Chapter 166: Chapter 166 – Domain Expansion: Divine Kitchen
A rain of purple blood poured from the sky. After slicing through the massive sea-beast shikigami entangling her, Yukinoshita Yukino landed back on the beach.
However, her smooth attack flow had been disrupted, and the special-grade curse had already healed all of its injuries using cursed energy.
Realizing the threat Yukinoshita Yukino posed, Dagon directed fifty percent of the Dead Floating Army against her. The ones attacking her were all enormous shikigami, making them difficult to cut down.
"This makes things a lot easier for me," Zenin Naobito muttered as he noticed the number of shikigami targeting him had decreased. In that instant, he released Falling Blossom Emotion and activated his Projection Sorcery.
Dagon's movements suddenly froze.
By dividing one second into twenty-four frames and using his field of vision as a projection angle, he could project pre-determined movements. Once the technique was activated, anyone touched by his palm had to move at 1/24th of a second per frame. If they failed, their body would be frozen for an entire second.
During the technique, the projected movements couldn't be changed. Ignoring physical laws or movement trajectories too much would also result in self-freezing for a second.
This sorcery was the reason Zenin Naobito could move at godlike speeds.
With his talent for breaking movements down, he earned the title of "the fastest sorcerer below Gojo Satoru."
Zenin Naobito punched Dagon, sending him flying. Without missing a beat, he immediately resumed his Falling Blossom Emotion stance to deal with the incoming shikigami.
After cutting down another wave of shikigami, he deactivated the technique, seamlessly reactivating Projection Sorcery and charging toward Dagon, who had just regained his footing.
Dagon was using the Dead Floating Army at full power to fight both Yukinoshita Yukino and Zenin Naobito. He had no time to spare for Ino Takuma or Kugisaki Nobara.
"That means it's my turn again, huh?" Ino Takuma grinned as he released the summoned spirit of the Turtle. "I don't have much cursed energy left, but I should be able to squeeze out one more move."
He raised both hands and shouted, "Visiting Divine Beast No. 4 – Dragon!"
A majestic Chinese dragon emerged once again. Though slightly smaller than before, it was still more than enough.
"Annoying little pest!"
Even as he was sent flying again, Dagon seized the moment while Zenin Naobito was busy with the shikigami to reach for Ino Takuma.
His five fingers clenched tightly, and suddenly, two enormous sharks leaped from the ground beneath Ino Takuma, their jaws wide open, ready to bite down.
"Hey, you damn octopus… don't forget about me!"
Although she had taken heavy damage from Dagon's earlier kick, Kugisaki Nobara had been down long enough to recover her ability to move.
With a smear of blood staining her lips, the orange-haired girl's smirk deepened.
A few nails shot toward the special-grade curse, piercing its outstretched arm before it could react.
The damage wasn't much, but for Kugisaki Nobara, it was enough.
"Straw Doll Technique: Resonance!"
She grinned viciously and clenched her fist. The cursed energy attached to the nails erupted at once.
At the same time, the sharks lunging at Ino Takuma, the shikigami attacking Zenin Naobito, and the massive sea-beasts swarming Yukinoshita Yukino all exploded simultaneously.
"Thank you! What a cute and reliable junior!" Ino Takuma beamed. With nothing holding him back anymore, he sent his dragon crashing into Dagon with full force.
The ferocious dragon opened its jaws and bit down on Dagon, carrying him high into the sky.
"One after another… you people are so damn annoying!" Dagon roared furiously as yet another one of his attacks was interrupted.
His back suddenly bulged, and several eels emerged, biting into the dragon's body and tangling with it.
Just as it had escaped from the dragon's mouth, it felt a rough, giant hand grab its ankle. In that brief moment of shock, his body was frozen again.
Zenin Naobito hurled Dagon toward the beach, sending him crashing into the sand like a cannonball. A cloud of dust exploded into the air.
"Damn it!!!"
Dagon saw the white-haired old man twisting his body in midair, aiming a kick at him. Lying on the ground, Dagon waved his massive hand, and the calm sea suddenly surged forward, sending a towering wave crashing onto the shore, sweeping him back into the water.
Zenin Naobito's aerial spinning kick struck the ground, sending up another burst of sand.
He turned his head to look at the floating octopus curse spirit, who was gathering strength again, and clicked his tongue in annoyance.
This guy's cursed energy was massive. Even after fighting in a domain battle for so long, he was only just starting to show signs of fatigue.
"The ocean, huh… What a troublesome curse spirit."
After regaining its strength, countless shikigami leaped from the sea, swarming toward the four of them like an overwhelming wave, even blocking out the sun in the bright blue sky.
Sure enough, the best way to counter a domain is to unleash one of your own…
Yukinoshita Yukino panted slightly, but as she looked at the dense barrage of shikigami, she felt surprisingly calm inside.
"You're talking about domain expansion? Hah! You think you can pull off a boundless domain like mine? You're a hundred years too early! Learn to use a closed-domain expansion first before you even think about it!"
The black-haired young man laughed without holding back after hearing the girl's request.
"The hardest part is probably constructing the domain barrier that shapes your mental landscape. Once you get that down, adding the cursed technique is the easy part."
You can do this, Yukinoshita Yukino.
You've already seen Hayashizaki's domain expansion.
You've been practicing barrier techniques all this time… No, actually, isn't there already a barrier right here?
As everyone anxiously watched the shikigami swarm slowly vanish, ready to react at any moment to the incoming attack, the black-haired girl gently closed her eyes.
She raised her hands, clasped them together, and formed the hand sign for "Enma Heaven."
"Domain Expansion: Fushuma Kitchen."
Yukinoshita Yukino's eyes snapped open, a crimson gleam flashing through them.
Dagon's pupils shrank sharply. In that instant, he sensed a terrifying presence flash by. Behind the black-haired girl, a fierce, menacing shadow loomed, its four blood-red eyes locked onto him.
That aura… Sukuna!
A fully formed domain barrier, pushed to 120% of its potential by two consecutive Black Flashes.
Years of relentless training.
A vision far beyond her current level.
The muscle memory left from when she was possessed by Hayashizaki during a domain expansion.
And…
The lingering traces of Hayashizaki's cursed energy.
All these factors combined to create an incomplete domain expansion that piggybacked off another domain.
A grand Buddhist altar suddenly appeared behind Yukinoshita Yukino.
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