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

Chapter 328 Sweeping Across the Land, Times Have Changed, Lord Tulou

The area north of the Mujiang tribe's territory, near the Juyue Mountains.

Countless giant trees stood tall, among which a spiritual tree soared into the clouds, reaching a height of ten thousand feet. Its trunk resembled an enormous mountain, and its trunk was as thick as a mountain range.

Looking into the distance, the bluish light emanating from the giant tree enveloped the area for thousands of miles.

Houses stood in rows within the giant tree, and figures hurried by.

Among the many houses and pavilions, there is a wooden temple embedded in the trunk of a giant tree, where the figure of a priest moves about.

"The lowly people used so many wild beasts' flesh and blood as sacrifices to reclaim the ancestral tree."

As the words were spoken, the ancestral tree standing in the center of a small tribe nestled in the jungle in the southwest of the territory rapidly withered.

The tribespeople who witnessed this scene went completely mad on the spot.

According to ancestral teachings, once the ancestral tree withers, it signifies that the tribe has lost its protection, and any tribe can capture them as slaves or sacrifices.

Losing the ancestral tree is tantamount to the extinction of the entire clan!
"It's over!"

"Is this the ancestral tree punishing us?!"

"Why? Is it wrong to sacrifice some of the wild beast's flesh? If I had known, I would have let my own people be the sacrifices."

When the ancestral tree of this tribe withered, the ancestral trees of several other nearby tribes suddenly shone brightly.

The ancestral tree showed signs of abnormality, and several nearby tribes each sent out their members to investigate, and soon learned of the news.

Just a few days later, the tribe that had lost its ancestral tree was razed to the ground, and its more than 20,000 members were divided up. Some became sacrifices, some became slaves, and the women and children were distributed among the tribes.

When this insignificant human tribe in the Great Wilderness was wiped out, Yan Song also quietly sneaked into the Canglinbo tribe.

Prior to this, they had already captured several prisoners from the Canglin tribe and obtained some detailed information.

But this was not enough to complete their mission; their investigation in the Mujiang territory required them to gather more detailed information for the tribal alliance.

Therefore, after discussing it, the group decided to use the Canglinbo tribe as a breakthrough point to see if they could complete a plan of substitution.

After all, the five of them had divine treasures and great shamans, so controlling such a tribe was not difficult for them.

……

Dai Di.

On the vast wilderness, warships are like clouds and giant tortoises are like mountains.

High in the sky, there were hundreds of warships and airships of all sizes, with cannons spewing energy as they roared and poured out towards the front.

On the plains a hundred miles away, bursts of fire erupted one after another, scattering fleeing earthworms in all directions.

The two enormous mountain-moving turtles moved side by side, each over five thousand feet tall, like real moving giant mountains.

Behind the two giant tortoises, there were seven smaller mountain-moving tortoises, which spread out in formation and followed behind.

The entire battlefield stretched from south to north, and extended for over a thousand miles from east to west.

In mid-air, there were also some small flying boats and birds flying around. When they encountered straggling earthworms, they would land on the ground and pick them up.

If they encounter resistance, they show no mercy and kill them on the spot.

"Buzz!"

In mid-air, a worm took flight, its ram horns lighting up as it transformed into a beam of blue light and hurtled towards the giant mountain-moving tortoise.

"Brothers, another ant!"

The moment this fourth-tier earth ant appeared, dozens of figures rushed out from all directions, riding flying boats.

"Don't try to take it from me, this ant is mine."

"Bullshit! Whoever killed him is responsible!"

"Caught alive!"

Dozens of figures were locked in a fierce struggle, but they were quick to strike, unleashing dozens of attacks from all directions at the earthworm.

With a deafening roar, the earthworm's attempts to defend itself were futile; it was instantly obliterated by various supernatural powers, leaving not a trace behind.

Upon seeing this, the dozens of figures rushing over immediately stopped in mid-air, cursing and turning around to head in another direction.

"A bunch of animals, what are they fighting over? They're even wasting the sacred treasure like this, you spendthrifts!"

……

"Escape!"

Despair filled the eyes of the retreating earthworms. Their powerful fourth-tier ancestor was dead; what could they possibly use to fight against this enormous wild beast?

And these fireballs that explode in flames when they fall—how did humans suddenly become so powerful?

Before the battle even began, their side was drenched in a rain of fire and explosions, and their formation was immediately disrupted.

This caught the earthworms, who had been raising humans for many years, off guard.

This is wrong!

This is not how you fight a war.

Aren't humans all weak and feeble races, lacking martial arts skills and magical artifacts?
Everything changed too fast.

They were too fast to react when they got there.

