rain.

In the forest, members of the Medicine Tribe entered and began clearing away the overgrown weeds.

Several innate little spirits, trailing long tails, landed on some of their members.

None of these tribespeople were shamans, and the wrinkles on their faces and the cracks in their hands indicated that they were not young.

But the little spirits landed on their heads and shoulders and fell fast asleep.

Although these people bear traces of martial arts, they are merely those who have slowly risen through the ranks over time, not even true rocks, and have long since reached the end of their martial arts journey.

However, it was very close to the Little Spirit Clan, which attracted the Little Spirit Clan to come closer.

While the tribespeople were busy, rabbits also roamed through the forest, examining some of the wounded witch medicines, occasionally swallowing a mouthful of the medicinal aura mixed with moonlight.

These medicine-pounding rabbits were also very friendly to the few members of the Innate Little Spirit Clan who were clinging to them, and would often come close to them.

Shen Can silently passed through the spiritual plant forest and entered the ancestral temple in the river valley.

Not long after, his disciple Huo Zhong arrived in a hurry.

"Master." Huo Chong entered the ancestral temple.

When the clan initiated the trials for the younger generation, the clan's shamans collected the blood essence of the trial participants to identify them.

This method is very clumsy and troublesome.

This is also one of the reasons why Shen Can summoned Huo Chong.

He shared his idea with Huo Zhong: to create a shamanic token that could identify members of the clan and record their basic information and battle merits.

Of course, the magic cards are just the foundation; the ultimate goal is to create a powerful magic artifact that connects all the magic cards.

Hearing Shen Can's words, Huo Zhong was a little confused.

Asking him to carry a hammer and forge swords, spears, and clubs is one thing, but forging this kind of witchcraft weapon is a bit of a pipe dream.

I have absolutely no concept of this.

Should we build a hammer?
Shen Can looked at Huo Zhong, who was completely bewildered, and did not reprimand him. At least, as far as he knew, none of the tribes in Yongyi had similar magical artifacts.

The main focus of each department is on martial arts.

As for witchcraft, it mostly involves crafting weapons and armor.

It's normal that Huo Zhong doesn't have this concept in mind, because everyone's mind is focused on cultivation, hunting, and farming.

While master artifacts are difficult to forge, crafting identity tokens for clan members is quite simple.

The first step is to start with the identity cards of the clan members, and to assign each clan member a card.

After the sorcery talismans have become widespread, the second step is to figure out how to create the main sorcery artifacts.

As for the fact that ordinary people of the tribe have weak spiritual senses and cannot sense the contents of the shamanic tablet, that is not a big problem.

Ordinary tribespeople do not participate in conquests, rarely leave the tribe, and mostly farm and gather within the tribe. After the blood oath ceremony, they only need to be able to identify each other as members of their own tribe.

For ordinary members of the tribe, the focus is still on identifying their identity.

“Master, I will try to refine it when I get back.”

Huo nodded, "We'll refine a small batch first and distribute it to our people."

"Yes, besides this, there is another magical artifact that you need to lead people to refine."

As he spoke, Shen Can took out the blueprints for the sensory magical artifact he had previously conceived.

Huo Zhong looked at the drawings and annotations that Shen Can handed him, and he didn't know why his master had such strange ideas in his mind.

Now he is a peak third-tier wizard, and he has been out and about quite a bit. He has some knowledge of some of the tribes in Yongyi, and he has never heard of any tribe making these kinds of magical artifacts.

However, the problems that Master raised can theoretically be solved using witchcraft.

After reading it, Huo Zhong immediately realized that if they could sense it, then there must be a defensive and counter-attack artifact to follow.

After all, even if a guy who sneaks into the vicinity of the tribe has no bad intentions, he deserves to be killed.

“Master, we have a limited number of our own shamans. When I went to Ziyang Market before, I heard that there was a shaman who was quite famous. Could we invite him to join the tribe?”

Huo Zhong didn't say that the task Shen Can gave him was too difficult. Anyway, his master had just said that if he encountered any problems, he could come to his master for help. He should just do it and he would eventually finish it.

"can."

