Having successfully purified the Earth Vein and driven away the final corruption eroding the Wilds of Cangwu, Su Yan's team's status within the Mountain Division instantly rose from "outsiders to be wary of" to "great benefactors who saved the tribe" and "the fulfillment of the Ancestral Witch's prophecy." A grand celebration was held that very night beneath the massive totem pole at the center of the village.
As night fell, the sky above the Wilds of Cangwu turned a deep, inky blue. Countless stars shone clearly overhead, as if they were within reach. Enormous bonfires were lit, their dancing flames soaring several yards high and illuminating the entire village square as brightly as day, casting a red glow across every excited, honest face of the witch tribe.
The air was filled with the charred aroma of roasted meat and the fresh scent of some unusual herbs. Burly witch tribe women carried over whole unknown beasts roasted golden and dripping with fat, along with all kinds of fresh fruits piled in huge wooden barrels. Yet the most eye-catching thing was the rough stone bowl placed before every guest, larger than a washbasin and filled with thick liquid that constantly bubbled with eerie purple bubbles. It gave off an intensely potent scent blending the fragrance of a hundred herbs with a domineering energy.
"Come, come, honored guests! Taste our Mountain Division's specially brewed Hundred Herbs Bone Forging Wine!" An old warrior with white hair and beard but still knotted muscles heartily broke open the clay seal of a jar and filled the stone bowls before Su Yan and the others. "It's made from a hundred kinds of spiritual herbs from the deep mountains of Cangwu, mixed with fierce beast marrow, then buried beneath an Earth Vein node and tempered for ten years!