Lu Ping felt a chilling aura travel up his palm and into his body, and he knew in his heart that something was wrong.
Just now, in order to inscribe the spell seal in the "Cursed Tool Vault", I consumed a lot of Cursed Energy through multiple attempts.
Even with the continuous transformation and recovery of the "Three Corpses" within the body, the reserves are now almost depleted.
He never expected that he would encounter such a bizarre long-range Jujutsu attack in the heavily guarded core territory of the Three Great Families main families.
Just as I was pondering this, a series of light footsteps came from the corridor next door.
A purple-haired girl jogged past, faint red marks still remaining on her face.
Lu Ping recognized her at a glance as the girl who had stood up for Maki not long ago when Naoya Zenin Maki bullied her at the gate— Kikyō Meifu.
The girl stopped in her tracks.
Kikyō Meifu clearly recognized the black-haired boy she had just brushed past, and realized that since he could move freely within the main family compound, he was most likely a member of the Zenin Clan.
She looked anxious, as if she had something urgent to attend to, but her gaze stopped when it swept over Lu Ping's bleeding right hand.
"Big brother, you're injured. Do you want me to go and call for help?"
Her voice was timid, carrying an undisguised worry.
Judging from her previous actions in standing up for the Maki sisters, this girl is indeed not a bad person.
"No need, you should leave here immediately."
Lu Ping shook his head slightly, politely declining the other party's offer.
This curse spreads through blood and electronic signals; who knows if secondary infections will occur? The most important thing is to get rid of irrelevant people as soon as possible.
The girl nodded obediently, turned and ran towards the stone bridge, the direction where Maki and Mai were.
As soon as the person walked away, a piercing pain shot through my palm.
Compared to the lively wrangling between the two families outside the gate, preserving his right hand was clearly more important at the moment.
Lu Ping quickly turned into a secluded corner of the artificial hill, chanted an incantation, and swiftly erected a small "tent".
As the Cursed Energy was activated, it spread rapidly, like a shark that had smelled blood, quickly covering half of the palm in the blink of an eye.
Lu Ping was slightly startled, but his brain was working at lightning speed.
This Cursed Technique, which relies on modern communication equipment for dissemination, is by no means a low-level product that arises naturally.
The ability to grasp the complex logic of making a phone call suggests that the spirit is likely a highly intelligent, Special Grade Cursed Spirit.
In the worst-case scenario, the opponent has already left the Cursed Womb stage and evolved into its complete form.
Hopefully, Ieiri Shoko and Suguru Geto can hold on at the Kyoto School.
While thinking, he immediately drew upon his knowledge of Barrier Technique to construct an invisible barrier on his right forearm, slowing the flow of blood.
The spread of the curse was finally temporarily contained.
He opened his palm and quietly felt the changes in his palm as it was eroded by the curse carried by blood.
The affected area felt tingling, numb, and itchy, as if an ant colony was building a nest under the skin, and countless tiny eyeballs were wriggling and struggling wildly in the flesh.
Lu Ping's eyes turned cold, and he clenched his right fist.
"Pfft!"
Several newly emerging red eyeballs were crushed.
Black blood plasma was sprayed onto the gray stones of the artificial hill, sticky and impossible to dissolve, emitting a nauseating stench.
This thing is really weird.
Traditional [Straw Effigy Curse Technique] at least require obtaining the target's hair or personal belongings before they can hammer nails.
This thing is amazing; it can get people stained with blood and grow eyes like crazy just by making a harassing phone call through their phones.
If this Special Grade Cursed Spirit were allowed to develop, the harm it would cause once the curse spread would be unimaginable.
According to conventional solutions, as long as the Jujutsu High combat forces in Kyoto can exorcise the original body as soon as possible, the curse imposed by the remote attack will naturally disappear.
Thanks to the barrier and the enhancement of his Cursed Energy, he won't die anytime soon.
But sitting idly by and waiting for death has never been his style.
