Pharaoh's Spring, Death Emblem / Nether Snake Undead Monarch, King of the Dead

In the Spiritual World, a three-dimensional pattern appears: a lotus seat with thirty-six petals, half red and half blue, layered upon each other. The Power of Imagination fills half of the petals, and points of faith continuously descend from the void.

Seeing this, Lu Jun was surprised. With the end of the National Mansion Competition, the popularity had gradually decreased, and the religious Trend of Thought had diminished. Why was there such a surge today?

He soon discovered the reason: it stemmed from the passengers on the ship he had treated, who were so grateful that they converted to faith.

"Such pure power of faith. It seems that faith also has a quality classification; the stronger a person's will, the better the quality of their faith."

Lu Jun muttered to himself, not paying much attention. The Power of Imagination was accumulating immensely, greatly enhancing his Mind Element, and would sooner or later prove invaluable.

His Mental Power was focused on the dark gray Death Element, and a trace of insight was revealed in his heart. Like the Life Element, Calamity Talent and the Super Rank effect, bringing about a powerful change.

Among them, the undead Calamity Bringer endowed with the innate name of [Death Ruler].

Similar to the definition of the Healing Calamity Talent: You have complete control over the realm of death!

The fact that the two talents were almost identical yet contradictory made him think twice. If he could perfectly control life and death, wouldn't that mean he would completely transcend the Three Realms and be no longer subject to reincarnation?

Lu Jun suspected that the previous Healing System Calamity Talent might be completely different from his. It was precisely because he possessed two Calamity Talent at the same time, like the yin and yang of Tai Chi, that this change occurred.

"Indeed. Even Athena, as Dominator Emperor (Middle Emperor), did not Longevity and Immortality. Perhaps immortality is not enough to simply control life; one must also comprehend death."

He murmured to himself, unsure if his guess was correct, but it didn't matter; he just needed to stay focused and keep going.

At the end of the road lie the answers to all your questions.

Lu Jun turned his attention back to the problem of refining undead. Like the Healing System, the path of the Undead Element is also different.

The former enhances the specific healing category, while the latter's path enhancement is determined by the number of undead under control.

The Undead Mage is most famous for the Undead Calamity tactic, which involves controlling as many undead units as possible, and ensuring their quality is as high as possible.

The Death Lord's most basic ability is to amplify the power of the Primary Magic [Necromancy Revival] by more than ten times.

The Necromancy Revival effect is simple: cast it on a corpse, transform it into an undead, and allow it to revive and walk again.

However, the effect of the basic level 1 [Awaken Undead] skill of a regular Undead Mage is quite ordinary.

Not only are there requirements for the quality of the corpse—it must have been dead for at least a decade to accumulate enough death energy—but the corpse must also be largely intact for there to be a chance of successfully awakening it. Moreover, at most one or two undead can be awakened at a time.

But this isn't the end. The undead summoned by the Undead Mage are of very low level, their cultivation not even reaching the Servant-level.

Next, it must undergo the nurturing of the Level 2 [Undead Containment] contract and the strengthening of the Level 3 [Nether Energy Refinement] before it can barely be upgraded to Servant-level Demonic Beast, sweeping away all magicians of the same level.

This is similar to the Summoning System, but also different. The former is strongest at level one, and the strength does not change much at levels two and three, while the latter requires improvement step by step.

Both are equally adept at group attacks.

Furthermore, the Necromancy Revival has its limits. If the corpse's strength is too high, the process cannot continue if one's strength is insufficient. It is basically linked to one's current cultivation level, and there will be no phenomenon of a novice Undead Magic summoning a monarch undead.

"But I'm different."

Lu Jun muttered to himself, "Death Domination amplifies tenfold. With the Primary Magic [Necromancy Revival] in his hands, a single cast can awaken at least a dozen undead."

Moreover, it doesn't have high requirements for corpses; the dense death energy is enough to repair the damaged corpses and incidentally push the newly revived undead to the level of Servant-level Demonic Beast.

That's right. Just like Lu Jun's Life Element is abundant and plentiful, the Death Element is the same. The most basic talent of the Death Dominator is abundant and plentiful.

