Although the current Ryomen Sukuna indeed only had one-twentieth of his power, as the King of Curses from a thousand years ago, even with only 5% of his strength from his prime, he was not an existence that any stinking fish or rotten shrimp could provoke.
Having fought with the jujutsu sorcerers of that era for a lifetime, in the end, it was not those people who killed him. Rather, he himself felt that that era was no longer interesting, and had a premonition that future eras would be more interesting than that time, which was why he chose to put himself to sleep, preparing to return anew in this era.
Only who could have imagined that after a thousand years had passed, although his title was still passed down through the ages, it completely lacked the deterrent feeling of crushing an era like it once did.
It had only been a few minutes since he woke up, yet unexpectedly two blind fools already wanted to test his strength.
Ryomen Sukuna's gaze fell on Gojo Satoru and Miyauchi Hikage.
Indeed, from their outward appearances, the auras of these two guys were not on the same level as that jujutsu sorcerer who struggled to fight a Grade 2 Cursed Spirit and the woman who used some special ability to fight Cursed Spirits.
They looked like they should be special-grade jujutsu sorcerers of this era.
It was just that Ryomen Sukuna, who could hardly sense any cursed energy aura from Miyauchi Hikage, was still not very familiar with the supernatural beings of this era.
He could only sense that Miyauchi Hikage seemed to possess some special power.
In the era he originally lived in, although there were indeed other supernatural beings besides jujutsu sorcerers, at least on the Japanese mainland, the number of jujutsu sorcerers was still far higher than other supernatural beings.
"My premonition was indeed not wrong, it is already a brand new era now..." Ryomen Sukuna thus revealed an intrigued expression.
His gaze returned to Miyauchi Hikage who had stepped forward.
Since they wanted to test his strength, then let him see how the special-grade combat power of this era compared to his era.
Knowing that he probably only had half a minute of combat time, Ryomen Sukuna had no intention of wasting even a little bit.
In the next moment, his figure had already disappeared from where he stood.
As for Ryomen Sukuna's sudden attack, Miyauchi Hikage did not find it strange at all.
Originally, Ryomen Sukuna was not a guy who cared about martial virtue. The purpose of his life was to do whatever he wanted, rewriting the world according to his own thoughts.
As long as he could win, he would not care what methods he used.
However, the newly resurrected Ryomen Sukuna indeed did not have any special methods now.
His abilities were pure physical strength, normally a total amount of cursed energy far more abundant than Gojo Satoru who possessed the Six Eyes, various slashes, plus high-speed recovery Reverse Cursed Technique.
Although he also used fire techniques in his fight against the special-grade Cursed Spirit Jogo, in the decisive battle with Gojo Satoru, this move did not appear at all. Obviously, these techniques were just things he casually mastered, merely moves used to stomp on noobs.
Even if he used Domain Expansion, it was only a space with guaranteed-hit slashes attached.
If the one standing in front of Miyauchi Hikage was Sukuna with ten fingers or more, then Miyauchi Hikage would probably have to take out his weapons and play seriously with Sukuna.
But facing a one-finger Sukuna, it was not that Miyauchi Hikage looked down on Sukuna, but the strength of Sukuna in this period was indeed somewhat shabby.
This speed was considered not bad for jujutsu sorcerers below special-grade, but for Miyauchi Hikage who sparred with Tohru every day, it was too slow.
For Miyauchi Hikage, the current Sukuna was simply a target with a thick enough health bar.
He just watched helplessly as Sukuna approached to within less than half a meter of him, and then began his action.
An elbow strike accurately hit the abdomen of the attacking Sukuna, and then his right hand firmly grabbed the other party's neck and lifted him up.
Itadori Yuji looked quite tall and big in the original work, but at this moment in Miyauchi Hikage's hand, he looked somewhat frail and weak.
"Style 212: Zither Moon Yang," Miyauchi Hikage did not let go. The power of flame within his body suddenly erupted, letting this King of Curses from a thousand years ago properly feel the charm of Kusanagi-ryu martial arts.
This move Zither Moon Yang, perhaps compared to those super special moves in Kusanagi-ryu, its power was not too strong.
But this action of grabbing someone's neck and lifting them up was simply too mocking.
Using this move in reality could almost instantly draw the opponent's aggro to the maximum.
No one could endure such humiliation.
