Second Battle! Sukuna!

"Oh—don't tell!"

Xuan waved his hand, and Yuta Okkotsu and Ito behind him instantly disappeared from the shadows.

"Let me think, I'm sure I still remember your name!"

Xuan raised his hand, pinched the wheel, turned it once, and then pointed it at Sukuna.

"I remember now! You're that—Limei, right!"

"My name is Uraume!!!!"

"Oh, it doesn't matter. I won't remember the name of some nobody who got smashed in one punch."

Xuan wiped his mouth, then looked at Sukuna had a serious expression.

"Four eyes, four hands, three mouths— Sukuna, you're... so ugly."

"... You brat, what exactly did you and Kenjaku Binding Vow?"

No comment.

Even if you get along well with those kids, your true intentions are definitely not that simple...

"Oh? How can you be sure I didn't just have a whim?"

"Heh... Weren't you quite arrogant when you fought me? It seems you didn't take this brat's life seriously at all."

"Ah--you talk too much... It seems you've misunderstood something. You seem to think I can't fight you without hurting Itadori?"

"If you could do that, you would have used that tactic immediately. Bluffing won't work on me."

"That's very true... I certainly didn't have that kind of ability back then."

"As for now... it's not necessary."

Boom!

The instant the conversation ended, Xuan appeared in front of Sukuna, his outstretched hand pressing down on Sukuna's body. With a sonic boom that echoed through the barrier, Sukuna's body was pressed to the ground by Xuan and instantly dragged from one side of the barrier to the other.

"Piercing Ox."

Following Xuan's movements, dozens of buildings blocking his path exploded and shattered, leaving a huge chasm in the ground. As Xuan stopped, Sukuna's body was also violently thrown out by Xuan, crashing into the barrier. The immense force created a huge crack in the barrier.

"Nue."

"Untie."

Xuan raised his hand, and a storm of lightning struck out instantly, only to be neutralized in a split second by Sukuna's grid-like slash—while Sukuna appeared in front of Xuan, accompanied by scattered Cursed Energy.

Bang!

In the first instant, Xuan almost simultaneously blocked the attacks of four hands, but as Sukuna continued his close-range attacks, Xuan was still unable to withstand the combined force of four hands with his two fists. He was struck in the waist and abdomen by a punch and was sent flying.

Boom!

Xuan's body flew out of the Sendai Colony, crashing through several buildings before coming to a stop. Sukuna stepped on the ice formed by the Ice Condensation Spell, and the two figures were almost parallel in the ruins of the city.

Xuan raised his head, his golden eyes meeting Sukuna's four-eyed gaze, and then—

"Domain Expansion."

"Domain Expansion."

The two spoke at the same time, and the pitch-black Eight Fixed Waters clashed with the continuous slashes, causing their domains to collide once again.

"You learned a trick from me, Sukuna."

Looking at the Shrine that hadn't appeared as expected, Xuan sneered.

"I have to thank you for that, Zenin Xuan."

The barriers between the domains were as compatible as water, and the sure-hit Cursed Technique disappeared the instant they merged, leaving only the field amplification. At this moment, the two domains were almost inseparable and stuck together.

Although Sukuna had already used her own body as Shrine.

However, I still have the upper hand.

Xuan thought to himself.

Besides using himself as Shrine, he also transformed the nature of his body, if Sukuna only used the Shrine tactic.

Ha, then you'll lose.

Pulling at the shadows of the falling floors, Xuan stomped on the floor—and the entire building instantly turned to dust with Xuan's explosive speed.

The ripped shadow changed shape in Xuan's hand, eventually forming a long sword.

"Dragon Scales, Recoil, Paired Shooting Stars."

As Xuan approached, Sukuna dared not delay for a moment and immediately began chanting a spell. With the help of the other two mouths, the two spells were superimposed.

"Untie."

The Shadow Sword in Xuan's hand was instantly cleaved in two, and the broken Shadow Sword dissolved in Xuan's hand, while the Dharma Wheel above Xuan's head also spun once.

"That kind of move can't hurt me, Sukuna."

Xuan's fist slammed into Sukuna's face— Sukuna took the blow head-on with his face while grabbing Xuan's materialized arm with both hands.

"Untie."

Blood splattered.

Xuan's arm was severed by the slash—but in the instant of separation, Xuan had already regenerated. His new hand reached out and threw a hook punch at Sukuna's abdomen, but at the moment of impact, Sukuna's open mouth bit off his hand.

chew

Xuan kicked Sukuna in the chest, creating distance, and at the same time, he sensed something was wrong.

Those punches just now, it seems that only a small portion of them "touched" Sukuna.

Xuan looked at the back of his hand and knuckles, and sure enough, there were tiny scratches from the slashing.

"You're really quite composed."

Xuan clenched his newly regenerated hand.

"Rabbit Escape."

Sukuna's expression suddenly changed. As Xuan uttered the incantation, hundreds of rabbits suddenly spewed out from Sukuna's abdomen.

Sukuna's abdomen was vomiting incessantly, and the Rabbit Escape he spewed out instantly turned into shadows and disappeared.

"With so many rabbits, you picky eater like this should be malnourished to death, right?"

"You brat..."

Xuan's eyes were fixed on Sukuna in front of him—their close-quarters combat hadn't seemed to have caused much damage to each other.

That's natural; with Mahoraga's adaptation, Xuan can reduce damage very naturally.

If one can adapt to the Mahoraga's Cursed Technique, one can achieve a 150% damage reduction, becoming immune to damage while also learning some of the opponent's moves, and even countering the opponent's moves with a rock-paper-scissors strategy.

Therefore, by using the 'borrowing' Cursed Technique, one can obtain approximately 90% damage reduction while continuously expending three times the Cursed Energy required to summon the Mahoraga.

Xuan is able to sustain this cycle of Cursed Energy.

To fully obtain 150% damage reduction, it requires five times the amount of Cursed Energy. Xuan will then enter a state of complete Cursed Energy burning—lasting approximately twenty minutes. After twenty minutes, Xuan's Cursed Energy will be depleted.

Click.

Xuan's adaptation to the "Malevolent Shrine" domain is reduced to only 1 level.

However, Xuan's accurate precognitive abilities found him.

He realized that besides a clash of domains, Sukuna must have other ways to break through his domain.

Xuan raised his hand.

"Dragon Scales, Recoil, Paired Shooting Stars"*2

Almost simultaneously with Xuan Yin chanting his incantation, Sukuna also began chanting his incantation.

Xuan's focus was not on Sukuna's upper hand, but on Sukuna's lower hands, which formed a hand seal that was neither Malevolent Shrine nor a slashing move.

"Domain Expansion."

Xuan dodged the spell-enhanced slash, and as the designated slash severed Sukuna's two arms, the "mouth" on Sukuna's left cheek, which had been silent for a long time, opened its mouth.

"Eight Cold Crystal Prison."