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

Chapter 27 Advancing to Wizardry (Please continue reading)

Feeling the beast meat he had eaten transform into internal energy, Shen Can withdrew his fist, not wanting to disturb A Yu who was still practicing, and walked towards the ancestral temple.

Priest: Shen Can

Sacrificial vessel: sacrificial tripod

Martial Arts Realm: Mountain Splitting (Power of the Sixteen Desolations)
The level of witchcraft: Unorthodox
These days, he practices boxing during the day and occasionally performs witchcraft at night, aiming for a lifespan of fifty years.

Now, he felt that his 'mental perception' had reached a precise range of five zhang, and the number of witchcraft characters had reached seventeen.

He still knew far too little about witchcraft.

It is certain that there are no legitimate shamans in the surrounding areas, including the Shanghuang area.

However, this does not mean that the tribes did not collect records related to witchcraft. Small tribes, with limited perspectives, may not have understood the relevant information even if they collected it.

In the process of gathering the remaining tribes in the vicinity, they hoped to find some records of witchcraft among the animal skin scrolls collected from other tribes.

After bowing before the ancestors, Shen Can kept his duty firmly in mind and washed the ancestral tablets in front of the altar.

"May our ancestors bless us, and grant us some witchcraft."

As usual, I made a wish in the void.

This kind of wish is made every day while sweeping and cleaning, and is uttered to the ancestors once.

After making his wish, Shen Can headed towards the East Ear Cave. His master, Huo Xian, was still writing furiously, recording his many years of medical experience.

Without being disturbed, I returned to the West Ear Cave and lay down.

He has no basic understanding of witchcraft, which makes it a bit tiring for him to figure things out step by step.

【Shouyuan: 180】

Due to the plague, the tribe stopped hunting, and Shen Can's current lifespan as a wild beast is almost depleted.

Fortunately, he wasn't a miser; he wasn't stingy when it came to spending money.

[Using fifty years of lifespan, the eighteenth shamanic inscription was derived.]

He had previously guessed that the Lingyu Water Control Technique, which consisted of nine sorcerer talismans, should be a system.

The script used to write this system is the script used to write the spells. The more scripts there are, the more variations the spells can contain, and the stronger the spells will be.

You gaze at the image of the Lingyu, imagining yourself transforming into it, swimming through the water.

After transforming into a Lingyu, you had a bloodthirsty thought, but fortunately you recovered quickly and continued to experience the changes in water through the Lingyu's body.

In my mind, the seventeen shamanic characters were lined up in a row, shimmering and mysteriously connected, with some of the characters having inexplicable connections.

As you grasp the mystery within the incantations, a flash of inspiration strikes your heart, and a new, winding rune gradually emerges from the shimmering water.

……

Congratulations! You have comprehended a portion of the Lingyu Water Control Manual.

[Lifespan reduced by twenty years, then restored by thirty years]

……

Inside the ear piercing.

On the animal hide that Shen Can had spread out, he had written eighteen spells of witchcraft on it.

The script is somewhat different from written script. Each character has many meanings, and like written script, they can be combined to form sentences.

The mystery of the shamanic script lies in the fact that a single shamanic character can also be a sentence.

However, it seems that the quantity is still insufficient, and many 'sentence structures' lack content.

Shen Can felt that he had grasped the true essence of Lingyu Wuwen.

This is a book of witchcraft written in a unique shamanic script, where different meanings can be derived through combinations of shamanic characters.

Just like the water control technique, it was originally a magical incantation composed of nine spells derived from the first time.

Now he has deduced nine more, and with the eighteen spell characters combined, there are even more possible combinations.

The total number of shamanic characters in the entire Lingyu system should be far more than eighteen.

Similarly, these words cannot be understood by looking at them; one needs to rely on 'spiritual perception' to appreciate their profound mystery.

No wonder there are no witches in the Blazing Flame and the Upper Yellow. This thing has no lineage, and it's really too difficult to cultivate it without any knowledge.

He has contributed over two thousand years of his lifespan, which is more than seven times the combined lifespan of all previous Blazing Flame Clan leaders.

This is purely encrypted text, and there's also a barrier of cultivation.

