Bloodcurtse

Yichen had a feeling that while he was sensing the Jashin, the Jashin was also spying on him.

"Phew~~" Yichen breathed a sigh of relief. At least for now, this Jashin was still within the realm of comprehension.

If this Jashin had truly reached the fourth stage, Yichen would definitely have turned and run away by now, and then sold the information to Konoha.

Since it's also the third stage of Yin Release, then it's fine.

Although they are both in the third stage, there is a big difference between them, but Yichen is not flustered.

Yichen had already defeated the Moryo, who was no weaker than Jashin, and now that he was even stronger, he naturally had no fear of Jashin.

Not to mention, this so-called Jashin is not even present in its true form; there are only a few agents here who can communicate with it and borrow a portion of its power.

Of course, Yichen wouldn't be careless either. These guys who had reached the pinnacle of the third stage of Yin Release seemed to have abilities that were close to those of Sage.

They all possess a certain ability that ninjas at the mortal level cannot comprehend.

For example, Hidan's Bloodcurtse, the Dark Medical Ninjutsu derived from the Moryo, and the Reaper Death Seal brought by the Shinigami Mask.

And of course, there's the most perplexing thing: immortality.

Both Hidan Yomi possess a degree of immortality.

These abilities belong to the realm of Sage; the current Kage-level experts in the Ninja World are unable to achieve them.

However, as his understanding of Chakra deepened and his knowledge of the Ninja World became more profound, Yichen gradually began to take these abilities seriously and start to think about them.

In Yichen's understanding, there are also some abilities that belong to the Sage level, such as the strange and wonderful Dōjutsu of the Mangekyō Sharingan.

Needless to say, the extraordinary abilities of Kotoamatsukami and Kamui are well-known, and even Amaterasu, a flame that can burn anything, cannot be explained by ordinary theories.

Besides the Mangekyou Sharingan eye technique of the Uchiha clan, Yi Chen felt that he also had something that could be considered a Sage-level ability.

That's the Super S-rank Ninjutsu: Mind's Eye.

The Mind's Eye, which Yichen now often refers to as Global Vision, is an ability that can no longer be explained by normal theories.

Like all Mangekyo Uchiha, Yichen can use this amazing ability, but he cannot understand its underlying principles.

Perhaps this is the manifestation of the abilities of Sage.

Pulling himself back to reality, Yichen looked once more at the source of the Jashin's power: the center of the altar. His eyes revealed excitement and longing.

I really want to capture this Jashin and study it.

Unfortunately, this idea could only remain a thought. Yichen couldn't control this incomprehensible being, and even if he were to actually capture it, Yichen felt that he would eventually suffer a backlash.

Yichen n't take the remaining members of the Jashin Cult seriously, but they stared at him with extreme tension.

The scene where Yichen subdued dozens of his companions in the blink of an eye was terrifying.

So even though they have now communicated with the Jashin and gained power far exceeding their usual abilities, they are still extremely fearful and uneasy.

They were all desperately praying to the Jashin, hoping to gain more and stronger power.

Meanwhile, the surviving members of the Jashin Cult gathered around the person who had warned them earlier— the Jashin Cult leader.

To the slight reassurance of these Jashin Cult members, the Jashin actually responded to their request and granted them even greater power.

However, these members of the Jashin Cult did not realize that their leader was less panicked than they were, because he had noticed Yichen's gaze.

Yichen's gaze remained fixed on the center of the altar.

Those who had communicated with the Jashin naturally knew that the Jashin was in that location.

But how did Yichen, an outsider, discover this?

The leader of the Jashin Cult had never encountered such a situation before.

Previous enemies had always focused their attention on these people who possessed a degree of immortality, and no one had ever discovered the location of the Jashin.

Moreover, Yichen's methods of dealing with the members of the Jashin Cult terrified him.

The greatest advantage the Jashin gave them was not power, but a certain degree of immortality. However, the Tsuchikage in front of them easily solved this problem with Sealing Jutsu.

