Other Domain
Shrouding the Heavens: Rise of a Mortal PhysiqueContents
- 1Biodata
- 2Geography
- 2.1Border Wastelands
- 2.2Central Region
- 2.3World Tree
- 3Cultivation Environment
- 3.1Complete Great Dao
- 3.2Undying Experts
- 4Clans and Notable Inhabitants
- 4.1Clan Structure
- 4.2Notable Experts
- 5Artifacts and Dark Power
- 5.1Origin Ancient Artifact
- 5.2Immortal Refining Pot
- 6Border Barriers
- 7History
- 7.1Immortal Ancient War
- 7.2Border Wasteland Conflict
- 7.3Lu Chen and Shi Hao’s Infiltration
- 7.4Immortal King Assaults
Contents
- 1Biodata
- 2Geography
- 2.1Border Wastelands
- 2.2Central Region
- 2.3World Tree
- 3Cultivation Environment
- 3.1Complete Great Dao
- 3.2Undying Experts
- 4Clans and Notable Inhabitants
- 4.1Clan Structure
- 4.2Notable Experts
- 5Artifacts and Dark Power
- 5.1Origin Ancient Artifact
- 5.2Immortal Refining Pot
- 6Border Barriers
- 7History
- 7.1Immortal Ancient War
- 7.2Border Wasteland Conflict
- 7.3Lu Chen and Shi Hao’s Infiltration
- 7.4Immortal King Assaults
Biodata
| Feature | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Other Domain |
| Original Name | 异域 |
| Type | Great world composed of multiple Great Universes 485 |
| Extent | Many times larger than the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands 484 |
| Cultivation Environment | Complete Great Dao laws, supporting advancement into the Immortal Dao Domain 484 485 |
| Inhabitants | Royal Clans, Imperial Clans, and numerous races with humanoid, ancient-beast, and fierce-bird forms 476 480 484 |
| Strongest Known Expert | Kun Di, master of the Immortal Refining Pot 499 |
| Principal Adversary | Nine Heavens and Ten Lands 476 483 |
Geography
Border Wastelands
- Shared frontier: The border with the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands stretches across hundreds of millions of li 477.
- Desert approach: Beyond the desert lie dense forests with mountain-sized trees, ancient mountain regions, and an area shrouded in chaos qi 484.
- Troop transport: An enormous Teleportation Array stands on a vast border plain, serving as a deployment point for armies 484.
- Unguarded frontier: During Lu Chen and Shi Hao’s infiltration, the Other Domain maintained no border defenses. Its inhabitants did not fear an invasion from the Nine Heavens 484.
- Ritual altar: A towering altar at the desert’s end serves as a gathering place for the Other Domain’s Immortal Kings 482.
Central Region
- Clan heartlands: The central region contains the flourishing territories inhabited by the great Royal Clans 484.
- Ancient cosmic laws: Great Dao laws manifest visibly in the heavens; their influence is stronger and more majestic than in the borderlands 484.
- Spiritual resources: Spiritual energy is exceptionally dense, rivers carry spiritual liquid, and rare, aged medicinal herbs grow throughout the mountains 484.
World Tree
- Scale: The World Tree extends throughout the great universe; its roots, branches, and leaves can support stars 484.
- Visibility: Its image appears across the realm’s heavens, making it visible to every inhabitant 484.
- Essence: The tree is suffused with rich heaven-and-earth essence qi 484.
Cultivation Environment
Complete Great Dao
- Immortal advancement: Unlike the damaged Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, the Other Domain provides complete laws suitable for becoming a True Immortal without relying solely on the Red Dust Immortal path 484.
- Foundation repair: Its laws temper physical bodies and divine souls, consolidate existing Dao Fruits, and fill deficiencies inherited from cultivation in an incomplete world 484.
- Deeper transformation: Entering the central region subjects cultivators to another round of refinement, bringing their bodies and primordial spirits closer to perfection 484.
- Numerical advantage: The Other Domain’s experts far outnumber those of the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands at every cultivation level 476.
Undying Experts
- Rank: The Other Domain’s undying experts are beings at the True Immortal level 476 485 486.
- Habits: They ordinarily cultivate within their own exceptional pure lands and rarely venture outside 485.
- Detection of outsiders: After Lu Chen’s immortal tribulation ended, an undying expert identified him through the lingering Great Dao laws of the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands within him 485.
- Immortal Kings: Their total number is unknown after the accumulation of countless eras. The realm includes titans stronger than Anlan and Yutuo 493.
Clans and Notable Inhabitants
Clan Structure
- Royal Clans: Gather in the Other Domain’s central heartlands 484.
- Imperial Clans: Each descends from an Immortal King. Their bloodlines give their members exceptional strength compared with ordinary cultivators of the same realm 479 480.
- Seclusion: Imperial Clan members are few and may remain in their ancestral lands for hundreds of thousands of years. Other races seek their assistance against otherwise unbeatable enemies 480.
