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

Chapter 396 Breaking the situation
Within the starlight, Shen Can stared at Yin Zhang, who was clutching his head and screaming in agony, and his expression was shaken.

His move of "Sitting in Oblivion for Eternity" was actually just a test, and its power was about the same as when he dealt with the sixth-level Tongbei Clan.

Dealing with the core sixth-tier beings of the Holy Hou Clan is not as easy as dealing with the Tongbei Clan.

First of all, Shen Can was certain that there must be a restriction within the divine sea of ​​the silver seal.

Just like the group of warriors sent by the Human Alliance to Tu Shang Ancient City, they all had spiritual restrictions placed on their heads, in order to prevent being captured by alien beings and having their souls searched, thereby exposing too much of the Alliance's internal affairs.

Now that the Holy Hou Clan is facing a life-or-death crisis, one can only imagine how many secrets Yin Zhang, a core warrior of the Holy Hou Clan who has rushed back from an unknown distance, carries.

In that case, how could there not be a spiritual restriction in Yin Zhang's divine sea?

This test confirmed Shen Can's judgment.

If he were to mobilize millions of years of deduced images and forcibly invade the Silver Badge's divine sea, it would likely trigger the spiritual restrictions within his divine sea, causing his soul to be completely destroyed.

At that point, his plan to extract more information from Yin Zhang would have completely failed.

While Yin Zhang screamed in agony, Tongbei Luoping quickly disappeared into a cloud of starlight and mist.

Silver Badger's two front paws, which were holding his head, landed. He felt a sharp pain inside his head. He forced himself to use his divine sense to scan the surroundings and found Luo Ping's figure in the starlight.

"You wicked creature, how dare you betray my Holy Hou clan!"

Luo Ping's words just now startled Yin Zhang.

This statement implies a great deal, and may even expose the Holy Hou Clan's plans in the North.

Of course, it's also possible that only Luo Ping was bribed by the Fire-Slaying Clan.

After all, Luo Ping had stayed in Tushang Ancient City alone for nearly two years.

Damn it, how could I have forgotten to perform a soul search?

Yin Zhang now deeply regrets not having searched Luo Ping's soul before coming here.

They were still influenced by the Thongpai people's usual diligent work attitude, and thought that the Thongpai people were loyal and honest.

Right now, he needs to capture Luo Ping and perform a soul search to confirm the facts.

Then, the silver scepter rushed towards the place where Luo Ping had disappeared, bringing with it a large amount of star power.

Within the starlight, beastly shadows roared, and one after another, the phantoms of wild beasts solidified, attacking his direction.

Upon seeing this, a silver light emanated from Yin Zhang's body, sweeping in all directions like crashing waves, blasting countless beast shadows wherever it passed.

In an instant, the starlight within a radius of thousands of miles was leveled by the silver light, and the figure of the silver seal swiftly passed through this area.

hold head high!
One after another, true dragons of stars emerged from the starlight, each two to three thousand feet in size, crowding all directions, baring their fangs and claws as they fell toward the silver medal.

These were all attacks manifested by Shen Can controlling the grand formation.

When he learned of the Holy Hou Clan's probing, he deliberately reduced the range of the great formation by tens of thousands of miles, setting up a series of array traps.

Today, these preparations fell to Silver Badge.

But trapping Silver Badge is just the beginning; figuring out the memories within Silver Badge's divine sea is the most important thing.

When Shen Can found the magical artifact Jinze in the underground cave, he obtained the Bone Alchemy Technique from this being who created the artifact.

Jinze was trained step by step in the Bone Alchemy Technique under the guidance of the Shallow Sea Clan's master. By the time he realized something was wrong, Jinze himself had already become a witch artifact.

Shen Can drew inspiration from the art of bone alchemy and, after much deduction, used an array as a cover to set up this trap for Yin Zhang.

As Yin Zhang breaks through the formation step by step, following Luo Ping's 'guidance' will implant a 'gate' into his divine sea.

At that time, Shen Can will have the opportunity to bypass the spiritual restrictions in the Silver Badge Divine Sea through this door.

Although this method had been deduced dozens of times and was highly feasible, Shen Can still held his breath and focused his attention on guiding the silver seal to break the formation when he actually put it into practice.

His consciousness merged into the great formation, hidden beneath the starlight and various attacks.

Luo Ping deliberately brought up the Fire-Slaying Clan before, also to shake Yin Zhang's mind.

The reason for using the Yanhuo Clan as a front is simply because among the five great clans of Tushang Ancient City, the Yanhuo Clan has the longest history.

