Chapter 249: Fighting True Domain Masters
Chapter 249: Fighting True Domain Masters
The three grey-robed Domain Master Realm experts hovered in the night sky, their auras completely sealing off the surrounding space.
They looked down at Rhain, Seris, and Liana with eyes that were utterly cold and detached.
"We must hurry up and finish the task before anyone else arrives," the Domain Master standing on the left stated coldly.
"And what should we do with the two girls?" the one on the right asked, his gaze sweeping over Seris and Liana as if appraising livestock.
The man in the center, clearly the leader of the trio, spoke indifferently. "Master only ordered us to kill the boy. He gave no commands regarding the others. However... we all know Master harbored a interest in the silver-haired one. We will just take her away with us. The other one is irrelevant."
The moment those words left their mouths, they didn’t even have the chance to make their first move.
Because Rhain had already moved.
He knew perfectly well that facing three Domain Masters was a death sentence.
There was no room for hesitation, no room for testing the waters.
He had to strike with everything he possessed in a single, devastating blow.
BOOM—!!!
An explosion of blood-red fire erupted from Rhain’s body.
The Red Tribulations Heavenly Flame blazed to its limit, merging with the howling tempest of the Heaven-Grade Boundless Sky Wind.
His dark grey eyes ignited with a piercing, brilliant golden light as the Eyes of Truth.
At the exact same time, Rhain unsealed his cultivation, unleashing the full power of the peak of the Spirit Manifestation Realm.
Swoosh!
Rhain shot upward like a blood-red meteor tearing through the night sky, closing the hundred-foot gap in less than a heartbeat.
His golden eyes locked onto the figure in the center.
Void Fist. Second Form.
The dark void within his dantian spun fiercely, compressing his immense essence and the heat of the Heavenly Flame into a single punch aimed directly at the center Domain Master’s chest.
Rhain punched with full force.
The compressed dark essence bypassed the physical distance entirely, tearing through the fabric of space itself to detonate directly inside the Domain Master’s body.
It was, without a doubt, the single strongest attack of his entire life.
An attack that would have instantly annihilated a peak Core Formation expert.
But the grey-robed man in the center simply looked at the incoming fiery meteor with a chilling gaze.
He simply raised his right hand and flicked two fingers forward.
BANG!!!
Rhain’s ultimate strike, the culmination of his Heavenly Flame, his Heaven-Grade wind force, his Eyes of Truth, and every drop of essence he possessedwas crushed like a soap bubble struck by a hammer.
The spatially-transmitted essence dispersed into nothingness before it could reach its target.
The blood-red flames were snuffed out, and the howling tempest collapsed.
CRACK!
Rhain’s body was launched backward with such velocity that he tore a visible tunnel through the air itself.
He crashed into the stone avenue below with an impact that shattered the ground for hundreds of feet in every direction, burying him in a deep crater of rubble.
"HUSBAND!"
"RHAIN!"
Seeing Rhain smashed into the ground both girls completely lost their rationality and desperately wanted to rush into the crater to save him.
But just as they took their first step forward—
WHOOSH—!!!
The entire area where Rhain had crashed suddenly turned pitch-black.
A realm of darkness exploded outward, instantly swallowing the crater, the street, and soaring high into the sky.
In the span of a single breath, the sphere of darkness had expanded to encompass over three hundred feet of the street, and the three grey-robed Domain Masters hovering in the sky found themselves entirely enveloped within it.
Origin Domain of Darkness!
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Two miles away, within the Thunderwood ancestral estate, the assembled titans of Stormveil City felt it simultaneously.
Patriarch Thorian’s head snapped up from the mutilated corpse he had been staring at.
"That spiritual fluctuation..." Thorian’s eyes narrowed.
"A Domain clash..." Caelan mumbled, "A battle between Domain Masters has broken out in the streets!"
A battle between Domain Masters within the limits of Stormveil City had not occurred for more than a century!
The last one had leveled three districts and killed forty thousand people.
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Inside the sphere of darkness, the three grey-robed Domain Masters had stopped moving entirely.
For the first time since they had descended from the sky, something resembling genuine emotion crossed their impassive faces.
"Impossible! He is at the Spirit Manifestation Realm." the one on the left shouted, he sounded almost offended by the fact, "First Lyra, and now this guy has also comprehend a Domain."
"Look at the density of this Law!" the man on the right spoke, a hint of solemnity finally appearing in his tone, "This is... thirty percent comprehension! And the attribute of this Domain is so strange, I haven’t yet fought against a Domain like this."
"Do not panic!" the leader roared, his eyes flashing with lethal killing intent. "He is only one boy! Release your auras and crush his Domain!"
