I Contracted All Ancient Divine Artifacts

Jiang Ziya left Xiqi, only a few direct disciples from the Ancestral Temple knew.

Now that Chang Hao was gone, and Jiang Ziya was also absent, the task of arranging the divine rituals fell to Han Zhan.

Fortunately, before leaving, the master, Jiang Ziya, explained the contents and precautions of the ritual to Han Zhan.

With Han Zhan’s understanding, it wasn’t much of a challenge.

One month passed quickly.

During this period, Han Zhan successfully held a Celestial God sacrifice ritual.

As he had predicted before,

the divine offerings transformed through his Creation Skill were favored by the Sun God, who descended the second silver Starstone statue.

Now Xiqi possessed two Starstone statues. This also meant two-tenths of Xiqi’s territories returned to normal.

Such achievements allowed Han Zhan to gain a large amount of public belief and Wish Power again.

After absorbing them like a whale drinking, then nurturing his own path, Han Zhan’s cultivation improved significantly.

Though he couldn’t yet compare to the elder brother Shen Luo, at least he had surpassed Chang Hao and even reached a level equal to the third sister Bai Shang.

It’s no wonder Chang Hao would take a radical approach and choose a path of no return.

The huge disparity in Life Energy made the path of cultivation extremely unfair.

Sometimes, even though everyone spent the same time and effort, the rewards were vastly different.

Any normal person might experience a mental imbalance.

But this is the path of cultivation.

The path is not fair and does not treat everyone equally; some people are just favored by the path.

Han Zhan’s Life Energy is blessed by the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors and Saints, making his journey smooth, which indeed made others sigh.

Comparing oneself to others can be frustrating.

At least, this is what the other senior brothers and sisters from the Ancestral Temple thought.

Elder brother Shen Luo goes without saying.

He transformed from spending half the day at the Sword Casting Cliff to spending all day fiercely striking the cliff wall.

It seemed that in a few years, Xiqi’s underground world would be more extensive than its surface territory.

Even the usually lazy and indifferent second brother Lu Tao began to work hard.

In his own words, so as not to appear as though his decades of cultivation had gone to waste.

He couldn’t be easily surpassed by the fifth brother Ji Fa.

Third sister Bai Shang had already given up resisting and chose to lie flat.

After all, she had been surpassed.

Compared to Han Zhan, indeed Bai Shang’s decades of cultivation seemed wasted.

Especially when Bai Shang found Han Zhan playing with several children.

"Third sister? Do you want to join us?"

Han Zhan saw Bai Shang and invited her with a smile.

He was playing a game called "fighting roosters" with Tong Yi, Tong Er, and Xiao Hua, a game he often played in childhood.

"Ji Fa, you’re neglecting your duties."

Bai Shang said seriously.

"The master asked you to manage Xiqi’s affairs, yet you’re here playing with children."

"But I’ve already taken care of all of Xiqi’s affairs?"

"You should cultivate more, instead of..."

Bai Shang stopped speaking, seemingly reminded of something, looking disheartened.

Han Zhan innocently looked at Bai Shang, wondering why the conversation broke her composure.

Back to the topic.

Bai Shang calmed herself and spoke again:

"I came to you for a serious matter."

"A serious matter? What is it?"

"The Quanrong Caravan is about to arrive in Xiqi, and we need to arrange a reception."

The Quanrong Caravan?

Han Zhan raised his eyebrows, not speaking immediately.

"Previously, this matter was handled by Chang Hao; his Warrior Puppets efficiently did the hard work."

Bai Shang continued explaining to Han Zhan.

"And with the master absent, it’s best not to let the Quanrong think Xiqi is deserted."

With the master Jiang Ziya absent and elder brother Shen Luo not appearing, Xiqi does seem deserted.

No wonder Bai Shang specially came to find him... Han Zhan nodded and curiously asked:

"Shouldn’t our relationship with Quanrong not be good? Why consider them important?"

"Indeed, it’s generally okay; the Quanrong often harasses Xiqi’s borders due to proximity. But that doesn’t affect regular trade relations on the surface."

Indeed, unless it’s open warfare, normal trade relations occasionally occur.

"The Quanrong suffer from the Fire Celestial God’s divine wrath, constantly battling lava giant beasts, making farming impossible in such environments."

"The corpses and flesh of the lava giant beasts contain an extremely high temperature, unsuitable for ordinary Quanrong people."

"Xiqi, previously organized by the Ancestral Temple, had surplus food monthly to trade with Quanrong at a good price." Bai Shang explained.

Recalling when Xiqi was the grain storage period, Xiqi’s citizens ate charcoal daily and had good meals only at the time of human sacrifice.

Yet the food was traded to Quanrong; was this approach by the Ancestral Temple somewhat inappropriate?

Seemingly sensing Han Zhan’s thoughts, perhaps through telepathy.

Bai Shang didn’t wait for Han Zhan to speak, proactively explained:

"You should know the function of the Starstone, but initially, the ’grain storage’ built, and the puppets able to walk under the Sun God’s gaze used another material."

"It is the Molten Fire Stone unique to Quanrong. Molten Fire Stone from the lava monster core can withstand higher temperatures, also possessing heat absorption trait."

Starstone + Molten Fire Stone; a seemingly simple construction hides many nuances.

After listening to Bai Shang, Han Zhan nodded in understanding.

"Since that’s the case, I’ll handle welcoming them."

...

Several miles from Xiqi.

A team of only about a dozen people appeared at the horizon.

Leading the team was a giant of formidable stature.

His skin displayed a fiery red hue as if scorched by flames.

His exaggerated muscles covered his entire body, and with each step he took, the ground slightly trembled.

Behind him were a dozen similarly shaped followers; walking in picture, from afar they looked like a moving fiery mountain range.

"Ahead is Xiqi."

"Seems untimely; it’s Xiqi’s ’daytime’ now."

"Come on, Rong Lie, it was you last time who wanted to test the Sun God’s power and ended up almost unable to extinguish the man-shaped torch; have you forgotten?"

Facing his subordinate’s ridicule, Rong Lie grinned without annoyance.

"No one comes to greet us."

"Is Xiqi being arrogant?"

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