Although Hui Shi was a barbarian, he wasn't stupid. Seeing Sun Mo's expression, he knew that this guy from an unknown tribe was eyeing his tribe's witchcraft.
Unfortunately, you won't be able to learn it!
"Teacher, he's secretly laughing!"
The papaya girl immediately reported.
"Are you laughing at me for not being able to learn your witchcraft?"
Sun Mo's tone was arrogant, intentionally showing a look of disdain.
"Hehe, that's a witchcraft that only prophets can learn!"
Hui Shi mocked, "Whoever learns it is a prophet."
In the hearts of the barbarians, prophets were the smartest people in the tribe. Without prophets, any tribe would decline.
"Then your prophet must be a stingy person!"
Sun Mo's nine provinces language became more and more proficient. "Otherwise, why not teach it to the young people in the tribe?"
"Nonsense, prophets are very generous!"
Hui Shi panicked when he heard this. "It's us who can't learn it!"
"Oh, so you guys are stupid!"
Sun Mo was enlightened.
"We aren't stupid either. It's because the prophet was killed by the Redrock Tribe before he could fully impart his knowledge to us."
Gray Stone argued. At this point, his expression became solemn and lonely.
Without the prophet, the tribe would definitely be finished.
This was also the reason why Hui Shi would come here to comprehend the ancestral totem every time he came back from hunting.
He wanted to become the tribe's new prophet.
"What is the Redrock Tribe? Are they your enemies? "
Sun Mo frowned. This was too troublesome.
"A tribe that worships the fire god."
Just as Hui Shi's voice faded, two more muffled sounds came from far away.
Boom! Boom!
"Do you know what this sound is?"
Sun Mo asked.
"This is the anger of the fire god!"
Hui Shi gazed into the distance, and his expression became even more unsightly. "Damn it, the Redrock Tribe is going to start hunting again. Only by offering sacrifices can the fire god appease his anger!"
"Fire god?"
Sun Mo felt a headache. (Can you stop using new terms?)
If there were gods and unspeakable mysticism in the primordial era, he might as well just lie down and die.
Luckily, after Sun Mo's skillful questioning, the barbarian told him everything he knew.
After all, in this era, there was no such thing as interrogation techniques. The barbarians didn't know how to guard against it.
The so-called Fire God was actually an active volcano.
The Redstone Tribe lived at the foot of the volcano, so they regarded the Fire God as their totem. When they saw the volcano roar, they thought that the Fire God was angry, so they would offer all kinds of sacrifices, including the living people of the Redstone Tribe, hoping that the Fire God would calm down.
"That prophet was right. You should have migrated long ago!"
Sun Mo roughly understood.
The prophecy of the end of the world mentioned by the prophet of this tribe should be related to that volcano.
Following the movement of the earth's crust, a dormant volcano became active and showed signs of eruption. Therefore, no matter how many sacrifices were thrown, it was useless.
Gray Stone was silent. This was not something he could understand.
Back then, their ancestors were all direct descendants of the clan chief, and had stayed behind.
"Tell me about your witchcraft."
Sun Mo asked with a smile.
Lu Zhiruo smashed some medicinal herbs and placed them on the dog's wound. This scene also caused the savage to lower his guard.
"Our tribe's witchcraft allows people to transform into all kinds of birds and beasts, allowing them to fly between heaven and earth. When fighting, they can transform into elephants, tigers, and wolves, tearing apart everything. When playing, they can transform into birds and immortal birds, soaring through the sky."
Gray Stone was proud.
"Actually, I know it too!"
Sun Mo chuckled. When the Great Desolate Dragon Subduing Scripture was cultivated to the extreme, one could transform into a giant dragon.
"I don't believe it. Why don't you transform into one for me to see?"
The savage looked at him in disdain.
"Could it be that I can transform after comprehending those totems?"
Sun Mo asked.
"Yes!"
Gray Stone nodded.
"If you want to lie, can't you at least act more realistically? Even if I'm a fool, I won't believe it. "
Sun Mo was speechless.
Gray Stone didn't want to say it, but after Sun Mo used his beloved dog's life as a threat, he compromised.
"In any case, you won't be able to comprehend it!"
Gray Stone was very calm.
If one wanted to learn this transformation witchcraft, they had to grasp the profoundness of those totems and supplement it with the ancestor's prayer. Among them, they knew the ancestor's prayer, but they only understood a small part of the diagrams.
Because before the prophet could finish teaching, he was killed by the people of the Redrock Tribe.
Sun Mo originally wasn't interested in those totems. Now that he knew it was related to witchcraft, he naturally wanted to comprehend it.
Luckily, he had found quite a lot of rice. In addition to hunting every day, he didn't have to worry about food and water. Sun Mo could enter seclusion for a week.
Once he learned witchcraft, his combat strength would definitely increase.
"Let's do it together?"
Sun Mo sat cross-legged beside the totem pole.
"You are wasting your effort. Why don't you go hunting?"
Gray Stone sneered.
