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

Chapter 42 The Initial System of the Tribe, The Witch's Knife Above the Tomb Fish (Please continue reading)

The priest plundered 233 years of the lifespan of a first-tier alien species, the Mountain-Splitting Kui.

As Shen Can drew blood, cut the Kui meat, and offered it to the ancestral temple, the doll carrying ears of wheat and millet was also summoned into the ancestral temple and placed bundles of wheat and millet on the offering table.

They told their ancestors that after the disaster came a bountiful harvest, and that they were still alive.

After the ancestral worship ceremony, the other prey were placed directly on the grill.

In front of the campfire, a complete Kui beast was placed on the grill, its oil sizzling and dripping.

Huo Tang used a knife to cut the Kui meat, cutting off the fattest and most succulent part and serving it to Shen Can.

"Ah Can, the tribe has gone from disaster to having enough to eat and wear, and you deserve a lot of credit for that."

The tribesmen sitting around the campfire nodded in agreement. Without the shaman's guidance, the tribe would not have achieved such great development.

From using shamanic talismans to cure plagues to vigorously promoting martial arts, from shamanic medicine hunting to shamanic medicine pest control, from herb cultivation to wild beast taming, all of these things were driven by Shen Can.

Everyone has felt the changes in the tribe.

After Huotang distributed the roasted meat to the tribespeople sitting around the campfire, he said, "Take this and share it with the tribespeople."

The two tribesmen set up a roasting pan and walked away into the distance, attracting a group of children who chased after them.

“A year has passed since the floods, and our clan’s crops have been bountiful. We have survived the most difficult time.”

Huotang, holding a pottery jar of roasted meat, looked around and said, "The various clan affairs have also been divided into more detailed categories. Let's take this opportunity to let everyone know who is in charge of the various affairs within the clan."

The tribespeople sitting around the campfire were both men and women, and all of them were warriors, thus forming the initial institutional system of the Blazing Flame Tribe.

The three clan elders now have more manpower under their command and a more detailed division of responsibilities.

The Huo Yu clan elder oversees the clan's treasury and the training of the tribe's youths in martial arts. The head instructor for this training is Huo Qi. (One of Shen Can's martial arts experiments, a failed attempt to advance to the Heavenly Vein realm.)

Elder Huoyun had many subordinates: Huoyun, the Minister of Agriculture; Huoyuan, the Minister of Beasts; Huoyao, the Minister of Pottery; and Huoshi and Huoxin, the Ministers of War.

Of the two military commanders, Huoshi is a blacksmith, while Huoxin is one of the few female warriors in the tribe, responsible for making weapons such as armor and arrowheads.

Volcano now has four soldiers under his command.

The Fire Monkey was responsible for relaying and gathering information. This group consisted of only about twenty people, all of whom were fast runners and agile.

Zubo Huoyan, Huoyu, and Huoning were all previously promoted to the Mountain Opening Realm, essentially serving as tribal guardians. They took turns going out to hunt, train, scout the terrain, and understand the environment.

The newly promoted Heavenly Vein Fire Kui did not take up a position, but became a hidden force within the tribe.

In addition to these, the clan also has a clearly established library cave and a medicine garden, both of which are supervised by Shen Can and Huo Xian.

Besides practicing martial arts, the children in the clan also learn additional knowledge in the library cave.

Under this system, most of the more than 3,000 martial arts practitioners in the clan are engaged in farming, crafting, and other similar activities. Apart from the young children, everyone has their own job.

This harvest is just the beginning; for the tribe, there is still a long road ahead.

As the weather gets colder, it's the perfect time for hunting and gathering firewood.

The day after the clan festival, the clan members began a new round of busy work.

Two months later, the weather suddenly turned cold.

Inside the ancestral temple, the cave area has been expanded to more than double its previous size, and it has been connected to the caves on the left and right.

One of the caves contained more than twenty wooden bows of various styles, ranging in power from the thirty-fifth to the forty-third.

Most of them were previously collected from various tribes, and some have had new bowstrings replaced.

Shen Can casually picked up the bow with the strongest draw weight. The animal sinew used for the bowstring was as thick as a finger. The moment he gripped it with both hands, it was easily pulled into a full moon shape.

Priest: Shen Can

Martial Arts Realm: Mountain Opening Realm (Power of Forty-Nine Desolate Elements)
Volcano, one of his two major experimental subjects, was already capable of drawing the bow of the power of the forty-three desolations.

Shen Can estimated that the volcano's true power was about the same as his current strength.

Huoqi, having been soaked in the blood of a third-tier beast, now possesses forty Desolate Powers.

Shen Can had been recording the energy expenditure and improvement of the two cultivators, and Huo Qi was far behind Huo Shan.

As for the incomparability between him and Volcano, he rose from an ordinary martial artist in one go, while Volcano already possessed the power of the thirty-five desolate realms when he was still an ordinary martial artist.

Unfortunately, even the strongest archers no longer possess them, and it's impossible to make one without third-tier materials or high-tier ores, and it also takes time.

Inside the ancestral temple cave, the fire pit crackled, and steam rose from the earthenware pot above it.

"Cough cough..." It's cold, and Huo Xian is coughing badly.

