Shen Can

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Shen Can (沈灿)
Alias(es)	A-Can; Ah Can; Sacrifice Master; High Priest
Species/Race	Human Race
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Blazing Flame Tribe; Sanhuo Tribe; Human Race Alliance
Occupation/Role	Temple Guardian; shaman/witch; martial artist; cultivation-method deducer; teacher and tribal strategist
First Appearance	2

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Unranked Martial Dao	2	Receives the Sacrificial Cauldron during the Mountain-Cleaving Kui sacrifice; his inherited Kui Ox Fist is marked as deducible.
Stone Splitter Realm — One Wild Beast Strength	9	Advances after perfecting the Kui Ox Fist into the Kui Ox Nine Resonances and acquiring Myriad Transformations to One.
Stone Splitter Realm — Two Desolate Powers	10	Continues cultivation through Kui Ox Fist practice.
Mountain Opening Realm — Sixteen Desolate Power	27	Develops seventeen witch characters and a five-zhang mental-induction range alongside martial cultivation.
Mountain Opening Realm — Forty-nine Desolate Powers	42	Uses a heavy draw-weight bow as a practical measure of his physical power.
Ninety-nine Desolate Power	70	Reaches the brink of the next breakthrough while resettling four thousand slaves and expanding tribal influence.
Hundred Desolate Power	71	Can manifest and dismiss Kui patterns on his arms at will.
Third-tier Celestial Meridian Realm	80	Opens three Heavenly Meridians during seclusion after consuming meat and Jade Dew Soup; also achieves Kui Ox beastification.
Sixth-tier Heavenly Meridian	132	Uses Blood Ginseng to forcibly open his sixth Heavenly Meridian.
Seventh-tier Heavenly Meridian	133	His breakthrough triggers the first manifestation of the Desolate Beast Battle Body.
Ninth-tier Heavenly Meridian	146	Opens his ninth Heavenly Meridian after eight months of secluded refinement using witch medicine and Source Stones.
Divine Treasury Realm — Fourth Tier	152	Opens a 120-zhang Divine Treasury and publicly reveals his Fourth Tier status to Huo Tang.
Peak Divine Treasury	274	Breaks through amid battle as his tangible battle intent shatters the late-stage bottleneck.
Witchcraft — Peak Fourth Tier	331	Completes major witchcraft deductions and begins preparing for a Fifth Tier breakthrough.
Martial Dao — Early Fifth Tier	367	Has reached early Fifth Tier and prepares to advance by awakening the spirituality of his Stone Form.
Witchcraft — Mid Fifth Tier Great Witch	380	Stabilizes his Divine Court; his divine sense more than triples.
Late Fifth Tier — Dharma Image	385	Manifests a 1,200-zhang Dharma Image and a matching Human Race Battle Body.
Sixth Tier — Return to Truth Realm	405	Fuses Dharma Image and Battle Body into a 2,700-zhang form after refining his Human Race divine form.

Background / History

Shen Can became the Blazing Flame Tribe's Temple Guardian unexpectedly and performed the sacrifice of a Mountain-Cleaving Kui. The ritual awakened the Sacrificial Cauldron within him, identifying him as its Sacrifice Master and granting him thirty-three years of lifespan from the offering 2.

He accepted Huo Xian as his master in medicine, ritual practice, and the duties of a Witch Doctor. While the tribe initially knew Witch Doctors chiefly as healers and neutralizers of beast-blood violence, Shen Can used the Cauldron's deduction ability to develop martial arts and witchcraft far beyond that limited inheritance 3.

His early improvements to the Kui Ox Fist were covert. He carved the revised forms onto stone flakes and left them in the wordless shrine of the Ancestral Temple; when the shrine cracked and revealed them, the tribe accepted the method as an ancestral manifestation. Huo Ning, Huo Yu, and Huo Yan subsequently reached the Mountain Opening Realm through it 8.

Although Shen Can originally strengthened the tribe mainly to secure his own survival, he gradually embraced the Blazing Flame Tribe as his true home. He took responsibility for medicine, military training, records, refugees, cultivation systems, and the tribe's long-term future 25 32.

Appearance

Shen Can is initially described as physically frail despite his authority and skill as a Temple Guardian. His cultivation progressively transforms his body, covering it in shifting beast patterns before leading him toward a distinctly human-centered Battle Body 32 214.

• His arms can manifest Kui patterns when he circulates inner energy 71.
• His early Desolate Beast Battle Body combines Kui, Bear, Tiger, and other beast patterns into a fused form 133.
• His Battle Body reaches thirty-five zhang while becoming approximately seventy percent humanoid 214.
• By the Sixth Tier, his fused Dharma Image and Battle Body reach 2,700 zhang in height 405.
• After refining his Human Race Origin, his Dharma Image becomes identical to his true human appearance, without concealed beast patterns 404.

Personality

Shen Can is pragmatic, observant, and intensely self-improving. He studies incomplete manuals, enemy methods, beast patterns, formations, cultivation data, and even failed experiments for material that can be deduced into stronger systems. His habit of recording practical results lets him turn individual discoveries into standardized methods for the tribe 9 32 336.