If they slow down at this moment, the fireballs coming from behind will explode and burn their bodies to ashes.

The earth was littered with craters from the explosions and remnants of severed limbs that emitted a pleasant aroma.

Before the humans even arrived, they were already routed.

"Go back! All of you, go back!"

"Go and ram that giant tortoise!"

On one side of the battlefield, another fourth-tier earth ant with purple-blue halos on its ram horns roared, trying to drive a group of retreating earth ants to charge back towards the mountain-moving giant tortoise.

But just as it roared, a blinding flash of fire shot out, and the giant arrow struck the fourth-tier earthworm in a flash, piercing its skull.

The giant arrow, undeterred, continued its trajectory, piercing and impaling dozens of the newly assembled earthworm warriors.

Seeing that the fourth-tier earthworms had been shot to death, the remaining earthworms had even less will to return and fight the humans.

How can we fight like this? The humans are either in the sky or on the giant tortoise.

Those in the sky are out of reach, and those on the giant tortoise are too far to approach.

They even blocked the human race!
Stop your grandma's leg.

It was clearly sending the Earth God to his death.

"Escape!"

……

"attack!"

As the earthworms' attack was completely defeated, the horns boomed, and a metal ramp descended from the giant tortoise.

One after another, chariots drove off the giant tortoise, turning into a torrent that chased after the earthworms, killing all the earthworms it caught.

"Reporting to the Alliance Leader, the second wave of Tulou's ambush has been broken."

On the head of the giant mountain-moving tortoise, a high platform stands.

Lord Zhishui looked at the defeated and disorganized Tulou and spoke to the people standing beside him.

Soon, the attendant used a communication device to make contact and also sent a messenger to the rear.

This is a specially designed dual communication method to prevent accidents involving the magical artifacts or messengers.

Behind them, an old tortoise, no more than a thousand feet in size, was suspended in mid-air, with a palace on its back.

One after another, flying boats and birds of prey arrived rapidly from all directions, landing on the tortoise's back and reporting the battle situation to the elders inside the main hall. Inside the main hall...

There are six alliance executive elders present.

Volcano was also waiting inside the hall, while Huo Ning, as the recorder, sat to the side, recording every word and action of everyone in the hall.

At the same time, this position also allows him to write down his thoughts and show them to Volcano.

All the elders present were Divine Vein Warriors, and everyone was well aware of Huo Ning's identity as a Celestial Vein Warrior and what he had done.

But knowing is one thing, pretending not to know is another.

"The land of Dai spans 190,000 li from south to north. We have already traveled 140,000 li from south to north. In another few tens of thousands of li, we will reach the ancestral land of Tulou."

Inside the hall, Volcano looked at the map.

Before the great battle even began, the Alliance scouts had already surveyed the entire territory and drawn up a clear map.

Then, Volcano looked at the elders in the hall and said, "Elders, what do you think of the Earthworms that have blocked our attacks twice in a row?"

“These ants that are blocking our way are probably buying time for their ancestral land.”

The Great Wilderness Lord spoke up, "I think we shouldn't give the Earth Fools too much time to prepare. We should head straight for their lair. Once we've crushed their ancestral land, the rest of the Earth Fools will be nothing to worry about."

"Wait, I don't think these ants are coming to their deaths just to stop us."

The old master of Changhuan also came to Dai.

He stroked his beard and said, "I think these scoundrels and their slaves are more like the ancestral land of the scoundrels deliberately sent them here to die."

"This is the second wave of resistance, isn't it? I believe there will be a third and a fourth wave."

As Elder Changhuan spoke, the elders in the hall looked thoughtful.

"Senior Changhuan, you're not trying to say that the Tulou are trying to make us humans look down on them by throwing our lives away, are you? That's a bit ridiculous."

At this moment, Lord Xiashan spoke up, "We came with giant tortoises and warships, driving the earthworms outside our main camp. The earthworms couldn't even touch our clan's soldiers. This is the righteous might of the human race. How can you be so contemptuous of the earthworms?"

Regardless of whether the Tulou (a type of insect) try to stop them, the alliance's established strategy has always been to head straight for the Tulou's ancestral land.

The Tulou adopted a system of enfeoffment, with all branches respecting their ancestral land.

These branches of the Earthworm clan each have between one million and several million members.

Zhiyan led the alliance of tribes to attack, and none of these Tulou branches that had occupied the Dai lands were a match for them.

As early as after the Allied forces gathered in Daidi, they dispatched nine Divine Treasure teams to attack the Tulou tribes of various branches of Daidi.

The Tulou branch tribe was so terrified when faced with the siege of hundreds of Divine Treasure warriors that they almost wet themselves.

