Custom-Built Domain

"You should value platonic love!" Lu Yuan said righteously to the gathered students. "I heard that relationships between boys and girls on campus have been a mess lately, and the number of scumbags and trashy girls has skyrocketed."

"While we don't oppose young love here, we still advocate mutual attraction on a spiritual level! Don't chase physical pleasure. More endorphins, less dopamine."

"You should learn from us as a couple and build harmonious, stable relationships. After all these years, we're still as loving as ever."

Everyone started heckling!

The scene became extremely chaotic.

Lu Yuan felt incredibly hypocritical. He was obviously craving someone else's body right now... But in everyone else's eyes, they really were the textbook example of a model couple.

Amid the noisy commotion, Lu Yuan dragged Girl back home. The outside world was truly terrifying.

And he was being drawn in every moment. The feeling was quite subtle.

"What ability did you use? Tell me now!!"

"An ability called Red Thread... It's specially used to seduce the opposite sex and can keep both sides in a long-term state of passionate love. So? Doesn't it feel like first love?" The girl's face was flushed, yet she launched her offensive with great momentum.

"It really does feel like high school puppy love."

"There's also an ability called Perception Amplification. It's a positive buff. I amplified your senses."

"You actually came up with that?" Lu Yuan complained.

"There's also a God's Skill called Desire Inflation."

"There's more?"

"There's also boundless energy. You're very energetic now... Animal Affinity. Humans are animals too... Enhanced reproductive ability..."

Lu Yuan opened his mouth but could not say anything for quite some time.

The girl counted on her fingers and still had not finished after a long while. "I think I've become stronger. I can put twelve buffs on you at once now. I could only use five or six before."

"Alright, alright, alright. This is unfair to me! You're using twelve abilities on me unilaterally!"

"How is it unfair? A lot of the abilities are two-way."

"I'm affected too. It's just that your desire level is much higher than mine, so you can't endure it yourself." A lovely smile appeared on the girl's face. Her heart beat like a little rabbit's as she jumped up, kissed Old Lu, then leaned close to his ear and whispered, "Mr. Lu of platonic love... I'll go take a shower first. Big sister still needs a Greedy Demon God as a mount. Are you willing to be a little more proactive?"

The girl was extremely delighted. Before leaving, she even used an intense Charm.

Lu Yuan's entire body burned with heat, and he panted like a bull as he ran into the bathroom next door and took a cold shower.

He felt that today... he might not make it through this trial. But as a Greedy Demon God, only by being greedy to the end could he have everything!

Giving up midway meant losing everything!

Yet he truly could not wait any longer. The more he thought about it, the more anxious he became. The high temperature of Eternal Tinder radiated from his entire body, evaporating all the surrounding water vapor.

Then, a strange sensation suddenly surged up from his heart.

Lu Yuan was utterly shocked, his eyes widening round! Th-this... what was this thing?!

After the girl finished bathing, she wrapped herself in a white bathrobe and deliberately left her hair half-wet, half-dry, giving herself an especially seductive appearance before floating energetically out of the bathroom...

Yes, she was flying. A true beautiful girl did not need her feet to touch the ground.

"So the Greedy Demon God is only this much, huh? Hehe~"

Then she discovered in shock that the Greedy Demon God was gone!

"How is that possible?!"

The girl froze where she stood. He had just run away like that?

Impossible!

She looked at her fair, rosy skin, her full chest, her pale, tender calves...

Was she really not attractive?

She flew all around the room and living room, even searching under the bed, but could not find the bastard.

Only then did she discover, in the studio next door, with immense astonishment...

The Greedy Demon God had suffered so much that he had a mental breakdown and burst out with inspiration?!

Lu Yuan was in the studio, wholly focused on creating an extraordinary item.

This Legendary Masterpiece pendant contained the faint sorrow of unrequited love. The story depicted in its engraving took place during a certain Spring Festival, when Lu Yuan suddenly suffered a mental illness amid ice and fire.

Though that instant had been brief, it also seemed to have stretched into eternity.

Function: When worn on the chest, it could increase lifespan.

At that moment, it was an unprecedented blow to Sea Snail Miss!

Her little mouth hung slightly open in overwhelming surprise.

