Curse Reply: I'm going to fight the Myriad Corpse Immortal, the highest level one!

"I wonder how bloated it is."

Xia Jie used cursed blood to simulate hands and feet, constantly dodging and weaving through Su Nuo's net of slashes, and using her blood armor to withstand the attacks when she couldn't dodge them.

Having possessed both the near-limitless curse power of the Cursed Spirit and the mechanism of converting curse power and curse blood through the Cursed Blood Manipulation Technique, he even had the energy to consider the safety of others while fighting against the Three-Finger Sukuna.

In the battle against Su Nuo, Zhang Xiang was nowhere to be seen, and he was not even mentioned in Xia Jie's pre-battle arrangements.

The reason is simple: after Gojo Satoru was unsealed, the relaxed body and mind of the bloated man asked Tengen for permission to go to the forbidden storehouse to retrieve his remaining younger brother.

In terms of expansion phase, it means—

"It's time for my little brothers to meet."

In order to prevent the expansion from being "passed by" by Su Nuo, who broke into the barrier, like the instant kill of the Stone Flow Dragon, Xia Jie specially asked Tian Yuan to control the barrier and lock the expansion in the forbidden warehouse before going to the elevator shaft to guard Su Nuo.

Although Tengen could, to some extent, modify the coordinates of items and personnel within the Hōsei Palace barrier, just as Kenji could move the field coordinates and throw Shiki Yun into the sea, directly transferring the expansion phase to the battlefield.

However, given Zhang Xiang's combat strength, even if we brought him over to fight Su Nuo together, it wouldn't affect the battle situation, so we might as well let him continue to stay in Ji Ku.

That's true, but based on Xia Jie's understanding of Zhang Xiang's personality, this guy would definitely rush over to join the battle without a second thought because he was worried about his younger brother's safety.

"It really came after all, the swelling."

Seeing a "Hundredfold Blood Piercing" attack, which wasn't his own, strike Sukuna's hands as he was forming hand seals, interrupting his attempt to unleash his domain, Xia Jie had to admit that the Expansion Form wasn't entirely useless; it was at least a hundred times more effective than Fushiguro Megumi's.

"Cursed Blood Manipulation Technique - Blood Drill Bullet!"

Xia Jie did not give up this fleeting opportunity, and used the rapidly spinning blood drill to pierce Su Nuo's right hand, which was trying to form a hand seal again.

At the same time, he released a giant blood serpent to coil up the bloated figure and throw the defenseless figure towards the direction of the Death Star Palace, so that this good brother could reunite with his good younger brother as soon as possible.

As if relaying Xia Jie's attack, the spherical shikigami "Phoenix Wheel," flying down from above, bore the slash and, carrying immense mass and kinetic energy, crashed into Sukuna's head, forcing Sukuna, who was trying to get close to use "Eight" on Xia Jie, to jump back and dodge. After retreating into the Red Star Palace, Tsukumo Yuki did not give up continuing to provide ranged support to the battlefield with shikigami.

"Jacob's Ladder!" The angel hidden inside the void barrier appeared, seizing the precious opening created by his companions, and unleashed a pillar of light at maximum power, successfully dealing the greatest damage since the start of the battle.

Although we've only known each other for less than a day

But this is the bond between us—Sukuna/Fallen Angel!!!

Even though the surface of their bodies was charred black by the beams of light, the soul and body were no longer perfectly aligned due to the effects of Jacob's Ladder.

Su Nuo's hatred remained firmly fixed on Xia Jie.

For Sukuna at this moment, it's all about retrieving his finger, facing Gojo Satoru head-on, the plan entrusted to him by Toso, and even his own life or death.

None of that matters anymore.

He only wanted to crush the utterly despicable Xia Jie into dust here, using the despair and death of this disgusting maggot to quell the anger that was about to overflow his chest.

"In the past thousand years, only you, Xia Jie, have ever inspired such rage in me!"

"I'm in a hurry." Xia Jie used just two words to make the old man's face, which had been blackened by the beam of light, regain its rosy color.

To put it bluntly, Sukuna is now completely red-hot.

Jacob's Ladder!!!

Blood Curse Technique - Crimson Binding!

