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

"Looks like we need to finish this quickly."

Suspecting that Tengen was up to something, Xia Jie abandoned her original plan to fight Su Nuo and drag things out until Gojou returned to the high school.

After all, if the instigator of the anomaly was indeed Tengen, who was proficient in barrier techniques, then the battle fluctuations occurring within the barrier of the Hōsei Palace would likely be well concealed.

Even if Gojo Satoru finds the old wooden door through the remnants of Sukuna's curse power, Tengen will most likely have already changed the entrance again.

In the entire world of sorcery, only three people—Gao Yu, Zhang Xiang, and Lu Suo—could find Tian Yuan, who was focused on playing hide-and-seek. All three of them are either dead or their whereabouts are unknown.

The current situation is quite something, it's like Fang Yuan, who boasts of having five hundred years of wisdom, has been given a slap on the wrist by Teacher Bai Ningbing to learn to be humble and not complacent.

So, who will be the one to strike me, this extraterrestrial demon, with a knife? Will it be Tianyuan, Gao Yu, or some villain who deviates from the original plot?

Don't make me get too excited!

By drawing back the cursed blood that forms the Blood Fortress Rock into her body, Xia Jie shattered the iceberg that had been sealing her with a single punch, a punch enhanced by cursed power.

"Higurashi! Takaha! Tsukumo Yuki! Khajiitsu! Kuchishou! Tengen! Are you there?"

As soon as Xia Jie emerged, she shouted towards the direction of the Hongxing Palace.

"..."

No one responded.

"Angels? Fuhei? Can you hear me? Answer me now!"

There was no response.

As if everyone had been vanished at the same time, only Xia Jie and Su Nuo remained within the vast barrier of the Hongxing Palace.

"666, there's still a one-on-one match!"

Xia Jie looked at Su Nuo, who had also noticed the strangeness of the battle because of his actions, and was happy to temporarily stop and wait for the melting spell to recover, and sighed inwardly.

"Um...can we call a truce?"

After a long silence, Xia Jie spoke first. He was already impatient to find out about the unknown source and had no time to waste with Su Nuo, who was only at the three-finger level.

"Ceasefire? At this moment? Your silly joke actually made me laugh, kid."

The Nuo master's crimson eyes flashed with contempt, revealing the look he gave to pigs and dogs.

"I knew it," Xia Jie sighed.

Xia Jie was met with several invisible slashes that only contained fluctuations of magical power.

Xia Jie dodged them all, feeling somewhat uneasy. Clearly, Su Nuo's spell's melting period had ended, and he would now face Su Nuo with both spells and his domain fully deployed.

"Will we win?" Xia Jie asked herself.

"I'll win!" With an arrogant smile full of confidence, Xia Jie grinned and declared his victory before the duel.

"Let me tell you in advance, you are the challenger to Ryoumen Sukuna."

In response to the provocative words of the blood-red stick figure before him, Su Nuo's reply was...?

"Hmph, you overconfident insect dares to challenge me? Watch me crush you!"

The frigid frost and hundreds upon hundreds of slashes arrived simultaneously, sealing off all of Xia Jie's escape routes in the confined underground environment. This time, no one could come to his aid, leaving him isolated and helpless.

"Should we take a gamble? I don't even know if I can do it right now... No, I absolutely can, I can definitely do it. Causal resistance, I command you!!!"

He will use causal resistance to resist all failures until he succeeds.

Even if you bet wrong, you can just go back to the challenge space and start over.

To Su Nuo's surprise, Xia Jie did not choose to defend against his attack. His true form ":)" actually closed his eyes "冫)" at this moment and calmed down to feel himself.

The slash shattered the blood-soaked body into mist, and ice crystals froze the spider-shaped brain at the center of the blood mist, the extreme cold beginning to brittle it.

"Tch~ You gave up after just spouting nonsense? But I won't let you die so easily, you bug!"

Su Nuo deliberately interrupted the output of his spell power, cut off the piece of ice crystal that was sealing Xia Jie's body, and examined it in his palm.

Whether it was due to the previous provocations or to gain intelligence about the future, Sukuna would not let Natsume die like this.

In other words, did Xia Jie lose?

No.

Xia Jie was internally celebrating: "Plan worked! Everything went exactly as I predicted; Master Nuo has fallen for it again."

Now that we've successfully completed the first step of the plan, I need to rest for a while. I'll leave Tengen to you, Sukuna.

You've been around for ages, don't let me down, you old codger.

Thinking this, Xia Jie completely immersed herself in her heart and began to explore her own true nature.

He has always believed that he was born from a cursed killer, a fully-fledged, top-tier cursed vengeful spirit.

But when he was pushed to his limit by Su Nuo's domain, he felt a tremor deep within his soul.

The feeling was like a pupa about to emerge from its cocoon sensing its existence and instinctively becoming restless.

It wasn't until that moment that Xia Jie realized that she was actually an unhatched cursed fetus.

To be precise,

It is a top-grade cursed fetus.

So, Xia Jie, as a cursed fetus...

Now it's time to complete the incubation process.

Beyond the ice crystals, Su Nuo's fingertips condensed into icy finger sleeves, which she angrily and disdainfully picked up from the ground.

Use fine ice shavings to wash away the dirt on it repeatedly until no trace of discoloration can be seen.

Su Nuo was still not at ease, so he used a lot of "Jie" to carefully scrape his fingers from top to bottom dozens of times, then cut open his abdomen and threw his fingers into his stomach.

The power of the sixteen-finger curse makes it impossible for him to give up, but given its disgusting nature, it's also impossible for him to abandon his dignity and eat that finger.

For a strong person like him, a personal insult is more terrifying than death.

So we came up with this compromise: skipping swallowing and going straight to the stomach.

Even so, Su Nuo still felt a deep-seated nausea.

After absorbing the fingers, Sukuna's power was successfully restored to 19 fingers.

He was just one finger away from the peak.

Along with the surge of immense magical power came a deep hatred for Xia Jie, the magical spirit who had reached her peak.

"I've made up my mind, kid. I'm going to drag everyone you care about into front of you and kill them all. Then I'll find four gay guys to subject you to the ultimate humiliation, and then lock you in a cesspool so you can forever and ever repent for your transgression."

Among the comics that Hu Zhang extensively explored, there were several comics titled "Sea Tiger" created by a Hong Kong cartoonist.

As a child, Yuji Itadori was amazed by the strength, dominance, and power of the characters, and saddened by the suffering they endured.

Sukuna, who had watched Itadori's memories when he was bored, just scoffed at it.

But in his extreme anger, he suddenly remembered two plot points from the comic book that he could use to get revenge on Xia Jie.

The first is—the ultimate insult!

Secondly—the rebirth pool!!!