The leader of the Jashin Cult is not afraid of encountering powerful enemies. For the Jashin Cult, as long as someone sheds blood, their blood and even their souls can be sacrificed to the Jashin, thereby allowing the remaining people to gain greater power.

If Yichen were to use swift and decisive means to break the immortality of those dozens of people and kill them on the spot, the leader could then sacrifice them all to gain even greater power.

But Yichen did not. Yichen used a seal to cut off the leader of the Jashin Cult's biggest Trump Card.

Taking advantage of Yichen's distraction, the leader quickly launched a Signal Flare into the air, signaling the Jashin Cult to gather its members to jointly resist external enemies.

Any member of the Jashin Cult in Yugakure who sees this signal will definitely come to their aid immediately.

There are still several hundred members in Yugakure. If we can mobilize them all, they might still have the strength to First Shinobi War.

But why didn't the Tsuchikage do anything? He clearly had the opportunity to interrupt his own Signal Flare, so why didn't he stop it?

"Could it be?" The leader of the Jashin Cult couldn't help but tremble slightly.

Sure enough, quite some time passed after the Signal Flare was fired, but the entire Yugakure remained completely silent.

The leader of the Jashin Cult felt his heart sink to the bottom. It was over; his guess had been proven true.

Those people were definitely dealt with by the Tsuchikage in front of them. If nothing unexpected happened, the Tsuchikage dealt with them in a similar way to the dozens of people who were now sealed and floating in the air.

Otherwise, if a large number of believers died, the Jashin should have given a warning.

Are all the Kage from these Great Ninja Village this strong? Could any one of them just wipe out the supposedly invincible headquarters of the Jashin Cult?

"Lord Tsuchikage, I am the leader of the Jashin Cult. May I ask what brings you here, Lord Tsuchikage?" the leader of the Jashin Cult said.

"Has the Jashin Cult somehow offended the Iwa ninja or the Tsuchikage?"

"Please enlighten us, Lord Tsuchikage. We, the Jashin Cult, will certainly change. Furthermore, we are willing to provide any form of compensation for our offensive actions."

Yichen blinked, finally shifting his gaze from the center of the altar to the leader of the Jashin Cult. "So, he's quite knowledgeable about objects?"

Unfortunately, I didn't take a liking to the Jashin Cult; I was interested in the Jashin themselves.

Yichen said, "There's no need for compensation. I just want to see what abilities your Jashin has."

Upon hearing Yichen's words, the leader of the Jashin Cult felt his heart sink again; it seemed things wouldn't end well today.

"Attack! Sacrifice the Tsuchikage to the Lord Jashin, and we will surely gain his Lord Jashin." Seeing that negotiation and compromise were useless, the leader of the Jashin Cult revealed his ruthless nature and immediately shouted for his men to attack.

Upon hearing of the Jashin's favor, all the surviving members of the Jashin Cult temporarily overcame their fear and excitedly launched an attack on Yichen.

Yichen glanced at the attack methods of these people.

Their attacks were found to fall into two categories: physical attacks, which, judging by their style, were likely aimed at obtaining the enemy's blood.

The other type is Yin Release attack, which is more powerful and more covert, and should be a killing move.

However, for Yichen, who had reached the third stage of Yin Release and Mind's Eye, this attack was anything but concealable.

Yichen was able to clearly sense the paths of these attacks and predict their trajectories.

Yichen pulled Chiga along and dodged all the Yin Release attacks with a few Body Flicker Technique.

As for physical attacks, they simply cannot Wind Release: Breakthrough the defenses of the Porcelain Mud.

Yichen didn't rush to retaliate, but instead chose to simply dodge. Yichen planned to take this opportunity to see the Jashin's methods.

After only a dozen or so rounds, Yichen lost interest, because the members of the Jashin Cult were using the same Yin Release attack over and over again.

This is of no reference value to Yichen at all.

After thinking it over, Yichen decided to try a different approach.

