I Steal the Ancestors' Sacrifices to Nourish Myself-Chapter 63 - 34: Wizard Cultivation Method, Traces of a Tier 3 Water Beast
A month after being deceived when buying slaves.
Huo Chang glanced at the clan land from afar and said, "Let’s go."
Then, Huo Qingg, Huo Muu, Huo Hou, and Huo Qiang quickly followed him, heading south.
The five were fully armed, dressed in Witch Armor, carrying Witch Bows, Witch Arrows, Witch Medicines, and Witch Talismans.
This journey south had many targets such as Spirit Rice, Blacksmiths, and Spirit Plants—everything that could aid the tribe’s development was within their scope of investigation and search.
Each person carried a thick beast hide bag full of Shen Can’s upgraded Mafei Powder and Witch Talismans.
Luckily, they emptied the Upper Huang Division, otherwise, making this much Mafei Powder would have been impossible.
Regarding being deceived by the Slave Market, Huo Chang naturally harbored anger, but he didn’t rashly seek them out at the time.
The Slave Market was jointly established by three tribes, and he wasn’t even sure which tribe Jia Gu belonged to.
At that time, if he sought them out, it would have been disgraceful for him, and might even implicate his own tribe.
Revenge doesn’t have to be rushed.
You hit me once, and I’ll seize the chance to pay it back double.
If Jia Gu happened to be from the Upper Lake Division, then tricking him would be fate’s way of payback.
...
Five days later.
"Clan Leader, there are people ahead in the mountain."
Huo Hou quickly came from a distance, entering a valley.
As a scout, he habitually conducted inspections.
"Did you see who they were?"
"I only saw seven people, they also seemed to be wearing leather armor, chopping wood there, otherwise, I wouldn’t have seen them."
"Let’s go, take a look."
Quickly, under Huo Hou’s lead, Huo Chang and his group climbed to a hidden spot on a small hill and looked down.
Huo Chang squinted and observed for a long time, at least confirming they were not remnants of any tribe.
Moreover, these people seemed to be gathering wood for camping; typically, seven people wouldn’t use a single dried tree entirely, yet they had already chopped four or five.
This road was precisely the path the Upper Huang Division took south, considering the previous incident where Upper Lake Tribe soldiers were killed, he decided to quietly observe such well-armed individuals.
Under the night sky.
Below the cliff, over two hundred people gathered, lighting numerous bonfires.
"Remember the road here, go back and tell Acan about the situation here."
With tribe soldiers organized similarly to the Upper Lake Division before, Huo Chang instructed Huo Hou to make a trip back to prepare in advance.
He planned to carefully see what this group was up to before deciding.
...
Under the night sky of Blazing Flame.
The Ancestral Temple, illuminated by Beast Fire.
[Sacrificial Master plunders three years of life from Cyan Scale Fish]
Shen Can efficiently dissected the three-foot-long blue fish, coming to the Great Marsh was much better than the previous clan land.
Clan members went down to fish every day; larger ones would be sent to the Ancestral Temple.
The intention was simply to offer a bit to the ancestors; after all, formal sacrifices required drawing Witch Talismans, which was quite troublesome for Shen Can, the Ancestral Temple Keeper.
Shen Can would handle the live fish sent over, while the dead ones would let the ancestors enjoy the scent before being taken down.
The only thing that annoyed him was that although these fish near the water looked large, their lifespan was really short.
Fortunately, he didn’t mind.
While arranging the offerings, Huo Chong rolled over a piece of beast hide.
"Master, the Witch Runes are all written."
Shen Can took the beast hide and nodded.
After persistent efforts over many days, through Jifu’s mouth and his own intermittent inferences, he had currently organized six hundred and seventy-three commonly used Witch Runes of the Lingyu Water Control Technique.
It could be said that with these six hundred and seventy-three Witch Runes, theoretically, he could perform most of the witchcraft recorded in the Lingyu Water Control Book.
However, it’s like the math in his previous life—recognizing every character when connected, he could only write a solution.
Additionally, on Huo Chong’s hammer, another half Witch Rune appeared, which he had thought to write himself.
To use witchcraft, Divine Sense was indispensable, as well as Witch Power.
This undoubtedly indicated that Huo Chong became a Wizard Apprentice.
Perhaps due to Huo Chong being a blacksmith since childhood, among the many categories of witchcraft organized, he grasped the artifact refining faster than other types.
This made Shen Can consider several times if he should visit the farmers among the clan members.
Late at night, Shen Can sat cross-legged on the bed.
In his senses, a vein extending throughout his body had emerged, through Divine Sense he could mobilize the black light Witch Power traveling within this vein.
This is the Witch Vein.
The Wizard Apprentice is condensing this thorough meridian, and once cleared, becomes an official wizard.
It’s also the foundation for casting witchcraft and drawing Witch Talismans.
This witchcraft-operating meridian, Shen Can has only recently sensed.
If asked how he advanced to a Tier One Wizard, he could only say he was muddled.