Shen Can nodded. For the current Zhiyan tribe, bringing in some wizards from outside would not affect its development; on the contrary, it would promote it.

At this moment, he also realized that he should gather and integrate the traditions of crafting witchcraft and forming arrays in Yongyi.

Previously, we lacked both the ability and the time, but now we can do all of these things.

The path of witchcraft should be the strongest productive force, but it is not manifesting itself at all now.

After arranging things for his disciples, Shen Can left the ancestral temple in the river valley and headed southwest.

Just as he was about to leave the valley, he saw a medicine-pounding rabbit dart into the valley.

The medicine-pounding rabbit, with a small innate spirit atop its head and a herb shimmering with blue light in its arms, quickly entered the valley.

In a fleeting glance, Shen Can saw that it was a witch doctor's herb that was about to become a precious medicine.

Just like the human race's advancement to the Divine Realm, the advancement of witch medicine to the Precious Medicine is also a major hurdle.

The little spirits are physically weak and almost never leave the spirit plant forest when the medicine-pounding rabbit is not around.

The medicine-pounding rabbit is quite capable; I didn't expect these two groups to cooperate so well.

Shen Can then took out his notebook and wrote down the names of more similar spirit races and half-spirit races that he could recruit.

He then headed southwest towards the Yanran tribe.

Both Yanran and Zhiyan are about to be promoted to the rank of Bo (伯). Yanran has been developing for over a hundred years longer than Zhiyan. Shen Can think that life in the Yanran tribe is worth seeing.

A month later.

Yanran tribe.

Mu Xiao's death gave Chief Yanran a new lease on life.

The entire tribe was immersed in the joy of its impending promotion to the rank of Bo.

Early in the morning, dozens of hunting teams rushed out of the tribe's territory and headed north into the mountains and forests to begin their hunt.

For a large tribe of nearly a million people, the amount of meat consumed every day is enormous, so going out to hunt every day has become a daily routine.

With the members of the Blazing Flame Tribe separated, the hunting pressure was not so great. The settlements were all located in places near mountains and water, with animals and fish, so there was not much pressure in terms of food.

In many of the settlements they passed through, Shen Can also saw some women who would boil an egg for their children every morning.

Within the settlement, many people are also trying to raise pheasants, wild rabbits, and mountain goblins on a small scale.

This was not observed in the Yanran tribe. The young and strong went out hunting, while the women and the elderly farmed during the day and returned at night to butcher and preserve the wild animals they had hunted.

This seems to be the case for most tribes; they pass it down from generation to generation without ever thinking of changing it.

Some of the tribespeople began to leave their ancestral lands, some even driving slaves, and began to work in the nearby cultivated fields.

Scattered across the surrounding fields, here and there, in small patches.

The area is vast and stretches as far as the eye can see. It is so vast that all the available land nearby has been planted.

Although they had moved away from slash-and-burn agriculture, they had no intention of further improving the seeds and simply relied on large planting areas to increase grain production.

Shen Can clearly saw the strength of the Yanran tribe: Yan Wanyun, a single cultivator at the Divine Treasure Realm, and four elders at the ninth level of the Heavenly Vein Realm, possessing a secret technique for combined attacks, whose combat power could barely rival that of a Divine Treasure Realm cultivator.

This secret technique seems to have some limitations; other ninth-level Heavenly Vein martial artists within the Yanran tribe will not use it.

There are quite a few wizards in the Yanran tribe, including more than a dozen at the third rank. However, wizarding runes are almost never seen in the tribe's daily buildings and houses.

These dozen or so third-tier wizards simply stayed in their respective residences, with servants and slaves attending to their training outside.

Ordinary Yanran people hold shamans in awe.

The moment Shen Can stepped out of Yanran, he felt that the so-called promotion to the rank of Earl was merely a promotion in martial arts.

Reaching the Divine Treasury is equivalent to reaching the Bo tribe level; this is the understanding of everyone from ordinary clansmen to Yan Wanyun, who has reached the Divine Treasury realm.

Of course, that includes his former self as well.

Shenzang and Bobu were equated.