Seeing that it could not divert Su Nuo's attention, the angel flying above the battlefield retreated back inside the barrier, releasing a new Jacob's Ladder before leaving.

Having prepared himself mentally, Sukuna ran away from where he was the moment he sensed the fluctuation of the power of the spell above his head.

He used the blood net that was hindering Xia Jie's movements to tear a huge hole, effortlessly dodging the attack of the angel Lai Xihua.

"As expected of Su Nuo Yao, she managed to fight us to this extent with at most three fingers of magical power, without even using her original form and the Ice Condensation Spell, her two most powerful weapons."

Xia Jie's expression grew increasingly cheerful and smug as he fought, his mouth stretching even wider than when Shibuya Sukuna fought Makura.

"Show me your trump card."

Xia Jie said,

"Your true form of having two mouths and four arms, and the ice-condensing spell inherited from Rime."

Then, try to let me have my fill.

Xia Jie said again.

"Just how much do you know... Never mind, domain expansion—Demon Slayer Chef."

Faced with Xia Jie's relentless barrage of trash talk, Su Nuo was beyond furious. He lost all interest in the conversation and chose to revert to his original form.

With his four arms, Su Nuo was finally able to free up a pair of hands from the intense combined attack of the Dou Nuo team to form hand seals. He unleashed his domain with pure killing intent, intending to eliminate the disgusting maggot that kept jumping around in one move.

In an instant, the world was dyed blood red.

A mound of bones, made up of countless grotesque and terrifying giant skeletons, rises from the ground, with a large shrine with red pillars and green tiles, resembling a torii gate, sitting atop the mound.

A gigantic maw, baring teeth like a zombie, opened from the divine mouth, radiating a chilling aura of cursed power, as if it wanted to chew everything in the world to dust, swallow it whole, and turn it into an offering to the King of Curses.

This hellish scene is the realm of Sukuna, or rather, the manifestation of the landscape of the mind.

Half a second before Su Nu uttered the domain name, Xia Jie sensed an unprecedented fluctuation of magical power and immediately understood what Su Nu was planning to do.

He promptly removed the Phoenix Wheel, which had been deactivated to a false quality, and kicked it out of the domain. He then covered his entire body with cursed blood, doing everything in his power to increase the volume of the cursed blood until he enveloped himself into a huge, hard blood sphere, waiting for the inevitable strike to arrive.

"Eight." Su Nuo's voice came.

The blood sphere was cleanly and neatly split open, and Xia Jie inside was also cut in two, just like Gojo Satoru's waist-cutting technique.

Then, more slashes called "Solution" surged in like a tide, preparing to shred the blood orb and Xia Jie, which had been split in two, into dust bit by bit.

Then the blood cell suddenly disappeared.

Xia Jie's body turned into blood mist under the endless slashes, leaving only the red finger, which was originally inside the gate and was covered with suspicious filth, still indestructible.

It's summer mustard!

Upon discovering that the blood spheres could not withstand the attack, he changed his mind, actively reclaiming the blood and transforming it into magical power. Furthermore, he abandoned his past body and concentrated all his magical power to protect the magical spirit in his brain.

Did Xia Jie manage to defend against it?

It was prevented, but not completely.

Slashes appeared one after another on the body of the eight-legged brain, and then healed itself in the next instant with the overwhelming power of the curse.

"Stove, turn on!!!"

Seeing that Xia Jie's brain could still persist within the domain, Su Nuo did not hesitate to use the Flame of Ten Thousand Deaths, which could instantly kill Mo Xu Luo.

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Additional notes:

①The reason why the threat to the little golden beetle in Chapter 3 failed was that the angel's deterrent power was not enough. If the angel had directly threatened to destroy the cleansing realm to threaten the little golden beetle like Lu Suo did, it would have been possible to add rules. In fact, if the protagonist were strong enough, such harmless rules could be negotiated. It's just that the protagonist felt it was unnecessary.

② In Chapter 12, the number of fingers in Sukuna was changed from 4 to 3 because I overlooked the fingers that were buried in the body by the rope when Katsura was born. That is, Katsura had 16 fingers during the period of death and return, and after subtracting the 1 finger of the prison master, there are 3 fingers left. (This does not include the incarnation of Sukuna as a Buddha.)