Chapter 2806, Understand One Thing and You Will Understand Everything
Trantor: Svin & Tia
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“Vige Chief! How are you doing?” Inside a dpidated log house, Yang Kai met with the only Shaman in the vige. The Vige Chief woke up rather early even though he was getting on in his years and at this moment, he was holding a bowl containing a sticky porridge and eating it with relish.
Upon hearing Yang Kai’s voice, he nced over, but only put down his bowl when he finished eating and said, “Oh, it’s Ah Niu. What’s the matter?”
“I wanted to ask you for some Barbarian Sacred Wine!” Yang Kai got straight to the point.
“The Barbarian Sacred Wine…” The Vige Chief was stunned for a moment before he got up with the help of his cane and asked, “Why do you want the Barbarian Sacred Wine?”
“It was tasty, so I wanted to drink it again!” Yang Kai replied.
The corners of the Vige Chief’s mouth twitched; however, he soon seemed to notice something and carefully looked Yang Kai up and down. An astonished light shone from his turbid eyes as he asked in a shaky voice, “Did you… Did you unlock the Shaman Strength?”
“What?” Yang Kai was taken aback. The Vige Chief had changed the topic so quickly that he couldn’t keep up with what he was thinking.
“Give me your hand!” The Vige Chief excitedly stretched out his hand and grabbed Yang Kai’s.
Despite being dubious about it, Yang Kai did not refuse, allowing therge and aged hand to grab his wrist. In the next moment, he felt a weak force invading his meridians and continuing upward along his wrist.
Following that, the Vige Chief began trembling even more strongly. His aged face turned red as if he had gotten several decades younger in an instant and he eximed with pleasant surprise, “It’s really the Shaman Strength! The Blue South Vige will finally have a sessor!”
“Are you talking about this?” Yang Kai’s brow twitched as he activated the meagre amount of Emperor Qi in his body and produced a small burst of light at the tips of his fingers.
The Vige Chief stared at Yang Kai fiercely and nodded repeatedly, “This is the Shaman Strength!” While speaking, he walked out of the log house and fell to his knees. He had a pious look on his face as he sped his hands together in prayer, “Thank you for your gift, O’ Barbarian Gods! Thank you for your protection!”
Yang Kai frowned slightly. He stepped forward and helped the Vige Chief up, lest the Vige Chief keel over suddenly because he was overly excited. Subsequently, the Vige Chief took a deep breath and patted Yang Kai on the shoulder, “Ah Niu, from now on, you are a Shaman too! I’m very happy!”
Yang Kai said, “Yeah… But, I am very confused!”
The Vige Chief chuckled, “Don’t be confused. The Barbarian Gods will guide you in the right direction. You came looking for me because you felt this power, right? That’s why you wanted more Barbarian Sacred Wine.
“En!” Yang Kai nodded. He stuck his head into the house and looked around. Despite being the Vige Chief, this log house barely had anything in it. Everything inside was clear at a nce, so Yang Kai couldn’t find any traces of the Barbarian Sacred Wine anywhere.
“I don’t have any more of the Barbarian Sacred Wine. That bowl yesterday was all that remained in this vige.” The old Vige Chief seemed to have seen through Yang Kai’s intentions and exined, “The Barbarian Sacred Wine was originally brewed to unlock Shaman Strength in our Ancient Barbarian Race. It requires many ingredients and the brewing method is extremelyplicated. That bowl was all that remained after the ceremony two years ago.”
“Ceremony?” Yang Kai furrowed his brow.
The Vige Chief continued, “Did you forget? Two years ago, you, Ah Hu, and all the other young people in the vige participated in the ceremony. It was a ceremony to check if any of you had the aptitude to be a Shaman! It’s a pity none of you passed at the time.”
Yang Kai had a vague understanding of what the Vige Chief was talking about.
“I can’t believe you suddenly acquired the Shaman Strength though!” The Vige Chief was so relieved that he looked like he wouldn’t have any regrets even if he died at this moment.
