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

Chapter 381 Expanding Originium Production and Gathering Resources

After learning about the situation of the Canren tribe, Shen Can discovered that this small tribe could indeed become the base of the human alliance in Tu Shang Ancient City.

It can be said that in a place like Tu Shang Ancient City, which gathers resources from all directions, the amount of source stones one possesses can be exchanged for the human alliance with a certain amount of resources.

Currently, what the Human Alliance lacks is time to condense Source Power into Source Stones, as there are too few formations for condensing Source Stones.

The most important thing right now is to increase the production of Tier 5 Originium.

A small plan was quickly put into action: to use the weak human tribes to conceal their identities and establish a transit point for the human alliance.

Intensify efforts to purchase materials for creating arrays that condense source stones within the ancient city of Tu Shang.

Creating an array to condense source stones requires not only fifth-tier materials but also a large amount of fourth-tier materials.

Shen Can can purchase fifth-tier materials, while the relevant fourth-tier minerals can be handed over to the human alliance warriors who come to Tu Shang Ancient City.

The territory of Tu Shang Ancient City is vast, and various ethnic groups gather here. The surrounding sixth-tier forces have all established their own market cities by taking advantage of the convenience of Tu Shang Ancient City.

These market cities are rich in various third- and fourth-tier ores and spiritual items, and there are also quite a few fifth-tier ores.

Hundreds of warriors from the alliance scattered into the territory of Tu Shang Ancient City, purchasing the corresponding minerals in small batches, as calmly and naturally as water droplets merging into the ocean.

Then, these minerals are accumulated little by little until a batch is ready, which is then secretly sent back to the Alliance by the clone.

Shen Can assigned the tasks to the giant beast clone, which then distributed them to other alliance warriors.

With a clear goal in mind, he began searching for the Treasure Pavilion to purchase the corresponding Tier 5 minerals.

Before long, Shen Can's original stones dwindled to less than a thousand, with the remaining stones used to purchase basic five-element minerals.

In the ancient city of Tu Shang, the fifth-tier minerals that the human alliance had previously struggled to find could now be easily purchased from various treasure pavilions.

With this batch of Five Elements minerals, along with other Tier 4 and Tier 3 minerals, and by having the Alliance's formation masters break a piece of ore in half, the Alliance's output of Originium can be increased tenfold.

The main reason for not using better minerals is that they are not needed at present.

Logically speaking, fifth-tier source stones should also be classified into grades, based on the concentration of source energy within them, into lower, middle, and upper grades.

However, the fifth-tier pagoda source stones produced in Tu Shang Ancient City have constant energy; if we really consider their grade, they are only low-grade fifth tier.

In other words, even if the level of the Origin Stone Condensation Array is increased, and the concentration within the fifth-order Origin Stones is increased, the Alliance will not dare to use large quantities to purchase spiritual items.

The mid-grade fifth-tier source stones produced within the alliance are either kept by the alliance members for their own warriors to cultivate, or used to extract source power and infuse source stones that are not yet fifth-tier.

Although the source stones produced in Tu Shang Ancient City have a constant energy level, and most of the source stones used for trading are low-grade fifth-tier source stones, it does not mean that Tu Shang Ancient City does not have mid-grade and high-grade fifth-tier source stones.

Shen Can only learned this after arriving in Tu Shang Ancient City.

Both mid-grade and high-grade fifth-tier source stones are mined from natural mineral veins. A single vein can only yield a limited quantity, and these higher-quality fifth-tier source stones circulate in small quantities.

Many beings believe that the source stones of the fifth rank and above have more abundant energy and can be used when breaking through ranks.

However, when Shen Can broke through to the late stage of the fifth rank, a spirit gathering array made a low-grade fifth-rank source stone have the effect of a high-grade fifth-rank stone.

The unified quantity of source power in the Pagoda Source Stones makes settlement easier on trade routes, which is why fifth-tier low-grade source stones are the mainstream in circulation.

