The current Dragon God is a god who has surpassed the limits of the world!
The Dragon God tightly gripped the hilt of the kirigiri blade and violently pressed down! Gojo Satoru knew that if his Unlimited Void hit anyone, no one could be spared, but every time he hit Mahito, it proved that Mahito was doing it on purpose; every counterattack was fatal and terrifying. Therefore, even though he had genuinely hit him this time, he did not relax his guard. The moment the Dragon God moved, he immediately gripped the blade of kirigiri with his other hand.
Shing—!
Gojo Satoru's fingers were cleanly severed, and the severed fingertips fell to the ground. Countless white grains swallowed them up as if they were alive, not leaving behind a single drop of blood.
But at the same time, the blade did not continue to cut down!
Gojo Satoru laughed heartily: "It worked after all! Even if you could barely withstand the informational bombardment of Unlimited Void, this is your limit. You can no longer use the Limitless Cursed Technique! Otherwise, if you had used Star Rage or the Tsukumogami Manipulation Technique just now, I would already be dead!"
The Dragon God retorted without showing weakness: "You too! I can adapt to your Unlimited Void, but you have already been hit by my Dharma Realm Reincarnation Nirvana Realm. Your Soul is being wantonly reshaped by me. How much longer can you last?!"
Although he had expected it—Gojo Satoru was not an ordinary Jujutsu Sorcerer, so if Ryomen Sukuna wasn't afraid of Soul reshaping, Gojo Satoru should also have considerable resistance—Mahito truly hadn't expected that he had already stimulated the potential of Idle Transfiguration to this extent, and Gojo Satoru could still barely resist!
No, it couldn't be called resisting. Mahito truly saw Gojo Satoru's Soul and was even beginning to read the information within it, but the reading speed was as slow as a crawling turtle. He instantly judged what was happening:
This bastard applied Limitless to his own Soul as well, slowing down the Soul reading speed by ten million times and making it impossible to ever truly touch Gojo Satoru's Soul.
That's right, Ryomen Sukuna was the same. Whoever dared to touch Ryomen Sukuna's Soul would instantly be sliced in half by Ryomen Sukuna. These bastards actually embedded their Cursed Techniques into their own Souls. Even though no one had directly attacked the Soul before Mahito, they all did this without prior coordination.
But even slowed down a thousandfold, it was still a thousandfold slower than a god's calculation speed. The Dragon God could clearly sense that Gojo Satoru's Soul was indeed being read. A god's calculation speed is fundamentally different from that of mortal beings!
"I can hold out until your brain explodes from the information!" Gojo Satoru roared.
"Arrogant!" the Dragon God roared back.
Suddenly, the Dragon God looked up because the Dharma Realm Reincarnation Nirvana Realm was being stripped away?! In the void above the Boundless Reincarnation Realm, fragments fell, revealing the empty sky. As the divine dragon rotated in the void without hesitation, it spewed out its breath. A massive cluster of high-concentration Cursed Energy violently shot out from the void.
When designing the Domain Expansion, Mahito had considered the possibility of someone entering from the outside. The Divine Dragon Shikigami was specifically used to guard against this! This Divine Dragon was the Special Grade dragon-shaped imaginary vengeful Cursed Spirit formed by Mahito's Idle Transfiguration. Mahito gained an automatic counterattack function by abandoning the restraint of controlling the Divine Dragon.
He guarded against exactly this kind of situation!
Even the void in the sky was a special design. If attacked from the outside, no matter where the attack originated, the part that would shatter was always the void. This void could transfer all attacks here. The Divine Dragon rotating at the void's location was equivalent to patrolling the entire Domain Expansion.
But the Divine Dragon's breath missed its target, because what was stripping away the Dharma Realm Reincarnation Nirvana Realm was not some Jujutsu Sorcerer. There was no existence outside the void—
—It was a barrier larger than the Domain Expansion!