Notable Experts
| Expert | Position or distinction | Documented role |
|---|---|---|
| Kun Di | Strongest known expert; master of the Immortal Refining Pot | Awakened to confront Lu Chen, then called on the other kings when Lu Chen began gaining the advantage 499 |
| Anlan | Ancient ancestor at the pinnacle of the Immortal King level | Led the assault through the Heavenly Abyss and fought Lu Chen; his Dao Fruit was later used to strengthen Lu Chen’s pagoda 487 488 490 495 |
| Yutuo | Immortal King | Refused to enter the Heavenly Abyss to rescue Anlan because of the price imposed by its laws 490 491 |
| Wushang | Titan among Immortal Kings; possesses relative immunity to arts | Attacked the Heavenly Abyss, attempted to interrupt Lu Chen’s breakthrough, and was subsequently sealed in Lu Chen’s pagoda 493 494 497 |
| Red King | Immortal King ancestor of an Imperial Clan | His descendant commanded the invading army and used an Ancestor Art manifesting the Red King’s Furnace 479 480 |
| Chi Pu | Supreme wielding the Heavenly Halberd | Killed by Lu Chen during the destruction of the invading army 480 |
Artifacts and Dark Power
Origin Ancient Artifact
- Nature: A mysterious chest capable of creating Immortal Kings; it contains dark power associated with the Other Domain’s kings 494 497.
- Sealed contents: Even the realm’s Immortal Kings do not know what lies inside 494.
- Supposed key: An ancient legend places a key in the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, possibly in Sin Province of the Three Thousand Dao Provinces 494.
- Actual requirement: Lu Chen knows that opening it requires Quasi-Immortal Emperor-level combat power, not a physical key 494.
- Dark Gate: Wushang uses dark power to create a passage into the Nine Heavens, although that world’s Great Dao prevents him from crossing completely 497.
Immortal Refining Pot
- Owner: Kun Di, an ancient expert who, according to legend, slept within the pot’s inner world 499.
- Standing: One of the Other Domain’s strongest weapons 499.
- Ancient battlefield projection: Lu Chen first encountered a projection of it consuming the blood essence of corpses in the Immortal Ancient battlefield trial; he later faced the actual artifact during his invasion 470 499.
Border Barriers
| Barrier or battlefield | Function |
|---|---|
| Heavenly Abyss | Refined by Immortal Domain kings from an incomplete Great World and placed over the junction of the two realms. Its laws prevent Other Domain beings of Immortal rank and above from crossing safely 476 477. |
| Border Wasteland Imperial City | Built from the remnant cores of countless stars; blocks armies below Immortal rank 477. |
| Blood Battlefield / Two-World Battlefield | Battleground beyond the pass. Mingled laws from both worlds and the deaths of Immortal Dao experts make the local environment more complete, helping long-serving combatants repair their foundations 476. |
- Breach attempts: Other Domain forces construct large formations to open the Heavenly Abyss for their immortals 476.
- Limits of immunity: Even Wushang’s resistance to arts does not fully free him from the abyss’s suppression 494.
- Final sealing: The last Borderland King sacrifices his life and detonates the Heavenly Abyss, causing its laws to seal the passage between the domains 494.
History
Immortal Ancient War
At the end of the Immortal Ancient Era, the Other Domain invaded and shattered its opposing great world into the nineteen fragment continents later known as the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands. Nearly all experts at the Immortal Dao level and above fell, and more than ninety percent of the world’s inhabitants were wiped out 483.
Immortal Kings who resisted the invasion eventually drove the enemy out, but prolonged fighting exposed them to the Other Domain’s ominous power. Barred from returning to the Immortal Domain, they established forbidden zones and ceased intervening in subsequent wars 476.
Willow God also fought her way through the Other Domain and survived. Its kings later recalled that incursion while trying to prevent Lu Chen from escaping their realm 475 499.
Border Wasteland Conflict
The Other Domain traditionally dominated the Two-World Battlefield. Its pursuit of Shi Hao intensified after he retrieved the Rotten Wooden Box, and its army demanded that the Imperial Pass surrender both him and the box 477 479.
Jin Tai Jun offered Shi Hao in exchange for five hundred years of peace. Lu Chen intervened and sent his avatar against the army, killing its Imperial Clan commander and the Supremes supporting him. Of an army numbering in the millions, only scattered remnants escaped 478 480 481.
The Burial King’s summons drew the Other Domain’s Immortal Kings into the Burial Grounds, temporarily ending the crisis. Lu Chen then exposed Jin Tai Jun’s secret communications with the enemy, including plans for the Jin Family to join the Other Domain after the pass fell 482 483.
Lu Chen and Shi Hao’s Infiltration
During the withdrawal, Lu Chen and Shi Hao secretly crossed the empty borderlands to cultivate under complete laws. They avoided the troop Teleportation Array, whose destination might expose them, and traveled to the central region using Lu Chen’s avatar’s power. Lu Chen imparted the complete Indestructible Scripture and survival measures to Shi Hao before they separated 484.
Lu Chen’s avatar became a True Immortal in a remote universe. The tribulation attracted undying experts, who discovered his origins and pursued him. At the border, he killed four of five pursuers before an Immortal King’s attack forced him to escape toward the Nine Heavens 485 486.
Immortal King Assaults
Anlan subsequently advanced through the Heavenly Abyss with support from other kings. Lu Chen overwhelmed him, while Yutuo declined to enter the abyss to help. Wushang’s later assault also failed, and the surviving kings withdrew after the last Borderland King sealed the passage 487 488 490 491 493 494.
After attaining the Immortal King Realm, Lu Chen repelled Wushang’s attempt to interrupt his breakthrough and invaded the Other Domain. He shattered Wushang’s body, sealed his head and primordial spirit, and fought an increasing number of Immortal Kings across the realm 497 498 499.
Kun Di joined the battle with the Immortal Refining Pot, then summoned the other kings when his duel turned against him. Unable to withstand their combined assault indefinitely, Lu Chen tore open a spacetime passage and used the force of their attacks to escape the Other Domain 499 500.