Chapter 82 Clan Union
At the end of the road stood a huge archway;
The pillars of the archway are carved with dragons and phoenixes, lifelike, and bear the two ancient and weathered characters "Witch Temple".
Wu Qi led Wu Yue to the archway. Wu Yue couldn't help but stop and look up at the archway.
The entire archway is supported by four ancient ironwood pillars, each inlaid with a dragon spiraling upwards; the plaque above is engraved with the sun, moon, and auspicious clouds, and decorated with phoenix feathers.
Jiaojue felt very uncomfortable looking at the archway.
Because at a glance, the dragon bones and phoenix feathers inlaid on the archway were real!
"So my mother wasn't really lying to me after all," Jiao Jue thought to herself.
He felt fortunate about the current decline of the witch clan, and after feeling fortunate, he felt proud.
The ancient shamans could never have imagined that their descendants would today, before their ancestral tablets, venerate a one-horned dragon as a guardian deity of their clan.
Upon seeing someone arrive, the witch clan members guarding the ancestral temple hurriedly entered through the side gate and fully opened the four enormous meteorite iron gates from the inside.
The open iron gate kicked up a thick layer of dust, and the turning of the gate's hubs made a creaking sound, as if telling a story of a vast and ancient history.
As the door opened, Wu Yue and his party continued onward toward the ancestral hall.
Upon entering the main hall of the ancestral temple, Wu Yue saw a mural depicting several generations of ancestors behind a brightly lit lamp pillar on the platform.
It is tiered, with the middle section being higher and engraved with the vague appearances of great shamans throughout history; the sides are lower and engraved with the deeds of sages of the shaman clan throughout history.
The higher you look, the more virtuous shamans are inscribed, even filling the lower secondary positions.
The further down you look, the fewer high-ranking shamans there are; some levels even have empty main positions and gradually empty secondary positions as well.
The shaman lit incense, prayed to his ancestors, and recited sacrificial texts.
Wu Yue led the Xuanwu people in worship inside, while Wu Guang and others led the ancient Wu tribe and the Wu Yao tribe in worship outside.
After the worship, the shamans performed divination, and all the hexagrams indicated "great fortune".
The witch solemnly handed the clan genealogy of the ancient witch lineage to Wuqi, who hurriedly bowed and accepted it.
The Fifth Elder, Yue Wu, brought over a tray holding the Golden Seal of the First Elder and stood below. Wu Qi took it, saying, "Great Wu Yue," and bowed to hand the Golden Seal to Wu Yue.
After Wu Yue paid respects to his ancestors and received the golden seal, Wu Qi led Wu Yue into the inner room alone.
He activated the mechanism, and the ground began to sink layer by layer, revealing a secret passage.
After passing through the slightly dimly lit passageway, Wuqi waved away the tomb servants and said to Wuyue, "Great Wuyue, the four spirit crystal mines and many islands are our external heritage; what is inside is the true heritage of our race."
After speaking, Wuqi pushed open the dragon and phoenix patterned door, revealing nine coffins, in which nine great shamans lay quietly.
Upon seeing the deep blue crystals they were all holding, Wu Yue exclaimed in surprise, "This is... Could it be that these ancestors all used secret techniques to turn themselves into puppets?"
Wuqi nodded and said, "Yes, our ancestors had powerful physical bodies, but no consciousness. We must truly cultivate to the level of a Witch Saint to be able to control them."
People like us can only watch as our ancestors, through methods of sealing us away, self-destruct.
Thinking of this, Wuqi said bitterly, "At the end of the ancient era, our clan fought wars for years. The only nine Great Witch Ancestors in the clan were seriously injured, and all the Great Witch Seeds in the clan died out."
The great shamans had no choice but to use this method on themselves before their deaths, in preparation for the future.
Since then, the celestial palaces have been extremely oppressive towards us. In order to survive, our ancestors resorted to alternative methods, intermarrying with various races and secretly bribing the god lord of the Temple of War.
The gods, seeing that our bloodline was dwindling, spared our lives and allowed us to eke out a living in this desolate sea.
After saying this, Wuqi pried off a piece of floor tile, revealing a pile of jade seals.
He found the largest seal among them and handed it to Wu Yue, saying, "This is the seal of the Hundred Islands Formation made by our ancestor, the Great Wu Hui, who was proficient in the art of formations."
