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

Chapter 244 Attack
The vast wilderness transcends time and years, passing in the blink of an eye.

Three years later.

Since Shen Can visited the Jishan Earl's tribe, the Jishan Earl's tribe has undergone great changes.

The Jishanbo tribe, whose members were originally gathered together, also began to divide its members into hundreds of small settlements, just like Zhiyan, and scattered them around the tribe's territory.

If, as speculated, the major tribes are secretly joining forces to deal with the potential Divine Treasure Calamity, then the strength and number of those who intervene will be far greater than those of the Blazing Flame and Jishan tribes.

In the Great Wilderness, all the major tribes live together in one place. This is an ancient custom. In addition, with the threat of Xiaoyang, Jishan naturally followed the custom and gathered its people together in one place.

However, this gathering of people regardless of strength, age, or gender not only satisfies the value of martial artists in the Divine Realm taking action, but also makes it convenient to wipe them all out at once when taking action.

After much deliberation, the Earl of Jishan felt that the best approach was to disperse his clansmen, just like the Earl of Zhiyan.

Each settlement has only a small number of people. This group of people is neither too many nor too few, just enough to protect themselves and survive. They are not worth the attention of Divine Realm warriors who might secretly make a move.

Even if one, two, or even ten settlements are destroyed, it will not cause serious damage to the entire tribe.

This can be seen from the previous destruction of the Bo tribe. The reason why no superior tribes were destroyed is that the superior tribes had limited resources and it was not worth taking action against them.

After separating the clansmen, the only two Divine Warriors of the Jishanbo tribe could not possibly take care of every settlement. Trying to protect every place only created loopholes everywhere.

Therefore, the Lord of Jishan's solution was to abandon the defense.

Once the settlements are established, each settlement's combat strength will be sufficient to defend against daily dangers.

As the chieftain of the Bo tribe, he guards the tribe's territory. If many powerful beings from the Divine Realm descend upon the Jishan tribe's territory, he will fight if he can defeat them, and run if he cannot.

Through years of experience fighting against Xiao Yang, the Earl of Jishan understood one thing: as long as he is alive, Jishan is Jishan.

Even if some of his people are lost, with him there, Jishan can rise again.

If he is killed, the only remaining elder of the clan, Shenzang, will not have many years left to live. If the next generation of Shenzang is not cultivated in time, Jishan may completely decline.

In times of crisis, making the right choices is crucial.

Of course, the Bo tribe has never been wiped out without cause in Ji over the years, and it may not happen in Ji this time either.

However, we must be mindful of potential dangers even in times of peace, and we cannot be careless in taking necessary precautions.

……

Zhiyan Ancestral Temple.

Ah Yu returned from the clan hall, clutching the clan book in her hand.

"The temple, a clan letter sent by the Jishan Earl's clan."

Shen Can took the clan letter and glanced at it. The letter from the Earl of Jishan said that the Jishan clan had already dispersed and settled its members.

The method of dispersing and resettling people was exactly what he had suggested to the Earl of Jishan during his visit three years ago.

The legend of the Divine Treasury Calamity is too mysterious; they don't really understand what happened.

Those tribes that were destroyed in the past all had one thing in common: they were powerful and had abundant resources. Destroying such a tribe could satisfy the cultivation needs of a martial artist at the Divine Treasure Realm.

After the people are separated, the resources are also dispersed into hundreds of parts. Even a martial artist at the Divine Treasure Realm would have to think carefully about whether it is worth taking action.

A group of powerful enough divine treasures came specifically for the resources.

The choice is simple: should we choose a tribe where all the people are together and their resources are concentrated, or a tribe where the people are scattered like stars across thousands of miles?

Of course, no matter how scattered the clansmen are, they all keep the ancestral temple in the center of the clan's territory.

In his letter, Lord Jishan also wrote that the Jishan Ancestral Temple would enter a hidden phase, at which point visitors would be unable to find it.

As for the clan's treasury.

If the ancestral temple is hidden away, then the imperial treasury is naturally hidden even deeper.

Even the ancestral temple was hidden, and it wasn't Shen Can's suggestion at all. It was entirely the result of the Earl of Jishan applying what he had learned to other situations, based on Shen Can's advice.

Shen Can hadn't expected that the Earl of Jishan would be so completely devoted to his cause.

It's like they're saying, "You want to mess with me? I'll make sure you can't."

Without divine treasures or treasuries, and with only hundreds of scattered ordinary people remaining, even if the foreign divine treasures were to destroy several settlements, they could not cause much damage to Jishan.

This might sound cold-blooded, but they're all family members, so why should we just abandon them?
Shen Can, on the contrary, understood the Earl of Jishan. The old man's biggest wish right now was to cultivate a successor, and everything else could be left to his own discretion.

After putting down the family register, Shen Can got up and went outside to stretch his legs.

After returning from Jishan, he also began preparing for potential dangers.

