#9 - Chapter 9: Contaminated Fragments of Faith

“Unknown Strange Object...”

Wu Wei looked at the statue made by the Goblin in front of him, lost in thought.

First of all, from an artistic point of view, he personally thought the statue was very ugly.

Secondly, from other perspectives, the statue made by the Goblin was disgustingly ugly.

Wu Wei couldn't even analyze what the Goblins were trying to sculpt from this so-called statue.

Several eyeballs on a humanoid body?

Or a person growing out of several eyeballs?

...

But regardless, although this statue was ugly, Wu Wei still had to make use of it.

“Directly exchanging it for resource points from the Heavenly Dao Shop would yield 3400 points.”

Wu Wei looked at the Heavenly Dao System's prompt, the corner of his eye twitching involuntarily.

“That's too much of a loss.”

“Such a hard-earned unknown strange object, and it can only be sold for so few resource points.”

In the Lord Era, resource points were important.

But after getting through the early stages, at least after Wu Wei got through the early stages, these 3400 points really didn't mean much to him.

“Then what about appraisal?”

“Will appraising this unknown strange object yield higher benefits?”

Thinking of this, he immediately went to the appraisal page in the store to check the price of appraising this “unknown strange object”.

“1000 resource points, a bit expensive, but not unacceptable.”

“Forget it, start the appraisal!”

As Wu Wei selected the appraisal command.

In the sky of the Endless Abyss, the weather changed.

A round of golden light penetrated countless planes, penetrated immeasurable distances, penetrated the eternally running black-red vortex, and shone on the statue in front of Wu Wei.

This was the light of the true Heavenly Dao.

In an instant, the statue in front of Wu Wei began to melt, and countless stones and a piece of black shard floated in the air.

This black shard looked like a piece of broken glass, except that its edges were not fixed.

Countless wave-like existences kept converging towards the center of this shard, intertwining and entangling with each other.

“Appraisal complete.”

“You have obtained: Fragment of Faith (Contaminated) X1!”

【Fragment of Faith?】

【Isn't that something only Faith-based Lords use?】

【Why would those stupid, ugly Goblins have this thing?】

Seeing this kind of thing for the first time, Wu Wei walked forward and picked up the shard while thinking.

In an instant, countless images flooded into Wu Wei's mind like a tide.

It was the scene of Goblins splashing the blood of weak animals onto the statue after hunting them.

It was the scene of Goblins tying helpless victims in front of the statue, preparing to torture and kill them after breeding small Goblins.

It was the scene of Goblins smearing the statue with the internal organs and blood of those stronger than them after successfully ambushing them.

It was...

Wu Wei didn't know how many images flashed before his eyes, but he knew.

Each of these images revealed the Goblin race's baseness and cruelty. With their low intelligence, they simply didn't know that the statue they worshipped didn't correspond to any gods.

Their prayers were completely ineffective.

But the foolish them would only use such cruel and twisted methods to please their imagined “god”.

As a result, a strange phenomenon appeared.

Although this statue didn't correspond to any living being, because there were simply too many creatures that died in front of this statue, their grief before death was too loud, and the emotions released by the Goblins in front of the statue were too strong.

This hideous and evil statue really began to gather faith.

Blood, death, enslavement, humiliation....

Countless faith “entries” began to sprout.

But because the emotions that the foolish Goblins placed on this statue were too complicated, these faiths began to entangle and interfere with each other.

In the end, inside the statue, these faiths converged into a团, mutually contaminated.

This was the real reason why this fragment of faith was shown to be contaminated.

If this group of Goblins had only chosen one concept to enshrine this statue, then what Wu Wei would have obtained would have been an uncontaminated fragment of faith.

And that statue might have even really, to some extent...

“Come alive”!

At that time, the statue was very likely to live because of faith and become some extremely terrifying existence.

But now.

This contaminated fragment of faith was worth zero to Wu Wei.

“A loss!”

“I'm not planning to walk the so-called path of faith, this thing has no value to me!”

Wu Wei regretted appraising this contaminated fragment of faith, but he had no room for regret.

Because this contaminated fragment of faith could not be recycled by the Heavenly Dao System.

Even if he wanted to exchange it for resource points, he would have to wait until after completing the Lord's Trial to open the auction house function.

So, this fragment of faith, which took Wu Wei a lot of time to obtain, became a hot potato for a while.

It could neither be turned into the immediate combat power that Wu Wei needed, nor could it be turned back into resource points.

Just as Wu Wei was feeling a little depressed, he suddenly remembered a special existence.

That was his first basic building, the Abyssal Sacrifice Altar!

A special building that could sacrifice everything of value in exchange for Abyssal treasures!

“Right, I almost forgot about this building.”

Actually, it wasn't Wu Wei's fault for forgetting the Abyssal Sacrifice Altar for so long.

This was purely because, compared to the two basic buildings, the Abyssal Hatchery and the Abyssal Gate, the value of the Abyssal Sacrifice Altar was indeed relatively low in the early stages.

To sacrifice items, there must be items to sacrifice.

Wu Wei's resources were limited in the early stages, and it was impossible for him to deliberately spend a lot of points to exchange for valuable items to "draw a lottery" at the Abyssal Sacrifice Altar. He couldn't really sacrifice his own soul, could he?

Moreover, according to Wu Wei's understanding of the Abyssal Chaos characteristic, who knew what kind of Abyssal treasure he could obtain.

He was not a gambler, and he would not gamble on whether he could become a lucky person. He would not use his fate as a bet.

Compared to the invisible and elusive future, the future that he could see and touch was what he truly wanted.

“Since the Abyssal Sacrifice Altar can sacrifice everything of value, then this fragment of faith must be included, right.”

Wu Wei placed the fragment of faith on the sacrifice altar and clicked the sacrifice function of the altar.

And as the sacrifice began, the rotation speed of the vortex above Wu Wei's head seemed to be accelerating intentionally or unintentionally.

It was as if the Endless Abyss itself was also eager for the first sacrifice....

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While Wu Wei was still trying to sacrifice the contaminated fragment of faith, the Heavenly Dao System began to prompt frantically.

One after another, the signals of demons far away on the Trial Continent began to disappear.