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

Chapter 52 Half of a Tribe's Ironwood Ship! (Please continue reading!)

As Shen Can used his witch power, only the witch runes on the ring-pommel sword lit up, and no external energy was generated.

It's obvious that this sword is of a lower grade than the previous broken sword; it should be a second-tier witch weapon.

The purpose of the incantation is to make the knife sharper and more durable.

"Uncle Volcano, this is just right for you."

As he spoke, Shen Can tossed the knife to the volcano, and the other tribesmen nearby all showed expressions of longing.

"Don't rush, keep searching, dig deeper, there might be bones if there's a knife."

As Fu said, the Lingyu tribe sent four or five thousand people, and even if they were on small ironwood boats, there would still be several hundred people.

Does that mean they can all be saved?
With so many large tribes, what's wrong with a few more tribesmen dying and some weapons and armor being left behind?

Just then, seeing that Shen Can had stopped, Huo Chong handed Shen Can a pottery jar.

"Master, have some water."

Huo Zhong wasn't one of the bodyguards; he came along to learn.

There's also Ah Yu, who's responsible for carrying water and food for Shen Can.

During his time at the ancestral temple, Huozhong worked very diligently and never slacked off.

Despite having a connection to the Wu script, Huo Zhong's cultivation of its essence is still incredibly slow.

Shen Can was anxious but there was nothing he could do. He was the only remaining elder in the clan, and he couldn't simply give up on witchcraft.

Otherwise, we should have done this job again today.

Shen Can looked at his apprentice who was serving him like a master and sighed. "Forget it, loyalty is all I need. Who needs a little genius?"

Once we extract the basics of witchcraft from Lu Fu, we can slowly select and train talented members of our clan.

After unearthing a series of broken fragments, they discovered a witch's knife, which boosted everyone's morale.

This is also something that Shen Can finds somewhat puzzling.

How could it have broken so badly? The shipbuilding quality of the upper part of the Lingyu shouldn't be this poor.

Didn't they have a fleet of ships? How could they just watch their own ironwood ships crumble to dust?

Could it be that the ironwood boat was hit in a short time, leaving no time for others to rescue it?

Below the pit, a volcano-shaped, humanoid wild boar was so powerful that it practically shoved its nose into the ground, overturning the surrounding soil and rocks.

"found it!"

Not long after, a skeleton was dug out of the soil.

He wore a set of black fish-scale patterned leather armor, adorned with metallic parts, and a blurry fish-beast pattern formed on his chest.

"This is amazing! It's so much better than the leather armor our tribe makes."

"I feel like these patterns are still alive."

Acquiring a complete set of armor was a cause for celebration, and the group gathered around to examine it, but Volcano shooed them away.

……

In the blink of an eye, a month has passed, and the things found have piled up into a small mountain.

A total of 130 arrows were found, all of which were wooden bodies with metal arrowheads inscribed with witchcraft.

Even after being buried in the mud for a long time, the arrow remained intact.

Seven bows and seventeen witch knives.

They were leather armors; including the first one, there were only three sets.

There were more than 300 fragments of the ironwood boat, of which only seven were larger than 10 feet, and the rest were mostly smaller than 1 foot, or even smaller than the palm of a hand.

With such a degree of fragmentation, it's no wonder that the upper part of the pit wasn't dug out. The silt is of varying thickness, making it difficult to locate and dig.

As for armor, it was worn on the body, so it's likely that the Lingyu tribe would also retrieve the remains.

These three who were dug up are probably unlucky; they weren't rescued by their own kind.

The area wrecked by the broken ship was too large. After a month of work, Shen Can felt completely drained.

In addition, there were some odds and ends on the three skeletons, but none of them contained the martial arts techniques I was looking for.

"I really hope I can turn this whole area upside down when I have the chance in the future."

Shen Can sat under the shade of a tree, muttering to himself, but then he thought that maybe by then he wouldn't need to come and dig up this junk anymore.

"Ah Can, the clan chief has arrived."

Shen Can looked up and saw a figure, completely black and covered in tree branches, approaching from afar.

At first glance, it's hard to believe that this is the chieftain of the Blazing Flame Tribe.

"Haha, how's my disguise, Ah-Can? I've been hiding in the Shanghuang mining area for two months without being discovered."

Seeing Shen Can's surprise, Huo Tang licked his dry lips and asked with a smile, "How was your harvest?"

"Give the water to the chieftain."

Shen Can called to his cooking partner, A Yu, and handed the water jug ​​to Huo Tang.

While drinking water by the fire, I shared what I had learned during this period.

"We've dug up quite a lot of things."

"Chieftain, why are you back? Did you make some new discovery?" "Damn it, Shanghuang is so lucky! He actually found most of the ironwood ship's skeleton."

