Primordial Star Scripture

The three-family Ancestral Shrine is a huge shrine hall that occupies seven or eight acres of land.

After walking for nearly half an hour, Patriarch Bai, Patriarch Ye, Patriarch Qian, and Ye Chen's group arrived outside the Ancestral Shrine.

"The top ten competitors, follow me into the Ancestral Shrine," said Patriarch Bai to the crowd behind him before stepping into the shrine with the other two patriarchs.

After exchanging a look, Ye Chen, Bai Xiaodie, and the other top competitors walked into the Ancestral Shrine under the gaze of countless clan members.

Since childhood, Ye Chen had entered the Ancestral Shrine many times during family rituals. It had been three years since he'd been home and seen the shrine, which remained unchanged.

Unlike other families that enshrined many ancestral tablets in their shrines, the main hall of the Ye, Bai, and Qian families only contained three statues.

These three statues, identical to the three outside the Ancestral Land, were the effigies of the first-generation ancestors of the Ye, Bai, and Qian families!

Although their appearances were different, all three statues were dressed as hunters.

Ye Chen remembered his parents mentioning that the three ancestors of their families had fled to Wan Ya Mountain outside Qingyang City, surviving a great disaster. They lived as hunters.

They later married, had children, and as they gradually established a foothold in Qingyang City, the three great Ye, Bai, and Qian families came into existence.

"Let us first pay respects to our ancestors' statues!"

As Ye Chen and the other nine reverently gazed at the statues, the three patriarchs took the lead in kneeling before the images.

The ten hurried to follow suit, kneeling down as well.

Only after bowing three times did the patriarchs rise to their feet, followed by Ye Chen and the others.

"You ten have performed exceptionally well in this competition between the three clans,"

"It can be said that this is the best performance by our clans in years," said Patriarch Bai of the Bai Family, scanning the faces of the ten with a smile.

As he spoke, Patriarch Bai's gaze especially rested on Ye Chen and Bai Xiaodie, "Ye Chen, Xiaodie, the two of you have brought a pleasant surprise to us old fellows!"

"Your strength represents the strongest recorded at the age of fifteen in the annals of our three clans!"

Patriarch Ye and Patriarch Qian also nodded with a smile, "Even if the Ancestral Land's opening had not occurred, with your rate of cultivation, you two would have a great chance of reaching the Spirit Sea Realm in the future!"

"This time, coinciding with the opening of the Ancestral Land for the first time in over three hundred years, who knows, you might even encounter great fortunes! It seems that the day of resurgence for our three great families is truly upon us!"

Hearing the joy in the voice of the three patriarchs, Ye Chen and Bai Xiaodie exchanged a glance, a hint of a smile in their eyes.

Being praised in person by the three most prestigious patriarchs within the most significant family shrine, both of them felt incredibly happy as members of the clan.

The patriarchs then turned their attention to the other eight among the top ten, including Qian Ming and Ye Xue.

"The eight of you also performed quite well!"

"During your time in the Ancestral Land, strive to seize the great fortune and take your strength to the next level!"

Upon hearing the hopeful words of the patriarchs, Qian Ming and the others solemnly responded, "Yes, Patriarch, we will surely seize this great opportunity afforded by the opening of the Ancestral Land!"

The opening of the Ancestral Land, an event that comes once in several hundred years, filled everyone with anticipation for the great fortunes it promised.

"Good, in three days' time, the day to enter the Ancestral Land will arrive!"

"We old men won't delay your preparation any further. Now, let us begin to distribute the rewards for this contest," said the patriarchs.

The top ten of the competition between the three clans would each receive a special reward: an Ancestral Ground Secret Map.

Upon hearing the patriarch's words, all ten turned their eyes towards Patriarch Bai. He was now walking towards a corner of the Ancestral Shrine, evidently to fetch something!

It was clear he was going to retrieve the "Ancestral Ground Secret Maps"!

Boom!

Upon reaching the corner, behind the three ancestors' statues and the deepest part of the shrine, light flickered from Patriarch Bai's hand as he suddenly reached towards the wall.

A booming sound echoed as ten brilliant beams of light flew from the wall into the hands of Patriarch Bai.

These ten beams of light, slender and shining, each more vivid than the last!

"The Ancestral Ground Secret Maps!"

"Could these ten beams of light be the 'Ancestral Ground Secret Maps,' detailing important treasure areas of the Ancestral Land?!"

Ye Chen and the others all looked towards the ten beams of light in Patriarch Bai's hands.

Patriarch Bai looked down to inspect the beams, and then raised his head, his gaze sweeping over the faces of Ye Chen and the rest.

"These ten beams of light are the ten 'Ancestral Ground Secret Maps'!"

"Based on your performance in the competition, each map varies in value! The better your performance, the more precious the map," explained the patriarch.

"Now, receive your Ancestral Ground Secret Maps!"

As Patriarch Bai spoke, he pointed with his finger, and the ten beams of light shot toward Ye Chen and his peers.

