At Chiyo's thought, the blood sphere emitting an eerie red glow actually began to squirm across its surface.
It felt as though the blood sphere were alive!
Anyone from the Chinoike Clan who awakened the Ketsuryūgan could be called an emissary of blood.
Now, after being stained with Chiyo's blood, the blood sphere Soji had given her to save her life was undergoing a mutation no one had anticipated!
"Thump, thump."
Suddenly, a sound like a heartbeat came from inside the blood sphere.
At the same time, Chiyo's blood flowing across the ground, along with the Blood Mist that had scattered through the air after the Nine-Headed Blood Dragon collapsed, was slowly being absorbed into the bizarre blood sphere.
Though Chiyo was controlling all of this herself, she was merely following her instincts.
Even she did not know why!
It was just that a voice in her heart seemed to be telling her that this was the right thing to do.
At this moment, as the blood sphere continuously absorbed Chiyo's blood from the air and the ground, it no longer emitted that eerie crimson glow.
As time passed, the surface of the blood sphere squirmed faster and faster, while the heartbeat-like sound from within grew louder and louder.
Finally, the blood sphere began to slowly change shape.
Yet the transformation left Chiyo's mouth hanging open, her small eyes nearly bulging out of their sockets.
"Th-this is..."
She was so shocked that, even though she had played a part in causing all this, Chiyo could not even speak.
The three Kage watching through the crystal ball of the Telescopic Technique also fell silent.
They estimated that they would never forget what was happening in the image for the rest of their lives.
First, Reanimated Hashirama Senju had cleared the field