Chapter 748: The Forgotten Domain

Chen Ling's brows were tightly furrowed.

The path to godhood has ten stages, and the first watershed is the Fourth Stage. After stepping into the Fourth Stage, one can project their skills outward to influence a large area around them... This is what is known as a "Domain."

And right now, the only one in this place capable of releasing a Domain should be little Jian, who had been dozing off with him just a moment ago.

"Spade, what are you doing?" Chen Ling asked in a deep voice.

There was no response from within the murderous fog.

In the fog, Jian Changsheng's silhouette was like a ghost, blurred and indistinct... He walked slowly toward Chen Ling, and as he moved, an ancient murderous intent locked onto Chen Ling from the void!

Chen Ling felt this ancient murderous intent was somewhat familiar; he seemed to have felt it back in the Ancient Armory of the Military Path. It was a slaughtering will directed at all living things in the world, a force of absolute suppression coming from a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood!

It wasn't that Chen Ling hadn't seen other Domains of the Military God Path, but none of them were like this one—so ancient and so oppressive...

Does he really want to kill me?!

Chen Ling's pupils contracted slightly, and a bone-carving knife slid from his sleeve into his palm; he was already prepared for battle.

Just then, a muffled grunt sounded from the murderous fog, and the chilling aura around them dissipated instantly, as if it had never appeared... Jian Changsheng's face turned deathly pale, and he stumbled forward two steps like someone waking from a deep dream, before collapsing to the ground.

Chen Ling was taken aback by this sight.

"Damn it... Heart, you didn't even help me up!" Jian Changsheng gritted his teeth as he lay on the ground, beads of sweat rolling down his cheeks, as if his mental energy had been overdrawn.

"You were trying to kill me, and you want me to help you up?"

"No... I really don't know what happened. I just wanted to try out my Domain, and then... I felt something surge up, and then I lost consciousness."

Chen Ling was thoughtful... After releasing the Calamity of Mockery this time, he had seen the whole process from the audience seats, including Jian Changsheng's inexplicable black-eyed rampage. He had also suspected that Jian Changsheng likely had some secrets of his own; otherwise, his resurrection from the Ancient Armory of the Military Path would be impossible to explain.

It seems now that this guy's secrets are no less than his own...

Both of them were supposedly dozing off; he was in the theater drawing a new ability, while Jian Changsheng was inexplicably opening a Domain on the side. Neither of them was idle.

Seeing this, Chen Ling still walked up and helped Jian Changsheng up.

"Can your Domain only last for those few seconds?"

"...Doesn't seem like it. I think I opened it the wrong way." Jian Changsheng frowned, carefully sensing something. "Strange, why does this Domain feel so different from other [Asura] path Domains?"

"It's right that it's different." Chen Ling patted his shoulder and said meaningfully, "Monsters are always special... both you and I."

"?" Who are you calling a monster?" Jian Changsheng snorted coldly.

"I'm not like you, a world-ender. I'm a normal person!"

Jian Changsheng seemed unaware of his previous black-eyed outbursts and didn't notice how he differed from others. From his perspective, he was just an ordinary, unlucky guy.

Chen Ling: ...

"Yes, yes, you're a normal person," Chen Ling said perfunctorily.

"Wait... the aura on you seems to be Fourth Stage too." Jian Changsheng suddenly thought of something and looked at Chen Ling curiously. "Where's your Domain? Hurry up and show it to me."

Chen Ling froze in place.

He seemed to realize something and looked at his own body in a daze...

That's right,

Where is my Domain???

Logically, after advancing, new skills should naturally appear in his mind; [Faceless], [Scarlet Trick], and [Fate Weaving] were all like that... But this time, there was no information about a Domain in Chen Ling's mind.

"Wait, how did you use your Domain?"

"What do you mean how did I use it... I just felt it, wanted to try it, and then I used it," Jian Changsheng said, scratching his head. "Although I didn't know how to use it the first time, after using it once, I think I understand the correct way to use it."

“……”

"So, where's your Domain?"

"...I don't know." Chen Ling paused for a moment and said blankly, "I can feel that something extra is in my body, but... but I seem to have forgotten how to use it."

"??? No way, you can forget that??"

Jian Changsheng looked at him as if he were an idiot.

Then, as if thinking of something, his eyes lit up. "Doesn't that mean... now that I've mastered a Domain and you haven't, I can beat you up?!"

"You're overthinking it."

Chen Ling said calmly. He placed one hand on his waist, gripping the handle of his revolver, and a wisp of Military God Path aura silently radiated out.

"After all, even if I've forgotten one Domain, I still have another... Do you want to try?"

"...Damn it, monster."

Jian Changsheng clicked his tongue, ultimately killing the thought of beating Chen Ling up right now.

After this interlude, neither of them had the mood to doze off anymore, and they continued walking along the tracks toward the Tian-Shu Realm... while Chen Ling remained distracted.

He couldn't understand why he had promoted to the Fourth Stage but had no information about his Domain.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration crossed his mind.

"Spade, have I been going crazy lately?"

"??? Do you think you're not crazy enough?"

"Not the [Mockery] Calamity... the other kind. Like, suddenly having a mental breakdown, doing inexplicable things, and having skills go out of control."

"..." Jian Changsheng wanted to say Chen Ling was sick, but he thought about it carefully and shook his head. "No."

"...Could the problem be here?"

Although Chen Ling didn't remember it himself, he knew that every time he promoted, he would have a brief mental breakdown... and after the chaos returned to normal, he would successfully promote and master the skill information for that stage.

But during this promotion, he was in a state of being replaced by the "audience," and there was no mental breakdown at all.

Did the "audience" taking over my account also take away my Domain information???

Chen Ling vaguely felt that the problem lay right there. He could clearly sense that there was some powerful and mysterious Domain within him, but he just didn't know how to use it, nor did he know what the ability was... It was like knowing there was a super treasure vault in his basement but forgetting the password!

Chen Ling felt incredibly frustrated.

As he walked along the tracks, he moved his hands in his sleeves in a showy manner, trying to find a way to activate his Domain... but nothing unusual appeared around him.

Chen Ling couldn't help but let out a long sigh, his eyes filled with unwillingness.

"Is there any other way... to go crazy again?"