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

The sun hung in the sky, dazzling and bright, for three whole days, attracting the attention of countless martial artists in the alliance.

Within the floating island, Shen Cantian's meridians were like mountain ranges, his bones like a great dragon, and as his blood and qi flowed, witch runes shone like stars. His body was like a furnace, as solid as a fortress. At this moment, witch runes appeared in every inch of his flesh and blood, weaving into a net-like pattern resembling a "star map." As Zui Zhen had said before, the strength of a seventh-tier combatant depends on two key factors: one's own abilities and the Dao of Heaven and Earth.

Assuming one's basic combat strength is one, and the resonance with the Dao of Heaven and Earth is a wisp, by using oneself as a medium to draw upon the Dao of Heaven and Earth to defend against enemies, the combat strength exerted will be ten.

If one's own combat strength is two or three, then when one resonates with a trace of the Dao of Heaven and Earth to defend against enemies, one's combat strength will be twenty or thirty.

Furthermore, beings who comprehend multiple Daoist principles will unleash a combat power greater than the sum of its parts when these principles are combined. The specific increase in combat power varies depending on the Daoist principle and the individual being; true combat power ultimately depends on the individual being themselves. The Silver Horned Beast King and the Crown Prince of Zhangshui, one tempering his physical body and the other attempting to master multiple Daoist principles, are both accumulating their own strength, albeit through different methods.

For a near-seventh-tier being, even if they can comprehend the Dao of Heaven and Earth, they can only grasp a tiny fraction of it.

Therefore, after comprehending the rules of Daoist philosophy, it is measured in "silk", "one thread", "two threads", and ten threads make one "cheng".

However, only by truly entering the seventh level and undergoing the baptism of heaven and earth lightning tribulation can one's comprehension of the Dao reach 10%.

Before this, my understanding of the Dao was only superficial.

Even now, Shen Can has not yet grasped the true essence of the Dao. Therefore, when he broke through to the late stage of the sixth rank this time, he focused on strengthening the tempering of his physical body.

Under his deliberate efforts, his physical body improved by more than double compared to before his breakthrough.

As the radiant glow surrounding him receded into his body, Shen Can's appearance reappeared.

The immense and unparalleled pressure from before had all been absorbed into his body.

After concealing his aura, Shen Can slowly sensed the changes within himself. He felt that as his physical body further improved, the level of his battle physique would also see a qualitative leap. The runes on his battle bones, with his spine at their core, became increasingly intricate, becoming the most solid support for his battle physique after its transformation.

Once the battle form is activated, these runes will transform into steel bones, enhancing the strength of the physical body.

If he were to encounter another sneak attack from the Ao Jin clan this time, he wouldn't need to make such a commotion to shatter that piercing golden needle. Facing the Fu Feng clan leader, he was confident he could deliver a few blows without shedding a drop of blood.

After getting up and stretching his body, Shen Can walked out of the stone hall and sat down cross-legged again on the edge of the floating island.

Inside the Divine Court, countless tiny characters, resembling fly heads, were written on the black Soul Sword, shimmering with dazzling light.

If one were to examine it with divine sense, one would discover that these shamanic characters are constantly changing, occasionally transforming into the images of various powerful beast kings in the Great Wilderness, such as Lu Wu, Kui Niu, and Zhen Long.

But this is only its appearance; countless scenes of cultivation, comprehension, and deduction are compressed together inside the Soul Sword.

These countless images were compressed into countless small swords, and finally, tens of thousands, even millions, of these small swords were condensed together to form this Soul Sword. Shen Can crafted this Soul Sword with the intention of achieving a decisive victory, sparing no expense and spending over twenty years to compress the memories and images of the Divine Court over the years into this sword.

Memories alone are not very dangerous, but when these countless years of memories are condensed to their extreme, they transform into ultimate killing power. Several days later, Shen Can took out the yellow clay tablet and immersed his mind in it once again.

In the real world, he broke through to the late stage of the sixth rank. Within the spiritual realm of this yellow mud tablet left behind by the three-headed tribe, he could also break through at the same time. Within the spiritual realm, Shen Can successfully cultivated the "Three Earths Fusion Technique" to the late stage of the sixth rank.

After cultivating the pure earth element technique, his body became as heavy as a giant mountain, far exceeding the weight of other races at the same level by tens or even hundreds of times. When cultivating this technique, in order to match the name of the Three Earths, Shen Can not only dressed himself as a three-headed person, but also made sure that all three of his heads matched the earth attribute.

There's nothing else to it, he's just a pure country bumpkin.

Within the realm of divine consciousness, Shen Can spent his days and nights with the members of the Three-Headed Tribe, cultivating himself and teaching them cultivation as well.

Every three-headed creature was incredibly robust, with broad shoulders and a thick waist, so large that a horse could run across its waist and a person could stand on its arm. They were clearly powerful beings. At first glance, they gave one a feeling of immense weight and boundless strength.

