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

So, can Tianyuan still be steamed?

The answer is—yes!

Absolutely yes, you can steam it easily!

30 seconds. 29 seconds. 28 seconds.

27 seconds... Outside the real ball, Wan, who was mentally calculating the time, was still locked in a fierce battle with the Ten Shadows Shikigami controlled by Tengen.

However, the shell of a true sphere, which possesses some of the properties of an ideal rigid sphere, cannot be used as a medium for sound transmission.

Therefore, while the three people inside the sphere remained inside, the outside remained completely silent.

Inside the crimson shell of the domain, the struggle between the Abyss and the Wheel of Adaptation has reached its climax.

The moment the power of the Great Crimson Lotus Hell erupted completely, even space itself emitted a dying groan under the crushing force of the four mental images. Extreme ice, slashing, cursed blood, and limitless power twisted into an indestructible noose, tightly binding the Adaptation Wheel above Mo Xuluo's head.

On that stagnant Dharma wheel, cracks spread rapidly like a spider web. Even the almost bug-like technique "Adaptation" was on the verge of melting under the combined power of the four realms.

Outside the liquid gold sphere, Wan's battle became increasingly difficult, while inside the sphere, Xia Jie was already considering whether it was time to pop the champagne ahead of schedule.

Until a will far greater and more rigid than the Pure Land, like the laws of heaven and earth themselves, suddenly descended from the Mandala Dharma Realm.

This arrival is neither the oppression of cursed power nor the effect of some kind of spell, but rather the self-declaration of the rules themselves.

The announcement had a subtle sense of ritual, like when the golden beetle promulgated new rules during the Death Return journey, but it was a million times more solemn and weighty.

That was the remaining ten percent of the Tianyuan consciousness, which had not yet been born into the flesh as the Demon Void Demon.

Tianyuan used its authority as the creator of the Mandala Dharma Realm, binding it with the requirement that "the Dharma Realm must be expanded globally within three days," and forcibly inscribed three extremely binding rules within the Dharma Realm:

"Please tell us, all sentient beings in the Dharma realm have the right to know this."

The three preliminary general principles of the "Zero Emptiness Secret Ritual - Mahasattva Ritual" initiated by the Dharma Realm Manager "Tengen" have been promulgated.

General Principle 1

All fighting is prohibited within the Dharma realm.

General Principle Two,

It is forbidden to disrupt the Dharma realm in any way.

General Principle Three,

All sentient beings within the Dharma Realm are prohibited from leaving its boundaries.

The real ball created by Wan Cuo failed to provide the slightest obstruction. The moment the three rules fell, the Great Crimson Lotus Hell, which was at its peak of power, suddenly froze.

It was as if a high-speed gear was forcibly driven into a wedge, and the barriers between the four intersecting mental images crumbled inch by inch.

"Oh no, we opened the champagne too early!" Xia Jie only had time to think this to himself before the mental images and magical power of him, Wu Tiao, and Su Nuo dissipated rapidly like the receding tide.

Su Nuo groaned, the muscles in his four arms tensing uncontrollably; Gojo Satoru's forehead was covered in sweat, a look of astonishment flashing in his azure pupils; Xia Jie also felt his spell power being forcibly severed by an invisible giant hand for a moment, the tearing and numbness of the spell melting instantly spreading throughout his brain.

The fierce battlefield seemed to be paused, falling into a brief silence, and then...

"Click—"

The crisp sound of wheels turning echoed across the silent battlefield, causing the three men's hearts to skip a beat. If they had to express their feelings in two words, it would be—

"It's over!"

The extremely fine ice dust regained its blood-red color and then coalesced into one.

Demon Void's bone-white body stood perfectly intact on the battlefield.

The wheel of adaptation above its head, which had been covered in cracks, now had all the cracks disappear and began to slowly rotate again.

The otherworldly god and the ultimate shikigami stood silently in place, their aura rising at a visible speed. With each rotation of the wheel, Xia Jie and the other two's spells became weaker.

A hundred martial arts skills, this is how one adapts to all situations!

Everyone stood frozen in place.

It's not that I don't want to move, it's that I can't.

The first rule, "No Fighting," acts like an invisible shackle, firmly locking away everyone's intention to attack.

Even if you really want to do it, the power of the spell will be cut off by the rules the moment it is activated, and even the muscles that clench and swing their fists will relax again because of the negation of the rules.