That's why he felt it wasn't impossible to refine the Jiehai Sea Snake Lord into an undead. If one Necromancy Revival wasn't enough, he'd try two, three, or four!

Regarding the remaining issue of the corpse's energy dissipating, Lu Jun also has a way to seal the energy of the Snake Lord's corpse, which is the [Life Element]!

During his time traveling at sea, he unexpectedly discovered that applying the low-level Healing System Primary Magic [Healing Light] to the corpse of the Jiehai Sea Snake Lord could keep the flesh and blood in a state of maximum freshness.

At that moment, Lu Jun suddenly remembered his Life Element Super Rank Effect: All Things Revive. Each spell cast randomly applies a buff, guaranteeing at least [Spring of Vitality]. He never expected that using it on the dead would keep their flesh and blood alive.

His action was simple: he wanted to see what other effects the Life Dominator might have. So, whenever he had free time, he would swish around with various things to see the limits of the Healing Light, including the dead people he suddenly came across.

Since no one died on the ship, they could only use the only corpse, Snake King, for the experiment, and he figured it out immediately.

Then Lu Jun used healing spells on the Snake King day and night dozens of times to preserve the vitality of the corpse. To this day, the energy contained in the Snake King's corpse remains largely intact, with only a tiny amount leaking out.

Lu Jun adjusted his state, took a deep breath, and chanted "Star Track Orbit Formation!"

A black and gray trail flickered in the void, seven stars seamlessly connecting as the Necromancy Revival spell was unleashed.

Buzz buzz buzz!

He conjured a black beam of light that crashed down onto the massive serpent's body rolling on the sea. The dense death energy spread out, dulling and shrinking the once glossy scales and muscles.

But Lu Jun clearly sensed that this was a good change. The vast energy within the Serpent King's corpse rapidly transformed into a profound death power, which solidified completely and would not dissipate.

The only concern is that each spell he casts only covers an area of seven or eight square meters on the giant snake's body. If he wants to turn the entire snake into an undead, he would have to cast it at least hundreds or thousands of times!

Chapter 444 Pharaoh's Spring, Death Emblem

Lu Jun was speechless at the enormous amount of work calculated.

As expected, even with the talent of the Death Sovereign, it is still far from being able to refine a Monarch Undead with only a beginner level.

He began to think about how to speed up the process, and immediately thought of the effect of the second-level undead containment spell, a Primary Magic necromancy Undead Element.

It communicates with the Dark Plane, occupies a private Undead Space, and uses it to raise the dead, contain their essences, hold corpses, and nourish contracted necromancers.

This ability is quite necessary for Undead Mage; otherwise, Awaken Undead carried around without a proper place to store them.

Moreover, it is only from the initial level two that Undead Mage can acquire the ability to mentally contract with the undead, so that they don't have to temporarily Awaken Undead during battle, and can cultivate undead fighters for a long time.

The blood -Bloody Array Diagram released by the members of the Ancient Capital Fang Gu and the Egypt Team was actually a summoning of the undead who had signed the contract.

The Undead Space is vast, capable of accommodating undead of any size or number.

However, most Undead Mage have a limited number of undead contracts, and their resources are also limited. They will only select a few undead with potential to train into their main force.

Lu Jun closed his eyes and communicated with the Death Stardust. His vision blurred as he entered a blood-red space. He carefully sensed it and fell silent.

He could sign contracts for hundreds of undead at the initial stage, with no limit on the number he could accommodate. He couldn't imagine how, when he reached the Super Rank, he would use contracted units as the backbone and resurrected undead as an auxiliary force—wouldn't he be an army in himself?!

"Terrifying! In terms of area-of-effect damage, it's far superior to Summoning System. I've made the right choice."

Lu Jun stroked his chin. Both Summoning System and Undead Element are Magic System used to set up large numbers of enemies, so their functions overlap somewhat.

Therefore, he prefers to develop the Summoning System into Magic System that cultivates powerful single individuals, while the Undead Element serves as a supplement to the cannon fodder swarm tactic.