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Three overwhelming Domain Master auras erupted simultaneously.
Under the colossal, combined pressure of three true Domain Masters, Rhain’s Origin Domain of Darkness began to tremble.
CRACK!
Loud fracturing sounds echoed through the void as bright ruptures tore across the pitch-black space.
Standing at the center of the crater with blood streaming from his mouth, Rhain gritted his teeth, pouring everything he had into holding the domain together.
It wasn’t enough.
Thirty percent comprehension of an Origin Law was monstrous.
But Rhain could feel that none of these three Domain Masters were ordinary.
But just as the dark domain was on the verge of shattering completely—
WHOOOSH!!!
A streak of brilliant blue light descended from the sky, and the temperature across more than a thousand feet.
A second Domain bloomed outward, glacial and vast, colliding against the three Domain Masters’ auras from the opposite direction and stabilizing the fracturing darkness.
Myrielle landed lightly on the shattered stone before Rhain.
"Vice Dean of the Stormveil Academy." The Domain Master on the right turned toward her, his tone perfectly flat. "You are interfering in a matter of imperial justice."
"I am preventing three assassins from murdering our disciple in the middle of a public street," Myrielle replied coldly. "Whatever justice you claim to represent, you can present it before the Academy’s tribunal."
"Hah!" The guard on the left sneered, his eyes locking onto Myrielle. "A mere early-stage Domain Master dares to interfere? I will handle her!"
The grey-robed figure raised one hand.
"DOMAIN OF METAL."
BOOM!!!
A third Domain exploded into existence.
Countless blades of pure, condensed metal essence materialized within the space, each one radiating a lethality that could shred a mountain into dust.
Myrielle’s glacial domain slammed against it, and the two forces ground against one another with a deafening sound.
While Myrielle occupied one, the remaining two Domain Masters turned their full, murderous attention back to Rhain.
"Die!"
Inside the pitch-black cover of his own Origin Domain, Rhain’s golden eyes flashed.
He refused to be a sitting duck.
Merging perfectly with the devouring darkness, Rhain became practically invisible.
He appeared behind one of the Domain Master, his fist wreathed in blood-red flame.
BANG!
The Domain Master turned a fraction too late, the strike landed against his shoulder, and for the first time, the grey-robed figure was actually pushed back a full step.
Rhain vanished before the counterattack could land, reappearing behind the second and driving a knee into the man’s spine.
BANG!
But it couldn’t last.
Rhain was a peak Spirit Manifestation cultivator with a thirty-percent Origin Domain.
They were Domain Masters.
"DOMAIN OF CRUSHING EARTH."
"DOMAIN OF WITHERING FOREST."
The remaining two Domain Masters unleashed their own domains, and the pitch-black sphere became a warzone.
A horrifying gravity field composed of heavy, yellow earth essence crashed down, instantly multiplying the weight of the air by a thousandfold.
At the same time, a wave of Withering branches appeared out of nowhere, and grazed Rhain’s left arm.
Although it was just a branch, it was even sharper than a blade, the skin was instantly torn, and blood sprayed.
The agonizing sting on his left arm wasn’t just physical pain.
The profound, rotting essence embedded within the Domain of Withering Forest aggressively invaded his bloodstream, desperately trying to decay his meridians from the inside out.
Rhain’s Abyssal Sovereign Physique spun fiercely, the dark void within his dantian roaring as it attempted to devour the invasive energy.
But before he could even stabilize his stance—
BOOM!
The Domain of Crushing Earth reached its absolute peak.
The thousandfold gravity slammed down onto Rhain’s shoulders like a physical mountain range.
"I have to agree you are very strong for a Spirit Manifestation bug," the leader’s voice echoed from the surrounding darkness, dripping with chilling disdain. "But you are still too weak when facing True Domain Masters."
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
From the distorted void of the suppressed space, thousands of thick branches erupted.
They moved with the speed and precision of striking vipers, completely bypassing Rhain’s desperate attempts to evade under the crushing gravity.
They lashed out, tearing through his pitch-black protective essence as if it were nothing but thin paper.
"Gah!" Rhain gritted his teeth.
A thick, razor-sharp vine whipped around his right ankle, its thorns biting viciously into his flesh and drawing fresh blood.
Just as Rhain was going to manifest his Red Tribulations Heavenly Flame to incinerate it, a dozen more branches surged upward.
They coiled ruthlessly around his calves, his waist, and finally, lashed tightly around both of his wrists.
With a brutal jerk, the thick vines forcefully pulled his arms wide.
He was completely immobilized.