Chapter 152: Summer Camp: The Devil’s Altar
Even if one can successfully become a god in the future, a large amount of power of faith will be needed to maintain one's own divinity.
The power of faith is the most universal, important and critical resource for the strong, without a doubt.
The war lords conquer planes and plunder resources. These intelligent races that can generate the power of faith are one of the resources, and the most valuable resource.
After Li Qing is promoted to a legend in the future, he will also have to find a way to conquer some planes, establish his own plane of faith, and harvest the power of faith.
After introducing the theme of the summer camp, a voice came from the golden light ball in the center again. This time it was introducing the challenge rules of the first stage. Li Qing listened carefully.
The rules are very simple. In this fortress base, there is a special divine building called the "Demon Altar", which was moved directly from the summer camp organizing committee. It is equivalent to a large arena that can support them to challenge each other at the same time.
After introducing these, the host's passionate voice came from the square:
"Now, please invite the Demon Altar to come!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a golden light suddenly appeared in the sky above the square, quickly expanding into a huge golden vortex, and then a giant object wrapped in dazzling golden light fell from the sky in the center of the square.
"boom!"
Li Qingwei squinted and waited for the golden air wave to pass by. He saw a huge pyramid carved with rare and exotic animals appear in the center of the square. It had nine floors, each nearly ten meters high, and each floor had a throne made of glazed crystals.
There are the most thrones at the bottom layer, and the number decreases as you go higher, until there is only one huge glazed throne at the top layer, looking down on all living beings.
Each throne has a huge number on it, and the only throne at the top is number one.
At this time, the host's voice sounded again:
"Now, all contestants can choose a seat, and other participants can challenge them at any time. Each contestant starts with 10 points. Each challenge requires one to ten points. The winner will receive points equal to the points paid and replace the other party. The points of a failed challenge belong to the winner."
"There are three rankings for personal strength, the strength of your heroes, and the strength of your troops. Each ranking only lasts for one month. The first month will challenge your personal strength."
"Each type is only allowed to actively challenge ten times a day, and the challenged can only be challenged ten times of each type, but challenges can be scheduled in advance. If the scheduled challenger loses, the next scheduled challenger will challenge the winner."
“You are only allowed to challenge contestants who are ranked higher than you.”
After explaining the rules, Li Qing saw many contestants closest to the Demon Altar rushing up to compete for the empty seats.
Li Qing understood their thoughts. There were only 100 seats, and there were 3,000 to 4,000 contestants in the hall. Most of them would not be able to get a seat in the end. It would be better for them to go up and sit for a while at the beginning to satisfy their craving.
However, this is only a minority. The vast majority are proud of their status and do not fight for a position.
In particular, the positions at the top were still empty at this time. A bunch of people were crowding below to grab them, and no one was trying to grab the positions above.
Li Qing and Gu Qingxin didn't move at all, and most of the people around them didn't move either. Many of them even looked at the contestants who were fighting for a spot with sarcasm on their faces.
“I’ve never seen the world!”
Li Qing turned around in surprise and saw a young man with blue flames in his pupils, folding his arms and looking up with disdain.
Noticing Li Qing's gaze and seeing that he didn't go up either, his expression relaxed a little and he nodded.
Li Qing smiled and nodded in return, then turned around and saw a sudden flash of golden light from the Demon God Altar, which exploded. Many contestants who touched the Demon God Altar were flung to the ground by an invisible force.
At this moment, the pyramid-like demon altar was glowing and rising slowly.
At the same time, each layer is separated from each other, from the previous pyramid to the current nine-layer glazed ring, with the bottom layer being the largest. The seats between each layer are also adjusted accordingly and shrink inward.
“Crack!”
With a crisp sound, the glass rings shattered one by one, and each throne separated into its own, connected by invisible beams of light.
In just a short while, the nine-story demon altar was separated into a total of one hundred parts, and each throne existed independently.
The floor is more than 20 meters high, with twisted light and rippling waves in the middle.
Each throne is surrounded by infinite spiritual light, and above it is divine light reaching into the sky.
"So this is what the Demon God Altar looks like."
Before it was opened, Li Qing felt something was weird. How could this pyramid that could be climbed at will be called the Demon Altar?
Looking at it now, the Demon Altar now looks somewhat like what it was.
As the Demon Altar was launched, the host, who appeared somewhere, announced the official start of the summer camp, and the scene became quiet.
Everyone looked at the first batch of contestants sitting on the Demon God Altar with flickering eyes, thinking about which position to challenge.