Gojo Satoru showed a look of sudden realization: "Tengen! I completely forgot Tengen was following behind me!"
At the same time, Unlimited Void violently exploded. A chain stretched out from the explosion point and instantly grabbed Gojo Satoru's foot. Gojo Satoru felt his Cursed Energy begin to rage uncontrollably, and the precision of the Cursed Energy maintaining the Domain Expansion rapidly decreased, causing Unlimited Void to finally be forcibly released.
The Dragon God also seemed to realize something: "Toji Fushiguro! That's right, I had him follow behind me!"
Gojo Satoru frowned tightly and said in disbelief: "You actually chose to resurrect Toji Fushiguro instead of Geto? Do you think I fear that guy now? Even if Geto was like Tsukumo, belonging to the faction that rejects Cursed Spirits, his ultimate ideal was to keep everyone away from casualties caused by Cursed Spirits. As long as you promised to manage all Cursed Spirits well, he should listen to your dispatch, because compared to Cursed Spirits, Geto actually hates ordinary people more!"
The Dragon God also questioned in disbelief: "The great Japanese barrier relies on Tengen's Immortal Technique to be maintained. Tengen fundamentally cannot leave the Star Corridor, otherwise the great Japanese barrier will inevitably have problems! But now the great barrier has no issues, and Tengen has indeed left the Star Corridor. Then who is currently presiding over the great Japanese barrier in the Star Corridor?!"
Then, the two of them immediately rebuked each other in unison:
"Coward! Where is your pride as the strongest of this era?!"
"Coward! Where is your Warrior Spirit?!"
Both of their Domain Expansions were broken simultaneously!
A tearing sound of shattering space appeared behind Gojo Satoru. Deep within the shattered space was a bizarre life form resembling a thumb covered in cloth. Tengen had actually walked out of her fortress and was following behind Gojo Satoru! This was something no one had anticipated.
She formed a hand seal, and Gojo Satoru seemed to be forcefully pulled out of his current state as if attracted. The Dragon God wanted to take this opportunity to continue swinging the blade, but his movement paused at a critical moment.
Gojo Satoru couldn't help but laugh: "Hahahaha, isn't this quite useful! How does my Unlimited Void taste, Mahito?!"
The Dragon God raised his head. The blue eye of his heterochromia suddenly turned the color of the deep sky. That color, which seemed to contain the entire sky, instantly froze Gojo Satoru's smiling face.
The Dragon God also smiled: "The taste of Unlimited Void is very good, but it's not as delicious as your Six Eyes, Satoru!"
Gojo Satoru took a deep breath: "Could it be that next time I will face my own Limitless combined with the Six Eyes?"
"I still need some time to adapt." The Dragon God's light chuckle came from deep within the faceplate: "Please look forward to it, Satoru."
Gojo Satoru took one last look at the Dragon God, stamped his foot, and the chains naturally fell off. Just as Gojo Satoru was about to turn and leave, the Dragon God suddenly said:
"Hey, Satoru."
Gojo Satoru turned his head.
"See you next time," said Mahito.
Gojo Satoru paused for a moment, then smiled.
"...See you next time."
The void healed, and Gojo Satoru's figure had disappeared, but the Dragon God remained motionless in the posture of having swung his sword.
It lasted for half an hour until a giant tree broke through the ground. The tree opened like a flower bud, and Hanami and Toji Fushiguro walked out from within.
The reason even a peak-condition Gojo Satoru couldn't detect Toji Fushiguro is simple: because of Hanami. Hanami's stealth ability was undetectable even by Gojo Satoru, as Hanami, being a Special Grade Cursed Spirit, was closer to a nature spirit than a Cursed Spirit, allowing her to better blend into the cycle of nature.
Coupled with the fact that Toji Fushiguro himself possessed no Cursed Energy, Gojo Satoru's Six Eyes had been unable to observe Toji Fushiguro by any means other than direct sight since high school. Under this double layer of security, Gojo Satoru never noticed this hidden force until the very end.
