Chapter 79: Entry and Change

The Emerald Domain does not accept everyone.

First, one must pay enough Jin Along.

Second, a trial is required to prove whether one has the qualification to use the domain for advancement.

In the past, the trial was not mandatory; as long as enough money was paid, entry was granted.

However, accidents occurred frequently back then; only after fifteen consecutive deaths did the high officials of Emerald City finally add the trial requirement.

Rod had little interest.

After all, he had entered through the back door and had already been tested.

"First is the intensity of spiritual accumulation, second is the spirit, which can also be called state of mind, and finally is affinity."

"The first two are easy to understand, but what does affinity mean?"

Cornel and Elisa chattered incessantly beside them, constantly discussing the difficulty of the trial and the advantages of their discussion group.

Rod and Lily ignored them, chatting on their own.

Tally heard the three words "affinity."

She leaned over and kissed Rod on the cheek, smearing her saliva all over his face, and smiled seductively.

"You really have no experience, brother~ Affinity is this~"

Lily frowned and glanced at her.

"The Emerald Domain is not entirely an inanimate object; it has its own likes and dislikes. This affinity is the degree to which the domain accepts you. Currently, except for Dark Elves and Demon breeds, most can at least maintain a passing grade."

Tally's face, which had just been smiling, immediately froze.

The meaning was that she, possessing Demon bloodline, could not enter the domain together with her master.

Seeing her flustered expression, Rod couldn't help but laugh.

Unexpectedly, she suddenly hugged him, burying her tender little face in Rod's neck and inhaling deeply.

"What are you doing? Don't touch me randomly."

"I need to smell my fill all at once; otherwise, if I stay away from my master for too long, I'll die of loneliness!"

"That's enough," Lily said from the side.

Not long after.

The trial officially began.

Lily was not the type to hide behind others and be the last to act; she strode forward and passed quickly.

She became the only one to pass among the first batch of trial participants.

Meanwhile, Cornel, standing nearby, had no time to look at the platform; instead, he anxiously applied a medicinal liquid to his body.

According to him, this was a treasure capable of enhancing domain affinity.

It was provided by Elisa, who claimed it was the latest product developed by their Emerald Domain discussion group.

They boasted that they would make a dazzling appearance in the final round and secure the top rank in the trial.

Then, he was eliminated for applying prohibited medicinal liquid, ending before the spiritual accumulation trial had even begun.

"What are you laughing at?!"

Cornel shouted with a tear-stained face.

"I'm not laughing, really."

Rod said with a smile.

"You are clearly laughing! You haven't stopped!"

"You don't even have the courage to enter the field; you're just a coward who dares only to watch from the sidelines! What right do you have to speak to us?" Elisa chimed in.

Although she was the main culprit behind Cornel's elimination.

Rod shrugged and ignored them.

He stepped forward, greeted the staff of the Emerald Domain, and easily joined the queue of those who had successfully passed the trial.

Cornel stared in shock and immediately pointed at him, shouting loudly.

"Corruption! It's corruption!!"

The staff on the platform glanced coldly at him.

"Mr. Rod is a personnel personally selected by the Count. Do you have any questions?"

"Uh..."

The two of them instantly froze.

The entire domain belonged to the Count, personally selected by him.

Who would dare to object?

Looking at Rod waving over there, they could no longer utter a single word.

Moments later.

They began to enter the Emerald Domain.

The method was to touch the great emerald tree before them.

Rod secretly activated the 【Dragon Scale Technique】.

Although it had advanced, the characteristics belonging to the 【Tree Armor Technique】 were still retained.

【Current Tree: Emerald Banyan】

【Amplified Skill: Spatial Tree Walk】

【Details: Under this skill, the Tree Walker no longer has distance limits. It is rumored that there are countless entrances to the otherworldly space, and trees might be one of them.】

"Wow."

Currently, the longest 【Long-Distance Teleportation】 on the continent is only about fifty kilometers.

You just ignored distance with this 【Tree Walker】—that's way too strong.

Quickly.

The last person ahead of Rod vanished against the Emerald Tree.

Finally, it was his turn.

He placed his right hand lightly on the trunk.

The texture was icy.

Not only did it not look like a tree, but the patterns and feel under his touch were unlike a tree either.

Yet it still fell within the scope of the 【Tree's Blessing】.

Rod leaned on it for a long while with no reaction.

He was about to ask the staff nearby, but as he turned his head, he blinked instinctively.

Then, in the next instant, he found he was no longer in the same spot.

"Is this the Domain?"

At this moment, pale green energy filled the entire space.

Rod felt no ground beneath his feet; instead, he floated steadily in midair.

It differed somewhat from the Domain he had imagined.

It lacked a sense of brilliance, being rather calm and ordinary.

But the special spiritual essence contained within that pale green energy was undeniably real.

Perhaps due to the 【Tree's Blessing】, Rod could feel them surging wildly into his body.

He no longer wasted time, activated the 【Ye Hu Xi Fa】, and began his ascension.

As everyone successfully entered the Domain.

More than half the people on the square were gone.

For them, the Emerald Domain was the kind of attraction one would never visit a second time.

The remaining people were mostly relatives or friends of the trial participants, waiting for their ascensions to complete.

Tally leaned lazily against the wall.

She classified all time when her Master was absent as garbage time.

Perhaps she no longer understood the life of an ordinary succubus.

In the memories inherited from her mother in her mind, it was mentioned that they were creatures that would go into heat and go mad as soon as they entered crowded cities.

But now, looking at the passersby before her, she felt absolutely nothing in her heart.

Thirty-one minutes and twenty-one seconds since parting with her Master; she missed him.

A man suddenly walked over.

His face, not even one hundred-thousandth as good as her Master's, wore a disgusting smile.

"Hello, Young Lady, can you—"

"No, get lost."

The man frowned, about to say something.

Then, after Tally raised the spiritual pressure of a sixth-rank ascension, he fled in a flash.

The third person to hit on her.

Tally decided to change her face; talking to any man was a waste of life, of course, except for her Master.

Suddenly.

More than a dozen obscure and sinister powers came from not far away.

Her expression changed.

She whipped her head around and immediately saw at least ten women over fifty years old gathered at the edge of the square in the distance.

Thick black qi on their bodies slowly rose to the sky, converging into a pitch-black formation.

Tally even saw Lady Bob from that day.

"The aura of Demon Seeds... damn it, attacking the Emerald Domain? My Master is still inside!"

Tally stepped into the shadow of a building and used shadow magic to move to the side of one of the women.

When her Master was not around, she held nothing back.

Her arm turned into a scythe, and she chopped off the woman's head in one strike.

Boom!

As the head fell, the woman's entire body exploded into a cloud of black mist, rising rapidly.

Instead, it made the formation even more solid.

(End of this chapter)