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"Garuda!"
Yuki Tsukumo no longer trusted Tengen at all, nor did she have any intention of listening to his nonsense. She directly summoned her Shikigami, Garuda, and launched an attack at Tengen.
However, the moment Garuda's body came into contact with Tengen, it passed right through him before disappearing into thin air, as though it had been forcibly erased or teleported elsewhere by some mysterious power surrounding him.
"A barrier?"
Yuki Tsukumo looked at the untouchable Tengen, her expression instantly turning serious. She immediately assumed a fighting stance as Cursed Energy surged through her body, preparing to attack personally.
She could still vaguely sense Garuda's presence somewhere far away, which meant the Shikigami had not been erased, but had instead been teleported elsewhere.
"Haa!"
After briefly analyzing Tengen's state in her mind, Yuki Tsukumo's technique was already complete. She instantly leaped forward, closing the distance between them in a flash, and threw a punch condensed with immense Cursed Energy directly toward Tengen.
Her fist passed straight through his body.
Immediately afterward, she felt a terrifying twisting force wrap around the arm that had pierced through Tengen's figure, threatening to tear it apart.
Yuki Tsukumo's expression changed. She immediately pulled back her arm and swiftly retreated, creating distance between herself and Tengen once again.
"It's not a barrier… it's a Domain!"
Yuki Tsukumo spoke in a grave tone as she looked down at her right arm, which had twisted into an unnatural shape. If she had retreated even a moment later, and if her arm had not been reinforced with Cursed Energy, she might have lost it entirely.
However, that brief exchange had also allowed Yuki Tsukumo to roughly understand what was happening with Tengen's body.
She speculated that Tengen had fused his Domain and Barrier Technique together, then wrapped his entire body within it.
This method likely allowed all attacks directed at him to either be neutralized by the Domain barrier surrounding his body or forcibly redirected elsewhere, rendering ordinary attacks completely ineffective.
Furthermore, Tengen appeared capable of altering the state of the Domain barrier around his body at will. For example, he could distort the barrier itself, which explained why her arm had almost been twisted off moments earlier.
"This monster can actually fuse a Domain and Barrier Technique together like this."
Yuki Tsukumo used Reverse Cursed Technique to heal the injury on her right arm while rapidly analyzing Tengen's abilities in her mind.
"Still," she thought to herself, "even if his way of using a Domain is unusual, it's not impossible to deal with!"
This was the first time Yuki Tsukumo had seen Tengen use Domain and Barrier Techniques in such a bizarre manner. Although she was shocked, she knew there had to be a weakness.
Even if the Domain was fused with a barrier, it was still fundamentally a Domain.
Moreover, Tengen's Domain barrier appeared to only cover the surface of his body rather than expanding outward like a traditional Domain.
Therefore, if she also expanded her Domain and forcibly dragged Tengen into it, a Domain clash would inevitably occur.
At that point, regardless of whose Domain proved stronger, she would at least be able to attack Tengen's true body directly.
After healing her arm, Yuki Tsukumo immediately clasped her hands together.
"Domain Expansion—Imaginary Universe!"
The moment her Domain expanded, the dozens of meters surrounding Yuki Tsukumo and Tengen were instantly enveloped in a dazzling cosmic starfield.
"I've been waiting for you!"
However, Yuki Tsukumo's response was exactly what Tengen had hoped for.
He clasped his own hands together, and an invisible force instantly spread outward from his body, rapidly neutralizing Yuki Tsukumo's Domain.
As Cursed Energy surged around him, Tengen calmly explained, "My Domain barrier simultaneously possesses the properties of both a Domain and a barrier. It is both a Domain and a barrier at the same time.
"A Domain can neutralize another Domain, while the purpose of a barrier is to reconstruct a Domain.
"So as long as my Domain barrier is active, no one can defeat me in a Domain clash.
"And once your Domain is dismantled, you will enter a technique burnout state. At that point, you will completely lose any possibility of defeating me."
Tengen's Domain barrier was not limited to covering the surface of his body. It could also expand outward like a normal Domain, and its range was surprisingly vast.
The reason he had not expanded it earlier was simply to mislead Yuki Tsukumo and feed her incorrect information, baiting her into activating her own Domain first.
The moment she did so, he would instantly expand the Domain surrounding his body to neutralize hers. Then, by utilizing the reconstructive properties of the barrier, he could immediately restore his own Domain.
Once Yuki Tsukumo's Domain collapsed and she entered technique burnout, she would have no means left to challenge him.
"Star Rage!"
After hearing Tengen's explanation, Yuki Tsukumo's expression immediately changed.
Before her Domain could be fully neutralized, she manipulated an imaginary star and hurled it directly at Tengen.
"It's useless!"
Facing the imaginary star rushing toward him, Tengen had no intention of dodging.
The moment the attack entered within roughly one meter of his body, it was instantly disintegrated by an invisible force.
Yuki Tsukumo's earlier analysis had been correct.
Tengen could not only alter the state of the Domain barrier surrounding him at will, but he could also analyze the characteristics of an opponent's technique through the barrier and then modify the nature of his own technique to counter it.
Just now, Tengen had simply transformed the properties of his own Domain technique into Cursed Energy opposite to Yuki Tsukumo's technique, allowing him to instantly dismantle her attack.
At the same time that the imaginary star was destroyed, Yuki Tsukumo's Domain was also completely neutralized by Tengen's Domain, causing both to disappear simultaneously.
However, while Tengen's Domain instantly reconstructed itself, Yuki Tsukumo entered a state of technique burnout.
The moment Tengen's Domain reformed, Yuki Tsukumo immediately adopted a sword-drawing stance and activated Simple Domain in an attempt to counter the sure-hit effect of Tengen's technique.
"It's useless."
Tengen casually waved his hand, instantly shattering the Simple Domain Yuki Tsukumo had cast.
Immediately afterward, an invisible force wrapped around her body.
Yuki Tsukumo watched helplessly as Tengen slowly walked toward her step by step.
The invisible force restraining her body tightened like a giant hand, threatening to crush her entirely.
Death was approaching.
Yet Yuki Tsukumo felt no fear.
She merely struggled to turn her gaze toward the sealed room behind her and softly whispered,
"I'm sorry, Naruto… Big Sister can't protect you anymore."
Boom!~
Just as Yuki Tsukumo's body was about to be crushed by the power of Tengen's Domain, a thunderous explosion suddenly echoed through the area.
A massive surge of Cursed Energy erupted from within the sealed room, violently shattering Tengen's Domain from the outside.
The next moment, a figure wrapped in overwhelmingly powerful Cursed Energy descended from the sky and landed heavily in front of Yuki Tsukumo.