Chapter 3004: God’s Domain

Lu Yin used Heaven’s Sight to look ahead. He could not see the entire landmass at once, but he could tell that there was a thriving civilization that existed above the cloud-like structure. Was that a human civilization? And were those wings made of light on their backs?

Suddenly, the space around them changed as brilliant light appeared above them.

Lu Yin and the others all looked up to see the light coalesce into a massive hand that covered the sky and caused the void to tremble.

“No one is allowed to trespass into God’s Domain. Leave.” A stern voice echoed, and it caused Jiang Qingyue to groan as her face turned pale.

Lu Yin’s heart skipped a beat. The voice penetrated his head and caused his ears to ring.

The jiao stared blankly up at the enormous hand and started panicking.

“What is that?” Dragonturtle shouted.

Lu Yin looked at Dragonturtle. “Have you ever heard of this God’s Domain before?”

Dragonturtle looked bewildered. “Never.”

“Die, trespassers!” The booming voice echoed out again. As the voice rang out, the hand smashed down at the jiao, clearly intending to crush Lu Yin and the others.

Lu Yin was infuriated. The people of this universe were also human, and yet they had ruthlessly attacked them without even meeting Lu Yin and the others. He pulled a Zenith Mountain out from his cosmic ring and had Arch-Elder Zen and the others enter it. At the same time, he leaped up, the slipper in his hand. “Who’s trying to play god? Show yourself!”

The slipper slammed into the hand. The hand pressed down, powered by sequence particles that were entwined at its center to form complex characters. However, Lu Yin had seen countless sequence particles before, and the main body had not even appeared yet. Did this person want to crush him with a single swat of their palm? Impossible.

There was a resounding crash that caused the void to quiver, and numerous spatial cracks spread out, sweeping towards the beautiful cloud in the distance while slicing through the void.

At this same moment, far away, a pair of beautiful eyes snapped open in astonishment. “Blocked? This trespasser is formidable. Four Elephants: Great Sage Elephant, suppress them.”

Lu Yin’s slipper caused cracks to appear in the hand formed from light. Just as he was about to completely shatter it, his pupils constricted. The entire sky above him was flooded with endless sequence particles, and they surged into the hand. If before the sequence particles had only formed a single character at the center of the hand, then they now illuminated the entire hand. With this newfound power, it instantly suppressed him.

Lu Yin was shocked. The only other time he had seen this many sequence particles at once had been when the Seven Skygods or the Great Sovereign had taken action. This was an extremely powerful opponent.

All hesitation disappeared, and Lu Yin slipped away with Inverse Step. He moved parallel to time and instantly vanished.

The hand of light crushed the void, shattering everything nearby, but there was no trace of Lu Yin.

Far away, the owner of the beautiful eyes was a girl veiled in purple. She frowned when she realized that Lu Yin had escaped instead of dying. She could sense that he had escaped from her attack. Just who was he?

He had not had any kind of impressive aura, but regardless, anyone who trespassed into God’s Domain deserved death.

With this, the girl closed her eyes and spread her arms out. Her graceful figure almost seemed as if it was from a painting as she stepped forward with her bare feet. With her as the center, the entire universe seemed to condense and shrink, swirling around her as she searched.

Soon, she opened her eyes. She had found him.

Elsewhere, Lu Yin had used Inverse Step to escape from his earlier predicament. He felt horribly confused. What was going on? There was actually an incredibly powerful individual in this universe who was most likely at the same level as the Seven Skygods. This was not an opponent Lu Yin could face head-on, but fortunately, he had managed to escape with Inverse Step. This was not someone who was overcoming Dukkha.

What kind of universe was this? Did they really expel all outsiders and threaten them with death if they did not immediately leave? That was too arrogant.

God’s Domain? The name matched such arrogance.

Dragonturtle had never heard of God’s Domain before, which meant that Whitecloud City had also never encountered this universe. Though, there was no way to know whether or not the Sixverse Association had ever made contact with them.

