Staff and blade collided, as a series of sparks flew from the point where they struck. The Buddha used six degrees east crossing to trigger the Buddhas Sound Purifying World between flashes and extinctions. With staggering calculation ability, the Buddha altered the nature of the Buddhas Sound Purifying World, allowing Cursed Energy and positive energy to alternate with one another. The calculation speed of the world's most advanced supercomputer is 1.1 quintillion operations per second, and now the number of light flickers far exceeded even that amount.
The Buddha laughed loudly. "What's wrong, Mahito? Do you actually still have time to worry about your barrier?! You surely don't think that the Apotheosis Ritual can continue to be completed during our current exchange?"
The battlefield of both sides had transcended physical phenomena, fighting with high-dimensional concepts. The battlefield itself was no longer the real world, but the Three Thousand Worlds created by both sides based on their ability to dominate space. In terms of pure combat power, the Dragon God held an absolute advantage, but the Buddha's mobility increased as the Three Thousand Worlds expanded. The Dragon God could only act within the Three Thousand Worlds by vying for spatial dominance, with the occasional Dismantle serving as a one-hit-kill deterrent.
Space is the most basic unit of everything in this world, and Limitless, which can freely manipulate space, serves as a universal formula in the hands of a god. Before this, Gojo Satoru did not understand why the eyes of the gods and Buddhas abandoned by Tengen had chosen the Limitless of the Gojo Family, but now that he had truly become a god, he understood.
All laws are carried within space-time, and he is now the master of space-time. This is the true manifestation of the phrase…
"Throughout the heavens and the earth, I alone am the honored one."
This is the true one—[Shakyamuni]!
Suddenly, at the moment six degrees east crossing and mirokuji kirigiri collided, a hand grabbed the staff. The Dragon God's hand touched six degrees east crossing for the first time.
"I am gratified," the Dragon God suddenly said, his voice inexplicably gentle.
He whispered, "Satoru, if you had chosen to continue hiding within the Three Thousand Worlds, even I would have had to spend thousands of years chasing your shadow. Even if I truly caught you, you could use a space-time explosion to cut off your tail and survive. I could only continue chasing you like this forever, until the end of time, until the world's destruction. But you didn't do that. You chose to come out and face me after I stepped out of the Three Thousand Worlds. Your heart is filled with the courage to face me; you face me with the resolve to die."
Mahito was not lying; if Gojo Satoru had really done that, he truly would not have been able to catch him.
Time is the other side of space. When the ultimate space manipulation ability continues to sublimate, it will inevitably involve the concept of time. Although the current Gojo Satoru does not yet have the ability to use time-related powers, it is only a matter of time as the battle continues.
When Limitless encompasses both time and space, its nature will change. Gojo Satoru would be able to travel freely through the 4.6 billion years since this planet was born. Facing this level of space-time travel ability, if Mahito wanted to truly kill Gojo Satoru, he could only increase his stakes.
The greatest advantage of the Limitless Cursed Technique is being able to find abilities that counter the opponent at any time, but when facing the ability to travel through time at will, even the Limitless Cursed Technique could only try them one by one.
Gojo Satoru has not truly attained Buddhahood at this time. His current state is similar to Mahito wearing the Dragon God Armor. Mahito wearing the Dragon God Armor is the Dragon God, and Mahito without it is himself. Mahito has not truly become a god yet; this is merely his ultimate move.
Gojo Satoru is the same. Wearing the Buddha Armor, he is a Buddha; taking it off, he is just a human.
Human mental endurance is limited. After all, this is only a technique. Gojo Satoru is not a true Buddha; he cannot remain one forever. At this time, stalling for time is the most advantageous choice for Mahito, because the nature of the Buddha Armor does not come from the physical control ability of Idle Transfiguration, but through the indirect operation of the Six Eyes and Limitless. In terms of duration, Mahito's Dragon God Armor far exceeds Gojo Satoru's Buddha Armor.
