Pu Shi's eyes bulged almost completely out of their sockets!
He looked terrifyingly fierce.
Three pairs of eyes were fixed on the little golden turtle perched on Jin's fingertip.
The mysterious space-time runes above its shell lit up one after another.
Like a neon sign coming to life, they flickered between light and dark.
Hum.
Hummm.
Soon, a faint, visible ripple of golden-pink light spread slowly from the edge of the shell.
In that moment, the space around the turtle took on a mysterious hue.
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"
Pu Shi cried out again. Blood bubbled from the corner of his mouth in an endless stream.
"R-Rihei... How could it respond to an insect?"
"Still calling people insects?" Jin held the buzzing, vibrating shell and casually gave it a shake. "Then what does that make you, pinned to the ground by an insect? Insect feed?"
"Insect feed can at least fill your stomach. You... you're just a punching bag."
Pfft!
Those two sentences made Pu Shi spit out another mouthful of blood.
He even tried to struggle free.
But his Chakra was sealed throughout his body. He couldn't move at all.
Zzzzt—hum!
Just then, the golden light on Rihei's shell suddenly faded. All the runes that had been shining went dark in an instant.
Rihei turned back into a droopy little turtle. It pawed at the air a couple of times, then fell completely still.
"Tch, did it really run out of power?"
Jin shook it in distaste. When he confirmed it wasn't responding, he tucked it into his pocket.
He had a rough idea of what the thing was for.
Just now, he'd used up nearly a million Chakra before it reacted.
And its response had lasted only a little while.
In other words, if he wanted to truly open