At this moment, at both the ancestral temple in the clan's territory and the ancestral temple in the river valley, thousands of shamans are busy creating shamanic arrays.

After much thought, given the difficulty in increasing the number of Divine Warriors within the clan, using formations for defense is the most effective approach.

Based on discussions with the Earl of Jishan, the only force capable of causing the disappearance of Divine Treasure warriors and the swift and decisive annihilation of the Earl's tribe during the so-called Divine Treasure Calamity could be the Divine Treasure itself, and a powerful one at that.

In this situation, no one except those at the Quasi-God Realm or above can get involved.

Shen Can even speculated that a formation might have been used, otherwise it would be inexplicable how a tribe could be so thoroughly destroyed.

No matter how small a tribe is, it must have one or two million people. Some larger tribes have three or four million people. No matter how powerful the gods are, they cannot wipe out people so completely.

Below the ancestral temple, an artificial witch vein shimmered with multicolored spiritual light, bringing back more than 500,000 source stones from the Dai region.

In addition, through bartering with foreign countries over the years, they have accumulated over 100,000 source stones, which are now piled up below the ancestral temple and transformed into the energy of the Five Elements Witch Vein.

Five different attribute-based witch arrays, replicated from the Bi Fangbo tribe's Myriad Fires Burning Spirit Array, are currently being built at a rapid pace.

Shen Can didn't know if they would target Jishan, but thinking back to that spying incident many years ago, he had a feeling that this Divine Treasure Tribulation would target Zhiyan.

Although the ancestral temple was busily constructing its array, the territory of the Blazing Flame Clan and its various settlements were not significantly affected.

The ordinary members of the tribe were completely unaware of the impending crisis.

The tribe continues to send out shamans and priests to guard the market area and teach cultivation to the vassal tribes.

The news that Bifangbo's furnace had been completely sealed also reached the tribe. However, because of Bifangbo's furnace sealing, the Zhiyan tribe received two batches of forging orders for second-tier witch armor and witch soldiers.

The forging of second-tier witch armor and witch weapons was already a familiar process within the clan, and they could forge them quickly and well.

……

"Buzz!"

Above the ancestral temple, a colorful glow appeared, covering an area of ​​ten miles around.

Runes of various colors shimmered and lit up in the glow of the sunset, and the oppressive aura they generated swept across the surrounding mountains and forests in an instant.

The Myriad Fires Burning Spirit Array, an improvement upon the Myriad Fires Evolving Spirit Array, later gave rise to the Vast Earth Nourishing Spirit Array, the Golden Sun Holy Water Array, the Primordial Water Spirit Array, and the Myriad Woods Vitality Array. These five arrays all align with the five elements' mutual generation. There is also a Five Elements Fusion Array in the ancestral temple in the river valley, and due to the underground spiritual veins and the presence of the Five Elements spiritual land, its power is even greater than that of the one in the ancestral temple in the clan's territory.

As for how strong it is, Shen Can only has a deduced figure, since such a large formation has never appeared in Yongyi before.

The defense of the clan's territory was arranged, and the young warriors in the clan's martial arts academy and witchcraft academy were also resettled. They were encouraged to travel or be sent to other places for training.

The clan increased its investment in building small flying boats, intending to distribute them to every household so that they could scatter and escape in case of crisis.

As for why they didn't hide in the homes they had built before, it was mainly because the houses they had built were only for dealing with natural disasters. In addition, the clan currently did not have the strength to connect the small witch formations of all the settlements, and they could not withstand the attack of a fourth-level martial artist.

Since you can't beat them, just run away.

Like the Earl of Jishan, I'll make sure you can't find me.

Breaking down a large task into smaller parts is a traditional skill passed down through generations of the Zhiyan family.

The ancestral temple in Shen Can's clan's territory was used to attract the firepower of any potential invaders.

A treasure ship passed through the water gate of Blazing Flame City and slid into the Osmanthus River, beginning its journey south.

On the treasure ship, Yan Jiang glanced back in the direction of the clan's territory.

"Brother A-Jiang, why did the tribe suddenly give us a mission to go to Luoshui to teach martial arts?"

Several young people of similar age gathered at the bow of the boat.

“What’s so sudden about it? I think the clan has arranged it very well. This is to train Brother Ajiang and familiarize him with handling clan affairs in advance. This is a good thing.”

Yan Jiang didn't speak. Not only him, but all the martial arts academy students who were doing well in their training were assigned to various places to complete different kinds of tasks.

Lu Chen's mission was to go to Bifang Market in Yudi to acquire more weapons and ores for his clan.

"Alright, we need to properly arrange the clan's tasks. Although many people have moved out of Luoshui over the years, there are still quite a few people left in the Luoshui clan territory. These people need to be incorporated into our clan's cultivation system."

On this trip, Yan Jiang brought six young men who had always been by his side, and he was quite confident about the mission within the clan.

