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

Chapter 3 Sacrificing to the Cauldron (Please continue reading)

"In the future, I will have time to organize my years of experience as a shaman. If you don't want to learn it, I will select a few more people from the tribe to pass it on."

"Can is willing to learn."

Shen Can agreed without even thinking about it.

It's always good to learn more skills.

In my memory, the shamans of the Great Wilderness World didn't possess many supernatural arts; at least in their Blazing Flame Tribe and other nearby tribes, they were more inclined towards healing and treating illnesses.

Even so, they only intervened intermittently. The manifestation of witch doctors in Huoxian was in the form of medicinal dumplings and medicinal soups.

In addition to healing, shamans also have the important responsibility of neutralizing the violent aura of beast blood.

As for other aspects of witch doctors, Shen Can was unaware, perhaps because his perspective was too narrow to understand more.

After all, the strongest tribal leader of the Blazing Flame Tribe was only at the third realm of martial arts, the Heavenly Vein Realm.

The methods of martial arts training are also too rudimentary.

In the Blazing Flame Tribe, to become a first-tier Stone-Splitting Realm warrior, one must soak in the blood of a first-tier wild beast, eat wild beast meat, and practice tempering techniques to integrate the essence of the wild beast into one's own body.

To become a second-tier Mountain Opening Realm martial artist, one must soak in second-tier beast blood, eat wild beast meat, and learn tempering techniques.

A third-tier martial artist soaks in the blood of a third-tier beast.

Why do they all need to soak in animal blood?

Because the daily practice of eating animal meat and practicing Kui Niu boxing is simply not enough to help the tribe break through their limits.

Those clansmen nearing the advancement to the Stone Splitting Realm or Mountain Opening Realm can only force a breakthrough by soaking in beast blood and relying on the powerful blood energy of wild beasts.

The tempering method of the Blazing Flame Tribe is the Kui Niu Fist, a method created by imitating the Kui of Rifting Mountains.

However, once you become a third-tier Heavenly Vein Warrior, the tempering method is no longer effective; you need a real martial arts technique to simulate the blood and qi circulation within a wild beast.

While the habits and movements of wild beasts are easy to imitate, the circulation of blood and qi within their bodies is not something that can be discerned at a glance.

The chieftain of the Blazing Flame Tribe was able to advance to the third-tier Heavenly Vein by forcibly breaking through by soaking in the blood of a third-tier beast; without subsequent cultivation techniques, he was stuck.

Because even the clan leader had no idea where the blood energy in his body was flowing, he only knew that the Heavenly Vein Realm required opening up the Heavenly Veins.

However, the Blazing Flame Tribe has been passed down for three hundred years and has had more than ten clan leaders. Each clan leader used themselves as test subjects and thus discovered the location of a celestial vein.

These weren't secrets; Shen Can only recall hearing them when the tribe taught Kui Niu Fist.

Besides being a method for tempering the body, Kui Niu Fist is also a method for forging the body before soaking in beast blood.

Children in the tribe learn the Kui Niu Fist from the age of eight or nine. Then, depending on the situation, young people who have been tempered to a certain level are selected each year to soak in the blood of a first-tier wild beast.

Why are they all as strong as bears? It's normal for them to grow up so big and strong, eating wild beast meat and practicing Kui Niu boxing every day.

The size of one's physique is the simplest indicator of one's strength.

Even so, the probability of the Blazing Flame Tribe successfully advancing to the first-tier Rock-Splitting Realm is only three or four out of ten, and sometimes even only one or two out of ten.

Ultimately, it comes down to the beast blood being too strong. Besides the individual's own ability to withstand attacks, breaking through also depends on luck.

It was this life-or-death martial arts that carved out a place for humankind to survive.

Besides the dangers during the breakthrough process, the impact of refining the essence of wild beasts on a martial artist's cultivation, coupled with the hidden injuries left from fighting wild beasts, can also cause many martial artists to perish prematurely.

Otherwise, the Blazing Flame Clan wouldn't have had more than ten clan leaders in three hundred years, and none of these clan leaders had a good end.

Shen Can could only say that living here was not easy, because you never knew when disaster would strike, and earthquakes and floods were even more frequent.

Ah Yu was born during a flood.

He was born during an earthquake, when the tribe suffered heavy losses and his parents were sacrificed to the heavens.

In comparison, this torrential rain that lasted for just over sixty days is nothing.

The history of the Blazing Flame Tribe, spanning over three hundred years, records that the longest period of heavy rain lasted a full year and a half, accompanied by earthquakes.

The Blazing Flame tribe is not considered a large tribe. The tribal records of those tribes that have been passed down for thousands or even tens of thousands of years must be even more impressive.

This is the Great Wilderness, fraught with peril.

It's better to keep it as a temple; you don't have to leave the tribe.

As long as his clansmen offer tributes to the ancestral temple on time, he can continuously plunder the lifespan of his prey.

