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

Giant Mountain Range, Alliance Hall.

The magnificent hall is adorned with seventy-two pillars carved with the sun, moon, stars, and many legendary mythical beasts, and countless shamanic inscriptions that resemble stars.

Huotang stood near the gate, gazing silently at the scene inside the Alliance's main city.

Volcano stood to the side, touching his bald head and frowning.

After a long silence, the volcano spoke, "Why can't this world be a little more peaceful? My human race never intended to cause any more trouble."

News has come back from the City of Ruins.

A sixth-tier race has its eyes on the Alliance personnel in the Ruins City and has secretly captured over a hundred Alliance humans.

It takes nearly a year to travel from the Human Alliance in the Giant Mountain Range to the City of Ruins, even by taking the Alliance's Tier 6 treasure ship.

For ordinary living beings, this vast distance is impossible to traverse in a lifetime.

But for a sixth-tier power, that's not a very long time. Their caravans often travel long distances, sometimes taking over a decade to complete a single journey. In these past few decades, the alliance has only just begun to expand its reach outwards, painstakingly supporting numerous human communities in various regions—and this is barely getting started. At this moment, Huotang withdrew his gaze from the volcano and said, "Will the flood wait until you're fully prepared before it comes?"

Although he was old, his shout echoed throughout the hall.

"Faced with the possibility of floods that could come at any time, we who once lived in the mountains and forests hunted and gathered more, dried meat into jerky, hid grain in dry caves, and collected witchcraft medicines to prevent plagues from all over the place."

At that time, although it was uncertain whether they would survive the flood, no one slacked off; everyone tried their best to live.

"Everyone says times have changed, and the Blazing Flame is no longer a small, uncivilized tribe, but in my eyes, it's the same. There's never been a time for complacency." Yan Jiang replied, "The old clan leader is right; the tribespeople have been preparing all along."

"From the day my alliance was formed, we have been preparing for this day to come."

Then, before Huotang and Huoshan could speak, Yan Jiang continued, "Elder Chief, Elder Chief, I am preparing to go into seclusion to break through to the sixth rank."

As Yan Jiang spoke, his aura surged, and his spirit reached its peak.

He was already at the point of breaking through to the sixth rank, and with the Alliance's top-tier resources as cultivation supplies, he should have advanced to the sixth rank long ago if it weren't for the numerous trivial matters and affairs he had to deal with.

Huotang walked towards the outside of the main hall, his voice carrying far away.

"We're getting old, we can't keep up anymore. After your promotion, it's time to pass the leadership of the Horde and the Alliance to you."

"Alright, I'll handle things within the alliance first. You don't need to worry too much about the Ruins City."

The volcano-like figure stepped forward and patted Yan Jiang on the shoulder, saying, "Just focus on your breakthrough."

Yan Jiang said, "There's still time. I won't need long to break through."

He estimated that he would break through in about two months, at most no more than half a year.

"Chieftain, I have made detailed arrangements regarding the City of Ruins."

The jade slip containing the inscription was sent to your desk yesterday. I imagine the clan leader, returning from the mountain academy today, has not yet seen it. I have also presented a copy of the same jade slip to the temple.

As for the rest, I can arrange them after I advance to the sixth rank.

As Yan Jiang spoke with Huoshan, the jade slip he sent to Shen Can contained a detailed record of the number and scale of battles between the human and alien races in various territories during the alliance's vigorous development over the past few decades.

Volcano was taken aback when he heard Yan Jiang say that.

He suddenly realized that for the past few decades, he had really been a hands-off manager, leaving all the affairs of the alliance and the clan to Yan Jiang. Every few months, Yan Jiang would report the matters to him. At first, he would take a look, but later he stopped.

Because Yan Jiang is indeed doing a much better job than him; he is now focusing most of his attention on nurturing the young people within the alliance.

Over the years, his position as the leader of the alliance has only been a figurehead; he only needs to leave his mark on the edicts when he needs to use the seal or issue decrees.

Thinking of this, Volcano subconsciously raised his hand and patted Yan Jiang's shoulder again, feeling that he hadn't done a good enough job as the clan leader and alliance leader. Then, Yan Jiang told Volcano about the arrangements he had made.

From the moment the alliance established itself in the ancient city of Tu Shang, he understood that danger would not wait for the human race to grow up before it arrived.

Although he didn't know why humans had become food and sacrifices for so many other races, he knew that as the influence of the human alliance grew, the corresponding dangers would also increase exponentially.