Although there is no limit to the challenge and you can challenge it as long as you have enough points, the challenge is a matter of life and death.
It would be fine if they surrendered voluntarily and in advance, but if they would rather die than surrender, or surrendered too late, they would really be killed on the spot in the ring, and then resurrected in their own divine domain, which would require a large amount of resources such as pure soul essence and source material.
Rare resources like these usually have limited reserves, so it is impossible to let them die indefinitely.
And no one is willing to keep taking on challenges, it’s so tiring.
There are more than 3,000 to 4,000 contestants in the entire summer camp. Even if there are more than 100 positions, it would take a long time to complete the challenge, and this stage lasts for a whole month.
Li Qing thought about it for a while, and said softly to Gu Qingxin:
"You go back first. I'll go up there and earn some extra money."
Gu Qingxin immediately understood what he meant, smiled and nodded:
"I'll take a look."
"OK."
Li Qing let go of her hand and looked in the direction of the Demon God Altar. With a thought, a light curtain popped up in front of him, showing the floor plan of the Demon God Altar. Most of the positions had been occupied. The vast majority of the contestants had already gathered ten challenge spots, and many of them had dozens more lined up behind them. If they chose to challenge this ranking now, they would not get a chance for several days.
These challenged contestants can watch the game. They only need to pay a minimum of 100,000 and a maximum of 1 million to enter the space where they are fighting.
After the war, 50% of the 1 million will be paid to the winner, 25% to the loser, and the remaining 25% to the organizing committee.
Li Qing chose a seat ranked 84 which had already started the challenge and paid 1 million to watch the game.
Then the light in front of my eyes began to distort, and after I calmed down, I found myself in the spectator seats at the edge of a huge arena.
The diameter of the arena is two kilometers. There are many spectators whose faces cannot be seen clearly in the edge of the audience seats. A rough calculation shows that there are hundreds of them. This means that the ticket sales alone cost hundreds of millions, and the winners can get 50 million.
“What a profit!”
Li Qing smacked his lips and looked towards the center of the arena.
This time the challenge is about personal strength, so the two people fighting are both apprentices of the War Lord himself.
The champion transformed into a giant eighteen meters tall. His body was metallic bronze in color, and complex magic patterns appeared in several places on his body. As he transformed, spiritual light lit up, and the magic pattern structure began to take effect.
The challenger transformed into a green dragon with a wingspan of nearly twenty-two meters and dark green dragon scales all over his body.
Giants and dragons are both very powerful beings, widely distributed in the Chaos Void Sea. Their essence and blood sources are abundant, and they are one of the bloodlines that war lords like to merge the most, and can be called a popular bloodline.
But the masses do not mean mediocrity. Dragons and giants that reach the level of true dragons are of superior bloodline, and are the best among their superior bloodlines. There are not many types that can defeat them.
Both parties revealed their true forms at the same time, and the green dragon sprayed a corrosive breath at them.
The bronze giant did not dodge or evade, allowing the dragon's breath to wash his face. The bronze on his body became brighter. He grabbed the ground with both hands, and a large piece of hard mud under his feet turned into soft mud. With a scoop of hands, a ball of mud as big as a round table was scooped up, which quickly hardened into stone.
This is the talent of the earth giant, turning fossils into mud, and then turning mud into stone.
The stone as big as a round table was extremely light in the giant's hand, and he threw it hard and it flew into the sky.
The green dragon flapped its wings and tried to dodge, but as the bronze giant clenched his hands, the boulder actually turned and drew a small upward arc in the air. The green dragon, who had thought it had just passed by, had no time to dodge and was hit by the boulder.
With a dull "bang", large pieces of dragon scales shattered, and the green dragon roared in pain, rolling in the air and falling.
But it managed to stop when it was more than 200 meters above the ground, flapping its wings hard to try to gain altitude.
But at this moment, the bronze giant rushed over with several big steps, raised his arms and yellow light burst out all over his body, and pressed down hard, and an invisible distortion exploded, affecting the green dragon in the blink of an eye.
The green dragon, which was trying hard to gain altitude, suddenly sank and fell downward as if being pulled by a strong gravity.
When he came to his senses, the bronze giant had already leaped dozens of meters high, grabbed one of the tumbling green dragon's wings with his big hand, and pulled it down with force.
The green dragon fell like an arrow and hit the ground with a heavy bang. The bronze giant fell down heavily and stepped heavily on the green dragon with his feet. With a crisp cracking sound, the bones of its wings broke unnaturally.
