Chapter 645 - 261: The Blazing Flame’s Terrifying Foundations
After Huo Shan and Huo Zhang arrived, they handed over the current development status of the Blazing Flame to Shen Can.
Previously, by asking the clan to compile development data, Shen Can was aiming for the next stage of growth.
Now that it’s known the Holy Spirit is still alive, there needs to be a plan moving forward.
If the day comes when the Holy Spirit awakens, a Tier Seven Profound Bird, which can manipulate the Power of Heaven and Earth, there would be nowhere to run.
This is akin to having a sword hanging overhead, ready to fall at any moment.
"There are so many people."
Shen Can glanced at the beast hide papers with the statistics brought by Huo Shan and Huo Zhang and was somewhat surprised.
"Yes, our clan is very fertile."
Huo Zhang replied with a smile, "Currently, as of the date of statistics, including newly born babies, the clan has a total of 9,523,637 people.
The generational names have been passed down from the Yan Generation to the sixth generation with the names related to the elements of Earth, Metal, Water, and Wood, and soon the seventh generation, the Cyan Generation, is expected to be born."
Decades have passed since the names were decided when the old Ancestral Temple Keeper and several Clan Elders were still around, and they set down the Yan Generation.
Shen Can, upon seeing these generational names, understood that they were based on the elements of fire, earth, metal, water, and wood.
"This was determined during the recent clan census."
Huo Shan spoke, "Acan, what do you think? If it’s not satisfactory, we can adjust it."
"No need to change anything. It’s quite good as it is."
Shen Can didn’t care about the sequence of generational names, but he was quite satisfied with the arrangement the clan had come up with.
He continued to read, noting that during his twenty-plus years in seclusion, the clan’s growth had indeed experienced an explosive surge.
The Clan Guardian Beasts had increased from six to nine, with the addition of Gui Rabbit, Little Dragon Fish, and Little Cyan Simurgh Sparrow.
The number of Divine Treasure Realm Martial Artists had exploded to twenty-five, with veterans like Huo Shan, Huo Zhang, and Tian Dan, as well as a new generation like Yan Jiang and Yan Song.
And Yann Wanyun, although he never said he would join the Blazing Flame Tribe, he also never took his tribe away.
The tens of thousands of remnants from the Yanran Bo Division had already integrated into the Blazing Flame Race.
This seems to have become an accepted status quo.
The clan members with Quasi-Divine Treasure Level combat strength had reached 133.
Oh, and I forgot to mention the Luo River Three Elders.
For so many years, they have diligently shouldered the foundational duties of the Divine Treasure for the Blazing Flame Bo Division, barely counting as Divine Treasure Martial Artists despite being at the bottom of the ranking.
There was one more Tier Four Wizard, Yan Ling, who exceeded expectations by advancing to Tier Four earlier than her teacher, Huo Yunn.
Below the Divine Treasure Realm is the Celestial Vein Realm...
After Shen Can finished reviewing the statistics, he pressed the beast hide scroll down onto the desk.
"Ancestral Temple Keeper, I didn’t misread it."
Huo Zhang spoke, "If you hadn’t asked us to take stock of the clan’s foundation, we wouldn’t have realized it."
"Currently, there are 3,573,697 clan members at the Celestial Vein Realm."
"You know, our clan’s policy is to encourage childbirth. Even though we’ve experienced migrations of clan divisions, these weren’t large-scale wars, plagues, or other natural disasters.
From the start, the clan popularized witch doctors, placing great importance on women’s childbirth, so there were few infant deaths, and most survived.
Then, these children have grown up and caught a good period, with good talent and ample resources.
Since the rise to Bo Division, anyone over fifty with not-too-poor talent has generally cultivated to the Celestial Vein Realm."
Shen Can looked again at the statistics. It’s suspected that only in a rapidly rising Bo Division like the Blazing Flame would one see such a formidable clan structure in the vast Great Wilderness.
Upon closely examining the cultivation data of these clan members, he found that many had reached the Celestial Vein Ninth Layer within the twenty years of his seclusion.
Even more had ascended to the Celestial Vein, flowing like water released from a sluice gate, rapidly and seamlessly.
To put it in perspective, the Blazing Flame Division only emerged from the forests just over a hundred years ago.
This means the oldest people in the Blazing Flame Race are only around two hundred years old.
And these people over two hundred years old were incorporated during the last gathering of scattered divisions by the Blazing Flame.
There’s not many of them anyway. During the ’Three Fires’ Division era, the Xiaoyang Race’s hunts resulted in many older individuals sacrificing themselves to protect future generations, falling victim to the Xiaoyang Race’s attacks.
In terms of age for cultivation, they’re virtually the prime labor force of a clan.
The notion of elderly—my clan’s youth is strikingly apparent.
Particularly the first batch of clan members from the Blazing Flame; they didn’t catch the development era of the Blazing Flame but had plenty of children afterward, who have now benefitted from it.
Purely Celestial Vein Realm, where elsewhere those with lesser talents might be stuck at the Mountain Opening Realm, in the Blazing Flame Division, all are at the Celestial Vein, entirely Celestial Vein.
Over the years, the Blazing Flame has had ample resources, cultivation methods, and resources, making ascension to the Celestial Vein even easier.
Among them, about a third are at the late-stage Celestial Vein, and the crucial point is their youth.
However, this isn’t the most important part. The terrifying aspect is that in this group of young Celestial Vein Martial Artists, a portion has already cultivated to the Celestial Vein Ninth Layer.
Under a hundred years of age, theoretically, they have the potential to ascend to the Divine Treasure.
Even if they didn’t condense sufficient Desolate Power when ascending to the Celestial Vein, they didn’t ascend with the minimal level of Desolate Power like the old clan leader Huo Chang.
But even if we exclude those who didn’t have enough Desolate Power before ascending to Celestial Vein, there’s still a large batch of clan members with over sixty-five Desolate Power prior to the Celestial Vein.