A ring of crimson-gold flames exploded outward from beneath Wangchuan's feet.
It started at a diameter of five hundred meters.
The real world within five hundred meters was covered by a deep, dark red filter.
The clouds in the sky were dyed the color of rust.
All the original buildings within the domain burned to nothing.
Dust in the air burned into tiny sparks in the intense heat, floating in every corner of their vision.
In the blink of an eye.
Huojin and Dagon were already standing inside that domain.
Everything happened too quickly. They had not even seen Wangchuan make a move.
"Wait..."
Both felt as though their entire bodies were being scorched by fire.
Huojin was all right, but more than half of Dagon's skin was burned outright.
"This is..."
"A domain?"
He paused, as though confirming something.
"No... not just a domain."
"You haven't created a separate space."
"You've... directly overwritten the real world?"
Huojin looked around, his gaze sweeping across the five-hundred-meter space covered by that dark red filter.
All that remained around them were the burning ruins of ancient palaces.
Dragons coiled around some of the pillars as well.
The entire palace complex was shrouded in a layer of distorted heat, like the remnants of a dynasty rising from hell.
He looked up again at the clouds and moon in the sky, thoroughly stained crimson-gold.
"An Open Domain?"
"You can actually... deploy an Open Domain?"
"This level of mastery over Barrier Techniques... how is that possible... when you look so young?"
Wangchuan listened to his string of shocked questions, that same smile still on his lips.
He tilted his head.
"Hmm... how should I put it?"
"I've been bored on the moon lately, so I studied Barrier Techniques a little."
"The results... aren't bad."
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