Chapter 95: Summer Oil and a Chance

Jiang Lai paused for a moment when he heard the name "Summer Oil". He then understood what he was thinking. Xiu Ji's next words confirmed his guess:

"Mr. Geta is a cursed spirit operator and a top-class sorcerer, so he is guarding the [door] of the altar of the Heian-kyo temple. But there are too many cursed spirits, so even so, he can't stop them all..."

Judging from the last name of Getsuyu and the setting of being a cursed spirit operator, and from the setting of reincarnation in the cursed world, this should be Getsuyu Kei from a thousand years ago.

Jiang Lai thought further. In addition, he didn't know if the boy who was now a master of ten kinds of shadow magic was still using the name "Xiu Ji" that he casually called at that time. It was possible that the real name he got from his parents was "Hui".

In fact, if we look at the real history of Japan, the common people of this era did not have surnames. Only the nobles had surnames, and their number was limited.

But the purpose of Curse Return to the World is probably to highlight the concept of "return", so the surname is not a thing, and most people have surnames just like they would a thousand years later.

Jiang Lai's thoughts were distracted for only a moment, and he quickly regained his focus and replied, "Let's go to the [door] now."

The healed sorcerer returned to the battlefield, and Shuji led Jiang Lai across the ruins of Heian-kyō Castle to the location of the [Gate].

On the way, Jiang Lai used the space magic that leapt at his fingertips to exorcise many cursed spirits.

However, time was running out and he didn't have time to perform the time spell on everyone one by one, so he only restored a few dying people and sent the rest to the people around them to the doctor who mastered the reverse spell output - that is, the Ieiri Shoko from a thousand years ago.

While sporadically performing the time magic, Jiang Lai once again felt a faint but palpable fatigue. He couldn't help but feel a little uneasy.

If he felt tired from the treatment just now, he could still understand it. After all, a cultivator who mastered ten kinds of shadow magic would be an important figure who would leave a mark on the track of history.

But the few people being cured now were all passers-by in the crowd, ordinary sorcerers and civilians thousands of years ago. Why would they also feel a faint but clear sense of fatigue even if their time was reversed?

Is it from a collective effect? ​​Jiang Lai thought. The number of Gojo people in Heian-kyō Castle would have been greatly reduced after this incident, and this tragedy was an event with a significant impact overall?

This could be the case. Jiang Lai briefly sorted out the reasons in his mind. But there might be other reasons besides this.

The tragedy of Heian-kyo before his eyes was just like the Shibuya Incident in the original novel, with countless casualties. When Gojo Satoru, who was guarding the gate outside the city, returned and saw the scene before him, he would surely reach some kind of emotional peak.

However, no matter what, life is an individual matter. We cannot allow countless living people to die just to highlight the cruelty of the tragedy.

Death is not a simple number, but a weight that can be accurately felt on each individual person.

Thoughts were running through his mind, and Jiang Lai controlled the movements of the technique accurately. He extended the space in parallel and then gathered and contracted it. He used the power of instant contraction to protect the crowd, and then exorcised the group of cursed spirits in an area!

The destruction of Heian-kyō Castle was so severe that it was almost impossible to identify its location through the wreckage of surrounding buildings.

Xiu Ji released the two black and white jade dogs, which ran ahead towards the direction of the temple altar.

Before approaching the temple, I could already feel the violent fluctuations of cursed energy in the air. Countless cursed spirits emerged from there continuously, as if they were coming out of a nest.

After traveling around Heian-kyō for most of the time, Jiang Lai had gradually understood what Xiu Ji meant by "there are too many cursed spirits and they are too strong."

Logically speaking, even during the heyday of cursed power a thousand years ago, the number of special-grade cursed spirits shouldn't be so large, as if they had evolved in a cluster.

But this can also explain why there were so many casualties in Heian-kyō, where there were so many sorcerers stationed - the enemy was simply too powerful and appeared so suddenly.

The outermost wall of the temple area was half collapsed, and an old tree that had been there for who knows how many years had broken in half, with the broken ends being exceptionally neat, as if it had been affected by a powerful cursed blade.

Jiang Lai's eyes fell on the location where the tree wheel appeared, and he keenly sensed that this residual cursed power was somewhat familiar.

At this moment, a frog-shaped cursed spirit suddenly jumped out from behind the wall! Jiang Lai subconsciously took an attacking stance, and then realized that the cursed spirit said someone -

The white jade dog beside him barked. Xiu Ji raised his hand and placed it on the jade dog's head. Then he called out hesitantly, "...Kusaki?"

The frog cursed spirit opened its mouth wide, and a brown-haired girl leaned out and struggled to free herself from the frog's mouth.

Because there were no multi-color hair dyes in the Heian-kyo era, the hair color of Kugizaki No Rose a thousand years ago was natural brown, not the bright orange color that people dye their hair themselves like today.

She jumped out of the frog curse spirit's mouth, wiped her scattered hair, raised her head and spoke.

