0.2 Seconds of Unlimited Void

Xia Yuan was about to face the Superpowered Boy Squad, and the tension was through the roof!

Viewership in the livestream rooms of every major media outlet at North Sichuan Spirit Contract Master Academy kept soaring!

Every stream had over a hundred thousand viewers.

A flurry of various comments flew across the screens.

Meanwhile.

At Gardenia Spirit Contract High School in Great Xia's capital, Kyoto, the number-one seed had long since been decided!

Holding her phone, Luo Ziyan hummed a little tune as she watched the livestream.

"I never expected little Shiyu to get an SSR too—and such a powerful and handsome card-pool character at that..."

"Ah..."

"I'm so jealous. I want a Contract Spirit husband like that too!"

She turned to the female Contract Spirit beside her, who held an enormous demon blade. "It would've been great if you were a handsome guy too, Demon Blade Princess."

The female Contract Spirit's blood-red eyes carried loneliness and gloom as she quietly replied, "Sorry."

She was tall and slender, with skin white as snow and exquisite features.

Her deep purple hair was tied high, cascading all the way to her ankles.

Her red floral kimono accentuated her alluring, graceful figure, yet she held a massive longsword nearly as tall as she was.

She was clearly a stunning beauty, but her entire body radiated murderous intent!

Luo Ziyan laughed.

"I'm kidding!"

"But little Shiyu's SSR is seriously strong. You're both SSRs, so who's stronger?"

"I hope they do well. Then we can meet up in Kyoto and have a proper duel!"

"Still, I think you'd definitely win, Demon Blade Princess!"

Demon Blade Princess remained silent, only quietly watching Xia Yuan on the phone screen.

She was also curious. Both were SSRs—which of them was stronger?

Gardenia Spirit Contract High School's selection method was simple and brutal. They directly picked the top fifty students from the school's strength rankings and threw them into a massive free-for-all.

The final ten standing would represent the academy!

However, because of Demon Blade Princess's one-sided slaughter, the free-for-all had already lost any basis for evaluation.

She had cut down every single Contract Spirit by herself, and in an extremely short time at that...

Watching the stream, Luo Ziyan suddenly grew excited.

"Ooh, it's starting!"

"Fight, fight!"

"Let me see what other skills this SSR named Xia Yuan has!"

On the arena.

Xia Yuan looked at the opposing team made up of a child, a woman, and an old man. He rubbed his neck and decided to let them make the first move.

They did not stand on ceremony.

Shadow Sister stomped her high heels, and the shadow beneath her feet suddenly branched out, spreading across the ground toward Xia Yuan at incredible speed.

Xia Yuan stepped back at once. The old sorcerer's aged eyes flashed sharply as he muttered, "Hollow and Weaken."

The next second, a yellow cage appeared around Xia Yuan, trapping him within it. A feeling of weakness followed, and both his speed and strength plummeted.

A technique!

It was another power that directly affected its target. The Limitless Technique could not block it.

The moment Xia Yuan slowed down, the branching shadows on the ground caught up to him.

In an instant, he could no longer move.

Heh...

Are you Shikamaru from Naruto or something?

It had to be said that all of their skills happened to be mysterious-type abilities, which the Limitless Technique could not defend against.

Shadow Sister formed a hand seal and smiled seductively. "Success. His defensive ability really does have limits. It probably isn't a barrier that isolates everything—it can't stop abilities like ours!"

Han Guang's confidence surged. These three Contract Spirits of his happened to counter the opponent's abilities. The goddess of luck was on his side!

The little boy burst into laughter.

"Xia Yuan, you were too careless!"

"We've won!"

He made a squeezing gesture with both hands toward Xia Yuan. "I'm going to crush you to death!"

The old man beside him spoke again. "Increase and Amplify."

Red light erupted around the little boy, greatly boosting his superpowers!

However, before Xia Yuan had been restrained, he had already formed the hand sign for domain expansion!

The entire venue was shocked!

The great demon king had been controlled—was he about to be taken down?!

Everyone widened their eyes, holding their breath as they stared fixedly at the arena, terrified of missing even a single moment.

Mo Shiyu could not help feeling nervous too. But the moment she saw Xia Yuan's familiar hand sign, she instantly calmed down.

She knew Xia Yuan had already won this battle!

Just as the little boy was about to exert force, Xia Yuan grinned and spoke first.

"Domain Expansion..."

"Unlimited Void."

Centered on him, a black, void-like barrier rapidly enveloped the entire arena, swallowing the little boy, Shadow Sister, and the old sorcerer within.

The entire venue erupted in uproar. No one knew what had happened.

Nor could they see what was happening inside the black barrier.

But the next second, the black barrier rapidly dispersed.

The audience could see the arena again!

The Superpowered Boy, Shadow Sister, and old sorcerer, who had been about to attack Xia Yuan, stood stupidly where they were, completely motionless.

Xia Yuan easily broke free of the shadow's restraint and began forming hand seals at an unhurried pace.

"You want to play control against me?"

"A few minutes is more than enough for me to kill you."

That was right.

What Xia Yuan had used was precisely a 0.2-second Domain Expansion!

It required opening and closing the domain at extreme speed over a wide area within a very short span of time.

He had not dared to do this before because he was not yet familiar enough with Satoru Gojo's template. It was difficult for him to perform such a precise Domain Expansion.

But ever since his breakthrough, everything had changed.

A 0.2-second Unlimited Void could flood the brains of all living beings within the domain with half a year's worth of useless information.

In the world of cursed techniques, it could paralyze special-grade cursed spirits for more than five minutes and ordinary people for two months...

And five minutes was already enough for Xia Yuan to kill the three of them countless times.

Besides.

There were many advantages to deploying it this way, such as saving some spiritual power.

Everyone in the venue stared blankly at the three motionless Contract Spirits on the arena, utterly confused about what had happened!

None of the combat footage of Xia Yuan circulating online had shown a Domain Expansion.

For a moment, the entire venue boiled over.

"What exactly happened? Why aren't those three Contract Spirits moving?!"

"Xia Yuan! It must be that Domain Expansion ability Lord Yuan just said. What did he do?!"

"That black barrier just now covered such a huge area. Could that be Xia Yuan's ultimate move?!"

"An ultimate move with control effects?!"

"Holy crap, Lord Yuan's damage output is so high, and you're telling me he's actually an AoE crowd-control Contract Spirit?"

"..."

Han Guang was even more bewildered, having no idea what had happened.

The situation had reversed far too quickly.

Just a second ago, he had practically been popping champagne!

Han Guang anxiously shouted.

"Boy!"

"Shadow Sister!"

"Old Master!"

Yet the three Contract Spirits gave no response at all. They remained frozen in place, completely still.

Xia Yuan aimed with his fingers, gestured a little, and picked a spot. "Mm, they're in a straight line."

Since they were SRs, he would show them a little respect and give them a Hollow Technique: Purple!

Normally, after deploying a Domain Expansion, one would be unable to use cursed techniques and enter a state of technique burnout.

However, Xia Yuan had discovered earlier that he did not experience this after deploying his domain.

That was likely thanks to the special spirit-body state of Contract Spirits!

Technique burnout was actually a bodily protection mechanism. But spirit bodies were special—they only consumed spiritual power and seemingly required no protection.

This trait removed the limitation of technique burnout.

It allowed Xia Yuan to use his skills even more freely!