I Steal the Ancestors' Sacrifices to Nourish Myself-Chapter 134 - 70: Celestial Vein Fourth Layer, Is a Great Drought Coming? (Qiu Yue Vote)

The Xiaoyang race in the Northern Mountains suddenly retreated.

Scouts from the Blazing Flame Tribe headed south along the direction of the Copper Shell Ruins Market, passing through the Zhushui and entering the Qu River Basin.

Along the way, they only encountered scattered members of the Xiaoyang race and saw the old site of the Quyang Ruins Market submerged underwater.

The news returned by the scouts made Huo Chang somewhat skeptical, prompting him to send scouts south several more times.

Finally, the fact was confirmed: the Xiaoyang had indeed retreated.

The leftover members of the Xiaoyang race gathered around the Qu River line, seemingly on the verge of setting up camp.

The Quyang Ruins Market had transformed into a large lake, with traces of terrifying energy explosions on the lake shores, where earth and stone had been melted into crystals.

Some of these black and colored crystals were sent to the clan.

Huo Chang played with these glittering stones, knowing that his own blood energy couldn't melt the earth and stones like this.

"Could it be that a powerful figure struck fiercely against the Xiaoyang?"

Unfortunately, mere speculation was of no use.

Two months later, scouts at the Qu River line sent back news that the Xiaoyang Tribe had come north along the Qu River and began settling in places the Human Race had previously inhabited.

The earlier assumption that the Xiaoyang would encroach upon the Northern Lands step by step had turned out to be true.

However, this batch of Xiaoyang race members did not come too far north, choosing settlement sites along the Zhushui line.

Each tribe had a population of three to five thousand at the least, with as many as over ten thousand at the most.

By observing these Xiaoyang tribes' weaponry, clothing, and the supplies during the migration process, it was evident that these tribes varied in strength.

As smaller Xiaoyang tribes migrated north, Human Race tribes emerged in the nooks and crannies along the mountains north and south of Zhushui, like mushrooms after a rain.

The place previously flattened by the Xiaoyang, devoid of any presence of the Human Race, now had traces of the Human Race once again.

The newly migrated Xiaoyang race members were not the purely elite clan soldiers as before. Burdened with families, their actions had constraints.

For a moment, the vast mountain forests north and south of Zhushui presented a scene where the Human Race and Xiaoyang race intertwined like the teeth of a comb.

...

Half a year later.

"Sacrifice!"

The territory of the Blazing Flame Race.

The newly renovated clan territory, from the mountaintop to the mountainside, gathered the Human Race along the Great Marsh line in a long line.

Inside and outside the clan land, martial artists stood solemnly, dressed in black armor, with strong bows slung across their shoulders, quivers at their waists, and wielding ring-headed sabers and sub-weapons like Brain Hammers, exuding a fierce killing intent.

Woo!

The sound of a horn resounded, and the clan members and subordinate people lining towards the Ancestral Temple uniformly bowed in worship towards the direction of the Ancestral Temple.

"We are back!"

Inside the Ancestral Temple.

The Divine Tablet returned to its pedestal, and the Sacrificial Artifact was restored to its place.

Shen Can was the chief priest, and Huo Chang stood at the center of the Ancestral Temple, personally returning the nine tripods and eight gui to their positions.

An invisible ripple swept out from the Ancestral Temple.

Around the clan land, a gust of wind rose, and dense water vapor surged upwards.

The Water Element Source Power surged several times at this moment.

It was as if during this period the clanspeople were absent, and the Primordial Vein had suddenly released the Source Power it absorbed.

"There are now twelve Celestial Vein Martial Artists in the Blazing Flame Tribe, thirteen subordinate Celestial Vein Martial Artists, Mountain Opening Realm..."

Huo Chang recited each word of the ancestral rites solemnly.

Shen Can's Divine Sense captured the wandering Water Element Source Power.

"Connecting more than a hundred large and small tribes in the mountains..."

Huo Chang spoke without exaggeration, but these small tribes were merely nominal, with many clan members numbering only a few hundred, and the ratio of martial artists and genders was already imbalanced.

It was fortunate enough if they managed to escape from the Xiaoyang.

The Blazing Flame Tribe planned to break up and rebuild these people into tribes, spreading them out among the mountains north of the Copper Shell Ruins Market.

Of course, these tribes could no longer live independently as before but would come under the control of the Blazing Flame Tribe, akin to subordinate people.

During their development, they would also absorb the people of other tribes from outside the mountains, inevitably leading to further clashes with the Xiaoyang race.

After the clan rites, the arrangements for the connected tribespeople began on a grand scale.

The vast majority of these over ten thousand people were willing to follow the Blazing Flame's arrangements, while a small portion still wished to leave the mountains and return to their original clan lands.

"Our gratitude to the Blazing Flame Tribe for saving our lives, and we shall not decline any future orders."

These words came from a young man, his eyes burning brightly, overflowing with enthusiasm when he entered the Blazing Flame Tribe.

"If you encounter danger outside the mountains, you may seek aid from the Blazing Flame."

A group of a few people stood in the clan land, bowing and bidding farewell to Huo Chang before quickly leaving the Clan Hall.

"This young man has ambition, seems like he intends to use the chaos to establish something."

Clan Elder Huo Yun observed this young man named Sang Yang throughout, immediately seeing the ambition in his eyes.

Beside Huo Chang lay a beast hide scroll.

Over the past half-year, the Blazing Flame had gathered so many clan members, and he, as the head of logistics, had done a lot of work, such as investigating these gathered tribes.

From the beginning of gathering these tribespeople, he had prepared for the control of these people today.

"Sang Yang, from the Sangmu Tribe, this tribe contains several mulberry trees and raises a batch of silkworms."

"The previous Sangmu Race Leader was this young man's father, who died at the hands of the Xiaoyang race while escorting tribespeople into the mountains."

"A young man with ambition is also fine; in this way, more trouble can be found for the Xiaoyang outside the mountains."

Huo Chang did not stop this man's intentions; during the past half-year, the tribe had learned the methods of sericulture, including reeling silk and weaving from the Sangmu Tribe.

He intended to have people observe whether this young martial artist truly had ability or was merely hungry for ambition.

As the Xiaoyang race outside the mountains attempted to encroach further north, having several strong tribes outside wasn't a bad thing.