Sure enough, when Luo Ping mentioned the Yanhuo Clan, Yin Zhang's spiritual sense fluctuated greatly.

Now they're relentlessly pursuing Luo Ping.

Furthermore, in order to allow the silver seal to absorb the five elements' source power, Shen Can also dispersed much of the star power in this area to prevent the silver seal from being bound by the star power.

……

Roar!
A roar came from Silver Badge's throat, turning into the sound of howling wind.

At this moment, he transformed from a leopard into a silver giant.

Its entire body shone with silver light, and each hair was like a silver needle, piercing in all directions, creating countless holes in the ferocious dragon's divine form.

The silver light intensified, and a beam of light shone from the silver badge, transforming into a giant beast engulfed in scorching silver flames, charging forward.

Wherever the silver flame beast passed, the surroundings were dyed silver, and it smashed the dragon shadow blocking its way.

As the shattered dragon shadow exploded, countless magical spells lit up, densely packed like stars.

Silver Badge smashed through these spiritual barriers without any hesitation and charged straight ahead.

Before long, Yin Zhang had broken through dozens of array attacks and traveled tens of thousands of miles within the array.

"A sixth-order grand formation is nothing special. Let's see how many layers your formation has!"

Within the silver light emanating from the silver badge, a surge of azure energy rose, and the blood energy surged like a vast ocean, causing the beast shadows and the witch spirit barrier to explode continuously.

At this moment, he had roughly figured out the mystery of the formation in front of him, which relied on the power of the stars.

The magical restrictions in each area are connected to those in the next area. Once you find the boundary, a single strike can double the effect.

hum!
Beams of light descended from the sky, carrying immense power, instantly blasting the silver badge away.

However, he was not seriously injured. He turned around, stood up, and shattered the pillar of light. Then he opened his mouth and spat out a blue flame.

As the flames rolled, they transformed into the form of a Azure Sun Hou, tearing apart a void filled with surging starlight and shattering the spiritual barrier revealed behind the starlight.

The countless spiritual restrictions transformed into starlight, enveloping Yin Zhang, but he paid no attention and continued forward.

Finally, as they walked, beyond the swirling starlight clouds ahead, blurry mountain peaks appeared and disappeared.

The mountains are majestic, with lush green vegetation growing on them, but they are difficult to see clearly under the veil of starlight and mist.

Upon seeing the green mountains, Yin Zhang was overjoyed, wondering if this meant they were about to break through the formation.

He had traveled all the way here, breaking through formations that stretched for hundreds of thousands of miles, roughly the width of the mountain range.

The human race's formations are good, but ultimately they're still a bit lacking!
Roar!
After a roar, the silver badge transformed into a behemoth over two thousand feet in size, its four legs trembling like giant pillars as it stepped on the earth.

The surging blood energy within him was as powerful as a giant wave, and its azure light even obscured the starlight in all directions.

Even with falling pillars of light and manifested beast shadows in the array ahead, he still raised one large foot, carrying an intense pressure, and stomped forward.

"Break it for me!"

Silver Badge's foot was powerful enough to shatter mountains; with each step, the terrifying force crushed starlight and beast shadows.

The mountains, vegetation, and trees within the formation were all reduced to dust.

Rumble!
The explosive energy began to sweep in all directions, linking with the surrounding arrays, and the fluctuations spread rapidly into the distance like ripples.

From above, the area around the silver seal, the center of the grand formation, was engulfed in a surge of energy, with the swirling starlight and spiritual barriers turning into vortexes.

Silver Badge's silver fur danced wildly, and the Azure Yang power originating from its bloodline burst forth, spreading a blue light over tens of thousands of miles.

At this moment, Yin Zhang still maintained the posture of one foot out and head held high.

Ah!
But the next moment, his massive body convulsed violently, and suddenly, specks of spiritual energy appeared on his body, crackling and popping.

Then, the silver medallion, still in its original position, crashed down from the sky.

With a deafening roar, the mountains shattered, sending dust and smoke flying everywhere.

At the height of the Silver Badge's power, Shen Can made his move, opening the door that had been successfully implanted in the Silver Badge's divine sea, and the technique of "Sitting in Oblivion for Eternity" struck its soul like lightning.

The silver seal, which had stirred up the turmoil in the world, lost control of its vital energy and blood, and its body immediately stiffened and crashed down like a stone.

A burst of azure light shattered the turbulent energy across the sky, and the Azure Sun Mirror, shimmering with countless witch runes, flew swiftly and hovered directly above Silver Badge's head.

The slightest disturbance will trigger an attack on the Silver Badge by the Azure Sun Mirror.

