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

"Speaking of which, Master Nuo, when you tried to force yourself on me in the 'Death and Rebirth' arc, didn't you promise to completely lose your arms, eyes, and mouth? How come you still have all six limbs intact? Are you going to renege on your promise?"

As the movie theater completely collapsed, Xia Jie, who had stepped into the outer edge of the Void Barrier, recalled her experience in the Tokyo First Barrier that morning and asked Sukuna a question.

"Who gave you permission to touch me, you bug!" Su Nuo sliced ​​the hand on her shoulder into evenly thick "radish slices" like she was slicing a radish, refusing to answer Xia Jie's question.

"Eh~ I get it! The one who sets the bondage is the soul of that sixteen-finger cursed finger, what does it have to do with you who swallowed the cursed power of the three fingers? In other words, you bypassed the cost and got the benefits of the bondage for free, right?"

As expected of the King of Curses, he easily accomplished what I couldn't!

But won't your playing these bondage games affect your credit score?

Having guessed the truth, Xia Jie couldn't help but marvel at the binding techniques of this ancient master.

If this doesn't affect the verification, then is he...? Thinking of this, Xia Jie suppressed her smile, fully activated her spell power, and broke through an invisible constraint on his soul.

Click!

In the silent roar, the constraint that Xia Jie had made when fighting Su Nuo—"to exchange a 99% reduction in spell power for the next 24 hours in exchange for the maximum efficiency of spell power output in the next minute"—was suddenly broken. Xia Jie, whose spell power had been reduced to 1% because a minute had passed, returned to the realm of a terrestrial immortal at this moment!

However, the punishment that descended from the heavens was kept at bay by causal resistance, which was sufficient to offset the minor causal punishment.

"Very good, no punishment!"

Xia Jie continued to hold back her laughter, trying to re-establish the same constraints.

"It worked? It worked!"

With the binding established, Xia Jie once again experienced a one-minute-long burst of maximum spell power output, transforming into a humanoid spell power cannon.

Xia Jie could no longer suppress her smile, which stretched to its widest point. The face of the fully formed cursed spirit "8)" was grinning grotesquely and terrifyingly "8D".

Rejoice! The most notorious deadbeat king in the world of sorcery, born once in a millennium, is born in the Palace of Death Star!

But at this moment of universal celebration, an emotionless voice intruded untimely: "Incredible! Breaking free from constraints, refusing divine punishment—you can even do something like this? Even I, who have become part of heaven and earth, cannot understand the principles behind it. What exactly are you, Xia Jie?"

"I should be the one asking the questions now, right? You old geezer, what kind of nonsense are you stirring up?"

Xia Jie glared unhappily at Tian Yuan, who had appeared. He did crave an unexpected surprise, but the feeling of being betrayed by an ally made him very uncomfortable.

It was as if the god of fate had leaped over him like a frog, looked at his face, and said, "See? Your judgment of people isn't all that great."

Even Xia Jie herself was questioning herself: Did I play wrong this time? Did my little lie about the precognitive spell I told before my death slip through my fingers?

And most importantly: Am I not doing my job as an intelligence strategist properly?

The answer was "yes" without exception.

"Let us create eternal freedom from suffering and defilement together, Xia Jie. In this pure and Brahmanical realm filled with slaughter, you are the only Mahasattva. Only you can become the vessel of salvation for all beings." Tengen's answer was quite enigmatic.

Speak like a human being!

"I will use Gao Yu's magic to revive you and assimilate you. Then together we will open up a true pure realm that covers the entire world, purify the evil in human souls, so that there will be no more cursed spirits, strife and desires in the world, let all souls return to their original purity, and let the future of mankind be forever peaceful and stable."

Tianyuan paused, as if recalling something, or perhaps reminiscing:

"For thousands of years, I have witnessed too many tragedies. Love, hatred, separation, and unfulfilled desires, the five aggregates are burning fiercely, and the Buddha's hell is a burning house. The beings of Saha can endure the ten evils, but they are constantly reincarnated in the sea of ​​suffering, unable to be liberated life after life. Only the poisonous fire of karma, which is satiated, grows ever more prosperous and far-reaching, and it brings boundless suffering to all people in the world indiscriminately."

I have resided in this Hidden Star Palace for a thousand years. I have governed this Great Barrier of Japan for a thousand years.

Day after day, year after year. The sun rises and rises again, the moon sets and sets again, spring goes and spring comes and autumn comes again. The young grow old, the old die, the young are born again, and the born die again.

The sapling in the center of the Hongxing Palace, which I casually watered when I was bored, has grown into a towering beam that dozens of people could hug.

I have become a cornerstone of stability in the world of sorcery, a god in the eyes of the Panxing Cult, and a symbol of immortality.

I vaguely glimpsed the eternal and unchanging Buddhist principles within the passage of time. If it weren't for the immortality technique, I would have already transcended my own soul.

Unable to escape, I can only continue watching, keep watching, and watch forever.

Behold the unease, uncertainty, and impurity of the world; see sentient beings toiling to death for food; witness the surging forces of karma fueling wars, muddying the law of cause and effect, and transforming the human realm into a bitter and turbid purgatory.

I read and forgot, then read again, until I vomited, and then I still had to read. This was because I couldn't stop thinking, nor could I bear to confront nothingness in the darkness of not seeing.

I used to hate my own magic, but that hatred faded with time, leaving only a pale and empty void.

But now, I have finally come to understand a truth that I may have realized before, but had long forgotten, and which I have now come to understand again.

Only by severing all impermanence and change, eradicating all conditioned phenomena, and purifying all non-empty and wicked natures can humanity be liberated, and only then can I attain true peace.

Only eternal stillness and purity constitute Nirvana.

Got it, another Type-Moon lover king, this time from Maris Billy.

Xia Jie understood Tian Yuan's plan.

When Tengen appeared in the third season of Curse Returns, he claimed to be ignorant of human nature and wanted to use Takaha's magic to establish a large barrier covering the planet and purify the souls of all mankind.

It aims to eliminate all negative emotions in the human soul, such as malice, desire, and impulse, that could lead to social instability factors like curses, conflicts, and innovation.

Even impulses and desires that lean towards neutrality or positivity should be eradicated.

May the human soul be like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, before they tasted the forbidden fruit.

Pure and innocent.

In other words, it's about castrating humanity and bleaching the soul. It's much more normal than what "Maris Billy" did, but it's still quite bizarre.

"You're saying all this just to buy time, aren't you?" Sukuna said with interest after listening to Tengen's story.

Along with the words arrived Su Nuo's invincible and fierce slash.

"..."

Tengen, who had slid to the ground, looked up at his still-standing lower body and did not react to Sukuna's words.

Then,

Tianyuan's figure vanished without a trace, like a bubble popped by a toothpick.

Then Tianyuan's voice rang out from all directions, even from inside Su Nuo's body, brain, style, and spittoon.

The cursed spirit Xia Jie escaped death by sheer luck because of her lack of class and her spitting.

"What I just manifested was merely a dreamlike illusion formed by the combination of the four elements. Unless your strike can sever the heavens and earth themselves, it will absolutely not be able to harm me in my current state."