Outside the domain, in the shadows of the dense forest, Earth Fiend's massive body stood frozen.
Beneath his thick, stone-like skin, Cursed Energy churned like boiling mud, and his murky eyes stared fixedly at the intertwined domains ahead.
The commotion coming from within the domain was clearly audible—no longer the roaring collision of flames and stone walls, but the crisp sound of fists breaking bone, the muffled groans of the Cursed Spirit, and the youth's fanatical, light laughter.
Jogo's aura was weakening at a speed visible to the naked eye; from initially being as violent as fire, it gradually became as faint as a candle flame, ready to be extinguished at any moment.
Earth Fiend knew very well that this was a trap.
Rin was in no hurry to kill Jogo; instead, he was wearing down his strength in the most brutal way possible. Every heavy blow felt like it was hammering against Earth Fiend's nerves.
He could feel Jogo's despair and see through Rin's intentions. This human youth was using Jogo as bait, waiting for him to step into the trap voluntarily.
But if he did not make a move, Jogo would truly die.
As a companion whom Jogo had saved from Satoru Gojo, Earth Fiend's stone brow knitted together, and his thick palms clenched with a cracking sound.
His instincts were roaring at him to "Retreat," yet his reason kept reminding him, "Do not abandon your companion." The two thoughts collided fiercely in his mind, plunging him into an unprecedented struggle.
Inside the domain, the roaring of the dual-domain confrontation had long since ceased, leaving only the dull thuds of blows landing on flesh.
Jogo was held fast by Rin, like prey locked in the coils of a giant python, with no strength to break free.
Rin's movements were ghostly. The Crimson Blood Manipulation Technique gave his limbs flexibility and strength far exceeding that of an ordinary person; every entanglement and every strike was precise and ruthless.
The enhancement of the Hymn of Prayer boosted his speed and reaction time to the extreme, and his Sharingan perfectly predicted all of Jogo's evasive maneuvers.
Faced with such melee suppression, Jogo had a body full of flame-based Cursed Energy but no way to unleash it.
He wanted to create distance and condense his Cursed Energy to counterattack, but every time he made a move, strange Cursed Techniques would emerge from Rin's body.
Sometimes it was the spatial distortion of the Dark Cursed Spirit, causing the step he had just taken to return to its original spot.
"Damn it! Let me go!"
Jogo roared, his battered body trembling under Rin's grip, and the Cursed Energy mist at his wounds mixed with blood, making him look utterly wretched.
He was like a sandbag that had lost the ability to resist, being manipulated and beaten at will by Rin.
A punch slammed into his chest, the crisp sound of ribs breaking clearly audible; a kick to his knee forced him to stumble to his knees, followed immediately by an elbow strike that smashed hard into the back of his neck, causing his vision to go black.
The moment the domain offensive failed, Jogo already knew he had lost.
But only now did he truly understand how terrifying Rin was. This youth was not only powerful but also possessed a mind that was horrifyingly meticulous.
He deliberately did not kill him just to use him as bait to lure out the hidden Earth Fiend and catch them all in one fell swoop.
In his blurred vision, Jogo saw that the corner of Rin's mouth always wore that trace of fanatical laughter. There was no mercy in that smile, only an extreme thirst for battle, like a predator enjoying the pleasure of the hunt.
"Bang!"
Another heavy punch slammed into Jogo's abdomen, the immense force sending him flying like a kite with a broken string, crashing heavily into the domain's stone wall with a dull, thunderous sound.
Before he could land, Rin's figure suddenly swapped places with a nearby Gargoyle, appearing instantly in front of him, followed by a storm of continuous attacks.
Fists, elbows, knees, feet... Every attack carried terrifying power, causing Jogo's body to suffer repeated heavy damage.
At this moment, the anger and unwillingness Jogo had felt earlier were long gone, leaving only deep despair.
He looked at Rin's figure, which resembled that of the Grim Reaper, and only one thought remained in his mind.
Earth Fiend, run!
Don't worry about him, run away from here! This human brat is too terrifying; staying behind will only lead to becoming prey just like him!
But he did not even have the strength to issue a warning; he could only scream crazily in his heart.
Could Earth Fiend, outside the domain, feel his despair? Could he read his expectations?
The light on the domain's light wall grew dimmer and dimmer, and Jogo's aura was now so weak it was almost imperceptible.
