Qi and Strength Improvement, Witchcraft Can Also Be Deduced (Seeking Reads)

Don't misunderstand; he wasn't stealing the blood.

It was just that the blood goblet's design was too similar to the illusory Sacrificial Cauldron within his body, which made him unable to help but associate them.

Unfortunately, after grabbing the blood goblet, there was no reaction.

After a few more attempts, Shen Can gave up.

He glanced at the beast blood in the blood goblet, but after thinking about it, he decided to suppress the urge to steal it for now.

Since the Kui Ox Fist could improve quality and activate more of his muscles, bones, and blood, for the greatest efficiency, he could wait until he improved the Kui Ox Fist to mid-grade or even high-grade before proceeding.

During this process, simply eating beast meat would be enough.

"A-Can, come eat. After eating, you'll learn the witch incantations and witch runes for the sacrifice with me."

When Shen Can arrived at the eastern ear cave, he saw that Huo Xian had already divided the cooked Zuò meat. The pot given to him was filled with lean meat and two cracked bones, with marrow oozing out.

Huo Xian's own pot contained only some simple shredded meat.

"I'm old and my teeth aren't good. You're young and still have hope for martial arts cultivation. Give it a try, don't be discouraged."

Carrying his pot, Huo Xian returned to his stone desk and sat down, his attention returning to the beast hide booklet on the desk.

The most important thing in martial arts cultivation was diet, but there were great differences between people. Some absorbed nutrients better and naturally had better physiques. When breaking through to become a martial artist, they could withstand the impact of beast blood and become a martial artist in one go.

Shen Can, with his short stature, was clearly much worse in this regard.

Huo Xian wasn't trying to discourage Shen Can; he was like this when he was young too.

Shen Can carried his pot back to the western ear cave and started eating heartily, even drinking the soup clean in the end.

Then, with the warmth flowing through his stomach, he began practicing the Kui Ox Fist.

The side ear cave opened up by the tribesmen was very large, over thirty feet across, enough for him to perform his fist techniques.

In the eastern ear cave, Huo Xian heard the movement from the west and didn't speak to stop him. He knew that Shen Can hadn't given up on martial arts cultivation.

A quarter of an hour later.

Shen Can stopped his movements.

He felt a warm current circulating throughout his body and could sense a growth in his strength, but unfortunately, there were no tools to measure the specific increase.

This indicated that the improved Kui Ox Fist had indeed increased in efficiency.

"If I could raise the Kui Ox Fist to high-grade, perhaps I wouldn't even need to soak in beast blood. I could become a martial artist just by eating beast meat daily and practicing the Kui Ox Fist."

Shen Can mused for a moment, then got up and headed towards the eastern ear cave. He gathered Huo Xian's eating utensils and went out to wash them with the rainwater.

"This was passed down by generations of Witch Doctors in the tribe. Take a look."

In the eastern ear cave, Huo Xian handed a mottled beast hide scroll to Shen Can. "If you don't understand any characters, ask me."

The content on the beast hide scroll wasn't difficult to understand, as it was an illustrated version with pictures of various herbs and stones.

The ear cave fell silent. Huo Xian frowned as he flipped through a beast hide scroll, occasionally checking the shelf behind him.

At times, he would also glance at Shen Can, who was flipping through his own beast hide scroll.

"Is there anything you don't understand?"

As Shen Can flipped through the beast hide scroll, he was actually thinking about whether the Witch Doctor's techniques could be deduced.

He was also a victim of the Blazing Flame Tribe's Witch Doctor techniques.

Of course, it wasn't Huo Xian's fault, but rather the tribe's limited inheritance. They lacked the ability to explore and innovate.

They didn't dare to innovate rashly, lest any accidents occur and the tribe suffer heavy losses.

They could only rely on studying the Witch Doctor books passed down from their ancestors.

Huo Xian's master was best at making medicinal pills; whatever the illness, he would provide a pill.

As for the formulas for the pills, they were incredibly varied. While plant roots and stems were within the normal range, things like eaves dust and wild beast fur were also included.

As Shen Can's thoughts drifted, a line of information appeared in his mind.

Sacrificial Host: Shen Can
Martial Arts Realm: Unranked
Sacrificial Artifact: Sacrificial Cauldron
Tempering Method: Kui Ox Fist (inferior-grade)
Witchcraft: Blazing Flame Tribe Witch Doctor Method (Inferior), Witchcraft Spell (None)
Cultivation Technique: None
Martial Divine Power: None
Lifespan: None

Seeing the changes in the information, Shen Can realized that Witch Doctor techniques could also be deduced.