Inside the tribe, a bonfire burns as the three-headed tribesmen celebrate their bountiful hunt.

Shen Can mingled among the tribe members, drinking with several three-headed individuals. As night deepened, the tribe was deserted except for the flickering campfire; everyone was fast asleep on the ground.

He sat cross-legged in front of the campfire, quietly watching the flickering flames and then looking at the many figures sleeping on the ground.

At this moment, Shen Can had realized that while the "Three Earths Merging Temple Technique" was indeed a method tailor-made for the Three-Headed Clan, the Three-Headed Clan ancestor who left behind this technique had not truly reached the seventh level.

It was all the roar of an old being facing a seventh-tier natural barrier, a roar of despair.

This is evident from the fact that Rongliangong has many flaws and loopholes.

The ancient beings created this method, but they never actually practiced it, so they had no way to improve these loopholes and flaws.

It can only be described as a mortal spirit making a final sprint in the face of the cry of entering the realm of sainthood, using its last remaining light.

He transformed himself into a spark, hoping to bring hope to those who came after him to advance to the seventh rank.

With the unique talent of the three-headed tribe, pursuing the ultimate in earth elemental skills and comprehending the essence of earth elemental principles is a viable path. However, the path is not straight, but winding and full of potholes.

Unfortunately, the later inhabitants of the three-headed tribe could not navigate the uneven, winding, and potholed road, and in the end, this legacy fell into his hands.

Regardless, the three-headed elder who created the Rongsi Gong was undoubtedly an amazing genius, far surpassing Shen Can in deduction talent.

In this respect, Shen Can wouldn't bother arguing with a dead man about talent.

Their deductive reasoning skills are truly exceptional.

He's essentially standing on the shoulders of the old genius.

Shen Can immersed his mind in the realm of divine consciousness, following the conjecture of the three-headed clan ancestor who created the cultivation technique, and transformed the entire realm into a part of his own comprehension.

By this point, Shen Can had already explored all the conjectures of the Three-Headed Ancestor who created this method regarding his understanding of the Earth Element Dao.

Now, it should be said that Shen Can has integrated the conjectures of the Three-Headed Ancestor and begun to walk his own path.

This is different from the Thunder Roc Clan and the Crimson Flood Dragon directly manifesting the Daoist principles in the Divine Court. Instead, he adapted the problem-solving approach of the Three-Headed Ancestor to his own use and began to solve the core problem.

Sitting cross-legged in the Three-Headed Tribe, Shen Can repeatedly circulated the "Three Earths Fusion Forest Technique." Earthy-yellow light emanated from the three heads, and eventually, his entire body was enveloped in the earthy-yellow light.

The area affected by the earth's light grew larger and larger, beginning to engulf the drunken three-headed tribe in the surrounding area, gradually submerging the entire tribe, and spreading towards the surrounding vast mountains.

The mountains are lush and green, teeming with life. When the earth touches the light, there is no ripple of collision, only a slow fusion like mist and lightning. The earth bears this vast and profound forest, vast and heavy, bearing all things. Any living being can see it, but in the midst of life, any living being subconsciously ignores this scene.

Later, the earth light completely submerged the entire realm of divine consciousness.

On the floating island.

The yellow mud slab floating in front of Shen Can had ancient shamanic characters light up and then go out. Then, the yellow mud slab, which was as solid as gold and iron, began to shed soil particles.

However, the fallen dust was not blown away by the wind; it quietly piled up on Shen Can's robes as he sat cross-legged, weighing heavily on his body. Above the floating island, in the clear blue sky, earthen-yellow specks of light suddenly lit up among the floating Five Elements Source Power.

These yellow dots are inconspicuous, and even contain a few black, white, red and other colors, but they all exude the aura of earth.

Subsequently, this strange phenomenon began to expand outwards, growing from a few miles to hundreds of miles, and then continued to spread.

At that moment, Shen Can suddenly opened his eyes and his figure disappeared from the floating island.

After getting far away from the Giant Mountain Formation, Shen Can landed in an unknown wilderness, sat down on the ground, and closed his eyes again. The strange phenomena that had appeared on the floating island earlier began to spread outward from him once more.

Earth elemental energy glowed everywhere on the wasteland, drifting towards Shen Can.

This time, Shen Can sensed a connection with these points of light and felt a powerful pressure emanating from them.

This oppressive force surpassed even the very essence of life. When it touched him, it felt like his flesh was being burned, a stinging pain emanating from it. These were clearly the source of heaven and earth's energy, previously absorbed into his body as cultivation resources, yet now these specks of light were imbued with this oppressive force. At this moment, the specks of light began to penetrate Shen Can's body, entering like swords and blades, causing his flesh to crackle and his internal organs to vibrate, the stinging pain spreading throughout his entire body.

The stinging pain lasted for the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, then slowly began to dissipate. Shen Can understood that this was because his physical body had adapted to the Earth Element Dao Rhyme. Although he was now activating the Earth Element Dao Rhyme, in his perception, the source energy was still the same source energy light spots as before, only now imbued with the power of the Dao Rhyme.

