Kilostar Domain

The Kilostar Domain had been the point of contest for the Nine Divine Realms for the past decade and was the prize for the Number One Summit. Not much is known about the domain except that it contains five top-grade tribulation manna which would allow a lifebound beast to reach nine hundred stars, which is the peak for the Flameyellow Continent. The Nonahall Ghost Sect places great importance on the domain.

The domain has a connection with Great Emperor Xuanyuan as the five tribulation manna which were the key to the domain were absorbed by Li Tianming's Human Emperor's Dragonhide as soon as he touched them. When cultivators with higher than seventh death phase samsara stage entered the domain, a Pentadragon Seal Formation appears on their body and five dragon patterns flow into their body and seal their saint palace reducing their cultivation to the seventh death phase samsara stage. The formation also seals tribulation pattern tomes that exhibit power beyond that of the seventh death phase samsara stage.

## History

Prior to the Number One Summit, the Nonahall Ghost Sect had done research on the area and had obtained star maps of the domain. All nine divine realms had been paying attention to the domain and decided to hold the summit to decide who would control the domain. The Kilostar Formation had been the suggestion of the Archaion Sect.

After the Number One Summit concluded in Li Tianming's victory, he was given the formation heart to the entrance of the domain. Yi Xingyin had led a few disciples to inspect the domain and he ended up captured in Li Caiwei's illusory formation and sent to the Nonahall Ghost Sect.

In order to obtain the formation heart, Li Caiwei infiltrated the Archaion Sect in the guise of Yi Xingyin and had attempted to persuade the sect to send Tianming out to open the domain but to no avail. Frustrated, Li Caiwei took the risk to kidnap Tianming and managed to escape the sect with him in tow, albeit taking several wounds and losing her left arm. As she escaped towards the domain, she was chased by Jian Wuyi, Fang Taiqing and several other swordfish.

At the domain, the five divine sects (Nonahall Ghost Sect, Biritual Demon Sect, Quadform Oceanic Sect, Heptastar Aerial Sect and Hexapath Sword Sect) had occupied the entrance. Five Ghoul Kings were present along with Feng Qingyu, Qin Fengyang, Long Cangyuan and Changsun Shenqiong. They had brought two thousand of their second-origin and above elders. Surrounded, Tianming was unable to see a way out and acted submissive. Once he found out they were not able to enter the formation, he obediently entered and Xian Xian killed the heartscourge worm that Xue Yi had fed him. Tianming taunted them and was thinking of ways to escape while the ghoul kings send for Yi Xingyin in order to threaten Tianming.

Tianming noticed the five nine-grade tribulation manna and when he opened the formation to get them, the Human Emperor's Dragonhide appeared on his body and absorbed the five manna. The gateway vortex erupted with five-colorered light and was open. This forced those elders outside the formation to rush in and Tianming had no choice but to enter the domain. The domain before him was as large as a Divine Realm and there were a thousand stars of varying sizes. There were various spatial tears present and new tears forming which easily destroyed a tribulation artifact. As Tianming found a star to hide in, his pursuers entered after him and the stronger ones were restricted by the Pentadragon Seal Formation reducing their cultivation to the seventh death phase samsara stage.

Tianming finally descended on a star (number one eighty one) covered in volcanoes and hid in the lava as his lifebound beast refined the ninth grade tribulation manna and evolved. After killing Yin Po, Tianming received a wave of good karma and the eyes from the Primordial God-Emperor started to show him the "sins" of the Nonahall elders. As Tianming continued exploring the domain, the dragonhide guided him to a wind-ocean star. On the star, there were about two hundred elders from the Hexapath, Quadform and Heptastar, attempting to break into the Galactic Clashdragon Formation containing over fifteen thousand tribulation manna of the fifth and sixth grade. The formation required one to fight the dragons formed from the stars and advancing to the centre. Long Yichen, Changsun Tianheng and Feng Wenjing were the three closest before Tianming arrived to pass through the formation with his black arm, stealing all the manna and escaping their encirclement. He periodically threw out manna to reduce his pursuers and eventually only Long Yichen was left. Long Yichen had been leaving a trail for his father to follow and Long Cangyuan waited for Xue Yi before following up the trail. When they finally caught up, Long Yichen was standing alone outside a blackhole which Tianming had jumped into. They were hesitant to enter as their starmap had the messag, "black hole star, certain death for trespassing".

