The campus at night could easily become the setting for story developments in various works.
However, Miyauchi Hikage had already scanned the entire school with his Eye of Destiny and confirmed that there were no lucky people left in the school at night.
And that Cursed Spirit was now quietly staying where the Cursed Object was originally placed. Its body, more than three meters long, was curled up, looking like it was welcoming some kind of transformation.
"It seems that the Cursed Object has indeed been swallowed by that guy, and it is digesting it now," Miyauchi Hikage told the female sorcerer beside him what he saw.
The senior female sorcerer's expression looked a little serious.
The biggest difference between Grade 2 and Grade 1 Cursed Spirits was that Cursed Spirits of Grade 2 and below didn't have much intelligence and couldn't use techniques, so there was no need to worry about the opponent having any schemes when dealing with them.
Basically, as long as one had a little brain and some combat experience, even a novice sorcerer had a chance to escape from a Grade 2 Cursed Spirit. If prepared in advance, a Grade 3 sorcerer also had a chance to rely on some external forces to solve a Grade 2 Cursed Spirit.
But Cursed Spirits of Quasi-Grade 1 and above had already opened their intelligence and obtained techniques. In battle, if one was slightly careless, they might be ambushed by a Grade 1 Cursed Spirit.
This was also the biggest threshold between Grade 2 and Grade 1 sorcerers.
If the techniques mastered by those Cursed Spirits were strong, they might even rise directly from Grade 1 Cursed Spirits to nearly special-grade levels.
It could be said that on the premise of being able to practice supernatural power, the limit an ordinary supernatural being without much talent could reach was Grade 2.
Further up, Grade 1 was a completely new world that only a few elites could reach.
In the future, the threshold for special-grade might be lowered because of the spiritual resurgence and the increased power of techniques used by everyone, but the watershed of Grade 1 would not change much.
After all, everyone's strength had improved, but Cursed Spirits without intelligence and unable to use techniques were just low-to-mid-level Cursed Spirits, which was still the biggest difference between Grade 2 and Grade 1.
Knowing that she would most likely stay at Grade 2 for the rest of her life, or maybe in another ten years or so, she could barely become a quasi-Grade 1 supernatural being relying on her own cursed energy and research on jujutsu, the female sorcerer reminded Miyauchi Hikage.
"My strength can only barely restrain a Grade 1 Cursed Spirit. If the opponent uses techniques, I'm afraid I won't be able to help much."
She had many life-saving means, but they also required a lot of cost. As a sorcerer who had been in the Grade 2 rank for many years, her mindset had always been to seek stability.
"If you are not sure, it is safer to contact Nanami Kento first and ask him to bring a squad over."
She knew Miyauchi Hikage. Recently, her team had been busy checking the supernatural rumors under Miyauchi Hikage's videos. She also knew that Miyauchi Hikage's talent was evaluated as "not inferior to Gojo Satoru" and that he was very likely to become a new special-grade in the future.
It was precisely because she knew the importance of the other party that she wouldn't want such a genius to take risks.
Regarding this, Miyauchi Hikage drew the Nichirin Blade.
"Mr. Nanami entrusted this commission to you out of trust in me, so don't worry about me. Even if there is a special-grade Cursed Spirit here, escaping is no problem."
A mere Grade 1 Cursed Spirit was indeed nothing to care about.
Not to mention that the passive effect of the Pure Yang Body had cleared nearly half of the accumulated vengeful spirits in Beika Town, even in the past half month, Miyauchi Hikage had taken Shiina Mashiro to grind commissions and casually killed several Grade 1 Cursed Spirits that had just emerged and hadn't been detected by the supernatural beings of the Inner World.
Miyauchi Hikage also deliberately spared the lives of some mid-level Cursed Spirits, letting Shiina Mashiro fight these guys to gain some actual combat experience.
The current Shiina Mashiro, with the enhancement of Hamon, already had Grade 3 strength.
If combined with gems that could provide amplification for Hamon, relying on various Hamon Overdrives with different effects, plus the suppression ability of Hamon's life energy itself on Cursed Spirits and vengeful spirits, the strength displayed by Shiina Mashiro was almost quasi-Grade 2.
When Shiina Mashiro adapted more, he could take her to the more dangerous and complex Metaverse for actual combat. It was easier to farm high-level commissions there, which would not only allow Shiina Mashiro to improve her strength faster but also accelerate Miyauchi Hikage's progress bar accumulation.
Half a month after the end of the Golden Week, relying on farming commissions for Shiina Mashiro and Kasumigaoka Utaha every day, the progress bar accumulated by Miyauchi Hikage had reached 67% again. It was estimated that in another week, he would be able to farm the second optional reward.
And it just so happened that Yotsuya Miko now had a commission to complete with him to get rewards. With this commission, Miyauchi Hikage wished that the Cursed Spirit at Minegahara High School could reach the special-grade level.
