Chapter 78: Domain Expansion – Starfall Coffin
Yuki Tsukumo retracted her ohrun, resting it on her shoulder, and turned around with interest: "A common goal? Are you referring to your act of slaughtering the Higher-Ups, or your act of stealing Cursed Objects from the Storage Vault?"
As a Special Grade Sorcerer who frequently travels the world and has an extensive intelligence network, she clearly has her own sources.
Toho Hiroshi was not surprised and admitted directly: "Both. The Higher-Ups are corrupt and infiltrated, an obstruction and a cancer. Eliminating them is a necessary step. The Cursed Objects are the power needed to achieve the goal. And the eye of the moon plan is the fundamental method to end all curses."
"End all curses?"
Yuki Tsukumo repeated the phrase, her playful expression gradually receding, replaced by seriousness. "You know I've been researching this. Tell me about your 'Eye of the Moon.'"
He briefly but clearly articulated the concept of the Infinite Tsukuyomi: collecting vast Cursed Energy, projecting it onto the moon, and creating a world of permanent peace that fulfills all desires through genjutsu.
After listening, Yuki Tsukumo fell into a brief silence. The expression on her face changed constantly; there was shock, contemplation, and even a hint of imperceptible yearning.
"Create a... dream world without suffering?"
She murmured, "To let everyone immerse themselves in a beautiful dream... it sounds almost like giving the entire world a gentle poison."
She looked up, her gaze burning as she stared at Toho Hiroshi: "Although this is indeed a method to solve the problem 'from the root,' it sounds more thorough and insane than my two proposals of 'making everyone a Jujutsu Sorcerer' or 'eliminating everyone's Cursed Energy.'"
The air in the mountain forest seemed to solidify.
The shock and contemplation on Yuki Tsukumo's face gradually faded, replaced by a sharp, hawk-like scrutiny.
The new interpretation of "Infinite Tsukuyomi" thrown out by Toho Hiroshi undoubtedly stirred up enormous waves in her heart, encompassing her two ultimate conjectures. This temptation was fatal.
However, she was, after all, Yuki Tsukumo, an independent Special Grade Sorcerer who explored the truth of the world by her own will.
While alignment of ideals was important, the basis for cooperation, especially for participating in such a subversive and risky plan, needed to be built upon absolute recognition of strength. Empty talk of blueprints was not enough to make someone of her caliber easily submit.
"Heh..."
Yuki Tsukumo suddenly chuckled softly, breaking the silence. She slowly lowered the ohrun from her shoulder, and the segmented whip trailed on the ground with a soft rustling sound. "What a... soul-stirring blueprint, Mr. Toho, or perhaps, should I call you the 'Eye of the Moon' proponent?"
Her gaze became incredibly focused, and the surging Cursed Energy around her began to retract and compress inward, like the calm before a storm, emitting an even more dangerous aura than before.
"But entrusting the future choices of the entire world to a 'power' whose weight I have yet to witness with my own eyes, that is far too rash."
She took a step forward, and the ground beneath her feet slightly sank. "What immense power is needed to build the 'platform' you speak of? I need to confirm with my own eyes that you have the qualification to bear this ambition."
"Unless you can defeat me head-on and prove that your eyes, and the plan behind them, possess absolute power worthy of me betting everything to follow!"
Before her words finished, Yuki Tsukumo no longer hesitated. She clasped her hands together, and the surging Cursed Energy within her gushed out like a bursting flood!
"Domain Expansion - 'Starfall Coffin'"
Om—
Centered on her, a starry-sky colored barrier, seemingly composed of countless star fragments and distorted gravitational lines, instantly expanded, enveloping the entire mountain forest within several hundred meters.
Toho Hiroshi felt his surroundings abruptly change; it was no longer the quiet night mountain forest, but a bizarre, dark-red cosmic space.
Beneath his feet was void, and around him floated shattered remnants of celestial bodies of varying sizes. An incredibly heavy pressure assailed him from all directions, as if the mass of the entire space had been infinitely magnified, threatening to crush and pulverize him.
This was precisely the effect of Yuki Tsukumo's Domain: ultimate mass manipulation and spatial lockdown!
Gravity Imprisonment: Within the Domain, gravity is increased tens to hundreds of times that of a normal person, greatly restricting the opponent's movement speed and flexibility, and even making the flow of Cursed Energy sluggish.
Mass Imbuement or Deprivation: Yuki Tsukumo can instantly imbue mass (making it heavy as a mountain) or deprive mass (making it light as a feather, losing inertia) to any object within the Domain (including air, Cursed Energy attacks, and even parts of the opponent's body) at will, completely disrupting the opponent's combat rhythm and defense.
Star Remnant Impact: The floating star remnants within the Domain can be controlled by her to strike targets at extremely high speed and with terrifying imbued mass, each hit comparable to a meteor falling from the sky.
Space Solidification: The Domain itself forms a powerful spatial barrier, greatly interfering with or even sealing spatial Cursed Techniques (such as Toho Hiroshi's Kamui), making it difficult to escape easily.
"In my 'Starfall Coffin,' all mass is defined by me!"
Yuki Tsukumo's voice echoed in the Domain, her figure seemingly merged with the Domain, appearing and disappearing among the star remnants. "Toho Hiroshi, let me see if your Rinnegan can penetrate these stars!"
Before her words faded, she raised a hand and pointed!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Three massive star remnants, as if thrown by an invisible hand, tore through the dark-red space, smashing towards Toho Hiroshi from three different directions with destructive force.
At the same time, Toho Hiroshi felt his own gravity suddenly increase by a thousandfold, as if the weight of an entire planet was pressing down on him, and the void beneath his feet groaned under the strain.
Facing this deadly situation, capable of instantly crushing and shattering a Special Grade Cursed Spirit, Toho Hiroshi's Rinnegan beneath his mask calmly swirled.
"A good Domain. The application of mass rules has reached perfection."
He commented indifferently, like a reef in a storm.
Just as the star remnants were about to hit him, he slowly raised his hands, palms facing upwards.
"But the pinnacle of mass is also the origin of gravity. And gravity..."
The purple light in his left Rinnegan flared brightly.
"Chibaku Tensei!"
A pitch-black small sphere emerged from his palm, then flew towards the top of the Domain.
An irresistible, terrifying suction, far exceeding the gravity effect of the 'Starfall Coffin,' suddenly erupted!
Crack! Crack!
The three star remnants smashing towards Toho Hiroshi abruptly changed direction in mid-air, as if seized by an invisible giant hand. Along with countless other star fragments floating in the Domain, and even the starry-sky colored energy that made up the Domain itself, they surged madly towards that black sphere.
"What!"
Yuki Tsukumo was horrified to discover that her control over the mass within the Domain was being forcibly stripped away.
The gravity generated by that black sphere domineeringly overrode her Domain's rules.
Countless matter and energy were frantically drawn to it, rapidly condensing into a giant rocky sphere, whose volume continued to expand as if to form a massive meteor.
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