During the last ritual, the altar had not been sturdy enough to withstand the terrifying chakra Hyuga Kagami unleashed after opening the Eight Inner Gates, and it had shattered midway through the ceremony, causing him no small amount of trouble.
Afterward, Hyuga Kagami had struggled to find sufficiently durable materials for building an altar.
Once he opened the Gate of Death, his body would instantly reach its limits in every sense, while his chakra reserves would surge dozens of times over. Even materials as hard as steel would be no different from tofu under those conditions. Even with Sealing Jutsu formulae engraved upon them, their stability could not be guaranteed.
But the Gelel Ore Vein was different, because it possessed powerful chakra itself.
With that thought, Hyuga Kagami quickly made his way beneath the Aerial Fortress and looked up into the sky.
"If I transform the Aerial Fortress into a hollow ring, then embed the Gelel Ore Vein in its center, the bottom of the Gelel Ore Vein can directly receive the chakra beam from the Heavenly Spear, while the exposed upper surface can serve directly as the altar for my ritual..."
At this point, Hyuga Kagami no longer had much use for the Aerial Fortress's conventional sections, such as training grounds, energy cannons, and crew living quarters.
For him, the Aerial Fortress was now mainly a place to conduct secret experiments and a warehouse for experimental materials and treasures such as the Giant Tenseigan and the Gelel Ore Vein.
As long as a few core areas were retained, the Aerial Fortress could be reshaped into all kinds of forms. And as a structure floating in the sky, a hollow ring shape was aerodynamically sound as well.
Whoosh...
With a slight shift of thought, Hyuga Kagami's figure flashed, and he