The person was chanting a curse, but their hands were wielding the black magic.

Crimson flames filled everyone's field of vision.

Like the last rays of the setting sun before it sinks below the horizon, it heralds the descent into silence.

Light and shadow danced on the broken walls and ruins, casting shifting shadows on everyone's faces. The air was thick with heat, as if even breathing could ignite the particles floating around us.

Everyone present knew what the consequences would be if that flame were shot out.

"Sky!" "Ten Shadows Technique!" "Lightning!"

The three of them, Fu and Hei, reacted almost simultaneously.

The heron suddenly ripped open a large space with its hands.

Fuhei summoned Shen'er again, and the figures of Tian and the Tyrant leaped out of the shadows like arrows released from a bow.

That ultimate physical body, known in the world of sorcery as the Heaven and Tyrant, drew a sharp arc under the pale light of day.

Before the flames are fully launched, use the Heavenly Reverse Blade to block the [Open] point.

Even though Fuhei knew that doing so might cause Tian Nihou to need to recharge again due to interfering with Su Nuo's spell, leading to his inability to handle Mo Xu Luo's uncontrolled adaptation, he had no other choice.

Lu Ziyun struggled to her feet again and charged at Su Nuo once more, her body shattered.

Everyone was desperately trying to stop the fire arrows shaped like stoves from pouring out.

However, it was all too late.

The fire arrow had already left his hand.

The light left Su Nuo's fingertips, leaving a scorching trail in the air, igniting the air wherever it passed and emitting a sizzling sound.

The streak of light was reflected in Fu Hei's dark pupils; he could see the outline of death approaching, and all his efforts about to vanish into nothingness.

But at the last moment—

They disappeared into a pure black space.

The ever-expanding, ever-devouring pure black space surrounding Su Nuo was like a gaping maw, completely isolating the fire arrow from the dust and darkness!

The dust that was about to be ignited was isolated at the other end of the space, like the wind and snow locked outside the door, never able to touch the fuse of the flame.

This sudden change in space caught everyone off guard.

It's a barrier!

"Domain Expansion—"

A clear, crisp voice came from behind Su Nuo.

Familiar and composed, with a sense of exhilaration like surviving a catastrophe.

Su Nuo quickly turned around, only to see the spirit he had personally buried!

That hairstyle, without a doubt!

"I'm still not full, Sukuna!"

Shi Liulong smiled, his expression brimming with arrogant provocation.

The space around him instantly transformed into a pure black domain barrier under the domain imprint he formed.

This keeps all dust out of the fire arrows.

"What's wrong with you?!"

Su Nuo smiled, his expression a mixture of disbelief and anger.

Because of the isolation of the domain, his long-accumulated [opening] lost its target. Those carefully accumulated dust particles, those precisely placed fuses.

The plan to kill Moxu Luo was completely disrupted by this person who should have been dead.

"Is it a reversal spell?" Su Nuo's tone revealed a hint of doubt.

You got it right!

When was that?

Su Nuo carefully recalled every detail since the start of the battle with the Dou Nuo Clan, breaking down and re-examining every point in time and every scene.

If we're talking about the strongest counter-attack damage dealer in the Dou Nuo team, it has to be the Deer in the hands of that Ten Shadows imp.

But how did Fushiguro manage to use the shikigami without his knowledge?

Or rather, when did Fushiguro ever use a shikigami in front of him?

This was the first time that Guan Niu and Nue were summoned in front of Suku Nuo after the second hearing of the chariot.

And before that...

"Before this, Fushiguro had never used a shikigami in front of me."

"It's because the shikigami is placed outside the domain to continuously heal you."

Shi Liulong leisurely combed his hair, tacitly accepting Su Nuo's answer.

"Not only that, you even moved me 200 meters away so that I could escape your domain and have a chance to return to the battlefield."

Su Nuo realized it only after the fact:

"...My charge against you is intentional assault, not murder. I should have realized that sooner."

"Exactly."

Shi Liulong responded:

"If you had killed me then, you would have faced the death penalty, the executioner's sword of the sun chariot."

Shi Liulong seemed to feel regret over the passing of the sun chariot, and a trace of sadness flashed in his eyes.

That stubborn lawyer risked his life to buy them a chance to turn the tide.

The bundle of cursed power in his hand began to take shape, ready to attack Su Nuo. The light condensed in his palm, transforming into a blazing beam of energy, aiming at the King of Curses' vital point.

"Are you out of your mind? You really think you can hold me off?" Su Nuo provoked again.

Shi Liulong ignored Su Nuo and simply poured his complex emotions into the spell-wielding bundle in his hand, as if loading a gun.

"Smoothie—"

But before he could even fully charge up his power, several slash marks appeared on his body again!

Blood splattered, flesh tore open, and the wounds that had just healed were ripped open again.

Shi Liulong's figure swayed, and the bundle of cursed power in his hand dissipated, turning into a few scattered fragments of cursed power.

Several deep, bone-revealing wounds appeared on his chest, and blood flowed down his clothes, pooling into a small puddle on the ground.

"You don't think you can beat me just because I've gotten weaker, do you?"

At this moment, Su Nuo had begun to lose his initial composure, and his face had become much more ferocious.

Without the [8], Su Nuo was indeed unable to instantly kill Shi Liulong, but a close-range mesh zero-cut still managed to slit open Shi Liulong's chest, staining that pure black space red.

Under such severe damage, the domain could not be maintained in an instant.

"As long as I kill you, I can still go out and release the [fire] again, and they will still die at my hands!"

Cracks began to appear in those pure black spaces, disintegrating like shattered glass, peeling away piece by piece to reveal the pale light of the Star Palace behind them.

Su Nuo raised his head, looking at the slowly disappearing boundary of the domain, and at the scenery of the Star Palace that reappeared in his eyes, along with the astonished Fu Hei and the others.

A sinister smile curled at the corner of his mouth, and he regained the composure and elegance of the King of Curses.

His fingertips gathered together again, forming that familiar palm gesture.

"open--"

He uttered a soft incantation, and a second flame reappeared in the Star Palace, like a newly reborn sun, once again aiming at the entire space.

They targeted the dust particles that were already exposed to the air.

This time, no one could stop him.

Just as the fire arrow was about to be released...

"Domain Expansion—"

The familiar sound rang out once again, shattering the King of Curses' composure once more.

Su Nuo's pupils suddenly contracted, and he abruptly turned around to look in the direction from which the sound came.

But then he saw the spirit of the dead that he had personally buried!

Those dead fish eyes, those eyes, without a doubt!

"Why is it that every single one of them is so hard to die!"