Above Sendai City, the pink residual glow of cursed energy had not yet completely dissipated.
That "Granite Blast," powerful enough to pierce a skyscraper, was smoothly split in two by a single sword strike. It roared past Rin's side toward the rear, exploding into a towering pillar of fire and smoke.
Standing on the edge of the rooftop, Ishigori Ryu looked at the unharmed black-haired youth. His eyes held no trace of fear; instead, they burned with the madness of someone starving to the extreme who had finally laid eyes on a peerless delicacy.
"Fantastic! Fantastic!"
Ishigori Ryu laughed loudly, the pompadour on his forehead trembling slightly from the excessive overflow of cursed energy.
"For four hundred years, I've felt that the battles in this world were dull and tasteless, like a coarse meal that couldn't fill one's stomach! But you're different—you, this 'dessert,' can definitely satisfy me completely!"
Boom!
The rooftop beneath Ishigori Ryu's feet shattered with a bang. He abandoned his high-ground long-range bombardment and dived straight down toward Rin from a hundred meters up like a pink meteor.
Mid-air, his entire body's cursed energy had already converged into his right fist. As the player with the highest cursed energy output in the history of the jujutsu world, every one of his melee attacks was comparable to a point-blank explosion from a large-caliber artillery piece.
Facing this thunderous high-altitude dive, Rin didn't even draw his Kusanagi sword.
He stood on the roof of a scrapped bus, left hand in his trench coat pocket, while the five fingers of his right hand slowly spread open.
Purple-black Six Paths Lightning Release chakra rapidly compressed and condensed in his palm, turning into a ball of lightning that emitted a piercing screech.
"You want to eat dessert? I'm afraid your teeth won't be able to handle it."
Rin's right knee bent slightly as he faced the falling Ishigori Ryu. His body was like a fully drawn longbow that suddenly snapped upward!
Bang!
The two figures—one large, one small—collided violently in mid-air with no tricks or flourishes.
Ishigori Ryu's heavy fist, wrapped in extreme pink cursed energy, clashed head-on with Rin's Six Paths Chidori.
The moment the two distinct destructive energies made contact, the surrounding air was forcibly pushed aside, forming a visible white vacuum fault.
The stalemate didn't even last a tenth of a second.
Crack—!
The sound of bones shattering echoed through the night sky.
The fanaticism on Ishigori Ryu's face froze instantly.
His confident cursed energy output was instantly and ruthlessly torn apart the moment it touched that profound and overbearing purple-black lightning.
High-voltage electricity poured back frantically along his fist. His thick right arm twisted and snapped in an instant, pale bone shards piercing through the skin as blood was vaporized by the high temperature before it could even splatter.
"Ugh!"
Ishigori Ryu let out a muffled groan. His massive body flew backward several times faster than he had come, smashing hard into the interior of an abandoned shopping mall and stopping only after crashing through five floors.
At the very moment Rin sent Ishigori Ryu flying with the punch, the night sky above his head underwent a bizarre change.
The originally flat space actually became like a crumpled blue curtain, emitting a piercing friction sound.
A fair arm reached out from a distorted spatial rift, tightly grasping the spatial boundary around Rin.
"Die! Arrogant modern sorcerer!"
The ancient assassin hidden in the clouds, Uro Takako, had finally found what she considered the perfect moment for a sneak attack.
Her core cursed technique, "Sky Manipulation," could pull and fold three-dimensional space as easily as two-dimensional cloth.
At this moment, she was trying to directly twist and snap the space where Rin was located, intending to crush his body alive!
As she exerted force, the light around Rin became distorted and surreal, and the air was squeezed into a suffocating pressure.
Okkotsu Yuta, standing at a safe distance below, had a sudden change in expression. "Mr. Rin! That's a spatial cursed technique—be careful!"
"A spatial technique?"
Rin, at the center of the distortion, didn't even sway. He raised his head slightly, his deep pitch-black eyes fixed on Uro Takako hidden behind the spatial curtain.
Within his right eye, a crimson hexagram totem burst into blinding light without warning.
"To use such a two-dimensional origami trick against me, you really are pathetically stupid."
Kamui!
Hum—!
A pitch-black, deep spatial vortex burst open above Rin's head.
Uro Takako's proud "Sky Manipulation," the moment it touched the Kamui vortex, was like a piece of fragile rag being sucked into a high-speed industrial shredder.
The force she used to pull space was directly severed by Kamui's extremely arrogant high-dimensional gravity.
Not only that, but the terrifying spatial devouring force followed the trajectory of her technique and suddenly yanked back on her arms!
"This... what is this?! My technique is being devoured?!"
Uro Takako went pale with fright. She desperately tried to let go and cut off her cursed energy, but Kamui's suction was completely unreasonable.
"Aaaaaah!"
Amidst a shrill scream, Uro Takako's arms were brutally twisted off and swallowed into the separate dimension by the Kamui vortex!
The spatial technique she used to conceal her body completely collapsed. She lost her balance and fell miserably from mid-air like a kite with a broken string.
Bang!
Uro Takako slammed heavily onto the rubble-strewn street. Blood gushed from her severed arms, and her face turned as pale as paper.
Boom!
