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

Chapter 383 Origins of Internal Strife
As he walked out of the Tu Shang Bao Ge, Xuanbin greeted his colleagues as usual, and everyone went about their business as usual.

After a sixth-tier being patrols the treasure hall, the Enlightened Beast Spirit Restriction will not be reopened for a short period of time.

Xuanbin returned to the quiet room with such a large number of spiritual items, and just then received another being who came to deliver spiritual items to the auction.

This time, it's a fifth-grade, high-quality earth-elemental spiritual object called Yaoyue Shengrang. This kind of spiritual object is very helpful in cultivating fifth-grade precious medicines and can accelerate the aging of the medicine.

After examining the spiritual object, Xuanbin, following the usual procedure, placed Yaoyue Shengrang into the treasure hall.

He didn't plan to intervene in any more spiritual objects that came his way.

Two days later, Xuanbin accepted an invitation to dinner from a fellow member of the Bronze Lion Clan. When the two went to a high-end restaurant, Xuanbin quietly passed a magic pouch to Shen Can.

Shen Can did not investigate on the spot. Instead, he disguised himself as a merchant and left the ancient city of Tu Shang. After circling around the other directions of the ancient city, he headed southwest.

After leaving the territory of the ancient city of Tushang, they traveled for more than ten million miles through mountains and fields, and finally entered a dark and dense forest of hills.

This area is an ancient and uninhabited place, with many poisonous insects, snakes and ants in the forest. This jungle is the only way to travel from the ancient city of Tushang to the Juyue Mountains.

If you go around in other directions, not only will the journey be longer, but you will also have to detour through the territories of other races.

On the contrary, although this area looks primitive and has many poisonous insects and snakes, there are no beast kings above the fifth rank. Races from the southwest that come to Tu Shang Ancient City will pass through here.

The giant beast's clone also opened a cave here, so that it could know as soon as possible whether the Holy Hou Clan had moved south.

After settling in, Shen Can suppressed his excitement and examined the contents of the magic bag.

When one's divine sense enters the witch's pouch, one can see that within the pouch's space, streaks of spiritual light flicker, resembling a small galaxy.

Each of these spiritual objects is sealed with shamanic inscriptions.

There are a total of 1,037 items.

This quantity is more than the total amount of some auctions that Xuanbin remembers.

The auction is still two months away, yet so many items have already been collected. According to Xuanbin and the other stewards' conversation, the reason there are so many spiritual items is related to Shen Can.

He released the two beast kings, which drew more attention from living beings to the auction. With more living beings paying attention, it was easier for the spirit items to be both popular and expensive once the auction began.

As a result, many creatures saw this opportunity and brought out their treasured possessions, hoping to earn more money at the auction.

Xuanbin knew that more people had come to bid, but before entering the treasure hall, he had no idea how many spiritual items were inside.

Inside the witch's pouch space, the sunflower seeds, blazing like fire and swaying, still emitted a crimson-gold light despite being sealed by a spiritual barrier.

This seed possesses the most intense spirituality of all spiritual beings, and its quality is also the best.

However, just as I had heard in the food pavilion, this thing is not easy to grow and requires a constant supply of solar energy.

Often, before the sunflowers even bloom, the species may be wiped out by disaster.

The Human Alliance actually has a slight advantage in cultivating this sunflower seed.

Shen Can's grand-disciple Yan Chong has spent many years researching how to safely draw upon the power of the sun. His master was even injured while saving him.

The power of the sun can be drawn, but it mainly consumes minerals. No minerals can be continuously bombarded by the power of the sun, and the current array for drawing in the power of the sun simply cannot withstand it.

However, the formation that draws upon the power of the sun is not entirely without its drawbacks.

The True Fire of the Sun, derived from the power of the sun, is the most intense and scorching flame in the Great Wilderness. Looking across the entire Great Wilderness, only the Golden Crow can directly control the True Fire of the Sun.

This is the best flame for smelting ores.

Yan Chong has been researching the power of the sun for many years and is still researching it now. His original intention was to combine the array for drawing in the power of the sun with the smelting workshop, and use flames infused with a little bit of the power of the sun to further refine the ore.

The ore refined in this way can improve the quality of the ore alloy, making it stronger and more fused together.

Besides the sunflower, the witch's bag also contained thirty-seven fifth-tier witch artifacts.

There are two sixth-tier magical artifacts: a cauldron and a gourd.

There are six fourth-tier magical artifacts. These six fourth-tier magical artifacts are all very distinctive, and two of them are even used to assist in cultivation.

One of the magical artifacts, called the Seven Poison Pearls, can assist in the cultivation of poison techniques. Its surface is marked with animal patterns such as poisonous scorpions and poisonous toads.

There are 279 fifth-order spiritual items, such as Earth Pneumonia Essence, Longwood Mica, and Xuan Yang Blazing Jade.

The five items are: Star Sand (a sixth-tier spiritual item), Three Thousand Dews of Weak Water, Baxia Dragon Stele, Three-Legged Golden Toad Tongue, and Heavenly Mandate Yarrow Turtle.