Apart from the divine treasures in martial arts, everything else, whether it's witchcraft, the living standards of the tribe, or the methods of martial arts cultivation, still follows the ways passed down from generation to generation.

How to put it? This method can keep people alive, enable cultivation, and occasionally, a divine being might appear. As for other things, that's about it.

After leaving Yanran, Shen Can passed through the Jishan tribe. Compared to Yanran's excitement about being promoted to a tribe leader, the Jishan tribe was peaceful.

In and around the hilly areas, the valleys and fields are a sea of ​​green, and people are busy everywhere.

Compared to the rough farming practices of Yanran, the grain cultivation of the Jishan tribe was much more standardized. Large flocks of ducks frolicked in the river valleys, and herds of blue horned horses roamed the wastelands.

Some people ride flying birds through the mountains and rivers, surveying the surrounding area.

Shen Can did not venture deep into Jishan. Instead, he stood on the mountain ridge and looked around. In the distance, there were only two or three scattered places within the Jishan tribe where shamanic symbols were flashing.

He then turned around and went to the old clan territory of the Jishanbo tribe in the eastern part of Ji.

The old clan's territory is somewhat different; some mountains have traces of witchcraft, which are defensive runes that enhance the strength of the mountains.

Apart from that, no further use of witchcraft was found.

……

Bi Fangbo's tribe.

Clan Hall.

"Your Excellency has chosen the right place to have Bifang craft witchcraft. No tribe in the entire Yongyi can compare to Bifang in forging."

Lord Bifang gazed at the figure in a linen robe, whose body exuded a fiery aura of blood, and praised Bifang's outstanding skills in forging without reservation.

He could clearly see the fine scales showing through the skin beneath the linen robe.

Although the newcomer was well concealed, he still couldn't escape his fiery eyes.

"A fourth-tier magical artifact should ideally be able to nurture a magical spirit."

Shen Can spoke, his current form being that of a beast-transformed martial artist.

Of course, even though it was concealed a little, a martial artist like Bi Fangbo, who was at the mid-stage of the Divine Realm, could still detect the beast-like transformation on his body.

However, Lord Bifang never showed the slightest surprise or disgust at the beast-like marks on his body.

"A fourth-tier magical artifact, and it's going to give birth to a magical spirit?"

Upon hearing this, Lord Bifang smiled.

Those who don't understand witchcraft want to create witchcraft with witch spirits right off the bat. Do you think witch spirits are just roadside weeds?

"Your Excellency, it is impossible for a fourth-order magical artifact to give birth to a magical spirit."

They can only be raised through acquired means, which requires capturing innate spirit races and placing them into magical artifacts, as well as confining the spirit races with spiritual restrictions.

Upon hearing this, Shen Can immediately realized that Bi Fangbo's methods were ineffective.

And this is supposedly the number one forging workshop in Yongyi?
"The weapon-refining tradition of my Bi Fangbo tribe was inherited from the Yongshan Bo tribe. When our ancestors passed it down, they said that it was impossible to nurture a witch spirit without being at the fifth rank."

For a fourth-tier magical artifact to give birth to a magical spirit, it can only capture innate spirit races and bring them inside. Moreover, the magical spirits that are created will differ from those that are conceived autonomously.

Your Excellency, looking across the entire Yongyi region, only my Bi Fangbo tribe possesses such a secret technique.

Otherwise, the various tribes wouldn't have come to my Bifang to forge magical artifacts.

Bi Fangbo revealed an arrogant expression.

In Yongyi, Bi Fang was the most skilled forging master.

"If you want a magical artifact with a magical spirit, you will need to capture a primordial spirit yourself. I, Bifang, am only responsible for crafting the magical artifact."

Shen Can took out a piece of meteorite iron, which was a piece that had fallen from the starry sky earlier. He had pried a piece out of his clone's mouth.

This meteorite is of very high quality and still retains a scorching heat.

"I wonder how long it takes to forge a fourth-tier magical artifact. May I observe it myself?"

"If you are willing, I can create a rough prototype of a witch artifact for you within a year."

