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

Chapter 339 The Heaven-Sealing and Earth-Locking Array!

The alliance knew that the Cloud River Valley humans were in a bad situation, but they didn't expect it to be this bad.

The Yunhe Valley is about the same size as Yongyi, and it was once a prosperous place with many human tribes.

But now, when the Alliance sent patrol envoys into Cloud River Valley, they discovered that Cloud River Valley had already been transformed into a ghost town.

On the volcano's desk, the message sent back by the patrol envoy to Cloud River Valley contained only a dozen or so words.

The fields are littered with bones, desolate and uninhabited, phosphorescent lights flicker like ghosts, and beasts dwell among the people.

Volcano grabbed Yao Chong's hand and led him into the main hall.

Yao Chong and the dozen or so figures behind him were among the few Divine Treasure Warriors of the Yunhe Valley human race.

After the great war and the plague, too many people died and were injured.

Even today, the plague has not been eradicated in Cloud River Valley, and it still occasionally flares up and wreaks havoc, which is one of the reasons why the remaining humans have not been able to reproduce again.

Inside the main hall, Yao Chong and a dozen or so figures took their seats, their expressions somewhat restrained.

"Without the alliance's witch doctors and witch medicines, we tribesmen would have suffered even more."

Yao Chong stood up and bowed again.

In recent years, due to the spread of plague, the children in the tribe have had a difficult time growing up, and many have died young.

Although things have improved a lot in recent years, the tribe is still frequently attacked by packs of beasts, resulting in a high casualty rate among its warriors.

The wild beasts of Cloud River Valley are more chaotic and disordered than those of other places, with eyes as red as blood.

Yao Chong and his group belonged to tribes scattered throughout the Cloud River Valley. If it weren't for the Alliance of Humans searching for them, they wouldn't have known where the others were at all.

With their strength, they could only barely maintain a living by protecting the tribespeople they had gathered.

If they rashly venture out to investigate and suffer severe damage, it will jeopardize the entire tribe's lineage and survival.

It can be said that the entire Cloud River Valley has become a paradise for wild beasts.

These wild beasts and the Cloud River Valley humans experienced the plague together, but some survived by eating the corpses infected by the plague and quickly multiplied.

In contrast, the human race was not so lucky.

After a plague, 99% of the tribes disappeared, and everything was submerged in the wilderness.

"Alliance Leader, before I came here I inquired among the clan members I had gathered, and I have not seen any fifth-tier seniors."

After some discussion, Yao Chong spoke up, "In addition, over the years, our clan has also visited the nearest Bobu site to explore, but unfortunately we have found almost nothing."

These questions had been asked more than once when the Alliance's field patrol envoys went there.

At this moment, Yao Chong solemnly informed Huoshan again.

The other dozen or so clan leaders also spoke up.

There are rumors of fifth-tier seniors in Cloud River Valley, but they have never actually seen one.

Of course, they can't blame them.

The plague in Cloud River Valley did not start overnight. Before this, fierce battles broke out among the various tribes of Cloud River Valley, affecting all the tribes in the north and south of Cloud River Valley.

As the fighting continued, a plague broke out. At first, the plague was small, and the large tribes did not pay attention to it.

This continued for decades until a widespread plague swept through the entire Cloud River Valley.

By this time, it was too late for the tribes that had initiated the war to stop it; they were all destroyed by the plague.

The current tribal chiefs are those who, by sheer luck, gathered together a portion of the survivors during the plague and gradually passed down their positions through trials and tribulations.

For them, the reason why they started fighting in the first place is long gone, but according to the surviving stories, it seems to have been over a witchcraft artifact.

Upon hearing Yao Chong and the others bring up these matters, Huoshan asked again, "In recent years, have any so-called Holy Envoys or Holy Spirit Messengers sought you out?"

"No."

Yao Chong shook his head. Among the dozen or so people, he had the highest cultivation level, reaching the late stage of the Divine Treasury realm, and was also the oldest among them.

"Before the great war and the plague, were there any related rumors?"

Yao Chong shook his head again, and the other clan leaders knew even less.

Seeing this, Volcano stopped asking questions and reassured them, "It's alright, the alliance will investigate these matters thoroughly."

The alliance already knew about the plague in Cloud River Valley because a fifth-tier eight-legged fat relic was behind it.

However, the Eight-Legged Fei Yi only took advantage of a loophole; the real cause was the great war that broke out before that.

If it weren't for the protracted battle that resulted in so many deaths and injuries, attracting the attention of the Eight-Legged Fei Yi, perhaps Cloud River Valley wouldn't have suffered such heavy losses.

That night, the volcano hosted a banquet for its clansmen from Cloud River Valley.

……

The land of the Blazing Flame Clan.

Inside the cave on the mountaintop, a sand table measuring a hundred feet in size was placed in the center of the cave.