Of course, Lu Jun's Death Element is so abnormal because of his Calamity Bringer talent, but the Summoning System ability is not accurately positioned as an area-of-effect attack, which is biased.

In reality, of the four summoning spells, only the high-level beast horde summon is an area-of-effect attack, but its numbers are clearly no match for the endless stream of undead. A powerful single-target Summoned Beast is the most orthodox approach.

Lu Jun came to his senses, walked to the Serpent King's corpse, and began to control the Stars. A ball of dark Soul Fire ignited in his hand, which he suddenly slapped onto the hard snake scales.

Buzz buzz buzz!

Instantly, centered on the dark flame in Lu Jun's palm, countless tiny tadpole-like black characters spread out, covering the entire corpse of Jiehai Sea Snake Lord.

Contract reached!

Lu Jun vaguely sensed that the corpse in front of him was gradually 'coming back to life,' nourished by the Nether Energy overflowing from the Undead Space.

Seeing this, he nodded in satisfaction. He already had many contract slots thanks to the two great talents, so giving one to Snake Lord would definitely not be a loss.

Besides the Undead Space accelerating the transformation of the Serpent Lord's corpse into an undead, tempering with Nether Energy also works, but at the cost of burning one's essence.

He already had a shortage of spiritual essence, so naturally he wouldn't use it on something as trivial as Awaken Undead, let alone strengthening them.

Anyway, the strategy has already been decided. The Death Element is just about stockpiling cannon fodder, so there's no need to be as meticulous as the Summoning System.

Lu Jun's playstyle is not like that of a typical Undead Mage, who focuses on raising a few undead. With that kind of resources and effort, it would be better to kill Demon Beast and transform them. Therefore, the Summoning System's focus on area-of-effect attacks is biased, and the Undead Element's focus on specialization is equally wrong.

"From now on, I'll be providing a one-stop service for murder, arson, and corpse collection?"

His expression was strange. He Metal Element to collect essences, his Mind Element ability to search for souls, and his Undead Element to contain corpses. He squeezed the value of an enemy to the bare minimum.

Over the next few days, Lu Jun patiently cast countless Necromancy Revival spells on the Serpent Lord's corpse. Like the Life Element spells, the Death Lord's passive ability allowed him to rapidly generate death energy.

Although the progress bar was still discouraging, he didn't care and treated it as a form of training.

Furthermore, seeing that there were still remnants of Servant-level Spirit Essence within the White Tiger Pendant, Lu Jun did not hesitate to throw seven essences into the Death Stardust.

With the Death Element advancing to the fourth level, the spell's effects and mana capacity have increased significantly, and the speed of crafting the Serpent Lord has also increased considerably.

The fourth level of Necromancy Revival is called [Flesh Stitching], a very interesting ability that allows the user to freely piece together and combine flesh and blood corpses, possessing limitless potential.

The species known as Corpse Minister and Corpse of the Mountain Peak Supreme Monarch originated from this. Many Undead Mage created flawless chimera monsters by stitching together parts of various Demon Beast.

After all, life needs 'movement' and requires logic, while the dead do not.

However, even a basic level of Necromancy Revival has its drawbacks. It only targets the physical body and is ineffective against more difficult-to-create ghost-like undead, requiring the Intermediate Level Undead Magic [Soul Summoning].

The two basic abilities, [Necromancy Revival] and [Soul Summoning], are enough for Undead Mage to be affected by forbidden spells.

Just when Lu Jun thought he would spend a lot of time steadily creating a Monarch Level undead henchman, a sudden change occurred.

Inside the White Tiger Pendant, above the Bloody Great Marsh, a vast, magnificent, and dreamlike purple lake churned and trembled, as if sensing some aura, and spontaneously emerged from the pendant.

Splash!

Lu Jun was slightly taken aback. He saw a magnificent purple waterfall cascading down from the Ancient King Armor Robe amidst the black death stardust.

Countless purple droplets swirled within the stardust, eventually coalescing into a purple crystal, translucent and lustrous, with intricate and complex patterns spreading across its surface, resembling a strange insect.

