The tribe's support, brewing blood medicine!

Qingyang Huan watched Jin Wei sitting cross-legged in the stone vat. Behind him, the golden ape silhouette wreathed in golden light grew ever clearer, even its facial features taking shape.

The Jin Yuan Bloodline!

This was a bloodline inheritance much like Yun Caiyue's of the Wandering Cloud Tribe. In the Great Wilderness, bloodline inheritances were not limited to great ferocious beasts. The descendants of Human Race powerhouses also had a chance of inheriting their mighty ancestors' bloodlines!

It was just like the True Intent of Slaughter Qingyang Huan had comprehended. Although he had drawn it from the exotic beast Qiongqi, if his cultivation reached the heights of creation and he truly understood slaughter through and through, his own Slaughter Bone Rune would be branded within his body.

His descendants would likewise have a chance of inheriting his True Intent of Slaughter.

Clearly, some ancestor of Jin Wei's, from who knew which generation, had obtained an opportunity belonging to Jin Yuan, which had then manifested through atavism within Jin Wei!

Moreover, Jin Wei's bloodline differed from Yun Caiyue's. The atavism of Yun Caiyue's bloodline had stirred an intent, while Jin Wei's manifested as pure bloodline power.

Over the long years, the reproduction of the Human Race had become far too intermingled. The great blending among humans had produced so many kinds of opportunities when warriors awakened-intents, bloodlines, sacred physiques, battle physiques-that even Qingyang Huan could not explain them all clearly.

There were simply too many such blessings of fortune. This was also why, when he first saw the Stone Spear, he had been unwilling to let it go, even subconsciously overlooking the danger. He had no such ancestral bloodline. He could only fight for opportunities himself, and they vanished in the blink of an eye. Perhaps a single thought could lead to a difference as vast as heaven and earth.

"Father, First Elder, I want to enter seclusion," he soon said.

He had not expected the four great tribes to take more than ten days to arrive outside Qingyang Mountain. This had given him ample time to increase his strength.

His seemingly rather lean body now contained tremendous strength exceeding twenty-five thousand jin. This had been the surprise he had prepared for the four tribes, but he had never expected this five-tribe tournament to make Jin Wei's name instead!

Although he had not gotten a chance to fight, Qingyang Huan felt no resentment whatsoever. Instead, he felt fortunate to have encountered Jin Wei!

Of course, what mattered most to him was luring Jin Wei back!

"Go to the ancestral hall!"

Hearing Qingyang Huan speak, Qingyang Jue and the First Elder turned to look at him. Qingyang Huan nodded. This time, he did not intend to go hunting in the Great Wilderness!

Back then, he had made an agreement with the Stone Spear: he would reach the Body Casting Extreme Realm within two years. Now he had reached the fourth step of Body Casting, the Bone Tempering Realm. Of course, nearly half the agreed time had already passed!

During these days of hunting ferocious beasts and roaming the wild forests, he had gained his own insights into slaughter and combat. Next, he could settle down and focus on increasing his strength!

As for consuming the Qingyang Tribe's resources, he had no reservations whatsoever. The Qingyang Tribe had more than enough to support his cultivation to the Divine Treasure Realm. As for higher levels in the future, he might have to find his own way!

Today, the Qingyang Tribe supported him in increasing his strength. When he became stronger another day, he would naturally give back to the Qingyang Tribe. The tribe supported its people, and its people protected the tribe. They had always complemented one another!

Nodding and taking another look at Jin Wei, Qingyang Huan left the stone house and headed toward the Qingyang ancestral hall.

The Qingyang ancestral hall.

The stone hall extended roughly a li into the depths. It was rather dim inside and covered an enormous area, with individual stone rooms partitioned off farther within.

Figures moved about in a stone room deep inside the ancestral hall as the Qingyang Tribe's elders hurried in from outside.

