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

Chapter 4: The Transformation of Kui Niu Fist (Please continue reading)
[You've been diligently practicing the Kui Niu Fist for fifteen years, day and night without fail, even to the point of almost going astray in your practice. So you stopped training and racked your brains for a way to adapt your methods.]

[In the seventeenth year, you suddenly had a flash of inspiration. Although the Kui Niu Fist is a fist technique, its cultivation requires the movement of the entire body. The Kui Niu is one of the great wild beasts, standing on one leg, and its movements are as powerful as thunder. Gradually, you understood.]

[In the twenty-first year, you finally grasped from the image of the Kui Niu standing on one leg supporting the sky the essence of standing on the left foot, generating energy from the right fist, twisting the waist and turning the hips, and striking with the fist like the charging Kui Niu.]

[In the twenty-fifth year, it seems you've truly had an epiphany, and have grasped the profound mystery of the Kui Niu's stepping and power accumulation, with the fist following the movement.]

[For the next eight years, if you wanted to further comprehend the essence of the Kui Niu, your mind would once again become as hard as a rock.]

[Having consumed thirty-three years of your lifespan, you have successfully upgraded the inferior Kui Niu Fist Technique to the low-grade level. During practice, it can activate thirty percent of your muscles, bones, and flesh.]

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Inside the house under the cover of night, Shen Can's body twitched, as if he were in a dream.

About fifteen minutes later, he suddenly opened his eyes, revealing a hint of weariness.

"A dream spanning thirty-three years, it feels quite real."

All the memories of practicing the fist techniques were now in his mind, as if he had really been practicing in a closed space.

"Low-grade Kui Niu Fist."

"Am I a genius?"

After sitting up from the stone bed, Shen Can suddenly had this thought.

The Kui Niu Fist of the Blazing Flame Tribe has been passed down since the establishment of the tribe. It has been improved over the years, but none of them have been improved to the same degree.

In just over thirty years, he completed a transformative improvement.

It mobilizes 30% of the blood and bones in the body. Although I don't know how much it mobilized when it was an inferior product, it looks quite powerful now.

If not genius, what is?
Thinking of this, he got off the stone bed and assumed the starting stance of the Kui Niu Fist that he had comprehended in his 'dream'.

The Kui Niu Fist has three moves: Kui Niu Opens the Mountain, Kui Shakes the Four Directions, and Kui Niu Startles the Thunder.

He only improved the first two moves, and that raised the quality of the fist technique to a whole new level.

At that moment, as soon as Shen Can opened his hand, he felt an extremely strong pulling sensation in the muscles of his arms and legs, along with noticeable movements in his hand bones, leg bones, and even his spine.

This is an experience I've never had before when practicing Kui Niu Fist.

The tribe's tempering method mainly involves eating animal meat and soaking in animal blood to refine these energies into the body.

The more muscles, bones, and flesh the body naturally generates, the more energy will be refined into the body.

After a few movements, I felt a burning sensation within myself, which grew stronger over time.

Less than a quarter of an hour later, Shen Can suddenly staggered.

After performing a few movements of the Kui Niu boxing style, he suddenly felt a little hungry.

"It's working."

Feeling hungry, Shen Can was not surprised but rather pleased.

Feeling hungry indicates that his body is being depleted, which shows that the efficiency of the improved Kui Niu Fist has indeed increased significantly.

While increasing the refining efficiency does not necessarily mean reducing the risk of breakthrough, the risk of breakthrough can be completely reduced by the improved Kui Niu Fist.

Even after the refinement rate of the Kui Niu Fist is improved, there is no need to soak in beast blood. As long as the essence of the beast meat consumed every day can be perfectly absorbed, it is not impossible to reach the standard of the Rock Splitting Realm.

As for how to determine whether one has advanced to the first level of the Stone-Splitting Realm, one should see if one can shatter the Black Yuan Stone, which is a common type of stone in the Great Wilderness.

Ordinary adult wild beasts generally possess the strength to shatter black elemental stones.

Human martial arts developed from wild beasts, hence the name of the first realm of martial arts cultivation: Split Stone.

In other words, possessing the power of the Desolate Realm means one is a martial artist at the Stone Splitting Realm.

