Chapter 289: The Fate of a Closed Domain Is to Be Shattered from Without

The next instant.

Space fluctuations surged everywhere within the domain, like an omnipresent wind.

There was no blind spot and no gap, delivering indiscriminate slashes to every living thing within the barrier except the caster.

Until death!!

............

In the empty plaza.

Yan Jing, drenched through by the rain, sat beside a corpse, sheathing his long blade while gasping for breath. He lifted his head to look at the sky still pouring down its torrential downpour.

The grayish translucent spherical barrier was reflected in his glasses.

"...What is that? That's just absurd..."

Yan Jing's taut facial muscles gradually relaxed, the corners of his mouth unconsciously curling upward as an indescribable shock surged through his heart.

--That enemy... probably won't even have a single cell left by now.

--As expected of... the Strongest.

..........

On the abandoned building.

CLANG!

【Sand Crocodile】raised both arms, forcibly blocking the bite of a massive wolf head formed from wind.

However, his expression at this moment was rather ugly.

"Is it too late for me to surrender now?"

"Absolutely not!!"

Luo Xi leaped into the air and kicked out, flowing air currents forming a drill-like structure that enveloped her little leather boot as she once again clashed with him.

Yet even she couldn't help glancing at the enormous barrier in the rainy night out of the corner of her eye. She pouted, feeling somewhat reluctant inside.

--Tsk, sure, he's an arrogant egomaniac, but... I guess he's got some skill after all. Still, he's just a tiny bit worse than Brother Lin Guang.

...........

Sixth Division Headquarters.

Qin Shengshi's eyes lit up with astonishing brilliance.

"Domain Expansion?!"

She recognized what it was at a single glance.

Although a domain was not a technique that top-tier experts absolutely had to master, and in past eras, many of the most supreme spell secrets were not presented in such a form...

But the fact that the enemy had not used a countermeasure of equal level the moment Wu Nuo unfolded his domain proved that it, too, had been caught off guard.

In other words... Wu Nuo had won!

............

In the ruins of the Elevated Bridge.

Chen Yujie looked up at the massive sphere in the sky, coughed out a mouthful of bloody foam, and grinned as she cursed: "What a monster..."

"Every time I watch this guy make his move, I feel like these decades I've spent training all went to the dogs."

The next moment, she instinctively turned to look at the Cherry-Haired Girl standing in the distance, as if wanting to see the expression of this powerful and mysterious girl who seemed to be on their side.

Then, she was slightly stunned.

The crimson flames spontaneously burning around the girl evaporated all the falling rain, yet on that stunningly beautiful face there was not a trace of amazement. Instead, she shook her head and revealed a speechless expression.

The Cherry-Haired Girl murmured softly: "Using a cannon to swat a mosquito."

--This dummy got fooled by a decoy move.

............

At this very moment.

Inside the domain of infinite wind.

The demon encased in acid armor was forcibly enduring the omnipresent cutting force to protect itself.

Its body had been shredded apart countless times within just a few seconds. Every time it tried to liquefy and reform, it would be sliced into even finer dust by even denser slashes.

The connection between its curse power and spell began to sever, then gradually weakened.

Even for a third Energy Level demon, such an attack was lethal.

However, Wu Nuo, who was maintaining the hand seal, furrowed his brows.

The enemy's curse power remained steady, without the slightest trace of panic.

Even if this demon's true body might be hidden at the other end of the world, or perhaps possessed other avatars in this world, making it unlikely to feel fear of death...

Still, such calmness was abnormal.

If it were to be defeated, and the plan it had been brewing for so long were destroyed, there should have been a corresponding emotional fluctuation.

But there was absolutely nothing.

The next moment, it even voluntarily gave up struggling and stopped reforming.

Just before being shredded apart, it transmitted a rather strange message to Wu Nuo through its remaining curse power vibrations:

"Truly worthy of the 【Strongest】..."

"However..."

"Is it because you are Wu Nuo that you are the Strongest, or because you are the Strongest that you are Wu Nuo?"

The instant those words fell, the demon's body finally could not hold on any longer, and as if weathered away by the wind, it transformed into endless particles.

Wu Nuo floated at the center of the domain, his brow slightly furrowed.

He couldn't figure out what that inexplicable parting message meant before its death.

But the next moment, his expression suddenly changed, and he abruptly raised his head to look at the top of the barrier.

"...!!"

At this moment, the torrential rain in the sky showed no sign of letting up. Instead, it grew even more violent, the raindrops dense to the extreme, pounding against the outer shell of the barrier.

But that was no ordinary rainwater.

Those falling raindrops began to carry terrifying curse power, striking the barrier's shell like countless fine meteors.

CRACKLE CRACKLE!!

Wu Nuo suddenly widened his eyes: "Are you kidding me!"

To prevent this demon from piercing through the barrier and escaping, Wu Nuo had deliberately reversed the inner and outer orientation of 【Impermeable】, facing the sturdy side inward. This also meant that the relatively fragile side was placed on the outside.

But that didn't mean just anything could break through it either.

And this was output within the scope of the third Energy Level as well!

How could this be?!

Crack, crack, crack--!

A series of shattering sounds echoed across the sky.

Then, before everyone's eyes, that translucent sphere symbolizing the domain exploded into pieces!

In that instant, Wu Nuo's face turned pale. The backlash from the domain's destruction began to take effect as blood abruptly flowed from his nostrils and eye sockets.

The curse power and spells within his body entered a brief period of disruption, and he lost his ability to remain airborne, beginning to fall uncontrollably toward the ground.

During his descent, Wu Nuo raised his head, staring fixedly at the sky above.

In that lofty heavens, within that thick and churning rainstorm, a figure slowly emerged.

It was armor with nine-tenths similarity to that deep green demon from before, only replaced with a blue-black color scheme, its surface covered with deep blue patterns flowing like water ripples. The compound eyes on its head gleamed with an eerie blue cold light beneath the night sky.

Its voice carried a deliberately exaggerated emotion: "How terrifying."

"So the Strongest of this era can even perform Domain Expansion."

"If I hadn't held back a trick... I really might have lost."

From that mocking gaze and familiar tone... it was still that demon!

Wu Nuo revealed a look of shock, but not solely because the enemy hadn't died.

--A memory device of the same third Energy Level!

--How could this be?!

One had to know that the Transcendent Means of various established powers were almost all consumables left over from the age when the supernatural flourished in the past.

To reproduce them in this era was not to say completely impossible, but it was as difficult as ascending to heaven, requiring tremendous cost.