I Steal the Ancestors' Sacrifices to Nourish Myself

The region near the Giant Mountain Range belongs to the Great Yue Domain within the Six Domains of Great Pu.

Originally, it was the territory of the Yue Mountain Clan of the Pu Race, but over a thousand years ago, it was wiped out by the Jinyang Clan.

Besides accompanying expeditions and providing supplies, human sacrifices must also be offered.

In short, any disobedience could bring about the catastrophe of clan extermination.

The Human Race living in the Great Pu Ancient Kingdom is in a situation of constantly being bled, but if they resist, they face annihilation.

"The Pu Race drafts once every hundred years, the last time was over sixty years ago. For some reason, this time they are doing it early and taking thirty thousand at once, while my tribe only has one hundred and ten thousand people.

A hundred years ago, my tribe had ten thousand taken, and after decades of warfare, less than five hundred returned, all of them old, weak, injured, and disabled."

Clan Leader Yunmu is also somewhat helpless; otherwise, he wouldn’t have mobilized more than half of his clan’s forces to enter the Giant Mountain Range in search of an Auspicious Beast.

If there is only one Auspicious Beast, it can ensure a century of peace and tranquility.

Shen Can remembered talking with Luwu about the Holy Envoy Race, discussing how they entered the Giant Mountain Range to find an Auspicious Beast.

Additionally, in the memory of the Holy Envoy Race, there was a recollection of capturing the Auspicious Beast to sacrifice to the Holy Spirit.

It is unknown whether it has any connection to the Pu Race catching the Auspicious Beast.

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On the vast plains, there is an endless array of buildings in sight, with pavilions standing tall and stretching continuously.

Outside the cluster of buildings, several large camps stand, among which the largest camp has armor glimmering like ocean waves, shimmering under the sunlight, with evil qi soaring into the sky, engaging in martial exercises.

The other various camps have one camp belonging to the Human Race, with an empty camp having less than thirty thousand people in training.

Compared to the largest camp, where armor is like seas and scaled horses like forests, the weapons and equipment in the Human Race camp are far inferior.

Similarly, the other camps are also not at full capacity.

Besides the Human Race camp, there are camps of the Long-armed Race, Beastman Race, and other tribes.

Any larger race in this region has a camp here.

Within the buildings, a grand hall towering a thousand feet stands majestically, its entire body glowing with gold, surrounded by halls of various sizes.

Behind the grand hall is a lush mountain range, upon which golden light suddenly emerges, with witch runes appearing faintly.

Looking from afar, deep within the mountain range, a brilliant golden light flashes, emitting an invincible aura, with a faintly visible stone statue.

After learning about the situation from the Yunmu Clan people, Shen Can hurriedly arrived here.

This place was originally the clan land of the Yue Mountain Clan, and after the Jinyang Clan wiped them out, they occupied this clan land.

Picking a night when the wind is high and the moon is dark, a person and a beast sneaked into this major Pu Race settlement and successfully reached the deepest part of their clan land.

Within the mountain range, ancient aura pervades, and a straight divine path leads deep into the mountains.

"Stop."

When Luwu was about to proceed, Shen Can made him halt.

"Follow me."

Shen Can carefully avoided the array marks and went all the way deeper in.

The arrays set here are very concealed and complex, which is also the first time he encountered such strong arrays outside.

Embedded into the rock walls on both sides of the divine path are countless stone statues.

These stone statues are of deceased Pu Race martial artists, similar to human burials; these deceased Pu Race members are embedded into the rock walls.

At the end of the divine path is a ruin of an ancestral temple, presumably the destroyed ancestor temple of the Yue Mountain Clan.

After just a glance, Shen Can turned his direction toward the valley beside the ancestral temple.

The valley spans hundreds of miles in radius, with a Profound Bird Divine Statue standing in the center.

The gray-white statue towers a hundred feet high, with its surface filled with cracks, yet its eyes resemble two green seas, filled with countless witch runes.

The surroundings of the statue are enveloped in a bloody smell, with the ground covered in thick bone debris.

No piece of bone debris is larger than a palm, all shattered into fragments.

Shen Can doesn’t need to deliberately identify; the bone debris largely belongs to the Human Race, accounting for seventy percent, with the remaining thirty percent from other races.

The witch runes within the eyes of the Profound Bird are exceptionally profound, emitting an aura identical to the Profound Bird Divine Statue of the Holy Envoy Race.

PS: There’s another update tonight, around eleven-thirty.