Chapter 103: The Altar

Xu Feng looked at the densely written rules for building a village and felt a headache coming on. He had never thought about building a village entirely of his own before.

Of course, in his previous life, Xu Feng had also fantasized about what it would be like if he became the highest authority of a village. But he knew that was just a daydream. Just glancing at the buildings needed to upgrade to a Level 2 Village and the materials required for those buildings made him feel dizzy—there were simply too many.

However, his main goal this time—to prevent the Doomsday Ark Alliance from obtaining the Village of Sacrifice—was finally accomplished. Even if the Village of Sacrifice remained a Level 1 Village forever, Xu Feng didn’t care. As long as he controlled the altar within the village, that was enough.

Thinking too much about it now was useless. Xu Feng walked to the altar at the center of the village. This was the entrance to another world. In his previous life, the Doomsday Ark Alliance activated this entrance, causing creatures from another world to swarm into Earth and plunder its resources.

“The most disgusting alien invaders, the Slime planet!” Xu Feng sneered coldly.

The Slime planet was among the weakest of the alien invaders. Their Planetary Will had only awakened a hundred years earlier than Earth’s Will, and they lacked the ability to cross galaxies and invade other planets. Yet, because of the altar in the Village of Sacrifice, they accidentally gained the opportunity to invade other planets.

“In this life, I will change the course of fate. This time, your slimy, disgusting race will not get the chance to invade Earth. Instead, humans will use this entrance to invade your planet,” Xu Feng said coldly as he gazed at the altar.

Xu Feng stepped forward. It was an altar entirely built from white granite, with the style of 18th-century European religious architecture.

At the moment, the altar was covered in dust, with a thick layer of dried branches, dead leaves, and dirt residue, as if it hadn’t been cleaned for a thousand years.

The surface of the altar was carved with intricate patterns that resembled some kind of special script, but Xu Feng had never seen it before. It just reminded him of ancient Hebrew.

Xu Feng reached out and touched the patterns on the altar’s surface, examining them carefully. In his previous life, he had come into contact with written languages from other alien races. He discovered that many alien scripts had intricate connections with the written languages of various Earth races.

The moment Xu Feng’s hand touched the altar, a mechanical voice echoed in his mind.

“You have discovered an ancient altar…”

“This altar belongs to the Village of Sacrifice. Ownership belongs to Xu Feng…”

“You have 100% ownership of this altar and can activate all its functions…”

“Warning: Activating this altar may lead to unknown dangers…”

“Do you wish to activate the altar?”

“Do not activate,” Xu Feng said calmly.

After Xu Feng touched the altar, the surface began to emit a faint, milky white light. The three-meter-tall altar, bathed in the white glow, took on a somewhat sacred aura.

However, after Xu Feng refused to activate it, the white light gradually dimmed, and the altar returned to its previous dilapidated state.

At this point, Xu Feng lacked the ability to guard this sole entrance, so he chose not to activate it.

Boom~

After the white light disappeared, the entire altar suddenly shook, scattering all the loose soil and dried branches on its surface. The altar became clean.

Xu Feng narrowed his eyes slightly. Even without activation, it caused such a commotion. If he had activated the altar’s functions, wouldn’t it have blown this small, broken village to pieces?

When he opened his eyes, the platform on the altar was actually shimmering with a dazzling dark gold light.

“This… is this an offering?” Xu Feng widened his eyes as he looked.

Xu Feng quickly strode up the altar. At the highest point of the altar, on the sacrificial platform, a single page emitting a dark gold glow lay quietly there.

With a trembling hand, Xu Feng picked up that page.

Item Name: Sacrificial Flyleaf (Page fragment of the Book of the Universe)

Item Attributes: The holder gains +5 to all attributes for every One Star level increase; gains an additional +5 to resistance checks, +300 Energy Value, +25% to own spell defense; acquires skills: Sacrificial Art, Summoning Art. Sacrificial Art: Sacrifice an item no lower than Black Iron Grade to communicate with a cosmic being of corresponding power. Warning: When communicating with cosmic beings skilled in charming through language, unknown dangers may occur. Summoning Art: After obtaining the cosmic being’s consent, summon it to the summoner’s plane. The higher the summoned being’s power, the shorter its duration after summoning.

Equipment Condition: Limited to Child of the Planet. Drops upon death.

Remarks: Those who possess a page fragment of the Book of the Universe are undoubtedly elect favored by the Planetary Will. As a Child of the Planet, upon obtaining a page fragment of the Book of the Universe, your fate becomes tightly bound to the planet you are on.

Note: This item takes effect simply by being placed in the backpack.

As expected, it was another flyleaf of the Book of the Universe.

This was top-tier equipment for summoners. Ordinary Summoning Arts could only summon beings from specific worlds. Once the summoning world was determined, changing it required a great cost.

The Sacrificial Flyleaf could summon beings from all cosmic planes. Moreover, the higher the grade of the sacrificed item, the stronger the summoned being’s power. However, this kind of summoning was highly random and much more dangerous than ordinary Summoning Arts.

Xu Feng placed this flyleaf into his Virtual Backpack. At this point, he already had two flyleaves stored in his backpack. These two Book of the Universe flyleaves emitted a faint dark gold glow, as if resonating with each other, yearning to merge together.

After putting away the flyleaf, Xu Feng carefully inspected the entire village once more but found nothing else.

“You have traversed every corner of the Village of Sacrifice and obtained a map of the Village of Sacrifice.”

Xu Feng felt slightly dizzy, as if someone had stuffed a large amount of information into his head.

Opening the Virtual Map, sure enough, the small island in the center of Black Water Lake now displayed the words “Village of Sacrifice.” Clicking further on the Village of Sacrifice opened a detailed map of the village.

“Residences, Village Chief’s Office, vegetable garden, altar, Sweetwater Lake… Though this village is rundown, it covers quite a large area,” Xu Feng muttered to himself as he looked at the map.

The official boundary of the Village of Sacrifice was only within the range of the old fences. But in reality, all the flat land surrounded by the mountains belonged to the Village of Sacrifice.

“Huh? What’s this?”

Xu Feng suddenly noticed that beneath Sweetwater Lake, there was a winding passage leading directly to Black Water Lake outside the island.

“Is this a secret passage, or is this the real entrance to the Village of Sacrifice?” Xu Feng wondered with some confusion.