Jujutsu Kaisen: My spells have no limit

That night, in a small village in rural Japan.

This is a desolate, deserted village.

Due to long-term negative population growth, urbanization, and the outflow of youth, desolate and deserted villages like this are not uncommon in Japan.

However, the desolation of this village does not seem to be related to the factors mentioned above.

Traces of fire can be seen on the collapsed house ruins, and dark brown water stains or mold can be seen on the road and walls. However, if a veteran criminal investigator were here, he would be able to tell that the dark brown water stains on the walls, houses and roads are neither mold nor water stains.

That was the color of blood that had been left to settle for many years.

Clearly, the desolation of this village is not due to urbanization, but rather to a man-made disaster, a man-made disaster that has not been reported.

"Lord Natsuyu, why did we come to this awful place?"

In the desolate ruins of a deserted village, the voice of a young girl could be heard.

Those were Xia Youjie's two adopted daughters, Kaba Mimiko and Kaba Nanako.

The two sisters' faces were filled with disgust, and their eyes were filled with hatred.

Because this place was once their homeland, their place of suffering, and also the place of redemption where Xia Youjie saved them.

"I'm so sorry, Mimiko, Nanako, I've brought back some bad memories for you two, but Satoru is in a hurry, so I had no choice but to bring you here for now."

"It's alright, Lord Xiayou. We're not afraid of anything as long as we can help you."

Hearing their adoptive father Xia Youjie apologize, the Jiachang sisters quickly spoke up to explain and surrounded Xia Youjie.

Besides the adopted daughters, the Kaba sisters, Xia Youjie was accompanied by his other family members: the black guy Miguel Oduer, the white gay man Laru, the pink-haired secretary Suda Manami, and the younger brother Miki Riku.

Clearly, the information Lin Yi revealed to Gojo Satoru did have some effect.

Xia Youjie was well aware of his close friend Gojo Satoru's strength, so instead of directly clashing with him, he chose to split up and hide in the countryside, a place far beyond the reach of the Japanese sorcery world.

Looking at the village that had been abandoned due to human-caused disaster, Xia Youjie's face showed a hint of nostalgia.

Ten years ago, he was the one who killed more than 100 villagers in this village, which led him down the path of evil.

This can be considered the trigger for Xia Youjie's descent into darkness.

No one expected Xia Youjie to be hiding here, including Wu Tiao Wu.

However, compared to Xia Youjie's nostalgia and the Jiachang sisters' obsession, Xia Youjie's other family members were skeptical.

"Lord Xiayou, can we really trust that woman's words?"

"Although I don't know what that woman's purpose is, she did not lie to me about my technique: the use of the Cursed Spirit Manipulation Technique. Through the Cursed Spirit Manipulation Technique, I have a chance to use their technique once. And this, the Special Grade Cursed Item: Two-Faced Sukuna."

Xia Youjie pulled out a finger wrapped in white cloth from his five robes. It was the same Sukuna finger that had been kept in the shrine of the high school section of Sugisawa Third Middle School in Miyagi Prefecture.

This finger, which was supposed to be eaten by Itadori Yuujin a year later under Rōsō's arrangement, has now been transferred by Rōsō to Natsuyuki due to Rin's intervention.

It can be said that throughout Lu Su's thousand-year life, Lu Su knew everything about how he bound himself to Su Nuo and how Su Nuo's soul was cut into 20 pieces by his 20 fingers.

"Miguel, Laru, Manami, Riju, get ready."

The family members whose names were called by Xia Youjie dispersed and formed a four-element formation around their current location in this abandoned village.

Seeing that his teammates were ready, Xia Youjie gently tossed the Su Nuo finger in his hand into the center of the open space.

Su Nuo's fingers touched the ground, and Xia Youjie whispered, "Spirit Manipulation Technique, activate."

The power of the spell surged, forming a rolling black curtain behind Xia Youjie.

One after another, strange and peculiar cursed spirits emerged from the darkness and, under Xia Youjie's control, took up residence in the open space where Su Nuo's fingers were.

These are some of the cursed spirits that Xia Youjie collected over the past ten years by becoming the leader of the Panxing Sect.

Over the past ten years, he has collected a total of six thousand cursed spirits!

But Xia Youjie himself knew that among these six thousand cursed spirits, only about one-tenth were truly capable of fighting against a sorcerer.

So despite the grand scale of the Hyakki Yagyō incident orchestrated by Natsume in the movie prequel, it didn't actually cause any major personnel losses to the sorcery world or the Sorcery Academy.

It's not that Xia Youjie doesn't want to, but that he can't. The strength of a cursed spirit subdued by the cursed spirit manipulation technique will be frozen at the moment of subjugation and will not be able to grow.

But now the appearance of Su Nuo's fingers has given Xia Youjie an opportunity.

A finger possessing one-twentieth of Su Nuo's soul is a cursed object, like Tang Sanzang's flesh to cursed spirits. Whether it is blessed by the cursed power released by Su Nuo's finger or swallowed, it will allow the cursed spirit to break through its innate shackles. Perhaps, this includes those cursed spirits that have been subdued by the cursed spirit manipulation technique.

"Superior Cursed Artifact - Two-Faced Sukuna, let me see your limits."

As Xia Youjie spoke, he also signaled to his family.

As the incantation was chanted, a barrier spell descended, perfectly covering the cursed spirits and the Su Nuo finger located at the center.

The black curtains fell, cutting off all vision.

Xia Youjie also released control over these cursed spirits, letting them follow their instincts within the barrier and begin fighting around Su Nuo's fingers. He wanted to enhance the combat power of his cursed spirits by raising them like Gu.

The battle between the cursed spirits took place silently within the barrier.

Xia Youjie and the others were waiting for the final Gu King to be born within the barrier.

Everything that happened here was also observed by Lu Suo in the shadows.

Lin Yi's appearance and intervention were an accident, but Lu Suo clearly did not reject such an accident.

For him, a man who has always sought amusement, it would be too boring if everything went smoothly according to his plan.

Chaos and the unknown are what Lu Suo desires.

Whether it's the final outcome of the Death Return Journey or the unknown Lin Yi who suddenly appeared, in Lu Suo's view, these are the changes he has been looking forward to.

All he had to do was catalyze this unknown, allowing it to give birth to things and people that even he couldn't predict.

"Tsukumo Yuki, Gojo Satoru, Natsume Yuki, and Otsuku Yuta are the four great special-grade sorcerers recognized by the sorcery world and this world for being born in this era. So, with the emergence of a new special-grade sorcerer, what changes will occur in this world and the sorcery world?"

"I'm really looking forward to it, Tianyuan. When you set up the barrier a thousand years ago, did you ever imagine that things would turn out like this? Hmm? It seems like things have already changed."

As a highly skilled barrier master, Lu Suo did not set up a barrier covering the entire territory of Japan like the one he mentioned, but there are still many barriers that he has set up in Japan over the past thousand years.

At this moment, Lu Suo, who was watching Xia Youjie's growth, also sensed that a detection barrier he had set up in Japan was fluctuating.

That was the fluctuation of a top-tier cursed spirit being born.

"Fukushima Prefecture? What kind of special-grade cursed spirit could it be?"

Lu Su muttered to himself, then turned his gaze away from Xia Youjie and disappeared into the darkness.