He is also highly strategic. Shen Can concealed the origins of the improved Kui Ox Fist to secure acceptance, built measurable standards for military training, and later used formations, memory extraction, clones, and impersonation against stronger enemies 8 32 412 413.

His growing authority does not erase his concern for others. He treats injured disciples, teaches advanced methods to witches, identifies overlooked talent such as Yan Zeng's affinity for star power, and seeks stronger foundations for his allies and guardian beasts 301 332 405.

Against hostile forces, Shen Can can be ruthless. He is willing to sacrifice clones, capture enemies for intelligence, and eliminate opponents through deception when he judges the Human Race Alliance to be endangered 412 413.

Abilities & Skills

Sacrificial Cauldron

The Sacrificial Cauldron is Shen Can's innate sacrificial artifact and the foundation of his exceptional growth.

• Absorbs lifespan from sacrificial offerings; the Mountain-Cleaving Kui sacrifice grants Shen Can thirty-three years 2.
• Protects his body, nourishes his spirit, and derives martial arts 2.
• Allows him to spend accumulated lifespan on deductions, including revised fist arts, Five Stance Arts, witchcraft methods, and weapon-based divine abilities 112 196 331.
• Lets him turn incomplete ancestral, tribal, and foreign inheritances into usable cultivation systems 109 336.

Martial Arts and Method Deduction

Shen Can began with the crude Kui Ox Fist, then raised it into a high-grade method and used it as the basis for a wider Five Elements martial system.

• Perfects the Kui Ox Fist into the Kui Ox Nine Resonances, tempering flesh, tendons, bones, and internal organs 9.
• Develops the Five Desolate True Beast Stance tempering method for the Martial Hall and soldiers 112.
• Receives the Fourth Tier Great Evolution Mysterious Qilin Palm and Dragon Gazing Treasury Opening Method from a remnant elder 127.
• Uses the Fist of Mountains and Rivers against the ancient halberd mark's killing intent 195.
• Deduces the Hundred Transformations Halberd Mark Visualization Chart, capable of deriving divine abilities for sabers, spears, staffs, swords, and other weapons 197.

Desolate Beast Battle Body and Human Race Battle Body

Shen Can's Battle Body cultivation begins as beast transformation but develops into a method centered on restoring human control and Human Race Origin.

• First manifests the Desolate Beast Battle Body after his seventh Heavenly Meridian breakthrough 133.
• Deduces a cultivation method for the transformation and establishes a Will Tempering Ground to prevent erosion by beast instincts 133.
• Learns that the Battle Body's ultimate direction is humanoid rather than permanently beastlike 214.
• Can suppress and command unstable beast-transformed tribesmen through his high-ranking desolate beast aura, earning the epithet “Beast Emperor A-Can” 197.
• Refines beast runes into a Human Race divine form, removing the obstruction between Dharma Image and Battle Body 404.
• Fuses both forms at the Sixth Tier, creating a 2,700-zhang Return to Truth body 405.

Witchcraft and Runes

Shen Can develops witchcraft from healing and ritual knowledge into a major branch of the tribe's combat, medicine, and infrastructure.

• Draws witch runes capable of repelling supernatural threats, including the strange bird that attacked the tribe 23.
• Deduces and stockpiles the Water Control Art to compensate for the Blazing Flame Tribe's smaller population and resources 53.
• Deduces the Water Control – Sword Control Rune during the anomaly in the Tribal Land 91.
• Creates the Witchcraft Transformation Method and Five Elements Witchcraft Methods for human practitioners 331.
• Teaches advanced witchcraft cultivation methods to more than 1,300 witches while controlling access to later stages by breakthrough level 332.

Spiritual Sense and Formations

Shen Can's Spiritual Sense is both a cultivation tool and a strategic weapon.

• Improves his Spiritual Sense by repeatedly facing the killing intent of an ancient halberd mark; it eventually exceeds 470 zhang 195.
• Uses Spiritual Sense to communicate with the little dragon fish and investigate the blood-colored network beneath the Tribal Land 91.
• Deduces the operating methods of two Sixth Tier witchcraft artifacts used to restrain the Heavenly Fire Sparrow 393.
• Traps the Sixth Tier Yin Zhang in a formation, incapacitates him with Sitting in Oblivion for Eternity, and extracts intelligence from his fragmented memories 412.

Divine Abilities

• Myriad Transformations to One — perfectly refines and absorbs daily cultivation sustenance, improving Shen Can's efficiency 9.
• Kui Ox Beastification — transforms him into a Kui Ox with enhanced physical ability and water control 80.
• Kunpeng Secret Technique — a speed-focused divine ability derived after comprehending the Kunpeng form 396.
• Sitting in Oblivion for Eternity — incapacitates targets without triggering their spirit prohibitions 412.

Clones and Impersonation

Shen Can employs clones for cultivation, espionage, and infiltration.

