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Chapter 19 - Chapter 19: Failure to Amuse

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Sukuna's maniacal laughter exploded from the center of the churning black Cursed Energy, like the roar of a hellish demon:

"Hahahahahaha, arrogant, white-haired mongrel!!! This King will carve you into tiny pieces!!!"

The terrifying sense of pressure was like a landslide and a tidal wave. Higuruma Hiromi, Nanami Kento, Itadori Yuji, and the Angel Kurusu Hana were instantly drenched in cold sweat, their hearts seemingly clenched by Sukuna's boundless, malicious Cursed Energy.

Chen Tian tilted his head, his gaze sweeping over Gojo Satoru: "Aren't you going to take your student and colleagues away from here?"

Gojo Satoru raised an eyebrow, a grin on his lips: "You're right."

His figure instantly vanished, reappearing next to Yuji and Hana. He gave a brief order to Nanami and the barely-standing Higuruma:

"Get away from here!"

Before his voice faded, space twisted. Gojo Satoru, taking Yuji and Hana with him, disappeared on the spot.

Nanami and Higuruma exchanged a glance. Without the slightest hesitation, their Cursed Energy flared, and they became two streaks of afterimages, sprinting toward the distance at maximum speed!

Chen Tian's gaze relocked onto the boiling core of the curse.

"Are you done yet?"

His response was Sukuna's furious roar and a Cursed Energy implosion powerful enough to crush space!

"Shut up! I'll cut you down!"

"Domain Expansion—"

"Malevolent Shrine!!!"

Heaven and earth warped! The familiar, absurd shrine, the bone altar, and the endless sea of blood instantly replaced the ruins! The rule of slicing filled every inch of space!

Chen Tian stood still, yet to move. This time, however, he slightly closed his eyes.

His skin sensed the space's intrinsic "slicing sensation." His soul analyzed the strength of the "sure-hit," "defense-ignoring" rule.

Compared to the Domain in Shibuya… it was more refined, more ferocious, and more… complete.

The true fangs of the King of Curses.

Sukuna's roar amplified infinitely within the Domain! Without any gesture, the ubiquitous slashes had already arrived!

A cold glint that slashed through space, a frigid edge that tore through time—Dismantle! Cleave!

Countless slashes ignored distance and process, directly acting upon Chen Tian, aiming to mince him and the space itself into formless dust!

In those pitch-black pupils, there was not the slightest ripple of desperation; instead, they seemed to hold a hint of… uninterest.

The moment the slashes, capable of instantly annihilating any living thing billions of times over, reached his body—

A crisp sound of steel, like the friction of dragon scales, tore through all the noise within the Domain!

The Yamato unsheathed!

"It's acceptable," Chen Tian said, the Yamato tracing a spectral blue afterimage in the air.

The instant the blade swung, the entire arm and the sword disappeared from sight—this was sheer physical speed breaking the limits of retinal capture!

Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!

Countless intersecting blades of light suddenly flared within the Domain, each accurately intercepting Sukuna's slashes.

Blinding sparks erupted where the blades met, weaving a brilliant, star-like net within the sea of blood Domain.

Unlike the crushing dominance seen in Shibuya, this time Sukuna's Domain merely trembled violently; cracks appeared in the shrine's pillars, but it did not collapse.

"Mongrel!" Sukuna's four scarlet pupils contracted simultaneously. The grin on his face suddenly stretched back to his ears: "Did you think this was still the time for an easy hack-and-slash?!"

All four of his arms moved simultaneously—two maintained the Domain hand seal, and the other two rapidly shifted the Ten Shadows Technique hand seals. Cursed Energy solidified into physical black lightning at his fingertips!

"Tame! Shake-Shake!"

A triple shadow rose from the sea of blood.

Three towering Mahoraga rose from Sukuna's shadow.

"Triple adaptation." Sukuna licked his fangs with a cruel grin. "I will make you watch in despair as your slashes become useless!"

The central Mahoraga fiercely stomped the ground!

As the sound of its massive body erupting from the ground faded, it had already appeared before Chen Tian, raising the Sword of Extermination to cleave down.

Facing the irresistible cleave, Chen Tian merely shifted his body slightly to the side, the blade falling past his body.

The moment he shifted, the second Sword of Extermination was already thrusting at his back. Chen Tian again slid his foot slightly backward, dodging the tip of the blade.

As he evaded the second attack, the third Sword of Extermination sliced up diagonally from below.

Chen Tian raised his foot and gently delivered a kick toward the diagonally slicing Sword of Extermination. The seemingly light, strengthless kick nevertheless sent the approaching blade, along with Mahoraga three, flying backward.

Chen Tian's evasive movements sounded complicated.

However, all these actions were completed within a single second.

The three Mahoraga gave Chen Tian no time to breathe. Their offensive was like a relentless tide, without any pause.

Mahoraga one raised the Sword of Extermination high above its head and chopped down with massive force, the blade tearing through the air with a sharp whistle.

Mahoraga two crouched low, its Sword of Extermination skimming the ground like a black bolt of lightning, thrusting straight at Chen Tian's ankle.

Mahoraga three, positioned on the flank, lunged diagonally, its longsword stabbing at a tricky angle toward Chen Tian's vital point at the waist.

The three attacks were coordinated seamlessly, compressing Chen Tian's space for evasion to the absolute limit.

Chen Tian's eyes narrowed slightly, but his posture was as light and graceful as a willow in the wind.