Although she was confident that even if Lu Yuan was engaged in artistic creation, she could seduce him back with a mere flick of her finger...

But... that was a Legendary Masterpiece!!

Their current bet was merely a little bit of playful fun. It could not compare with a Legendary Masterpiece.

Her fine moral character would not allow her to interrupt him midway.

Even more terrifyingly, was she about to lose already? After all, creating something like this over a single night would be effortless.

Would she have to become a maid from today onward?

Happy times always passed quickly. Lu Yuan enjoyed a sweet month-long vacation.

Although the first day's journey had been tortuous, and he had even suffered a complete mental breakdown, afterward he gained a pitiful Maid Miss... and life suddenly became much more enjoyable!

It truly proved the old saying: "Be greedy to the end, and you will have everything!"

What was more, Lu Yuan seemed to have found a way to trigger bursts of inspiration: first abstain for a very long time until his physical desire reached its peak.

Then have Maid Miss activate multiple God's Skills.

Amid unfulfilled desire and mental confusion, Lu Yuan's inspiration would directly gush forth.

Though they were all low-grade inspirations... inspiration was still inspiration...

But clearly, this method was as difficult as climbing to heaven.

It was easy to go from frugality to luxury, but difficult to go from luxury back to frugality. Without some sort of forceful power, he could not even fulfill the prerequisite of "abstaining for a very long time."

Lu Yuan was not a masochist. He could not possibly sacrifice his own happiness for Human Civilization, could he?

And since Girl could use multiple God's Skills, he felt like a groom every day. His happiness had directly maxed out, and he had no interest even in forging equipment.

"Calm down, Lu Yuan, Lu Yuan. How could you fall so low... Have you forgotten the study plan you made before? The Master said: I examine myself three times a day. You can't keep being drawn in by feminine beauty."

"Come on. Think about the time when you created a myth. Forge equipment, build custom domains. You should get busy."

Lu Yuan's primary task at present was nurturing the next generation at the academy. Since the population would increase somewhat in the future, he had to get busy again.

His secondary task was forging equipment. His previous burst of inspiration had produced some lifespan-increasing pendants, which had solved the scientists' urgent problem.

His next most important task was customizing domains for the Great Grandmasters... Well, this matter had been brought up long ago. Lu Yuan had actually been researching and pondering it all along.

But right now, all he could think about was playing with Girl after work.

Even though he knew his work was incomparably important, he still sometimes could not control his lust.

Left with no choice, he switched bodies to the Greedy Demon God.

Since the Greedy Demon God had no reproductive ability, its desires were greatly reduced.

Yet even after his physical desire disappeared, the addiction remained. Lu Yuan finally understood why some things could not be quit. He felt that he could change his name now and call himself the Lust Demon God instead.

"Team Leader Lu, are you spacing out? Can this work?"

Guo Dafeng lay on the operating table, growing somewhat anxious. He felt that during this past month, Lu Yuan had been acting a little crazy, staring blankly into space from time to time and wearing foolish smiles, showing symptoms of dementia. Even this wooden puppet wore the same vacant expression.

"What are you in such a hurry for? Aren't I observing your meridians? Besides, this wooden puppet of mine is Epic Level and has greater operational precision than a human." Lu Yuan replied irritably.

"Is this really only Epic Level? Why do I feel like I'd get beaten to death with one punch..." Guo Dafeng muttered.

"Calm yourself and enter a meditative state. Display your abilities one by one."

The towering Greedy Demon God stood six meters tall. Before him sat an enormous forging table, surrounded by all manner of forging tools!

That was right. Artificially customizing a domain required forging the human body.

And the sixth-level master Guo Dafeng looked like a little chick in front of the gigantic Greedy Demon God.

Guo Dafeng possessed seven abilities in total: Cold Manipulation, a God's Skill and the core of his combat strength; and six other abilities—Extraordinary Tinder, immense strength, Sharp Hearing and Sight, Super Speed Reaction, Golden Bell Shield, and Low Temperature Resistance.

Because Cold Manipulation was a God's Skill and involved the soul, forming a domain was more difficult for him than for other Great Grandmasters.

Lu Yuan slowly entered the zone and carefully observed Guo Dafeng's meridian circuits. Countless pieces of information and experiences gathered in his mind.

