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

Chapter 394 The Holy Hou Clan in Action
Although he had been staying in Juyue for the past few years, Shen Can had always kept an eye on the affairs of Tu Shang Ancient City.

Whenever something happens, his clone, Xuanbin, will send a message back immediately.

In recent years, internal strife has been rampant in the ancient city of Tushang.

The Holy Hou race has been subjected to severe suppression.

For example, the Rabbit-Hou Clan and Silver-Patterned Clan under the Holy Hou Clan previously monopolized many resources by relying on the Holy Hou Clan's status in the ancient city of Tu Shang.

Some resources are special products of the two races, while others are purchased from other races and then sold in the ancient city of Tu Shang through them.

However, now, of the hundreds of resources that the Rabbit-Hound Clan and the Silver-Patterned Clan originally controlled, less than thirty remain, with the remaining shares being taken over by other races.

In addition to the replacement of resource channels, most of the positions of stewards and managers within the clan in the ancient city of Tu Shang have also been replaced.

If the vassal races are in such a state, one can imagine how bad the situation must be for the Holy Hou race, the overlord race, within the ancient city of Tu Shang.

Several elders and deacons were replaced by other holy clans, and control of several independent treasure pavilions in other surrounding regions was also taken away.

The ancient city of Tu Shang has outposts in hundreds of large cities and places in the southern region of the Eastern Wilderness. These places are either prosperous areas with many races or rich in resources, producing rare or high-quality resources.

Each outpost brings in substantial revenue every year, and some of its resources are even harder to acquire with Originium.

According to the rules, warriors from any of the five great holy races who are stationed in the outer regions can receive extra benefits and rare resources within the corresponding areas.

In reality, when they are dispatched to guard outlying regions, how could they really just collect and sell spiritual items according to the rules of the Chamber of Commerce?
The real profits come from private transactions.

In order to open up trade routes with the ancient city of Tushang, various races not only gave up large portions of their resources, but also used some of their special products that were not for sale as bribes.

If managed well, the extra income can be many times greater than the normal share of profits and resources.

Now that the qualification for overseas assignments has been acquired by other holy races, it actually represents a complete loss of control over the corresponding trade routes.

The Holy Hou clan is a large group. In addition to the ancestors needing resources for cultivation, all members of the clan also need resources for cultivation.

With such a significant loss of income, the cultivation levels within the clan will naturally decline.

As a servant of Jin Tianzhu of the Two-Headed Holy Lion Clan, Xuanbin's status was neither high nor low, and he also benefited from this game.

The Xuan Shi clan, whose members originated from Xuan Bin, obtained trade routes for two types of third-tier resources and one type of fourth-tier resources, all of which were seized from the Sheng Hou clan and its vassal races.

Don't underestimate these resources; they are consumed in huge quantities and can increase the Xuan Shi Clan's income by 40,000 to 50,000 fifth-tier source stones every year.

Even if a portion of it has to be handed over to the Two-Headed Sacred Lion Clan, over time it will allow the Black Lion Clan to produce several more fifth-tier members. Even the fifth-tier Black Lions, including those with black beards, can obtain more source stones for cultivation each year.

Once someone takes in such a benefit, they won't want to give it back.

The Holy Hou tribe and its vassal races, having lost their trade routes, receive one less batch of Originium each year, resulting in a net loss for one side.

The hundreds of slave tribes, vassals, and races under the protection of the Holy Hou clan are now affected and awaiting the Holy Hou clan's next move.

After all, everyone's been following you, and they've been starving for almost three days straight. If you, as the boss, don't step up, your underlings will lose heart.

……

What caught Shen Can's attention most was that the Holy Hou Clan's control over the Treasure Pavilion in the Zhangshui Dragon Kingdom had also been taken over by the Shuhu Clan.

This decision was made through the council of elders of the Tu Shang Ancient City Alliance.

Unless the Holy Hou tribe betrays the ancient city of Tu Shang, they have no choice but to obey orders.

Furthermore, several years have passed, and the Message Jade Token obtained from the Four-Armed Backed Tribe has still not lit up.