There were too many parallel universes throughout the megaverse, and it was impossible to know what might happen.

Lu Yin was curious about this God’s Domain, and he wanted to learn what sort of civilization it might be. If he could convince them to join the fight against Aeternus, they would be a powerful ally.

Just as Lu Yin was contemplating such things, a hand of light suddenly took shape above him, and it instantly dropped down.

Its appearance startled Lu Yin. Had he already been found? How had they managed to do that?

He immediately fled again with Inverse Step.

However, it did not seem to matter where he fled, as his opponent seemed capable of finding him everywhere, and they pursued him relentlessly.

Helpless, Lu Yin took out his Champions’ Stage and summoned a Progenitor to help him escape.

The summoned champion was instantly crushed into nothingness by the hand of light, but Lu Yin took the opportunity to suppress his aura and stop moving.

Time passed, but the hand of light did not reappear.

Lu Yin let a sigh of relief slip out. He had managed to trick his pursuer, but just who were they? How had they managed to find him? If they were unable to see through Inverse Step, then how had they repeatedly found him?

He waited a while, but the hand of light never reappeared.

Lu Yin stared up at the sky. Was it really enough to conceal his aura? Or did his pursuer actually believe him dead?

Far away, the girl opened her eyes, feeling a powerful sense of doubt. That person should not have died so easily. How could anyone who had repeatedly escaped from her attacks die to a single direct hit? However, she was also unable to find the trespasser, as he had completely suppressed his aura. It would be difficult for her to find him even with her full efforts.

This trespasser was skilled, and he was also adept at concealing themselves.

“Divine Maiden, the Godseeker Day is approaching. All the citizens are eagerly awaiting it, and they are directing their most sincere blessings and prayers to you.”

The girl indifferently replied, “Has everything been prepared?”

“Everything is ready.”

“Announce that the entire nation is to be placed on alert. There are trespassers, so we must be vigilant.”

The person outside seems quite surprised by this news. “Trespassers? Weren’t they dealt with by you, Divine Maiden?”

“Leave.”

“Yes, Divine Maiden.”

The girl stared off into the distance. Could the intruder have arrived for the Godseeker Day? The timing lined up.

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Far away, Lu Yin approached the glowing cloud. The closer he drew, the more the radiance weakened. When he stepped onto the clouds, the light beneath his feet was nearly gone.

This continent had been formed from a layer of the clouds.

Across the vast megaverse, there were countless strange phenomena, so Lu Yin did not find a continent of clouds to be too strange.

He soon found what appeared to be a village, and it was populated by people with wings of light, much like the ones he had seen before. However, these people had an extra pair of luminous wings.

Lu Yin stayed in the village for a few days, and he was joined by Arch-Elder Zen and the others. All of them disguised themselves to look the same as the natives of the universe, and they fully immersed themselves in the local culture.

The universe was known as God’s Domain, and it was home to a completely isolated civilization that was closed to all outsiders. Lu Yin had already learned who had attacked them earlier: the Divine Maiden. She was a girl who had been deified within God’s Domain.

When Lu Yin first learned of this, he could not believe that he had been defeated by a young girl.

Given their cultivation, it only took a few days for Lu Yin and the others to learn the secrets of God’s Domain.

Lu Yin discovered that the Divine Maiden was not personally a powerhouse; rather, she was capable of wielding the legendary power of the Four Symbols, who had protected the universe from one generation to the next. With the power of the Four Symbols, the Divine Maiden was able to protect the universe, making it completely impervious to any formidable enemies.

As for exactly what the power of the Four Symbols was, Lu Yin had no idea. There were cultivators in God’s Domain, but they cultivated an energy that was similar to stellular energy. It was nothing special, and it certainly was not the power of the Four Symbols.

What intrigued Lu Yin the most was how the Divine Maiden, who was just an ordinary girl, was able to wield the power of the Four Symbols to attack him. Suppressing Lu Yin required an insane level of strength, and the hand of light that had attacked him had been filled with sequence particles that were unquestionably at the level of the Seven Skygods.

