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

Chapter 320 The first clansman to directly sense the stars, searching for the Kui Niu.
Outside the ancestral temple.

At Shen Can's command, the clan's fourth-tier great shamans and third-tier peak shamans gathered together.

Over the past few years, the number of people in the Divine Realm within the clan has increased dramatically, and the number of fourth-tier Great Witches has reached twenty-one.

At this moment, the number of clan shamans gathered at the ancestral temple reached 1,337.

Many wizards, led by a fourth-level great wizard, stood on the open ground outside the ancestral temple and bowed to Shen Can in unison.

"Is everyone here?"

Shen Can walked out of the ancestral temple.

Divine senses enveloped the wizards present. Over the years, the Blazing Flame Tribe has continuously produced new witch arrays and witch artifacts, mainly relying on these pillars before them.

“We have summoned all the clan members who are currently staying within the clan and who are expected to be promoted to Great Shamans.”

Huo Yun spoke up, handing Shen Can a jade slip.

Inside the jade slip, in addition to the names of all the wizards present, the names of some third-tier peak wizards who had not returned from outside the clan were also listed.

This includes the breakthroughs each wizard made during their cultivation process, what they researched within their clan, and what they were good at.

However, some names are dimly colored, indicating that they have fallen, while others are marked in red, indicating that they are seriously injured.

The process of their fall and severe injury is also recorded.

After reviewing it, Shen Can did not delay and began to teach the witchcraft cultivation method he had deduced.

The wizards in our family are all already quite accomplished in their cultivation, so there is no need to teach them the general methods of wizard cultivation.

According to their respective cultivation attributes, the Five Elements techniques were passed down one by one.

Many wizards formed a circle, surrounding Shen Can.

Shen Can randomly selected wizards of different attributes as his students and passed on his skills in front of everyone.

More than thirty wizards were selected and taught the five wizarding methods. Then, these thirty-odd people began to spread the knowledge from one to ten, and from ten to a hundred.

As night fell, a bonfire was lit in the square in front of the ancestral temple. Many shamans practiced their skills around the bonfire, verifying their understanding with each other. When there were any obscure parts, Shen Can would explain them to them on the spot.

"Master."

Seeing that Shen Can had just answered a question for a clansman, Huo Yun stepped forward while no one was in front of Shen Can.

"sit."

Shen Can had his disciple sit to the side.

“Master, it is like this. As you know, several years ago, before the great battle in which the Dongze camp killed Xiang Liu, our clan found a small Yuan vein in the waters more than a thousand miles deep into the Great Swamp.”

Therefore, a place was built based on the primordial veins to facilitate the breakthrough of the divine treasure.

At that time, Xiang Liu happened to pass by and came across the island where the Yuan vein was located. The people on the island suffered heavy losses, including hundreds of third-level wizards from my clan.

These wizards were led by Yan Zeng and Lu Yu, both at the peak of the third tier.

At that time, Yan Zeng's wife was at a critical moment in breaking through the Divine Treasury when Xiang Liu attacked, requiring the activation of the great formation.

When the great formation is activated, it will drain the source energy in the primordial veins. At that time, Yan Zeng's wife will die because the source energy around her will be drained, causing her blood and qi to flow in reverse and become violent.

In the critical moment, Yan Zeng's energy surged dramatically, reaching the fourth level in an instant. He forcefully rushed into the witch formation used for breakthrough assistance and rescued his wife.

Subsequently, Yan Zeng fainted due to the brief exhaustion of his vital energy. After being rescued, he became a cripple due to the overdraft of his potential and the complete destruction of his witch veins.

Although he has become a cripple, Yan has participated in the construction of many witch arrays within the clan and has rich experience.

After his injuries healed, in order to prevent him from becoming despondent, I arranged for him to become the assistant repairman of the clan's star-guiding array.

When Master summoned the wizards this time, I happened to contact Yan Zeng. He said that while maintaining the Star-Guiding Array, he seemed to have a strange connection to the power of the stars.

Huo Yun told Shen Can about the matter. The Star-Guiding Array is one of the most important source power enhancement arrays in the tribe, so maintaining it is of paramount importance.

Previously, it was discovered within the clan that clansmen who were near the Star-Attracting Array were much more intelligent, and some ordinary clansmen were directly promoted to shaman apprentices.

Even among the clansmen living near the Star-Attracting Array, the proportion of children born who cultivate witchcraft has increased several times over.

However, Yan Zeng was the first member of his clan to be able to directly resonate with the power of the stars.

After Huo Yun mentioned this, Shen Can also became interested in Yan Zeng. Currently, the Starry Sky Technique within the clan is only being practiced by the clones and the Starry Sky Turtle Clan.

The different types of Star Turtle Clan members who successfully cultivated were also quite different.

For example, the patterns on the shell of the old Xuan Turtle are naturally mysterious. After cultivating the power of stars, the patterns on its shell underwent a wonderful mutation, giving rise to a natural array that Shen Can has not yet been able to decipher.