Of course, if not for Sukuna's durable physique, just the final eruption of the flame power would have been enough to send someone away.
Although Miyauchi Hikage did not have the Flame of Kusanagi in his body, the flame produced by his advanced Pure Yang Physique was not some ordinary flame either.
This kind of flame, for a guy like Sukuna who incarnated as a curse, could completely be considered true damage.
And as Miyauchi Hikage used this move, and then threw Sukuna aside like throwing a little chick, Sukuna instantly became anxious.
This kind of humiliating action had always only been done by him, the great Sukuna, to others. Since when was it his turn to be humiliated by others like this?
In the next moment, blazing flames also appeared in Sukuna's hands.
It looked like he wanted to double the humiliation he just received and return it to Miyauchi Hikage.
Seeing Ryomen Sukuna's exasperated and furious appearance, Miyauchi Hikage chuckled lightly.
Then let him see how powerful the fire technique mastered by Sukuna was.
It had to be said, although it was a technique used to stomp on noobs, these flames were still quite fierce in Sukuna's hands.
It was just a pity that the current Sukuna only had the strength of one finger, and was completely unable to fully unleash the power of these flames.
Therefore, the other party's increasingly fierce attacks only brought about an even more humiliating fighting style from Miyauchi Hikage here.
The Yagami-ryu martial arts extended from the Kusanagi-ryu, at the moment the other party dashed over again, it was a combo of Kuzukaze and Zither Moon In.
Also Style 212, but different from Kusanagi Kyo's Zither Moon Yang, Yagami Iori's Zither Moon In pressed downwards.
Under the gap in power, even though Sukuna's attacks already carried anger, he could still only be easily pressed to the ground by Miyauchi Hikage whose stats far exceeded his.
"The King of Curses from a thousand years ago, it seems it is nothing more than this. Truly disappointing," Miyauchi Hikage looked at Sukuna, whose neck he easily twisted and pressed to the ground, and could not help but shake his head slightly.
"Tsk tsk, this is truly miserable," Gojo Satoru on the side watching Sukuna being beaten without the power to fight back also could not help but sigh.
It was not that Sukuna's strength was lacking.
As the King of Curses, even with only five percent of his power, he definitely reached the threshold of special-grade.
Otherwise, the other party could not have so easily eliminated the Grade 1 Cursed Spirit and vengeful spirit relying on his own strength.
It was just that Miyauchi Hikage's progress speed was simply too fast.
The other party's physical qualities were still improving at a quite astonishing speed even now.
A few days ago when he sparred with Miyauchi Hikage, the physique the other party showed was only normally just entering the special-grade level.
In terms of speed and power, he could not compare with him yet.
But now fighting Sukuna, the other party's taijutsu had become more mature, completely showing an effortless posture when facing Sukuna.
Of course, these were all deliberately shown by Miyauchi Hikage.
It was just that now he happened to find Sukuna, this guy with a big reputation but overly reliant on stats, to practice with.
After being choked twice in a row, Sukuna also finally realized that his current self was really too far away from his prime.
If only he could recover the strength of a few more fingers, even just five fingers, he would not be as powerless to fight back as he was now when facing Miyauchi Hikage.
If he could return to the power of ten fingers, then he was completely confident in using his fire technique to directly kill Miyauchi Hikage with one blow.
But making him admit defeat was also impossible.
No matter what, he, Ryomen Sukuna, was the former King of Curses. Even if his strength was not as good as before, it was impossible to bow his head to a jujutsu sorcerer.
Therefore, under the circumstance that the other party's power and speed far exceeded his current self, wanting to defeat this guy, it seemed there was only the power of a Domain.
Fortunately, although he only had the strength of one finger now, there was no problem with his memory, it was just that his total cursed energy was pitifully small compared to his prime.
But, under such circumstances, briefly using Domain Expansion once was still not a problem.
Knowing that he had no time left, Ryomen Sukuna unhesitatingly made his most familiar hand sign, intending to use a slash to teach this young supernatural being a painful lesson.
Of course, this action could not be hidden from Gojo Satoru's Six Eyes.
In just an instant, he had already prepared his hand signs, ready to offset the other party's Domain effect with Unlimited Void at the moment the other party activated the Domain.
Although the current Miyauchi Hikage belonged to the very capable fighter type among special-grades, up to now, he had not truly fought against an enemy possessing a Domain.
