I Steal the Ancestors' Sacrifices to Nourish Myself

Chapter 431 - 185: Huo Shan Advances to Divine Treasure! (Qiu Yue Ticket Request)

After learning about the attack on the treasure ship, Shen Can felt quite reflective. The Great Wilderness is just a cycle of you taking from me, and me taking from you.

He wasn’t particularly upset. After all, it wouldn’t make sense for only the Blazing Flame to rob others and not expect others to retaliate.

So let’s see who attacks and who defends.

Various trivial matters were managed by Huo Chang in the front, while he focused on Huo Shan’s breakthrough in the Divine Treasure Realm.

Although the Primordial Vein hasn’t been fully upgraded, the investment of hundreds of thousands of source stones has already sparked a tide of source power sufficient to propel a divine treasure’s ascension.

Tall furnaces stood in a row, gulping and exhaling blazing red fire and thick smoke. Embedded in them, fire marrow stones glowed red, and red fire runes blossomed like stars.

These furnaces weren’t crafted randomly but were built according to a design Shen Can provided, forming a pattern like the Eight Trigrams Diagram, divided into inner and outer sections.

The inner section served as the ’center’ of the Eight Trigrams, while the outer divided into eight directions.

The center was where molten iron from the furnaces converged, and the eight directions were each a unit of furnaces, containing a variable number of furnaces each.

From each furnace’s outlet, hidden channels led to the central area of the Eight Trigrams, forming a web-like flowing channel at the center.

This ensured the molten iron remained flowing, kept at the highest blazing temperature.

At that moment, the furnaces were exhaling red fire, continuously supplying scorching fire qi.

Huo Shan stood at the intersection of the Eight Trigrams’ center, clad only in a pair of beast-skin shorts, training the Luwu Divine Form taught by Shen Can.

Initially training the Desolate Beast Battle Body was to enhance the physical body’s strength.

Compared to the original version of the Fire Ape, the Luwu Divine Form’s power increased manifold, showing significant improvements in physical strength.

Huo Shan stood among the swirling smoke and red fire, faint red beast patterns appearing on his body. The heat made his skin gleam with oil.

A flying ship hovered dozens of feet away, with dozens of wizards aboard, all watching Huo Shan’s training intently.

The scorching atmosphere had the attending wizards sweating profusely.

Shen Can was also on the ship; Huo Shan’s breakthrough wasn’t merely a personal achievement but marked the beginning of the Blazing Flame Tribe’s martial artists’ ascent to the Divine Treasure Realm.

As for Shen Can himself, his breakthrough wasn’t easily reproducible, making Huo Shan the true experimental subject.

The data from the start of Huo Shan’s training was now all aboard this flying ship.

Shen Can’s divine sense enveloped Huo Shan’s training, perceiving the underground molten iron as if it were a Flame Dragon, traversing the net-like tunnels.

Beneath each distant furnace, the tribesmen busily fed fuel, continuously reheating the molten iron returning in the network of channels.

Heat waves rippled through the air, and the dense fire element source power glimmered like stars.

Without exception, this fire element source power was drawn into Huo Shan’s body.

Previously, Huo Shan felt at his limit, but now, with source power entering his body, it signified his absorption of fire element source power.

It confirmed that transforming from a Fire Ape to a Luwu required additional fire source power intake, further enhancing Huo Shan’s physical strength.

As Huo Shan trained—from a somewhat unfamiliar beginning to growing more adept—he was soon enveloped by the fire element source power.

The only beast-skin shorts on his body disintegrated into ashes in a burst of fire, leaving him completely bare.

Roar!

A tiger-like roar emanated from Huo Shan’s throat, and a sound akin to thunder reverberated through his body.

Huo Shan’s body glowed with dazzling crimson light, emitting a beam of red light from his back, followed by a second and third...

In the blink of an eye, the red light transformed into three fiery tails, each over a zhang long.

His body began to swell rapidly, three zhang, four zhang, five zhang, growing to five zhang one chi...five zhang three chi...

Within the crimson fire, a peculiar wild beast emerged, possessing a tiger’s body and head but with two ape arms and two tiger legs.

The sturdy hind legs stood upright, lifting the body high, creating an indescribable image.

Roar!

With an angry roar from Huo Shan, the three fiery tails swirled through the air, forming a long streak of fire that exploded into a field of red light.

"This feels so strange!"

Having never experienced such a hybrid form, Huo Shan tilted his tiger head to examine his body, feeling quite awkward.

"Stop dawdling, get out for inspection."

On hearing the voice, Huo Shan jumped up with a powerful leap from his sturdy tiger legs; cracking sounds echoed below him as hidden channels burst and a spray of fiery lava erupted.

As Huo Shan emerged, the flying ship swiftly approached him. Before it even landed, the wizards jumped off and surrounded him.

"Relax, relax. I need to check the beast patterns."

"I’ll check the body strength."

"Spread your tails so I can measure your length."

Once out of the Fire Spirit Land, Huo Shan lay down on the ground, spreading his ape arms wide, letting the wizards climb all over him as he restrained his fire qi.

"The Tier Three Fire Crystal Stone has completely melted. In the previous test, fully melting accounted for only eighty percent; the blood and qi intensity has improved."

"Body height is five zhang three, including the tails, the total length is four zhang three chi, ratios are slightly disproportionate."

"Beast patterns formed inside combining tiger and ape forms."

...

"Transform back."

"Revert."

"How do you feel?"