If encountering a tree, you must be extra careful, as those trees will actively attack.
The monsters by the roadside should also be carefully avoided.
It’s best to wear the Crystal Armor of the Baboon Demon Monster. Its Crystal Armor emits a strong stench and rotting sll, and in the Catastrophe-level Contamination Zone, it’s like walking defense.
Other monsters don’t even bother looking at it.
Although hiding inside the Crystal Armor feels nauseating, for the sake of safety, a little nausea is nothing.
Xu Ran recalled the knowledge from the books.
He smiled and shook his head.
Having the Invisibility Skill is really refreshing.
The Crystal Armor of the Baboon Demon? No need, just fly forward directly!
Xu Ran, with a Qi Blood Value of 2.4 million, swiftly surged forward.
After half a day.
Xu Ran heard the sound of a battle cry.
Xu Ran followed the sound over.
On the plain ahead, hordes of Crystal Beasts were racing forward. They varied in size; so were over five ters tall, so only half a ter. So resembled snake people, so like lions and tigers, and so like crabs. So wielded weapons, so carried shields, and so held staffs.
In short, they were bizarrely shaped.
Their Qi Blood Value was generally over a million, so reached 3 million, and even so with tens of millions of Qi Blood Value appeared on the plain.
Like a swarm of ants, they rushed toward the Resentful Beast Legion at the opposite side.
Compared to the Crystal Beasts, the Resentful Beast Legion was much fewer.
They followed the elite soldier route; on the entire battlefield, there were only over 20 Resentful Beasts.
They were very strange, with Qi Blood Values exceeding 8 million, with mountain-like bodies covered in tentacles and eyes. The tentacles slapped against the Crystal Beasts’ Crystal Armor, and the corrosive contamination gradually cracked the armor.
The Crystal Beasts, like a swarm of ants gnawing at beetles, recklessly charged toward the 20 Resentful Beasts.
The wailing echoed among the clouds.
It was unsettling.
Xu Ran was calm, quietly passing through the battlefield.
This kind of skirmish, not knowing why it happened, was mostly about territory or treasures.
"Could it be that there’s sothing valuable nearby?"
Xu Ran raised an eyebrow, instinctively analyzing.
"From the dynamics of the battle, it seems the Crystal Beasts launched an army to fend off the Resentful Beasts’ invasion."
"Then the Crystal Beasts must be guarding sothing."
"I should find out what it is and see if I can seize it."
With this thought.
Xu Ran set off from the rear of the Crystal Beast army, beginning his treasure hunt.
Two hours later.
He saw a city.
Black contamination ford its high walls. Inside the walls, mushroom-like black buildings were orderly arranged, so as tall as ten ters, others twenty ters. In the center of the city stood a giant mushroom building, with seven layers in total!
Using the central mushroom as the core, radiating roads spread out in a ’米’ shape. In the midpoint of each road, there was an altar.
Around the altar, eight ghostly green stone pillars stood, like gemstones emitting nuclear radiation, engraved with mysterious symbols.
"It’s an altar!"
"This is exactly what I need!"
Xu Ran was delighted.
Unexpectedly, he had only entered the Catastrophe Contamination Zone for half a day and saw an altar.
As expected, altars are quite common in the Catastrophe Contamination Zone.
In that case, he must study them well.
Xu Ran went invisible to the front of the stone pillars, earnestly comprehending. At this stage, his enlightennt skill was extrely high, just 2000 progress points away from reaching the next tier — [Skilled in Enlightennt].
He fully grasped the information on the eight stone pillars in half an hour.
Not only did he understand, but he also comprehended so talisman knowledge.
The talisman and array systems are very similar.
But their usage is different. If Xu Ran were to create one himself, he would need to wait until [Skilled in Enlightennt].
But with an existing reference.
Xu Ran could understand it imdiately.
Like now.
He knew.
The altar at this mont was used to place captives upon it, offering them as sacrifices to the deity, and then receiving the deity’s blessing through the altar.
The deity enjoying the sacrifices was a Three-Headed Snake.
Its power was unknown.
Xu Ran learned this ritual.
He then proceeded to another altar.
The second altar could actually be used to decompose Light objects and convert them into eerie contamination.
Xu Ran was stunned.
"Such an altar... it’s probably the source of contamination, isn’t it? Could I reverse-train it?"
Xu Ran earnestly understood for two hours and found this altar to be very advanced.
He couldn’t really comprehend it!!!
So Xu Ran could only look at another altar — the Ancient Blessing Altar. This one is also quite complex, apparently an altar where Crystal Beasts awaken and request blessings from the Ancient God for the Crystal Beasts.
"It seems I’ll have to wait until [Skilled in Enlightennt] to understand the decomposition altar."
"I have a feeling this altar can be reverse-trained. If I comprehend it fully, I’ll be able to set one up to decompose contamination into pure Spiritual Qi!"
Xu Ran’s eyes shined brightly.
As night was approaching, he vanished from the Crystal Beast City.
Among the distant mountains, he found a cave to dwell, and this cave strangely showed signs of previous inhabitants.
Xu Ran smiled faintly, then expanded the cave.
Then purified a pool of water.
Casually, he went out to search for food.
After he finished eating roasted hazel grouse and ca back, he took a bath...
He had no clothes left, so he now wore paper armor, sturdy, durable, stylish, and crucially, it could resist attacks.
It could withstand part of a 12 million Qi Blood Value attack, let alone combined with his physical strength of 2.4 million.
Pretty good.
If the paper armor could work at any distance away from him, it would be the best armor!
Absorbing Ghost Energy could heal it, and with Xu Ran’s increasing strength, its defense also enhanced... Truly invincible.
Unfortunately...
No way to realize it.
Only Xu Ran can enjoy it, and of course, his teammates in the future could as well.
After bathing.
Xu Ran released the Paper Warrior Generals to keep watch at night, sealed the cave casually, and pasted a Little Concealnt Treasure Talisman...
No talisman crafting today.
Tomorrow he’ll comprehend the altars.
Xu Ran had a sound sleep; ever since he started the logging expedition, he hadn’t slept this well, waking up feeling refreshed as if fully revived.
He washed up simply.
Xu Ran went invisible to the city, comprehending beside the decomposition altar. Many Crystal Beasts passed by Xu Ran; he dared not focus entirely on his research, only able to glance intermittently.
But it was really hard to comprehend.
"Such an altar must have been created by a mighty warrior, perhaps by a supre. Anyway, it is very complex."
"But it doesn’t matter, just 19 days later, I will beco the tier [Skilled in Enlightennt], and that’s just over a week, no need to rush."
Xu Ran squinted solemnly.
[Skilled in Enlightennt] should be able to decipher this altar, right?
Maybe, probably, perhaps...
Failure is not an option...
Xu Ran exhaled lightly...
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