Now it seems that the appearance of the Wu tribe is not much different from that of the human race. At most, they are taller and stronger. However, going back to the ancient times, the ancestor witches of the witch clan all took the form of gods and demons, such as bird heads and human bodies, animal heads and human bodies. As for the ancestral witches, starting from the great witches, they are already very close to the human race, but their bodies are still relatively large, and they are still classified as "giants".
The changes in the image of the Wu Clan most directly show the continuous decline of the Wu Clan in blood. The strength of the Witch Clan relies on bloodline, and the decline of bloodline brings about the decline of strength, and they can only retreat from the center of the stage to the edge step by step.
Of course, even such a witch clan is not completely without merit. For example, the Wu Clan's unique body refining method is much stronger than the human race's body refining method. No matter how hard the human race trains, it is just "strengthening the body". There will eventually be a limit. However, the body refining method of the Witch Clan has no upper limit in theory, and it is even claimed to be able to achieve physical sanctification.
Even now, the bloodline of the Witch Clan has declined, and the sanctification of the physical body has become a legend, but the heights it can reach are still beyond the reach of the human race. The Tongtian-level powerhouses in the Wu Clan simply rely on their physical strength to compete with the Tongtian-level cultivators. Those shamans who have awakened their bloodline magical powers are like ascetics who possess the Tao realm. They are also difficult to match by ordinary ascetics of the same level.
Regarding the levels of strength, don’t talk about why the Witch Clan is also divided according to the realm of the human race. Who said that the human race is the protagonist of this world today. On the human side, whether it is the Witch Clan, the Demon Clan, the Dragon Clan or even the demons from outside the world, they are all graded according to their own strength standards.
This is not to say that the human race likes to be lazy, but it makes sense. After all, I want to know your strength, and the best reference is myself. I am at the Yuan Shen level, and I know what the strength of the Yuan Shen state is. If the other party is also at the Yuan Shen level, it means that our strengths are equal.
There are also desolate beasts. If you say they are in the infancy or growth stage, this indeed shows their strength. However, what is the strength of the desolate beast in its infancy? Compared with his own cultivation at the Golden Core Realm or Nascent Soul Realm, who is higher and who is lower between the two? In the end, you still have to make a calculation, and you still have to use your own strength as the standard to see whether you can deal with the opponent.
Therefore, regardless of the Witch Clan, Demon Clan, Dragon Clan, etc., how do you judge your own strength level? On the human side, it is all about Foundation Establishment level, Golden Core level, Nascent Soul level, etc.
The witch tribe that Ye Zan visited claimed to have the bloodline of the ancient ancestor Wu Zhurong. The leader of the tribe was a powerful man with a heaven-level power and possessed the magical power of controlling fire. In addition to the clan leader, there are also five elders, two with Dharma-level strength and three with Yuan Shen-level strength. It can be considered a relatively powerful tribe.
Compared with the ascetic tribe that Ye Zan visited before, this witch tribe does not have an imbalance between men and women, but has a ratio that is sufficient to maintain the reproduction of the tribe. The reason is that the lifespan of the witch race is not like that of the human race, which needs to be extended through practice. It is a so-called "immortality species", and this is true for both men and women.
As for the human race, if they don't practice, they will only have less than a hundred years of life. Every time they advance to a higher level, their lifespan will increase. If they don't advance, they can only wait to die of old age. Although women are not unable to practice Taoism, in terms of big data, it is indeed more difficult than men to practice Taoism. This difficulty is not entirely due to qualification issues, but mainly because women are hindered by certain things, such as childbirth, which is the most fundamental problem.
And this leads to the fact that among the tribes of human cultivators, compared to male cultivators, female cultivators have to face a choice. Either it is to reproduce offspring, but the price will most likely be that it will be difficult to advance in the realm, so that the longevity will not be increased. Or, they refuse to reproduce and increase their longevity through practice like male monks.
But no matter how you choose, such a tribe of human monks will eventually lead to an imbalance in the ratio of men to women. This is why the ascetics are so aloof and regard ordinary mortals as ant-like existences, but they dare not destroy these ants at will. After all, it is difficult for the human race to reproduce normally by relying solely on monks. The root of everything still lies in the mortals.
