Offering offerings to the Guardian Spirit was something every village in the wasteland would do after returning from a hunt.
Although the Guardian Spirit would protect and protect the village, other than absorbing the power of faith, it also needed the village to offer offerings. After all, the power of faith was an illusory thing. Although the Guardian Spirit could absorb it, many Guardian Spirits still could not comprehend the power of faith. Offerings could increase the Guardian Spirit's strength, even if the increase was miniscule.
The sacrificial altar was built with huge rocks. It was very spacious and was built next to the withered willow tree. The villagers placed all of the game they hunted on top of the altar, piling them up like a small mountain.
Gurgling beast blood flowed along the mysterious patterns on the surface of the altar, dying the entire altar red. In addition to the corpses of all kinds of vicious beasts on the altar, a bitter and desolate aura assaulted everyone's senses.
Under the old chief Shi Yunfeng's lead, Stone Village's men, women, old, and young all arrived in front of the willow tree to pray, praying that the willow tree would protect the village.
This was a solemn sacrificial ceremony. Every villager was sincerely praying. Of course, Ye Xuan was not one of these villagers praying.
Although he also looked like he was sincerely praying, only he knew that he was thinking about other things. After all, he was not a person of Stone Village, and even more so, he was not a person of this world. He was still unable to offer himself to the Guardian Spirit like the villagers of Stone Village.
Indeed, the willow tree in front of him was an extremely powerful expert. However, in Ye Xuan's eyes, it was only so-so.
Towards experts, Ye Xuan could respect and revere them, but he could not bend his knees and make others serve him.
The scorched black willow tree was as quiet as before. Even though there was a small mountain of offerings in front of it, apart from the willow branches fluttering in the wind, there was no other reaction. It was as if this was just an ordinary willow tree.
However, the villagers of Stone Village knew that the willow tree had a spirit, and it was extremely powerful. This could be seen from the radiance emitted by the willow tree every night, protecting the entire village and preventing any vicious beasts from invading.
The sacrificial ceremony was finally over. All of the Stone Village villagers let out a long sigh of relief. Soon after, a joyous expression appeared on their faces. They lifted the prey off the altar and began to busy themselves with the beasts' corpses.
Ordinary vicious beasts like the Tree Boar could only be eaten to fill the stomach, but the flesh of vicious beasts like the Fire Tiger and the Flying Python could not only strengthen the muscles and bones, but the blood of these vicious beasts was also extremely precious. It could condense a small amount of True Blood, which had an extremely important effect on tempering the muscles and bones. It could make the village's children's physiques better and more suitable for cultivation.
The young men in the village began to brandish their swords and began to chop the corpses of the giant beasts. The corpses of these giant beasts were very tough, especially the flying pythons and giant wolves. The scales on their bodies were extremely hard, and when the swords chopped on them, sparks flew everywhere. It was difficult to cut them open.
It was not hard to imagine how passive the villagers would be if they encountered these beasts under normal circumstances.
Some people dissected the vicious beasts' corpses, and there were also a few elders who used special treasures to cut off the special parts of the vicious beasts' bodies. They extracted the blood essence and prepared it for the children to temper their bodies.
Ye Xuan did not deal with the vicious beasts' corpses like the villagers. Instead, he stood beside Shi Yunfeng and watched him extract the blood essence from the Flying Python and Fire Tiger's bodies.
The Flying Python's blood essence was a dazzling silver like mercury, and the Fire Tiger's blood essence was like magma. It was bright red like fire and emitted a scorching heat. It looked extremely extraordinary.
"Come, Ye Xuan, these beasts were all hunted by you. According to the village's rules, these two jars of blood essence belong to you." After collecting the blood essence from the two vicious beasts, Shi Yunfeng suddenly handed over the jars containing the two types of blood essence to Ye Xuan.
Seeing the two jars of blood essence from Shi Yunfeng, Ye Xuan stared blankly for a moment. Soon after, he smiled and shook his head, saying, "No need, chief. Leave these for the village's children!"
Shi Yunfeng shook his head and said, "No need, you keep them. The blood essence from the Giant Wolf and Earth Dragon is enough for the children for now."
"Haha, chief, you really don't need to be so polite with me. Consider this a small token of my appreciation for the children!" Ye Xuan laughed.
"Alright, since you say so, I'll accept them!" Shi Yunfeng thought for a moment and didn't say anything else. He just kept the blood essence.
"This time, thanks to you, our village's food has become abundant. The children won't have to go to the Great Desolate for a while!" Looking at the villagers who were busy processing the vicious beasts' corpses, Shi Yunfeng smiled and sighed with emotion.
"Chief, you're too polite. I still haven't thanked you for saving me!" Ye Xuan smiled, then paused for a moment and said, "That's right, chief, I see that there aren't many weapons in the village. This time, when the villagers came out to hunt, many of them only had weapons made from beast bones. Although these beast bones are very hard, they don't seem very suitable, right?"
"Ai, I also want to give them some weapons. This way, the children will have a bit more capital to protect themselves when they enter the Great Desolate. But weapons are too expensive. As you can see, our village doesn't even have enough food, let alone weapons." Shi Yunfeng sighed and shook his head.
Hearing Shi Yunfeng's words, Ye Xuan's eyes flickered for a moment, then he said, "Chief, I wonder how many broadswords like Brother Tiger's can be bought with the blood essence of the Fire Tiger and Flying Python?"
"If it's a broadsword like Lin Hu's, then one jar of Fire Tiger's blood essence can probably be exchanged for one." Shi Yunfeng said.
"If that's the case …" Ye Xuan pondered for a moment, then said, "Then leave the weapons for everyone to me. Consider it a small token of my appreciation."
"No, no, you've already helped us too much. I heard from Lin Hu that if it wasn't for you, Aobashi might have died under the jaws of the Earth Dragon. Other than that, our village hasn't helped you much. You've helped us even more. "Hearing Ye Xuan's words, Shi Yunfeng hurriedly shook his head and refused.
Ye Xuan faintly smiled and didn't say anything, but he had already made his decision.
The next morning, after Ye Xuan finished his breakfast, he walked out of Stone Village alone and headed towards the Great Desolate.
Bang! Bang! Bang! ~ ~ ~
When it was almost noon, the ground in the village suddenly began to tremble. Then, they saw a silhouette carrying a huge beast step by step towards Stone Village.
"My god, what is that?"
"It's a Dragon Horned Elephant!"
"That person seems to be Ye Xuan, he actually caught a Dragon Horned Elephant!"
Dragon Horned Elephants were extremely huge, each weighing tens of thousands of pounds. Their bodies were densely covered in scales, and they had a pair of huge dragon horns. They were extremely ferocious.
When the villagers of Stone Village saw the figure carrying a Dragon Horned Elephant like a demon god, they immediately became excited …
— —
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
