Chapter 274
I’ve only made it a few steps when a cloud of death energy crashes into me and activates my domain. The recently deceased are pulled through the domain into the afterlife, first hundreds, then thousands, then tens of thousands of souls.
It’s not possible that there were so many living in that compound, so I slow down to better understand what is happening. My Domain is up in full force, the chill of the underworld tainting the air, and the souls are pushing through it and into me, using the Soul Shrine in my Spirit Ocean as an escape.
The feel of them varies, both by species and by how powerful they were in life. But I now notice, it also changes with how long it had been since they died, and some of these souls have been trapped for a year or more. They must have been using some sort of array or device to hold them as potential materials for their experiments.
The Immortal Plane requires strong souls to survive, and if a traveler doesn’t have them they won’t stabilize there, instead being ejected back to the mortal planes. It’s possible the same holds true for trying to move an entire world and that they were intending on using these trapped souls to bolster those of the residents for the transfer.
Whatever the truth, they’re free now, gone on to the underworld to be sorted and rest for whatever awaits them.
The various flavors and feeling of souls passing through me to the other side is helping me to merge with my Domain, every new feeling leaves behind a bit more knowledge and understanding of the nature of the underworld. How it works, how it accepts those who enter it, and most importantly, where I fit into that equation. The feeling is incredible, and it’s all I can do to follow Elder Song as enlightenment fills my mind and my Domain starts to merge with my Nascent Soul to form a full and proper Origin Soul.
It will be a while before it is complete, as the process has only just started, but with so much death energy, and so many thankful trapped souls passing through me, dragging my Domain into my body to merge life with afterlife and my Immortal Cultivation with the Divine Truth of the Underworld Domain, I don’t think it will be all that long before the process at least stabilizes.
As usual for my unorthodox advancements, nothing is happening in the proper and expected order. The Origin Soul, as the fully formed version of the Nascent Immortal Soul is called in the text books of the Shadowed Blade Sect, should fully merge with your domain and then start absorbing Divine Energy to start creating a Divine Body for the cultivator. Once that process is complete, and your understanding is sufficient, you can attempt to provoke the Divine Tribulation and ascend into the lowest ranks of Divinity.