As Yan Jiang's treasure ship sailed south, the old Xuan Turtle also rushed into the clan's territory from the direction of the Yongshan Ruins.

The old tortoise went directly to the ancestral temple, opened its mouth towards Shen Can, and spat out more than a dozen witch pouches.

"These two bags contain the remains of earthworms, these four bags contain third-tier ores, this one contains spirit wood, and the remaining bag contains 120,000 source stones."

Shen Can first looked at the corpses of the earthworms. There were more than twenty third-tier creatures among them, and the rest were second-tier creatures, numbering in the thousands.

When the Broken Heaven Cave was discovered last time, the clan brought back several live earthworms and the skeletons of hundreds of earthworms from the Dai region.

During the research conducted by the tribal shamans, and through comparisons with the Owl Yang and Beast-Human races, the shamans discovered that the Earth Louse race's affinity for earth-based elements far surpassed that of the Owl Yang race.

The Tulou tribe has a stone-like object growing inside its body.

Its color is earthy yellow, and its shape is like cinnabar, containing a rich earthy energy.

Although this kind of earth elixir is rich in earth elemental power, it also exudes the original attribute aura of earthworms, which humans cannot directly use for refining and cultivation.

This energy crystal, similar to Originium but with even stronger energy, is considered to have great value by the clan's wizards.

Putting aside everything else, even without removing the violent aura belonging to the earth ant, it can still serve as the energy source for the tribe's shamanic cannons.

Therefore, the tribe intensified its research on this 'stone'.

They discovered that this thing was a block of source energy formed in the body of the earth ant as it cultivated earth source energy through daily inhalation and exhalation. It was similar to the beast core of a wild beast, but it was different from a beast core.

Wild beasts only condense their beast cores at the fourth rank, while some talented earth ants can begin condensing their cores at the first rank.

Furthermore, the earth elixir condensed by the earthworm is not in a fixed location; some are in the five internal organs, some are in the abdomen, and the location varies.

Once condensed, this 'stone' becomes the core source of the earthworm's own blood and energy.

The earthworms that the old tortoise brought back this time are for the wizard to continue his research, the spirit wood is for building small flying boats, and the source stones are for the array energy.

After receiving news of the potential crisis within their tribe in Daidi, Huotang intensified their attacks on the Tulou and Lounu.

Of course, instead of confronting the earthworms head-on, they used the old method: hit and run.

In order to control various regions, the Tu Lou branch scattered the Lou Nu tribes to different places. Each scattered Lou Nu tribe had a pure-blooded Tu Lou to suppress and enslave them. If a slave tribe killed a few Tu Lou, then there would be a lot of them when there were hundreds of Lou tribes.

The Originium was also stolen from the mines controlled by the Locusts.

In order to prepare for the potential crisis, the Blazing Flame Tribe maintained a relaxed exterior but a tight interior. The flying boats they had built were quickly distributed, and various settlements were organized to conduct drills on how to save themselves before the tribe's rescue team arrived in the event of danger.

Inside the ancestral temple.

Shen Can opened his eyes.

At the same time, the clone that was guarding the ancestral temple in the river valley also opened its eyes.

Afterwards, Shen Can quietly left the ancestral temple, crossed the clan territory, and arrived at the outer clan city, where he saw that there were twice as many treasure ships on the Guimu River.

Three years have passed since Bifang sealed the furnace, but the second-tier armor forged by the Zhiyan tribe has found a market, with large quantities of ore continuously flowing into the tribe.

The crisis we've been worried about hasn't arrived yet. On the contrary, the longer Bifang keeps its furnace sealed, the more armors Zhiyan will unleash.

In the future, it might directly rival Bifang in the field of second and third tier armor, and even one day suppress Bifang.

After all, the workshop-style forging and integrated witchcraft suppression adopted by Zhiyan means that while Bifang's craftsmen can forge one piece, Zhiyan can forge dozens or even hundreds of pieces.

After completing his routine tour of the clan's territory and examining the small, sensory magical artifacts scattered throughout the area, Shen Can returned to the ancestral temple.

A month later.

Shen Can's figure suddenly disappeared from the ancestral temple, and that feeling of being spied on returned.

He soared into the air and gazed at the night sky, and in his perception, a dark shadow vanished across the night.

Tweet!
The phoenix, which was resting outside the ancestral temple, immediately spread its wings and soared into the sky.

"Don't chase!"

Shen Can immediately realized what was happening and told Cang Luan to come back.

Tweet!
A dark shadow raised its claw in mid-air, and a streak of mysterious light descended from the sky, faster than lightning, heading straight for the Azure Phoenix.

Tweet!
The phoenix bristled, its mind filled with terror. The ring of blue down on its head glowed with a blue light as it tried to withstand the incoming lightning.

Boom!

In that instant, Shen Can raised his hand.

A palm print collided with lightning in mid-air, and amidst the surging energy, Cangluan let out a miserable cry and plummeted from the sky.

(End of this chapter)