Stardust is fine sand containing the power of stars. Despite its high grade, it is not widely used except for crafting certain special magical artifacts.

The Weak Water Three Thousand Dews are formed by combining the essence of water from the depths of three thousand great rivers, creating a water-based spiritual object that helps creatures with affinity for water advance to the sixth rank.

The Baxia Dragon Stele is the name of Baxia, one of the nine sons of the dragon. Also known as Bixi, he likes to carry things on his back, and his descendants have inherited this trait.

Over time, the object on its back became one with the dragon's body, and could be used directly as a magical artifact, or it could draw upon the dragon's power.

The Three-Legged Toad Tongue is not actually a toad's tongue, but a metal-elemental spiritual creature that can only be born in sixth-tier mineral veins. It is the essence of metal and can help metal-elemental beings break through to the sixth tier.

The Heavenly Mandate Yarrow Turtle is a powerful item. Divination is prevalent among many races in the Great Wilderness, and this item is used to predict good and bad fortune. If used properly, it can even "defy fate" and turn bad luck into good.

There are 343 pieces of fifth-order mineral materials, ranging in size from the smallest, Wan Chen Han Jin, to the largest, which weighs tens of thousands of kilograms.

The largest copper mine at Shouyang Mountain is as large as a small mountain a hundred feet high.

Twenty-seven volumes of esoteric texts, from different races.

Similar to what Jinze said, there weren't many cultivation techniques. There were four volumes of fifth-level cultivation techniques, but they were incomplete, and it was unknown where they came from.

In addition, there are forty-seven other items, including miscellaneous animal bones, precious blood, and rubbings.

As for the remaining 288 items, they are all precious medicines.

Among them are thirteen fourth-tier precious herbs, all of which can be used as auxiliary ingredients to make fifth-tier precious herbs.

Twenty-one sixth-tier precious medicinal plants.

There are seventeen kinds of finished precious pills, and the rest are fifth-grade precious medicines.

Special medicinal herbs from different races, such as the jellyfish flower of the shallow sea tribe, which is shaped like an umbrella and has long tendrils underneath; it is a water-based medicinal herb.

The Cangjing Root, originating from the distant Cangwu tribe's territory, is a precious medicine with earth attributes.

Although the precious medicines from different tribes are different, their properties and medicinal effects are also different. After being prepared by shamans, they can become various kinds of precious pills.

The Everlasting Elixir that Xuanbin had previously collected was among them; it was one of the auxiliary ingredients for preparing the Mysterious Spirit Elixir.

The Mysterious Spirit Elixir can allow someone in the early stage of the sixth rank to break through to the middle stage of the sixth rank.

Similarly, although this medicine can only be used as an auxiliary medicine for the sixth rank, it can be used as a main medicine for the fifth rank, allowing the mid-stage of the fifth rank to break through to the late stage of the fifth rank.

There were finished pills inside the treasure hall, which Shen Can was unaware of before Xuanbin entered the hall.

The various ethnic groups that came to bid all brought precious medicines, and these finished pills were made by the shamans of the ancient city of Tushang.

Unexpectedly, the sixth-tier members of Tu Shang Ancient City placed the finished precious pills into the treasure hall before the auction.

Shen Can opened one of the jade bottles, which contained a precious pill called the Advancement Pill. This was an advancement pill used by most races to advance from the fourth to the fifth rank, and each pill cost between two and three thousand fifth-rank source stones.

Shen Can sensed that this kind of Spirit Enhancement Pill was still somewhat incompatible with the human race.

The main problem is that when they were refining this elixir, they didn't take the human race into account.

In a vast wilderness with so many races, although martial arts cultivation leads to the same goal, there are still differences between beings of different races.

Humans observe wild beasts to cultivate themselves, which, to put it bluntly, is somewhat similar to the cultivation system of wild beasts.

Of course, it's not that humans can't use it; at least the potency is sufficient.

Compared to pills that break through realms, precious pills that break through minor levels within a realm are not as particular.

Of the seventeen kinds of precious pills, only the Jinling Pill can help one break through to a higher realm.

There are several types of pills that can help one break through a minor realm, including the Xuan Yang Pill, Yun Miao Pill, Huo Lie Pill, and Bai Ling Pill, which allow one to advance from the early stage of the fifth rank to the middle stage.

Among them, the Hundred Spirit Pill is more expensive and is suitable for all attributes. The others depend on the individual's race and cultivation level.

There are three types of precious pills that can advance a player from the mid-stage of the fifth rank to the late stage of the fifth rank: Bai Gui Dan, Zhen Yang Dan, and Yao Hong Dan.

As for the pills that can be taken in the late stage of the fifth rank, there is only one type, called the Hundred Fusion Pill.

The purpose of this pill is to regulate the body and help the late-stage fifth rank quickly advance to the peak of the fifth rank.

There are actually no thresholds for the minor realms from the late stage to the peak of the fourth, fifth, and sixth tiers. Once a living being advances to the late stage of a realm, most can grind their way to the peak through persistent effort.