Yichen One-handed Hand Seals: Immortal Technique - Earth Release - Earth Style: Earth Flow Wall.

An Earth Wall blocked the view of the members of the Jashin Cult.

Then Yichen waved his hand and obtained a large amount of blood from a sealed member of the Evil Jashin Cult who was out of sight of the other members.

Yichen handed one of the pieces to Chiga and said, "Eat this, and then carefully sense it later to see if you can see anything."

Chiga didn't understand why, but she ate it anyway.

Seeing this, Yichen led her out from behind the Earth Style: Earth Flow Wall and, taking an opportunity, pretended to have been injured by members of the Jashin Cult and lost some blood.

Those members of the Jashin Cult had already given up hope, but Yichen's casual attitude showed them just how vast the gap in strength between the two sides truly was.

Seeing Yichen suddenly become careless, everyone was jolted awake, as if they could already see Yichen falling into a ditch.

Then, without making a sound, the group took the blood into their hands. They exchanged glances, then each took a small piece and ate it together.

Then Yichen and Chiga saw that the skin of these people had turned black, and thick lines appeared on their bodies, like some kind of mysterious runes.

Then, these people excitedly began to self-harm in unison.

Yichen had no intention of continuing the charade with them, and instead turned to look at Chiga.

At that moment, Chiga's body jolted violently. Sweating profusely, she exclaimed, "Teacher Yichen, I saw it! I saw the Jashin!"

Yichen was delighted; it had worked! So he said, "Don't rush, tell me slowly, what happened now?"

Chiga said, "When I just consumed the blood, I only saw one person in the Blood Sensation space. That person is in Yugakure, not far from us."

"Now I see the Jashin, and the members of that Jashin Cult."

Chiga pointed to the few remaining members of the Jashin Cult.

Then he added, "The Jashin is right next to them, probably in the center of that altar."

Yichen nodded and said, "Very good, your judgment is correct. I can sense the location of the Jashin; it is indeed there."

"What else did you see?" Yichen pressed.

Chiga said, "I saw these people connect themselves with the person from the beginning through the Jashin."

"Their... their souls seem to be synchronized. At first, that person seemed to be manipulated by these people."

Yichen remained silent, his soul synchronized with the situation, manipulated as if by magic. So that's how it is.

Yichen continued, "I understand. Is there anything else you've discovered?"

As Chiga watched the members of the Jashin Cult mutilate themselves, he compared the scene with what he saw through his Blood Sensation.

Then he said, "The soul is the medium; these people must have used their souls to replicate their actions onto the person who started it."

"If I'm not mistaken, the person at the beginning was probably doing the same thing as them."

Yichen nodded and asked, "Your guess is correct. So, can you learn this method?"

Chiga thought for a moment and said, "I probably can't learn it. The Jashin links them to the target, which is somewhat similar to the situation when I used blood to track them."

"But I don't know the principle behind how the damage is transferred."

After a while, Chiga added, "However, if we let them try a few more times, perhaps we can find a solution."

At this point, the members of the Jashin Cult stopped attacking and also stopped harming themselves.

Because the Jashin relayed the message that the sacrifice had died, and the Jashin had received it. They also exited that special state.

However, Yichen seemed to be unharmed, which made them wonder if Yichen was immune to the Bloodcurtse.

The moment this thought crossed their minds, they were utterly desperate. Bloodcurtse was their greatest Trump Card, and also the most important means for the Jashin to display his power.

Yichen's completely indifferent attitude towards these people robbed them of the courage to resist. Their faith was on the verge of collapse.

Seeing this, Yichen used his teleportation ability to seal away all the members of the Jashin Cult who were like lost souls.

Only the leader remained, still struggling.

Yichen used his Porcelain Release to transform into Kunai, which directly injured him.

Then they brought his blood back and had Chiga swallow some of it.

Then Yichen took out the blood of the most recently sealed member of the Jashin Cult and made Chiga swallow it as well.

Then Yichen released the member of the Jashin Cult.

