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

Chapter 344 Let's get started!

The memories of the fifth rank of the Mujiang clan are of great use to Shen Can, Zhiyan, and even the entire alliance.

As a human race that has lived and thrived in the Juyue Mountains for so many years, they don't even know the history of the Juyue Mountains.

This alone is enough to show that the Giant Mountain Clan is truly like an ant, living only a day and dying without knowing the passage of time.

They don't even know the fate of their own tribe, and they just keep dying off one generation after another like weeds.

The mysterious Yin technique, developed by the Mujiang tribe over generations, was used to transform into spirits and enter the underground caves to explore.

If there are so many fifth-tier beings and resources on the outermost edge of the cave, one can imagine what the situation inside is like, and what kind of opportunities might be hidden there.

The Xuan Bird is a prime example. A scruffy bird transforming into a seventh-tier being is an opportunity that even a great fire at one's ancestral grave wouldn't suffice; one would have to be struck by heavenly lightning for 100,000 years.

Of course, the corresponding dangers would be even greater, so transforming into a spirit or monster would be a good solution.

If you can't beat them, join them. Fortresses are most easily breached from within. This fifth-tier warrior of the Mujiang clan has truly grasped this.

The Mysterious Yin Technique, the Truth of the Underground Cave, the Origin of the Mysterious Bird, and next up is the Sacred Tree of the Mujiang Clan.

This sacred tree is the spirit tree used by the Mujiang tribe to control human tribes.

One important reason why humans were chosen as sacrifices instead of wild beasts was that humans possessed intelligence and were considered a wise race.

In contrast, most wild beasts have mixed bloodlines, violent auras, and low intelligence. Low-level wild beasts only have the instinct to hunt and reproduce.

Most wild beasts only experience a significant increase in intelligence after reaching the fourth rank, but they still cannot change their inherently violent nature.

Of course, auspicious beasts are different. They have pure auras, are mostly gentle in temperament, and are born with extremely high intelligence. For example, when the little dragonfish was only at the second level, it already knew how to find a long-term meal ticket for itself.

This kind of intelligence is something ordinary wild beasts couldn't learn even in a hundred years; when they encounter humans, they would only bare their teeth and try to kill you.

Now, the little dragonfish is the clan pet of the Blazing Flame Earl tribe, and he now has more than a dozen auspicious beast bloodline creatures under his command.

Many races, including humans, will try to dispel the violent aura emanating from the flesh and blood of wild beasts when they hunt them.

Furthermore, when humans observe wild beasts and create cultivation methods, they are all influenced by the wild beasts' savage nature, and may even show signs of bestiality.

This influence exists not only among humans, but also among other races, although the effects vary depending on how each race utilizes the wild beasts.

To prevent the sacred tree from being corrupted by the tyrannical aura of wild beasts and to maintain its spirituality, the Mujiang tribe found it most appropriate to use humans as sacrifices.

The second reason why humans became sacrifices was that human reproduction was simple, and a large number of races could be born in a short period of time.

Therefore, they can be continuously and endlessly transformed into sacrificial offerings.

In contrast, there aren't nearly as many auspicious beasts, and they're not easy to capture. Sometimes, encountering someone with powerful connections can be troublesome.

If they are unlucky, the auspicious beast used for the sacrifice may be backed by a seventh-tier great being, putting the entire Mujiang clan at risk of extinction.

Capturing humans is not so risky; just give them a piece of land, and they'll grow like weeds.

In the memories of the fifth-tier members of the Mujiang tribe, according to their ancestral records, there were many races in the Great Wilderness that captured humans as sacrifices and blood offerings.

There's no way around it; the Great Wilderness has existed for many years, with countless races, and the origin of the human race is relatively recent.

Living on this wild and untamed land, the late emergence of the tribe is naturally evident on the table.

Large quantities to satisfy hunger, intelligent yet not tyrannical, natural sacrifices and blood offerings.

Jiangcuo, Jiangshan, Jiangmu.

These are the three fifth-tier ancestors of the Mujiang Clan. Chihuo Luwu had met Jiang Shan and Jiang Mu before, but he wouldn't have known about Jiang Cu if he hadn't met him last time.

Jiang Shan and Jiang Mu are both at the early stage of the fifth rank. Jiang Cu entered the underground cave more than four hundred years ago and began his plan to transform into a spirit.