Bi Fangbo, the chieftain, gazed intently at the gleaming meteorite iron. As the chieftain of the forging tribe, his passion for ore far surpassed that of other tribes.

The piece of meteorite iron that Shen Can took out was about half a zhang in size and had a dense texture.

This is different from mineral veins dug out of the earth, where the ore needs to be reforged to remove impurities.

However, when meteorite iron falls from the sky, it produces intense flames as it falls from a great height. This means that it undergoes a fierce forging process during its descent, leaving behind the most valuable parts.

Bi Fangbo's gaze fell on Shen Can; he really coveted good ore.

With a 'clang', Shen Can raised his hand and threw out another piece of meteorite iron, half the size of the previous one.

"I am a petty and scheming person. After all, this is a witch artifact I made for myself. I have to see it with my own eyes to feel at ease, lest someone put some kind of witchcraft on it."

Shen Can looked at Lord Bifang and continued, "Lord Bifang, don't misunderstand. I'm not targeting you, I'm targeting everyone."

As he spoke, a faint crimson tinge appeared on the fine scales covering Shen Can's skin beneath his hemp robe.

Now, there's no need for Bi Fangbo to sense it anymore; it can be seen clearly with the naked eye.

Shen Can was practically telling Bi Fangbo that he wasn't human, or at least not a normal one.

However, Lord Bifang ignored him. Although Shen Can's words made him a little angry, when he saw the reward that Shen Can took out, he immediately felt that it was normal for a person like Shen Can, who had become like a beast, to have a twisted mind.

The other people who came to Bobu to refine witch artifacts before also had rather strange thoughts; some of them did watch the entire refining process.

Besides, it's just for watching; how can you really learn it?

Of course, that's why Shen Can came.

He didn't learn for nothing; he paid tuition.

……

When Shen Can followed Lord Bifang to the center of the Bifang clan's territory, he realized that Bifang's boast of being the number one forging department in Yongyi was not without merit. At the center of the Bifang clan's territory, there was a volcano that produced a fire dragon, which served as the forging fire.

This is also why it can smelt fourth-tier materials; otherwise, it would not be easy to smelt high-tier ores using only wood and charcoal.

Rolling heat waves surged from between the undulating volcanoes, and crimson protective barriers flickered around and above the volcanoes, forming a fiery barrier stretching for hundreds of miles, preventing the heat from escaping from the volcanoes.

"This is the Fire Dragon Wall, which my ancestor Bifang took from the Yongshan tribe back then."

On the flying boat, Lord Bifang pointed to the crimson witch barrier surrounding the volcano below and spoke with smug satisfaction.

"Back then, Yongshan had two great barriers: the Black Water Mystic Light Curtain and the Fire Dragon Wall."

Shen Can looked down and saw large carts carrying ore into the valley formed by the volcano. These ore transporters were all slaves.

Shen Can understood at a glance why they didn't use flying boats to transport the ore.

Using slaves was cheaper.

The flying boat also needs to depict the power source of the witch array and embed source stones.

Slaves were cheap; if they died, they could be captured or bought.

After scanning the slaves, Shen Can's gaze fell on the Fire Dragon Wall.

The Fire Dragon Wall appears to be composed of individual fire-elemental runes flashing and rotating, but in reality, each fire-elemental rune is a fire-elemental array composed of smaller runes.

The airship passed through the Fire Dragon Wall and entered the valley surrounded by volcanoes.

Fire huts stood on both sides of the valley, where people were hammering ore with clanging and banging.

Inside each fire shed, a small fire is lit from the ground.

Looking out, all the way to the depths of the valley, everything is forged by hand. Occasionally, a shaman walks in the fire hut, assisting the blacksmith in engraving shamanic runes on the weapons that are about to be finished.

It looks spectacular at first glance, but it looks messy at second glance.

Slaves pulled carts through the valley, transporting ore to each fire shed. If they were even slightly slow, blacksmith apprentices would come up and beat them.

The apprentice vented his anger at his master's scolding on the slaves. The slaves risked their lives to withstand the abuse, and those who collapsed were thrown into the furnace.

