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

Chapter 387 Seclusion and Digestion
The young master of Tongbei shouted wildly, but his voice became hoarse, and the communication jade tablet remained unresponsive.

In the short time that the young master of Tongbei called for help, the two remaining large ships of the Tongbei tribe had landed near the Tongbei.

Meanwhile, the allied fleet's warships surrounded the three Tier 5 ships in mid-air.

Just when the young master of Tongbei was in despair, the jade pendant suddenly lit up.

"father."

The young master of Tongbei was overjoyed.

"Come and save me!"

"Your father is here."

Suddenly, an unfamiliar voice sounded from the communication jade tablet.

In his extreme panic, the young master of Tongbei subconsciously ignored the problem of sound.

Amidst the numerous warships, a small, golden vessel emerged.

It was the sixth-tier gold ship that Shen Can had captured before, but the Alliance had added a witch cannon to it.

But at least you can still recognize what it originally looked like.

Upon seeing the golden ship, the young master of Tongbei immediately went from being terrified and trembling to becoming excited.

"father!"

"Dad's here!"

However, the golden ship suddenly flashed with golden light and crashed into the Tongbei.

Click!

The protective array shield guarding the Tongbei was completely shattered into scattered energy upon impact, striking the Tongbei warriors inside the ship.

With a look of bewilderment in his eyes, the young master of Tongbei was slammed heavily into the large ship by the burst of energy, and the sound of his bones breaking echoed within his body.

"Pfft!"

All four arms were torn apart, and blood gushed from their mouths.

"This is impossible!"

Despite being severely injured in the attack, the young master of Tongbei regained his intelligence amidst the chaos.

It's true that the golden ship belongs to our own people, but it also has magical artifacts similar to those on other large human ships.

"This is impossible!"

A terrifying thought popped into his head.

Dad is gone!
Didn't you say you were here to capture human slaves?

We agreed on this when we came.

Why can't we go back?

Aren't humans all incredibly weak, with inferior magical artifacts, and completely at the mercy of others?
Are these people even human?!
Rumble!
At that moment, the protective shields of the other two Tier 5 ships were also shattered by the witch cannon.

Yan Jiang appeared at the highest point of the Xin Huo warship, waving a flag.

One after another, figures swooped down from the warships and rushed toward the breached ship.

In the sky above, the fourth-tier beings who had jumped off the Tongbei Clan's large ship were surrounded by the Alliance's fourth-tier warriors.

The third-tier Tongbei tribe members who survived the earlier crash on the large ship were also being hunted down by Alliance soldiers.

From the sky to the ground, everywhere you look, you see figures locked in combat.

"kill!"

The warriors on the alliance side already knew before the war that these Tongbei tribesmen had come to break through the Giant Mountain Formation and capture them as slaves.

If a fight breaks out now, there will naturally be no mercy.

Without a strong leader, the Tongbei tribe was completely defeated, and many members of the Tongbei tribe prostrated themselves on the ground and surrendered.

"I'm willing to pay with my life!"

When the young master of Tongbei was brought back, he immediately shouted.

"I am willing to use treasures to redeem my life and the lives of several fifth-level elders."

"I suppose my father must have fought against some of the strongest among your human race."

The young master of Tongbei, whose four arms were severed and whose divine treasures were forcibly shattered, cherished his life very much.

After a brief moment of panic, his will to survive surged.

Even though he was severely injured, he felt that as long as he could go back, he could still help him recover.

The clan's sixth-tier golden ship has fallen into the hands of humans, and it's likely that his father and another sixth-tier elder in the clan have also fallen into human hands.

The young master of Tongbei had no idea that his father was already dead.

After all, he's a sixth-tier expert; he's not so easy to kill.

Most of them, like him, were suppressed by the human race.

Yes, don't humans have formations?

They must be trapped by a formation.

If we let them go back, we'll make the human race pay back double next time.

The warriors of the human alliance were somewhat surprised to hear what the young master of Tongbei said.

Can it still redeem one's life?

It's no wonder they were so ignorant, after all, they had been trapped in the Juyue Mountains and had little contact with the outside world.

