Cursed Corpses, Apprenticeship, the Strongest Shikigami User

Lu Ping pushed open the door and took a breath of the cool mountain air.

At around four in the afternoon, the sunlight had lost its midday fierceness. It slanted over Jujutsu High's uneven rooftops, spreading a soft orange glow across the courtyard.

After the mental strain brought on by the intense battle, he desperately craved this peace, untouched by the stench of blood.

He did not go far. Following the familiar stone path, he headed straight for the back mountain of Jujutsu High.

There was a clearing surrounded by bamboo groves there. Aside from the occasional student sneaking off to slack around, it was almost never disturbed. It was the perfect place to practice localized Barrier Techniques and fine control of the Ten Shadows.

Although he had won the battle in Akihabara by forcibly deploying the Incomplete Domain: Chimera Shadow Garden.

Lu Ping knew perfectly well that his control over the barrier during those brief ten seconds had been far too crude.

Even though he had relied on experience and combat instinct to establish a Binding Vow that provided "an obvious escape route," strengthening the Domain, he had still failed to instantly kill or subdue the remaining two enemies.

Rather than constructing a complete alternate space, he had forcibly used an enormous amount of cursed energy to prop open a barely airtight shell.

If he encountered an equal or even stronger Domain, that shoddy construction would undoubtedly be crushed in an instant.

He stood in the middle of the clearing and closed his eyes.

He did not summon the Three Corpses, merely allowing the Snake Scales on his body to remain invisibly activated.

Within thirty meters, even the faint traces of cursed energy stirred up by wind brushing through the bamboo leaves rippled across his sensory net like waves