I Steal the Ancestors' Sacrifices to Nourish Myself-Chapter 27: Advancing as a Wizard

Feeling the beast meat he had eaten transform into Qi Strength, Shen Can withdrew his fist, didn’t disturb Ayu who was still practicing punches, and headed toward the Ancestral Temple.

Sacrificial Master: Shen Can

Sacrificial Artifact: Sacrificial Tripod Cauldron

Martial Arts Realm: Mountain Opening (Sixteen Power of Desolations)

Witchcraft Realm: Unranked

These days, he practiced punches during the day, and occasionally inferred witchcraft at night, using fifty years of lifespan as a measure.

Now, he feels his ’Spiritual Sense’ precisely reaches a range of fifty feet, and the number of Witch Runes has reached seventeen.

Regarding witchcraft, his understanding is still too limited.

What can be confirmed is that all nearby divisions, including the Upper Huang Division, have no legitimate wizards.

But it doesn’t mean these divisions don’t have records related to witchcraft. Smaller tribes have limited vision, and they might not understand even if they have such items.

He hopes to gather some records related to witchcraft from the beast hide scrolls collected from other tribes during the process of consolidating nearby remnants.

Bowing in homage before the ancestors, Shen Can constantly reminded himself of his primary responsibility and washed the Ancestral Divine Tablet before the Divine Platform.

"Bless me, ancestors, with some witchcraft."

He made a wish into the void as usual.

This kind of wishing happens every day during cleaning, where he mutters to the ancestors.

After making his wish, Shen Can headed toward the East Ear Cave, where his teacher Huo Xian was still diligently writing down his years of medical experience.

Without disturbing, he returned to the West Ear Cave to lie down.

Lacking any basic understanding of witchcraft, he was quite exhausted from exploring step by step.

[Lifespan: 180]

Due to the plague insect attack, the tribe halted hunting, so Shen Can’s current lifespan from wild beasts is dwindling away.

Fortunately, he isn’t miserly; he uses it generously when needed.

[Using fifty years of lifespan to infer the eighteenth Witch Rune]

Previously, nine Witch Talismans combined to form the Lingyu Water Control Technique, and he guessed that Lingyu Witchcraft should be a system.

The Witch Rune is the script of this system. The more Witch Runes there are, the greater the variety of witchcraft changes and the stronger its power.

[You gaze at the image of Lingyu, imagining yourself transformed into a Lingyu, swimming through the water]

[Upon metamorphosing into Lingyu, a bloodthirsty urge arises, which quickly subsides as you continue to experience the change of water through the Lingyu’s body]

[Thoughts align, the previous seventeen Witch Runes line up shimmering, intricately connected, with some having inexplicable relations]

You capture the intricate links between the Witch Runes, a Spiritual Light abruptly shining within your mind, and in the water light, a new winding rune gradually manifests

...

[Congratulations, you have comprehended part of the Lingyu Water Control Book]

[Lifespan consumption of twenty years, reverting to thirty years]

...

Inside the ear cave.

Shen Can spread out the beast hide, on which he had written eighteen Witch Runes.

Witch Runes differ from ordinary texts, each character bearing myriad meanings, yet can combine like text to form ’sentences.’

The mystery of Witch Runes is that a single rune itself is like a sentence.

However, it seems the quantity is still insufficient, many ’sentence formations’ lack content.

Shen Can feels he has grasped the essence of Lingyu Witch Runes.

This is a witchcraft written in unique Witch Runes, through combinations, Witch Runes can derive various meanings. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

Just like the Water Manipulation Technique, initially deduced from combinations of nine Witch Runes.

Now, he’s deduced nine more, combining eighteen Witch Runes offering even more combinations.

The whole Lingyu system probably contains far more than eighteen Witch Runes.

Similarly, these texts cannot be clearly understood; only through ’Spiritual Sense’ could one appreciate their profound emanations.

No wonder neither Blazing Flame nor Upper Huang has any wizards; without heritage, it’s exceedingly difficult to cultivate by mere word of mouth.

He invested more than two thousand years of lifespan, far surpassing the lifespans of several Blazing Flame Clan Masters combined.

This is truly an encrypted script, and there’s a cultivation barrier too.

"Looks like the Lingyu Tribe’s witchcraft heritage is the Lingyu Book."