Moreover, Witch Doctor techniques were merely a branch of witchcraft cultivation.

For the next half month, Shen Can took over all the cleaning duties at the ancestral temple, while Huo Xian focused on organizing the Witch Doctor techniques he had accumulated from years of practice.

Shen Can cleaned the ancestral temple every day, studied witchcraft, and practiced his boxing.

The heavy rain continued to pour. Since the hunting party had no new sacrifices, he wouldn't just wait around. The tempering efficiency of the Inferior-grade Kui Ox Fist had already shown a noticeable improvement, coupled with the ample supply of beast meat he received daily.

He could clearly feel his strength increasing every day.

Inside the West Ear Cave, a meter and a half tall Black Yuan Stone had appeared. He wanted to see if he could shatter it at some point.

"A-Can, time to eat."

Huo Xian handed Shen Can a full pot of overflowing beast meat, double the amount from the previous few days.

"There's more if you're still hungry. Eat as much as you can."

Shen Can devoured the beast meat like a whirlwind and then began practicing the Kui Ox Fist inside the cave. A warm current flowed through his body, strengthening his bones, muscles, and flesh.

"Hoo!"

After finishing his set, he let out a long sigh and walked towards the cave entrance.

While practicing the Kui Ox Fist, he had heard shouting, and it seemed like something was happening outside.

A strong gust of humid air rushed into the cave. Shen Can was in a bad mood. "Damn this rain."

Down the mountain, the torrential floodwaters rushed eastward, waves crashing against the mountain rocks with a continuous rumbling sound.

Without any prey, it was truly delaying his ancestral sacrifices.

Through the misty rain, he saw over a dozen figures standing beyond the floodwaters. Leading them was the tribe's chief, Huo Tang, and the rest were all second-tier Mountain Opening Realm martial artists from the tribe.

They appeared to be salvaging something.

The Blazing Flame Tribe had suffered greatly from the prolonged heavy rainfall. Not only were the tribal buildings and small cultivated fields at the foot of the mountain gone, but they had also lost over a hundred tribesmen.

Most of the lost tribesmen had drowned while salvaging supplies in the floodwaters.

Shen Can's rescue by his tribesmen was truly fortunate.

Salvaging supplies in the face of the mountain flood was a desperate measure. No one knew how long the flood would last, so they had to stockpile as many supplies as possible to survive.

By now, anything that could be washed away from the mountain had been swept away. Even the decaying corpses of wild beasts were gone, and the available supplies were becoming fewer and fewer.

What was going on?

"Quick, look, another one's coming up!"

A sharp-eyed tribesman pointed downwards and shouted.

On the riverbank.

Huo Tang stood on higher ground, his gaze constantly scanning the surroundings with great vigilance.

The scattered tribesmen beside him each held long-hooked spears, observing the surging floodwaters.

One of them snagged a giant tree with his hook spear and forcefully pulled it ashore.

The giant tree had a hole in the middle and was entwined with vines at both ends. Inside the hole was a person who was no longer recognizable, bloated by the water.

"Chief, this is the third one,"

Huo Shan said cautiously after a brief inspection, "There's still no identification, so we can't tell which tribe they're from."

In the face of the torrential flood, carving wood into boats, and not just one person, but only one possibility: the tribes of these people had met with disaster.

Fleeing in panic, only a complete catastrophe could explain it.

Huo Tang glanced at them and instructed, "Continue salvaging, see if there's anything else coming down."

All tribes had contingency plans for floods, which was to choose sturdy, tall mountains as their homes. The heavy rain had lasted for over eighty days.

The fact that they were only now being washed out by the flood indicated that the unfortunate tribes were not scattered by the flood from the beginning, but due to some other reason.

It was highly likely a wild beast.

A wild beast that was not afraid of the torrential flood and could annihilate other tribes meant it could also destroy his Blazing Flame Tribe.

In the following days, the tribe managed to salvage four more unrecognizable corpses, all of whom had carved wood into boats, trying to take their chances against the raging flood.

The misfortune of other tribes cast a somber mood over the Blazing Flame Tribe.

Everyone understood that the crisis that could destroy other tribes, if it were to befall the Blazing Flame Tribe, then they would be the ones fleeing in the water.

"Woof..."

Half a day later, the giant waves surged, and a roar that sounded like a dog's bark echoed from a distance, startling everyone.

Even Shen Can, who was practicing boxing in the ancestral temple, stopped his movements.

Fortunately, it was just a false alarm.

It was a second-tier Great Wilderness Variant Odd Fish, not a high-tier wild beast.