However, because our bloodline is becoming increasingly diluted, although we can open the seal, we also repel each other;
Over time, the inscriptions on these artifacts have corroded, so they have gradually been left here to gather dust along with this hundred-point seal. Today, I entrust them all to you, Great Shaman.”
Upon hearing this, Wu Yue felt deeply saddened. He sighed and accepted the General Seal of the Hundred Islands Formation, as if accepting the heavy fate of the ancient Wu tribe.
Then, he left the dark room with Wuqi.
As they emerged from the hall, the remnants of the Wu clan bowed and proclaimed, "Greetings to Great Wu Yue, Greetings to the Auspicious Golden Dragon Protector, Greetings to the Auspicious Lone Protector."
Today, they simply offer sacrifices to their ancestors and announce the return of the ancient shamanic tribe.
Only after all the totems of the great shamans and sages of this branch of the ancient shamanic clan have been carved out and the genealogy has been copied and merged will the grand ceremony be held.
Therefore, everyone has a lot to do next.
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After paying respects to their ancestors, Wuqi and Wuyue led the way, carrying the ancient shamanic artifacts on their backs.
The Third Elder Wu Qi, along with the Fourth Elder Wu Xing, the Fifth Elder Wu Yue, the Seventh Elder Wu Miao, the Eighth Elder Wu Bang, and the Ninth Elder Wu Xi, flashed to the outside of the archway.
Each of them stood in one place, and together they made hand seals to stop the purification array that covered the entire island.
Goodness, although they have mines, the number of laborers in their tribe who work in mining has been decreasing year by year.
Within their own clan, the available spirit crystals were not inexhaustible.
This Spirit Cleansing Array consumes hundreds of spirit crystals every second. If they stop even a second earlier, the clan members can mine for two fewer days. Therefore, they must act quickly.
Jiao Jue escorted the ancient witch clan to Xifeng Island. He left Gu Qingqing and Wu Yue to help the ancient witch clan settle down. Then he grabbed Feng Qing on his back and carried Wu Yue and Xuanwu to Wangfeng Island to hand over the spiritual vein matters.
The winds on Wangfeng Island are fierce.
As soon as Jiaojue entered the island, he saw that the scenery in front of him was just like that of the rocky island, with only rocks and no vegetation.
Wuqi took out an array seal, chanted a spell, and then cut his own finger.
As the golden-red blood dripped out, it gradually filled the inscription patterns on the array, and then the inscriptions flickered with red light, but gradually stopped moving.
Wuqi smiled awkwardly and said, "This is also a spirit-locking array set up by the nine ancestral great witches. It can shield external perception and hide the mineral vein within the seal."
Therefore, it only recognizes descendants of the Wu clan, the more refined their cultivation, the better. Since my bloodline is impure, I will need to undergo several trials.
After saying that, he cut his hand again, letting blood drip from it;
This time, the red light on the inscription was brighter, but then gradually disappeared;
Jiao Jue grew impatient and said, "If you want pureblood, why don't you just tell the old man to release it?"
Wuqi felt no shame upon hearing this; in fact, he was extremely grateful. He immediately took out a burlap sack to wipe the blood off the array seal and handed the seal, along with the incantation, to Wuyue.
Wu Yue cut his thumb and dripped the blood into the inscription groove. As soon as the pure golden blood entered the groove, it shone brightly, and the inscription seemed to come alive and fly into the air.
As Wu Yue chanted incantations, the runes that flew into the air gradually merged into a portal that could be used for entry and exit.
As Wuqi gazed at the towering gate, tears welled in his eyes.
He thought to himself that his decision to bring back the Great Wuyue Mountain was extremely wise!
In the future, he will also let Da Wuyue manage the remaining three spirit vein islands, so that the rest of them will no longer have to bleed money out of them and keep losing money.
Once these miscellaneous tasks are taken away, they might even be able to make further progress!
The cultivators entered the inner room and saw that there were many different kinds of spiritual trees and herbs inside, which blocked the mine shaft.
Jiao Jue couldn't help but squint and chuckle, "How many years has it been since you came in to tend to it? Even the weeds have become spiritual herbs."
"Oh, Lord Golden Dragon, this..."
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