Chapter 620

"Here, these are the berries you love most. Uncle went out of his way to pick them for you." Shi Linhu handed over a beast-hide bundle. Once opened, it revealed a bright-red spread within, a delicate fragrance rushing out. Each round fruit was like a glistening red agate.

"Thank you, Uncle." Shi Hao blinked his big eyes and happily took it.

At dusk, the villagers used beast carcasses to make offerings before the willow. When the ceremony ended, several spiritual prey were carried into the clan chief's courtyard.

Before long, the smell of blood spread through the stone courtyard. Several fierce beasts lay there, blood flowing all over them, while their bodies gradually shriveled. One rune after another flickered across them, mysterious and eerie.

That was Bone Script, now interweaving within the blood like tiny streaks of lightning. Shi Yunfeng was casting a spell. He was using a mysterious power to refine and boil out the essence in the beasts' blood, harvesting "Blood Medicine." After repeated tempering, the beasts' blood grew less and less. In the end, each fierce beast produced only a single drop, which fell into a jade jar. The blood beads were crystalline and translucent, shining brilliantly like blood diamonds.

"According to the bone books, during the baptism at five years old, if there are enough sacred medicines, True Blood, and other divine substances, the foundation laid will have far-reaching influence, tied to one's future accomplishments," clan chief Shi Yunfeng murmured.

He did not want to waste Shi Hao's talent. He did not want him to be surpassed by the geniuses of those super clans in the outside world because of a lack of resources. He had been thinking all along about how to accumulate the precious items needed for his "baptism."

"Better to have nothing than