Yang Yi explained to them.
"I believe you already know this, but all negative emotions from other living beings—fear, anger, sorrow, hatred—are sources of power."
"You can use the power generated from these negative emotions to fight against them."
"Welcome to the world of Jujutsu."
As soon as he finished speaking, he pulled out a few more secret manuals from his coat and handed them to the three girls.
"These are cultivation techniques tailor-made for you, combining the fundamentals of Cursed Energy with your own personal traits."
Hana opened her manual. Instantly, she felt the hunger that had accompanied her for years being guided into a wondrous cycle.
"Your manual is called the *Taotie Divine Art*," Yang Yi's voice rang in her ears. "It can convert the food you devour into pure 'Yang-attribute Cursed Energy.' The more you eat, the more abundant and pure your energy becomes. It's a technique perfectly suited for you."
Next, Yang Yi looked at Miko.
"Yours is the *Myriad Soul Banner Refinement Method*. It pairs with your weapon, which I've taken the liberty of upgrading for you."
"From now on, every monster you personally exorcise will become nourishment for this 'Myriad Soul Banner.' It will continuously strengthen itself and feed that power back to you."
Miko gripped the pink hammer tightly, feeling a joyous, "hungry" thrumming resonating from it.
Finally, Yang Yi looked at Yuria.
"As for yours, it's a secret manual."
"!!!"
"Why do their techniques sound so overpowered, but mine doesn't even have a name?!"
"Uh, because you really don't have any special talents. But this manual of yours is no ordinary book either. If you cultivate it, you can grow taller!"
Yuria's breath hitched instantly! Yang Yi's words echoed endlessly in her ears.
*Grow taller...*
*Taller...*
*Tall...*
"I'll train! I'll train!! Give it to me, hurry!"
An unprecedented passion ignited in Yuria's eyes.
"Excellent! That's the spirit!" Yang Yi nodded in satisfaction as he looked at the three girls, each in their own unique state of excitement.
"Now, try to guide the Cursed Energy within your bodies and begin cultivating according to the methods in your manuals."
Under the effects of Yang Yi's powerful Minecraft-style skill books, the girls quickly grasped the basics, the Cursed Energy within them surging steadily.
Tomie, standing off to the side, had also received a manual from Yang Yi. After cultivating for a little while, she started to feel bored.
Suddenly, her skin felt a little itchy.
Tomie subconsciously raised her hand and scratched her arm.
With that scratch, the spot where her fingers pressed bizarrely "caved" in! Then, reaching right through her skin, she touched some sort of substance inside her body.
Instantly, a piece of information bloomed in her mind: this was her soul.
Curious, she gave it a casual tug, and the shape of her own soul was actually stretched and distorted by her pull.
Immediately after, her physical body morphed along with her altered soul. The skin on her arm stretched out in a flash.
Tomie froze.
She looked down at her hands, then at the three bewildered girls beside her, and a sickly, twisted smile blossomed on her face.
"This is really something! How fun!"
Suddenly, another piece of information surfaced in her mind. She had awakened an Innate Technique: [Idle Transfiguration]!
Tomie then began to continuously knead and mold her soul, her outward appearance shifting right along with it.
The bizarre scene unfolding before her made Miko shiver, snapping her out of the ocean of knowledge. Mimicking Tomie, she guided the Cursed Energy within her body.
The moment the Cursed Energy flowed through her entire body, she felt the bleak, gray world—the one that constantly played out like a horror movie before her eyes—vanish.
She blinked.
The world was still the same world, but those hideous, twisted monsters were gone.
In their place was a completely different sight. She could clearly see the golden Cursed Energy radiating from Hana, as warm as the sun. She could see the chaotic yet vibrant Cursed Energy clinging to Yuria. And she could see the constantly twisting, terrifyingly indescribable Cursed Energy emanating from Tomie.
She could see Yang Yi... Wait! She actually couldn't see Yang Yi at all. Where he stood, there was only a patch of absolute nothingness.
"Waah!" Yuria, who could now see even more ghosts and monsters after cultivating Cursed Energy, suddenly shrieked and pointed outside. "Wah! Miko, are there really this many terrifying things in the world?!"
Miko whipped her head around, but saw nothing.
She chanted silently in her heart.
*See.*
Instantly, she could once again see the sky full of ghosts and monsters outside—she could even see more than before.
*Thud.*
Miko's legs gave out, and she slumped to her knees. She covered her face. Warm liquid continuously welled up and slipped through her fingers.
The fear, pent-up stress, and despair she had accumulated over the past few months all transformed into tears of joy in this single moment.
"I don't have to see them anymore!"
"I can control it..."
She had awakened her technique—[Eyes of Truth]! Not only could she freely toggle her "ghost-seeing" vision on and off, but she could even see through to the power cores and weaknesses inside the anomalies!
"Whoa! It's so hot!" An anomaly occurred on Hana's side as well.
"Ah! Why is it on fire?!"
Golden-red flames continuously rose from her body. The dark, eerie energy in the surroundings was incinerated the instant it touched the surface of her skin.
After a while, she felt a little hungry and once again raised the 'Supreme Giant Roast Meat' Yang Yi had given her.
She noticed that the chunk she had bitten out of the roast meat earlier had already grown back.
"Wow, it really is a roast meat that can never be finished no matter how much I eat!" Hana exclaimed, her face full of excitement, and took a huge bite.
*Boom!*
Golden flames erupted from her body! The fire was filled with a warm, evil-vanquishing aura, completely opposite to the power of curses!
Technique Awakened—[Pure Yang Flame]!
"It moved! It moved! My 'Rabian' (rabbit pendant) came to life!" Yuria also let out an excited squeal.
The rabbit pendant hanging from her school bag had broken free from its string and hopped into the palm of her hand, curiously studying her with its black-bean-like eyes.
Technique Awakened—[Doll Spirit Attachment]!
Yang Yi looked at the group of girls before him, whose Cursed Energy levels had skyrocketed to that of Grade 1 Jujutsu Sorcerers and who had all awakened their techniques, and nodded in satisfaction.
He picked up a cup of black tea that had appeared out of nowhere and took a slow, leisurely sip.
"Not bad. Your foundations are already very solid."
"Next, we can learn something a bit more advanced: Domain Expansion."
"Domain Expansion?!"
The girls spoke in unison, wearing identical expressions of dumbfounded shock. Wasn't Domain Expansion the absolute pinnacle of a Jujutsu Sorcerer?
How were they already learning this on their first day?
Yang Yi didn't explain. He stood up, walked to the window, and pointed at the abandoned hospital in the distance, which looked exceptionally eerie in the night.
"Power cannot just be learned; it must be exercised."
He turned around, revealing a gentle smile.
"That place will be your first proving ground."
Tomie looked toward the distant hospital, recalling information about it from the memories of other Tomies.
Several Tomies had been born in that very hospital, and quite a few 'monsters' had originated from there in the past.
A man who lived out years in a single dream before finally turning to ash, an 'ugly woman' who constantly clamored for others to dissect her, and so on.