He simply toe-pointed the sea of blood, his body rotating naturally, much like an elegant dancer pirouetting.

During the rotation, his left hand casually traced an arc in the air. The Yamato followed closely, dragging a spectral blue blade light that effortlessly sliced through the invisible slashes whistling in from Sukuna's Domain.

The moment those slashes touched the blade light, they instantly vanished like ice melting under the sun, leaving only scattered Cursed Energy fragments.

Facing Mahoraga's fierce triple assault, Chen Tian used the residual momentum of his spin, his right foot lightly hooking the air, the tip of his shoe accurately kicking the wrist of the Mahoraga above him.

This seemingly gentle kick contained astonishing power. Mahoraga's thick arm was violently jerked, and the Sword of Extermination was thrown off course, chopping into the ground next to him and splashing a large amount of blood-red water.

Simultaneously, Chen Tian used this reaction force to dart sideways several meters like an arrow leaving the bow, easily dodging Mahoraga three's assassination attempt.

As for the Sword of Extermination thrusting at his ankle from below, Chen Tian merely lifted his leg slightly. The blade zipped past the sole of his shoe, not even grazing him.

The maniacal grin remained on Sukuna's face, but a flicker of tremor passed through the depths of his pupils.

Mahoraga was supposed to tear apart the opponent's rhythm, force a counterattack, and forcibly adapt to Chen Tian's slashes!

But Chen Tian… was too bizarre!

Facing the brutal pincer attack of three top-tier Shikigami and the seamless Domain slashes, he acted as if he were strolling in his own backyard! His evasion was precise to the millimeter, his parries effortless, and he was even… only wielding the sword one-handed?

Slashes? Mahoraga? In his eyes, they were probably not even worth being called a circus trick!

This wasn't a fight; it was more like… toying with them!

A furious growl erupted! The two hands maintaining the Domain seal remained motionless, but the two hands that had summoned Mahoraga suddenly shifted! Blinding Cursed Energy flames instantly compressed and formed in his palms!

Two streams of fire arrows, condensed like lava and exceeding the speed of sound, tore through the air!

Their trajectories were tricky, locking down Chen Tian's evasion space! One arrow aimed straight for his brow, and the other sealed off his retreat!

The timing was vicious, precisely hitting the instant gap when Chen Tian had just shifted sideways to avoid Mahoraga's sweep and the Yamato had parried a lateral slash!

Fast! Vicious! Absolute!

Domain pressure, Mahoraga containment, and flame sniping! A triple instant kill!

Chen Tian seemed to have nowhere to dodge! He had just swung his sword to deflect a barrage of slashes, his posture momentarily paused!

The savage grin on Sukuna's face nearly split to his ears—I got him!

A deafening metallic explosion rang out!

The deep-colored scabbard of the Yamato, at some point, had been placed horizontally in front of Chen Tian!

It was so fast that it didn't even leave an afterimage! The deadly flame arrow on the left was precisely knocked away by the scabbard, exploding into a shower of fiery sparks!

At the same time, Chen Tian's body performed a movement that was physically almost impossible—using his heel as an axis, his entire body folded backward against the laws of inertia like weightless willow down!

The hot flame blast whistled past his nose! The second arrow missed, exploding in the sea of blood behind him in a column of fire that shot skyward!

In the instant he bent backward, his sword-wielding right hand didn't even pause! He flicked his wrist, and the spectral blue blade light slashed back upward!

The two Domain slashes attacking from his blind spot were shattered instantly!

Flowing water! Seamless!

Parry, dodge, slash!

Three completely different reactions were perfectly synchronized in the flash of a moment! As if practiced a million times!

The savage grin on Sukuna's face completely froze.

"This is getting… boring."

Chen Tian spoke, his voice flat as he sidestepped Mahoraga one's ferocious cleave.

Before his words faded, his body flipped backward! In the middle of the backflip, his left hand had already formed a sword-finger, held vertically before his chest.

"Summoned Swords."

He muttered the name. Without warning!

Nine longswords, constructed of pure spectral blue light, materialized around Chen Tian's body, quietly hovering, their tips pointed at the target.

The nine blue lights suddenly vanished! As if they had never existed.

The next second—

Pshh! Pshh! Pshh!

The sound of flesh being pierced rang out!

The three ferociously attacking Mahoraga suddenly froze in their tracks!

The tips of spectral blue light swords suddenly jutted out from their chests, necks, and heads!

There was no tearing process of penetrating the wound. These deadly blades seemed to have "grown" directly out of their thick Cursed Energy armor and bodies from the inside!

The sound of the slashes raging within the Domain seemed to halt for an instant.

The shock on Sukuna's face instantly replaced his frozen expression. His four scarlet pupils stared intently at the three Mahoraga pierced from the inside by light swords.

Ineffective! Mahoraga's near-absolute rule of "adaptation" didn't even have time to activate against the opponent's bizarre spatial sword technique!

The three massive figures twitched violently. Their powerful bodies instantly disintegrated, exploding into three huge fireworks of blood and flesh within the sea of blood Domain, like balloons that had been popped!

The summoned swords dissipated.

Chen Tian landed lightly, the Yamato casually pointing down. The spectral blue blade light reflected on his indifferent face.

The Domain slashes whistled in again, only to be casually deflected and shattered by a wave of his sword, sparks flying.

He raised his eyes toward the demon figure in front of the shrine.

"Is that all? It seems you still fail to amuse me."

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