Reincarnated as a Divine Tree

After giving several orders quickly, Gan Zongjin hurried straight to the family's ancestral hall.

Inside the ancestral hall, the family totem stood proudly.

The Shi and Xie families had joined forces, and the clan was about to face a major problem. What he hadn't expected was how quickly the two powerful families had worked together. There had been no sign of this from the family's intelligence network.

This sudden attack would probably cause big losses for the clan.

He thought bad things about the Shi family, but as the clan leader, he knew that thinking about it wasn't going to help. Right now, the clan only has a future if it can handle the pressure from the two powerful families.

While the Gan family was preparing its response, the Shen family also became aware of the situation. The clan immediately fell into chaos.

But the two families' reputation wasn't the only thing that helped them stay strong in Yong'an City. After a short time, they quickly got their act together and got their clan members ready to attack back.

Seeing that the two targeted families had already become aware of the situation, the Xie and Shi families no longer bothered to conceal their actions. They quickly sent their best soldiers and started a big attack.

The whole city of Yong'an fell into chaos very quickly. Although the ordinary people in the city didn't know what was happening, they had their own way of surviving: staying inside and not going outside.

The once-busy city of Yong'an fell silent during the conflict between the four great families. Even many lively shops had already closed.

On South Street, Chen Yihu and several of his relatives looked at the empty street in front of them and didn't know what to do.

The clan's shops in Yong'an City were usually doing a good business. In just one or two short months, the clan had already earned two thousand jade coins.

For the clan, this amount was nothing special, but it was already more than many regular shops made.

But a situation like today's was something they had never seen before.

Just as Chen Yihu was about to step outside to gather some information, the group quickly spotted members of the Xie clan passing by. At the same time, they heard shouting and killing sounds coming from far away.

Everyone was shocked by what they saw.

"Tian Lei, let's go find out what's happening!"

"Yihu, close up the shop and wait for us to come back," Chen Tianling said.

"Okay, I understand," Chen Yihu replied.

Chen Tianling and Chen Tianlei did not stay long. They turned around and hurried away.

When Chen Yihu saw this, he quickly closed the store's doors. Right now, he was only at the Body Tempering Realm, and this kind of matter was not his strength.

But the distant sounds of battle in the city made Chen Yihu feel a little uneasy. Still, there was nothing he could do now except quietly wait for the two clansmen to return.

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"Huff!"

"Qinghe, look at this bowl. Do you think it might be a treasure?"

Under the ground, where they were digging up an old treasure, Chen Qingmeng put down the iron pickaxe. He then bent over and picked up a shiny bowl from the ground.

Chen Qinghe took the bowl from him without thinking twice. He put it on the ground and picked up his iron pickaxe, hitting it hard.

CRACK!

When the porcelain bowl broke into pieces, Chen Qinghe shook his head.

"Useless."

"Okay, let's get back to digging!" Chen Qingmeng said something.

He didn't seem disappointed and kept swinging his pickaxe.

Before this, they had already found a lot of strange and weird objects. These items all looked extraordinary, but they weren't very useful to the clan.

Chen Qinghe used a simple method: he met hardness with hardness. If something didn't break when it was hit, it must have some value. They could take it to the Second Uncle and the others to check it out.

There were other young people from the clan and several adult members of the clan standing next to them.

The entrance to the relic site was originally narrow, but the arriving clansmen expanded it into a large underground space.

The opening had been widened dozens of times. To make it easier to transport materials, the clansmen had even carved it into a staircase-like structure.

This meant that even large pieces of stone could be easily carried by the clan.

Right now, the digging has reached the area in front of the stone stele that was found earlier. They thought that with two more days of digging, the clan could move the stone stele back up.

Chen Qinghe had already thought about what characters should be carved on it.

He wasn't sure if the clan leader would agree.

"CLANG!"

As these thoughts crossed his mind, the unusual sound ringing out beside his ear made Chen Qinghe's face light up with joy.

A sound that clear and sharp could only come from something extraordinary!

Chen Qinghe dug downward quickly.

When the loose stones and soil were cleared away, a black wooden slab appeared.

This surprised Chen Qinghe. The sound had been sharp and loud—like the clash of metal—so how could it be made of wood?

But when he looked closely at the mark on the black wooden plank, he realized it was the same object he had just hit.

Chen Qinghe raised the hoe in his hands and hit the black wooden plank one more time.

The same sound rang out again, and Chen Qinghe's eyes brightened.

This is definitely a treasure!

Chen Qinghe was excited, even though he only saw a small part of the object. He was excited because he knew that there was more to see.

"Qingmeng, hurry and keep digging!"

As the two of them kept digging, the strange thing there quickly caught the attention of the other clansmen nearby, who hurried over to watch.

With the help of many clansmen, the black wooden slab was soon completely dug up.

At this moment, everyone could clearly see what the object before them truly was.

"Wow, this looks like a coffin!" a man from their clan said, surprised.

When they looked more closely, they saw that the object was made entirely out of black wood. There was a clear line where the upper and lower sections met. Although it looked a little different from the coffins the clan currently used, it was clearly a coffin.

Even though they knew it could be opened, none of the clansmen present wanted to act too quickly. When he saw this, Chen Qinghe felt scared too.

Could there be a dead body inside this coffin that's over a thousand years old?

"Elder Tianyu is here."

While everyone was still watching, Chen Tianyu arrived quickly with several other clansmen.

When Chen Tianyu saw the black wooden coffin that had been dug up, he was surprised.

He remembered that before the ruins collapsed, he hadn't seen any coffin.

Could it have fallen down during the collapse?

But there were a lot of skeletons at the site, so it wasn't too surprising to find a well-preserved coffin.

After a quick surprise, Chen Tianyu quickly told the clansmen to spread out.

Since he didn't know what was inside the coffin, he needed to be careful so as not to hurt the clan.

When the younger clansmen were far enough away, Chen Tianyu finally raised his hand and gave a signal.

Nearby, several late-stage Body Tempering Realm clansmen who had already taken positions at the four corners of the coffin used their strength together to try to open it.

Graaak!

The lid of the coffin creaked as it opened slowly.

Chen Qinghe and the other young people of the clan were very close by, and they were all looking very closely at the coffin, because they were very interested in seeing what was inside it.

Unfortunately, they couldn't see inside because it was too far away. Also, because Chen Tianyu clearly told them not to, no one dared to step forward.

At the front of the coffin, Chen Tianyu's body lifted into the air. His qi and blood were fully condensed, ready to strike at any moment.

But when the coffin was finally opened, Chen Tianyu looked a little surprised. His body, which had been floating in the air, slowly came back down to the ground.