Unsurprisingly, the Jashin Cult member immediately communicated with the Jashin upon his release.

However, Yichen only lifted the seal, but did not loosen the mud binding his body.

Before the man could make a move, Yichen directly presented the blood of the Jashin Cult leader to him and forcibly shoved it into his mouth.

The next moment, Chiga immediately said, "Teacher Yichen, I understand what you mean. Quickly stab that person; perhaps that will really help us figure out the principle."

Yichen smiled and used his Porcelain Kunai to stab the Jashin Cult member who was bound by the Porcelain Mud.

Then, at the same time, screams of agony emanated from the Jashin Cult member and his leader.

Then Yichen heard Chiga excitedly say, "Teacher Yichen, keep hurting him! I think I'm about to find out why!"

Then, Yichen slowly sliced the unfortunate man to death, leaving only his and the leader's occasional screams and groans of pain at the scene.

Thanks to Xie Xie for granting them a degree of immortality, they were able to continuously provide Chiga with so much reference data.

After Yichen discarded the unrecognizable corpse, Chiga reopened his Awakening Eyes and said, "Teacher Yichen, I roughly understand the principle behind it."

"But I can't replicate this process yet; I need more experiments."

Yichen smiled and said, "Don't worry, we still have hundreds of people at our disposal, enough for test subjects."

"A few hundred members of the Jashin Cult are enough for you to conduct your experiments."

However, Yichen did not immediately begin the experiment, but instead focused his attention on the leader of the Jashin Cult.

Having endured a brutal torture, this guy is still alive, and judging by his appearance, he seems to still possess some strength.

"Immortality, that's truly an amazing ability." Thinking this, Yichen gave him a quick death.

Yichen fired a large number of Porcelain Kunai at the leader of the Jashin Cult.

Before being pierced by Yichen's dense array of Porcelain Kunai, the leader of this Jashin Cult found himself calm.

He regretted it somewhat; he had been too hasty. He shouldn't have attacked the civilians of the Land of Hot Water immediately after annexing the Yugakure.

Otherwise, we wouldn't have attracted this powerful figure.

Thankfully, I had anticipated this day would come, and thankfully, the most talented members of the cult had already been transferred.

He will surely become the perfect vessel for the Lord Jashin, and one day the Lord Jashin will be able to completely descend upon the Ninja World.

The Lord Jashin will surely resurrect me then.

Then the leader of the Jashin Cult closed his eyes. The next instant, his mangled body was engulfed by a large number of Porcelain Kunai.

Next, Yichen divided the members of the Jashin Cult in Yugakure into groups of two, totaling several hundred groups. Then, following the same method, he conducted experiment after experiment.

With Yichen's help, Chiga continuously observed the process of the Bloodcurtse acting on the soul level within her Blood Sensation space.

After dozens of attempts, Chiga finally made progress.

She suddenly Yichen said, "Teacher Yichen, I'm almost there, but we need to verify it using a different method. We'll have three people in a group, with the first person swallowing the second person's blood, and the second person swallowing the third person's blood."

"I want to use this method to see if this ability is effective."

Yichen thought about it and felt that this idea was good and worth trying, so he randomly selected three people and started the experiment according to Chiga's instructions.

After four more rounds of experiments, Chiga excitedly said, "Teacher Yichen, I understand! I've completely figured it out!"

Chiga then explained in detail the working principle of the Bloodcurtse.

As Yichen listened to Chiga's analysis, he repeatedly exclaimed in admiration, "That's amazing! Yin Release can actually be used like that!"

After torturing hundreds of members of the Jashin Cult by slow slicing, Chiga finally figured out the principle Bloodcurtse.

Unfortunately, Chiga's Soul Power was insufficient to kill the enemy; after all, she did not possess the ability to use Yin Release attacks.

At this moment, Yichen smiled and said, "Let's try this."

As he spoke, Yichen took the blood of another member of the Jashin Cult and handed it to Chiga. At the same time, Yichen also gave Chiga his own blood.

