This is the end!
Both the Dragon God and the Buddha realized this.
The Dragon God held the scabbard in his left hand and lightly rested his right hand on mirokuji kirigiri's hilt. His head was bowed as if in deep thought. This was the most standard iaijutsu stance. A new wave of Cursed Energy pressure diffused outward from him as the center, a circle of force covering the entire world.
Shinin Style Secret Art: Simple Domain.
In response, the Buddha formed a one-handed seal.
"Domain Expansion—"
With a boom like a temple bell, he solemnly declared:
"—Six Realms Are Naught, Unlimited Void!"
After learning that his Unlimited Void was ineffective against the Dragon God, Gojo Satoru had been thinking every moment about how to conduct a Domain battle against him. The answer Gojo Satoru found was what he was displaying now.
A void space suddenly covered the entire world.
This was an absolute void where no matter existed. In the previous Unlimited Void, this void space merely existed, and a torrent of infinite information would destroy any intelligent creature within it.
But now, this absolute void space possessed true offensive power.
This offensive power was not brought by the barrier, but was based on the human body's own imagination.
There was once a famous hypothesis on the internet:
If a person is tied to a chair with their eyes blindfolded, and you lightly scratch their wrist with a knife while telling them their artery has been cut, then let them hear the sound of dripping water—as if their blood is constantly dripping to the ground.
In reality, the cut on the wrist is not enough to cause death by blood loss, but in their consciousness, the reality that their artery has been cut has been generated. Their hand also feels as though it is bleeding. At this moment, they will truly believe their artery has been severed.
Then, that person will die from blood loss.
This hypothesis is, of course, false—it's an internet urban legend—but if it were Gojo Satoru's Domain Expansion, he could make this hypothesis come true.
Subconscious illusions directly invade the consciousness of everyone within the barrier. If the target perceives a blade wound, they will realize the effect of that blade wound.
They will deceive their brain because of this information. Once the brain realizes it, the target will truly generate a physical wound on their body.
Because this is based on the target's own self-deception, no matter how strong the target's defense or survivability is, it is useless.
Take immortality as an example: if an immortal target truly feels they are being cut in two, even if the injury is not enough to actually kill them, the target will be unable to heal due to their own imagination. Their immortality will be stopped and neutralized by their own imagination.
If a person truly imagines their own death, then no matter how terrifying their abilities are, they will die from their own imagination.
This is Gojo Satoru's [Six Realms Are Naught, Unlimited Void].
A sure-kill prepared for Mahito's immortality.
This has nothing to do with whether the target themselves thinks of death.
After entering this Domain Expansion, countless pieces of death information have already begun invading everyone inside the barrier. If Unlimited Void is an information bombardment that can cause brain death, then the effect of Six Realms Are Naught, Unlimited Void is to force the target into the abyss of death.
The Buddha let out a battle cry.
"Mahito—here I come!"
Countless pieces of death information began to forcefully bombard the Dragon God.
Even if the Dragon God maintained an absolutely silent Simple Domain, it was impossible to completely block all of this death information.
And if even a tiny fragment of this death information invaded his mind, the Dragon God would die instantly.
Because this is based on the Dragon God's own imagination, he wouldn't even be able to use the immortality of Idle Transfiguration.
This has nothing to do with whether the mind is calm.
Even maintaining the state of "Emptiness" mentioned by martial artists is useless, because the excessive information will easily overwhelm the state of Zen.
In the Space After Death, Mahito had once personally admitted that Gojo Satoru's Domain Expansion could indeed "threaten" one who had achieved godhood.
This is the reason why.
As long as one is invaded by death information, even a god will die because of their own imagination.
Therefore, there is only one way to counter it without a single loophole:
Crush it with absolute strength!
The Simple Domain was being constantly stripped away.
Once the Simple Domain was completely gone, the death information would immediately invade the Dragon God's consciousness, and then the Dragon God would die from his own imagination.
So now, the Dragon God had only one option:
Kill Gojo Satoru before the Simple Domain was stripped away!
At this time, the Buddha should logically stall for time. Once the Simple Domain was thoroughly stripped away, he would naturally win.
—Usually, that would be the case.
If he did that, he wouldn't be Gojo Satoru!
What a joke! Don't slander me! Gojo Satoru roared in his heart.
The Buddha, holding six degrees east crossing, dashed toward the Dragon God.