"They smelted crude iron day and night, probably to get to the Copper Shell Market. I guess it's mostly related to the ironwood boat they dug up."

Shen Can nodded. No wonder Shanghuangbu stopped digging here.

Without witchcraft, finding something in such a large area is like looking for a needle in a haystack. We even need to continue expanding the excavation area. Without more people, it's completely ineffective.

There's a new solution.

"Once they have this ironwood boat, they can use the river to barter with other tribes and obtain more resources from the outside."

For most tribes, hunting, gathering, and farming are self-sufficient, but this also means they have no potential for external expansion.

"Did they find witchcraft and martial arts in the wreckage of the ironwood ship?"

"I hid inside the mine and eavesdropped on the conversations of the martial artists stationed in the mine. They had no way of knowing the core secrets of the Upper Yellow Division."

These martial artists guarding the mines only discussed the smelting of crude iron and did not mention martial arts. However, they did mention that the temple of the Shanghuang tribe had taken in a young boy.

As for the wreckage of the ironwood ship, the mine-guarding warrior said he had seen a broken, damaged ship being brought into the tribe.

"Are you sure it's a broken ship?" Shen Can asked in detail. "It's not like the whole ship was broken into several pieces and they carried it back piece by piece. Ordinary martial artists wouldn't know the situation, would they?"

“I’ve listened to their conversations over the past few days, and they’ve mentioned the broken ship five or six times. They did indeed say that a large section of the bow was missing, and only half of the hull was missing.”

Upon hearing Huo Tang's words, Shen Can couldn't help but stand up and look around.

If the news is true, it proves that there is still a section of the ship's bow skeleton in the wilderness.

“Ah-chan, I’m worried that once the Shanghuang tribe repairs their ironwood boats, they will also move to the Great Swamp.”

After Huotang conceived the idea of ​​migrating his clan, he kept this matter in mind.

The Blazing Flame Tribe migrated to the Great Swamp because they had acquired the anesthetic drug Mafeisan, which made it easier to hunt ferocious beasts in the water. Naturally, they wanted to seize this advantage.

Now that Shanghuang has ironwood boats, it is easier to enter the Great Swamp.

“Chief, the broken bow may also be completely shattered.”

As he spoke, Shen Can got up and walked towards the makeshift cave, where the fragments he had dug up over the past few days were hidden.

Inside the cave, he carefully examined the collected fragments of various sizes.

"Ah Chan, what are you checking?"

“Chief, although we have never built a ship, we know that the hull and keel are composed of different parts.”

Shen Can checked all the collected fragments.

"These fragments are all broken ship hull pieces. You can see that they are all the same thickness. There are no fragments of the keel structure, which means that the bow was not broken into pieces. It is indeed possible that it is nearby."

"Then let's look for it. The upper part has half a ship's hull, we need that too."

After resting for a night, Huotang once again reached for the upper part of his body.

Shen Can also began to expand the search area, hoping to find the broken bow section.

……

"Buzz!"

It was near dusk that day, outside the area of ​​the shipwreck hills.

There are also pits excavated in the upper part of this area, but there are far fewer of them compared to the shipwreck hills.

The spiritual response was minimal here; after digging for several days, they only found a few broken fragments.

"Buzz!"

At that moment, a cloud of colorful mist fell and quickly sank away.

"I'll dig. Everyone get ready to go into the cave to rest."

Seeing that there was movement, Volcano called to the tribesmen who were digging around by chance to rest, and he began to dig down into the soil.

Shen Can also prepared to go back to rest. Although using the Spirit Response Technique was helpful for witchcraft cultivation, being so busy was too tiring.

Just as he returned to the shipwreck hill, he heard footsteps behind him. Turning around, he saw Volcano running excitedly towards him.

"Ah Chan, hurry... big... big ship."

……

After digging through the thick layer of soil, a ship that was nine zhang and three chi long and thirteen zhang wide at the break point was revealed.

Through the fracture site, you can also see the horizontal keel that looks like a shark fin.

The location of the broken main keel still shows signs of having withstood a violent impact.

The reason why the width is longer than the length is mainly because this is the bow of the ship.

Because it was at the bow of the ship, there was a giant crossbow, about two zhang in size, on the deck.

There are three levels in total, with the bottom level being a compartment separated by longitudinal and transverse fishbone-like keels.

The bottom of the boat was covered with a sheet of iron engraved with shamanic script.

"Ah Chan, there are several skeletons."

"Clear it out quickly, then we'll return to the tribe immediately and discuss whether we should come back to continue digging."

Looking at the metal sheet on the outside and the dense, winding witchcraft inscriptions on the crisscrossing keel and other parts inside, Shen Can immediately made a decision.

(End of this chapter)