His eyes shrinking fiercely into a pin-sized blue dot, Gojo's brain worked at its maximum capacity trying to think of some countermeasures that would allow him to get out of his current bad situation.

However, before he could think of anything useful, Lorien's Realm/Domain clashed with his already expanded Domain.

*Swish*

'Damn it!'

The moment this happened, all the people watching couldn't help but hold their breaths in both silence and expectation as they waited for some sort of miracle to occur.

It's just that as expected, no such thing happened as the moment the two opposing forces made contact, the starry sky formed by Gojo's cursed energy instantly collapsed causing the sorcerer to freeze in place as he felt the backlash caused by the collapse of his domain.

'Ughhh'

Frowning lightly, Gojo maintained his calm resisting the pain as he subsequently began using his RCT to heal his brain.

'Shit, there is no way to resist it head-on!'

'However, I must still find a way to deal with it, otherwise, there is no way to fight this battle...'

Taking advantage of the fact that Lorien hasn't attacked him yet, Gojo continued healing the portion of his brain that's responsible for enacting barriers while also taking the opportunity to analyze Lorien's Domain using his six eyes.

However, the more Gojo analyzed this domain, the more he understood that this wasn't something he could directly deal with.

'This...'

'Can this even be called a domain?'

'It has nothing to do with techniques, and even the way that it's formed is more in line with how the normal world is supposed to be.'

'It feels that instead of creating a 'new layer' on top of the canvas which is the [World], this domain simply took the place of the Canva itself!'

'So, frankly, this can't be called domain, instead, it's more appropriate to call it a realm or a small world.'

'Moreover, now that I think of it, the reason why my domain collapsed earlier wasn't that his domain and mine collided, instead, it was something else.'

'As a normal domain, mine is 'Drawn' as an additional layer on top of the 'Canvas' which is the world.'

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'However, Lorien's realm removes this 'Canvas' and forcefully takes its place.'

'So, when this happened, my domain which is on top of the old canvas also forcefully got removed alongside it.'

'Tsk, this is even worse than I had previously anticipated!'

'WAIT!'

Suddenly thinking of something, Gojo couldn't help but repeat one of the thoughts that he had caught in his previous internal musing.

'Replacing the canvas...Replacing the canvas...'

The more Gojo repeated it, the brighter his eyes shone with excitement as he suddenly thought of a solution for his current predicament or at least a way to improve his situation.

'This could work!'

Finally finding a possible solution just in time for his injury to get healed, Gojo didn't waste any moment in executing it.

[Domain Expansion: Unlimited Void - Alter]

*Swish*

With his domain expanding once more, Gojo's open domain looked like a small river of stars traveling across the vast planes under the majesty of the twin sun and moon as it headed towards the noble golden tree standing in the center of the realm.

Seeing this, Lorien who was about to start mocking Gojo couldn't help but stop as he looked at the 'attack' that was coming his way in confusion.

'Does he want to get into a round of domain clashes? But that doesn't make sense.'

'He should have already realized that there is no way for him to come on top in such collisions.'

Feeling both curious and confused, Lorien decided not to actively attack Gojo's domain expansion and instead waited for it to collapse on its own as he wanted to see if there was anything special about it.

However, against Lorien's expectation and prediction, the star river formed by Gojo's cursed energy actually continued moving unhindered toward him, finally reaching him before he could wake up from his confused state.

'This...'

Looking at the star river in front of him, Lorien's eyes immediately went wide with shock as confusion quickly turned into shock as he didn't expect it to get this far.

'What's going on?'

It's just that before Lorien could fully understand the situation, the river of stars suddenly transformed into a ring shape enveloping him within like a nebula.

[Domain Expansion: Unlimited Void - Close]

*Buzzz*

The moment Gojo saw this, he immediately gave this order causing this ring to instantly transform into a closed Domain which instantly swallowed Lorien within.

'Hhahaha, it worked!'

Seeing his plan succeed, a smile couldn't help but appear on Gojo's face who continued operating his technique wanting to launch his attack before Lorien could fully react and get out of his domain.

'I must be quick!'

'This technique is one of the two methods that I have developed after getting information from Lorien.'

'For other people, this technique has a must-hit effect and is basically unavoidable, however, for Lorien, it is quite the opposite as he might shatter my domain at any moment.'

So, knowing this, Gojo kept the domain expansion finger sign in front of him as he started the second phase of his domain expansion while also starting to chant.

[Wheel-Turning Monarchs...On the Period of Decline...Pratityasamutpada]

[Domain Expansion Phase: Space condensation]

*Bzzzz*

The moment this phase began, an incredible amount of cursed energy suddenly appeared within Gojo's unlimited void forcefully consolidating and condensing it.

However, things didn't end there as the normal-sized barrier also started shrinking quickly only stopping when it reached the size of a ping-pong ball.

'It's almost there!'

Finally reaching the last phase, Gojo could hardly hold back his excitement as he finally launched his new attack.

[Domain Expansion Phase: Collapse]

*Crack*

*Crack*

*Crack*