Detention Cave.
Huo Tang had gone out to keep busy, while Shen Can had not been idle within the tribe either.
These past days, he had come every day to get close to Wu Zhiqi.
He had thought he had dug out most of the secrets, only to discover that Wu Zhiqi's experiences cultivating in the Ling Yu Tribe were the true treasure upon which a tribe could be founded.
Through Wu Zhiqi, he learned that what he called spiritual perception was properly known as Spiritual Sense, or Witch Sense.
Only those with powerful Spiritual Sense were suited to cultivating witchcraft.
For ordinary people, strong Spiritual Sense manifested more like intuitive perception—for instance, concentrating completely in the dead of night to sense one's surroundings.
But that feeling was vague. Only after cultivating witchcraft could one gradually strengthen this ability.
Likewise, when martial warriors reached the Celestial Meridian Realm, their surging blood and qi would also give them a perception of their surroundings.
The youths of the Ling Yu Tribe underwent three assessments between the ages of ten and fifteen.
The assessment involved entering a specially made black bronze chamber.
There would be different objects inside, and their perceptions in the darkness would be used to verify whether they possessed the potential to cultivate witchcraft.
Those who passed would enter the Witch Hall as apprentices, spending three to five years there before determining their personal direction in witchcraft cultivation.
Wu Zhiqi had chosen Witchcraft Combat.
When Wu Zhiqi advanced to a First-tier Witch, his Spiritual Sense could vaguely perceive conditions within two zhang. When he advanced to a Second-tier Witch, that range reached five zhang.
After being detained for many years, however, his body had been injured, and his abilities had instead declined.
Shen Can deduced that although Wu Zhiqi had