"Could the real divine artifacts have already been taken, leaving only these false phantoms?"
Terumi Mei guessed, "Otherwise, there's no way they would have been left here all this time."
Wuye pinched his chin. "Or maybe no one has been able to take them away..."
He thought of Itachi Uchiha's Totsuka Blade and Yata Mirror. They were also divine artifacts without physical forms, linked to their user's chakra and residing within Susanoo. Even when summoned through Impure World Reincarnation, they could be brought along.
"Perhaps the power of divine artifacts itself has no physical form and needs to be taken away in some special way," Wuye said.
Terumi Mei looked utterly confused. "I don't understand..."
"Move back a little."
Wuye turned and gestured to her.
Terumi Mei blinked her curious eyes and took a few steps back to watch him.
"Susanoo!"
A gleaming golden skeleton appeared around Wuye, brightening the entire underground chamber.
The massive skeletal palm reached out and touched the pale-yellow broadsword.
"Sizzle—"
A sound entirely different from before rang out.
The two stared intently, only to see a pale-yellow ring of light spread across the broadsword before violently knocking the giant skeletal hand away.
"Looks like it really is a divine artifact that Susanoo can collect."
Wuye smiled. "It's just that my current level isn't high enough..."
"Then continue."
Susanoo, Skeleton Form!
With a boom, the ceiling of the underground chamber was forced open, and shattered rocks rained down.
Terumi Mei dodged left and right, narrowly avoiding being buried beneath them.
"Bang!"
But Susanoo's next attempt was once again repelled by the divine artifact.
"Still not enough..."
Wuye's eyes spun as the power of his Mangekyō Sharingan was forcefully stimulated.
Then veins and muscle fibers began to emerge across the skeletal Susanoo's body, forming a complete upper