The streets of Chiyoda Ward had been completely reduced to ruins.
Sukuna stood on the shattered asphalt, the white steam from Reverse Cursed Technique just having dissipated.
His four-armed, four-eyed body had returned to its peak state, but his expression was grim to the extreme.
He raised his head, his gaze locked firmly on the man in the black windbreaker ahead.
Yamada stood less than ten meters away from him. The six black tomoe in his left eye spun at a steady speed within the pale purple concentric ripples, while the crimson hexagram pattern in his right eye emitted a piercing red light.
The six Truth-Seeking Orbs behind him floated quietly without any unnecessary movement, yet they radiated the absolute law of severing all matter and energy.
"You say I'm only at this level?"
Sukuna's low voice spread across the street, the surrounding air suffering severe optical distortion due to the convergence of high-concentration Cursed Energy.
He slammed his hands together in front of his chest while his other two arms formed seals at his sides.
"Domain Expansion: Malevolent Shrine!"
A thunderous roar erupted and a massive shrine piled high with countless skeletons rose from the ground behind Sukuna. Withered skulls hung from the eaves of the shrine, and churning blood surrounded its base.
This was an open-type domain without a closed barrier, with a staggering maximum radius of two hundred meters.
"Within this range, all living and non-living things will be shredded. I will cut you into powder indistinguishable to the naked eye."
The sure-hit command within the domain was instantly activated. Indiscriminate 'Cleave' and 'Dismantle' began slicing in all directions.
The remaining villas, streetlights, and landscaping trees on both sides of the street were dismembered into countless fragments within a tenth of a second. Layer after layer of soil was shaved off the ground, and the rising dust obscured the view.
This was a dual cutting of pure physical force and Cursed Energy, the attack density reaching a limit with no blind spots.
Satoru grabbed Yuji and Megumi, retreating rapidly until they were outside the two-hundred-meter domain range. He watched the situation at the center of the domain.
The dense slashes all fell upon Yamada but he didn't move a step. The six Truth-Seeking Orbs behind him instantly underwent a morphological change. The black matter extended and fused in mid-air, transforming into a 360-degree, no-blind-spot black hemispherical barrier that completely enveloped Yamada at its center.
Countless 'Dismantle' slashes hacked at the surface of the Truth-Seeking Orbs. Those slashes, powerful enough to slice through the bodies of Special Grade Cursed Spirits, were forcibly decomposed and erased the moment they touched the Truth-Seeking Orbs.
The Cursed Energy returned to its most primitive state of nothingness, failing to leave even a single millimeter of a white mark on the surface of the Truth-Seeking Orbs.
Sukuna sensed that his attacks were being nullified and increased his Cursed Energy output. The blood around the shrine boiled, and the frequency of the slashes doubled.
The Truth-Seeking Orb barrier remained completely unmoved.
A gap suddenly split open on the surface of the black hemisphere and Yamada stepped out of the gap. He raised his right hand, pointing his palm at the skeletal shrine ahead.
"Your understanding of domains is limited to cutting on a single plane."
Yamada's left eye locked onto Sukuna. "Today, I'll let you see what true spatial gravitational collapse looks like."
Yamada created a black sphere in his palm, only the size of a coin but with extremely high mass density. He tossed it high into the air and the sphere rose in a straight line, hovering two hundred meters above Malevolent Shrine.
Yamada clapped his hands together in front of his chest.
Chibaku Tensei!
The black sphere hovering high in the sky instantly erupted with an irresistible, powerful gravitational force. This gravity acted directly on all matter below.
The ground began to tremble violently and massive cracks crisscrossed the road.
Large chunks of concrete pavement, shredded building debris, underground water pipes, and cables all lost the shackles of gravity and were forcibly pulled toward the black sphere in the sky.
Even the skeletal shrine of Malevolent Shrine could not resist this absolute physical gravity. The base of the shrine snapped, and countless bones were sucked into the sky.
Sukuna felt his feet leave the ground. He gathered a large amount of Cursed Energy at the soles of his feet, trying to anchor himself to the ground. But the ground itself was falling apart, and massive rocks carried his body with them as they flew toward the sky.
"What kind of Cursed Technique is this?!"
Sukuna swung his four arms in mid-air, releasing dozens of 'Cleave' attacks toward the black sphere above. The slashes hit the rocks clinging to the black sphere, shattering them, but more debris and soil converged continuously, instantly filling the gaps.
In just over ten seconds, a massive rock sphere over three hundred meters in diameter formed in the night sky over Tokyo. Malevolent Shrine was completely crushed and sealed deep within the rock sphere.
Sukuna was also squeezed into the very center of the sphere by millions of tons of rock, rebar, and soil. He couldn't move his limbs, and the immense pressure made his bones emit cracking sounds.
Standing in a safe zone in the distance, Satoru looked up at the massive man-made celestial body in the sky.
"Manipulating gravity to create a floating celestial body for sealing... This scale of mass control has exceeded the theoretical limits of jujutsu. He doesn't even need to construct a barrier, he's using physical mass directly to form an indestructible cage." Satoru gave a very objective evaluation.
Toji looked up at the sky. "Boss's methods are always so simple and direct."
Inside the rock sphere in the sky.
Sukuna felt an extreme sense of suffocation. He knew that if he remained trapped here, he would be crushed into meat paste by this ever-increasing gravity.
He had to destroy this sphere.
Sukuna barely managed to clasp his two right hands in front of his chest. He channeled all the Cursed Energy in his body, concentrating it between his hands.
Fuga!
Intense heat erupted within the narrow crevices of the rocks. Crimson flames expanded rapidly, melting the surrounding rocks into liquid magma.
The temperature of the flames continued to climb, and the high-pressure gases generated within the sphere sought an exit.
Boom!
A thick pillar of fire burst through a large hole on the surface of the rock sphere, soaring into the clouds.
The reactionary force from the pillar of fire caused the entire sphere to shake violently.
Using the passage melted by the flames, Sukuna surged upward from the center of the sphere. He burst out of the rock sphere's surface and stood at its very peak.
His skin was extensively burned, and his four arms were covered in charred marks. Reverse Cursed Technique was operating at full capacity to perform repairs.
Sukuna gasped for air and looked down, seeing Yamada.
Yamada's body defied gravity, rising straight up. He stopped less than fifty meters from the rock sphere.
In Yamada's right palm, piercing purple lightning was being highly concentrated.
This was no ordinary Chidori. This was an ultimate destructive technique fusing Six Paths Yin Power with extremely high-density Lightning Release Chakra.
The purple current formed a high-pressure plasma sphere one meter in diameter in Yamada's hand. Black arcs of electricity flickered on the surface of the plasma sphere, and the surrounding air was ionized by the high-frequency current, emitting a strong smell of ozone.
"Sukuna, your resistance ends here."
Yamada pulled his right arm back, locking onto Sukuna standing atop the rock sphere.
Chidori: Starbreaker!