I Steal the Ancestors' Sacrifices to Nourish Myself

Chapter 588: Chapter 241: Star Dao!

The full moon and dense stars filled the vast Great Wilderness’s night sky.

Shen Can lay above the Ancestral Temple, gazing up at the firmament to see the myriad stars twinkling chaotically.

It truly was incomprehensible.

The Heaven-Riding Race’s records mention that their kind had lived among the starry sky for a long time, yet they still knew little about it.

In Shen Can’s hand was a Jade-Inlaid Copper Jade Scroll, its ancient simplicity apparent, made from top-grade Copper Gold with divine jade embedded for imprinting divine sense.

The entire jade scroll was well-wrapped, which is why it remained intact when excavated from the relic.

Evidently, this jade scroll was of great importance.

Only less than fifty such Jade-Inlaid Copper Jade Scrolls were unearthed from the Heaven-Breaking Mountain relic.

Inside this well-preserved jade scroll was something engraved called a ’Star Map.’

Although the Heaven-Riding Race had limited understanding of stars, they coexisted with Heaven-Riding Beasts and knew about them.

Within the Heaven-Riding Beasts, there were nodes similar to stars.

The Heaven-Riding Race created a ’Star Map’ based on these stellar nodes within the Heaven-Riding Beasts.

This ’Star Map’ was annotated with different colors, documenting the distribution of stellar nodes within newborn Heaven-Riding Beasts and their newly formed nodes as they grew by absorbing the Power of Stars.

Unfurled, the star map felt vast and boundless, densely populated.

The Heaven-Riding Race used this ’Star Map’ to locate suitable starlight places for aiding their beasts’ cultivation.

At this moment, the doppelgänger quietly entered the ravine. Earlier, he and Shen Can had divided forces to block the retreat of various martial artists.

Alas, among the countless mountains and valleys full of hiding places, it was like trying to capture air, as if searching for Ji Land Human Race clansmen.

Finding the fleeing martial artists from Yongyi was equally like finding a needle in a haystack.

Before dawn, the doppelgänger evaded the Holy Envoy Race’s surveillance and stood before Shen Can.

After swallowing large volumes of fallen meteoric iron on the sandy terrain, the doppelgänger’s realm advanced to a level comparable to the late-stage Divine Treasure.

In that instant, Shen Can’s divine sense fully merged with the doppelgänger, immediately sensing densely packed shining points spread throughout his doppelgänger’s interior.

These luminous dots were the core of the doppelgänger’s power, storing spiritual mechanism absorbed from devoured minerals.

The sizes of these points varied, larger ones absorbing comparatively more spiritual mechanism, similar to Heaven-Riding Beasts.

Recognizing so many parallels, Shen Can contemplated attempting to use Heaven-Riding Beasts as a basis for transforming his own identity.

Subsequently, the doppelgänger transformed into a gigantic hundred-foot-tall figure on the plaza outside the Ancestral Temple.

Shen Can scanned the colossal doppelgänger’s internal starlight points with divine sense, marking them for a ’Star Map’ similar to the Heaven-Riding Beast’s inner map.

When he compared the two ’Star Maps,’ he noticed similarities.

Both maps featured a few relatively bright large dots that nearly overlapped, with surrounding similar-size and positioned points.

Reflecting on the coinciding areas of both star maps, Shen Can pondered further.

The doppelgänger always devoured minerals, and absorbed meteoric iron with greater efficacy, they themselves being fallen stars.

As per the Heaven-Riding Race’s records, Heaven-Riding Beasts not only absorbed the Power of Stars but swallowed some stars too.

The stars inherently held various mineral deposits and such within.

So with such coincidences, Shen Can couldn’t help but think there was a connection between his doppelgänger and Heaven-Riding Beasts.

"Power of Stars."

At this moment, Shen Can realized the doppelgänger had only absorbed minerals and meteors without directly accessing the Power of Stars.

He had never considered that aspect of the Power of Stars before.

Heaven-Riding Beasts grew massive by absorbing the Power of Stars; perhaps the doppelgänger’s size was limited by not having done the same?

"Stars." Shen Can looked up at the dawn sky, where the osmanthus moon left but a blurred outline.

His gaze fixed firmly on the osmanthus moon.

Despite the many celestial bodies above, it seemed only the Moonlight Power could be tangibly contacted by Blazing Flame.

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Two days later, the osmanthus moon hung bright in the tranquil night sky.

Hundreds of Medicine-Mashing Rabbits appeared outside the Ancestral Temple, where the surrounding open space wouldn’t block the falling moonlight.

Shen Can landed outside the Ancestral Temple, communicating with the Gui Rabbit to begin the ritual dance, calling more moonlight down.

The process of how Heaven-Riding Beasts absorbed the Power of Stars was unrecorded, perceived as innate divine techniques.

Shen Can could only try to have the doppelgänger absorb Moonlight Power and see if it worked.

The Gui Rabbit transformed into a gigantic five-zhang figure, leaping upon the doppelgänger, and the other Medicine-Mashing Rabbits surrounded it tightly.

Each wielded a pestle, facing the mortar containing witch medicine.

As the Gui Rabbit raised its hand, the hundreds of rabbits began moving with nimble steps, beating upon the mortars, creating a unique melody.

After a few beats, the mortars remained, the Medicine-Mashing Rabbits began shifting positions around the doppelgänger as their distinct ritual chanting arose.

Clang, clang, clang!

With their simultaneous choreography of medication and dance, the moonlight above the doppelgänger suddenly twisted, with firefly-like specks softly falling.