Chapter 493 – Geniuses Emerge, This is a Great Era!

The Heaven-Earth Essence mist in the core area of the Apocalypse Secret Realm was originally intended as assistance for cultivators.

If a cultivator benefited from this place and seized the opportunity to create an Epic Skill, the Heaven-Earth Essence mist and the resonating Dao stele would provide power to help the cultivator overcome this barrier.

Whether it was realm breakthroughs, completing a fragment of conceptual power, skill advancements, or other benefits, cultivators had the chance to obtain them here.

Countless powerful individuals dreamed of cultivating in this place.

Yet, there were just as many who sought but could not obtain a single spot or a single cultivation opportunity.

After all, the power in the core area would deplete. If too many cultivators entered, the supply and demand of the entire secret realm would become unbalanced.

At this moment, Dolai resonated with the Space Stele.

Strands of spatial conceptual power actively dispersed from it. Under Dolai’s “Devouring Heaven and Earth,” even intangible concepts became tangible and substantial. It absorbed them with a crunching sound, transforming them into nourishment for its Devouring.

The enhancement of the two Epic Skills, Space-Tearing Seal and Space Devour, also triggered the operational rules of the Apocalypse Secret Realm.

Heaven-Earth Essence rushed over like a roaring tide.

This was the nourishment provided for the two Epic Skills.

However, Dolai did not need nourishment. As the roaring Heaven-Earth Essence gathered around Dolai, it vanished into thin air, as if devoured by something invisible.

Simultaneously,

the triple enhancement of conceptual power, skills, and Domain caused Dolai to passively enter a state of ‘Epiphany.’

It instinctively operated Devouring Heaven and Earth, unleashing its top-tier Devouring Talent.

Instantly, even more Heaven-Earth Essence mist surged forth. The entire space around the Space Stele trembled and resonated.

“To cause such a large-scale Heaven-Earth siphon… this doesn’t seem reasonable.”

The manager murmured, then suddenly widened his eyes, “Wait a moment…”

Immersed in this mysterious state and rapidly improving, Dolai’s Domain had naturally spread out and expanded to its limit.

Just like when it had first advanced to the Legendary Realm.

A massive Domain with a radius of over thirty thousand meters, intertwined with black and white, lay across the world like a vast lake.

The manager’s eyes widened once more. “A Domain of over thirty thousand meters… no wonder…”

“No wonder I felt this human was extraordinary. She’s not just extraordinary—she’s a top-tier genius.”

“Her Domain is improving at an astonishing speed, and with no signs of a bottleneck at this rate… could it be… she’s aiming for a fifty-thousand-meter Domain to forge a Perfect Domain?”

The manager had, of course, seen Perfect Domains before.

He had once been a renowned powerhouse in the Holy Radiance Empire, presiding over the ‘Dawn Academy,’ a holy land for cultivation. The number of geniuses he had witnessed was as countless as fish in a river.

He himself was also a powerhouse who had forged a Perfect Domain.

Of course, that was in his previous life. He was not that Dean Xiguang now—merely a lingering obsession clinging to life, possessing most of his memories from before.

In the history of Dawn Academy, four individuals had achieved Perfect Domains.

Throughout the long history of the Holy Radiance Empire, those with Perfect Domains were not uncommon.

However…”Our Holy Radiance Empire possesses the ‘Lake of Heaven and Earth’, a cultivation Holy Land most suitable for Heaven-Earth Realm cultivation that can continuously forge and expand Domains. It is precisely because of this cultivation sanctuary that numerous geniuses can break through their limits and perfect their Domains.”

“While this Apocalypse Secret Realm is indeed a top-tier cultivation Treasure Land, it is not the optimal place for Domain cultivation.”

The human girl before the Space Monument was merely absorbing Heaven-Earth Essence, yet even so, her Realm was soaring like a rocket.

She was a daughter of the world who could potentially forge a perfect Domain even without entering the Lake of Heaven and Earth.

“Since I’m fortunate enough to encounter such a genius, let this old man give you a helping hand.”

Dean Xiguang exercised the Secret Realm’s authority.

Instantly, the already swarming Heaven-Earth Essence converged in even more turbulent waves.

Dolai accepted everything without refusal – no matter how vast the Heaven-Earth Essence, it absorbed everything seamlessly, never wasting even a morsel.

The expansion speed of its Domain accelerated further.

Time ticked away.

Compared to the human girl’s rocket-like Domain improvement, this waiting period wasn’t long at all.

Just a few days.

Normal cultivation typically measures progress in years or decades.

Yet even with the human girl’s rapid progress, Dean Xiguang worried she might get stuck at some point – stuck at 45,000 meters, or just before 49,999 meters.

