There is no better foundation for replicating one's own brain than the Domain of the human body itself.
Because of this, Ryomen Sukuna realized almost simultaneously that this was a technique for temporarily storing positive energy within oneself.
By relying on this principle, he managed to achieve the same feat as Gojo Satoru.
But now it was different.
Gojo Satoru's brain had never been destroyed, and he had been using the kasaya to conceal his use of positive energy for healing.
That was why Ryomen Sukuna only now realized what Gojo Satoru had done.
"I've figured you out, Gojo Satoru." Ryomen Sukuna flashed a ferocious smile. "You won't have another chance... Gojo Satoru, fall—"
"—right here!"
Ryomen Sukuna's fighting spirit surged.
The countless near-death experiences and the humiliation of being toyed with brewed immense terror within his heart.
He allowed that...
...terror to be born.
The Futsu no Mitama in his hand suddenly let out a clear chime, sharp yet divine.
This was a—
"—Black Flash!"
His heart, body, and technique became perfectly synchronized, finally allowing him to unleash it through the terror born from humiliation...
Not!
"Buddha's Sound Purifying the World!" Gojo Satoru roared.
A golden halo instantly enveloped Ryomen Sukuna—
A point-blank Buddha's Sound Purifying the World!
The Cursed Energy Sukuna had just begun refining vanished instantly.
The profound enlightenment still remained in his heart, and his movements were still flawless and rhythmic, but the terror manifesting within him disappeared without a trace.
The black Cursed Energy surrounding Futsu no Mitama vanished as well.
Ryomen Sukuna's pupils trembled.
"Let me teach you something that even a beginner who just entered the jujutsu world knows!" Gojo Satoru laughed.
"The birth of a Black Flash is a phenomenon produced by the resonance of Cursed Energy and physical force. It increases the impact to the power of 2.5 and distorts space itself, creating an unavoidable strike!"
"And my Buddha's Sound Purifying the World..."
Gojo Satoru gently stroked .
"...can purify all Curses!"
Just as Ryomen Sukuna himself had said, even generating positive energy requires Cursed Energy to undergo secondary processing and be stored in advance.
So how could Black Flash, which requires the simultaneous resonance of Cursed Energy and physical force, possibly function within the Domain of Buddha's Sound Purifying the World?
Within the Domain of Buddha's Sound Purifying the World—
Black Flash simply cannot exist.
Ryomen Sukuna wore an expression of disgust.
But there was more.
The instant he interrupted Ryomen Sukuna's Black Flash, Gojo Satoru suddenly deactivated Buddha's Sound Purifying the World.
His heart overflowed with the joy of playing with the King of Curses.
Ripples spread across the lake of his heart as his core perfectly synchronized with his Cursed Energy.
In less than 0.2 seconds, he entered the perfect state.
As Six Eastward Crossings swung downward—
black Cursed Energy flashed.
Ryomen Sukuna's pupils contracted.
"Gojo Satoru, you bastard!"
Black Flash—!
Whenever others attempted a Black Flash, Gojo Satoru could effortlessly interrupt it.
Yet he himself could activate one in an instant.
That was Gojo Satoru's answer.
One-sided access to Black Flash!
Clang—!!
Ryomen Sukuna shot away like a cannonball, skipping repeatedly across the white desert before crashing heavily to the ground.
At that moment, Mahoraga exerted its full strength and shattered the Hollow Technique.
But waiting for Mahoraga wasn't the battlefield—
it was the cannonball known as Ryomen Sukuna.
Boom!
Ryomen Sukuna and Mahoraga slammed into each other, tumbling continuously across the white desert for over five hundred meters.
Viewed from the sky, a long, distinct trail had been carved across the desert.
While still flying backward, Ryomen Sukuna had already formed hand signs.
He used Reverse Cursed Technique to heal himself while simultaneously controlling Mahoraga.
The moment they left the range of Buddha's Sound Purifying the World, Ryomen Sukuna's Cursed Energy returned.
He immediately activated—
Copy Technique: Limitless—
to slow himself down.
At that moment, Ryomen Sukuna finally understood every preparation Gojo Satoru had made for slaying a god.
A one-sided powerless environment.
A one-sided Limitless.
The ability to nullify any Domain Expansion.
A contest of positive energy healing speed.
The ability to interrupt the opponent's positive energy.
A contest of raw numerical strength.
...
The authority to one-sidedly abandon the contest of raw numerical strength.
And finally—
the exclusive authority to use Black Flash.
No...
Ryomen Sukuna suddenly thought of something.
Throughout this entire battle, Gojo Satoru still hadn't used his Domain Expansion.
