Lin Mu Everywhere!

"The cursed spirits we can't deal with in the end still have to be collected by teachers like us."

Utahime nodded as if she only half understood. "That does seem to make sense."

"Though it's unlikely, if all these cursed spirits were exorcised, the principal would probably have quite a headache too, right?"

Principal Gakuganji stroked his goatee. "You're right. These cursed spirits were accumulated and captured by us over many years. If they were all gone, there'd be no cursed spirits left for future exchange events."

"But that's impossible."

Satoru Gojo, who had remained silent until then, smiled. "Oh, is that what you think? It seems the old man's judgment has declined."

Principal Gakuganji glared at Satoru Gojo, blowing his beard and widening his eyes. "Hmph! All talk. I guarantee it on the honor of the principal—those students couldn't possibly..."

Before he could even finish, a great blaze suddenly erupted across the wall covered in talismans!

Forty or fifty talismans burned up at once, every single flame a uniform red!

That meant all those cursed spirits had been exorcised by Tokyo Jujutsu High in one sweep!

Principal Gakuganji abruptly turned around and stared fixedly at the burning talismans. After a long while, he finally forced out a sentence. "That's impossible!"

Kyoto Jujutsu High and Tokyo Jujutsu High were clearly still engaged in a chaotic battle, weren't they?

Even Lin Mu, who had disappeared for a while earlier, had returned. How had they done it?

"What trick are you people playing? Could it be that you'd stoop to anything just to retain the championship?" Principal Gakuganji said viciously, his gaze flicking toward Satoru Gojo from time to time.

Thinking of Gojo's earlier contemptuous tone, Principal Gakuganji found the possibility of Tokyo Jujutsu High cheating even more likely.

Satoru Gojo hurriedly waved his hands. "Now, now, old man, don't go accusing me."

"Our Tokyo Jujutsu High didn't cheat."

Principal Gakuganji snorted and signaled Mei Mei to continue expanding the crows' surveillance range.

He wanted to see exactly who on Tokyo Jujutsu High's side was up to something.

Before Mei Mei could release more crows, even fiercer flames ignited on the wall again!

Over a hundred talismans burned simultaneously!

Without exception, every flame was red.

"Impossible—!" Gakuganji slammed his cane down hard and cried out, "The cursed spirits were clearly released in batches. How could so many be exorcised at once?!"

"And you still say Tokyo Jujutsu High didn't cheat!"

"If I catch you at it, I'll definitely report this to the higher-ups!" Principal Gakuganji viciously jabbed his cane into the floor.

Satoru Gojo looked speechless. He waved a hand and stopped talking.

Yet there was also a trace of curiosity on his face. He really wanted to know how Lin Mu had managed to exorcise so many cursed spirits in such a short time.

Don't ask how Satoru Gojo knew it was Lin Mu. Other than him, who else on the field had that kind of strength?

Mei Mei closed her eyes and raised the crows' viewpoint higher, carefully searching every suspicious area.

Before long, a fleeting figure caught her attention.

"Found him!" Mei Mei controlled the crow to follow closely behind, and the figure gradually became clearer.

"Who is it?" Principal Gakuganji asked impatiently.

"This is... Lin Mu!?"

Mei Mei could hardly believe it herself as she said it, but it was true—the figure looked exactly like Lin Mu.

"How is that possible? Wasn't Lin Mu with his teammates?"

Lin Mu's fighting figure could be seen clearly on the screen right now.

Yet Mei Mei claimed she had seen Lin Mu somewhere else?

Mei Mei knew her word alone would be hard to convince Principal Gakuganji, so she used her cursed technique to share what the crow saw on the screen.

When the truth was clearly revealed before everyone, Principal Gakuganji fell silent.

He might have been old, but he wasn't blind. That person really was Lin Mu.

"What exactly is going on? Why are there two Lin Mus?"

Gakuganji looked toward Satoru Gojo, his expression plainly saying, "Aren't you going to explain?"

However, Satoru Gojo couldn't be bothered with him. Besides, even he had no idea what was going on.

"Hmph. I'd like to see what this Lin Mu is capable of!"

"Keep watching him. Don't let him get away again."

Mei Mei controlled the crow to rapidly close in. Suddenly, an intense pressure descended, and the crow nearly slipped out of her control.

What sharp senses! Mei Mei silently marveled. She had only moved a little closer, yet she had already been discovered.

Fortunately, after "Lin Mu" realized it was one of the school's surveillance crows, he stopped.

Right in front of him was a group of cursed spirits, numbering around twenty or thirty.

"With that many cursed spirits, can you really one-shot them without cheating?" Principal Gakuganji narrowed his eyes.

