Curse Reply: After choosing Nawa, the cursed spirit cursed me for being cruel.

Su Nu crossed his four arms above his head to block the sword strike. Flames exploded on his arms, pressing him down slightly.

He gritted his teeth and endured it, just as he was about to shake the sword off, Duanmu Yan's Thunder Lightning Thrust followed closely behind, golden arcs of electricity shooting out from the tip of the sword.

"Lightning Strike!"

Before Su Nuo could defend himself, the lightning accurately pierced his body.

Dark red blood gushed from the wound, and Su Nuo slid backward dozens of meters, carving two deep furrows in the ground.

During this brief stalemate, Su Nuo suddenly sensed something was amiss.

He suddenly looked up at the boundary of Duanmu Yan's domain; the coverage area of ​​the golden lightning seemed to have shrunk compared to the previous round.

The previous round of Unforgivable Lightning Strike had a slightly larger targeting range than the Demon-Subduing Chef's, but now, he could clearly feel that the area covered by the lightning strike had shrunk by almost half.

In the previous round of the duel, the percentage of damage dealt to each other by their open fields was almost exactly the same, which is why they were deactivated at the same time.

However, the biggest difference between Duanmu Yan's domain and his is that the Unforgivable Lightning Strike is centered around Duanmu Yan himself.

This means that as long as Duanmu Yan can keep the distance between himself and Su Nuo within a certain range, Su Nuo will continue to suffer damage from lightning strikes.

The moment Duanmu Yan expanded his domain, he actively compressed its range.

The reduced range resulted in increased power of the lightning strike.

He was confident that he could keep Sukuna within close combat range.

Within the same period, the percentage of damage he inflicts on Sukuna will be higher than in the previous round, and Sukuna's domain will collapse before his domain.

Just like it is now.

Boom——

Duanmu Yan's lightning strike, under its compressed high-density output, finally defeated Fumo Yuchuzi first.

The dark red shrine phantom began to crack under the continuous bombardment of golden lightning. From the torii gate to the bone steps, the entire domain peeled away piece by piece like a shattered eggshell.

Su Nuo's sure-hit slashes lost the support of the domain at the same moment, leaving only his own ordinary slashes barely holding on.

Duanmu Yan looked at Su Nuo's gloomy face and revealed a standard villainous smile: "You're back to the same situation as last time."

Without the domain to harm Duanmu Yan, Duanmu Yan can devote more of his magical power to the Unforgivable Lightning Strike.

Within the compressed area, the power of the lightning strikes suddenly doubled, and thick golden arcs of electricity struck Su Nuo simultaneously from all directions, blasting him to his knees.

Su Nuo suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, the dark red blood splattering onto the ruins.

It seems... the outcome is already decided!

Chapter 297 I was tricked by Gojo Satoru

The scales of victory seem to have tipped completely in Duanmu Yan's favor.

But is that really the case?

Duanmu Yan's eyes suddenly narrowed as he noticed that the wounds on Su Nuo's body caused by the lightning were much shallower than before.

A thin, faint membrane of magical energy enveloped Su Nuo's body, constantly deflecting and neutralizing the sure-hit lightning strikes within the domain.

"This is the sentiment of falling flowers that your college teaches its students."

"Back when I was inside that kid Itadori's body watching you guys go to class, I thought this thing was pretty useless, but I still took a couple of glances."

Su Nuo raised an arm, a smug smile on his lips. "It worked pretty well, didn't it?"

He was indeed somewhat relieved that Huzhang was from a vocational college.

Duanmu Yan, in his multiple forms, couldn't kill him within a minute, but Yatalis, wielding a golden longsword, could very well kill him completely within a minute.

Duanmu Yan remained silent for a moment, quickly reviewing the course schedule of the vocational college in his mind.

The "feeling of falling flowers" is an advanced technique taught in the second year, and Itachi, a first-year student who has only been in school for a short time, has not yet come into contact with it.

The only possibility is that Gojo Satoru once demonstrated it to Itadori, and Sukuna saw it through Itadori's eyes.

This guy is indeed a genius. Having already mastered the Mixu Gelong, he can probably master the Falling Flower Emotion technique, which has a similar principle, after only a few readings.

Despite all our careful planning, we never expected that someone on our side would leak the information.

The effect of Falling Flowers is to automatically repel objects it touches by using incantation. It is not very effective against complex spells that directly affect the brain, such as those in the Boundless Void. However, it is an extremely effective means of restraining a field like his that relies purely on external force.

The optimized version of Falling Flowers' Love can offset the guaranteed hit for a longer time, enough for Su Nuo to forcibly restore the spell's meltdown once again.

He really needs to teach that bastard Gojo Satoru a lesson when he gets back.

The two clashed again.

Fists, kicks, slashes, and sword strikes clashed wildly in the confined space, each collision accompanied by the tremors of the area and the further collapse of the ruins.

Duanmu Yan's Heaven and Earth Thunder Sword left several deep, bone-revealing wounds on Su Nuo's body. Su Nuo's Eighth Sword finally pierced through Yatalis's shoulder armor, exploding into a cloud of blood mist on Duanmu Yan's shoulder.

Both were knocked back by the other. Taking advantage of the moment of retreat, Su Nuo withdrew the Falling Flower Emotion surrounding her and formed hand seals again.

"Domain unfold!" Dark red light surged from his body, but this time it did not spread out overwhelmingly.

The range of the Demon-Subduing Chef began to shrink rapidly, gradually decreasing from a size that was originally enough to cover the entire ruins, until it was completely attached to the surface of Sukuna's body.

