With a thought, a black and red vortex tore through the space beside Bo Saixi, forming an entrance about a person's height.
"Domain?"
"Indeed." Tang Sui smiled and gestured, "For certain reasons, my domain has undergone mutated evolution. It's now more like a combination of a storage space and a domain, capable of storing both living and inanimate objects, while also possessing absolute concealment."
"The content I wish to convey to you next is rather important, so I want to proceed with caution. Senior, please?"
At first, she hadn't noticed, but now she realized that she had always possessed the complete version of the domain, making its mastery extremely difficult.
Currently, most domain possessors on the Douluo Continent merely transform their domains into a buff that is applied to different individuals or soul beasts, making them semi-finished products in essence.
A true domain, like that of the Angel God and herself, is one that transforms the illusory into the real while preserving the domain's inherent amplification effects. This is what a true domain is.
However, to elevate a domain to such a level requires both immense strength and fortunate encounters. It is exceedingly difficult for anyone on the Douluo Continent to fully materialize a domain, break through the illusionary-real boundary of space, and bring it into the real world while retaining the original domain effects.
This is unless one's strength reaches the demigod or god realm, like the Angel God, Sea God, Asura God, or even the Rakshasa God—the four known deities.
Her current ability to summon and control her domain at will is also due to racial advantages, allowing her to master the method of transforming the illusory into the real ahead of her peers. However, the effect is vastly different from the power displayed when the Angel God unleashed the Angel Domain that time.
Bo Saixi looked at the domain entrance that had opened to her right, then gazed deeply at Tang Sui before floating inside.
Darkness, abyssal.
This was Bo Saixi's first direct impression upon entering the Twin-Life Domain.
Crimson light spilled from above, and a red moon hung high in the sky. If she hadn't known it was the interior of a domain, Bo Saixi would have almost believed it was the real moon.
She looked deeply at the surging black mist below, which covered the domain like a tide. They were like predators lurking in the darkness, concealing their sharpness and waiting for their moment, instilling a chilling sense of danger in Bo Saixi.
Rashly entering a soul master's domain was a dangerous undertaking.
This was because if the soul master harbored ill intentions, even a powerful Limit Douluo like herself would be suppressed by the domain.
However, apart from a faint, chilling sensation, Bo Saixi circulated her soul power and found everything to be normal, with no adverse effects.
Her entire body emanated a faint golden halo, making her appear like a mass of golden clouds in the pitch-black domain. She was extremely conspicuous.
Like the sun in the night, Tang Sui's gaze was involuntarily drawn to Bo Saixi the moment she entered the domain.
"Senior," Tang Sui called out, and Bo Saixi's deep gaze turned towards her.
"Speak, what do you wish to discuss with me?"
Tang Sui smiled and, under Bo Saixi's scrutiny, waved her hand. The surrounding black tide began to surge, as if brewing something.
Bo Saixi's brows furrowed, a hint of vigilance appearing in her eyes. But soon, her vigilance turned to shock and disbelief when she saw, pushed out by two black tentacles from the black tide, a man encased in a black and red barrier. Her pupils constricted, and she almost forgot her current surroundings, rushing forward.
"Tang Chen!"
"Indeed," Tang Sui raised her hand, and the black tendril slowly retracted into the black tide. The barrier encasing Tang Chen floated towards Tang Sui.
Tang Chen's once handsome face became even clearer, deeply etched into Bo Saixi's eyes.
"What... what happened to him?"
Bo Saixi's voice trembled imperceptibly.
Even though she could still sense Tang Chen's life force, but...
"This is a long story..." Tang Sui lowered her gaze and, without hesitation, gently pushed Tang Chen towards Bo Saixi.
Bo Saixi stared intently at the black-haired man approaching her, her lips trembling slightly as she silently uttered an intimate nickname.
Tang Sui didn't mind and proceeded to tell Bo Saixi about Tang Chen, the City of Slaughter, and the bat wings from the beginning.
Of course, regarding Tang Chen's consciousness being polluted by the increasingly profound blood qi of the City of Slaughter and being forced into a coma, allowing the bat wings to exploit a loophole, Tang Sui beautified it. She framed it as being jointly schemed against by the Rakshasa God. Feeling a sliver of victim empathy for the gradually perishing Tang Chen, the bat wings, unable to bear it, hesitated and hid Tang Chen's soul consciousness, taking over control of the body but continuously nurturing the consciousness within the soul.
Although the truth was that the bat wings had taken advantage of his weakness, with a slight sympathy stemming from their shared victimhood, they confined his consciousness deep within his soul, suppressing him with their own power to keep him perpetually asleep. Over time, Tang Chen inexplicably fell into a deep slumber.
The true reason for his unconsciousness... was that the bat wings were too powerful, and Tang Chen's human body could not withstand the bat wings' inherent strength. Coupled with his soul consciousness being continuously suppressed, he naturally fell into a deep sleep. This was also why Tang Sui had placed Tang Chen's body beside the core energy source beneath the City of Slaughter to recuperate.
Of course, Tang Sui would never reveal this. She simply shifted the blame to the Rakshasa God, who had caused this series of accidents.
Her extended seclusion was not entirely due to digesting energy. A larger reason was that she had intended to repay Bo Saixi's favor of acting as her guardian by quietly returning to the City of Slaughter and retrieving Tang Chen, who was placed beside the underground core.
Who knew that she had just arrived when Bo Saixi was preparing to increase the difficulty of her brother and the others' sixth trial. So, she went along with it.
And the biggest reason for this increased difficulty... Tang Sui knew it was because Bo Saixi had been unable to find Tang Chen for these past few hundred years. However, as the Sea God's Grand Priest, one of the trials for the Sea God's successor required the Grand Priest's own life as a price to be crowned with godhood.
Her brother's trial progress was rapid, but she hadn't found Tang Chen yet. Therefore, this was one of her few selfish acts: intending to make herself the examiner for her brother and their group's sixth trial.
This way, if her brother and the others couldn't defeat Bo Saixi, their sixth trial would naturally be stuck. However, this could only delay the process by at most a year.
If Bo Saixi truly harbored murderous intent and waited for several more years, the fate of her brother and the others... would be uncertain.
By telling the truth, she could repay a favor and gain an ally.
It was a win-win situation where everyone would be happy.
More than ten minutes later, after hearing the full story, Bo Saixi's gaze shifted for several moments. Even her usually benevolent eyes now held a chilling killing intent.
Tang Sui observed this and said thoughtfully, "Although the City of Slaughter is guarded by Uncle Snake, ensuring my great-grandfather's safety, I believe that since I know about the past between you and great-grandfather, it would be better to let great-grandfather recover by your side. I'm sure great-grandfather would also wish to see you the first moment he awakens."
—Author's Notes—
I've been out all day and haven't returned home yet. The second update will likely be after midnight, so little cuties can read it together tomorrow.