The Primordial Sacrificial Altar.
Qi Sheng withdrew his gaze from the stellar battlefield.
The rewards he had distributed for this Summit of the Stars tournament had nearly exhausted his stockpiled sacrificial power. It had cost him dearly.
But that investment would yield long-term returns.
His original intention in hosting the tournament had naturally not been to give the players some excitement.
His central goal was to make every player team reveal its trump cards, allowing them to learn from one another and grow together through the most intense competition.
Before this tournament, many guilds had never revealed their secret tactics on the Forum.
But this tournament had exposed them all to the other players.
Both the top guilds and the many small and medium-sized guilds were absorbing this knowledge.
It was foreseeable that an explosion of tactical innovation would follow the tournament.
Old tactics would be dissected and refined, and new tactical systems would emerge from that foundation.
The entire Player Faction's understanding of warfare would rise to a whole new level as a result.
And that was precisely the outcome Qi Sheng most wanted to see: controlled internal competition becoming a catalyst for the Player Faction, driving every player to keep pushing past their limits.
Second, the Summit of the Stars tournament had also influenced the Player Faction's legion building.
Many players accustomed to adventuring in small squads had undergone a slight change in mindset after witnessing the world-shattering power displayed by the top warbands.
Future wars belonged to vast, organized warbands.
Individual valor and a small squad's finesse were insignificant before the will of a true grand legion.
Influenced by the tournament, many players who had been unable to participate already felt the urge to establish or join a large warband.
They hoped that when the next tournament