Rin stopped his attack, looking down at Jogo, who was slumped on the ground. His Crimson Sharingan swept across the dense forest outside the domain, and the smile on his lips deepened.
Just as Rin's thoughts settled, a massive, heavy surge of Cursed Energy, like a rushing mudslide, suddenly slammed in from outside the domain.
That force carried the oppressive sensation of a collapsing mountain, smashing fiercely against the intertwined domain light walls and emitting a deafening roar.
"Domain Expansion, Mountain of Settled Earth Fortress!"
The low, hoarse voice penetrated the light wall and echoed throughout the entire battlefield.
The next second, the earth-yellow domain power poured in like a tidal wave, instantly merging with Jogo's Mountain of Iron Walls Covering the Hall.
The flame domain, which had already been in the upper hand, now received the blessing of the heavy earth-type domain, and its power surged explosively.
Inside the domain, a towering stone mountain rose from the ground; rock and magma intertwined to form a defense like an impregnable fortress, while simultaneously launching a fierce assault on the Gargoyle's Eternal Stone Coffin Garden.
The gray-white stone domain was already struggling to contend with Jogo's flames; now, encountering Earth Fiend's mountain power, it instantly collapsed. Stone walls cracked, stone coffins crumbled, and the domain's range shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye, retreating steadily.
Facing this sudden variable, the smile on Rin's face did not fade; on the contrary, it grew even richer, and a glimmer of excitement at having succeeded flashed in his Crimson Sharingan.
"Finally couldn't hold back, huh?"
Before the words fell, the Gargoyle's Eternal Stone Coffin Garden completely disintegrated under the crushing weight of the dual domains, and the gray-white Cursed Energy dissipated into the air like shattered glass.
Rin took the opportunity to stop his attack on Jogo, his figure retreating slightly, and he whispered:
"Domain Expansion, War World."
The moment Rin activated his domain, Jogo seized this fleeting gap, dragging his battered body to retreat rapidly and regroup with Earth Fiend, who had just stepped onto the battlefield.
Earth Fiend's massive body blocked the front of Jogo, his thick, stone-like skin glowing with an earth-yellow light. He stared vigilantly at Rin, the Cursed Energy around his body churning constantly, echoing with Jogo's flame-based Cursed Energy.
And as Rin's Cursed Speech fell, the entire battlefield changed its appearance instantly.
The roaring of guns and artillery, the shouts of soldiers, and the thunderous explosions of shells intertwined, replacing the previous sounds of flame scorching and rock colliding.
A blood-colored battlefield appeared out of thin air, and the phantoms of countless firearms, artillery, and Weapons of Wars like Tanks condensed in the domain, gleaming with a cold, metallic luster.
The crimson domain power spread like a tidal wave, colliding fiercely with the joint domain of Jogo and Earth Fiend.
"BOOM!!!"
The three domain forces intertwined and collided, forming a terrifying energy storm.
The joint domain of Jogo and Earth Fiend had been aggressive, but in front of Rin's War World, it was like paper, instantly torn open with a huge gap.
The weapon phantoms in the blood-colored battlefield opened fire simultaneously, and a dense barrage of shells and bullets poured down toward the stone mountain and magma area, blasting the rocks into powder and causing the magma to splatter.
The suppression of the joint domain weakened instantly, and instead, it was firmly suppressed by the War World.
The stone mountain collapsed continuously under the artillery fire, the magma gradually cooled under the impact, and the Cursed Energy fluctuations of both Jogo and Earth Fiend showed obvious disorder.
It would only take a few more minutes for their domains to be completely suppressed by Rin.
Jogo widened his eyes, his face full of disbelief.
He did not expect that the domain he and Earth Fiend had jointly expanded would be so easily suppressed by Rin's domain. This disparity in levels made him feel deep despair once again.
Earth Fiend's expression also became more solemn. He could clearly feel that Rin's domain was not only terrifying in power but also carried a strange suppression that made his own Cursed Energy circulation sluggish.
Rin floated in the center of the War World, surrounded by faint blood-colored Cursed Energy, like the master of this battlefield.
He looked at the two Special Grade Cursed Spirits who were being forced into a steady retreat, a cold smile curling at the corner of his mouth.
"The game, it only just truly begins now."
As the words fell, he raised his hand and waved, and the weapon phantoms in the War World fired with full firepower, launching a more violent attack on Jogo and Earth Fiend.
An ultimate showdown where three domains intertwined had officially entered the white-hot stage on this blood-colored battlefield.