Lu Jun sat cross-legged on the unnamed coastal beach.
Due to certain secrets he could not reveal to Jun Yaojin, he assigned her a task: to go to the continental-level Magic Association headquarters to purchase the Star Ocean Controller, sending her off.
Yes, considering his own eight-system Super-tier controlling stars was inevitable and required immense effort.
Similarly, his elder sister Lu Mei, with her dual-system Super-tier, would progress in magic mastery much more slowly than him.
Thus, buying a Star Ocean Controller became very necessary. His High-Tier six-system magic could be cast quickly not only due to his spiritual realm but also thanks to Master Dean Xiao's Starriver Controller.
Anyway, he wasn't short on money. Once the Star Ocean Controller was used up, reselling it would not result in any loss.
He gradually gathered his thoughts and closed his eyes to meditate. Beneath the dark cosmos, two vast star seas floated, their black-red and azure glows each illuminating half the sky, while the four major star rivers lay on the periphery, like four winding true dragons circling the central world.
The entire composition was grand and atmospheric, mysterious and profound.
As for the newly awakened Life and Death systems, milky-white and black stardust clusters lay tucked in the crevices of these colossal entities, subtle and unobtrusive.
Lu Jun focused his attention on the Psychic Star Sea. The central soul phantom had vanished, leaving only a Lifeflower Faith Mark, which, compared to its initial seed, had now fully blossomed.
In the spiritual world, a three-dimensional pattern appeared: thirty-six half-red, half-blue lotus petals stacked layer upon layer, with half of them filled with the power of Ideation, while points of faith continuously descended from the void.
Seeing this, Lu Jun was astonished. With the national competition over, public attention had gradually waned, and the wave of faith had decreased but today it had surged again.
He quickly found the cause: it came from the passengers he had healed. Their gratitude had transformed into faith.
"Such pure faith energy… it seems faith also has quality rankings. The more resolute the will, the higher the quality of the faith that bursts forth."
Lu Jun murmured to himself, paying it little mind. The accumulated energy was enormous, greatly enhancing the Psychic system; it would certainly play a significant role sooner or later.
He then concentrated his spiritual power on the black-gray Death system, a subtle realization flowing through him. Just like the Life system, it combined Calamity Talent and Super-tier effects, bringing powerful changes.
Among these, the Super-Tier Talent for the Undead was called Death Sovereign.
Its definition mirrored that of the Healing Calamity Talent: "You can command all authority over the realm of death!"
The two talents were almost identical yet opposing, making him ponder deeply. To perfectly control life and death was to completely step outside the Three Realms, no longer bound by reincarnation.
Lu Jun suspected that traditional Healing Calamity Talents were fundamentally different. Only because he possessed dual Calamity Talents simultaneously—like Yin and Yang of Taiji, complementary and mutually reinforcing—did such changes manifest.
"Indeed, Athena, once a Emperor (mid-tier emperor), did not achieve immortality. Perhaps controlling life alone isn't enough; one must also comprehend death."
He whispered inwardly, unsure if his speculation was correct, but it didn't matter. He would proceed with firm resolve.
At the end of the path lay all the answers to his doubts.
Lu Jun returned his focus to raising undead. Like the Healing system, the path of the Death system was unique.
The former specialized in enhancing specific healing categories; the latter's progression depended on the number of undead under control.
Undead mages were best known for Undead Catastrophe Tactics—the more units controlled, the better; the higher the quality, the stronger.
The basic ability of Death Sovereign was to amplify the power of the Basic-Tier spell Necromantic Revival by over tenfold.
The effect of Necromantic Revival was simple: cast on a corpse, it transforms into an undead and reanimates it to walk again.
However, for ordinary undead mages, the first-level spell Awaken Undead was quite basic.
It required specific corpse quality, at least a decade of death, accumulation of adequate death energy, and a generally intact body. Even then, the chance of success was limited, awakening at most one or two undead at a time.
And that wasn't all—the level of undead awakened was very low, insufficient even for Servant-grade.
Next came second-level Undead Containment, for nurturing the contract, and third-level Nether Qi Tempering to strengthen it, only then reaching Servant-grade demon strength, capable of overwhelming same-tier mages of other systems.
This resembled the Summoning system yet differed: the former's first level was strongest, with little change in the next two levels; the latter required step-by-step progression.
Both excelled at group attacks.
Additionally, Necromantic Revival had limits. If the corpse was too strong and the caster insufficiently powerful, the spell would fail. Typically, a first-level undead mage could not summon a Monarch-level undead.
"But I'm different."
Lu Jun murmured. With the tenfold amplification of Death Sovereign, his first-level Necromantic Revival could awaken over a dozen undead in one casting.
Moreover, corpse quality was not a strict requirement; rich death energy could repair damaged bodies, simultaneously elevating the freshly revived undead to Servant-grade demon strength.
Exactly—just as the Life system excelled in mass output, so did the Death system. The most basic attribute of Death Sovereign was the same: abundant, full-scale power.
Precisely because of this, he felt that refining the Sea Serpent Lord into an undead was not impossible at all. If one casting of Necromantic Revival didn't work, then two castings, three castings, four castings!
As for the problem of the corpse's energy dissipating, Lu Jun also had a method to seal the Serpent Lord's corpse and preserve its energy and that was the Life Element!
During the days he spent traveling by sea, he unexpectedly discovered that casting the Life Element's Basic Spell Healing Light onto the Sea Serpent Lord's remains actually allowed the flesh to remain in its freshest state.
At that moment, Lu Jun suddenly recalled his Life Element Super Tier Additional Effect—Revival of All Things. Every time he cast a spell, it randomly applied a buff, with Vitality Surge as the guaranteed base effect. He hadn't expected that using it on a corpse would preserve the vitality of the flesh.
The reason he did this was simple—he just wanted to see what other uses the Life Sovereign might have. So he casually tested Healing Light on all sorts of things, trying to find its limits, including—on a sudden impulse—the dead.
Since there were no dead bodies on the ship, he could only use the only available corpse, the Serpent Lord, for experimentation. And in one go, he tested this out.
After that, Lu Jun spent day and night casting Healing Light dozens of times on the Serpent Lord, continuously preserving the vitality of its remains. Up to this moment, the energy contained in the body of the Serpent Lord was largely intact, with only a tiny bit having leaked out.
Lu Jun adjusted his state, took a deep breath, and recited the Star Path!
A black, gray-tinged trajectory flashed across the void, seven stars smoothly linking together—Necromantic Revival was cast.
Hum! Hum! Hum!
He summoned a black pillar of light out of thin air. It crashed down, striking the enormous serpent body rolling over the sea. Dense Death Energy spread outward, causing the once-glossy, full-bodied scales and muscles to turn dim and shriveled.
But Lu Jun clearly sensed that this was a good change. The vast energy within the Sea Serpent Lord's corpse was rapidly converting into deep, condensed Death Force, completely solidifying, no longer dissipating.
The only concern was that each spell cast covered only seven or eight square meters of the giant serpent's surface. To transform the entire body into undead form, he would need at least hundreds to thousands of castings!
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