Chapter 1167: Chapter 1154 Sacrifice? Self-entertainment! Chapter 1167: Chapter 1154 Sacrifice? Self-entertainment! In just a few days, the male witch Eso, with his drastically increased food intake and the comprehensive enhancement of his physical fitness at various levels, became certain that he had grown fine golden scales in many places on his body and was no longer purely human.

“Is the Void God truly so terrifying?” Eso examined his current palm, his face filled with reverence, “I merely glanced at Him, no, it wasn’t even a glance, just such a minimal contact, and my life form has undergone such a significant transformation.”

“What would I become if I were to make a true contact, to face the true form of that great being?” Eso was very curious.

The attempt, made out of mere boredom, had brought him an opportunity beyond his imagination. In comparison to what he gained, the materials consumed to set up the Array were insignificant and not even worth mentioning.

Eso had already tested it; his very essence had been completely altered—he had become a special creature superior to humans, with more vibrant vitality, greater strength, and a longer lifespan.

The modest cost in exchange for a fortune that could change his destiny was so outrageous that Eso lost his usual composure and attempted a second communication with the Void God.

Then, nothing happened, and on the Array that had reduced to ashes, Eso’s expression changed several times before settling into gloom. Driven by a strong sense of unwillingness and a stroke of luck, he set up the Array multiple times over the following months.

But these summoning rituals, just like his expectations before setting up his first Array, only turned out to be a waste of materials, simply a waste of time—he received not a single response.

Such frenzied actions even caught the attention of other wizards, as the volume of materials Eso purchased for the Array was too great, followed by mockery and advice.

“They just don’t understand.”

The male witch who once, under incredible luck, had a brief intersection with the majestic being within the Void, naturally scorned the perspectives of the outside world.

However, after months of madness, he gradually came to his senses, understanding that his successful attempt months ago might have just been luck. Perhaps, at that time, that majestic being was as bored as he had been and thus had cast down a gaze.

“Eso, oh Eso, you should realize that for such an insignificant creature like yourself to have had an intersection with a being that only exists in myths was already using up a lifetime’s worth of luck, how could you possibly expect a second time?”

The male witch ridiculed himself, cutting off his previous whims of luck and brought clarity to himself, “I now have no qualifications to contact such beings. I should strive to cultivate and become stronger. Only when I’m powerful enough will such a being deign to shift their gaze and look at me a second time.”

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Within the Primitive world, filled with a wild aura, Giant Beasts tall as mountains walked upon the earth, and Fierce birds whose wings could cover half of the sky circled in the Sky… This was a nascent world that had just been born from the Void not too long ago.

Of course, this ‘not too long ago’ is relative to the age of the world. The age of the Giant Beasts striding through this world, also known as the ancient times, was about to end.

For in this savage world, a species with wisdom had emerged—the Giant Apes that had learned to walk upright. The Giant Apes with nascent intelligence knew how to use external objects and how to cooperate with each other to hunt collectively.

Thus, the Ferocious Beasts that once made these Upright Apes flee in disarray were successively defeated in their onslaught, and later, the flesh of Giant Beasts became food for the Upright Apes, thereby giving them stronger bodies; and they also obtained better weapons—the inedible bones and scales were harder than ordinary metals.

In the endless slaughter, the Upright Apes began to multiply and spread across the savage lands, growing stronger, and increasingly more Ferocious Beasts fell beneath the feet of the Upright Apes, who had learned to work together and knew the tactics of mobbing.

But, in an Extraordinary world, the tactic of overwhelming numbers loses its meaning after a certain point. Thus, by hunting various Extraordinary flesh, the Upright Apes that grew smarter knew fear.

They revered those Extraordinary Beasts that could easily slaughter them. In the beginning, the Upright Apes believed that these Giant Beasts were unreachable and impossible to hunt, so in extreme fear, they learned to worship.

The first Totem worship was born, and each Upright Ape Tribe scattered across the land began to worship the Extraordinary Giant Beasts nearby according to their location.

But, in the vastness of the world, there are always some unique tribes, perhaps due to geographical reasons, they didn’t have any Extraordinary Beasts nearby that could directly threaten them.

Thus, this particular Upright Ape Tribe did not have much reverence, for in their understanding, there was no creature in the world they could not hunt.

And for this reason, the Upright Ape Tribe did not worship any deities to sacrifice to, because nobody would worship a being that would bleed under their attack, or even fall at their feet.