It was entirely possible that Gojo Satoru's Domain Expansion was no longer simply Unlimited Void, but had evolved into something capable of resolving the powerless environment.
Even if it couldn't overcome the no-Cursed-Energy environment, the mere fact that Gojo Satoru could open his Domain while his opponent could not was already an overwhelming advantage.
This guy...
Gojo Satoru...
...still hasn't revealed all of his cards!
Thud!
Ryomen Sukuna and Mahoraga simultaneously halted their retreat.
They both looked up.
At some unknown point, Gojo Satoru had already appeared before them.
He was calmly forming hand signs.
Even Six Eastward Crossings had been set aside.
"Dragon Scales," he said.
Ryomen Sukuna felt his scalp go numb.
An overwhelming instinctive sense of danger surged up his spine, making it feel as though icy wind had blown across his back.
He knew exactly what this opening incantation meant.
In fact—
he knew it all too well.
"Mahoraga!" he roared.
Mahoraga let out a savage howl and charged toward Gojo Satoru.
"Reversal," Gojo Satoru continued.
Ryomen Sukuna's four hands and two mouths began chanting simultaneously.
"Dragon Scales!"
Ryomen Sukuna's upper mouth roared.
At the same time, his lower mouth shouted—
"Reversal!"
His perfect Sorcerer body allowed him to match Gojo Satoru's chanting speed despite beginning later.
"Meteor of Encounter," Gojo Satoru said.
"Meteor of Encounter!"
Ryomen Sukuna's upper mouth repeated.
Meanwhile—
his lower mouth completed the final words first.
"—Dismantle!"
The slash that cuts the world.
Although Ryomen Sukuna had begun chanting later, he completed the incantation first.
For the third time, that magnificent slash appeared upon the white desert.
The previous two had both been interrupted by Buddha's Sound Purifying the World.
But this time, Gojo Satoru himself was chanting.
He was no longer within the state of Buddha's Sound Purifying the World.
Nothing remained to obstruct this Dismantle.
Even if he interrupted his own incantation now, it would already be too late.
Mahoraga had already reached him.
Mahoraga was completely unaffected by Buddha's Sound Purifying the World and could still unleash its overwhelming strength.
If Gojo Satoru suddenly interrupted his chant to activate Buddha's Sound Purifying the World against this Dismantle, Mahoraga would immediately kill him.
—Checkmate!
Gojo Satoru.
I win!
Ryomen Sukuna roared inwardly.
"—Dismantle."
Gojo Satoru sighed softly.
The next instant—
Ryomen Sukuna's vision tilted.
No.
Not only Ryomen Sukuna.
Even Mahoraga, which had already adapted to both slashing attacks and Limitless, watched its upper body...
...slide sideways.
As early as two months ago, Gojo Satoru's Six Eyes had evolved once during his battle against Mahito.
Those Six Eyes no longer merely observed matter at the atomic level.
They could now perceive something resembling lines.
Ordinarily, this ability had little practical use.
At most, it had allowed Gojo Satoru to perceive the blood connection between Itadori Yuji and Ryomen Sukuna, making targeted training possible.
But three days ago, Ryomen Sukuna's explanation to Itadori Yuji regarding the secret of slaying a god—
that one must sever the circulation of positive and negative energy—
gave Gojo Satoru an entirely new idea.
In fact, something similar had already occurred in the original work.
There, Itadori Yuji used Dismantle to sever the connection between the Souls of Ryomen Sukuna and Fushiguro Megumi.
Gojo Satoru, however, used the Six Eyes to perceive something else—
something he could sever.
What did Gojo Satoru see?
He saw Ryomen Sukuna's Binding Vows.
Ryomen Sukuna's Eleven Lives had been constructed upon an intricate network of Binding Vows.
And right before Gojo Satoru's eyes—
Ryomen Sukuna had already resurrected nine times.
A Binding Vow is Destiny.
What Gojo Satoru severed was not the space Ryomen Sukuna occupied.
What he severed—
was the Binding Vow that allowed Ryomen Sukuna to resurrect.
Just as Ryomen Sukuna himself had once said—
this slash severed...
Destiny.
And according to Ryomen Sukuna—
Destiny is God.
Therefore—
this was a true...
God-Slaying Sword.
Ryomen Sukuna's upper body fell onto the white sand.
His lower body remained standing.
The mouth upon his abdomen remained half open, exposing a perfectly smooth cross-section of his internal organs, polished like a mirror.
Gojo Satoru slowly exhaled.
Then he looked into the distance and smiled.
"How boring, Sukuna."
Gojo Satoru smiled faintly.
"I'll probably forget you by tomorrow."
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