Now, with the help of Jifu, he has already comprehended the cultivation of a wizard.
The Witch Vein stores Witch Power, Divine Sense manipulates Witch Power to cast witchcraft and draw Witch Talismans.
After arriving at the Great Marsh, Shen Can discovered that his cultivation of witchcraft has been much faster than before.
Previously, in the Old Clan Land, he couldn’t sense the improvement of his Witch Power at all.
Of course, it might also be due to his lack of understanding of witchcraft cultivation at that time.
Witchcraft requires relying on Divine Sense to capture external Source Power of the same origin. The Lingyu belongs to Water Magic, and the abundance of water vapor near the Great Marsh naturally speeds up cultivation.
This is also why one’s Divine Sense must be stronger than others when first cultivating witchcraft, otherwise you can’t even sense the Source Power of the same origin. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺
According to Jifu, martial artists can also directly absorb external Source Power; however, they need to clear all Celestial Veins first.
In Divine Sense perception, bits of profound black Water Element Source Power surround him, gradually being pulled into Shen Can’s body.
The stronger the Divine Sense, the larger the sensing range, and correspondingly, the speed and quantity of Source Power absorption also increase.
Shen Can’s current Divine Sense perception has already reached ninety feet, greatly surpassing Jifu’s state when he was newly Tier Two.
Enhancing Divine Sense can either rely on honing with Witch Runes, accumulating over time, or during advancement, different degrees of Divine Sense amplification may occur.
Frankly, Shen Can spends decades of lifespan annually inferring witchcraft, also belongs to the gradual honing of Divine Sense.
Moreover, this is much faster than solely relying on comprehending Witch Runes for honing.
Precisely because of his strong Divine Sense, the Witch Talismans he draws are also stronger than those drawn by other Tier One Wizards.
This time, the Witch Talismans Huo Chang and his group took away are of much better quality than before.
Ninety feet doesn’t seem much, not enough for a martial artist’s leap, but none of the Tier One Wizards in the Lingyu Tribe possesses a Divine Sense of ninety feet.
According to Jifu, in the history of the Lingyu Race, the most talented witch had at most a Divine Sense of seventy feet at Tier One.
Certainly, this cultivator was exceptionally gifted, with amplification in subsequent tiers was one to two times that of peers, until after advancing to Tier Four Wizard it weakened; unfortunately, they still didn’t break into Tier Five.
Otherwise, the Lingyu Tribe might have become the Great Minister, and other Bo Divisions bow before Lingyu.
Shen Can estimates that his current ninety feet is mostly due to the crossing of residual souls and intermittent inference over the past year; as for the amplification of great realm advancement, it’s probably not much.
Fortunately, inference is a lifelong endeavor; when he infers lifespan of tens of thousands or millions of years, he can look back then.
...
As Shen Can cultivated, in the water vapor that filled the cave, bits of Source Power vanished onto him.
The water vapor outside the cave slowly poured into the cave.
According to daily cultivation, near midnight, Shen Can would finish his cultivation.
Today, the water vapor on the Great Marsh surged towards the direction of the Clan Mountain.
In the eyes of ordinary tribesmen, water waves churn in the water, indicating the wind has picked up.
But in Shen Can’s perception, the concentration of Water Element Source Power around has increased several times, and he continually draws it into his body.
His body was enveloped in a circle of intense black light, and his hair and eyebrows were all dotted with water droplets.
After Source Power absorbed into his body, it began to surge up and down within the Witch Vein, gradually expanding its width.
...
Deep within the Great Marsh.
Among several submerged mountain peaks with only their tips exposed above water, waves beat against the mountaintops, and amidst the churning waves, a blood-red hue arose.
A water beast about one foot in size, with a bulging skull and two dragon whiskers beneath, with a body like a carp, suddenly leaped out of the water, nimbly spitting out a string of bubbles, swiftly crossing over a dozen feet.
Beneath the fish’s body, waves cascaded down, the fanged mouth carried torrents of water rushing out.
This was a strange fish, completely jet-black, covered with bumps on the surface, with scars all over the gaps between its scales; pained, it roared, chasing after the Dragon Beard Carp ahead.
The small Dragon Beard Carp darted through the water like an arrow, bubbles exploding all around, confusing the pursuing strange fish.
Occasionally it would turn back, swiftly slicing across the strange fish’s body with its fins, leaving a bloody scar.
Yet its attack only repeatedly angered the strange fish, making it roar more furiously.
"Roar!"
The closely chasing strange fish again opened its fanged mouth wide, a ball of watery light formed in its mouth, immediately causing the water surface ahead to ripple.
The Dragon Beard Carp seemed to be immobilized, its fish mouth crossing over a dozen feet to bite down.
Within the closed fish mouth, water flowed like a waterfall.
More than a dozen feet away, the Dragon Beard Carp leaped out again, with masses of water vapor surging around its body.
At this moment, its deep black eyes misted over with water vapor, suddenly staring toward the distant misty mountain ridges.
Then, it quickly gathered the water vapor, rushing in that direction.
