Chapter 1116: Mastering the Altar

From the first day the Thundercast Divine Soldier entered the Southern Continent, the translation dictionary never shut down; it ran every second, gathering runes for analysis.

Until now, it finally succeeded in deciphering!

When the phone finished the deciphering, Lei En's interface flashed; countless Ancient Sacred Runes cascaded down like a waterfall, chaotic at first, then gradually becoming orderly, constantly pulsing, shifting, cracking, as massive information flooded his mind.

Lei En sat motionless, like a statue.

Only after more than ten minutes did he exhale, his body stirred, and his face showed joy and a dawning realization.

"So that's how it is…"

Lei En muttered softly.

At this moment, he had fully mastered the Ancient Sacred Runes and Ancient Sacred Script; symbols that were once extremely obscure and profound could now be understood at a glance, their meanings clear. Though he could only read them and deeper principles still required further study, it was far better than the previous blind‑folded predicament.

The many puzzles encountered over the past months while researching the Ancient Sacred Altar were now effortlessly solved, brightened, with almost no hindrance, thanks to mastering this textual tool.

"Awesome!"

Lei En shouted.

There are few things in the world more exhilarating than this.

But he quickly calmed, resumed his research, letting the knowledge and rune arrays gathered from the Ancient Sacred Altar flow past his eyes like a stream, organized at a hundred times his previous speed, then dispatched to a thousand Thundercast Celestial Soldiers for analysis.

Three hours later.

In Lei En's vision, a virtual model of the Ancient Sacred Altar had been constructed, scalable at will; when enlarged it revealed the internal structure, each detail crystal clear, annotated with data, functions, and extensive analysis.

Yet, the deeper his understanding of the Ancient Sacred Altar grew, the more awe he felt.

He truly grasped what it means to be vast and profound!

Just like the saying from a past life: the more you know, the more you sense your own ignorance; the Ancient Sacred Altar's profound and massive crystallized wisdom left Lei En in awe.

Don't be fooled by the altar model and rune knowledge; in reality it's still only surface level.

If the Ancient Sacred Altar is a massive repository of knowledge, then I have merely opened its grand door, stepped over the threshold, yet my hands are empty; faced with a mountain of treasure I cannot transport, I can only haul it piece by piece myself.

Even with countless Thundercast Celestial Soldiers and multi‑core crystals parsing together, it remains a colossal undertaking.

"The road stretches endlessly…"

Lei En sighed softly, his eyes full of anticipation.

Although he hadn't grasped the Altar's essence, he could already roughly command its power—repairing damaged sections, replicating the altar, hijacking permissions, making minor alterations—all without issue.

Thinking of constructing the altar, Lei En smiled; Elder Suolim's method of rebuilding the altar on the Storm Plane now seemed feasible.

But even recreating the Ancient Sacred Altar identically would still contain errors.

A millimeter off leads to a thousand miles of mistake.

Moreover, the altar must be tuned after construction before it can activate.

Elder Suolim, unfamiliar with Ancient Sacred Runes, naturally couldn't tune it, didn't even know where it failed, and could only end up with an empty shell.

Unless he comes to me for a helping hand.

"Hehe…"

Lei En was already pondering how to extort.

After all, at that time Elder Suolim was close to ascension, and manipulating a deity with a mortal's guise seemed promising.

Next, he needed to pinpoint the location of the Ancient Sacred Altar within the God‑Abandoned Land's Yin He Nie Luo.

The Ancient Sacred Altar's locations aren't random; they follow internal rules, each altar precisely corresponding to a celestial star or body, also requiring specific terrain, and forming a network with neighboring altars.

Following this pattern, the altar's site isn't hard to locate.

Lei En continued his own research.

Meanwhile, Thundercast Divine Soldiers scattered across the God‑Abandoned Land mobilized, covertly searching for the altar.

The Ancient Sacred Altar in the God‑Abandoned Land had been ruined over seven thousand years ago, long before the Blazing Sun Tribe migrated there; nevertheless, the Ogre Tribes of the God‑Abandoned Land, including the Blazing Sun Tribe, have tried to locate the altar to ascend the Loa Deity.

The Blazing Sun Tribe gathered many records mentioning the altar's general bearing.

In fact, the altar's position is easy to judge; it rarely lies on the God‑Abandoned Land's edge, most likely in the region's central zone.

Only Yin He Nie Luo is rather special.

