You Ditched an R-Rank, Now That I’m an SSR, You Wanna Cry?-Chapter 41: The Boundless Void in 0.2 Seconds

Xia Yuan was about to face off against the Superpowered Boy team, and the tense atmosphere was reaching its peak!
In the live broadcast rooms of various major media outlets from Chuanbei Spirit Tamer Academy, viewer numbers were continuously skyrocketing!
Every live stream had over a hundred thousand viewers.
Bullet comments were flying everywhere across the screens.
At this moment.
In Great Xia's capital, Gardenia Spirit High School had already selected their number one seed!
Luo Ziyan held her phone, humming a little tune while watching the live broadcast:
"I never expected Little Shiyu would also get an SSR, and such a powerful and handsome gacha character at that..."
"Sigh..."
"I'm so envious of her, I want a husband contracted spirit like that too!"
She turned to look at the female contracted spirit holding a massive demon blade nearby, "If only you, Demon Blade Princess, were a handsome man instead."
The female contracted spirit's blood-red pupils carried an aura of loneliness and gloom, quietly responding, "My apologies."
She had a tall, slender figure, skin fairer than snow, and exquisitely beautiful features.
Her intense deep purple hair was tied up high, reaching all the way to her ankles.
A red floral-patterned kimono dress accentuated her enchanting and delicate slender figure, yet she carried an enormous long blade almost as tall as herself.
Despite being a great beauty, she radiated a murderous aura throughout her entire being!
Luo Ziyan laughed heartily:
"I was just joking!"
"But Little Shiyu's SSR is really strong, you know. Since you're both SSRs, who do you think would be stronger?"
"I hope they do well so we can meet up in the capital and have a proper duel!"
"Though I'm sure you'd win, Demon Blade Princess!"
Demon Blade Princess remained silent, quietly watching Xia Yuan on the phone screen.
She was also quite curious—being SSRs, who would be stronger between her and him.
Gardenia Spirit High School's selection method was simple and brutal: they directly chose the top 50 students from the school's power rankings for a massive free-for-all battle.
The last ten standing would represent the academy in the competition!
However, due to Demon Blade Princess's one-sided slaughter, this massive battle had lost its judgment criteria.
She single-handedly defeated all the contracted spirits, and in an extremely short amount of time at that...
Luo Ziyan watched the live broadcast and suddenly got excited:
"Ooh, it's about to start!"
"Fight, fight, fight!"
"Let me see what other skills this Xia Yuan SSR has!"
..........
On the arena.
Xia Yuan looked at the opponent's team composed of a child, a woman, and an old man, rubbed his neck, and decided to let them make the first move.
They didn't hold back either.
Shadow Sister stomped her high heels, and the shadow beneath her feet suddenly branched out, rapidly spreading across the ground toward Xia Yuan's feet.
Seeing this, Xia Yuan took a step back. The old mage's eyes gleamed with sharp light as he murmured, "Weaken the void."
The next moment, a yellow cage materialized around Xia Yuan, trapping him within. A wave of weakness washed over him, greatly reducing both his speed and strength.
A technique!
Yet another power that directly affected the target—the Limitless Technique couldn't block it.
The moment Xia Yuan's speed slowed, the branching shadows from the ground caught up to him.
Instantly, he became completely immobilized.
Hah...
Are you Shikamaru from Naruto?
Admittedly, their skills happened to all be mysterious-type abilities that the Limitless Technique couldn't defend against.
Shadow Sister formed hand seals with a charming smile, "Success! His defensive ability does have limitations after all. It's probably not a barrier that blocks everything—it can't defend against abilities like ours!"
Han Guang felt greatly reassured. It seemed his three contracted spirits happened to counter the opponent's abilities—Lady Luck was on his side!
Seeing this, the little boy burst into loud laughter:
"Xia Yuan, you're 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 nearby spoke again, "Amplify and enhance."
Red light surged around the little boy, greatly boosting his superpowers!
However, before being controlled, Xia Yuan had already formed the hand signs for Domain Expansion!
The entire audience was shocked!
The great demon king was controlled—was he about to be defeated?!
Everyone widened their eyes, holding their breath as they stared intently at the arena, afraid of missing any moment.
Mo Shiyu couldn't help but feel nervous too, but when she saw Xia Yuan's familiar hand signs, she instantly relaxed.
She knew Xia Yuan had already won this battle!
Just as the little boy was about to exert his power, Xia Yuan grinned and spoke first:
"Domain Expansion..."
"Unlimited Void."
A black, void-like barrier rapidly expanded from him, enveloping the entire arena and trapping the little boy, Shadow Sister, and the old mage within.
The entire venue erupted in chaos—no one knew what had actually happened.
They couldn't see what was happening inside the black barrier either.
However, the next moment, the black barrier quickly dissipated.
The audience could see the arena situation again!
They saw that the three contracted spirits—Superpowered Boy, Shadow Sister, and the old mage—who had been about to attack Xia Yuan, were now standing foolishly in place, completely motionless.
Xia Yuan easily broke free from the shadow control and began forming hand seals at a leisurely pace:
"Trying to play control games with me?"
"A few minutes is more than enough for me to kill you all."
That's right.
Xia Yuan had executed a 0.2-second Domain Expansion!
It required rapidly activating and deactivating the domain over a large area within an extremely short time.
Previously, he didn't dare to do this because he wasn't very familiar with Gojo Satoru's template and found it difficult to perform such precise domain expansion.
But after his breakthrough, he became completely different.
The 0.2-second Unlimited Void could flood the brains of living beings within the domain with six months' worth of useless information.
In the Jujutsu world, it could paralyze special-grade cursed spirits for over five minutes, and ordinary people for two months...
And five minutes was more than enough for Xia Yuan to kill these three countless times.
Moreover.
There were many benefits to expanding it this way, such as conserving some spiritual energy.
The entire audience watched the three contracted spirits standing foolishly motionless on the arena, completely bewildered about what had happened!
In the widely circulated footage of Xia Yuan's battles online, there were no scenes of Domain Expansion.
Instantly, the entire venue erupted:
"What just happened? Why aren't those three contracted spirits moving!"
"Xia Yuan! It must be that Domain Expansion ability God Yuan just chanted—what did he do!"
"That black barrier covered such a huge area just now—could that be Xia Yuan's ultimate move!"
"A control-type ultimate move?!"
"Holy crap, God Yuan's damage output is so high, and you're telling me he's actually a team control-type contracted spirit?"
"......"
Han Guang was even more confused, completely unaware of what had occurred.
The situation had reversed far too quickly.
Just a moment ago, he was ready to pop the champagne!
Han Guang anxiously shouted:
"Boy!"
"Shadow Sister!"
"Mage Elder!"
However, the three contracted spirits showed no response whatsoever, still frozen in place without moving.
Xia Yuan aimed his fingers, gesturing as he selected a position, "Hmm, they're in a straight line."
Since the opponent was SR-tier, he'd show them some respect and fire off a Void Technique "Purple"!
Generally, after Domain Expansion, one becomes unable to use cursed techniques, entering a state of technique burnout.
However, Xia Yuan had previously discovered that he didn't experience this condition after domain expansion.
This was probably thanks to the contracted spirit's special spiritual body state!
Technique burnout is actually a body protection mechanism, but spiritual bodies are special—they only consume spiritual energy and don't seem to need protection.
This characteristic removed the limitation of technique burnout.
Allowing Xia Yuan to use his skills even more freely!