After a century of worship, I became the ancestor of the tribe.

Chapter 144 The Secrets of Jishan, Yanran, and Gufushan! (Bonus Chapter 3 for Monthly Tickets)

"Yes, I'll make arrangements right away."

Yuan Zhenzang bowed and retreated.

The Lilong Guards are the most elite tribal soldiers of the Jishan Earl tribe, all of whom are Heavenly Vein Warriors. Even if they are to be deployed, they will never use too many. He plans to send out three hundred-man squads.

However, the prerequisite is to find the person first, and then see where Xiaoyang plans to make his move.

"Old friend, see? My human race still has guts."

When the Earl of Jishan spoke up, he agreed with Yuan Zhenzang's speculation that someone was using the name of the Earl of Luoshui to kill Xiaoyang.

Amidst the billowing mist, a muffled dragon's roar echoed.

Lord Jishan turned around and looked at the place where the source energy gathered behind him. It was a stone gate, and source energy was constantly surging from the cracks in the stone gate.

"Old buddy, do you think A-Yue will be able to get promoted?"

This time, Li Long did not respond, and a worried look appeared on the face of the Earl of Jishan.

The younger and middle-aged generations were eliminated, leaving a gap in the clan's succession; the only option was to select successors from among the older generation.

It's difficult to hide the divine treasure.

This is not only about the breakthrough itself, but also about the issues that follow.

Leaving aside distant examples, in the eight thousand years since the collapse of Yongshan, the advancement of the various tribes of Yongyi from superior tribes to subordinate tribes was almost entirely due to luck and chance.

Most of these promoted branches only lasted for one or two generations before their fourth rank was lost.

It may take a few hundred years, or at most a thousand years.

For a tribe, what difference does it make whether something lasts for hundreds or thousands of years or just a fleeting moment?

Human martial arts cultivation itself has some flaws, and these people who have advanced have taken unorthodox and unconventional paths within those flaws.

This makes the breakthrough unique; if you want to break through using this method again later, you may not have the same luck.

For example, the Tujiabo tribe, which was destroyed before, used the so-called method of advancement to cleanse themselves with the blood of the Mountain-Moving Dragon Turtle and take the Dragon Turtle's elixir into their divine treasure.

The reason the third generation failed was that they couldn't find the Mountain-Moving Dragon Turtle. They wanted to improve it by taking the inner cores of other fourth-tier wild beasts and turning them into divine treasures.

And so, this method of exchanging pills failed.

The cultivation method based on the Mountain-Moving Dragon Turtle leads to significant conflicts with other wild beasts.

If the cultivation method is insufficient, various auxiliary methods are used to make up for it. This was the method used by the middle-level tribe warriors in Ji back then to advance to the fourth rank.

In fact, the ancestor of the Jishan clan back then also used this unconventional method to advance to the fourth rank.

But Jishan was lucky back then, as it caught up with the northern expedition of the Marquis of Yongshan, and at that time there were plenty of resources available.

With the imperial decree bestowed by the Marquis of Yongshan, and his personal improvement of the cultivation method of the Ancestor of Jishan, the Ancestor's cultivation method was transformed from a "lucky" one into a "stable" one that could be passed down.

It can be said that without the Marquis of Yongshan, there would be no 8,000-year-old Jishan heritage.

However, Yongyi no longer has the Marquis of Yongshan, such a brilliant and ambitious predecessor. With their newly established foundations, the various clans are simply unable to perfect the fourth-order method.

In those days, besides the Marquis of Yongshan, the human race could also guide the sages to worship the spirits.

Through a grand clan ceremony, the legacy carried by the sacrificial spirit ancestors is awakened. Even if this legacy is incomplete, it can still serve as a reference.

Currently, there is no way to connect with the spirits of our ancestors from the outside, and there is no stable method of cultivation to pass down internally.

After finally advancing to the Divine Treasure realm, they discovered that whether a second Divine Treasure warrior could appear depended entirely on luck.

But if this kind of luck lasts for two or three generations, it's considered extremely lucky.

There are also cases where the lineage of fourth-tier martial artists has been broken for several generations, and then suddenly a member of the clan advances to the fourth tier. That is when the incense smoke from the ancestral graves is restored.