The God‑Abandoned Land spans a vast area; it once housed two Ancient Sacred Altars, but the ogres lacked precise surveying methods, unable to determine the central point.

But for Thundercast Divine Soldiers, that's no problem at all.

Approximately three hundred li northeast of Sarta lies one of the God‑Abandoned Land's two central zones.

Soon, dozens of ogres transformed from Thundercast Divine Soldiers arrived.

After a search, they found a massive city ruin, several li in length and width, completely overgrown. Such architectural ruins are common in the Southern Continent; over tens of thousands of years countless tribes rose and fell, and these forest‑hidden remnants testify to their passage.

Had it not been the Thundercast Divine Soldiers' precise positioning, even other ogres discovering the ruin wouldn't realize the former glory here.

They wouldn't even know a Ancient Sacred Altar lies deep underground!

The still‑functioning Ancient Sacred Altar has, directly above it on the ground, a magnificent Loa Temple, but those temples were built later as entrances, not structures left by the ancients; in early times many altars lacked temples.

Thus Thundercast Celestial Soldiers cannot locate the Ancient Sacred Altar via temple ruins and must carpet‑search the entire ruin area.

The search lasted two days.

Finally, a Thundercast Divine Soldier found a clue, ultimately standing on a thicket‑covered ground.

Beneath the surrounding weeds and fallen leaves lay several remnants of stone foundations, their inscriptions long corroded beyond recognition.

Dozens of Thundercast Divine Soldiers began consecutively casting portals.

The Ancient Sacred Altar lies ten thousand meters underground; its passages were long destroyed, its exact bearing unknown, so they could only probe via portals.

A moment later.

Air blew out from behind a portal, creating an airflow.

Found it!

A Thundercast Divine Soldier stepped into the portal without hesitation; the view turned pitch black, yet remained clear through the Soul Eye.

A familiar hemispherical sky‑ground came into view, about five hundred meters in diameter, the ground flat as a plaza.

In the middle of the plaza stands a flat‑topped pyramid.

Ancient Sacred Altar!

Moreover, it is a Main Altar, one level higher in size and power than an Ordinary Altar, capable of suppressing the five surrounding altars.

The other Thundercast Celestial Soldiers also entered the portal, then flew toward the pyramid, beginning to inspect the condition of this Ancient Sacred Altar.

Lei En, through the eyes of a Thundercast Celestial Soldier, saw everything.

Judging from the exterior, the altar's structure is largely intact; the internal rune array must be damaged, and the damage is at a critical spot. Otherwise, the Ancient Sacred Altar, with its self‑repair ability, would have fully healed after over seven thousand years.

Soon after, the Thundercast Celestial Soldiers located the problem.

It also confirmed Lei En's conjecture.

The damage to this Ancient Sacred Altar is minimal, only two spots: one at the control hub within the temple atop the pyramid, which appears to have suffered a violent physical strike, causing half the temple to collapse and the hub inside to be destroyed.

Originally, even a damaged control hub could be repaired, provided there was enough energy.

Unfortunately, the rune formation that gathers energy for the altar was also hit, which is the other damaged spot.

Root‑like metal conduits pierce the ground, spreading tens of thousands of meters in all directions like the tentacles of a towering tree, drawing geothermal energy to power the altar; they still operate, but a crucial node in the energy transmission has collapsed.

Thus the energy cannot reach the control hub, rendering all effort futile.

Lei En was overjoyed.

The Ancient Sacred Altar's condition is better than Lei En expected; it can be repaired without much material, the difficulty is low, and it will be resolved quickly.

Reslin arrived at the Ancient Sacred Altar swiftly and then triggered castling.

Lei En saw the altar.

He released hundreds of Thundercast Celestial Soldiers from the Pixel World, then returned to the Augustus, making several round trips to transport a large amount of material to the altar.

The Thundercast Celestial Soldiers immediately got to work, beginning to repair the altar.

Lei En didn't need to intervene himself; he hadn't forgotten that another Ancient Sacred Altar lay in the Abandoned Divine Land, so he sent the Thundercast Celestial Soldiers to keep searching, and they found it in half a day.

This Ordinary Altar is south of Salta, about nine hundred li away, and is one of the Ordinary Altars under the jurisdiction of the first Main Altar.

Unfortunately, its damage is severe.