These were just fleeting glimpses Shen Can caught as he traversed the valley. The outer areas were used to craft ordinary magical weapons and armor, while the most central location inside was the core of the Bi Fangbo tribe.

A towering volcano spews forth flames, with billowing molten lava gushing from its crater and flowing down its rock walls.

Outside the volcano is a lava river that encircles it.

A bright red iron bridge spans the lava river, providing direct access to the area beneath the volcano.

The crimson iron bridge is decorated with crimson kui ox patterns, and the railings at both ends of the bridge are adorned with cast iron beasts resembling tiger heads, exuding an ancient and weathered aura.

Shen Can recognized at a glance that this item came from the Yongshan Earl tribe.

Now he finally understood why Lord Bifang was so comfortable letting him come and see; the mystery lay there.

All around were spirit barriers, numbering in the hundreds of millions. Compared to this place, the spirit barriers in the valley of the Luoshui tribe were utter trash.

Entering the volcano through the iron bridge, one immediately witnesses something extraordinary.

This is a fire shelter carved directly inside the volcano. Looking up, you can see golden magma rolling overhead, and the intense heat of the fire source is overwhelmingly concentrated here.

"Clan leader."

Inside the fire hut, a silver-haired martial artist wearing only shorts came forward and looked at Shen Can.

"This is Bi Huolong, the divine craftsman of my clan."

Bi Fangbo introduced his family's master blacksmith and also mentioned that Shen Can wanted to forge a magical artifact.

"I wonder what type of magical artifacts you wish to forge, such as swords, spears, halberds, axes, hooks, forks, or even cauldrons, cauldrons, towers, and palaces?"

"I am a piece of meteorite iron, forge me into a mountain of stars."

"The heavier the better."

Shen Can hadn't decided what he wanted to create, and his purpose in coming here wasn't to create a witch artifact.

In short, Bi Fangbo's troops made the right choice; good things must be stolen.

……

After inspecting the meteorite, Bi Huolong discussed it with Bi Fangbo for quite a while.

"The missing auxiliary materials can be taken directly from the treasury," Lord Bifang instructed Bi Huolong.

Bi Huolong immediately understood that the clan leader and Shen Can had agreed on the reward.

He then placed the meteorite on a fire platform made of red firestone.

hold head high!
With a dragon's roar, a fire dragon rushed out from under the fire platform and immediately coiled itself on the meteorite, beginning to scorch it.

During this process, Bi Huolong began to use a secret technique, a complicated method in which countless talismans formed in the void and fell into the fire dragon.

The fire dragon is incredibly lifelike, with its scales glowing, echoing the secret techniques used by Bi Huolong.

Bi Fangbo, who had already retreated to the edge of the fire hut, spoke up: "This is the True Refining Manual of the Fire Dragon of my Bi Fangbo tribe, which uses witchcraft as a hammer to forge materials."

Shen Can smiled and nodded, his eyes reflecting the crimson light of the fire dragon, with crimson runes connected together.

Melting fourth-order meteorite iron takes a long time, requiring Bi Huolong to constantly observe the changes in the fire dragon and perform the Fire Dragon True Refining Witchcraft.

When Bi Huolong was performing his secret technique, he didn't care that Shen Can was watching from the side.

After all, the secret methods are extremely complex. When refining different materials and different magical artifacts, the application of the secret methods will also be different. Even if you memorize them all with your divine sense, it will be useless. The real secret methods are to learn and apply them flexibly, rather than to arrange the magical texts in a step-by-step order.

He had already mastered this witchcraft to perfection, and could use it with ease.

You dare to try and steal my skills?

Of course, Bi Huolong had no intention of stealing the master's skills.

In recent years, warriors from other tribes who came to forge magical artifacts would come and watch the forging process.

[You have dedicated a hundred years of your lifespan to deduce the True Refinement Method of the Fire Dragon, and you will rearrange and recombine the six hundred and thirty witch runes you have memorized.]

[During the first century, the arrangement and combination of the True Refinement Method went wrong. You didn't pay attention to it and then invested another century of your lifespan to rearrange it.]

Five hundred years later, you discovered the combination rules of the True Refining Method. This method can be combined into tens of thousands of magical array patterns to increase the temperature of the flames.