"Tsk."

Su Nuo closed his eyes first, and two of his four arms pressed against his temples.

The skull beneath his fingertips emitted a faint cracking sound, and magical power surged within his skull. He damaged his own brain in an almost brutal manner, and then forcibly repaired it using the Reversal Technique, thus completing the restoration of the Melting Technique.

On the other side, Gojo Satoru made the same choice. He raised his hand and wiped the tip of his nose, his fingertip stained with a mixture of scarlet blood and murky brain matter.

After several consecutive spell breaks and repairs, even with the precision of his six-eyed enhanced spell manipulation, his brain was on the verge of collapse.

Gojo Satoru's face was as white as paper, but he still gritted his teeth, his positive energy constantly circulating in his brain.

He had a premonition that what he had just witnessed might have been the last time he unleashed his domain.

Wan stood among her animal friends, who were no longer attacking her, wearing her mostly tattered insect armor, staring blankly as the simulated sphere she had painstakingly brought from the realm to reality shattered inch by inch due to the interruption of her curse power supply.

Outside of her domain, she was unable to truly construct such an idealized object; the fact that she could even briefly materialize it was already the result of her desperate efforts for the sake of the engagement.

Damn the general rule! Wan clenched her fists. If she and Lord Su Nuo were trapped and died in this barrier, what would happen to her engagement?

Immediately, a sickly smile returned to Wan's face: "Hehehe, actually, dying for love isn't so bad. I'm going to build the most magnificent coffin in the world, and embrace Lord Sukuna inside forever and ever and ever!"

Within the still-expanding Dharma Realm, Maki, who had received healing from Ieiri Shoko, had stepped back into the Dharma Realm, her right hand tightly gripping the Soul Release Blade that Mai had obtained with her life.

She had heard the rules announced earlier, and she even felt that these rules were tailor-made for her. After all, the rules of the Dharma Realm could not select Heaven and Tyrant with zero spell power!

What does it mean that I can hit you, but you can't hit me back? That's wonderful! It's just like in a game of rule-based fantasy, where the awakened talent is unrestricted and never turned off.

Undoubtedly the ultimate cheat!

But... if Maki didn't use all her brainpower to build muscle, she would have some different ideas.

She fought the Demon Void Demon? Really?

Don't make me laugh, you old man Mo Xu Luo.

Even if the Tengen version of the Undying Demon Xu Luo didn't fight back or even dodge, and just stood there letting Maki cut him, Maki could cut her own sword until it broke, but she still couldn't kill this big daddy.

Maki has no chance of winning even a one in a million. At this moment, the scales of victory have completely tipped in Tengen's favor.

That is,

Did Lord Tengen win?

In the center of the battlefield,

The Dharma wheel above Moxuluo's head seemed to be coated with lubricant, spinning faster and faster. In a little while, it would be able to adapt to all types of attacks. At that time, whether Tianyuan actively withdrew General Rule 1 or Moxuluo adapted and became immune to the rules, everyone present would become fish on its chopping board.

As the strongest in the modern era, Gojo Satoru's breathing gradually became heavy, while Sukuna, the strongest in the ancient era, also frowned.

Both beings who stood at the pinnacle of the world of sorcery felt powerless in the face of these unreasonable rules and monsters.

They lost their momentum and somewhat resigned themselves to their fate. Among them, Gojo Satoru even began to conjure up images of divine final words like, "I'm sorry I couldn't satisfy Lord Mokuro."

I said, there is still hope.

Just then, a calm yet resolute voice rang out.

Xia Jie stood there, looking at the Dharma wheel spinning above Mo Xuluo's head. Instead of drooping, the corners of her mouth curled up into a wild smile.

"Since reality is against us, why don't we just keep beating reality until it submits to us?"

"Those mere rules? Watch me crush them with my elbow!"

Before he could finish speaking, he was surrounded by Wan, Sukuna, Gojo Satoru, Makura, and Maki, who had just arrived at the battlefield.

Xia Jie raised her hand and aimed it at her temple. The spikes formed from the cursed blood pierced through her skull without stopping, turning her brain into a pulp.

"So arrogant?!"

Gojo Satoru's pupils contracted slightly.