The last sixth-tier magical artifact of the Mujiang clan was buried deep in the underground cave along with the clan's last sixth-tier expert.

Although there are no sixth-order magical artifacts, the Mujiang clan has had many fifth-order artifacts and a sacred tree barrier throughout history.

The sacred tree of the Mujiang clan naturally did not reach the seventh level. The sacred tree is the Mujiang clan's respectful name for the giant spiritual tree. The barrier formed by this tree can distinguish beings who are not of Mujiang bloodline.

The sacred tree barrier will detect any unseen invasion by foreign races.

Shen Can didn't value the barrier properties of the sacred tree of the Mujiang tribe much. What he valued was that this sacred tree could branch out in countless ways and become a sacrificial tree for various tribes of the human race.

It is clear that the Mujiang tribe controls every human tribe in its territory through the sacred tree, which is equivalent to connecting every human tribe.

This power of connection is exactly what Shen Can wanted.

He needs a medium to connect the Temple of Heroes with the ancestral temples of various tribes, and even in the future, after the spirits of the sacrifices are received, the spirits can use this medium to descend directly from the Temple of Heroes to the ancestral temples of tribes in danger.

Shen Can recorded specific information about the number of Mu Jiang clan warriors and the sacred tree barrier in a jade slip and arranged for someone to deliver it to the volcano.

With this inside information, the alliance will be able to deal with the Mujiang tribe more effectively.

Alliance Hall.

In order to conquer the Mujiang tribe, the alliance is also mobilizing troops and arranging logistical matters.

After seeing the information in the jade slip, Huoshan immediately summoned the heads of the various halls to prepare to rearrange the strategy against the Mujiang tribe according to the contents of the jade slip.

"Alliance Leader, where did you get this information?"

After reading the contents of the jade slip, each of the palace masters was astonished.

Before the battle even started, the entire wealth of the Mujiang tribe had already been exposed.

“It was sent from the temple.”

"The methods of the temple are indeed mysterious and unpredictable," Lord Jusha remarked first.

“Old Sha, the ancestral temple is in the Temple of Heroes.” Lord Xiashan poked Lord Jusha’s tailbone with his finger.

Without turning his head, Lord Jusha solemnly said, "Am I wrong? My reverence for the temple is as boundless as a surging river and as vast as a towering mountain."

Lord Xiashan withdrew his finger, picked his nose, and said, "It's only right that you break through to the peak of the Divine Treasury Realm."

This startled Lord Jusha, who quickly changed his seat.

"Alright, everyone, let's rearrange the plan to conquer Mujiang according to the detailed information in the jade slip. There are quite a few people in the Mujiang tribe, so we need to make reasonable arrangements."

As the volcano opened its mouth, everyone in the hall became serious and began to calculate how many troops they would need to quickly subdue the Mujiang tribe.

"Alliance Leader, I think the best way to take down the Mujiang Clan without any problems is to have the formation masters surround them."

"It's not that easy. The Mujiang tribe's territory spans tens of thousands of miles. Building an array in such a large area would require far too many people. How could they just stand by and watch us build an array?"

"In my opinion, we should prepare a lot of firewood and set up a massive fire array to surround the Mujiang tribe with bonfires. Under the blazing flames, most of the Mujiang warriors will lose some of their fighting power."

"That's not good. What do we need firewood for if we can fly? Let's use animal oil directly. Each department has reserves of animal oil, and we can exchange it with alliance merits from each department."

……

The group discussed the matter until late into the night, even having dinner together before continuing their discussions until they finally reached a consensus.

Using fire to deal with the Mujiang tribe was the right thing to do, as it could greatly reduce casualties on the alliance's side.

In war, one will naturally do whatever is advantageous to one's own side.

"Everyone, the temple has decreed that the sacred tree of the Mujiang clan should not be destroyed too severely; at the very least, the roots should be preserved."

In his final moments, the volcano gave a command: "The sacred tree of the Mujiang clan is also one of the Mujiang clan's fighting forces."

Shen Can wouldn't let the alliance be held back for the sake of a spirit tree; as long as the tree roots are preserved, that's fine.

Subsequently, the alliance began to make more detailed preparations according to the agreed-upon strategy.

Three months later.

You've transformed into a spirit, and you feel yourself growing cold.