Toji Fushiguro, specially enveloped by Hanami, looked at the Dragon God, touched his hedgehog-like hair, and sighed: "That guy has become quite terrifying too. I was thinking of trying a sneak attack... Heh, in the end, I didn't even have the chance to attempt one."
Hanami explained:
[Miss Ieiri was taken away immediately. We suspected there was an incredibly formidable Binding Technique Sorcerer behind them, so we went to find the person first, but we couldn't find them no matter what. That's when I knew things were serious. ]
If Hanami's detection ability might indeed have missed something, Toji Fushiguro, with his body performing at the peak of human potential, could not have missed them. Their carpet search still failed to see how Utahime Iori was taken away or find her location, which could only mean that Sorcerer was definitely a new Special Grade Sorcerer.
With the eyesight of these two, even Yuki Tsukumo herself came, she likely couldn't escape their detection.
Toji Fushiguro added: "We did find the car Gojo Satoru arrived in, and the driver inside. That guy was smart and ran five kilometers away, but we suspected it was bait, so we decided to keep waiting."
This was also expected. Knowing there was a Special Grade Sorcerer watching outside, yet a car remained conspicuously in place—any normal person would judge it to be bait.
If it were a low-level Jujutsu Sorcerer, neither Hanami nor Toji Fushiguro would have cared about that trap. But since they knew the opponent was at least a Special Grade Sorcerer on the level of Yuki Tsukumo, they certainly couldn't rush in blindly.
The Dragon God didn't care: "No need to say more, I trust you. Do you remember the plan we set? Even if I die, if you judge that I'm not worth saving, then don't save me."
Toji Fushiguro's heart stirred slightly, and he fell silent.
After a pause, the Dragon God asked: "How is Jogo?"
Hanami said mournfully:
[Brain dead, swept up in the battle storm between you and Gojo, body utterly destroyed. ]
"How tragic," the Dragon God sighed. "When I recover, I'll fish him out from the River of Souls."
Toji Fushiguro frowned at the Dragon God: "They shouldn't be planning a surprise return attack now. How long do you need to maintain this state? We still need to pick up Dagon later."
Dagon was currently by the distant seaside. According to the original plan, if Mahito was losing to Gojo Satoru, he would run toward the sea as much as possible. He would abandon Jogo as the rear guard and merge with Dagon to continue escaping in the deep sea.
No matter how powerful Gojo Satoru was, his combat strength would be limited in the deep sea, increasing their chances of escape. Who would have thought the fight would be so intense that this contingency plan wouldn't even be used.
The Dragon God remained frozen and unmoving, not even lowering the hand holding kirigiri. He said faintly: "Wait a bit longer, my mind is still chaotic. Don't think I'm fine just because I can speak normally. This is an act. If I dare to cancel my current state, I will definitely suffer brain death... I have truly witnessed the horror of Unlimited Void."
Toji Fushiguro was stunned.
"? So, we were the ones spared? I wondered why you maintained a state of zanshin; it wasn't to guard against a surprise attack, but because you fundamentally couldn't let go."
Hanami immediately turned and glared fiercely at Toji Fushiguro, shouting:
[Both sides were just in the state of Black Flash Awakening. Mahito is only slow to process information now because he relaxed. If the fight had continued, the outcome would have been completely unpredictable. Mahito did not lose! ]
Hanami had no eyes; deer-antler-like branches grew where her pupils should be. Because of this, when she stared directly at someone in anger, it was especially terrifying. Toji Fushiguro simply raised his hands in surrender, too lazy to argue.
"No need to say more, Hanami," the Dragon God said meaningfully. "I truly couldn't keep up this time. If the Domain battle had continued, my Soul might have been driven to brain death by Unlimited Void before I could truly possess Gojo's Soul. But only this time... there won't be a next time."
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