The crimson rain of blood gradually subsided in this valley known as the " Bone-Eater's Well ".
The nauseating, murky miasma in the air was completely purified into a near-vacuum-like, deathly stillness under the Tobirama Uchiha.
The ground was covered with crimson mud left behind after the hundred thousand great demons were crushed by Conqueror's Haki.
In the very center of this scorched earth, which resembled a hellish inferno, Kikyo exquisitely beautiful white-clad Shrine Maiden Shura sat slumped on the ground in an utterly helpless manner. Her smooth, delicate chin was forcefully lifted by a finger that seemed to hold the power of life and death over the universe.
Tobirama Uchiha's deep voice, filled with an absolute desire for control, echoed softly in Kikyo's ears.
Kikyo's thoughts froze completely at this moment. Her usually calm and clear eyes were now blankly reflecting the handsome, otherworldly, yet extremely cold face before her.
She was once the strongest Shrine Maiden, on whom the entire village and even the entire Kanto Region placed their hopes. Throughout her life, she carried the heavy burden of purifying evil spirits and protecting precious treasures, and never showed the slightest weakness in front of anyone.
However, in front of this silver-haired man who could annihilate 100,000 demons with a mere wave of his hand, her proud spiritual power and her lofty defenses that she had held firm for twenty years were like a fence woven from withered grass, which was kicked to pieces with extreme brutality.
Just as Kikyo was overwhelmed by the ultimate shock, she forgot to even breathe.
Tobirama Uchiha's gaze casually tilted downwards, landing on Kikyo's right palm, which was slightly relaxed due to exhaustion.
There, a bead no bigger than a glass marble, emitting a faint pink glow, lay quietly amidst the bloodstains.
The Shikon Jewel.
This ultimate divine object, found in the Sengoku period, has drawn countless powerful demons and monsters into a frenzied battle, unleashing a century of bloodshed and carnage.
"Is this what those scumbags would risk their lives for?"
Tobirama's lips curled into a smile brimming with utter contempt. He didn't even bend down to pick it up; he simply extended his left hand with utter indifference, flicking his index finger slightly upward.
"Buzz."
The Shikon Jewel, which Kikyo cherished as if it were her life, instantly defied gravity and obediently floated up from the Shrine Maiden's palm, transforming into a pink streak of light that landed steadily in Tobirama Uchiha's large, fair palm.
"No! Don't touch it!"
Seeing Baoyu change hands, Kikyo's previously malfunctioning brain finally awoke with an instinctive shock! She abruptly stretched out her hands, trying to stop Tobirama's actions, her beautiful and refined face filled with unprecedented anxiety and fear.
"Put it down quickly! That's no ordinary gem! It contains the remnant soul of the ancient Shrine Maiden, Midoriko, after her battle with countless powerful demons!"
Kikyo's voice trembled slightly with extreme tension. "The interior of the jade is filled with unimaginable filth and greedy evil thoughts! Whether human or demon, as long as there is no absolutely pure soul to suppress it, once they come into contact with it, their minds will be completely devoured and assimilated by the malice within the jade in an instant, turning them into walking corpses who only know how to kill!"
In Kikyo's mind, the Shikon Jewel was an ultimate bomb that could detonate this world at any moment. She purified it day and night with her pure soul, never daring to slacken her efforts, for fear that the Magatsuhi within it might take advantage of her.
And now, this man dares to hold it so unguardedly in his hand, which is completely devoid of spiritual energy!
However.
Faced with Kikyo's desperate and urgent warning.
Tobirama Uchiha, however, seemed to have heard the most clumsy and ridiculous joke in the world.
"Filth? Evil thoughts? Devouring my mind?"
Tobirama lowered his Tobirama and glanced at the pink bead lying in his palm. His eyes, which seemed to shimmer with the light of starlight, were filled with an extreme disdain, as if he were looking at filth from a sewer.
"This inferior glass ball, born in some remote and impoverished place, dares to be called a divine object? Does it even deserve to speak of the word 'devouring' before me?"
The moment the words left his mouth.
Under Kikyo's suddenly magnified and utterly horrified gaze.
Tobirama Uchiha casually raised his left hand, holding the Shikon Jewel, which had been revered as the supreme treasure throughout the Warring States Period and had driven countless demons mad.
It's like eating a cheap candy you just bought from a roadside stall.
"Gurgle."
Direct, straightforward, without even flinching...
It was swallowed whole!!!
"You--?!!"
Kikyo went completely mad. She collapsed into the mud, her hands tightly covering her lips, all color draining from her beautiful face, her brain buzzing as if on the verge of collapse.
have eaten?!
He actually swallowed the Shikon Jewel?!
That's a curse source that even the most ferocious ancient demons only dared to embed on the surface of their bodies and carefully draw power from it! This is equivalent to swallowing an entire volcano's lava, accumulated over hundreds of years, directly into one's internal organs!
"It's... it's all over..." Despairing tears welled up in Kikyo's eyes. She seemed to foresee that the mysterious and powerful man before her would be completely burst apart by the resentment within the jewel in the next second, transforming into an ultimate monster that would destroy the entire world.