On the sand table were the results of Shen Can's painstaking efforts over the past ten years of cultivation.

A grand formation that seals the heavens and locks the earth.

The inner formation draws upon the power of the stars and repels the power of the five elements, while the outer formation uses the bones of the cave spirits as its base, filled with yin and cold power, transforming into a forbidden zone of source power.

The most basic base unit of this array is of the fourth order, and the node base is of the fifth order.

The entire formation, both inside and out, has 129,600 fifth-order nodes.

This is a terrifying number for the Blazing Flame and even the entire Giant Mountain Range Human Alliance.

Let alone the fifth tier, even all the fourth tiers combined don't yet number ten thousand.

At first glance, this seems like an impossible task, a bit of a pipe dream.

However, in Shen Can's deduction, this was only a basic level.

In other words, 129,600 fifth-order node array bases, with both inner and outer arrays, may not be enough, and the number may need to be doubled again.

Over the past ten years, he has consumed more than ten million years of his lifespan through calculation alone, resulting in a thick layer of calculation images accumulating within his divine altar.

He couldn't accurately depict how powerful a seventh-tier being was even in his deductions.

Speaking of seventh-tier beings, Shen Can had indeed seen them before. When the Golden Crow passed through the area, the leading Golden Crow and Kuafu should have been seventh-tier beings.

Back then, he was only at the third rank, and seeing these powerful beings was like looking at flowers through a fog.

Looking back on that day, I can only describe it in three words: awesome.

That's all the adjectives I could think of.

The difference is so great that it's hard to understand, and if you stare at it with wide eyes, you might even go blind.

If sixth-tier materials could have been used in the construction of this heaven-sealing and earth-locking formation, it would have been even better.

It's a pity, Shen Can is just delusional.

For the current Blazing Flame Tribe, plus the human alliance they control, even fifth-tier materials are insufficient. He had only seen sixth-tier materials at the Kui Niu's place, and had only touched them a few times.

Besides, even if the Kui Niu clan were to bring out sixth-tier materials, a single sixth-tier Northern Dark Tortoise shell wouldn't be enough.

Since the target was too big and fifth-tier materials were not easy to obtain, even if some could be obtained from the underground cave, it would be far from enough for the great formation. So Shen Can split the target into smaller parts once again.

There are no restrictions on the materials used as the base of a large formation. They can be minerals, magical artifacts, even the bones of wild beasts, or even human remains.

The basic unit of the Heaven-Sealing and Earth-Locking Formation is the fourth-order, so who says that a great formation cannot be used as a base?

A fourth-order formation is constructed using a third-order formation base, and a fifth-order formation is constructed using a fourth-order formation base.

Using a fifth-order formation as the foundation, a sixth-order formation is constructed, and finally, the sixth-order formation is combined to form a seventh-order formation. As for whether a seventh-order grand formation can be formed, Shen Can has no idea.

He wasn't even sure if this thing could be completed.

Because of the existence of this sand table formation, after Kuiyang arrived at the Zhiyan tribe, he settled down on the ancestral mountain and never left the ancestral mountain cave, wanting to protect this formation model together with Shen Can.

Every time Kuiyang sees the sand table, he feels a little dizzy.

In his eyes, Shen Can was a man with even greater courage than the Marquis of Yongshan.

With a mortal body, he actually dared to commit an act of rebellion against the saints.

What does a seventh-tier Holy Spirit represent? There are living examples of this: the Dragon King of Zhangshui rules over the Zhangshui Dragon Kingdom, which spans 36 million miles, and all dragons submit to him.

The Black Bird rules over the vast area of ​​the Giant Mountain Range, spanning tens of millions of miles.

Among these are countless beings of various races, some at the fifth or sixth rank, yet they still have to bow down before those at the seventh rank. These are beings that mortals cannot contend with.

Below the seventh level, all are ants!
This statement is not just empty talk in the Great Wilderness.

This formation requires the concerted efforts of billions of living beings.

Even the Marquis of Yongshan couldn't unite the many humans back then, let alone the fact that there were scoundrels and rebels among the human race.

Is the human alliance that has been formed so far capable of succeeding?
Kuiyang lay on the cave entrance, watching Shen Can stare blankly at the sand table. Over the past ten years, he had grown accustomed to Shen Can's blank stare.

To keep Shen Can quiet and lost in thought, it would even use water-based blood energy to envelop the cave, making it even quieter.

Finally, Shen Can, who was staring at the array sand table, woke up and let out a long sigh of relief.

It's a very simple principle: the fewer the structures, the fewer the problems. But what he was about to build was an extremely complex and complicated array.

The great formation that resisted the fifth-order Holy Envoy Clan back then is only a fraction of what it is on this sand table.

