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

Chapter 231 The Path of Witchcraft in Yongshan Witchcraft Artifacts
The promotion of Zhiyan to the rank of Bo was a significant event in Ji County.

Outside of Ji County, although there were some rumors, everyone treated them as casual conversation and mentioned them only occasionally.

Ji was already a frontier region, and Jibei was the frontier of the frontier.

Even Shen Can's meticulously prepared 'parade' was like casting pearls before swine.

In short, Jidi Manu's attitude could not be changed simply by being promoted to a minor official position.

However, external influences have no effect on the development of the Blazing Flame Clan.

Across the vast land, with the obstacles of mountains and rivers, unless something extraordinary happens, no one would bother to pay attention to the development of other tribes.

In Zhiyan, a large-scale literacy campaign for the vassal tribes began, with airships landing in different vassal tribes.

The literacy campaign proceeded very quickly, and none of the vassal tribes refused to cooperate.

In addition to the cultivation techniques, the various departments also collected manuscripts, travelogues, and other classics, which were then compiled into a unified collection by the Blazing Flame Earl Department.

Instead, the Zhiyan Chronicles, issued by the Zhiyan Earl's subordinates, covered everything from clothing, food, housing, and transportation to various rumors and common knowledge.

All vassal tribes will be brought under the same system as the main tribe, Zhiyan, starting with their basic needs such as food, clothing, shelter, and transportation.

Within the Blazing Flame Clan, each member has their own role, even the young women are caring for crying babies.

Only the current clan leader, Lord Volcano, is already busy cultivating.

Before he became the clan leader, he could go out to do things, fight in Xiaoyang, and go to Luoshui.

Now that's great, the volcano is so idle it can only cultivate itself.

Sitting cross-legged atop the Stone Tower Clan's temple, a small wood-fire magic array emitted gurgling wood-fire energy, which he gradually absorbed into his body.

Ah-chan said, and Ah-tang also said, that his task is to cultivate and also to observe the clan affairs handled by the elders.

The volcano's peaceful governance was naturally achieved through the efforts of other elders and members of the tribe.

……

1200 miles north of the Blazing Flame Clan's territory, there is a mountain range that spans a hundred miles in circumference, forming a crescent-shaped valley.

Within the valley, stone courtyards and palaces stand in rows, some surrounded by water, others on cliffs, where one can feel the mountain breeze at any time.

People occasionally came and went, but there didn't seem to be many people, and they all seemed to be in a hurry.

At the highest cliff, a wooden shrine with flickering lights hangs, its walls adorned with vines.

Inside the hall, Shen Can's clone, dressed in a gray robe, was explaining a combination of talismans and spiritual restrictions to four second-tier wizards who had gathered together.

During the more than ten years of building up the tribe, all the shamans and sorcerers in the tribe, big and small, received great training.

Even witchcraft cannot escape the concept that practice makes perfect. After more than ten years of living as cattle and horses, the tribe's witches combined their practical experience to compile a set of teaching materials.

Based on the current development within the clan, this tutorial currently only has four levels: basic, first-level, second-level, and third-level.

Basic witchcraft can be learned by anyone, not just practitioners, but even ordinary people.

For example, a kind of incantation ritual to repel mosquito bites involves reciting a combination of shamanic incantations to alleviate or eliminate the bites.

This part overlaps somewhat with witchcraft.

In the past, the practice of witchcraft was not precisely divided, and the power of many witchcraft spells naturally increased as the witch's level rose.

However, the situation is somewhat different when it comes to witchcraft and spirit restrictions.

As the level increases, the spiritual restrictions become increasingly complex, and correspondingly, to combine these spiritual restrictions together, it is necessary to deduce new combination methods.

As for returning to simplicity and such, that's not something we should be considering right now.

This compiled tutorial is very practical and can be taught in a short time, which can train a large number of practical wizards for the tribe.

The current state of the clan's shamans is that they work part-time while also participating in the clan's development.

In order to have a suitable environment for cultivation, a place for wizards to cultivate was established in this mountain range.

It was named the Great Witch Academy.

The name "Great Witch Academy" wasn't given by Shen Can, but rather spontaneously coined by the tribe's witches.

The meaning is quite simple: everyone hopes to become a fourth-tier great wizard.

In addition to learning witchcraft and spiritual techniques, the Great Witch Academy also allows students to practice various other forms of witchcraft.

As for the former Witch Temple, it was incorporated into the Great Witch Academy in accordance with the situation.

Besides the Great Witch Academy, there is also the Zhuyou Academy nearby, which trains witch doctors, as well as various auxiliary departments, such as textiles, animal husbandry, metallurgy, agriculture and forestry, all of which have been incorporated into Shen Can's training system.

From oral traditions to compiled illustrated records that could be taught, they began to try combining it with witchcraft.

The reason why the Zhuyou Academy was separated from a small department is because there are many people who study witch medicine, some of whom are directly transferred from witch doctors.