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Half a month later, the first batch of minerals needed for the formation was gathered, and the giant beast clone began to return to the human alliance with the minerals.

Similarly, this batch of ore also nearly depleted the first batch of Tier 4 Originium brought by the Alliance warriors.

The weak people tribe.

Within the city built along the water, lights flicker under the night sky, and figures that resemble humans but also possess various animalistic features can be seen patrolling.

Inside an inconspicuous stone house in the city.

Yan Liu and several other figures huddled together, whispering as they shared their experiences in the ancient city of Tu Shang.

Without leaving the Juyue Mountains, one wouldn't know how vast the wilderness outside truly is.

Some of the group had been to the Fallen Moon Wasteland, but compared to the Tu Shang Ancient City, the Fallen Moon Wasteland was incomparable.

Similarly, everyone learned about the dangers outside, how humans were looked down upon, how anyone who was alone would attract attention and then be attacked.

If they weren't wearing animal skins for protection, they would have difficulty even moving around normally within the territory of the ancient city of Tu Shang.

The various ethnic groups living in this region, seemingly engaged in resource trading with other ethnic groups, are also secretly conducting business without any initial investment.

A lone human can easily be ambushed by other creatures if they are not careful.

In less than a month, everyone witnessed firsthand that the slave ships passing by were filled with human slaves, and no one knew which region of their race had suffered the disaster.

Among the crowd, Yan Liu remained silent.

"Boss, why don't you speak?"

After a brief conversation, the group turned their attention to Yan Liu, who had remained silent.

As the leader of this team, Yan Liu has already advanced to the fifth rank.

When they entered the territory of the weaklings, they also disguised themselves.

"I'm thinking that others treat our human race as sacrifices, killing and taking lives at will. Why don't we fight violence with violence?"

"Let's go hunt down the slave-hunting team!"

Yan Liu's eyes turned bloodshot. "The slave-hunting team is very wealthy. They can capture my human race, but I'll make them taste the sharper blade of the human race."

"Boss, but there are only a few of us. We can't even beat a small slave hunting team, can we?"

The group had already figured it out: even a small slave-hunting team had more than one fifth-level martial artist in charge, and its size was at least 10,000 to 20,000 people, with dozens of large ships.

Some slave-hunting teams are actually backed by powerful races.

"First, blend in, then slowly infiltrate."

At this point, Yan Liu looked at the other members of the alliance in the house.

"Hey guys, don't you want to advance to the fifth rank?"

A pair of blood-red pupils appeared somewhat eerie in the dimly lit stone house.

Yan Liu's words caused everyone to become excited.

Everyone wants to advance to the fifth rank, and even if they fail, they have to try to find out.

Seeing that everyone was interested, Yan Liu nodded. Although he had advanced to the fifth rank, cultivation beyond the fifth rank would require a lot of resources.

Currently, the alliance alone can only maintain basic cultivation. If we want to speed up cultivation, we need to find another way.

Cultivation is not just about refining source stones and precious medicines; it also involves going through battles.

Now that we've had the opportunity to leave the league, we should make a name for ourselves.

Everyone here has experienced positions within the alliance. Some of you came from the ranks of War Masters, while others came from various Palace Divisions. For example, Yan Liu came from the position of Punisher.

"Boss, shall we find a slave hunting team and infiltrate their ranks?"

Inside the stone house, several figures reached a consensus and began their own little plan.

First, find a way to infiltrate the small slave-hunting team, and then, while they are scouting or acting separately, coordinate with them to eliminate their manpower and resources.

Not only can they acquire resources for their own cultivation, but they can also disguise themselves as slave hunters and travel around the Great Wilderness to see where there are still human tribes.

Several hundred Alliance warriors came to Tu Shang Ancient City this time, and more than half of them chose to wait quietly for the next batch of Source Stones to arrive so that they could continue to purchase resources for the Alliance.

