Chapter 3463: The AltarEditor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Inside the hell grotto, Fang Heng suddenly slowed his pace.

"Oh? Did you find something?"

Fang Heng quietly communicated a few words with Abe Akaya, furrowed his brow, then looked back at Ignis and said, "Wait here."

Ignis stopped, "What’s wrong?"

"Follow me."

Fang Heng walked toward the other side of the passage.

Soon, following the spiritual link guidance from Abe Akaya, Fang Heng arrived at a narrow cavern on the forty-fourth layer of hell.

He stood at the entrance of the cavern.

The cavern had already been occupied by Abe Akaya, and the rock walls and floor were covered with a layer of vines. In the center of the cavern stood a hell altar.

"This is a hell altar. Hell creatures can obtain power from the altar. Most altars in hell have already been controlled by the creatures of each layer."

Ignis examined the altar inside the cavern and explained, "This one you see is a high-tier altar. Such high-tier altars only appear starting from the forty-fourth layer of hell."

"Hell creatures can attempt to complete a spirit binding with the altar. Once bound, they can continuously receive power from it. Moreover, if others touch the altar afterward, they will sense it immediately."

"There are altars in higher layers too, but those are lower level and cannot complete spirit binding."

High-tier altar?

Fang Heng silently nodded while listening to Ignis’s explanation.

Indeed, he had seen similar altars in higher layers before.

Altars could continuously absorb and store hell energy.

Previously, Abe Akaya could directly occupy the lower-tier altars in the upper layers and absorb their hell power, then after internal circulation, convert it into dual-attribute power of hell and nature for storage.

However, Abe Akaya could not directly absorb from this altar, which was why he sent the spiritual link.

Was it because high-tier hell altars required spirit binding?

Fang Heng thought as he approached the edge of the altar and reached out his hand toward it.

"Chi!"

Immediately, a familiar power flowed from the altar into his palm and quickly surged into his sea of consciousness.

Hmm!

Fang Heng felt a stirring in his heart, a flicker of doubt in his eyes.

Was this the power of faith?

At least the composition of this power was very similar to the power of faith.

Fang Heng tried to rapidly complete the spirit binding with the altar using his mental strength. Instantly, a dark red light spot appeared in his sea of consciousness.

The light spot continuously released weak psychic force inside the sea of consciousness.

Just like when he had previously bound the Netherworld temple and the spiritual world temple!

Could it be the same thing?

The spiritual world and Netherworld had temples, while hell had altars?

Fang Heng was puzzled as a series of game hints appeared on his retina.

[Hint: The player is currently bound to the hell altar.]

[Hint: The player unlocked hell power.]

[Hint: The player’s demon bloodline (source of demon) has converted to Hell Studies.]

[Hint: The player’s Hell Studies level advanced to demigod-level (Level 30).]

[Skill: Hell Studies (demigod-level).]

Type: Academic skill.

Level: Level 30.

Description: The demonic seed of hell is indestructible. You were born to control the power of hell. With the determination of your bloodline, you have gradually gained power approaching that of a god.

Additional description: Your all attributes +50, plus an additional all attribute bonus equal to skill level*2.5. All Hell Studies skill effects are increased by 200%.

Additional skills: Demon’s perception, flame survival, three steps of chaos, hell summoning, God’s holy destruction, demon body.

Bloodline advancement in academic disciplines?

Fang Heng quickly opened the game hints to observe.

After the bloodline conversion and advancement, besides the increase in his own attributes, the changes in skills were minor.

Moreover, the red light spot just born in his sea of consciousness was continuously releasing psychic force.

The psychic force slowly merged into the cluster of hell power occupying the center of the sea of consciousness.

Game hints began to scroll.

[Hint: The player gained 294 experience points in demigod-level Hell Studies.]

[Hint: The player gained 294 experience points in demigod-level Hell Studies...]

Huh?

Binding the altar actually granted a continuous passive experience for Hell Studies?

Not bad!

But then again, why didn’t binding the Netherworld temple have this effect?

Thinking carefully, it made sense because necromancy had already reached god-level, and advancing god-level academic disciplines required fusion with the Netherworld.

In a way, both aimed to acquire more temples and altars from the original world.

Fang Heng quickly communicated with Abe Akaya.

Within just over ten minutes, Abe Akaya had found three other similar hell altars on the forty-fourth layer.

Fang Heng guessed that the Realm of Hell, like the spiritual world and Netherworld, probably had many hell altars.

Or rather...

Suddenly, Fang Heng thought, according to Ignis, the hell rift was located in the lower sixtieth layer of hell.

Then the deeper layer of hell was connected to the real world.

And the upper layer they were currently in was the game world.

Wasn’t this very similar to the fusion between Netherworld and Death Realm?

Perhaps the boundary between the real world and the game world also existed in the hell environment?

While Fang Heng pondered, several red game hints gradually popped up.

[Hint: The player completed mission line-Netherworld Guidance.]

[Hint: The player triggered mission-Find hell orb.]

Mission name: Find and obtain the hell orb.

Mission description: You have discovered traces of the hell orb in hell. Please find and obtain the hell orb.

Mission reward: 1 million King of Gods’ points, 20 Ultimate dimensional crystals.

It came!

Fang Heng’s heart jumped.

As expected!

There was also a hell orb in hell!

No trace of the hell orb had been found in the upper layers, indicating it should be deeper inside hell.

Fang Heng turned to Ignis and asked, "Do you know the hell orb?"

Hell orb?

Ignis’s eyes flickered with confusion, and he instinctively shook his head, "Never heard of it."

Then Ignis thought of something and asked, "Could you mean the Heart of Lava?"

"Hm? Heart of Lava? What’s that?"

"The Heart of Lava is located on the eighty-eighth layer of hell. It is a spherical object containing a terrifying source of power from hell. It is occupied by the Lava Leviathan..."

Ignis shuddered slightly.

Just thinking of the Lava Leviathan filled him with instinctive fear.

"Seventy-second layer?"

Fang Heng shook his head silently.

That deep?

Forget it.

The hell orb could wait; finding the hell rift was the main task.

"Let’s go, continue. Lead the way."

"Yes."

Ignis continued leading Fang Heng deeper into hell.

After clearing the hell colossus on the forty-fourth layer, six more layers down was the area where the Mag Clan was active.

The Mag Clan had advanced knowledge of Fang Heng’s terrifying strength and showed no resistance. Their patriarch had received the news early and led the clan to surrender obediently on the fiftieth layer.

Having survived in hell for so many years, the Mag Clan was not powerful but knew how to adapt. Surrendering carried no psychological burden for them.

Fang Heng had no time to deal with the Mag Clan, and since they needed someone familiar with the lower layers of hell to guide them, he decided to let the Mag Clan lead.

As for loyalty, he didn’t care at all.

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