In Shen Can's view, this kind of classification is too crude, and it is easy for different martial artists to have different levels of desolate power.

Of course, that's not what he's worried about right now. What he's most worried about right now is how to steal the tribute meat from his ancestors.

If it weren't for this heavy rain, the tribe would go out hunting every few days, and each time they would try to bring back a live wild beast so that he could continue to plunder its lifespan.

At that time, he may very well be able to develop the Kui Niu Fist to the middle or even the upper grade.

But now, this damn rain.

“I have a method of deduction, so I shouldn’t just look at things that happen in the morning or evening. The offerings will come.” After calming down, Shen Canqi glanced outside the cave entrance and then walked out of the ear hole.

"Master said that stealing some offerings doesn't count as stealing."

As soon as he came out, Huo Xian from the East Ear Cave also lifted the curtain and came out.

Seeing that Huo Xian was also up so early, Shen Can knew that stealing was out of the question, so he might as well take it openly.

Seeing that Shen Can had finished packing and come out, Huo Xian nodded, clearly satisfied.

Putting everything else aside, their attitude was excellent.

Afterwards, Shen Can followed behind Huo Xian and began cleaning the ancestral temple inside and out, including wiping the altars and offering tables, sweeping and sprinkling water to remove dust, etc.

Finally, Huo Xian removed one of the offerings from the altar.

"We'll cook this part, and give the rest to the little ones in the tribe."

The meat left after the sacrifice is called sacrificial meat, also known as blessed meat, symbolizing the blessings bestowed by the ancestors.

The day after each hunting party returns, the children of the tribe come to ask for the blessing of their ancestors. When he was a child, Shen Can himself had come to the ancestral temple to ask for the blessing of his ancestors so that he could become a true warrior.

To put it bluntly, it's just a spiritual belief.

"Dong dong!"

Not long after, the sound of hurried footsteps could be heard outside the ancestral temple, and people knelt down at the entrance of the cave.

"Go and distribute the meat to everyone."

Huo Xian was already used to it; he used to do this kind of thing.

Shen Can carried the sacrificial meat towards the dolls at the cave entrance.

"Brother A-Can, if you really become a temple deity, does that mean you won't go hunting anymore?"

As Shen Can walked out, the dozen or so little creatures at the entrance of the ancestral temple all looked up at him. The fire turtle knelt down and crawled towards Shen Can with its knees on its sides.

"It's better to keep quiet here at the ancestral temple."

Shen Can immediately told the fire turtle to shut up. If that little guy started chattering, the other kids would definitely start chattering too.

It would be quite awkward to ask him later why it dissolves in water.

"Come, one piece for each of us, may our ancestors bless us."

The fire turtle wanted it and looked longingly at Shen Can, but it didn't try to snatch it. Instead, it obediently waited in line.

The last piece of meat from the left shoulder was placed in the Fire Turtle's hand by Shen Can.

"Brother Chan, are you not going to live at home anymore?"

Shen Can patted the head of a little kid living near the residence.

"From now on, you'll be able to see me every time you come to collect the sacrificial meat."

"Go back now. After you finish eating the sacrificial meat bestowed by our ancestors, you will become a powerful warrior in the future."

"Brother Can, don't cry secretly. When I become a powerful martial artist, I will hunt down the Rift Mountain Kui and let Brother Can preside over the ancestral sacrifice."

The fire turtle, clutching the sacrificial meat, ran home with a loud snort.

Shen Can scoffed at the words of a child with his hair in the bud.

Will he cry?
Now all he wants to do is be a good temple priest and protect the ancestors of the tribe.

As long as the weather clears up and the tribe resumes normal activities, his lifespan will begin.

He refused to believe that the rain could last for another two and a half years.

After soothing the child, Shen Can smelled the aroma of meat. Huo Xian was already grilling meat. If it weren't for the baby, he would have been so hungry that he would have wanted to eat the meat raw.

Upon arriving at the altar, they saw that the blood vessel still contained more than half a vessel of beast blood.

Seeing that Huo Xian hadn't come over, he bowed to the altar and carefully touched the three-legged, cauldron-shaped blood vessel.

　The Zuo Zhuan records: "The day after the sacrifice, the sacrificial meat was distributed to the dukes and ministers."

　　
　
(End of this chapter)