Chapter 410 Beneath the Ghostly Gates
Ethan watched in awe as countless ghostly hands emerged from the Ghostly Gates in the sky. His Competent Force avatar, already weakened by the thunder tribulation, was now being held back by the ghostly hands pouring out from the open Ghostly Gates.
"It's the Death Coffin!"
Nathan, who had been grimacing in the center of the lightning pillar, now had a peaceful expression on his closed face. Ethan could clearly sense that the aura of the Death Coffin beside him had changed while Nathan was undergoing the third level tribulation.
The coffin trembled, seemingly expressing its dissatisfaction that its master was content with only enduring a third level thunder tribulation. This dissatisfaction had somehow transformed the third level tribulation into a fifth level one!
[Your descendant, Nathan, has begun communicating with the Death Coffin Spirit. He has entered the fifth level of the Death Coffin and gained recognition from the sixth level.]
[With the help of the Death Coffin Spirit, your descendant Nathan has projected his Competent Force and received an influx of rule power from the 'Death Rule' of the Death Coffin's fifth level.]
[Sixth Level Space - Elias' Death Domain]
[The domain left behind in the sixth level by the previous owner of the Death Coffin after his death. It was also Elias' cave dwelling during his lifetime, possessing everything formed by the Death Rule. With the consent of the Death Coffin's master, new corpses can be generated here using psychic powers to refine Zombies below the Zombie Emperor level (Basic Mastery realm).]
[Using the Death Rule and the corpses of the dead, within Elias' Death Domain, a Zombie Emperor can be refined every 3,000 years without any other materials, a Sky Corpse every 800 years, and a Zombie King every 300 years. Using the Death and Soul Rules, only 30% of the materials are needed to quickly refine Zombies above these levels.]
[Using the Soul Rule, ghosts can be refined... Lesser Ghosts, Malignant Ghosts, Ghost Kings, Sky Ghosts, Ghost Emperors...]
[Fighting alongside Zombies and ghosts within Elias' Death Domain. These undead creatures, within the domain, are empowered by the Death and Soul Rules, their injuries heal faster, and their psychic powers are slightly enhanced...]
[Elias' Death Domain respects not gods or immortals, only the dead. Those who enter Elias' Death Domain will face the most ferocious counterattack from the dead.]
[Your descendant, Nathan, has formed two domains and his prime spirit has been established. He has obtained the prime spirit technique: Soul Calamity.]
The Death Coffin was as powerful as ever!
Ethan finally understood. At the beginning, Nathan possessed the 'Dead Souls Domain,' which wasn't even complete. However, with the help of the Death Coffin, the opening of the fifth and sixth levels of the Death Coffin had not only completed Nathan's 'Dead Souls Domain' but also granted him Elias' Death Domain.
With these two complete domains, how could he not break through to the fifth level of Basic Mastery?
And then there was the 'prime spirit technique.' As far as Ethan knew, ordinary Basic Mastery realm cultivators needed to continuously perfect their own domains to obtain such a prime spirit technique. This was another aspect of their power, besides being able to use rules to enhance their techniques.
However, many Basic Mastery realm experts were unable to cultivate a 'prime spirit technique' in their entire lives. The more powerful the Basic Mastery thunder tribulation they endured, the more they were recognized by heaven and earth, and the greater their chances of cultivating a prime spirit technique.
This was also the reason why many Competent Force cultivators pursued higher-level spirit tribulations when breaking through to Basic Mastery.
What Shane had said before about Basic Mastery being divided into three levels was true.
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Looking at the information on the semi-transparent panel, Ethan finally breathed a sigh of relief. He knew that Nathan's Basic Mastery tribulation was no longer a problem!
"Impossible, his Competent Force was almost shattered just now, how is this possible?!!"
Around Crestwood Hills, the Psychics who had thought Nathan was about to die were staring at the scene in the sky in disbelief!
As the Ghostly Gates opened wide, and ghostly hands reached out, the gates themselves began to change!
Beneath the Ghostly Gates.
A series of steps began to appear, nine in total.
The aura of the Ghostly Gates continued to grow. At first, the eight-armed King Kong, entangled by the ghostly hands, was still able to struggle slightly. But as these steps appeared, the gigantic, lightning-wreathed King Kong began to roar towards the heavens, as if struggling. Ghostly energy began to stain its lightning body, and everyone watched as the eight-armed King Kong...
Shattered!
"He... He passed?" Grant stared at everything in front of him in disbelief. The arcs of lightning still crackled in the sky, but the eight-armed King Kong was gone. The silver coffin slowly descended, and a wave of Basic Mastery pressure swept out from it across Crestwood Hills, heading closer and closer to where they, the Azure Cloud members, were!
He suddenly remembered what Fellow Cultivator Ralph had just said. He wanted to say something, but in a flash, a figure appeared before all the Azure Cloud members!
The man carried a coffin on his back, his old and tattered clothes flapping in the wind. His long hair fluttered, and the vicissitudes of time were etched on his resolute face.
Patriarch Ralph froze in mid-air as if petrified, memories flashing through his mind in an instant, bringing tears to his eyes. "Mr. Nathan."
"Brother Ralph."
Nathan looked at his old friend from many years ago. Seeing his expression, he simply said, "I'm back." The words spoke volumes.
He had learned from Daniel that even though their Blackwood family had been away from Azure Cloud for many years, their former friends had been protecting everyone related to them.
"We... We greet the Blackwood Master!"
Grant and the other Azure Cloud members' voices rang out. It was as if they had never said anything before. Now that Nathan had returned as a Basic Mastery expert, although they were in disbelief, it didn't stop them from trying to curry favor.
Nathan merely glanced at them.
Ralph frowned, not bothering to expose the slander these insignificant people had uttered against the Blackwood family before. Just as he was about to speak, Nathan shook his head at him. "Brother Ralph, let's catch up with you and our old friends some other time."
With that, he cupped his hands towards Patriarch Ralph and, as if he had heard something, headed off in the direction Shane had fled.
Watching Nathan's departing figure, his foot on the Death Coffin, Patriarch Ralph finally smiled. He had forgotten how many years it had been since he had smiled like this.
"Mr. Nathan is back, those freaks from the Blackwood family must still be alive."
Then, a cold glint flashed in his eyes as he looked towards Grant and the others, staring so intensely that it sent shivers down their spines.