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

Chapter 237 The Sky-Riding Clan, the Giant Spirit Pill!
Inside the Giant Beast Cave.

"Legend has it that there was a giant Kun in ancient times, so big that it was unknown how many thousands of miles it was. It seems that the legend is not just made up."

After receiving the message, Shen Can also arrived in Daidi.

In the message the old black tortoise sent him, it detailed the mysteries of the cave.

A sealed cave formed by the skeleton of a giant beast, with its vegetation and rich earth elemental energy, is an opportunity for any tribe.

Therefore, when Shen Can came, he also brought some of the clan's shamans with him, preparing to conduct a comprehensive investigation of the entire cave.

At this moment, he and the old black tortoise were standing on a high place, overlooking the entire scene inside the cave.

The skeleton in this cave is not a winged Kunkun, but rather a massive land beast.

But it's so big! If Shen Can hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn't have believed it.

Bones turned into hills, and flesh and blood turned into the earth.

"Don't look at me. I used to rarely come out from underwater. Recently, I've been involved in more fights with Zhiyan than I have in the past thousand years."

The old tortoise looked as if it had also broadened its horizons.

"I feel that this is a giant beast that fell to its death, and the spiritual energy that remained on its body after death evolved into this cave world."

As time went by, the spiritual energy within the giant beast gradually dissipated, with the blood marrow inside its bones dissipating the slowest.

In this process, it transformed into that golden-blood-colored crystal.

Shen Can agreed with the old tortoise's speculation.

What kind of giant beast it was is no longer known. He didn't come here to find out what exactly created the cave.

Their real purpose was to obtain the Golden Blood Crystal.

The golden blood crystal that the old tortoise had previously sent back to the tribe was immediately perceived by Shen Can with his divine sense.

The primal forces of heaven and earth converged and condensed into mineral veins, while the residual essence of this giant beast condensed into this crystal.

Preliminary assessments suggest that this crystal has a significant effect on purifying the bloodlines of wild beasts.

The reason is simple: this behemoth was so enormous in its lifetime, it must have been very powerful in both strength and bloodline.

The flesh and blood left behind by high-level wild beasts are a superior medicine for low-level wild beasts to enhance their strength and transform their bloodline.

Therefore, the discovery of such a giant beast's remains will greatly help the cultivation of wild beasts in the Blazing Flame Tribe.

Unfortunately, this crystal has some side effects.

Then, Shen Can fell from the sky and arrived at a mining site where ant slaves were mining.

Here, it's easy to tell whether there are golden-red crystals inside the mountain. As long as the mountain is solid, there are crystals inside that haven't completely evaporated.

If the mountain has holes and is severely weathered, then the crystals inside have been completely consumed.

The earthworms drove their slave worms, using simple tools to dig out these golden blood crystals.

A small blood crystal was pulled out from the mountain and then fed to an ordinary wolf beast.

A quarter of an hour later, the wolf began to convulse, blood began to seep from its fur, and it screamed in agony. Its already blood-red eyes became even more ferocious.

This state may seem bloody, but it is a common state for low-level wild beasts to break through the barriers of bloodline.

But half an hour later, the wolf died from violent convulsions.

Back in the Blazing Flame Tribe, Shen Can had the shaman conduct experiments.

Depending on the strength of the experimental beast, its condition after consuming the blood crystal also varies; with the same amount of blood crystal, the stronger the beast, the better it can withstand the effects.

After enduring the ordeal, in addition to the enhancement of their bloodline, their already tyrannical nature became even more violent. They completely lost their normal, gentle state and became extremely irritable and bloodthirsty, starting to attack their own kind.

Seeing the wolf beast fall to the ground, the three guys, Dragon Bear, Dragon Horn, and Golden Sword Tiger, who were standing nearby, stared at Shen Can with wide eyes.

From the time the message was sent back to the Blazing Flame Clan's territory to Shen Can's arrival at the cave, more than twenty days had passed.

