chsdbacks Chapter 147 Domain Expansion
Chapter 147 Domain Expansion
The moment the God-Sealing Domain unfolded, the entire void of the hundredth level was completely engulfed by amber light.
That was not light, but law—an absolute domain that Kahn had condensed over tens of thousands of years, deeply fusing the core laws of the ten Apostle Temples with his own will as a Watcher, a domain powerful enough to rewrite all rules. Within this domain, Kahn's will was the law, his thoughts were reality, he could make stones fly, freeze flames, reverse time, and reshape existence itself according to his will.
Jiang Chen sensed that power.
Unlike Astra's Reversal Law, which requires contact to take effect, or Morghana's Soul Scream, which requires mental invasion to function, or Neltharion's Absolute Stillness, which requires locking onto a target to unleash its power, the power of the Divine Domain is omnipresent—it permeates every inch of the void, every meridian in every person, and every flow of true essence.
Wang Kai's "Dao" sword became more than ten times heavier the moment it was unleashed in the Investiture of the Gods domain.
The pure white chaotic power on the blade was still flowing, but the speed of its flow was almost half that of before, as if an invisible hand was gripping the blade, trying to snatch it from Wang Kai's hand. His right arm was trembling.
"This is... the true strength of the First Apostle..." Wang Kai gritted his teeth, squeezing the power of the pure white golden core in his dantian to its limit. Chaotic power surged from his palm, flowing along the hilt into the "Dao" sword. Pure white light exploded on the blade, temporarily repelling the amber light within three feet. But beyond three feet, the amber light surged in like a tide, compressing his sword light layer by layer.
Shen Qingxue's situation became even more difficult.
Her path of physical cultivation didn't rely on true essence, but rather on the power of blood and qi, and ice-type spiritual energy. The suppression of blood and qi in the God-Sealing Domain was more direct than its suppression of true essence—because blood and qi were the power of the physical body itself, and one of the laws of the God-Sealing Domain was "denying all power forms that did not belong to the Apostle system." The speed at which her blood flowed in her veins slowed down, her heart rate plummeted from seventy beats per minute to forty, and the icy blue spiritual energy pattern on her right fist continued to dim under the erosion of the amber light, as if an invisible layer of ice was seeping into her skin.
"Qingxue!" Bingli's voice came from behind her, clear and urgent.
Bing Li placed her palms on Shen Qingxue's back, and icy energy surged from her palms, spreading along Shen Qingxue's spine throughout her body. The icy blue and amber light collided violently within Shen Qingxue's body, producing a series of fine, crisp sounds like shattering ice. Her heartbeat quickened again under the infusion of icy energy, rising from forty to sixty, then from sixty to eighty. Her blood surged through her veins, dispelling the oppressive force of the Divine Sealing Domain layer by layer.
"Your path of physical cultivation uses ice-type spiritual power to temper your body." Bing Li's voice rang in Shen Qingxue's ears, each word piercing her consciousness like an ice needle. "Ice Profound Power and your ice-type spiritual power share the same origin, but are a level higher. Do not resist my power; let it permeate your meridians and merge with your ice-type spiritual power. Only powers of the same origin can survive in the God Sealing Domain."
Shen Qingxue closed her eyes, relinquishing control of the ice-elemental spiritual power within her body. The power of ice surged into her meridians like a tidal wave, colliding, intertwining, and merging with her ice-elemental spiritual power deep within her dantian. In that instant, she felt as if she had been plunged into an ancient ice cave.
When she opened her eyes again, her pupils had changed from ice blue to a two-tone blend of ice blue and pure white. The ice blue spiritual energy patterns on her right fist had completely disappeared, replaced by a layer of transparent ice armor, as thin as a cicada's wing, flowing with icy energy. The ice armor covered her entire right arm, from her fingertips to her shoulder blade, every inch gleaming with a cold, almost white light.
The suppression of Shen Qingxue by the God-Sealing Domain was completely lifted at this moment.
However, she could sense that the icy power in Bing Li's palm was decaying at a visible rate—her golden core's stability was 40 percent lower than that of a normal golden core, and it wouldn't last long in high-intensity battles.
Xuanming stood beside Bingli, her long black hair swaying gently in the amber light. Her right hand was pressed against her brow, and the icy blue light deep within her black pupils flickered wildly. Her divine sense's coverage was only one-third that of a normal Golden Core cultivator, and under the suppression of the God-Sealing Domain, it was compressed to its limit. The range she could perceive was only ten feet around her.
