Paragon of Sin-Chapter 1826 - 1819: ACT II (3)
Wider than moons.
Larger than suns.
Bigger than the eggs of dragons and divinities!
Long Shiya's eyes expanded to an unbelievable extreme, far exceeding any form of conceivable limits, on the very verge of causing his eyeballs to slip out of their sockets!!
Hyperbole aside, the Sovereign Knight of the Primal Peerless Sect and its Founding Patriarch displayed an amusingly colorful expression. Within the reflection of his pupils was a single figure, his aura exposed without restraint. All the unseen self-imposed fetters were loosened until his Mystic Force surged into the sky and earth, burrowing into the very heavens!
'MYS-MYSTIC STAR?!' Stuttering in his thoughts, Long Shiya was unable to believe what he was seeing as reality. It had to be a trick, an illusion of sorts. It had to be a spiritual spell or mental incantation used to deceive his various senses and lower his guard. It had to be! After all, his memories repeatedly recalled and confirmed Wei Wuyin resisting the strength of six Mystic-Heaven grade treasures just a moment earlier!
Wei Wuyin released his four Astral Souls, unfurling his domain to engulf the entirety of the two million miles of territory within, touching the earth and the sky, leaving nothing untouched.
Stretching his tempered muscles, his Spiritual Strength bellowed outwards, dispersing clouds, terraforming earth, and distorting all of space, time, gravity, and light. The chaos mana swirled towards him obediently like a servant seeing its master, bowing before him as vestiges of striations formed in space of densely condensed mana.
They paid their respects.
Not to a single king but to four.
Each of his Astral Souls was at the Zenith Origin State, their Mana Dominance was unparalleled. Long Shiya as a Resonant Soul Realm expert could passively dominate all forms of energy, essence, and mana using his innate domain, relying purely on his aura and Spiritual Strength, yet his level of control was thoroughly denied.
The entirety of all the chaos mana within this World Realm was under the permanent command of Kratos, Ori, King, and Eden, and by extension, the will and whim of Wei Wuyin!
What followed was the ambient energies, essence, and gravitational forces of this world.
"Huh?"
Long Shiya couldn't feel the slightest sense of control!
Startled by this development, he instinctively tried to seize the mana of the world. Failing in his attempt, his densely weighted body instantly lost all its support. He dropped from the air as he fell to the earth below.
BOOM!!!
Without mana to keep him afloat, he lost the ability to sustain flight. It had been far too long since he relied on his resonant qi or innate energies for sustained flight. Not even other Resonant Soul Realm cultivators could seize his authority over the ambient mana.
A supreme existence, a genuine Supreme Sage of great repute, failed to contain his heartfelt shock and in the blink of his own eye, fell sharply into the earth at a velocity far exceeding light speed. The innate energies within his body were stupendously dense and heavy, enough to serve as a core for an entire galaxy in terms of weight like the center of a supermassive black hole. Fortunately, the landmass of this World Realm could withstand fierce attacks of Resonant Soul Realm cultivators, so only a thousand-mile wide and hundred-mile deep impact crater formed.
"..." Long Shiya stared blankly, shaken. With his Soul Perception and Spiritual Sense, he could sense, smell, taste, and feel the faint traces of an eternal aura lingering in the air, something elusive yet perpetual, far exceeding his own aura in terms of quality, only lacking in quantity. What was this? Was that…was he…in a domain?!
Wei Wuyin indifferently gazed at the crater, immersing himself in his thoughts and the jubilant shivers of his Astral Souls. The wondrous sensation of unleashing his domain was intoxicating. The Heavenly War Spirit once remarked that Wei Wuyin's specialty in the Alchemic Dao was domain-type products, and given his path thus far, it was impossible to refute such a claim.
The Neo-Dawn Eclipse Pill.
The Neo-Dawn World-Eclipsing Pill.
Even his Neo-Dawn Paragon-Forging Pill had properties of domain-transformation, imbuing his four Domain Seeds with the characteristics of his physique. Considering the very first product of his lineage was the Neo-Dawn Eclipse Pill while the Neo-Dawn World-Eclipsing Pill served as his promotional product for both the Earthly Saint Alchemist and Worldly Saint Alchemist level, and its transcendent version pushed him to an unparalleled level of recognition by the Alchemic Dao on two different occasions, granting him the unique title of all Mortal Saint Alchemist and later acquiring the Alchemic Stars of Unparalleled Creation!
There was no denying his specialty!
The Neo-Dawn Eclipse Pill allowed cultivators to exceed conventional limits, allowing those at the Soul Idol Phase of the Astral Core Realm to acquire Worldly Domains, a cultivation power normally limited to the Realm World Phase. When pushed to the transcendent grade allowed the Domain Seed, which was no different than a genuinely cultivated Domain Seed through cultivation, perhaps even better in some ways, or a pre-existing Domain Seed to form a tethered to the Spirit of Cultivation and slowly extracted Soul Light.
