The Role of a Domain

After choosing his weapons, Lin Qingyu bade Jia Yi farewell and returned home.

"Xiao Yu, you're back! Want to make a trip to the War God Palace with your old man?"

The moment he returned home, Lin Meng invited Lin Qingyu.

After becoming a Councillor, Lin Qingyu had also obtained access to the War God Palace and a Virtual Consciousness Helmet.

"Go where? It's just a virtual world. What's so special about it? You just want to show off in front of your friends, don't you? Xiao Yu is already so tired today, and you still want him to accompany you. Xiao Yu, ignore your dad. Get some rest first today. We can talk about everything else tomorrow." Zheng Xinyi waved Lin Meng away in disdain as she told Lin Qingyu to rest.

"Yes, yes, get some rest first. The War God Palace can be visited anytime." Lin Meng immediately echoed his wife.

"Alright, I'll rest for a while first. We can discuss everything else tomorrow," Lin Qingyu said, going along with his mother.

He truly needed some time alone, though not because he was tired or anything else.

With his current Mental Power, he could go without sleep or rest for three days and nights without issue.

What he needed now was to return and properly study the mysteries of the Domain. Since comprehending it, he had yet to settle down and thoroughly examine how to use it.

After returning to his room, Lin Qingyu spread out the Wood Domain he had obtained not long ago.

An emerald-green energy field filled the entire room, like a thin mist glowing with green light that enveloped everything around it. The energy field rippled in a steady rhythm, vaguely seeming capable of interfering with the workings of space.

Within the range of that "mist," Lin Qingyu felt as though his whole body had become more vigorous with life! If ordinary plants were within his Domain, he could even control their growth and movement.

Domains produced by controlling Cosmic Energy of different attributes were naturally different, and their effects differed as well.

"So this is a Domain! Incredible. This level of control and perception far surpasses those without a Domain."

Lin Qingyu repeatedly expanded and withdrew his Domain. From time to time, he used it to draw upon small amounts of Genetic Force and Mental Power, testing the Domain's effects.

Although he had learned of Domains through the "settings" of the novel Swallowed Star in his previous life, simply reading about them and possessing one himself were entirely different experiences. Knowledge gained from books always felt shallow in the end.

Through his constant experimentation, Lin Qingyu finally gained a certain degree of control over and understanding of the Domain's applications.

One of a Domain's functions was to expand "perception"!

For an ordinary person to experience any sensation, it had to pass through the process of "receptors—nerves—nerve center."

But once one possessed a Domain, things were different. Both the Genetic Force representing the body and the Mental Power representing the soul participated in forming the Domain. Thus, a person's Domain could serve as both receptors and a nerve center.

Moreover, Domains surpassed ordinary receptors in that, so long as something was within the Domain's range, the Domain permeated every crevice. There was no need to worry about being blocked by ordinary matter.

In a sense, this ability was the most important function of a Domain. As the Domain continued to develop, the boost to perception it provided would grow greater and greater, eventually reaching the point where one could perceive the fluctuations of the Cosmic Origin Law.

Not all experts were naturally compatible with a certain law like the Demon Killer Race or the Golden Horn Beast. Thus, this method of using a Domain to amplify perception was their best tool for comprehending laws.

Another function of a Domain was that it could serve as a conversion and power-storage device.

Mental Power and Genetic Force were energies of different natures. After obtaining a Domain, although one could not directly fuse the two forces, one could convert both into Domain Power at the same time.

Furthermore, this converted power could be stored within the Domain, allowing Domain experts to unleash strength far beyond that of ordinary people.

Of course, if one enhanced the Domain's conversion capacity without limit, it might even convert the body's vitality and the soul itself within the Sea of Consciousness, then pour them into the Domain.

That could indeed exchange everything for an unmatched burst of power, but the consequence would basically be death. This was the principle behind Domain experts burning everything in a desperate fight.

Finally, a Domain also possessed the function of control. It could spread through the entire space, influence space itself, and restrict an enemy's movements.

Therefore, experts with Domains far surpassed those without them in perception, explosive power, movement speed, and other aspects.

At the Planetary level, perhaps Planetary level high tier beings possessed several times more energy reserves than Domain experts. However, the explosive power of Domain experts could reach several times, or even over ten times, theirs. Thus, experts with Domains could naturally stand invincible at the Planetary level.

"Then where exactly does a Domain come from?" Lin Qingyu pondered.

Many experts who had mastered Domains had not fully uncovered the reason for their birth. They merely used Domains as tools.

After all, those with insufficient comprehension had no qualification to analyze the principles behind a Domain's formation, while those with high comprehension could come into contact with Origin Laws before even mastering high-level Domains.

Origin Laws provided a combat boost far beyond that of a mere Domain. Thus, to geniuses who grasped Origin Laws early on, a Domain was merely a transition.

But Lin Qingyu was different.

By his own estimate, his Gene Level was around fifty times that of an ordinary person.

Yet while this fiftyfold Gene Level was powerful, it was only somewhat stronger than the weakest Special Lifeforms. Moreover, as an Earthling, he had no powerful ancestors, so he naturally had not received an Innate Secret Technique bestowed by the Cosmic Origin.

Its sole advantage was that his Life Gene Level, far beyond that of ordinary people, gave him consciousness strength far exceeding experts of the same level. With his powerful consciousness combined with his Undying-level will, ordinary experts might need to reach the Domain eighth level or even Domain ninth level before they could sense the fluctuations of Origin Laws. He estimated that he would be able to directly sense those fluctuations at the Domain fourth level or Domain fifth level.

However, that was also the limit. Earthlings possessed nothing particularly special in their genes, much less any innate Law Secret Patterns. They could not be born compatible with a certain law like some special races, able to sense Cosmic Origin Law fluctuations at the Domain first level.

Even if Lin Qingyu wanted to seize Luo Feng's opportunity and Seize Body from the Golden Horn Beast, the Golden Horn Beast would not arrive on Earth for another six years, and it would take seven years before it hatched. He could not possibly do nothing during that time.

That was more than enough time for him to raise his Domain to the point of comprehending laws and step across the threshold of Origin Laws.

Besides, with his talent and comprehension, he was confident he could comprehend laws even without a Domain. Still, sharpening the axe did not delay the cutting of wood. Raising his Domain's strength would allow him to comprehend laws faster and better. Even if he changed bodies in the future, a high-level Domain would still greatly aid his law comprehension.

Who would ever complain that their law comprehension was progressing too quickly? The Domain was his own power to begin with. With such an excellent tool at hand, he naturally had to make proper use of it.