Of the remaining few, some began to travel in groups, while others started to find other things to do, gathering cultivation resources for themselves. A portion of them directly joined the Weakling race, preparing to continue investigating more of the Weakling race's secrets as instructed by the alliance, in preparation for turning the Weakling race into an alliance outpost.

Yan Liu had this idea because his cultivation path was fraught with blood curses, which made his personality even more fierce.

The group of slave hunters, with their brutal and bloodthirsty nature, were incredibly alluring to him.

The "Tiger's Lair Secret Technique" that Shen Can cultivated was also derived from the changes in Shi Jun, the leader of the Blood Curse Guard back then.

Over the years, in his spare time, Shen Can has also sorted out and improved many of the cultivation techniques and supernatural abilities he had derived back then.

After Yan Liu broke through to the fifth rank, he urgently needed fifth-rank beings as his accomplices.

Within the alliance, where would he find so many Tier 5 units to use?

When Shen Can was deducing the "Tiger's Buddy Secret Technique," he deduced that as long as enough buddy ghosts could be gathered, combat power could be continuously enhanced, giving one the ability to fight beyond one's level.

As a descendant of the Blood Curse Guard, Yan Liu led several Alliance warriors, some from the Blazing Flame Tribe and others from other tribes within the Alliance. Without exception, they all possessed wild ambitions and were unwilling to settle for a stable life.

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The clansmen and alliance warriors who came to Tu Shang Ancient City had various ideas for development, which Shen Can fully supported.

The Great Wilderness is so vast, it contains more than just the Giant Mountain Range.

Only when more people step forward can the Human Alliance become stronger.

The alliance still needs some time to stabilize its position in Tu Shang Ancient City.

I just don't know if the Holy Hou Clan will give us that much time.

Shen Can has been busy these past few days, constantly inquiring about various news within the ancient city of Tu Shang.

Every day, creatures come to this ancient city and tell stories of encountering the Holy Hou tribe, or of seeing the Dragon King or the Heavenly Fire Sparrow.

Meanwhile, the giant beast avatar returning to the Human Alliance did not encounter any Holy Hou warriors along the way.

This is enough to show that the previous decision to let the two sixth-tier beast kings go has stalled the Holy Hou clan.

But that's far from enough. After completing the small plan to expand Originium production, Shen Can is now thinking about a big plan to obtain more resources from the Tu Shang Ancient City.

After all, if the Holy Hou Clan really attacks the Human Alliance, who knows when this great war will end once it starts?

Don't let the younger ones get beaten up, and then the older ones pop out, drawing the attention of the other holy races in Tu Shang Ancient City to the Human Alliance.

It would be even better if we could make a fortune from Tu Shang Ancient City and accumulate enough resources for the subsequent grand formations in the Juyue Mountains.

Shen Can had already considered that after completing the second Yin Qi array, he would continue to build arrays for the Giant Mountain Range.

Theoretically speaking, if we continue to build one array after another, we will eventually be able to completely seal off the Xuan Bird.

Internally, they sealed off the Xuan Bird; externally, they resisted foreign threats, thus creating an immortal ancestral land.

The elder Daji, who came from the ancestral land of the human race, once said that the 'Great Ancestral Land' of the human race collapsed before the Shan Hai Calendar, and the current ancestral land of the human race in the Southern Region of the Eastern Wilderness is a part that migrated from the 'Great Ancestral Land'.

If the ancestral land keeps collapsing, can it still be called the ancestral land?
The ancestral land collapsed for only one reason: it wasn't strong enough.

Leaving aside the distant future, let's set a small goal: first, establish ten sixth-order grand formations in the Juyue Mountains.

If the Human Alliance had ten sixth-order grand formations now, Shen Can wouldn't bother coming to Tu Shang Ancient City with the Holy Hou Clan.

Given the current situation of the Holy Hou Clan, even with the seventh-tier elders not daring to go out, he is not afraid of the sixth-tier peak Holy Hou Clan.