After cultivating the power of stars, the Mountain-Moving Turtle Clan seemed to have taken a super tonic, and their bodies grew rapidly. The Mountain-Moving Turtle with the highest cultivation level was only at the early stage of the fourth rank, but its body was already two sizes larger than the old Xuan Turtle.

However, within the clan, the clansmen have always been alienated from the power of the stars.

The mysterious power of the stars seems to have a lofty and aloof air, unwilling to descend to the mortal realm.

"Yan Zeng didn't come?"

"No."

Huo Yun continued, "If Master wants to see him, I will have someone summon him immediately."

"Let's do it the next day. First, pass on the technique."

Afterwards, Shen Can learned more about Yan Zeng's situation. Many clansmen had been injured when they encountered Xiang Liu, but Yan Zeng was not injured by Xiang Liu. He had unleashed his inner power to save his wife.

His spirit and energy were elevated to the extreme, overdrawing his own potential, and he briefly gained fourth-order power before quickly falling back down.

Not only did his witchcraft lineage collapse, but he also suffered severe injuries.

More than 1,300 shamans gathered outside the ancestral temple, supporting each other and exchanging experiences.

A day later, the wizards learned the witchcraft cultivation methods taught by Shen Can.

Having a complete cultivation method will greatly benefit them in their breakthrough to the fourth-tier Great Witch level.

They learned it and will teach it to other wizards in the tribe.

However, Shen Can gave an order that the clan's wizards should be taught the methods up to the level they have reached, and they should apply to the clan for further methods when they break through to the next level.

After learning the technique, the clansmen left one after another. The next day, Shen Can also met Yan Zeng, the pure-hearted wizard of the clan.

In that situation, Yan was a real man.

"Paying respects to the temple."

The once spirited young man now has a full head of white hair and looks very old.

Yan Zeng, who forcibly broke through the barrier of realm and temporarily gained fourth-level combat power, suffered an extremely powerful backlash.

Fortunately, the tribe had shamanic medicine; otherwise, they might not have been able to save him.

Even so, Yan Zeng needed to recuperate for more than half a year after returning to his clan before he could get out of bed and walk.

Shen Can invited Yan Zeng to sit down.

Yan Zeng sat in front of Shen Can with a bit of trepidation.

"Come, look at this."

Shen Can pointed to a jade slip on the table. Although Yan Zeng had suffered severe injuries and his witch veins had completely collapsed and could not be restored, his divine sense was still intact and had recovered to the early stage of the third rank. Reading the jade slip was no problem for him.

Inside the jade slip was a fragment of the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Gong, which Shen Can had placed inside, along with a deeper level of star-guiding array spirit restriction.

This part of the spiritual restriction is still under development and has not yet been distributed to the tribes.

Yan picked up the jade slip and pressed it to his brow. The contents of the jade slip were a bit overwhelming for him, and it took him a long time to sort them out.

……

"Speak boldly."

Encouraged by Shen Can, Yan Zeng spoke up, "Temple, the shamanic spirit restriction here is a continuation of the star-guiding array built within the clan. It looks even more complicated than the existing star-guiding array within the clan. In addition, the array is no longer a single formation, but rather they are combined and brought closer together to form a larger star-guiding array."

"Also, there is a Star Cultivation Method inside, which seems to have an array, somewhat similar to the array diagram of the Star-Attracting Array."

Furthermore, I feel that it also incorporates elements of the interplay between stars and mountain formations.

Yan recounted everything he could perceive.

He even noticed the harmony between the stars and the mountain formations, which was somewhat unexpected for Shen Can.

Clearly, Yan Zeng has changed a lot.

Shen Can has all of Yan Zeng's cultivation data after he embarked on the path of cultivation, including every realm advancement after becoming a witch, and which witch array he participated in building.

According to clan records, before Yan Zeng was severely injured, he had never presided over the construction of any witch array on his own; he was always the assistant in building witch arrays.

In other words, their talent in witch formations is average; they can systematically build and maintain witch formations according to the formation diagrams provided by the clan.

It's just that I'm not very bright.

But now, I've figured it out; loving your wife really does bring good fortune.

"Tell me in detail about your experience of being assigned by the clan to repair the Star-Guiding Array."

Upon hearing Shen Can's question, Yan lowered his head. He had actually been quite dejected at first.

Of course, he had no regrets about what he did. His wife, Jiang Yu, was severely impacted and her divine treasure was shattered, but she successfully entered the realm of divine treasure.

Although the injury was severe, after several years of recuperation, he has fully recovered.

Before the clan assigned him to maintain the Star-Guiding Array, they gave him another option: to teach the shamans how to cultivate. He chose to maintain the Star-Guiding Array.

While maintaining the great formation, he would rest and sleep by relying on it whenever he had free time.

The Star-Drawing Array can actually draw upon the power of stars not only at night, but also during the day. It's just that the effect is less noticeable during the day and is not visible to the naked eye.

The repair of the large array was originally a routine process, something that had long since become a habit.

