"Stop me? How pathetic!" Genki sneered, his voice dripping with mockery. "You think you're worthy of stopping me?"
Before the words had left his mouth, he slowly raised his right hand. Dark red chakra gathered in his palm, still carrying the residual heat of the Calamity Flame. Its immense suction locked firmly onto Isshiki's body.
"You devoured eight Tailed Beasts and absorbed the source of Hagoromo's Sage Body. Your soul contains a rich wellspring of Ōtsutsuki power. I still have a use for you alive."
Isshiki's whole body shuddered. A look of disbelief and terror flashed through his eyes. "Y-You... what are you going to do?!"
He could clearly feel the powerful suction coming from Genki's palm. His soul was being dragged by it, as though it were about to be forcibly pulled from his body.
"What am I going to do?" Genki's smile turned colder. "Obviously, I'm going to devour your soul and absorb the Ōtsutsuki power within you. Your strength may be insignificant to me, but it's enough to take me one step further."
Before the words had left his mouth, Genki unleashed his power. The suction in his palm surged in an instant. Isshiki let out a scream of utter agony as his body convulsed violently. His pitch-black soul was ripped from its shell, wrapped in dense Ōtsutsuki chakra and Tailed Beast power, and radiating a faint but pure aura of primordial power.
Stripped of its soul, Isshiki's body instantly shriveled and stiffened, losing every last trace of life. It became a lifeless corpse.
"No—! My soul! My power!" Isshiki's soul screamed in despair, thrashing wildly as it tried to escape Genki's pull. But Genki's power was too domineering, too immense. Isshiki's struggle was as feeble and futile as an ant's.
Genki watched Isshiki's struggling soul with