However, the Dai region is vast, and the nine teams only wiped out a portion of the Tulou branch tribes in the southern part of the Dai region.

Upon receiving the news, many of the Tulou branch tribes in the northern part of Daidi fled to the ancestral land of the Tulou with their families.

The enemy that was just defeated included a million Tulou tribe soldiers and more than three million Tulou slaves.

The Tulou who blocked the alliance army were all Tulou warriors who had retreated to their ancestral lands beforehand.

Faced with the resistance of the earthworms, the allied army did not use its full strength, but only used the witch cannon to blow the earthworms to pieces.

The entire blocking operation was completely futile, like a mantis trying to stop a chariot.

On the alliance army's side, they were almost overflowing with the captives of the local worms and slaves they had just captured.

The old man from Changhuan continued, "I'm afraid that the earthworms might have some strange witchcraft or secret techniques."

Inside the main hall, Huotang, who had been listening to the elders' conversation, looked thoughtful.

He had lived in the Dai region for many years and knew how powerful the Tulou were.

Otherwise, the Tulou wouldn't have kept the Daidi people captive for so many years.

The reason the allied army swept through Yongyi this time was not because the Tulou were too weak, but because the human alliance under the rule of Zhiyan was too powerful.

While Tulou was resting on its laurels, Zhiyan was making rapid progress.

Anyone who hasn't experienced it firsthand would find it hard to believe the transformation of the blazing flames.

You should know that when Zhiyan first came to Daidi, he had to sneak around, afraid of being discovered by Tulou.

The reason why the earthworms suffered such a severe defeat was mainly because they could not keep up with the era of scorching heat.

Huotang thought for a moment and quickly wrote a few words on the paper. Huoshan glanced at them and saw them clearly.

"Elder Changhuan is right. The Tulou have just been defeated, and we can't keep directing from the rear. Let's all go to the front lines and take a look."

……

On the front lines of the battlefield.

The wheels of the chariot roared across the wasteland. The figure standing on the chariot easily thrust out the spear in his hand, and a worm was thrown high into the air before crashing heavily to the ground.

"These four-legged earthworms are nothing special, kill them!"

As the chariots passed, they left trails of blood in their ruts.

The millions of bandits and slaves blocking the way were wiped out in a short time on the battlefield stretching for thousands of miles, like snowflakes under the scorching sun.

These earthworms that tried to block the way collapsed before they even touched the legs of the old tortoise in the alliance army.

With the old tortoise serving as a transport vehicle, the Alliance army didn't need to build camps at all; when they got tired, they could simply rest on the tortoise's back.

Subsequently, as Elder Changhuan had predicted, the army encountered a third and fourth round of resistance.

The number of Tu Lou warriors assigned to ambush them each time also increased.

However, these earthworms still couldn't get close to the Alliance army before being blasted to pieces by the hovering warships and their cannons.

Along the way, the army used only one tactic: after the shaman's cannons bombarded the area, the tribal soldiers charged.

Then, the mole ants that had been blocking the attack were completely scattered and defeated.

The fourth-tier earthworms had finally managed to assemble a group of earthworm warriors, but before they could even charge towards the mountain-moving tortoise, cannonballs rained down from above.

The patrolling warships guarded the Mountain-Moving Turtle, while divine warriors and celestial warriors piloting flying boats and birds protected the warships.

With land and air combined, the earthworms couldn't find any opening to attack.

……

Northeast of Dai.

Within a range of undulating, earthen-yellow mountains, the howling wind whips up clouds of yellow dust and ash, obstructing the view of all living things.

This is the ancestral land of the earthworms.

Amidst the earthy yellow mountains, undulating pavilions and grand halls can be seen everywhere.

But at this moment, these grand buildings and palaces have lost their former bustling atmosphere, and the earthworms moving around inside are all in a hurry.

Deep in the mountains, in an area that was as yellow as a desert, a figure hundreds of feet tall, entirely yellow, with earth-elemental power constantly surging within its body, roared fiercely.

"Useless trash! You wouldn't even die if I told you to! What use are you?!"

Amidst the swirling sand, four-tiered earthworms lay prostrate on the ground.

"Ancestor, the human race's attack methods have changed. We can't even get close to them, let alone use our bloodline secret techniques!"

"Millions of our clansmen have been lost. They haven't even touched a human. These humans, relying on giant beasts and magical artifacts, killed our clansmen from tens or even hundreds of miles away!"

"Ancestor, we really can't attack!"

The fourth-order earthworms, crawling on the ground, trembled, though what they said was inaccurate.

If these fourth-tier beings were to make a move, they could indeed attack the human race from a distance.

But every time one of them appears, dozens of human gods will appear and gang up on it.

How is this played?
(End of this chapter)