"My teacher is a saint candidate!"
Lu Zhiruo didn't understand what Gray Stone was saying, but from his expression, it was clear that he looked down on her teacher.
"What did she say?"
Gray Stone was curious.
He liked this girl. Compared to the women in the tribe, she was too fair and tender. Most importantly, she was so big!
"She is so big. If I raise her, she will definitely grow up very healthy!"
Gray Stone looked forward to the future.
Analyzing the diagrams on the totems had a rule to follow. It was like solving a math problem. It was impossible to forcefully think about it.
Because Gray Stone's knowledge was shallow, he could only do it recklessly. However, Sun Mo was different.
He was a spirit rune ancestor.
After knowing the effects of these totems, he started to disassemble them, distinguishing the core parts and the framework parts. At the same time, there was a large amount of ancient language in his mind that could be used as data.
In this process of disassembly, analysis, verification, and trial and error, the days passed by one after another.
Sun Mo would go hunting once every two days and spend the rest of his time sitting beside the altar, observing the totems.
Savage Gray Stone originally didn't like Sun Mo, but gradually, he started to admire him.
At the very least, this willpower was something he didn't have.
Every time Gray Stone came, he would say that he was comprehending the totems, but he would leave after three to five days. Moreover, he wouldn't spend all his time thinking about the totems.
However, Sun Mo would spend the entire day thinking about them.
"Could he really comprehend the secrets of the totems?"
Gray Stone sank into a dilemma.
He didn't want Sun Mo to succeed in comprehending them. After all, those were the witchcraft of their tribe. However, he also hoped that Sun Mo would succeed in comprehending them. Because that would mean that the long-lost witchcraft could see the light of day once again.
On the seventh day, during dinner time.
Sun Mo stayed in a stone house. He took a piece of stone and drew on the ground.
After Gray Stone finished eating, he came over.
"What do you want to do?"
Sun Mo asked with a smile.
"Can... can you teach me?"
Gray Stone braced himself and asked with a smile.
He could already tell that Sun Mo was a kind person. If not, he would have eaten him up long ago. Why would he waste food to feed himself?
Of course, the most important thing was that Sun Mo was a wise person.
Although Gray Stone couldn't understand the pictures that Sun Mo drew, he felt that it made sense. At the very least, Sun Mo, who was deep in thought, looked like an expert.
"Sure!"
Sun Mo didn't mind and started to tell him his thoughts.
...
On the morning of the eighth day, Sun Mo woke up and stretched his body comfortably.
After dinner, he carried the stone blade and bow on his back.
"Teacher, leave the hunting to me. Why don't you go and comprehend the totems?"
Gray Stone took care of everything.
When he saw Sun Mo looking over with a probing gaze, he immediately guaranteed, "I won't run away!"
Gray Stone didn't know how to address Sun Mo. After asking for his opinion, he received a reply from a teacher.
Teacher,
Impart the dao, impart knowledge, and dispel doubts!
"There's no need!"
Sun Mo smiled.
"Oh!"
Gray Stone revealed a disappointed expression. Teacher should have given up, right?
(No, I should encourage him.)
"Teacher, can you hold on a little longer? I feel that with your intelligence, you will definitely be able to decipher those totems! "
Gray Stone persuaded.
"Haha!"
Sun Mo laughed loudly.
Lu Zhiruo was familiar with Sun Mo's personality and also worshiped him blindly. Seeing this, she immediately called out happily, "Teacher, have you already deciphered them?"
"That's right!"
Sun Mo rubbed Lu Zhiruo's head. "Go and prepare the materials needed to draw the totems today!"
Gray Stone couldn't understand what the two were saying, but he thought of a possibility.
Could it be that his teacher had deciphered the totems?
Otherwise, why would he be so happy?
...
With the addition of Savage Gray Stone, Sun Mo's hunting speed was much faster and safer.
In order to make him wholeheartedly help, Sun Mo took out another trump card.
He plucked a mushroom under a big tree and threw it to Gray Stone.
"Don't eat it, it might be poisonous!"
Gray Stone jumped in fright. In the hilly region, the most dangerous food was all kinds of mushrooms. Hence, he would rather starve than eat them.
"This is fine."
Sun Mo explained, "It's called apple mushroom. It's sweet and has the effect of lowering blood pressure."
People of this era probably wouldn't live to the age of high blood pressure and would most probably die.
"Teacher is a grandmaster in botany!"
Gray Stone hesitated, but Lu Zhiruo believed in Sun Mo. She picked it up and ate it.
"You guys are courting death!"
Gray Stone was helpless and could only pray that the mushroom Sun Mo ate wasn't poisonous. He even found a few grass roots that had the effect of inducing vomiting. When Sun Mo showed symptoms of poisoning, he would chew them and feed them to him.
However, he worried too much.
Sun Mo was fine until the afternoon.
On the way, Sun Mo started to explain to Gray Stone some of the herbs he encountered.
Gray Stone couldn't remember them, and he didn't bring any bamboo slips with him, so he couldn't take notes.