"Ah-chan, has Ah-tang sent any news back today?"

The cold weather is a good time for hunting, and the three hundred-person warrior teams in the tribe have been hunting in shifts for quite some time now.

According to the previously established rules, if someone goes out hunting and does not return, a message will be sent back every two to three days, depending on the distance.

Having previously hunted a Tier 3 monster fish, Huotang once again set his sights on a Tier 3 aquatic beast.

"The news comes back every two days. We only got news yesterday that the clan leader has found the injured third-tier water beast and is hunting it. With the anesthetic, we should be able to succeed soon."

……

Onozawa, west bank.

The area is dotted with marshes and swamps, and connected by large lakes.

Within the valley formed by the submerged mountains, the water flowed deep and gurgling, accompanied by strange cries. "Splash!"

As the waves burst open, a strange water beast with horse-ear-like eyes appeared. Its body was like a black-patterned serpent with six legs, drawing the surrounding water vapor into mist that gathered above the valley.

This strange-looking water beast was covered in wounds, with the wounds on its lower abdomen extending to its tail, sometimes shimmering with light.

On the small hill by the shore, Huotang carefully examined the water beast that had emerged.

The beast was severely injured, and after several days of careful observation, he believed that the gleaming part of its tail was a weapon embedded in its body.

This water beast had long since become a frightened bird, and dared not venture deep into the marshland to catch fish, only eating small fish.

This valley is connected to a waterway, so it's probably impossible to drain the water like last time.

After careful observation, Huotang used the method of 'dredging' to arrange for his people to dig a waterway behind the valley.

It was five zhang wide and two zhang deep, and they dug all the way to three li away, where they found a large pond.

The reason for digging such a long artificial river is that this area is on the edge of a marshland, with lots of mud and water, and water beasts have feet under their bellies.

By digging a three-mile-long stretch, even if the water beasts could climb ashore, there would still be time to intercept them in the shallow water.

Huge rocks were piled up at the mouth of the pond, waiting for the water beast to enter so that the entrance could be blocked.

After the artificial river was dug, the tribesmen went to the mountains and forests to hunt down the Kui dragon, which they then threw into the artificial river.

It struggled in the water, its wounds staining the river with blood, attracting many small, fanged fish to swarm and tear at it.

Even so, the water beast did not take a single bite.

Huotang wasn't in a hurry; every day or two, he would throw an injured Lieshan Kui into the water.

After throwing seven of them into the water, the water beast finally couldn't take it anymore.

With a splash, a snake-like body leaped out of the water, snatched the body of the Mountain-Splitting Kui in its mouth, and swallowed the small fish that were foraging around it.

It rolled over in the water and swallowed most of the body of the Mountain-Splitting Kui.

At the same time, Huotang had already ordered his men to throw down half of the skeleton of the Rift Mountain Kui about a mile behind the artificial river, and pour in its blood.

"Coming, coming."

On a small hill beside the artificial river, the crowd watched from afar as the waves rippled in the water and the water beast followed the scent of blood into the pond.

At the same time, the fire-lighting guards by the pond pushed the boulder to block the breach.

"Smash the anesthetic!"

The other tribesmen, covered in mud and hiding outside the pond, started smashing pottery jars onto the water beast.

As the fire gate blocked the gap, the water beast that was devouring the flesh of the Mountain-Splitting Kui sensed the danger. A black light swirled around its body, and the surrounding water began to surge.

But then the anesthetic powder rained down like a shower of flowers from a fairy maiden.

The broken jar was filled with a paste-like liquid that had spilled over most of its body.

Its body was covered in wounds.

Wow!

The water beast struggled violently, black light spreading across its entire body, its six legs thrashing rapidly as it dragged its wounds, trying to break free of the water.

But as soon as the light appeared, its massive body swayed slightly and then plunged into the water.

"Hehe, Ah-Can's medicine is really effective."

“Just dig some ditches and let the water flow. I think we should move directly to the vicinity of this marshland and specifically catch the wild beasts in the water.”

"I can see it."

"What are you standing there for? Can't you see the beast blood is flowing out? Hurry up and cut it up."

"Ah, clan leader, aren't we taking this wild beast back alive?" Huo Yu asked, somewhat surprised.

“No, the road is too far. This water beast can climb ashore and has supernatural powers. It would be too dangerous to bring it back.”

"Segment on the spot and collect blood."

As he spoke, Huotang walked up to the water beast, pried open its mouth, and drove the ironwood spear into the water beast's skull through its mouth.

……

Two days later.

All the parts of the third-tier water beast were placed in the ancestral temple.

“Ah Can, this water beast is like the plague beast we’ve seen before; it can release black light.”

Huotang brought back a complete set of things, including the soil that had been stained with beast blood.

There was also a broken sword with witchcraft inscriptions.

Shen Can had some regrets about not being able to kill the wild beast himself, but obtaining this broken sword made up for that regret.

The witchcraft script on the broken sword was all too familiar to him.

The half-foot-long blade was broken, with more than a dozen shamanic runes remaining, four of which he had not yet deduced.

"The upper part of the Lingyu fish."

(End of this chapter)