Excitement

The Zenin Clan's hidden reserve of power!

Special Grade Sorcerer-Jinichi Zenin!

"Were you the one slaughtering people in the Zenin Clan?"

Jinichi Zenin's voice was low and hoarse. He raised the long sword in his hand, pointing its tip straight at Yagami Jue.

"A monkey without cursed energy."

"Are you ready to die?"

Faced with this terrifying Special Grade pressure.

Yagami Jue showed not the slightest trace of fear.

Instead, he was so excited that every bone in his body crackled explosively!

"Hahahahaha!"

Yagami Jue threw back his head and roared with laughter!

"Die?"

"I came here today to collect a debt!"

"Since you won't pay up."

"I'll fill my account with your lives!"

"System!"

Yagami Jue screamed wildly inside his mind!

"Activate it!"

"Eight Gates Formation, second gate! Gate of Healing!"

"Open!!!"

BOOM-!!!!!

As Yagami Jue roared.

A torrent of white air, ten times more terrifying than when he had opened the Opening Gate, instantly erupted from his body!

It pulverized the stone paving beneath his feet!

At that moment, his strength and speed broke through into an entirely new, despair-inducing realm!

"Come on, you old dog!"

Yagami Jue's eyes were blood-red, making him look like a god of war straight out of hell.

"Let's see whether a so-called Special Grade like you."

"Can take this three-hundred-million-yen punch!"

Kyoto, the Zenin Clan estate.

Broken bricks and tiles shook violently on the ground. The air seemed to have been sucked dry, making it difficult to breathe.

Yagami Jue had opened the Gate of Healing, and savage streams of visible white air coiled around him.

His engorged skin had turned an eerie bluish red, and veins bulged along his arms like coiling dragons.

"System, bring up my panel. Let me see whether this Gate of Healing was worth that hundred million!"

[Ding!]

[Host: Yagami Jue]

[Status: Eight Gates Formation · Second Gate · Gate of Healing (active)]

[Temporary increase to all attributes: 100%!]

[Current attributes:]

[Strength: 51220]

[Speed: 53104]

[Constitution: 41076]

[Currency deducted per second: 100,000 Japanese yen (current balance can sustain 2500 seconds)]

"Holy shit, a hundred thousand a second? Even robbing a bank isn't that fast!"

The corner of Yagami Jue's eye twitched, and his heart ached at the expense.

This isn't fighting. This is burning money!

A whole car evaporates every second!

"You're bluffing!"

Jinichi Zenin bellowed angrily and abruptly leveled his long sword.

"On Zenin Clan territory, even someone with a heavenly restriction has to bow down to me!"

"Cursed Technique: Accumulating Fists!"

Boom!

The space behind Jinichi Zenin warped violently, and hundreds of enormous fists made of cursed energy formed in an instant!

They crowded together, blotting out the sky!

Every fist radiated a terrifying aura powerful enough to smash a heavy tank to pieces.

"Die, brat!"

With a wave of Jinichi Zenin's hand, hundreds of giant fists rained down like meteors, their shrill whistles sealing off every avenue of escape for Yagami Jue!

On a distant perimeter wall.

Satoru Gojo, Yuji Itadori, Megumi Fushiguro, and Nobara Kugisaki crouched in a neat row.

"Whoa! Is that a giant Buddha? Those fists are huge, and there are so many!"

Yuji Itadori's eyes widened, his jaw almost hitting the ground.

"That's Jinichi Zenin's ultimate move. An ordinary Grade 1 Jujutsu Sorcerer would be crushed into pulp instantly."

Megumi Fushiguro's expression was grave as he stared intently at Yagami Jue in the center of the battlefield.

"Is Yagami... really not going to dodge?"

Nobara Kugisaki clutched the nails in her hand, her palms slick with cold sweat.

"If that bastard dies, I'll laugh at him for the rest of my life!"

But her trembling voice betrayed the sheer shock inside her.

An attack on that scale was practically a miracle!

At the center of the battlefield.

Yagami Jue glanced up at the fists blotting out the sky, and an utterly savage laugh escaped his lips.

"Dodge?"

"That word has never been in my dictionary!"

"Scatter!!!"

Yagami Jue suddenly took a deep breath, his chest swelling high.

Then he bent his knees slightly, grounding his stance and aligning his waist.

Facing the giant fists raining down from the sky, he threw just one punch into empty air!

BOOOOM-!!!!!