This is quite amazing. Before he comprehended it, source energy was his daily cultivation resource.

Now that he has grasped the essence, the seemingly ordinary source energy he had previously sensed has suddenly transformed, giving him a feeling of not being able to see the true nature of Mount Lu. Shen Can is currently unable to understand how this transformation occurred.

Various elemental energies circulate between heaven and earth, and living beings can come into contact with them from birth. However, it is only after cultivating to this stage that they discover that it is different from what they knew. At this moment, after receiving the baptism of the earth element Dao, he felt that the strength of his physical body had taken another step forward.

This is the baptism a living being receives after comprehending the Dao. Of course, because the comprehended Dao is too thin, it hasn't reached the point of complete transformation. It can only be considered a preliminary adaptation. Only by undergoing a true tribulation of lightning can one's physical body be thoroughly cleansed and transformed from acquired to innate. The stinging pain is due to the barrier between the innate Dao entering the body and the acquired physical body, which requires a long period of adaptation.

Sitting cross-legged in the wilderness, Shen Can sensed the surging earth elemental energy around him.

In his divine sense, these wandering earth elemental energies were no longer in the basic state of light spots.

The movement between them also has a trajectory, and it can be seen that the adjacent earth element sources interact with each other, which is somewhat similar to the relationship between the primary star and the secondary star, but there are also many differences.

Looking at the other elemental forces of metal, wood, water, and fire floating around, we find that they float independently, colliding and circling each other without any pattern.

It's a complete mess.

Everyone was busy with their own thing, with no organization or discipline.

Looking at the Earth element source forces, there seems to be a mysterious force between them, outlining the trajectory of their operation.

"The Daoist principle is the fundamental rule governing the conduct of scholars."

At that moment, Shen Can had an epiphany: indeed, some things must be understood by oneself.

Even if he summoned the other warriors of the alliance now and clearly told them, they would only see chaotic and disordered Five Elements Source Power floating around. They would not be able to sense the interaction between the Source Power at all.

This situation is impossible to describe in detail because the laws governing the operation of the Dao are constantly changing.

Looking at it this way, it seems that the Weaver Girl and her reincarnated Qi Pu were seeing this kind of trajectory.

No, that's not quite right. It should be said to be the most basic operating trajectory. Further progress requires cultivation.

But this is also an immense blessing, equivalent to having a ticket directly to the gate of sainthood from the moment of birth.

No wonder the Weaver Girl's cultivation progressed so quickly; with the source power that operates the trajectory, her cultivation is truly different.

Shen Can suddenly realized that neither the Weaver Girl nor Qi Pu could achieve enlightenment beyond the seventh rank. To truly reach the seventh rank, they would need to gradually comprehend, just like other near-seventh-rank beings.

Perhaps in the eyes of many beings, such a feat of reaching the near-seventh rank in one step is remarkable, but in the eyes of the rules of heaven and earth, perhaps they are all the same. Without transcending the mortal realm, one is still mortal.

Below the seventh level, all are ants.

Larger ants and smaller ants are both ants.

Over the next few days, Shen Can kept changing his position to test the resonance between himself and the Earth Element Daoist Rhyme.

On the wasteland, he can resonate with earth elemental energy for about two hundred miles, but above the lakes and marshes, it's only about one hundred miles.

The range varies depending on whether it's in the jungle or the mountains, but the overall range is within two hundred miles.

Shen Can didn't think it was a lack. He had only just begun to grasp the Daoist principles. According to Duo Zhen's standards, he hadn't even comprehended a trace of the earth element Daoist principles.

In addition, he had tried several times to transform the resonant Daoist energy into his own combat power, but the results were not very good.

Back then, Ao Shan's sneak attack on him was merely a basic application of Daoist principles. To truly integrate it with his own cultivated supernatural abilities, he needed to further deduce and refine it. This is something the Dragon Clan couldn't compare to; the Dragon Clan has seven ranks, and their lineage has long been a systematic whole.

As for the human race, Shen Can would have to deduce it himself.

Including the Ao Jin clan, despite their distant kinship with the Ao Yin clan, the Ao Jin clan was actually not considered a significant force within the Ao Yin clan. Therefore, the Ao Jin clan did not possess any quasi-seventh-order Daoist divine abilities.

This level of martial arts supernatural power, like the quasi-seventh rank which is a transition from the sixth to the seventh rank, is also a transition between the sixth and seventh rank supernatural powers. Since it is a transition, it represents the process of moving from the mortal to the sacred, which is exactly the same as comprehending the Dao, and lies in the word "transformation".

To deduce a suitable Daoist divine power and then transform it into a seventh-order martial arts divine power, one would need an exceptionally talented old genius like the Three-Headed Ancestor.

Otherwise, it would require the accumulation of several generations of beings.