It was beyond strange that an ordinary girl could wield strength equal to the Seven Skygods’.

The only plausible explanation Lu Yin could think of was that the Divine Maiden had been acknowledged by the universe, much like how he had been acknowledged by the Fifth Mainland. That might explain why she was able to use the power of the Four Symbols and how she had managed to repeatedly locate Lu Yin.

“These people are too enthusiastic. They’re far too motivated and entirely too pure,” Ghost Monkey exclaimed upon his return as he attached himself to Arch-Elder Zen’s shadow.

Arch-Elder Zen shared the same feeling. “I have never seen such pure-hearted people in my many years, though it’s possible that we’ve simply interacted with too few ordinary humans. In fact, such people might be quite common amongst the ordinary folk.”

Lu Yin stared at Arch-Elder Zen. “It doesn’t look like they’re feigning their simplicity.”

“It’s genuine. The people of this village are all genuinely kind and pure. There is no deceit and no oppression. All that can be found is mutual assistance and support,” Arch-Elder Zen stated.

Lu Yin had noticed the same situation in other places as well, not just in this village.

Both near and far, all the people in God’s Domain appeared to be living in a fairy tale. Although there were conflicts, arguments, and even fights, everything was kept within limits. Regardless of whether people were cultivators or ordinary people, there was no distinction in hierarchy, and everyone seemed to live together harmoniously, to an extent that was decidedly abnormal.

Lu Yin’s experience from his years of cultivating told him this must be fake. What he was seeing had to either be a facade, or everyone’s minds were being manipulated, with all of their actions and reasoning being bent to the will of another.

He leaned toward the latter possibility, because even with a facade, it was impossible for everyone in a given universe to follow it. On the other hand, a sequence powerhouse could alter the thoughts of everyone in the universe, provided that the powerhouse was strong enough.

Jiang Qingyue and Zhao Ran also returned. Zhao Ran looked terribly confused, as she was carrying so many flowers that she looked like she was about to be buried beneath them.

“I- I just said that I liked the flowers, and then they gave me all of them,” Zhao Ran said, still looking confused.

Jiang Qingyue’s tone was more somber. “This sort of excessive kindness is unsettling. It’s clear that they don’t allow any outsiders to enter, and they will even drive people away with violence.”

Dragonturtle chimed in, “Forbidding outsiders while also demonstrating such warmth to each other suggests that their kindness simply isn’t directed towards strangers. As soon as we are exposed, their warmth might transform drastically. Everyone, we need to be careful. This universe is suspicious.”

“I think that they’re nice,” Zhao Ran had already started arranging her flowers, and looked quite happy about things.

Ghost Monkey retorted, “You’re still too young. Human nature can be complex, as there are people who are both malicious and tolerant. However, this sort of harmonious state can’t be natural. Something’s off about all of this. Seventh Bro, let’s leave.”

Lu Yin stared off into the distance. “I want to see what’s going on in this universe.”

Jiang Qingyue looked at Lu Yin. “Then go to the Divine Realm. The land we’re on is called God’s Domain or the Cloud Nation, and the so-called Divine Realm is at the center. That’s where the Divine Maiden can be found. If you want to understand this universe, you’ll need to go to the Divine Realm.”

“Young Mistress, that’s a bit risky. This universe doesn’t seem like it would be easy to deal with,” Dragonturtle cautioned.

Arch-Elder Zen said, “We aren’t going to fight them. Let’s just observe things for now. I genuinely want to see if this entire universe is the same. The kindness and tolerance that these people display does not seem to be a facade, from what I can see. I would like to visit the Divine Realm.”

Arch-Elder Zen rarely asked for anything, and this request happened to align with Lu Yin’s own thoughts.

“In that case, let’s go to the Divine Realm. Their biggest holiday is coming up, the Godseeker Day, so let’s go check it out. There’s no need to rush things. We’ll follow the villagers and try to learn as much about this universe as possible,” Lu Yin decided.

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