I Steal the Ancestors' Sacrifices to Nourish Myself

No matter how many clans may proliferate, no matter how prosperous their affairs may become, they can still be destroyed in an instant.

The Jiangmu Race’s Tier Seven Ancestor had fallen outside by chance; without a Tier Seven to oversee, the other gold-wood-water-fire Jiang Races gradually began to challenge the leadership position of the Wood Ginger Race.

Every clan in the Five Jiang Race is vast, with countless main sects and branches.

The main sect of the Wood Ginger Race, which once gave birth to a Tier Seven Ancestor, was then known as the Holy Vein.

But after the passing of the Ancestor, generation after generation of the Jiangmu Race’s Holy Vein never again produced a Tier Seven, while the Huo Jiang Race gave birth to a new Tier Seven.

The emergence of a new Tier Seven Ancestor signifies the birth of a new Holy Vein in the Five Jiang Race, placing the Jiangmu Holy Vein in an awkward position.

As descendants of a bloodline that produced a Tier Seven Ancestor, they were particularly cared for by the Huo Jiang branch, considering the Jiangmu Holy Vein might produce people with ancestral lineage traits.

Once the bloodline reverts to ancestral traits, there is a chance to revisit the glory of ancestors.

Records show that before the Mountain and Sea Calendar, the last person of ancestral lineage in the Wood Ginger Sacred Race mysteriously died while advancing to Tier Five.

Subsequently, five of the clan’s Tier Six Ancestors began to die one after another, leaving only one behind.

It happened when the majestic entity in the Central World of Mountains and Seas was ascending and establishing the Mountain and Sea Calendar, proclaiming to the Eight Wildernesses.

The clan’s last Tier Six Ancestor accidentally learned of a giant beast descending here in the Giant Mountain Range, nurturing thousands of souls.

Thus, they led the Jiangmu Sacred Race across mountains and seas to arrive at Giant Mountain.

They intended to rely on the powerful force of their clans to seize an opportunity, but ultimately failed amid various battles.

After a great battle, the surviving Tier Six Ancestor went missing, most likely fallen in the deepest parts of this Earth Cave World.

Without a Tier Six to oversee, the prospect of returning to the Ancestral Land was out of reach; the Profound Bird became the overlord of the Giant Mountain Range, and the Jiangmu Sacred Race had no choice but to bow down.

It’s somewhat laughable—the Jiangmu Sacred Race managed to survive because of the Five Jiang Race.

Though the Profound Bird ascended to Tier Seven, it still feared the Five Jiang Race, which had Tier Seven oversight.

Even though Giant Mountain and the Five Jiang Ancestral Land are incredibly distant, they’re still both within the Eastern Wilderness Southern Domain.

Over thirty thousand years of the Mountain and Sea Calendar, the Jiangmu Sacred Race declined with each generation; the ancestral Tier Seven bloodline, after thousands of years of inheritance, was not only incapable of reverting to ancestral traits, but was also beginning to degenerate.

The mighty bloodline of the Tier Seven Sacred Ancestor only remains in clan sacred rites as legends.

Jiang Cluster tried to transform itself into a spirit monster body within the Earth Cave, not on a sudden impulse, but rather this had been attempted by elderly Tier Five Martial Artists within the clan for a long time.

By Jiang Cluster’s generation, it was already quite experienced; merely at the age of four hundred, it had already transformed more than two-thirds of its body.

This degree of transformation was the fastest recorded in clan history; previously, records of ancestors indicated it took at least twelve hundred years to achieve this level of bodily transformation.

This not only represented an acceleration in transformation speed but also showed that the metamorphosis methods developed by ancestors over generations were becoming more refined.

It gave the Jiang Cluster Ancestor more confidence—if it could turn into a spirit monster, it would be able to move freely in the Earth Cave without being considered an outsider by the spirit monsters.

It could cross vast rivers and reach the core of the Earth Cave World.

If not for the ancestral records handed down, Jiang Cluster wouldn’t believe the overlord of the Giant Mountain Range, the Profound Bird, was merely a bunch of ordinary-feathered birds without obvious lineage.

Fortuitously gaining the opportunity from the fallen giant beast, it somehow achieved the ultimate transformation of its bloodline, changing into the Profound Bird.

As for the Profound Bird’s absence over the past eight thousand years, Jiang Cluster knew there was a group of Humans who foolishly tried to challenge the heavens with mortal bodies, not knowing their place.

The Profound Bird was severely injured, but not dead.

When the Profound Bird returns, it will surely wreak havoc upon the world.

A colony of Human ants will completely disappear within the Giant Mountain Range.

The ancestral records state that everything below Tier Seven is like an ant.

Even a wounded Tier Seven could not be shaken by ants.

Thus, for eight thousand years, even though the Profound Bird was dormant, the offerings from the Jiangmu Race never ceased.

In the Celestial Ginger Land, the Jiangmu Race bred a large group of Humans, using some for their own needs and offering the rest to the Profound Bird.

Of course, it’s not just the Jiangmu Race doing this—the Earth Ants, Guanxiong Race do too.

Humans indeed are special creatures; their bodies are frail, yet they can train bit by bit to become strong without needing a bloodline.

Crucially, they reproduce very fast, given a piece of land, they proliferate like weeds.

"Where did this Human Race Tier Five come from, could it be from outside the Giant Mountain Range?"

"How did they end up with Luwu?"

Jiang Cluster enters into a ponder, there are only three places for Humans to live on both sides of the Giant Mountain Range.

The only place with Human Race Tier Five is Cloud River Valley, but it had long been ravaged by Feiyi.

Dai Land has Earth Ants, Humans there like livestock.

Yongyi hasn’t suffered disaster, but merely a bunch of loaches floundering in the ponds, claiming they possess the Power of Hidden Dragon.

After pondering, Jiang Cluster feels Shen Can, with such a vigorous energy, is likely a Human from outside, coming specifically after hearing news of opportunities in the Giant Mountain Range.

The environment on both sides of the Giant Mountain Range, combined with the situation of Humans internally, has long since been unable to produce a Tier Five.

"Where did this Human come from, could they be from Tushang Ancient City?"

The only place unrestrictive to any race near the Giant Mountain Range, where all races can go, is Tushang Ancient City.

In the ancient city, you can even see races from various places of the Eastern Wilderness Southern Domain.