A domain was founded on a cultivator's soul and magical power rising above heaven and earth, strong enough to warp and alter the laws governing them. The reach of those alterations defined the domain's bounds.
But that was only the foundation. For Void Step cultivators of different traditions and sects, no two domains were alike; each had its own peculiarities.
Su Che's Three Poisons Domain was built upon Ruomu, the Life-and-Death Spiritual Root. In essence, it belonged to the Black Sun Ghost King, Su Che's Outer Dao incarnation.
In Su Che's hands, the Three Poisons Domain was raw material for all manner of techniques.
Whether he shaped it into sword intent or wove it into a net... whatever form it took, Su Che treated it as "raw material" for constructing divine abilities.
This approach sprang from Su Che's Mystic Gate foundations.
Even a general store had its main line of business.
For Nongyue, things were different.
Heavenly Demons changed in uncanny ways, and the path taken by the Blackblood Esoteric Church was ancient even by the Devil Sect's standards.
The domain Nongyue unfolded—or rather, her Demonic Domain—was often a transformation of both body and spirit.
Once her Demonic Domain unfolded, Nongyue lost her physical form and soul, transforming instead into an inscrutable Demonic Domain.
From one perspective, that Demonic Domain was Nongyue's truest form of life. The human-shaped Devil Sect disciple was merely its outward appearance.
The Devil Sect and Buddhist School opposed each other, yet on the matter of "no self, no person, no sentient being, no life span," the two paths converged.
For the Devil Sect, it was a Demonic Domain, a demonic kingdom that corrupted all beings into Outer Dao Demon Retainers.
For the Buddhist School, it was a Buddha Realm held in the palm, converting all