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

Chapter 377 Big Event!

"Keep an eye on the creatures around you. You can look around, but don't let anyone get too close to the Skyfire Sparrow."

Yinshu arranged for the guards of Tushang Ancient City to stand around the Heavenly Fire Sparrow.

The reason for deliberately placing the Skyfire Sparrow outside is to showcase it, so as to attract more martial artists and races who are interested in the Skyfire Sparrow.

This time, the guard was arranged by the Silver Guard. Although theoretically no one would dare to cause trouble in the ancient city of Tushang, this is not absolute. In the past, there have been several unexpected incidents.

After arranging the guards, Yin Shu walked towards the treasure pavilion.

Every auction in the ancient city of Tu Shang is jointly organized by the five major races, each with their own responsibilities and duties.

For example, in this case, the Holy Hou Clan was responsible for collecting the auction items.

These auction items include not only those from the merchant guild itself, but also treasures from other races. Unlike the Skyfire Sparrow, most of these items require appraisal before they can be brought to the auction.

As Shen Can watched the creatures of the Holy Hou clan disappear into the treasure pavilion, he couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

The auction is scheduled for six months from now. During this period, the Skyfire Sparrow will be confined here until a few days before the auction, when it will be moved to another location.

Shen Can quietly watched the trajectory of the energy flow of the two magical artifacts. The number of magical runes in the flowing light was in the millions, and the path of operation was dazzling.

Even a sixth-level wizard couldn't figure out the origin of its operating path.

To decipher these two magical artifacts, we need to figure out their operating mechanisms bit by bit, which will take countless millennia.

To Shen Can's surprise, although these two sixth-tier magical artifacts were shimmering with spiritual light, he did not sense any fluctuations from their spirits.

In this situation, it's most likely that the spirit of the artifact has been scattered.

Many martial artists or wizards, after seizing the magical artifacts of other beings, will shatter the artifact spirit if the artifact contains one, allowing the artifact to regenerate a spirit that is close to them.

After all, some artifact spirits are born with their first master and share a deep bond with them. If the first master is killed, the artifact spirit will naturally become hostile to the new master.

However, this situation is not absolute. For example, the spirit of the little girl in Shen Can's hand was not killed by Shen Can.

The spirit of the female pearl was not conceived by the original shaman of the Holy Envoy Clan, and it has existed for a long time. There is no enmity between her and Shen Can.

The warriors of the Flying Dragon Slave Hunter Team are now openly displaying the two magical artifacts, determined that no living being can break the operating method of the two artifacts.

Of course, it's not impossible; a seventh-tier ancestor could.

But is the seventh-tier ancestor just bored out of his mind? To the seventh-tier, a sixth-tier magical artifact is no different from a toy.

As for beings below the seventh rank, even if they were given 30,000 years of lifespan, they still wouldn't be able to break the operating method of a sixth-rank magical artifact, let alone two of them.

[Deduction]

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[You've invested 30,000 years of your lifespan to test the waters, gradually absorbing the operational runes of the sixth-tier magical artifact network into your senses.]

……

After you have recorded all 3.6 million spells, you begin to match them. You know nothing of time; you are merely a devoid of emotion, a speculator.

……

[After sixteen million deductions and matchings, you have deduced the operating method of the Ancient Whale Net, and you can easily take away the magical artifact if you want.]

……

[Deduction]

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[You have deduced the operating method of the Ancient Whale Nightmare. You have discovered that this misty, magical artifact and the Ancient Whale Net are actually a set of combined magical artifacts. To combine the two, you need to fuse their operating methods.]

[You have deduced a method to merge the Ancient Whale Nightmare and the Ancient Whale Net, and by controlling them, you can easily take both magical artifacts away at the same time if you wish.]

……

Leaving behind the many onlookers focused on the Skyfire Sparrow, Shen Can rubbed his head and headed towards a place to eat in the distance.

Skull hurts.

Although he had broken the two magical artifacts that had trapped the Skyfire Sparrow, he did not dare to do anything big on the spot.

How could you fucking do something like this in public?

After entering the dining hall, Shen Can was led into a spacious stone hall. The entire hall was surrounded by gorgeous brocade, which not only served as decoration but also had a certain function of isolating divine sense.

The upscale restaurants and other establishments in Tushang Ancient City are all independent stone halls like these.

This is mainly to provide diners with a comfortable dining environment.

After all, a certain race of beings walking outside the food pavilion, separated by a wall, is already being stewed in a bronze cauldron.

What would the creatures passing by think? If they saved them, they would be familiar with their own kind; if they didn't save them, they would feel uneasy.

Upon closer inspection, it turned out that the pot contained stew for Uncle Erda.