If a low-level formation is used as the base, a large area is required. Even a specially made reclamation order, once activated, will cover an area of ​​five miles.

Not to mention, because all the array nodes are combined on a single token, the array of the pioneering token is greatly restricted.

To deal with the Black Bird, this restriction must naturally be lifted. In fact, to unleash the maximum power of the formation, it is necessary to adapt to local conditions and do whatever is suitable.

With so many formations overlapping, they would likely cover an area of ​​several million miles around the Juyue Mountain Range.

Just like the communication artifacts created within the clan, the methods were not refined enough, so they could only increase the size.

At this moment, Shen Can suddenly raised his hand and flicked it towards the sand table. With a whoosh, the array model on the sand table was shattered by the aura he released and turned back into a pile of sand.

"What are you doing!"

At this moment, Kuiyang suddenly looked up and stared at Shen Can in astonishment.

"Make some more changes."

Shen Can spoke softly, then continued, "This array on the sand table is too rigid."

The Juyue Mountain Range runs east to west, like a great dragon coiled in the wilderness. Naturally, any formations must follow the contours of the mountain to maximize their effectiveness.

Shen Can walked out of the cave and stretched.

"Senior Kuiyang, do you think we can make it to the end in a hundred years?"

Kui Yang was taken aback for a moment, then realized what was happening and said, "More than eight thousand years have passed, and this Xuan Bird doesn't seem like it will wake up within a hundred years."

Shen Can didn't respond, but smiled and flew towards the ancestral temple.

He plans to spend a century building this unique super array.

Not only must the Xuan Bird's cultivation source power be blocked, but it must also be trapped inside.

Seeing Shen Can leave, Kui Yang lay down in the cave and fell fast asleep again.

Side hall of the ancestral temple.

When Shen Can isn't cultivating, he comes back here to rest.

"Temple, Elder Huozhang has delivered everything you requested."

Upon seeing Shen Can return, A Yu Alliance spoke up.

On the table in the side hall, a stack of jade slips was neatly arranged.

This is the information on the various departments and martial artists of the alliance that Huo Zhang sent over as instructed by Shen Can.

The Blazing Flame Tribe has always focused on recording data about its members, and this advantage has quickly spread to the alliance.

With the help of various alliance decrees, the members of the Civil Hall, Military Hall, Beast Hall, and Agricultural Hall, while carrying out their normal duties, used cross-statistical comparison methods.

They have ascertained the number of human tribes, population, martial arts level, and mineral production in Dai and Yong.

In particular, the Military Hall, which oversees various military camps, has even clearer records of the soldiers' data within those camps.

The current cultivation level, cultivation techniques, battle achievements, and other information of the hall masters, executive elders, garrison soldiers, and city lords are all recorded.

By reviewing this information, Shen Can was able to grasp the current strength of the alliance.

After reading through the hundreds of jade slips on the table, Shen Can pondered for a moment before heading towards the Temple of Heroes.

……

Valhalla.

The air here is filled with the fragrance of herbs and trees. Since the shrines of the fallen warriors were enshrined in the temple to receive offerings, many people have come to worship here in the past.

In addition, a formal sacrificial ceremony is held every year.

A grand ceremony is held once every ten years.

The last grand ceremony was held just before the Lunar New Year. Shen Can presided over the ceremony, and all the elders and martial artists in the alliance participated.

The main hall of the Hall of Heroes is divided into three sections: left, center, and right.

Inside the two rooms on the left and right stand stone tablets, which record the merits of the Marquis of Yongshan's alliance with various tribes in the southern and northern expeditions, the human alliance's recovery of the Dai territory, and other achievements.

Inside the main hall, a colossal shrine, nine zhang and nine chi tall, stands in the center.

The inscription reads: "The Divine Position of the Heroic Spirits of the Human Race."

This divine position is of extraordinary significance, representing the ancestors of the human race who perished while ensuring the survival and propagation of the human race since its inception.

That makes a lot of people, and we don't even know their names.

Therefore, this shrine is specially used for sacrifices.

Below this enormous divine throne is the divine throne of the Marquis of Yongshan.

To be entitled to a place in the main hall, one needs to have made great contributions.

"Yanwu, go and tell the Alliance Leader to summon the Executive Elders and the heads and deputy heads of each department to come to the Temple of Heroes to see me."

As Shen Can spoke, his disciple Yan Wu appeared outside the hall.

"Yes, temple."

……

"A summons from the temple?"

Within the main city below the Hall of Heroes, the leading warriors of each department paused for a moment upon hearing the message.

The temple does not summon people often, but each time it is a major event.

Everyone has long understood that the Alliance is responsible for getting things done, but the true guiding force comes from the temple of Valhalla.

So, after arranging their respective tasks, they gathered at the Alliance Hall, preparing to head to the Temple of Heroes together.

(End of this chapter)