"You don't want the other tribesmen?"

Yan Jiang asked a question.

"There aren't that many treasures."

The young master of Tongbei was also very decisive.

Fifth-tier warriors are the backbone of the clan. As long as there are fifth-tier warriors in charge, ordinary clansmen can reproduce again in a certain amount of time.

Without the fifth rank, the clan wouldn't even have time to reproduce.

Despite the support the Tongbei tribe receives from the Shenghou tribe, this support is neither unlimited nor unconditional. The Tongbei tribe still has to deal with surrounding enemies.

“If you want to exchange people, that’s fine too. My Tongbei tribe has a group of lowly human slaves. If you want them, you can exchange them.”

The young master of Tongbei looked at the human warriors standing around him. He had been defeated by this group of humans, and that was undeniable. He could only admit that these humans were somewhat stronger.

"Take him away and lock him up."

At this moment, the battle on the battlefield was not yet over, and Yan Jiang did not ask any more questions. He let Tian Ji and another fifth-level general of the alliance, Tongbei Shaozhu, take them away.

"Boss, why not just kill him? Guarding him is a waste of manpower. You don't actually believe his nonsense about redeeming his life, do you?"

Yan Jiang glared at the brother who had spoken up, "What are you killing? Have you forgotten what the temple spirits like to do most?"

"Oh, right, right, if anyone should be killed, it should be the temple priests who do it."

……

In the sky, the second elder of the Tongbei tribe and several other Tongbei warriors, who were fighting against the fifth-tier members of the alliance, saw the sixth-tier golden ship, and their fighting spirit dropped by half.

The Second Elder swung his four arms violently, and the magical artifacts on three of his arms were flung out, exploding into bursts of energy in mid-air.

With only one fifth-tier magical artifact remaining to protect himself, the Second Elder rushed into the distance the instant the other fifth-tier magical artifacts exploded, leaving behind the remaining members of his clan and starting to run away alone.

Lu Wu, the leader of the Kui Niu tribe, Kui Yang, the Snow Weasel King, and others who were besieging the Second Elder were directly blasted away by the violent energy and crashed to the ground.

Just as the Second Elder had fled to the edge of the distant mountains, a beam of starlight fell from above his head, and he screamed as he crashed down from the sky.

Once they realized what was happening, Lu Wu, Kui Yang, and the other beast kings rushed over and surrounded the Second Elder again.

Another great battle broke out, and the mountains collapsed amidst the collision of energies of water, fire, and earth.

With the Weaver Girl providing strong support from the side, Crimson Fire Lu Wu finally struck the Second Elder of Tongbei on the shoulder with one claw, fracturing his shoulder bone.

Seizing the opportunity, the leader of the Kui Niu transformed his single leg into a pillar of heaven and stepped on the Second Elder's head.

Thus, this late-stage fifth-tier powerhouse from the Tongbei tribe was killed by a combined attack from several early- to mid-stage fifth-tier beings in the alliance. Of the remaining fifth-tier Tongbei tribe members, only two were severely injured and captured; the others were killed.

Of the twenty-odd fifth-tier fighters from the alliance, only Weaver Girl and the Snow Fern Beast King were unharmed, while four were severely injured. The most seriously injured was Yan Song, whose divine treasure had shattered, his beast form had cracked, and blood gushed from the hole in his abdomen.

Fortunately, with their superior numbers, no fifth-tier cultivators perished.

The fifth-tier battle was over, but the fourth and third-tier battles were not. The Alliance soldiers sealed off the nearby jungle and began to clear out the remaining Four-Armed Backed Tribe soldiers.

One by one, the destroyed airships and large ships began to be gathered together.

The boats brought by the Tongbei tribe were all at least fourth-tier vessels.

Although the Alliance looked down on the style and construction methods of these ships, the materials used to build them were all genuine fourth- and fifth-tier minerals and spirit wood.

These things are of excellent quality, whether they are recycled or used as materials for building formations.

In addition, the Tongbei tribe's weapons, armor, and shamanic artifacts also constitute a significant amount of resources.

……

Subsequently, the good news spread throughout the alliance, and the captured Tongbei tribe prisoners of war were escorted back to the alliance's main city.