• His clone can absorb spiritual energy from ore; he discovers its body is made from meteorite material 186.
• Maintains the clone Xuan Bin in Tushang Ancient City to monitor events and acquire resources 410.
• Sacrifices earlier major clones to secure control of the Sixth Tier Yin Zhang clone 413.
• Uses Yin Zhang's body to kill Yin Yue and impersonates her through her shed beast hide 413.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Sacrificial Cauldron — Shen Can's intrinsic sacrificial artifact, which grants lifespan through offerings and supports deduction 2.
• Sharp-Breaking Spear — originally a fragmented Fourth Tier divine ability; Shen Can later reforges the weapon to the Sixth Tier with Solar Power, Five Elements materials, and precious blood 292 408.
• Yellow Mud Tablet — inheritance relic left by a peak Sixth Tier Three-Headed Tribe expert; Shen Can deduces an improved Three Earth Merging Mountain Technique from it 407.
• Dragon Gazing Treasury Opening Method — Fourth Tier method inherited from the middle-aged remnant elder 127.
• Human Elixir Art — a detailed pill-refining method found in a Xiaoyang witch's pouch; Shen Can considers adapting it with Xiaoyang or desolate-beast materials 138.
• Water Wood Concordant Contract — witchcraft method recovered alongside the Human Elixir Art 138.

Relationships

• Huo Xian — master and former Temple Guardian; teaches Shen Can Witch Doctor knowledge, ritual practice, and tribal history 2 3 23.
• Huo Tang — Blazing Flame Tribe Leader, disciple, and closest political partner; increasingly relies on Shen Can's judgment while working with him on tribal expansion and security 25 91 127.
• Huo Shan — trusted elder and martial ally; assists Shen Can's first sacrifice and later coordinates major Alliance actions with him 2 413.
• A'Yu — younger-brother-like companion who promises Shen Can future hunting spoils and later receives direct orders concerning the tribe's witches 3 331.
• Huo Yun — disciple and witchcraft researcher; develops medicine to neutralize blood-pellet malevolence under Shen Can's guidance 91 95.
• Huo Zhong — disciple and craftsman; works with Shen Can on identity Witch Tokens and later oversees forging-related development 227 301.
• Yan Zeng — crippled witch whose unusual star-power sensitivity draws Shen Can's attention; Shen Can personally teaches him the Cosmic Stars Cultivation Method 332.
• Weaver Girl — trusted collaborator in cultivation and intelligence work; assists with Yin Zhang's memories and Shen Can's high-level breakthroughs 385 412.
• Little dragon fish — affectionate guardian beast and Spiritual Sense contact; Shen Can later intends to help it advance 80 404.
• Crimson Fire Lu Wu — beast-king ally whom Shen Can consults on the Snow Beast and later helps strengthen through the Solar Channeling Great Formation 331 405.
• Old Turtle — former resident of Yongshan Ruins who agrees to follow Shen Can after he opens the Five Elements Beast Form Imprint 212.

Story Role / Major Arcs

• Temple Guardian and first sacrifice — Shen Can gains the Sacrificial Cauldron, performs the Mountain-Cleaving Kui sacrifice, and begins learning the tribe's traditions under Huo Xian 2 3.
• Reforming Blazing Flame cultivation — He upgrades the Kui Ox Fist, covertly presents it as ancestral guidance, and creates measurable cultivation standards and military screening systems 8 32.
• Rise of the Temple Guardian — His witch runes repel a supernatural bird, confirm his shamanic talent, and sharply elevate his standing within the tribe 23.
• Upper Tribe development — Shen Can expands Blazing Flame's martial, witchcraft, medicinal, educational, and administrative foundations while building alliances with nearby tribes 70 112 126.
• Battle Body research — After his beast-transformation anomaly, he creates and refines the Desolate Beast Battle Body into the Human Race Battle Body, seeking to prevent cultivators from losing their humanity 133 194 214.
• Inheritance gathering — He seeks knowledge from Yongshan Ruins, the ancient halberd mark, the Kui Ox Tribe, and foreign cultivation relics to fill gaps in Human Race inheritance 196 197 334 336.
• Human Race Alliance leadership — Shen Can develops Alliance-wide cultivation systems, teaches large groups of witches, establishes institutional plans such as the Patrol Wilderness Department, and prepares collective defenses 331 332.
• Tushang conflict — He investigates the Sacred Hou Tribe, captures Yin Zhang for intelligence, then uses cloning and impersonation to strike at the tribe from within 412 413.
• Sixth Tier transformation — By refining beast-king divine forms into a Human Race divine form, Shen Can completes the fusion of his Dharma Image and Battle Body and reaches the Return to Truth Realm 404 405.

Notable Quotes

“My past life was like a dream; only this life is real.” 25

“Those who don't strive for progress, do they deserve to be killed?” 195

Trivia

• Shen Can describes himself as a “skewer” after accumulating multiple beast-form patterns through Five Elements cultivation 129.
• He uses wooden bows as a standardized, practical measurement of a tribesman's internal energy and martial progress 32.
• His Human Race Battle Body was developed from the realization that countless beast forms should ultimately return to a single human origin 214.