It resembles both the jade cicada of ancient China and the scarab beetle of ancient Egypt.

Both are objects symbolizing death; the former was used by every nobleman to place a jade cicada in their mouth during burial, while the latter is a unique accompanying object found only in the pyramids.

The Jade Insect Badge, Size Change, contains the [Pharaoh's Spring], which contains an entire lake.

That's right, the purple holy water is the Pharaoh's Spring. He plundered the Egypt Team's treasure and killed Yi Zhisha to collect such a large quantity.

Lu Jun originally planned to find a reliable Magic Tool Master to forge it into a supreme treasure.

Unexpectedly, with the help of Death Stardust and the Ancient King Armor Robe, it spontaneously condensed into a Magic Tool exclusively for the Death Element.

"This is absolutely a powerful treasure comparable to the Triangular Dimensional Realm."

Upon seeing this, Lu Jun was both surprised and delighted. He didn't possess many Magic Tool because most of them of the same rank were of little use to him. So far, he only had two, each of which was a treasure and could be called a Magic Tool weapon.

He decided to name the purple Jade Insect "[Death Emblem]" and wear it on his chest at all times.

Buzz buzz buzz!

Lu Jun unleashed the Necromancy Revival once more, a ball of dark, burning Soul Fire in his hand, with a trace of annihilating grayness emanating from its center, surrounded by a purple halo, making it look exceptionally extraordinary.

When the radiance of death fell upon the Serpent King's corpse, the process accelerated dramatically, its effectiveness increasing dozens of times over, with one-tenth of the torso transforming into a necromantic texture.

The flesh and blood of the snake king's corpse, a small part of its tail, was a translucent black jade color. Upon closer inspection, countless dark Soul Fire were slowly burning, forming a complete structure.

The Pharaoh's Spring itself can accelerate the awakening of the undead, and Magic Tool crafted into Death Emblem have the same effect.

Furthermore, the Death Emblem's function is not just that simple; it possesses deeper abilities that can only be activated upon reaching the Death Element Super Rank.

After all, this was made by the soul of Ancient King, and the Qin Kingdom possessed powerful Magic Tool forging technology.

Lu Jun used Necromancy Revival ten times in one go, and finally, to his expectant gaze, the Serpent Lord's corpse suddenly opened a pair of eerie and enormous snake eyes.

Chapter 445 The Nether Snake Undead Monarch, the King of the Dead

Waaaaah~

Suddenly, a vast expanse of dark fog rose from the nearshore waters, obscuring the sky and spreading outwards to cover an area of several kilometers.

Deep within the black mist, the massive, winding corpse of a serpent king came to life, stirring up storms in the ocean and unleashing towering waves that swept outwards in layers. Its entire body straightened up, its majestic form appearing and disappearing in the mist.

Hiss! Roar!

The Serpent King roared to the sky, its terrifying sound echoing for miles around. Countless Sea Monster were startled and fled in panic, scattering in a chaotic frenzy and leaving the surrounding seas deathly silent.

Furthermore, cities along the southern coast of Africa also heard this roar, like a bolt from the blue.

The city's ruler, pale-faced and breathing rapidly, exclaimed, "It's Monarch Level Sea Monster! Sound the blood alarm immediately!"

On the nameless beach, Lu Jun looked up at the imposing Nether Snake Undead Monarch and couldn't help but smile with satisfaction.

The corpse of the Sub-Lord remained intact as the Life Element continuously replenished its vitality. Even after being baptized by the vast Nether Energy Death Element tempered by the Pharaoh's Spring, it degenerated into an undead but still retained the combat power of Sub-Lord.

This was completely unexpected by Lu Jun.

The initial-level Death Element has created combat power Super Rank. A single Sub-Lord is enough to rival a dual-element Super Rank opponent with Supernatural Power, inexplicably leaping to become one of the top three Magic System in terms of combat power among the eight elements.

But then he thought again, with so many conditions combined, it wouldn't make sense not to create Sub-Lord.

From now on, I'll call you the Nether Snake Undead Monarch.