Mahoraga stepped forward and released a deafening battle roar.
The sound waves exploded outward from its mouth.
Ring after ring of compressed air expanded in every direction, driving the white sand forward and burying Gojo Satoru's calves.
Gojo Satoru raised a hand before his face.
The violent gale slammed directly into him, causing his kasaya to flap violently.
A streak of blood trickled from his ear.
Mahoraga's terrifying lung capacity and overwhelming volume instantly ruptured Gojo Satoru's eardrums.
At that moment—
his world fell completely silent.
His hearing had been temporarily destroyed by Mahoraga's close-range roar.
Gojo Satoru's feet sank deeply into the desert floor.
His toes dug through the sand as he desperately maintained his stance, refusing to be blown backward.
The sound waves seemed to spread across the entire world.
The white sand was lifted higher and higher.
At first, it only reached Gojo Satoru's calves.
Then—
it climbed higher.
Higher.
Higher.
Higher still.
Finally—
a storm composed entirely of white sand came into existence.
Gojo Satoru was swallowed by the sandstorm.
His kasaya billowed violently amidst the swirling sands.
No matter how firmly he tried to stabilize himself, the overwhelming force gradually distorted his posture.
What a terrifying roar!
Gojo Satoru was certain that this Mahoraga had been strengthened to an unprecedented level through a Binding Vow.
Compared to Ryomen Sukuna's Mahoraga—
Fushiguro Megumi's Mahoraga was like a child standing before a Kodiak bear.
Gojo Satoru suddenly held Six Eastward Crossings horizontally before himself.
The very next instant—
a white fist burst through the sandstorm and slammed into Six Eastward Crossings.
Mahoraga emerged from within the storm.
It possessed neither eyes nor nose.
Only that twisted, horrifying mouth remained, releasing an endless, terrifying roar.
Then—
an explosion even louder than the previous roar erupted.
It was Mahoraga's hammer-like punch.
"Six Eastward Crossings!"
Gojo Satoru roared.
Clang!
Six Eastward Crossings unleashed Buddha's Sound Purifying the World.
The next instant—
Mahoraga's fist collided with Six Eastward Crossings.
It shattered Buddha's Sound Purifying the World.
Boom—!
The impact sounded like a cannon exploding.
Gojo Satoru had clearly prepared himself for a full defensive stance.
Yet when Mahoraga's fist struck the horizontally held Six Eastward Crossings, he was still blasted away.
Both of his arms fractured simultaneously.
His muscles and flesh split apart under the overwhelming impact.
His skin burst open in countless places.
He flew more than two hundred meters before crashing directly into the edge of the enormous crater.
Boom!
The rim of the crater collapsed where he struck, sending white sand exploding into the air.
Gojo Satoru was practically embedded inside the crater wall.
Yet—
it still wasn't over.
Even after smashing into the crater's edge, his body continued traveling backward.
Driven by the terrifying momentum, he carved ever deeper into the crater wall.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The continuous impacts extended for well over a hundred meters before he finally came to a stop.
That single punch was enough to make Gojo Satoru cough up fragments of his internal organs.
A flash of blade light suddenly appeared before Gojo Satoru's eyes.
Gojo Satoru blocked it with Six Eastward Crossings.
Clang!
Futsu no Mitama and Six Eastward Crossings collided, producing a massive shower of sparks as metal scraped against metal, like the sparks created when a blacksmith's hammer strikes an anvil.
Ryomen Sukuna had already arrived before Gojo Satoru.
Gripping Futsu no Mitama with all four hands, he pressed down fiercely.
Six Eastward Crossings was gradually forced downward.
Ryomen Sukuna's overwhelming physical strength was fully displayed at this moment, leaving Gojo Satoru unable to counterattack for the time being.
"Lest you misunderstand, let me tell you this now," Ryomen Sukuna mocked loudly. "Gojo Satoru, you are the challenger!"
Boom!
Gojo Satoru and Ryomen Sukuna leaped simultaneously.
Futsu no Mitama and Six Eastward Crossings clashed in midair.
Countless grains of white sand were swept upward alongside them.
Like gods battling in the heavens, they exchanged blows amid thunder and storms.
Just as Gojo Satoru was dealing with Ryomen Sukuna, a white fist suddenly appeared beside him.
"—!"
Bang!
Gojo Satoru plummeted from the sky and crashed violently into the desert.
The tremendous impact sent white sand soaring more than twenty meters into the air.
The massive cloud of sand slowly descended again, forming an enormous white curtain that resembled a towering pillar from afar.
