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

Chapter 274 Starry Sky Old Turtle, Incredibly Resilient

The old black tortoise that grew out of the ground suddenly grew to a size of nearly eighty feet.

The spiritual energy on the tortoise shell surged and formed a rudimentary 'witchcraft array', and nine irregular areas could be seen on the shell.

Inside the old black tortoise's body, countless starlight points were scattered, forming a relatively sparse sea of ​​stars.

Each of these starlight points released countless rays of light, piercing into the old tortoise's flesh and blood, altering the old tortoise's original aura.

The sudden emergence of the old black tortoise naturally attracted the attention of its clansmen. It tried to change its form, attempting to use the 'Beast Form of Heaven and Earth' technique, a universal skill for fourth-tier wild beasts, to shrink its body to the size of a palm.

After several attempts, apart from the continuous flashing of spiritual light on its shell, the old black tortoise's enormous body did not shrink at all.

Whenever the 'Beast Form Heaven and Earth' is used, the shimmering starlight within its body will light up to stop its actions.

"It can't get smaller."

Finally, the old tortoise gave up and knew that this was the only way it could face people from now on.

It lifted its foot to take a step, but as soon as it lifted its leg, with a loud thud, its whole body swayed violently, its limbs went weak, and it fell headfirst to the ground.

"do not move."

Shen Can came from afar and transmitted his voice to the old tortoise.

His divine sense swept over the old tortoise and he sensed that the starlight points inside the tortoise's body formed a star map, which was equivalent to its body suddenly stretching and growing.

However, the flesh and bones inside its body have not yet adapted to this change.

Furthermore, the old tortoise's body was stretched to its limit at this moment. If the star map were to be magnified any further, the old tortoise would be torn apart.

The starlight points arranged inside the old tortoise's body form a star map, creating a mysterious connection with the patterns on its shell.

"Your body suddenly expands, and your original flesh and bones cannot keep up with this change."

Soon, where the old tortoise landed, saplings sprouted from the ground and then grew into towering trees at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The dense branches intertwined and formed a huge tree canopy, concealing the old tortoise.

The clansmen arrived in flying boats, laden with Osmanthus Moon Fruit, Sky Beast Blood Marrow, Source Stones, the remains of the Holy Envoy Clan, the flesh and blood of the old ape with the Long Right Bloodline, and so on, all of which were presented to the old tortoise.

For the old turtle, there's nothing else to do but eat.

"this."

The old tortoise opened its mouth, and the clansmen's flying boat tilted to the side, pouring half of the boat's Origin Stones into its large mouth.

The Originium within the old turtle's body quickly transformed into pure energy, flowing into its internal organs and every nook and cranny of its flesh.

Its body was like the earth, which had been parched for thousands of years and had cracked open, being flooded with sweet rain, frantically devouring energy.

After consuming all sorts of resources, the amount of Sky-Riding Beast blood marrow that was sent was reduced, and in its place, the amount of Osmanthus Moon Fruit grown using the blood marrow was doubled.

Although the fruit is only of the third grade, once it enters the old turtle's body, it will increase the affinity between the starlight and the old turtle's flesh and blood.

On the other hand, while the blood marrow of the Sky-Riding Beast also has this effect, each piece of flesh releases a wisp of violent aura, and the more you consume, the greater the risk.

Seeing that the old turtle could consume everyday source stones and beast meat for energy, Shen Can felt relieved.

Although the modified old tortoise underwent a transformation similar to that of a celestial beast, the starlight points integrated into its body did not perfectly merge with the old tortoise.

This gives the old tortoise the characteristics of both the Starry Sky and Great Wilderness beasts.

Another thing is that it has a really big appetite. After eating a peak-level Divine Realm ape beast and 100,000 source stones, the old turtle didn't even burp.

Previously, if a peak-level Divine Beast had been swallowed, even without advancing in cultivation level, the pores of its entire body would have been opened by the intense energy, and pure blood energy would have emanated from its body.

Now it's all gone, it's all been digested.

No wonder a fourth-tier Celestial Beast can roam the heavens; its foundation is too profound.

Even if a human at the fourth level and a Sky-Riding Beast at the fourth level, whose physique is a hundred miles in size, are both at the same realm, the human's attack is just tickling the Sky-Riding Beast unless it hits the skull or vital organs.

The old tortoise opened its mouth, letting its clansmen feed it. It accepted all the large amounts of source stones and beast meat offered, which were transformed into energy and flowed into every corner of its body.

This meal lasted a day and a night. In addition to Originium and witch medicine, the tribesmen also stewed a large amount of meat soup, which they poured into the old turtle's mouth.

Boom!

When the old tortoise stood up again, the earth around it shook violently, and the tribespeople who were busy cooking meat for it were all shaken and staggered.

The old turtle shook its head, a little embarrassed, as it still needed time to adjust to its grown body.

Boom!

