Curse Return: Swordsmith Start

Chapter 74 Reap What You Sow (Fourth Update)

Xia Youjie's pupils contracted slightly as he sensed the danger of being targeted.

It was a lock-on, aimed at by countless guns simultaneously, with no escape.

The information provided by the Yue people came to mind.

"The activation condition for this spell should be a gunshot, extremely fast and powerful, capable of appearing out of thin air at close range. From its appearance to its impact, the reaction time left for a person is approximately 0.5 seconds."

Bang bang bang bang bang bang—

Countless gunshots rang out simultaneously.

The sound was so loud that the entire sewer system trembled. The walls cracked, the pipes collapsed, and sewage backed up.

The bullets rained down like a storm, dense and overwhelming, leaving nowhere to hide.

Faced with a bullet that suddenly appeared less than half a meter behind his head, blocking his escape route, Xia Youjie did not dodge.

He simply raised his hand.

A gigantic figure appeared out of thin air in front of him.

It was a huge, heavy cursed spirit, like a wall, its body covered with layers upon layers of scales, each scale as thick as a palm.

The bullet hit it.

Ding ding ding ding—

Sparks flew and scales shattered.

The cursed spirit let out a painful roar, but it did nothing else, shielding Xia Youjie tightly beneath its body and taking the brunt of every bullet with its own.

One second, two seconds.

Ten seconds later, the gunfire finally stopped.

The cursed spirit's body was riddled with holes; it swayed for a moment, then collapsed with a thud.

Xia Youjie looked down.

"Thanks for your hard work."

The cursed spirit disappeared.

Then he looked up at the impeachment.

"That's incredibly powerful," he said. "That one, while not quite as tough as the Rainbow Dragon, was almost as tough. It's heartbreaking to see it killed like that."

The impeachment remained silent.

The gun barrels were still glowing, but the light had dimmed considerably. It seemed that the previous attack had taken a heavy toll on them.

Before the real person could speak, the gun barrels began to spin again.

No longer targeting Xia Youjie.

It is aimed at—all around.

Xia Youjie, who was preparing to defend, raised an eyebrow.

What does it want to do?

The next moment, when the sound of gunfire rang out again, he understood.

Those gun barrels weren't pointed at him, but at—the entire sewer system.

"not good."

Realizing the danger, Xia Youjie suddenly raised his hand, and countless cursed spirits appeared out of thin air behind him, rushing towards the impeachment.

But it was too late.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Gunshots rang out again, as if war had suddenly broken out.

Walls, ceiling, floor, load-bearing columns.

The entire sewer system began to tremble, cracks spread like a spider web, sewage gushed from the ruptured pipes, steel bars twisted, and concrete crumbled with a bang—

The ground collapsed.

Countless tons of gravel and soil poured down, instantly filling the entire underground space.

The ground above instantly caved in, and buildings, furniture, cars, and facilities all fell into the hollowed-out pit.

Smoke and dust billowed up, and the sudden accident scene brought forth a variety of sounds: collisions, shouts, cries...

Although this place is not in the city center, it is not an uninhabited area on the outskirts of the city either. There is still a large flow of people, and this incident directly caused many casualties.

The commotion successfully attracted the attention of the Yue people who had just arrived.

Several tens of seconds later.

From the ruins of the giant pit, a strange cursed spirit arm stretched out, followed by a second one. After overturning a huge stone slab that was pressing down on it, Xia Youjie, who was being protected beneath it, appeared.

The cursed spirit protected him well. Although he was covered in dirt and his monk's robe was torn in several places, he was not seriously injured and even had a smile on his face.

"Interesting." He brushed the dust off his clothes. "Quite clever."

He looked up in the direction where the two figures had disappeared.

The filth is still there; it hasn't gone far.

Just as they were about to give chase, they heard footsteps behind them.

Xia Youjie turned around.

They saw that the Yue people had arrived.

"Did you catch up?" Yue asked.

"Yeah," he said, "but that guy was smart; he just blew up the sewers."

Yue Ren glanced at the surrounding ruins, took out his phone, and sent a message and coordinates to Yi Dizhi.

"Chase?"

"Chase."

The two figures vanished from the spot at the same time.

A forest far from the city.

The gun-wielding spirit was carrying the real person as they ran wildly, while the latter was panting heavily, but his expression remained extremely excited.

"Hahaha, impeachment...faster..."

