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

"Do you think your little tricks can fool the eyes of heaven?"

Lin Feng pointed to the sky above, where the golden pupils were hovering, their sharp eyes scanning the surrounding movements.

"Or do you think you can fool someone with the abilities of a mentally awakened being?"

Su Nana looked up at Chen Min beside Lin Feng, and suddenly smiled. Her smile was filled with the bitter resignation of fate. She whispered, "So... all along we've been acting in a one-man show that was seen through from the very beginning!"

Fu Kui's expression shifted repeatedly. He shifted his body, leaned forward, and burst into tears, sobbing, "Brother Feng! Brother Feng! I was wrong! I was really wrong. Yamamoto Ichiro forced me to do this. He kidnapped my brother, he kidnapped my parents. I didn't listen to them, and they were going to kill my whole family..."

Lin Feng kicked Fu Kui aside and then said, "I remember when you were interning on Blue Star, you said that your brother was arrested for loan sharking that led to someone's death. You also mentioned that when you borrowed money from your colleagues, you said your parents had died in a car accident and you had to go back for their funeral... Have you forgotten?"

Fu Kui's crying stopped abruptly. He collapsed to the ground as if his bones had been removed, his mouth agape, unable to utter a single word.

"It's one thing for you to lie to others, but you've come to lie to me."

Lin Feng stopped looking at Fu Kui and waved his hand: "Take him away. He'll be the first one offered as a sacrifice to the altar later."

"Move those corpses up there too, pile them up in the altar square, and extract their blood and bones. Put the living ones up there as well."

A mound of earth rose up, and the city wall leading from the outer city to the altar slowly deformed, revealing a wide gate in the previously closed stone wall.

The guards began moving the corpses. One after another, the monkey-men and Japanese corpses were carried onto the turtle's back and piled up in the square of the Altar of Life. Roots pierced into the corpses, and in the blink of an eye, the corpses dried up and disappeared. Blood-red runes lit up one after another, turning into the blood and bones of all spirits to nourish the altar.

Inside the large black iron cauldron on the altar, a drop of blood-red liquid appeared and then began to slowly increase, but there was no trace of bloody smell. Instead, it exuded a life force.

All the corpses were absorbed by the altar, and then more than 500 Japanese were led into the altar one by one. Their hands were tied behind their backs, and their bodies were bound with thick iron chains. The guards always had crossbows pointed at the back of their heads, and they were killed on the spot if they made any sudden movements.

The Japanese knelt in rows on the sacrificial plaza around the altar, with Fu Kui and Sun Nana kneeling at the very front.

Lin Feng and Lao Chen stood above the altar.

Lin Feng asked Old Chen, "Old Chen, are there enough offerings now?"

Old Chen adjusted his glasses, his gaze sweeping over the Japanese prisoners kneeling around the square. "That's enough. Actually, the sacrificial runes on the square had already absorbed more than enough of those corpses."

Lin Feng nodded: "Just to be on the safe side, let's arrange more."

Lin Feng turned around, facing the kneeling prisoners and traitors, raised his hand expressionlessly, and then pressed it down.

"kill."

The crimson runes on the sacrificial plaza suddenly lit up, and the roots of the Tree of Life sprouted from the ground, silently spreading to each prisoner. Before they could even let out a complete scream, the roots had already pierced through their bodies. More than five hundred bodies were drained of their life essence in the same instant, and the next moment, even their withered bodies turned into crimson light, flowing along the runes into the altar and into the black iron cauldron.

Then came the mutated beasts, dragged in by the guards and thrown into the sacrificial plaza. Their roots shot out again, precisely piercing the mutated beasts' vital points. The mutated beasts screamed in agony, but they could not last more than 3 seconds before turning into blood-red energy.

Lin Feng watched the liquid in the black iron cauldron rise little by little, still unsatisfied. He said to Zhao Gao, "Zhao Gao, bring all the Black Demons up for the sacrifice!"

Zhao Gao turned around and did it without hesitation. The dark figures chained together didn't know what was happening before they were driven into the altar area. To prevent them from escaping, Lin Feng also sent out Xiao Hei and Jin Tong.

But under the dual management of Zhao Gao and Dong Yu, their faces showed only numbness and obedience. Wave after wave they entered the sacrificial plaza. When Dong Yu saw the female black demons disappear, the muscles in her face twitched several times. She rubbed her hands sheepishly and called out in Lin Feng's direction:

"Hey Lin Feng, could you leave some of those female black monsters behind? I can help you keep them in check, and I promise they won't get in the way..."

Lin Feng glanced at her, shook his head, and said in an uncompromising tone, "No, to ensure absolute safety, this race must die, not a single one left."

Dong Yu was getting anxious. Without these dark spirits, who would she whip?

"However," Lin Feng continued, "Zhao Gao extracted some information from the still-living monkey. There's a monkey-man migration group nearby, as well as some superior monkey races—the chimpanzee and the white chimpanzee. That race is stronger and more resilient, and the women's appearance is closer to human aesthetics. Apart from having more body hair and a stronger odor, most importantly, they don't have the contagiousness of the Black Ghost. I think you'll prefer that more resilient race. Now, don't disturb my sacrifice."

Dong Yu's eyes lit up instantly, as if she had heard the best news in the world, and she became energetic: "Lin Feng, you can rest assured and leave him to me. I guarantee I'll train him to be even more obedient than Hei Gui!"

Lin Feng ignored her. After the last batch of black monsters were sacrificed, the blood-red liquid inside the cauldron finally filled up.

Lin Feng nodded to Old Chen.

Old Chen stood before the large black iron cauldron, took a deep breath, slowly raised his hands, palms facing upwards, and recited a prayer:

Born of the earth, buried in the soil, our bones, blood, spirit, and soul become the torch of humanity—

The prayer's deep and resonant voice echoed across the altar, as the runes lit up one by one, their crimson light weaving into a complex array.

"In the name of the guide, I open the Sacred Altar of the Mysterious Iron, praying for the rebirth of my bloodline..."

The twelve guardian pillars surrounding the altar lit up simultaneously, and the totems on the pillars emitted dazzling light, intertwining to form a semi-transparent barrier that enveloped Lin Feng, who was standing on the altar. The blood-red liquid in the cauldron began to boil and churn, turning into wisps of deep red mist that rose up, meandering and swirling along the barrier, surging towards Lin Feng.

"Our ancestors descended to the altar, and all the people lined up beside them. The Empress ruled the land, bearing the weight of all living beings. Our illustrious ancestors guarded this desolate frontier—"

After passing through the barrier, the crimson mist transformed into golden particles and merged into Lin Feng's body. His bones emitted a slight cracking sound, and his internal energy circulated spontaneously.