Chapter 511 - 213: Incoming Assault (Part 2)
Under the Ancestral Temple, a man-made Witch Vein flickered with multicolored spiritual light, bringing back over fifty thousand Source Stones from Dai Land.
Adding to the trade over the years, tens of thousands of Source Stones have been accumulated, and now they are piled under the Ancestral Temple, transformed into the energy of the Five Elements Witch Vein.
From the Bi Fang Bo Division’s Ten Thousand Flames Spirit-Burning Array, five different attributes of Witch Arrays have been reproduced and are being urgently crafted.
Would it target Jishan, Shen Can didn’t know, but remembering the peeping from years ago, Shen Can always felt that this Divine Treasure Tribulation would target the Blazing Flame.
Although the Ancestral Temple here is crafting arrays intensively, outside the Blazing Flame Race Territory and in various settlements, there wasn’t much influence.
For ordinary clan members, they hardly noticed the coming crisis.
The clan still continually sends Witch Priests abroad, entering the Guardian Ruins Market area, instructing the vassal tribes in cultivation.
The news of the Bi Fang Bo Division’s complete sealing of the furnace has returned to the tribe. Due to this sealing, the Blazing Flame Tribe received two batches of Tier Two Witch Armor and Witch Weapon forging orders.
The forging of Tier Two Witch Armor and Witch Weapons in the clan has long been familiar, crafted quickly and well.
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"Buzz!"
Above the Ancestral Temple, a multicolored glow lit up, covering a ten-mile radius around.
Runes mixed with multicolored light flashed bright in the glow, the rising pressure instantly sweeping through the surrounding forests.
Refined from the Ten Thousand Flames Spirit-Burning Array, the subsequent Ten Thousand Flames Inference Spirit Array, Array of the Spirit of the Vast Earth, Golden Sun Holy Water Array, Primordial Water Spirit Array, Array of Ten Thousand Woods Vitality, five grand arrays fit together with the Five Elements to nurture each other.
This Five Elements Fusion Array also exists in the River Valley Ancestral Temple, whose power is stronger due to the underground spiritual vein and Five Elements Spiritual Land.
Regarding how strong it is, Shen Can has only one derived figure, as such a grand array had never appeared in Yongyi before.
Having arranged the clan defenses, accommodations were made for young martial artists within the clan’s Martial Arts Academy and Witch Institute, urging everyone to travel outside or arrange to train in Dai Land.
The clan has intensified the crafting of small flying ships, preparing to distribute them to every household within the clan, to scatter and escape if a crisis occurs.
As for why not hide in previously crafted homes, mainly because those homes were designed to deal with natural disasters, plus the clan currently lacks the power to link all settlement Little Witch Arrays, unable to withstand a Tier Four Martial Artist’s attack.
If they can’t win, then they run.
Like Lord Jishan, making it so you cannot find anyone.
Divide into smaller groups; this is the inherited craft of Blazing Flame.
And the Ancestral Temple where Shen Can resides is meant to attract the potential arrival force.
A treasure ship passed through the water gate of Blazing Flame City, gliding into the Guimu River, heading south.
On the treasure ship, Yan Jiang glanced back in the direction of the clan land.
"Brother Ajiang, why did the clan suddenly assign us a task to teach Martial Dao at Luo River?"
A few similar young people gathered at the bow of the ship.
"What’s so sudden? I see the clan’s arrangement is good. It’s honing Brother Ajiang, letting him familiarize himself with handling clan affairs ahead of time; it’s certainly a good thing."
Yan Jiang didn’t speak up, not only him, but those who have trained well in the Martial Arts Academy have all been assigned, sent to various places to complete various tasks.
For example, Lu Chen is heading to the Yu Region Bi Fang Ruins Market to obtain more weapons and ores for the clan.
"Okay, the clan’s tasks need to be well arranged. Although many people have migrated out of Luo River over the years, there are still many left in Luo River Race Territory, and they must be incorporated into our clan’s cultivation system."
This time going out, Yan Jiang brought six young people who have stayed closely around him, also confident in the clan’s tasks.
While Yan Jiang’s treasure ship was heading south, the Old Profound Turtle also rushed into the clan land from the direction of Yongshan Ruins.
The Old Turtle came directly to the Ancestral Temple and opened its mouth to Shen Can, spitting out more than ten Witch Pouches.
"These two bags contain Earth Ant bones, these four bags are Tier Three ores, here is Spirit Wood, and the remaining bag contains 120,000 Source Stones."
