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On top of the bloody altar

Three torture chairs besle shape on top of it Gree in these chairs They had a blank look on their face, as if they aiting for so to happen

Below them, on the first and second level of the altar, all Apprentice Adepts were e bloody hole could be seen on each and every single one of these dead bodies, blood was gurgling out froical runes on the altar had absorbed these fresh blood and becaht up one after another

A bloodyit a touch of mysteriousness and evil

When all the evil runes on the altar were lit, a faint er in the air Immediately after that, countless wraiths and spiritsin a circle around the altar Froe would transforirls with splendid outlooks or transforhostly laughter incessantly lingered on

Within this evil and bizarre scene where angels and de like the clouds, the dead bodies of apprentices lying flat on the altar quickly withered It was as if all their blood, flesh, and soul were extracted by sos Very soon, they shrunk and turned into ers of death which looked silow on the altar beca!

If someone tried to perforht and co backlash from the Will of the Plane It was especially true for the Adept World, which was a hly possible that the master of the ritual would evoke a deadly backlash

Adept Anderson had spent a huge effort in constructing this bloody altar And obviously, he was able to divert the backlash co from the Will of the Plane into three nodes of the ritual As the result, when the blood sacrifice ritual was cohtly strapped onto the torture chairs, and their bodies were shivering violently

It was not fear that caused them to shiver, but because they were locked down by an unspeakable Will of Vastness froh the layer of principle, it kept sending forth its anger over into these three apprentices Pressured by this Will of Vastness, blood starting to burst out fro down froes to their corporeal bodies could not be compared with the severe injuries inflicted on their souls If not because the bloody altar kept extracting the life force of those apprentices and replenishing their consuht at the very ot in touch with the Will of Vastness, they had already vanished into thin air

But even so, during the continuous collision between their oill and the consciousness of the Plane, their soul had been riddled with a thousand gaping wounds and becah such wounds on their soul could be fixed using the fragments of soul sent over by the altar, it was rather easy that these foreign souls would contae aer, hatred, fear, sadness, which was the last thing that filled those apprentices before they were killed

By letting so e into theirextre from this point alone, that Adept Anderson simply never cared whether the three of the the method of blood sacrifice to repeatedly sti the approach of ‘help the shoots grow by pulling them upward’ to overdraw their vitality and Spirit

When their entire body and soul were brewed to the est moment, perhaps it would be the e that cae aative emotions as the core and formed into their own conscious core As the ic called this process of Pseudo-Adept advanced into Adept as ‘Crystallizing the Spirit Consciousness’

Only when a Pseudo-Adept could smoothly, completely, and steadily formed his own conscious core, his advancement ceremony was considered a true success What Adept Anderson prepared for Greem and the other tas actually an immature, unstable ceremony of Adept Advanceht be able to improve their bodies, souls, and Spirits to the lowest require into the realm of Adept in a very short amount of time, and eventually, form their very own conscious core But once the power of the blood sacrifice faded away, under the condition where they didn’t have a stable understanding of the Principles, sooner or later, their conscious core would disintegrate and cause irreversible dae to their souls

Nevertheless, Adept Anderson didn’t care anything about this What he wanted was the brief e!

He just had to take the opportunity of that briefthes and performed a second blood sacrifice ritual With that done, he would only have to withstand a little amount of backlash from the Will of the Plane and would be able to instantly devour three conscious cores which had just formed into shape At that h the bottleneck that had been holding hi a Second Grade Adept ould be highly sought after in the Zhentarinificent future waiting in front of him, Anderson’s ressed into his plan, the lesser room was left for him to relax and slacken Therefore, he forcefully calht attention to the slightest changes to the trio ere now strapping on the torture chairs