Despair, like a cold tide, submerged Kamo Kenji once again.
The Special Grade Cursed Spirit's giant eye, which had been penetrated, squirmed and repaired itself at a speed visible to the naked eye. Shattered tissue and pus flowed backward and reorganized, emitting malice even denser and crazier than before.
The violent contraction of the Dark Domain space brought a suffocating oppression, as if intending to crush them completely.
"It's useless... useless! This kind of monster can't be killed at all!"
Kamo Kenji's voice carried a sob, his will on the verge of collapse.
He looked at the figure still standing upright in front of him, only to find that Mukyoku Nagi's breathing had also become heavy, fine beads of sweat seeping from his forehead.
Continuous high-intensity combat, especially that strike just now which nearly exhausted his mental strength, was clearly a huge burden on him as well.
The Cursed Spirit finished repairing and let out an even more furious roar!
It seemed thoroughly enraged. Its attack methods became more violent and chaotic. Countless twisted limbs, corrosive black mist, and mental screams poured down like a violent storm!
It no longer sought precision but intended to use absolute power and regeneration to exhaust them to death in this dark cage!
Nagi's Vermilion Eyes operated at unprecedented speeds, his brain calculating frantically.
He expanded the "Slow" force field again, but he could clearly feel that under the dual pressure of the domain's contraction and the Cursed Spirit's strengthening power, the range and control precision of the force field were declining.
Although most attacks were obstructed, more and more slipped through the net.
A shadow tentacle penetrated the force field and lashed ruthlessly across his arm, bringing up a spray of blood.
Nagi grunted, but his movements didn't pause in the slightest.
The green light of the Reverse Cursed Technique instantly lit up at the wound. The flesh healed rapidly, but the Cursed Energy consumption was real.
He attempted to counterattack.
"Yin-Yang Flow"!
He switched force fields instantly, applying "Slow" to the joint of the Cursed Spirit's arm that was about to smash down, while applying "Fast" (Shun) to himself, dashing forward violently!
His fist, wrapped in black-red Cursed Energy, smashed down ruthlessly!
*Bang!*
Black Flash!
The Cursed Spirit's arm was smashed into a twisted deformation, and a crack even appeared!
But in less than a second, the crack recovered as before under the thick curse power! Meanwhile, the Cursed Spirit's other arm had already smashed toward the top of his head with a foul wind!
Nagi had to switch immediately to defense. "Flash" avoided the main impact, but he was still swept by the shockwave, his blood and energy churning.
*No good! Not enough damage!*
*The power isn't enough to surpass its regeneration speed!*
Nagi clearly recognized this problem.
His "Congeal" allowed point control but lacked large-area destructive output; "Yin-Yang Flow" combined with taijutsu and Black Flash could deal effective damage, but against a monster of this size with abnormal regeneration, it was like using a water gun to spray a burning oil depot—utterly inadequate.
War of attrition! The opponent's goal was a war of attrition!
In this domain belonging to the opponent, their Cursed Energy was nearly infinite, while his and Kamo's Cursed Energy was draining rapidly!
"Kamo!"
Nagi's voice maintained a trace of calm amidst the fierce offense and defense. "Don't space out! Use your shadows to interfere with its movements! Even if only to slow it down by a second!"
Kamo Kenji was startled awake by Nagi's shout.
He saw Nagi single-handedly bearing the brunt of the Cursed Spirit's attacks. New wounds constantly appeared on his body, and although they healed instantly, his pale face and rapid breathing couldn't deceive anyone.
A strong sense of shame and unwillingness surged in his heart. He was also an elite of the Kamo family, not a burden!
"Shadow Binding: Thousand Thread Strangulation!" Kamo Kenji bit the tip of his tongue. Stimulated by the sharp pain, he squeezed out his last bit of strength and slammed his hands onto the ground!
Countless extremely fine shadow threads shot out from the ground, as if possessed of life, frantically wrapping around the Cursed Spirit's massive body and those flailing limbs!
These shadow threads couldn't truly trap the Cursed Spirit and were even snapped mostly in an instant, but they did play a slight role—the Cursed Spirit's movements showed a momentary, extremely minute lag and incoordination!
*Now!*
A sharp light flashed in Nagi's eyes!
"Flash" exploded instantly, dodging a claw strike and dashing to the Cursed Spirit's chest!
"Yin-Yang Flow" activate again!
"Slow" froze its blocking arm, "Fast" accelerated himself!
Black Flash: Double Tap!
*Boom! Boom!*
Two heavy Black Flashes smashed solidly into the Cursed Spirit's chest, erupting with blinding black-red lightning! The Cursed Spirit let out a painful hiss, two large holes blasted open in its chest!
However, it was still useless! Thick darkness poured out from its body like living creatures, quickly filling the wounds!
"Damn it!"
Kamo Kenji watched this scene in despair.
Nagi was forced back again, panting more violently.
The Reverse Cursed Technique constantly repaired his injuries, but the consumption of Cursed Energy was astonishing.
At this rate, they would be exhausted to death sooner or later.
*Attack... needs to be stronger... a more thorough attack...*
*Not destroying a part, but making its overall "movement" stop completely...*
*"Slow" is resistance, making movement slower until it stops...*
*"Congeal" is extreme stopping, but the range is too small...*
*If... if the concept of "Slow" could be sublimated to the extreme... not slowing down, but directly depriving it of the right to "move"...*
*Making kinetic energy... completely disappear...*
His brain thought under ultra-high load. The red light in the Vermilion Eyes became brighter and brighter, as if about to ignite.
Past battles, the principles of his technique, the prayer for "stillness" contained in his mother's wish for him to be "safe and sound"... countless thought fragments collided and reorganized frantically under the pressure of life and death!
He parried the Cursed Spirit's attack once again, his body sliding backward due to the immense impact. Kamo Kenji's shadow threads wrapped around desperately again, buying him another instant of respite.
Nagi stared blankly at the roaring, constantly regenerating, seemingly ceaseless Cursed Spirit ahead. Yet, it was as if he saw something deeper through it—the "motive force" itself that constituted the movement of all things.
His eyes became somewhat hollow, yet held a sudden realization.
Unconsciously, he slowly raised his right hand. His middle finger and ring finger curved naturally, lightly resting against his thumb, forming a gesture similar to the starting position of a finger snap.
The Cursed Energy fluctuating violently around him suddenly became extremely introverted and profound at this moment, like the dead silence before a storm.
"Maximum Technique —"
A word, as if derived from instinct, from the deepest realization of his bloodline, silently crossed his mind and spilled from his lips almost inaudibly:
"Nagi (Calm)."
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(Outside)
"The Cursed Energy fluctuation inside... changed!" Gojo Satoru's Six Eyes suddenly captured that abnormal change. "Very strange... it became... extremely calm? No... it's a calmness after extreme compression! Something is coming out!"
Everyone held their breath, staring nervously at the black sphere covered in cracks and fluctuating violently.