Ethan Brooks can only push his physical limits in every possible way to develop his potential, strengthen his body, and the consumption is enormous.

Although Ethan Brooks's strength and physical power are comparable to a beginner-level second or third stage barbarian warrior, the beginner-level barbarian warriors of the Black Python Tribe, besides being physically strong, are also skilled in bow and spear combat techniques.

As for the intermediate-level barbarian warriors who have awakened their barbarian souls, in Ethan Brooks's eyes, they are like killing machines. They are the true core and main force of the Black Python Tribe, rooted deep in Mangya Ridge, hunting and fishing.

Ethan Brooks is not qualified to be a main force. Every time he follows the Black Python warriors out to hunt and fish, the food he gets is very limited, far from enough to meet the consumption required by his special cultivation method.

Fortunately, over the past three years, Ethan Brooks has learned the barbarian script from Grandpa Clark, and can now identify thirty or forty kinds of herbs in Mangya Ridge. This has become his skill for making a living in the village.

There are more than three hundred able-bodied men in the village, and over a hundred barbarian warriors who practice combat techniques, but there are very few who have the patience to learn all five or six hundred barbarian script characters with Grandpa Clark, and can identify the twenty or thirty herbs needed to refine the Black Python Pill.

Even Henry Clark only managed to memorize all the barbarian script characters under Grandpa Clark's stick and scolding; but if you asked him to learn shamanic medicine refining, you might as well ask him to hang himself from a beam with a rope.

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Ethan Brooks finished weaving the medicine basket, and Henry Clark came to the hut to find him again, handing him a large piece of roasted wild boar meat dripping with juice.

Ethan Brooks now has a huge appetite, and can't eat Black Python Pills as meals. After coming back and weaving the basket, he hadn't eaten for more than half a day. Seeing the juicy wild boar meat now, his stomach growled even more, and he took it and started devouring it hungrily.

Henry Clark lay on the stone bed covered with animal skin, holding his head, and saw several rolls of animal skin books scattered at the head of the bed, all about shamanic medicine refining. Just looking at them gave him a headache, and he couldn't imagine how Ethan Brooks could read them with such interest. He turned over and asked:

"You don't really want to stay in the village as a shaman doctor for your whole life, do you?"

The "Western Wilderness Classic" silk book was also something Shaman Edward Clark obtained by chance; the Black Python Tribe mainly records things in barbarian script on tanned, thinned animal skins, written with a brush dipped in a kind of black tree sap from the mountains; as for tortoise shells engraved with barbarian script, they are considered "sacred objects" in the Black Python Tribe.

If he can't leave Mangya Ridge, Ethan Brooks thinks that staying in the Black Python Tribe, his best path is to become a shaman doctor. Recently, he has also been learning shamanic medicine refining from Grandpa Clark.

All these animal skin medicine books were given to him by Grandpa Clark to read.

Although the herbs and stones naturally found in Mangya Ridge are completely different from those on Earth, Ethan Brooks believes that some pharmacological principles are still the same. This is also his advantage in learning shamanic medicine in the Black Python Tribe.

However, rare shamanic medicines like the Black Python Pill, which can develop human potential and temper the bloodline, require the secret barbarian arts of the Black Python Tribe to refine.

As an outsider, Ethan Brooks cannot practice the Black Python secret arts. Even if he stays as a shaman doctor, and even if he can use what he learned on Earth to improve or modify ordinary shamanic medicines, in the end, he can only be an ordinary shaman.

Thinking about whether he will ever have a chance in this life to leave the mountains of Mangya Ridge, to see the outside world, or even the faintest chance to return to Earth and reunite with his family, Ethan Brooks's heart is filled with sorrow.

Seeing Ethan Brooks lower his head in silence, Henry Clark knew what he was thinking about. He peeked out the door to make sure no one was passing by the hut, then told Ethan Brooks:

"Just now at the stone hall meeting, Grandpa said you made a great contribution this time and should be accepted into the tribe. In the end, Uncle Nan Liao and the others reluctantly agreed to let you participate in the soul sacrifice three days from now. If you are recognized by the ancestral barbarian spirit during the ceremony, they will teach you the barbarian warrior combat techniques."

"I'm not even a member of the Black Python Tribe. How could I possibly be recognized by the Black Python ancestral spirit?" Ethan Brooks said with a bitter smile.

Although Ethan Brooks has never practiced the secret arts of the barbarian warriors, he has learned some basic principles from Henry Clark.

Not to mention Mangya Ridge—even among the hundreds and thousands of barbarian tribes around Mount Tu, they all possess the true blood of the ancient barbarians in their bodies. But after tens of thousands of years of inheritance, the true blood in most tribesmen has become very diluted.

The early stages of barbarian warrior cultivation are mostly about tempering the body and strengthening the vital energy and blood. Only after awakening the barbarian soul does one truly step onto the threshold of barbarian warrior cultivation.

Only by awakening the barbarian soul can one truly activate the mysterious power of the ancient barbarian blood and temper the muscles, bones, skin, and flesh.

When the body is tempered to the point of being reborn, with new blood and marrow, the barbarian warrior can condense the first drop of true ancient barbarian blood, and thus advance to become a Heavenly Barbarian, possessing formidable strength and roaming the wilderness.

The Black Python Tribe was once a renowned great tribe in Mangya Ridge, with more than a dozen stone villages in the area, a population of twenty or thirty thousand, and even established a city on the southern plains of Mangya Ridge. But thirty years ago, after the last Heavenly Barbarian of the Black Python Tribe fell, the tribe quickly declined, and the remaining branch was driven by powerful enemies to a remote stone village in the northern mountains of Mangya Ridge, barely surviving.

As for what the soul sacrifice actually is, Ethan Brooks has no way of knowing. He was brought to this world from Earth for no apparent reason, and has no connection whatsoever to the inherited ancient barbarian blood of the Black Python Tribe. How could he possibly be recognized by the ancestral spirit of the Black Python Tribe and awaken the barbarian soul?

Henry Clark scratched his head, not knowing how to explain it to Ethan Brooks, so he just repeated Grandpa's original words to him: