Yue Liusi was different from Sukuna. Defeating him was hardly impossible.
Yue Liusi did not immediately respond to Jogo's words. Instead, he turned toward the other two.
"What about you two?"
Toji Fushiguro naturally agreed.
"I'm in."
A fight would be good. It would give him a chance to see just how strong this man was.
Suguru Geto also nodded in agreement.
"I think its proposal is quite reasonable."
"But my Cursed Technique is practically useless right now, and my strength is nothing special, so I'll sit this one out."
Agreement was one thing, but he still had some awareness of his current strength.
Without Cursed Spirits, Cursed Spirit Manipulation was essentially a blank slate.
This Cursed Technique had an extremely high ceiling, but an extremely low floor as well.
After saying that, Suguru Geto stepped aside, looking ready to watch the fight.
Yue Liusi said softly,
"Granted."
The next second, he turned his gaze toward Toji Fushiguro.
A dangerous aura enveloped Toji in an instant.
Toji Fushiguro's expression changed in alarm, and he quickly assumed a defensive stance.
Was this man taking him for an easy target?
Absolutely ridiculous!
Let me see just how much you've got!
But before he could make a move, Yue Liusi had already vanished from his sight!
How was he so fast?!
The essence of Heavenly Restriction had never been a powerful body, but an exchange of one thing for another. Its effects still remained in his body now.
In other words, he was no different from when he had been alive. In fact, thanks to Perfect Impure World Reincarnation, he was even somewhat stronger.
Yet even so, Toji Fushiguro could not see Yue Liusi's path of movement at all!
He was too fast!
Before any figure appeared before his eyes, tremendous force struck his abdomen, sending him flying!
Seeing Toji Fushiguro kicked out of the fight practically the instant it began, Jogo immediately sensed trouble and was deeply alarmed.
Without the slightest hesitation, he unleashed his strongest move.
"Domain Expansion!"
"Coffin of the Iron Mountain!"
In an instant, a massive volcanic domain enveloped Yue Liusi, with scorching lava erupting from small, raised volcanic vents.
Terrifying heat filled the domain, even distorting the air.
Watching Yue Liusi remain unmoved, Jogo felt both relieved and puzzled.
"You actually didn't use that Cursed Technique to escape?"
Jogo had seen Yue Liusi's special Cursed Technique before. It was so fast that a domain could not seal him in in time.
Yet this time, Yue Liusi had not done so.
He had not even used that special form. In that form, Jogo's Cursed Technique would probably have a hard time doing him any damage.
Yue Liusi spread his hands calmly and said,
"Didn't you want a fair, head-on fight?"
A cloak of Nine-Tails Chakra slowly spread over his entire body, glowing gold like flowing fire.
"Come on. I'll make you chase my back until you can no longer see it in the distance."
Hearing this, Jogo was genuinely angered.
"You're too arrogant! Not countering with your own domain is practically asking to die!"
The boost a domain gave its user was a genuine qualitative transformation!
Even when he had fought Sukuna back then, he had refrained from Domain Expansion because he had intended not to engage in a domain clash.
If Sukuna did not counter with his own domain, there was no way he could defeat Jogo that easily!
Jogo did not know that Yue Liusi had no domain.
As it saw things, how could someone as strong as Yue Liusi possibly not have one?
Surely he could not use Simple Domain and a cage to counter domains every single time?
Just as Jogo was wondering how Yue Liusi planned to counter the domain, two enormous golden fox claws suddenly extended from the latter's body!
Unease suddenly rose within Jogo. Although it did not know what Yue Liusi intended to do, it knew it could wait no longer.
In an instant, the attack that had long been building erupted, and intensely compressed lava exploded right in Yue Liusi's face.
At that very moment, the two fox claws had already pierced the edges of the domain.
Then a vast amount of chakra erupted, and Jogo's entire domain shook violently!
"What are you trying to do?!"
Seeing Yue Liusi emerge completely unscathed as the lava receded, Jogo's will to fight was actually already fading rapidly.
It had realized that their strengths were not even on the same plane.
Since their last encounter, Yue Liusi's strength had risen to an unimaginable level.
There was only one reason Yue Liusi had not killed it instantly.
It was what he himself had said.
I'll make you chase my back until you can no longer see it in the distance.
But standing there, he... what exactly was he trying to do?!
Crack.
A shattering sound that rang out within its soul left Jogo utterly shaken.
Then came more, even denser sounds of cracking!
A sliver of light quietly seeped in from outside.
The domain... had cracked.
Before Jogo could react, that crack had already spread across the entire domain.
Terrifying chakra battered the domain's rules without cease. The domain clearly enclosed Yue Liusi, yet now it seemed like an isolated island in the ocean.
Yue Liusi's special chakra was inherently different from ordinary cursed energy, its quality higher by an unknown degree. Now its quantity was enormous as well.
The all-powerful rules failed.
In an instant, countless cracks covered the entire domain. When it reached a critical point, it shattered with a crash.
When Jogo appeared before everyone once more, its heart was filled with incredulous shock.
"Are you kidding me?!"
"How could a domain possibly be torn apart by force from the inside?!"
This was no exploitation of a domain's loopholes. Its rules had truly been crushed by force!
Countering rules with rules was a principle practically all sorcerers agreed upon.
Yet someone had just broken it.
Something this absurd was no less outrageous than it easily defeating Sukuna at full strength.
Was the gap between it and Yue Liusi really this enormous?
If its domain had collapsed in a clash between domains, it could still have accepted that.
But...
While Jogo sank into self-doubt, Yue Liusi turned his gaze toward Toji Fushiguro in the nearby ruins.
Most of his shattered body had already repaired itself, and he was sitting there looking utterly bored.
Clearly, after that blow, he considered himself no longer qualified to fight.
He had been effortlessly overwhelmed in his strongest area.
Yue Liusi recalled their earlier battle in Dagon's domain, when he and Toji Fushiguro had traded blows.
What he had once been unable to do, he could now accomplish with ease.
Things really were different now.
An enormous gulf had already opened between him and his original self.
Meanwhile, Suguru Geto clicked his tongue in wonder as he watched.
Someone so monstrously gifted... was simply beyond imagination.
"By the way, have I been dead for a long time?"
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