What about the diners inside the hall who are preparing to eat? Should they eat or not?
Are you suggesting we call out to outsiders, "Come on, your fellow tribesmen are ready, let's have a taste?"
To avoid such an awkward situation, the restaurant owner directly separated the two sides from each other's "sight," and everyone maintained the rule that while they could have fun and joke around, no one could take photos indiscriminately inside the food court.

It wouldn't be good if I took a picture of someone I know.

After Shen Can entered, he looked at the meat dishes in the jade slip and ordered a few common pheasant meat soups.

As for things like dragon liver and phoenix marrow, or stewed old phoenix with baxia (a type of herb), they're for the poor.

In the ancient city of Tushang, he saw several Baxia carrying giant steles on their backs.

Of course, this restaurant wasn't so audacious as to actually stew pure-blooded Baxia, dragon, phoenix, or luan birds; it only stewed some offspring with mixed blood.

For the Dragon and Phoenix clans, they do not regard those of mixed blood as members of the same race.

But it's hard to say about other races.

Shen Can was thinking about doing something big, but not about food.

After seeing the Holy Hou Clan handling some of the auction's affairs, he thought of finding something for the Holy Hou Clan to do.

According to the information obtained about the Holy Hou Clan, the late-stage and peak sixth-tier experts of the Holy Hou Clan were either dead or injured.

However, the Holy Hou Clan still has quite a few warriors in the early and middle stages of the sixth rank, and the foundation of a seventh-rank clan is not something outsiders can easily fathom.

Who knows if there are any hidden powerhouses among them?
When it comes to dealing with the Human Alliance, Shen Can naturally doesn't think he's worthy of a seventh-tier ancestor's intervention.

That would make a seventh-tier ancestor look too unrespectable.

However, the sixth-tier members of the Holy Hou Clan are not easy to deal with. The alliance is weak, and since they have already come, they should cause trouble for the Holy Hou Clan.

While studying the operating method of a sixth-order magical artifact beside the Heavenly Fire Sparrow, Shen Can also overheard some of the conversations between living beings.

The ancient city of Tushang has a branch temple in Zhangyang Market, the largest market in the Zhangshui Dragon Kingdom, and the one in charge of the Zhangyang branch temple is a sixth-level powerhouse from the Holy Hou Clan.

Combining the information he had previously gathered with this new message, Shen Can became even more certain that the ones who had been hiding and testing the formation earlier were indeed the Holy Hou Clan.

Getting off the bus along the way from Tushang Ancient City to Zhangshui Dragon Kingdom is quite convenient.

Although Shen Can couldn't figure out why the Holy Hou Clan was looking for the Black Bird, it certainly wasn't something they wanted to have a friendly conversation with. The Holy Hou Clan's seventh-tier ancestor was already old; could it be that eating the Black Bird would make him young again?
After finishing his meal, Shen Can headed towards the outskirts of Tu Shang Ancient City.

The area surrounding the ancient city of Tushang is vast and inhabited by many different ethnic groups.

However, all the seventh-tier Saints reside within the barrier.

As for the seventh-tier patriarch, he rarely appears outside unless there is something else going on, as he is busy comprehending the power of heaven and earth and has no time to deal with the younger generation's resource competition.

Furthermore, the younger generation's task, besides competing for their own cultivation resources, is even more important in searching for cultivation resources for the seventh-tier ancestor.

Even though a seventh-tier ancestor has reached the point of controlling the power of heaven and earth, he is still a living being and needs precious medicines and minerals.

These things are often difficult to cultivate within a small world; they are more likely to be found in the vast wilderness.

Since he wanted to cause some trouble for the Holy Hou Clan, Shen Can naturally had to come out and do some research.

In just two days, he set a goal.

To the northwest of the ancient city of Tushang, in a place surrounded by mountains, stands a city permeated with malevolent and sinister energy.

The city was filled with a sinister atmosphere because it was a city of slaves.

Large forces like the Flying Dragon Slave Hunting Team, when they mobilize their entire force, aim to capture powerful creatures; only such powerful creatures are eligible for the auction.

However, in the past, when hunting on a small scale, it was impossible to send the small groups of animals captured to the central area of ​​Tushang Ancient City every time.

It's shameful for a dignified business alliance to turn into a slave trading center.

Therefore, slave cities were built around the ancient city of Tushang to collect and sell the slaves captured during the hunt.

The slave city plays a significant role, classifying the gathered slaves. Those with talent or good bloodlines are generally considered high-grade slaves and can be sold for a high price.

Young, strong, and vigorous men were considered mid-grade slaves, and could be bought by various tribes for farming, mining, or as sacrificial offerings, etc.

The rest are low-grade slaves, which are generally bought and sold in large quantities. Some races buy them to feed their war beasts.

The slaves, captured from all directions, endured countless perils along the way. Some died on the way to the slave city, and others died once they arrived.

It can be said that the yin energy floating above the city is more the resentment of living beings.

However, when these resentful energies encounter even stronger malevolent energy, they can only be swept away and scattered by the malevolent energy.