You discovered the operating principle of this method, memorized it, and even made some improvements, eliminating some cumbersome steps.

Less than half a month later, Shen Can left the fire hut and went to rest on the Crimson Fire Bridge.

The Bifang people stationed outside did not come forward to disturb him when they saw him.

The clan leader has already given instructions: this is the patron who commissioned the creation of the magical artifacts; as long as there are no unusual movements, there is no need to pay attention to him.

If anything unusual happens, activate the Myriad Fires Burning Spirit Array to completely reduce it to ashes.

Sitting cross-legged on the Crimson Fire Iron Bridge, Shen Can didn't sit idle. He began to examine the fire dragon walls around him, which were constantly lighting up due to the scorching flames.

His divine sense spread out, taking in all the Bifang clan warriors who were watching him from all around.

Although these people were wary, they didn't come forward, since taking a look wouldn't be taboo.

As Shen Can looked at it, he took in all the runes on the Fire Dragon Wall.

"...You have devoted a thousand years of your lifespan to finally understand the operating rules of the Fire Dragon Wall. Although it covers a hundred miles, it originated from a combination of only nine fire element runes in a small fire witch array."

Nine small fire magic arrays combine to form a large fire magic array, creating the smallest manifestation of magic runes protruding from the fire dragon wall.

As you comprehend the Fire Dragon Wall, a realization dawns on you: a nine-story tower begins with a mound of earth, and a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

For martial artists, the sheer power of the witch formation, stretching for hundreds of miles, is impressive, but to truly build it, one must start from the foundation. Even the most powerful formations begin with small steps.

The Lesser Fire Witch Array is simple and easy to understand; a first-tier fire elemental wizard can construct it with his apprentices. The Greater Fire Witch Array, on the other hand, only requires the divine sense of a second-tier wizard to assemble.

……

Having deduced the Fire Dragon Wall, you did not stop the deduction process. Instead, you thought of the True Refining Method of the Fire Dragon and discovered that the two had something in common.

Perhaps it's a sudden awakening that makes you consciously notice subtle details you've never seen before.

You also discovered that if a small fire magic array is embedded in the stove, it can increase the temperature inside the stove, obtaining more heat with less firewood. When the cold winter comes, it can help the tribe keep warm, instead of not being able to find firewood in the long cold.

It has many uses; besides providing warmth, it can also be used to roast meat, and even for tribal defense and for the tribe's night marches.

……

Just as you were about to stop trying to comprehend it, you suddenly felt that the subtle witch array in the Fire Dragon Wall you were trying to comprehend was a little off.

It's clearly a defensive formation, so why does it also have an aura of sharpness? You spent a hundred years trying to understand it, and finally realized that there was a formation that overlapped with the fire dragon wall's witch formation.

Because of the long passage of time, the two witch formations, being so close together, began to influence each other.

……

Three thousand years later, you have mastered the Myriad Fires Burning Spirit Array.

On the iron bridge, Shen Can slowly opened his eyes, a flash of understanding in them.

The so-called witchcraft formations are all based on witchcraft texts. Different sequences and combinations result in different formations, and the manifested forms are naturally different.

Then, he closed his eyes again.

You disassembled the Myriad Fires Burning Spirits Array, breaking it down into the smallest fire-elemental witch rune array unit. Then, based on earth-elemental witch runes, you combined them according to the combination rules of the Myriad Fires Burning Spirits Array, which you called the Myriad Earths Burying Graves Array.

You tried to activate the Ten Thousand Earths Burial Array, and it actually started working. Although it was full of flaws, it had the basic framework of an array. You began to try to patch up the flaws.

……

You spent ten thousand years repairing the Ten Thousand Earth Burial Array, finally increasing the number of the smallest unit, the Witch Array, in this array to more than five times that of the Ten Thousand Fire Burning Spirit Array.

This massive earthen burial array, as large as a mountain of dung, actually began to tremble and hiss as it operated.

In your eyes, 'it' is like an old man carrying a mountain on his back, yet still alive.