Gojo Satoru opened his mouth and spat out more fragments of internal organs.
His Reverse Cursed Technique operated at an astonishing speed, completely healing him in an instant.
He looked upward.
His Six Eyes pierced through the white curtain, seeing Ryomen Sukuna and Mahoraga descending together as they relentlessly pursued him.
Gojo Satoru sighed and extended one finger.
—Technique Release.
—Limitless: Reversal Cursed Technique: Blue!
Suddenly, a beam of blue light burst through the white curtain and slammed into Mahoraga.
Mahoraga remained uninjured, but the overwhelming impact still blasted it away.
At the critical moment, Ryomen Sukuna formed a hand seal, deploying an absolute defense.
—Technique Release.
—Copy Technique: Limitless!
The blue beam collided with Ryomen Sukuna's Limitless, erupting in an explosion.
The violent blast and destructive force generated a shockwave that instantly swept away everything nearby.
The towering white curtain shattered apart as pale blue Cursed Energy spread wildly in every direction.
Ryomen Sukuna burst into laughter.
"Gojo Satoru, you finally couldn't resist using Cursed Energy!"
Emerging from the dissipating white curtain, Gojo Satoru pointed a finger forward.
Pale blue Cursed Energy smoke rose from his fingertip.
In the next instant—
Gojo Satoru vanished.
Ryomen Sukuna maintained the hand seal with two hands while gripping Futsu no Mitama with the other two, slashing diagonally backward.
Six Eastward Crossings and Futsu no Mitama collided, releasing another shower of sparks.
Six Eastward Crossings suddenly shone with golden radiance.
Gojo Satoru's foot was already deeply embedded in Ryomen Sukuna's chest.
Bang!
Ryomen Sukuna shot backward like a cannonball, coughing up clots of blood as he flew.
Limitless had failed at the critical moment.
Gojo Satoru disappeared once again.
He instantly reappeared before Ryomen Sukuna, who was still flying backward.
Ryomen Sukuna's eyes flickered with surprise.
At the crucial moment, he swung Futsu no Mitama toward Gojo Satoru.
However, Gojo Satoru smoothly slipped inside Ryomen Sukuna's guard, like a grandmaster effortlessly evading a blade.
Then, using Six Eastward Crossings, he pinned the inside of Futsu no Mitama's blade.
His free hand clenched into a fist.
Gojo Satoru let out a battle cry.
Veins bulged beneath the kasaya covering his arm.
Positive energy circulated at an astonishing speed.
Power rose from his feet, traveled through every part of his body, and converged into his fist.
His bones groaned and trembled—
then were repaired by positive energy.
His muscles tore—
then were repaired by positive energy.
The blood vessels beneath his skin burst—
then were repaired by positive energy.
Destroying and healing simultaneously, this unimaginable power ultimately converged into Gojo Satoru's fist.
He!
Swung!
It!
Bang—!
Gojo Satoru's punch struck Ryomen Sukuna's face like the blast of a cannon.
More than 1000% of human strength erupted in an instant.
At the critical moment, Ryomen Sukuna crossed the other two hands that had been maintaining the hand seal to defend the side of his face.
The moment they made contact—
his hands shattered.
His cheek collapsed.
The boundless force hurled him away violently, while the wind pressure itself carved into his body like countless blades.
He flew nearly a thousand meters like a meteor before crashing into the desert with a deafening explosion.
An enormous pillar of white sand slowly rose into the sky.
"Congratulations, Sukuna."
Gojo Satoru smiled.
"You've finally managed to pique my interest a little."
The Buddha's Sound Purifying the World Domain of Six Eastward Crossings indeed prevented the use of Cursed Energy.
This restriction applied even to Gojo Satoru himself.
However, whether Buddha's Sound Purifying the World was active or not depended entirely on Gojo Satoru's will.
In other words, he could fully activate Buddha's Sound Purifying the World while attacking, nullifying all of his opponent's Cursed Techniques.
Then, during defense, he could deactivate Buddha's Sound Purifying the World and utilize Limitless for defense or redirection.
This would have been impossible before.
But now he possessed the Tsukumogami Manipulation Technique.
He could communicate telepathically with Six Eastward Crossings, and activating or deactivating the Domain depended entirely upon his thoughts.
That was also why he had been able to use Reversal Cursed Technique: Blue just now.
He deactivated Buddha's Sound Purifying the World for an instant, launched Blue to blast Mahoraga away, used Limitless to instantly approach Ryomen Sukuna, and then reactivated Buddha's Sound Purifying the World just before attacking.