"It seems that the Lingyu tribe's shamanistic tradition is based on the Lingyu Book."

[Witchcraft: Tier 1] [Lifespan: 150]

At this moment, Shen Can looked again and found that he had successfully advanced to become a wizard, without even feeling it.

This breakthrough seems more like a significant advancement in understanding witchcraft.

"Buzz!"

As he raised his hand and pointed to form a sword, in the blink of an eye, eleven of the eighteen runes formed a spell.

Inside the ear canal, moisture suddenly gathered and turned into a water arrow at the fingertips, piercing a deep hole in the rock wall.

Although the flood had passed long ago, the cave was still damp. Under his control, the moisture in the air and between the rock walls instantly converged and compressed into an attack.

The talisman is like a medium to mobilize these water vapors, while spiritual power is the key to activate the shamanic script.

"We really need to learn some basic witchcraft, otherwise it's still too confusing to just grope around like blind men touching an elephant."

After erasing the shamanic script written on the animal hide, Shen Can walked out of the cave.

"Brother Can, I feel like I'm digesting my food faster and faster."

Ayu walked in, drenched in sweat.

"go to eat."

Currently, meat is readily available in the tribe, and people can eat as much as they want.

Large pots were lined up at the site of the city, steaming beast meat, ensuring that the flavor was very salty.

Soon, Shen Can and A Yu returned carrying two large and one small ceramic bowls. The small bowl was for Huo Xian, and the large bowl was for the two of them.

They squatted outside the entrance of the ancestral temple and began to eat heartily.

Looking down the mountain, a city wall over thirty feet high had appeared on the eastern and southern sides of the clan's territory.

It was all made of huge stones, with a thickness of fifty feet, so thick that even wild beasts could run on it without any problem.

Of course, this means that you can run on top of it; if it collapses, that's a different problem.

There was no other way; if the strength wasn't enough, the only option was to increase the thickness of the city wall, otherwise it wouldn't have been easy to build it to a height of thirty zhang.

As we were eating, Huotang also came with his rice bowl.

"Ayu, go get me another bowl of rice."

Ah Yu took the large earthenware bowl in response, gulped down the meat soup in her own bowl, and then quickly rushed down the mountain with both bowls in hand.

Shen Can glanced at Huo Tang speechlessly. Wasn't this just bullying the simpleton?

"The volcano sent back news that Jishi did not escape, and several tribes to our east and south were attacked by plague insects."

The plague insects are spreading over an ever-expanding area, reaching a radius of thousands of miles.

Fortunately, these plague insects did not split up, and it seems that there are only a few plague birds left, which is good news.

I've already had Huo Kui move the supplies from the Jishi tribe back. The other tribes are a bit far away, so it will take some time to move them back.
"The tribal records on animal hides that you requested have been transported separately by our staff."

"By the way, the Jiangsha tribe to the west of our tribe is fine. It must be because the plague insects coming towards us were killed, which prevented them from invading to the west and southwest."

"Furthermore, the plague worms that have been possessing us have been around for quite some time now, yet no one from the Upper Yellow Division has come again."

The Shanghuang region is located in the scorching south. Before the floods stopped, it could travel three thousand miles and wander around everywhere. It's a bit unexpected that it hasn't come here now.

Huotang couldn't think of any other reason besides being frightened by the plague insects.

"It's a pity the timing isn't right now, otherwise I would definitely go to the Jiangsha tribe to collect some benefits. At the very least, I would arrange for a few Jiangsha girls to marry into our Zhiyan tribe."

call out!
As the two were talking, a whistling arrow shot through the air from the south of the tribe.

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

"I'll go see what's going on."

He didn't even finish his meal and hurried down the mountain.

Although the tribe is building a city, some people are still left to patrol the area around the tribe to prevent the appearance of possessing plague insects and to alert the tribe.

"The plague has arrived!"

"Quickly, start the campfire!"

Not long after Huotang rushed out of the tribe, some tribesmen roared and charged into the tribe.

Standing atop the mountain, Shen Can gazed into the distance and saw a dense mass of dark clouds appear in the southern sky, causing his expression to change.

He built the city to guard against the plague-possessed insects, but now the winged plague-possessed insects have returned.

(End of this chapter)