That way, his speed of filling the progress bar would be a few days faster.
Unfortunately, the Cursed Spirit here was really not very powerful.
The cautious Miyauchi Hikage had already confirmed it with the Eye of Destiny long ago. The opponent was currently at a Quasi-Grade 1 level.
And because it was forcibly raised to this level by the Cursed Object, this guy was still in the transformation period.
Simply put, it ate too much and hadn't finished digestion yet, so it couldn't exert its full strength.
However, after checking carefully, Miyauchi Hikage still saw some problems.
That was, there was indeed a problem with the Cursed Object placed in Minegahara High School.
Perhaps the reason why Puberty Syndrome patients appeared consecutively in Minegahara High School was indeed caused by the aura leaked from this Cursed Object.
In short, there must be some conspiracy in this.
He turned his head and asked the female sorcerer to help investigate the situation of the Cursed Object in Minegahara High School.
Then he walked to the curled-up Cursed Spirit.
Although he had seen many Cursed Spirits and vengeful spirits, no matter how many times, Miyauchi Hikage had to complain that these guys were really ugly.
In comparison, except for a few, the Shadows in the Metaverse were mostly quite delicate. Some like "Angel" and "Succubus" could even appear directly in doujinshi.
The first prerequisite for recruiting people in Jujutsu High was sufficient mental toughness, which was indeed very necessary.
Is there any jujutsu sorcerer who isn't crazy? Dealing with these ugly guys all day, how can people who are not a little crazy withstand such mental pressure?
Muttering this, looking at the Cursed Spirit in front of him showing a ferocious expression after discovering his approach, Miyauchi Hikage wouldn't hold back against such a guy.
Besides the Pure Yang flames, the increasingly proficient Sun Breathing swordsmanship, accompanied by the scorching Crimson Blade, slashed directly at the body of the Cursed Spirit in front of him.
Grade 1 Cursed Spirits could use techniques?
Under the suppression of crushing stats and the passive effect of the Pure Yang Body, this Cursed Spirit had no room to perform at all.
However, this guy lasted longer than Rize Kamishiro.
Without using flames, it took Miyauchi Hikage a full minute to stab the Nichirin Blade into the opponent's stomach and pick out the Cursed Object that the opponent had just swallowed not long ago from its body amidst a pile of scattered resentment.
Obviously, the Cursed Object sealed here naturally wouldn't be Sukuna's finger.
There were only twenty of those things in total. One could create a special-grade Cursed Spirit and would gradually replace the will of the Cursed Spirit. Not every school was qualified to house it.
To be honest, it was already very abnormal that one could be leaked and placed in Sendai. People who knew the plot could see at a glance that this must be a conspiracy planned by Kenjaku in advance.
"So what is this thing?" Miyauchi Hikage looked at the basketball-sized, translucent red chalcedony on the tip of his sword.
Through the chalcedony, one could clearly see a heart sealed inside that seemed to be still beating.
Although the cursed energy fluctuation emitted by this thing was not strong, and the feeling it gave was even less oppressive than a Grade 2 Cursed Spirit, Miyauchi Hikage could feel that this thing was definitely not as simple as it looked.
Not far away, watching Miyauchi Hikage effortlessly solve a Quasi-Grade 1 Cursed Spirit in just one minute, the female sorcerer couldn't help but fall into silence.
Throughout the process, Miyauchi Hikage suppressed that tall Cursed Spirit, giving the opponent no chance to activate its technique, and finally disemboweled the opponent directly, taking out the Cursed Object swallowed by the opponent before.
Is this the talent not inferior to Gojo Satoru?
Except for those eyes that seemed to be able to see through people's hearts, Miyauchi Hikage didn't show much, relying entirely on his amazing physical fitness and exquisite swordsmanship to solve that Cursed Spirit.
Looking at Miyauchi Hikage's state at this time, his previous statement that he could retreat completely even in front of a special-grade sounded more convincing.
Unknowingly, the time she spent dazing was almost longer than the time Miyauchi Hikage spent fighting.
It wasn't until Miyauchi Hikage came to her with the strange chalcedony on his sword and asked a question that she remembered what she should do.
Although she felt that something was wrong with this chalcedony, she should seal it first anyway.
She ran to the place where the Cursed Object was placed before and found the wooden box that originally housed the Cursed Object, which was now half broken.
She barely repaired it simply with a technique before letting Miyauchi Hikage put the Cursed Object back into the wooden box.
"Anyway, let's leave it like this for now. Later, it will be taken back to Jujutsu High to be re-sealed."
Miyauchi Hikage asked curiously: "Then put it back here again?"
"Generally speaking, this is how it is operated, but exactly how to do it depends on the thoughts of the High School and even the Jujutsu higher-ups. Or did you find something?"
Miyauchi Hikage nodded: "I suspect now that this thing caused Sakurajima Mai's supernatural awakening. Have you found out the origin of this thing?"