In the side hall of the ancestral temple, Shen Can suddenly opened his eyes. After a long period of deduction using the Xuan Yin Secret Technique, he finally made a breakthrough.

Based on the Xuan Yin Secret Method, which the Mu Jiang Clan had developed for 20,000 years, it was further developed and improved over a period of 3 million years of lifespan.

However, this secret technique has great limitations; at least, a fire-type beast king like Crimson Fire Lu Wu cannot cultivate it.

In addition, there is a major hidden danger in practicing this method: one is extremely susceptible to being corrupted by yin energy. Once the yin energy seeps into the bone marrow, one can only blindly move forward with no way back.

In Jiang Cu's memory, they originally had no intention of turning back; they just wanted to transform into spirits and go deep into the cave to seek opportunities.

During this deduction process, Shen Can also realized that the power of Yin and Yang could be generated from the Five Elements.

However, how to achieve this transformation still requires time to deduce.

The basic power of the Five Elements is like a primary attribute, while Yin and Yang are secondary attributes that extend from the Five Elements.

After finishing the deduction, Shen Can got up and walked outside to clear his mind.

Then, they headed towards the side hall of the Temple of the Heroes.

Inside the hall, Yan Wu was busy working on the sand table with several third-tier priests. Although it had only been three months, the patrolmen who had entered the Giant Mountain Range had already transmitted back information about the mountains and rivers within hundreds of thousands of miles of Zhi Yan through communication devices.

The sand table also shows large undulating mountains and secluded valleys.

To facilitate communication, the Alliance is selecting suitable mountain peaks across the Great Mountain range to construct communication towers, aiming to transmit information to any location throughout the entire Great Mountain range, both north and south.

"Temple, this is the situation of the people from various tribes trained by the various shamanic halls. Many people have shown remarkable talent in shamanic practice and have been sent to the shamanic academy to study. They have basically been accepted as disciples by the shamans who teach at the shamanic academy within our tribe."

Yan Wu handed a jade slip to Shen Can.

Every member of each tribe who was trained at the shamanic temple has a record.

Currently, with the expansion of the Jiangwutang, the number of people from various tribes gathered has exceeded two million.

In Daizhou alone, there are more than 1.3 million people.

Once these people are trained and given practical experience, they will be invaluable.

Shen Can sat down and began to look through the information on these people.

It was not yet noon, and the temple was filled with the fragrance of incense, with priests bustling about, creating a peaceful and serene scene.

……

To the west of Yongzhou, a massive star was dragged through the quicksand layer and landed above the Mujiang tribe's territory.

This star is over 500 zhang in diameter, with a pitted and uneven surface that shimmers faintly in the sunlight.

The giant beast's clone transformed into human form and sat cross-legged on a star.

For more than a decade, he has been cultivating in the sky, seeking that slight possibility of transformation.

Decades ago, the giant beast's avatar sensed the aura of transformation, but no matter how it tried to perceive it over the years, it remained like looking at flowers through a fog.

This current state is similar to the human race's card realm; what's needed is enlightenment.

After deduction, Shen Can discovered that the reason for this situation was that the giant beast's clone's body was created by an acquired opportunity, rather than being naturally compatible with the stars.

Success and failure both depend on chance; if you don't understand this, you'll remain stuck.

This is not something he can figure out by reasoning; it requires a sudden realization.

Therefore, Shen Can allowed his clone to wander in the quicksand layer in the sky, waiting for a moment of inspiration to bring about a transformation.

Once the stars were in place, starlight shone from the giant beast's avatar, enveloping the stars.

With a deafening roar, the star swept away the surrounding dust and plummeted downwards.

An invisible force of recoil spread through the quicksand, turning into ripples that swept around, but were quickly smoothed out by the surrounding sand and dust-like pebbles.

As the star plummeted downwards, the surface of its light began to glow with a crimson hue, and then a raging fire suddenly erupted.

The falling fire illuminated the sky, as if a second small sun had been born between heaven and earth.

In an instant, many people in the Mujiang tribe's territory, which was shrouded in a misty green aura, looked up and gazed at the scene below.

The Mujiang tribe has two feet, seven fingers on each hand, a greenish body, and a face somewhat resembling a mandrill.

"A shooting star is falling from the sky! Oh no, it's heading this way!"