In the evening, Sun Mo returned to the Abandoned Tribe.
He wanted to catch a ferocious beast, but the three of them had low battle prowess and couldn't do it. Hence, he could only settle for the next best thing and use the fresh blood of a wild boar.
"Come, take off your clothes and sit here!"
Sun Mo instructed.
Gray Stone didn't know that he had been treated as a lab rat by Sun Mo. Upon hearing this, he immediately became agitated.
"T... teacher..."
If the witchcraft succeeds, I'll do anything for you.
Sun Mo couldn't be bothered to talk nonsense. When Gray Stone was ready, he used his finger to dip it in the blood of the wild boar and started to draw a totem on Gray Stone's back.
The entire process lasted for an hour.
When the totem was finally completed, it flashed with a blood-red glow and finally seeped into Gray Stone's flesh.
Gray Stone instantly felt his entire body heat up and a layer of sweat appeared.
"That's enough. Now imagine yourself as a wild boar and pray to your ancestors."
Sun Mo instructed.
Gray Stone immediately did as he was told.
When those strange syllables floated out of his mouth, his body also started to change. His body hair grew longer, and his teeth protruded out of his lips.
"Teacher, it's a success!"
Gray Stone was very agitated. He could feel that there was a huge force in his body. He couldn't endure it and punched the wall.
Rumble!
A huge hole appeared in the wall.
"This... is so powerful!"
Gray Stone was dumbfounded. After that, tears flowed down his face. The tribe's lost witchcraft had finally seen the light of day again.
"You've already failed. Why are you so agitated?"
Sun Mo frowned.
"Failed?"
Gray Stone didn't understand. If he was so strong even after failing, then what about the complete form?
Wouldn't he be invincible in the world?
"It shouldn't be a problem with the totem. After all, given my technique, it's impossible for me to make a mistake. Then, it must be the ancestor's prayer. The pronunciation isn't accurate enough."
Sun Mo analyzed.
The complete form of the witchcraft should be able to transform into a wild boar man with boundless strength and coarse skin.
"Oh, right, this beast-transformation witchcraft can only be used three times, and each time it lasts for five minutes at most."
This was because the blood totem's energy would be exhausted after using it three times.
It was unknown whether Gray Stone had heard it or not. He directly rushed out and howled in excitement, destroying the stone houses in all sorts of ways.
Rumble! Rumble!
Gray Stone attacked ferociously, destroying everything in its path.
After playing for over ten minutes, Gray Stone returned and knelt before Sun Mo, kowtowing to him.
"Teacher, please follow me back to the tribe. Be our prophet! "
Gray Stone looked at Sun Mo with a burning gaze. "Under your leadership, the Gray Stone Tribe will definitely become the strongest tribe in this hilly area."
"Not interested!"
Sun Mo rejected and continued to weave bamboo cages. Even if he conquered this land, he would still be a barbarian. What was the use?
The next morning, Sun Mo began his hunting life again.
The three of them went to the lake first. After filling the cages with meat, they threw them into the lake.
"Teacher, what is the meaning of this?"
Gray Stone didn't understand.
"Catching fish!"
Sun Mo's words were concise and comprehensive.
Gray Stone scratched his head. Would fish and prawns be so stupid as to enter the cages themselves?
Sun Mo didn't wish to explain. "Oh right, the salt you guys eat, right? Where did it come from?"
Although Sun Mo wouldn't be the prophet of the Gray Stone Tribe, he was prepared to make use of their strength. In that case, he must have a trump card.
Salt was a pretty good choice.
After all, it was a scarce resource.
He had seen the salt that Gray Stone ate before. It was just a lump of salt with all sorts of miscellaneous items inside.
"I dug it out from the mountains!"
Gray Stone was puzzled. Why didn't his teacher know this? Salt couldn't possibly grow from the ground, right?
"Today, I'll show you a magic trick!"
During this period of time, Sun Mo was busy comprehending the beast-transformation technique and didn't have time to purify the salt. Moreover, he felt that this was a game, so it was fine even if he ate some heavy metals. In any case, his main body was outside.
"What is a magic trick?"
Gray Stone didn't understand.
"Troublesome!"
Sun Mo felt depressed. It was really tiring to talk to the barbarians.
There was also some salt hidden in the cellar of the stone house. Hence, Sun Mo had ready-made ingredients. What was left was to burn some charcoal and make some mulberry hemp for filtration.
"Are you talking about numbness? I know where it is! "
Gray Stone led the way.
"Speaking of which, is it okay for you to not return to the tribe for such a long time?"
Lu Zhiruo was curious. Did no one come to look for him?
During this period of time, the papaya girl had learned the ancient nine provinces language from Sun Mo. There wasn't much of a problem in daily communication.
"It's fine. People often go missing in the tribe!"
Gray Stone's tone was very calm, but he spoke a cruel sentence.
Sun Mo wanted to console him, but Gray Stone suddenly squatted down with a wary look on his face.
"There's someone!"
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