It's unclear whether the Holy Hou tribe trusted the Four-Armed Backed tribe completely, or whether they simply forgot about the matter due to the delay.

The Twin Wings Message Jade Pendant consists of two pendants that form a single unit, allowing messages to be exchanged only between the two holders of the pendant.

Shen Can did manage to see clearly the Holy Hou Clan returning from the golden ship, and after Xuan Bin confirmed it was Elder Yin Zhang of the Holy Hou Clan.

However, he was unsure whether the holder of the other communication token, which was paired with the Twin Wings Communication Token in the hands of the Four-Armed Back Clan Chief, was Silver Badge.

Previously, the Holy Hou tribe secretly traveled to the Juyue Mountains using the trade route from Tu Shang Ancient City to Zhangshui Dragon Kingdom as cover. Now, this trade route has been replaced by the Shuhu tribe.

This meant that the Holy Hou tribe lost the cover of the trade route when heading to the Giant Mountain Range.

However, even though the Holy Hou Clan is currently at a disadvantage, they still have many ways to conceal their journey to the Giant Mountain Range.

It's understandable that the delay was due to internal strife within the ancient city of Tushang.

However, there is a limit to how much time can be wasted. Five or six years have passed, and the Holy Hou Clan has not made a move, which makes Shen Can a little worried.

After five or six years, the Tongbei tribe did not send any messages back. How could the Shenghou tribe be so at ease?

Shen Can was worried that something unexpected might happen.

The longer it goes on, the greater the chance of problems arising, and even the problems he least wants to see may occur, such as the Human Alliance's formation being completely exposed in Tu Shang Ancient City.

It's important to understand that facing the Holy Hou Clan alone is different from facing the entire Tu Shang Ancient City Alliance.

The Holy Hou clan knew the mysteries of the human race's formations, and other races, once they received the news, were not fools and would also understand the mysteries of the human race's formations.

Given their long-standing tradition of viewing humans as food and sacrifices, these races could easily mobilize their forces to invade the Giant Mountain Range and capture humans as slaves.

Fortunately, after the aerial battle, the young master of the Tongbei tribe was captured but not killed, so that he could contact the Holy Hou tribe.

In order to control Tongbei Luoping, the young master of the Tongbei tribe, Shen Can transformed him into his fourth clone and took him with him to the ancient city of Tushang.

As you enter the territory of Tushang Ancient City, you will see a bustling scene of people coming and going.

Fleets and behemoths carrying resources from all over the world converged here from all directions.

Shen Can secretly stole the spiritual items from the auction, and the seventh-tier city of Tu Shang Ancient City took the blame, but it did not affect the trade situation of Tu Shang Ancient City.

Having a shop here, if managed properly, could bring a lot of resources to the clan.

Even if it's just a one-off offering of spirits, or even a periodic offering every hundred years, it still can't stop living beings from gathering here.

The infighting among the five great holy clans behind the merchants had little impact on most of the races that came here to do business; some creatures were even unaware of it.

After all, no matter how much infighting there was within the ancient city of Tushang, it wouldn't hinder the exchange of goods and resources among the creatures traveling between the north and south.

After entering the ancient city of Tushang, Shen Can first went to the Chanren tribe, summoned the alliance warriors, distributed the fourth-tier and third-tier source stones he had brought in batches, and then moved Tongbei Luoping to another place, settling him in a rented residence.

This guy's dantian was shattered back then, and even though it was repaired later, his combat power was difficult to restore to its original state.

Shen Can planned to first purchase the necessary minerals, and then have Luo Ping contact the Holy Hou tribe.

He had already prepared his explanation.

As for purchasing minerals that can carry divine consciousness, with Xuanbin as an inside contact, they already had several options in mind.

While minerals capable of carrying divine consciousness are rare in the Great Wilderness, they are not difficult to find in the ancient city of Tu Shang.

Just like how there are only a handful of sixth-tier beings in a clan, you can occasionally see them after arriving in the ancient city of Tu Shang.

These kinds of minerals that possess spiritual properties are mostly used by wizards.

