Chapter 297: Grand Plan for the Abyss Firmament
Law Domain Realm cultivators possessed Law Domains, whilst Demonic Beasts possessed Passive Domains.
A Law Domain Realm cultivator’s Law Domain was the physical manifestation of their understanding of their specific Principle or Principles.
Being a Law Domain Realm cultivator would mean being enlightened to the point where one understood the true nature and law of the universe. This law would be one’s understanding of their own Principle.
The number of laws of the universe one can understand and the number of Law Domains one can form in the Law Domain Realm depended on how many Principles one had comprehended and manipulated in the previous 2 cultivation realms.
As a result of understanding a law or multiple laws of the universe, one would be able to control the activation and deactivation of their single or multiple Law Domains.
However, the opposite applied to Rank 8 Demonic Beasts.
A Rank 8 Demonic Beast’s comprehension and Principle manipulation ability originated from their bloodline. Since they had not comprehended everything themselves, their control over their attributed Principle would be many times weaker than a real cultivator’s.
The same applied to their Domains.
Rank 8 Demonic Beasts could not control their Domains. It would always be active around them, changing the surrounding environment over time to their attributed Principle’s element. This was why their Domains were called Passive Domains and not Law Domains.
Of course, any ability used by a Rank 8 Demonic Beast in their Passive Domain would be enhanced by the Domain, making it more powerful than normal.
This was also where Tang Yin’s grand plan for the Abyss Firmament was based upon.
Instead of actively devouring colossal amounts of Principles, wasting precious amounts of time, effort, resources and money, Tang Yin wanted to enslave Rank 8 Demonic Beasts and make them change parts of the environment of the Abyss Firmament with their Passive Domains.
The only 2 Principles he could not obtain from a Rank 8 Demonic Beast’s Passive Domain were Space and Time Principles. He would instead need to manually Devour Space and Time Principles for the Abyss Firmament.
Tang Yin wanted to establish a comparable geographical arrangement in the Abyss Firmament, which was similar to the Bright Yang Continent. The key to doing this was Rank 8 Demonic Beasts and their Passive Domains.
Of course, he didn’t want to copy everything from the Bright Yang Continent.
So, every new area modified by a Rank 8 Demonic Beast’s Passive Domain would be called a Biome and the Rank 8 Demonic Beast responsible for the creation and management of that Biome would be called a Biome Lord. The Biome would also be named after the Biome Lord that transformed it.
An example of this would be the Rank 8 Frost Wyrm currently chasing after Tang Yin.
If he were to enslave the Frost Wyrm and send it into the Abyss Firmament, its Passive Domain would create an icy domain in some part of the world. He would name this icy domain the Frost Wyrm Biome and the Frost Wyrm would be the Frost Wyrm Biome’s Biome Lord.
With this strategy, Tang Yin could save time, money, and resources, while at the same time creating a more firm, robust and versatile environment inside the Abyss Firmament.
The only problem would be the integration of Space Principles to expand the Abyss Firmament, and the Time Principles to make the flow of time in the Abyss Firmament much faster than the outside world.
The first problem could be solved with a simple visit to the Chaotic Space Holy Land. However, Time Principle based Holy Lands were even rarer and scarcer than Space Principle based Holy Lands.
From what he had seen in the Neutral Cultivation Alliance’s Exchange Market, they did not possess a Time Principle based Holy Land.
But Time Principles were not required at the moment. Tang Yin would focus on them later, once the Abyss Firmament had been expanded by a considerable size by Space Principles.
Putting all of this aside for now, Tang Yin focused on the matter at hand. A Low-tier Rank 8 Frost Wyrm was rapidly closing in on him. He could not afford to get distracted, otherwise, he would not survive to carry out his grand plan for the Abyss Firmament.
Without hesitation, Tang Yin instantly activated the Abyss Emperor Transformation. Without it, he would have nearly no chance to escape alive without utilizing his trump cards.
Devouring Principles gathered from all over the surroundings as black particles, and surged into Tang Yin’s body, activating the Abyss Emperor Transformation.
The Abyss Emperor’s crown manifested atop his head, an abyssal cape with crimson embroidery took form on his back, and a piece of demonic, black armour took shape around his body.