Dark red runes spread across his skin like living things, and the slashing light on his four arms was more refined and sharper than in any of his previous forms.

Duanmu Yan's eyes darkened.

Sukuna was studying his fighting style. His Unforgivable Lightning Strike was centered on himself, and its attack power could be increased by narrowing the area of ​​effect. Sukuna immediately grasped the essence of this move.

This guy must have established some kind of constraint, permanently shrinking the domain's range in exchange for attaching the domain to his body surface, while simultaneously greatly increasing the intensity of his slashes.

This means that Sukuna's slashing power will be far greater than before in close combat.

"I never expected you to go this far, but you're ultimately just an imitator."

Duanmu Yan held the Heaven and Earth Thunder Sword horizontally in front of him, while secretly compressing the range of his domain, causing the power of the golden thunder to rise accordingly.

Su Nuo chuckled, and simultaneously opened all four arms, unleashing a continuous barrage of slashes.

"As long as the result is good, isn't that enough?"

After saying that, he rushed towards Duanmu Yan.

The two clashed again. Su Nuo's slashes became incredibly powerful after being imbued with a domain, and Duanmu Yan took each strike seriously. Meanwhile, the lightning that Duanmu Yan enhanced after shrinking his domain continuously exploded, leaving scorched marks on Su Nuo's body.

Slashes and lightning clashed and tore at each other, golden and dark red light intertwining in a chaotic scene above the ruins.

Three minutes and fifteen seconds later, the slash and the lightning dissipated simultaneously.

Duanmu Yan's Tuona Multi-Domain expanded once more, and the emerald green Ten Thousand Hurshes Annihilation Forms once again engulfed Su Nuo.

Su Nuo then used Mi Xu Ge Long and Luo Hua Zhi Qing to buy time, forcibly repaired the meltdown, and restarted the Demon Subduing Chef.

The two continued their back-and-forth battle, with Duanmu Yan unleashing his fourth domain and Su Nuo responding with his own; Duanmu Yan unleashed his fifth domain, and Su Nuo gritted his teeth and followed suit.

Tuonado and Yatalis took turns on the field, with Duanmu Yan unleashing his domain a total of nine times, while Su Nuo unleashed it five times.

In half an hour of fighting, half of the Nyuki River Hot Spring Village was repeatedly crushed by the two's domains. High-rise buildings were reduced to dust, streets were turned into deep valleys, and the terrain of the entire area was completely rewritten.

The two stood on the edge of a pile of ruins, their chests heaving as they gasped for breath.

Su Nuo formed hand seals again, preparing to unleash the sixth domain.

Dark red light gathered at his fingertips, and the outline of the Demon-Subduing Chef had just appeared when it suddenly trembled.

Blood gushed from his eyes, mouth, and ears simultaneously, his four eye sockets filled with dark red blood that flowed down his cheeks and dripped onto the broken stone slabs at his feet.

The light of the domain was extinguished just before it was about to take shape.

He...can no longer expand his domain.

Seeing this, Duanmu Yan slowly straightened up, stuck the Heaven and Earth Thunder Sword into the ground, crossed his arms, and burst into laughter.

"Using the reversal technique to repair the ruptured life technique is a stretch, isn't it? The technique is engraved in our brains, roughly in the prefrontal cortex of the right brain."

"To destroy the brain with cursed power, and then heal it with a reversal technique, thereby resetting the broken technique... I must say, that is indeed very bold."

"But if something goes wrong, you could become an idiot."

Everything makes sense now.

Instead of using the reversal technique to treat the technique's failure, Su Nuo chose to directly destroy his own brain and then use the reversal technique to repair the damaged brain tissue, thereby bypassing the cooldown time of the technique's failure.

This means that instead of letting the engine cool down slowly, the engine is simply disassembled and replaced with a new one.

That's absolutely insane.

This is not something that can be cured easily; every time it happens, it's like walking a tightrope, and the slightest mistake can result in permanent brain damage.

He actually did this reckless maneuver a total of five times. No, including this time when the domain expansion collapsed before it even succeeded, he did it a total of six times.

Even the King of Curses inevitably accumulated irreversible damage in the process of repeatedly destroying and repairing his brain.

Duanmu Yan smiled and slowly put his hands together, assuming the starting stance for expanding his domain. "Healing the brain is not the same as healing external injuries. You've already reached your limit, haven't you?"

"If you forcibly expand the domain now, there are only two possibilities."

"First, they will die on the spot; second, even if they survive by chance, the effect of their domain will not be fully realized, making it impossible for them to fight against my domain."

He took a deep breath, and golden magical power gathered wildly around him, unleashing his tenth domain.

"You have nowhere to run, the strongest in history... You are nothing but a mortal born in an era without me! Domain Expansion - Unforgivable Lightning Strike!"

Chapter 298 Sukuna's Battle Intelligence

"Domain Deployment - Unforgivable Lightning Strike!"

Duanmu Yan clasped his hands together, and a sea of ​​golden lightning surged between his palms.

The next second, the lightning suddenly trembled.

A warm liquid welled up from his nose, followed by blood trickling from the corner of his mouth.

The domain expansion failed. He raised his hand to wipe the blood from his face, looking down at the glaring dark red stain on his fingertips.

Now it was Su Nuo's turn to laugh out loud. His eyes were full of the satisfaction of his scheme succeeding.

“I’ve already said… my slashes are aimed at every part of your body. In the five domains I’ve deployed, your brain is also being constantly sliced ​​apart by my slashes.”

"Because you have two domains, you don't need to use the reversal technique to treat the rupture, so it's naturally difficult to discover that your brain has been severely damaged."