Compared to other industries such as textiles, aquaculture, and smelting, it is relatively large in scale.

However, Shen Can has also given the order that as each department develops in the future, it can have its own independent name.

After the reform, the Military Department, the Military Service Department, and the Medical Department were established directly based on the Great Witchcraft Academy, the Zhuyou Academy, and these smaller departments, forming an integrated system of learning, research, and innovation.

Compared to the numerous schools of witchcraft, martial arts training is much simpler and clearer.

After stepping down as clan leader, Huotang has now become the head of the Martial Arts Academy, which he built less than a hundred miles away from the Great Witch Academy.

Compared to the quietness of the Witch Academy, the Martial Academy is much more lively, and there are often trips out for trials, fighting wild beasts, and clearing out the scattered owls.

After the martial arts academy was running smoothly, Huotang secretly entered Daidi through the underground river.

There is also a group of martial artists in Daidi, who have been trained for more than ten years.

Daidi, Sacred Ape Valley.

At the end of the Sacred Ape Valley, in the ancient building complex, the previous humanoid apes had long been captured and sent to the Blazing Flame Clan for research.

The old, lush mountain forest exudes a slight chill, as even the sun cannot penetrate its dense vegetation.

Deep in the forest, there is a cluster of stone courtyards.

This day.

In the square in the middle of the courtyard, figures stood solemnly, each exuding a powerful aura and with a resolute expression.

The number of people was not large, only 127.

There were more than 500 people who came here to cultivate at the beginning. After more than ten years of cultivation and tempering, those who were injured or killed in battles with wild beasts are the only ones left.

Huotang looked at the figures in front of him. Beside him were clansmen who had been transferred from the clan's territory to be teachers.

"I am your new teacher, and this is our first time meeting."

One sentence drew everyone's attention.

Huo Tang could tell that the atmosphere among the group of people gathered here was very oppressive.

This is because the environment in Dai is worse than that in Yongyi.

Those present were young people who had been exploited by slaves and serfs during the initial selection process.

Now, more than half of these young people have cultivated to the Heavenly Vein Realm, and even those who are not at the Heavenly Vein Realm possess fifty or sixty Desolate Power.

As soon as Huotang spoke, everyone present knelt down.

No one spoke; they acted spontaneously.

Only those who have experienced the loss of their martial arts path and the oppression they have suffered can truly understand how fortunate it is to be able to cultivate martial arts.

Since they were trained here, these teachers never told them about their origins, but simply taught them little by little, leading them in their daily practice.

Huotang walked into the crowd, helped the people in front of him up, and then called on the others behind him to get up.

“The local bullies are powerful, and I know some of them have deep-seated hatred in their hearts, but they must understand one thing: one person’s strength is ultimately limited.”

But if one person can become a spark and ignite a raging fire, then it can spread like wildfire.

When you have a hundred or a thousand comrades-in-arms who would share life and death with you, then those arrogant and domineering barbarian soldiers are nothing more than a group of souls to be slaughtered.

As Huotang spoke, he looked at the people present, some of whom looked deep in thought.

However, a few people still had burning anger in their eyes and seemed not to have listened. These were the first batch of martial artists that Zhiyan had trained in Daidi, and Huotang did not want them to rush out to fight the Tulou and Lounu once they were released.

A mere act of brute force might kill a few animals at most.

To survive and thrive, one must know how to continuously kill other races.

Therefore, Huotang did not rush to leave, but instead stayed and ate and lived with the warriors of Daidi.

They began to teach them how to survive, practice, and spread their teachings in a land oppressed by the earthworms.

In the blink of an eye, half a year has passed.

Zhiyan Ancestral Temple.

After sweeping the ancestral temple early in the morning, Shen Can stretched as he walked out of the temple gate.

Then, I went to see Huo Xian, who was still asleep.

Last night, his wizarding realm advanced to the mid-stage of the fourth rank.

Advancing one minor rank every twenty years or so is not too slow, after all, his ability is to catch a toad and squeeze out its urine, absorbing the last drop of essence, rather than accelerating the cultivation speed.

This ability is such that the more difficult the situation, the more likely one is to accumulate small gains into something substantial.

However, over the years, the Blazing Flame Tribe has developed better and better, and resources are no longer scarce.

Having source stones for cultivation, he naturally wouldn't be foolish enough to try and extract that pitiful wisp of spiritual energy from the stones again.

There are many martial artists in the Divine Treasury Realm of Yongyi, but there are not many fourth-order Great Witches.

Many of the temples and shrines of the Bobu people are not actually fourth-level great shamans. The gap in fourth-level shamanic magic and supernatural powers is far greater than that in martial arts.

The clan has already mastered the sorcery traditions up to the fourth rank and has successfully established a system of transmission. What they lack now are sorcerers who can practice sorcery.

In the past, each family's witchcraft lineage would at most take in a few disciples, and some would only take in one disciple, which caused many witchcraft lineages to be buried.