“Is there really no more Barbarian Sacred Wine?” Yang Kai asked again, refusing to give up. He wanted to verify if he could use the Barbarian Sacred Wine to restore part of his strength, but it seemed he was faltering at this first step.
Yang Kai had experimented a little before this, and using his Secret Art here did not increase his power in any way. It seemed as though the World Energy in this era was vastly different from the World Energy in the era he came from, making it ipatible with the arts he had learned.
The Vige Chief shook his head in response, “No, there’s no more. Besides, the Barbarian Sacred Wine will have no more effect on you since you have already unlocked your Shaman Strength.”
[I will only know if it has any effect on me once I try it out!] Yang Kai retorted in his heart.
All of a sudden, the Vige Chief smiled brightly and looked at Yang Kai before asking in a bewitching tone, “Ah Niu, do you want to obtain greater power? Do you want to be a stronger Shaman?”
Yang Kai immediately nodded his head so vigorously that he looked like a chicken pecking greedily at rice.
The Vige Chief chuckled at the sight. [This young man is promising; he is worth teaching.] Waving Yang Kai inside, he said, “Come in!”
The two of them then entered the house, one after the other, and immediately following that, the Vige Chief scoured through his cabs and dug out something that looked like a tortoiseshell from some random corner of the room. He handed the shell to Yang Kai and said, “Follow the teachings written on it to cultivate. In time, you will be a Shaman Warrior, a Shaman Master, and even a Shaman Grandmaster! I’m getting old, but you’re still young! I will leave the vige to you in the future!”
Yang Kai took the tortoiseshell from the Vige Chief with a solemn expression. It felt like he was being entrusted with a mission at a critical and difficult moment where the fate of the entire world rested on his shoulders. Moreover, his stature abruptly became much greater than before.
Then, Yang Kai scratched his head and asked, “Vige Chief, what is this?”
The Vige Chief looked at him in bewilderment and exined, “This is a Shaman’s cultivation method.”
“What?!” Yang Kai was shocked. He looked at the Tortoise Shell in his hand and eximed in surprise, “This is the Ancient Barbarian Shaman’s cultivation method?!”
“What are you going on about being Ancient or whatnot?” The Vige Chief shook his head, “As long as you cultivate ording to the teachings written on that, you will soon be much stronger.”
“But… I can’t read this…” Yang Kai nced at the Vige Chief helplessly.
Small, dense words were scrawled across the Tortoise Shell. Unfortunately, the characters written on it werepletely different from the characters that Yang Kai was familiar with, so he could not read a single word.
The Vige Chief’s mouth fell open in surprise. A long whileter, he sighed and said, “It looks like we should start by teaching you how to read.”
Yang Kai stayed in the Vige Chief’s house for the entire day. It wasn’t until evening rolled around that he stepped out of the house.
The Vige Chief taught Yang Kai about the Ancient Barbarian Shaman’s cultivation methods recorded on the Tortoise Shell in one day. Then, he taught Yang Kai many ancient characters. Initially, Yang Kai had not been willing to learn how to read as it was enough as long as the Vige Chief exined the Secret Art recorded on the Tortoise Shell to him.
However, one sentence from the Vige Chief was enough to change his mind, “When you be stronger one day, you will have more choices to make when ites to cultivation methods. How are you going to cultivate those methods if you can’t read?”
Yang Kai felt that those words were reasonable, and in any case, there was no loss to learning something extra. Thus, he calmed down and focused on studying.
Yang Kai’sprehension ability was so high that the Vige Chief was practically beside himself, beaming with joy. The Vige Chief himself had taken three years topletely understand the cultivation methods recorded on the tortoiseshell while Yang Kai had already gotten a rudimentary understanding of it in just a single day. Although it was partly thanks to the chief’s guidance, there was no doubt that this child named Ah Niu had an unprecedented ability toprehend the teachings.
