The history of Jujutsu Sorcerers is long, but its absolute zenith occurred a thousand years ago. Was it because Ryomen Sukuna existed a millennium ago? No. It was because, a thousand years ago, *gods* truly existed. The existence of gods guaranteed that the jujutsu world stood completely above the mundane, secular world. The era when gods walked the earth was the true golden age of jujutsu.
And Kenjaku's true desire in the original timeline—the 'restoration of the golden age of jujutsu'—was to be achieved through a highly specific condition: the hyper-redundant assimilation of all humanity in Japan with Tengen. Why did it have to be Tengen? Because at that time, Tengen was the sorcerer closest to being a god. The result of a hyper-redundant assimilation with Tengen would be that every single person would touch and integrate with a fragment of 'divinity'.
To put it bluntly, Kenjaku's method for restoring the jujutsu world to its former glory was, in reality, to forge a colossal god beyond human comprehension. This colossal god was the so-called 'Great Cursed Spirit'.
As for what this 'Great Cursed Spirit' would do afterward, Kenjaku openly admitted in the original timeline that even he didn't know. In other words, Kenjaku's sole objective was to create the Great Cursed Spirit. Whatever happened next was completely out of his control. But in Kenjaku's mind, even if he couldn't control it, the very act of its creation would facilitate his ultimate goal of a thriving, chaotic jujutsu world.
The existence of gods in the jujutsu world was absolutely not some ethereal myth, nor was it meaningless.
Ryomen Sukuna turned to look back at Yuji Itadori, his eyes glinting thoughtfully. "I see. You believe the King of Cursed Spirits has already ascended to godhood, so you want to learn how to commit deicide from me."
In all recorded history, Ryomen Sukuna was the only Jujutsu Sorcerer to have successfully committed deicide. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that if anyone in this world had the highest probability of killing the newly ascended King of Cursed Spirits, it was Ryomen Sukuna. Not even Satoru Gojo could compare.
"He hasn't fully ascended yet, but he might as well have," Yuji said frankly, recalling the intelligence from the meeting. "He possesses a state-type Cursed Technique called 'Dragon God', and he wields the 'Divine Eyes'—the Six Eyes. Having both the body of a god and the eyes of a god... what difference is there between him and a true deity?"
"The difference is that his elevation is temporary, whereas a true god requires no such elevation," Sukuna said flatly. "You know far too little about gods. But I suppose that makes sense. In your era, you can only glimpse the power of gods through the dusty pages of history books. Even Tengen, who lived through that era, has likely never faced a true god head-on. As a result, your understanding of divinity is fatally flawed."
Yuji's spirit jolted. "Please, enlighten me."
"'Please, enlighten me,' huh?" Sukuna mocked. "Hmph. I believe this is the first time you've ever spoken to me with actual manners."
Yuji wanted to fire back a sarcastic retort. After all, prior to this, Sukuna had done absolutely nothing to earn a shred of respect. Even though everyone knew the knowledge locked inside Sukuna's head was priceless, no one had ever seriously considered relying on it.
He was... far too malicious. Worse yet, no one could verify if the knowledge spilling from his mouth was actually true. If Sukuna felt like it, he could easily tell the truth about ninety-nine things, only to weave a catastrophic lie into the single most critical piece of information. Given his historical track record, it was exactly the kind of twisted game he would play!
But right now, Yuji was the one asking for a favor. He swallowed his sarcasm, his face flushing slightly as he mumbled, "Uh... sorry?"
Sukuna shot Yuji a sidelong glance and, surprisingly, began to answer the question. "To commit deicide, the most critical step is to 'Sever Fate'."
"'Sever Fate'?" Yuji frowned.
"Brat, do you even know what a 'god' is?" Sukuna asked. "Or rather, why do we call them 'gods' instead of 'powerful yokai', 'invincible monsters', or 'demons'?"
This was genuinely a question Yuji had never considered.
He carefully reviewed the jujutsu knowledge he had crammed over the past six months and said hesitantly, "Those yokai, monsters, and demons you mentioned... they're all just Cursed Spirits, right? In the past, because the jujutsu world hadn't fully unified and knowledge wasn't widespread, people just called Cursed Spirits by different names. The most important classification is Imaginary Vengeful Spirits, which are born from the masses' collective fear and imagination of specific yokai myths."
Sukuna looked at Yuji with genuine surprise, his lips curling into an intrigued smile. "I didn't expect your foundational knowledge to be so solid."
Yuji rubbed the back of his neck, smiling sheepishly. "It's mostly because of the second-generation intelligent Cursed Spirits. Gojo-sensei specifically drilled the 'yokai' theory into us so we'd understand them better."