And the reason why the quota for special-grade jujutsu sorcerers was so rare was that only those possessing abilities to deal with Domains could be called true special-grades.
If one did not have the means to deal with a Domain, then no matter how powerful the other party's strength was, facing the impossible-to-defend guaranteed-hit effect in the Domain, one could only be helplessly killed by the other party.
Even though Gojo Satoru thought highly of Miyauchi Hikage's future, the other party had only been supernaturally awakened for two months after all, and the other party had nowhere to learn those means to deal with Domains.
At most, during their spar last time, he briefly taught him some knowledge about Domains.
Wanting to master a Domain based on this was treating the highest art of a jujutsu sorcerer a bit too lightly, right?
However, Gojo Satoru misjudged in the end.
Facing Sukuna's suddenly activated Domain, Miyauchi Hikage's face showed completely no intention of surprise.
Or rather, he had been guarding against Sukuna's move from the very beginning.
Actually, in terms of his current speed, the best way to deal with a Domain was to use teleportation to run out of the other party's Domain range before the other party activated the Domain.
Just like a certain blue Lancer from Ireland, whose spear had a guaranteed-hit effect that reversed causality.
But as long as one could run out of the other party's attack range before the other party activated the Noble Phantasm, it would be enough.
The range of Domain Expansion was generally at its limit around a hundred meters. This distance was indeed nothing to the current Miyauchi Hikage.
But so many days had passed since the spar with Gojo Satoru, Miyauchi Hikage felt he should more or less show some research insights.
Therefore, the moment Sukuna's Domain activated, Miyauchi Hikage also reached out his hand towards Sukuna's direction.
Although he did not directly release Unlimited Blade Works, through research in the Metaverse, Miyauchi Hikage had long mastered the method of making Unlimited Blade Works appear within a range of several meters around him.
Moreover, along with his own research on jujutsu and the research on Domain Expansion he obtained from Gojo Satoru, he and Tohru had already long researched a brand new version of a Simple Domain that integrated magecraft, jujutsu, and dragon magic.
From the perspective of others, it was that as Ryomen Sukuna prepared to release his Domain Expansion towards Miyauchi Hikage in the last few seconds of his battle, Miyauchi Hikage easily reached out his hand and rapidly generated a unique space within a one-meter radius around himself.
Seeing the barren space around Miyauchi Hikage, and faintly seeing the phantoms of several giant gears in the sky above Miyauchi Hikage's head, let alone Shinomiya Kaguya and Fushiguro Megumi on the side.
Even Gojo Satoru somewhat surprisedly stopped the movements in his hands at this moment.
"Is this, a Simple Domain?"
No, just taking one look, Gojo Satoru knew this was definitely not a formulaic Simple Domain like the New Shadow Style.
The space around Miyauchi Hikage was simply too stable.
It even gave the feeling that it could completely compare to a normal Domain Expansion.
Rather than saying this was a Simple Domain, it would be better to say this was completely the prototype of a Domain Expansion.
Heaven knows exactly how Miyauchi Hikage managed to self-research to this extent in such a short time.
It was also because he saw that independent space around Miyauchi Hikage that Gojo Satoru withdrew his thought of using Domain Expansion.
Although it was not yet a complete version of Domain Expansion, it was already enough to neutralize the guaranteed-hit effect of a Domain.
After all, the current Sukuna was only a crippled version, and his Domain could not possibly be as powerful as in his prime.
And on Sukuna's side, actually, just seeing the situation around Miyauchi Hikage, he had already realized that this era did not seem as simple as he thought.
He knew of the existence of Simple Domains; to be precise, he himself mastered similar arts.
It was just that in his era, this art was still very rare, and only a genius like him briefly mastered a little bit just in case.
He did not expect that in this era, such a young supernatural being could master similar techniques.
But having reached this step, he naturally could not stop anymore.
A Simple Domain was just simple after all. He had ample confidence in his Domain, and its intensity was certainly higher than the other party's.
But as he circulated the cursed energy in his body with incomparable familiarity, the next moment, he suddenly felt an instant of interference in the circulation of cursed energy in his body.
And it was just this seemingly insignificant interference at normal times that produced an immense technique backlash at this moment!
Before his slashes could even be used, he himself had already uncontrollably spat out a mouthful of fresh blood!