"Gone!"
The green dragon was too careless, thinking it could win by flying, but the bronze dragon took advantage of the opportunity and knocked it down in one blow.
Of course, there are some gaps in strength.
But dragons have the advantage of flying.
Overall, it was still carelessness.
The battle ended after the green dragon surrendered in time before being killed. The space changed and Li Qing's consciousness returned.
This challenge has no reference value. These two are at a level that he can easily kill with one claw. He needs to see the strength of the strongest group of players in the summer camp.
But in the early stage, no one had chosen the top two rows of the Demon Altar. A few brave people positions, but no one dared to take the top three positions.
Li Qing pinched his chin and thought for , then said to the girl next to him:
"Tell me, should I go and take the top spot now?"
Gu Qingxin raised her head in surprise, looked at him seriously, and nodded after a few seconds:
"You are the strongest I have ever seen. You can do it."
Li Qing chuckled, reached out and touched her smooth face, and said with a smile:
"Then I'll do it."
He opened the panel, and his finger landed on the throne at the top with the number '1' written on it, pressing it heavily.
The next second his figure disappeared, and when he appeared again he was already at the top of the Demon God Altar.
Look around, from a high vantage point, overlooking all living beings.
“It’s pretty cool!”
Li Qing patted the glazed crystal gold throne and looked down. As he suddenly appeared at this position, he instantly attracted the attention of everyone in the audience.
Ninety percent surprised.
One percent disdain.
The dozen or so men and women from the Supreme Order War Academy also saw Li Qing sitting there and were all stunned.
A few people were surprised and said:
"If I'm not mistaken, that's Miss Gu's boyfriend, right?"
"You're not mistaken. I saw it too."
"this……"
"It seems that some people, although they come from a good family, have poor taste in finding a boyfriend."
The person who spoke was a girl with a magic pattern exposed on her arm and shoulder. The others glanced at her and turned their heads, pretending not to hear.
A man crouched behind a handsome man whose pupils glowed with metallic gold, like two golden eyes, and whispered:
"Brother Chu, you see, men like him who are so boastful, they won't last long."
The man glanced at him expressionlessly and said in a cold voice:
"I, Chu Zhengyu, never make friends with people who slander others behind their backs. In addition, if I, Chu Zhengyu, want to pursue a woman, I will only compete openly and honestly, and never use conspiracy methods."
The man who was scolded had an unpleasant expression on his face, but facing the man in front of him, he didn't dare to get angry at all. He could only turn around silently, look up and stare hatefully at Li Qing, who was at the top of the Demon God Altar, as if he wanted to blame all the resentment on him.
Of course Li Qing didn't notice someone's resentful look. At this moment, the light curtain in front of him had automatically popped open, and several challenge applications appeared in front of him.
While the others were still in shock, a man suddenly laughed and said to his two companions:
"Brother, let me challenge him first, and see if I can get first place for free."
My friend asked subconsciously:
"What if you lose?"
The man waved his hand and said:
"It's impossible to lose. Those who are going up now are just trying to get a position. There's no way any of them are really good."
The two friends thought about it and nodded.
"Indeed, a truly strong person won't attack now."
"You two come and watch me beat him up."
Before he finished speaking, the space twisted and the person disappeared.
When he appeared again, it was already a huge challenge space, surrounded by a space barrier, and there was a line of prompts on the light screen in front of him, which read:
"According to the rules, you will pay 10 points. The challenge will start in one minute. The countdown is 59 seconds, 58 seconds, 57 seconds..."
One minute passed quickly, and the space barrier in front of him disappeared. Li Qing cast a flying spell on himself and rose up quickly. He saw a figure rapidly expanding at the other end of the arena two kilometers away. It soon turned into a black-scaled snake demon more than ten meters tall, with a human body, a snake tail, and eight arms. A circle of black force field exploded with the snake demon as the center.
A higher demon from the abyss, an eight-armed snake demon, and a professional swordsman.
The eight arms hold eight sharp swords, and the body is covered with a full body armor made of refined gold. The upper demon's powerful physique can easily carry tens of thousands of kilograms of armor without affecting flexibility.
On each of the exposed arms, there was a magic pattern structure that Li Qing had never seen before. As the eight-armed snake demon swung the sword, the magic pattern emitted a ghostly light, and circles of invisible waves spread throughout the body.
"Eight-armed snake demon plus sword master?"
This combination aroused Li Qing's interest.