Among the ten beams, the brightest and most dazzling shot straight towards Ye Chen!

The winner of the three-clan competition, Ye Chen, would receive the most precious Ancestral Ground Secret Map!

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

After ten beams of light had landed in the hands of Ye Chen and the others, they all looked toward the light in their palms.

All they could see within the light were tiny golden grains flowing, but they couldn't make out what it was exactly.

"Drop your lifeblood into the light, and the secret map will reveal itself to you!"

"This secret map shall belong exclusively to you!"

Patriarch Ye's voice reached the ears of all ten individuals.

"Drop in lifeblood?"

"Unlock the secret map?"

The thought crossed the minds of the ten from Ye Chen's group. Each person lightly tapped their finger on the light in their hand, and a drop of lifeblood flew out, heading towards the flowing golden light with the golden grains.

The moment their lifeblood entered the golden light, the ten beams of light in their hands vibrated intensely and flew into their minds.

In an instant, vast images appeared within their minds.

"What is this..."

Ye Chen looked at the image that manifested in his mind and saw a huge valley; in the vast valley stood eighteen thirty-meter-tall golden monkey statues, towering majestically!

A mysterious valley with golden monkey statues—this was the region revealed by Ye Chen's Ancestral Ground Secret Map!

Not just Ye Chen, but the other nine individuals as well—Bai Xiaodie's mind revealed a valley, though hers was somewhat smaller than Ye Chen's, containing nine twenty-meter-tall golden monkey statues.

In Qian Ming's mind, a massive golden waterfall appeared.

And for Ye Chen's cousin, Ye Xue, her mental image was of a dense forest grown with giant trees.

The top ten of the three-clan competition each received a distinct Ancestral Ground Secret Map—all different from one another!

As the ten were observing the secret maps entering their minds, the three Patriarchs and the top ten competitors were unaware that within their Ancestral Land, behind the fourth statue in the hidden expanse of the Ancestral Land Secret Realm...

In the central region of the secret realm, beams of light shot towards the sky continuously.

These beams piercing heavenwards were scattered in the central region of the secret realm, no more, no less, precisely ten in number!

If Ye Chen could see where these beams of light originated, he would discover that the deepest and broadest of the ten beams was exactly the mysterious valley with eighteen giant golden monkey statues that appeared in his mind!

As beams of light emerged in the ten areas, a long-drawn voice rang out in the vast Ancestral Land Secret Realm, "It's been over three hundred years. The sixth opening of the Ancestral Land is upon us, ready to welcome a new batch of young ones from the three clans."

"However, I wonder if any of those youngsters will make it to the core area this time. That core area is even more precious than the ten great secret grounds displayed in the secret maps!"

"Not a single person made it to the core in the previous five openings! I hope I won't be disappointed again this time!"

"After all, this time, even 'It' left by the old master has been born!"

After murmuring a few words to itself, the voice slowly faded away, and the beams of light, stimulated by the opening of the Ancestral Ground Secret Maps, also began to dim.

Calm returned to the Ancestral Land Secret Realm.

At that moment, in the most central area of the Ancestral Land Secret Realm, surrounded by nine towering peaks, in the midst of a huge golden lake, the palm-sized golden monkey with fur that sparkled and shone brightly all over leapt up from the lake once more.

"Yi-ya!"

The little monkey seemed to sense the anomaly outside the Ancestral Land. Its dazzling eyes shone like black gems, filled with curious expression.

Whoosh!

The golden monkey dashed and soared hundreds of meters high, swiftly reaching the top of the nine towering peaks.

As the little monkey looked around, outside in the Ancestral Shrines of the three clans, nine of the top ten who had received the Ancestral Ground Secret Maps exited the shrines.

Only Ye Chen and the three Patriarchs remained inside the Ancestral Shrine.

At this time, the three Patriarchs looked at Ye Chen and said with a smile, "Ye Chen, now we will give you the highest reward of this competition—Ancestral Blood!"

"This Ancestral Blood is the lifeblood of Lord Di Kong himself, who helped our three clans establish the Ancestral Land and left behind the Ancestral Land Secret Realm!"

As Patriarch Ye spoke, the three of them walked beneath the three ancestral statues and sat down cross-legged.

All three simultaneously formed a strange Dharma Seal with their hands and began to chant mysterious spells with their eyes closed.

"Lord Di Kong's lifeblood?"

"So, the personage our ancestors befriended back then was known as 'Lord Di Kong'!"

Ye Chen watched the strange actions of the three Patriarchs, pondering to himself when, amidst the chanting and hand seals, a wondrous ball of light suddenly emerged from the center of the three ancestral statues.

It was the size of a fist—when the outer light dissipated, one could see it was actually a giant blood bead!

The surface of the blood bead flowed with endless spiritual patterns, radiating golden light throughout, truly a golden drop of blood!

Ancestral Blood!

This was the profound and mystical Ancestral Blood—Di Kong's Blood!