Who knows, one day an unexpected enemy might emerge.

As the old clan elder said, even when they braved the scorching heat and hardships to open up the mountains and forests, they never forgot to prepare for famine and disaster.

The human alliance, having emerged from the mountains and forests, would naturally never forget this.

For decades, the Alliance Chief Volcano has entrusted him with all the affairs of the Alliance, allowing him to do things freely.

While Yan Jiang was focused on the development of the alliance, he didn't neglect his preparations for the upcoming match.

After hearing Yan Jiang's arrangements, Huoshan nodded and said, "Thank you for your hard work."

He didn't feel there was anything wrong with listening to Yan Jiang as an elder and clan leader. It wasn't that he hadn't studied, but his aptitude was limited, making it somewhat difficult for him to maintain order. Fortunately, the new generation within the clan had grown up.

It's time to hand over this position.

He was really happy.

The two walked out of the main hall one after the other and headed towards the side hall.

In recent years, the side hall has been further expanded, forming a palace complex that directly incorporated the Bureau of Communications.

Inside the stone halls, many figures were busy at work. Hundreds of people were responsible for relaying messages and recording information between the various territories. They were also compiling statistics on the specific situation in each region and arranging the transmission of the alliance's teachings.

"League Leader!"

Upon seeing the volcano, many passersby bowed in reverence towards it.

Standing in the central arena surrounded by halls, the volcano opened its mouth, and the order was given: "Order the war envoys to immediately proceed to the Falling Moon Wasteland, Xunyang Mountain... and other locations to spread the word. All warriors and wizards of rank four and above who receive the Alliance's decree shall join the Alliance's war corps."

The human territories that the Human Alliance has found have all seen considerable development over the years thanks to their support.

Of course, it's still far behind the core area of ​​the alliance here in Juyue.

But this does not mean that manpower cannot be drawn from various places.

Although Volcano may not be capable enough to lead the alliance to expand effectively, he has served as the alliance leader for many years, not to mention that he has been constantly learning.

The purpose of drawing personnel from various regions to join the battle division was naturally to jointly address the crisis facing the alliance.

The emergence of a sixth-tier force secretly capturing humans in the City of Ruins is just the beginning of this crisis.

As time went on, the Alliance sent out Firebearers to support the human races in various regions, and these regions were gradually developing.

Especially after the promotion of martial arts training, my qi and blood have been steadily improving, much better than before.

It can be said that the alien races' spying on the Alliance's human race is just the beginning. In the future, as the human races in these regions develop, they will also become targets for the alien races. By now, the human beings in the four states of Yong, Dai, Mu, and Yun within the Alliance have undergone earth-shattering changes compared to the human races in other regions.

Even someone who can't cultivate anything can, through daily practice of external skills, achieve second-tier strength in twenty or thirty years. Perhaps it's because the Alliance has an array that converts stellar power into the five elements' source energy, resulting in abundant source energy and allowing for such a transformation in just over two hundred years. However, the source energy in some human territories isn't too bad; it's just that life wasn't as stable in the past.

With the support of the alliance, the alliance's current situation will eventually mirror the situation of other territories in the future.

Yan Jiang had a deeper understanding. He knew that the human race was a unified whole, and in the Great Wilderness, surrounded by external enemies, only by uniting as one could the human race develop.

Gathering some warriors from the territories to fight alongside the alliance is equivalent to broadening the horizons of the local human race and making them aware of the predicaments they face in the Great Wilderness.

Long before the Alliance sent out its messengers to spread the word, they carried with them an illustrated record compiled by the Alliance, which they took with them to tribes large and small. The record described many aspects of human life in the Great Wilderness and was taught to everyone when the written language was standardized.

But for many small human territories, their world is just this nearby jungle, and some haven't even encountered many other races. What you see on paper is never enough; you have to experience it firsthand.

These people fight alongside the alliance, and when they return to their ancestral lands, they can spread what they have seen and heard, letting more people know about the plight of humanity. These are all things Yan Jiang has been pondering, but the reason she can think of them in this way is because of Shen Can's guidance.

Of course, the war envoy's message was just the beginning; there were still many complicated arrangements to be made afterward, which the various halls of the alliance had already prepared.

As for whether the move was too big, after all, it happened in the distant Ruins City, and the Alliance doesn't even know the specifics of this sixth-tier race that attacked humans.

