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

Chapter 305 Mujiang Saint Clan, the Origin of the Black Bird!
The wild beasts, frozen by the chilling aura, became one with the cliff face.

Chi Huo Lu Wu opened his mouth and spat out a stream of pure Yang flame, which began to burn the Xuanbing.

Shen Can also took out the tortoise shell formation and covered the area to prevent the flames from becoming too intense and attracting the attention of the spirits.

Lu Wu's fire transformed into a giant tiger, enveloping the frozen beast and its surroundings. A sizzling sound rang out as the Xuanbing (mysterious ice) began to melt in the supreme Yang flames, turning into droplets of water that fell down.

Even after being scorched by Lu Wu's fire, the rolling water droplets still released an intense chill.

Seeing this, Shen Can took the bronze cauldron, a magical artifact, and collected the melted water droplets.

"call!"

Lu Wu knew that this place was not a place to stay for long, so he kept increasing the flames, engulfing both sides of the cliff in flames.

The rushing, icy water sizzled as it collided with the flames, creating a sound of water and fire clashing.

hum!
Suddenly, Shen Can grabbed Lu Wu's tail and flew to the side with Lu Wu.

Then, the wild beast, whose body had partially melted of the mysterious ice, suddenly opened one eye, and a beam of green light shot out like lightning.

After Shen Can pulled Lu Wu away, the green light struck the tortoise shell formation, piercing a hole in its protective shield with a crack.

Furthermore, spiderweb-like cracks appeared around the hole.

hum!
Then, the array hummed and shone brightly, repairing the hole and cracks that had been pierced through to their original state.

The beast, partially exposed, rapidly turned green from its black body.

"This looks like the Azure Cloud Beast, the guardian beast of the Mujiang Clan."

Seeing that the wild beast had turned green, Crimson Fire Lu Wu also realized what was happening.

"I visited the Mujiang tribe's territory many years ago, and there were these Azure Cloud Beasts everywhere, but I never saw one at the fifth level."

After half a day, under the scorching heat of the Crimson Fire Luwu, the upper half of the frozen beast collapsed, revealing its long neck and enormous wings.

In Shen Can's view, aside from the color, it looks like a pterosaur.

"It doesn't look like it's been frozen here for very long."

Chi Huo Lu Wu continued to use flames to scorch the earth below, trying to melt the frozen soil and take out the lower half of the Cang Yun Beast.

Shen Can used his divine sense to examine the wounds of the Azure Cloud Beast. Its green body was covered with deep, bone-piercing claw marks, and the fatal wound was a bloody hole below its neck.

As the Crimson Fire Lu Wu burned, some of the frozen bloodstains on the wound began to glisten, dripping green blood droplets.

Judging from the blood droplets on the outside, they don't have a high luster, so this Azure Cloud Beast has probably been dead here for at least a hundred years.

However, what Chi Huo Lu Wu said is also true; a hundred years is indeed not a long time for it.

"That's strange. Why didn't the monster eat it? Instead, it froze it here."

While burning, Chi Huo Lu Wu asked Shen Can with his divine sense.

Spirits and monsters can also eat meat.

But the next moment, Akahira Rikugo felt his tail being pulled up again.

hum!
With a buzzing sound, the Azure Cloud Beast burst forth with streaks of green light, and countless figures could be vaguely seen intertwining, with green clouds like a forest and auspicious energy surging.

Among them, one figure sat cross-legged, as if shrouded in green mist, making it impossible to see clearly.

"go!"

In a hurry, Shen Can grabbed Lu Wu and turned to leave. The tortoise shell hummed and turned into a stream of light, which swept up the countless witch runes and then crashed into his body.

In an instant, the figure sitting cross-legged in the Azure Cloud Beast opened its tightly closed eyes as if it had just woken up, revealing an ancient and vicissitudes of land, with the changing of the seasons.

And so, the figure raised a hand that resembled a claw, with seven fingers, and brought it down in the direction Shen Can had fled.

With seven fingers spread out, a chilling aura gathered, resembling seven green and gray mountain ranges emerging, accompanied by surging green waves.