That was only to be expected though as Yang Kai was an Emperor Realm Master. He had been exposed to various Secret Arts and Secret Techniques throughout his life, so he could almost understand everything about this technique after reading it just once. Besides, the Ancient Barbarian Shaman’s cultivation methods were not that advanced or difficult. Yang Kai easily learned everything and in fact, he would not have needed the Vige Chief’s guidance if not for the fact that he couldn’t read the ancient characters.
Yang Kai’s stomach rumbled the moment he returned to his log house. He was utterly famished. This feeling of hunger was very nostalgic and he had no choice but to cut some beast meat, boil it in a pot, and wolf it down.
After filling his stomach, he began to cultivate using the Ancient Barbarian Shaman’s cultivation method and was overjoyed when the Secret Arts began to activate. World Energy that he couldn’t absorb no matter how hard he triedst night now began to flood into his body. With the help of the Ancient Barbarian Shaman’s cultivation method, he turned this World Energy into his own power, bit by bit.
At the same time, he clearly felt an energy source forming in his abdomen. Inexplicable energy gradually spread out from his lower belly and began filling his meridians. This energy source was formed from something he was not used to as it seemed all energy became the same under the transformation of the Ancient Barbarian Shaman’s cultivation method.
[It’s the essence of the Monster Beast’s flesh and blood!] Yang Kai instantly understood the truth of the matter. What he had eaten before was the flesh of a Monster Beast, and at this moment, the essence from that Monster Beast’s flesh was being turned into his own power under the guidance of the Ancient Barbarian Shaman’s cultivation method.
This way of refining a Monster Beast’s flesh and blood was much more convenient and rapid than slowly cultivating with ambient World Energy. In just a quarter of an hour, a gurgling sound came from his abdomen again as hepletely digested the meat.
[I can’t believe I’m hungry again.] Yang Kai frowned. The sudden drop in the cultivation efficiency made him quite unhappy. Thus, he quickly got up and cooked another pot of beast meat, swiftly filled his belly, and continued cultivating.
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At midnight, Yang Kai finished off an entire Monster Beast, leaving only the skeleton behind. It was such a terrifying way of eating that if the rest of the vigers learned about it, they would surely be shocked. The meat of a Monster Beast was not something that could be consumed so easily as one’s mind would surely be affected by the hidden Monster Qi without a strong force suppressing it. Fortunately, Yang Kai now had the Ancient Barbarian Shaman’s cultivation method so forget about a trivial and weak Monster Beast, Yang Kai would have no trouble consuming a Twelfth-Order Monster Beast.
After cultivating for some time, he deeply experienced the simplicity and crudeness of the Ancient Barbarian Shaman’s cultivation method. It was just like a Monster Beast’s method. Monster Beasts had no Secret Arts as there was a far easier way to be stronger, eating. They ate to be stronger, thus the more they ate, the stronger they became.
To some extent, the Ancient Barbarian Shaman cultivation methods harmonized with the way of survival of the Monster Beasts. Itter underwent countless generations of improvement and evolution to create modern Secret Arts.
Having finished eating the meat of the Monster Beast, Yang Kai had another sh of inspiration. He took out a round Monster Core from the head of his bed. [If the flesh and blood of the Monster Beast can be eaten, then the Monster Core should be okay too, right?]
His current body was enough to safely digest a trivial and weak Monster Beast Core; however, anybody else would have had to weigh their options carefully if they were to do the same thing. Otherwise, the Vige Chief wouldn’t have told him to consume the Monster Core by soaking it in wine. Even so, Yang Kai simply opened his mouth and swallowed the Monster Core directly.
As his Secret Arts began to activate, Yang Kai soon felt a burst of energy in his lower abdomen. It was a hundred times fiercer than before as the Monster Core of a Monster Beast was the very essence of its strength. It was the most valuable part of a Monster Beast’s body, and even a Shaman Apprentice like the Vige Chief would most likely explode and die if he were to consume it directly.
As for Yang Kai, all he felt was a little heating from his abdomen at most. Then… there was nothing else after that.