This also made Shen Can think that if he could find suitable minerals, he could forge a real divine consciousness artifact to assist his Eternal Meditation Divine Power.

Arriving at the Tu Shang Bao Ge without any rush, Xuan Bin, one of the stewards, had just finished serving the previous guest.

Shen Can can't afford sixth-tier minerals right now. Even though he brought 130,000 fifth-tier source stones, that's only a 100% conversion rate to sixth-tier source stones.

That's only 1,300 Tier 6 Origin Stones.

However, sixth-tier spiritual items cannot be purchased with fifth-tier source stones. Of course, if you want to buy a fifth-tier spiritual item with sixth-tier source stones, the merchant guild will be happy to do so.

"Distinguished guest, these are samples of Azure Cloud Gold, Azure Soul Wood, Heavy Profound True Iron, and Evergreen True Jade."

After a proper exchange, Xuanbin brought Shen Can several kinds of fifth-grade minerals.

The minerals used by wizards are three to ten times more expensive than other minerals of the same grade, even for roughly the same quality and size.

After examining them, Shen Can selected two types: Azure Soul Wood and Evergreen True Jade.

Azure Soul Wood is a legendary mineral material that has been nourished with the blood of a Azure Phoenix and contains the soul of the Azure Phoenix.

This thing is not produced in the eastern part of the Southern Region of the Eastern Wilderness; it comes from the western part of the Southern Region.

A piece of fifth-grade low-level Azure Soul Wood was 27 zhang long and 3 chi thick, and was 3 fen heavier than a meteorite of the same size. Shen Can directly asked for the whole piece, priced at 90,000 fifth-grade source stones.

The Evergreen Jade is much cheaper. It is a spiritual plant called Evergreen Wood, which was buried underground for many years, petrified, and then absorbed the source power of heaven and earth to transform into it.

Shen Can asked for eight pieces of Evergreen True Jade of varying sizes, spending 45,000 fifth-tier source stones.

A single purchase brought in Tier 5 Originium from the Alliance, leaving only 3,000 coins.

The Merchant Alliance also gifted them an extra communication jade talisman.

This jade talisman not only offers discounts, but also has the ability to notify the holder of the auction's schedule.

Every auction in Tushang Ancient City is announced in advance.

Of course, this jade talisman is a foolproof one; it will only glow and heat up, and sometimes it may even cause a delay.

To this end, Tu Shang Ancient City would activate the jade talisman many times well in advance to ensure that more distinguished guests knew that an auction was going to be held.

Having purchased the two types of minerals, Shen Can returned to his residence in Tongbei Luoping.

This is a relatively outlying area of ​​the ancient city of Tushang, where you can vaguely see the Tushang Pagoda.

into the night.

The streaks of light in the sky continued unabated, and fleets of ships continued to pass by, making a rumbling sound.

However, the residence has an array that can isolate sound and block external divine senses from spying on it as needed.

Of course, this formation is not of a high grade, only fourth grade. It is good at soundproofing and guarding against external divine senses, but it is just a matter of chance.

Inside the main hall, Shen Can rearranged the concealment array, while Tongbei Luoping took out the Biyi Jade Talisman and a sixth-order source stone as energy.

These Tier 6 Origin Stones were also obtained from the Tier 6 members of the Tongbei Clan. The three Tier 6 members they killed back then only had a total of 2,700 Tier 6 Origin Stones.

As for the magical artifacts, some were broken and no longer usable.

At this moment, the beak of the lovebird opened and closed, and after absorbing the source stone, the bird pattern began to light up.

Then, Tongbei Luoping didn't move and just quietly waited for the connection to be established.

The lovebird pattern lit up for a long time, but unfortunately it dimmed again and did not communicate with the pair of jade pendants.

This scene left Shen Can speechless.

Subsequently, Tongbei Luoping was reactivated once more.

Logically speaking, this high-grade communication jade tablet from the ancient city of Tushang should have the smoothest communication.

