"Damn it!" Uchiha Ling's pupils constricted, and his heart nearly stopped.
The combination of Water Release and Lightning Release had left nearly half his body numb, while the Earth Mountain Technique unleashed by the two elite Jonin above him left him with nowhere to dodge!
His chakra was nearly depleted, and his arms were so badly injured that he could barely form Hand Seals. The Thunder God Descent ability in his right eye took a tremendous toll, and he lacked the ocular power to use it.
Meanwhile, his left eye had been pushed far beyond its limits. It throbbed with a pain like the eyeball had been gouged out, his vision was already obscured by a blanket of red, and he was almost completely blind!
Uchiha Ling couldn't even activate any of his ocular techniques on his own!
A desperate situation! A true dead end, with no chance of survival!
The two converging walls of earth and stone loomed larger and larger in his rapidly constricting pupils. The destructive force had already reached his hair...
At that critical instant, when life and death hung in the balance—
A terrifying strain, far greater than anything he had ever endured before, erupted from deep within his left eye, as if his very soul were being burned away!
"Gah—!"
Ling let out an uncontrollable cry of pain. The agony in his left eye reached an unprecedented peak, as though the entire eyeball and the nerves behind it had been crushed to pieces!
The blood-red haze in his vision was instantly swallowed by absolute darkness, and every last trace of light vanished!
And at the very moment his left eye sank into darkness, when even his consciousness seemed about to leave his body—
Kamumusubi activated—Life Regression!
He hadn't activated it himself. Faced with a