Therefore, these Upright Apes, whose living environment was fairly advantageous, began to worship intangible natural phenomena—the Majestic Mountain towering into the clouds, the vast river that stretched beyond sight, or the undulating Thunderclouds, the Sun bursting with endless light, and the Moon emanating soft, gentle light.

Above this land, there was a Upright Ape Tribe that chose to worship the vast and boundless Sky, although such a choice of worship was somewhat unique, it was still considered normal. However, their object of worship was not the general concept of the limitless Sky, but rather a more specific entity.

The Upright Ape Priest officiating the sacrifice believed that within the Sky, there resided an entity more powerful than any being on the Earth, an entity that dwelt above the Sky Dome, controlling the cycle of day and night, the wind, and the Thunder. He was the master of everything in the world.

Well, it sounded quite impressive, but when compared to the real, tangible Extraordinary Beasts that most Upright Ape Tribes on Earth worshipped, what this Upright Ape Tribe worshipped and sacrificed to was, in fact, an imaginary existence concocted by their own minds.

However, in the Extraordinary World, an imagined existence—if believed in by a group of beings and daily sacrificed to—could become real, the illusory could transform into reality.

Unfortunately, the imaginary existence that this Upright Ape Tribe had conjured up, if it were real, would be the master of this world. Therefore, with the scale of this Upright Ape Tribe, even with day and night sacrifices, the deity they worshipped would never become real, no matter what.

Only if this Upright Ape Tribe could annex all other Upright Ape Tribes, suppress everything that resisted in the world, and lead the Upright Ape species to become the absolute Overlord-level Creature of the world.

Then, through frenzied procreation, causing Upright Apes to appear in every corner of the world, and with billions of Upright Apes worshipping day and night for a thousand years, there might be a sliver of a possibility, turning the awe-inspiring entity they worshipped—which did not exist in their sacrifices—into reality.

But that was simply impossible, so the awe-inspiring entity they worshipped not only did not exist but also did not even have a chance to become real.

Therefore, all the worship and sacrificial rituals of this Upright Ape Tribe were merely acts of self-indulgence, and they would not influence them in any way. After all, the Power of Faith they produced from their sacrifices had no recipient to receive it, so naturally, there was no feedback to speak of.

Yet, there are always exceptions to everything. While the being that controlled the cycle of day and night, the wind and Thunder, and dwelled above the expanse of the heavens did not exist, Beyond the World, similar entities did exist.

In the Sky Tribe, the Upright Apes who worshipped the Sky God prepared for their grand monthly sacrificial (self-indulging) ceremony, where they would offer as sacrifices the best prey hunted during the month, placed on the Altar.

Not a single Upright Ape skimped on the prey they had hunted, because they all understood that the deity they worshipped would not pay any heed to their sacrifices, and in the end, the offerings would still end up in their own stomachs.

Fierce Flames rose on the nearly fifty-meter-high stone stage, and the Upright Ape Priest adorned in feather attire watched the Spiritual Fire he had ignited and led a group of female Upright Apes in a Dance of the Sacrifice, passed down through generations in the Tribe.

As they danced, the Upright Ape Priest threw into the fire the Spiritual Materials collected by the tribe’s Warriors, which, though they seemed precious, were actually of not much use to the tribe, like chicken ribs.

Just like the Dance of the Sacrifice he was performing, the leading Upright Ape Priest was well aware that his dance was nothing like that of the previous generation, but this was no big deal since every generation had their unique Dance of the Sacrifice.

Of course, that’s the nicer way to put it. In reality, the Dance of the Sacrifice was randomly made up by the Priest; they could dance however they wanted, as long as the group of female Upright Apes around the Spiritual Fire moved in unison.

But just as this ceremony was about to conclude, and some of the male apes kneeling below the Altar had begun to think about how to charm the attractive female Upright Apes during the upcoming Bonfire feast,
the Spiritual Fire on the Altar suddenly surged, a mighty entity, very similar to the imaginary concept of the Sky God of this peculiar Upright Ape Tribe, descended its will.

The red and yellow flames danced, quickly turning golden, then emanated a terrifying power of Devouring, drawing the Spirit from the mountain of sacrifices piled around the Altar to maintain the descended mighty will for a longer duration.

Thus, one could see the carcasses surrounding the Altar turning to ash at a pace visible to the Flesh Eye, and then, swept up by the gentle wind that had arisen at an unknown time, they enveloped the Upright Apes who kneeled around the Altar, twisting their faces,
“The food… it’s gone!”

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