I Steal the Ancestors' Sacrifices to Nourish Myself

Chapter 493 - 206: Heaven-Riding Race, Giant Spirit Pill! (Part 2)

The Earth Ants merely watched the Ant Slaves, going about their daily excavation as usual, transporting what they unearthed to the residence of the Sacred Lords of the Earth Ants.

To bestow the Earth Ants with titles of reverence, calling them Sacred and Elder, is something only these Ant Slaves could do.

The residences of the two Sacred Lords of the Earth Ants were lavish Human Race palaces, built at the place where Source Power was most abundant within the Grotto Heaven.

The palace was engraved with murals of Ant Slaves prostrating before the Earth Ants, and the interior was decorated with soft beast skins on the floor, furnished with Jade Couches and Copper Cauldrons used by the Humans.

Not far from the palace, there was also a kitchen area, with dedicated Ant Slave cooks preparing meals for the Sacred Lords of the Earth Ants.

Strips of hemp cloth dyed in indigo draped all over the palace, lending a somewhat peculiar appearance.

The excavated Blood Crystals were stored in stone boxes within the palace, with seven stone boxes, each a zhang in size, accumulated in total.

"Ancestral Temple Keeper, I’ve completed the inspection, and all the hills excavated by the Ant Slaves within the Grotto Heaven only add up to a hundred.

Excluding the hills that have already weathered away, there are two thousand three hundred ninety-seven hills remaining, which still contain Blood Crystals."

Huo Ning arrived from afar and reported the situation of the Grotto Heaven to Shen Can.

It could be seen that the Earth Ants had not been exploiting the Blood Crystals within the Grotto Heaven for long.

"I’ve already instructed the remaining Ant Slaves to continue with the excavation."

At this point, Huo Ning added, "Ancestral Temple Keeper, in recent days, many in the clan have been telling me that looking at these Blood Crystals makes them want to devour them.

However, I have strictly ordered the clan not to consume the Blood Crystals."

"Go catch a few Wild Beasts and show the clan what happens when they devour the Blood Crystals.

Tell them that the Blood Crystals have some issues that need solving within the clan before they can be used."

Regarding the clan’s desire to devour the Blood Crystals, Shen Can thought it was due to the cultivation of the Desolate Beast Battle Body.

After making the arrangements, Shen Can headed toward the direction of the Grotto Heaven entrance.

This entrance to the Grotto Heaven was six zhang in size, appearing like a tear in a curtain of light, exhibiting an irregularly narrow shape.

Along the edges of this narrow entrance, earthy-yellow Spirit Bans danced, forming a Spirit Ban entrance.

These Spirit Bans resembled a sheep’s horn and were distinct from those of the Human Race, imbued with a strong Earth Ant flavor.

Similarly, in Shen Can’s eyes, the Witchcraft Spirit Ban sealing the narrow-shaped entrance was quite crude in craftsmanship.

His Divine Sense swept through it, quickly discerning the operational rules within.

The narrow crack was a natural fissure in this side of the Grotto Heaven. The Earth Ant Race’s Wizards branded Spirit Bans at the crack, transforming it into a ’door.’

This also explained why a Token was needed to enter.

Shen Can quickly dismantled the Spirit Ban at this entrance and re-cast the Black Water Profound Light Curtain to conceal it.

Moreover, he checked the surroundings of the entire Grotto Heaven and found no less than seven cracks in it.

Among them, four cracks were at the top of the Grotto Heaven.

In such a situation, if someone outside was fortunate, they could accidentally bump in at one go.

The collapse of the Grotto Heaven’s Spiritual Mechanism led to its gradual fragmentation and also allowed some seeds from grasses and trees outside to drift in.

Otherwise, this place wouldn’t have such an abundant scene of vegetation.

After repairing all the crack positions with Spiritual Mechanism, Shen Can arrived at the palace where the Earth Ants resided.

Here was the area within the Grotto Heaven where the Spiritual Mechanism was most abundant, with Earth Element Source Power continuously surging in this domain.

One ancient tree after another, shimmering with Spiritual Light, under the nourishment of Earth Source Power, emitted an azure glow from leaf to branch.

Every ancient tree had an enormous root system, with massive tree nodules overlapping in layers, stacked in countless folds.

They resembled a grotesque Wild Beast covered all over with nodules, appearing extremely ugly.

There were Wizards busy under the trees, exploring the Spirit Trees, checking their sturdiness, and experimenting with their potential medicinal uses.

Even if they couldn’t be used in medicine, such Spirit Plant Wood could still serve as material for crafting Witch Artifacts.

Initial examinations revealed that these trees in their earliest days should have been the most common trees within the Great Wilderness.

In such a spiritually abundant place, every growth cycle couldn’t withstand the impact of Source Power and withered.

Afterward, new tree shoots would grow anew at the base of the old trees, only to wither again, and sprouts would again emerge.

Such cycles of growth led to the accumulation of tree nodules at the root, until the Source Power concentration diminished, and after countless generations, trees that adapted to the environment inside the Grotto Heaven finally evolved from ordinary trees into Spirit Plant Trees.

"Here might be where a Giant Beast’s Inner Core is located."

The Old Profound Turtle prowled around the Earth Ants’ palace, with the Source Power in the whole Grotto Heaven perpetually in a state of leaking.

The Source Power was thinner in areas other than the palace region, indicating that those other areas were the Giant Beast’s ordinary sections.

With more Source Power stored in the Giant Beast’s Inner Core, compared to the flesh and blood body, it could volatilize over a longer period.

An Inner Core of a Giant Beast, even after volatilizing for so long, still perpetually released Earth Element Source Power to the outside.

Bringing it back to the Clan Land was equivalent to having an Earth Element Origin Vein.

Soon, the Golden Sword, Dragon Horn, and Dragon Bear, three Clan Guardian Beasts, reverted to their true forms, hurtling down from the sky with a thunderous roar.

Their target was directly aimed at the Earth Ant’s magnificent palace; the Spirit Plant ancient trees and sentient grass surrounding the palace were cleared out by the Wizards with the clan members in advance.

With a thunderous rumble!

Amidst the roaring sounds, the palace disintegrated into dust, with fine cracks appearing on the ground.

Yet the solidity of the ground surpassed imagination, causing the skulls of the three Clan Guardian Beasts to swell up with lumps, merely knocking a layer of the gray-white stone down.