During this time, the three of them frequently urged the wild beasts to smash their heads against the hills, and they swallowed all the blood crystals that were smashed out.

For wild beasts, their instinct is that the blood crystal will greatly benefit them after entering their bodies, just like refining other wild beasts with high bloodlines.

"You ate quite a lot?"

Shen Can looked at the three-headed guardian beast.

Look at the old black tortoise, and then look at these three young beasts; the older ones are indeed more composed.

For so many days, the old black tortoise didn't eat a single bite, while these three guys ate heartily.

Fortunately, it only lasted for about twenty days, and not much was dug up.

If this stuff didn't have side effects, then the mole crickets wouldn't be able to dig on such a small scale.

The two fourth-tier earth ants here wouldn't just find a place with abundant source energy to cultivate without devouring blood crystals.

Blood crystals are undeniably a good thing, but they have some side effects. The three-headed guardian beasts are incredibly powerful, and for now, they haven't suffered the same fate as the wolf beasts.

Of course, problems will likely arise once you eat too much.

"Are we going to be finished?"

The dragon-horned beast looked embarrassed. "I just found another wife..."

Upon hearing this, both Jin Jian and Long Xiong looked at the Dragon Horned Beast.

Dragon Horn seemed to realize he had let something slip, "In human terms, it was a chance encounter. As you know, my ancestors had experience with this."

Shen Can scanned the three war beasts with his divine sense, but for the time being, he did not find anything unusual about them.

These guys acted too quickly in the cave. They wiped out all the earthworms, but left quite a few earthworm slaves. Unfortunately, they had no idea about the effects of the blood crystals, only that the earthworms called them petrified marrow crystals.

Tulou simply watched as the slaves dug day after day, and then delivered the excavated material to Tulou Saint Boss's residence.

Giving honorific titles to lowly creatures, calling them saints or elders, is something only these lowly slaves would do.

The residence of the two Earthworm Saints was a magnificent human palace, built in the place with the most abundant source energy in the cave.

The palace is decorated with murals depicting slaves kneeling before earthworms. Inside, the floor is covered with soft animal hides, and jade couches and bronze cauldrons used by humans are placed there.

Not far from the palace, there was a kitchen where specialized cooks, including lowly slave cooks, prepared meals for the local saint.

Strips of indigo-dyed linen hung inside and outside the palace, looking rather strange.

The blood crystals that were dug out were all stored in stone boxes inside the palace, a total of seven stone boxes each about ten feet in size.

"I have finished inspecting the temple. There are no more than a hundred hills dug up by the ant slaves in the cave."

After removing the weathered hills, there are 2,397 hills of varying sizes remaining that still contain blood crystals.

Huo Ning came from afar and reported the situation of the cave to Shen Can.

It is evident that the earthworms did not mine the blood crystals within the cave for very long.

"I have already ordered the remaining slaves to continue mining."

At this point, Huo Ning continued, "Temple, these days, many clansmen have told me that looking at these blood crystals makes them want to swallow them."

However, I have strictly ordered my clansmen not to consume the blood crystals.

"Go and capture a few wild beasts, bring them before your people and show them the consequences of devouring blood crystals."

Tell the clansmen that there are some problems with the blood crystals, and they need to be resolved within the clan before they can be used.

Shen Can believed that the reason why his clansmen had the idea of ​​devouring the blood crystal was because they had cultivated the Wild Beast Battle Body.

After making the arrangements, Shen Can headed towards the entrance of the cave.

The entrance to this grotto is six zhang in size, and it looks as if it was torn open from a curtain of light, presenting an irregular, narrow shape.

At the edge of the narrow entrance, earthen-yellow spirit tokens pulsated, forming a spirit-sealed entrance.

These spirit prisons have a winding, horn-like shape, which is very different from that of humans, and they have a strong earthy, ant-like appearance.

Similarly, in Shen Can's eyes, the witchcraft barrier sealed in the narrow entrance was crudely made by the caster.

After scanning the area with his divine sense, he understood the rules governing its operation.