After Utahime Iori returned from the Lord of Cursed Spirits' stronghold, she had detailed everything about the second-generation intelligent Curses. The most crucial detail was that their modifications were entirely based on Imaginary Vengeful Spirits. It was hypothesized that Imaginary Vengeful Spirits were much easier to mold into intelligent Curses because they naturally aggregated highly directed, specific Cursed Energy.
In fact, this trend was obvious even with the first-generation intelligent Curses. The wider their notoriety, the easier it was for them to gather directional Cursed Energy Residuals, making it easier for them to become 'Overdosed Cursed Spirits' and awaken true sentience.
Understanding this context, Satoru Gojo had broadcast the information to all sorcerers. His logic was simple: if you encounter an Imaginary Vengeful Spirit, you must exorcise it immediately. If you can't, report it to the higher-ups without delay. This was a direct countermeasure to whittle down the King of Cursed Spirits' potential army.
"I once slaughtered the Yamata no Orochi." Sukuna's eyes glazed over slightly, lost in memory. "You should recognize the name. It's a legendary yokai. But, much like myself, it wasn't the *actual* mythological Yamata no Orochi. It merely possessed similar abilities, and thus the name of the legend was crowned upon its head. And its most infamous ability was hyper-regeneration. Sever one head, and a new one would sprout almost instantly."
Yuji hadn't actually heard of this specific incident. "Aren't all Cursed Spirits like that? Especially the strong ones. Most fatal wounds to a human are completely irrelevant to a Curse. As long as their head isn't destroyed, some powerful Curses can just regenerate their bodies over time. The Yamata no Orochi should be the same. As long as one head remained, it could rapidly regenerate the ones that were destroyed."
Sukuna stared deeply at Yuji, his smile widening with dark amusement. "That thing didn't use the standard Cursed Spirit method to regenerate its heads. It used... Reverse Cursed Technique."
Yuji's pupils shrank to pinpricks. He instantly understood what Sukuna meant.
Cursed Spirits were beings composed entirely of negative energy. To a Cursed Spirit, positive energy was utterly toxic—an energy they fundamentally could not touch. Reverse Cursed Technique was the ultimate bane of all Curses. The original narrative emphasized this repeatedly; even a Disaster Curse as overwhelmingly powerful as Jogo would suffer catastrophic, fatal damage if injected with positive energy.
This was also one of the primary reasons Mahito was so utterly obsessed with Incarnation early on. Reverse Cursed Technique was far too lethal to Curses. The only way to eradicate that fatal weakness was through Incarnation—the 'Half-Cursed Spirit' state Mahito had engineered.
It was a fundamental law of reality: Cursed Spirits could not use Reverse Cursed Technique.
"Wait... are you saying the Yamata no Orochi wasn't a Cursed Spirit?" Yuji's mind raced, analyzing the implications.
"It was the Yamata no Orochi. Eight heads, eight tails, with a body the size of a mountain range. Do you think that qualifies as a human?" Sukuna mocked. "Are you joking right now?"
A violent chill crawled up Yuji's spine. Converting positive and negative energy and allowing both to coexist and circulate within the same body... he knew exactly what that was. That was the Lord of Cursed Spirits' ultimate trump card: Hollow Technique: Soul Creation Dragon Spirit Body!
"The Yamata no Orochi... was a god?! The god you slaughtered was the Yamata no Orochi?!" Yuji gasped in shock. "So, a 'god' is an entity capable of simultaneously circulating both positive and negative energy within its own body?"
The existence of the Yamata no Orochi had actually been referenced by Sukuna in the original timeline. During his fight with Mahoraga in Shibuya, he had remarked: *'You're pretty similar to the Yamata no Orochi.'* Even back then, Sukuna had noted that the Yamata no Orochi's regeneration was fueled by Reverse Cursed Technique, not standard negative energy healing.
It was true. The simultaneous circulation of positive and negative energy wasn't unique to the King of Cursed Spirits. Mahoraga could do it, and the ancient Yamata no Orochi could do it as well.
Mahoraga's attack pattern was explicitly described in the original text: *'After the first strike imbued with positive energy, the immediate follow-up is a negative energy attack. Furthermore, it shattered my Dismantle. Every time, it attacks after the wheel on its back turns.'*
"Your knowledge is pathetically shallow. Talking to you is as exhausting as conversing with a low-grade Curse," Sukuna said flatly. "Although the Yamata no Orochi possessed the circulation of positive and negative energy, it still didn't qualify as a true god. However, your deduction is partially correct. A god absolutely *must* possess the circulation of positive and negative energy. It is their prerequisite ability, born from raw instinct."