Now, Yan Wanyun of the Yanran tribe has taken an extreme approach, and the Earl of Jishan is aware of this.

He was waiting, waiting to see how Yan Wanyun's situation would change.

Extreme methods can lead to extreme consequences, and the fate of humanity hangs in the balance.

Unfortunately, he still hasn't figured out what method Yan Wanyun used.

The Earl of Jishan could sense the sinister nature emanating from Yan Wanyun; it was unpredictable and difficult to see through. They had fought several times, but Yan Wanyun had always concealed it very well.

At least for now, Yan Wanyun is protecting the human race, resisting Xiaoyang, and sheltering countless humans.

Even if he had doubts, he couldn't afford to destroy the Great Wall of humanity at this time.

Otherwise, if Jishan and Yanran were to fight, all the old guys in Xiaoyang's ancestral graves would jump out and laugh themselves to death.

Moreover, no matter how wicked Yan Wanyun may be, the pressure on the Jishan tribe has been greatly reduced since Yanran rose to power a hundred years ago.

The Jidi tribes that survived are even more numerous than before.

Otherwise, Jishan's current situation would be even worse.

At this moment, inside the stone gate behind the Earl of Jishan.

The surging source energy and blood energy thickened into blood droplets, covering the entire upper part of the rock wall.

The surrounding rock walls were covered with small ear holes, each containing a blood pill that smelled of blood.

Each blood pill shimmered with a bloody light, and some even had the ferocious faces of the Xiaoyang Clan appearing on them.

As the main part of Jidi Town, Jishan has been using the flesh and blood of Xiaoyang for cultivation since eight thousand years ago.

In addition to these small ear holes for storing blood pills, there are several large ear holes around the perimeter.

Inside each of the large ear holes sat an old man dressed in a witch's robe, leaning against the ear hole as if asleep.

The old man's robe was soaked with blood-red vapor, and his white hair and eyebrows were stained with blood droplets.

In the middle of the cave, a middle-aged martial artist sat cross-legged, his upper body bare, and his body was covered with scars.

As the blood and qi wash over them, these scars swell up, making it look as if the whole body is covered in bulges.

Strands of blood energy gathered into the middle-aged martial artist's body, causing his brows to furrow from time to time, and his expression to change from normal to ferocious.

At this moment, the elders inside the ear holes around the middle-aged martial artist would chant incantations, using their divine sense as a guide to flow onto the middle-aged martial artist.

Although he was breaking through, the blood energy surging inside the cave was not intense; instead, it resonated with the middle-aged martial artist's cultivation.

In front of the middle-aged martial artist were three jade boxes, one of which had been opened and was empty.

Within his body, nine celestial meridians converged like dragons in his dantian, forming a hazy cloud of blood and qi.

Blood essence continuously fell from the celestial veins, quickly merging into the mist.

However, the area around Cixiu's dantian was covered with cracks, and some of the cracks even showed overlapping marks.

……

"If you push me too far, I will take Jishan and flee into the Eastern Great Swamp, and let Xiaoyang head south to Luodi and the heart of Yongyi."

When Lord Yongshan received no response from his war beast, he spoke angrily and then let out a long sigh.

“Ancestor, we owe our success to Yongshan. If we can’t hold onto it, then we should just return it to Yongshan.”

The reason we suffered such a defeat is that we could have stayed put.

But I eventually cancelled it.

This was something he and Yan Wanyun discussed.

Over the past century, with the rise of the Yanran tribe, some tribesmen in Jishan have become wary of Yanran, and even some elders in Jishan are wary of it.

The Earl of Jishan ignored the concerns of his clansmen, including some minor conflicts.

Similarly, Yan Wanyun ignored the occasional minor conflicts between the two departments.

The two races reached a consensus on the general direction of defending against Xiaoyang, starting from the rise of Yanran.

This includes the time when the Earl of Jishan went to find Yan Wanyun.

Yan Wanyun agreed without hesitation.

Lord Jishan guessed that perhaps this junior also understood the serious problems he had, and was afraid that he wouldn't be able to control them in the future. The entire Yanran faction was controlled by Yan Wanyun, like a volcano about to erupt at any moment.