He wasn't surprised by the repair methods that had been demonstrated many times before, but rather he couldn't understand how Xia Jie could still issue a declaration of victory in such a desperate situation.

The next instant, the powerful self-healing ability originating from the cursed spirit was activated, the shattered brain tissue regenerated rapidly, and the broken spell was repaired accordingly.

"Nice!"

Xia Jie shook his head, letting out a satisfied groan, and then, without hesitation, he established the restraints:

"I sacrificed the entire domain, retaining only the core, in exchange for maximizing the domain's strength."

Unlike loan-style constraints that require checking credit scores, this kind of on-the-spot transaction-based constraint, which doesn't postpone the cost but rather allows immediate payment and settlement, will be accepted by the rules of the spell even if the initiator is a blacklisted defaulter like Xia Jie who only borrows and never repays.

"Domain Expansion - Crimson Lotus Sword Prison"

There was no soaring crimson lotus light, nor the spreading blood hell. This time, Xia Jie's domain range shrank directly from a radius of more than two hundred meters to a radius of half a meter.

Then, the already highly concentrated mental image was rapidly compressed by Xia Jie from half a meter to the size of a marble, and finally, it was forcibly condensed into a blood-red particle smaller than a grain of sand, quietly suspended at Xia Jie's fingertip.

It's important to understand that even Gojo, a prison warden who had served time in the prison gates, could only compress his domain to the size of a basketball.

The marbles that Xia Jie displayed during the spatial quake were unprecedented and unparalleled in the world of sorcery.

Not to mention the current particle. Looking at this scarlet particle, even Tianyuan, a master of barrier techniques, had to admit that Xia Jie's skills had now reached the realm of gods, making her an undisputed god of spells!

Then, a terrifying, overwhelming magical power poured relentlessly into the grain of red sand. Crimson light overflowed from the particle, far exceeding the brightness of Gojo Satoru's "Hakki," stinging the eyes of everyone present.

The surrounding space was violently distorted and deformed around this extremely condensed 'self-reality', as if a black hole was rewriting spacetime.

What does it mean to concentrate on one point and reach the pinnacle?

Now!

Xia Jie raised her eyes, feeling the omnipresent Heavenly Origin Will within the Dharma Realm, and pure joy welled up in her eyes.

"Tianyuan, oh Tianyuan, how many surprises do you have to give me before you're satisfied?!"

He pushed his finger, slowly pressing the grain of blood sand, which contained the power of the entire domain, towards the sky, like Adam pointing a finger at God.

At this moment, the causal resistance was pushed to its limit, forcefully resisting the rule of "prohibiting the destruction of the Dharma Realm". The pitch-black flash and the scarlet spell power merged into a point, piercing through space along his finger and pointing towards the Dharma Realm.

"Black Flash - Destruction and Annihilation!"

The big sound is loud, the elephant is invisible.

There was no earth-shattering explosion.

The roar of the Dharma, inaudible to ordinary people, erupted at the very bottom of the Dharma realm, while space itself only rippled slightly.

The entire mandala realm trembled violently, as if struck by a heavy hammer. The mandala's laws, stretched to their limit by immense power, seemed poised to collapse at any moment.

Xia Jie's attack did not strike space, but instead directly struck the "law" itself. Since spatial tremors have no effect on the Dharma realm, then I will use my reason to attack your law.

At this moment when the Dharma Realm is about to perish, how should you respond, Tengen?

Because only 10% remained and the distribution was too broad, Tianyuan's somewhat diluted human consciousness experienced emotional fluctuations for the first time.

"stop……"

It had to take action.

Almost at the same instant the attack landed, Tianyuan forcibly withdrew the three rules he had just established, tightening the binding force.

No, it's not just a withdrawal; it's a consolidation of all power to strengthen the Dharma realm itself, at the cost of "permanently being unable to add to or subtract from the rules of the Dharma realm."

At the same time, it forcibly transferred the "adaptation" obligation of the Demon Void to the part of its soul that permeated the Dharma Realm, allowing this part of the soul to personally experience the unparalleled power of "destruction and emptiness turning into extinction", thus making the Demon Void adapt to Xia Jie's outrageous methods ahead of time.

It further pushed the adaptation speed of Moxuluo to the extreme by imposing the price of "completely losing the ability to adapt after today and being unable to adapt to anything anymore".

boom--!

The tremors in the Dharma realm reached their peak, almost creating a permanent breach from this blow.