After Ye Zan traded Thousand Miles of Gods and firearms with the Wu clan, he did not rush to leave immediately. Instead, he tentatively asked the clan leader about the method of body refining. After all, he has two little guys here, both of whom are more suitable for body refining methods. Even if the Wu Clan's method cannot be directly applied, there will always be some reference value.
"Clan Chief, I am quite interested in the Wu Clan's body refining method and the production of bone tools. I wonder if there is a chance to ask the Clan Chief for advice?" Ye Zan asked the Wu Clan Chief very politely. asked.
From the perspective of cultivators' habits, it is absolutely offensive to ask a person about his cultivation method and the method of refining magic weapons and instruments. However, unlike the human race, or in other words, unlike the ascetics, the witch clan does not have the habit of cherishing these things. The reason is not that they are generous or stupid, it is just that others cannot learn these things if they know them.
After all, the Witch Clan is still the Witch Clan, and there is a huge difference in blood from the Human Clan, even if their current appearance looks similar. This is just like the human ancestor Homo sapiens in the technological world, and other existences such as Denisovans and Neanderthals at the same time. They may look similar, but in fact they are quite different.
Therefore, even if a cultivator knows the body refining method of the Witch Clan and how to make bone tools, it will be in vain without the blood of the Witch Clan. In this case, the Witch Clan doesn't dare to offend the human race, who are the protagonists of the world, so just let you watch and learn. If you don't learn, you can't blame me.
"Fellow Taoists, you should know that the body-refining method of our Witch Clan is not suitable for you ascetics, right?" The leader of the Wu Clan asked curiously.
In fact, at least before the world collapsed, due to the greater exchanges between the Witch Clan and the Human Race, the Witch Clan's body refining method and bone tool making could no longer be said to be secrets. But later, the ascetics realized that they could not use these things, and gradually stopped paying attention to them.
That is to say, although the special abilities of the witch clan may no longer be known to everyone, at least the practitioners know that the witch clan's methods cannot be learned unless you have witch clan blood. But the problem is that if you have witch clan blood, you can't learn the human race's methods and you can't become a practitioner.
"I know this exactly, so I took the liberty to ask the clan leader for advice, otherwise I wouldn't have the nerve to say this. I don't want to practice, I just want to get some inspiration from it, and maybe I can use it on my own path. A breakthrough has been made." Ye Zan did not mention the matter of his daughter and apprentice, but only said that he wanted to refer to it.
Some things are just like this. He knows that there is no use for you to get them, so he will show them to you without any care. If you take it for use, even if he doesn't lose anything by taking it out, he may hold it tightly and not show it to you. Therefore, Ye Zancai only mentioned it as a reference for himself and did not mention that his daughter and apprentice might use it.
Of course, having said that, even if he got the body-refining method from the Witch Clan, Ye Zan would not just leave it to the two little guys to learn. What he said was not false, he would just use it as a reference and combine it with other information he obtained to find a more suitable path for the two little guys.
"In this case, fellow Taoist has brought so many good things to our clan, how could I not even give him this little face?" The leader of the Wu clan was indeed not stingy and waved to the people next to him to get the things.
After a while, someone came in from outside, holding a stone slab in his arms with dense witchcraft characters carved on it. Since the Wu clan does not cultivate the soul and does not have the power of spiritual consciousness and spiritual thoughts, it is naturally impossible to use jade slips or bone slips to record information like ascetics do. They still use a relatively primitive way to record information, which is to carve their own words on stone slabs.
"Fellow Taoist, it's not that I'm stingy. It's just that this stone slab is the inheritance of our clan. I can't give it to you. I can only let you watch it here. Please forgive me." The leader of the Wu clan was very polite. He said, his words full of human accent.
"The patriarch's words are serious, I would like to thank the patriarch a lot!" Ye Zan quickly bowed his hands and saluted, and took the stone slab.
The stone slab itself is not big, it is equivalent to half the size of a human body, and it is covered with tiny characters. Of course, the characters are the ancient characters of the Wu clan, not the characters of the human clan, and the font is not in small regular script or anything like that.
The leader of the Wu Clan sat back and looked at Ye Zan holding the slate in his hand. He asked curiously: "Fellow Taoist Wuji, the ancient characters used on this slate are the ancient characters of my Wu Clan. Do you need to explain?"
