Almost simultaneously with Sukuna swinging out [Dismantle], the highly compressed dark blue energy sphere in his palm—Asura Path: Asura's Attack—was completed and blasted out with a roar.
This time, it wasn't a test, but seizing a fleeting weakness.
"What?"
Sukuna's pupils contracted sharply. He had just fully dealt with the threat of the black rods, and now, facing this sudden bombardment containing destructive energy, it was too late to completely evade or use Domain Expansion Mitigation to neutralize it.
In haste, he could only cross his arms to shield himself, Cursed Energy surging wildly to construct the most solid defense on his body surface.
"Boom—"
The dark blue energy sphere slammed squarely into Sukuna's defense, instantly erupting with terrifying power comparable to a small nuclear explosion.
Dazzling light swallowed everything. A massive fireball soared into the sky, followed immediately by a world-destroying shockwave. Everything within several hundred meters of the explosion's epicenter, whether remaining buildings or the earth itself, was instantly leveled and completely vaporized.
A massive, circular crater appeared in the center of Shinjuku.
Uro Heiko, Ryu Ishiguro, and the others watching from afar were thrown off balance by the shockwave, their faces filled with horror.
If the residual wave had such power, then Sukuna, who was at the center of the explosion... The light and smoke slowly dissipated.
At the bottom of the deep crater, Sukuna's figure reappeared.
He was still standing, but he looked much more battered.
The dark red kimono he wore was tattered, and the exposed skin was covered in charred marks and fine cracks. His crossed forearms, in particular, were ripped open, revealing the blackened bone beneath. A trickle of dark red blood spilled from the corner of his mouth.
He was injured!
After obtaining a new body and surpassing his peak strength, this was the first time he had sustained substantial injury in a direct confrontation.
"Cough..."
Sukuna spat out a mouthful of saliva mixed with a scorching aura, the streaks of blood clearly visible.
He raised his hand to wipe away the blood from his mouth. Instead of showing fear due to the injury, his four eyes erupted with even more excited and fanatical crimson light.
"Excellent, hahahaha! Absolutely excellent!!"
Sukuna let out a twisted and joyful laugh, as if being injured was the ultimate pleasure for him.
"That's it! Pain! Damage! This is the battle I crave! Toho Hiroshi, you truly bring me the greatest enjoyment!"
Far from weakening, the Cursed Energy surrounding him became more violent and ferocious, like a lit barrel of dynamite.
The dark red Cursed Energy almost transformed into burning flames, leaping and surging around his body.
"The warm-up is over! Now, let's begin the real slaughter!"
Sukuna sneered, clasping his hands together to form the Yama Ten Hand Seal.
The space around him began to twist violently, and a freezing aura of Domain power, carrying endless slaughter and death, started to spread.
"Domain Expansion—'Malevolent Shrine'"
Buzz—
Heaven and Earth changed color!
An ancient, sinister shrine constructed of bones and flesh descended with a roar, instantly swallowing Toho Hiroshi and a large area of the surrounding space.
Toho Hiroshi stood in the center of this sinister Domain. Beneath his feet was a viscous pool of blood, and around him were pillars hanging with various unspeakable chunks of flesh. The air was thick with the scent of blood and curses.
He could feel that Sukuna's Domain was far stronger than when he had faced it before.
"In my kitchen... you are merely the ingredient waiting to be butchered."
Sukuna's voice echoed from all directions within the Domain, filled with domineering majesty and cruelty.
Countless slashes of [Cleave] and [Dismantle], as if possessing life, swarmed toward Toho Hiroshi from every unbelievable angle and along various tricky and strange trajectories.
These slashes were no longer formless and intangible within the Domain; they had transformed into visible, space-distorting ripples, dense and unavoidable.
Facing this lethal Domain offensive, Toho Hiroshi slowly closed his eyes.
The next moment, he suddenly opened them.
Within those Rinnegan eyes, purple light shone brightly, and complex ripples spun at an unprecedented speed.
"In that case, I'll get a little serious too."
"Limbo: Border Jail"
Silently, the shadows existing in the "Limbo" world were summoned.
These invisible and undetectable shadows bravely confronted the Domain slashes descending from the sky!
Bang bang bang bang bang—
A dense, scalp-numbing sound of collision exploded within the Domain.
Facing the endless, unavoidable storm of slashes coming from all directions within Sukuna's Domain, 'Malevolent Shrine,' Toho Hiroshi slowly closed his eyes.
The next moment, he suddenly opened them.
Within those Rinnegan eyes, purple light shone brightly, and complex ripples spun at an unprecedented speed. Deep in his pupils, six Magatama suddenly appeared, forming a profound pattern along with the ripples—the Six-Tomoe Rinnegan.
"In that case, I'll get a little serious too."
"Domain Expansion—'Reincarnation Realm'"
There was no earth-shattering roar, only a silent hum, as if the fundamental rules of the world were being rewritten.
Centered on Toho Hiroshi, color rapidly stripped away and faded from reality.
The crimson scene of Sukuna's blood-and-flesh shrine, as if washed over by ink, instantly turned into pure black and white.
Beneath his feet was a bottomless, mirror-like black water surface, reflecting the pale, empty firmament above.
Between the zenith and the water surface, an enormous, slowly rotating Six-Tomoe Rinnegan coldly overlooked everything, becoming the sole focus of this black-and-white world.
The Domain rules of Sukuna's 'Malevolent Shrine' emitted sounds of unbearable cracking when faced with this "Realm" that was closer to the world's origin. It then dissipated as if assimilated, thoroughly covered and encompassed by the 'Reincarnation Realm.'
"Oh? An Open-Barrier Domain?"
Sukuna's four eyes narrowed, sensing the fundamental shift in the surrounding rules.
His originally guaranteed slashes, upon entering this black-and-white Domain, seemed to have their trajectories disturbed by some invisible force, making them no longer absolute.
Just then, an invisible slash [Cleave] was about to rip Toho Hiroshi apart from behind.
Toho Hiroshi didn't even turn his head, yet he seemed to know everything.
The next second, the slash struck a massive black stone that had suddenly appeared behind Toho Hiroshi, floating on the water surface, shattering the stone into pieces.
Toho Hiroshi's figure had already appeared tens of meters away in another direction, having swapped places with a blurry shadow at his original location.
"Space movement? No... it's substitution."
Sukuna immediately figured it out.
"More than that."
Toho Hiroshi's calm voice rang out.
He raised his hand and pointed at Sukuna.
The calm water surface beneath Sukuna's feet suddenly exploded, and four naruto shadow clones leaped out as if from an abyss, attacking him simultaneously.
Their attack trajectories were incredibly tricky, and just before making contact with Sukuna, one of the shadows suddenly swapped positions with a patch of "space" directly above Sukuna's head, causing the attack to come from a completely unexpected angle.
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