As Tianming entered the blackhole as guided by the dragonhide, he saw a part of the history of the Great Emperor Xuanyuan where he was leading humanity to fight against the demons. Suddenly a light appeared ahead of him and he said a golden word "one" before he regained his consciousness. As he took a look around his surroundings, he had been teleported to the volcano star he had first stepped foot on. He continued to roam the domain in search of treasures and killing isolated enemy elders. The dragonhide also continued to lead him into another black hole stars to see visions of the war from two hundred thousand years ago and he saw the golden word "two" this time.

As he reappeared and regained his consciousness, he found himself in the presence of both Gu Yunge and Xia Ziluan, children of two of the Ghoul Kings. They immediately get into a fight and Tianming kills both of them and their lifebound beast. A lifesoul formation on Xia Ziluan was activated on her death and signal her location. Tianming quickly escaped and Xue Yi arrived by his daughter's side. As they searched the area, they considered Dugu Jin the killer but found the leaves and branches of Xian Xian. They started to suspect that the black holes weren't dangerous but all the people they sent in died immediately.

As Tianming continued to roam the map, with his recent breakthrough he could start hunting the elders at the seventh life phase. and he continued looking for black holes, which he had found sixth so far. He had taken down more than five hundred elders of the five sects. There five sects decided to dedicate part of their efforts to capturing Tianming first, assigning them to the three remaining black holes that Tianming had not visited as Ye Bodhi pointed out to Xue Yi,

As Tianming headed towards the black hole, he happened to come across Ye Bodhi's ambush spot. Despite being surrounded by thirty second-origin elders, Tianming was able to make his escape through the blackhole. Frustrated at another failed attempt to kill Tianming, Xue Yi got all five sects to focus on killing Tianming and got a thousand eight-level death phase samsarans from his sect to enter the domain.

After Ye Bodhi sent off the elders, he started to analyse the map. He was able to discern the secrets of the map and proceeded to one of the stars. He was able to activate the hidden Galactic Vortex Formation which contained over one hundred and fifty thousand tribulation artifacts with eight to ten tribulation patterns. As Ye Bodhi was inside the formation, Tianming had arrived on the star and started slaughtering his way into the formation. Long Yichen and the other elders tried their best, but failed to stop Tianming, with many of them dying at his hands and even Long Yichen suffering a crushing defeat and losing one of his arms and one of his beasts. As Ye Bodhi reached the core of the formation and started collecting the artifacts, Tianming wasn't far behind and they started fighting. Although Ye Bodhi held a clear advantage with his higher cultivation, Li Tianming managed to best him with his enlightenment of the Hexapath Samsara Sword's third sword, Ninesky Beastsoul Formation, killing him. Tianming left Long Yichen alone as he didn't have a black sin aura as compared to those from Nonahall.

After obtaining a star map from Ye Bodhi's spatial ring, Tianming finally knew about the remaining tow black holes and that the two stars with treasures had been unmarked. After refining the karmic luck from killing Ye Bodhi, Tianming made a breakthrough. Whereas on the Nonahall side as Xue Yi and Qing Ming were gathering their forces, a thousand and five hundred eighth-level death phase tribulation had arrived while more Ghoul Kings were summoned to hunt down Tianming. They were informed of Ye Bodhi's death which resulted in a demoralization of the elders. Desperate, Yi Xingyin was brought into the domain to use as bait.

As news of Tianming's feats was making rounds, there was a group of two thousand elders that got ambushed by Tianming and he managed to come out on top with most of the elders being crippled or killed and the remaining five hundred escaping in fear. News of this incident reached the ears of the Xue Yi while more reinforcements including two ghoul kings, Ying Zi and Fu You. Ying Zi had brought Yi Xingyin who was captured in her Shadow Prison and fed one of Xue Yi's heartscourge worm to cause him pain. Afterwards the reinforcements split to block both black hole stars.

As Qing Ming was moving towards one of the black hole stars, he encountered Tianming. Tianming was able to kill Qing Ming and rejuvenate Xian Xian from her injuries from their fight by consuming the broods from Qing Ming's lifebound beast. After killing him, Meow Meow took Qing Ming's severed head to lure those guarding the black hole for Tianming to find an opportunity to enter. As Tianming experienced more visions of the ancient war, he received a message that someone was waiting at the ninth black hole.

