I Steal the Ancestors' Sacrifices to Nourish Myself-Chapter 257 - 115: The Path to Tier 4, Huo Chang Heads South (Double-Length - )
[You comprehended it, lacking inner strength, you relied on external power, deducing yourself sitting on a primordial vein with abundant source power to break through... The Kui Ox roared and blasted open the Divine Treasure, you died violently]
[Not convinced, you spent another hundred years of longevity to continue deducing]
[This time, you deduced an environment with sufficient source power, circulating the blood energy in the Nine Celestial Veins, condensing into a blood-colored Kui Ox, charging towards the Dantian position.]
[Boom, the Divine Treasure shattered, you suffered severe injuries, spat out three gallons of blood, and died]
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[In the seven hundred and sixty-third year of deduction, you once again suffered severe injuries to the Divine Treasure, spitting blood, this time you finally realized that the Observing Dragon and Exorcising Method truly wasn’t suitable for you, forcibly blasting open the Divine Treasure with this method would most likely lead to death]
[Your obstinacy didn’t stop, attempting to deduce other auxiliary secret techniques, leisurely over two hundred years passed]
[Sacrificial Master, wake up, your longevity has been exhausted.]
...
Whoosh!
Shen Can slowly opened his eyes, feeling a sharp pain all over his body in a daze.
After a long while, he rubbed his belly, regaining his senses.
Indeed, breaking through Tier Four is not simple.
As for life or death, that’s another matter.
Now, Shen Can was experiencing the aftereffects of his breakthrough.
Although this aftereffect was a result of deduction, it still felt real. 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮
The Blood Dragon’s Hideaway Technique given by the middle-aged senior also said that he likely couldn’t use it.
During the deduction process, he repeatedly died violently, was torn apart, dismembered, severely injured, which once again proved the senior’s advice.
Of course, according to the deduction, although the probability of violent death was high, there was theoretically a chance of successfully advancing to the Divine Treasure.
Although the odds weren’t high, and luck played a significant role, it barely counted as a path to advancement.
At least from inevitably violent death, it was deduced to severe injury, the degree of possible violent death, longevity wasn’t completely wasted.
Therefore, Shen Can decided not to use it anymore.
If he did manage to blast something out, it would be a significant loss for him.
Clearly, he could deduce the most suitable technique, cultivate in the safest and most reliable way, but he insisted on taking a reckless path, purely a foolhardy move.
He finally understood why Jianng Zhen and Jianng Yuan didn’t break through, why Miao Tuo and Muo Feilong waited over a hundred years, waiting for the Xiaoyang Race’s auxiliary support.
In the cave, the martial arts and witchcraft classics looted these days were spread out.
There were two hundred and thirty-seven martial Dao Celestial Vein Techniques, all of which could be cultivated to a minimum of Celestial Vein Sixth Layer.
The witchcraft covered the categories of Metal, Wood, Fire, and Earth, just what Blazing Flame currently needed.
Although the quality was somewhat uneven, with enough longevity to deduce, it was enough to piece together a complete one to three-tier Five Elements Witchcraft lineage.
Previously, why Shen Can had the clan prepare many living Sacrificial Beasts was because he hadn’t accumulated enough longevity.
Originally thinking, once enough classics were gathered, he would return to the clan and proceed with full-scale deduction.
But unexpectedly, despite encompassing the cultivation methods of the Xiaoyang Race and Human Race, they were all stuck before Tier Four.
There was no way to break through Tier Four, which Shen Can hadn’t anticipated.
Killing Tier Three Xiaoyang could acquire resources, but no method to break into Tier Four.
Shen Can frowned, having been busy for so long, both martial arts and witchcraft had advanced to Tier Three Peak, yet the resources to break through Tier Four had not been gathered.
According to deduced scenarios, sufficient source power and witch medicine were also auxiliary conditions for advancing to the Divine Treasure, and their effects were significant.
Without rushing to put these cultivation techniques and witchcraft away, he casually flipped through them.
Two consecutive days passed, Shen Can was still going through these classics, examining whatever he picked up, whether witchcraft, martial arts techniques, or combat styles.
But the more he read, the more suspicion grew.
This batch of classics was obtained from the Xiaoyang Celestial Vein, and some even from the hands of Celestial Vein Ninth Layer, Tier Three Peak Wizards.
Overall, even if they weren’t the peak of Ji Land, they were among the top techniques.
Having not carefully read them before, now as Shen Can delved into them, he discovered significant discrepancies.
In over ninety percent of these martial arts and witchcraft classics, there were traces of follow-up supplements, expansions, and deductions.
Others might not notice, but having spent so much longevity deducing techniques, he immediately spotted numerous flaws.
In some cultivation techniques, while the first few layers and the latter layers seemed seamless, there was a slight discontinuity at the end.
Some techniques, where the follow-up repairs were made, gave Shen Can the impression of "adding a tail to a weasel," a patch not seamlessly integrated.
The repairer’s abilities were clearly inadequate, forcibly patching up an incomplete technique without regard for potential issues during cultivation.
Or perhaps, they lacked the ability to address the post-repair defects, leaving them for future generations to continue deducing and repairing.
In Shen Can’s hands was the witchcraft "Water and Wood Mutual Study Contract," bearing the marks of over a dozen Xiaoyang Wizards.
This technique was arguably the best-repaired and deduced among all the classics, yet for methods to advance to Tier Four Great Witch, it merely mentioned condensing qi into liquid and quenching the Witch Vein’s strength.
The description was too vague, lacking specific techniques for quenching or any concrete methods.
Shen Can reckoned the text lacked it; Xiaoyang, with its Great Witch Priest, likely held some minor secret techniques for advancing to Tier Four Great Witch tightly and wouldn’t leak a single bit.
In Ji Land, following Tier Three techniques was the Tier Four Divine Treasure, and Celestial Vein Martial Artists were the pillars in every tribe.