What exactly was a domain?

A domain was not a true ability, but an extension of the "self," an outward "overflow" of an entire set of Willpower Rules, and also the embryonic form of ability fusion.

To give a simple example, many abilities could not be projected outward. Immense strength, Super Speed Reaction, and Low Temperature Resistance, for example, could only affect oneself. But after obtaining a domain, they could overflow outward to a certain extent.

Within this home ground, those Willpower Rules could exert themselves even further.

Allies entering the domain could enjoy buff enhancements, while enemies entering this home ground would instead suffer a certain degree of willpower suppression.

Even extraordinary items would be suppressed.

This was also the main reason domain experts could overwhelm most Great Grandmasters in one-on-one combat.

Of course, in large-scale civilization wars, domains were of relatively ordinary significance.

Civilization wars were often battles between massive armies, with both sides bombarding each other from afar using Thermal Weapons. Unless a domain's power reached the anomaly level, even a level-seven expert merely found it easier than an ordinary soldier to protect his own life.

"Most of your abilities lean toward combat..."

"Old Guo, if you keep going like this, your ability to stay alive isn't very good. You only have Golden Bell Shield. Isn't that a bit lacking?" Lu Yuan smiled.

Human 18 Civilization now encouraged people to learn survival abilities and leave offensive power to technology.

For example, there was a Form Skill called Blood Clotting Regeneration Constitution. This ability could moderately increase lifespan, accelerate blood clotting, and provide slight regeneration of internal organs and limbs. It was a lower-tier version of the God's Skill Eternal Body.

There was also a Qi Skill called Belief Art, which could effectively improve mental resistance.

Within Human 18 Civilization, aside from the limited number of God's Skills, ordinary people could learn Form Skills and Qi Skills at low cost in Green Field Paradise.

Of course, everyone was free to choose what abilities they wanted to learn.

The government did not force anyone into specific arrangements.

Before the soul solidified, superpowers could even be replaced—but changing them required the participation of a Sealing Ability User and came with a considerable fee.

"There's no helping it. My soul has already solidified, so I can only walk this path to the end..." Guo Dafeng said with a bitter smile. "Low mental resistance is my weakness. I can only make up for it with equipment."

Once the soul solidified, abilities could no longer be changed.

Their first generation of masters had been born in the Mandala Empire and could not enjoy the New Era Dividend. Back then, they had to navigate the underworld and official circles, fighting with Cold Weapons every day. Wouldn't they simply learn whatever they could?

They were unlike today's young people, whose paths had all been carefully planned.

Lu Yuan sighed. "Do you want to continue strengthening your offense, strengthen your defense, or create a more functional domain?"

Lu Yuan recalled the various Innate Glyphs generated within his body when he created the Greedy Demon God. Some acted on the muscles, while others acted on the meridians and bones.

Some Innate Glyphs were even imprinted upon the soul. They could only be understood, not explained. Lu Yuan had not yet found a way to teach them to others.

"What kind of functional domain?"

"For example, once someone enters your domain, you would immediately sense them and react at the fastest speed. Even a single hair would be easy for you to detect."

"This would be an organic combination of Cold Manipulation, Sharp Hearing and Sight, Super Speed Reaction, and Extraordinary Tinder."

"A domain like this consumes relatively little mental power and can expand over a large area... Furthermore, linking the Qi Skills together could greatly increase your mental resistance and compensate for your weakness."

"Or you could create a domain that continuously damages souls. That would be an organic combination of Cold Manipulation and Extraordinary Tinder. This type of domain would have a somewhat smaller range, but it would possess the noble ability to damage souls."

"Choose for yourself, anyway. I should be able to help you accomplish any of them."

"But you can only choose one. Well, for now, only one... If I become more powerful in the future, perhaps I can help you evolve it again."

A Grandmaster Artisan who had created a myth naturally spoke with confidence.

This work was valuable experience for Lu Yuan. His own abilities were exceptionally complex, making it even more difficult to customize a domain for himself.

Even more terrifyingly... the Greedy Demon God could theoretically possess a domain too!

The Greedy Demon God was not a robot. As a part of Lu Yuan, it was also a genuine living creature. But it possessed far too many abilities, and Lu Yuan still lacked the capability to create a domain for it.