……

The hunted Kui was quickly dismembered, with its hide, bones, and internal organs being taken away by the women of the tribe.

Animal hides were used to make leather armor, the hard parts of animal bones were used to make arrows, and the internal organs were cleaned and eaten.

Today, after being forced into this position, Shen Can successfully moved into the ancestral temple and became the next generation of temple deity in the tribe.

It all depends on when Old Master Huo Xian will hand over the reins.

"Let's clean up the west ear piercing and make it our place."

Once someone becomes the head of the temple, they have to live and eat at the ancestral temple, which is why other young people in the tribe are unwilling to do it.

Sacrifices are nothing compared to the thrill of hunting.

In his memory, before he transmigrated, A-Can was very unwilling to become a priest, otherwise he wouldn't have gritted his teeth and gone out with the hunting team.

Now, Shen Can's thoughts have naturally changed.

This temple is appropriate.

Not only does he want to be a member, he's prepared to be one for the whole.

There's nothing wrong with temples; what I love most is cleaning and tidying up for my ancestors. It brings peace and tranquility.

During the annual, ten-year, or even hundred-year grand festivals, the clan leader will personally lead the hunting team to hunt down a third-tier wild beast.

Heaven knows how long a third-tier wild beast can live.

As Shen Can pondered, he tidied up the West Ear Cave.

A simple stone house and stone bed.

"Brother A-Can, I've brought you your bedding."

Ah Yu carried her bedding into the ear hole and threw it onto the stone bed.

Afterwards, Ah Yu stood there hesitating for a long time before quickly saying something and walking out of the stone house.

"Brother A-Can, when I become a martial artist in the future, you will also be a part of the wild beasts I hunt."

Shen Can, who was laying out his animal skin rug, was stunned. He turned around and only saw A Yu's departing figure.

"This guy."

"It's a pity that your original Ah-chan brother has dissolved in water."

Shen Can spread out the mattress, intending to take a good look at his golden finger, but after thinking about it, he got up and walked towards the East Ear Cave.

"Master, does the ancestral temple still need to be cleaned tonight?"

Seeing the head peeking into the cave, Huo Xian, who was sitting on the stone table looking through animal hide records, tacitly accepted Shen Can's address and a smile appeared on his old face.

"Just keep the oil lamp burning tonight, and I'll take you through it first thing tomorrow morning."

"By the way, if you're hungry, you can take some of the meat from the offering table and eat it."

"what……"

Shen Can was taken aback when he heard Huo Xian's words.

"What temple doesn't steal offerings? The ancestors are deities, shouldn't you help them taste them?"

Hearing this, Shen Can felt even more relieved.

His golden finger seized the lifespan of the wild beasts, which can be considered as stealing the tribute from our ancestors.

After returning from Master Huo Xian's place, Shen Can lay on the stone bed and finally had time to look at his cheat ability.

"Offering sacrifices at the tripod."

In my perception, this thing was incredibly ethereal within my body, with three legs and a round mouth, much like a blood vessel that holds beast blood.

As the thought crossed his mind, the information resurfaced in his thoughts.

Priest: Shen Can

Martial Arts Realm: No Rank.

Sacrificial vessel: sacrificial tripod

Tempering Method: Kui Niu Fist (Inferior) (Can be deduced)

Skills: None
Martial Arts Supernatural Powers: None

Life span: 33
"How do you deduce this?"

A thought popped into Shen Can's mind, and then he felt the illusory three-legged sacrificial cauldron inside his body flicker.

He discovered that he had gained the power of 'inner vision' and saw a hazy space inside the sacrificial cauldron, where a blurry figure emerged.

"Item spirit?"

Seeing this change, Shen Can didn't rush to start, but cautiously gave a greeting.

But there was no response.

"system?"

"Ancestor?"

There was no response.

Although he did not receive a response, he felt that the three-legged sacrificial cauldron was the carrier of the data in his mind.

"Can I use a year of my lifespan to taste the saltiness first?"

In an instant, as Shen Can's thoughts shifted, the illusory figure inside the sacrificial cauldron raised its hand and adopted the starting stance of the Kui Niu Fist.

The first move of Kui Niu Quan is called Kai Shan (Opening the Mountain), and the punch is thrown like a Kui Niu charging.

As the illusory figure inside the sacrificial cauldron began to move, Shen Can suddenly felt that more information was emerging from his thoughts.

[After a year of practicing boxing, your form is stiff, your muscles and bones are immobile, you lack flexibility, and you are as dull as a rock.]

"Damn, how can this thing swear!"

"Two more years."

[After three years of practicing boxing, your form is still stiff, you don't know how to adapt, you're as stupid as a fool.]

……

[After ten years of practicing boxing, you still haven't grasped the principle of muscles and bones moving with the fist; you're like a fool who's only opened six of his seven orifices.]

(End of this chapter)