Second Resurrection, Purging the Eight Sufferings Incarnation! A Flood of Faith, the Rapidly Advancing Two-Shaku-Sama!

Uesugi Tetsu raised the Kaga Kiyomitsu in his hand, its blade perfectly still, and pointed it at the Eight Sufferings, who held a Buddhist monk's staff.

The effect of the Brahma Mask—changed from "Berserk" to "Greed, Anger, Ignorance"!

He could feel the power in his body, originally more turbulent than the wildest sea, drop slightly.

In that instant, all fourteen of the Eight Sufferings' pupils contracted, and the superfluous expressions on his seven faces vanished at once.

Although Uesugi Tetsu had yet to draw his blade and appeared unchanged on the outside, he could sense that something was different.

I'd better not get cut by him...

The Eight Sufferings gave the monk's staff in his hand a slight shake, causing the three human-bone rings at its tip to snap tight!

Without any time to react, three unknown characters from some ancient language appeared one after another above Uesugi Tetsu's head: "Cough," "Wheeze," and "Vomit."

"Cough, cough, cough—!"

Amid violent coughing that seemed ready to expel all his internal organs, Uesugi Tetsu's foot, just about to step forward, was forcibly halted.

At the same time, with every cough, he could feel countless invisible hands clamping around his throat.

Every breath required all his strength just to seize a trace of insignificant air from the atmosphere.

In that case...

Within the circulation of his astral energy, azure-violet lightning surged into his body, electrocuting the relevant organs and nerves until they died, then replacing them under the control of the Imperial Spirit Technique, weaving together with his astral energy.

Thus, Uesugi Tetsu no longer needed to breathe or pant, naturally becoming immune to these two instinctive biological reactions that humans could not control themselves.

After lightning and energy enveloped all five senses, Uesugi Tetsu calmly thought,

"I'll die within ninety seconds."

But ninety