During the movement, phantoms trailed behind him. These phantoms truly existed within the gaps of time.
Within the Buddha's Three Thousand Worlds, every Buddha truly existed.
In the process of moving, the Buddha became a sort of space-time continuum. The Buddha was both hidden within space-time and able to attack directly through those layers of space-time.
This was the "Tattered Raiment" clad in Three Thousand Worlds.
Meeting attack with attack, using intense combat to make the Dragon God's defense fail, and deciding the outcome through a Domain battle.
The Buddha rushed toward the Dragon God.
The Modern Strongest challenging the Limited Omnipotent God!
The Dragon God closed his eyes, extinguishing all of his own consciousness.
Idle Transfiguration is a Cursed Technique that can interfere with the Soul.
Comedian is a Cursed Technique that can manifest imagination.
Predictive Manga is a Cursed Technique that can predict the future.
Integrating these three together allows a living person to experience the Space After Death, forcing a living person into death by reversing Karma.
This was also what the Dragon God had just done to the Buddha.
Because they had already stepped into death, it didn't matter what Cursed Techniques or abilities the target possessed.
Because the moment the target themselves acknowledged death, death truly arrived.
But this can only be called an evil path.
It is an evil path capable of a one-hit kill.
All its power is based on the mechanism of death; it possesses no offensive power in itself.
As long as one can surpass death, the target will not receive any damage.
So, what if we look at it the other way around?
Abandon all mechanisms and use them solely to strengthen offensive power.
What would happen then?
This will be a slash that surpasses the Divine Sword.
The Divine Sword is a sword that connects to the divine, a sword swung by a mortal's hand that is sufficient to slay a god.
But the current Dragon God is himself a true deity.
The Divine Sword's "god-connecting" blade can no longer bring out the Dragon God's full strength.
After all, the use of the Divine Sword was a sword wielded by Mahito while he was still a Half-Cursed Spirit under the pressure of Yuki Tsukumo.
The current Dragon God's status had far surpassed that of Mahito as a Half-Cursed Spirit.
The current Dragon God needed a sword that could truly display Divine Might.
The Dragon God exhaled.
"Pierce the Mortal World."
The Buddha's pupils constricted.
Mahito's Divine Sword had always been as still as a windless lake, but now, in an iaijutsu stance, he began to chant for the first time.
This was not simple swordsmanship, but a combination of swordsmanship and jujutsu.
This was a strike that had never appeared before.
An instinctive sense of crisis began to throb.
Gojo Satoru even saw flashes of everything he had just seen in the Space After Death.
Reason told him he must not take another step right now.
He should immediately stop using the Domain Expansion and immediately use the Three Thousand Worlds to hide away.
Fear seized the Buddha's heart.
His heart pounded, the sound of its beating surpassing all previous moments.
This was fear.
So, what was Gojo Satoru's choice?
The corners of the Buddha's mouth curled upward.
—Isn't that obvious!
Jujutsu Sorcerers are creatures that live by facing death.
The more fear they feel, the stronger they become, turning fear into true and solid Cursed Energy that surpasses any previous moment.
This is a Jujutsu Sorcerer.
This is... Gojo Satoru!
The unprecedented fear brought unprecedented Cursed Energy.
Having already landed over a hundred Black Flashes in this battle, the Buddha's Cursed Energy was circulating at a speed beyond any sorcerer's imagination.
This fear, engraved into his instincts, erupted even more violently than usual within this flow of Cursed Energy.
Gojo Satoru had never experienced such a fanatical moment.
Within a single breath, he completed all martial preparations, covering six degrees east crossing with the Three Thousand Worlds.
At this moment, the Tsukumogami Manipulation Technique began listening to the voice of six degrees east crossing for the first time.
This battered Divine Tool responded to its master's expectations amidst its eternal silence.
A halo appeared upon six degrees east crossing, but this halo was not the gold of Buddhas Sound Purifying World.
It was black.
The black of Black Flash!
It wasn't a Black Flash used by Gojo Satoru himself, but a Black Flash unleashed by the Divine Tool six degrees east crossing in response to Gojo Satoru.
And on top of that, Gojo Satoru's hand gripping six degrees east crossing also shone with black light.
This, of course, was also—
Black Flash.
The Black Flash of six degrees east crossing and Gojo Satoru's own Black Flash merged for the first time—
This was a Fusion Black Flash.
The Buddha descended from the sky...
...toward the Dragon God's blade!
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