"Boy Huan, see what else you need. You promised your old great-uncle here that once you're strong enough, you'll bring back ten pieces in return for this beast bone from a Taotie variant."

A stooped figure trembled as he handed Qingyang Huan a thumb-sized beast bone wrapped in several layers of beast hide, a pained look on his aged face.

"A Taotie beast bone, a White-Headed Qique's claw, a Zhuru's fin-you've emptied out the collections of us old fellows."

At that moment, another tribal elder spoke. Although reluctance showed in his eyes, he still handed what he held to Qingyang Huan.

The Taotie was a great ferocious beast of the wilds. Even variants descended from its bloodline possessed formidable strength. The White-Headed Qique was likewise a variant, bearing a pair of tiger claws. It hunted all living creatures for food and was exceedingly savage.

The Zhuru, meanwhile, was a foxlike variant with fins like those of a great fish. Its cry could plunge people into terror until their livers and gallbladders shattered and they died.

Of course, the beast bones and claws these tribal elders produced were not blood bones from true great ferocious beasts, but from descendants whose bloodlines had passed down through who knew how many generations.

Even so, the pained expressions of the tribal elders showed how precious these things were. They were treasures collected over their entire lives.

He had sought these things from the tribal elders because he wanted to use these precious beast bones to break through the Body Casting Realm in one stroke. He was now at the Bone Tempering stage, and next came the final level of the Body Forging Realm, the Marrow Cleansing Realm.

This realm required a transformation deep within the marrow, unleashing even more vigorous vitality.

Moreover, although he had entered the Bone Tempering stage, he was actually still some distance from forming runes on his battle bones. Thus, he wanted to use the residual power of the variants within the beast bones to achieve the final transformation.

Of course, his preparations were not limited to these few beast bones. There was no denying the benefits of having a tribe to rely on, though his status and talent were also factors.

These precious resources, which would have taken him ages to seek out himself and which he might never have found at all, now lay before him just like that.

This was also why youths from great tribes could pull ahead of their peers at such a young age, and even surpass their elders. With talent and tribal provisions, it was hard for their strength not to increase!

Precious beast bones and blood essence were all delivered from the Qingyang ancestral treasury to the stone room where Qingyang Huan was staying.

Soon, only Qingyang Huan and Qingyang Jue, who had arrived afterward, remained in this stone room deep inside the tribal hall.

"Huan'er, what do we need to do?"

The two stood around a bronze cauldron a full zhang across.

"Father, we need to crush these variant beast bones, add thirty-six other kinds of ferocious beast blood essence and precious medicinal herbs, and brew them together. Finally, we activate it with ferocious beast blood."

As he finished, a trace of regret flashed through Qingyang Huan's eyes. "Unfortunately, the variant beast bones the tribal elders preserved contain only some residual blood Qi from those variants. None bear Bone Runes."

"You little brat, be content. Any variant that developed Bone Runes within its body must have been an overlord of a stretch of wild forest when it was alive. How could the tribal elders have been its match? Getting even a little piece like this in the wild forest was already a considerable blessing. What Bone Runes are you hoping for?"

Seeing Qingyang Huan purse his lips, Qingyang Jue scolded him with a laugh.

"I'll brew these precious medicinal herbs, beast bones, and blood essence for you first. Once your second elder brother brings back the Divine Treasure Realm ferocious beast he caught to serve as the catalyst, this cauldron of blood medicine will be ready!"

Although he said this, Qingyang Jue did not ask him where the method of brewing blood medicine in a bronze cauldron came from. He had also guessed why Qingyang Huan had asked him to help.

Wasn't this plainly letting him learn how to prepare the blood medicine? Although the Qingyang Tribe could not gather enough ingredients for many batches of blood medicine like this, simpler preparations of ferocious beast blood essence and precious medicinal herbs were still possible.

PS: Yesterday, the tribe chief got a little too carried away and only managed to write one chapter of the update. I'm posting it first, and I'll post the remaining chapter as soon as it's written!