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The weapon spirit did not reply, but simply increased its speed as much as possible as the other party had instructed.

The next moment, several cursed spirits suddenly attacked from behind.

Bang bang bang—

The cursed spirit was killed by the bullet imbued with curse power, but its corpse still attacked with enormous mass.

The gun-wielding spirit was forced to stop.

"You two, why are you in such a hurry?"

Xia Youjie's figure emerged from the darkness.

The real person was still happy, but their expression turned fierce, and they seemed to be gritting their teeth.

"They're really chasing us relentlessly. Are they really that reluctant to let us go?"

Just as he was about to help his partner, he noticed that there was another person nearby.

The Yue man stood there, hands in his pockets, looking at himself and the cursed spirit beside him that resembled a creation fused with firearms.

His eyes were calm, yet they radiated a killing intent that the two cursed spirits could clearly sense.

The pupils of a real person contract.

Looking at that figure, it seemed to recall the swords that had just fallen from the sky, the feeling of being pinned to the ground, and the despair of having no way to escape.

"Kawasaki Echijin..." it murmured.

The Yue people looked at it.

"I've said it before, your life has no value anymore, and my advice is to follow your destiny."

"Hahaha, do I really have such a fate? I didn't even know that."

He appeared cheerful on the surface, but inside he was so angry he wanted to curse. This guy was like a persistent ghost.

The person beside him remained silent.

But those gun barrels reappeared, aimed at the Vietnamese.

This finally led the latter to focus their attention on this creepy guy.

Is this the new variable? Firearms and weapons, according to their role in the tribe, are somewhat similar to him. This guy gives the Yue people the feeling of being a weapon, something that is absolutely deadly as long as there is a user. Perhaps he has a very good affinity with this guy.

Moreover, judging from the aura it exudes, this thing seems to be a "cursed fetus." We can't let it continue to develop, or it will definitely cause a lot of trouble.

This was Yue Ren's sixth sense. Judging from the results of their recent contact, this guy was definitely a deadly weapon against ordinary people and low-level sorcerers.

The Yue people, having made up their minds, were filled with murderous intent.

On the other side, Impeachment's body also suddenly began to glow.

The gun barrels lit up simultaneously, so brightly lit they were blinding, like countless tiny suns.

The real person's eyes widened.

"Impeach! You!"

Gunshots rang out.

Countless bullet comments rained down from the sky, completely covering the area within a hundred meters of where the two were located.

The Yue people realized something was wrong; these weren't bullets, but... artillery shells!

"Watch out for an explosion!"

The moment the last syllable was uttered, countless explosions instantly engulfed the location where Yue Ren and Xia Youjie were standing.

The violent explosion made the forest seem as if the sun had suddenly risen, illuminating the world for a moment and drawing the attention of residents in the nearby city.

Almost at the same moment the explosion occurred, the gun spirit grabbed the real person beside it and fled again.

But he was forced to stop again after only a few hundred meters.

Because there was a person standing in front of me.

Yue people.

He stood in the path where the two cursed spirits were fleeing, holding the Abyss Rainbow in his hand.

"Where do you want to go?"

The eyelet in the gun barrel contracts.

The person being held turned around in shock.

Xia Youjie had just emerged from the flames, protected by his cursed spirit, which was on the verge of death, while he himself had some burns.

On the other hand, the area where the impeached Vietnamese were covered by the same firepower had a much smaller explosion effect, especially in the center, where the ground was hardly damaged at all.

How is this possible...? How did he do that?

But no one answered it, and Xia Youjie had already caught up and was heading this way.

Caught in a pincer movement, with no way to escape.

The real person laughed.

That smile was strange—it contained despair, madness, and an inexplicable excitement.

(The real person) silently patted the impeachment that was holding it, and the latter realized what was happening.

"Okay," he said, "then let's do it."

In coordination with its movements, the cursed spirit named Impeachment once again used a barrage of bullets. While the two made defensive moves, the real person took the opportunity to form hand seals.

"Domain - Expand".

"Self-isolation and roundabout wrapping"

In that instant, the surrounding air began to distort, some kind of strange power was taking shape, and the surroundings suddenly became pitch black, followed by countless palms covering the entire space.

The two men, busy defending against bullet attacks, were inevitably caught by this move.

"Oh dear... things seem to be getting worse."

