I Steal the Ancestors' Sacrifices to Nourish Myself

Pierce Earth Ant.

Cultivation.

Deduction.

The days of the Ancestral Temple Keeper are just so plain and unremarkable.

In Yongyi, the Cyan Sheep bows its head, and the tribe of Changyou and Zhuyan, being originally located at the Western Edge of Yongyi, are near the western Great Wilderness.

The vast wilderness of the western region is an area that even Marquis Yongshan has not developed.

These two tribes, upon learning that other Bo Divisions were annihilated, were so frightened that they fled into the western Great Wilderness with their entire tribes.

In the Dai Land, more and more Martial Artists began cultivating the Earth Ant Battle Body, starting to secretly and systematically occupy the East Marsh Basin.

A Flying Ship arrived from Yongyi, heading north all the way into the valley.

Inside the Flying Ship were piles of handwritten notes, Jade Scrolls, Copper Books, Beast Hide Scrolls, Murals, and fragment rubbings.

Upon realizing that the tribes of Zhuyan and Changyou had fled into the western Great Wilderness, Huo Shan did not rashly venture into the unknown region of the western wilderness.

Instead, he turned back and began promoting the Quenching Technique among the newly dominated Vassal Tribes.

Of course, the Quenching Technique was not given for free, nor were these tribes required to practice it.

After all, among the Vassal Tribes, there are Bo Divisions as well as Lower-class Tribes, and their cultivation conditions vary.

Each tribe needed to exchange some fragmentary scrolls or handwritten notes for the Quenching Technique.

As for the content and completeness, there were no requirements.

Naturally, if they made things up and deceived the Upper Division, the Upper Division also had an iron-fisted punishment.

Originally, the Quenching Technique was nothing more than something trivial in the eyes of Upper-class and Bo Divisions, something they could casually find a few scrolls for from within their tribe.

But in every Vassal Tribe gathering area, there were always a few attention seekers, who suddenly presented dozens or even hundreds of scrolls.

This immediately drew in all small and large tribes to participate, starting a trend.

The Upper Blazing Flame Division, wanting to save face, couldn’t have looked worried about the Upper Division, just because other tribes brought dozens of scrolls while their tribe only brought a few.

After all, they’re just fragmentary scrolls; if nothing else, there were plenty of those.

This development eventually wasn’t for exchanging for the Quenching Technique, but for competing to flatter the Blazing Flame.

The fragmentary Techniques were not any good things; they couldn’t be cultivated, nor did they have the capability to be deduced.

When they sent them up, they’d make copies for themselves, which incurred no losses.

Thus, one boatload after another of handwritten notes, Jade Scrolls, and fragmentary scrolls were brought back to the Blazing Flame Bo Division.

Blazing Flame, with its many Wizards and data on millions of Martial Artist cultivations, saw these fragmentary Techniques as a treasure trove.

After several selections, they picked out over a thousand Techniques of restorative value, covering Martial Dao, Witchcraft, forging, and planting, with thirty-seven directly sent to Shen Can.

Among the sent Techniques, thirty-three were in duplicate, with four being incomplete beast hides covered in oil stains and burn marks.

Shen Can picked up one of the blurred beast hides; the tribe’s Wizards sent it not because of the content, but due to the quality of the hide.

After trying various examination methods, they found the hide extremely tough, indestructible even by Tier Four; hence, they sent it over.

Recorded on the beast hide was an incomplete Tier Four Divine Technique named the Tiger Slaying Spear.

After a cursory review of the sent Techniques, Shen Can stood up and went to the place where the tribe’s Wizards screened Techniques.

Inside the massive main hall, over a hundred meters in size, a strange smell permeated, with mountains of beast hides and Jade Scrolls nearly filling the hall.

Shen Can’s Divine Sense entered it and started searching, pulling out one after another of fragmentary Beast Hide Scrolls, stone carvings, and copper rubbings.

Soon, what he found was sent to the Side Hall.

It’s not that the tribe’s Wizards’ screening wasn’t effective, but some things were ignored due to their low realms or lack of understanding.

And indeed, from such fragmentary Chapters, some profound things were discovered.

"Blood not... gathering, unable to generate spirituality but able to absorb the spirits of heaven and earth into the body..."

’...without spiritual nourishment, there can be no Spiritual Form... Dharma Form...’

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Ordinary Martial Artists seeing these records wouldn’t know what they meant; at Shen Can’s place, even if incomplete, he could comprehend the context and deduce some things.

Huo Shan headed south, visiting the tribes of Bi Fang, Celestial Monster, Ao Mountain, and Cyan Sheep, and obtained some snippets about Tier Five cultivation.

But that’s all they were, just snippets; if there were complete Techniques, over thousands of years, these tribes would have birthed Tier Five.

Over thousands of years, Tier Five inheritance in Yongyi was long lost, and without the supreme deduction ability, the tribes only gazed in frustration based on snippets.

Through these things, Shen Can preliminarily determined that Tier Five cultivation broadly divides into three levels: Stone Form, Spiritual Form, and Dharma Form, in ascending order.

Before advancing to Tier Five, understanding the divisions within Tier Five Martial Dao was an unexpected joy.

Night fell.

Shen Can quietly looked at the Six-Transformation Glazed Ice Condensation Method on the desk.

He had seen the Holy Envoy Race’s Stone Form, and during the explosive defeat of the Holy Envoy Race’s Tier Five Martial Artist, he caught a glimpse of the interior of the exploding Stone Form.

Afterward, the Great Witch Priest of the Holy Envoy Race brought out many Stone Forms, none with Spiritual Light, needing a blood sacrifice to shatter the Blazing Flame Array.

This proved that the step from Stone Form to Spiritual Form is difficult, even for the Holy Envoy Race with the Profound Bird’s favor.

Of course, it might be because the Holy Envoy Race took shortcuts in advancing to Tier Five, and since it wasn’t achieved through their own cultivation but elevated by blessings from the Holy Spirits, hidden dangers existed.