Boti's Exclusive Domain
Boti was truly furious; this was the first time she had ever been so humiliated since joining the Dark Magic Domain more than 2,300 years ago.
As the third most powerful figure in the Dark Magic Domain, aside from the Domain Lord and the Grand Elder, who would dare to disobey him or defer to him? It's important to understand that even the outermost members selected to enter the Dark Magic Domain are all exceptionally talented.
This time, she had been attacked three times by members of Gu Ding Team. The three corpse puppets that allowed her to maintain her strongest Combat Strength were destroyed without a trace. Meanwhile, none of her opponents were killed; only two were rendered incapacitated. What angered her most was that she had been injured by an Eleventh Order gene entity. In the Dark Magic Domain Realm, Eleventh Order gene entity was merely a peripheral member, their daily work consisting of simple menial tasks.
Boti, dressed in rags, had a somewhat ferocious expression on her face. "Bigge, do you really think that with you standing in my way, I can't do anything to that little girl? Don't forget, I'm a demigod, I have my Exclusive Domain. I can put Gu Ding inside, and I can put all of you inside too."
As soon as Boti finished speaking, she appeared less than two meters away from Liliath and the other two, gave them a ferocious smile, and the three of them vanished instantly.
Among the onlookers, the demigods were all somewhat frustrated. Boti's abduction of Gu Ding Team meant that their trip had been in vain, and their chance at a divine position was completely over.
Logically speaking, Boti, being from the Dark Magic Domain, is essentially an enemy of all humanity. But even now Boti, injured, these demigods don't intend to attack. There's a Near Ancient Era saying, "Even a starved camel is bigger than a horse." Since this woman ranks seventh on the Demigod Prodigy Ranking, even injured, she's definitely not someone to be trifled with.
"Ross, get me a room. I might need to stay for a while; I won't be able to leave tonight," Boti Way of Sound as she approached Ross.
"I understand." Ross's arrogance had completely vanished. He had never expected that Gu Ding's team could force the powerful Boti to such an extent.
Whether it was Robert, Tagore, or Bigge, all of them unleashed extraordinary power to protect their companions. The three of them actually joined forces to kill three corpse puppets with Combat Strength comparable to gods. Keep in mind, these three weren't even at the Thirteenth-Order Gene Body. He felt a chill run down his spine thinking about how powerful Gu Ding's team would become if they survived this ordeal.
Especially Bigge, his performance was truly astonishing. Everyone had always known he was the strongest member of the Gu Ding Team, but no one could have predicted that his strength wasn't just limited to explosive combat power. After decisively defeating Siguloke, Bigge still had the strength to confront Boti head-on, proving his power to everyone. And most incredibly, he was only Eleventh Order genetic being... Moreover, the Emperor Projection was something he cared about, as it was the mark of becoming Apex Expert. As long as Bigge didn't perish, he had a very high chance of becoming a true Apex Expert in the future, a pioneer leading the entire Human Race.
In this world, the Human Race is but one among countless races. They can barely be considered a first-rate race, but they are still far from the truly pinnacle races. The emergence of an Apex Expert would be a tremendous boost to the entire race's strength.
Shaking his head to clear these distracting thoughts, Ross left with Boti. Although he was only Seventh Order Gene Body, he had a relatively good understanding of the Exclusive Domain of demigods, so he knew why Boti didn't leave.
Exclusive Domain is not a Storage Space, but a world existing in another dimension. The entrance to this world can only be opened by the domain's owner, so there can be countless entrances. The domain's owner can open their domain from any location on any planet, capturing their opponent within. However, regardless of how the opponent leaves the domain, they can only leave through the point they entered. In other words, when Gu Ding and his group were pulled into Boti's domain from Red Shield Star, whether Boti actively released them or Gu Ding broke through Boti's Exclusive Domain to escape, their final location could only be Red Shield Star, and even more specifically, the Squire Square where they were pulled in. This is because the entrance and exit must be the same door—this is the rule of Exclusive Domain.
This is why Boti doesn't leave; her Exclusive Domain doesn't have the function of transferring item locations, so she can't take Gu Ding and his group away. She can only wait until Gu Ding and his Gu Ding Team are beaten unconscious in her Exclusive Domain before she can use the Magic Restriction Chains to lock them all up and then take them away in her spaceship.
Gu Ding knew what had happened the moment Boti captured him in his Exclusive Domain.
Boti's Exclusive Domain was unique; it was a pitch-black world with only a crescent moon hanging in the sky. Under the weak moonlight, Gu Ding saw graves everywhere, giving him a chilling and eerie feeling.
"This woman has really strange tastes, she actually decorated her own space like this," Gu Ding couldn't help but complain.
