Chapter 406 I will have your life!
"Mr. Nathan should take back what belongs to him." Mike slowly rose to his feet.
As soon as he moved, Mike raised an eyebrow. Beyond the energy barrier, he sensed two powerful auras. In the blink of an eye, Shane and Lester appeared!
Lester still wore his large black robe, his withered face visible beneath the hood, one sleeve still hanging empty. It was difficult to discern Lester's thoughts, at least for Mike.
Shane, the short, rat-faced old man, glared at Mike with fury. "Mike, why was Nathan in the Ancient Battlefield? And in the central zone, no less? Don't tell me you don't know, only those above Adept can enter the central zone of the Ancient Battlefield!"
He couldn't help but be furious! He felt like he had been played. Back then, he wanted to hand Nathan over, but he hadn't expected Mike and Arnold to hide him.
This had made him break his promise to the Basic Mastery Psychic from Sunshine Mansion, costing him a hefty reward. But this dirty business he had done behind the backs of humanity, he could only swallow his anger.
And now... he had just found out that Mike had actually hidden Nathan in the Ancient Battlefield!
"I did it." Mike tightened his clothes, only glancing at Shane before looking at Lester. "Master Lester, Nathan has been living in our tribe with your permission for a long time, and he even married nine wives. He's practically one of us."
"I gave Nathan the right to cultivate his psychic powers in the Ancient Battlefield. Is there a problem with that?"
"No problem." Lester replied without hesitation.
"You..." This answer made Shane even angrier, but he didn't dare to rebuke Lester. Instead, he shouted coldly at Mike, "Mike, you were just a commoner back then. You think that becoming a Basic Mastery allows you to ruin my plans again and again? You dare to disrespect me?!"
As his voice fell, his aura pressed down on Mike.
But now, Mike was also a Basic Mastery, and he had been stable for a hundred years. Although he was far from being a match for Shane, who had been immersed in the Basic Mastery realm for many years, he was not afraid of mere pressure.
His short black hair swayed as he sneered, "You should worry about yourself. Nathan is here to settle the score with you."
Then he looked at Lester. "Master Lester, Nathan is practically half a member of our Druids. If his belongings are taken, according to our Druid rules, we must take them back. What do you say?"
"To the victor goes the spoils." Lester was as straightforward as ever. He shook his head at Shane, whose face had turned ugly.
"That coffin is half mine, but I haven't been able to research anything from it all these years. I give up."
"Shane, what happens next has nothing to do with me."
"Lester?!" Shane didn't finish his sentence.
Lester turned to Mike and said, "I've returned the things Nathan left with me. That doesn't make me his enemy, does it?"
"Of course not." Mike nodded quickly, relieved. It was just as Shane had said, Basic Masteries were also ranked.
As an ancient existence among the elders, he really didn't want Nathan to have another enemy like Lester.
"I believe Mr. Nathan will also thank Master Lester for keeping his advanced psychic equipment safe."
"You..." Shane was dumbfounded. He hadn't expected Lester to give up the Death Coffin so easily! It seemed that in Lester's eyes, Nathan was now more valuable than him!
Just as he was about to say something...
A calm, deep voice rang out from the sky above Oakdale City, reaching everyone's ears.
"Shane, I told you all those years ago, I will have your life!"
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Shane's face changed drastically. He couldn't suppress the terror in his heart!
Because... Nathan, who was in the Ancient Battlefield, had disappeared in an instant, obviously having broken through.
Not only that...
"Thump! Thump! Thump!"
He looked in horror at the place where he cultivated his psychic powers in Oakdale City, at the place where his totem suppressed his cultivation.
A silver coffin was trembling violently, as if responding to its master's call.
Then, the coffin broke free from its restraints and soared into the sky!
Shane couldn't help but be afraid. Nathan had been terrifying all those years ago. Now, if Nathan had broken through to Basic Mastery, coupled with this coffin...
Moreover...
What he feared even more were the Blackwoods who had driven them away from Azure Cloud. Many of them were still alive!
Gritting his teeth, Shane was about to give chase.
However, Mike blocked his path and sneered, "Shane, where are you going?"
Nathan's voice rang out again from the sky.
"Please wait a moment. I won't keep you waiting long."
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Adept Force practitioners value subtlety, using psychic powers to control natural energies. A Peak Apprentice can reach a thousand miles.
If one wants to become a Basic Mastery, they need to project their Adept Force out of their body.
This projection is not about letting the soul leave the body, a method even some Developing Skill practitioners can do.
This projection refers to the crucial step between Adept Force and Basic Mastery, which requires one to directly inject their Adept Force into their soul sea.
At this point, one can perceive the rules of heaven and earth, and a Psychic can observe how certain things are formed.
For example, a Psychic who cultivates the earth element rules can see how the soil on the earth is formed and use it for their own purposes.
Compared to Adept Force, it's like the difference between an ordinary person holding a spear and a sniper who is proficient in spears.
Some say that there is a third eye in the human body that can see things that ordinary people cannot. Achieving Adept Force projection is probably like this.
Most of the Psychics on the Emerald Empire's Peak Apprentice rankings have reached the Adept Force projection realm.
Ordinary Adept Force practitioners summon natural energies, but they can already manipulate natural energies with ease, naturally making them more powerful than ordinary Peak Adept Force practitioners.
And if one wants to become a Basic Mastery?
Then they need to use the rules they understand to construct a domain and then integrate it into their Adept Force.
For example, when Marcus wielded the Sky Hall, which transformed into a halberd, the pressure that formed around him was a shadow of a Basic Mastery domain.
The stronger the rules integrated into the Adept Force, the stronger the domain. Only in this way can one withstand the five levels of thunder tribulation that come with breaking through to Basic Mastery!
At the same time, these five levels of thunder tribulation are also a gift from heaven and earth, helping Psychics who have achieved Adept Force projection to construct their domains and transform their Adept Force into prime spirit.
This prime spirit will also be continuously perfected through cultivation, making it even stronger, even to the point of constructing a unique paradise in a place invisible to others.
Places like the Heavenly Path Psychic Sanctuary and the Radiant Sky Grotto are paradises created by extremely powerful individuals, and they consumed a great deal of their creators' effort.
However, most of the time, Basic Mastery Psychics prefer to strengthen their domains with psychic powers rather than construct paradises.
This is also why Basic Mastery Psychics are so rare. Projecting one's prime spirit is already a difficult hurdle for many.
Integrating rules into one's Adept Force not only requires a deep understanding of the rules but also sufficient opportunity.
For example, fire-type Psychics can easily find places that contain the power of fire-type rules, such as volcanoes.
However, many times, even after they have absorbed all the rule power of a volcano, they are still unable to become Basic Masteries.
This is because the rule power within the volcano may not be compatible with them.
After all, even fire has different rules, such as the difference between ghost fire and ordinary flames.