"This is... someone performing a sacrificial ritual for the Serpent of Revival..."
The instant Yu Yuan made out the voice, he understood.
There was no doubt.
His earlier guess had come true.
He really seemed to have infiltrated the Serpent of Revival's faith network.
And within that network, he held a certain Access Level.
Just as he had once intercepted the Blood Clan's Bloodline River.
A surprise!
Now this was a surprise!
Yu Yuan withdrew his consciousness. Researching the faith network could wait; his target now was Artus.
With the barrier's energy circuit deciphered,
the barrier had become a clearly visible energy network in Yu Yuan's eyes.
The [Empowering Hand] he had prepared began gently shifting up, down, left, and right, following the Energy Circuit.
[Empowering Hand] reached into the running Energy Circuit, and he spread his hands apart.
A narrow passage wide enough for one person appeared in the barrier.
Yu Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly and stepped inside.
Only a step apart, yet they were two different worlds.
Only after entering the barrier did Yu Yuan discover that it actually contained a space of its own.
A sacrificial altar the size of a small plaza stood here.
At its center stood the very serpent statue Yu Yuan had seen earlier.
However, the altar here was much larger, standing seven or eight meters tall.
Below the altar, a figure knelt amid billowing black mist. His Death Aura was dense, yet it still could not suppress the white flames around his waist and abdomen.
He reverently held a Black Bone Club in his hands.
As he murmured an incantation, another power began manifesting on the Black Bone Club.
At the same time, the Death Aura around Artus churned ever more violently, with a portion of it connecting to the Black