Domain Fifth Level

Inside the Lin Family villa's training room.

Lin Qingyu had been sitting motionless in the training room for a full three months.

Fortunately, he had already reached the Planetary level. He could rely on Origin Force to survive without food or water.

Of course, before he began sitting there, he had Bata disguise itself as him and reassure his parents every day. Otherwise, given Zheng Xinyi and Lin Meng's temperaments, they would have barged in long ago.

Over those three months, Mental Force and Origin Force fluctuations continuously emanated from Lin Qingyu's body. At times, they overlapped; at others, they canceled each other out.

Finally, after three months of adjustment, the two fluctuations instantly resonated under the harmonization of a certain force!

An emerald-green Domain spread outward, enveloping the entire training room.

Within the training room, plant seeds, spores, and pollen that had drifted in by chance seemed to defy the normal laws of plant growth, rapidly transforming from seeds into fully grown plants.

"So that's how it is! I no longer have any doubts about how to advance along the path of the Domain." Lin Qingyu rose to his feet, and a tremor of Origin Force shook the dust accumulated on his body over the past three months away.

"Tsk, I'm still a little dirty. I need to take a bath quickly." Lin Qingyu walked out of the training room as he spoke.

In the bathhouse of Lin Qingyu's home.

"Ah, this feels so good. Too bad a Planetary level expert's Origin Force isn't strong enough. Otherwise, how could I possibly end up covered in dust like this?" After washing up, Lin Qingyu lay comfortably in the bath pool, soaking.

"Lin Qingyu, has your Domain improved again?" A translucent projection of chibi Bata suddenly appeared on Lin Qingyu's shoulder.

"Mm, it's probably at the fifth level now," Lin Qingyu said.

"Fi... fifth level? Domain Fifth Level?" Bata's voice immediately rose several octaves. "What kind of Monster are you?! It's only been a little over nine months since you started cultivating! Domain Fifth Level, you... I don't even know how to describe you anymore. Even the Qianwu Universe Country might not have a genius as talented as you."

"However, my greatest gain isn't Domain Fifth Level. It's that I've gained an understanding of the essence of the Domain," Lin Qingyu said.

"Damn, you're incredible," Bata sighed.

Over these three months, Lin Qingyu had continuously analyzed Origin Force and Mental Force on a microscopic level, repeatedly experiencing the process through which a Domain formed.

He had finally figured out what a Domain truly was and how it came into being.

The essence of a Domain was a special kind of "field."

Just as electrons had electric fields, magnets had magnetic fields, and objects with mass had gravitational fields.

In the Swallowed Star universe, Origin Force and Mental Force also had Origin Force Fields and Mental Force Fields.

Mental Force and Origin Force, even the Cosmic Origin Energy before it was transformed into Mental Force and Origin Force, were essentially special forms of "matter." This could be seen from the fact that highly condensed Cosmic Origin Energy could become Cosmic Crystals.

At the same time, these two forms of matter, Origin Force and Mental Force, also possessed rather obvious "Wave–Particle Duality."

When Cosmic Origin Energy was absorbed and stored in the human body, it displayed particle properties. The Mental Force and Origin Force transformed from Origin Energy were like ordinary matter, able to gather together and assume concrete shapes and forms.

This was why, after an Apprentice level cultivator broke through to the Planetary level, the previously ethereal Origin Force and Mental Force within their body gathered into the form of planets. At its core, this was a manifestation of the particle nature of Cosmic Origin Energy.

At the same time, Mental Force and Origin Force could manipulate objects from afar, counter gravitational fields, and provide their users with immense power because they themselves could transform into a certain kind of "field." Like electric and magnetic fields, this field could affect matter within its range.

So-called fluctuations were the regular vibrations of a certain "field"—just as electromagnetic waves were essentially fluctuations formed by electric and magnetic fields generating one another through space.

However, although both were transformed from Cosmic Origin Energy, Mental Force and Origin Force possessed different properties, so the Force Fields they generated were naturally different as well.

Under normal circumstances, Mental Force Fields and Origin Force Fields could not overlap. Yet the essence of a powerful Cultivator's training was to change those so-called "normal circumstances."

When a Cultivator's control over their own energy reached a certain level and they found that sliver of opportunity, they could overlap or even merge their Origin Force Field and Mental Force Field. The new Force Field produced by this fusion was the so-called Domain.

This special field known as a Domain also possessed many characteristics that Mental Force Fields and Origin Force Fields lacked, such as interfering with space and storing energy.

During these three months of analysis and deduction, Lin Qingyu had finally determined what that sliver of opportunity was that allowed ordinary experts to merge Mental Force Fields and Origin Force Fields.

To merge a Mental Force Field and an Origin Force Field, the crucial point was to control Cosmic Origin Energy with the same attribute as one's own Mental Force or Origin Force.

Every person's physique was different, so the Cosmic Origin Energy they absorbed possessed different properties as well.

The attributes retained when Cosmic Energy transformed into Origin Force were relatively strong, while those retained when it transformed into Mental Force were relatively weak. Yet whether strong or weak, some attribute always remained.

These remaining portions carrying a certain attribute were the common ground between Origin Force and Mental Force, as well as the foundation for resonance between the Force Fields produced by the two powers.

Once one's control over energy of their own attribute reached a certain degree, one could adjust the fluctuations of the Origin Force Field and Mental Force Field, bringing them close to Cosmic Origin Energy of a certain attribute, and finally produce resonance to merge them into a Domain.

Once a Domain formed, it naturally carried an attribute, because the process of creating a Domain was the process of bringing the fluctuations of the Origin Force Field and Mental Force Field closer to the energy fluctuations of a certain attribute.

After discovering this pattern, Lin Qingyu thought back carefully and realized that in the Original work, when Luo Feng was at the Universe Level, he had also relied on the Innate Secret Pattern on the Golden Horn Beast that contained the mysteries of the Origin Law of Gold to make Mental Force and Origin Force resonate and form a Domain.

At the same time, Lin Qingyu understood why one could sense Origin Laws once their Domain became powerful enough.

Within the Original Universe, the fluctuations of Origin Laws actually enveloped the entire Original Universe. The reason Cosmic Energy was divided into different attributes was also because of the fluctuations of Origin Laws. However, the fluctuations of the Cosmic Origin Law were not obvious and were difficult for ordinary people to perceive.

The continuous improvement of a Domain was the process of continually bringing its fluctuations closer to the fluctuations of Cosmic Energy with a certain attribute.

When a Domain became powerful enough, its fluctuations would naturally become similar to those of Origin Energy with a certain attribute. The attributes of Origin Energy, in turn, emerged under the influence of the corresponding Origin Law fluctuations.

In fact, the fluctuations produced by a high-level Domain possessed a certain degree of compatibility with the fluctuations of Origin Laws.

With the aid of a Domain, one could naturally receive and amplify the fluctuations of Origin Laws.

Just like now, with his powerful will and fifth-level Domain, Lin Qingyu could already vaguely sense the fluctuations of Origin Laws!

"Still, it's no wonder that in the Original work, the Domain Lord stage was basically just a filler," Lin Qingyu thought.

For ordinary people, a high-level Domain was their only means of sensing the fluctuations of Origin Laws.

However, Luo Feng and those he encountered in the Original work were all geniuses. Luo Feng's Golden Horn Beast was favored by the Origin Law of Gold, while the Demon Killer Race was favored by the Space Origin Law. Neither needed a powerful Domain to sense Origin Laws. Thus, the Domain Lord stage naturally became nothing more than a pure transition.