The second Ancestor Symbol

That night.

Countless streaks of light suddenly appeared out of thin air in the night sky, falling toward every corner of the world like shooting stars.

But one of those lights did not descend after appearing. Instead, it raced along an almost horizontal trajectory.

In that direction, another light had only just appeared and begun falling toward Huaxia when the speeding light slammed straight into it.

A thunderous boom instantly jolted countless people in Huaxia awake from their dreams.

Everyone leaned out of their windows just in time to see a vast shower of shattered lights burst apart and plummet toward the ground.

The other dazzling light traced a long arc before falling far away into the Eastern Ocean.

This sudden incident instantly shook the entire world.

Huaxia was naturally no exception.

Zhu Yuanzheng and Li Shuhua rushed to Su Chen's residence to discuss what to do.

"An Ancestor Symbol! Whatever fell from the sky must be the second Ancestor Symbol!"

Li Shuhua's face flushed with excitement, his breathing heavy.

On the way over, Zhu Yuanzheng had already sent people to make inquiries.

Some of the countries now on friendly terms with Huaxia had already located where their lights had landed.

Preliminary examinations suggested that they were not meteorites, but objects that appeared to have been made by human hands.

Such things could hardly fall from the sky for no reason, much less scatter across the entire world.

To the two men, there was no doubt that these were Ancestor Symbols!

Su Chen was not the only one anxiously awaiting the second Ancestor Symbol.

At that moment, everyone across Huaxia was eagerly waiting for it.

As director of Huaxia's History Research Institute, Li Shuhua had spent night after sleepless night longing for its arrival.

What he hoped for was not a chance to awaken his own bloodline.

Instead, he hoped to witness Huaxia's brilliant ancestors with his own eyes once more while he still lived!

The first symbol.

Had been Huaxia's supreme divine artifact, the Nine Provinces Cauldron.

It had awakened Emperor Xia Dayu from four thousand years ago.

The appearance of that ancestor had directly allowed Huaxia to turn the situation around, snatching victory from defeat.

Su Chen had said before that Huaxia had a full five thousand years of history.

Its virtuous ancestors were as countless as the stars!

Now that this second symbol had appeared.

It was surely something extraordinary as well.

The ancestor it represented was most likely another pivotal figure in Huaxia's history!

At the thought, Li Shuhua grew even more impatient, desperate to see the symbol for himself as soon as possible.

Zhu Yuanzheng had not remained idle either. The moment he received the news, he had dispatched a large number of personnel to locate where the Ancestor Symbol had fallen.

But as time passed and reports came back from the search teams.

The excitement in their hearts swiftly cooled, giving way to utter shock.

"The Ancestor Symbol shattered?"

"How is that possible!"

The news not only horrified Zhu Yuanzheng and Li Shuhua, but also made Su Chen abruptly rise to his feet in disbelief.

The Ancestor Symbols were so important!

They determined whether ancestors buried by history could return to the world!

They also determined whether Huaxia could truly rise and reach the pinnacle of the world!

How could something so important simply shatter?

Besides, many countries had already found their second symbols.

All those symbols had suddenly appeared high in the sky before falling to the ground.

There had been no reports of any being damaged, let alone shattered!

Why had this happened to Huaxia alone?

The three men could neither believe nor accept it.

"General Zhu, Elder Li, don't panic just yet."

Seeing Zhu Yuanzheng pacing around the room and Li Shuhua beating his chest in anguish.

Su Chen, though equally shocked, thought for a moment before offering some reassurance.

"None of these reports have been confirmed yet. There could have been a mistake."

"Or perhaps this second Ancestor Symbol was made up of fragments to begin with and merely came apart as it fell. It should be possible to repair it."

"Really?"

Hearing that, Li Shuhua seized Su Chen's sleeve as though clutching at a lifeline.

Su Chen thought for a moment. Rather than answer that question, he asked another.

"Do you remember how the first Ancestor Symbols appeared?"

Without a moment's hesitation, Li Shuhua replied.

"Of course! Before the first Ancestor Symbols appeared, there was no warning at all. They suddenly materialized all over the world!"

"That included our Nine Provinces Cauldron here in Huaxia. It suddenly appeared in the center of a small town and was only brought here afterward."

Su Chen nodded and spoke gravely.

"The first time, they appeared out of thin air. The second time, they fell from the sky."

"Then where were these Ancestor Symbols before they appeared?"

"And why did they suddenly appear in this world?"

"Why did they all appear at the same time, in locations that happened to fall within their respective civilizations?"

"Neither of you believes that was a coincidence, do you?"

Zhu Yuanzheng and Li Shuhua exchanged a glance, unable to say a word.

They had considered these questions before, but had found no answers.

Su Chen had not expected them to answer. He shook his head and continued.

"Everything happens for a reason. The Ancestor Symbols are no exception."

"Although we don't know exactly why the Ancestor Symbols appeared, there's one thing we can be sure of."

"There must be a force behind all of this!"

At those words, Li Shuhua's mouth fell wide open, his expression horrified.

"You mean... all the Ancestor Symbols in the world are actually controlled by some kind of force? And their appearance in this world was deliberately arranged?"

"Who could do all that?"

"A god?"

Su Chen shrugged.

"I don't know whether gods exist."

"What I'm saying is that if this force can do all that, it's certainly beyond our ability to resist or fathom!"

"With power like that, if it made Huaxia's symbol appear and fall from the sky, why would it let the symbol shatter for no reason?"

"Doesn't that make sense?"

After hearing Su Chen out, Zhu Yuanzheng and Li Shuhua remained silent for a long while before nodding slightly.

Their anxious hearts eased a little as well.

Still, they understood that everything was only speculation for now.

Only after finding the Ancestor Symbol could they discover what had actually happened.

Yet after an agonizing night of waiting, it was not until dawn that fragments of the second symbol began to be found and delivered.

The last traces of hope Zhu Yuanzheng and Li Shuhua had held on to were utterly extinguished.

When pieced together, the fragments roughly formed the shape of a bronze mirror.

It was about twenty centimeters in diameter and roughly two centimeters thick.

Every fragment was covered in intricate patterns that looked exquisitely crafted.

But what filled everyone with anguish was this.

The bronze mirror had shattered into dozens of pieces...

Despite countless people searching throughout the night, some fragments still had not been found.

No matter how they looked at it, this Ancestor Symbol was beyond repair.

And with it shattered so badly, the remnant soul of the ancestor housed within had probably dissipated long ago.