I Steal the Ancestors' Sacrifices to Nourish Myself-Chapter 13: Majestic Authority, Ambitious Clan Chief

Chapter 13: Chapter 13: Majestic Authority, Ambitious Clan Chief

The visitor is a Celestial Vein Realm martial artist.

From the Upper Huang Division.

The subtle pressure of his bloodline weighed down, keeping the tribespeople in their caves silent.

Huo Chang walked out from the cave, confronting the arriving martial artist, shielding the entire clan division behind him.

"Huang Shi, the flood just passed, shouldn’t you be defending against plague insects in your division? Why have you come to Blazing Flame?"

Huang Shi, seated directly on the back of the Mountain-Splitting Kui, glanced around the caves of the Blazing Flame Division, only retracting his gaze after hearing the words.

"Have you fished anything out of the flood?"

"The wild beasts washed out by the Huang Shi flood, whoever catches them keeps them. Isn’t it overstepping to visit us for this?"

"Is Upper Huang short of a few wild beasts?"

Huang Shi coldly snorted, "Huo Chang, let me be direct, did you see debris from a Tier Three Ironwood ship?"

"Ironwood ship?"

Huo Chang was momentarily stunned, his eyes filled with shock, "Did Upper Huang forge an Ironwood ship?"

Huang Shi jumped down directly from his mount and bypassed Huo Chang, moving toward the cave.

As he walked, he took out a shiny fang from his pocket, and upon reaching the cave entrance, he addressed the children of the tribe.

"Little ones, tell me if you fished out any large pieces of wood. Whoever tells me will get this Cyan Fang Wolf’s fang."

"Huang Shi, you..."

Huo Chang stepped forward.

"Huo Chang, I’m just asking. If your division truly found Ironwood ship fragments, Upper Huang is willing to trade other resources for them."

Huang Shi weighed the fang in his hand, "Even if this stays with your Blazing Flame Division, you can’t use it. How can you guys sever Ironwood?"

With that, he looked again towards the children of the tribe.

"Come on, whoever speaks first gets it."

"We found wood."

The smooth and shiny wild beast fang was too enticing for the children, and one immediately spoke up, much to the dismay of the parents who couldn’t cover their child’s mouth in time.

"Haha, tell me where you placed it."

Huang Shi continued to attract the children with the fang.

He instantly got the location.

The Blazing Flame Tribe has a cave specifically for storing wood.

Huang Shi went straight into the wood-storing cave but came out soon after.

"Huo Chang, your Blazing Flame Division can’t handle the Tier Three Ironwood. If you really got it, handing it over can still get you resources from Upper Huang." 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

Jumping back onto the Mountain-Splitting Kui, Huang Shi looked down at Huo Chang.

"Even if you haven’t fished it out yet, if you find Ironwood, don’t hide it. Otherwise, it won’t be good for either of us."

With that, Huang Shi pulled on the reins of his mount, and the Tier Two Mountain-Splitting Kui snorted thick evil qi, turning to run down the mountain.

Inside the cave, the sound of ’slap’ ’slap’ echoed, and the child who just spoke was now getting his butt spanked, crying loudly.

"He didn’t give me the fang."

The child cried while shouting.

"Talking nonsense just like farting, even tricking a child, and not willing to part with a single Cyan Fang Wolf’s fang; even if we found it, we won’t give it to him."

Some tribespeople were indignant. The people of Upper Huang are truly impolite, not taking Blazing Flame seriously at all.

"Clan Chief."

Several Mountain-Opening Realm tribespeople who stayed in the tribe came out, and Huo Chang gestured for everyone to disperse and go about their business.

Though both are lower divisions, there’s a gap between them nevertheless.

In the wild mountains and giant peaks not governed by the Upper Division, Upper Huang is the most domineering nearby.

The Huang Shi who just arrived, his blood energy is stronger than mine, there’s nothing to be done; can’t provoke him.

...

Outside the Ancestral Temple Cave.

Shen Can returned inside the cave.

His attention was drawn more to that Mountain-Splitting Kui mount; if he could eat it, he felt he could advance to the Mountain-Opening Realm.

Truly lives up to being the clan chief, his weathered face tells years of experience, clearly not survived the storms for nothing.

He foresaw Upper Huang’s visit.

Seems like that piece of Ironwood ship debris is really something valuable.