"Interesting. You’re the first human I have ever seen to wield Devouring Principles. What would a human comprehending the Principle of Devouring taste like? Only one way to find out!" The Frost Wyrm shouted with delirious curiosity, its bloodlust growing.
Tang Yin utilized the Phantom Steps to turn into blurry afterimages and fled as fast as he could.
Unfortunately, no matter how fast he fled, the distance between the Frost Wyrm and himself did not widen. In fact, it was even slowly closing the distance.
’At this rate, It’ll catch up and eat me.’ Surprisingly, Tang Yin was very calm in this situation. He thought logically at lightning speed to come up with a solution.
A couple of moments later, numerous specks of white light spread out from Tang Yin’s body, covering several kilometres. Starlight Veil!
Along with the Starlight Veil, numerous Tang Yin’s appeared everywhere and fled in different directions.
"A mere trick, not enough to fool me." The Frost Wyrm said in disgust. It continued to chase after Tang Yin’s real body.
Tang Yin continued to flee, but his divine sense suddenly turned around and sent several tens of Soul Darts at the Frost Wyrm’s Beast Soul.
"Tch, that’s it? How dare a firefly try to attack the bright moon?" The Frost Wyrm’s derision became more pronounced. The Soul Darts had barely caused an ich to it.
Tang Yin had not expected his Soul Darts to harm the Frost Wyrm. He just wanted to test out whether the Frost Wyrm’s Beast Soul perhaps harboured some unknown weakness or injury he could exploit. Clearly, his wishful thinking had been foolish.
By now, the Frost Wyrm had closed half the distance between Tang Yin and itself. It would reach Tang Yin within a few moments. In fact, Tang Yin could even feel a cold breath on his back, the Frost Wyrm was just that close.
However, he was not worried about his life. In the worst-case scenario, he would use up Tian Huang’s one-time use attack to kill the Frost Wyrm. Besides, he had another trump card.
Suddenly, Tang Yin’s mind wandered to his mission, or rather a specific part of the mission. [Reach the Moonlit River Sect within a month of accepting the mission.]
’It shouldn’t linger around for too long, right?’ As Tang Yin thought this, he suddenly disappeared.
His body, soul, divine sense, everything had disappeared.
The Frost Wyrm’s playful expression suddenly vanished, replaced by seriousness and confusion.
"What the hell happened? He was right there. Did he use some space-type Artifact to teleport somewhere else?" The Frost Wyrm gnashed its teeth in anger. Due to its playful nature, it had lost a delicious meal.
The Frost Wyrm was unconvinced. Despite being unable to sense Tang Yin’s presence or anything related to him anywhere, it scoured the same area and even the surrounding Regions for him.
Tang Yin, who had suddenly disappeared had simply entered the Abyss Firmament. Even the Frost Wyrm would not be able to enter the Abyss Firmament without his permission.
It also wouldn’t be able to detect the Abyss Firmament, it was too weak for that. Even a Law Creation Realm cultivator would be unable to detect the Abyss Firmament. Perhaps only a Dao Step cultivator would be able to do so.
’Hopefully, it leaves within 2 weeks. Otherwise, I will completely miss the deadline to reach the Moonlit River Sect. My mission will be considered a failure and my free chance of failing a mission will be used up.’ Tang Yin thought with worry.
For the past few days, he had done nothing except watch the Frost Wyrm roam around the area, searching for any traces of him.
This was another ability of the Abyss Firmament. It allowed Tang Yin to survey the surroundings of the place he had entered the Abyss Firmament from. But he could only do so with his naked eye. Even the Heaven Piercing Gaze couldn’t stretch his vision any further. It was like watching out of a window.
There was still a week and a half left till Tang Yin had no hope of reaching the Moonlit River Sect in time.
In the meanwhile, he decided to check up on Xiao Fei.
As the owner of the Abyss Firmament, he had the authority to teleport anywhere within the world and know everything that happened in the Abyss Firmament.
He teleported before Xiao Fei’s 10,000 feet large body. It practically took up a third of the current space of the Abyss Firmament.
’She’s evolving again. It must be due to the huge amount of Demonic Beast Cores I gave her back in the Heavenly Bamboo Region.’ Tang Yin crouched down and caressed her feathers.
He did not disturb her, he let her evolve properly. He instead looked around the Abyss Firmament, making notes of the improvements and modifications that could be made.