Ye Zan also sat back on his seat, raised his eyes from the stone slab, and said with a hint of confidence in his humility: "That's not necessary. I happen to have some understanding of the ancient characters of various ethnic groups, and I should be able to read them. You have to understand. If you really don’t understand anything, I will ask the clan leader for advice. Then the clan leader should not be annoyed. "
Ye Zan had never been exposed to the ancient characters of the Wu clan before, but this did not affect his understanding of the meaning on the stone tablet. In fact, the ancient characters of the Wu clan, like the runes of the Great Dao, are summaries and interpretations of the laws of heaven and earth. Therefore, with Ye Zan's level of cultivation, it is not that difficult to understand the ancient characters on the stone slab.
After Ye Zan responded to the leader of the Wu Clan, his eyes returned to the slate. While scanning the words on the slate, he had actually completed the work of taking photos and archiving them. In other words, even now, when the Wu clan leader takes back the slate, Ye Zan's database still retains the information on the slate, and he can continue to analyze the content.
However, in order to avoid being misunderstood, Ye Zan did not return the slate immediately after the "photography and archiving" work was completed, but actually started to read the content on it.
What is recorded on the stone tablet, in addition to the Wu Clan's body refining method, is also what Ye Zan mentioned before, about the method of making the Wu Clan's bone tools. You can't see anything about the body-refining method now, and if you want to really gain something, you need to spend time to study it carefully later. Therefore, when Ye Zan was reading the slate, he focused his main energy on the more curious bone tool making.
Only the bone tools made by the witch clan are called bone tools, and the ascetics only use the bones of wild beasts to refine magic weapons. There is a fundamental difference between the two.
Magical weapons and artifacts are essentially fixed spells on physical objects and can be cast when needed. Therefore, whether you have wood, metal, stone or bone, as long as it meets these characteristics, it is a magic weapon or magic weapon.
The bone weapon of the Wu clan is to condense all the essence, blood and soul of a living creature into one bone, and this bone becomes the bone weapon. There are two ways to use the bone weapon. One is to directly use the power in it, which is like summoning the creatures condensed in it to strike the enemy. Another way to use it is to apply power to yourself, so that you have the power of the condensed creatures.
When the Witch Clan makes bone tools, they first find ways to torture the target wild beast or other creature to a near-death state. Then, a special sacrificial ritual was used, using certain characteristics of one's own Witch Clan bloodline as a guide to forcibly condense the soul, blood, and essence of that creature into one place. Some will be condensed on the cranium of the creature, and some will be condensed on the sternum of the creature. There is no fixed choice, it just depends on what is better.
After completing the ritual, the creature seemed to have been swallowed whole by the bone. The so-called bone tool was obtained directly without the need for the witch clan to dissect it. In addition, bone vessels do not need to be refined and maintained as often as magic weapons, but the power can be improved by refining the same bone vessels. For example, if you use a tiger to make a bone weapon, and then if you want to continuously increase the power of this bone weapon, you need to keep letting it "devour" other tiger bone weapons.
Of course, this kind of "devourment" of bone tools is not unlimited, and the upper limit depends on its own quality. The more advanced the bone weapon, the higher the upper limit, and the power can be increased by "swallowing" more bone weapons of the same type. As for low-level bone weapons, not only are their own strength not that strong, they also cannot continuously improve like "gathering sand into a tower".
But having said that, high-end bone tools are so rare, not to mention that they require the same kind of bone tools. Therefore, even if it is to "upgrade" by continuously devouring similar bone vessels, it is difficult for anyone to do that in reality. This also means that the value of a truly top-level bone weapon may not be worse than a top-quality magic weapon.
Ye Zan finished reading the contents of the slate and returned it to the leader of the Wu Clan. The auxiliary chip has uploaded the information to the research center of the War Fortress for analysis and research on the bone artifacts of the Wu Clan. He had previously traded several bone artifacts in the Moyi realm, but unfortunately they were all incomplete "junk". The information he could research was very limited, but he could still be considered to have some research foundation. Now, by combining the contents of the original Wu Clan inheritance slate, we might be able to get some results.