With just one Celestial Vein from Upper Huang blocking the door, leaving Blazing Flame with no temper; their strength is undeniable, there’s really nothing to argue with.

Endure for now, and strike back when the opportunity arises.

The appearance of Upper Huang’s martial artist stirred some waves within the tribe, but Shen Can had long lay on his stone bed, working on deducing the neutralizing witch medicine formula for the Stone-Breaking Realm beast blood.

With the previously forced workings on the Tier Two witch medicine formula, coupled with the last few months of dedicated learning of basic witch doctor knowledge, this deduction process became much easier.

[As you re-enter the path of the witch doctor, your mind is now rich with knowledge, immediately spotting the issues in the witch medicine formula.]

...

While Shen Can was deducing.

In the cave where the clan chief resided, the flickering lights cast shadows, almost obscuring Huo Chang’s expression.

Outside the cave, a hunched figure walked in.

"Atang, Huo Lei, and Huo Pang both succeeded, they’ve advanced to Mountain-Opening."

The old man’s face couldn’t conceal his joy.

With ancestral blessings.

First came the improved Quenching Fist Technique, then the improved Witch Medicine Formula for Treating Epidemic, it seems the tribe has struck the jackpot.

The improved fist technique even ensured all tribespeople who attempted to advance to Mountain-Opening this time succeeded.

Hearing of the success, Huo Chang felt the weight lift off his shoulders.

All things considered, the tribe gained an equivalent of five Mountain-Opening Realm in just two months, raising the total number of Mountain-Opening Realm martial artists to eighteen.

The entire Blazing Flame Tribe, counting infants in swaddling clothes, totals two thousand one hundred seventy-seven people.

Of those, there are one hundred seventy-nine Stone-Breaking Realm martial artists.

Among the original Mountain-Opening Realm martial artists, four are already aged, such as Huo Yun before him, whose blood energy has long begun to decline.

Even if they fight desperately, they would only be able to burst with Mountain-Opening Realm strength once more.

The tribe doesn’t have distinct elder positions like the larger divisions, among the four aged Mountain-Opening Realm martial artists in the tribe, Huo Yun and Huo Yuo essentially serve as elders, helping manage tribal affairs.

As for the remaining two, they have long lost their spirit.

Thus, Clan Master Huo Chang, alongside Huo Shan, the Hunting Team Leader, Ancestral Temple Keeper Huo Xian, Elders Huo Yun and Huo Yuo, form the leadership core of the Blazing Flame Tribe.

"Do not spread the news of Huo Lei and Huo Pang’s advancement just yet."

Elder Huo Yun nodded and left.

The heavy rains have stopped, yet the crisis is here.

Of course, within the crisis, there is also opportunity.

The addition of five Mountain-Opening Realm martial artists revealed an opportunity to Huo Chang.

After major disasters come plagues, a truth proven through the ages; even with prior preparation, the plague insects are pervasive.

If luck is poor and the plague insects visit, even the largest tribe would suffer.

Now, the tribe’s Mountain-Opening Realm martial artists have increased, with the improved Witch Medicine Formula for Treating Epidemic.

If this formula proves effective, no, even if it is just slightly more effective than other tribes’ methods of treating epidemics, it presents an opportunity for the Blazing Flame Tribe.

Huang Shi from Upper Huang didn’t just come for the Ironwood ship debris, but also to scout the surrounding divisions.

If any tribe appears weak, Upper Huang would take action.

This has happened before.

Why doesn’t Upper Huang directly attack? It’s simple: every established tribe has Celestial Vein martial artists.

Take Huo Chang himself, if Upper Huang truly dared to attack, he would fight to the death to take one of Upper Huang’s Celestial Vein martial artists down with him.

Upper Huang may have several Celestial Veins, but they can’t afford such losses.

Destroying a Celestial Vein to annex a broken tribe is meaningless.

The best strategy is to monitor an injured tribe, akin to watching an injured wild beast, and kill them when they’re vulnerable.

The Great Wilderness has always been this way; reveal weakness, and others will pounce.

It’s lamentable that Upper Huang is so powerful, even before the floodwaters fully recede, a Celestial Vein Realm martial artist crossed three thousand miles to arrive.

In contrast, Blazing Flame could only dispatch Mountain-Opening Realm martial artists, with a cautious exploration range of no more than three hundred miles.

Still, within a three hundred mile radius, there are several tribes.