Suddenly, Sukuna clasped his hands together in a hand sign. Yuji instantly tensed, assuming Sukuna was about to attack. But that wasn't the case. The Domain that unfolded around them wasn't Malevolent Shrine. Instead, the world shifted into a desolate landscape blanketed entirely in bleached bones. The bones were piled high, forming a towering mountain. The ground beneath their feet was a sprawling lake of blood. And at the very pinnacle of the bone mountain, a colossal skeleton, so massive it seemed to blot out the sky, served as a canopy. At the apex of that gargantuan skeleton rested a skull adorned with massive, sweeping bull horns.
Yuji knew exactly what this place was. "Your Innate Domain?" Yuji breathed.
Yes. This wasn't his Domain Expansion, Malevolent Shrine. This was his Innate Domain—the landscape of his mind. In this Innate Domain, an endless sea of corpses and blood formed Sukuna's throne. Before his resurrection, Sukuna had spent his time sitting at the peak of this mountain of bones, whiling away his eternal boredom.
Yuji had been here before; the memory was burned into his mind. Sukuna raised his index finger and pointed upward.
He spoke with supreme arrogance. "The god I slaughtered is right here. Right inside my Innate Domain... His name was Enma, the deity who governed the flow of souls in the Underworld. He tried to judge me. And now, the Enma who tried to judge me has been reduced to the canopy of my Innate Domain. Look at him. Isn't it a fitting end?"
*Gulp.* Yuji swallowed hard.
Even in his wildest nightmares, he never could have imagined that a Jujutsu Sorcerer could drag the literal corpse of a god into their own Innate Domain. How was that even possible? Yuji felt like everything he had learned over the past six months was completely useless. Faced with this absurd, reality-breaking revelation, he found himself doubting Satoru Gojo's teaching abilities for the very first time... Gojo had explained that an Innate Domain was a person's inner mental world. But could a mental world physically house the corpse of a deity?
Yuji swore to himself that even Gojo-sensei couldn't pull off something this insane!
"What I'm about to teach you next is the core of it all." Sukuna crossed his legs, sitting comfortably atop the mountain of bones, staring down at Yuji. He spoke with a lazy, detached ease. "A 'god' is, fundamentally, a higher-dimensional organism that administers Binding Vows. If I explain it like that, you probably won't understand. But you are intimately familiar with the concept of Binding Vows. A Binding Vow is an act where a sorcerer makes a pact with 'Heaven'. And these so-called gods... *they* are that 'Heaven'."
"The Cursed Energy of us Jujutsu Sorcerers interacts constantly with the natural circulation of Cursed Energy in the environment. The stronger a sorcerer's Cursed Energy, the more frequent and intense this interaction becomes. For those of us who have reached the absolute zenith of this world—myself, Satoru Gojo, and the King of Cursed Spirits—our Cursed Energy is so dense it acts like gravity, forcibly gripping the natural circulation of Cursed Energy around us. This allows us to exploit 'Heaven' to achieve our goals with far greater ease. The price those incompetent weaklings have to pay for a Vow is hundreds, thousands, even tens of thousands of times steeper than ours!"
Sukuna wasn't just spouting empty theory; he himself was the most glaring proof of this concept. In the original timeline, he was often branded a 'cheat' because the moment he encountered a truly formidable opponent, he would effortlessly leverage a Binding Vow to secure victory. To anyone else, it looked like outright cheating, earning him the mocking moniker of the 'King of Loans'.
Throughout the entire story, Ryomen Sukuna was the only one capable of exploiting Vows to such a terrifying degree. Why?
Because his comprehension of Binding Vows was on a level that not even Kenjaku could fathom!
Sukuna continued, "The act of forging a Binding Vow is the purest manifestation of Fate. Gods engrave their own Binding Vows into the natural circulation of Cursed Energy. Thus, all Cursed Energy circulating through nature must pass through the god's processing and approval. You could even say that, if a god willed it, they could instantly manipulate this massive cycle to perform miracles—like reversing gravity, or making it snow in the dead of summer. This is because the god *is* a part of the cycle itself. Think of it like the administrator interface of a computer. As long as you have the required knowledge, you can rewrite any system."
Yuji didn't know much about computers, but he knew enough to understand that the difference between an administrator and a standard user was absolute. He trembled, finally grasping the true, cosmic terror of a god. So that was it. That was why they were called 'higher-dimensional organisms'.
If they were the literal administrators of the 'world', then of course they were higher-dimensional beings!
"How... how do you even kill something like that?" Yuji's voice shook.
"Didn't I tell you right at the beginning?" Sukuna said, a dark smirk playing on his lips. "The way to kill a god is to 'Sever Fate'. In terms your primitive brain can understand: you revoke their administrator privileges. You force the god to fall back down to our level of reality. Once they are reduced to our dimension, killing them is simple."
