The four who had lost their fighting strength could not even find the words to refute Asano Kiyoshi. They could only watch as the young man, who was not even a fraction of their age, lectured them from the side.
Asano Kiyoshi naturally noticed what they were thinking. He merely sighed softly. In the end, these people still had not properly adjusted their mindsets.
Then... he had not wanted to use this, but perhaps he should knock them down a peg again.
Asano Kiyoshi walked over to the Life Railing and slowly came to a stop, staring blankly at the railing.
Watching Asano Kiyoshi's movements, Kirio Temple clicked his tongue and said, "After saying all that, you still can't even break the Life Railing. This time, it was my fault. If I hadn't been so careless and held everyone back, we could have dealt with you inside the Life Railing..."
Before Kirio Temple could finish, Asano Kiyoshi placed a hand on the Life Railing. Ignoring Kirio Hikifune's warning behind him, he merely smiled faintly. "It really is an excellent ability. But this technique essentially absorbs an enemy's spiritual power and identifies allies through a fixed Reishi circulation pattern, doesn't it? In that case, if we make a few simple changes to the fundamental Reishi logic behind its operation, we can do some very interesting things."
The next instant, the moment Asano Kiyoshi's palm touched them, every tree began to twist in unison like female cats whose tail bases had been touched. Once proud and haughty, they now became like lumps of clay in Asano Kiyoshi's hands, extraordinarily malleable.
As Asano Kiyoshi's fingers danced, the birdcage's shape had already changed. In its place stood a wooden statue of Kirio Temple. Its design was extravagantly exaggerated, especially that pompadour, which looked as