The shadow beneath their feet lengthened, and the [Shadow Wolf] leaped out silently.
Lu Ping used his left hand to forcefully squeeze an immature eyeball out of the rolled-up flesh of his right palm and threw it into the air.
The Shikigami opened its blood-red maw and swallowed it whole.
One second, two seconds...
Nothing has changed.
He understood that this eyeball was not a Cursed Spirit body formed from negative emotions, but a pure polymer of Cursed Energy generated by the Cursed Technique.
The Shadow Wolf's devouring ability is ineffective against such Cursed Energy creations; it is only effective against Cursed Spirit and other carriers of negative emotions.
The instant he squeezed out his eyeball, he keenly sensed that a trace of Cursed Energy within his body also peeled away and disappeared.
This [Blood-Eyed Curse] doesn't damage the body at all; it parasitizes it.
They feed primarily on the host's Cursed Energy; flesh and blood are merely auxiliary substrates for them to take root.
As long as the Cursed Energy within their bodies doesn't run out, these freaks will continue to grow.
In a short while, half of the palm of his right hand had turned black.
The eerie lines climbed up the back of the hand from between the fingers, about to cross the joints, but stopped abruptly when they touched the black wolf head curse mark.
The curse seemed to have struck an invisible wall of sighs, helplessly circling the outer edge of the curse mark, leaving a clear blank area, with only the arrogant wolf head remaining intact.
Lu Ping's heart skipped a beat.
Could it be that the Shadow Wolf's characteristics happen to be a perfect counter to this thing?
No, that's not right.
The Shadow Wolf clearly couldn't digest the eyeball it had just eaten, so how could it possibly restrain itself?
Unless, of course, the Shikigami swallows its entire right hand whole.
But without top -Shoko tier medical assistance like that of Dr. Shoko on site, he wasn't crazy enough to amputate his own limb.
Eliminate all the wrong answers, and what remains is the truth.
What is the biggest difference between Shadow Wolf and Cursed Seal?
One exists independently outside the body, while the other requires a continuous supply of Cursed Energy from within the body.
As just verified, the disappearance of the eyeball takes away the Cursed Energy, indicating that the curse itself feeds on Cursed Energy.
Logically, it should have devoured the reserves on the curse mark like a hungry wolf pouncing on its prey, instead of retreating.
At this thought, a bright idea flashed through Lu Ping's mind.
It refers to concentration.
Ordinary sorcerers would never constantly circulate their Cursed Energy throughout their bodies when not in combat.
Firstly, the total amount is insufficient, and secondly, the efficiency is extremely low.
However, the spell nodes that are normally activated Surface Imprint are constantly filled with a high density of Cursed Energy.
It's like the difference between water and a strong acid.
The curse can quench thirst with water, but it will dissolve if you drink a sip of a highly concentrated acid.
He understood.
A long-range attack hundreds of kilometers away would inevitably lose much of its power during transmission, and it could not be so powerful as to be unstoppable.
If one does not consume excessive Cursed Energy due to the imprinting, as long as one maintains peak condition and covers the entire body with high-density Cursed Energy, one can forcibly nip the curse in the bud the moment it is touched.
However, this is only one approach to breaking the deadlock.
Looking at the tiny eyeballs in his palm, still clinging to life by sucking blood, Lu Ping had his answer.
Since this [Blood-Eyed Curse] relies on blood to spread, it uses the method of absorbing flesh and blood and parasitizing with Cursed Energy.
I also happen to have a Cursed Technique related to "blood".
At this moment, one of the Three Corpses within the body sensed the spread of the curse and began to stir.
He emptied his mind, and the Cursed Energy re-gathered in his limbs and bones.
The "Azure Corpse," one of the Three Corpses that originally dominated the Cursed Energy within the body, began to disappear, while another, more violent and viscous aura slowly awakened as the Cursed Energy was activated.
Lu Ping gathered his remaining Cursed Energy and spoke calmly.
"Wake up, Blood Corpse."