The instant that punch flew, it seemed to punch straight through the entire sky!

More than fifty thousand points of sheer physical force created a vacuum shock wave over fifty meters in diameter!

The air was forcibly compressed, unleashing an earth-shattering blast like a nuclear explosion!

Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam!

Those giant fists formed from pure cursed energy.

The instant they touched the invisible shock wave, they were like rotten tomatoes hurled into a meat grinder!

They burst, shattered, and vanished in great swaths!

They could not hold it back for even a thousandth of a second!

The shock wave surged onward without slowing, blasting an enormous hole straight through the clouds!

Sunlight fell at an angle across Yagami Jue's arrogant face, making him look like a demonic god!

Once again, deathly silence fell over the entire battlefield.

The long sword in Jinichi Zenin's hand fell to the ground with a clang.

His eyes widened, bloodshot from sheer shock.

"One punch... shattered my Accumulating Fists?"

"Pure physical force... can actually reach this level?!"

"That's impossible! It makes no sense!"

Jinichi Zenin roared wildly, the pride deep within him utterly trampled at that moment!

The Zenin Clan members watching nearby went deathly pale with terror. Some even lost control of their bladders.

"Am I dreaming..."

"He... he punched through the sky?"

"Can a human really possess that kind of power?!"

"Old bastard, are you done with your tricks?"

Yagami Jue rubbed his wrist, his eyes full of mockery.

"Do you have any idea how much money I burned to take that attack?"

"My heart bleeds every second!"

"So..."

Yagami Jue vanished from where he stood.

More than fifty-three thousand points of speed!

No one present, including Jinichi Zenin, even had time to blink!

"I'll send you to see that precious son of yours right now!"

The voice sounded right beside Jinichi Zenin's ear.

"Shit!!!"

Jinichi Zenin was a Special Grade after all. At the brink of death, he instinctively tried to retreat.

But he discovered.

The air around him seemed to have solidified. Immense wind pressure pinned him down so completely that he could not even move a finger!

Bam!

Yagami Jue's heavy punch landed squarely on Jinichi Zenin's chest.

There was no dazzling explosion of cursed energy.

Only the most primal, dull thud.

Crack...

Jinichi Zenin's breastbone turned to powder on contact.

That terrifying kinetic force tore through his back and demolished a Japanese-style pavilion dozens of meters behind him!

"Blargh-!"

Jinichi Zenin flew sideways like a torn sack, rolled over a dozen times across the ground, and finally sank into a pile of rubble.

Whether he was alive or dead was unknown.

One hundred and fifty million in the bag.

Yagami Jue silently noted the sum and was just about to deactivate the Gate of Healing to save some money.

Suddenly.

An aura cold enough to chill him to the marrow drifted out from deep within the Zenin Clan estate.

"You killed the descendants of my Zenin Clan and destroyed our courtyard."

"Young man, aren't you being a little too arrogant?"

An old man, withered as dried bark, tottered out of the inner hall with a walking stick.

Although he looked as though he might breathe his last at any moment, every step he took instantly reduced the stone beneath his feet to powder.

"Ancestor!"

"Ancestor, save us!"

The Zenin Clan members who had collapsed on the ground saw the old man as their savior. They dropped to their knees, weeping bitterly.

"Another one bringing me money?"

Yagami Jue narrowed his eyes. He could feel that this old man's aura was considerably stronger than Jinichi Zenin's.

He was an old relic who had lived for at least several hundred years.

"System, how much is this old man worth?"

[Ding! Hidden Elder of the Zenin Clan detected. His strength approaches the peak of Special Grade!]

[Kill reward: 300 million Japanese yen!]

"Three hundred million?!"

Yagami Jue's eyes instantly lit up like two bright lightbulbs.

"Fuck, the Zenin Clan really is my fucking promised land!"

"Killing just one will pay for days of splurging!"

He pointed straight at the old man's nose and cursed, "You old corpse! Since you're so eager to reincarnate, I'll send you on your way today!"

"Take all your Zenin Clan's secret savings to the grave with you!"

The old man wasn't angry. He simply raised his withered wooden cane.

"Cursed Technique: Spatial Tremor."

Bzzzt-!

The old man jabbed at the empty air in Yagami Jue's direction.

The space around Yagami Jue actually fractured like a mirror, riddled with countless cracks!

"Holy shit! A spatial ability?"

Yagami Jue was startled.