Ghost Domain

Biodata

Power Progression

Nature and Mechanics

• A Ghost Domain is a supernatural space associated with a source ghost. A ghost must be present within the domain, even when its location is concealed 351.
• Its effects can include trapping victims in repeating routes or cutting off every exit. Yang Jian repeatedly returns to the training base after leaving it, while the earlier Huanggang Village is described as a place that could not be escaped 9 445.
• A Ghost Domain can be inseparable from its source. Huanggang Village was described as part of the ghost itself, preventing Yang Jian's own domain from affecting it normally 445.
• People killed inside a domain may become Ghost Slaves: servants controlled unconditionally by the ghost responsible for the domain 9.
• Ghost Domains generally repel one another rather than merge. When domains collide, the weaker one may be suppressed outright or suffer interference that prevents normal use 351 596.
• Gold can block a Ghost Domain's influence regardless of the number of active layers 606.
• Yang Jian believes every domain retains a connection point to reality, usually its source ghost or a special object; locating that point can reveal how to enter or disrupt it 561.

Abilities and Effects

Spatial Confinement

A Ghost Domain can isolate an area from the outside world and alter the routes within it.

• Victims may be unable to leave even after walking far beyond the affected area 9 445.
• The Seven School domain displaced Yang Jian from a restroom back to the classroom entrance instead of allowing him to escape 9.
• Ghost Domains can alter positions without warning, separating targets from one another 149.

Concealment and Perception

Domains conceal ghosts, supernatural objects, and even entire layers of reality.

• Yang Jian's Ghost Eye can see throughout his own domain without blind spots 368.
• The source of an attacking ghost hand was invisible in the first two layers of Yang Jian's domain and only appeared in the third layer 407.
• A five-layer Ghost Domain can expose supernatural locations that do not exist in ordinary reality, such as an ancient street hidden beyond normal space 1094.

Suppression and Counter-Invasion

A sufficiently powerful domain can resist, invade, or suppress another domain.

• Yang Jian escaped the Knocking Ghost's domain by replacing its dim world with his own red domain 694.
• He proposed suppressing the Ghost Messenger's domain from outside rather than entering it, shrinking the hostile domain into a containable space 481.
• The Ghost Messenger operation instead divided its domain and produced an altered Huanggang Village, demonstrating that suppression can create dangerous unintended results 523.

Reality Alteration

At deeper levels, a Ghost Domain can affect more than perception.

• Yang Jian's fifth layer made a tree disappear and reshaped the surrounding terrain into a ravine 485.
• He can use the domain to bury a target's head deep underground, isolating it beyond ordinary rescue 494.
• A six-layer domain briefly immobilizes its surroundings, including active ghosts and supernatural effects 602.

Documented Manifestations

Limitations and Risks

• Entering a Ghost Domain is considered extremely dangerous; escape often depends on containing the source ghost or finding a specific countermeasure 59.
• A stronger hostile domain can suppress even Yang Jian's first layer to only a few centimeters around his body 443.
• Higher layers place escalating strain on the Ghost Eye and can provoke ghost resurgence 596 1122.
• Fifth-layer reality alteration can be temporary, with vanished people, ghosts, or structures eventually returning 596.
• Large-scale or prolonged use reduces the number of layers Yang Jian can maintain; while covering half a city, he must lower his domain from four layers to three 591.