This seamless chain of attacks caught Ryomen Sukuna completely off guard and landed a devastating blow.
Suddenly, an enormous gust of wind struck.
Gojo Satoru's Six Eyes slowly shifted toward the source.
Mahoraga was charging toward him at full speed, accompanied by a deafening gale.
Sure enough—
it was completely unharmed.
This confirmed Gojo Satoru's suspicion.
Mahoraga had truly adapted to Limitless.
Although Blue could still blast it away, it could no longer injure it.
On the contrary, if Blue continued to be used repeatedly, he probably wouldn't even be able to knock Mahoraga back eventually.
Gojo Satoru slowly exhaled.
He formed a hand seal with one hand while pointing Six Eastward Crossings toward Mahoraga with the other.
"Nine Principles."
"Polarized Light."
"Crow and Declaration."
"Between Front and Back."
Gojo Satoru calmly spoke the final incantation.
"Hollow Technique—"
Spatial distortion appeared at the tip of Six Eastward Crossings.
Positive and negative energy acted simultaneously upon that distortion.
Limitless was the ultimate phenomenon of spatial domination.
Its ultimate control over space could even create phenomena that should naturally be impossible.
At this moment—
spatial expansion and spatial contraction acted simultaneously upon the exact same point in space.
The next instant—
that sphere of impossible concept roared forward.
Every grain of white sand along its path was pulverized into atoms.
Everything touched by this twisted Hollow Technique became illusory, because the hypothetical phenomenon it created was destroying the very physical laws that had existed since ancient times.
On one side, it devoured all phenomena like a black hole.
On the other, it expelled everything into existence like a supernova.
The absorption and expulsion did not alternate rhythmically.
They occurred simultaneously—
like something straight out of a gag manga.
This was the ultimate destructive Cursed Technique of Limitless.
It overturned all spatial laws.
It shattered all common sense.
The resulting blast truly was—
the ultimate finishing blow.
It struck Mahoraga.
Mahoraga embraced it head-on.
Having fully adapted to Limitless, Mahoraga actually resisted the technique while continuing to advance.
Within the area before it, everything should have been reduced to dust.
Yet Mahoraga, having completely adapted to Limitless, could ignore any attack created through Limitless itself, leaving only the physical impact generated by the technique.
But—
that was enough.
"GOJO SATORU!"
Ryomen Sukuna roared as he flashed over from nearly a thousand meters away.
He swung Futsu no Mitama, smashing it violently into Six Eastward Crossings.
Standing even taller than Gojo Satoru's nearly two-meter frame, Ryomen Sukuna brought Futsu no Mitama down with monstrous strength.
Only moments ago, he had nearly been killed by Gojo Satoru's single strike.
Yet now he appeared completely unharmed, with only white sand trickling from his hair and the crevices of his muscles.
Gojo Satoru smiled.
"So you've figured out the trick behind positive energy reinforcement, Sukuna!"
"You deceived me!"
"There is no such thing as positive energy reinforcement!"
"You deliberately pushed your body beyond the limits of human endurance. The positive energy isn't used for reinforcement at all—it merely heals your body after you've already exceeded its limits!"
Ryomen Sukuna gritted his teeth.
"Furthermore, the reason you can use positive energy within the World Purification Domain is because you stored it inside your own body beforehand, treating your body itself as a Domain."
"In reality, you aren't generating positive energy at all."
"You're simply releasing the positive energy you've already stored whenever healing becomes necessary."
"What a brilliant trick."
"You even fooled my eyes."
In the original work, after Gojo Satoru used the method of destroying his own brain and then repairing it with Reverse Cursed Technique only once, Ryomen Sukuna immediately understood the principle and replicated it.
That was because Ryomen Sukuna thoroughly understood every aspect of Reverse Cursed Technique.
He knew that destroying and then repairing the brain required absurd precision in both timing and execution.
In the original work, during Kinji Hakari's battle with Kashimo Hajime, Kashimo nearly killed Hakari despite his Infinite Reverse Cursed Technique still operating by targeting and destroying Hakari's brain.
Hakari himself later laughed and admitted that he had nearly died because of it.
Likewise, while observing that battle, Yuta Okkotsu stated that the brain was an exceptionally delicate organ, and repairing it with Reverse Cursed Technique was an incredibly insane feat.
Even for Gojo Satoru, who possessed the Six Eyes, it was extraordinarily difficult.
The reason Gojo Satoru could reduce that difficulty lay in performing a perfect one-to-one restoration using his own cells.
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