On the other side, the ruins of the shopping mall were forcibly blown open by a violent surge of pink cursed energy.
Ishigori Ryu dragged his broken right arm, stepping out from the billowing dust one step at a time.
He gasped for breath, staring fixedly at Rin, who had landed unharmed on the bus roof. The fire of battle in his eyes had not only failed to go out but burned even brighter.
"Fantastic... this absolute gap—this is a true Manchu Han Imperial Feast!"
Ishigori Ryu spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva, turned to look at Uro Takako lying on the ground, and roared, "Uro! Stop lying there playing dead! This guy is an out-and-out monster; we don't even have the right to touch him one-on-one! Let's go together!"
Uro Takako gritted her teeth, enduring the intense pain from her severed arms as she climbed up from the ground.
As a top assassin from a thousand years ago, she felt an unprecedented shadow of death.
"I don't need you to tell me!"
Uro Takako took a deep breath. The cursed energy in her body operated at overload as her mangled shoulders frantically squeezed out the last of her spatial manipulation power.
"Thin Ice Breaker!"
She forcibly compressed the space for dozens of meters around her into an extremely dense sphere, which shot toward Rin with unstoppable destructive power.
At the same time, Ishigori Ryu's pompadour erupted with an unprecedented blinding light as he concentrated all his remaining life force and cursed energy into it.
"Granite Blast: Maximum Output!"
A pink pillar of destruction twice as thick as before, along with Uro Takako's spatial compression bullet, formed a perfect pincer attack. They roared forward to seal off all of Rin's escape routes.
Facing the life-risking strikes of these two top experts from four hundred years ago, the hexagram and the six tomoe in Rin's eyes spun simultaneously.
"Since you are so eager to witness true power..."
"Then I shall grant your wish."
Boom—!!!
A vast, abyss-like purple-black chakra, filled with an aura of absolute destruction, erupted from Rin's body.
The earth trembled, and the air wailed.
That was not a simple release of cursed energy, but a divine power that transcended the rules of this world.
The purple-black chakra rapidly constructed massive bones and interwoven meridians in mid-air, covering them with a layer of karasu tengu armor like a demon god.
A half-body Susanoo, dozens of meters tall, rose from the ground the moment the light beam and spatial bullet were about to hit!
Bang!!!
Ishigori Ryu's maximum output and Uro Takako's spatial bullet slammed hard against the Susanoo's armor.
However, besides causing ripples on the purple-black energy shell, they couldn't advance even a fraction of an inch.
"This... what kind of barrier is this?!" Ishigori Ryu's proud cursed energy cannon couldn't even shake the opponent's defense. The smile on his face finally froze.
Rin stood with his hands behind his back inside the Susanoo's crystal, looking down at the two struggling ants below.
The Susanoo's massive right hand slowly rose, making a grasping motion in the air.
A massive chakra sword, burning with purple-black lightning and Amaterasu's black flames, instantly formed in the demon god's hand.
"Die."
Rin's eyes were cold. With a slight thought, the Susanoo gripped the giant sword and, with pure violence and absolute mass, swung a horizontal slash downward!
Swish—!
The massive sword light tore through the night, as if to split the world in two.
The Granite Blast beam and the Thin Ice Breaker, which bore the brunt of the attack, vanished silently like soap bubbles under the sweep of the blade.
The residual power of the sword qi didn't diminish. It ruthlessly swept through the bodies of Ishigori Ryu and Uro Takako.
Before the Six Paths-level lightning and fire sword qi, these two top experts from four hundred years ago were completely vaporized into nothingness in the extreme heat and destructive power, without even a single cell remaining.
The sword qi swept along the ground, splitting the ruins in its path in two. It finally left a terrifying, thousand-meter-long, bottomless sword scar on the distant mountain wall.
A light breeze blew past.
Inside the Sendai Barrier, everything fell into a deathly silence.
With a thought, Rin dispersed the Susanoo and landed lightly on the mess-strewn street.
Standing a hundred meters away, Okkotsu Yuta and Toji Fushiguro had completely lost their ability to speak.
Okkotsu Yuta's palm holding his sword was covered in cold sweat. He had witnessed this battle—no, it couldn't even be called a battle; it was simply a one-sided divine punishment.
That unconventional power that could change the terrain and erase everything with a simple gesture made him realize deeply that if this man truly became an enemy of the jujutsu world, all of Japan wouldn't be enough for him to kill alone.
[Ding! Detected that the host has killed the ancient sorcerers, Ishigori Ryu and Uro Takako!]
[Sweeping the Sendai Barrier with absolute strength, crushing the martial arts obsession of four hundred years!]
[Congratulations to the host for obtaining dimension points: 30,000 points!]
In his mind, the system's notification sound was crisp and pleasant.
Two big fat sheep had contributed thirty thousand points.
Rin patted off the non-existent dust on his trench coat, his gaze sweeping over the massive gorge split open by the Susanoo in the distance. He then turned his head to look at Okkotsu Yuta.
"The rats in Sendai have been cleaned up."
He put his hands back into his pockets and walked toward the edge of the barrier.
"Let's go to the next barrier. It's time to speed up the progress of this Culling Game."
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