Yuki Tsukumo forced herself to stand upright, the sharp pain in her ribs and the shock in her heart making her breathing somewhat ragged.
She looked at Toho Hiroshi; this man's power was bottomless, and his methods were even more bizarre and unfathomable.
"Mutual destruction?"
Toho Hiroshi seemed to see through her thoughts, a flash of understanding passing through his Rinnegan. "Using the infinite superposition of imaginary mass from'Star Rage' to create a micro-black hole that devours everything? Not a bad idea, Yuki."
His tone was calm, yet carried a coldness that seemed to see through everything. "But unfortunately, in front of me, you have no chance."
As soon as he finished speaking, the space around Yuki Tsukumo distorted slightly, and several pitch-black rods—black rods—appeared out of thin air, precisely piercing several key Cursed Energy acupuncture points and joints on her body.
"Urgh!"
Yuki Tsukumo let out a muffled groan, feeling the flow of Cursed Energy throughout her body instantly cut off and sealed. The Cursed Energy she had just gathered, preparing to detonate her Cursed Technique regardless of the consequences, dissipated rapidly like a punctured balloon.
Her body went limp, and she knelt on one knee, looking in disbelief at the black rods on her body that exuded an ominous aura.
These black rods not only sealed her Cursed Energy but also seemed to interfere with her control over her own body, making even such an extreme act as self-detonation impossible.
"Why..."
She lifted her head with difficulty and looked at Toho Hiroshi. "Why not kill me? You stopped me from self-destructing, yet you spare my life?"
Toho Hiroshi hovered before her, but his gaze was cast toward the Gedo Statue below, which was constantly trembling and emitting an increasingly terrifying aura.
At this moment, the eighth eye on the forehead of the Gedo Statue had fully opened, its crimson light, like a blood moon, illuminating the shattered Shinjuku.
The low roar it emitted became clearer and more ravenous, as if calling for the final nourishment.
"Kill you? There is no need."
Toho Hiroshi's voice remained calm. "Your power, your insight—they might still be useful in the new era. Furthermore..."
He paused, finally turning his gaze back to Yuki Tsukumo. In those double-pupiled Rinnegan eyes, for the first time, a look of near "sincerity" emerged, though behind that sincerity lay a chilling absolute rationality.
"You, and everyone else, including Satoru Gojo, have misunderstood one thing."
"The eye of the moon plan, the Infinite Tsukuyomi... those are not my true destination, or rather, they are merely a 'by-product' in the process of achieving my ultimate goal—a necessary step to filter, gather, and appease the masses."
Yuki Tsukumo's pupils constricted. "What did you say?"
"Everything I have done—collecting Cursed Objects, gathering Curse Users, triggering the Culling Game, and even revealing the 'truth' to the whole world to cause panic—all of this was to feed it."
Toho Hiroshi pointed at the Gedo Statue. "To make this 'Gedo Statue' absorb enough Cursed Energy converted from humanity's most extreme negative emotions, so that it ultimately transforms into the 'Ten-Tails'."
"When the Ten-Tails is resurrected and merges with me, I will obtain true 'God-like Power'."
"And after obtaining this God-like Power, the first thing I must do, and the only thing that matters, is to solve this world's fundamental problem—the root of Curses."
Toho Hiroshi's voice was exceptionally clear in the shattered wind, every word carrying a weight of ten thousand jun, striking Yuki Tsukumo's heart.
"Tengen is not as selfless and great as you perceive."
He spoke slowly, his Rinnegan seemingly piercing through time and space to see the thousand-year layout. "Her Barrier techniques have indeed provided convenience to the Jujutsu World, but this 'convenience' comes at a price—through the Barriers, she invisibly monitors and even, to a certain extent, guides the direction of the entire Jujutsu World."
"She is the maintainer of the rules, but also the embodiment of the rules—a living'system' with its own will."
Yuki Tsukumo's breath hitched. She had had this suspicion before, but hearing it stated so definitively by Toho Hiroshi still sent a chill down her spine.
"Even though I have now become the administrator of the 'Culling Game' and have taken over part of the Barrier authority, there is one supreme command originating from Tengen's source that I cannot overwrite or change."
At Toho Hiroshi's fingertips, a wisp of dark Cursed Energy swirled, pointing toward the restless Gedo Statue below. "That is the ultimate purpose of the 'Culling Game'—to promote Tengen's own 'evolution'."
"Evolution?"
Yuki Tsukumo murmured.
"Correct. A thousand years of assimilation has left her unsatisfied with merely 'maintaining'. She craves to go further, to become a more perfect, more eternal existence. This, in itself, does not conflict with Kenjaku's goals to a certain extent."
Toho Hiroshi's speaking pace was not fast, but it was like a blunt knife, slowly dissecting the bloody truth.
"Kenjaku has been planning for a thousand years. His ultimate goal is to use the massive energy and soul traits filtered out by the 'Culling Game' to force the assimilation of Tengen with one hundred million specifically selected humans."
"Guess what the result will be?"
Yuki Tsukumo's pupils suddenly constricted; a terrifying conjecture surfaced in her mind, leaving her body ice-cold.
"Not a simple expansion of the Barrier, but..."
Her voice carried a trace of trembling.
"But the creation of an unprecedented'Super Cursed Spirit'—one that fuses Tengen's thousand years of wisdom, the negative emotions and soul energy of one hundred million people, and possesses self-awareness and near-infinite growth potential."
Toho Hiroshi coldly pronounced that possibility.
"An ultimate calamity that, once born, is destined to devour the entire planet, turning all life into its nourishment, and potentially breaking through the world's Barriers to head toward the sea of stars."
This concept was far more insane and desperate than the "Infinite Tsukuyomi".
The Infinite Tsukuyomi at least provided a false peace, whereas this plan would bring about complete, physical destruction and an end.
"Tengen, how could she allow..."
Yuki Tsukumo felt a wave of dizziness.
"She might have been unwilling at first, but under the instinct of evolution and Kenjaku's inducement, her will has long been subtly altered. Or rather, she believes this is the only path to a 'higher dimension'."
"Sacrificing one hundred million people, or even all of humanity, to achieve her own 'ascension'."
Toho Hiroshi's tone carried a hint of sarcasm. "It's ironic, isn't it? The existence regarded as a guardian deity ultimately becomes the source of destruction."
He looked at Yuki Tsukumo, his eyes becoming sharp.
"And everything I did before—collecting Special Grade Cursed Objects, gathering Curse Users, causing global panic, pushing the Culling Game, and even going so far as to play the role of a world-destroying demon—was for one purpose: to possess enough power to instantly annihilate it the moment Kenjaku successfully initiates the final assimilation and that Super Cursed Spirit is born!"
"The massive Cursed Energy absorbed by the Gedo Statue, the resurrection of the Ten-Tails, and the God-like Power after merging with me."
"All of this is preparation for that moment!"
Yuki Tsukumo was completely stunned; she opened her mouth, but could not make a sound.
So... so this was the truth?
The Eye of the Moon was a facade, the declaration of world destruction was a disguise; all his madness and obsession were to accumulate power to confront an ultimate threat hidden behind the scenes—one that was more terrifying and concerned the survival of all humanity?
"Wh-why?"
She struggled to find her voice. "Why not tell Satoru Gojo? Why not tell everyone? We could have together..."
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