"Didn't you go to the city gate to provide support? Why are you here? Wait, what's that next to you?" The girl spoke in a bright voice. Her eyes fell on the dark blue figure with a misty face, and her expression showed confusion and a little vigilance.

"...Yes, a friend of Gojo-sensei." Shuji paused and replied, "One of our own."

"Gojo-sensei's friend?" The girl raised her eyebrows, her expression looking even more surprised.

Xiu Ji did not explain too much here, and asked the key point: "Where are you going?"

"All the sorcerers near the door were sent out by Mr. Geta, including me." The girl exhaled and explained quickly, "There were suddenly two more guys on the scene. Mr. Geta judged that the situation was dangerous and not something we could get involved in, so he escorted us out first."

"...Two more guys?" Xiu Ji was a little surprised.

Jiang Lai, who had been quiet all this time, suddenly spoke up: "A man with four arms and a boy with a short haircut who uses ice-type magic, right?"

"Hey, how do you know?" The girl widened her eyes slightly and continued, "Those two guys must be difficult to deal with. I've heard of the title of the Curse King."

At this moment, Xiu Ji also knew who the two extra people were: "Why are they here?!"

"I judged it based on the residual curse power." Jiang Lai first answered the question asked by Kugizaki No Rose a thousand years ago, and then said, "As for the reason why they came here - probably because of a deal."

"...Transaction?" The boy and girl were unable to react for a moment.

"The incident in Heian-kyō was not an accident, but a man-made one." Jiang Lai looked serious and raised his voice, "You go first, evacuate the crowd away from the temple, and try to find a breakthrough point in the barrier so that everyone can evacuate."

The brown-haired girl and the black-haired boy were stunned for a moment, but then they quickly reacted. They understood some of the hidden meanings in a flash. There was no further discussion at this moment, and they all nodded and replied: "Okay."

Jiang Lai said no more and did not stay any longer. He used his magic to jump over the wall and into the temple.

The open-air circular brick-paved area in the center of the temple is the sacrificial altar of the Heian capital.

The light at night was very dim, and the overwhelming cursed spirits blocked the moonlight, making the visible range extremely narrow. Jiang Lai squinted his eyes, paving the way with magic while looking far away.

After analyzing that the cursed blade that cut through the tree came from Ryomen Sukuna, his brain started to work quickly.

Jiang Lai naturally never believed what Ryoumen Sukuna said before, that they would simply stay in the suburbs to enjoy the show, so it was not a big surprise to hear the news from him now.

However, he was not quite sure what the specific purpose of Ryomen Sukuna's appearance here was... Could it be that Nose's transaction requirement was that Ryomen Sukuna kill Geto who lived a thousand years ago and bring the body back?

Not really. This layout and the occupation of the body is really too eye-catching, unlike the modern chapter a thousand years later that caught people off guard.

Jiang Lai's speed did not slow down at all as his thoughts raced through his mind. He quickly exorcised the cursed spirits that attacked him from the side, used space magic to block the cursed blades flying in the air, and then landed steadily on the edge of the altar!

In the center of the altar, a pitch-black rectangular [door] hung in the air like a black hole, and countless cursed spirits emerged from it and ran in all directions.

On the altar, the man with four arms was hitting each other back and forth with the young man with black hair and a bun.

The Curse Spirit Operator controlled and summoned special-grade Curse Spirits to launch continuous attacks, but they were almost all blocked by the guy with black stripes all over his body.

During the Heian-kyo period, Ryomen Sukuna was very powerful, and historical records state that "he was a guy that countless sorcerers could not kill even if they worked together."

Although Geto Suguru was a top-grade magician a thousand years ago, he was no match for his opponent, and the situation was inevitably a bit embarrassing at the moment.

Moreover, beside him, there is Reimei who possesses power beyond that of a level 1 sorcerer and uses the Ice Freezing Technique from time to time.

After dodging Rimei's ice-based attack once again, Geto Suguru took a half step back. Facing the sharp cursed blades of Sukuna that were crisscrossing from both sides, he mobilized the cursed spirits that were used as meat shields to block in front of him.

However, the cursed spirit was not hit by Sukuna's cursed blade. Because there was a space barrier that quickly blocked the attack in advance, and the cursed blade and the air collided with each other, making a sharp friction sound!

"——Two against one, isn't that a bit unfair?" A voice sounded from the side.

"......?!" Xia Yu looked to the side and saw a black-haired man whose face could not be seen walking slowly from the edge of the altar.

Seeing the navy blue figure, Rimei showed an expression of subtle surprise. He paused for a moment, but still made an attacking move.

Ryoumen Sukuna, who was also at the scene, tutted his tongue, narrowed his scarlet eyes, and said in a long tone: "You, you actually came here - I thought you would reminisce about the past with Rokugan for a while."

So the other party originally wanted to hold back himself and Gojo? Jiang Lai raised his eyebrows slightly.

