He might have something wrong with his head

"Whoa, whoa, whoa! How on earth did you do it?!"

Yuki Tsukumo's voice suddenly rang out. She had been about to discuss something with Shoko, only to run into Yue Liusi just as he returned.

She immediately ran over, looking extremely excited.

But Yue Liusi did not respond to her right away.

"I wouldn't recommend wasting time on him right now. I've already gotten him to help us in exchange for a chance to challenge you, so he's something of a helper for now."

Shoko glanced at Yuki Tsukumo and continued explaining her thoughts.

Then she quietly leaned closer to Yue Liusi, tapped her own head, and whispered in his ear.

"Besides, I think there's a good chance he's got something wrong with his head. Be careful..."

Yue Liusi nearly lost his composure at that.

He's a Jujutsu Doctor, you know.

Though he really does act a little short on brains...

No, his way of thinking is different! He's not stupid!

You nearly led me astray.

But looking at the figure hard at work in the distance below, Yue Liusi could not help nodding slightly.

He really does seem to have an intelligence problem.

"Then I'll take your advice and leave him hanging for a while."

Turning back, Yue Liusi finally looked at Yuki Tsukumo.

"What were you making such a fuss about just now?"

At his words, Yuki Tsukumo puffed out her cheeks, looking thoroughly disgruntled.

She was clearly very unhappy about Yue Liusi ignoring her earlier.

Suguru Geto was annoying enough, and now Yue Liusi was just the same!

"If you're not going to say anything, I'm leaving."

Yue Liusi considered his time quite valuable.

"Wait, wait, wait!"

There was no way Yuki Tsukumo would simply let him leave. She hurriedly raised a hand to stop him.

"Look, Shoko and I aren't that different, are we? Why do you treat us so differently?"

We're both the older-sister type, aren't we?

Looks? We're both natural beauties.

Figures? We're both curvy in all the right places.

Personality? All right, Shoko has a slight edge...

"I don't treat you badly either, do I?"

Yue Liusi corrected her.

He was hardly some moody, gloomy creep, and Yuki Tsukumo was someone worth having as a friend.

Why was she making it sound like he was being so unreasonable?

"Well, that's true, but..."

Seeing Yue Liusi look ready to leave again, she hurriedly returned to the subject.

"The changes in Mai-how exactly did you do it?"

In the short time since Yue Liusi had left, she had already taken Mai Zenin into several battles.

That unusual power, that fully unleashed Cursed Technique, that sudden surge in strength...

If she could figure this out, it would be nothing short of a massive revolution for the Jujutsu Society.

Heaven knew how many Jujutsu Sorcerers were like Mai Zenin.

"If you're hoping to make this widely available, that's going to be very difficult."

Yue Liusi saw through Yuki Tsukumo's intentions at a glance and shook his head.

Setting aside how difficult establishing an internal Barrier Technique was, chakra alone was something others could not produce.

And he had no intention of going to great lengths to do this.

It would be a complete waste of time.

But even after Yue Liusi's negative answer, she still looked determined to get to the bottom of it, her curiosity undiminished.

Seeing this, Yue Liusi could only let her experience chakra for herself.

As he placed his hand on Yuki Tsukumo's shoulder, she finally felt that energy, and her eyes flew wide open.

"This is..."

"Ah... this power feels so good... mm..."

Yuki Tsukumo hurriedly covered her mouth, managing to avert an embarrassing scene.

There was no helping it. For a body that had been scoured by the energy of negative emotions for years, suddenly having such warm, mind-clearing energy flow through it was rather stimulating.

Watching her reaction, Yue Liusi's expression darkened.

Still, he could understand.

Cursed energy was all negative emotions, while apart from that small amount of negative emotions, his energy consisted entirely of life energy and spiritual energy-pure essence.

Of course, Yue Liusi had no need to explain.

He was only satisfying a little of Yuki Tsukumo's curiosity.

Yuki Tsukumo quickly regained her composure as well and began testing this power with her own Cursed Technique.

After a single attempt, she immediately understood why Mai Zenin's strength had grown so quickly.

"A trinity? So that's how it works!"

What an enviable power!

A trinity?

Hearing Yuki Tsukumo's words, Yue Liusi suddenly understood.

He finally knew why he could gain insights into an Innate Technique when Maki Zenin used Nine-Tails Chakra.

Besides the special nature of Nine-Tails Chakra, there was another factor.

All-encompassing perception.

Brain Transplant proved that Cursed Techniques were engraved on the body, while Incarnation proved they were engraved on the soul. As for the brain, that was already common knowledge in the Jujutsu Society.

Otherwise, having one's Cursed Technique stripped away in the Culling Game would not mean death.

Nine-Tails Chakra had already fused perfectly with his own chakra and become a part of him. In other words, it likewise possessed three distinct types of energy.

And the superiority of his own chakra allowed Mai Zenin to activate her entire Innate Technique when using her Cursed Technique.

Life energy from the body, spiritual energy from the soul, and cursed energy from the brain drove the Innate Technique from three directions.

Even the lowest output could bring out one hundred percent of the Innate Technique's effects.

Originally, achieving this through cursed energy alone required extraordinarily precise cursed energy control, something only beings like Satoru Gojo or Sukuna could manage.

But with Yue Liusi's own special chakra, his starting line was everyone else's finish line.

That was the superiority of his chakra.

In other words, through this, Yue Liusi could use chakra to perceive Mai Zenin's Innate Technique in its entirety.

Triple analysis!

And when it came to learning Innate Techniques, this was the difference between studying a fragment of a cultivation method and studying the complete method.

This was an ability unique to him.

In fact, through the feedback he had received from Mai Zenin during this time, he had already gained a preliminary grasp of the Construction Technique.

He simply had not yet put it into actual combat.

At that thought, Yue Liusi raised a finger.

A square stone the size of a thumb appeared atop his finger.

"What?!"

The instant she saw Yue Liusi use the Construction Technique, Yuki Tsukumo reacted as though she had seen a ghost.

Seeing a ghost would make more sense, wouldn't it?

Was Yue Liusi's Cursed Technique really not Copy, like Yuta Okkotsu's?

But that wasn't right either. His Cursed Technique didn't look anything like Copy.

Yue Liusi knew nothing of the storm raging through Yuki Tsukumo's mind at that moment.

Because he was thinking about something.

In essence, the transformations of various ninjutsu were ultimately nothing more than using chakra to "construct" matter.

For example, the lava of Lava Release was "constructed" using fire- and earth-nature chakra.