Yet after he drank that pot, something strange happened. Instead of bone-piercing cold, a thick layer of ice began forming beneath Uchiha Hiko's feet!
In the blink of an eye, his entire body was sealed inside it.
No thoughts remained. It was as though even his ability to think had frozen, leaving him without memory.
The current Uchiha Hiko seemed to have entered an endless abyss devoid of color, a black hole of thought where he wandered without end.
At that moment, he had even forgotten who he was.
Outside, the Cat Sage shouted loudly, alerting the God above. At that moment, he could no longer sense Uchiha Hiko's ki!
It had vanished.
"Big Cat, where is Uchiha Hiko?"
The Cat Sage had yet to react, still lost in his memory lapse.
When the God asked him again, he plucked out one of his whiskers. The pain jolted him awake, and he said, "That brat actually drank an entire pot of Super Divine Water. He's frozen into an ice pillar now!"
"Nani! He drank a whole pot? Didn't you tell him that Super Divine Water was dangerous?"
"I did. He knew it himself."
"It's over. What a waste of talent. His ki has disappeared."
"His aura disappeared?" The Cat Sage was frightened as well. After all, ki could not be concealed. If someone truly had no trace of aura left, it could only mean one thing—they were dead.
Looking at the ice sculpture before him, at the lifelike Uchiha Hiko encased within the thick ice, the Cat Sage still could not believe that he had died just like that. To beings like them, death was something that had been distant for a very long time.
Since that was the case, he could not exactly leave the ice sculpture blocking his