I Steal the Ancestors' Sacrifices to Nourish Myself

Chapter 495 - 207: Stealing Heaven’s Technique, Developing Foundational Arts

Outside the Heaven-Breaking Mountain Range.

An Earth Ant wandered around the original entrance to the mystical realm, its sheep horn continuously striking the surrounding rocks. However, apart from the scattered stones, there wasn’t any sign of a mystical barrier.

In addition, this Earth Ant would occasionally spit out a token from its mouth, attempting to sense the entrance.

Unfortunately, after more than a month of relentless efforts, it ultimately returned in vain, traversing mountains to reach an ancient mountain range filled with Earth Source Power.

Within the mountain range, palaces and caves were visible everywhere, and Earth Ants roamed throughout.

Throughout the wilderness, countless Ant Slaves busied themselves, tending to the daily lives of the Earth Ants.

Hunting teams of Ant Slaves returned from outside, bringing in a vast number of Wild Beasts to meet the daily consumption of the Earth Ants.

This was the East Marsh Branch of the Earth Ants, hosting a population of nearly four million, with hundreds of subordinate Ant Slave Tribes.

Within the East Marsh Branch, there were six Earth Ants at the Divine Treasure Realm, with the strongest elder rumored to have reached the late-stage Divine Treasure.

"Vein Master, the Heaven-Breaking Mountain Grotto Heaven has disappeared."

The Yunyang Earth Ant, returning from the Heaven-Breaking Mountain, reported to a powerful Earth Ant about nine zhang tall, whose four sheep horns shimmered with green light.

"Mobilize the tribe and Ant Slaves to search, even if it means overturning the entire mountain range for me."

Inside the grotto heaven, there were two Tier Four Earth Ants, accounting for one-third of the Tier Four Earth Ants in the East Marsh Branch.

If they truly were to disappear, it would be equivalent to severely damaging the vitality of the East Marsh Branch.

Soon, a large group of Earth Ants surged into the Heaven-Breaking Mountain Range, and as many as two hundred thousand Ant Slaves were mobilized to dig and search.

However, the vast mountain forests, extending for thousands of miles, were so perilous that two hundred thousand Ant Slaves could do little. Mystical barriers are not something easily visible to the naked eye.

After more than half a year, countless Ant Slaves perished, yet in the end, nothing was found.

...

That day, Shen Can emerged from a valley in the Heaven-Breaking Mountain Range. He sealed the original entrance and opened a new passageway through a grotto heaven fissure.

At this moment, he had over thirty witch pouches hanging from his waist, and he disappeared into the void.

Traversing wastelands and crossing the Dark River, he returned to the tribe.

Valley of Blazing Flames Ancestral Temple.

Disciple Huo Chong, Huo Yunn, Huo Fu, Huo Jiang, and more than a hundred wizards waited.

Shen Can emptied the contents of the witch pouches one by one.

The sound like a rush of water resounded, piling up dozens of small hills in the plaza outside the ancestral temple.

A thick, decaying aura spread rapidly.

Over a hundred wizards’ eyes widened in amazement.

To others, these may seem like worthless broken stones, lifeless bones, or shattered jade, holding no significance.

But in the eyes of the wizards, these items with engravings and characters were treasures.

These were the first batch excavated from within the grotto heaven, comprising stones, rubbings, and artifacts with beast patterns and characters.

In addition to these, there were also various spirit plants and spirit grasses brought back from the grotto heaven.

"Categorize and organize these items."

Shen Can instructed the disciples to lead the wizards in sorting the items, holding high hopes for what seemed like waste.

Following his instructions, the disciples quickly brought others over, equipped with brushes, ink, and specially crafted thin mulberry paper to begin printing the characters on large stone walls.

"Ayun, come here."

Then Shen Can called Huo Yunn forward and placed a stone chest containing blood crystals in front of him.

"How is the research on the last batch of blood crystals going?"

Huo Yunn was surprised to see thirty chests full of blood crystals.

Extracting this much was due to the subsequent shattering of the earth.

"Master, there has been a discovery."

"I speculate that blood crystals cause wildness in Wild Beasts because they are remnants left by them, retaining the beast’s savage aura.

Low-Tier Wild Beasts naturally lack spiritual wisdom, their behavior more instinct-driven, thus consuming blood crystals makes them even more ferocious.

Through experiments on Tier One, Two, and Three Wild Beasts, I found that continuously consuming blood crystals accumulates this wildness, with weaker beasts being the first to be consumed by it."

"However, we’ve found a way to purify the blood crystals, using spirit plants.

This was inspired by previous experiments with ground-hugging vine in the Dai Land to purify swamp lands.

We selected over a dozen types of spirit fruit trees, using blood crystal powder as their nutrition. This way, the trees absorb the essence of the blood crystals, and we consume the fruit."

Upon mentioning this, Huo Yunn looked at the spirit wood and spirit grass brought from the grotto heaven.

"Master, were there not many fruit trees in that place?"

"Not many, only a few, and the fruit was sour."

"As long as there are some, it’s fine."

Huo Yunn wasn’t concerned about the taste as long as there were fruit trees to attempt grafting.

With the Moonlight Liquid from the Little Spirit Race and the care of the Medicine-Mashing Rabbit, growing them shouldn’t be a problem.

Seeing Huo Yunn busily engaged, Shen Can thought for a moment and said, "Let other wizards in the tribe handle this matter, and you should cultivate with me for a period to try advancing to the Tier Four Great Witch."

Years ago, when he accepted seven disciples, the Blazing Flame Tribe was small, and few people practiced witch cultivation.

The seven disciples only had innate talent in witch cultivation, with Huo Yunn being the most gifted among them and the only one with hope of advancing to Tier Four Great Witch Realm.

The other six, although they reached Tier Three Peak, essentially benefited from the tribe’s growth.

With abundant resources, they consumed several times the resources to reach their levels.

However, advancing to the Great Witch Realm requires further expansion of the Witch Vein, and particularly for Huo Chong, due to the fire witchcraft he practiced, his Witch Vein was severely scarred, making it nearly impossible to advance to Tier Four Great Witch Realm.