Higuruma Hiromi looked at Yamada. "The rule has been added. My points are now zero."
Yamada ignored Higuruma Hiromi and turned toward Yuji. He raised his right hand, and Yang Release Chakra lit up in his palm.
He pressed his hand against Yuji's broken ribs. Under the healing of the Yang Release, Yuji's broken bones healed rapidly, and his body regained its ability to move.
"Let's go."
Yamada put his hands back into his trench coat pockets and walked out of the lounge.
"The trouble here is resolved. Let's go to the next colony and drag out those few Special Grade Cursed Spirits that are hiding."
Toji toyed with the Chain of a Thousand Miles in his hand and followed behind Yamada.
Megumi helped Yuji up, and the group of four left the theater, heading toward the edge of the colony.
Higuruma Hiromi leaned against the wall, watching their departing backs, and let out a long sigh.
In this world that had lost its order, perhaps the true rule was that kind of matchless and pure power.
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On the street outside the theater, puddles reflected the grayish-white sky.
Megumi's heart, which had been hanging in suspense, settled down as he turned to look at Yuji beside him.
Their primary mission now was to find Megumi's elder sister, Tsumiki, and transfer the points to her so she could safely escape this slaughter-filled Culling Game.
Up ahead was an intersection.
Yamada came to a halt, his deep black pupils staring straight at the traffic light pole in front of them.
A woman dressed in modern casual clothes stood there. She had long black hair and a delicate face.
Megumi followed Yamada's gaze, his eyes suddenly widening.
He dashed forward a few steps and shouted a name, "Tsumiki!"
The woman turned around and saw Megumi, a smile appearing on her face. That smile was filled with extreme arrogance and wildness, completely unlike the gentle and kind Tsumiki.
The muscles on the woman's back writhed as two pairs of insect wings made of liquid metal tore through her clothes and spread outward. The liquid metal reflected a cold metallic luster under the sunlight.
"Tsumiki? You have the wrong person." The woman spoke, her voice carrying a lofty contempt.
"I am Yorozu. A Sorcerer awakened from the Heian era of a thousand years ago."
Megumi's face turned pale instantly. He immediately understood what had happened.
Within the barriers of the Culling Game, ancient Sorcerers would forcibly occupy the bodies of modern people by consuming cursed objects for incarnation.
His sister, Tsumiki, had already had her body's control seized by this ancient Sorcerer named Yorozu.
Yorozu didn't pay any attention to Megumi's reaction at all. Her gaze bypassed Megumi and locked onto Yuji standing in the back.
She sensed the familiar and massive evil Cursed Energy within Yuji.
"Sukuna, you're inside this brat. Come out and see me."
Yorozu's tone became exceptionally excited. "You didn't respond to my love back then, so today, I will use my Cursed Technique to defeat you here and make you mine completely."
Yuji reached up to cover his right cheek, trying to suppress Sukuna's restlessness within him.
Sukuna maintained absolute silence inside Yuji. He knew Yamada was standing right there. In front of that man who could crush him at any moment, he would never take the initiative to appear and invite disaster.
Seeing that Sukuna didn't respond, the excitement on Yorozu's face turned into anger.
"If you won't come out, then I'll kill everyone around you to force you out."
Yorozu waved her hands, and the liquid metal behind her quickly separated, transforming into dozens of sharp spears. The spears changed direction in mid-air, their tips aimed at Yuji, Megumi, and Toji.
The metal spears pierced through the air, shooting out with a sharp whistling sound.
Yamada took a step forward, blocking everyone's front.
He raised his left hand, spreading his fingers.
The Six Tomoe Rinnegan in his left eye spun, and purple ripples spread across the depths of his eye.
Shinra Tensei!
A repuliive field erupted from the front of Yamada's palm, forming an invisible wall of repulsion.
Dozens of high-speed liquid metal spears crashed into the repulsive wall. The metal structures twisted and snapped under the immense repulsive force.
