Li Wei stared in shock at the myriad ghostly hands appearing from within the ghostly doors.
The Dharma Gate formed by the Nascent Soul's Dharma Body had originally fallen into a disadvantageous position under the lightning tribulation, but with the opening of the doors and the appearance of the ghostly hands, they actually managed to firmly block the Eight-Armed Vajra!
"It's the Heaven-Piercing Coffin!"
They saw that Li Dalong, who was at the center, being bathed in the pillars of lightning, his face originally ferocious with effort, had now returned to normal. At this moment, with his eyes closed, he even appeared somewhat more relaxed.
The Heaven-Piercing Coffin beside him radiated a black Qi, and Li Wei could clearly sense that when Li Dalong was facing the third-grade tribulation, the aura of the Heaven-Piercing Coffin had already changed.
The body of the coffin was trembling, as if expressing its dissatisfaction that its master was content to merely face a third-grade lightning tribulation. And that is what led to the third-grade tribulation transforming into the fifth-grade one of today!
[Your descendant, Li Dalong, began to communicate with the Heaven-Piercing Coffin's artifact spirit. He broke into the fifth layer of the Heaven-Piercing Coffin and obtained the recognition of its layer.]
[With the help of the Heaven-Piercing Coffin's artifact spirit, your descendant Li Dalong's Nascent Soul left his body and received an infusion of the 'Rule of Death' from the fifth layer of the Heaven-Piercing Coffin, obtaining a vast amount of the power of the Rule.]
[Sixth Layer Space — Shen Wu's Death Domain]
[This is the Domain left behind on the sixth layer by the previous master of the Heaven-Piercing Coffin after he perished and his Dao dissipated.
It is also the place where Shen Wu's Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land were located during his lifetime. It possesses everything formed by the Rule of Death. With the consent of the master of the Heaven-Piercing Coffin, one can use spiritual power to generate new corpses in this place and refine zombies below the level of a Corpse Emperor (Divinity Transformation realm).]
[By using the Rule of Death and possessing the corpse of the deceased, within Shen Wu's Death Domain, one can refine one Corpse Emperor in three thousand years without needing other materials, one Heavenly Zombie in eight hundred years, and one Corpse King in three hundred years. By using the Rules of Death and Soul, one only needs thirty percent of the usual materials to rapidly refine the aforementioned zombies.]
[By using the Rule of Soul, one can refine various types of ghosts: Lesser Ghosts, Vengeful Ghosts, Ghost Kings, Heavenly Ghosts, and Ghost Emperors.]
[Within Shen Wu's Death Domain, one can fight alongside zombies and ghosts. Inside this domain, these dead beings receive the blessing of the Rules of Death and Soul; their injuries heal at an accelerated rate, and their spiritual power is slightly enhanced.]
[Shen Wu's Death Domain respects not the immortals and gods, but only the dead. Those who enter Shen Wu's Death Domain will suffer the most frenzied counter-attack from the dead.]
[Your descendant, Li Dalong, with two types of domains having taken form, his Primordial Spirit is now complete. Obtained Primordial Spirit Dao Technique: Soul Calamity.]
The Heaven-Piercing Coffin was as powerful as ever!
Li Wei also came to understand. Initially, what Li Dalong possessed was the 'Dead Soul Domain,' a domain of this type that was not even yet complete. And with the help of the Heavenly Coffin, the opening of its fifth and sixth layers not only allowed Li Dalong's 'Dead Soul Domain' to be perfected, but he also gained an additional 'Shen Wu's Death Domain.'
With the blessing of these two perfected Domains, how could he possibly worry about not overcoming the fifth-grade Divinity Transformation tribulation?
And as for that 'Primordial Spirit Dao Technique,' as far as Li Wei knew, ordinary Divinity Transformation realm experts must continuously perfect their own Spirit Domain before they can possess such a Dao Technique. This is another source of their great power, beyond their ability to make techniques more powerful through the Rules.
However, in many cases, some experts at the Divinity Transformation realm are unable to refine a 'Primordial Spirit Dao Technique' in their entire lifetime.
The more powerful the Divinity Transformation Heavenly Tribulation they overcome, the more recognition they receive from Heaven and Earth, and the greater the possibility of refining a Primordial Spirit Dao Technique becomes.
This is also the reason why many Nascent Soul cultivators pursue a higher-grade Heavenly Tribulation when breaking through.
When Soul Duke said before that Divinity Transformation experts are also divided into various ranks, this is precisely what he meant.
"Has Dalong also refined a Primordial Spirit Dao Technique?"
Looking at the information on the semi-transparent panel, Li Wei finally breathed a sigh of relief.
He knew that Li Dalong's Divinity Transformation tribulation was no longer a problem!
"Impossible! His Nascent Soul was on the verge of shattering just moments ago! How can this be?!!"
Around the hundred mountains, those cultivators who had originally thought Li Dalong was about to perish and have his Dao dissipate now stared incredulously at the scene in the sky!
They saw only that as the ghostly doors opened wide, from deep within where the ghostly hands were, the doors actually began to change again!
Beneath the ghostly doors...
Stairs began to appear, numbering the ultimate nine.
The aura of the ghostly doors was continuously growing. At the very beginning, the Eight-Armed Vajra had been able to struggle slightly while ensnared by the ghostly hands, but with the appearance of these stairs, the colossal, lightning-wrought Eight-Armed Vajra began to roar furiously towards the heavens, as if truly struggling.
The ghostly Qi began tainting its body of lightning, and everyone saw with their own eyes as that Eight-Armed Vajra...
It shattered!
"He... he passed?" Han Qiusheng stared in disbelief at everything before him.
The arcs of lightning were still in the sky, but that Eight-Armed Vajra was gone, as if it had never existed.
The silver coffin was slowly descending, and a wave of Divinity Transformation's oppressive might spread out from within the hundred mountains. Furthermore, it was drawing ever closer to the direction where the people of Azure Cloud were!
He suddenly remembered the words that his fellow Daoist Tianye had just spoken.
He had wanted to say something, but in a flash, a figure had already appeared before the eyes of all the people from Azure Cloud!
That person was carrying a coffin on his back. His clothes, grown old and tattered by the years, whipped sharply in the vast sky. His long hair streamed behind him, and the vicissitudes of time were etched upon his resolute face.
Old Ancestor Tianye was stunned in mid-air as if he had been petrified.
Scene after scene of past memories flashed through his mind in that instant, causing his eyes to well up with hot tears. "Brother Dalong."
"Brother Tianye."
Li Dalong looked at his friend from many years ago. Seeing the look on the other's face, he said only a single sentence, "I've returned." And with that, everything was understood without needing to be said.
He knew from Yunbing that even though their Li family had been absent from Azure Cloud for many years, their friends from the past had been protecting everyone connected to their Li family.
"Gre... Greetings, Patriarch Li!"
The voices of Han Qiusheng and the numerous people from Azure Cloud rang out.
They acted as if they had never said anything before. Now that Li Dalong had returned as a Divinity Transformation expert, although they still couldn't believe it in their hearts, that didn't stop them from speaking out to curry favor.
Li Dalong merely shot them a glance.
Tianye was seen to furrow his brow, but he did not expose the slanderous rumors this scum had spread about the Li family before.
Just as he was about to say something, Li Dalong shook his head at him. "Brother Tianye, after a little while, I will catch up with you and our other old friends."
He immediately cupped his fists towards Old Ancestor Tianye, and then, as if he had heard something, headed off in the direction where Soul Duke had fled.
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