This wasn’t impossible.

In the past, the Holy Radiance Empire had a heaven’s favorite who rose smoothly through the ranks, defeating all peers undefeated, gaining fame with an invincible posture, and was said to have the potential for Saint Realm.

But precisely such a heaven’s favorite got stuck at a Domain limit of 49,999 meters, unable to advance further for over a decade.

Consider that he had only spent one year progressing from entering Legendary Realm to reaching the 49,999-meter level.

One year to cover 99.999% of the path, yet the remaining 0.001% proved futile no matter how hard he struggled.

Ultimately, this heaven’s favorite failed to forge a perfect Domain, breaking through to Soul Realm with regrets, gradually becoming ordinary, and eventually only becoming a relatively mediocre Law Realm expert.

As for the human girl before them…

The black-and-white intertwined Domain continued to grow stronger, devouring the sky’s radiance and stilling the clouds.

Dean Xiguang watched intently.

46,000 meters.

48,000 meters.

49,990… 50,000 meters!

Almost without pause, the black-and-white Domain directly expanded to the 50,000-meter level, and at this moment, the vast Domain contracted again, shrinking back to within ten meters around Dolai.

Yet even with the Domain retracted, its influence, control, and suppression over the surrounding heaven and earth remained as before… no, it was even stronger.

It sensed that its Domain was now resonating with heaven and earth.

Previously, when the Domain was vast, the heaven-earth power it commanded was equally immense, but this vastness was somewhat bloated – when its Domain was several thousand meters, gathering heaven-earth power required some time, and the power of a tens-of-thousands-meter Domain often couldn’t be fully utilized.

Powerful indeed, but not overwhelmingly so.

But now, the 50,000-meter Domain was undergoing mysterious changes. Dolai vaguely realized that its utilization of surrounding heaven-earth power was no longer just about gathering, but directly drawing upon it.

As if with a single thought, it could grasp the heaven-earth elements from hundreds of thousands of meters around.

This seemed somewhat exaggerated, yet not entirely so.It seems to have grown stronger.

…

“Pseudo-Perfect Domain.”

Isloria murmured.

Her domain was vast and boundless, resonating with the ancient stone tablets below and connecting with the starry sky above.

Her cultivation realm and absorption speed were far inferior to Dolai’s, making it impossible for her to perfect her domain in just a few days.

Even though she had devoted half her energy to this endeavor.

But by borrowing the authority of the stars, she temporarily expanded her thirty-thousand-meter-level domain to the fifty-thousand-meter limit.

She experienced the profound mysteries of a perfect domain.

“The speed of gathering heaven and earth energy is a hundred times greater than before.”

“A 5,000-meter-level domain can begin to resonate with heaven and earth, influencing and suppressing legendary experts below the Peak realm; a 50,000-meter-level domain goes a step further, allowing one to dominate the surrounding area, creating an environment comparable to a ‘dustless land’ where only the domain user can operate, rendering other Heaven-Earth Realm cultivators powerless.”

Of course, since this dustless land was forcibly created through brute force, its practical effect against higher realm experts would likely be limited.

It could probably only serve as a method to identify true powerhouses.

Isloria analyzed.

“Additionally, it seems that even in a true dustless land, a perfect domain user can still draw traces of heaven and earth energy from the cracks between worlds, never being completely powerless.”

“Moreover, at this stage, the entire domain becomes flawless, aligning with the fundamental principles of heaven and earth. Even when facing conceptual attacks or destruction, the domain maintains strong resistance.”

This resistance, in her view, was extremely valuable.

Otherwise, previous domains would have no defense against conceptual power—a conceptual slash could easily tear gaping, unhealable wounds through the formless domain.

It seemed that in battles between Law Realm experts, domains were rarely manifested.

But now…

She pondered, “Under the Perfect Domain Realm, the amount of heaven and earth energy one can command is too vast, too limitless. In such a state, even when facing conceptual power, couldn’t one simply overwhelm the enemy through sheer quantity?”

She herself wielded conceptual power and understood that while it was powerful, it wasn’t invincible.

A skill or weapon with the concept of severing could cut through anything.

Flames with the concept of burning could consume any fuel.

But what if my attacks came in thousands or tens of thousands of waves? Even a Law Realm expert would exhaust themselves blocking them one by one.

She felt this was a research topic worth exploring.

But under normal circumstances, conceptual power was indeed invincible, and what Law Realm expert didn’t surpass Heaven-Earth Realm cultivators in every aspect?

Even a 49,999-meter-level domain, in Isloria’s opinion, would be nothing but a larger glass marble when facing conceptual power.