But.
One second passed, then three seconds passed.
The terrifying scene of being consumed by resentment and having one's Spiritual Pressure run rampant, which I had imagined, did not happen for a long time.
At this very moment, within Tobirama Uchiha's vast and boundless inner universe.
The Setsuna the Shikon Jewel entered his stomach, the will that had been dormant within it for hundreds of years finally awakened!
"Hahahaha! An absolutely perfect body! An incredibly powerful life force!"
Inside the jade, the [ Magatsuhi ], representing extreme evil, and the [ Naoraku ], representing good intentions, both emitted extremely greedy roars after sensing the terrifying power within Tobirama that far exceeded the boundaries of this universe.
Tens of thousands of vengeful spirits transformed into a vast, dark ocean of malevolent thoughts, attempting to spread wildly along Tobirama's Tobirama and seize control of this seemingly perfect creation.
"Once we possess this body, we can completely break free from the jade's shackles and become the sole True God of this world!!!"
Magatsuhi issued an extremely arrogant declaration within Tobirama's body.
However.
Its announcement lasted only a fraction of a second.
"How dare you make such a racket inside my body!"
A chillingly cold voice, seemingly a divine punishment from a higher-dimensional creator, resounded throughout Tobirama's inner universe!
Buzz----!!!!
There's no need to mobilize any Chakra or activate Sage Mode.
It was only the system's extremely unreasonable Healthy Itachi mechanism that activated the highest level of antivirus program the moment it detected the intrusion of the foreign object!
A supreme power of rules, capable of crushing even the very essence of the Soul King's Primordial Essence the Death God Universe, swept over everything like a cosmic millstone, brutally and relentlessly!
"What... what kind of power is this?! No!!! This is impossible!!!"
Just a moment ago, Magatsuhi was arrogant and domineering, claiming to be the source of all evil, and Naoraku was self-righteous.
Under this overwhelming force, which was on a completely different level, they were like two mantises trying to stop a rolling wheel, unable to even stir up the slightest aftershock of resistance.
"Pfft!"
Those will entities formed from the remnants of countless great demon souls were completely and utterly erased of all consciousness and traces in an instant!
A complete and utter shattering of both physics and concepts!
[Ding! Low-level dimensional law crystal ' Shikon Jewel ' detected!]
[Internal impurities and consciousness have been completely eradicated!]
[Congratulations, host! You have absorbed the fragments of the ' Time Travel Law ' and the ' Soul Reincarnation Law ' without any side effects! The Empire Law Repository has been updated!]
The system's crisp notification tone sounded.
The so-called "divine object" Shikon Jewel was completely digested into a tiny, insignificant wisp of pure nourishment within Tobirama Uchiha's body.
The real world.
The night wind still carried a chill, and the stench of blood remained strong in the valley.
Tobirama Uchiha slowly lowered his head, his eyes, which seemed to gleam with the light of stardust, calmly looking down at Kikyo, who was completely dumbfounded.
Not a trace of foul black energy emanated from him, and his pure black robe remained spotless. His divine aura, which transcended everything, was not weakened in the slightest; on the contrary, it became even more profound and vast after absorbing new fragments of laws.
"What? Do you think I should be possessed by the evil spirits in those scrap metal right now, and then crawl on the ground screaming like a madman?"
A mocking smile played on Tobirama's lips as he looked down at the stunningly beautiful Shrine Maiden, his voice radiating an undeniable domineering authority.
"The invincible ferocity in your eyes wouldn't even be able to produce a burp in my digestive system."
Shocking!
An ultimate shock that transcends the limits of cognition and shatters one's worldview!
Kikyo stared blankly at the unharmed man, her face icy and aloof. The heavy destiny she had guarded for half her life, the world-ending calamity she had been wary of day and night, had actually been so... casually resolved by him, like a piece of candy?!
That's the Shikon Jewel!
At that moment, the mountain of "responsibility" that Kikyo had been carrying collapsed in her heart. In its place was an unprecedented, ultimate ease that even made her soul tremble.
"The jade is mine now."
Ignoring Kikyo's shock, Tobirama Uchiha slowly leaned down, his large, powerful hands gripping Kikyo's slender, delicate shoulders with overwhelming force.
He yanked the Shrine Maiden, covered in mud and blood but still exuding a captivating fragrance, up from the cold ground and pulled her into his arms with an extremely domineering air.
"Since what you were guarding has been confiscated by me..."
Tobirama lowered his head, his hot breath hitting Kikyo's crystal-clear earlobe, his voice like an unquestionable Emperor-level edict.
"Then, as compensation, from this moment on, your body, along with your soul, belongs entirely to me."
Absolute possession! Unreasonable and tyrannical conquest!
Feeling the astonishing heat emanating from that broad chest, and the terrifying power capable of easily crushing a hundred thousand demons.
Kikyo's cold heart, dormant for twenty years, was completely captivated at this moment.