The 'Lin Mu' on the screen showed no intention of slowing down as he faced the swarm of cursed spirits. After tossing out several black objects, he spewed a torrent of flames from his mouth.

The wide-reaching blaze engulfed every cursed spirit. When the flames dissipated, not even their ashes remained.

Seeing this, Principal Gakuganji's pupils widened slightly. "Just like that?"

"What level of technique was that? Its power is simply terrifying!"

"Didn't you say he was a Grade 2 sorcerer? You call that a Grade 2 sorcerer?"

Satoru Gojo turned his head aside and whistled, pretending he had heard nothing.

Principal Gakuganji ground his teeth, but there was nothing he could do. Sorcerer rankings were never entirely reliable. Many powerful sorcerers remained unable to raise their grade for a long time.

There were also plenty of weak sorcerers carrying high-ranking titles. More often than not, rankings depended on family background.

As such, he had no grounds to make an issue of it.

But then he noticed something was wrong. Even at that speed, it should have been impossible to make several hundred cursed spirits disappear all at once.

Could all those cursed spirits have willingly thrown their lives away by charging straight at Lin Mu's face?

Just as Principal Gakuganji grew suspicious, the talismans on the wall began burning even more fiercely!

Dozens, then hundreds of talismans burned one after another into ash, as though someone were using them to play a match-three game.

Half the talismans on the wall had already caught fire! Yet Lin Mu had clearly exorcised only twenty or thirty cursed spirits just now.

"What exactly is going on with this exchange event?"

"Could something be wrong with these talismans?" Gakuganji personally inspected them several times, only to find nothing abnormal.

Before he could figure it out, Mei Mei beside him spoke in shock.

"Principal, something's happening on my end!"

"Lin Mu is everywhere!"

Principal Gakuganji failed to understand at once. "What did you say? What do you mean, Lin Mu is everywhere?"

Mei Mei did not explain further. Instead, she directly projected the vision from several crows onto the screen.

There were six images on the screen, and every single one contained a 'Lin Mu'!

"What?!" It seemed as though flames might burst from Principal Gakuganji's nostrils!

"Is this his technique too?! He can summon five clones at once!"

That explained why cursed spirits were being exorcised in such large numbers.

Aside from the 'Lin Mu' engaged in the melee, there were five other 'Lin Mus' exorcising cursed spirits at full force.

Given his efficiency of eliminating twenty or thirty cursed spirits at a time, it roughly matched the number of talismans burning on the wall.

Still, even if it could be explained, it remained hard to believe.

It was still unclear which one was the original. If the clones alone could instantly kill twenty or thirty cursed spirits, just how powerful was Lin Mu himself?

"Damn it! Tokyo actually recruited a monster like this! At this rate, defeat is inevitable!" Gakuganji was anxious, but he had no way to communicate with the students.

He could only watch helplessly as the 'Lin Mus' freely exorcised those cursed spirits.

Satoru Gojo snorted softly and shook his leg, his heart filled with gratification as he watched Lin Mu freely massacre the cursed spirits.

With his plan progressing smoothly, Lin Mu was in high spirits. Good news kept coming from the Shadow Clones, and the inheritance progress was accumulating nicely.

His personal score in this exchange event was probably around four hundred points already. No one could possibly surpass him now.

But that was not the important part. Through the Sharingan, Lin Mu had discovered traces of the target cursed spirit amid his painstaking search.

After tracking it for some time, Lin Mu found that the cursed spirit was quite weak, only barely exceeding special grade in strength.

It was probably the type that excelled at concealment and launching sneak attacks from the shadows.

But before Lin Mu, that ability was like a little kid playing hide-and-seek with a detective.

It was not entirely useless, but it was impossible for it to be useful.

After passing through the densest part of the forest, a dark, damp, and chilly cave appeared before Lin Mu.

Dense cursed energy seeped out from within. If nothing unexpected happened, the target cursed spirit was inside.

Exorcising it would secure victory in this exchange event!

However, Lin Mu was in no hurry. Judging by the distribution of cursed spirits his clones had discovered, at least one or two hundred cursed spirits had yet to be found. If he ended the match early, he would no longer have a legitimate reason to exorcise those cursed spirits. After all, they were raised by Jujutsu High.

He could not possibly shamelessly linger around after the competition ended, could he?

Besides, now that the target cursed spirit had caught his attention, it had nowhere to run. If he wanted to, he could kill it at any time!

Lin Mu immediately lay down on a tree branch to take a nap. He would leave the boring and exhausting task of exorcising low-level cursed spirits to the Shadow Clones.

"I spent my whole previous life working like a slave. Shouldn't I enjoy myself a little in this life?"

But when he realized that the person he was exploiting seemed to be himself as well, Lin Mu could not help feeling that something was off.

"Whatever. Rest first."