The narrow crack was a natural opening in this cave, and the shaman of the Tulou tribe branded a spiritual seal on the crack, turning it into a 'door'.

That's why you need a token to enter.

Shen Can quickly broke the spiritual barrier at the entrance and recast the Black Water Mystic Light Curtain technique to cover it up.

Furthermore, he inspected the entire area around the cave and found no fewer than seven cracks.

There are four cracks, located at the top of the cave.

In this situation, if someone outside is lucky, they can easily barge in.

The collapse of the grotto's spiritual energy has caused it to crumble little by little, allowing some seeds of plants and trees from outside to drift in. Otherwise, it wouldn't be such a lush and verdant place.

After repairing all the cracks with his magic, Shen Can arrived at the palace where the earthworms lived.

This is the place with the most concentrated spiritual energy in the entire cave, where earth elemental energy surges continuously.

Each old tree, shimmering with spiritual light, gleamed with a bluish halo from its leaves to its branches, nourished by the earth's energy.

Each old tree has enormous roots with thick burls, layered upon each other countless times.

It looked like a monstrous beast covered in tumors, extremely ugly.

A wizard was busy under the tree, examining the sacred tree to check its sturdiness and to test its potential medicinal value.

Even if it cannot be used in medicine, this spiritual plant wood can be used as a material for crafting magical artifacts.

After initial inspection, it was found that these trees were originally the most common type of trees in the wilderness.

In such a place brimming with spiritual energy, each new growth withers away, unable to withstand the impact of the source energy.

Then, new buds grow again at the roots of the old tree, then wither again, and new buds sprout again.

The repeated growth caused the tree's roots to accumulate knots. Until the concentration of source energy here decreased, the tree, which had grown over countless generations, finally adapted to the environment within the cave and transformed from an ordinary tree into a spirit tree.

"This might be where the inner core of a giant beast is located."

The old black tortoise lingered around the Earth Ant Palace, and the source energy within the entire cave was constantly leaking out.

The source energy in other areas is thinner than in the palace area, indicating that these other areas belong to ordinary parts of the behemoth.

The inner core of a giant beast stores more source energy, which can be released over a longer period of time compared to the flesh and blood body.

Even after so long, the inner core of a giant beast is still continuously releasing earth elemental energy.

If you dig it up and put it in the clan's territory, it's equivalent to having an earth element vein.

Soon, the three guardian beasts—Golden Sword, Dragon Horn, and Dragon Bear—transformed into their true forms and crashed down from the sky with a thunderous roar.

Their target was the magnificent palace of the Earthworm. The ancient trees and spiritual plants surrounding the palace had been cleared away by the shaman and his people beforehand.

Rumble!
With a deafening roar, the palace turned to dust, and fine cracks appeared in the earth.

However, the earth was more solid than imagined. Even though the three guardian beasts bumped their heads and got big bumps, they only knocked off a layer of grayish-white stone.

"continue!"

Seeing this, Shen Can was not in a hurry.

It should be firm.

If it weren't this sturdy, it would have been dug up by ants long ago.

Rumble!
Rumble!
Within the cave, a continuous rumbling sound echoed as the three guardian beasts took turns on duty, each one replacing the other when it became exhausted.

Shen Can wasn't idle either; he used his divine sense to penetrate the cracks in the ground and guide the war beasts to the positions where they would bombard the ground.

By blasting force downwards along the crack, the earth can be cracked even faster.

Centered on the Tulou Palace, the undulating hills within a three-mile radius had long since collapsed into ruins, and the cracks in the earth stretched like a spider web.

The splashing soil and rocks were swept away layer after layer, but the stones underneath became more and more solid.

Later, the old black tortoise and the clansmen joined in, and under Shen Can's command, they unleashed an attack on the area.

A month later, the excavation area expanded to a radius of ten miles.

There was no way around it; the soil and rocks in some places were just too solid to be broken even by a fourth-order bombardment.

