The next instant, his ocular power erupted around him.
Boom!
An invisible shock wave spread outward from him in every direction.
Every Akatsuki member's projected form shuddered at once.
Hidan dropped straight to one knee on the phantom fingertip, cold sweat seeping from his forehead.
Biwa Jūzō clenched his teeth and drove the Kubikiribōchō hard into the surface beneath him, barely managing to steady himself.
The black tendrils on Kakuzu's body writhed wildly, and all five faces took on grave expressions.
Konan raised her hand, bringing a broad screen of paper sheets up before her.
Yet the mental shock passed through the paper all the same, briefly shaking her consciousness.
Pain's Rinnegan remained locked on Lie Yang.
"Enough."
"I don't need you to judge my ideals."
"If you refuse to accept Akatsuki's rules, then surrender your ring."
"From this moment on, Akatsuki has nothing more to do with you."
Lie Yang did not remove his ring.
Instead, he lifted his left eye.
Deep within his pitch-black pupil, the pattern of the Mangekyō Sharingan began spinning rapidly.
Dense yin release chakra poured from his pupil, swiftly merging with his mental power.
Pain immediately sensed the danger.
"What are you trying to do?"
Lie Yang did not answer.
The next instant, dozens of fine, pitch-black strands shot from his eye.
Those black strands resembled neither Chakra Threads nor ordinary sealing formulas.
They were long, slender, and chilling, their surfaces constantly writhing like pitch-black venomous snakes, or countless poisonous insects crawling out of the darkness.
The barrier formed by the Rinnegan's ocular power shook violently the instant the black strands approached.
Pain raised his hand and released his ocular power, trying to intercept them.
But the black strands did not clash with his ocular power head-on.
They seemed able to slip through the