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Chapter 2047: Chapter 1070: Placement

The fifth-grade Holy Spirit left the battlefield, then circled in a wide arc and returned to the battlefield from another direction.

At this exact time, the Late Stage Fifth Grade Exotic Realm Divine Soldiers had just departed from the battlefield, chasing toward the direction in which the fifth-grade Holy Spirit had left; the two sides passed by midway and did not encounter each other.

This was intentional on Li Shiming’s part; he absolutely did not want the fifth-grade Holy Spirit to come into contact with the Late Stage Fifth Grade Exotic Realm Divine Soldiers.

Given the strength of the fifth-grade Holy Spirit, if it ran into the Late Stage Fifth Grade Exotic Realm Divine Soldiers, it would not even have the power to fight back, let alone carry the altar back.

When the fifth-grade Holy Spirit returned to the previous battlefield, the many supreme experts on the field had already withdrawn.

Staying here after withdrawal would be meaningless; the altar had vanished, and aside from a few corpses there were no spoils of war.

Moreover, once things here concluded, they still needed to rush to other locations to support other battlefields.

The figure of the fifth-grade Holy Spirit flickered once and entered the supreme treasure Mirror Flower Water Moon, then was brought into the Grotto Heaven by Li Shiming.

Li Shiming looked at the fifth-grade Holy Spirit; at this moment, the fifth-grade Holy Spirit was already infinitely close to Mid Fifth Grade.

He had the fifth-grade Holy Spirit hand over the soul crystal ring containing the altar, then personally took the altar out from the soul crystal ring.

The moment the altar was taken out, it emitted a faint white radiance.

Previously, when it had been forcibly stored in the soul crystal ring, the altar’s energy had been cut off, and the altar was like a dead object.

Now that the altar was placed within the Grotto Heaven, it began operating again.

Li Shiming did not immediately take out the twelve Exotic Realm Spirit Crystals within the altar; this was his Cave Heaven Space, where he possessed the ability to control everything, so naturally he could observe the altar carefully and meticulously.

His perception continuously scanned the altar, and IBMz15 recorded the scanning data.

He did not know that, in countless years of warfare, actual records of altars truly captured by human Cultivators were extremely few.

Even in cases where an altar was captured, most of its interior would already have been destroyed.

The greatest reason he had managed to capture this altar intact was that he had used the fifth-grade Holy Spirit to collect it.

The fifth-grade Holy Spirit had withstood a single Spirit attack from the unknown existence within the altar; most likely that unknown existence had never imagined that a Spirit attack targeting the soul of the fifth-grade Holy Spirit would consume all of the unknown existence’s Spirit energy stored within the altar.

Based on the level of Spirit energy that the unknown existence had left in the altar, it should have been enough to crush the souls of any human supreme expert.

But the problem was that this time it had encountered Li Shiming’s soul—a soul with a hundred and ninety-one brains, equivalent to a hundred and ninety-one souls, and with IBMz15 participating, any attack on Li Shiming’s soul would be transformed into a burden jointly borne by the hundred and ninety-one brains.

To annihilate Li Shiming through Spirit force, one would need the power to simultaneously extinguish a hundred and ninety-one of Li Shiming’s souls.

Perhaps if the unknown existence’s true body launched the Spirit attack, it could easily annihilate a hundred and ninety-one of Li Shiming’s souls.

However, the bit of Spirit energy that the unknown existence had left within the altar was far from sufficient to achieve this.

Once the altar lost the unknown existence’s Spirit energy, it lost its self-destruction capability and was preserved intact.

If this altar were sent to the Immortal Alliance, it would earn an extremely large amount of contribution points.

Unfortunately, Li Shiming did not know that the Immortal Alliance would reclaim altars; he had only arrived at the Land of Fallen Immortals not long ago, and apart from the contents on his Identity Jade Disc, the rest of the information came from what his avatar Li Yuanba had heard in contact with some supreme experts.

The time was too short, the information he could obtain was limited, and he had never heard about the Immortal Alliance reclaiming altars.

An intact altar, although lacking the Spirit of the unknown existence, which rendered it unable to serve as a conduit to the Divine Domain, still retained its other functions; this mysterious altar was exposed before Li Shiming, awaiting his research.

Li Shiming’s brows suddenly furrowed slightly; as the altar operated, it was repelling the Grotto Heaven’s energy and converting this energy into Holy Spirit energy.

The Grotto Heaven was his foundation; if the altar continued like this for a long time, it would affect his growth.

Although Holy Spirit energy could be arbitrarily converted into other forms of energy, Holy Spirit energy could only be controlled by Exotic Realm Divine Soldiers; even Li Shiming himself, without going through the fifth-grade Holy Spirit, could not manipulate Holy Spirit energy.

After pondering for a moment, he waved his hand, and a separate space was isolated within the Cave Heaven Space.

With the altar in this isolated space, no matter how it converted energy, it would only affect this separate space and have no impact on the outer spaces.

Li Shiming inspected the altar; the altar was operating at this time without drawing energy from it, so it still had not tapped into the twelve Exotic Realm Spirit Crystals.

He had already thought it through: if the altar consumed Exotic Realm Spirit Crystals, he could still afford to lose one tael or a few Exotic Realm Spirit Crystals, but if it truly started consuming more Exotic Realm Spirit Crystals, he would immediately halt the altar’s operation.

There was still Holy Spirit energy left within the altar from before, but very soon he realized he had been overthinking.

Because the altar was not consuming Holy Spirit energy at all; instead, it was continually absorbing energy from the void, converting it into Holy Spirit energy and storing it inside the altar.

On reflection, this was to be expected. As an object that connected to the Divine Domain and expanded the Divine Domain’s range, if the altar’s internal energy always had to be supplied by Exotic Realm Divine Soldiers and could not independently absorb and convert energy, then its practical role would be greatly reduced, and it would not be possible for it to serve as a solid base for Exotic Realm Divine Soldiers.

The energy within the altar was increasing slowly, yet this slowly increasing amount of Holy Spirit energy was by no means small.