I Steal the Ancestors' Sacrifices to Nourish Myself

Chapter 479 - 201: Dai Land Ruins, Mysterious Little Human Race (2)

"All finished reading, everyone’s task is to find places resembling the map."

"Shi Jun, Tian Dan, each of you lead a hundred people to act, start searching east and west respectively.

The remaining hundred will follow me, searching centered around Que Mountain Settlement.

Remember to rest during the day and move at night, walk in the form of Wild Beasts, and try to avoid some wilderness Spirit Monsters.

The wilderness Spirit Monsters of Dai Land have a lot to do with Earth Ants."

"Does everyone understand?"

"Understood."

"Remember, in Dai Land our identities must temporarily remain confidential."

The group quickly dispersed in the mountains, with a team led by Shi Jun heading east, followed by Dragon Horned Wilderness Beasts.

Tian Dan’s group headed west, followed by Golden Sword Tigers.

Huo Chang had a Tier Four Battle Beast as a guard by his side, which was the Dragon Bear stationed in Holy Ape River Valley.

At the minimum, Celestial Vein Ninth Layer Martial Artists, transformed into Wild Beasts, running like dragons, traversing mountains with ease.

In just half a month, tens of thousands of miles of wilderness had been thoroughly explored.

During this period, seven places resembling those on the map were discovered.

After investigating one by one, two suspicious locations remained.

A vast mountain range stretching for hundreds of miles, with muted roars of beasts in the mountains. Although the Earth Ants were raising the Human Race in Dai Land, they still had no method for the Wild Beasts on the vast land.

Wild Beasts are everywhere, over every inch. You may hunt and eat them, but to say you can hunt all the Wild Beasts in a vast mountain range, is quite difficult.

Under the night sky, with gusts of eerie wind, scarlet phantoms danced and swiftly traversed between the mountains.

The scarlet phantoms resembled swollen bodies soaked in water for days, some floated like ghosts.

Shi Jun, transformed into the Blood Tiger, walked through the wilderness, with dozens of phantoms roaming all around, constantly devouring the emerging Spirit Monsters.

Shi Jun came north to Dai Land to deal with these Spirit Monsters. Cursed with the Blood Curse, he also cultivated the Tiger-Shaped War Body, capable of devouring souls of Spirit Monsters to nourish the blood fiends.

Deep in the wild mountains, abundant with vegetation, the thick wilderness aura burrowed straight into the nose and mouth.

This area bore no traces of humans; evidently, the military power of Dai Land’s Human Race was no longer sufficient for traversing mountains and waters.

At this moment, within and around these forests, beast shadows lurked, seemingly resting, but actually observing their surroundings.

"Once rested, let’s continue the work."

Huo Chang reclined under a giant stone. With his words, the clansmen began bustling again; they’d been busy in this mountain for two days.

Though the map was clear, the topography of the mountains and rivers was not unchanging.

In some locations, due to external forces, there were instances of ground fissures, mountain breaks, or river redirections.

Fortunately, the map drawer seemed to anticipate this, sketching the expansive scene of the entire mountain and marking nearby great rivers and wetlands as references.

Unfortunately, the Great Wilderness’s map had no scale, often resulting in mere comparisons.

Through these comparisons, multiple outcomes would emerge.

Otherwise, they wouldn’t have found seven resembling locations.

At this moment, the clansmen deployed the Witch Towers, placing them at least a hundred feet apart.

As the Witch Patterns on the towers were activated, ripples of water radiated out.

In a flash, the released water ripples quickly froze, forming a hundred-foot radius of ice crystal land.

This was the clan’s wizard-invented Witch Artifact, the Ice Tower, originally designed as a defensive Ice Shield on the battlefield.

But upon creation, its defense was found lacking, though it could still freeze a radius of a hundred feet, with ice thicker near the tower, capable of sealing even a Celestial Vein Sixth Layer Martial Artist.

Overall, at a push, it was still usable. Even if a Celestial Vein Sixth Layer Martial Artist were sealed for a few breaths, it’d be long enough to be pierced by an arrow.

Yet unexpectedly, the non-combat-effective Ice Witch Tower could trigger surrounding Witch Talisman Spirit Bans upon freezing.

For instance, within a hundred-foot radius, if an armor with Witch Ban was present, the ban would be activated by the cold, glowing.

As the Ice Witch Tower activated, spans of frozen land appeared, with vegetation and stones encased in ice.

The tribesmen continually moved the towers, spreading freezing power, gradually engulfing nearby cliffs, valleys, stones, and thickets beneath ice covers.

While employing the towers, Huo Chang also instructed the people to sense with Divine Sense, as currently, the tower’s Spirit Ban was not highly developed.

If this area yields nothing, only one location remains.

Huo Chang hadn’t abandoned the previous five locations either, appointing clansmen to continue scrutinizing them, in case anything was overlooked.

Buzz!

When the freezing spread to a pile of stones, the cold air rapidly sank deep into the ground.

A buzzing sound arose, prompting a clan member to inspect.

Initially, it attracted no attention; such situations were common, often due to occasional minerals or remnants of Spirit Mechanism underground causing the towers to react.

Buzz, buzz!

Then, an earthen yellow glow emerged from underground, shimmering brilliantly across a few feet of area.

This did catch the group’s attention; even if it wasn’t a relic stash, there ought to be something worthwhile.

Tian Dan quickly approached, transformed into a beast, and dug a paw into the ground, sending stones and fragments flying.