But in Yan Jiang's view, it's not a big problem at all.

Over the years, many human territories have been adjacent to and intermingled with those of other races, and some have even been repeatedly captured by those other races.

Among these alien races are several sixth-order races.

It can be said that with powerful enemies all around, even without the matter of the Ruins City, Yan Jiang would still be prepared to fight.

This is not aimed at any particular alien race, but rather to make an example of someone.

This serves as a warning to the various tribes of the four directions of the Giant Mountain: if they still wish to manipulate humans at will, and capture them as slaves and food, they should consider their own strength. If they don't kill one chicken with a single punch, too many monkeys will come swarming in.

Yan Jiang is not greedy; he has great strength and can accomplish great things.

All we need to do is intimidate the various sixth-tier alien races surrounding the ancient city of Tu Shang and establish a solid foundation for the alliance.

However, this time the accident happened in a more distant ruin city.

Of course, this happened much earlier than Yan Jiang had anticipated. He had originally planned to consolidate his efforts further after advancing to the sixth rank before making his move. However, things didn't go as planned.

After the warriors set off, Yan Jiang flew towards the floating island.

Above the floating island, scattered yellowish-brown specks of light drifted haphazardly, like chess pieces being randomly placed, forming a dense net that enveloped the island.

When Yan Jiang arrived at the floating island, she immediately felt herself sinking into a quagmire.

Then, in a flash, they found themselves inside the stone palace in the center of the floating island.

"I have read the jade slip you sent."

Yan Jiang heard Shen Can's voice in his ear, and he came back to his senses from his daze, seeing Shen Can sitting cross-legged in front of him.

In Yan Jiang's eyes, the figure sitting cross-legged in front of her seemed like a majestic mountain, exuding an indescribable pressure. This pressure originated from a feeling of divine sense, and was somewhat inexplicable.

Outside the stone hall where they were, there were countless yellowish-brown specks of light. After Yan Jiang looked at them a few more times, his divine sea felt like it was about to collapse.

"Recall your focus!"

Shen Can's voice rang out in Yan Jiang's divine sea, pulling her back from the chaos of the "Temple Diagram".

The soil transformed from the yellow clay tablets obtained from the Three-Headed Clan, after being refined by him, imitated the trajectory of the Earth Element Dao and referenced the arrangement of the star map. After many deductions and modifications, he transformed it into an Earth Element Array Artifact.

Yes, it's similar to a portable array; a single magical artifact constitutes an array.

Shen Can temporarily named it "Mai Tu" (meaning "Selling the Picture"), and his goal was to integrate the five elements into it to create a "Landscape Map".

Then, Yan Jiang heard Shen Can's words again.

"A single punch can ward off a hundred more."

The moment Yan Jiang heard these words, everything became clear. That was exactly what he had been thinking; he just hadn't figured out how to express it. Clearly, the temple had carefully examined the contents of the jade slip he had presented.

He didn't know what the Human King City, the ancestral home of the human race in the distant southern region, looked like, nor did he have the strength to know now.

He knew that the human race surrounding the giant mountain was surrounded and eyed covetously by various alien races.

The alliance, based in the Giant Mountain, must first establish its own base and cut off the claws of these alien races in the vicinity.

This battle is just the beginning. Yan Jiang doesn't know how many more battles will be fought in the future, but it all starts from this one.

Yan Jiang solemnly addressed Shen Can, "Temple, I plan to advance to the sixth rank and then head to the Ruins City."

"I want to use this battle to open up new possibilities for my human race."

"I originally planned to do this after I advanced to the sixth rank, but things happened so fast that I could only react passively."

Fortunately, I am confident in advancing to the sixth rank.

The purpose of going to the City of Ruins was not to take action personally, but to personally direct related matters.

"But this is, after all, the beginning of our human alliance's establishment. I implore the temple to oversee it from behind the scenes, lest any oversights prevent the mission from failing." With that, Yan Jiang knelt before Shen Can and spoke in a deep voice, "Now, even if I die, the alliance still has Yan Song, Yan Liu, Lu Chen, and the others. But the task of deterring the surrounding sixth-tier alien races cannot fail."

"To shoulder the weight of humanity, one must bear its burden and the perils it carries."

"Although things are a bit rushed, now that the opportunity has come, we must seize it."

Shen Can got up and helped Yan Jiang up, then walked towards the outside of the main hall.

"Come on, show me what secret magical artifacts you've prepared."

three days later.