She neither pushed the man away nor voiced her resistance. Her slender, calloused hands, which had always held bows and arrows, moved with extreme weakness yet complete submissiveness, slowly climbing up Tobirama's waist.
She closed her eyes, a single, glistening tear sliding down her cheek—a testament to the relief of being unburdened and to her complete submission to this interdimensional deity.
In such a cruel Warring States Period, to be protected and possessed by such an Cover the Sky with One Hand- powerful and domineering supreme being was the most perfect ending that a tragic Shrine Maiden like her could ever hope for.
"Now that we've accepted the new spoils..."
Tobirama felt extremely satisfied with the submissiveness of the beauty in his Tobirama. He raised his head slightly and glanced at the dilapidated shrine outside the valley.
"Then let's go to your residence and I'll examine you closely to see just how good you really are, this high-and-mighty flower."
Just as Tobirama was about to use his Body Flicker Technique to bring this newly recruited top-notch Shrine Maiden maiden back to the shrine for an unreserved "deep exchange,"
"Bang!!!"
A deafeningly loud and violent explosion erupted without warning on the cliff face above the valley!
A shower of pebbles fell from the sky, shattering the originally ambiguous and extremely tranquil night.
"Who goes there?!"
Kikyo instinctively stiffened. Although she had decided to submit, her vigilance, honed from years of fighting demons, made her turn her head instinctively toward the direction from which the voice came.
Meanwhile, Tobirama Uchiha, who was standing beside her, had his brows, which had previously held a somewhat lazy smile, furrowed deeply with extreme impatience.
On a huge rock tens of meters above their heads.
An extremely arrogant figure, exuding an air of barbarity and naivety, was squatting there with extreme arrogance.
He was a boy wearing an extremely eye-catching fiery red robe ( Robe of the Fire Rat ), with long silver-white hair and two very conspicuous white dog ears growing on his head.
He was barefoot, his right hand roughly picking his nose, and his golden eyes gleamed with an extremely greedy and arrogant light.
This half-demon who suddenly barged in is none other than Inuyasha, whose timeline and causal lines have been completely "corrected" by the underlying logic of the system, Deprivation of his original protagonist aura, and reduced to a pure Sengoku wild dog!
In this corrected world, he was never sealed on the Sacred Tree, nor did he ever have any of that so-called "unforgettable" melodramatic love affair with Kikyo.
In his eyes, Kikyo below was nothing more than a slightly prettier human woman; and the white-haired man in black was nothing more than a prey who didn't know his own death.
"Sniff... sniff sniff..."
Inuyasha's black dog nose twitched violently a few times in the air, and then, a wild and arrogant laugh spread across his face.
"Hahahaha! My nose never makes a mistake!"
He suddenly stood up from the rock, put his hands on his hips, and pointed arrogantly at Tobirama Uchiha below.
"Hey! You pale-faced guy in black!"
"I could smell the Shikon Jewel from a mile away, it was mouthwatering! I don't know how you managed to take down those useless demons, but your luck has run out!"
Inuyasha arrogantly raised his chin, revealing two rows of sharp canine teeth, his words filled with a laughable, blind self-confidence.
"Hand over the Shikon Jewel to me right now!"
"If you obediently hand over that bead with both hands, I might spare your and that woman's lives today if I'm in a good mood!"
"Otherwise..."
Inuyasha suddenly stretched out his right hand, his claws with sharp nails gleaming coldly in the moonlight. He waved them twice in mid-air with extreme provocation, producing two very faint tearing sounds.
"I, your proud ' Iron Reaver Soul Stealer,' will tear your head and body to shreds like a rag!!!"
act recklessly!
This is ridiculously arrogant and courting death!
A lowly half-demon, not even worthy of being a mere grain of salt for Menos Grande; a mongrel that cannot even fully control its demonic power.
How dare they stand before a supreme World Master who has just devoured the Death God Universe, crushed the creator god, and could wipe out 100,000 demons with a mere gesture?
Making outrageous statements! Demanding divine artifacts! Even threatening to tear this cross-dimensional Emperor-level to pieces?!
This behavior can no longer be described as "a frog in a well"; it's like dancing the most joyful tap dance in the minefield of the eighteenth level of Hell!
Listen to the red-clad half-demon barking and howling wildly on the cliff face.
A deep sense of disgust and confusion flashed in Kikyo's eyes. She didn't recognize this demon at all, and felt that this half-demon's intelligence seemed even lower than those irrational Mistress Centipede.
Tobirama Uchiha.
He didn't even raise his head, but very slowly withdrew his right hand from Kikyo's slender waist.
In this desolate valley, where even the air had stopped flowing after being cleared by Conqueror's Haki.
Tobirama's deep, cold voice, devoid of any emotion as if he were looking at a corpse, echoed softly.
"My mood was actually quite good today."
He tilted his head slightly, his Supreme Eye, gleaming with destructive starlight, glancing upwards with utter casualness.
Just this one glance!
"But."
"Where did this stray dog, out of its leash, come from, daring to bark so rudely at my feet?"