After observing for a while, everyone suddenly noticed that the meteor was streaking across the sky and was very likely to crash into the clan's territory.

A member of the Mujiang tribe took out a beast horn and blew on it, the sound like thunder, awakening more of his tribesmen.

As they watched the falling fire, the more they looked, the more they felt that the place where it fell was in their own family's territory.

"Go and tell the elder quickly."

Some ordinary members of the tribe spoke up in a panic.

At this moment, the elders of the Mujiang tribe were already standing on the treetops.

hum!
In an instant, in the center of the Mujiang tribe's land, shrouded in misty greenery, a sacred tree as huge as a mountain swayed, and countless green shamanic runes lit up.

The greenery, which was originally like a mist, transformed into an enormous green canopy under the blessing of the shamanic incantation.

The tree trunk is like the ribs of an umbrella, and the green light is like the umbrella cloth. Witchcraft script flickers on it, and then green waves of energy surge to the sky.

"All tribes must guard against energy shocks!"

A loud shout rang out from under the umbrella.

Two beams of green light shot out from under the umbrella, converging in the air to form a long green river, pointing towards the falling fire in the sky.

"Ancestor, it's the Ancestor who has made a move!"

"With our ancestor taking action, this meteor shower will be a boon for our Mujiang clan."

"Perhaps it can add another fifth-tier magical artifact to our clan."

When the Mujiang people saw their two ancestors take action, their panicked expressions immediately calmed down.

With the patriarch's intervention, we will surely be unharmed.

The green river soared thousands of feet into the sky and collided with a falling meteor.

The sound of the collision was like a thunderclap, shaking the minds of many living beings.

The impact caused the falling meteor to change direction, grazing past the Mujiang tribe's territory and heading towards the distant mountains and forests.

"Oh no, there's one left!"

Just as Jiang Shan and Jiang Mu breathed a sigh of relief, thinking about collecting this unexpected opportunity,

Amidst the energy ripples that exploded in mid-air, another dazzling starlight crashed down.

Just as Jiang Shan and Jiang Mu were about to use their magical artifacts to change the direction of the second meteor, Jiang Shan suddenly saw the falling figure clearly.

It's not a star, it's a colossal beast!
With a wave of his hand, Jiang Shan unleashed a large green halberd that transformed into a streak of green light and charged forward.

Jiang Mu did the same, raising his hand to unleash a disc with beams of light that shot straight into the void.

Boom!

The two saw the colossal beast streak across the sky above their tribe's land, its body bursting with dazzling starlight. It withstood their attacks head-on and then headed towards the falling star without a care in the world.

Its massive body rippled with energy, and one could vaguely see a deep, ravine-like wound on its abdomen, with a wisp of light sealing the wound.

The giant beast streaked across the sky and disappeared into the mountains to the northwest of the tribe's territory with a deafening roar that shook the mountains and rivers.

This sound was just like the falling fireball before.

Jiang Shan looked northwest and suddenly realized, "The Starry Sky Beast is injured!"

"Chase!"

The people of the Mujiang tribe watched their ancestor fly through the air and began to speculate.

"What a huge beast! The sky darkened when it passed by."

"Haha, the ancestor has gone to catch a giant beast."

"A meteorite fell from the sky, and such a huge beast also fell down. What an opportunity!"

……

The next day, the people of the Mujiang tribe discovered that the two ancestors had not returned.

At first, no one paid much attention; it was normal for catching a giant beast to take some time.

At nightfall.

A loud boom echoed within the clan's territory!
Where the sacred tree stood, a ball of fire rose up, and violent energy fluctuations swept out like waves, instantly covering an area of ​​hundreds of miles, sweeping away buildings and vegetation wherever it passed.

Within a radius of several hundred miles where the sacred tree is located, there are not many Mujiang people living there; only a few elderly people guard the sacred tree.

At this moment, under the impact of the surging energy waves, these people, along with the surrounding destroyed mountains and buildings, turned to ashes.

Click!

Awakened, the Mujiang people rushed out of their houses and found that their sacred tree was swaying.

The lush greenery, bathed in sunlight, seemed to have gone mad, unleashing waves of ferocity.

Then, we saw streams of fire falling from above.

This scene stunned many of the Mujiang tribe warriors who witnessed it.

what happened?
There's a shooting star!

(End of this chapter)