To put it bluntly, the matter of the Holy Hou Clan going to the Human Alliance is still an internal matter of the Tu Shang Ancient City Alliance.

The major races within the ancient city of Tu Shang were embroiled in internal strife. Unable to defeat the other major races, the Holy Hou race turned its attention to the distant Human Alliance.

what is this?
The internal strife within the Holy Race has spilled over into the Human Alliance, which doesn't even have a seventh-tier race.

Based on this alone, if we don't earn more resources from the ancient city of Tushang, we'll be losing money.

After careful observation, Shen Can discovered that as the ancient city auction drew closer, more and more people from various ethnic groups were sending items to be auctioned.

As a large-scale auction, the lowest level of spiritual items that can be auctioned must be of the upper-middle tier of the fourth rank, and the rest are of the fifth and sixth tiers.

Based on past auction experience, each auction typically features hundreds to thousands of items, and sometimes the auctions last for several days.

Shen Can also discovered that although the ancient city of Tu Shang had strengthened its defenses because the Beast King had escaped.

In reality, this kind of defense was no different from having none at all for him.

The last time two beast kings escaped, Tu Shang Gu Cheng did not realize that it was because he had used a clone to break the spirit restriction.

The ancient city still has complete trust in the spiritual barrier that has been passed down for tens of thousands of years, and fundamentally does not consider the possibility that the spiritual barrier could be broken.

He trusted his servants completely, since the slave mark hadn't changed, which proved that the servants were absolutely trustworthy.

It's not that the spirit restriction is impossible to break; a seventh-tier expert could break it with a single touch.

However, the auction is aimed at sixth and fifth tier forces. These items are precious to sixth-tier forces, but are just ordinary items to seventh-tier forces.

This isn't Shen Can's previous life, where he was stuck with single digits despite having a six-figure income.

Under the guise of purchasing spiritual items, he befriended a fifth-rank deacon from the Xuan Lion Clan.

This fifth-tier steward named Xuanbin was a servant of Jin Zhutian, a sixth-tier expert of the Golden Two-Headed Lion Clan, and happened to be involved in the preparation of the auction.

Shen Can pulled some strings and got himself into their group.

For more than a month, Xuanbin did his work normally, reporting to his master as usual when it was time to do so.

Quiet room.

Xuanbin examined the emerald-green nectar inside the wooden jar, its rich, scattered aroma filling the room.

"Eternal Green Elixir, not bad. This stuff can be used as an auxiliary ingredient for the sixth-tier treasure medicine, Profound God Spirit Elixir. It can be put up for auction."

Opposite Xuanbin was a race whose entire body glowed with green light, shrouded in green raincoats, making it impossible to discern which race it was.

But the auction doesn't ask about race or background; people can dress up however they want.

As he spoke, Xuanbin took out a complete set of witch talismans, and together with the green light creature in front of him, activated the talismans and sealed the wooden jar with a spirit seal.

Then, he handed a jade talisman to the green-glowing figure in front of him.

"This is proof. After the auction, bring this jade token to collect the source stones left over from the auction. Our auction only recognizes jade tokens, not living beings."

"The merchants take 30% of the auction proceeds."

The visitor clearly knew the rules, accepted the jade token, and left.

Xuanbin picked up the wooden jar and left the quiet room. He walked through the long corridor and arrived at the outside of a grand hall within a barrier.

This is where the auction items are stored.

As the steward who collects spirit objects, Xuanbin is responsible for delivering them to the main hall for storage, as this is related to his 'commission'.

Otherwise, why would so many deacons want to participate in organizing the auction?

On the main hall's gate, countless shamanic runes flickered, outlining the shape of a tiger-like creature with nine large heads.

This is the Enlightened Beast, a guardian beast.

Xuanbin placed the wooden jar into the mouth of the Enlightened Beast, and instantly countless magical spirits activated, swallowing the jar whole.

Xuanbin squinted, quietly watching the countless magical runes that evolved from the beast shadows on the gate.

(End of this chapter)