[Witchcraft Path: Tier One]

[Lifespan: 150]

At this moment, Shen Can realized he had successfully advanced to a wizard without even feeling a tinge.

This realm breakthrough seems more a reflection of the depth in witchcraft comprehension.

"Buzz!"

As he raised his hand, forming a sword with his fingers, with a single thought, eleven out of eighteen runes shaped into a talisman in his mind.

Inside the ear cave, water vapor suddenly gathered at his fingertips, transforming into a Water Arrow that pierced deep into the rock wall.

Although the flood subsided for long, the cave remained damp, allowing the water vapor from the air and rock walls to converge and compress swiftly into an attack under his control.

The talisman serves as a medium in mobilizing these vapors, while Spiritual Power acts as the key to activating the Witch Runes.

"Really need to lay some witchcraft foundation, otherwise it still feels a bit too vague like blind groping."

Erasing the Witch Runes written on the beast hide, Shen Can walked out of the cave.

"Brother Can, it feels like my meal is digesting faster and faster."

A sweat-drenched Ayu walked in.

"Go eat."

At present, the tribe meat supply was abundant, one could eat as much as one desired.

Large pots were lined up at the city-building site, steaming and boiling beast meat, the taste guaranteed to be salty enough.

Soon, Shen Can and Ayu returned with one large and one small clay bowl, the small one was for Huo Xian, the large ones were theirs.

Squatting outside the Ancestral Temple’s cave entrance, they began eating heartily.

Gazing down the mountain, a towering wall over thirty feet high had emerged on the eastern and southern sides of the clan land in Shandong.

Composed of massive stones, the wall had a thickness of fifty feet, supporting wild beasts running on top with no problem.

Of course, the capacity to run refers to its surface, collapsing is another issue.

It’s a necessary measure; lacking strength, they only expanded the wall’s thickness, otherwise, it’s hard to stack it thirty feet high.

Eating their meal, Huo Chang arrived holding his bowl.

"Ayu, go fill my bowl with more rice."

Ayu readily took the large clay bowl, downed the meat soup from his bowl in one gulp, and quickly dashed down the mountain carrying the two bowls.

Shen Can looked helplessly at Huo Chang, thinking this was bullying the simple-minded lad.

"News from Huo Shan, the entire Jishi couldn’t escape, and several tribes in our eastern and southern areas suffered from plague insect attacks.

The plague insect activity range is expanding, already covering over a thousand miles in radius.

Luckily these plague insects didn’t split forces further; it seems like there are only so many plague birds. That’s good news.

I’ve instructed Huo Kui to transport back the reserves of Jishi Division, while other tribes being a bit far, will take some time to bring back.

I’ve also instructed them to separately transport the beast hide scrolls from various tribes you wanted."

"Right, our tribe’s western neighbor Jiangsha has remained unscathed, probably due to the presence of plague insects moving your way being eliminated, hence avoiding the plague insects’ westward and southwestward invasion."

"Moreover, embodied plague insects have been around for quite a while, surprising how the people of Upper Huang haven’t come by."

Upper Huang lies south of Blazing Flame, previously, traversing over three thousand miles despite flooded conditions they were up and about; now not visiting is unexpected.

Besides being intimidated by plague insects, Huo Chang couldn’t think of any other reason.

"It’s a pity the timing isn’t right now, otherwise I’d definitely head over to the Jiangsha Tribe for some benefits. Not to mention other things, at least to bring several Jiangsha Race girls into Blazing Flame."

Whistle!

While saying this, from the south of the tribe, an arrow shot sound pierced the air.

The two, who were crouching outside the cave, suddenly stood up.

"I’ll go check what’s happening."

Huo Chang left his meal, swiftly heading down the Clan Mountain.

Despite being in the midst of city-building, available personnel were still stationed around the tribe, vigilant against any embodied plague insects, offering timely warnings.

"Plague insects are here!"

"Hurry, get the bonfires!"

A tribe member roared as he dashed into the tribe shortly after Huo Chang charged out.

Standing high on the Clan Mountain, Shen Can scanned the distance south and noticed a densely packed black cloud appearing. His expression changed.

He was building the city to defend against embodied plague insects, and now the flying winged plague insects have come.