A fleet consisting of more than a dozen warships and treasure ships headed northwest from the Juyue Mountains.

Inside the treasure ship surrounded by warships, the spirit barrier was covered by countless layers of magic.

The interior of the Spirit Restriction was divided into two large chambers, separated by thick Starry Sky Spirit Restriction walls that blocked the flow of energy between them. Within these two chambers, one exuded an extremely cold and gloomy aura, while the other was intensely blazing.

On the cold, damp side, moonlight flowed gently, within which stood an incomparably black Yin Lotus, its seedpod studded with icy crystals. On the blazing side, the power of the sun surged like waves, and a fiery, metallic-looking spiritual object was embedded in a stone platform.

Yin and Yang are mutually restraining, especially since one is the cold and yin, and the other is the blazing and hot yang.

"The wizard stationed on the ship must constantly check the spiritual barriers and cannot be negligent in the slightest."

Yan Jiang disembarked from the "Sun and Moon" and flew onto another warship.

This move, which allows him to live as long as the heavens, is just one of the backup plans he has prepared over the years.

Of course, the league has more than one such backup plan.

The alliance has several sixth-tier spirits or cold, yin-type spiritual objects in the underground cave, along with the power of the yin, and the sun stones formed by drawing upon the power of the sun. They brought three of them this time.

The most powerful one built so far is the Sun and Moon.

After inspection and confirmation by the temple, it was determined that the seven would ascend to heaven as soon as the sun and moon appeared.

Saving people is one thing, but it's another to make a name for yourself.

The journey to the ruins would take quite some time, and Yan Jiang had originally planned to go to the ruins city after completing her breakthrough in Juyue.

He was thrown aboard the ship by the temple.

The temple priest said that since he was going to the ruins anyway, he might as well break through his limits on the way.

Anyway, there's enough time. Once the breakthrough is complete and things are stable, we'll be able to reach the City of Ruins.

One of the warships had a specially designed training room equipped with a sixth-order spiritual restriction to prevent energy bursts caused by his breakthrough.

In addition to the deadly weapon that could rival the sun and moon, the fleet also carried a large number of allied warriors and wizards.

Furthermore, they will pick up some recruited martial artists from various regions along the way, even if these people are only at the fourth rank and are just going to do odd jobs. In addition, Weaver Girl is also on the ship. As the second-best array master after Shen Can, she brought a group of excellent array craftsmen from the alliance. Just as Yan Jiang said, the Ruins City gathers a large number of sixth-rank alien races from the East and West, so if they're going to deal with them, they'll deal with them thoroughly.

At least within this region, anyone who wants to hunt the Hunter race on a large scale should think twice about whether they can withstand the Alliance's precious treasure. As for outside this region, let's leave that aside for now.

Let's level the area in front of our house first.

The fleet traveled through the sky in a high-speed formation. Each warship and treasure ship was flashing with wind and thunder-attribute magical runes. The ships were connected by their auras and could transform into a ship formation at any time.

Decades have passed since they withstood the Thundercloud Clan, and the power and scale of the ship formation have more than doubled.

The Juyue Mountains.

A mountaintop.

Three figures gazed at the fleet that had disappeared into the horizon, surrounded by swirling starlight that obscured their figures.

"They've gone far away."

Huo Tang leaned on his cane with both hands. Although he said this, his eyes were still fixed on the northwest direction.

"Ah-chan, are you sure you can do it?"

Shen Can adjusted the firebox and said, "Back when we rushed out of the mountains, facing the tyrant Xiao Yang, we fought for survival against all odds. Now, Ayan is learning from you."

Huotang paused, lost in his memories.

"I'm really getting old."

"Back then, we only had one life, and there wasn't much else to risk, so we had to fight with all our might."

"It's the same now. As long as the alien races of the Great Wilderness regard our human race as blood sacrifices, we will fight to the death."

Shen Can spoke softly, "Let's go. I'll take good care of Yan Jiang."

"Yes." Huotang nodded.

"Let's go, Ah Shan, you don't need to look anymore."

The three figures quickly disappeared among the mountains.

After sending the fire tower back, Shen Can entered the giant mountain again.

Although he did not go with the fleet, his giant beast clone had already set off together.

With the Weaver Girl gone, the Star Array was not yet completed. Shen Can prepared to finish up and solidify the defenses of the Alliance's ancestral land.

As for the City of Ruins, if anything important happens, he can arrive there in no time.