In the end, it could turn into an eternal chase, with the results spanning the past, present, and future. The final battlefield would surely be at the end of time, within that final quarter-hour before the world's destruction.
Gojo Satoru's final end would certainly be mental exhaustion, falling from a god back to a human and facing a god's judgment in human form. Before that result arrived, Gojo Satoru could keep running.
But Gojo Satoru did not choose that. He chose to face Mahito!
When the Dragon God jumped out of the Three Thousand Worlds to stabilize the Dharma Realm Reincarnation Nirvana Realm barrier, the Buddha did not choose to stand by and watch, but descended decisively.
The Buddha wanted to defeat the Dragon God in the most direct way with his own strength!
At this moment, the Dragon God truly grasped the Buddha's physical form. The Dragon God looked up, staring straight into the Buddha's eyes.
He said with a sigh, "I've won, Satoru."
"Arrogance—!" the Buddha roared, activating the ability of six degrees east crossing:
"Buddhas Sound Purifying World!"
No matter what ability the Dragon God used next, Buddhas Sound Purifying World could ignore it. This was also why Gojo Satoru dared to jump out of the Three Thousand Worlds. This Divine Tool completely countered the Limitless Cursed Technique, forcing both sides to settle the outcome through physical combat.
This is—the Divine Tool [six degrees east crossing]!
Crack.
The Buddha's pupils slowly dilated.
Starting from the Dragon God's hand, six degrees east crossing began to shatter.
Because the fierce battle between the two had surpassed common sense, and the collisions between six degrees east crossing and mirokuji kirigiri had occurred tens of millions of times, the Buddha had long forgotten one thing: the prototype of the Divine Tool [six degrees east crossing] was merely the ordinary staff once held by Monk Jianzhen. It was only through legend, age, and the cultivation of the Tsukumogami Manipulation Technique that it became a Divine Tool. Normally, six degrees east crossing would be strengthened by its user's Cursed Energy, and combined with Buddhas Sound Purifying World, it was impervious to all methods.
The same was true for mirokuji kirigiri. Its prototype was merely a replica of the futsu no mitama, nothing more than an antique.
Of course, even though it was an antique, because of the cultivation of the Tsukumogami Manipulation Technique, its base material far exceeded common sense. Even without the influence of Cursed Energy reinforcement, its hardness surpassed common sense. But no matter how much it surpassed common sense, its nature would not change. Its hardness was different from Cursed Energy reinforcement and was not truly indestructible.
This is the same logic as the legendary Ryomen Sukuna's fingers. The reason Ryomen Sukuna's fingers cannot be destroyed is not because of the hardness of the fingers themselves, but because of the Curse.
When the Curse disappears, Ryomen Sukuna's fingers can also be destroyed.
Now, in order to interfere with the Dragon God's use of Cursed Energy, six degrees east crossing actively triggered Buddhas Sound Purifying World, causing both sides' Cursed Energy reinforcement to vanish simultaneously.
Thus, what affected both sides was no longer related to Cursed Energy, but pure physical ability.
And at this moment, the Dragon God's grip strength could be fully exerted!
This was why the Dragon God insisted on grabbing six degrees east crossing when it collided with mirokuji kirigiri. At this moment, whether six degrees east crossing would be destroyed depended entirely on the Dragon God's whim. Without six degrees east crossing, nothing in this world could resist mirokuji kirigiri's cutting ability.
This very moment was the time to decide the winner!
—Oh no!
The Buddha immediately canceled Buddhas Sound Purifying World. Being able to think at a calculation speed far exceeding 1.1 quintillion operations per second, he could naturally switch the ability of Buddhas Sound Purifying World at the same speed. The moment it was canceled, Cursed Energy reinforcement and Limitless had already covered six degrees east crossing.
And at the moment Buddhas Sound Purifying World was canceled, the Dragon God spoke.
The Dragon God exhaled.
"Domain Expansion—"
"—Dharma Realm Reincarnation Nirvana Realm!"
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