Jishan was forced to break through its natural barrier, leaving a gap between generations. Once both major tribes collapsed, no one in Jishan would be able to stop Xiaoyang.

Rather than being slaughtered and captured by Xiaoyang back then, it's better to release them now.

According to tribal intelligence, in the vast wilderness that has fallen into Xiao Yang's hands, human tribes have been rebuilding and constantly waging war against Xiao Yang for at least the past two years.

With the Jishan and Yanran tribes holding back the Xiaoyang army and its powerful warriors, the people of each tribe are gradually being tempered into true martial artists.

And so, the bronze chariot came into being.

Luoshui is really lucky; a bunch of old men can still become famous.

If the Marquis of Yongshan were still alive, he would have executed this fourth-rank official by cutting him in half at the waist and hanging his body on the gate.

After a few days, the Earl of Jishan prepared to back down again.

The fighting spirit of Yongyi, which had been forged by the Marquis of Yongshan through his three meetings with various tribes and his campaigns in the south and north, is now gone.

As a branch of the Yongshan lineage, they used their last bit of fighting strength to try and awaken the fighting spirit of the Jidi people.

As for Yongyi and what will happen in the future, the Earl of Jishan felt that he could no longer control it.

Eight thousand years have passed, and Jishan has truly lived up to its title as the Earl of Yongshan.

"Old friend, do you think the people using chariots are related to the tribe that received the remnant spirits in the Xiaoyang Ancestral Land a while ago?"

"That's it, the Kui Niu chariot!"

At this moment, the Earl of Jishan pondered for a moment, and then his eyes suddenly lit up.

The ancestral home of the Xiaoyang tribe, Mount Gufu, was destroyed when the Marquis of Yongshan launched a northern expedition, conquering the Xiaoyang tribe and ravaging their ancestral home. He then used the bodies of human warriors who died in battle to suppress the Xiaoyang ancestral home.

According to the plan of the Marquis of Yongshan back then, the ancestral land of Xiaoyang would be completely suppressed. Unfortunately, subsequent developments did not go as planned, and Jishan was unable to change anything.

Afterwards, Xiaoyang rose again, repeatedly rebuilding his ancestral lands and sacrificing human beings time and time again, trying to wash away the vast fighting spirit of the human beings who died in battle with the blood and bones of the human race, but he failed.

The successive rulers of Jishan have all tried to guide the remaining spirits, but none of them have been able to bring them back.

Perhaps these remnant spirits of their ancestors felt that Jishan hadn't done enough. They had suppressed the ancestral vein of Xiaoyang, yet later generations were still able to make Xiaoyang prosper again.

Of course, this is also related to the several generations of Jishan clan leaders. Not every generation of Jishan clan leaders had the courage to fight against Xiaoyang.

"The drums of the Kui Niu war, the chariots of the Kui Niu, the remnants of the spirit of Gu Fu Mountain."

For a moment, the Earl of Jishan was greatly moved.

The reason why the Aoshan tribe marched north was because the war drums sounded.

That was a war drum personally crafted by the Marquis of Yongshan, whose sound could reach thousands of miles away.

The reason why bronze chariots have the shape of the Kui Niu god is that they are one of the magical artifacts created to accompany war drums.

The fact that the Luo River has chariots that can't unleash the Kui Niu divine form, but can, speaks volumes.

"Who is it?"

The Earl of Jishan grew increasingly curious. He wasn't actually the most suitable choice to become the Earl back then; he preferred to be a wandering knight.

Unfortunately, he didn't become a wandering knight; instead, he was forced to inherit the position of clan leader, and to make matters worse, it was a clan that was going downhill.

"Damn it, those old fogies from Aoshan really didn't choose the wrong place. The fighting spirit in the North is still strong."

Speaking of this, the Earl of Jishan was also furious.

You bastard, can't you see that this was a trap set up by the Xiaoyang Clan for the Yanran Tribe?
He didn't believe Yan Wanyun would attack a flying boat from the Aoshan tribe; it was completely unnecessary.