Then, Shen Can emerged from the formation, his steps a little unsteady, his face dull and lifeless, looking as if he had exhausted all his energy.

This is due to a lack of energy and spirit.

This time, the number of deductive fragments released by his "Sitting in Oblivion for Eternity" technique was not the largest, but it almost exhausted all of his mental energy.

Seeing that the silver seal landed still and that its spiritual energy did not dissipate like it had before with the Tongbei tribe, Shen Can finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The timing was perfect; it severely damaged Yin Zhang's consciousness without causing his soul energy to leak out and stimulate the spiritual restrictions within his sea of ​​consciousness. After pulling Yin Zhang out of the turbulent energy, Shen Can entrusted the rest to his disciple, the Snow Weasel Beast King.

He took the silver seal and entered the cave that had been prepared in advance.

The cave contained a pre-arranged array that isolated internal and external energies.

After taking the healing pill, Shen Can did not sit down to rest, but instead once again mobilized his divine sense to sense the divine sea of ​​the silver seal.

The precious pills that heal physical injuries are less than one-tenth as effective at nourishing the soul, but they still have some effect.

Shen Can's face regained its radiance, and she felt much better.

Within the divine sea of ​​the silver seal, a coiled Azure Sun Hou floated, as if asleep.

Under the perception of divine sense, the entire Qingyang Hou is composed of hundreds of millions of tiny shamanic runes.

If you forcibly search the soul of the silver seal, you will first touch the seal on this Qingyang Hou.

The reason we didn't touch the spiritual barrier this time was mainly because there was a spiritual barrier flickering at the tail of the coiled Qingyang Hou, which lifted the tail up a little.

Having recovered somewhat, Shen Can began to peruse Yin Zhang's memories.

Although the number of deduced fragments injected into Yin Zhang's body this time was not the largest, it was still more than 700,000 years old.

So many fragments, like celestial maidens scattering flowers, rushed into Yin Zhang's divine sea and merged with his memories.

At this moment, Yin Zhang's divine sea is like a pot of egg drop soup. The soup is the deduction fragments that Shen Can injected, and the egg drop is Yin Zhang's original memory. The two have been merged into one.

Otherwise, it would have been impossible to cause a sixth-tier powerhouse to crash.

It's because his own spiritual memories have been diluted to an extremely low level, making it difficult for him to react in time.

With the Silver Badge's Divine Sea in chaos, it became somewhat difficult for Shen Can to access the Silver Badge's memories.

His memories were completely jumbled up, a jumble of childhood and sixth-order memories, incoherent and chaotic, and he needed to piece them back together.

Shen Can didn't rummage through the Silver Chapter Divine Sea, but instead extracted all the fragmented pieces one by one and pieced them together.

This is a very tedious and boring process.

Fortunately, once he has extracted all the memory fragments, he can hand them over to others to piece them together.

However, it took Shen Can more than a month just to extract the fragmented memories of the silver seal from his divine sea.

There was no way around it; the egg pieces were too fragmented, some even turning into dust, and they had merged with the deduction fragments he had inserted.

Given this fusion, even if Silver Badge were to wake up, he would become mentally impaired.

Subsequently, Shen Can entrusted this matter to the Weaver Girl, asking her to reorganize Yin Zhang's memories.

He then breathed a sigh of relief and took a short break.

As for the silver seal, people were also arranged to guard it and keep an eye on the spiritual barrier in its divine sea to see if any problems would arise.

The seal on the Azure Sun Hou in the Silver Chapter Divine Sea is completely different from the servant mark that Shen Can deciphered before.

First, the Qingyang Hou's seal is not only of a higher grade but also more sensitive. Most importantly, this seal is essentially a form of protection, not just preventing soul searching.

The servant mark is of a lower rank and has long been a complete system in the ancient city of Tu Shang. The focus is on the master's control over the servant. If the master wants, he can not only control the servant's life and death, but also make the servant's life worse than death.

……

When the goddess of the Weaver Girl's consciousness entered the jade slip, she was astonished by the extent to which the fragments of memory within were broken.

This isn't just broken; it's utter chaos.

She didn't rush to piece it together. Instead, she sat cross-legged behind the table, rested her chin on her hands, and pondered for a long time before leaving her residence.

Her residence was situated atop a towering peak, thousands of feet high, offering a direct view of the seven stars in the northwest.

Over the years, for the convenience of her cultivation, the Weaver Girl also created seven corresponding points on the peak using meteorites.

She waited quietly until nightfall, and after the Northwest Seven Stars lit up, the Weaver Girl sat cross-legged among the meteorite stars on the high peak.

She held the jade slip in front of her and muttered incantations. In her perception, the seven corresponding stars in the sky shone brightly.

