48: Chapter 48 Forbidden Domain: The Embryonic Formation of a Divine Kingdom
"Children of our Lord!!"
"The Black Snake Society Base City has suffered disaster and calamity."
"Without the Lord's protection, countless pitiful lost souls have sunk into depravity..."
"To prevent the tragedy from spreading, to allow the lost ones to see the light once more..."
"By the Lord's will! We shall expand outward!!"
His voice rolled out like thunder.
"In this hopeless apocalypse, only by believing in our Lord, in the great [Taboo of Thunder], can one obtain eternal protection!"
"Therefore... we must spread the Lord's glory across the entire Qingchuan Prefecture!!"
"No! Qingchuan Prefecture is not enough!"
"We must let the thunder eye... look down upon the entire world!!"
As Dong Zhen's voice spread, the already fanatical Believers became even more frenzied.
"Our Lord is eternal!"
"The thunder is eternal!"
"Immortal! Eternally immortal!!"
The many Believers shouted, their faces wearing exaggerated smiles, their mouths stretched so wide they nearly reached their ears. Every single one of them looked... eerie and horrifying!
Seeing this, Dong Zhen was very satisfied.
In his plan, annexing other Base Cities and consolidating Qingchuan Prefecture was only the first step.
In this new era of Terror Resurgence, he intended to establish a new order, a new nation step by step... Under the guidance of the [Taboo of Thunder], he would rule over all living beings, suppress countless ghosts, and wield supreme authority!!
Just thinking this far made his eyes burn even hotter... Rebirth City.
Inside the incense-filled, dim and solemn main hall of the Buddhist temple.
After annexing the Black Snake Society Base City, Lin Chuan did not immediately move against the other three Ghost Controller forces in Qingchuan Prefecture.
Because he was busy with something even more important: constructing a [Taboo Domain Field]!!
Ever since advancing to s-class fourth tier, a brand new piece of information had popped up on the panel deep within his consciousness:
[Great Master, you have taken another step closer to the supreme status!!]
[Your sequence has risen from 139 to 135!!]
[Now, as an s-class fourth tier taboo, a being of sequence 135! You can designate a space as an eternal anchor point.]
[With this anchor point as the center, construct and perfect your own unique system of rules.]
[Within this scope, lies... the Taboo Domain Field!]
The way the panel's information addressed Lin Chuan had clearly changed again!
In the beginning, the panel always displayed 'cold' information.
But now, Lin Chuan could clearly feel that its form of address towards him had become increasingly respectful, even somewhat obsequious.
The [Taboo Domain Field] mentioned by the panel was different from a Ghost Domain, and also different from a Taboo Domain.
Ghost Domains and Taboo Domains are manifestations of rule overflow; this overflow is not stable.
But a [Taboo Domain Field] is a completely independent, constant, and absolutely controlled Small World of the 'Domain Lord'!
Within this Domain Field, the strength of the rules wielded by the Domain Lord will be greatly enhanced.
It can even use the power of the Domain Field to suppress existences beyond its own Terror Level!
The Domain Field can continuously expand and become increasingly perfected!!
When the Domain Field is sufficiently perfected, the Domain Lord can, with a single thought, create everything or destroy everything within it... becoming an existence comparable to a World-Creating Dominator!!
"A Domain Field... is the embryo of a divine kingdom."
Lin Chuan sorted through the information given by the panel, deep in thought.
Immediately after, he wasted no more time. The Chaos black light behind him erupted violently, transforming into countless black threads that spread out in all directions.
These threads merged with the earth, merged with the sky, merged with every inch of the air.
"By my rules, I move all directions!"
"Construct... [Rebirth Domain]!!"
A grand Buddhist chant, evolved from Lin Chuan's rules, resounded.
Boom!!!
The entire land of Qinglong Prefecture trembled slightly.
In the sky, the clouds dissipated, day and night reversed!
Replacing them, a strange scene unfolded.
Countless illusory lotuses bloomed in the air. Vaguely, a massive, sacred, yet infinitely eerie shadow of a Buddha appeared, suspended high in the heavens.
The Buddha shadow flickered in and out of visibility, gazing down upon the earth as if watching every move of every living being.
Beneath the shroud of this light and shadow.
Many Believers felt an unprecedented sense of peace and tranquility.
But at the same time, an indescribable fear sprouted within their hearts!!
That Buddha shadow was both benevolent and ferocious!
It radiated sacred solemnity, yet also emanated eeriness and inauspiciousness.
An indescribable sense of contradiction flowed from its being.
With 'Rebirth City' as its anchor point, the Buddha shadow covered half of Qinglong Prefecture's jurisdiction. Under it... a range of hundreds of miles was transformed into Lin Chuan's Taboo Domain Field!!
However, just as Lin Chuan was fully focused on constructing the Domain Field's rules.
Hundreds of miles north of Rebirth City.
A Void Realm fissure spanning the sky suddenly experienced a subtle, almost imperceptible disturbance.
Gurgle... gurgle... A viscous sound came from deep within the fissure.
Immediately after.
A thick tentacle covered in suckers silently extended from the fissure.
Like a tree root seeking nourishment, it slowly descended, eventually plunging deep into the desolate earth below.
Sizzle... As the tentacle took root.
The surrounding land seemed to come alive, beginning to wriggle violently.
Soil churned, rocks cracked.
On that writhing land, numerous dense, colorful... eyeballs slowly opened!
Those eyeballs rolled around, greedily observing the entire world.
The opening of each eyeball was accompanied by the distortion and mutation of the surrounding space.
The originally desolate surroundings instantly transformed into a colorful, yet death-filled 'Forest of Eyeballs'.
Countless tentacles waved within this "forest", emitting chaotic, disordered rule fluctuations.
As those "eyeballs" continuously expanded.
Finally, they invaded Lin Chuan's Taboo Domain Field.
Boom!!!
Rules began to collide.
In an instant, the heavens cracked and the earth split.
The mountains and lands of the entire Qinglong Prefecture trembled violently, as if an ancient behemoth was turning over underground.
In the sky, the originally serene Buddha light was torn open at one corner, revealing a patch of dazzlingly colorful, yet dizzyingly eerie hues.
"Ah! My eyes!!"
"So many eyes... They're looking at me..."
The Ghost Controller Believers patrolling the border of Lin Chuan's Taboo Domain Field were the first to be affected.
Many let out screams, as wart-like growths the size of fingernails began to sprout on their bodies.
Those growths rapidly split open, turning into rolling eyeballs!
"Damn it! What is this thing?!"
Xiao Hong and Bai Ling, responsible for patrolling this area, changed expressions drastically.
They tried to use their rule power to suppress these mutations.
But the moment they made contact.
That chaotic will surged back along their rules, causing backlash.
"Pfft!!"
Although they weren't immediately assimilated, both of them spat out a mouthful of blood under the erosion of the rule power.