I Steal the Ancestors' Sacrifices to Nourish Myself-Chapter 84 - 52: Five-Year Plan Initial Completion, Sending Jifu on His Way_2

Chapter 84: Chapter 52: Five-Year Plan Initial Completion, Sending Jifu on His Way_2

"Yes." Tuo Lord nodded, "But now it seems difficult, there must have been some issues with the Human Race over the past few thousand years, otherwise the residual spirits of the sages should not have withered so severely."

At this moment, Shen Can somewhat understood the yearly rituals, the sacrifices to ancestors, the tributes to sages, and the protection of inheritance.

No wonder the Human Race could survive in the disastrous environment of the Great Wilderness, flourishing everywhere.

Ancestral virtues indeed.

He then composed himself and glanced at the crocodile beneath his feet.

The matter of Young Master Fu from Lingyu Bo Division capturing the flood dragon seemed to come to an end.

...

Shen Can exited the cave.

"Have you remembered the task I gave you?"

"I remember, to find the sacrificial beast and blood witch in this area."

"Don’t blood witches have the ability to transfer sacrifices? Find those sacrificial beasts, and I will help you eliminate them secretly, then their blood witches can transfer the sacrifices to you."

Upon hearing this, Tuo Lord’s eyes lit up.

Why did it flee from Yongyi to this side? Fear of being killed by the Human Race and of being captured and devoured by its kind.

If it could swallow other sacrificial beasts and seize their blood witches, a rapid advancement in strength seemed promising.

It’s not a bad deal to become a slave to the person before it.

Regarding loyalty in the future, let’s deal with the present first.

For Shen Can, the deeply hidden blood witches were difficult to find. It was better to push Tuo Lord to gather these things that even abandoned their ancestors.

"Spare normal humans and focus on finding the tribes occupied by blood witches."

"Also, I’m interested in matters related to Yongyi and sacrificial artifacts, gather information if you can."

"Come back in half a month, I’ll give you some medicine to treat your wounds, don’t get killed."

At the words, Tuo Lord felt its body ache fiercely.

A third of its injuries were thanks to Shen Can.

Beaten up and then given healing medicine, how delightful.

Watching Tuo Lord submerge back into the water, Shen Can shifted the sacrificial wood to conceal it once more.

If it’s true as Tuo Lord said, these two pieces of sacrificial wood have undergone too many human sacrifices and can now be considered special weapons against Human Race tribes.

...

A few days later.

Ancestral Temple.

Shen Can held a beast hide scroll in his hand, featuring a beast image that slithered like a snake or a fish, with detailed annotations on cultivation methods on the side. 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

This is a copy, the Water Louse Skill of Upper Lake Division, capable of cultivating to Celestial Vein Sixth Layer.

Clan Elder Huo Yuo entered the Ancestral Temple with a bag.

"Acan, I’ve cataloged and stored the resources the Clan Leader brought back from outside, but what about this spirit rice? The Clan Leader said it can’t be eaten, do you have any ideas?"

Regarding these crystal-clear spirit rice grains, Huo Yuo was somewhat regretful.

The bag brought over contained only a dozen grains, whose crystalline appearance was marred by uncomfortable black lines.

"Let’s store it for now, maybe it will be useful later."

Shen Can wasn’t willing to discard it. With the potential to refine Jade Dew, perhaps these grains might also be usable.

Even though he had cleared out rare resources from Upper Lake Division, the foundational resources of such a large tribe were the main category.

Otherwise, Clan Elder Huo Yuo, who manages the clan treasury, wouldn’t have taken so many days to tally.

"Ayu, call the Clan Leader."

Shen Can pondered; there were still items in his Witch Pouch not yet taken out. After a subsequent discussion with Tuo Lord, he also wanted to talk to Huo Chang about sacrificial artifacts.

While waiting for Huo Chang, he took the registry of Huo Yuo to glance over.

Three thousand and seventy jun of high-quality various ores.

Three thousand seven hundred various weapons, seven hundred bows, twelve thousand arrows.

Seventeen thousand unit of ordinary, unspoiled rice.

Over a thousand jun of animal hides, bones, vines, and ordinary witch medicine.

Remaining rough iron twenty thousand jun, fine iron two thousand jun.

Ordinary ores thirty-three thousand jun.

Though the weapons can’t compare to the witch weapons of Lingyu Tribe, they are the finest military-grade equipment in this region, sufficient for equipping a batch of sub-militia.

As for ores, the quality of ores cannot be thoroughly investigated within the clan at present.

Ore grade is assessed by the quality of the material contained within; the higher the spirituality, the higher the grade, evident that Upper Lake Division doesn’t have much high-quality ore.

Ordinary ore, upon repeated refining and hammering a dozen times, can roughly be considered Tier One, suitable for martial artists of the Stone-Breaking Realm.

Repeated forging, high-quality items of the hundred disciplining, can barely be used a few times by ordinary Celestial Vein martial artists.

High-quality ores were piled in the warehouse by Upper Lake Division because they lacked the means to refine them.

As for containers, solid materials, tiles, etc., there were even more, all pried clean by Huo Chang and his crew.

If not for the soil problem, even the mud from paddy fields would have been dug back.

Thinking of the problematic mud, Shen Can realized the plot where Upper Lake Division cultivated spirit rice had been contaminated and should be brought back.

Upper Lake Division could only cultivate on that particular piece of land, nowhere else was possible.

Clearly, there’s some significance to this plot.

Shen Can speculated it was like the millet grown in the old clan land, with different harvest cycles even when planted identically.

Under such circumstances, no seasonal adjustment works; geographical advantage is too significant.

Looking around the surroundings, similar to that plot at Upper Lake where cultivation was feasible, if it’s so hard to find, it should be excavated to see if it can be improved.

"Clan Leader, did they bring back the soil from that plot where Upper Lake Division cultivated spirit rice?"

Huo Chang hesitated upon entering the Ancestral Temple; that paddy emitted a stench.

"Then I’ll arrange to dig it."