Therefore, Shen Can could only use his divine sense to find relatively vulnerable spots and command his clansmen to bombard them, which caused the area to expand continuously.

"This boulder is too sturdy; we must take it back and use it as material for building the ancestral temple!"

Looking at the oddly shaped stones standing in the pit, the resting tribespeople started chatting.

They had personally witnessed how even the clan's guardian beasts were powerless against these towering rocks.

In the blink of an eye.

Two months later, the area that had been developed had reached a radius of fifty li.

"Crack!"

That day, after resting for a while, the dragon horn swung its tail and crashed down from the sky.

A cracking sound rang out, but no one paid any attention at first. Then, a series of cracking sounds followed.

The dragon's horn strike triggered a chain reaction, with large cracks spreading rapidly in all directions like a spider web.

As the cracks opened, the hard stones that had stood like mountains before rolled down from their original positions and into the depths of the cracks.

Some of the tribesmen who were hammering the stones were unable to dodge and slid into the crack.

The commotion lasted for a quarter of an hour before stopping, and cries of alarm came from inside the crack.

"Temple, there's a palace here!"

"Temple, I have bones here!"

……

Within the massive fissure stretching for dozens of miles, white bones are embedded in the cracked rock walls, some of which are palaces that are half-embedded in the rock and half-exposed.

In the middle of the crack, there is a stone egg about a mile in size, its surface covered with layers of stone skin, constantly radiating earth energy.

Click!

After one of the stone pieces fell off, a golden radiance shone from the surface of the stone egg.

Click!

Just as everyone was staring in astonishment at the stone egg, it cracked open.

The stone egg, now shattered into pieces, shone with a golden luster, rippling outwards like water, and a powerful pressure swept in all directions.

"There really are eggs. If I hadn't been petrified, I would have ended up like that Lu Wu after eating them."

Jin Jian stared at the stone egg and murmured something.

Unfortunately, what they received was the mockery of the dragon-horned beast: "If you really weren't petrified at all, you still want to eat me? You can't even get close to me."

Look at this oppressive aura; even we can't break through it. How much essence can still remain?
"Open your tiger eyes wide and look; it's already petrified. This shimmering light is probably the last remaining essence."

……

After the war beasts bickered, the Blazing Flame Clan members quickly got to work.

After a lot of work, we finally figured out the relics that had suddenly appeared.

Several complete skeletons were also placed in front of Shen Can. This was a race with small white jade wings on their backs and feathers on their bodies.

"Riding the heavenly race, dwelling on the backs of giant beasts, with no fixed abode."

Shen Can still remember what Master Huo Xian said back then: In a faraway place there is a great clan that lives suspended in the sky and is not afraid of floods or plagues.

Huo Xian probably didn't know about the Sky Clan; he likely learned about them from some travelogue or journal.

"It seems that flying in the sky is also dangerous."

Tian Dan touched his own head and even picked up a skeleton of a Sky Clan member to compare its size with his own.

"Don't just stand there. Even if there are giant beasts as a habitat, you still need great strength to fly in the sky."

Clean out all the relics from the cracks, don't miss a single character or a single patterned stone.

There should be a city of behemoths here. The rest of you continue digging along the crack.

After arranging things for the clansmen, Shen Can and the old tortoise arrived in front of the cracked giant core.

"Unfortunately, it doesn't match my attributes."

The old tortoise circled the beast core once, saying, "But to preserve it for so long, with residual energy still lingering, the beast's strength in life must have been at least at the sixth or seventh rank."

The claim that the giant beast is a sixth or seventh-order being is merely a conjecture made by the old tortoise based on his own understanding.

"Who knows."

Shen Can didn't care about the giant beast's previous stages of life.

In his view, whether it's a sixth-tier, a seventh-tier, or even an eighth-tier, he couldn't handle it even if it were placed in front of him.

It's better to let it evaporate first, and the remaining energy will be just right for him to use.

No matter how good something is, it's useless if you can't use it yourself.

(End of this chapter)