The fallen Alliance warriors were sent to the Temple of Heroes, and some prisoners of war were sacrificed there.

This grand ceremony attracted people from various tribes gathered in the Giant Mountain to watch.

Correspondingly, the news that the Tongbei tribe was trying to capture humans as slaves spread quickly within the alliance in this way.

To put it bluntly, the human alliance in the Giant Mountain Range is too isolated.

Even though it was passed down orally and they experienced the enslavement of humans by tribes like the Mujiang and Tulou, they still didn't have much interaction with the outside world.

Our understanding of other ethnic groups is actually insufficient.

Meanwhile, the new generation that has grown up in the Alliance has benefited from the Alliance's favorable conditions and has never suffered oppression from other races.

There used to be Xiaoyang and Tulou near Juyue, but now there are no alien tribes around.
It's fair to say that the league's real crisis is yet to come.

Previously, the alliance was too weak, and even the slave hunting team was too lazy to pay attention to it. No one bothered to deal with a group of human ants in the remote mountains who were almost not even at the fifth rank, especially since they were ants in someone else's seventh-rank backyard.

Things will be different after that.

The Giant Mountain Humans have grown up, become capable, and are now ready to be served at the dinner table.

Outside the Temple of Heroes, the stench of blood had not yet dissipated, and the priests were cleaning up the remains of the four-armed Tongbei tribe outside the temple.

Behind the main hall of the Temple of Heroes is a formation, within which a spirit tree shimmers with azure spiritual light, its massive roots resembling a small mountain.

This sacred tree is the one that was taken from the Mujiang tribe after they were wiped out, and that humans used to perform sacrifices on it.

For years, this sacred tree, whose main trunk had been cut off and only its massive roots remained, had been trapped here.

Over the years, a tree trunk several meters tall has grown back from the location of the stump.

The reason why the spirit tree wasn't destroyed back then was because Shen Can coveted the Mu Jiang tribe's method of using the tree to control human tribes.

Of course, Shen Can didn't want the effect of the Mu Jiang tribe; he wanted a different effect, which was to make this tree a medium connecting the alliance and various departments.

Previously, due to insufficient strength, it was not easy to subdue it.

Shen Can also tried to use the "Forever Forgotten" technique on it, but the spirit tree was different from flesh and blood beings, and he couldn't find the core 'spiritual intelligence' of this spirit tree.

After being unearthed, most of the spiritual energy of this spiritual root was left dormant.

As a result, Shen Can has not yet subdued it.

After trying again, Shen Can stepped out of the formation, knowing he could only try again after successfully advancing to the sixth rank.

This time, they wiped out the Tongbei tribe, the lackeys of the Holy Hou tribe, achieving a great victory.

Three sixth-tier and fifth-tier prisoners were captured and nine were killed. One thousand two hundred and forty-seven fourth-tier prisoners were killed or captured.

According to the confession of the Tongbei tribe prisoners of war, a total of 1,500 fourth-order warriors came.

Of the few hundred or so fourth-tier soldiers, a large portion were likely blasted to smithereens by the artillery fire, while a small number probably managed to escape capture.

There were a total of one million Tongbei warriors on the two hundred and forty-three boats of various sizes.

If it were a normal battle with all troops lined up, these million Tongbei tribe members would really have a good slaughter.

However, the battlefield was in the air, and most of the Tongbei warriors hadn't even had a chance to use their skills before the battle was over.

The Alliance's artillery fire shattered the bodies and minds of the sixth-tier race's soldiers.

As for the young master of Tongbei's proposal to redeem himself, it was naturally impossible to accept.

These are not two races that collided by chance and ended up fighting each other.

The Tongbei tribe came under orders from the Shenghou tribe, and there is no possibility of reconciliation between them. Releasing them back would be tantamount to releasing a tiger back into the mountains.

Through the young master of the Tongbei clan, Shen Can also learned that the two sixth-level Tongbei clan members he had killed were the only two sixth-level members of the Tongbei clan.

He found the communication jade tablet that connected him to the Holy Hou tribe in the shaman's bag of the Tongbei tribe chief.