The portion of Tianyuan's consciousness that permeated the world was severely damaged and instantly fell into silence, while the Dharma wheel above Moxuluo's head also began to rapidly adapt to the "destruction and emptiness".

Su Nuo stood quietly to the side, his four hands outstretched. The ripples of spatial tremors fell into his senses, slowly completing the concept of "Spatial Slash" that Xia Jie had mentioned earlier.

The collision of past accumulations, the gifts of Lu Suo, and the opportunity before him brought a flash of enlightenment to his eyes. He had an idea on how to expand the target of his slashing technique to space itself.

"Click".

The sound of wheels turning began again, like a countdown to death. Well, not like, this was the countdown to death.

As Tianyuan removed the three rules, the shackles binding everyone suddenly disappeared.

At the same time, Gojo Satoru and Sukuna's eyes ignited with fighting spirit, and the two figures disappeared from the spot almost simultaneously.

Su Nuo raised his hand and unleashed the Extreme Frost Heaven Flow, deliberately controlling its range. A crystal-clear ice wall, with a hardness far exceeding that of diamond, rose from the ground, blocking the path between Mo Xu Luo and Xia Jie.

Because of the previous earth-shattering attack that pierced through space, the latter's domain collapsed once again, and it fell into a state of spell meltdown.

Gojo Satoru instantly flashed in front of Xia Jie, unleashing his limitless techniques to create an indestructible shield around Xia Jie.

Wan and Maki also made their moves, but the former's hand was severed by the Demon-Slaying Sword halfway through opening her domain, while the latter was sent flying off the battlefield by an elbow strike from Moxu Luo.

The two of them together managed to hold back a quarter of a breath, which was better than nothing.

Su Nuo's ice wall and subsequent attacks alone held off Mo Xu Luo for ten breaths.

Then the ice wall shattered, and a figure with a Dharma wheel on its head and a long tail trailing behind it appeared.

Surprisingly, when Mo Xuluo walked up to the two, he did not raise the Demon-Slaying Sword.

Tianyuan knew very well that conventional attacks were no longer effective against these people.

The bone-white giant shadow raised its hands and formed an unfamiliar hand seal.

A calm and indifferent voice rang out, as if it came simultaneously from every corner of the Dharma Realm:

"Domain Expansion—The Realm of Nothingness."

There was no light, no wind, and no otherworldly phenomena that could be described as a realm.

Everything around me was rapidly losing its color, and all sounds, smells, and sensations were becoming blurred.

But Xia Jie, with her remarkable attention to detail, still managed to glean something from it.

In this world, everyone possesses their own innate domain. After all, the essence of an innate domain is a mental landscape manifested from within. Even if one is not a sorcerer, as long as one has the will, one will possess a domain.

Furthermore, although the domain one is born with does not determine the entirety of a spell, it is indeed one of the fundamental elements constituting a spell. Even family spells passed down through bloodlines can develop different variations due to differences in the spellcaster's understanding.

The most typical example is Tohadari, whose body is inscribed with the technique of the chef. When the young Tohadari used a slash, a dotted line with scissors would appear on the object being cut. However, the effect of the technique of the Tiger Emperor, who had been accumulating for 68 years, is closer to the version of Sukuna. It can be seen that the inner world of the sorcerer can indeed affect the external expression of the technique.

What if the spells and domains of many souls were merged into one, and then used by an immortal being with a heart as rotten as wood?

Tengen drew inspiration from the fusion of the four people's domains.

As it assimilated all the souls it had assimilated—Gao Yu, Kujuku Yuki, Fukuro Megumi, Rōsō… and the souls of countless nameless cursed spirits that came from the vortex—their spells, their mental images, their obsessions and perceptions were all fused together.

The answer that Tianyuan obtained is the current realm called "Void Embryo Realm".

Countless realms of existence collide and merge, evolving into a chaotic void where the six senses are indistinguishable, ultimately returning to emptiness.

Because everyone desires it, no one desires it.

Because we both dislike them, we don't dislike them at all.

Because both are possible, neither is possible.

Therefore, all that is seen under the sun is vanity, a chasing after the wind.

All the turmoil will subside, all the obsessions will dissipate, and all life will return to the state before birth, that state of perfect freedom, without thought or desire, eternal stillness and tranquility.