This Soul Light was not the same as the Primary Soul Light developed through cultivation, but its natural state, always existing since the dawn of its creation, could be regarded as the Soul Essence of a Spirit of Cultivation. So even cultivators that didn't reach that level of cultivation would have their Soul Light of their Spirits of Cultivation extracted, bypassing the conventions of cultivation yet again in a mortal-defying feat!
While Wei Wuyin hadn't found this Domain Seed too different from his own, given that he had long since comprehended Soul Light and his Domain Seeds already had infused Primary Soul Light. However, to those without his mortal-defying foundation within the Mortal Realms, this was an epic boon for comprehensive abilities and stability.
The connection between Domain Seed and, by extension, the Worldly Domain, the Spirit of Cultivation enabled a level of connective unity on a fascinatingly unrivaled scale.
The Neo-Dawn World-Eclipsing Pill was also equally if not more defiant of conventions, allowing cultivators at the lower stages of the Mystic Ascendant Realm and even the Star Core Phase of the Astral Core Realm to develop a Domain of Mysticism!
A Starlord with a Domain of Mysticism was invincible!!
Additionally, with a Domain of Mysticism, the extremely arduous journey to sensing and gathering Mystic Essence sufficient enough to condense all the required fragmented Mystic Runes would be trivialized. The obstacle that led the vast majority of all ordinary Starlords to their deaths, was the inability to gather enough Mystic Essence to even begin their ascension within their thousand or so years of lifespan.
It was an unspoken tragedy perfectly capitalized in the phrase: "Cultivation is difficult!"
Wei Wuyin hadn't used a Domain of Mysticism during his fight with Enlightened Sage Springfield or the eight Sages, and that was largely due to his inability to contend with them as a mortal. Regardless of its strength or size, those at the Mystic Overlord Phase of the Mystic Ascendant Realm or higher would also have greater dominance over Mystic Energy than he could exert—a mere mortal.
Meanwhile, in the same vein, mortal-grade energies and essences would always be his to control in the face of any cultivator, but they wouldn't be enough to contend against cultivators of that level. Thus, he relied on the Authority of Law that didn't discriminate between mortal or mystic instead. It was extremely effective.
As for the transcendent Neo-Dawn World-Eclipsing Pill, it contained an unprecedented alchemical effect that even shook Wei Wuyin to his core!!
It was no longer a Worldly Domain.
It was no longer a Domain of Mysticism.
At the top of each Mystic Core, a pencil-thin glimmer of an ascending light diffused an eternal aura. It was perpetual without inflexibility. It was mundane without turbidity. It was mysticism without fathomability!
BRIDGES OF IMMORTALITY!!!
The Worldly Domain that was largely passive after his ascension to the Star Core Phase, his Mystic Core born from continuous heaven-defying feats, and his Astral Souls underwent qualitative transformations!
If the transcendent Neo-Dawn Eclipse Pill could draw out the latent Soul Light within, improving the Domain's quality, connective unity, and overall strength, then the transcendent Neo-Dawn World-Eclipsing Pill established a way to resonate with the aura of eternity, connecting the mortal and mystical with the everlasting! That bridge? It was an antenna!
It was no longer a Domain of Mysticism or a Worldly Domain, but a Sempiternal Resonance Domain!!!
Wei Wuyin's starry eyes glimmered with an eternal radiance, his unfurled domain harnessed the invisible power of that last great dao. The sensation of unleashing his domain was indescribably intoxicating! The aura of eternity that he could only sense within himself, either through his Stellar-Paragon Physique or the Eye of Immortality, was readily perceivable by him!
Then and ONLY then, when he refined those transcendent Neo-Dawn World-Eclipsing Pill did he truly understand the unrivaled, unparalleled, and unmatched product he had created!
The Alchemic Stars of Unparalleled Creation was FULLY DESERVED!
Wei Wuyin knew that this domain wasn't a power for an ordinary Supreme Sage-level existence. He had inadvertently created a product that defied conventions not simply within a cultivation stage like the Neo-Dawn Eclipse Pill or at most loosely connected to the next realm like peak Astral Core Realm cultivators and the Domain of Mysticism, but defied an ENTIRE REALM OF CULTIVATION!
And it wasn't just a single realm, but likely an entire realm and a half!!!
This was his brilliance! This was his defiance! This was his unparalleled creation!
Long Shiya finally adjusted his mentally as he slowly gathered his resonant qi and lifted himself out of the crater, his aura distorted every conceivable force within the world realm, while his eyes were aggressively cold and severely intense.
He spoke slowly, enunciating every word, his voice booming with the might of a million thunderbolts crashing against all of space and time: "Who. Are. You?!"
Wei Wuyin's eyes focused. With a single step forward, his Mystic Star Phase aura erupted in full force, causing the landmass to lose an entire inch, compressing downwards viciously. He replied with only three commanding words: "Kneel or fight."
