"Uh... ah..." Qingyi took a deep breath and exhaled.
During his journey here, he had accumulated just under 800 trillion lust points.
Although it wasn’t enough to finally elevate his bloodline and constitution to the ancestral grade, he was very close.
"First, my cultivation." Qingyi whispered to himself.
He prepared himself for a moment before opening the status screen, where he clicked to improve his cultivation and mana manipulation level.
[Starting cultivation improvement...]
[Starting mana manipulation level improvement...]
Qingyi exhaled heavily. A burst of hot steam escaped from his lips as his body temperature rose incessantly.
His eyes closed for a brief moment, and when they opened again, he was in a completely different place.
’My... sea of mind?’
Qingyi stood up, bringing his hand to his chest, feeling intense pain spread through his body.
That was his sea of mind... he was sure of that, but it felt very strange.
He could barely feel the connection to his Dantian, but at the same time, he was much more sensitive to Qi than before.
[This is the preparation for the formation of your domain. Just be patient and endure. Each person has a unique domain, some larger and more powerful than others. How much you can endure here will define that.]
A system notification arrived to Qingyi, who nodded silently, focusing on controlling his breathing.
After a few moments of silence, he felt something emerge from the farthest regions of his mental world.
It was like a pulse, spreading throughout the sea of his mind. Then, everything began to change, converging toward the center.
The skies above him closed in.
The water where his feet were submerged, once clear and calm, changed color. It bubbled as it reflected the black skies.
Slowly, Qingyi rose into the skies.
He did not use his Qi to actively fly, nor his mana. He just looked up, thought, and then began to float.
It was strange. He could feel the primordial laws surrounding him, sustaining everything. They were stronger than ever, but strangely, much more malleable.
Qingyi reached out, touching one of the many primordial laws.
Immediately, a bolt of lightning tore through the skies, soon followed by another, and then another, striking the sea of mind with powerful crashes.
"This is..." Qingyi sighed, feeling the air fill his lungs.
A sword appeared in his hands, with all the lightning converging on it.
"...powerful."
He attacked. Hundreds of lightning bolts merged into one, tearing Qingyi’s sea of mind in half.
"System... should I have this much control?" Qingyi questioned, moving his Qi.
Fire, ice, shadow, sword, space, and draconic Qi.
In one moment, he was a flaming monarch; in the next, a living shadow. He was even a being that existed throughout space at the same time.
His domain stretched for tens of kilometers, and Qingyi was able to shape it freely.
[This... is not common.] The system replied after a moment of hesitation.
Domains were formed from the origin of a person’s soul, their deeds in life, blood, and personality. Once defined, they could not be changed.
But then... What the hell was Qingyi doing?
The system searched its databases for any answers, looking for the existence of a domain capable of being shaped in real time, at the will of its creator, and not by its destiny.
Only after about five minutes did the system understand.
Qingyi’s domain was not linked to his destiny. Or, to be specific, his destiny was not something that was under the control of the heavens.
In the entire existence of the system, in its millennia of searching for a worthy heir to the Dragon God of Corruption, it had never seen anything like this.
"Ah..." Qingyi stretched.
He finally stopped experimenting, feeling the domain around him with a little more seriousness.
It was pleasant to be there and test everything he could experience. He could even control the size of his domain, or fill it with draconic Qi if necessary.
"That won’t be enough..." He whispered, calling for another sword, as the previous one had broken.
He felt his Qi and Mana bubble up in his body as he put everything out there.
Unstoppable lightning tore through the skies, endless shadows blackened the ground, and from all of that, roses of flame and ice rose up.
His domain continued to grow until it was just over thirty kilometers around him.
Finally, he stopped, feeling the flames of Primordial Chaos.
They were still his strongest power, although he avoided using them, as they caused terrible damage to his body.
Was his own domain what he needed to withstand them at full power?
Qingyi extended a single hand.
A sea of gray flames immediately covered his arm. It burned with unmatched power and heat, to the point that it seemed to consume even the domain around him.
"Ugh..." He groaned, feeling the burning on his skin increase as he prepared his sword.
The damage wasn’t reaching his meridians, so that was already a good start.
With a swift movement, he attacked.
The sea of gray flames descended onto his sword. Then, it spread out in a crescent shape, consuming all the Qi in front of him like a hungry beast.
"Ugh... untamable as ever..." Qingyi smiled, holding his own burning hand.
There had been no internal damage, so he was happy. Shaking his head, Qingyi left his sea of mind.
[Your cultivation has increased! Third stage of the immortal emperor realm -> first stage of the ancestral emperor realm!]
[Your mana manipulation level has increased! Tenth ring -> eleventh ring.]
[You have acquired a domain: (Primordial Creation Seed Sea Domain)]
"Primordial Creation Seed again..." Qingyi scratched his chin, looking at the name of his domain.
He had seen that name so many times before. Both Ruxue and the system refused to tell him more about what the Primordial Creation Seed was.
All he knew, at least for now, was that the heavens were not big fans of its existence.
"Ah... I wonder what the girls are doing." He shook his head, putting it out of his mind.