Now, in the Blazing Flame, aptitude is not considered. As long as you have the talent for witchcraft, you can practice witchcraft and learn suitable witchcraft.

After returning to the ancestral temple, Shen Can awakened the spirit-sacrificing soldier Ji Tianlong.

"At what level did the Yongshan Marquis's shamanistic tradition reach back then?"

In response to Shen Can's question, Ji Tianlong paused for a moment before waking up the other sacrificial spirits.

The seven sacrificial spirits looked at each other.

I don't remember it.

They were all martial arts masters, and were not familiar with witchcraft to begin with. After their deaths, this part of their memories was naturally the easiest to forget.

"Fifth tier, I think."

"It should be the fifth rank. Isn't the Rain Master the fifth rank?"

"You're wrong. Rain Master is a sixth-tier wild beast, the same tier as Lord Lord."

"It's clearly fifth rank."

……

The seven spirits spoke one after another, none of them giving a definite answer.

"By the way, ask him, he should know."

At this moment, Ji Tianlong pulled out the sacrificial spirit that had previously delivered the mural to Shen Can.

"Ji Qing should know that I remember this kid very well. He seemed to say that writing is an evolutionary process, and customs vary from place to place. Only painting can convey the true meaning."

Ji Qing was still in a daze. He was not a fourth-tier wizard in his previous life, but only a second-tier wizard.

The fact that they were able to survive was mostly due to the relatively strong spiritual power of the wizards.

However, due to some unknown stimulus, despite the repeated sacrifices over the years, Ji Qing's consciousness remained in a state of confusion.

It works sometimes and doesn't work at all.

"Ji Qing, I'm asking you, what rank is the Rain Master?"

Ji Tianlong's soul trembled, transmitting a wave of energy to Ji Qing.

Ji Qing was taken aback.

"Sixth level."

"A sixth-order Great Yinglong, capable of summoning clouds and rain, swallowing clouds and spitting out mist, can be large or small, sometimes appearing and sometimes disappearing."

The moment Ji Qing's divine sense fluctuations were transmitted, his fingers involuntarily began to move.

Shen Can sensed a divine dragon, Shen Jun Yinglong, breathing clouds and mist, through his divine sense.

"Senior Ji, do you know what level the witchcraft inheritance of Yongshan reached back then?"

Shen Can used his divine sense to ask a question.

"The fifth rank, the temple is the fifth rank."

This time, Ji Qing was lucky; his divine sense suddenly flashed with inspiration.

“This old man is no good. I asked him to paint a picture for me, but he insisted that my painting was soul-capturing. Even a fifth-level great witch is afraid of being soul-capturing.”

“Back then, I even drew Uncle, but alas… what did Uncle look like? Yes, I couldn’t draw Uncle; his face was different every time.”

……

Seeing Ji Qing fall back into a daze, Shen Can tried calling her twice but failed, as she remained absorbed in drawing the portrait of Lord Yongshan.

No matter how Ji Qing raised his hand, he couldn't draw it.

"According to legend, the Kui Niu War Drum was crafted by the Lord of Yongshan, who personally hunted and killed a Kui Niu. Was the Lord also a shaman?"

A martial artist's blood and qi are indeed hot enough to melt some ores, but to incorporate them into a finished weapon using a witch's talisman and spiritual seal is something a martial artist cannot do.

Wizards can use earth fire to smelt materials and create a wizard artifact on their own, but warriors cannot.

"I don't know how the rumor about you came about. You are a martial artist."

"I don't know either, I don't remember anything about it."

……

After letting the spirits rest again, Shen Can looked thoughtful.

Whether the Kui Niu War Drum is tier 5 or tier 6 is unclear even to the Ao Shan Bo tribe, and now no one can be certain.

He awakened the sacrificial spirit to inquire about the witchcraft traditions of the Yongshanbo tribe and their famous witchcraft artifacts.

The goal is to find a new path and recreate the subsequent traditions of witchcraft from these magical artifacts.

These magical artifacts passed down from the Yongshanbo tribe bear the inscriptions of shamanic texts and spiritual prohibitions, and record traces of a higher lineage of shamanic arts.

As long as there are traces, Shen Can is confident that he can replicate them.

Speaking of which, the Aoshan clan has a grudge against Zhiyan.

Previously, the Divine Warrior Ao Xuansong, who was on the back of Aoshan Mountain, was killed in Ji.

Subsequently, they directly accused the Aoshan tribe of colluding with Xiaoyang, causing Aoshan to be coveted by many other tribes.

All these years have passed, and Aoshan has never come to seek revenge.

I must say, he's quite tolerant.

When Shen Can went on his last trip, he made a point of taking a stroll around Aoshan.

I didn't notice anything unusual.

The treasures left behind by the Lord of Yongshan back then are numerous, including more than just the Kui Niu War Drum, all of which have great research and deductive value.

At this moment, Ah Yu hurried over and brought over a jade slip.

“The temple, a letter sent back by the old clan chief from Dai.”

(End of this chapter)