The Fleeting Domain, Half-Step Calamity

How did a Calamity-class domain come into being?

Tiandao had seriously pondered that question more than once.

At first, Tiandao believed that a so-called "domain" was simply a Star Envoy's life level undergoing a qualitative transformation, allowing them to influence their surroundings with their own power and become a walking Calamity.

At its core, it was merely a qualitative change brought about by quantitative accumulation—a crude display of power.

But as he encountered more and more Calamity-class powerhouses, he discovered that a Calamity was not merely a qualitative transformation in one's life level. There was something else.

Yet with too few examples, Tiandao had been unable to reach an accurate conclusion in a short time.

That situation finally changed after he personally used his body to experience Libra's "Equivalent Domain."

The essence of a Calamity, aside from their immensely transformed Star Energy Value, was that they had pushed their own "Star Source"—or rather, the "domain" they inhabited—to its very limit.

And the latter was the fundamental reason Calamity-class powerhouses could alter their surroundings through their own strength.

Take Libra before him. His exploration of the "Exchange Domain" had reached its ultimate limit.

As a result, the things he could exchange were no longer limited to tangible objects, but could extend to countless intangible things.

Such as time, or vitality.

The difference in the flow of time between Libra and Tiandao was the result of Libra releasing, all at once within his domain, the fragments of time he had "exchanged" from countless lives over the ages.

It was a method of trading the core energy of his domain for absolute authority over a localized stretch of time and space.

From that perspective, Libra Palace, who could "buy" other people's time, truly deserved the title of "Longevity."

But even if one understood