Boom!

Shen Can turned around and struck with his palm, while Lu Wu also flicked his tail, transforming into a crimson streak that crashed down from the horizon.

The two attacks collided with the green mountain range, and the violent energy exploded. Shen Can and Chi Huo Lu Wu used the explosive energy to accelerate their escape.

After making his move, his figure went from being asleep to being fully awake, his eyes opening and closing, revealing two pools of green light.

"When did Lu Wu acknowledge a master?"

Jiang Cu, the ancestor of the Mu Jiang clan, watched Shen Can's figure but did not continue to make a move, as he was in a state where he could not leave this place.

Its seated body, from its abdomen down, already showed signs of a demonic state.

Only by completely transforming into a spirit can it move; otherwise, all its efforts will be in vain.

As long as one can transform into a spirit, one can delve into the depths of this underground world, seek sixth-order power, and even become a seventh-order being.

At that time, it will be able to lead its lineage of Mujiang tribe to restore its former glory and reclaim the position of Jiang tribe leader that rightfully belongs to them.

“Back then, even a bunch of miscellaneous birds could obtain opportunities from here and gradually transform into ‘mysterious birds’ and become seventh-order beings. My lineage of Saint Jiang has a long history, and our ancestors even gave birth to seventh-order beings. How can we be inferior to a bunch of miscellaneous birds?”

Jiang Cu muttered to himself that it had been here for four hundred years, and the reason it came to try was to give it its all before it passed away.

The Mujiang tribe is one of the Jiang tribes; to be precise, the Jiang tribe should be called the Five Jiang tribes.

The Five Ginger Clan is divided into five clans: Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth. Long ago, the Wood Ginger Clan was the leader of the Ginger Clan, with a seventh-level ancestor in charge.

In the vast wilderness of mountains and seas, it is very difficult for a race to survive without the power of the seventh rank.

No matter how many clans they reproduce, or how prosperous their clan affairs are, they can be destroyed at any time.

The seventh-rank ancestor of the Jiangmu clan perished in an accident. Without the seventh-rank ancestor to oversee the clan, the other four Jiang clans (metal, wood, water, and fire) gradually began to resent the leadership of the Mu Jiang clan.

Each of the Wujiang tribes is a very large group, with countless main branches and sub-branches within it.

As the main branch of the Mujiang clan, which produced a seventh-level ancestor, their lineage was once known as the Holy Lineage.

However, with the passing of the ancestor, no more seventh-tier members of the Mujiang clan were born, while the Huojiang clan produced a new seventh-tier member.

The emergence of a new seventh-tier ancestor signifies the birth of a new sacred lineage for the Wujiang Clan, immediately putting their Mujiang Sacred Lineage in an awkward position.

As a descendant of a seventh-tier ancestor, he received special attention from the Fire Ginger lineage, since the Wood Ginger Sacred Lineage might produce members with ancestral bloodlines.

Once the bloodline reverts to its ancestral form, it may be possible to recreate the glory of one's ancestors.

According to ancestral records, before the Shan Hai Calendar, the last descendant of the Mu Jiang Holy Clan who had returned to his ancestral bloodline died suddenly and mysteriously when he was advancing to the fifth rank.

Subsequently, the five sixth-tier ancestors of the clan began to pass away one after another, leaving only one remaining.

In the central world of the righteous and majestic Mountain and Sea Great Wilderness, a magnificent being ascended, opening the Mountain and Sea Calendar and issuing a proclamation to the eight wastelands.

The last sixth-tier ancestor of the clan accidentally learned that a giant beast had descended from the sky in the Giant Mountain Range, nurturing all living beings.

So he led the people of the Mujiang Holy Clan across mountains and seas to descend upon Juyue.

They had hoped to seize an opportunity by relying on the strength of their powerful clan, but they ultimately failed in the battle among various factions.

After a great battle, the only remaining sixth-tier ancestor also disappeared, most likely perishing in the deepest part of this cave world.

Without the sixth-ranking member guarding the area, the chance to return to their ancestral land was gone. The Xuan Bird became the overlord of the Giant Mountain Range, and even the Mu Jiang Sacred Clan had to submit.