“The improvement from 49,999 meters to 50,000 meters is greater than the progression from 10,000 meters to 49,999 meters.”

“The Lord was right—if given the opportunity, one must strive to forge a perfect domain.”

“The world is vast, and there must be other powerhouses elsewhere—experts more familiar with these realms and mysteries than us, who have also stepped into the Perfect Domain Realm.”

“However, the perfect domain seems to be the limit of heaven and earth, unrelated to the individual—it’s the true extreme of rules. Otherwise…”

She believed this was definitely not the limit for Deadbone and Dolai.

…

Holy Griffin Empire.

Within the cultivation holy land ‘Lake of Heaven and Earth’.

A six-winged angel bathed in radiant light slowly emerged from within.His features were as if carved by heaven and earth, possessing a perfection that nearly embodied the ultimate principles of the universe. Around him shimmered a flawless and complete Holy Light Domain.

The vast, perfect power of the Domain resonated with heaven and earth.

In this realm, there was only one protagonist—the world revolved around him.

“A perfect Domain! Weijialue has forged a perfect Domain! Hahahahaha—!!!”

By the Lake of Heaven and Earth.

A young man wearing a crown and adorned in luxurious attire had abandoned all royal decorum and the dignity he usually displayed before his ministers. He simply laughed heartily, unrestrainedly.

With a perfect Domain expert by his side, his future and prospects were brilliantly bright.

He was the one recognized by Holy Light.

How could he not laugh?

The young man strode forward, “Weijialue, congratulations! Let us join hands and leave monumental achievements in this world!”

“Hmm.”

The six-winged angel replied indifferently, not even sparing a glance at the young man as they walked past him.

The young man wasn’t angered, not in the slightest.

With such a perfect Domain expert, who wouldn’t treat them like a treasure?

His siblings, who bore the titles of princes and princesses, wouldn’t even have the chance to do so.

“Hahahahaha—”

He laughed uproariously as he followed the six-winged angel, stepping into the sky and departing.

…

Apocalypse Secret Realm.

Dean Xiguang was still marveling.

“A perfect Domain… to forge a perfect Domain just like that. It’s truly unbelievable.”

“The outside world is facing the invasion of Filth, and the situation is said to be far from optimistic. Once this human girl matures, she will become a pillar of strength against the Filth.”

“I wonder which country she hails from—the Holy Griffin Empire, the Star Luo Holy Temple? Or perhaps the Eternal Star Empire? The Descending Nations are also major forces in the fight against Filth now.”

He thought to himself.

He longed to see humanity drive out and eradicate the Filth, to exterminate those filthy monsters. The Holy Radiance Empire had been destroyed by the Filth—how could he not despise them?

But he was already a vanished existence, not even truly alive.

He could only place his hopes on the people of the present world.

Changing the world and expelling the Filth was far beyond the capability of a single perfect Domain expert, yet this was still heartening news. Especially for those like him, clinging to obsessions that bordered on madness.

He had to share this news with a few old friends.

Dean Xiguang contacted the other managers.

They were all remnants of strong wills left behind after their deaths.

These managers spent most of their time in slumber, with one awake at a time being sufficient. Though called managers, the Secret Realm operated on its own rules and hardly required their intervention.

They only occasionally acted to handle minor matters.

As soon as Dean Xiguang sent out the message, another manager responded.

It seemed he wasn’t asleep.

The manager on the other end said, “Old friend, I was just about to share some good news with you.”

Xiguang: “Oh, you have good news too? But I guarantee mine is better.”

The old friend immediately bristled, “Nonsense! My news is astounding. In the centuries I’ve been guarding this Secret Realm, this is the first time I’ve witnessed such a thing.”

Xiguang chuckled, “Shall we say it together then?”

“Fine by me!”

The two old men glared at each other, sparks flying between their gazes for a few seconds before they spoke in unison.

“I witnessed the forging of a perfect Domain!””I witnessed the forging of a perfect Domain!”

After speaking, the two elders fell silent once more.

Could it be that we witnessed the same genius?

But clearly not.

If they had been in the same area, they would have noticed each other long ago.

The characteristics of the geniuses they saw were completely unrelated, aside from both being human.

“To think that two chosen talents would emerge during the same period.”

Just then, a familiar voice echoed in both their minds.

“My old friends, I’ve discovered a chosen talent! He actually used the Heaven-Earth Essence of the Secret Realm to forge his own perfect Domain! The only pity is that this genius isn’t human.”

Dean Xiguang was astonished.

Three chosen talents, all coincidentally born during the same timeframe.

Perhaps,

“This is the sign of a great era approaching!”

(End of Chapter)