As the old tortoise adjusted and stood up, Shen Can raised his hand and struck the tortoise's shell with a burst of energy.

With a roar, some messy patterns lit up on the tortoise shell. The falling energy was divided into dozens of parts by these messy patterns and landed on the tortoise shell. The old tortoise's body shook violently once again.

The energy that Shen Can casually unleashed was enough to kill a mid-stage Divine Treasure cultivator of the Holy Envoy Clan, but it did not cause any harm to the old tortoise when it landed on it.

Subsequently, he raised his energy to a level that could kill a late-stage Divine Treasure cultivator.

Rumble!
The old turtle lay back down on the ground and quickly called out.

"Be merciful!"

However, after it finished shouting, it suddenly realized that it was not injured.

Shen Can also realized that the old tortoise's shell already provided strong defense.

After the star map was generated within the body, it formed a mysterious connection with the tortoise shell, causing the tortoise shell to not only increase its defense but also develop patterns similar to a witchcraft array.

This energy attack spread directly across the old tortoise's massive body.

Immediately, Shen Can took out the Broken Edge Spear.

The Broken Spear, stained with the blood of a fifth-tier Great Witch, was previously cracked, but after being baptized by battle intent and nourished by Shen Can's own blazing blood energy, it has been revitalized.

As soon as the broken spear appeared, the old tortoise felt a chill in its rear end and darted into its shell.

"Temple, please don't do this."

The broken spear, still cracked, was overflowing with blood-red Five Elements power, and within it, a spirituality was budding.

Clang

The moment the broken spear pierced through, the 'array patterns' on the tortoise shell, which were not yet fully formed, crackled and popped.

The spearhead flashed like lightning, tearing through the array patterns in an instant, its sharp edge piercing straight into the tortoise shell.

"Ow!"

The intense pain caused the old tortoise to let out a howl and crawl out of its shell.

The pain penetrated directly through the tortoise shell and into its body, causing its flesh and blood to tremble.

Shen Can quickly put away the broken spear, and only then did the old tortoise stop howling.

"not enough."

If you can't even defeat your own Wind-Breaking Spear, then you probably can't defend against a fifth-tier Grand Priest.

Still need to practice more.

Shen Can landed on the old turtle's head and began teaching it the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Gong.

The clone has already learned this technique and is currently practicing it in that Falling Star Land.

After acquiring the cultivation technique, a portion of the stellar energy that was floating in that area began to be absorbed into the clone's body.

However, since the Starry Sky Technique was created based on the clone, the old turtle still found it a bit difficult to use smoothly.

While examining the changes inside the old tortoise's body, Shen Can improved the cultivation technique.

It took the old tortoise almost a month to finally grasp the basics of the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Gong.

into the night.

The old tortoise lay prostrate on the earth, its internal star map manifesting, and moonlight showered down from the sky, which it absorbed. This time, without the ritual dance of the medicine-pounding rabbit, the old tortoise was still able to absorb the power of the moonlight scattered between heaven and earth.

In addition to the power of the moonlight, the starlight emitted by several brighter stars in the sky was also absorbed into the old turtle's body.

Although the starlight was rather faint, it still entered the old turtle's body under the guidance of the cultivation technique.

“Temple”.

In the side hall, Shen Can was examining the cultivation techniques of the Chengtian Clan when a rabbit's head popped out.

After bowing respectfully in a human-like manner, Gui Tu entered the side hall.

"You came here for the old black tortoise's technique of absorbing moonlight?"

As soon as Gui Tu arrived, Shen Can understood her purpose and grabbed a jade slip from the table, handing it to Gui Tu.

“I’ll cultivate here and see if it suits your clan.”

In the Great Wilderness, there are many races that absorb the essence of the moon for cultivation, such as the wolf clan and the moon-worshipping rats.

Guiyue is a star, but among so many stars, there is only one Guiyue. Guiyue is just a common name; people call it Taiyin Star.

Gui Tu obeyed and immediately landed in front of Shen Can, beginning to study the cultivation technique.

……

Clan Hall.

Volcano summoned several elders, along with Shen Can's disciples Huo Chong, Huo Fu, and Huo Jiang.

"Elder Fire Armor, I remember the two unused meat storage facilities in the clan, right?"

"Yes, there are still two untouched ones."

The Blazing Flame Tribe dared to confront the Holy Envoy Clan head-on, naturally because they had made thorough preparations beforehand.

Even before being promoted to a higher rank, the tribe had always been mindful of potential crises and increased its reserves of grain and meat.

Especially after the tribe was able to draw ice magic runes, their meat reserves were no longer limited to dried meat. They built several large icehouses specifically to store the wild beasts they hunted.

"Open another meat storehouse and arrange for someone to stew meat specifically for the old black tortoise. Don't let the old black tortoise go hungry."

