Chapter 564: Chapter 564: Creating Lifeforms, The Power of Life and Death
Sizzle sizzle sizzle!
Within the Ancient Capital’s Military Strategy Palace, Lu Jun brought his hands together. Black and white energies intertwined smoothly, resembling a rotating Taiji Yin-Yang diagram, head and tail connected, giving rise to a chaotic transparent radiance filled with the aura of life and death reincarnation, ancient desolation, and eternal immortality.
"This is..."
He carefully comprehended this power derived simultaneously from the Life Element and Death Element.
It possessed the dual effects of Healing Light and Undead Revival. As the two stacked together, a miraculous ability emerged, the creation of flesh-and-blood lifeforms!
The Death Element Beginner Level Five spell, Flesh Stitching, originally only targeted corpses. Yet after mixing in a strand of vitality from the Life Element Beginner Level Five spell, False Life, the stitched flesh actually came alive.
If this was not creating life, then what was?!
Lu Jun sucked in a cold breath.
The power of life and death truly was terrifying, touching upon God’s forbidden domain.
Of course, due to the characteristics of False Life, these magically-created lifeforms only existed temporarily, like fleeting flashes in the pan. Their intelligence also clearly possessed flaws.
Crack crack crack!
After hesitating briefly, Lu Jun’s thoughts moved.
The chaotic transparent sphere of light in his hands began shaping itself. Threads upon threads of scarlet blood vessels emerged, hideous dense white bones protruded, and the energy sphere expanded into a fleshy ball mixed with blood and bone fragments.
As the flesh ball wriggled, a head and limbs extended outward, a torso formed, and internal organs were constructed.
An evil hound was born.
Over three meters tall, its entire body dripping with blood, bone spikes covering its back, it exuded a powerful aura possessing the combat strength of a peak Servant-level demon beast.
Woof woof woof!
The evil hound roared and barked wildly, its intelligence nearly nonexistent. Its vicious gaze swept around chaotically, and even when looking at its creator, it was filled with killing intent.
Before the evil hound could create chaos, dark silver radiance descended. An immense gravitational force firmly suppressed it to the ground, rendering it unable to move in the slightest, leaving only impotent fury.
About an hour passed.
The Servant-level evil hound became increasingly agitated, as though sensing imminent disaster approaching. No matter how savage it was, it still had no choice but to lower its head toward Lu Jun, whining pitifully in pleading submission.
Lu Jun, however, remained cold and indifferent, completely ignoring it.
In the end, the evil hound grew more and more frantic.
Sometimes it glared with hatred, sometimes roared furiously, sometimes begged pitifully, exhausting every possible method. Only after realizing the situation was irreversible did it despairingly charge toward the phantom silver mountain, regardless of the cost.
Yet Lu Jun did not even grant the evil hound the opportunity to die fighting desperately. He suppressed it as steadily as ever.
Boom!
Immediately afterward, the magical effect reached its limit.
The evil hound stiffened in place, its life aura dissipated, and its body exploded apart.
This crude and malformed lifeform had thus completed its brief existence.
Just as Lu Jun thought the Life-Death Fusion Magic had ended there, unexpectedly, from the pile of flesh and bone fragments, an undead creature creaked to its feet.
The skeletal hound undead staggered clumsily. It only possessed brute strength and barely counted as a Servant-level demon beast.
"Oh?"
Lu Jun was surprised.
He had not expected the lifeform he created to immediately undergo Undead Revival after death and transform into an undead creature.
This Life-Death Fusion Magic truly utilized every ounce of power to the utmost limit.
Although after revival, its strength had plummeted drastically.
Unbeknownst to him, Feng Zhoulong and the others were already so shocked by this scene that they were unable to speak.
"Creating life from the void, Nuwa creating mankind..."
Feng Zhoulong muttered to himself, swallowing hard.
Suddenly, he realized that Lu Jun had probably been capable of directly creating artificial humans just now. It was only because he had considered their uncanny valley instincts that he had compromised by choosing an evil hound instead.
A trace of worry rose within him.
"Is Fusion Magic really not Pandora’s Box? Freely combining all kinds of magical abilities will eventually produce some outrageously heaven-defying effects."
However, Feng Zhoulong also understood that this was due to Lu Jun’s uniqueness.