No matter how ugly or bloated it may be, it is the first witch array you have created, which confirms your conjecture that basic witch script is the foundation.

This shows that what the Blazing Flame Tribe lacks is not the inheritance of high-level witchcraft, but the solid foundation of basic witchcraft and the guidance of the wizards' minds.

Anyone with enough guts, even a sorcerer, could potentially create a working array. As for the array's power and how well it functions, that's a secondary question.

……

"Old Hao, do you think this senior could sleep on such a hot lava river?"

In the distance, two seemingly idle warriors from the Bifang tribe, who were actually observing Shen Can, huddled together and whispered to each other.

"I think he's just pretending to sleep; he really wants to watch the master craftsman forge magical artifacts."

"Is it because they don't trust our Bifang? Our Bifang is the number one forging department in Yongyi. We wouldn't stoop to tampering with a mere fourth-tier witch artifact."

"Alright, stop talking. He's awake. Let's see where he's going."

Shen Can walked into the valley and casually entered a fire hut. At first glance, these were all second- or third-tier witch soldiers.

Crafted by artisans, branded with magical symbols by wizards.

After looking around, he found that they were making swords, spears, axes, and halberds, but almost no farming tools. However, there was a large fire-burning hut where flying boats were being made.

The flying boat was over thirty feet long and had two fourth-order fire marrows embedded in it as a power source, so it was clearly not meant for ordinary martial artists.

"You two, see me out."

After reaching the mouth of the valley, Shen Can waved to two Bifang warriors who were watching him from afar.

After all, he didn't want to wander around inside the Human Family Headquarters.

"Sir, are you not going to watch anymore?"

Bi Hao lowered his head and moved closer to Shen Can.

"I don't understand it. I won't read it anymore."

Soon, Bi Hao summoned a large flying boat, invited Shen Can to board, and then flew towards the Bi Fang clan's palace.

Along the way, passing by some settlements of the Bifang tribe, Shen Can glanced at them from afar.

They really are blacksmiths; they don't even have a single decent farm tool at home.

Within the tribe's settlement, no auxiliary witchcraft tools were seen in any of the households; most were knives, spears, swords, and halberds, which were of far better quality than those from Yanran, Jishan, and Zhiyan.

But Bifang was, after all, known as the best blacksmith shop in Yongyi, so it was only natural that its soldiers and armor were of high quality.

The Bifang tribe does not have much farmland, and some members go out hunting. Overall, their situation is similar to that of Yanran.

Apart from the obvious magical formations around the volcano, ordinary people in the Bifang tribe did not enjoy many magical benefits.

The entire practice involved advanced witchcraft, no less sophisticated than that of ordinary people.

……

"Why did you come out, sir?"

Lord Bifang was somewhat surprised to see Shen Can return.

Didn't you say you didn't trust anyone?
"It's too hot, I can't stand it."

Shen Can shook his head slightly. He had stolen everything he could. As for the spiritual restriction inside the artifact, there was no need to steal it. He could study it after he got his hands on the artifact.

Bi Fangbo glanced at Shen Can, "You're awake. Other friends who used to come to Bi Fang to forge magical artifacts also couldn't stand the heat. That's why even I, the clan leader, rarely stay inside the volcano anymore."

"Brother Chen, you can stay at my Bifang. All meals will be to your satisfaction. If you don't want to stay in the clan, you can go to the market city that our clan has built outside the clan territory. There are many more things to do there."

Shen Can came here and gave his name as Chen Shan. He looked strong and powerful, and was very robust.

Not far from the Bifang tribe, there is a Bifang Mountain City, a market city specially built by the Bifang, which attracts people from many tribes to come and buy weapons and armor and sell ores.

Shen Can naturally entered Bifang Mountain City to wait, but he did not stay in Bifang Mountain City for long. He soon left the mountain city and headed east.

Along the way, he visited Qingyang, observed Tianzheng, went south into the marshland, and also met the Huan Tou tribe.

Shen Can would stop and observe every tribe and superior tribe along the way.

Two years later, he returned north from the southern end of Yundi, passing by Bifangbozhu and taking the witchcraft artifacts back to his tribe.

(End of this chapter)