The so-called peak is the critical point for advancing to the next level.

Someone like Shen Can, who has advanced to the late stage of the fifth rank, is actually no different from the peak of the fifth rank. If he didn't have any concerns, he could have advanced to the sixth rank.

However, advancing to the next realm often involves a holistic concept for the living being; it can only be achieved when the body's essence, energy, and spirit are completely intact and without any flaws.

The Hundred Fusion Pill is designed to help living beings overcome their flaws and achieve perfection.

In addition, there is a special elixir called the Heavenly Eye Pill, which is used to assist in cultivating pupil techniques.

The rest are healing pills.

This batch of precious pills contains ten of each type, except for the Hundred Melting Pill and the Heavenly Eye Pill, which each have only one of each.

If we calculate that each pill is worth an average of 2,000 fifth-tier source stones, this batch of precious pills alone would be worth more than 300,000 fifth-tier source stones, and its actual value is estimated to be more than double.

The entire batch of spiritual items sold for over five million source stones.

While breaking the spiritual restrictions on the spiritual object, Shen Can also suppressed the excitement in his heart.

Previously, I thought we could add dozens more Tier 5 members to the Human Alliance, but now I think about it again.

not enough!

The mere fact that this batch of elixirs and precious pills was sent back to the alliance, and that they were secretly studied and repurposed, would be enough to enable a hundred people to reach the fifth rank.

Within a few decades, there may be a few more late-stage fifth-order cultivators.

As for this batch of fifth-tier spiritual objects and ores, they can be used as materials to add to third-tier ores to smelt fourth-tier alloy metals, serving as resources for creating the third layer of the formation.

Of course, using so many Tier 5 materials as additives to upgrade low-tier minerals is a bit too wasteful.

Fourth-order formations can be used to combine with sixth-order formations, but if you want to upgrade a formation to the seventh order, fourth-order formations are somewhat weak.

Theoretically speaking, as long as there are enough array bases, even a seventh-order array is possible.

However, adding better Tier 5 minerals as the mainstay of the formation also has a significant effect on improving the formation.

Shen Can planned to take it back to see the specific situation. Anyway, the clan was currently seeking to purchase mineral resources in Tu Shang Ancient City. As long as the source stones were supplied, the third and fourth-tier ores would be available in a continuous stream.

……

More than half a month has passed in the blink of an eye. Above the vast jungle, the giant beast's clone hides in the quicksand layer, looking down.

In the distant sky, an enormous golden warship was traveling in a southwest direction.

With the auction in Tu Shang Ancient City imminent, races from the southwest are heading towards Tu Shang Ancient City. Those traveling southwest from the direction of Tu Shang Ancient City are immediately listed as suspects by the clone.

The sixth-tier treasure ship, with its high speed and menacing aura, only aroused more suspicion.

Although he didn't see any markings of the Holy Hou Clan, Shen Can still came out of his hiding place and began monitoring the golden ship together with the giant beast clone.

On the large ship, a figure enveloped in an earthy yellow light sat cross-legged at the bow.

It has four limbs and arms, stands two zhang tall, and its withered body contains powerful energy.

The Four-Armed Tongbei tribe lives north of the ancient city of Tushang, and their territory is not within the territory of the ancient city of Tushang.

This race was previously an insignificant small race in the southern part of the Eastern Wilderness, but over the past ten thousand years, its strength has gradually increased, and it has become a sixth-tier race.

Inside the golden treasure ship, Yin Zhang lay cross-legged, with a bronze mirror floating in front of him. On the back of the mirror was a statue of a Qingyang Hou (a mythical beast).

Strands of scorching blue light fell from the mirror and entered his body.

This is one of the three sixth-tier ancient artifacts passed down in the clan.

The purpose of bringing him along is to break the human formation in the Giant Mountain Range and capture the human who controlled the formation, as well as those who built it.

After research within the clan, it was discovered that even if the human race's formations did not reach the seventh rank, they would still be of great use to the current Holy Hou clan.

The young master of Silver Moon is now being targeted again. If he can capture a human as a slave, he can secretly build a sixth-order formation.

The other clans already knew about the ancient artifacts of the Holy Hou clan, but they might not know about the formation.

Just like catching the Heavenly Fire Sparrow, we can launch a fierce counterattack against the sneak attacker. If we can trap it in the formation, even if only for a breath or two, the outcome might be very different.

Two days later, the silent Silver Badge was suddenly awakened, and the Jade Pendant for communication between the Wings lit up.

"return!"

From the lit jade tablet, the cold voice of the Holy Hou Clan Chief resounded.

"Clan leader, what's wrong?"

Silver Badge was taken aback.

What's going on here?
It was agreed that he would head south to the Juyue Mountains, and he had put in a lot of effort to make the Four-Armed Backed Tribe bypass the attention of the other four tribes.

"Something went wrong at the auction."

"Damn it, the seventh-tier members of the other races have no shame at all, and personally took the auctioned spiritual items."

"This is an attempt to force our Holy Hou clan's ancestor to show himself, so they can see his condition."

(End of this chapter)