Ancestor Symbol

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"John, the inheritor who awakened Queen Victoria, was officially crowned today, while the Moonfall Country's prime minister resigned and the cabinet announced its dissolution."

"Delegates of the Haidong Country's awakeners have arrived today to hold further consultations regarding the matter of the Huaxia ancestor symbol."

"..."

In front of the television, Su Chen abruptly widened his eyes, his gaze filled with bewilderment.

Could this be...

Time travel?

He stared at the shifting scenes of power in the Moonfall Country on the screen, yet could only see a vast expanse of white because a countless amount of massive information was rapidly flooding into his mind.

Ancestor symbols?

Bloodline awakening?

This complicated and confusing information made it somewhat difficult for Su Chen to breathe for a moment.

This world was originally no different from the Blue Star.

Yet just a year ago,

strange phenomena had suddenly appeared in this world.

A crown manifested out of thin air before a church door.

A stone statue broke out from the earth at an archaeological site.

Various strange and bizarre objects simultaneously appeared across two hundred and some countries or regions worldwide.

A gardener at Buckingham Palace inadvertently discovered a statue appearing out of thin air in the garden, shaped like Victoria from over a hundred years ago.

The very moment he shouted the queen's name, a phantom of the queen appeared, and countless rays of light flew out in all directions.

Members of the royal family possessing the Moonfall Country's royal bloodline each discovered a ray of light merging into their bodies the next moment.

Most of these royal members had lived in luxury and possessed weak constitutions.

Yet after merging with the light, they instantly felt something wake up inside their bodies, their strengths unexpectedly skyrocketing across the board!

As for the gardener who shouted the queen's name, he awakened a certain supernatural ability.

With a mere thought, golden light surrounded his body, and conventional weapons simply could not pierce it.

The withered old man in his fifties also instantly looked as though he had grown twenty years younger.

His entire person radiated heavy majesty and oppression, causing anyone who came close to involuntarily submit without harboring the slightest thought of resistance.

This unimaginable spectacle spread rapidly via the internet, instantly shattering the scientific faith that this world had worshipped for countless years.

In the face of absolute power, any rule could be broken.

The Moonfall Country's royal family, which had served as mere figureheads for many years, quickly purged all power structures with thunderous force, once again becoming the country's de facto rulers.

Although the gardener who awakened the statue lacked royal blood, because he obtained the queen's legacy, he held a natural suppressing power over members of the royal family, and thus logically crowned himself king.

Going from an ordinary worker to the ruler of a nation overnight, he stood at the pinnacle of power.

In the past, such a story would only ever appear in fairy tales.

Yet now, it was happening realistically before everyone's eyes.

Unwilling to believe it, they nevertheless had no choice but to believe.

Everyone understood that this world was about to face an unprecedented, massive transformation.

Those objects appearing out of thin air were named ancestor symbols.

If one awakened the ancestor represented by the symbol, their bloodline descendants would gain immense benefits, and the awakener could even become an existence far surpassing ordinary people!

The global landscape was destined to be reshuffled.

At a time like this, which country would dare to fall behind?

Every nation immediately mobilized all its forces to gather the ancestor symbols that appeared within its borders and launched research.

Situations similar to the Moonfall Country's royal family also began to emerge successively around the globe.

However, Huaxia was different from other countries.

In Su Chen's memories, the history of this world suffered from varying degrees of fragmentation.

Huaxia belonged to the most tragic batch among them.

The Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties.

Tracing to Qin and Han, the Three Kingdoms scheming.

The Jin ended, Northern and Southern dynasties, Sui and Tang succeeded.

The Five Dynasties, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing made up Huaxia.

These brilliant and splendid eras could only be traced back around three hundred years in the historical records and ancient relics handed down.

For dynasties before the Qing, whether historical records or cultural relics, not the slightest trace could be found.

The brilliance of five thousand years of history had been reduced to a mere few centuries!

And a major half of that was filled with humiliation and bloodstains!

For a long time, in the eyes of countries around the world, Huaxia had only been born a few centuries ago.

Lacking any foundation, it was like duckweed floating on water.

Even though Huaxia was rising today and its powerful national strength meant no one dared to underestimate it anymore,

the sense of regret hidden deep in the hearts of the Huaxia people had still not dissipated.

Today's prosperity could not compensate for past weakness.

Haidong Country even brandished a fabricated Hwandan Gogi

to herald itself as the origin of Asian civilization!

Proclaiming that they were the ancestors of Huaxia!

Huaxia's culture today and everything today originated from them!

This psychological pressure was like a massive boulder, pressing heavily upon the heart of every Huaxia citizen.

Naturally, those under the greatest pressure were Huaxia's historical workers.

For so many years, generation after generation of historians had racked their brains and worked day and night, hoping to discover new evidence.

They wanted to prove that Huaxia was no one else's vassal, let alone the remnants of another country.

They hoped that the people of Huaxia could truly puff out their chests in the future and no longer be trampled underfoot by other countries over historical issues!

However, no matter how hard they tried, their hopes fell through time and time again.

Yet the emergence of the ancestor symbols caused them to catch a glimmer of new dawn once more.

National experts gathered together at the earliest moment, spending months of sleepless research, yet they could never find the key to enter.

Let alone figuring out which ancestor it related to, even what kind of artifact Huaxia's appeared ancestor symbol actually was left everyone completely baffled.

With no other choice, these experts could only recite every named figure of the Qing dynasty starting from Hong Taiji.

Yet never did they expect that the ancestor symbol still showed no reaction whatsoever.

The symbol was right before their eyes, yet it simply could not be activated.

This maddening helplessness pushed all the experts to the brink of collapse.

People around neighboring countries were continuously awakening their bloodlines and growing restless, causing Huaxia to face increasing pressure.

Coupled with the failure to activate the ancestor symbol for so long, public skepticism and panic gradually arose.

At this moment, Huaxia could be said to be fraught with impending winds and rain, shrouded in dark clouds...

After absorbing the information in his mind, Su Chen took a deep breath.

Possessing the memories of his past life, he naturally felt Huaxia's current predicament all the more deeply.

Across five magnificent millennia, countless brilliant and breathtaking figures existed!

Speaking of bloodlines, which family didn't have a formidable ancestor?

Furthermore, Huaxia's five thousand years of history was likewise a five thousand years history of warfare.

The flames of war, famines, natural disasters.

Among the clans that managed to endure to the present day, which family's ancestors weren't royalty or nobility?

Yet the missing history actually allowed Huaxia to be bullied to such an extent!

At this very moment,

only Su Chen alone knew

the glorious heights the land of Huaxia had once traversed!

How ancient and profound was the bloodline flowing within the veins of Huaxia's descendants!

"Finally, we once again appeal to the people nationwide for clues."

"If you have any information regarding the ancestor symbol, please be sure to contact your local neighborhood committee at the first possible moment."

The voice on television pulled Su Chen's thoughts back once again.

Lifting his gaze, he was instantly stunned.

That ancestor symbol which had baffled countless experts and left them unable to identify it

appeared incomparably familiar in Su Chen's eyes.

Round-bodied with three legs, primitive and heavy.

That was unequivocally...

a cauldron!