I Steal the Ancestors' Sacrifices to Nourish Myself-Chapter 102 - 58: The Rangers Are Fat, Targeting Blazing Flame (Qiu Yue Vote Requested)

"We have many dependents, and I had no choice but to move them all to the clan land for concentrated protection."

"What kind of treasure could it be to attract the Bo Division and so many rangers and blood witches?"

Shen Can didn't know either.

...

After an exchange, Shen Can learned about the recent events within the clan.

First, children from the dependent settlements were drained by a blood witch.

Huo Chang decisively brought the children into the clan division for protection, and then ordered all the dependents to migrate near the clan land.

But the matter wasn't over. 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

Recently, numerous dependents have been going missing continuously.

Gathering tens of thousands of people requires eating, drinking, and sleeping; they can't just sit and do nothing after arriving.

Every day, many people go out to gather wood and hunt.

Even though they were instructed to take more people in each team, people kept disappearing.

Shen Can felt a chill. He had just brought back the residual spirit of the human race ancestors and now encountered blood witches stirring up trouble.

Are they trying to spite him?

After bathing, Shen Can changed into clean robes and entered the Ancestral Temple, taking out the Sacrificial Artifacts from the Witch Pouch and placing them inside.

Upon seeing the Sacrificial Artifacts, Huo Chang's breath quickened.

Though to him, these seventeen bronze vessels appeared unchanged from before,

he believed in Acan.

Acan must have brought back the residual spirit of the human race ancestors.

"Current Clan Leader of Blazing Flame, pays respect to the ancestors."

Even without offerings, Huo Chang solemnly saluted the Sacrificial Artifacts.

Even without receiving a response, he respectfully performed the rites with three bows and nine kowtows.

In a way, what was brought back this time was a guardian spirit of the tribe.

The Sacrificial Artifacts were no longer mere cold bronze vessels.

Shen Can also didn't know why his connection with the ancestral spirits was so instantaneous once he went.

Unbelievably smooth.

After thinking it through, he felt it might be because of the preparations he made that impressed the ancestral spirits.

"The clan is unsettled; we must first find these people before we can hold the Great Sacrifice for the ancestors."

After bringing back the ancestral spirits, naturally, the entire clan should hold a Great Sacrifice to establish 'resonance' with the ancestors.

But given the current situation, it seems less than ideal.

If those guys took advantage of the Great Sacrifice and attacked the Blazing Flame Division...

Our ancestor and ancestral spirits would be enraged.

Is this all you got?

Gufu Mountain, you boasted so much to me.

Shen Can glanced at the Sacrificial Artifacts.

With the residual spirit residing in them, it was as if they were endowed with spirit.

The human race ancestors protected future generations in the past, and even after their passing, they would shield the tribe's legacy.

The ancestors had great magnanimity; even if only a fragment of their consciousness remained, they would not choose a cowardly and timid tribe without courage or ambition.

...

Two days later.

The moonlight was obscured by clouds.

Bonfires outside the houses in the center of the clan land dispelled the darkness, and the clan soldiers vigilantly watched every corner.

The children of the tribe and dependents were all placed here.

On the high spots around, giant crossbows gleamed with a chilling light.

Huo Chang stood behind one of the giant crossbows, looking around warily.

Soon, the last sliver of moonlight was covered, and apart from the clan land lit by bonfires, the surrounding area was very dark.

In the darkness, a black bird hovered over the clan land.

Inside the Ancestral Temple.

Shen Can, dipping his brush in blood ink, was writing the name Yao Chong on a newly made Divine Tablet, with two others already completed beside him.

Tonight's murky weather presented a perfect chance to act if the blood witch hadn't left yet.

On the offering table, the soup in the stone bowl was as translucent as jade, exuding a fragrant aroma.

If the blood witch were indeed lingering within the clan, it would certainly sniff out the aroma of Jade Liquid.

The Blazing Flame was exposed, while those making move remain hidden. Such rangers without attachments are the hardest to deal with, for they can always find an opportunity from the shadows.

With no other options, Shen Can used a heavy lure to draw out those in the dark.

Rangers saw the Blazing Flame as prey, and coincidentally, he shared the same idea.

For no other reason than the rangers being just too resource-laden.

Slaying several more would serve the human race's cause and provide for the tribe and himself.

A silent night.

By dawn, Shen Can awoke to find the Jade Dew in the stone bowl nearly gone.

It had been absorbed by the Sacrificial Artifacts.

Early in the morning, Huo Chang entered the Ancestral Temple.

"Acan, still no movement. If they've left, fine; but if they're still lurking, they're deliberately trying to wear us down."

While polishing the stone bowl, Shen Can was puzzled, wondering if the bait was insufficient.

"Clan Leader, three people have arrived outside the tribe. They claim to see the Clan Leader and are here specifically to relieve our tribe's troubles."