The ghoul kings gathered all their forces and their allies at the ninth black hole as they re-discussed their plans, while the Archain Sect had a group of elders (Fang Taiqing and Jian Wuyi) outside the domain with Beigong Linlan and Lin Yuntian. After hearing the death of Qing Ming, one side lamented while the others celebrated his death.

Tianming chose to cultivate further after seeing the large amount of forces stationed around the ninth black hole. Just as he managed to complete his break through to the fifth death-phase, the Nonahall forces had split a portion to verify Ye Bodhi's theory on the treasures that Long Yichen had recalled. As the over third thousand elders approached the fiery star that Tianming was on, Tianming hid himself and listened to their conversation. As they spoke about potential treasure on the star and were searching about, Tianming's starmap reacted and activated the formation on the star. The Kilostar Photondragon was revealed in its Kilostar Photondragon Formation and Xue Yi ordered his subordinates to surround Tianming and obtain the divine weapon.

As Tianming laid his hands on the Kilostar Photondragon, the astral dragons of the formation returned to it and Tianming felt a connection between the Dragonhide and it. The various stars in the domain lit up and converged onto the Photondragon and Tianming felt immense power that surpassed his cultivation level. With this newfound power, Tianming was able to releash powerful attacks that opened spatial tears and killed thousands of tribulation elders. Using the Photondragon, Tianming killed his way out of their encirclement and managed to take out Long Cangyuan as well. With Long Cangyuan dead, the rest of the Quadform realm retreated to decide on a new leader.

Suddenly all his pursuers disappeared as Ghoul King You Ying had arrived with Yi Xingyin. Tianming agreed to give up the Kilostar Photondragon in exchange for Yi Xingyin's freedom. Upon receiving Yi Xingyin, Tianming immediately attempted to escape, however Ghoul King You Ying attacked him with her Shadow Prison from Yi Xingyin's shadow and Tianming had to hide in the Prime Tower. Xue Yi attempted to destroy the Prime Tower with the Photondragon but failed to deal a major blow as he wasn't a successor of Great Emperor Xuanyuan.

Just as they were about to attack the Prime Tower, a grand commotion happened in the center of the domain and a blood dragon had appeared there. This had been the goal of the Nonahall, so Xue Yi and You Ying were planning their next move when the star they were on also underwent a transformation, with all its energy collapsing into a gigantic, fiery ball and shooting towards the center of the domain. Tianming escaped in the distraction and Changsun Shenqiong led the Nonahall elders back to reinforce the black hole while Xue Yi and You Ying headed to the center.

Meanwhile at the center of the domain, Dugu Jin started attacking the Blooddragon Sealing Formation on the blood star as it contained the ancestors of his clan, the Blooddragon clan and he wanted to get the blooddragon quintessence. Before he could proceed, he was stopped by Feng Qingyu. As they fought, Dugu Jin seemed to get stronger as the draconic heavenly patterns on the formation fused into him, allowing him to fend off Feng Qingyu. Shortly after, Xue Yi and You Ying arrived and they started destroying the formation that was sealing their cultivation while ignoring Tianming who had arrived. Tianming tried to use his black arm to break the formation but was attacked by the blood dragons within. Forced to escape, Xue Yi chased after him and they fought. Tianming managed to kill Xue Yi but his team was in a pitiful state after that as both You Ying and Feng Qingyu had got involved in their fight. With the formation destroyed and the suppression effect gone, Tianming entered the Prime Tower and waited out the barrage of attacks from Feng Qingyu and Xue Yi's lifebound beast.

Meanwhile with the formation broken, the bloody mist from the formation flowed into Dugu Jin while the blood star turned grey and started increasing in size. Feng Qingyu, You Ying and the Prime Tower were knocked away by the star's expansion. Each star that encountered the grey star exploded and was absorbed by the mist. Eventually all the stars were absorbed by the grey star and it took over the entire domain.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 733
2. ↑ Chapter 785
3. ↑ Chapter 766
4. ↑ Chapter 817
5. ↑ Chapter 826