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

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 Zhang Xiang from being "passed by" by Su Nuo who broke into the barrier like he instantly killed Shi Liulong, Xia Jie specially asked Tian Yuan to control the barrier and lock Zhang Xiang in the Ji Ku 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 threw 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, whether it's retracting his finger, facing Gojo Satoru head-on, or dealing with the demon, it's all up to him.

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 been able to provoke such anger in me!"

"Get anxious." Xia Jie used just two words to restore the rosy complexion of the thousand-year-old man, which had been scorched black by the beam of light.

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, Su Nuo immediately 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, he managed to fight us to this extent with at most three fingers of magical power, without even using his original form and the Ice Condensation Spell, his 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, wanting to eliminate this 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 curse power. Furthermore, he abandoned his past body, concentrating all his curse power to protect the curse spirit body 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.

-------------

Additional notes:

① The attempt to threaten the little golden beetle in Chapter 3 failed because the angel's intimidation was insufficient. It was like trying to harm a beetle with a single, ineffective threat. The angel's power was too weak, and the beetle's strength was insufficient.

② In Chapter 12, the number of fingers on Su Nuo's hand was changed from 4 to 3 because I forgot to calculate that Hu Zhang was born with a disability caused by the loss of his limbs. He was born with 16 fingers, minus the 1 finger of the prison master, leaving 3 fingers. (This does not include his entry into Su Nuo as an incarnation Buddha.)

Chapter 16 Where Did Gao Yu Go?

"Jacob's Ladder!!!"

The beam of light falling from above instantly struck Sukuna, who was trying to activate the "Stove Opening" skill within the domain.

The Nuo master, who was highly focused on the field and the stove, only had time to dodge half of his body before he enjoyed the most powerful photon skin rejuvenation in the world for free.

The Flame of Ten Thousand Deaths was immediately interrupted by the interference of the angelic spell, and even Sukuna himself found it difficult to maintain the domain due to the discord between his spirit and flesh.

Then the crimson that filled the heavens and earth faded away, and the shrine built of white bones vanished without a trace.

The land within a 50-meter radius seemed to have been flattened by an invisible giant hand, becoming a full meter lower than the ground further out. This was truly a case of digging three feet into the ground.

According to intelligence from the Shibuya Incident, Sukuna's open field has a radius of 200 meters, but in order to maximize his attack power and ensure that he could kill Natsuki, Sukuna deliberately formed a binding:

In exchange for maximizing the power of the slash, the radius of the domain is reduced to 50 meters, the attack range does not include the underground, and the domain can only be maintained for a maximum of 30 seconds.

If Sukuna hadn't been standing in a low-lying area when he opened his domain, there wouldn't have been even this meter-deep damage to the soil.

In the center of the circular flat ground, Su Nuo, the original owner of the body, frowned deeply, not understanding.

Logically speaking, a domain of this level could instantly kill even the Demon Void Luo before the wheel started turning, so Xia Jie, this brat, should have been cut into a bloody mist in the first second.

Why was he able to survive? Could it be that the cursed spirit he revealed during the slash had something special about it?

The moment Su Nuo saw that bizarre brain with spider legs, he realized that Xia Jie's true nature was actually a cursed spirit.

No, it's more accurate to say it's a cursed fetus!

Su Nuo was very unhappy about this. No wonder he failed to possess a body before, it would be strange if he failed to possess a corpse as well.

Moreover, the feel is off.

Sukuna savored the feedback the domain had given him, and thought of the ultimate shikigami that Fushiguro Megumi had summoned in Shibuya.

It's similar to what Mo Xu Luo was like back then, but there are subtle differences.

That wasn't an unreasonable adaptation, but more like... rejection?

at the same time,

Having just finished bathing in the Sukuna domain, Xia Jie used cursed blood to barely create a stick figure-like human body. Then, she picked up the finger that Sukuna dared not pick up from the ground and put it back in the same position, restoring Sukuna's battle-damaged complexion, which had been baptized by Jacob's Ladder, to a healthy and rosy state.

The Nuo master's face is red and warm again.

Xia Jie and Su Nuo thought of the same question: as a mere special-grade cursed vengeful spirit,

He doesn't know any of the following: Domain Expansion, Vast and Enveloping, Fallen Flowers, or Simple Domain.

How did they manage to survive in the realm of the monsters with the highest physical damage output?

Just because he has causal resistance?

Yes, because he has causal resistance!

Xia Jie simultaneously resisted the domain's guaranteed hit and the destructive power of the slash at the causal level.

This is equivalent to reducing the actual effect of the domain by more than 90%.

Not only that, Xia Jie also tricked Su Nuo with the cursed blood that filled her body and had the same aura as her, and used her already dead body to absorb a large amount of the slash damage.

Only after the body dissipated did the domain's pinpointing ability barely lock onto Xia Jie's true form.

In a sense, this can be seen as a youthful version of Mi Xu Ge Long who avoids being caught off guard. At least for now, he can stand shoulder to shoulder with Lu Ziyun, who also cannot develop her domain, at the very bottom of the elite hierarchy, and together they can become the laughing stock in the debate.

This is undoubtedly a step forward!

'What about the constraints? Can I resist the cost of those constraints and then take out an unlimited loan?'