Even if they wanted to steal the Aoshan Flying Boat, Yan Wanyun wouldn't be so crude. He would have made sure Aoshan lost the flying boat, and no one would even know who did it.

The Grand Elder of Aoshan rushed towards the Yanran tribe after coming from Yongyi, showing that he dared not attack Xiaoyang, nor Yanran.

They never intended to severely injure Yanran; they were simply creating an opportunity for Xiaoyang.

He personally beat that old fellow from the Aoshan tribe to a pulp. Luckily, the old fellow ran fast, otherwise he would have been left with a leg.

He was still arrogant because he was a small realm higher than him, but as soon as they made a move, he was completely outmatched, his divine power was extremely weak.

"Old buddy, do you think that old guy Aoshan, whom I chased away before, is still grumbling? Let's just stick to the tough stuff."

Li Long sneezed.

The Earl of Jishan didn't take Li Long's response seriously. The Yanran tribe wasn't stupid; they were just momentarily careless in being outmaneuvered by Xiao Yang.

At that time, the flying boat from Aoshan went north first, and the remnants of the human race from Gufushan were guided. The Jidi tribes were all under control, so it was no problem to turn their attention to the mountainous and forested areas north of Xiaoyang.

After this incident, the Earl of Jishan became alert.

News of the subsequent incident, such as the "Grand Elder" of Aoshan forcibly breaking into the Yanran tribe and the ensuing chaotic battle, quickly spread.

Later, the golden crow Kuafu passed through the area and destroyed part of the Ji region.

Fortunately, a human halberd-wielding elder suddenly appeared and dared to confront the Golden Crow Kuafu, driving the behemoths towards the Xiaoyang Clan's territory.

The destruction of the Xiaoyang tribe's territory was much greater than that of the Ji region.

"Someone, go and fetch Yuan Zhenzang for me."

"That mountain forest to the north is really easy to overlook."

……

Upon returning to the stone tower, Yuan Zhenzang meticulously carried out the clan leader's orders.

A group of people was arranged to go south to Luodi to deliver a surprise to the old man of the Luoshui tribe.

He had just finished making the arrangements when he heard the clan chief telling him to go back.

A quarter of an hour later, Yuan Zhenzang returned from underground, pondering as he went back to the stone tower.

The clan leader is indeed the clan leader; that mountain forest and wilderness to the north has really been overlooked.

Could it be that the Kui Niu chariot is really related to the north?
Then, Yuan Zhenzang looked at the map behind him. In addition to marking the places where chariots appeared, the map also marked densely packed tribes, markets, mines and other places.

He had a general understanding of the situation of various tribes in different regions.

No tribe seemed to have received the remnant soul of Gufu Mountain as a sacrificial spirit.

When the strange phenomena occurred at Mount Gufu, it wasn't him who was in charge of the tribe's intelligence, but rather a tribesman named Yuan Hongyun, who unfortunately died in battle not long ago.

Without hesitation, he began to redeploy the mission, sending men across the territory of the Xiaoyang tribe to the northern wilderness and forests.

……

East of the Guimu River, in a small hill.

Dragon horns grew from the head of the enormous antelope-like beast, and its own single horn was perfectly integrated into the dragon horns.

Its scales and colors have changed, and it has gained a thick tail.

Shen Can rode on the antelope-like beast and walked out of the small mountain.

How could he not know that the Xiaoyang Clan was besieging him? Driving the bronze chariot at this time would be too dangerous.

Over the past few months, we have killed quite a few Xiaoyang, but we have not gained many Origin Stones, only a little over a thousand so far.

There are more than sixty medicinal plants that are over a hundred years old, and their medicinal power is roughly equivalent to more than a thousand Originium.

Tweet!
High in the sky, after the cries of the phoenixes, they flew off in all directions, but three of them landed.

"Send a message to the clan, saying that we have started hunting sacrificial beasts to keep them. If the third-tier beasts are not easy to capture and imprison, then capture the first and second-tier beasts, the more the better."

Upon receiving the order, the tribal soldiers atop the three-headed azure phoenixes rode them into the sky, then separated and headed north.

Shen Can headed out of the mountains and quickly disappeared at the edge of the wilderness.

　Asking for a monthly ticket!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)