Chapter 213: Sanada's Method for Breaking the Supreme Domain

Oni on the side said: "I actually think that Sanada falling into a disadvantage now is mainly because of Peerless Perfection."

"When exactly is he planning to use the Asura Divine Path?"

Takahashi looked at Sanada, who was already covered in sweat on the court, and said: "Soon!"

"The timing is almost ripe!"

Irie asked in confusion: "What timing?"

……

On the court.

"Bang!"

……

"Xu Like Forest!"

After a loud shout, a black aura like thick ink suddenly enveloped Sanada's entire body.

At this moment, the tennis ball returned by Sanada was also wrapped in a black aura, flying straight to the front of the net.

"Black Dragon Single Slash!"

Sanada immediately began to swing his tennis racket.

Tezuka's brows furrowed tightly; he felt an extraordinary, powerful, and eerie aura from that blackness.

Fortunately, the rotation belonging to the Domain was still on the tennis ball.

Tezuka stood in place, raised his arm, and waited for the moment the little yellow ball would "walk right into the trap."

The tennis ball, just as Tezuka had expected, came straight toward his tennis racket.

At this moment, an unexpected change occurred.

Less than 10 centimeters away from the racket, the tennis ball suddenly turned to the right, landed, and bounced.

"15-0!"

"Japan Team scores!"

……

Kirihara asked in surprise: "Why has Senior Sanada's Black Dragon Single Slash changed?"

"Why is the tennis ball shrouded in black aura?"

Takahashi explained: "It is precisely because of that black aura that Sanada can control the tennis ball to change direction wherever he wants, and he can also control when the tennis ball begins to change direction."

Mifune on the side smiled and said: "First, use Xu Like Forest to break the rotation belonging to the Phantom within the Supreme Domain, leaving only the rotation belonging to the Domain."

"Then, by means of the Black Dragon Single Slash, make the tennis ball, which was originally drawn in by the Domain, change direction at the very last moment."

"Using such a strategy to break the Supreme Domain is the method you came up with, right! Takahashi."

Hearing this, Takahashi smiled and said nothing.

In fact, Takahashi had previously considered teaching Sanada the move Rotation Annihilation, which would allow him to directly eliminate all rotation on the tennis ball.

However, the prerequisite for the move Rotation Annihilation is that the player must have a sufficiently profound understanding of rotation themselves, so that all rotation added by the opponent can be made to disappear.

And since Sanada did not have much research on rotation before, Takahashi knew that even if Sanada learned Rotation Annihilation, he probably wouldn't be able to break Tezuka's Compound Spin.

Because Tezuka's understanding of rotation was above Sanada's.

Helpless, Takahashi could only change his approach, letting Sanada further refine his original moves, such as the evolution of Wind Forest Fire Mountain.

And the evolution from As Gentle as the Forest to Xu Like Forest gave Takahashi an idea.

Since there was no way to make the Compound Spin disappear completely, he would just remove one type of rotation and leave the other.

This way, he only needed to focus his energy on dealing with one, greatly reducing the difficulty.

And the Black Dragon X Slash changes the direction of the tennis ball through airflow, which naturally breaks Tezuka's Domain.

Once combined with Xu Like Forest, the Supreme Domain was broken!

Mouri spoke up hesitantly: "Since you had already thought of a way to break Tezuka's Supreme Domain in advance, why wait until now to use it?"

"Those few points lost just now were a bit of a pity!"

Takahashi said: "Back at the Training Camp, Sanada's Black Dragon X Slash could not control the direction in which the tennis ball changed; where the ball changed was completely random, and even Sanada himself couldn't control it."

"But now, not only can he control where the tennis ball changes, he can also control when the tennis ball changes direction; this evolution comes entirely from the empowerment of the Asura Divine Path."

Oni said: "Yes, to achieve this much, one must rely on the Asura Divine Path."

"I am still very confused as to why he didn't use the Asura Divine Path sooner; even without using the Black Dragon X Slash, he could have resisted the suppression brought by Peerless Perfection."

Takahashi replied helplessly: "Oni, Sanada is only a junior high student after all, and he has only been in contact with the Asura Divine Path for a short 3 months; he cannot yet use it as freely as we do, controlling his entry and exit at will."

"You cannot demand too much of him."

As soon as these words were spoken, Oni fell silent instantly.

He thought of how it took him more than a full year after entering high school to fully enter the Asura Divine Path.

And now Sanada is only in his third year of junior high, and has only been in contact with the Asura Divine Path for a little over 3 months...

Mifune asked with some curiosity: "Takahashi, the Sanada on the court now has indeed entered the Asura Divine Path; how did you manage to do that?"

Takahashi explained: "Sanada is a very serious, earnest, and unyielding person."

"And I discovered that during a match, as long as he is in adversity and being completely suppressed by the opponent, a thought to risk everything will well up in his heart."

"The more severely he is suppressed, the stronger this thought becomes!"

"The stronger this thought is, under my guidance, the higher the probability that he can unleash the Asura Divine Path."

"So the method we adopted was to let Sanada be subjected to enough suppression in the early stages, so as to ensure that he could successfully activate the Asura Divine Path during the match."

"Just like in that match against Ochi and Mouri back at the Training Camp, it was because of Ochi's Mental Assassination that Sanada was given enough stimulation, which allowed him to successfully use the Black Dragon Single Slash in that match."

Oni nodded and said: "So that's it! Is that also the reason why Sanada resisted Peerless Perfection head-on at the beginning?"

Takahashi said: "No, that was just an idea Sanada proposed unilaterally, but I thought it was worth a try."

"Although Peerless Perfection comes with a suppression effect, Tezuka's own playing style leans towards defense and is not aggressive, and Sanada has also made great progress during this period."

"Therefore, the suppression from that radiance alone is not enough to allow Sanada to enter the Asura Divine Path."

"The continuous loss of points followed by the exhaustion brought on by Move Like Thunder is what finally enabled Sanada to successfully enter the Asura Divine Path."

Listening to Takahashi's explanation, the way Mifune looked at Takahashi changed.

Because he was surprised to discover that the method Takahashi used to help Sanada enter the Asura Divine Path was the same as the one he used to train Byodoin, Tokugawa, and the others.

And Mifune still remembered that after he had trained Tokugawa for half a year, Tokugawa still could not freely enter the Asura Divine Path.

At that time, when Mifune helped Tokugawa enter the Asura Divine Path, he used the same method as Takahashi.

First suppress them, force them into a desperate situation, and then enter that Path of Hell.

Mifune was, after all, a Coach of the U17 National Team, possessing rich experience in tennis instruction.

Moreover, Tokugawa's base strength was far higher than Sanada's; even under such circumstances, it took Tokugawa nearly a year, with Oni and Irie both helping as well.

Looking at Takahashi, he was all by himself, taking a senior two grades above him, and was able to make him use the Asura Divine Path on the court in just over three months.

Mifune had originally thought his evaluation of Takahashi was already very high, but he did not expect Takahashi to be able to bring him such a surprise!

Likewise, Mifune was even more certain that Takahashi had walked further on that Path of Hell than anyone else on the national team.