Chen Miao drew his gaze away from the two people above and turned it toward the altar.
This altar was exactly like the one he had seen in the chapter.
The altar covered a vast area, divided into three concentric sections.
The first section was the circle at the very center.
A hemispherical mirror enclosed it. Without anyone telling him, Chen Miao knew what was inside.
The Altar Core!
If he could deal with the Altar Core, all of this should end.
But Chen Miao lacked that ability.
Perhaps the Grade-A Investigator overhead could destroy this core, but the Mirror Pillar had him pinned down, preventing him from channeling his power here. That was probably part of the Hundred Ghosts Seat's plan, too.
As for whether the other Investigators could do it, Chen Miao doubted it.
At that moment, a group of Administration Investigators sat cross-legged in the altar's outermost ring, their faces etched with sorrow.
Chen Miao spotted Xi Sheng. The other two Investigators who had left with Xi Sheng were nowhere to be seen.
More than twenty Administration Investigators now sat cross-legged in that outermost ring. Chen Miao did not know how many people the Administration had sent this time, but the number here was certainly substantial. And every one of them was at least a Grade-C Investigator.
Shannan City's municipal Administration had only four Grade-C Investigators. More than twenty meant the combined number from five or six municipal Administrations. Moreover, Chen Miao knew that they were not all Grade-C Investigators. There were Grade-B Investigators among them, too!
As for why even Grade-B Investigators were sitting there, Chen Miao had learned a little from the chapter.
Someone would explain these things to him shortly, too.
Aside from those two rings, forty-nine living people with numb expressions sat within