After swallowing the blood, Chiga looked at Yichen with a puzzled expression.

Yichen smiled slightly, first creating a Shadow Clone to guard the side, then using the Spirit Transformation Jutsu to enter Chiga's body.

Unlike his previous attempts to enter other people's bodies, this time Yichen actually arrived at Chiga's Blood Sensation space.

This was also the inspiration that Yichen had just found in the Bloodcurtse that Chiga had obtained.

Following the trace of mark formed by Chiga's blood, Yichen successfully entered this place using the Spirit Transformation Jutsu.

Chiga was somewhat bewildered. In her Blood Sensation space, the ninjas were originally blurry, but Yichen, who was originally blurry, suddenly became solid.

Yichen now has clear vision and senses, just like a real person.

Yichen nodded to Chiga. They were all in soul form, unable to speak, and could only perform simple actions.

The next moment, within Chiga's Blood Sense space, the figure representing Yichen rushed directly towards the figure representing the member of the Jashin Cult.

Then, Chiga was surprised to find that the member of the Jashin Cult in reality suddenly screamed.

The next moment, the man died instantly, and his figure in Chiga's Blood Sensation space also vanished instantly, leaving only Yichen behind.

Yichen smiled slightly at Chiga, and then disappeared from Chiga's Blood Sensation space.

Seeing this, Chiga quickly turned to look at Yichen's true form, and sure enough, the next moment, Yichen's true form had already opened his eyes.

Yichen smiled slightly at Chiga and said, "How about this method? If used properly, it can kill people remotely."

Chiga nodded vigorously; this method of use was truly amazing.

Yichen said, "However, you can't rely on me to kill people forever. You need to learn some Yin Release attack techniques yourself."

"After you return to the village, go find your Senior Brother Katsuya, and I'll have him teach you."

Chiga nodded frantically.

However, Yichen suddenly said, "Compared to this, there is something even more interesting to me."

"What?" Chiga, puzzled.

Yichen pointed to the center of the altar and said, "Jashin."

Chiga swallowed hard and asked, "Teacher Yichen, what are you going to do?"

Yichen said, "Let's meet this Jashin. This Jashin may be stronger than me in terms of Yin Release level, but his agency is not high."

"So many previous experiments have already shown that we have malicious intentions. But it did nothing. Either it didn't care, or it couldn't do anything."

"I suspect it's the latter, because as members of the Jashin Cult died one by one, I could feel it weakening."

"I suspect it has some kind of pact with Jashin Cult members, and it must respond when they summon it."

"Of course, the person who summons it must also offer sacrifices."

"But from my perspective, it's just a puppet, and I want to test its abilities."

Chiga guessed what Yichen was planning to do and cautiously asked, "Teacher Yichen, won't something go wrong?"

"How about we kill the remaining members of the Jashin Cult first? We can leave a few for experiments."

"Didn't you say that the more members of the Jashin Cult die, the weaker it will become?"

Yichen patted Chiga's head and said, "Don't worry, I only dared to do this because I was confident. Even if it keeps showing weakness, I can still get out unscathed."

As he spoke, Yichen pointed to a bell on his body and said, "With this, I'll be fine."

Then Yichen released another member of the Jashin Cult. This person, like the previous dozens of test subjects, instantly communicated with the Jashin after realizing his predicament.

Then Yichen put a drop of blood from another member of the Jashin Cult into his mouth.

The next moment, the person turned black and entered the mode of Bloodcurtse.

Chiga, who had swallowed the blood of the two men earlier, nodded nervously to Yichen nodded, indicating that the Jashin had entered her Blood Sensation space.

Then Yichen also pricked his finger and flicked a drop of blood into Chiga's mouth.

Then Yichen used the Spirit Transformation Jutsu again, and his entire soul entered Chiga's Blood Sensation space.

Unlike last time, this time Yichen was still holding the bell in his hand.

The author's family consists of three people: his mother and wife have both become Yang person, leaving him alone. He doesn't know when he will become positive as well.