The jade pendant is intact, and all communications are normal.

However, it never lit up, which clearly indicates that the Holy Hou Clan has not contacted the Tongbei Clan.

Come to think of it, although the Holy Hou Clan warriors returned, they left behind a sixth-grade high-quality Qingyang Mirror and three sixth-grade warriors to assist them. How could the human race's great formation not be broken?

Of course, there is another reason: the ancient city of Tu Shang is currently very busy and cannot pay attention to the human alliance at the moment.

With so many auction items disappearing, they suspected that a seventh-level insider was behind it, and they were now mutually suspicious and restraining each other.

But this kind of thing can't be spread. As a merchant guild that has stood for many years, if the spiritual items sent by other races for auction mysteriously disappear, who would dare to trade or participate in auctions here in the future?

Once you lose your reputation, it's very difficult to get it back.

Therefore, the ancient city of Tushang asked a seventh-level ancestor to take the blame.

The seventh-level ancestor issued a decree: those who have gained insights into cultivation need a large number of spiritual items to cultivate the secret method of all spirits in the world. All spiritual items currently available in the treasure pavilions, shops, and auction houses within the ancient city of Shanggu should be presented to the ancestor for selection.

All those selected will receive additional rewards.

Other races and creatures that travel to and from the ancient city of Tushang may also offer their gifts if they are willing. The ancestor does not consider the grade of the spiritual items he needs, but only the affinity between them.

First came the ancestral decree, then the Ancient City Chamber of Commerce of the Disciples stepped in to appease them.

The auctioneer compensated the spirits of the consigned items and stated that if there are any items consigned for auction in the future, Tu Shang Ancient City will no longer charge a commission.

Shen Can hadn't expected the patriarch to take the blame.

He always felt something was wrong. Why did even the treasure pavilion and shops have to hand over spiritual items?
Could this ancient city of Tu Shang be using this as an excuse to pull off a 30/70 profit-sharing scheme?

Of course, even Shen Can has no say in this.

After appeasing the outside world, internally, although a seventh-level ancestor took the blame, the ancient city of Tu Shang was also undergoing major changes.

The positions of elders within the Tu Shang are fixed, and they manage different affairs. The more elder seats the five holy clans hold, the greater the benefits they can obtain.

Unfortunately, Xuanbin's position was only that of a steward, so he didn't know much. What he could tell at the moment was that the internal conflicts within the Tu Shang Ancient City had intensified, with various clans vying for the elder's seat.

For the Human Alliance, the longer this clash and struggle lasts, the better.

Ideally, it should take twenty or thirty years. By then, the Human Alliance will have fully utilized these resources. As long as it's not a seventh-tier being involved, the Human Alliance will be invincible.

Shen Can handed over the medicinal herbs and precious pills he had obtained from the ancient city of Tu Shang to his clan for research, hoping to develop a precious pill suitable for human advancement and cultivation.

Previously, during Shen Can's time in Tu Shang Ancient City, his grand-disciple Yan Chong made a breakthrough in the research on arrays for drawing in the power of the sun, successfully drawing in some of the sun's power and integrating it into the arrays of the forging workshop.

The forging workshops of the Human Alliance are now able to transform third-tier ores into fourth-tier quality by introducing a small amount of solar energy.

The alloys forged from the refined ore are stable at the mid-grade level four, with a few reaching the high-grade level four.

This time, Shen Can plans to use the newly acquired materials to completely upgrade the forging workshop and improve the quality of the materials used in the blast furnace and the solar energy-guiding array.

To stabilize the produced array materials to the fourth-tier superior grade, or even the fifth grade.

In this way, the two-tiered formation established in the Giant Mountain Range can be updated and upgraded.

Replace all the most basic third-order array bases with fourth-order array bases, and upgrade the array to the sixth-order superior grade.

At that time, even if a peak sixth-order being attacks, we will have the strength to fight back.

Having made these arrangements, Shen Can selected more than a dozen spiritual objects containing the mark of the Beast King from the spiritual objects he had retrieved, and began his seclusion.

(End of this chapter)