"You're back?"
Ye Ling was startled to find himself back in the Beast Continent. Everything had happened too quickly for him to react.
Moreover, the appearance of Evil, while confirming some of his suspicions, had also deepened his confusion.
What exactly were the eyes that appeared in the Book of Origin, capable of being enemies to Good and Evil?
And what was the purpose of Good and Evil reclaiming destinies?
What was he supposed to do next in the Upper Realm of Origin?
"Roar—!"
As Ye Ling pondered, a colossal fierce beast suddenly charged out from the side, its maw gaping, roaring at him.
Ye Ling snapped back to reality, realizing he had trespassed into the beast's territory.
The beast's strength hadn't reached the peak, but it was close to the pinnacle of a Creation God. Coupled with its thick hide, Ye Ling, whose cultivation had regressed, would need considerable effort to defeat it.
"Forget it, overthinking is useless. Let's test the power of Ink Domain first."
Ye Ling shook off his doubts, casting aside his musings. He unleashed his Ink Domain, enveloping the fierce beast within it.
Wherever the domain spread, everything transformed into text.
Including the fierce beast itself!
Seeing the beast's soul turn into a string of characters, Ye Ling's heart stirred. He instantly appeared behind the beast and conjured a brush with runes. He then directly added a string of words into the beast's soul.
In the next moment, the ferociously rampaging beast became incredibly docile. It prostrated itself on the ground, rubbing its head against Ye Ling.
"As expected, using Ink Domain allows me to alter anything within the domain with words, including the thoughts of living beings… This is exactly the same as when I was in the world of text."
Seeing the beast turn into his pet, Ye Ling understood how Ink Domain worked.
"However, using Ink Domain now consumes my own power. Controlling this beast nearly drained half of my spiritual energy… When I modified destinies in the world of text, there was no such consumption. Could it be that all the power I used back then was borrowed from Evil?"
Ye Ling, feeling his spiritual energy depleted by half, couldn't help but marvel at the strength of Evil!
Casually manipulating destinies, even changing their very forms, seemed to cost Evil nothing, as if it were effortless.
He had previously thought that destinies and Good and Evil were on the same level, but now he realized he had been too naive.
"Such immense power… then how powerful must their enemies be? And what role do I play in all this?"
Ye Ling murmured, then suddenly recalled the Devour Domain that Good had given him. An idea for a combined domain technique sparked in his mind.
"Using the Devour Domain and Ink Domain together seems to have a remarkable effect."
A peculiar thought struck Ye Ling, filling him with a strange excitement.
To test his hypothesis, he erased the words he had added to the beast's soul, restoring it to its normal state.
"Roar—!"
The beast roared fiercely again, as if unaware of what had happened, and lunged at Ye Ling once more!
"Devour Domain!"
Seeing the beast charge at him, Ye Ling immediately used the chains materialized by the Devour Domain to ensnare it, simultaneously injecting his Ink Domain into the chains.
The Devour Domain and Ink Domain jointly restrained the beast, causing its soul to transform into text!
The Devour Domain began to seize the beast's spiritual energy and consciousness, feeding it back into the Ink Domain. Then, the Ink Domain, using the power of the Devour Domain, inscribed words onto the beast's textual soul!
Almost instantly, the beast's internal spiritual energy was completely depleted!
"Roar—!"
The beast roared towards the sky, then its claw slammed violently against its own head, crushing it!
*Bang!!!*
The beast's massive, headless corpse crashed heavily to the ground, its crimson blood staining the earth, turning the surrounding vegetation a deep scarlet.
The chains binding the beast gradually dissipated.
And Ye Ling had suffered no consumption.
"The combined power of these two domains… is this astonishing?"
Ye Ling's lips twitched as he watched the beast commit suicide, utterly surprised by how effective the combination of these two domains was!
Ink Domain needed to expend equivalent power to alter the rules within a domain.
This meant that if Ye Ling wanted to force a peak expert to commit suicide, he would first have to expend comparable spiritual energy. If Ye Ling forcibly used Ink Domain to kill an enemy with higher cultivation, the result would likely be Ye Ling's own death, while the enemy would merely feel a slight dizziness.
In that regard, Ink Domain was only useful for dealing with weaker opponents and incapable of cross-level combat.
But now, with the addition of the Devour Domain, Ink Domain had become monstrously powerful.
The Devour Domain could seize the enemy's power to fuel Ink Domain, and regardless of who the enemy was, their own power would definitely be capable of killing oneself!
In other words, the combination of Devour Domain and Ink Domain could directly force an enemy to kill themselves with their own power, while Ye Ling would not expend a single bit of spiritual energy!
Previously, even if Ye Ling could use the Devour Domain to seize the power of peak experts, he couldn't fully absorb it. The spiritual energy he seized from peak experts could only be wasted.
But now, the advent of Ink Domain completely compensated for the shortcomings of the Devour Domain!
The power seized by the Devour Domain could be used by Ink Domain to kill peak experts!
With these two domains used together, Ye Ling felt he could easily kill Zhou Wen.
After all, the power seizure of the Devour Domain and the consciousness alteration of Ink Domain could both be completed in an instant. As long as the enemy didn't understand the terror of these two domains and was slightly careless, the result would be death!
"With these two domains, even without the power of destiny, I feel my strength has actually increased…"
Ye Ling took a deep breath, calming his shock. He looked up at the azure sky and murmured, "Good and Evil… my two masters, the domains you each bestowed upon me… are overwhelmingly powerful."
"For every gain, there is a loss… If I gain such immense power, then… what is the price?"
Ye Ling spoke to himself, but he didn't dwell on the matter.
The game had already begun, the players behind the scenes had made their moves, and all that remained was for both sides to react to each other's plays.
No matter how much Ye Ling thought about it, he couldn't stop the game from progressing.
And Ye Ling currently understood that with his current strength and perspective, he was not yet qualified to be a player.
However, he also knew that he was the key to determining the outcome of this grand game.
Neither Good and Evil nor the entity behind Destiny could ignore him.
"Since I am the most dazzling piece… then before the outcome of the game is decided, I hold significant importance. Perhaps I can use this identity… to stir up some trouble."
"Who says a piece cannot step off the board and become a player?"
Having decided on his future course of action, Ye Ling's lips curved slightly. He then actively located the position of his soul and life origin hidden within the World Extinguishing Spirit Fire and headed towards its location.
The wheels of fate turned silently!