Most of the pyramid has collapsed; its internal structure and rune array are almost completely destroyed, and numerous troll corpses litter the surroundings, clearly evidence of a fierce battle, with a corner of the cavern also collapsed, leaving devastation everywhere.

The culprits also perished inside: two massive Luo A.

Repairing this altar would cost time, money, and effort, so Lei En set it aside for now and focused his energy on the Main Altar.

A dozen days later.

Lei En hovered in the cavern's mid‑air, his Soul Eye piercing the interior of the Ancient Sacred Altar; deep within, the Thundercast Celestial Soldiers carefully linked the energy conduits, repairing the damaged nodes, and when the final Ancient Sacred rune was inscribed, light instantly burst forth.

Buzz……

The Ancient Sacred Altar trembled slightly as streams of energy converged from all directions, traveling along the root‑like conduits into the pyramid and reaching the control hub.

One by one, the rune arrays activated, and countless Ancient Sacred runes lit up.

The walls and floor, once rock‑like, now glowed with a golden sheen; the massive pyramid shone brilliantly, illuminating the entire cavern.

The Ancient Sacred Altar has been activated!

Lei En nodded with satisfaction; everything unfolded exactly as he had anticipated.

Now only the control of the altar remains.

A portal opened before his eyes, and Ke Ersuo stepped out, transforming into a beam of golden light that fell into the Ancient Sacred Altar and entered the temple atop it. In the newly rebuilt temple, a platform half a person's height high held aloft a screen‑like golden panel.

Ke Ersuo reached out and pressed it; countless Ancient Sacred runes flickered, and a stream of information surged into his mind.

"So this is the feeling."

Ke Ersuo let out a sigh of admiration, and many pieces of information floated before his eyes.

This method of control is very similar to Fu Kong Cheng; one can only say that artifacts imbued with profound knowledge share a certain convergence.

Ke Ersuo left a soul imprint on the golden panel, successfully acquiring the highest permission of this Ancient Sacred Altar. Numerous data unfolded in his mind: the altar's current operation, energy collection, conversion, storage and consumption, and so on.

Because the Ancient Sacred fund had just been repaired, its energy reserves are at a low point.

It cannot provide much assistance for the time being.

However, after about a month the Ancient Sacred Altar will be able to absorb enough energy to sustain its operation, and any surplus can be utilized.

The Main Altar's energy projection range is just over a thousand li, slightly less than that of the Main Altar on the Storm Plane.

Around it, the five Ordinary Altars have two that are out of contact and three still operating.

Ke Ersuo immediately sensed their locations.

A few seconds after he obtained control permission of the altar, the operating altar responded, sending tentative messages in succession.

They are all Luo A!

The messages from the three Luo A deities were filled with shock and deep puzzlement.

"Who are you?"

"Who? You actually found the Sailiu Altar and repaired it?"

The third message was silent, but its emotion was the most intense, shifting from initial shock to raging fury.

Ke Ersuo gave no response.

He understood why the three Luo A reacted so strongly: his controlled Main Altar is more powerful than an Ordinary Altar and can suppress the five subordinate Ordinary Altars, giving him a great advantage when battling those three Luo A.

He could even easily usurp their Ancient Sacred Altars.

The Southern Continent has twenty‑four Ancient Sacred Altars in total, four of which are Main Altars, whose permission level is one tier higher than the others.

The controllers of the other three Main Altars are all the Southern Continent's most powerful Luo A.

Therefore, those three Luo A are extremely wary of him; they will not leave their altars until they have fully investigated his background.

A moment later.

Kelsarol has already become completely familiar with the Ancient Holy Altar.

"It's time."

He stood up; now that the Ancient Holy Altar has been repaired, the Godforsaken Land has become the past, once again becoming the goal of the Luoa. Therefore, before the three Luoa around the Godforsaken Land react, he must unify the Godforsaken Land.

The first target is the Headhunter Tribe.

However, before setting out, there is still something to do.

The apparition of Lord of Light Sheng Jiliesi appeared on the Ancient Holy Altar, he held the divine artifact Holy Blood Amber in his hand, surging with vast holy light power, began to bless Kelsarol; while his strength rapidly increased, he continuously granted the Dawn Holy Blessing.

When Kelsarol returned to Salta, he had already advanced to Saint Rank powerhouse; upon entering the Chieftain Hall, he issued the command:

Gather the troops, march out!

(End of chapter)