I Steal the Ancestors' Sacrifices to Nourish Myself-Chapter 156 - 78: The True Ancestral Temple Keeper!

Ancestors of the Human Race, or is it?

Clearly, this was drawn due to the Blazing Flame's grand sacrifice for its promotion to the Upper Division.

As for why it disappeared again, Shen Can couldn't figure that out.

The sacrifice was still ongoing, and he quickly gathered his thoughts, temporarily setting aside the matter of the middle-aged phantom.

At this moment, the martial arts display was nearing its end, the soaring evil qi and the humming of the Sacrificial Tripod Cauldron intertwined, with clan people and the visiting tribal leaders immersed in it.

"Offer your sacrifices, tribes."

As the martial arts display concluded, when the martial artists orderly retreated to the side, a rumbling voice echoed from the temple attendant standing outside the Ancestral Temple.

The presentation of offerings began with the various tribes, then as the host, the Blazing Flame Tribe, it concluded with offerings of wild beasts.

At this moment, Cang Hex stepped out from among the many tribal leaders, straightening his garments.

"Cyan Bird Division, offering the Cyan Wutong Spirit-Pointing and Taming Technique."

"Laurel Division, offering a head of Three-Colored Pheasant."

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"Yanglin Division, offering seventeen pieces of ancient mural from stone walls."

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Below the steps outside the Ancestral Temple, a young witch held a wooden tablet, and based on the recorded contents on it, loudly chanted each offering.

Every time the voice fell, a martial artist would step out from the crowd below, delivering the offerings previously presented to the Blazing Flame Tribe into the Ancestral Temple.

These items had already been reported by the various tribes upon arriving at the Blazing Flame Tribe.

But the Blazing Flame requested they be offered into the Ancestral Temple during the sacrifice; the tribal leaders were not very clear why, but complied as instructed.

Once the offerings were delivered into the Ancestral Temple, the Sacrificial Spirit within the Sacrificial Artifact, already fluctuating, became ever more active.

The offering of sacrifices to the Ancestral Temple by the tribes meant that many vassal tribes had not only nominally become part of the Blazing Flame's lower division, but were also incorporated into the Ancestral Temple's ceremonial system.

Acting as the Ancestral Temple Keeper, Shen Can had returned to the Ancestral Temple.

After the tribe's offerings were presented, he used blood as ink, drawing dragon and snake-like Witch Runes, placing them one by one on the altar.

The name chanting outside the Ancestral Temple continued incessantly, with over a hundred tribal offerings taking a long time.

As Shen Can was drawing a Beast Blood Witch Talisman on a jar of aged wine, he suddenly felt a change in the Sacrificial Tripod Cauldron's fluctuations; it became more active.

He then inspected the jar in his hand.

No, it wasn't this jar of wine that triggered it.

Shen Can's Divine Sense wandered around the Sacrificial Tripod Cauldron and quickly discovered the cause of the fluctuations: the previously placed offerings.

His Divine Sense fell upon the altar, wandering among the many offerings, feeling those including animal skin books, liquor, flying birds, and murals.

Carefully sensing each offering, when the Divine Sense landed on a mural, the fluctuation in the Sacrificial Tripod Cauldron suddenly stalled.

Upon seeing this, Shen Can took the ancient stone murals from the altar and placed them in the closest position to the Sacrificial Tripod Cauldron.

Inside the Sacrificial Tripod Cauldron, numerous broken soul shadows intertwined, muddled, like a chaotic mass.

As the several pieces of ancient murals approached, a different wave of intention emerged from the previously chaotic disorder.

This scene was reminiscent of when Huo Chang offered the Treaty Book last time.

Back then, Shen Can speculated that the appearance of the Treaty Book awakened one of the ancestors' residual souls within the chaotic Sacrificial Spirit of the Cauldron.

This time, in the grand tribal sacrifice, the offerings were all inscribed with Witch Runes by Shen Can.

At this moment, the Witch Runes acted like a connecting medium, a blood-colored radiant glow manifesting the mural patterns, and were swallowed by the Sacrificial Tripod Cauldron.

In Shen Can's perception, likely due to the murals' stimulation, among the previously chaotic residual souls within the Sacrificial Tripod Cauldron, an entity seemed to be 'awakening.'

A tendency to separate from the chaotic mass, manifesting independently.

As time progressed, the offerings from various tribes reached their conclusion.

Following this, Blazing Flame Tribe members, starting from Huo Chang, including the Celestial Vein Martial Artists, clan soldiers, clan people, and even young children, brought their offerings into the Ancestral Temple one by one.

In this scene of offerings made with reverence, the clan peoples' awe of their ancestors reached its height.

Tribal leaders who came to contribute similarly paid homage towards the Ancestral Temple.

At this moment, the attention of every clan member focused on the Ancestral Temple.

Rumble!

An invisible air wave rolled over the Blazing Flame Tribe's skies, with the respect and faith towards the ancestors combined with the essence, energy, and spirit of Blazing Flame people, transformed into an energy surge, flooding towards the Ancestral Temple.

Wish Power like a tide, Sacrificial Tripod Cauldron like a drum.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Thunderous rumbling sounds echoed from the Ancestral Temple.

The Sacrificial Spirit within the Sacrificial Tripod Cauldron, like a whale swallowing water, greedily devoured the inflowing Wish Power.

Shen Can's Divine Sense sensed the changes inside the Sacrificial Tripod Cauldron.

At that moment, inside the Sacrificial Tripod Cauldron appeared two phantoms, one large and one small.

The large one remained like it was when brought back from Gufu Mountain, with countless residual souls unconsciously absorbing the Wish Power generated from the clan sacrifice.

During this process, these slumbering residual souls, after absorbing the Wish Power from the Blazing Flame Tribe, gradually began to 'Blazing Flame'ize.

The smaller phantom was faintly formed, also devouring Wish Power, but compared to the larger chaotic mass, it absorbed the Wish Power like a small creek.

The larger phantom gathered too many residual souls; even though it was swallowing the Blazing Flame Tribe's Wish Power, it was sparse when distributed among each residual soul.

In Shen Can's perception, the residual souls within the larger phantom were asleep, unconsciously absorbing Wish Power.

Meanwhile, the smaller soul shadow manifested a vague form, similar to someone gaining autonomous respiration, consciously absorbing Wish Power.

Seeing this scene, Shen Can transmitted his voice towards the temple attendant in front of the temple door.