Shen Can also used this opportunity to gain insights and upgrade the communication system of the Human Alliance.

hum!
As the patterns on the lovebirds lit up again, they transformed into a bird with one eye and one wing, hovering in front of him, its luster reflecting on Luo Ping's face.

Still no movement.

……

at the same time.

Deep in a vast, boundless wilderness.

The fog stretched endlessly, occasionally punctuated by flashes of lightning, and the mountains resembled giant beasts lurking within the mist.

The jungle here is incredibly wild and desolate, with the smell of decaying vegetation emanating from the ground, and poisonous insects appearing and disappearing in the shadows.

This is the northern part of the southern region of the Eastern Wilderness.

In the mountains, you can see some strange races living there, but there are more wild beasts.

Among some of the wild beasts, one can clearly see that they resemble dragons.

However, the dragon bloodline is somewhat diluted, resulting in a relatively shallow dragon appearance.

In a dense jungle, wild beasts roared.

"Moo!"

An old bull with dragon horns roared, its voice echoing for thousands of miles, its body engulfed in flames that soared into the sky, scorching the mountains and fields.

With a deafening roar, the Fire Dragon Bull, wreathed in flames, smashed through a mountain and crashed into a massive silver beast.

"You beast, you think you're so great at crashing, huh?!"

The Great Hou dodged the charge of the Fire Dragon Bull, but its body was still engulfed in flames.

It then stood upright, opened its mouth, and a bronze gui vessel flew out of its mouth, transforming into a thousand-foot-long vessel in mid-air.

The surface of the bronze vessel is covered with ninety-nine Qingyang Hou (mythical beasts).

At this moment, the ninety-nine Azure Sun Hou came to life, with the strongest of them reaching the mid-stage of the sixth rank and the weakest reaching the peak of the fifth rank.

The ninety-nine Qingyang Hou formed a stampede of beasts, crashing into the Li Huo Long Niu in one fell swoop.

"Moo!"

Fear flashed in the eyes of the Fire Dragon Ox, and its flames transformed into several fire dragons that charged forward.

However, the fire dragon was instantly torn to pieces by the Qingyang Hou herd in front of it, and the subsequent Qingyang Hou crashed into the fire dragon bull.

The immense impact sent the Fire Dragon Bull flying hundreds of miles away, smashing through several mountains.

Taking advantage of the situation, Silver Badge raised its claws, and a claw print with five sharp blades landed on the head of Fire Dragon Bull in the blink of an eye.

Click!

With a crisp sound, the skull of the Fire Dragon Bull was shattered by the Hou's claws, its sharp edge penetrating directly into its brain.

The Fire Dragon Bull, writhing in pain, burst into flames, its aura surging several times over, annihilating the charging Qingyang Hou herd.

The violent force, spanning hundreds of miles, sent the Qingyang Gui flying.

The entire bull began to charge wildly, crashing into several mountains and sending flames flying.

Seeing this, Yin Zhang put away the Qingyang Gui and quickly moved far away. A quarter of an hour later, the huge Li Huo Long Niu crashed into a giant mountain and collapsed with a thud.

After attacking the fallen Fire Dragon Bull several more times to confirm that the bull was completely dead, Silver Badge finally took it into his possession.

The fierce battle had filled him with murderous aura. If he hadn't used his ancestral witch artifact, it would have been very difficult to defeat this late-stage sixth-tier dragon.

After taking the Fire Dragon Ox, Silver Badge quickly disappeared from the spot, leaving behind a mess and a raging wildfire.

After flying all the way, he took out the Jade Couple Token from his magic bag.

"Yuanshan, you've brought back the human slaves?"

Yin Zhang spoke into the communication jade tablet, but the spiritual light on the tablet began to flicker and become dim.

This is a sign that communication has been affected. This place is located in the northern border of the southern region, more than hundreds of millions of miles away from the ancient city of Tu Shang, not to mention the even more distant Giant Mountain Range of the human race.

Given the vast distance and the fact that most of the area is wilderness, even the Biyi Communication Jade Token was affected. If it were an ordinary communication jade talisman, it probably wouldn't even be able to transmit the message.

