The Primordial Sacrificial Altar.
Qi Sheng glanced over the vast amount of Sacrificial Power newly credited to the backend.
These funds came from resurrecting the Spirit Breath Race and purchasing land.
The Spirit Breath Race's resurrection had been part of his plan all along.
He had withheld resurrection permission from Little Mage six months earlier precisely to give him an opportunity to break through on his own.
To open a window in which he could seek answers alone, overcome his predicament, and grow.
To see whether this "major taxpayer" could nurture Momentum uniquely his own amid despair.
And Little Mage had not disappointed him.
Nurturing his Dao with regret and forging his sword with grief, he had successfully comprehended Life-and-Death Duality upon the foundation of the Destruction Sword Dao, condensed the Sword of Hope, and transformed himself.
But even if Little Mage had failed to break through, Qi Sheng would still have activated this hidden resurrection permission once the year was up.
To the Player Faction, the Spirit Breath Race had always been an important source of logistical resources.
For over a century, the Player Faction's rapid, vigorous development and countless top Guilds' ability to focus entirely on conquest and growth had been supported by the Spirit Breath Race's complete, century-spanning industrial chain.
More than half the inexpensive necessities in the Trading House came from the Spirit Breath Race.
Filling Spirit Food Bentos that provided buffs, a full range of Spirit Plants and medicinal ingredients, and all manner of handcrafted accessories-countless small necessities filled the entire foundation of the Trading House's ecosystem.
It was a perfect, self-sustaining ecosystem that had lasted a century.
But after the entire Spirit Breath Race took their own lives and their industrial chain broke down completely, the Player Faction's entire supply side fell into a