Shen Can first checked the Earth Ant bones, with more than twenty heads reaching Tier Three and over a thousand at Tier Two level.
When the Heaven-Breaking Grotto Heaven was discovered, the clan captured a few live Earth Ants and hundreds of Earth Ant carcasses from Dai Land.
During the clan’s wizard research, after comparing with Xiaoyang and the Beastman Race, the wizards found that the Earth Ant Race’s affinity for the Earth Element far exceeds the Xiaoyang Race’s.
In the Earth Ant Race’s body, there exists a ’stone’ like thing.
Its color is earth yellow, its form like a pill, containing rich Earth Source Power.
This Earth Pill, while rich in Earth Source Power, also emits the intrinsic attribute aura of Earth Ant, making it unfit for direct Human Race cultivation.
This energy crystal, similar to Source Stones but with stronger energy, has significant potential in the wizards’ view.
Not to mention, without removing the Earth Ant’s savage aura, it can serve as energy for the clan’s Witch Cannon.
Therefore, the clan has intensified the research on this ’stone’.
The wizards discovered this substance is accumulated Source Power in Earth Ant’s body, similar to the Beast Pill of a Wild Beast, yet distinct.
Wild Beasts form Beast Pills only at Tier Four, but some talented Earth Ants start Condensing Pills at Tier One.
Moreover, the condensation position of Earth Ant’s Earth Pill isn’t fixed; some lie within the Five Viscera, others in the abdomen, varying by individual.
Once condensed, this ’stone’ becomes the core source of the Earth Ant’s own blood energy.
The Earth Ants brought back by the Old Turtle were for continued wizards’ research, Spirit Wood to craft small flying ships, and Source Stones for array energy.
Huo Chang, upon receiving news of potential crises facing the clan from Dai Land, has also intensified attacks on Earth Ants and Ant Slaves.
Of course, they didn’t confront the Earth Ant directly, but used old tactics: hit-and-run.
To maintain control of various areas, the Earth Ant Branches scattered Ant Slave Tribes across different places, each little Ant Slave tribe having pure-blooded Earth Ants to suppress and enslave them. One slave tribe would kill a few Earth Ants, and with a hundred tribes it becomes significant.
Source Stones were from mining veins controlled by Ant Slaves.
To deal with potential crises, the Blazing Flame Tribe was loose on the outside and tight on the inside, quickly distributed crafted flying ships and organized trainings for settlements on how to self-rescue before clan rescue arrives when danger strikes.
Inside the Ancestral Temple.
Shen Can opened his eyes.
At the same time, the avatar stationed at the River Valley Ancestral Temple also opened its eyes.
Subsequently, Shen Can quietly left the Ancestral Temple, traversing the clan land, arriving at the outer clan city, observing the doubled treasure ships on Guimu River.
Since Bi Fang’s sealing furnace three years ago, the Blazing Flame Bo Division’s crafted Tier Two armor has opened up a market, with a steady supply of ores entering the clan.
The anticipated crisis hasn’t arrived. On the contrary, if things continue this way, the longer Bi Fang’s furnace remains sealed, the more Blazing Flame’s armor will dominate.
Perhaps someday in the Tier Two and Three armor domain, they might rival Bi Fang, or even surpass them.
After all, Blazing Flame adopts a workshop system, integrated witchcraft suppression, crafting dozens or hundreds of pieces in the time Bi Fang artisans make one.
After routinely inspecting the clan land, watching the small sensing witch artifacts piercing the clan territories, Shen Can returned to the Ancestral Temple.
A month later.
Shen Can’s figure suddenly vanished from the Ancestral Temple, and the feeling of being watched reappeared.
He soared into the air, gazing at the night sky, sensing a shadow cutting across the darkness.
Chirp!
The Cyan Simurgh resting outside the Ancestral Temple immediately spread its wings and soared.
"Don’t follow!"
Shen Can immediately reacted, calling the Cyan Simurgh back.
Chirp!
In the sky, the shadow raised a claw, and a streak of mysterious light descended from the sky, faster than lightning, directly targeting the Cyan Simurgh.
Chirp!
The Cyan Simurgh fluffed its feathers, its spirit terrified, a circle of blue feathers on its head shining with azure light, trying to withstand the incoming lightning.
Boom!
In that instant, Shen Can raised his hand.
A palm imprint collided midair with the lightning, as energy exploded forth, the Cyan Simurgh screamed and fell from the sky.