Xia Youjie's expression turned serious. The strength of these two cursed spirits was not to be underestimated. One of them had been able to suppress him until now, and the other had actually learned "Domain Expansion". Moreover, if that special technique was really as Yue Ren said, this might be a bad sign.

Thinking of this, he subconsciously glanced at the Yue people who had also been pulled in, and after seeing that the other party's expression had not changed at all, he was slightly taken aback, and then, unsurprisingly, revealed a familiar smile.

Looks like this little trouble is nothing to the "tall guy" here. Well then, let me see your performance...

The master of the domain, the real person, sneered.

As it fled, Impeachment was quietly helping it recover its magical power, and its injuries had been healed. Now it was finally able to use the trump card that had been interrupted the first time it was used.

Because it was interrupted before it could be used, there was no spell meltdown. As long as there is enough spell power, it can be used again.

As it predicted, it successfully expanded its territory once again. Now it had to gamble on the opponent's reaction speed. If it could inflict a fatal wound on one of them, it would find a breakthrough...

The opponent shouldn't be able to crush its domain instantly with their own domain, like that Gojo Satoru.

Hahaha, I won this round.

However, when it looked up at the Yue people, it found that the other party's expression did not show the solemnity and panic it had expected, but rather a strange look.

It's like I was waiting for you to unleash a powerful attack, but instead you just crashed headfirst into a tree next to you and died.

Why...?

The question was answered the next moment.

The Yue man narrowed his eyes slightly.

Then he raised his hand and lightly tapped the ground with his longsword.

The next moment, amidst the vivid, bewildered expressions of the real people, the world changed.

"Wu Yuan Sword Technique"

The world instantly transformed into a scorching wasteland belonging to the blacksmith.

The barrier that the real person had just set up instantly lost contact. It was like a precision electrical appliance that had just been turned on being thrown into water. The real person, whose brain had short-circuited, immediately started bleeding from all seven orifices. The part of the brain responsible for setting up the barrier was instantly burned.

"Technical circuit breaker"

This is a protective mechanism that temporarily prevents the use of spells originally imprinted in the body when the caster's domain is broken or their spell power is overloaded.

This is often when the caster is most vulnerable, because even if they still have magical power, they can't use it for anything and can only use their physical body to attack.

Completely bewildered by what had happened, coupled with the side effect of "overheating" part of his brain, he was temporarily rendered an idiot.

The domain was forcibly interrupted, and the spell was temporarily rendered useless.

He knelt on the ground, coughing up large amounts of blood, as if all his strength had been drained away.

Countless swords and blades soared into the air, suppressing the impeachment that had also been pulled into the barrier on the other side.

Yue Ren slowly walked up to the real person, looked down at the crippled creature, and sighed.

Why did you have to use a domain to deal with the Yue people? Normally, using some spells would have been better than using a domain first. Now look what happened, you've been completely defeated.

While there's the issue of a lack of transparency in information, it has to be said that this guy is incredibly reckless. It's the same in the original story; of all things, he had to make contact with Itadori's soul the first time he used his domain, and ended up almost getting killed by the old man with a single blow. He just never learns his lesson.

Even our precious pot knows that randomly deploying a domain in high-level battles is extremely dangerous. This guy dared to use the domain deployment as a trump card without knowing the exact strength of Yue Ren and the other two. No wonder it ended up in this state.

"So, this is your domain? You shattered this guy's domain in an instant. You're really on par with him."

Xia Youjie strolled over leisurely, admiring the unique environment of the surrounding area while subtly observing the gun-wielding spirits being bombarded by countless weapons not far away.

Of course, he also took action, releasing hundreds and thousands of cursed spirits to assist the weapons in fighting another cursed spirit.

To be honest, the sight of modern firearms clashing with ancient swords was indeed a spectacle, and it broadened his horizons.

His keen observation skills also allowed him to discover the differences in the Yue people's territory.

Weakening the guaranteed hit effect in exchange for overwhelming dominance in area-of-effect combat? It's a clever idea, but given that it's an offensive area-of-effect attack, is weakening the guaranteed hit really worthwhile...?

However, the fact that he can already use the domain at this age is already terrifying; it's truly astonishing.

Looking at the scattered swords and blades that hadn't hit the cursed spirit, Xia Youjie quickly analyzed some things based on the available information.

He felt a little ashamed. The other person was Gojo Satoru's student, making him his junior in terms of seniority. Yet, the other person had mastered "Domain Deployment," the ultimate technique for mages, while he himself was still stuck in the same place...