No one even knew exactly how many Magic Elements Lu Jun possessed. Every single Element was monstrously abnormal and beyond common sense.
Fusion Magic could not be discarded simply because of fear, just like when magic itself was first born.
Moreover, wasn’t this precisely what he wished to see?
Given enough accumulation, several monstrous geniuses would inevitably emerge and surpass the limits of Monarch and Emperors.
"Life... death..."
At this moment, Lu Jun fell into enlightenment, muttering softly.
That’s right!
In a certain sense, weren’t undead also a form of life?
Low-level undead had merely begun the transition from death back into existence, while high-level undead such as the Nine Nether Queen and other Monarchs had already developed intelligence. Although they were fundamentally still dead beings, they already possessed some characteristics of living creatures.
Lu Jun recalled the ancestral bloodline of the Night Thunder Dream Beast.
Viewed this way, the process of going from life to death, then from death back to life, was definitely not so simple.
Whether the Three Great Underworld Kings could achieve such a thing was another matter entirely.
The path they pursued was absolute death itself, ascending to the throne of Underworld Kings.
"Then what if this power were used on myself?"
A sudden inspiration struck him.
Truthfully speaking, this kind of Fusion Magic was only marginally useful. Whether it was Healing Light or Undead Revival, once cast, their effects were at least equivalent to the Warrior-level. Although their fusion into life creation was indeed miraculous, creating merely Servant-level lifeforms was somewhat too useless.
Even if the strength of the created lifeforms was linked to the amount of magic energy invested, with his current cultivation in the Life and Death Elements, creating a Commander-level construct with a lifespan of ten years would already be extremely difficult.
So this was clearly not the true way to use it.
Buzz buzz buzz!
Without hesitation, Lu Jun manipulated black and white energies with both hands, merging them into chaotic radiance that descended upon himself, bathing him within it.
Next, he sensed a wondrous transformation.
His Monarch-level body, whose blood vitality surged like an ocean and whose bones and muscles were as resilient as immortality itself, suddenly had its life activity frozen in place.
The metabolism that constantly occurred every moment still continued, yet a certain dissipating substance had become fixed in place.
This was vitality.
Or rather, lifespan.
While operating the Fusion Method and unifying the Life and Death Elements, Lu Jun had actually managed to halt the consumption of lifespan.
He sensed this power flowing through every part of his body.
Gradually, after the power dissipated, his lifespan once again began slowly flowing away.
"As expected if it can allow created lifeforms to survive, then it can also extend my own lifespan. This kind of magical energy shall be called Immortal Matter."
Seeing this, Lu Jun was both shocked and delighted as he gave it a name.
It could also be called the Power of Life and Death, Longevity Matter, and so on.
After experiencing Life-Death Fusion Magic, Lu Jun’s imagination expanded wildly.
The uses of this magic went far beyond that.
For example, if one day he encountered a great enemy and his physical body was completely destroyed, leaving only his soul surviving, to the point where even the resurrection technique of healing the soul became unusable, then he could use Life-Death Magic to create a new body for himself, one that would be one hundred percent compatible.
"As expected, simply healing the soul or relying on resurrection divine arts still has limits. They are useless for those whose bodies are completely destroyed, useless for those whose lifespan has run out, useless for those whose souls have dissipated. Only the union of life and death is the true Great Dao of immortality."
Lu Jun’s thoughts surged endlessly.
The original story had displayed the limitations of resurrection arts vividly.
The Queen Consort of Spain’s Rieden Royal Family had reached the end of her lifespan and sought aid from the Parthenon, yet even they could do nothing. Only the Heavenly Mountain Snow Lotus could extend her life.
Leng Qing’s physical body had suffered devastating damage, and resurrection magic had shown mediocre effects.
Mu Bai’s soul had returned to the Dark Plane and likewise could not be revived.
Even Yizhisha, whose body had been torn into pieces, had been reborn using the resurrection technique of Undead Magic.
Now, Lu Jun simultaneously controlled both the Life and Death Origins, and with the addition of Fusion Magic, he finally possessed a trace of hope toward true immortality.
Of course, the current Power of Life and Death was still incomplete.
Lu Jun silently sensed the nourishing effects of the life-death aura within his body.
Its effects on flesh and blood were immediate and astonishing, but its nourishment toward the soul was comparatively mediocre.
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