Chapter 52: Extreme Technique: Uzumaki
Just as Geto Suguru's mental defenses were about to be breached, he abruptly lifted his head, a look of fierce determination flashing in his eyes.
He couldn't fall here!
He hadn't yet proven his path, hadn't yet caught up to the footsteps of those two.
"Desire... Illusion... truly formidable..."
Geto Suguru's voice was hoarse, yet it carried a sense of desperate resolve, "But did you think you were the only one who possessed Cursed Spirits capable of touching the soul?"
He suddenly clasped his hands together, Cursed Energy within him burning and surging wildly in an unprecedented manner.
"Manifest—Shinbura"
Boom!
A massive, chilling, malevolent, yet strangely devout Cursed Energy suddenly erupted from behind Geto Suguru.
Space seemed to tear open, and a gigantic, half-human, half-spider female figure abruptly appeared.
Her upper body was a pale, enchanting woman's face with empty, sorrowful eyes, while her lower half was a monstrous, enormous black spider's body, its eight claw-like legs deeply piercing the corridor floor of the Domain.
Special Grade Imaginary Vengeful Spirit—Shinbura
Legend says she was a Cursed Spirit born from extreme love and betrayal, and her ability is to manipulate emotions and weave nets that ensnare the heart.
"[Domain Expansion: Hundred Phases Strangling Prison]"
Centered around Geto Suguru and Shinbura, another Domain rapidly expanded.
It was no longer a pink corridor of desire, but transformed into a sinister, terrifying cave-like nest made of countless pale spider silks.
On the walls of the cave, countless humanoid cocoons, tightly wrapped and bound by spider silk, hung suspended. They subtly writhed, emitting desperate moans, and each strand of spider silk connected to Shinbura's body, absorbing emotions of pain, resentment, and despair.
Two Domains of completely different natures violently collided, compressed, and eroded each other.
Pink desire mist and pale resentful spider silk frantically intertwined and tore, the scenes of the corridor and the cave constantly overlapping, shattering, and regenerating, emitting a grating, distorted sound.
The confrontation of Domains is essentially a clash of rules and Cursed Energy.
Tamamo-no-Mae's Domain excelled at pervasive charm and guidance, while Shinbura's Domain excelled at binding, absorbing negative emotions, and resisting mental attacks.
Countless spider silks suddenly tensed, and the humanoid cocoons on the walls emitted a sharp resonance. Massive resentment and pain, like a tangible shockwave, surged back into Tamamo-no-Mae's Desire Corridor.
"Ahhh—"
Innumerable desire illusions in the corridor shrieked as if being scorched, their indulged ecstasy instantly covered and neutralized by endless pain and despair.
Tamamo-no-Mae's true form let out a shriek of shock and anger. She hadn't expected her opponent to also possess such a bizarre and targeted Domain, capable of forcibly neutralizing the "sure-hit" effect of her Domain.
Although neither Domain could completely suppress the other, resulting in a stalemate, for Geto Suguru, it was enough.
The Domain stalemate meant that Tamamo-no-Mae's unpredictable desire erosion was temporarily held at bay.
"Now!"
A sharp glint flashed in Geto Suguru's eyes; he had never felt his mind so clear, nor the flow of Cursed Energy so effortless.
The enlightenment of ultimate control over Cursed Energy in the Black Flash state, combined with the oppressive feeling of the current Domain confrontation, inspired him, allowing him to touch upon deeper mysteries of Cursed Spirit Manipulation.
He no longer tried to summon a large number of Cursed Spirits, but instead, with a method almost savage yet containing a strange law, he frantically compressed, condensed, and harmonized the Cursed Energy of hundreds of Cursed Spirits stored within his body.
Extreme Technique—[Uzumaki]
Between Geto Suguru's palms, a tiny, utterly black point suddenly appeared.
The next moment, an unparalleled, terrifying suction force erupted.
It wasn't a physical suction, but an absolute power of devouring, targeting the essence of Cursed Spirits.
With that black point as the center, the Cursed Spirits stored within Geto Suguru's body wailed and struggled as they were forcibly extracted, transforming into torrents of black Cursed Energy, frantically drawn into it.
The condensation, compression, and fusion of hundreds of Cursed Spirits... finally formed a constantly rotating, light-devouring, black vortex, seemingly composed of countless suffering faces.
The space around the vortex twisted and collapsed, emitting Cursed Energy fluctuations that made even Tamamo-no-Mae tremble.
"No—"
Tamamo-no-Mae felt a fatal threat and shrieked, attempting to defend with all her might.
But it was too late!
"Be annihilated."
Geto Suguru used all his strength to push the black vortex, which condensed the power of thousands of Cursed Spirits, towards Tamamo-no-Mae!
The vortex left Geto Suguru's palm, instantly expanded, transforming into a black tornado connecting heaven and earth. Wherever it passed, Tamamo-no-Mae's Desire Corridor Domain shattered and collapsed like fragile glass.
All those pink illusions, seductive whispers, and ecstatic scenes were mercilessly swallowed, shredded, and reduced to the most primitive Cursed Energy particles by the black vortex.
"No!! I am the convergence of a thousand years of desire..."
Tamamo-no-Mae's desperate roar was completely drowned out by the roar of the vortex.
Her true form—the elegantly dressed woman wearing a white fox mask—was completely swallowed by the black vortex.
There was no explosion, only a continuous, heart-pounding sound of devouring and annihilation.
A moment later, the vortex slowly shrank, eventually returning to a black point and dissipating into the air.
The scene of the Domain completely vanished, returning to the dilapidated original appearance of the dance hall.
Tamamo-no-Mae disappeared, leaving only a walnut-sized Cursed Spirit orb, constantly shifting with pink and purple light, emitting pure and vast resentment and charm, slowly floating in the air.
Geto Suguru half-knelt on the ground, breathing heavily, his face ashen, his entire body drenched in sweat. That single blow had almost completely drained him of all his Cursed Energy and stamina.
But as he looked at the Special Grade Cursed Spirit Orb slowly descending, his eyes burned with an unprecedented excitement and fervent light.
He succeeded!
Not only did he endure the Domain confrontation, but he also comprehended the ultimate technique of Cursed Spirit Manipulation—"Uzumaki"—and successfully exorcised a powerful Special Grade Cursed Spirit in one fell swoop.
This power, this feeling of integrating countless Cursed Energies and unleashing power beyond limits.
He reached out, trembling, and grasped the still warm Cursed Spirit Orb.
Without the slightest hesitation, he tilted his head back and swallowed it.
An indescribable taste exploded in his throat, bringing a feeling of nausea and a soul-level impact far beyond any previous experience.
But Geto Suguru gritted his teeth, veins bulging on his forehead, enduring the intense side effects, frantically circulating Cursed Energy to digest and absorb it.
Vast Cursed Energy belonging to the Special Grade Imaginary Vengeful Spirit surged through his body like a broken dam, eventually being completely tamed by Cursed Spirit Manipulation and brought under his control.
A much more powerful aura emanated from Geto Suguru.
He slowly stood up, feeling the newly acquired, powerful strength of Tamamo-no-Mae within him, complex light flickering in his eyes.
There was satisfaction from becoming stronger, exhilaration from defeating a powerful enemy, but deeper down, there was the coldness and heaviness that came from devouring hundreds of Cursed Spirits with "Uzumaki," as if incorporating countless negative emotions and curses into himself.
This method of power enhancement, while seemingly contrary to the "righteous path" he upheld, possessed a chilling efficiency.
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