"With the domain arranged like this, the attack method is obvious: the corpses in the tombs will crawl out one by one to attack." The Sea Emperor also felt that this attack method was nothing new. "I did a quick scan, and there are 321 tombs here. Three of them are empty, and the others all have 'occupants'. Also, among these 321 tombs, three contain Demigod Realm powerhouses, and one contains a Low-rank God."
"How could there be the corpse of Low-rank God? Gods are already complete energy bodies. Don't their energy automatically dissipate after death?" Gu Ding didn't think about how to deal with his opponent at first, but instead raised a question.
"A deity whose soul dies directly will not have their body disintegrate," the Sea Emperor explained. "At a time like this, don't ask such pointless questions. What you should be thinking about now is how to break through her domain and escape."
Hearing the topic mentioned by the Sea Emperor, Gu Ding frowned. "More than three hundred demigods and one god. I can't even defeat a demigod... and the Absolute Seal ability can only target living beings, and it can only be used once every twenty days. If that woman came in on her own, I might have some options, but right now I'm completely helpless. What about you? Do you have any good ideas?"
"I can't help you. You're trapped here now, it's a dead end." The Sea Emperor gave a pessimistic assessment. "There are only two ways to escape: one is to violently tear apart her Exclusive Domain, and the other is to kill all the demigods and gods buried under this tomb. But you don't have the strength to do either of these things. So, my advice is not to waste your energy and just wait and see."
"This woman is from the Dark Magic Domain, and her target is definitely still Lily. I can't just sit here and wait to die." After saying this, Gu Ding unleashed his twelfth-level Limitless Body Technique, went berserk, Martial Dao Force Field, and summoned his Bronze Level weapon.
Steel Fist pounded the ground wildly, punch after punch, relentlessly and persistently striking the same spot.
Under Gu Ding's frenzied attacks, the ground slowly crumbled and collapsed. Apart from the thunderous roar of Gu Ding's fists striking the earth, there was no other sound in this black world. Not even one of the corpses buried in the graves emerged.
"This woman didn't activate the domain's attack mode?" After Gu Ding bombarded her for several minutes, Sea Emperor felt something was off. "The only explanation is that she must have encountered an extremely powerful enemy."
The domain is an autonomous world, but it operates in two modes: a normal mode, in which the domain's owner consumes very little energy, and an attack mode. In attack mode, the domain automatically attacks any intruders within it. It only returns to normal when the target dies or the domain's owner deactivates the attack mode. In attack mode, the domain's owner consumes a very high amount of energy.
There's only one possibility that Boti didn't activate her domain's attack mode: she was in the midst of an extremely intense battle, consuming a huge amount of energy, which prevented her from maintaining the domain's attack mode.
And that was indeed the case. After capturing Gu Ding, Boti was constantly engaged in battle with Bigge and his two companions, leaving her with neither extra energy nor the capacity to attend to the situation within her own domain. She wasn't worried about Gu Ding escaping, so she simply ignored Gu Ding.
Gu Ding smashed the ground for nearly half an hour, leaving no intact section and creating a huge, deep crater. Even the bodies buried beneath many graves were exposed.
Gu Ding had absolutely no way to deal with these pure energy opponents.
Half an hour later, the sudden appearance of Bigge group surprised Gu Ding. "You guys were arrested too?"
"Gu Ding, are you alright?" Bigge looked at Gu Ding, who seemed unharmed.
"What happened to Tagore?" Gu Ding frowned when he saw Tagore lying on Liliath's shoulder, barely alive.
"She was injured by the corpse puppets summoned by that old woman," Liliath said angrily. "But she didn't get any advantage either. Bigge killed three of her strongest corpse puppets, and she herself was seriously injured."
"Where's Robert?" Gu Ding, a little worried as he didn't see Robert.
"Robert has run out of energy and reverted to his original metal sphere form," Bigge said, taking out the metal sphere Robert had transformed into from his Storage Space. "Robert should be fine; we'll be okay once we find another energy source. But Tagore's injuries are serious and he needs treatment as soon as possible."
Gu Ding picked up Tagore and gave him a brief examination. Although Gu Ding wasn't a doctor, he was a pharmacist and knew a bit about medicine. After the examination, he injected a vial of golden medicine into Tagore's body. "I have a few vials of S-grade Cellular Repair Agent here, spoils I got from members of the Dark Magic Domain. I didn't expect them to come in handy today. But his injuries aren't just simple flesh wounds. The Cellular Repair Agent can only keep his cells alive and allow for slow repair. For a full recovery, we must find a doctor as soon as possible."
As soon as Gu Ding finished speaking, everyone heard a strange rustling sound coming from not far away.
Liliath saw a hand reaching out of the soil about ten meters away... (To be continued).