If something is broken, just replace it. Even if he is a disabled person, it's not difficult.

Four months after becoming a craftsman repairing the Star Array, Yan had a sudden thought while replacing a cracked array base.

If the position of the damaged array base is changed, the frequency of failure can be reduced.

When this idea popped into Yan Zeng's head, he was startled. In the past, he had always built and repaired the great formation step by step, fearing that it would be different from the formation diagram and cause problems with the great formation.

This was the first time I had ever considered changing the position of the array base.

After having this thought, Yan Zeng didn't dare to move and continued to maintain the star-guiding formation step by step.

But the thought wouldn't leave his mind, and a voice kept urging him to give it a try.

The Star-Guiding Array was enormous. Although it was just a matter of replacing a few array bases, Yan Zeng still dared not move it, for fear of triggering a chain reaction that would destroy the array.

Fortunately, not long after Yan had this idea, the clan conducted a routine overhaul of the Star-Guiding Witch Array.

Yan Zeng boldly told the great wizard Huojue about his thoughts.

After discussing it with several high shamans, Huojue found it to be highly feasible and first replaced a few array bases in one of the star-guiding shaman arrays as a comparison.

The comparison showed that it really worked.

The modified base remained crack-free for over a year.

Huojue immediately reported this to Yan Zeng within the clan.

Yan Zeng was naturally pleased to have made contributions, but what excited him even more was that his ideas had been proven true.

He found some notes related to formations within the clan and began studying formations during breaks in maintaining the Star-Guiding Formation.

Unexpectedly, the array manual that seemed unremarkable before has now sparked a lot of thoughts in my mind.

After he had become useless, he actually became successful again.

Yan carefully recalled his experience. Apart from resting inside the Star-Guiding Array, he had not done anything different from before.

If there's a problem, it's that he burned away his vital energy, causing his witch meridians to break and rendering him useless; he can no longer even store witch power.

This time, Huo Yun was ordered to summon the clan's shamans, and Yan Zeng reported this matter to Huo Yun.

Previously, he fainted after burning his essence, energy, and spirit, at which time his consciousness dropped to the level of a first-tier wizard.

Over the years, he has recovered to the early stage of the third tier. The only downside is that his witch veins have been severely damaged and are completely beyond repair.

"Temple Master, I am now a second-tier array master."

Although Yan Zeng had participated in setting up the grand formation before, he was merely following orders to place the formation base. This was something that ordinary clansmen could also do, and they were considered craftsmen.

The clan recently launched an examination for artisans and array masters.

To become a second-tier array master, in addition to understanding array-related knowledge, one also needs to be able to set up five second-tier arrays on one's own.

This includes two battle formations, one energy gathering formation, and two different types of defensive and offensive formations.

In addition to setting up the formation, one must also have one's own understanding of the formation, be able to independently discover the problems of the second-order formation, and independently repair and change the second-order formation.

At this point, Yan Zeng continued, "I'm going to take the third-tier array master exam next."

"Keep this jade slip and study it often in your daily life."

As he spoke, Shen Can handed the jade slip to Yan Zeng, and then raised his finger to point at the center of Yan Zeng's forehead.

Zhou Tianxing's fighting skills entered Yan Zeng's consciousness.

"No one in the clan has been able to cultivate this technique yet. Why don't you give it a try?"

"Two years from now, whether you succeed in your cultivation or not, you must come and report to me."

Two years later, Shen Can was about to return from his business trip.

The task of finding the Kui Niu clan is beyond the capabilities of others; they lack the strength to traverse the wilderness.

As for why the Wilderness Patrol Division could traverse the Giant Mountain Range, it wasn't because Beast King Lu Wu was there. Some fourth-tier wild beasts obeyed Lu Wu's orders and carried his tokens, making it very simple for them to travel through the Giant Mountain Range.

But this time, they are heading outside the Giant Mountain Range, and the fourth-tier clansmen may not be able to sustain themselves.

In addition to passing on the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Gong to Yan Zeng, Shen Can also passed on a witchcraft technique to Yan Zeng.

It was easy to tell whether Yan was truly capable or not within two years.

……

half year later.

Southeast of the Juyue Mountains, in the vast and endless jungle, a wildfire raged, burning the forest above the marshes.

With a roar like thunder, a colossal beast, five hundred feet in size and as large as a mountain, stirred up a torrent of mud and water, which transformed into countless mud arrows that pierced the sky, chasing after the two figures ahead.

The giant beast had several burn marks from the flames, and in the middle of each mark was a dented hole that was slowly healing.

Two figures ahead moved with lightning speed, their only thought being to escape.

"This guy's skin is too thick; you can't even stab it."

Shen Can put away the broken spear; this was the first time he had encountered something that even the broken spear couldn't pierce.

"Now you know why I'm staying in the Giant Mountain Range, so you're not coming out anymore."

As he ran, Chi Huo Lu Wu tilted his head to look at Shen Can.

"There are too many animals outside, even I, a descendant of Lu Wu, am suffering a setback."

(End of this chapter)