It's somewhat laughable, but the reason the Mujiang Holy Clan was able to survive was because of the Wujiang Clan.

Although the Black Bird had advanced to the seventh rank, it was still wary of the Five Jiang Clan, which had a seventh-rank member in charge.

Although Juyue and the Five Jiang Ancestral Land are extremely far apart, they are both in the Southern Region of the Eastern Wilderness.

More than 30,000 years after the beginning of the Shan Hai Era, the Mu Jiang Sacred Clan has declined with each generation. Their ancestral seventh-tier bloodline, after tens of thousands of years of inheritance, has not only failed to revert to its ancestral form, but has already begun to degenerate. The powerful bloodline belonging to the seventh-tier Sacred Ancestor now exists only in clan sacrificial legends.

Jiang Cu's attempt to transform itself into a spirit body by entering the underground cave was not a sudden whim, but rather something that had been attempted by the older fifth-tier warriors of the clan long ago.

By its generation, it was already quite experienced. In just four hundred years, it had already assimilated more than two-thirds of its body.

This level of assimilation is the fastest recorded in the clan records. Previously, according to our ancestors, the fastest assimilation of two-thirds of the body would take more than 1,200 years.

This not only represents an accelerated rate of assimilation, but also demonstrates that the methods of transformation developed by our ancestors over generations are becoming increasingly sophisticated.

This gave Ancestor Jiang Cu more confidence. As long as it could transform into a spirit, it could move freely in the underground cave and would no longer be regarded as an alien by other spirits.

It can then cross great rivers and reach the core of the underground world.

If it weren't for the records passed down from its ancestors, it would never have believed that the overlord of the Juyue Mountains, the Xuan Bird, was just a group of mixed-breed birds with indistinct bloodlines in the Juyue Mountains.

By sheer luck, he obtained the opportunity of a giant beast that had fallen to the ground. Somehow, he managed to complete the ultimate transformation of his bloodline with his mortal body, turning into a black bird.

As for the fact that the Black Bird has not appeared for nearly eight thousand years, Jiang Cu knew that there was a group of humans who overestimated themselves and tried to shake the heavens with their mortal bodies, which was simply absurd.

The black bird was severely injured, but it didn't die.

When the Black Bird returns, it will surely destroy the heavens and the earth.

A group of human ants will be completely wiped out within the Giant Mountain Range.

According to ancestral records, those below the seventh level were all ants.

Even a wounded seventh-tier warrior is not something that ants can shake.

Therefore, even though the Black Bird has been silent for eight thousand years, the offerings from the Mujiang tribe have never diminished.

In the land of Tianjiang, the Mujiang tribe raised a large number of humans, using the surplus for their own consumption and offering it as tribute to the Xuan Bird.

Of course, this is not only done by the Mujiang tribe, but also by the Tulou and Guanxiong tribes.

Humans are indeed a wonderful thing. They are physically weak, but they don't need bloodlines to cultivate and become stronger little by little.

The key point is that they reproduce very quickly; give them a piece of land, and they grow wildly like weeds.

"Where did this fifth-tier human come from? Could he be from outside the Giant Mountain Range?"

"How did you end up with Lu Wu?"

Jiang Cu looked thoughtful. There were only three places where humans lived on both sides of the Juyue Mountains.

The only place with a fifth-tier human was Cloud River Valley, but it had already been ravaged by the Fei Yi long ago.

In this land, there are earthworms, and people are like livestock.

Yongyi was spared from disaster, but it was nothing more than a bunch of mudfish scurrying around in a pond, boasting of possessing the power of a hidden dragon.

After much thought, Jiang Cu felt that Shen Can's vigorous vitality meant he was probably an outsider who had learned about the Juyue Mountains and had come specifically to seek opportunities.

Given the environment on both sides of the Giant Mountain Range, coupled with the situation within the human race, it has long been impossible for a fifth-tier being to emerge.

"Where did these humans come from? From the ancient city of Tu Shang?"

The only place in the vicinity of the Juyue Mountains that does not restrict ethnic groups and is open to all races is the ancient city of Tushang.

