Okay Domain with an audible capital letter sounds absolutely like some kind of fuckin video game raid location. Bro are you like, an NPC in an MMO. "Stuff like, spills out of them and you have to hire adventurers to fight it back in, or something?"

Shang Beida very much notices the tension at the word Abyss, and takes that as a great reason to not talk about it. Which, great! He loves not talking about the Abyss! He doesn't feel guilty about Binghe getting thrown into it at all!

"Ah, well, the gods don't really... interfere with mortals much?" Or like, really at all? Mostly because his readers wouldn't've appreciated him introducing anything that could kick Bing-ge's ass? "Once someone ascends, they mostly just... concern themselves with the Heavenly Courts alone. Which sounds boring as hell, honestly, I'd rather not."