Consciousness-Only: Even No Ignorance Ends

A small Innate Time Control barrier took shape, silently appearing inside Orochimaru's chest and enclosing his heart.

Time began to accelerate!

Uchiha Mai frantically accelerated the flow of time within the barrier, pushing it until the barrier could no longer withstand the strain and shattered.

Orochimaru, who was charging at him with his sword raised, suddenly froze for a moment. Then his face flushed, like a girl with a vibrating egg inside her when someone suddenly pressed the remote.

His heart did not hurt, but the blood vessels and channels around it felt horribly uncomfortable.

An ordinary Innate Time Control barrier enclosed the entire person. Since the flow of time was altered, the person inside the barrier also moved at a different speed relative to the outside world.

But even if time accelerated tenfold, the person inside would notice nothing unusual before the barrier collapsed. They would only feel as though everything else in the world had slowed down.

That was because time changed, not speed.

This time, however, things were different.

Orochimaru's heart rate had not changed, but since only the flow of time around his heart had accelerated while the blood vessels connected to it remained in normal time, his blood inevitably circulated faster.

It was uncomfortable. Extremely uncomfortable.

Once the barrier shattered, the world's corrective force descended. Crushing and twisting forces surged toward Orochimaru's heart like a tide.

Orochimaru suddenly knitted his brows as a stabbing pain gripped his heart. The attack he had been making had to stop as well.

Uchiha Mai smiled faintly, stepped forward, and brought his blade down at Orochimaru.

Expecting Consciousness-Only: No Ignorance to kill Orochimaru was unrealistic. It was merely a basic disruptive ability. Since the barrier was tiny, it consumed less than a thirtieth of the chakra.

The damage caused