"But they're higher-dimensional beings! How can you possibly revoke their administrator privileges?!"
"Did you already forget about the Yamata no Orochi?" Sukuna's tone sharpened with annoyance. "Were you even listening to a single word I said?"
Yamata no Orochi? Yuji's mind raced, completely blanking for a second. *Weren't we just talking about the circulation of positive and negative energy? How does that connect to—*
Wait. It *did* connect!
Yuji's eyes widened in sudden, staggering realization. "The circulation of positive and negative energy... that's the key to embedding oneself into the natural circulation of Cursed Energy! When we Jujutsu Sorcerers release our techniques, we can only use one at a time. It's either the standard technique release fueled by the negative energy cycle, or a Cursed Technique Reversal fueled by the positive energy created by multiplying negative energy. As far as I know, there are only two people capable of circulating positive and negative energy simultaneously. One is Gojo-sensei using his Hollow Technique... and the second is the King of Cursed Spirits, Mahito!"
Satoru Gojo's Six Eyes were the eyes of gods and buddhas; therefore, he could sustain the circulation of positive and negative energy.
The King of Cursed Spirits' Hollow Technique: Soul Creation Dragon Spirit Body was a divine vessel; therefore, he too could sustain the circulation of positive and negative energy.
The simultaneous circulation of positive and negative energy was the absolute prerequisite for godhood. It was the state of a...
Living God (Demigod)!
"The Yamata no Orochi wasn't a true god; it was a demigod! It was a demigod monster!" Yuji practically shouted as the pieces fell into place. "The way to kill a god is to disrupt their circulation of positive and negative energy! By shattering that cycle of positive and negative, the god loses their status as the world's administrator. And in that infinitely brief window of vulnerability, you have to deliver the killing blow! That's how you assassinated Enma!"
This was also the true reason why Mahoraga could adapt to any attack! By adapting to its opponent's strikes, Mahoraga could alter the fundamental nature of its own Cursed Energy, allowing it to perfectly resist any offensive, no matter how overwhelmingly powerful it was.
In the original timeline, Mahoraga even adapted to the Limitless's spatial manipulation. Combined with Sukuna's technique extension, it elevated the slash to target the very concept of space itself, allowing Sukuna to unleash the unprecedented 'Slash that Divides the World'.
That was the mechanical foundation of the infamous 'Space Dismantle'.
Why was Mahoraga so exceptionally unique? Because Mahoraga was also classified as a demigod! The Ten Shadows Technique was based on the Ten Sacred Treasures of Japanese myth. Mahoraga itself was a literal divine artifact.
Using a divine artifact to sever the eyes of gods and buddhas. That was the funeral Gege Akutami had prepared for Satoru Gojo.
Sukuna clapped slowly from his throne of bones. "You finally used your brain. Do you remember what I said earlier? The foundation of becoming a god is the circulation of positive and negative energy. This is because the natural cycle of the world itself is comprised of positive and negative energy. Only by mirroring this cycle can one link their own administrative authority to the world's system. But merely possessing the circulation of positive and negative energy isn't enough. If it were, the Yamata no Orochi would have ascended long ago, and Satoru Gojo wouldn't just possess the eyes of gods and buddhas—he would *be* one. The most critical factor is the actual connection to the world itself."
Sukuna stood up from his throne, spreading his arms wide. "If a god is considered the very embodiment of the world's Binding Vows, then they must rigidly obey every single rule of those Vows. That is exactly why I refused to become a so-called god. To become a god is to permanently shackle every aspect of your existence. Why would I ever desire such a crushingly tedious fate? A Jujutsu Sorcerer like me would rather die than accept such chains. But... a theory Kenjaku once proposed genuinely intrigued me."
Yuji frowned. "What theory?"
"The Great Cursed Spirit," Sukuna said, his voice dropping to a resonant baritone. "Kenjaku told me that if a god's role is simply to form Vows with the world and link themselves to 'Heaven'... then what if you just *become* Heaven? If you perfectly overlap with Heaven, wouldn't you be able to do whatever you want?"
"And that entity is the Great Cursed Spirit!"
"The so-called 'Heaven' is nothing more than the natural cycle of Cursed Energy, formed by the leaked Cursed Energy of all humanity dissipating into the world. Therefore, if I were to undergo hyper-redundant assimilation with the entirety of humanity, unifying their collective willpower entirely under my own... then *I* would become Heaven. Every single Vow would be subject to my will. Every single restriction would be born or erased on my every whim."
"That was the promise Kenjaku offered me—"
"To become the One True God!"
Yuji's breath hitched.