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

"Phew... What a brilliant barrier technique! If you have such an ability, why did you stop them from helping Xia Jie, and why didn't you stop me from eating my finger?"

Including Xia Jie, this is the second time Su Nuo has been so angry that he has gone beyond his control. After all, no one would be in a good mood if they were surrounded by a bunch of people eating shit and then tricked into a trap.

"Let's cooperate. We'll team up to take down Tianyuan first, then have a one-on-one duel, how about that?"

Within the ice crystals, Xia Jie's mind had somehow returned to its original state, and she offered her suggestion to Su Nuo.

Su Nu ignored the truce request and grinned sarcastically, "Didn't you claim to be able to foresee the future? How come it seems like you had no idea what Tianyuan is doing?"

"First, the person who possesses the precognitive technique is me from my previous life. Second, the future is constantly changing."

In the original future I saw, we wouldn't be at the Hidden Star Palace today, and Tengen would be killed in a few days.

At least in the original future, Tengen didn't seem ambitious at all.

"Ha, very well, I'll be merciful and let you live a little longer. But, as the price for allowing this insect to live..."

Su Nu crushed the ice crystals, letting Xia Jie's true form fall to the ground: "Speak, tell me everything you know about the future."

"Okay, wait a minute, let me show you how to make someone disappear into thin air!"

Xia Jie was happy to give Su Nuo an intelligence advantage before the battle, and then watch the intelligence Su Nuo VS the corrupted Tian Yuan, and enjoy the cyber cricket fighting fun that she hadn't been able to experience before her transmigration.

However, to be honest, being frozen by ice crystals is really unpleasant.

It felt like drinking a large bottle of ice-cold Sprite and then eating a dozen or so Chocliz bars in a row; the chill seeped from the palate all the way to the head, freezing the brain stiff.

No, it's a hundred times stronger than that.

Xia Jie now somewhat understands how Andy Lau felt when he sang "Gong Xi Fa Cai" (Wishing You Prosperity) after being frozen for a year.

Fortunately, he is a top-tier cursed spirit, otherwise he wouldn't even be able to speak properly now.

Next up is the magic trick of making someone disappear into thin air!

Xia Jie's true form—a spider-shaped cursed spirit with a brain-like abdomen—extended its sharp forelimbs and viciously stabbed into its own brain, tearing out a hideous and terrifying huge wound.

Just as the self that had become a cursed embryo tore open its skull and crawled out from the crack, something else was also emerging from within this enormous wound.

It is a pair of hands.

A pair of human hands.

The hand tore open the spider membrane, and a crimson, enormous, humanoid cursed spirit with spider legs on its back and a face like a crimson mask leaped out.

Yes, a little giant nearly three meters tall popped out of a normal-sized brain like a compressed towel that had been soaked in water.

"This is what you call the 'magic trick'? Utterly boring." Su Nu frowned, and with a flick of his finger, Xia Jie's right arm, covered by a black exoskeleton, snapped off.

"Croak! My performance was so wonderful, why...!?" Xia Jie caught the falling arm with an exaggerated expression, put it back in place, and instantly completed the regeneration and reconnection of the severed part.

Since becoming a cursed spirit, his perception of pain has become much dulled. Even an injury like losing a limb causes him only the same pain as hitting his head.

Most importantly, unlike Gojo Satoru, he, as a cursed spirit, does not have a demonic orb that he can use to strike.

Therefore, he felt no real connection to Su Nuo's attack, and he had little respect for this so-called brutal and bloodthirsty strongest ancient being.

In Xia Jie's words, that is:

Without the Demon Orb, I am invincible!

The next few minutes were spent in a rapid-fire question-and-answer session.

Su Nuo asked, and Xia Jie answered.

From Gao Yu's abilities to the angels' weaknesses, from Tsukumo Yuki's spells to speculations about the current situation, Xia Jie answered any question Sukuna wanted to know.

He also revealed Xia Jie's own techniques and plans without hesitation.

This is his professional ethics as a high-level transmigrator who is both a fun-loving person and an intelligence whiz.

And through the book-shaped curse, he obtained the skeleton and the source of the curse.

Inherited from the ancient Chinese text, it features a unique and powerful style, with a unique and powerful character, and a unique and powerful spirit. The text is fragmented and lacks coherence, making a direct translation difficult. It appears to be a collection of fragments from various sources, possibly related to a historical or cultural event.

A few minutes later...

Watching the gradually crumbling movie theater, and the soft white light shining through the cracks from the surface of the void barrier, Xia Jie revealed a smile as pure as Hanma Yujiro's.

"We're about to go, Su Nuo, let's go!"

"Ha! I see you now. You little brat, though you pretend to be a responsible and good person, deep down you're a complete scoundrel!"

"Thank you for the compliment."

"I wasn't fucking praising you!!!"

Chapter 20 Constant Tranquility

"Speaking of Nuo Master, when you tried to force me to take your body in the Death and Annihilation Reincarnation, didn't you make a 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 that was on Xia Jie's shoulder into evenly thick "radish slices" like slicing a radish, refusing to answer Xia Jie's question.

"Hey~ 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 credit score be affected by playing these restrictive games?

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

If this doesn't affect his credit score, 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.

'Success? Success!'

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.

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: "It's unbelievable. Breaking free from constraints and refusing divine punishment, can you even do something like this? Even I, who have become heaven and earth, cannot understand the principles at all. What exactly are you, Xia Jie?"

"I should be the one asking the questions now, right? Tianyuan, 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.

"Come with me to create an eternal state free from suffering and defilement, 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." Tianyuan's answer was quite enigmatic.

"speak English!"

"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 side of 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 burn 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 has been satiated, grows ever more prosperous and far-reaching, bringing boundless suffering to all people in the world without discrimination."

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 pillar that dozens of people would need to hug.

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

I vaguely glimpsed the 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 Takayu's magic to create 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?" Su Nuo said with interest after listening to Tian Yuan'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,