Within ten feet, she could sense Zhao Tieshan supporting his body with his prosthetic leg, the flame patterns on his right fist flickering in the amber light; she could sense Zhang Ziming kneeling on the ground, his hands pressed against the void, earthen-yellow spiritual power surging from his palms into the "ground" covered by the God-Sealing Domain beneath his feet, attempting to condense an earthen wall to provide cover for the students behind him; she could sense the twenty students who had broken through to the peak of Foundation Establishment scattered in various corners of the group, some using their true essence to create shields, some using their sword discs to emit amber light, and some using their last spiritual power to heal their companions.
Ten feet away, there was an amber-colored unknown.
"Xuanming." Jiang Chen's voice came from ahead, calm yet clear, piercing through the suppression of the God-Sealing Domain and the buzzing of the amber light, precisely reaching her ears. "Your divine sense's coverage is too small, then use the power of chaos to perceive. Chaos is not within the laws, and the God-Sealing Domain cannot deny chaos. Close your eyes and use the power of chaos to see."
Xuanming closed his eyes as instructed.
She abandoned scanning with her divine sense and instead activated the pure white golden core in her dantian. Chaotic power surged from the golden core, spreading along the meridians throughout her body, condensing into a thin, almost transparent white light membrane on her skin. Fine golden patterns flowed across the surface of the light membrane, each pattern breathing and pulsating slowly, resonating in sync with her heartbeat.
Her perception changed completely at that moment.
It was no longer the perception of divine sense "scanning from the outside," but the perception of chaotic power "penetrating from the inside"—she felt as if she had transformed into the void itself, and the flow trajectory of every wisp of amber light was clearly imprinted in her consciousness, and every law pattern of the God-Sealing Domain was penetrated, analyzed, and copied from the inside by chaotic power.
Ten zhang. One hundred zhang. One thousand zhang.
Her perception range expanded rapidly under the enhancement of the chaotic power, covering the entire void of the hundredth layer in the blink of an eye. She could "see" Kahn standing in the void, amber light continuously surging from his body, connecting the core laws of the ten Apostle Halls into a giant net covering the entire void; she could "see" Neltharion standing behind Kahn, his dark blue eyes half-closed, the law of absolute stillness flowing around him; she could "see" Thran, Mephistopheles, Baal, Sorger, and the other Apostles, approaching the students of Qingyun Academy from different directions.
"I see it." Xuanming opened his eyes, the icy blue light deep within his black pupils had stabilized. "The core of the laws of the God Sealing Domain is on Kahn. In the location of his heart, there is a dark golden light core formed from the laws of the Watchers. That is the energy source of the entire God Sealing Domain. If you shatter it, the God Sealing Domain will collapse."
Her voice wasn't loud, but it caused the core of the laws of all the apostles present to tremble simultaneously.
Kahn's lips curled into a slight smile. "The ability to perceive chaotic power is indeed outside the scope of denial within the God-Sealing Domain." His voice remained calm, but something burned deep within his amber pupils. "But you can see the core of my laws. Can your sword touch it?"
He raised his right hand, fingers spread, palm facing upward. Amber light gathered in his palm, transforming into a brand new Watcher's Sword—longer and narrower than the previous one, with denser dark gold patterns flowing across its blade. A rune appeared on the hilt, a mark of the laws of the Godhood Domain, a mark left by Kahn after he infused a portion of the domain's power into the sword.
"The Realm of Gods: Guardians"
Kahn gripped the newly born Watcher's Sword and took a step forward. The instant that step landed, the amber light throughout the entire void converged on his blade, condensing into a dark golden pillar of light that stretched across the heavens and earth. The pillar of light was over a hundred feet in diameter, enveloping the entire hundredth layer of the void.
Jiang Chen stared at the dark golden pillar of light hurtling towards him, at the power flowing within it from the ten Apostle Hall Law Cores, and at the amber flames burning in Kahn's eyes at the end of the pillar. His right hand gripped the Primordial Sword, six stars on the hilt lighting up simultaneously, gold, red, blue, and black light swirling across the blade.
He took a step forward.
On the blade of the Primordial Sword, the fourth light—the pure black Dao Fruit of the Void Immortal Emperor—completed its first true fusion with the first three colors. The four-colored beams of light exploded from the blade, colliding head-on with Kahn's dark golden beam of light.
The collision of the two forces produced no explosion, no roar.
The void itself shattered at the boundary between the two forces.
Kahn's amber pupils contracted slightly.