[Innate Technique] is unique.
That is not just a consensus among sorcerers, but an unshakable truth of this world.
No one can break free of heaven's constraints and awaken a second [Innate Technique].
And yet, more often than not, only those who break the rules can rise to the top and dominate an era.
Looking across all of Jujutsu Kaisen, there are very few sorcerers who possess multiple Innate Techniques.
Kenjaku, who possesses the [Brain Transplant Technique].
By taking over another person's body, he claims the original owner's [Innate Technique] as his own. Trading a nearly blank technique for the chance to pick a technique later on is, in itself, a legal move, one recognized by heaven.
But Kenjaku is also an old monster deeply versed in [Binding Vow]. Through various [Binding Vows], he bypassed the laws of heaven and managed to possess multiple [Innate Techniques].
Yuta Okkotsu, who possesses the [Copy Technique].
By consuming the flesh and blood of other sorcerers, he imitates and copies their [Innate Techniques]. In essence, this is no different from swallowing a Cursed Object. It only depends on how much the [Copy Technique] can store.
Strictly speaking, neither Kenjaku nor Yuta Okkotsu ever truly possessed multiple [Innate Techniques] at the sa ti.
What they did was technically legal, yet it still produced the effect of holding multiple [Innate Techniques] at once.
But the next example is truly outrageous.
The Tiger Emperor Yuji Itadori, who spent sixty-eight years building himself up.
He possesses both [Shrine] and [Blood Manipulation], making him a genuine powerhouse who truly has multiple Innate Techniques.
He was Kenjaku's greatest masterpiece, the tenth Death Painting Womb. But just like Kasumi Miwa, he was born without awakening any [Innate Technique] at all, and instead awakened them entirely by swallowing Cursed Objects later in life.
Swallow a [Sukuna Finger], awaken [Malevolent Shrine].
Swallow a [Death Painting Womb], awaken [Blood Manipulation].
Ordinarily, according to the balance of the world, the stronger a sorcerer becos, the stronger the Cursed Spirits that arise in response, and the stronger the Cursed Spirits beco, the stronger the sorcerers produced in response. An existence as absurd as the Tiger Emperor should by all rights have been erased by heaven.
But because the Tiger Emperor had the special constitution of being half curse and half human, he was able to enjoy the advantages of both sides at once, like stepping on his own foot and launching himself into the air. It was such a blatant bug exploit that even heaven itself had no answer and could only stare in stunned silence.
Of course, none of that was remotely legal.
If Kasumi Miwa tried to replicate the Tiger Emperor's path to godhood, the only outco would be imdiate death.
The only legitimate way to be born with two [Innate Techniques] at once belongs solely to the King of Curses, [Ryon Sukuna].
And that thod is devouring your own twin.
Twins share one soul, so in the world of jujutsu, twins are treated as a single person.
That too is an unshakable truth of this world.
While still in the womb, the King of Curses, [Ryon Sukuna], cruelly devoured his own twin. Not only was he born with a monstrous body, he also awakened [Shrine], which simultaneously possessed both a slashing technique and a fla technique.
Basically, there is no other way to awaken a second [Innate Technique].
Even this transmigrator cannot simply ignore the worldview of Jujutsu Kaisen and make students awaken a second [Innate Technique] out of thin air.
The thod he was about to teach was actually very simple.
He was going to steal Gojo's signature trick, naly [Cursed Technique Reversal].
Strictly speaking, this was not really awakening a second [Innate Technique].
It was a high-level jujutsu technique, one that reversed your own [Innate Technique] and produced a completely opposite effect, creating the illusion that you had awakened a second [Innate Technique].
After all, even Satoru Gojo, despite possessing both [Six Eyes] and [Limitless Technique], had not always been the strongest sorcerer of the modern era.
It was only after his battle with Toji Fushiguro, when he stood at death's door and grasped [Reverse Cursed Technique], then awakened Cursed Technique Reversal. Red, that he beca the strongest sorcerer of the modern era.