Huge treasure ships and flying boats traveled back and forth through the city of slaves.

Some were sending slaves in, some were going to buy slaves, and some were transporting slaves out.

As Shen Can piloted his flying boat, he was constantly noticed by the creatures passing by.

"This is a fresh catch, perfect for stewing in soup or keeping as a pet. Look, it even has a bit of innate spiritual light. It's worth three hundred fifth-tier source stones."

As a massive airship caught up with Shen Can, a burly figure on the bow beckoned to him, carrying a small beast about a foot in size.

Shen Can shook his head, his burly figure unconcerned, and urged the flying boat to speed up towards the slave city.

Following the numerous figures, Shen Can also entered the City of Slaves, a city controlled by the Holy Hou Clan.

Of course, saying "control" is a bit inaccurate. All industries within the Tu Shang Ancient City belong to the Tu Shang Alliance. The five great holy clans send clansmen to manage them, and profits are distributed uniformly according to each clan's share.

Any race that secretly opens a shop will be attacked by a coalition of other races.

The city of slaves before us is the one governed and controlled by the Holy Hou tribe.

If something happens to this city of slaves, the Holy Hou tribe will be held responsible.

Over the years, the Holy Hou Clan has been constantly targeted, and Shen Can felt that adding fuel to the fire wouldn't be a big problem.

After all, the Holy Hou Clan was going to destroy his foundation. If he weren't weak, he would have already ripped off the head of the Holy Hou Clan's ancestor and used it as a chamber pot.

As they approached the city of slaves, a strong, pungent stench assaulted their nostrils, and then a crocodile warrior appeared before Shen Can.

"Brother, which branch are you from?"

"I am a member of the crocodile clan."

The crocodile tribe in Tushang Ancient City is diverse, some being servants of the Holy Clan, while others reproduce independently.

"A small tribe from afar."

Shen Can replied.

"It's okay, we're all brothers."

Crocodile Fall wasn't shy at all. "Brother, are you here to get some food, catch some to keep as pets, or perhaps find a slave war beast?"

"Find a battle beast with good bloodline, preferably at least at the fifth rank."

The search for war beasts was just a pretext; what Shen Can really wanted was to enter the place where slaves were imprisoned and see what methods were used to confine them.

"Brother wants a fifth-tier battle beast. You should wait for the auction six months from now."

Crocodile Luo spoke up, "But it's alright, we're all crocodiles, maybe we even had the same ancestor eight hundred generations ago. I'll take you to find a few to see."

Through Crocodile Fall's information, Shen Can learned that other slaves would also be auctioned at the auction of the Heavenly Fire Sparrow six months later.

The reason why the ancient city of Tushang established four slave cities in the east, west, south, and north was not simply because there were too many slaves, but also for the competition among the various tribes within the city.

Otherwise, why do the five holy races only have four slave cities?

If you do well in business and make a lot of money, there are extra rewards.

The slaves that can be auctioned off are carefully selected.

This is why Crocodile Fall said that if Shen Can wanted a good battle beast, he should wait for the auction six months later, when the four major slave cities would select top-quality slaves to send to the auction.

Led by Crocodile Fall, they bypassed the chaotic front city and headed into the mountains behind it.

The entire mountain range was covered with a dense array of magical spirit barriers. When clumps of resentment floated by, they would crackle and pop when they touched the barriers.

"You worthless wretch, you won't even rest in peace even in death."

Crocodile cursed and led Shen Can into a huge cave.

Spiritual barriers flickered all around the cave, and the witchcraft script was directly engraved on the rock walls, shimmering with a dark light.

Shen Can examined these incantation-inscribed spiritual restrictions, which were incredibly complex. Even though he was a master of deduction, he could tell at a glance that these incantation-inscribed spiritual restrictions were many times more complex than the sixth-order magical artifact on the Heavenly Fire Sparrow.

Moreover, the new ones have been built over the old ones, and the reinforcements have been done countless times. Although the inscriptions at the bottom are extremely old, they are still functioning in an orderly manner.

As you walk deeper into the cave, there are barrier-like passes along the way, where you can sense faint, elusive energy.

Sensing the aura, Shen Cangu was startled and quickly withdrew his divine sense.

Seeing this, Crocodile Luo laughed, "Brother, this is to prevent the slaves from escaping. These guys are scoundrels, they won't behave themselves even after they're here, they all need to be taught a lesson."

"After all, we also have sixth-tier slaves here. In order to keep these slaves obedient and peaceful, we naturally need a sixth-tier senior to oversee things."

“Brother, you want a battle beast? We’re from the same clan, so I can’t cheat you. There’s a fifth-tier Dragon Clan warrior that’s about to be sent to an auction. He’s got a powerful physique and is as strong as a mountain. I’ll take you to see him.”

(End of this chapter)