As long as he paid attention to the situation during battle, he would not be caught off guard by Muzan.
The main reason he had successfully injected his blood was that Yamanaka Yuntian had been badly wounded. His broken spine left him unable to move; otherwise, he could have easily dodged.
Even a Kunai could have severed the tentacles Muzan had spawned.
As for Shanye Song, he had lost a ninja's composure as he watched tentacles slowly emerge from the ground.
It made Shanye Song feel that Muzan, standing before him, was not human at all!
The vines beneath his feet dragged him straight underground. Because of the Chakra bugs, the soil in this area had become rather loose.
However, for a ninja with an injured arm, the mud further restricted Shanye Song's mobility.
Muzan did not kill him immediately. Instead, he fed him a massive amount of blood. Only then did Shanye Song understand why Yamanaka Yuntian had doubled over in pain.
An invisible force was trying to transform him. Both his mind and body were being ravaged, and he even felt as though he were evolving into another species.
Muzan did not stop supplying blood until cracks appeared across Shanye Song's body. Like shattered porcelain, he held himself together through sheer will and did not explode.
Breaking free of the mud, Shanye Song's muscles began to writhe, as though something were breaking out of a cocoon. Only at the very end did the writhing subside.
Shanye Song was consumed by a savage urge. He turned toward Aburame Heqing and pounced on him without a shred of reason.
"Bastard! Look carefully—I'm your teammate!"
Aburame Heqing panicked. He could not kill Muzan by himself, let alone now that Shanye Song had gone mad and was useless.
Yet that lunatic's target