Within the ancient city, one can even see races from various parts of the Southern Wilderness.

"When Jiang Shan comes next time, we need to tell him to keep an eye on things."

Having made up his mind, Jiang Cu opened his mouth, and through the massive body of the Azure Cloud Beast, clusters of mysterious witch runes lit up.

The icy air that had previously burned and melted re-adhere to the Azure Cloud Beast, freezing it back into ice.

The lit-up witch runes struck the frozen Azure Cloud Beast one after another, concealing Jiang Cu inside once again.

Under the influence of the mysterious witchcraft, even a late-stage fifth-order cultivator would find it difficult to perceive Jiang Cu's inner workings with their divine sense.

With the Azure Cloud Beast serving as the 'outer coffin,' outsiders will see the wild beast first, thus lowering their guard.

It wasn't that Jiang Cu didn't want to bury himself completely underground, but rather that he had tried and it didn't work.

Beneath the earth of the cave, besides the chilling aura, there is also a chaotic mix of various energies. Once buried inside, even a fifth-level being would lose their mind.

This is an experience gained by our ancestors who buried themselves alive, paying with their lives.

……

On the other side, Shen Can and Lu Wu fled thousands of miles before they began to regulate their breathing.

This time he ran fast enough that Lu Wu only got a minor scrape.

Akahira Rikugo was a little frustrated. He thought he was going to get some meat, but he ended up getting beaten up instead.

Not only were they beaten up by monsters, but they were also beaten up by the Mujiang tribe.

"I've seen both of the fifth-tier members of the Mujiang clan before, but this one is a complete stranger."

Seeing that Shen Can had finished his meditation, Chi Huo Lu Wu spoke up, "The Mu Jiang Clan likes the energy of plants and trees. I control the fire element, and fire overcomes wood. So when we met back then, I easily dealt with two fifth-tier members of the Mu Jiang Clan."

But if it had been this person who made the move back then, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to escape easily.

Shen Can didn't respond to Lu Wu's words. He was thinking about the figures inside the Cangyun Beast that he sensed with his divine sense when he escaped earlier. More than half of them had already turned into monsters.

What this scene represents is self-evident.

Inside the underground cave, it was indeed a gathering of heroes. On my second visit, I encountered two fifth-tier members from the Dragon Clan and the Mujiang Clan.

Each one of them was more elaborate than the last.

Although Lu Wu has lived for thousands of years, the underground cave has existed for far longer than his lifespan, and there are many things that Lu Wu is not actually aware of.

As for the Kui Ling in his hand, Shen Can was more inclined to believe that the little guy was a bit of a scatterbrain.

Having wandered around the underground cave for so long, Kui Ling still couldn't sense its mother's presence.

Kui Ling once said that her mother went with the Marquis of Yongshan to the far east of the Juyue Mountains.

The cave is not located in the far east; in fact, it is quite far from the far east, millions of miles away.

The reason I brought Kui Ling along to sense things was mainly because Kui Ling was a little confused and spoke in a fragmented and unclear manner about many things.

"Why don't we go look around some more? If we don't take advantage of this opportunity to make more money, we might not get such a good chance next time."

Chi Huo Lu Wu spoke again. After being beaten by the Mu Jiang Clan, it quickly adjusted its mindset.

If you can't get it here, go to the next place. It doesn't matter if you get beaten up this time. When you're stronger in the future, you can get your revenge.

"Walk."

Shen Can nodded; he certainly couldn't miss this opportunity.

He doesn't plan to go to the Mujiang tribe for the time being. Given this plan, the hidden methods may not be limited to that previous palm strike.

They usually have even stronger methods hidden, and bad people and big things can easily be killed.

Next, the man and the beast quickly traversed the cave and found five more precious medicinal herbs with yin and cold attributes.

This place is truly blessed by heaven and earth; the abundance of fifth-tier precious medicines and spirits is almost outrageous.

I really don't know how it was formed.

After searching and hiding in the underground cave for more than three years, the man and the beast finally had the opportunity to leave.

(End of this chapter)