Seven beams of light descended from the sky and landed precisely on the seven corresponding stars on the mountain peak.

At this moment, the seven stars formed a miniature star map, and the starlight began to move within the miniature star map, enveloping the Weaver Girl within it.

The Weaver Girl's divine sense was released and enveloped the seven star points.

She released a portion of the memory fragments she sensed from the jade slip using her divine sense, spreading them out within the Seven Star Chart.

She muttered incantations, and amidst the bright starlight, fragments of memory began to move rapidly within it.

……

Two months have passed in the blink of an eye.

Shen Can woke up from his rest, and most of the fatigue in his mind disappeared.

Seeing that the Weaver Girl had not come to report during her rest period, he knew that she had not yet finished sorting out the fragments of her memory.

The memories of a sixth-tier powerhouse, spanning thousands of years, are still so fragmented that restoring them will not be easy.

Shen Can temporarily refocused his gaze on Yin Zhang, pondering that if he wanted to take Yin Zhang as an avatar, he might have to reduce the number of avatars.

The silver badge is, after all, a sixth-order item, and there is also the Azure Sun Hou Spirit Restriction in the Divine Sea, making it even more mentally taxing to control.

His divine sense surrounded the silver seal, sensing the Azure Sun Hou's spirit barrier.

This spirit barrier manifested in the form of a Qingyang Hou, which was quite similar to the spirit barrier of the Kaiming Beast that had been broken before.

After observing the Qingyang Hou spirit barrier, Shen Can began to deduce its nature.

Two days later, the Weaver Girl arrived with the reassembled memory jade slip.

"Temple shrine, this is the memory I've pieced together. Some parts are a little incomplete, but the important parts are not missing, so the continuity of the memory can be guaranteed."

The Weaver Girl brought several jade slips, and she understood that Shen Can did not want to see Yin Zhang's cultivation process when he was a child.

The important parts of the pieced-together memory were placed directly in a separate jade slip.

Shen Can grabbed the jade slip, immersed his divine sense into it, and immediately found the information he wanted.

"In the southern wilderness and the northern lands, a seventh-tier fallen dragon."

"The Holy Hou Clan Chief, along with most of his people, has been in the northern lands for quite some time."

The pieced-together memories left Shen Can somewhat silent.

The worst-case scenario has indeed come true; Silver Badge's purpose in coming here is to have the human race draw the firepower of the other holy races.

To make it look more realistic, we've been working on it discreetly the whole time.

According to their latest plan, after Yin Zhang comes to the Juyue Mountains to retrieve the Qingyang Mirror, he will inadvertently reveal the power of the human race's formation, drawing the attention of the other four holy races to the Juyue Mountains.

Meanwhile, the Holy Hou Clan will focus their efforts on capturing seventh-tier fallen dragons in the northern lands.

Yin Zhang came here this time to implement this plan.

As for the specific purpose of capturing the Fallen Dragon, Silver Badge had no recollection of it.

It wasn't that this memory was deleted, but rather that Silver Badge didn't know the specifics either.

Yin Zhang only knew that if he could capture the Fallen Dragon, the crisis of his Holy Hou clan could be resolved, and his ancestor's lifespan could be increased.

It turns out that the reason why the entire Holy Hou tribe went to the northern lands this time was because the auction items in the ancient city of Tu Shang were stolen last time.

All five holy races suspected that it was a seventh-level member of another holy race who personally intervened.

After all, only a seventh-tier being can silently open the Enlightened Beast Spirit Restriction.

As a result, the seventh-tier members of the five great holy races even met once.

It was after encountering this situation that the seventh-level ancestor of the Holy Hou Clan could no longer sit still and personally went to the Northern Frontier.

According to the Holy Hou Clan's speculation, the theft of the auction items was orchestrated by the other four Holy Clans in order to force their Holy Hou Clan's ancestor to appear and observe his condition.

As living beings age, no matter how great they once were, when their lifespan is about to end, they will inevitably exude an aura of decay.

This aura was even more impossible to conceal from the patriarchs of various races who were also at the seventh rank.

In the eyes of the Holy Hou Clan, the other four Holy Clans are all suspected of taking action.

Shen Can hadn't expected that the five great holy clans of Tu Shang Ancient City would be so fiercely scheming against each other. This was no longer a merchant alliance; it was practically a free-for-all where the weakest would be the one to sit on the table.

This is still a tradition of Tushang Ancient City.

That's how the Holy Hou Clan rose to power, replacing another Holy Clan and becoming one of the Holy Clans behind the ancient city of Tu Shang.

(End of this chapter)