What must be noted here is this.
[Reverse Cursed Technique] and [Cursed Technique Reversal] are two completely different jujutsu techniques.
[Reverse Cursed Technique] ans reversing originally negative Cursed Energy into positive energy and using it to heal yourself.
[Cursed Technique Reversal], on the other hand, ans driving your own [Innate Technique] in reverse, producing a phenonon completely opposite to its original effect.
And how exactly one reversed an [Innate Technique] was a profound question in itself.
If [Innate Technique] was a circuit, and Cursed Energy was the electricity that powered it, then the answer Gojo gave was this: use [Reverse Cursed Technique] to turn negatively aligned Cursed Energy into positively aligned Cursed Energy, then inject that into the [Innate Technique], thereby producing the phenonon of technique reversal.
That truly was a wise and correct answer.
But it also led to one unavoidable consequence.
A sorcerer who could not use [Reverse Cursed Technique] would never be able to use [Cursed Technique Reversal] in their lifeti.
And how many sorcerers in the entire jujutsu world could use [Reverse Cursed Technique]?
Fewer than ten.
That was also why Naoya Zenin had always wanted to learn [Reverse Cursed Technique].
Because [Reverse Cursed Technique] was the admission ticket to the ranks of the strongest.
If you could not use [Reverse Cursed Technique], then for your entire life, you would remain nothing more than a second-rate sorcerer.
Turning negative Cursed Energy into positive Cursed Energy.
It sounded like a very simple thing, but if you actually tried to do it, you would have no idea where to begin.
It was simple.
It was like being asked to prove why, in this world, a negative tis a negative beca a positive.
Negative tis negative equals positive.
Everyone knew that.
But why did negative tis negative equal positive?
No one knew that.
Why was [Reverse Cursed Technique] so hard to grasp?
Because it did not just an proving a truth that already existed. It also ant constructing an entirely new set of rules of your own to explain the world.
So in order to understand [Reverse Cursed Technique] more quickly, Naoya Zenin decided to learn from his students' experience instead.
He was not expecting them to learn [Reverse Cursed Technique].
But using [Cursed Technique Reversal] was not entirely impossible.
At the end of the day, driving an [Innate Technique] with positive energy was only a clever shortcut.
It was absolutely not the correct path to [Cursed Technique Reversal].
The essence of [Cursed Technique Reversal] was still just another way of using an [Innate Technique].
"What is an [Innate Technique]?"
Naoya Zenin swept his gaze across the students below and asked,
"Why does an [Innate Technique] exist? Why does an [Innate Technique] need Cursed Energy to drive it? Does an [Innate Technique] co from the soul or the body? How much do you really understand about your own [Innate Technique]? What exactly is its effect? Ask yourselves honestly. Do you know the answers to any of these questions?"
That barrage of questions was enough to stump not just the students present.
Even most of the teachers at Jujutsu High would not have been able to answer them.
Because human beings were creatures who went with the flow.
What people in the past did, later generations simply followed.
That was inheritance.
No one went out of their way to study such apparently aningless questions.
It was like a program. Once it was already running, no one cared what the code actually looked like, and no one would try to change it either, because you did not know what that part of the code actually did. If you changed it wrong, the whole program might collapse.
Cursed Energy was the fuel. Technique was the engine. Inject Cursed Energy, activate the technique. Simple, natural, only to be expected.
As long as it ran, that was enough.
Who cared what kind of fuel the engine actually needed?
But geniuses were different.
A genius could seize that one sliver of possibility and beco the one who wrote the rules.
"Since Cursed Energy can drive [Innate Technique]."
A mocking smile curled at Naoya Zenin's lips, as if he were laughing at the entire jujutsu world for its rigid, unquestioning stupidity.
"Then why can't [Innate Technique] drive Cursed Energy in reverse?"
"[Cursed Technique Reversal]. That is the second lesson I'm going to teach you."
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