After saying that, Volcano looked at Huozhong and said, "Achong, a fortress will be built on the back of the old turtle, and there will be no shortage of formations. All of this requires a lot of smelting alloy materials."

As he spoke, his volcanic divine sense entered his bosom, where the jade slip containing the inscription "How to be a good clan leader" was kept.

After glancing at his pre-prepared plan, he immediately stood up from his seat.

"Let's go to the warehouse and see what's really going on."

Then, Volcano led the group in a flying boat and entered a seemingly inconspicuous place in the tribe's territory.

As the incantation lit up, the stone door hidden underground slowly opened, and a strong chill rushed out from inside.

Inside the door, shelves were piled high with the corpses of wild beasts. These beasts were at least second-tier, and a third of them were third-tier.

Next, another cold storage room next door was opened, and the quality of the wild beasts inside was mostly first-tier, as well as many yellow sheep, cloud-patterned cattle, and pheasants raised by the tribesmen.

The entire warehouse occupied an area of ​​about three miles in circumference, with all kinds of meat piled up to the top.

"Have someone come and move it; move as much as the old black tortoise can eat."

Volcanoes are like fire trees; they are never misers and use things when necessary.

Afterwards, the volcano led the people to inspect the grain depots, which were even larger than the meat depots. There were fifteen adjacent to the meat depots alone, and hundreds more scattered throughout the tribe's territory.

Meat warehouses, grain warehouses, and mineral warehouses.

Inside the ore warehouse, neatly stacked pieces of pre-refined ore were arranged, each piece weighing an astonishing amount due to the refining process.

In addition to the ore that had been initially refined, there were also mountains of jade and crystals.

“Ah Chong, the construction of the fortress on the back of the old Xuan Turtle requires a lot of ore. You need to work harder to extract more high-grade ore.”

Volcano made arrangements one by one, all of which he had thought of several days in advance and summarized in the jade slip.

Although the old Xuan Turtle is still cultivating, if he makes arrangements in advance, he can start working immediately when the time comes.

"We need to build several more warships for the fortress, as well as witch cannons, using the best materials."

After showing the elder around, the volcano didn't stop there and entered a valley.

Inside the valley, tribesmen wearing black and blood-red armor, though not gathered together, were practicing battle formations.

They work in groups of three or five, balancing offense and defense while challenging each other.

After the volcano entered, it quickly became one with the tribe's soldiers.

……

Day after day, five years passed.

The Holy Envoys outside the great formation were practically blinded by their astonishment.

The high priest declared that every member of the Blazing Flame Clan who went into battle would become a victim of his claws.

That's great, they just keep operating the formation and don't come out at all, like they own a mine.

Occasionally, a few figures would suddenly appear and chase after them, which was utterly contrary to the natural order.

On this day, a warrior from the Holy Envoy Clan flew over the Blazing Flame Array. When his blue pupils fell, he saw a moving hill.

They had discovered this small hill a long time ago; it was still moving, and its direction was actually heading south.

Tweet!
With a cry, the person spread their wings and flew towards the distant mountains.

On a high peak outside the valley, the high priest had carved out a cave dwelling, from which the blazing array could be seen in the distance.

During the previous battle, part of his flesh was torn away, so his recovery was not going smoothly.

There was only one fifth-tier precious herb, and it's already been consumed.

A beast-like figure stood beside it, its surface surging with blood-red light, revealing the illusory form of Yu Cheng.

However, his aura had only barely reached the late stage of the Divine Treasury realm, and even then it fluctuated, occasionally even dropping.

"High Priest, there's movement!"

……

Boom!

In the southern part of the great formation, the earth began to tremble, and the turmoil intensified, with a dense, primal aura surging forth.

On the earth, there was an old tortoise that was 350 feet in size and 200 feet tall. On its shell stood a city that was two miles long and two miles wide, about four square miles in total.

The city walls, along with the edges of the tortoise shell, reflected a cold metallic gleam.

Four towers cast in gold and iron stand in rows, and the city is filled with metal houses arranged like a honeycomb, their layout completely following the patterns on a tortoise shell.

Inside lived three thousand elite heavy-armored guards, all at the Heavenly Vein Realm level.

Encircling the city are 108 witch cannons, their towering muzzles gleaming coldly in the sunlight.

Two fourth-tier warships landed on the houses, surrounded by hundreds of small boats, each about one or two zhang in size.

In particular, in the center of the city, there was a blast furnace blazing with flames, its smoke billowing straight into the sky.

"Form ranks! If those bastards dare to come, blow them to bits!"

High above the city, three groups of clansmen who had cultivated the Azure Phoenix Battle Body stood in formation, all gazing up at the sky, with the leaders carrying a triangular battle flag on their backs.

As the old tortoise stepped out of the formation, Shen Can also came out of the ancestral temple. This was a drill to see if the war fortress was up to par.

If he can withstand this attack at the door, he can let go and allow his clansmen to travel around Yongyi.

(End of this chapter)