Accompanied by the ear-piercing sound of shattering metal, the spears broke into countless segments, scattering onto the surrounding ground and denting it with a dense array of small pits.
Yorozu looked at Yamada, who had blocked her attack, with her brow furrowed. She couldn't sense any Cursed Energy flow from this black-haired youth, yet he had crushed her liquid metal with an unknown physical force.
"A commoner without Cursed Energy dares to stand in my way."
Yorozu formed hand seals, and the Cursed Energy within her body was released without reservation.
"Domain Expansion: Threefold Affliction!"
A black Cursed Energy barrier expanded instantly, enveloping Yamada, Toji, Megumi, and Yuji.
The surrounding streets and buildings vanished, replaced by an eerie space composed of massive fleshy structures and neural networks.
Yorozu floated in the very center of the Domain. She held up her right hand, and liquid metal rapidly gathered and compressed above her palm.
The metal continuously collapsed inward, finally forming a black sphere with an absolutely smooth surface and no imperfections.
"My Cursed Technique is Construction, which allows me to create any substance whose structure I understand."
Yorozu declared her trump card to everyone. "This is the perfect product I constructed after countless experiments: the True Sphere."
"In physics, an absolutely perfect sphere has a contact area of zero with the ground. According to the pressure formula, if the contact area is zero, the pressure it generates is infinite. It can destroy any substance it touches. Within my Domain, the True Sphere's attack is a guaranteed hit. You have no possibility of defense."
Under Yorozu's control, the black sphere slowly pushed forward toward Yamada.
Megumi and Yuji felt the spatial pressure around them surge, leaving them unable to move an inch.
Toji gripped the Inverted Spear of Heaven in his hand, preparing to forcibly split open the barrier of the Domain.
Yamada raised his hand, signaling Toji to stop. "Infinite pressure can indeed destroy conventional physical defenses. But that's only if you're facing conventional matter."
Behind Yamada, a fist-sized, pitch-black sphere emerged out of thin air.
Truth-Seeking Orb!
It was formed by the fusion of all seven nature transformations of Yin-Yang and the Five Elements, representing the ultimate power of all things in creation and containing high-dimensional energy rules that do not exist in this world.
With a slight thought from Yamada, the Truth-Seeking Orb flew forward, colliding head-on with the True Sphere.
Two black spheres, one large and one small, collided in mid-air within the Domain. The moment they touched, the Truth-Seeking Orb ignored the infinite physical pressure of the True Sphere.
The Yin-Yang Release laws contained on the surface of the Truth-Seeking Orb took effect, and it began to erase the Cursed Energy structure of the True Sphere from the fundamental level of energy composition.
The volume of the True Sphere began to shrink drastically the moment it touched the Truth-Seeking Orb. The structure of the liquid metal was forcibly decomposed by the Truth-Seeking Orb's power, reverting it to its most primitive state of nothingness.
In just three seconds, Yorozu's proud ultimate creation, the "True Sphere," vanished in mid-air, without even a trace of Cursed Energy residue left behind.
The Truth-Seeking Orb, meanwhile, hovered in place perfectly intact before flying back behind Yamada.
Yorozu's eyes widened, and her body lost balance in mid-air due to extreme shock, landing on the floor of the Domain.
"My True Sphere... was erased. Just what kind of Cursed Technique did you use?" Yorozu questioned loudly.
Yamada did not answer, his left eye focusing on Yorozu's body once again.
Bansho Ten'in!
A powerful gravitational pull acted on Yorozu's body. Yorozu's feet left the ground, and her body flew forward uncontrollably, crashing into Yamada's palm.
Yamada's right hand tightly gripped Yorozu's throat. Yorozu tried to manipulate the liquid metal to counterattack, but she found that the flow of Cursed Energy within her was forcibly cut off and suppressed by another energy coming from Yamada's palm.
Since the caster was completely controlled, the surrounding fleshy structures began to collapse. The black barrier shattered and dissipated, and everyone returned to the ruined intersection on the street.