Everyone's on a time-travel adventure! I'm raising city beasts in a post-apocalyptic world

After a while, Luo Xiaoxiao asked, "What is the Life-Protecting Array?"

"The Guardian Pillars: Twelve Guardian Pillars must be erected around the altar to form a protective barrier, isolating the sacrificial power from the outside. With the Guardian Array, the person standing on the altar will only receive pure feedback of the source power, instead of being drained. At that time, the broken altar only had three broken pillars, which was equivalent to standing directly on the slaughtering platform."

Guo Yi: "Then what are we waiting for? Now that we understand it, let's build it ourselves. What are we afraid of?"

Old Chen gave a wry smile. "I've already deciphered this jade tablet. Use your spiritual power to probe inside and see for yourselves."

Everyone examined the blueprints one by one. The blueprints themselves were not too complicated, and they could be followed. However, the materials required for the altar made everyone gasp.

The base is black iron, and the essence of black iron forms the array. There are methods for refining the essence of black iron; only about one ounce can be extracted from one ton of black iron. How much essence of black iron are needed for the twelve guardian pillars? And how much black iron is required for the entire altar?

Silence fell again in the room. They didn't even know where the iron ore was; they hadn't found a trace of it.

Guo Yi suddenly slapped his thigh: "Damn it, I got tricked by that kid Lin Feng."

Everyone turned to look at him, and Wang Lie frowned: "What's gotten into you all of a sudden?"

"The altar! I knew that kid insisted on moving the entire altar onto the tortoise's back; he must have known all along that these things were useful!"

Guo Yi became more and more agitated as he spoke, slamming his hand on the table. "He must have obtained the altar blueprints through some channel, even before we knew about them, which is why he moved the entire plaza, altar, and pillars away."

"Didn't he say it was food for the turtles?" Luo Xiaoxiao added, while Bai Zhirou nodded in agreement.

"Do you believe it?" Guo Yi asked with a look that said, "How can you be so naive?"

Wang Lie frowned.

The people inside looked at each other in bewilderment. Suddenly, Luo Xiaoxiao said, "That bastard actually dared to lie to me! No wonder he's been missing for so many days; he must have been up there doing something bad."

The Taoist priest suddenly chuckled, "This kid... he's been hiding his true abilities quite well."

Wang Lie looked at the jade tablet on the table, then at everyone else: "Regardless of what Lin Feng thinks, we need to talk to him. Not to argue, but to have a frank discussion. The altar matter is good for everyone, there's no need for him to keep it a secret."

Guo Yi was still somewhat annoyed: "He moved the entire altar away, leaving us not a single hair. If it weren't for Old Chen, was this kid planning to keep it a secret from us forever?"

Wang Lie: "But we took the jade tablet, and each side took half. Now we have the construction blueprints and the complete activation method, while he has the materials. Only when we combine them can the altar be built."

Half an hour later, Wang Lie, along with Guo Yi, Dong Yu, Old Chen, and followed by Master Lin, Bai Zhirou, and Luo Xiaoxiao, boarded Xiao Xuan's back and headed through the outer city towards the inner city. The guards stopped them. Lin Feng knew that they had come up and that the matter could no longer be kept secret, so he asked Xiao Rui to bring them over.

When they pushed open the door from the inner city, they were greeted by a brand-new and complete small altar.

The ground was covered with runes, and a large black iron cauldron stood steadily on the altar, with the surrounding pillars emitting a faint glow. The altar was almost exactly the same as the one in the blueprints.

Hearing footsteps, Lin Feng didn't turn around, but simply spoke calmly.

"You're here? A little earlier than I expected. Come in, we only need one more pillar to finish."

Wang Lie stepped inside, his gaze falling upon the altar, and he was deeply shocked: "You really were building it..."

"Yes," Lin Feng readily admitted.

"You also have a heirloom jade pendant?"

"I don't have that, but I have other ways of building altars."

Guo Yi, who had been holding back for a while, finally couldn't help but blurt out: "Then why didn't you say so earlier...?"

"You didn't ask either," Lin Feng said, shrugging as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

"Besides, what good would it do to tell you? Could you even move it? Even if you could, where would you build it? On that beat-up truck?"

Guo Yi was speechless. He opened his mouth, but couldn't find any words to refute it.

Wang Lie ignored these concerns and walked up to Lin Feng: "We have the complete activation method recorded on the jade tablet. Can we cooperate? Everyone in the camp is waiting for an opportunity to increase their power."

Lin Feng looked at his expression and then laughed.

"Cooperation? Sure! But I have conditions."

"explain."

"First, once completed, it will be prioritized for use by my core members."

"Secondly, the altar will need further upgrades and expansions at the black iron mine, so there will be a charge. Don't talk about cooperation while secretly draining my resources."

Wang Lie's expression turned serious: "Alright! I, Wang Lie, do things with integrity and uprightness."

"That's fine!"

The altar will be completed in two days, and I want to test its effects myself then.

Old Chen said, "Well, I'm a mentor, which can slightly improve the rank of a profession. I can officiate your promotion ceremony."

"good……"

When Wang Lie and his team came out after getting the answer they wanted, they had a complex expression on their faces. It was like they thought they had the other party's lifeline to negotiate, but the other party had already taken care of everything and no longer needed their people.

"Here you go." Old Chen handed the jade tablet to Lin Feng. "This thing contains the complete inheritance of the Black Iron Altar. You can find out by probing it with your spiritual power. But it seems useless to you. Here, it's safer for you to keep it."

Lin Feng took the jade pendant, probed it with his spiritual power, and after a moment, put it into his pocket and nodded.

"Understood. I'll let you know when the altar is completed, but keep it a secret for now. Don't spread it around the convoy."

Guo Yi was taken aback: "Keep it a secret? Why? This is good news!"

"Even good news needs to be announced at the right time." Lin Feng's gaze swept over the crowd, his usual indifferent attitude vanishing, replaced by a rare moment of seriousness: "There are many people and eyes in the convoy. Are you going to go around telling the world that we built an altar? Do you think there might be someone with malicious intentions in the convoy?"

Guo Yi wanted to retort, but after opening his mouth, he closed it again.

Wang Lie was silent for a few seconds, then nodded: "He makes sense, let's keep it a secret for now!"

Lin Fengchong smiled at Wang Lie: "The captain is the most sensible one."

The group didn't press further and dispersed.

The convoy continued its journey. In the past two days, Zhuoma and her guards had been capturing and secretly imprisoning mutated beasts. The sweet potato vines on the roof had spread out, forming a lush and green expanse. A new dish had appeared in the convoy: sweet potato vines were now being sold for one level 0 monster crystal per kilogram.

On the third day at noon, the convoy stopped to rest. Shen Yutong approached Lin Feng: "Lin Feng, the only way forward is through a canyon. There's only one path in the middle, and in the narrowest parts, Xiao Xuan can barely pass. Should we take a detour?"