"My lord, it is I. My father and the others have been attacked by the human race and are trapped in a sixth-order formation."

"My father and the others went to great lengths to find a weak point in the formation and managed to open a gap to send me out."

The humans acted quickly and immediately plugged the gap again, leaving only me to escape.

My father told me to contact the adults. If they go to the Giant Mountain Range, we can work together from within and without to break through the great formation.

Hearing the intermittent transmission from the communication jade tablet, Yin Zhang's eyes sharpened.

waste!

After all this time, not only have they failed to capture anyone, but they've also gotten themselves trapped.

The reason we haven't been able to contact Tongbei Yuanshan for so long is mainly because he's not in Tushang Ancient City.

Since he had left Tu Shang Ancient City, he should have left the communication jade tablet in the clan so that the other sixth-rank members of the clan could contact the Tongbei clan.

However, most of the Holy Hou clan's fighting force has now gathered in the northern wilderness of the southern region, and even the clan leader, who was severely injured, has quietly come.

The clan leader who remained in the clan was merely a figurehead.

Even the clan leader has come to the North. Leaving the jade token for contacting the Tongbei clan to an ordinary sixth-rank member within the clan is meaningless.

If anything happens, there will be an additional relay notification process, which will only make things more troublesome.

Therefore, he carried the jade pendant with him at all times in order to contact the Tongbei tribe.

In case of any situation, they can directly communicate with the clan leader to make the next steps.

As for why they came to the North, it was naturally for the seventh-tier dragons here.

Compared to the Black Bird, which hides itself in the deepest and most boundless places, the dragons deep in the northern wilderness do not possess the same abilities as the Black Bird.

As the second strongest fighter in the clan among the uninjured sixth-tier members, second only to the young master, Silver Badge has fought countless battles in the depths of the wilderness over the past few years.

The Tongbei tribe did not contact him, which he assumed was because the Qingyang Mirror was in charge and they had already broken through the human race's formation, and were busy capturing the scattered humans.

The Tongbei tribe has been very well-behaved and reliable in doing things over the years, following the Shenghou tribe.

I thought the Tongbei tribe wanted to resolve everything and give him a surprise.

Unexpectedly, he had been holding back his feelings for a long time, and ended up getting himself into trouble.

After traversing millions of jungles, Silver Badge entered a barrier deep within a valley.

Within the barrier, there are many Holy Hou race members.

A piece of animal hide floated above the wound of the Holy Hou Clan Chief, shimmering with spiritual energy that locked the aura emanating from the wound inside.

"Clan leader, the Tongbei Clan has sent back a message: they are trapped in the human race's formation."

Just as the Holy Hou Clan Chief was about to say that the Tongbei Clan had finally finished their work, Yin Zhang's next words immediately made him frown.

“Clan leader, the Tongbei Clan is trapped, so we need to send additional creatures to the Juyue Mountains. Isn’t that a bit too deliberate?”

The silver seal spoke.

Following the disappearance of the spirit creature, the other four races in the alliance intensified their ostracism towards the Holy Hou race.

Even the patriarch had no choice but to come out of seclusion and meet with the patriarchs of the other four clans.

Under increasing pressure from the other four races, the Holy Hou race had no choice but to change its strategy.

Temporarily abandon the human race's formation and choose to protect the ancestor at all costs!

They planned to use the human array masters of the Giant Mountain Range as bait to attract the attention of the other four races in the Tu Shang Ancient City, while secretly capturing the seventh-tier dragons of the Northern Lands as soon as possible.

To make the story seem more believable, the Holy Hou Clan stopped sending messages and even stopped sending warriors to the southwest.

The purpose was to let the other four races dig for themselves, making them think they had uncovered the Holy Envoy Clan's scheme.

After all, only what you find yourself is truly convincing.

Given the current situation where the four tribes are pressing forward step by step, it shouldn't be long before they uncover the Holy Hou tribe's arrangements in the southwest.

Originally, the return of the Tongbei tribe with the human race was expected to be a good opportunity, but unexpectedly, the Tongbei tribe, which had always been cautious in its actions, failed.

(End of this chapter)