Ryomen Sukuna didn't know that he had originally planned to let Nagaha Gojo return to Heian-kyo. He probably thought that the two people who had been reunited after a long separation would reminisce on the spot and would not be distracted to notice the events in Heian-kyo.

Hearing the keyword "Six Eyes" related to close friends, Kagome Jie's narrow eyes focused. He glanced at the man, but could not determine whether he was a friend or an enemy.

After all, the word "narrative" has more than one meaning, especially when it comes from Ryomen Sukuna's mouth.

But then, in the next second, his shaky guess was confirmed by pressing a confirmation button somewhere -

Ryomen Sukuna suddenly took the initiative and his moves suddenly became more powerful. The dark blue figure was agile, dodging the frontal blade, and flicked his fingers to counterattack the powerful cursed air cut!

The next moment, Rimei also used an ice-based technique, and Geto Suguru reacted quickly by controlling the special-grade cursed spirits to respond!

The two-on-two battle begins immediately!

There were constant explosions and sounds of breaking through the air, and various spells such as flames, ice crystals, and cursed blades intertwined. The altar was blasted into pieces by the continuous spell power of several people, revealing the original ground underneath.

Even the cursed spirits nearby were affected and were exorcised amidst their wailing.

Only the [door] that was suspended in the air like a black hole was not affected at all, and all the cursed attacks directed at it were dissolved and swallowed up silently.

Jiang Lai attacked without mercy, and he did not hold back on his attack because the opponent's moves were also fierce.

He was not worried about the follow-up of this battle. After all, he had used the space technique to send the token given by Xiu Ji to the outskirts of Changfa Gojo not long ago. He thought that the other party would quickly return after solving the unknown "door" in the outskirts.

Their fight would then be three against two, and with Rokuyan on the scene, the balance would tip to one side.

Thinking in his mind, Jiang Lai waved his sleeves again and swung out a condensed and powerful space fan.

The space fan carrying heavy cursed energy was like a rising tsunami wave. The two Sukuna raised their arms to block it, but slid more than ten meters away under the impact wave and retreated into the battle between Geto Suguru and Ume at the [door].

The defeated Ryomensu snorted, raised his hands and gestured as if to deploy the domain [Subdue Demons and Defeat the Chef].

Jiang Lai immediately became alert, and also gathered his aura and clasped his hands together, preparing to use his own domain to break the opponent's domain.

However, the next second, the opponent did not deploy the Demon-Subduing Chef as expected, but suddenly changed his action and attacked to the side at an extremely fast and fierce speed!

Ryoumen Sukuna suddenly pushed the young man with a ball-shaped hair who was about to respond with his domain towards the [door] not far behind!

This move was unexpected, and no one reacted immediately!

After receiving a heavy blow to the chest, Geto Xiayou suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood. He narrowed his narrow fox eyes and quickly adjusted his body in mid-air, preparing to summon the cursed spirits again to counterattack and defend.

But before he could adjust himself, the spell patterns around the [door] suddenly lit up, and the rope extending from the [door] tightly wrapped around his wrists and neck, pulling hard!

"!??"

Xia Yujie never expected that the [door] could be operated in this way. The rope was made of some unknown material and could not be escaped or destroyed. He was suddenly dragged into the black hole-like [door] in shock!

Jiang Lai, who had rushed over in three or two steps with full skill activated, had no time to stop him. His fingertips missed and he watched the other person being pulled in by the rope.

…Why does the [Gate] have these things besides transferring cursed spirits? ! What is going on? !

Jiang Lai stared at the "door" hanging in the air with wide eyes, and Ryoumen Sukuna's laughter echoed in his ears.

The other person laughed, looked at Jiang Lai with interest, and said, "Not bad, not bad, your expression is still very attractive - by the way, don't you want to know the details of the deal between me and a certain guy? That's it."

...The content of the deal is to push Geto into the door? ?

Jiang Lai's mind went blank for a moment, and he stared at the dark door in front of him with wide eyes.

At such a close distance, he finally instinctively sensed something unusual.

Some strange power lingered on the [Gate], coating every cursed spirit that rushed out of the [Gate], thereby greatly enhancing their strength.

Although this power is unfamiliar, I can instinctively sense that this [door]... has some power of [existence].

Jiang Lai's heart was stagnant.

Among the known [existences], there is only one power that he is not familiar with - that is the godhead of the good side of [Death] that he has never seen, who died prematurely thousands of years ago and is most likely currently in the hands of Brain Flower.

Similar to the future special cursed item Ryomen Sukuna's fingers, the divine nature and fragments of the divine nature also have the natural power to attract cursed spirits.

However, the divine power that carries the power of the world cannot be consumed and used by anyone at will. Ordinary cursed spirits and humans will explode and die if they use it alone.

But something like [the door] that comes from the world is different.

So... Brain Flower used the good part of the godhood of [Death] as some kind of energy source, and then directly installed it on the [Door]? ?